After walking for a whole day, he had already entered the boundary of the Lost Eight Counties.
At this time, the night was dark and it was difficult to move forward.
Taking advantage of the dark night, Ye Qingxuan and the three hurriedly found a shelter from the wind by the roadside, intending to spend the night here.
The three of them unloaded the carriage. The broken carriage and the old horse cost a total of twenty taels of silver, which was quite expensive.
Before leaving Huize City, Ye Qingxuan had already handed out the letter on his body at the post station, and it should be in front of the master by now. At the end of the letter, Ye Qingxuan asked someone to bring over his "Putting Machine Iron", thinking about studying its characteristics so that there would be no mistakes when customizing weapons.
The three of them made a division of labor, Ye Qingxuan went to hunt some prey, while Huang Taiming's master and servant went to collect some firewood. Although the carriage brought a lot of dry food, after entering the eight counties, no one knew what would happen ahead. In any situation, if you encounter such a situation where you can't go ahead and don't go to the store behind the village, these dry rations will not be enough. Therefore, when possible, it is more appropriate to do more things like game hunting.
Next to the road is a dense forest.
As soon as Ye Qingxuan entered, there was a swishing sound, and he didn't know what kind of small animal it was scaring away.
The number of ordinary Chinese people in the Lost Eight Counties has decreased to a certain extent, and almost all of them who can walk have left here. As a result, the dense forest next to the official road is so sparsely populated that it has become a paradise for wild animals.
Fluttering, two pheasants flew up from the bushes, two yellow lights flickered, none of the two big fat chickens ran away, and the coefficient was shot down by Ye Qingxuan's copper coin.
Hehe, I didn't expect this job to be done so easily.
Ye Qingxuan rushed back after performing lightness kung fu.
Looking back, he was immediately defeated by Huang Taiming's master and servant.
The two men made themselves like African refugees, and the barely lit bonfire billowed with smoke, where the two coughed and huddled together.
What a young master who has never been out of the house... Ye Qingxuan couldn't stop cursing.
"You, you, you are back?" Huang Taiming wiped away tears, but drew a line of black and gray on his face, looking embarrassed.
Xiaodouzi also had ashes on his face, and muttered: "The Eight Lost Counties are really poor and remote. After walking for a day, even a village does not exist, causing my young master to suffer here... Woohoo, the slave is guilty..."
After speaking, he fell to his knees and kowtowed.
"Oh... let's avoid it." Huang Taiming waved his hand to stop Xiaodouzi from saluting.
Ye Qingxuan's face was livid, and he thought to himself: These two gentlemen are really weird. If you pretend to be a merchant's son, you can pretend to be a full set, and you can always take out the set from the palace. Do you think I should cooperate with you in pretending to be an egg, or expose you...
Ignoring these two unprofessional guys, Ye Qingxuan went up and kicked them out. With his true energy, he kicked away the cluttered trees with thick smoke and no sparks in front of him. He stomped on them and extinguished the fire.
"what are you doing?"
"My young master managed to light this up..."
Ye Qingxuan threw the two pheasants in his hand to the ground, and said, "Please, can you pick up some dry dead branches? Where do you think you got all the firewood from? Don't tell me it's from the trees." cut down…”
Huang Taiming looked gloomy and said, "Cut firewood, chop firewood, isn't firewood cut from trees?"
"The firewood cut by others has to be taken home to dry before it can be used. These few fresh branches are too watery to light at all, and the few slightly dry ones are also damp, so they are all unusable." Ye Qingxuan He slapped his forehead, "Forget it, I'm going to pick up some more dry firewood, you guys deal with those two pheasants... or leave them alone, and wait until I get back. There is a big bucket in the car, I heard the sound of water over there, Remember to fetch more water, I can boil some hot water to pluck the chicken later..."
Huang Taiming's master and servant said "oh", like two obedient elementary school students.
Really pissed off by these two.
Ye Qingxuan started the journey of collecting firewood depressed.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, but Ye Qingxuan and his party couldn't even light the most basic bonfire, which was extremely sad.
Googooo...
The night owl croaked on the branches, and the cry was shrill.
The dense forest under the night was filled with primitive horror. Ye Qingxuan was walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow, cursing in his heart, how could people find dead branches in such a dark sky.
After a lot of effort, Ye Qingxuan got a bundle of dry firewood and rushed back...
When the bonfire was lit to disperse the darkness and bring light, Huang Taiming, the master and servant, was as excited as primitive people, shouting: "We have succeeded—"
Ye Qingxuan, who was already lying on the carriage, cursed secretly: What the hell did you do? I did it all by myself.
There is a large marching pot behind the car. Ye Qingxuan set up a bracket on the campfire, hung the pot on it, boiled water, plucked the chicken feathers, and cleaned the chicken. Cut into even pieces.
