After leaving Jixian and heading north, the official road gradually became dilapidated. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the roadside. Colorful pheasants and frightened hares kept running out of the grass on both sides. At this time, the caravans
There were people carrying bows and arrows and chasing after them happily. However, their shooting skills were really poor. After chasing them halfway up the hill, the hares and pheasants had already disappeared, so they had to rush back to the team empty-handed.
While camping in Miyun County, Sun Jiu, Zhang San, Du Scaru and others had another argument. The shouting lasted for half the night and did not subside until Chou. When they set off the next day, there were four more men in the team.
A burly man with a sinewy face.
Then Zhang Sange, the deputy leader of the caravan, announced to everyone that these four people were swordsmen hired for the caravan and were responsible for escorting everyone to the Xiren tribe at the source of Wulie River. The price everyone had to pay was that everyone
Twenty coins, good meat, no limit on free money. As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately jumped up and said that hiring a swordsman was too expensive. When walking this road in the spring, there was also a team of five or sixty people. Each person
As long as you pay sixteen dollars, you can hire a very good swordsman who can use both hands.
"The Shuangdao Liu you mentioned and his brothers were broken up in Black Rock Ridge. What happened at the beginning of this month. More than 60 traders who hired him were arrested and more than 20 people had one ear cut off.
Use it as a token for your companions to take back to raise ransom for their families!" Du Scaran, who had always been stingy, suddenly changed his temper and threatened with a trembling look on his face.
When everyone heard this, the backs of their necks exploded. If there was money left over to redeem tickets, who would be a businessman like this? There are only two fates waiting for the twenty-odd colleagues, or they will be angered by the bandits.
Either way, they would have better luck and join the ranks of bandits, and end up dead in the government's suppression or in an inexplicable firefight. None of them had the courage to sacrifice their lives and wealth, so they had to reluctantly take out twenty copper coins and deliver them to Brother Zhang.
Keep them uniformly. The rules on the road are to negotiate the price when setting off and pay when you arrive. If the caravan encounters bandits on the road and the caravan suffers losses, all losses will be deducted from the swordsman's remuneration. If the caravan does not suffer
In case of loss, even if all the swordsmen were killed in the battle, the leader of the caravan would still have to send the copper coins to the families of the swordsmen, even if the swordsman's family lived thousands of miles away.
After passing Yanle, the official road completely disappeared. The road under your feet turned into a trail made by traders with their feet. It was as thick as a sheep's intestines and could not even accommodate two riders riding side by side. The surrounding mountains became steeper and steeper, with huge rock formations.
The fortresses are almost crowded on the roadside. On the other side of the road, it often turns into an invisible valley with green, yellow, red, gold, and various colors of leaves blocking people's sight, making you unable to
When exploring what is hidden below, one can only hear the sound of gurgling water and the whimpering of the mountain wind blowing through the branches.
The mountains are one after another, endlessly. People and livestock slowly become numb, and they can't tell whether they are going uphill or downhill. Let's say it is downhill. Even big and strong animals like blue and white mules have to stretch.
Straighten your neck and move forward in small steps. It may be said that it is uphill, but the surrounding towering mountains tell you that your position is descending little by little.
People became nervous and stopped talking. Even the stupid sand grouse clucked and ran past with its fat butt swinging. No one had the intention to chase it anymore. Sun Jiu, Zhang San, Wang Mazi and other old people all stared at him.
With his eyes raised, his rough big hand refused to leave the handle of the knife for a moment. The four swordsmen who worked hard to eat were divided into two groups. Three people walked at the front of the caravan. The one with the largest frame was carrying a door panel wide.
The sword is emblazoned at the end of the caravan.
Among the entire team, Xu Dayan and Li Xu were the only ones who remained calm and composed. They had never been out of the traffic jam, so they didn’t know how dangerous the road was. They just found it exciting and exciting. Of all the roads they had traveled in their lives, this was the only one.
The most exciting thing. Apart from being excited, Li Xu also noticed that the trees on the mountain are different from those in his hometown. Most of the trees in his hometown have broad leaves. At this time in autumn, they will turn yellow little by little, and then fall like snow. And
The trees in the mountains are mostly thin coniferous pine trees, followed by cypress trees. Only at the foot of the mountain or in the valley can you see poplar, willow, jujube and wild apricot trees. The higher you go up the hillside, the more pine trees there are.
The world. Therefore, the color of the mountain is constantly changing. It turns yellow at the bottom, turns red halfway up the mountain, then starts to turn green and black upwards. When the black becomes too dark to be thicker, it suddenly becomes lighter and becomes
Grey-blue. That is the inherent color of rocks. At this height, there are no trees anymore, only huge rocks, standing in the wind, reading the vicissitudes of the past and present.
"Look, the Great Wall!" Xu Dayan suddenly shouted from behind, and Li Xu was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse. He turned his head sideways and followed the opponent's fingers to look into the distance, only to see an earthy yellow line stretching thousands of miles.
The dragon lies across the mountains on the left. The mountains stretch endlessly, and so does the giant dragon. The ninety-thousand-mile-long wind blows the dragon's body into twists and turns, but the dragon's head is still raised proudly.
