Mrs. Wang gave Mrs. Qiu half a bowl of water, and then she faintly woke up.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he subconsciously touched his arms and found them empty. He screamed in fright, "My child!"
"Here, here, the second wife of the Xu family is holding you." Mrs. Tong hurriedly grabbed Mrs. Qiu who was about to stand up, fearing that she would fall down if she stood up too hard.
"Second mother!" Ms. Wang, who was standing aside, motioned to the Xu Yue sisters to bring the child over.
Xu Erniang nodded, walked over and stuffed the child who opened his eyes into Qiu's arms, and then together with Xu Yue, turned to look at her father who was protecting the basket on his back.
Xu Da: "..." Don't look at me!
Xu Yue and Xu Erniang sighed helplessly and continued to look at Wang.
Wang glanced at Ambassador Xu, who then reluctantly took out three taros and a bowl of water. Each family roasted the taros, and each person took a sip of water.
Qiu and her son, who had already drank the water, consciously did not share the bowl of water.
Xu Yue's family ate secretly on the road with everyone behind their backs, but Wang Dayou and others had eaten nothing since morning.
Several people looked at Xu Yue's family gratefully, thanked them, and silently recorded their feelings.
I thought that if I could survive, I would repay the Xu family well in the future.
The bowl of water was quickly consumed by them, and another person ate some taro, which made his tired body recover a lot.
It was still dark, so Wang proposed to continue walking.
Everyone looked at the empty villages around them and nodded in haste, not daring to stay here overnight.
Everyone took a short break to regain their strength and continued walking for another two hours.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the bright moon hung in the sky, casting a faint light on the ground. You could see the road clearly without lighting a torch.
At this time, everyone has passed through three villages full of dead people and arrived at the wide official road from the trail.
There is a road sign on the roadside.
Wang Dahai asked awkwardly: "Are any of us literate?"
Wang Dayou shook his head. He was a blacksmith, he knew how to swing a hammer, and he knew his own name by looking at the scales and other characters.
The two of them couldn't help but look at Xu Yue's family.
Strangely enough, they all felt that this family was so different that they should be literate.
Xu Dalang was the first to get close to the stone tablet and look at it, the front and the back. He stood up and shook his head at Xu Yue, "No."
Xu Yue patted her brother's arm lightly, indicating that he shouldn't be too sad. There are so many illiterate people these days.
Originally, the Xu family were ordinary small farmers who were still struggling to make ends meet, so it was naturally impossible for them to read and read.
Now let’s see if the Daqing Kingdom’s writing is the writing before they traveled through time.
It feels like buying a lottery ticket. You can't force it, you have to let it happen.
Xu Erniang and Wang stepped forward to look at the stone tablet one after another, and both shook their heads.
Xu Da did not believe in evil, thinking that in his previous life he had read many secret books and was proficient in the languages of all ethnic groups. He waved his wife to get out of the way and looked over confidently.
Ah this...this this!
What kind of things are painted on this stone tablet!
"Daddy?" Seeing that Xu Da didn't respond for a long time, Xu Yue called him softly.
Xu Da sighed in frustration, stood up and shook his head vaguely at his wife and daughter.
Xu Yue couldn't believe it. What kind of words were here that actually confused everyone in the family?
Xu Erniang raised her eyebrows and asked Xu Yue to take a look.
Xu Yue looked at her family members anxiously. They no longer had any expectations and just let her go through the motions.
Xu Yue shrugged helplessly and came to the stone monument.
Through the moonlight, we can see several lines of words written on the stone tablet, which are arranged from right to left and top to bottom in ancient style.
When Xu Yue realized that she could see the order, Xu Yue was stunned, and then realized that she could understand 80% to 90% of the words on the stone tablet.
Because the text on this stone tablet is traditional Chinese characters!
"How's it going?" Xu Erniang asked from behind, feeling that Xu Yue had been silent for a long time and probably didn't understand.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yue turned around and nodded seriously.
