The girl tore off a piece of fish, blew it to her mouth, and then brought it to Liang Chuan's mouth. Liang Chuan took the fish in his mouth and chewed it with difficulty. His mandible may have been broken, and it made a cracking sound when chewing. The noise is still a trivial matter, but the key is the pain.
The girl noticed Liang Chuan's pain, so she took the fish meat into her mouth, chewed it until it was chewy, then spit it out into the palm of her hand and brought it to Liang Chuan's mouth.
this. .
Liang Chuan didn't feel disgusted, but moved. He didn't even know the girl's name. She not only saved him, but also gave him food.
Liang Chuan swallowed the chewed fish meat in one gulp, and with a little meat in his stomach, the long-lost feeling of fullness returned. Although he couldn't eat solid food after lying down for too long, this chewed fish meat was exactly what Liang Chuan needed the most.
The two of them had a tacit understanding like this. One chewed up a piece of fish meat, and the other ate it all without hesitation.
Until one person and one fish are all wiped out.
"what's your name?"
The girl tilted her head and thought for a moment and said, "I don't have a name, what is your name?"
A person without a name.
Under the starry sky, the two people seemed to have met each other for a long time and fell into each other's hearts.
This girl was a businessman who came to the island country to do business. With an attitude of not wanting to be responsible, he used food to cheat the girl in the village. The mother of the child was bullied in the fishing village because there was no man, and finally gave up after giving birth to the girl. Renhuan, the businessman didn't know whether it was because of his conscience or because he felt that his time was running out, so he took the child back to raise him for a few years, but he also fell ill and died, leaving this miserable man behind.
It is the most painful thing for a woman to survive in troubled times. Fortunately, this is the seaside. She has a thatched hut. She digs a hole on the seaside every day, lures a few sea fish to grill and eat them. When she is thirsty, she goes to the mountain to get water from the spring to drink. Although the small fishing village is primitive Although she was backward, she was not too bad, and she lived peacefully until adulthood.
Liang Chuan also shared his own experience, starting from the story of Fengshan. It was like a fantasy. The story attracted the girl from the beginning. She started telling it every day when she opened her eyes, and told it until the sun set. The two spent this time together depending on each other.
"Can you give me a name? My father used to raise me like a puppy. He would give me some food when I was hungry. Sometimes he would speak to me in Chinese, but he never told me my name. What."
Liang Chuan was choked for a moment and didn't know how to comfort her better.
"It doesn't matter how good the name is, it's just a code name. We are in a situation where we don't know which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident, so why bother to pick up a name."
The girl didn't say much. After all these years, this is the time when she has spoken the most.
"You said your father raised you like a puppy, so just call you dog. I'll change my name too, and from now on I'll call you cat. We are both destitute people from the end of the world. Let's see if we can survive this with a nickname. Hom!"
Ah Gou smiled sweetly, his eyes were like crescent moons, very beautiful. Liang Chuan seemed to have seen his artist wife, and he stared blankly, a little lost in thought.
"Did you remember your wife?"
"Um."
"Will you go back to your hometown?" Ah Gou asked with some fear.
Liang Chuan said firmly: "Of course I have to go back. Yi Niang is about to give birth, so I must go back."
Ah Gou suddenly took Liang Chuan's hand and said, "Can you take me away?"
Liang Chuan moved his fingers, held Ah Gou's little hand, and said warmly to her: "Don't worry, if I want to leave one day, I will definitely take you with me."
From that day on, Liang Chuan nursed his wounds every day, and the dog brought back various foods, sometimes sea fish, sometimes conch, sometimes small animals from the mountains, and sometimes fruits from the mountains.
And Liang Chuan also learned from Ah Gou that this small fishing village turned out to be the famous Yokohama, which now had less than a hundred households and turned into a world-class port a thousand years later. It's just that in this era, the island country's commerce is too backward. Merchants and sea ships in the Song Dynasty are not very willing to transport goods here. The risks are too high and the profits are too little.
However, the geographical location here is too advantageous. It is surrounded by natural coastline forming a semicircle, blocking storms and waves from the open sea. If an excellent dock is built and a land road is opened to the market town, the development here will be It can reach the sky in one day.
Without medicine or a doctor, Liang Chuan's body could miraculously recover, but this time it took much longer than the recovery period for the first fracture in this era. When Liang Chuan could stand up and walk on his own, the heavens would It has started to snow.
When the weather got colder, Liang Chuan could clearly feel that the food brought back by the dog every day was not enough, and even the firewood was not enough.
Fortunately, his body has recovered to 60 to 70%. Even a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. When Liang Chuan stood up, he realized that he was the tallest person in this small fishing village, and the tallest of these natives only reached his chest.
The people in the fishing village accepted Ah Gou because she was not a threat, and Rang lived in the village for many years. However, Liang Chuan was different. Liang Chuan was an outsider and looked exactly like the beasts in the mountains. There was an invisible oppression when they approached. feel.
