It was already very cold at the junction of Dongling and Beiling, but after stepping into Beiling, Feng Qingchen realized that the cold at the border was nothing, because Beiling was still covered in heavy snow, which made Feng Qingchen feel like he had traveled through time in an instant.
Feel.
There is a thick layer of snow on the official road, and there are very few mountains and trees on both sides. The terrain is at the same height. Looking around, it is a vast expanse of white, which makes people unable to open their eyes.
On the official road, walking at the forefront was Beiling General Situ, who led 5,000 people to clear the way. In the middle were Princess Anping's dowry and dowry personnel, as many as 2,000 people.
Except for the Nine Emperors Uncle and the Si Family's Eighteen Cavalry, these two thousand people are supposed to stay in Beiling and cannot return to Dongling, including Feng Qingchen.
Finally, there are the soldiers and horses from Beiling, with more than 3,000 people. Beiling will not allow the soldiers and horses from Dongling to enter Beiling, let alone the imperial capital of Beiling.
The five thousand men and horses escorting the Nine Emperors Uncle stayed at the border for the time being. When the Nine Emperors Uncle returned to Tangling, they would escort the Nine Emperors Uncle back to the Imperial City of Tangling.
Jiuhuangshu and Feng Qingchen walked in the snow for three days. Several people among the dowry people had eye problems. There were military doctors accompanying the Beiling army. The military doctors diagnosed and treated them and they found that they were not acclimatized to the local conditions. They just need to rest for two days and they would be fine.
Feng Qingchen knew that these people must have suffered from snow blindness after seeing snow for a long time, but she had no chance to talk to Uncle Nine Emperors, let alone treat them.
In the past few days, not only Feng Qingchen, but also Uncle Jiuhuang had been stared at by the Beiling people. They were followed wherever they went, making it inconvenient to do many things.
Although they are dissatisfied, there is no other way. Once they reach other people's territory, they have to be controlled by others. They have no soldiers, but Beiling has 8,000 tall and powerful men.
Strength determines everything, and the opponent respects them enough on the surface. They can only fight back privately, otherwise they will be the ones to suffer the consequences.
That night, when everyone entered the city, Feng Qingchen finally found an opportunity to tell Uncle Nine Emperors about snow blindness and its symptoms.
If snow blindness is detected early, it will not be serious and will be cured by just two days of rest. However, if you look at snow again, you will still suffer from snow blindness again. By then, it will become more and more serious, and you may even become blind.
"You are, the Beiling people know but deliberately don't tell us?" Uncle Nine Emperors is a martial artist after all, and since he didn't stare at the snow all the time, it didn't have any impact.
Feng Qingchen nodded: "There is no reason for Beiling people not to know. Look at the hats they wear. There is a layer of black gauze in front of the hat brim. That piece of black gauze is used to block the light from the snow."
"What do the people of Beiling want to do? Blind them all, or blind him?"
It takes one and a half months to walk from the border to Beilinghuang. If they didn't understand the symptoms of snow blindness, many people would indeed be blind, including himself.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing." Feng Qingchen felt that the possibility of this matter targeting Uncle Nine Emperors was very high, because only Uncle Nine Emperors had that value.
Beiling is short of food. If someone exchanges food for the life of Uncle Nine Emperors, they will definitely take the risk.
The Beiling people are good at fighting, but because of the environment they live in, it is extremely difficult to grow food, so they have always purchased food from the Nine Cities of the Three Kingdoms.
In order to prevent Beiling from growing, Dongling joined forces with Xiling, Nanling, and Jiucheng to strictly control the food sold to Beiling, so that the people of Beiling could barely survive. If there were too many people, they would starve to death.
It is impossible for Beiling's population not to increase, but the grain sold to Beiling refuses to rise. In recent years, Beiling has been relying on smuggling to buy grain and barely survive.
However, the price of smuggled food was extremely high, and the Beiling people had to spend their lives hunting and collecting herbs in order to obtain food that they could barely survive on.
