After a whole night of tossing and stopping, Xiao Chen and his party arrived outside Cangxian County, a county under Hejian Prefecture, just before dawn.
Glancing at the city gate building of Cangxian County in the distance, Duan Tianming looked at Xiao Chen with a hint of sleepiness in his eyes.
"It's really impossible to travel in this weather. It's too hot during the day for the horses to run, and at night they don't watch the weather, and they don't dare to run. In less than half a month, I think we won't be able to reach Zhejiang."
"Then what can we do? With the weather like this, we didn't mean to walk slowly." Xiao Chen looked around, then looked back at the team behind him, "Find a cool forest to set up camp and rest where you are."
Duan Tianming nodded: "I think we will continue to travel in both directions in the future, resting at night and at noon when the weather is hot. This should be the most effective time to travel."
"Well, I think so too."
"How about we take the team into the city to have breakfast, and then come out to find a place to rest?" Duan Tianming asked again, looking at the county magistrate not far away.
"This Cang County belongs to Hejian Prefecture. It's just a small county. How can there be a breakfast stall that can feed three hundred people at once? Let's make a fire and cook on the spot. We can take a few people into the city to buy some food.
"Xiao Chen said.
Everyone began to set up tents, and Xiao Chen and Duan Tianming rode toward the county seat.
The captain's uniform was covered with dust and looked unkempt.
If it weren't for the fat, strong, tall and powerful military horses under their crotches, the two of them would have looked like beggars.
The difference is that he is just a beggar wearing a school uniform.
Walking into the city gate, people at the breakfast stalls on the street had already begun to wolf down their food.
Duan Tianming pouted his nose and sniffed the air vigorously.
The aroma of the meat buns is really hard to move away from.
"I said Xiao Chen, why don't we eat some steamed buns and go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables? You see, I'm already hungry after running around all night?"
Looking at Xiao Chen, Duan Tianming patted his stomach. At the same time, he took a deep breath to make his stomach look more deflated.
"You're the only one who knows you're hungry, but the brothers outside don't know they're hungry?" Xiao Chen glared at him.
"Brothers, make a fire and cook. Once the porridge is ready, you can drink it. It will give you some relief. Let's go back a little later, as it happens to be lunch time." Duan Tianming said with a playful smile.
In fact, it’s okay to be hungry for a while longer. The key is that the taste of these steamed buns is so tempting that your mouth is a bit greedy.
"Okay, since you said so, let's not do it again." Xiao Chen said, looking at the steamed bun stall in the distance, and secretly swallowed a sip of saliva.
This action was seen by Duan Tianming, and he couldn't help but despise it in his heart.
But I can only keep this contempt in my heart.
He led the horse and hurriedly walked towards the steamed bun stall.
I ordered two steamed buns and the two of them finished them off in three strokes.
I just ordered two more baskets, mixed some chili sauce, and started chewing slowly to taste the taste.
"Ah, what kind of dog is this? It's really big." Duan Tianming exclaimed with a bun in his hand.
"How big is it?" Following Duan Tianming's gaze, Xiao Chen also looked over.
An old man in ragged clothes with gray hair pulled a cart full of vegetables, his upper body almost hunched parallel to the ground, and walked slowly forward.
There was a rope tied to the shaft of the cart next to it, and at the end of the rope was a large gray dog the size of a calf.
Same skinny.
But the rope was stretched straight, and he used all his strength to help the old man pull the cart.
Putting down the buns in his hand, Xiao Chen wiped his mouth: "Don't we want to buy vegetables? We don't need to go to the vegetable market. We just bought everything in this cart."
"At this age, if it weren't for the hard life at home, the dog wouldn't be so hungry and thin. I'll give him a little more money." Duan Tianming stood up and was about to greet the old man.
"Old man, doesn't your heart hurt when you abuse a dog like this?" A sharp female voice made Duan Tianming freeze on the spot.
Two women with disheveled hair and sleepy eyes, with eye drops from last night's sleep hanging on the corners of their eyes, stood in front of the old man's vegetable cart.
The two women, dressed in high-end silk robes, looked like they were from wealthy families.
However, there are no buttons on the top and bottom of the robe, and it is as casual and shapeless as a bucket. With its wrinkled appearance, it should be just a nightgown worn when sleeping.
