Chen Yun looked at the scroll in his hand. It had white jade as the shaft, and the scroll surface was made of unknown silk to refine the formation diagram.
In fact, he couldn't understand the various words and symbols on it.
Perhaps it could be said that these words could only be understood separately, but when combined together into sentences, he had a headache just looking at them.
But it doesn't matter, he has the scroll of the Book of Mountains and Seas.
[Incomplete version of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols Array: This is an array diagram that has gone through at least more than 2,000 years. It is currently an incomplete formation eye of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols Array.
The Two Instruments and Four Symbols Formation is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient human race. It can trap and kill people, confuse the gods and induce delirium, and understand people's hearts. It is one of the formations that ancient ancestors relied on to survive and defend the city.
Times have changed, time has passed, time is like a knife, and the formations from ancient times have been horribly mutilated until now.
The current incomplete version of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols Formation has only scratches left.
But even fur has the effect of trapping and confusing the gods.
Note: This formation diagram can extract the basic knowledge of the formation and the incomplete version of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols formation.
Tip: As a formation diagram or as an formation eye that enters the incomplete version of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols Formation, if it can be combined with the incomplete version of the Two Instruments and Four Symbols Formation, a higher level of formation knowledge can be extracted.
Please hurry up! 】
This is the harvest!
With the scroll of the Book of Mountains and Seas, the formation knowledge extracted from the formation diagram in his hand was input into his mind. He didn't expect that just the basic knowledge of the formation would have such a large amount of information.
Chen Yun felt a little sleepy, but he recovered quickly.
Chen Yun found Old Man Zuo and handed him the formation map: "Grandpa, if you don't take it, you will suffer the consequences!
Now that we know where to find the red fruit that can extend life, I decided to get it back! "
Old Man Zuo already knew where the place where the old Taoist priest said there was Zhuguo was, and it was far away from here.
"Are you going to go alone, or are we going as a family?"
Chen Yun didn't even have to think about it: "Of course the whole family will go, just treat it as a long trip!"
Travel far.
This was a very important thing in ancient times, or in this era.
Because, in this era, there are no cars, no highways, and no cheap and effective transportation.
Even when I went to visit my daughter's house who was married a few hills away, I had to carry the quilt there and walk there for a long time. I had no time to come back after eating and drinking, so I could only stay at my daughter's house for one night.
In this day and age, every household has almost no extra clothes or quilts, so when you go to visit your married daughter, or if there are any weddings or weddings, you basically have to carry a quilt.
We arrived, spent the night there, and then came back the next day with the quilt in hand.
This was the case in this era, even in Chen Yun's world decades ago.
Therefore, traveling far away is a rare thing for people in this world, and it is a very important thing.
Chen Yun has no shortage of money!
He had sold some of the good stuff in his hands and got a lot of money and food. In addition, his cheap apprentices who sold braised pork also received a lot of dividends.
So when it comes to money, he has no shortage of it.
Therefore, it is not difficult for him to get a carriage.
Old man Zuo went to the market to get a carriage, and Miss Jiu and Dunzi were also preparing food for the road.
Ah Wu should have gone to help. After all, she positioned herself as the little maid in the family.
But now, this female ghost who always wears a bright red wedding dress stands in front of Chen Yun aggrievedly: "Master, I want to go too!"
The aggrieved Ah Wu wanted to go with her, but she belonged to Tamura's land, and leaving her own fiefdom was a very wrong idea for a new land lord.
Her current strength is different from before, especially in Tamura, in her land god's territory, he can borrow the power of the earth, mountains and rivers in the entire region.
Even if she left and her strength declined, it wouldn't be much. In addition to not being able to borrow the power of the earth, mountains and rivers, she still had the power of incense.
It was better than before when she had nothing and only relied on more than 300 years of Taoism for support.
All of this is based on the fact that Tamura is safe under her protection and everyone will not be invaded by monsters and ghosts.
However, if one day she leaves her fief, and the people in her fief are attacked by demons and ghosts, they fail to rush back in time to help, resulting in heavy casualties among the people, or even the entire village being wiped out, then the karma of this dereliction of duty will be It will fall on this land of dereliction of duty.
She's going to be miserable!
This is the reason why Ah Wu feels aggrieved now, because she can't go together. She wants to stay in her own fiefdom, fulfill her duties and protect the people.
Seeing Ah Wu's aggrieved look and her fifteen or sixteen-year-old face, Chen Yun couldn't help but rub her head: "Okay, okay!
