The creaking oxcart moved forward slowly.
Li Huowang and his party followed Niu Tou and continued walking forward.
Some of their luggage was placed on several oxcarts, and everyone felt a lot more relaxed, and they no longer looked as haggard as before.
These new tools were bought by Sun Baolu when he passed by a town before.
After all, we will continue to travel in the future, so this essential tool is still indispensable.
Jinshan Xun was still carrying his bamboo basket and humming a song.
Looking at the lush grass around him made him feel much better.
You can't see such beautiful scenery in the hinterland of Houshu, but it looks like it's coming soon.
He opened the map he drew again and rechecked the current location.
"Well... we should be able to pass the border if we walk for a few more days."
He put away the map again, clasped his hands and congratulated Li Huowang: "Master, you will be released soon. Congratulations."
"As long as you leave the customs and enter the Qingqiu boundary, you will be completely fine."
Li Huowang, who was reading "The Book of Deception", raised his head to look at him, then resumed reading.
"Where are you going? Are you going to follow us through Qingqiu to Liangguo?"
"No, I won't go to Qingqiu. I will see you all at the pass and then go back."
"Go back? Where are you going? Are you not afraid of being caught?"
Jinshan smiled confidently. "It doesn't matter, I can still protect myself as an old man."
Li Huowang looked at the person in front of him again, feeling that he was bragging.
I was so frightened by the bandits before that I almost peed my pants, but now I’m pretending again.
While the two were chatting, a village appeared in front of them.
They did not all go in, but Jinshan and Li Huowang went to buy food.
The two of them are not too eye-catching, and the person Jinshan is looking for has good eloquence, which is suitable for dealing with farmers who are hostile to outsiders.
Li Huowang did not plan to stop here. He planned to cross Houshu as soon as possible after replenishing food along the way.
Although this is more tiring, it doesn't matter so much when there are pursuers behind.
As soon as he entered the village, Li Huowang smelled a unique odor.
He walked over following the smell and saw a pigsty, a pigsty built under the house.
Seeing what these black-haired pigs were eating, Li Huowang's voice started to tremble.
"They...do they feed pigs like this here too?"
Feeling moved by the scene, looking at the scene in front of him, he thought of Master Jingxin lying dead in the pig pen in Anci'an.
"Huh? Why would a real person say that? Don't all pigs be fed like this? That's why I never eat spicy meat or pork, because both pigs and dogs are fecal eaters."
Li Huowang quickly suppressed the emotions in his heart and turned to look at him.
"What did you say? This is how other people feed pigs?"
"This is nature. It has been fed this way for thousands of years."
Jinshan Xian squatted down, picked up a stone, and started writing stroke by stroke on the soft soil.
He wrote the word "家" neatly, and even if the tool he used was a stone, the tool was very beautiful.
"Home" is the word he wrote.
"Look, real person, the roof above is regarded as a house, and the pig below is regarded as a pig."
"If you put up the house and put down the pigs, it's home."
"It can be seen from this word that at least since ancient times, people have been feeding dirt to pigs."
"Look at the words to understand the meaning. In fact, if you think about it carefully, some things are hidden in these words."
Looking at the word "家" on the ground, Li Huowang slowly squatted down and stroked it gently with his fingers.
"So this is home... It seems that I misunderstood Master before."
Thinking of the previous bits and pieces, the corners of Li Huowang's eyes moistened slightly.
It used to be the only place where he could feel warmth in this crazy world, but that place no longer exists.
"Real person?" Jinshan noticed something was wrong with Li Huowang's mood and took a step back.
After being together for so long, he had already discovered something strange. Although he had various magical powers, there seemed to be something wrong with this real person's brain.
Li Huowang touched the soil on the side with his fingers, buried the word "home", and then stood up.
He looked squarely at Jin Shanxun in front of him again, an old man who looked very ordinary.
"My father-in-law, your identity is unusual, isn't it?"
Ordinary people are not very literate, not to mention that the words he writes with stones are so beautiful.
Jinshan is looking for a dead end, what is it balancing?
"I saved your life and you didn't even tell me this? Forget it, forget it. If you don't want to say it, forget it. Go find a farmer to buy food."
Just when Li Huowang turned around and took a few steps, Jinshan's voice sounded from behind.
"Forget it, there's no harm in telling the real person that the old man is actually a disciple of the Strategist family."
"Advisor?" Li Huowang turned around slowly and looked at him suspiciously. These three words were very unfamiliar to him.
After revealing his identity, Jinshan became more energetic.
"The four seasons open and close to transform all things vertically and horizontally, or unite all the weak to attack one strong one, this is vertical; or make one strong one attack all weak ones, this is horizontal. This is vertical and horizontal."
With Jinshan Zhao's constant explanations, Li Huowang also understood what the Strategist Family was.
To put it bluntly, they are special occupations that appear under the special circumstances of many small countries.
In Jinshan's own words, it is wisdom and an indispensable counselor for every monarch.
Help the monarch to make plans and coordinate vertically and horizontally.
But from Li Huowang's understanding, he was a smart man who used his eloquence to jump around various small countries.
"Knowing the overall situation, good at reasoning, good at eloquence, adapting to opportunities, wise and courageous, good at strategies, and able to make decisions, these are our Zongheng disciples."
Seeing Jinshan looking like he was about to raise his tail to the sky, Li Huowang interrupted.
"You are so powerful. When you met that woman before, why didn't you fight three armies with one word?"
Hearing this, Jinshan Zhao showed a hint of embarrassment on his face.
"Hey~ As the saying goes, when a scholar encounters soldiers, it's hard to explain why, let alone the thieves of Hou Shu who support the army."
"Haha" Li Huowang turned around and walked towards the village, Jinshan Xian quickly followed.
"Zhenren, I know you can't trust me. But it doesn't matter, wait until Zhenren has safely left the Kingdom of Shu before you can do your own business."
"Lest the real person's location be revealed to me."
"Since you saved my life, I will repay you with a spring of water. After I serve as a traveler in the Kingdom of Later Shu——"
"I've been working on it for a long time, but now you don't have a monarch, so aren't you a jobless vagrant now?"
"Soon, soon, when I turn over and become an official in Hou Shu, I will never forget the real person."
"Okay, we'll talk about it then, but I guess I'll have arrived in Liang Country by then."
Everything was fine at first, but the relaxed chatting atmosphere between the two was interrupted when Li Huowang suddenly grasped the hilt of the sword.
"Really... a real person?" Jin Shanxun followed Li Huowang's line of sight and saw several black pottery jars under the eaves, each with a big red blessing on it.
This chapter has been completed!