The village head selected people for them, and then prepared water and cars.
There are only two horses in the whole village, and they are old horses for grazing, so they didn't give them. Bai Shan and the others have their own horses, which can be used directly by harnessing them to the cart.
This time, because the location was calculated by himself, it may not be accurate, so Bai Shan made a lot of preparations, after all, he doesn't know when he will find it.
But he also told the people in the village, "The fresh water we brought, we will return as long as there is no news for half a month, so we will return within a month at the latest."
If they didn't come back for more than a month, they must have found a place, or something happened on the way.
Seeing that there was no news from Teacher Mo, Man Bao let Bai Shan make the arrangements.
So the group set off first.
The two directions Bai Shan chose were determined based on the known location of the tiankeng and the impressions of the villagers, but not to mention that it has been a long time, and memory will be wrong. The direction in the sky and the direction on the ground are also very different, so Bai Shan was also prepared to search for a long time.
Therefore, they are not at all surprised to meet other people and villages on the road.
People in Danshi Village haven't seen outsiders for a long time, and when they see outsiders, they subconsciously lower their heads to avoid them.
But the young men who came out had no flaws, they looked like all the people from the Western Regions, at most they were thinner.
So the people they met didn't pay attention to them, but Bai Shan and Zhou Man were more eye-catching. The two of them are so good-looking and have a good temperament, everyone's eyes can't help but be attracted to them.
Bai Shan and Man Bao did not avoid the gazes of these people, they took out some silk cloths and asked for a place to stay or buy water, and after they settled down, they determined the direction with them, and inquired about the news by the way, "It is said that many years ago, three giants fell from the sky. The fireball made three big holes on the ground, have you seen it?"
Someone shook his head directly, "I haven't seen it before, it was bad luck from heaven, and the kingdom was destroyed because of it."
Bai Shan: ...Gao Chang was clearly murdered by King Gao Chang, so what's the matter with meteorites
But there were also people who said excitedly: "I see, I didn't sleep that night, and there was a fire from the sky, and the earth shook after it fell."
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Did you see the direction of the fall? I heard that there are gems in the tiankeng, and I want to see it."
"Oh, I heard that the gem is poisonous, but I dare not look at it," the man said, "And who can find it? Back then, Master Ayi searched for a long time and only found one place."
Master Ayi is the noble master of their territory. It was through his hand that the stone was presented to the eldest prince, and then passed from the eldest prince to Hou Ji, and then to the prince.
But it's a pity that he couldn't wait for the prince to settle the case. As early as when the prince realized that there was something wrong with the stone, his whole family was accused of crimes by the prince and put in prison. They died before Gaochang was destroyed. All gone.
Now there are no nobles in this territory, and it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate.
Bai Shan couldn't find any useful information, so he looked left and right, saw that the guards were all busy going, and there was only one guard beside him, Daji, so he brought up another topic, "I heard that there is a country in the west that is very skilled in medicine. The people there can not only prevent and treat smallpox, but also detoxify it, maybe they can detoxify such a poison?"
Everyone is not very interested in this poison anymore, and they are tired of talking about it for three years in a row, but they are very interested in smallpox, which is very popular now.
Because of the traffic congestion, the news spread very slowly. In Bai Shan's eyes, the smallpox that had passed for half a year was already in the past tense, but ordinary people in the Western Regions just heard that the smallpox broke out in the Central Plains not long ago.
So the person who was asked glanced at Bai Shan and Zhou Man, nodded thinking he understood, and asked, "Your Majesty and Miss, do you want someone from that country to treat smallpox?"
Bai Shan smiled and did not deny it.
People in the Western Regions couldn't help but slander, saying that the hearts of the Han people were very crooked, and they were right, they went for the smallpox, but they insisted on looking for the stones that fell from the sky.
He just said, poisonous stones, everyone is as far away as possible, why do you have to look for them
It turned out that their original purpose was smallpox.
They had never heard of this country, but it sounded very powerful, so they couldn't help asking, and Bai Shan told them vividly the story that they worked hard for a long time to compile.
It is said that there is a country in the west, where the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the plants are luxuriant, and the medicinal herbs are also abundant, so there are many people with excellent medical skills, and many difficult diseases are common diseases there...
This was Bai Shan's idea at the beginning. When Man Bao and Bai Erlang heard it, they felt that the country was so unlucky that many difficult diseases became common diseases.
However, people outside obviously like this beginning, but people who listened to the story at the beginning were already yearning for it. When they heard that they had a method of vaccination, it was to let the cows be infected with smallpox, and then inoculate the pox on the cows to humans. body, and then one would be free from smallpox for the rest of his life.
I heard that people in that country have to be vaccinated after birth, so they can go wherever they want without fear of smallpox.
The people who listened to the story became more and more yearning.
Except Daji.
Although it had already been speculated that the young master and the others might not really be looking for some method of vaccination when they came to the Western Regions, but when they really heard this story, Daji still shook his head.
He is very familiar with the beginning of such a story. In the past, when the young master would tell such a detailed story, it was probably for a purpose.
Daji knew it, but others didn’t. After Bai Shan and the others left, this story spread widely in the village. Many people yearned for that country in the west, and then spread from the village to the market, and then slowly spread to Elsewhere...
By the time people in Xizhou vaguely heard this story, the story had already been spread and evolved countless times.
Of course, it was General Guo who got the news first.
To be honest, the mission lived in his city of Xizhou, so it was impossible to say that he had no doubts in his heart. Obviously, he had already asked around before, and he had never heard of any place where there was a method of vaccination.
Moreover, he himself sneered at this method. Facing smallpox, he could only hide, so how could he rush to plant it
But the emperor and the imperial court seem to be very convinced of this law, he can only entertain the mission, but Zhou Man and Bai Shan in the mission leave, but the others live in Xizhou, stirring up wind and rain in the city every day, To be honest, even if he claimed to know the emperor well enough, sometimes he couldn't help but wonder, what kind of vaccination was the purpose of this embassy sent by the emperor, not something else
And at this moment, he got a report from his subordinates.
General Guo was so startled that he immediately sat up from his seat, "What did you say?"