"How far are we from the next town?"
"Thirty miles away, you can stay at the inn tonight."
Cheng Xi sighed, "It's really inconvenient to live without a map."
Those in power in ancient times were very taboo about maps. Forget about the panoramic map of the Great Yan Dynasty. That thing was not something that ordinary people should have. Even the ministers of the palace had to weigh it carefully if they wanted it, for fear of being accused of harboring evil intentions.
Worrying people.
Chen Xingluo took out a rectangular piece of cloth from somewhere and said, "This is a map of the nearby area. It's better than nothing. Madam, just take a look at it."
Cheng Xi took a glance and suddenly became interested.
It was a simplified local map, at most the size of a county town. A few lines outline the roads, mountains and rivers, and a few icons next to them represent towns along the way.
The most important thing is that such a gadget is not illegal.
"Where are we at?"
"right."
"You don't have to act like you're blind now."
Although the map on Bujuan is simpler, it is better than nothing. Holding Bujuan in hand is like a modern person who needs a mobile phone wherever he goes, otherwise he will not feel safe in anything he does.
Cheng Xi felt that this habit was bad and didn't know how to change it.
Wait, why change?
"You have brought a lot of local maps like this, right?"
Chen Xingluo's dark eyes smiled, "It's all the way from Lin'an Prefecture to the capital. I've asked the system to compile a new one. If you want to see it, you can ask for it."
"..." Then you can make this cloth for me?
Cheng Xi glared at him and suddenly felt that she was really stupid.
Shen Xingluo has always been a person who takes one step at a time and waits for three steps. I am afraid that he has planned everything since he proposed traveling to Beijing and was just waiting for her to ask.
He tricked me again (#￣～￣#)
Cheng Xi said hello to 666 in his mind, and half of the Great Yan Dynasty came to mind.
True - half of the country.
The system also thoughtfully marked their current location with a blue dot, making it look like a real-time satellite navigation.
She looked at the natural woods and creek in front of her, and at the official road not far away where carriages and passers-by walked, and she suddenly felt happy.
"What are you happy about, madam?"
"Other people use the Internet for navigation, but our navigation is manual. 666 claims to be the first interstellar system. Are you going to die of frustration now?"
"..."
【......】
The increasingly transparent 666 had yet to speak and closed his microphone again.
The two pheasants on the fire soon began to give off their fragrance. Since they were brushed with a layer of seasoning, the fragrance spread far and wide, attracting passers-by to look at them frequently.
"It smells so good! Dad, I'm hungry, let's take a rest too? It's not too late to work hard on the road."
"Okay, okay, rest."
The woods near the river are really a good place. Businessmen on the official road also like to gather together, and many people stopped nearby.
Here Wang Shu and Su Zhan are each responsible for a roast chicken. After it is cooked, they cut it into pieces with a knife and serve it with the scallion pancake prepared in the morning.
The sun is shining now, and a breeze blowing under the shade of the trees is particularly cool.
The Shen family members were not in a hurry to go on their way. Since they had agreed to have fun, it was natural to do it mainly for fun and to do whatever they felt comfortable with. However, this would be a pain for the caravans who joined the resting group next to them.
While others were working hard and looking disgraced, they were enjoying themselves eating mouth-watering barbecue.
"Oh~ this cake is so hard!"
"It smelled quite good in the morning, but now it doesn't smell at all?"
"If you bear with me a little longer, I can stay in an inn tonight."
Many people pinched the hard dry food in their hands and beat their chests. They couldn't eat it and threw it away, but they couldn't bear to part with it. They almost wanted to cry without tears.
It was not until noon that the Shen family leisurely boarded the carriage, and those who stayed there to rest collectively breathed a sigh of relief.
In the carriage, Shen Xingqi lost her morning energy because she was sleepy and her little head was following the rhythm of the carriage bit by bit.
"Sleepy?"
"Um."
"Go to sleep for a while, and when you wake up, we'll go to the inn."
The interior of the carriage was not small enough to accommodate three people. Cheng Xi placed a pillow on his knees, and the little girl quickly fell asleep on it.
Thirty miles is not a long journey, but we arrived at Yinfeng Town in two hours.
Cheng Xi woke up Shen Xingqi and got out of the car together, and saw that they were already standing in front of an inn. Su Zhan was the first to go in and talk to the shopkeeper at the counter for a moment, then turned and walked over.
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"Sir, your and your wife's rooms are on the west side of the third floor, and my lady's room is the second one on the west side."
"Understood, we will stay here for two days and take care of other things."
"yes."
Cheng Xi followed Shen Xingluo to the third floor, and then realized that her room was very elegantly decorated, with everything in it not matching the ordinary appearance of the inn.
"This... doesn't look like an inn."
It's so comfortable no matter how you look at it, it can be considered a different kind of luxury.
She looked at the person beside her, "What's going on, Mr. Shen? Explain how there is such a high-end inn in a small town, and it was chosen by Su Zhan?"
"I can't hide anything from you."
"Did you drive it? Fu Guang has been so busy all day that no one can be seen, just doing these things?"
Chen Xingluo nodded, "There are only two rooms in the entire inn that are reserved for our own people and are not rented out. In addition, there is a small kitchen downstairs, which is convenient for whatever you want to do."
"How many inns have you opened like this?"
"At least Madam will no longer sleep in the open during this journey to Beijing."
"..."
Cheng Xi felt hot in his heart and fell silent for a moment.
The inn was ordinary and featureless, and it didn't really stand out. It probably didn't make much money, so being so low-key probably had some other purpose... She thought of something about someone in Lin'an Prefecture that she had occasionally glimpsed in the study room of Shenjia Village. Instant clarity.
It is used to collect information.
Seeing her lowering her head and thinking, Chen Xingluo knew that Cheng Xi had already guessed, "I visited the Hongwei Escort Agency with my father-in-law a few days ago. The inn can accommodate the escorts from the agency."
"Then what did Uncle Chen promise you?"
"In the future, the escort agency will not only use objects as escorts, but also letters."
"Is Hongwei Escort Agency going to expand its scale?"
"The snowstorm has just passed a few months ago, and now the most indispensable thing in the north is idlers."
Seeing his calm expression, Cheng Xi couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "You are so good at seizing opportunities. Are you good at using cheap labor?"
Chen Xingluo was noncommittal.
Some people take advantage of natural disasters to make money, while others take advantage of natural disasters to recruit people to open stores and expand other cooperative businesses. The latter is him.
Knowing that he was confident, Cheng Xi said nothing more, leaving only "If you need help with anything, just come to me" and went to the small kitchen downstairs.
She is also a busy person, no less leisurely than Chen Xingluo.
When I left the house in the morning, I was given a bunch of "homework" by Mr. Xu. There were a lot of medical skills and medical practice records that needed to be reviewed, and they had to be assessed when the master and the old man met next time.
If she fails the test, won't she lose her title as the test-taker?