The whole family was startled. Xu Da was the first to react. He walked forward and knelt down in front of Xu Yue, pointing at a word at random.
Xu Yue looked at it and saw that this was the most complicated word on the stone tablet. She happened to recognize it, and it was called Pu.
Xu Yue glanced at Wang Dayou and others standing outside, leaned into Xu Da's ear, and whispered to him the pronunciation of the word.
Xu Da also quickly realized that the literacy of Xu Yue, a little country girl, was not in line with the current era. The father and daughter quickly exchanged a look and tacitly agreed on a course of action to sing the double act.
"Hiss, I looked at it again, this seems to be the word Pu for Puyang." Xu Da stood up, turned around and said to the people behind him.
When Wang Dayou and Wang Dahai heard this, they both showed the expression that Brother Xu was really hiding, and they gathered around excitedly.
"So does this stone tablet say that we have arrived in Puyang County?" Wang Dahai asked.
Wang Dayou said uncertainly: "The East County of Puyang County is adjacent to our Shanyang County. I heard from the vendors in the village that it takes half a month to walk from Changyi to Puyang. We can't be that fast, right?"
Xu Da looked at Xu Yue secretly, and Xu Yue whispered to Xu Da what she understood on the stone tablet.
Xu Da pretended to look in front of the stone tablet for a while, and then said: "This stone tablet indicates the destination of the three roads ahead. If you take the official road to the west, you will reach the boundary of Dongjun within ten miles, and it is only a hundred miles away from Puyang County."
"Going east is the way to Qingzhou, and going south is the way back to Changyi. We have arrived at the junction of the two counties."
After hearing Xu Da's words, Wang Dayou and others were confused for a moment. Where should they go?
But compared to Qingzhou, which is completely unfamiliar to me, Puyang County in Dongjun next door is quite familiar.
Wang Dayou once said to a hawker that the governor of Dongjun was a military commander. Maybe there were no red scarf troops causing rebellion there?
Or maybe the Red Turban rebellion over there has been put down, and there might be a way to survive.
Thinking of this, Wang Dayou looked at the Xu family and wanted to hear their thoughts.
Xu Da looked at the bright moon in the sky and the two sparse stars around it, and counted with his fingers, which gave him a glimpse of life.
But when he was about to speak, the Wang family had already brainstormed, combining the Red Scarf Army's route from north to south and where the water sources might appear, and made a choice one step ahead of Xu.
"Go west to Puyang."
Xu's mouth was so big that it suddenly stuck in his throat. He looked at Wang in surprise and wanted to ask her whether she was just pointing to a random place or whether she also knew how to calculate.
It is obvious that everything Wang has revealed shows that she is a firm realist and will not leave her destiny to be decided by so-called metaphysics.
Maybe it was because Xu Da's probing eyes were too intense, and Xu Yue's brothers and sisters were looking at him curiously, so Wang directly came to give an on-site teaching.
From the current geographical conditions and the movement of the sun, she estimated the longitude and latitude corresponding to a planet similar to the original world, and tried to merge them.
From this, she learned that she was still living on a round and gravitational star.
From this, combined with the observed geographical conditions, we can deduce where there will be rivers.
Finally, using rich war experience and combined with reality, the general marching route and goals of the Red Scarf Army were deduced, and the conclusion of the march to Dongjun was drawn.
Xu Da: Although I didn’t understand it, I was shocked!
Xu Yue was also speechless by the amazing knowledge displayed by her mother-in-law. She looked at her mother-in-law with admiration and almost knelt down in front of her.
Xu Erniang was dumbfounded.
She always felt that she had lived for hundreds of years and had reached the extreme level of research on the magical world, but Wang's current situation was indeed a bit of a dimensionality reduction blow.
Xu Dalang stared at Wang who spoke extremely carefully, and a line of words floated in his mind: She seems to be really trying to teach me...