You are over 300 years old, stop pretending to be young!
Those who didn’t know better thought I was bullying a little girl!
Besides, it’s not like we’re going to leave without coming back, or we’re going to pick a red fruit and then look at the formation and come back.
Now that you have become a god, you should be a god well. If you make a mistake, I am afraid that I will be affected too!
Therefore, in order to prevent me from being implicated, you must protect the people of Tamura! "
In fact, Ah Wu just wanted to be coaxed.
Hundreds of years ago, when they were in exile, they were left like this, watching their mother and sisters and relatives at home being driven away by the escorting police. Even if they were reluctant to keep looking back, nothing could change the outcome.
She was left here, her eyelids and lips were sewn with sutures, sealed in a coffin, and she became a ghost from then on.
Hundreds of years passed in confusion.
Now he has regained his innocence, and even became an earth god. All these earth-shaking changes were brought about by his own son.
But now, the young master's whole family can travel far and have fun, but he is left behind.
Although her face only showed an aggrieved look, in her heart she was actually panicking, worried that she would be abandoned again just like she had been hundreds of years ago.
Chen Yun didn't know this kind of psychological activity.
Moreover, Ah Wu didn’t dare to say anything.
She also knew that even if she said she wanted to go with him, the young master would not agree.
Nowadays, demons and ghosts in the mountains and wilderness are becoming more and more rampant. Tamura is far away from the county and close to the mountains, so it is easy to be invaded by demons and ghosts, but he is the land god who has the responsibility to protect them.
How to leave?
If something happens, can I get back in time?
Therefore, Awu, the ghost in wedding clothes, can only feel aggrieved.
"Sir, if you agree, you must come back!"
"Okay! Don't worry! I will definitely come back!"
After being rubbed on the head by Chen Yun, Ah Wu felt much better, and then he turned around and walked into the room to help Miss Jiu and Dunzi pack things for the road.
"Madam, do you want to bring this dress?"
"Young lady, do you want to bring this pot with you?"
That's right!
What Ah Wu asked was whether he should bring this pot with him!
A poor family's road to wealth.
In this day and age, traveling is very expensive.
And before there were highways, or even serious roads, horse-drawn carriages couldn't go very fast.
If traveling across states and provinces, it can take as little as 10 days and a half, or as much as one or two months.
For example, if a scholar goes to the capital to rush for an exam, he usually has to leave half a year in advance!
Some even set out two or three years in advance!
Of course, it would be best if you were born in the capital.
It can be seen that in this era, rushing is not an easy task!
First of all, you must have money, you must have cold-proof clothing and food on the road, and most importantly, you must have pots and pans!
This was something Chen Yun didn't expect. He was on his way, but he actually needed to bring pots and pans with him.
But you really need to bring this thing!
Although it is said that there are sometimes villages or inns or inns on the official road.
However, sometimes there is no village in the distance, and sometimes there is no inn or inn in the distance.
So how should we eat at that time?
At this time, you must have pots and pans, otherwise you will starve!
This is what is necessary for candidates or caravans traveling far in this era.
Otherwise, don’t travel far if you don’t have money!
Old man Zuo came back soon and brought back two horses and a carriage.
"I met a northerner who was eager to take action on his horse. I thought it was a good idea and took it down!"
Horses are expensive!
Especially northern horses are much taller than southern ponies!
So it's more expensive.
If I insist on comparing the price, the ordinary pony in the south is like a Wuling magic car. It can do anything up the mountains and into the water. It can pull and tow. It can support a family. It can even be used on rugged mountain roads as long as the conditions are met. Climb up.
But there is one disadvantage, that is, it cannot go on the track, just like many ponies in the south cannot go on the cavalry battlefield.
Horses in the north can also pull and drag, but they can be used to pull goods on flat roads or run long distances, but they are far behind in going up mountains and into water.
Ordinary Northern Horses are like ordinary BMWs, and good Northern Horses are like those high-end sports cars.
Southern ponies have a back that reaches the ribs of an adult, but northern horses are common, and most horses have a back that can reach a person's armpit.
The ponies in the south can climb mountains. Although they are small, they can carry people and things up mountains and down rivers in almost any way.
Horses from the north can go on the battlefield. It is said that they have strong endurance, can pull more and heavier loads, and are faster than horses from the south. However, one thing is that they are not very useful in the south.
There is a lot of water in the south, and horses from the north are prone to hoof rot when they go south.
