Yin Or’s cloak is not limited to this one, there are several other cloaks. They are worn when it is the coldest, when it is cold, when it is just cold, when it is neither cold nor hot, and even when it is hot. Yes, I wear it when it rains...
The cloak alone took a box, so he had the most luggage.
Before falling asleep, Man Bao yawned and went to find Nie Canjun. By coincidence, Bai Shan also came to find him.
"Is he really a businessman?"
Nie Canjun said: "The lower officer didn't see anything wrong."
That's probably enough, Man Bao and Bai Shan went to sleep in peace, and when they got up early the next morning, the guards had already started boiling water and cooking porridge.
Man Bao stretched his arms and legs, turned his body, and then turned to wash up. They still read books on the vast grassland for about three quarters of an hour as usual. They didn't put away the books until breakfast was ready. to eat.
Master You was dumbfounded, stuffed a pancake into his mouth mechanically, and said to himself: Now I completely believe that they are not mainly on business this trip.
Although Mr. You wants to make friends with them, for businessmen, time is money, and it is impossible for them to wait for Zhou Man and them to leave together.
So after eating the dry food, Master You came over to bid farewell to Mr. Zhuang, intending to go ahead.
Mr. Zhuang sent them away with a smile, and when they were far away, he turned his head and said to the disciples and students who were engrossed in eating porridge: "Do you know what rushing is? This is it."
Man Bao didn't care, "We're not in a hurry, sir, we were in a hurry, and we marched in a hurry."
Bai Shandao: "When we rushed to Xiazhou years ago, even our thighs were worn out, and our speed was much faster than that of Master You."
It means that they do not lack this experience, and there is no need to accumulate it.
Mr. Zhuang shook his head and asked them, "How long do you plan to travel to Liangzhou?"
Man Bao said: "Hurry up, hurry up, sir, I heard that there is still a section of the Great Wall going forward, shall we climb the Great Wall?"
In fact, there was a section of the Great Wall before Xiazhou, but they never passed the Great Wall when they entered and exited three times, so they never went there. They had all left the protection range of that section of the Great Wall two days ago, but there is another section going forward, listen Said the scenery is not bad.
After thinking for a while, Mr. Zhuang said: "Forget it, let's see when we come back. Let's go to Yumen Pass first."
He looked at Liu Huan, "We will pass through Suzhou on the way, do you want to make a special detour to Suzhou City to meet your parents?"
Liu Huan refused without thinking, "It's more important to find Fangzi, we just go straight, there is no need to go to Suzhou City."
Liu Huan didn't know his parents very well, so he sneaked out this time. Although he had the support of his grandparents behind him, he still felt guilty.
With a guilty conscience, I don't even want to go to Suzhou to meet my parents.
So the group speeded up, Master You saw the speed of their carriages and horses, obviously they would set off earlier every day, but after noon they could catch up with them, and they could always camp in one place at night.
Bai Shan and the others especially like to talk to Mr. You, and basically invite him to have dinner and chat with him every night.
Master You can't eat for nothing, but he really doesn't bring much food, so he can only take some tea from his own goods to give them.
Bai Shan accepted it happily. Although the tea leaves were not better than the ones they brought, it was their wish, right
Master You breathed a sigh of relief. For two consecutive days, he had said everything he could say, and felt that he was at a loss for words to talk to them.
At this time, they found a place to camp for the night, and the carriages and horses stopped. Mr. Zhuang took a saddle and sat on the ground, heaving a sigh of relief.
Master You, who came over, couldn't help laughing, "Mister, are you tired?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just that my body is a little stiff after sitting in this car for a long time, but the most important thing is that I can't meet people all the time, and I feel a little bored."
Master You said: "It's like this on the grassland. The herdsmen are always moving, so the market is also moving. This time because of the smallpox epidemic, I went out a month later than in previous years. I couldn't touch the market and the tribe in my memory. gone."
That's right, Manbao and the others didn't meet the local herdsmen for five consecutive days, let alone the market, and there wasn't even a dilapidated post station.
Nie Canjun looked at it, and guessed that no one was here after the smallpox, so they didn't live in the station, but still found a place to station outside.
Although smallpox has passed, but... no one knows whether smallpox patients died in the station, and whether the people in the station cleaned it up before leaving...
So they didn't live.
However, Nie Canjun memorized the location of the station, and planned to report to the defenders when he arrived at the next town. Why is there no one guarding and operating the station on the official road
What if there is an emergency military situation and no one provides chariots and horses
Not only Nie Canjun, Man Bao, Bai Shan and others also wrote it down. Bai Shan even took out a roll of drawing paper and spread it out slowly. After marking, take out a booklet and write it down.
Man Bao stared at the map, turned his head to see the back and said: "It seems that the smallpox on the grassland is more serious than what Brother Yang knew."
Bai Shan nodded, turned his head to think for a while, and said, "The grain on the grasslands should be in short supply this year. Didn't Mingxue discuss a batch of grain with someone in Fengzhou?"
Xiang Mingxue was about to marry Zhou Lijun, so he changed his name to each other, instead of calling each other Brother Xiang as before.
Man Bao stroked his chin and said, "In this way, the sales of medicinal materials and other things will be reduced. I am afraid that the business in the hands of the fourth brother will not be easy this year."
Even though he thinks this way, Man Bao doesn’t worry too much. Even if it’s not easy to do, it’s just that he earns less. When the first batch of students from the Imperial Medical Office go to the local medical office in autumn and winter, they need to prepare more medicinal materials. Business will not lose money.
This is a grassland, and there are quite a lot of medicinal materials on the grassland, and there are also many species that have not been seen before. Keke quickly scanned three plants that it had not included, and Man Bao rode a horse to dig out the medicine basket.
Bai Erlang and the others didn't want to ride horses anymore, so only Bai Erlang went with them, and Daji ran behind them as usual.
In order to make the disappearing plants inconspicuous, Man Bao not only digs up more plants to be collected, but also digs up the herbs she knows on the grass, and throws them in the medicine basket like this. It was Bai Shan, he was not sure whether she gave it to his little father-in-law or not.
When digging was exhilarating, Daji suddenly lay down on the grass and listened.
When Bai Shan and Man Bao saw it, they immediately fell down too, and put their ears on the grass to listen with great interest. After a while, Man Bao asked Bai Shan who was lying on the opposite side, "Did you hear anything?"
Bai Shan: "No, does the sound of insects count?"
So the two sat up and looked at Daji together.
Daji: "...Master, Miss Man, I heard the sound, there is the sound of horseshoes, but it seems more like the sound of cows and horses walking around. We may have encountered grazing."
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, then lay down on the grass and listened for self-study, but they still didn't hear anything for a long time.
Daji looked at it and said, "Young master, don't dislike the dirty grass, just stick to it and listen."
Bai Shan raised his head, looked down at the grass below him, finally took out his veil and put it on the grass, and then he listened closely.
Seeing this, Man Bao followed suit.