The taxi did not stop driving because of Jin Yu's unspeakable feelings. Even if there were occasional traffic jams along the way, it was still time to leave the city!
"Sir, this car has already left the city. How should we go next?" After the car left the city, the driver pulled over and asked Jin Yu.
Jin Yu looked around. Although there was a city gate here, she was not sure that the west city gate was located here during the Song Dynasty. I might as well get off the car and take a look around. Looking at the West City Gate, although it has some similarities with the city gates from the Song Dynasty, it is obviously a recent building and was probably built to attract tourists.
Jin Yu is not sure whether the newly rebuilt ancient city gate is built according to the location of the previous Song Dynasty city gate. If it is, it is okay. If not, it is hard to say how to calculate the thirty miles away from the west city gate. However, the current Kaifeng City is not a first-tier metropolis after all, and its expansion should be limited. It is impossible to expand much outside, so we should look further west.
After Jin Yu got on the bus again, she said to the driver, "Master, go west along this road for another ten or twenty miles. Then I will find someone to ask if anyone knows about Shijia Village."
"Okay!" the driver shouted back as he restarted the car.
Jin Yu remembers very clearly the situation in Shijia Village where their ancestors settled. In the entire Shijia Village, only the family surnamed Cui was an outsider. The Cui family later flourished in the local area. By their generation, although the place was still called Shijia Village and the population was still Shijia Village, because there were many scholars in the Cui family, by his generation, both his father and brother were in the imperial court. Since his father had already held the post of Minister, the entire Shijia Village was basically dominated by the surname Cui.
Not far behind Shijia Village, there is a hill two to three hundred meters high. Although there are no tigers or lions in the mountains, there are still quite a few hares, pheasants, wild boars, etc. During their spare time, poor people will go into the mountains to hunt one or two to improve their lives or sell them in the market. , change some oil, salt and other daily necessities. It is their brothers who occasionally take their older nephews with them to hunt and play in the mountains.
But now that the car was driving, Jin Yu kept looking outside. All she saw was unfamiliar scenery, and she couldn't find any place she was familiar with. There were no hills or ridges at all. Apart from all kinds of buildings, it was obvious that it was all plains. Later, I saw some farmland and vegetable fields on both sides, but I still couldn't find anything familiar.
The journey went relatively smoothly and there was no traffic jam. After running for more than ten minutes, the driver thought that the passenger said that the destination was ten or twenty miles away in the western suburbs, but now it was probably more than ten kilometers away, but Jin Yu remained silent and couldn't help but remind him, "Sir, you have walked more than ten kilometers now. Do you want to continue running?"
Jin Yu had actually been looking outside. Along the way, she didn't see any familiar place at all. She didn't even see the mountain, so she didn't ask the driver to stop. But now it seems that it's obviously not possible to follow such a big road. Come and have a look inside.
"Master, wait until the next intersection, turn in and look for it."
"Okay, it's up to you!"
"Master, are you a local? There used to be a mountain twenty or thirty miles west of Kaifeng City. Why is it gone now?"
The current mountain behind the Cui family's ancestral home in Shijia Village was only 200 to 300 meters high, but it stretched for seven or eight miles. And because this is a plain area, even if the mountain is only 200 to 300 meters high, it is It was very conspicuous. You could see it not long after leaving Tokyo City and walking westward. Why can't you find it now?
"Sir, are you remembering it wrong? I grew up in Kaifeng and I am very familiar with this area. There are no mountains around Kaifeng. Sir, are you remembering the location wrong?"
"Oh, maybe I remembered it wrong."
Even though he said this, how could he remember his home wrongly? In the summer of his death, he returned to his ancestral home to pay homage to his family in person. After eight hundred years of great changes in the mountains and rivers, can even the entire mountain peak be leveled?