He really didn't have the strength to make roast chicken, so Ye Qingxuan cleaned the pot again, stir-fried the chicken pieces, added various spices, added water to make a soup, and when the soup boiled, put the rice into the pot and threw a few pieces of dried meat, Sit and wait for dinner.
Looking back, the two of them were already full of eyes, and their mouths were full of laughter.
It has to be said that Huang Taiming, the master and servant, although they don't have enough experience in wild life, did put their minds into buying items, fearing that they would not understand, so they specially hired a broker, that is, an ancient intermediary, a second-hand dealer, to help them. Seeing that my group bought a lot of necessities, although the price may not fluctuate much, but the things I bought were in place, and I didn’t sell them some unnecessary things just because they were outsiders. From this point of view, businessmen in this era still have some professional ethics.
After cooking for half an hour, when Ye Qingxuan was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, everyone could finally have dinner.
With a loud snoring sound, the three of them lay on their backs beside the campfire, touching their bellies.
"I didn't expect Brother Ye to have such superb cooking skills. It's really surprising..."
"What superb cooking skills, but I'm so hungry... Alas, it's a pity that I didn't bring the fruit wine brewed by the second senior brother this time..."
At this time, the bright moon is in the sky.
The three of them stared at the stars all over the sky in silence.
Well, let's call it camping.
In fact, sometimes, this kind of wandering life is quite interesting.
"Sometimes I really envy this kind of life..." Huang Taiming suddenly said with emotion.
"Huh? What's so good about this kind of life? All I think about day and night is when will I have my next full meal."
"You don't understand. Even if life is hard, there is one thing that can be enjoyed. With it, everything feels good."
"what is that?"
"free… "
"Freedom?" Ye Qingxuan almost burst out laughing, how come there are still people thinking about these things ideologically in another world.
"Yes. Freedom, in the hands of those who have already obtained it, is not felt at all, but for those who have lost it, it is very precious... It is a feeling that you can breathe freely and control your own destiny... Just think about it now In this way, I fight for myself with every bite, simply and directly, so that I feel truly alive."
Ye Qingxuan glanced sideways at Huang Taiming, and said, "I really don't understand what happened around you that made you so concerned..."
Huang Taiming remained silent.
Ye Qingxuan didn't urge him either, everyone has something they don't want to reveal to others, it's their own secret.
After a while, Huang Taiming sighed quietly, and said, "It's a marriage... a marriage manipulated by others."
Ye Qingxuan sighed helplessly, there were these boring scenes in court dramas everywhere he went.
"If you don't want to, no one can make you..."
"You don't understand, my family can't resist the decision of the elders. Originally, I had a childhood sweetheart, and my father was also very fond of each other. Our two families had already engaged in a marriage contract. Unexpectedly, at a critical moment, someone obstructed..."
"Is there anyone who can object to a marriage that your father agrees to?" Ye Qingxuan felt that he had guessed the identity of the other party wrongly. If he was really a royal family, or even a prince, his father would be the emperor. Who in this world can force the emperor to do it? What about the things he doesn't want to do
That little bean's femininity is obviously an eunuch, and in this world, only the emperor and the emperor's close relatives can serve eunuchs, and no other royal family can.
Did I guess wrong
"Who can interfere with your father's decision?"
Huang Taiming snorted coldly, "It's women, a group of women, a group of arrogant, self-absorbed, ambitious women who want to dream of the world..."
What
woman
Fengyi Tianxia
Fengyi Pavilion
Ye Qingxuan sat up in shock, almost screaming...
Right at this time—
Shhhhhhh—
The sound of a sharp weapon piercing the air happened at this time, and the three words "Fengyi Pavilion" that Ye Qingxuan almost blurted out directly changed into "Be careful—"
Ye Qingxuan casually grabbed a few stones, listened to the sound, and popped them out with his fingers. Three steel cones as thick as fingers fell from the air, followed by fire, and the sharp edges emitted a blue cold light, apparently coated with poison. .
"who?"
At the same time, Huang Taiming's master and servant stood up suddenly, Xiaodouzi was not good at martial arts, but he also loyally protected his master.
Ye Qingxuan looked angry, the hidden weapon was coated with poison, the other party obviously wanted to kill all of his party, and the methods were vicious and ruthless.
Since they were going to kill themselves, Ye Qingxuan didn't have the will to communicate with the other party, so he directly took out a few copper coins, and towards the direction where the hidden weapon was coming, he flicked up and down, left and right, several times.
Huang Taiming didn't expect Ye Qingxuan's reaction to be so explosive, and it was too late to stop him, puff puff puff, the sound of copper coins being shot into the body, Huang Taiming said angrily: "Brother Ye, you acted too fast, what if it was a misunderstanding?"
"Misunderstanding? Look at the hidden weapons on the ground yourself..."
After Ye Qingxuan finished speaking, he turned over and rushed to the carriage, drew out the long sword hidden in the piano case, and flew towards the edge of the woods where he hit the human body just now.