In the evening, the pharmacy delivered two altars of soaked wine. Man Bao took a look at it, and then sealed it, "The medicine is good medicine, and the wine smells good. Soak it first, the longer the better."
So they stuffed the wine in the back of the luggage to let it interact well.
It was necessary to get up very early for the departure, and they all got up before dawn the next day, which made Yicheng, who was used to them getting up late, not used to it for a while. You must know that they lived here for a few days and they only got up in the sun.
Well, except for the day of climbing the Great Wall.
Fortunately, they told Yi Cheng last night before going to bed when they got up, so Yi Cheng got up early to arrange breakfast for them.
The court officials live in the station, and the family members they can bring, the dishes and quantity that can be eaten for each meal are clearly regulated, and the quantity of take-out is also regulated.
The larger the post station, the more it abides by this regulation, and you have to pay for the excess.
Therefore, when Man Bao and the others had breakfast, their steward went to settle accounts with Yi Cheng to make up for their extra expenses in the past few days.
After eating and drinking enough and taking a lot, everyone set off to leave the post station to go out of the city, and after walking for a while, they met Guo Tian and others who came to see them off.
Both parties were surprised, Bai Shan: "I didn't expect Brother Guo, Brother Yue and Brother Quan to come see us off."
Brother Guo and the three: ...We didn't expect you to get up so early.
But they would not say this, the three of them followed them out of the city, and when they arrived at the gate of the city, they found that Governor Duan and his son were already waiting there.
A group of people sent them out of the city, Governor Duan welcomed them back, Duan Cheng and Guo Tian stood together and looked at them enviously, wondering when they would be able to go out to study like them.
However, the study tour not only needs to solve the safety problem, but also solves the money problem.
After all, not everyone can travel like Zhou Man and the others. Not only are they protected by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, but they can also eat and stay at post stations for free.
Even Duan Cheng would worry about money if he went out for too long, let alone Guo Tian and the others.
Man Bao waved goodbye to them and left Liangzhou City happily.
Governor Duan sent two yamen servants to guide them, they said: "There is a difficult road ahead, my lord is afraid that you may make a mistake."
In the afternoon, after the setting sun came out, they arrived at the intersection that needed to fork. Man Bao and the others finally knew why Duan Cishi sent someone to guide them.
I saw a road in front of me, although there was a lot of grass, but the axle could still be seen along a green mountain in front, going deep into the mountain, and I couldn't see where it was going.
However, the two yamen servants turned a corner, pointed to the grassy place next to them and said, "There is a small road here, and you can also take a carriage."
Man Bao and the others got out of the car and stared at the grass seriously. Bai Shan pretended to understand and squatted down to stare at the grass. After a long while, he had to give up, "How does this look like a road?"
The yamen servant said: "Very few people go here, even some merchants who often pass by don't know about it. Only our people here often come here to graze, and occasionally come here, so they know a little bit."
The two yamen servants said: "This road is farther away. There is a lush grassland around it, so many herdsmen will go there to graze. It takes a day longer to get to the official road than this road. But adults don’t want to go to Suzhou City, you can walk another day and go to the official road in another direction, that will be about half a day late.”
Mr. Zhuang squinted his eyes for a while, and asked, "But what's wrong with this official road? Why can't you take this road?"
The two yamen servants smiled and said: "There is nothing wrong with it, but there are some horse thieves in the mountain, who come down from time to time to disturb the passing merchants. Our lord has suppressed them several times, but they are cunning. Every time the soldiers and horses come, they hide in the mountain. Not big, but the forest is dense, and it is not easy to find them in the forest."
This is the disadvantage of the plains. Looking around, except for the two or three low mountains that rise and fall here, there is a plain grassland that can be seen as soon as soldiers and horses come, and they cannot sneak at all.
Moreover, the horses and thieves on the grassland are all good, and it is really not easy to wipe them all out.
And as long as one escapes, he can bring back a group of people after a while. While leading them the way, the yamen servant complained: "I don't know where they recruited so many people. Every time they beat them away, it will take a year." Half a year later, I brought a group of people back."
Bai Shan and the others didn't ride a car anymore, the road was a bit bumpy, riding a horse was better than riding a car, even Yin Yu rode on a horse, letting him kick and pedal forward.
Because the road is bad, everyone walks slowly, Bai Shan looked up at the dense forest on the mountain, and said: "The most important thing for recruiting soldiers and horses is money, and the bandits are the same. The escaped people can recruit soldiers and horses only because they have money." ? Get up all the things they hid, they have no money, even if they escape, they can't recruit people, so naturally they die down."
"That's what you said," the yamen servant said with a smile, "we adults think so too, so we went into the mountain to find things twice when we suppressed the bandits twice, but the mountain doesn't look that big, and it's not easy to find a place to hide things." ,so… "
Man Bao moved his eyebrows and reined in the horse. As soon as she stopped, everyone couldn't help but stop, and the carriage behind him also stopped.
Bai Shan turned his head and asked her, "What's wrong?"
Man Bao didn't know what to say to them, so he paused for a moment, simply "shh", and asked them in a low voice, "Did you hear anything?"
Everyone was quiet and listened carefully, Bai Shan said with some uncertainty: "The sound of a bird? Do you want to catch a bird? Can you tell that you haven't seen this bird before?"
Man Bao not only likes flowers, plants and trees that he has never seen before, but also insects, fish, birds and animals that he has never seen before, no, it should be his little father-in-law.
Man Bao: "...you think less, I'm asking if you heard someone calling for help."
As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately cheered up and turned their ears to listen hard. After a while, everyone shook their heads together. Even Yin You couldn't help but question, "Did you not sleep well last night?" So it was an auditory hallucination...
Man Bao said: "No, my ears are fine."
But she also listened carefully with her ears up, um, she didn't hear anything, but what Keke said was always right, it seems that people are still far away from them.
Bai Shan had been serious for a long time but didn't hear it, so he simply gave up and winked at her, "Did you hear it, or did my little father-in-law hear it?"
Man Bao blinked his eyes, and Bai Shan understood that it was the young father-in-law's ability.
Bai Erlang and the others quietly watched their eyebrow-eye lawsuit, and when they finished, they asked directly: "Is there anything you can't say directly?"
Bai Shan had already said: "Okay, since we heard that someone saved his life, we have to ignore it, don't you think so?"
Everyone: ... We are not, we did not hear.
But Bai Shan had already turned his head and ordered the guards to find Nie Canjun in the middle, and then asked Man Bao, "Can you hear how many people are there?"