Under the pure blue sky, on top of the mountains.
"That is the Great Wall built by General Meng and his troops. It borders the sea in the east and Qilian in the west, covering more than 10,000 miles. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the present, it has been standing for more than a thousand years!" Xu Dayan pointed to the Great Wall and admired in a low voice.
Tao. In the face of this most magnificent project in history, he put away his pride and stopped talking about how he could do better. What he said was full of heartfelt admiration.
"But his temple has long since lost its incense!" Li Xu sighed with emotion. Along the way, he saw and heard too many heroic deeds, including Colonel Bu, General Luo, King Wei, and the builders of the Great Wall.
They are all more vivid than those described in the book. But the situation of the heroes seems not to be good. While guarding the border for the imperial court, General Luo also had to guard against impeachment within the imperial court. His Royal Highness King Wei died violently in the second year after sweeping through the Turkic tribes.
, it is said that he met a ghost because he killed too many people. But according to Xu Dayan, King Wei was raised by the late emperor and his most beloved half-brother. When the late emperor was still alive, he had the intention of passing the throne to his brother. And that
The fate of General Meng, who built the Great Wall, seems to have been even worse. History books record the outcome of his life in four words: death and annihilation of his clan.
"With such a Great Wall, how can he need the incense in the world?" Xu Da looked at the watchtower in the distance with admiration on his face. If anything can be called an unparalleled achievement, the Great Wall in front of him can be considered one of them.
Over the past few years, countless tribes have changed on the grassland. Before each tribe goes south, it must first face this artificial barrier.
"People behind, hurry up and cross the Great Wall by Baoqiu River. We are out of the blockade!" Sun Jiu's shout came from far away from the front, interrupting the discussion of the two brothers.
The vendors agreed one after another, and like a long snake, they slowly accelerated their movement. It would be cheaper to end such a dangerous mountain road as early as possible. Many places are extremely dangerous. If a bandit suddenly pokes his head out, everyone can only act obediently.
Hands of surrender.
Yanshan is thousands of miles away.
The mountain is higher, the road is narrower and steeper. People have to jump off the back of the animal and pull the reins in front. When encountering a sudden steep slope, the animal becomes the master and needs people to support it with their shoulders.
Move your butt forward.
In just one day, the thick-soled shoes that Li Xu had just put on when he left home were worn out. There were blood blisters on his toes, protruding from the front of the shoes. The heels were also open, with faint traces of blood. Every time he took a step,
With every step I took, I felt a heartbreaking pain in front of my feet and behind my feet at the same time. I don’t know how many layers of calluses there were on my shoulders. When I pressed against the animal’s butt, I completely lost consciousness. My thighs and chest were all sticky with sweat, and they were in the wind.
The dust is glued into a paste and sticks to the skin. If it moves occasionally, it will emit a sour smell that can make flies faint.
Xu Dayan's situation seems to be slightly better than him. His expensive robe has been hung up by branches and turned into a cassock. The delicate brown shorts he wears close to his body are also hung with holes everywhere. When the wind blows, the white inside is revealed, but
Dirty skin. A pair of fast boots specially used for mountain climbing are also inseparable from the shoes on Li Xu's feet. They have "garlic cloves" on the front and "eggplant eggs" on the back.
Li Xu knew that at this time, he was no longer different from Wang Mazi and others, just as dirty and haggard. Thinking that this kind of life would be with him for a long time, he shuddered all over. Then he thought about his father's life over the years.
I have been living like this all my life, but I have never cried out in pain in front of myself and my mother. Deep in my heart, I have even more understanding of what a father's love is like.
"I must make money!" Li Xu pushed the mount's butt hard and swore secretly. These days must end soon, for the sake of his own future and for the sake of his parents.
"If God wants to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first torture his mind, strain his body, starve his body and skin, mess up what he does, and gain what he cannot do!" In front of the mount, Xu Dayan muttered and hung the reins on the horse.
On his shoulders, he pulled forward with all his strength. Even though he was so tired, he did not regret his choice at all. Before leaving home, his father originally told him that the Xu family could bribe the government to allow him to avoid military service, or even buy a refugee.
, pretending to be him and joining the army. However, he refused. In other words, he wanted to seize this opportunity to see the outside world. It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. Only by seeing can we compare what we have learned with the outside world.
connect them.
Only in this way can we have the opportunity to revitalize the entire family and leave our own names in the vast history, such as the king of Wei Yang Shuang, the general Meng Tian, and the brave general Luo Yi.
The young man slowly moved forward, moving forward, crossing the Wanliguan Mountain with his feet.
One day, the mountain suddenly disappeared. Just like the blood blisters on the feet that had turned into calluses, they disappeared with only a few traces left.
The scenery in front of us suddenly opened up and was boundless. I don't know when the wilderness started lying in front of the caravan. Several "hills" were lying low in the distance, using their backs to hold up the semicircular blue sky above their heads. That day
The blue is so pure, the blue is so crisp, the blue is so blue that there is no residue at all. (To be continued)