A horse is useless if its hoofs are rotten, so it can only be killed for meat!
However, few people eat horse meat. It is said that dried horse meat has a strong taste and is a bit sour.
And the horse that Old Man Zuo brought back, that northern horse, actually had a rotten hoof on one foot.
"Grandpa, how much did you spend on this horse?"
Old Man Zuo smiled: "It's very cheap. Do you want to say that this horse's hooves are rotten?"
Chen Yun nodded. He had seen it in his yamen. There was once a horse in the yamen with rotten hoofs. It really could only eat meat and was of no use!
Because the purpose of a horse is to run, how can it run if its hooves are rotten?
Since it can't run away, the most useful thing is to kill and eat meat!
Therefore, he didn't understand why Old Man Zuo bought a horse with rotten hooves.
"You don't know, this hoof looks rotten to you, but it's not, it's just cracked!
The northerner who sells horses is not actually a northerner, if you really think about it!
Of course, even if he is from the north, he doesn’t understand horses!
If a horse's hooves are rotten, then the horse is indeed useless. It is not worth killing the horse to eat its meat, because horse meat is actually not delicious!
However, if it is just like this, a little crack, it doesn't actually matter!
The old man has been in the frontier army for decades and knows which horses can be taken and which horses cannot be taken!
And most importantly, the old man knows how to trim hooves, but the fake northerner can't!
This gives me the opportunity to get this horse cheaply! "
Old Man Zuo really knows how to trim hooves, and he does it very quickly. He even understands why these northern horses have cracked hooves.
This was indeed a horse that came in from outside the customs, and the other party did not shoe the horse before coming in.
After all, in these days, iron and salt were luxuries, and it would be a waste to shoe the horses that were traded outside the customs and within the customs.
If there are hundreds or thousands of horses, and they are all shoed, how much iron will it cost to shoe them?
Therefore, horses bought and sold in this way are usually sold to the ground, and then the final buyer will shoe the horse.
This is a cost that should be saved in horse buying and selling.
Of course, this behavior is still easy to understand in the north.
There are many plains in the north, few rivers, and not many stones on the road.
But in the south, there are many hills, few fields, and countless rivers, lakes, and ditches. When horses from the north come to the south, they are usually a little acclimatized.
In this case, the best way is to feed the horse tea!
Of course, Old Man Zuo also heard it said by others, but he didn’t know whether it was true or false.
However, he knows one thing is true, that is, the hooves of northern horses will become soft when they are often soaked in water in the south, just like human nails that become soft when they step on stones. The horse's hoof was broken.
And the bay-red horse in front of him probably had its hoof completely cracked for this reason!
Because the hoof is cracked, the price of the code is not high, but even if it is not high, no one will buy it.
I happened to meet Mr. Zuo, who knew what he was doing, and took him home to prepare for Matthew's hooves.
"After trimming its hooves, go to the blacksmith to get some horseshoes and nail them on the horse, so that the horse won't worry about the pebbles on the road when walking!"
The old man Zuo was very confident. With his ability, he could repair horses' hooves very quickly. Before going home, he had already told the blacksmith shop to shoe his horses. Now, after repairing the horses' hooves, he could just take them back and nail them on.
It took three days to prepare. Originally, the carriage would have to be half full just to carry supplies, but old man Zuo had a marching bag and Chen Yun had a dragon ball. Everything that needed to be taken was put into the dragon ball and the marching bag.
Dunzi and Miss Jiu rode in the car, Old Man Zuo drove the car, and Chen Yun could only ride the northern horse with its repaired hooves and shoed nails.
Then the family, in the eyes of Ah Wu who sent off again and again, saw off again and again, the carriage slowly disappeared into the distance.
"Master, you must remember to come back early!"
Ah Wu's voice was a little uneasy.
"good!"
Chen Yun waved his hand from a distance and then walked away!
Miss Ninth lifted up the curtains of the carriage and glanced at Chen Yun: "My husband, if you can't bear to leave, you can just come back earlier.
Let’s collect the things on the carriage first! "
In the carriage, there were three bows and arrows, hundreds of arrows, several knives, several spears, and even two whetstones.
Everyone knows that Chen Yun's family is traveling far away.
For those who didn’t know, they thought Chen Yun’s family was going to deliver arms!
But what all of them didn't know was that Chen Yun's family had forgotten the news about their long journey, and someone stumbled into the deep mountains and forests.
(End of chapter)
