A few days later.
At dusk, the sun in the west was about to set, and the clouds looked like blood.
The Shen family and their entourage finally managed to get out of the rainy Qianhua County, passed the Yuqian Pass, and entered Yuyin County.
Shen Luo did not sit in the carriage to practice as usual, but drove the carriage himself. Instead, he asked the young coachman who had been driving for him for most of the month to take a break and sit on the other side.
The coachman's name was Wang Yuan. He was the son of the Shen family's steward. When the city was broken, all his family members stayed in the city. Only he was brought out by Shen Huayuan after the old steward's repeated requests.
"Master Shen, is that mountain the Yuqian Mountain?" Wang Yuan raised his hand and pointed at a dark and blurry mountain in the distance and asked.
"Yes, it's there." Shen Luo took a look, nodded and said.
"When I was a child, my father told me that this place used to be an important source of medicinal materials for the Shen family. There were many elm trees growing on the mountain, and every year when the season came, the trees would be full of sweet elm seeds, which looked like small copper coins. They could be eaten raw or steamed and cooked, and anyone who ate them would be blessed with good fortune." Wang Yuan said, with a glimmer of reminiscence in his eyes.
"Elm seeds... I ate them when I was young." Upon hearing this, Shen Luo couldn't help but recall the past.
"How does it taste?" Wang Yuan's eyes lit up and he asked quickly.
Seeing his expectant look, Shen Luo couldn't bear to lie to him, so he said, "It's been too long, I can't remember."
In fact, he did eat elm seed rice when he was a child, but there were so many delicious foods at that time and he didn't like the taste, so he didn't think it was sweet at all.
But I didn’t expect that a thousand years later, even such things would become an unattainable delicacy.
"My father has never eaten it, but every time he talks about it, my mouth waters. I just can't imagine what it tastes like." Wang glanced at the Elm Mountain from afar and said with some disappointment.
"I remember there should be elm trees in Chunhua County, right?" Shen Luo asked after a moment of hesitation.
Wang Yuan heard this, but he didn't think about why Shen Luo knew this. He just shook his head and said, "There is an old elm tree, more than 200 years old, but it died a long time ago."
Shen Luo fell silent after hearing this.
After all, in a thousand years, Chunhua County has become a big city comparable to a state capital, so what else will not change
As the two were talking, the carriage in front of the convoy suddenly stopped after a burst of horse neighing. Shen Luo wrinkled his nose slightly and immediately smelled a smell of blood, and his brows furrowed.
As soon as he jumped off the carriage, he saw Shen Quan running back quickly.
"Senior Shen, please go to the front and take a look, there is a situation." Shen Quan shouted from a distance with his fist clasped.
Shen Luo did not hesitate and hurried over. However, the closer he got to the front of the team, the more his brows furrowed, and the thicker the bloody smell in the air became.
He pushed aside the Shen family members who were watching, and saw at a glance a large amount of blood splattered on the ground. It was dark in color, and had already dried and scabbed. Farther away were many human body parts scattered around. The scene was so bloody that many people gasped, and some tribesmen ran to the side and retched.