Two more days later, the mighty royal convoy finally left Furong County.
Not far ahead is the strange mountain in this area where people are talking about it.
Weishan belongs to Nanman. Beyond Weishan, there is Baiyue County, the first of the five counties of Nanman.
Their destination was Baigui County, which was adjacent to Baiyue County. The Jinnan Palace was built in the city of Baigui County. It was said that the mountains and rivers there were beautiful and it was the most livable place in the entire Southern Barbarians.
It is a pity that the official roads do not lead to the southern barbarians. The next road is a mountain road carved bit by bit by generations of southern barbarians with brute force and perseverance.
The width is okay, at least enough for carriages to pass, but the mountain road is rugged and bumpy, making it extremely difficult for carriages and horses to walk.
It was extremely uncomfortable for people to be bumped around in the car.
Xu Yin now understood why the Southern Barbarians were so unpopular in the eyes of the Central Plains people. They were all poor and troublemakers.
If you want to get rich, build roads first, but roads are not very rich.
Chunlan trotted after the carriage for a while and handed over a bunch of sachets, saying that they were sent by the palace steward.
"The housekeeper said that the strange mountain starts to fog up as soon as it reaches the You hour. The fog contains miasma, and the miasma is poisonous. Bringing a sachet can help to avoid evil pets. But you still have to wear a felt hat and face veil, if you encounter someone with a strong miasma. Place, hold your breath, don’t breathe it in..."
Xu Yin: "..."
I don’t want to say anything anymore.
Just wish you a safe journey.
It is very dangerous to spend the night in the mountains, especially if it is a miasma-filled mountain.
Miasma arises at You hour and disappears at Noon hour.
In other words, there are only three short hours, six hours in total, that are not affected by the miasma.
Xu Yin suddenly realized.
No wonder the leading riders started going up the mountain before noon. This was to ensure that the entire team could get out of the strange mountain before the miasma became stronger.
At this moment, I regretted buying too many things and stretching the line too long.
But then I thought about it, stocking up all at once is better than going through such danger every time, right?
Miasma, right?
She looked for a way to deal with it.
After she received 10,000 energy points in the system mall, all the products of this issue have been unlocked.
She browsed through the pages at a glance.
Disinfectant, antidote, gas mask, protective clothing, protective gloves...
Either it’s not particularly suitable, or it works but is inconvenient to use.
Fortunately, the system warehouse has the "Jingyue Complete Book" collected during the peasant girl period, which contains many famous medical theories, diagnoses, materia medica, and prescriptions. Among them, "The Art of Qihuang" has an article specifically about miasma.
She read it carefully and felt a lot more at ease.
If you guessed it correctly, this strange mountain should be Nanling, which is known by later generations as "a product of both China and foreign countries". It is extremely rich in products.
South of Nanling is "Lingnan". "Jingyue Complete Book" writes: There are many miasmas in Lingnan, represented by malaria.
She knew about malaria, which was similar to dengue fever. They were both infectious diseases spread by mosquito bites. However, dengue fever was caused by Aedes mosquitoes, while malaria was caused by Anopheles mosquitoes.
From this point of view, the miasma mentioned by Grandma Feng is poisonous and will cause death if inhaled. It is most likely due to malaria.
The purpose of wearing a sachet is not to "ward off evil pets" as Grandma Feng thought, but to prevent mosquitoes from getting close to you.
That would be easy, she has plenty of mosquito repellent products.
"Mommy, if you light this incense in every carriage, and then refill it after it's gone, it can drive away... evil spirits."
Xu Yin changed the explanation to something that Nanny Feng could accept.
"Let everyone share a portion of this mint flower dew and apply it on exposed parts of the body."
"Let the leading soldiers shower on you along the way. Remember to remind them to cover their mouths and noses when showering."
"Also, if there is no strange mountain before dark, it is recommended to light a torch. Fire can drive away the miasma."
She handed over the mosquito coils that had their outer packaging removed, the toilet water that had its glass bottles replaced with porcelain bottles, and the pesticides that had its lead cans replaced with wooden barrels.
With a three-pronged approach, we hope to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
When the mosquito coils and toilet water were delivered to Yan Kejin, the first rider was passing through a section of road with a relatively strong miasma.
"My lord, my subordinates have tried these things, and they really work. Wherever they pass, snakes and insects will automatically avoid them, and there is no need for soldiers to be on guard or kill them. At this rate, we can get out of the strange mountain before dark without any accidents."
Yan Kejin took the porcelain bottle filled with toilet water and turned it over and over.
The porcelain vase was produced in Po County, Ganxi. There is nothing special about it. However, the floral dew is very refreshing when smelled. It must be extracted from some kind of refreshing flowers and plants.
"She bought this on the way too?"
"This... I don't know. However, when I first left the capital, I did meet a wave of Hu merchants. They didn't want money but only wanted specialties from the Central Plains. She... the princess might have gotten it from them."
Hearing Yan Qi's change of title, Yan Kejin raised her eyes and glanced at him with a half-smile.
Yan Qi's cheeks felt hot at the prince's glance. Fortunately, his skin was dark and his blushing was not visible.
"Go down with the order and light a torch ten feet away. You don't have to wait until dark."
"yes!"
…
The whole team successfully walked out of the strange mountain, an hour earlier than expected.
"Girl, the prince has sent someone to say that he will rest in the village ahead tonight. If you need anything, just send someone to tell him."
Xu Yin raised her eyebrows.
This is the first time I have been treated like this since leaving Beijing.
Could it be that the three-pronged miasma response method reminded him of his fiancée?
There is no demand, she has always been happy with the situation. What's more, we stayed at the village patriarch's house, which was much better than an ordinary farmhouse.
Yan Kejin and his men were stationed at the grain drying field ten feet away from the patriarch's home.
He had marched and fought, and camping and sleeping was nothing to him.
After Xu Yin learned about it, she asked Aunt Feng to send a package of sulfur powder.
"Sprinkle a circle outside the tent before going to bed to repel insects and snakes."
Nanny Feng also saw it now: the fourth girl is not stupid, on the contrary, she has insights and knowledge that ordinary people don't have. She thought she was hiding her clumsiness in the past.
But why hide your clumsiness? If he had shown his smart side earlier, he wouldn't have had to suffer in Nanman.
Aunt Feng couldn't figure it out, but it didn't stop her from being happy.
The lady asked her to follow the fourth girl to Nanman, promising to promote her son and daughter-in-law.
King Jinnan cannot leave Nanman for a day, and the fourth girl cannot return to the capital as Princess Jinnan, and she has no chance to return to the capital to reunite with her family.
So if the fourth girl is good, then she is good.
From the bottom of her heart, she hoped that the fourth girl would be well.
After Xu Yin finished washing, the maid had already prepared dinner.
"Girl, the host who is staying here has sent me some food. You can see if you are used to it. If you are not used to our food, you will be fine soon."
Xu Yin took a look and saw that there were red bean and taro cakes, rice rolls stuffed with snail meat, cold bracken, dogwood and ginger slices, and an earthen jar of red bean fragrant rice porridge and sweet soup cooked with dried lychees.
It's quite rich, but perhaps the most luxurious food the host can serve.
"You guys should sit down and eat too. I can't finish it all by myself. It tastes pretty good."
She drank the porridge and ate a piece of red bean and taro cake. There was no seasoning, and there must have been no seasoning. There was only a faint fragrance of the ingredients.
Red beans are native to southern China. It seems that I won’t have to worry about eating red beans in the future.
