After not sleeping all night, Yin Xiao and Qing Fei hired a small green-covered carriage and galloped down the official road.
Now they had a lot of money. They brought out five hundred taels of silver from Xiyuan and put them neatly in the baggage at their feet.
Nowadays, wars are raging all over the place. Coming out from Fanyang, I opened the curtain and looked out. I saw that there were all skinny and poorly clothed refugees on the roadside.
It was my first time traveling far away, and I brought a lot of money with me.
She was nervous, but couldn't show it, so she pretended to be calm and asked Qing Fei to join her. She pulled up her hair and combed it into a men's hair accessory. She went to the roadside and bought two dark men's kerchiefs and a coarse cloth gown. The hair and forehead were wrapped, and the sores and spots of leprosy patients were painted on the hands and face with powder and cinnabar powder.
When they stopped to buy cakes, even the owner of the cake stall was so frightened that he took half a step back and waved his hands in disgust to tell them to stay away.
She breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.
Because they didn't dare to rest, the two of them had been driving day and night for three days and three nights. Every few hours when they couldn't stand it anymore, they would stop and rest for a while.
At this time, the two of them have arrived at the official road between Shangdang County and Hanoi County. If they go straight along the official road, they can pass through Luoyang, go to Hongnong, cross Huashan, and reach Chang'an.
Chang'an City.
The nine heavens closed the palace, and all the nations wore their hats and bowed their heads.
It is said that there are the most beautiful girls in Dayin, the most fashionable gadgets, the best wine and the most beautiful palace.
Even the princes from all over the world will restrain their sharpness when they arrive in Chang'an.
Because there is a wealthy family there that all military generals are afraid of. Especially now that the emperor is in decline, the power of the family is especially strong.
"Madam, we have gone to Chang'an, shall we go find your parents?" Qing Fei took a bite of the cake.
She shook her head.
We couldn't go looking for them. Wei Cheng must have known the identity of her biological parents, and he might have been waiting for her to fall into a trap.
Although the Wang family has a big tree to enjoy the shade, Wei Cheng is not a reasonable person, and she even poisoned him...
I'm afraid I'll hate her now.
Moreover, she has some mixed feelings.
The closer she gets to Chang'an, the more timid she becomes.
Nineteen years is enough to change too many things. Instead of hoping that the Wang family will take her in and take care of her, it is better to find a way to settle in Chang'an first and then think about acquaintance.
She originally wanted to travel through Shangdang County, the journey would be shorter, but not long after entering the city, she saw her reward on the notice posted by the government.
I don’t know where the artist was hired from, but the portrait is very vivid and lifelike, and even painted the Ruyi pattern on the clothes she was wearing when she left that day.
Among a bunch of strange portraits, it is particularly eye-catching.
Anyone who finds useful clues will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins. If he is caught alive, he will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins.
The notice was crowded with onlookers, all talking about what crime this woman had committed, and why the reward was so high.
Someone looked over, her face turned pale, she covered her mouth and started coughing. People around her turned to look at her, and took a few steps away from her, deliberately not to look at her horrifying rotten face. She turned around and left the city. They took a detour from the official road in the suburbs, and along the way, no one dared to enter the city again.
Going into the city has the worries of going into the city, and the suburbs also have the hidden dangers of the suburbs.
For example, at this time, the two carriages and horses were stopped by a group of four refugees holding kitchen knives, axes, sickles, and boning knives, and wearing dirty and ragged clothes between the official roads with dense forests on both sides.
The lanky man holding a kitchen knife said: "I drive this road..."
Fatty B, wielding an axe: "I planted this tree!"
Middle-aged man C with a long face holding a sickle: "I want to pass by..."
The pockmarked young man holding the boning knife said: "Leave a buying path...money!"
It seemed that he had just joined this industry not long ago, but it was enough to send a chill down the spines of Yin Xiao and Qing Fei.
The four of them were shocked when they saw the sores on their faces and took several steps back.
