The village chief selected people for them, and then prepared food, water and cars for them.
There were only two horses in the whole village, and they were old grazing horses, so they didn't give them to them. Bai Shan and the others had their own horses, so they could just hitch them to the cart and use them.
This time, because the direction he calculated by himself may not be accurate, Bai Shan made a lot of preparations. After all, he didn't know when he would find it.
However, he also told the people in the village, "With the water we brought, if there is no news after being out for half a month, we will turn around, so we will be back within a month at the latest."
If they don't come back for more than a month, then they have found a place or something happened on the road.
Seeing that there was no news from Teacher Mo, Man Bao let Bai Shan arrange it in this way.
So the group set off first.
The two directions chosen by Bai Shan were determined based on the known directions of the tiankeng and the impressions of the villagers. However, not to mention that time has passed 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 look for it for a long time.
Therefore, they were not surprised to encounter other people and towns on the road.
People in Danshi Village have not 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.
Therefore, people they met did not pay attention to them. On the contrary, Bai Shan and Zhou Man attracted more attention. They were so good-looking and had good temperament that everyone's eyes were attracted to them.
Bai Shan and Man Bao did not avoid the eyes of these people. They took out some silk cloth and asked for lodging or buying water. After settling in, they determined the direction with them and inquired about the news. "I heard that many years ago, three big giants fell from the sky."
The fireball made three big craters on the ground, have you seen it?"
Some people shook their heads directly and said, "I've never seen it before. It was a misfortune from heaven, and the kingdom was destroyed because of it."
Bai Shan: ...Gaochang was obviously kidnapped by King Gaochang. What does the meteorite have to do with it?
But some people said excitedly: "I saw it. I didn't sleep that night, and fire fell from the sky. When it fell, the earth shook."
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Have you seen the direction of the fall? I heard that there are gems in the sinkhole, and I want to see it."
"Oh, I heard that the gem is poisonous, so I don't dare to look at it," the man said, "and who can find it? Mr. Ayi searched for a long time and only found one place."
Master Ayi is the noble master of their territory. It was through his hands that the stone was presented to the eldest prince, and then passed from the eldest prince's hands to Hou Ji's hands, and then to the prince's hands.
But it's a pity that he couldn't wait for the prince to settle the matter. As early as when the prince noticed that there was something wrong with the stone, his whole family was found guilty and imprisoned by the prince. They died before the Gaochang Kingdom was destroyed. The whole family
All gone.
There are no noble lords in this territory now, and it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate.
Bai Shan couldn't find any useful information, so he looked around and saw that the guards were all busy with their own business. There was only Daji guarding him, so he brought up another topic, "I heard that there is a country farther west that has great medical skills.
The people there can not only prevent and treat smallpox, but also detoxify it. Maybe they can detoxify this kind of poison?"
Everyone is no longer very interested in this poison. They have been tired of talking about it for three years. Instead, they are very interested in smallpox, which is now very popular.
Because of the traffic congestion, news spread very slowly. To Bai Shan and others, the smallpox that had passed for half a year was already a thing of the past, but ordinary people here in the Western Region had just heard that smallpox broke out in the Central Plains not long ago.
So the person in question glanced at Bai Shan and Zhou Man, nodded and asked, thinking he understood: "Mr. Lang and the young lady want to find people from that country to treat smallpox, right?"
Bai Shan smiled and did not deny it.
People in the Western Regions couldn't help but slander, saying that the Han people were very crooked-hearted. It was indeed true. They were obviously looking for the smallpox, but they didn't say they were looking for the rocks that fell from the sky.
He just said, everyone can stay as far away from poisonous stones as possible, so why are we still looking for them?
It turns out that their original goal was smallpox.
They had never heard of this country, but it sounded like it was very powerful, so they couldn't help but ask, and Bai Shan vividly told them the story that the three of them had worked hard to compile for a long time.
Legend has it that there is a country in the West where birds are singing, flowers are fragrant, plants are luxuriant, and medicinal herbs are abundant. Therefore, there are many people with excellent medical skills there, and many difficult and difficult diseases are common diseases there...
This beginning was Bai Shan's idea. When Man Bao and Bai Erlang heard it, they felt how unlucky that country must be to have many difficult diseases become common.
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 infect cattle with smallpox, and then inoculate the pox from the cattle into people.
body, and then the person can be protected from smallpox throughout 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 and are not afraid of epidemics.
People who listen to the story become more and more yearning for it.
Except good luck.
Although there had been speculations that the young master and the others came to the Western Regions not really looking for a way to vaccinate against pox, but when he really heard this story, Daji was still shaken.
He was very familiar with the beginning of such a story. In the past, when the young master would tell such detailed stories, he probably had a purpose.
Daji knew it, but others didn't. After Bai Shan and the others left, the story spread widely in the village. Many people were yearning for that country in the west. Then it 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 been spread and evolved countless times.
Of course, the first person to get the news was General Guo.
To be honest, the envoy lived in his city of Xizhou. It was impossible to say that he had no doubts at all. He had obviously asked around before and had never heard of any place that had a method of vaccination.
Moreover, he himself scorned this method. He could only hide from smallpox, so how could he rush to plant it?
However, the emperor and the court seemed to be convinced by this method, and he could only entertain the envoy. However, Zhou Man and Bai Shan of the envoy left, but the others stayed in Xizhou and made trouble in the city every day.
To be honest, even though he claimed to know the emperor well enough, sometimes he couldn't help but wonder, was the mission sent by the emperor really here for some kind of vaccination rather than for something else?
At this moment, he received a report from his subordinates.
General Guo was so shocked that he immediately sat up from his seat, "What did you say?"