Finally, the villagers couldn't bear it any longer. On a snowy night, the villagers surrounded Liang Chuan and Ah Gou, chattering words that Liang Chuan couldn't understand. Liang Chuan could tell from their expressions that their public opinion was Angry people are definitely not a good thing.
Sure enough, Ah Gou translated what they meant, and they wanted the two of them to move out of this small fishing village.
Liang Chuan glanced at the ruthless and indifferent fishermen coldly and said, "You don't need to chase me away. I've already wanted to leave. Let's go."
Liang Chuan took Ah Gou's hand and braved the snowflakes, and the two of them walked into the vast snow, still wearing thin summer rags.
"Ah Mao, where shall we go from now on?" Ah Gou followed Liang Chuan without hesitation.
"Of course we need to change the place. This straw shed of yours doesn't even have a windshield on all sides. If we stay any longer, we might freeze to death. I'm so cold now that I'm a little delirious. If you move a living tree to death, you're here. Wherever there are a lot of people, take me there."
Where there are more people, there will be more opportunities. Just like in the past, the way to make a fortune was to go back to the old road of selling firewood and making charcoal. As long as you are healthy, you can survive this day.
"Then let's go to Edo, there are many people there."
Edo!
Liang Chuan said happily: "Is that where your Majesty the Emperor lives?"
Ah Gou said: "There is no emperor here, only the Emperor, but no one is afraid of the Emperor. What they are most afraid of are the daimyo who have men in their hands to help them fight."
"No matter what his name is, let's go to Edo!"
The road from Yokohama to Edo is not short, and there are no means of transportation such as carriages and ships. We only have two legs. It is a torture in this biting snowy weather. The weather was too cold after the snowfall. Liang Chuan gathered a lot of hay and made two simple coir raincoats to put on his body. Not to mention, this layer of hay can not only keep warm, but also prevent the snow from sticking to his body.
The distance between the two places is sixty miles, and there is not even a three-foot-wide gallop. The distance was not very far, blocked by mountains, biting snow, and all kinds of hungry beasts with green eyes, which kept the two of them walking for a whole day.
The dog's feet were black and blue from the cold, and Liang Chuan's feet were thick-skinned. From day to night, Liang Chuan had to put the dog's feet into his arms and rub them for a short distance of the next ten miles. The dog couldn't walk anymore, so Liang Chuan picked up the dog and carried her on his back.
In the vast white sky and earth, a wisp of smoke and a faint flicker of candlelight finally appeared.
Ah Gou pointed to the town ahead and said, "That's Edo."
Liang Chuan stared blankly at this small town, which was much larger than the small fishing village of Yokohama. Is this the largest city in the island country now? All the houses have thatched roofs and are tilted this way and that. There is not a single straight street in sight. The only thing that attracts attention is a tall castle in the farthest place, a classical fortress similar to Jilu Castle.
Liang Chuan could finally understand why the islanders sent envoys from the Tang Dynasty to learn the advanced technology of the Tang Dynasty. How is this level of development different from the primitive tribes of China during the Yan and Huang Dynasties? The Tang and Song Dynasties changed for more than a hundred years, and they did not learn any advanced technology. At least the people's lives were still the same as slash-and-burn farming.
The largest city in the island country does not even have a city wall. There is only a circle of wooden fence surrounding it to symbolically represent the city. There are two guards at the door whose hands and feet are red from the cold. There are also a few people gathered around the notice board next to it. There were a few tattered mats on the ground covered with something unknown.
When the guards saw Liang Chuan approaching, they nervously held up their spears and asked in their own language as if they were facing a formidable enemy: "Who is he?"
Liang Chuan was too tall, and compared to them, he was like a god. If it weren't for the difficulty in walking, they would have been scared away.
Liang Chuan saw the hostility of the guards at a glance and asked Ah Gou to tell them, "They are travelers."
Liang Chuan also deliberately untied his raincoat to show the guards that there were no weapons, so the guards were willing to let him go.
Liang Chuan did not enter the city directly, but went to the notice board at the edge of the city to read it. The onlookers were startled when they saw Liang Chuan approaching, and ran away with trembling legs.
"What's written on it?" Liang Chuan glanced at the things covered under the straw mat inadvertently. They were several dead bodies, green and black from the cold. If it hadn't been snowing in the weather, they would have rotted away according to the degree of death.
Ah Gou also saw the dead body. Death is the most normal thing in this era. For some reason, she might have frozen to death in the snow.
She glanced at the notice and said, "The Lai Yuan clan is recruiting troops to expand its power. This is his recruitment notice. It says that as long as you join the Yuan clan, you will not have to worry about food, accommodation, and they will also provide military pay."
Liang Chuan couldn't tell whether he was excited or shivering from the cold. He took Ah Gou's hand and said, "Let's go become soldiers!"