In order to buy food, Beiling is getting poorer and poorer, and tens of thousands of young men are dying every year. If this continues, without the need for troops from the Three Kingdoms and Nine Cities, Beiling will be trapped alive in this snow.
Obviously, Uncle Nine Emperors also believed that Beiling should be targeting him this time. Princess Anping and Feng Qingchen were sitting in the carriage. The possibility of getting snow blindness was extremely low. Those who were dowry were of little value. The most valuable one was him.
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"Want to blind me?" Uncle Nine Emperors snorted: "I want to help them, but I want to see what these people are going to do."
After walking for another two days, Uncle Nine Emperors also complained of eye pain. The military doctor came to see Uncle Nine Emperors and found that he was indeed suffering from snow blindness. However, the military doctor still said the same thing, telling Uncle Nine Emperors to rest for two days and not to be bored in the carriage all the time.
Inside, look outside from time to time, just get used to it.
Let a patient with snow blindness look at the vast white snow, and the other person will either be a quack or someone who wants to make money and kill people. It is obvious that the other person is the second type.
Uncle Nine Emperors nodded expressionlessly, as if he accepted the other party's opinion. As soon as he returned to the carriage, the Eighteenth Cavalry gave Uncle Nine Emperors a drop of cold milk prepared by Feng Qingchen.
Once you suffer from snow blindness, you can use fresh human milk or fresh milk to drop eye drops, 5-6 drops each time, once every 3-5 minutes. The milk used must be boiled and cooled before use.
If there were no countermeasures, Feng Qingchen would not let Uncle Nine Emperors take the risk, because Uncle Nine Emperors really suffered from snow blindness, but it was not that serious.
In order not to make the people in Beiling suspicious, Uncle Nine Emperors would look outside from time to time, but his eyes were not staring at the snow, but at the wheels of the carriage.
He didn't want to be really blind.
The people who were spying secretly did not know that Jiuhuangshu had already known their plan, and was planning when Jiuhuangshu would lose sight of it.
After walking for another seven or eight days, there were many people in Dongling whose eyes were hurting and could not see. The Eighteen Riders also took turns pretending, in short, to dispel the wariness of the people in Beiling.
The Beiling people did not show any abnormality along the way. It was not until one day that the Nine Emperors Uncle lost his sight and the Beiling people reacted. However, this reaction was also because they were worried about the Nine Emperors Uncle and asked to take a shortcut to the imperial capital as soon as possible and let the imperial doctor treat the Nine Emperors.
Uncle heals.
As a person who suddenly couldn't see, Jiuhuangshu certainly had no reason to refuse, so Feng Qingchen and his party changed their route.
There are no longer empty plains on both sides of the road, with endless snow fields in sight. There is no shortage of mountains and trees on both sides of the road, and occasionally branches can be seen.
Since the corridor was changed, people in Tanglin no longer suffer from eye pain.
Although General Situ didn't have to worry about safety on the road, there was no guarantee that they would be able to find a town to stay in every night just like taking the official road.
On this day, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was getting darker, but there was no sign of people in front of them. They could not move forward, so they could only find an open space in the forest and set up a temporary tent to take shelter from the wind and snow.
The soldiers and horses in Beiling are not afraid of it. Such wind and snow will not have half the impact on them. It is just painful for the people in Dongling. Even the Eighteen Cavalry have never seen such wind and snow.
"You are really not an ordinary person." The Eighteen Cavalrymen collectively looked at the sky, realizing for the first time that they were so incompetent.
Fortunately, there were people from Beiling who had arranged everything. Otherwise, it would have taken him a long time to even light a fire in the snow. Those who can survive in Beiling are all real men!
They admired the perseverance of the Beiling soldiers. If these Beiling soldiers did not plot against Uncle Nine Emperors, maybe they could become friends...
A message to readers: I wrote until midnight and I was so hungry...but I didn’t dare to eat late-night snacks. I have gained a lot of weight recently and I need to lose weight!
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