"This ancient road is so difficult to walk!"
Li Jiang cursed and walked out of a valley.
This was a few days after he left Tongguan. He had been to Shaanxi before, but always by train and never walked across it with his legs. He could only follow the direction to the southeast.
Fortunately, he has martial arts skills, so he can climb mountains and cross rivers, so the terrain does not pose many obstacles to him. However, his flashy appearance is a bit unsightly.
Li Jiang was really speechless about this. It was made of the high-tech biological nanomaterials that the system boasted about. It didn't fade, was sweat-absorbent and breathable, never wrinkled and didn't require ironing. However, it wasn't dustproof, and it made it all look gray.
After shaking the leaves on his head and dusting off his body, Li Jiang looked back, still feeling frightened.
Along the way, there were only a few people around. The people he saw were all in ragged clothes and looked yellow and thin from hunger. Many people were digging tree roots in the mountains to eat.
He had money given by Mu Renqing, but he had no place to buy food. He had to use his faith points to exchange for some bread and milk. It was really painful! A bag of French bread and a bag of milk cost 1 point.
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However, no matter how painful he was, he still had to eat. Along the way, hungry people continued to die, which made him feel desolate. Near Dazhou, the most difficult place, he actually saw hungry people cooking food that had died of starvation.
He didn't dare to look at the dead bodies to eat, so he reluctantly spent dozens of faith points to exchange for 100 pieces of bread and threw them to them, then hid his face and walked past.
Now we finally arrived at Chongqing Mansion. After all, this is a large mansion of the Chief Secretary of Sichuan, where the two rivers meet, so it is very popular.
Listening to Chongqing dialect, Li Jiang felt a sense of intimacy. He had only heard the local dialect in three years, but he couldn't speak it anymore. Now he only speaks Shaanxi dialect.
Listening to the words of passers-by with a smile, Li Jiang walked all the way towards Chaotianmen.
When climbing up hills and hills, if you can't find the way, ask passers-by. Chongqing people are very enthusiastic in giving directions, and some even took Li Jiang for a while without any problems.
After arriving at Chaotianmen, Li Jiang looked around and saw that the Jialing River and the Yangtze River, one clear and one turbid, merged and flowed eastward. From here, the intersection looked like a mandarin duck fire.
Boats are coming and going on the river, and there is a huge flow of people on the river bank. There are people loading and unloading goods, horse-drawn carriages, trolleys, and sticks coming and going, creating a busy scene.
Li Jiang couldn't help but sigh. It's a pity that this harmonious scene will disappear in a few years. The wild boar skin is coming.
But what can he do? It is impossible for one person to deal with thousands of troops. Li Jiang thought that only after he has practiced martial arts, he can do Zhuanzhu's separation.
Walking off the pier, Li Jiang wanted to find a passenger ship. After asking for a long time, there was no one. Unless he paid for one himself, or took someone else's cargo ship.
He had no choice but to ask one by one if there was any heading towards Nanjing.
Many ships don't go that far. They usually go past the Three Gorges and end at Yichang, or as far as Wuhan. This makes Li Jiang so anxious that he really wants to spend a few hundred points to exchange for a yacht and drive there by himself.
Already.
Finally, after asking more than a dozen ships, a ship carrying silk fabrics was going to Jiangnan. Li Jiang was overjoyed and followed the boatman's instructions to find the owner of the ship.
The captain's surname was Zhao, a strong man in his thirties. He heard Li Jiang's intention and looked at him for a while. He was carrying a long sword and looked majestic. His handsome face was full of righteousness, and his clothes were neither silk nor cloth, high-profile and luxurious.
Thinking about which family he should be, he doesn't look like a gangster.
After thinking about it for a while, the shipowner agreed to Li Jiang's request and charged him a token fee of five taels of silver for the ship.
Seeing that he agreed, Li Jiang thanked him repeatedly. The shipowner called a boatman to guide him aboard and gave him a small room.
Not long after, the ship lifted anchor and set sail, heading east along the river.
The apes on both sides of the bank can't stop crying, and the boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
There were not many twists and turns along the way. The ship successfully passed through the Three Gorges, passed Wuhan, and arrived in Jiangxi.
On the boat, Li Jiang also became familiar with the boat owner Zhao Defu, and sometimes they would call Li Jiang together when eating. Li Jiang did not refuse, believing that he could save points whenever he could. It was a waste to always use them to exchange for food. He also wanted to save up to 10,000 points.
To the next world.
In the evening of that day, the ship passed Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. Li Jiangzheng and Zhao Defu were having dinner and bragging. The knowledge of future generations would make the natives faint. Don't take it easy. Zhao Defu's eyes widened when he heard this, and he was amazed.
Just as Li Jiang was telling a short story, he suddenly heard the faint sound of a whistle in the distance. Li Jiang immediately stopped talking, remembering the various changes in the world that Mu Renqing said, and knowing that something was going on, he made a gesture to Zhao Defu, telling him not to make any sound.
He heard the sound, then quietly stood in front of the window and looked out.
There was nothing but rolling river water outside. However, Li Jiang did not dare to be careless. His five senses were already very strong after being strengthened, and now he had great martial arts skills. As long as he focused his skills on his ears, he could not hide the movements dozens of meters away. He had
This confidence was definitely not an auditory hallucination just now.
Sure enough, soon there was a loud sound of oars, and a boat came up from the downstream. Li Jiang quickly blew out the oil lamp, and said softly to Zhao Defu, who was confused: "There are several small boats coming towards us, and they seem to have evil intentions. Get down quickly.
Beware of their arrows."
"Ah!" Zhao Defu was still in a daze, obviously not believing it. Li Jiang had no choice but to ignore him and continue to look out the window.
In a moment, four small boats approached quickly. Soon they set up a formation, one in front, one in the back, and two more on the left and right, sandwiching the big ship in the middle.
After surrounding the cargo ship, each ship lit a torch, and then each threw an iron claw with a rope to firmly attach to the cargo ship.
At this time, a rough voice shouted from the small boat on the left side of the deck: "The captain comes out and answers, or else you will be burned!"
Only then did Zhao Defu react. He looked around and saw four small boats with brightly lit torches and people standing on the bows, all holding weapons. He was so frightened that he couldn't help but tremble.
Seeing his timid appearance, Li Jiang couldn't help but secretly let out a "poof", thinking that this guy had boasted all along the way that he had traveled all over the country and had seen all kinds of big scenes. Now you look like a quail, do you deserve the surname Zhao?
But we can't let these water bandits really burn the boat. Li Jiang can swim, but he learned it in a swimming pool. He hasn't tried it in a big river, and he feels a little weak.
So he comforted Zhao Defu: "It's okay. You go out and answer these questions first and stabilize these people. I will find an opportunity to kill their boss and let them collapse without a fight!" After saying that, he patted the Heavenly Sword behind him to enhance his persuasion.
force.
"Oh, oh" Zhao Defu had to agree. This ship and its cargo belonged to him. If it was really burned, even if he survived, he would only be bankrupt. Thinking of his wife and children at home, he had to bite the bullet and walk out of the house.
Door.
Chapter completed!