Jin Yu suddenly remembered that there was a lot of rain in the summer when he was ten years old, and the water in the Yellow River surged. Later, the dams were washed away and a lot of farmland was flooded. Even the city of Tokyo was affected to some extent. The dams were washed away. If the water in the Yellow River was many times more ferocious than that year, would it change the landscape for this reason? The driver looked to be in his forties or fifties. He had grown up here since he was a child. He remembered that there were no peaks here. It was obvious that the mountain had not been excavated during development in recent years. Besides, even if it was excavated, it would be impossible to cover the entire mountain. It was leveled!
If the mountain peak was really washed away by the Yellow River, is it even less likely that the Cui family's ancestral home in Shijia Village not far from the mountain would have left any traces?
After Jin Yu followed the taxi driver and turned into the intersection, the same unfamiliar scenery appeared in front of her. Later, Jin Yu simply got out of the car to search and let the car follow behind. After searching one place, he took the car to the next place to check. I couldn't find it myself, so I asked the locals and some elderly people about the location of Shijia Village, but I didn't get any useful information.
The driver looked at today's passenger. He felt that he was prettier than those celebrities. He thought of what his daughter often said to those celebrities, that he was delicate and handsome, so he should be like this child. However, he felt that compared to those celebrities, this child had more say. Unmistakable temperament. It was obvious from the way he was dressed that he was a child from a wealthy family. He had very good physical strength and could endure hardships. They had been looking for him in the surrounding area for five or six hours. Most of the time he was walking down there, but they didn't hear anything from him. I'm tired, just look for myself.
He said he was looking for his ancestral home, but he only knew it was called Shijia Village. He didn't know the other specific address or name at all. It was really strange, but this was also the guest's business and had nothing to do with him.
The driver looked at this strange passenger. After asking for information again, he probably still didn't get any useful information. Everyone else had left, and he was still standing there motionless.
It was getting late, and it was already past the shift handover time. The driver got out of the car and prepared to remind the passengers. After the driver got off the car, he looked at the child standing there. He was probably hot and tired, and his face was very bad. But what the driver noticed more was the sadness, confusion, and wanting to cry on the child's face. There is no tearful feeling. It is impossible for this child who is only a teenager to have such deep feelings. Maybe he is overthinking it?
The driver couldn't speak for a while, but when he saw that the guest had been standing there for five or six minutes without moving, he might as well remind him, "Sir, it's almost getting dark, do you want to continue looking?"
"Ah, sorry!" The driver's words woke Jin Yu up, and he stood for a while before calming down. I had been thinking about finding Shijiacun just now and didn't pay attention to anything else. Now I noticed that it was getting late. I drank a bottle of water since I got off the train and haven't eaten anything. I'll find a place to eat and stay first and then continue my search tomorrow. Bar.
After getting on the bus, Jin Yu said to the driver: "Please help me find a hotel when I return to the city." After saying this, Jin Yu leaned on the seat and closed her eyes to rest.
The driver didn't say much when he saw this. He just turned down the volume of the radio and went straight back to the city. It seemed that this passenger was not someone who cared about money. After entering the city, he stopped directly in front of a very luxurious star-rated hotel.
"Sir, wake up, we're here!"
"Thank you! How much is it?"
The driver saw that this passenger must be rich, but he didn't ask for much more. "I traveled a lot today, so just five hundred."
Jin Yu also took a taxi in Guangzhou, thinking that the price should be about the same. Moreover, the driver had been following her all day, stopping and going, which was very troublesome, so she just gave him 700. There is another one who needs to use the car tomorrow, so I might as well call him.
"Master, I have to use the car tomorrow. If you have no other arrangements, come and pick me up at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, okay?"
The driver saw that Jin Yu was generous in giving money, which was much more cost-effective than waiting for customers on the street, and he was also polite, unlike some rich people who like to boss around. Now when he heard Jin Yu say this, he hurriedly agreed and also left his card. Come down, "I'll come over before eight o'clock tomorrow and wait. Sir, just call me when you come down."
Jin Yu nodded and collected the card. After getting off the car, she went directly into the hotel.