On her feet, she wore exquisite silk cloth shoes, but the heels were not hooked up.
Just like that, it was dragging on my feet like a dead fish, looking lazy.
The two women look a bit alike, they should be mother and daughter.
The older woman is holding a big black dog in her hands.
The dog hair all over his body is shiny and shiny, and his belly is as big as three dog heads.
Maybe he was too fat, he walked unsteadily, his dog eyes were lazy and dull, and he didn't look as ferocious as a dog should, more like a big fat pig waiting to be slaughtered.
The young woman is different. Although she also has a dog, she may be afraid that the dog will be too tired from running on the ground, so she just hugs her in her arms.
The dog in my arms is not big. It has yellow fur and a small braid on its forehead.
While the old woman was scolding the old man, the young woman stuffed a bun she had just bought into her mouth, chewed it, spit it out, and fed it to the dog in her arms.
The dog ate it up in a few mouthfuls. It seemed that it was not full yet, and it grunted and licked the woman's face.
Licking the eye mucus from the corners of the woman's eyes cleanly.
"What are these two things?" Looking at Xiao Chen, Duan Tianming was a little at a loss.
"Dogs, a black dog and a yellow dog."
"No, I'm talking about these two dog owners, why are they different from people?" With his mouth half open, Duan Tianming looked at the two women again.
Being blocked by someone, the old man slowly raised his head and looked at the other person.
The strength in his body relaxed a little, and the vegetable cart, which was originally going uphill, began to slip backwards.
By the time the old man reacted and tried to use his strength to control the vegetable cart, it was obviously too late.
The vegetable cart staggered the old man, and he fell to the ground with a somersault. His head happened to hit a stone on the roadside, and he immediately started bleeding.
The anger in the hearts of Xiao Chen and the two of them surged up in a flash, and they reached the old man's side with a leap.
Xiao Chen helped the old man up, and Duan Tianming took out Dongchang's special golden sore medicine from his arms and covered the old man's wound.
After doing all this, when the two were about to control the vegetable cart again, they were shocked again by the scene in front of them.
The big gray dog tied to the shaft of the cart was holding on to the shaft with its mouth, and its four paws were clawing at the ground.
Two nails on the dog's paws had been cut off, and there was even a trace of blood on the left front paw.
Shengsheng stopped the vegetable cart that was going backwards.
Although his mouth was biting the shaft of the car and he was motionless, his dog eyes kept looking at the old man who fell on the roadside. The corners of his eyes were moist, as if they were wet with tears.
Xiao Chen looked at the big gray dog desperately controlling the vegetable cart, then at the big black dog like a fat pig in the old woman's hand, and then at the little yellow dog in his arms that couldn't even walk.
He couldn't help but shook his head.
They are both dogs, so why is the difference so big?
"Old man, do you raise a dog just to pull a cart for you? If that's the case, you might as well find a good home for it and give it away."
Seemingly not seeing the old man's injuries, the old woman pressed forward and said reluctantly.
Xiao Chen was already filled with anger, but he still tried hard to suppress it.
If a good man doesn't fight with women, what's the point of arguing with such a lazy woman?
"Auntie, you blocked the old man's way and caused him to break his head. Can't you see the injury?" Xiao Chen stood up and said angrily.
"What did you say?" The old woman seemed to be irritated by Xiao Chen's words and roared loudly.
"Can't you see the old man's injury?" Xiao Chen repeated.
"last sentence."
"The last sentence?" Xiao Chen was stunned. Is there something wrong with this guy's brain? Why should he answer in sentences? "The last sentence was that you blocked the old man's way and caused him to fall."
"One more sentence." The old woman's eyes became even more angry.
"Auntie?" Xiao Chen tentatively asked in a low voice.
He really didn't know what the other person was asking.
"Are you blind?" the old woman yelled like a shrew, raised her left hand to fiddle with the messy hair on her head, revealing her big, rosy face and thick lips, "I am naturally beautiful, and you are as beautiful as a flower.
Call me aunt?"
Xiao Chen opened his mouth half-open and shook his head.
Are you really blind, or are you too illiterate? Is this the way to describe someone as beautiful as a flower?
After hesitating for a moment, he had to tell the truth: "My nose and eyes are all there, so I look like the same person."