Hengrou Fatty B stepped forward with his knife, spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the yellow earth with a "bah" sound, raised his foot and stepped on it with a "swipe" sound, and said with fierce eyes: "Damn, there are still two sick people. Originally, they were still sick. Thinking of letting you go."
"We are all suffering. If it is passed on to my wife and children...don't blame us, we are also helping you to get rid of it."
"To blame."
"It's just your bad luck."
Yinxiao pulled Qing Fei to his knees with a plop, and said in a rough voice: "Hero, spare your life, our disease will not spread from person to person! The hero wants money, and we will give you all our money, just to let us live."
Afraid that he wouldn't believe it, Yin Xiao hurriedly said: "This is a butterfly sore, which is not passed on from person to person. We also used our family savings to go to Chang'an to seek medical advice. Gentleman, please spare our lives and let us go back to spend time with our wives and children."
Qing Fei looked at her in shock, then looked at the ferocious gangster in front of him, and nodded.
I thought the two were going to resist fiercely, but I didn't expect them to be so obedient. The two stared at them warily. The remaining two turned over and entered the car to search for their belongings. Within a moment, they came out with a bag of money in their hands, smiling happily.
The two of them were dressed simply and sat in a simple way. They even ate with just a few dry cooking biscuits. A, B, B, and D were all homeless people with families, so they didn't give them any trouble. They waved the knife in their hands and let them go.
Before leaving, he threw two ingots of silver at their feet.
Yin Xiao looked at the carriage leaving Juechen. Qing Fei picked up the silver on the ground, blew on the dirt, and stuffed it into her purse.
The two of them entered the city anyway.
Less than three days after coming out, all the money was looted and only two ingots of silver were left. Fortunately, his life was safe, but on the way to Chang'an, every penny was broken into ten pieces.
Two ingots of silver are definitely not enough.
Without the carriage, the two had no choice but to stay in a hotel.
In today's troubled times, prices are skyrocketing. I asked several houses and found that the worst T-size room cost 150 yuan a night.
The two bought a few cooking cakes and wrapped them to make dry food. They sat under the shade of a tree on the roadside and drank cold water while watching the people coming and going. There was a reward notice on the other side of the road.
If you catch me alive, you can get a thousand pieces of gold.
A thousand pieces of gold.
She sighed.
He stuffed the crumbs of cake into his mouth one by one, took a final sip of cold water, stood up and took Qing Fei to find a nearby dental shop.
Since you don't have money to go to Chang'an, you should stay here and save enough money before going. Otherwise, you will arrive in Chang'an penniless. According to Chang'an's prices, life will be even more difficult.
The tooth man took her to see several houses, and asked her to rent them for at least one year, and to pay three months of rent at a time, at least two taels of silver.
Of course it won't work.
In the end, he gave up renting a house and took Qing Fei to find a shabby earth temple.
Not bad.
It provides shelter from wind and rain, and there is an old well nearby with water.
Qing Fei rolled up his sleeves and started to tidy up the place where he would sleep at night. Yin Xiao was getting water to wipe the table when his eyes darkened, and he slowly sat on the stone pier while touching the peeled and faded vermilion column.
It was originally a premature birth and she only rested for more than a month. Now, traveling all night is already a bit too much.
She threw the veil away and threw it under the shrine.
"Ouch--"
There was a groan from under the shrine.
She and Qing Fei were startled, and Qing Fei lowered his head to lift the torn curtain.
At the same moment, there was a sound of soldiers clashing outside, and the sound of chaotic footsteps getting closer and closer.
"Just inside..."
"If you resist, you will be killed without mercy..."
Qing Fei and Yin Xiao just lifted the curtain and put it down again.
A chill ran up my spine.
The two looked at each other and ran towards the only broken window of the Earth Temple without hesitation.
Behind him, a figure whose original color of clothes could no longer be seen also rushed out from the ground of the shrine.
