Chapter 213: Northeast China

The size of the jade is in the dark, day after day, and it is approaching the beginning of autumn.

The northern border of Dahu is adjacent to the unknown glacier plains of the Arctic, so although winter has not yet begun, the temperature in the northern border is already very low.

It is naturally common for the cold wind to squeak and the night is frozen.

In the early morning, the sky is full of miles away!

A rising sun rose slowly from the surface, and the lazy sunlight dispelled the cold night.

The thin ice on the road has not melted yet, and the ground is extremely slippery! The early people wrapped themselves tightly, like rice dumplings, slowly walking on the hard frozen road, heading towards the distance.

Sima Mao and his four men came from Wanxian Town in the northwest, and replaced five or six large carriages along the way.

Among them, more than 20 wheels were broken, thirty-three tall horses were replaced, and they ran for a full month and four days before they arrived at the northeastern border of Dahu.

The huge carriage carried Sima Mao and his four men slowly on the road leading to the northeast border.

At this moment, all four of them changed into fur clothes that kept the cold. The giant Wei Zhi was tall, so when Sima Mao and others bought his fur clothes for the giant Wei Zhifu, they had a lot of trouble.

Sima Mao first selected two large-size fur clothes from the clothing shop, but paid some extra labor costs to ask the tailor to cut the two large-size fur clothes open, and then tailored a super large fur clothes for giant Wei Zhi.

Giants Wei Zhi and Sun Yunwen sat outside the carriage, responsible for driving away three tall horses.

Giant Wei Zhi is tall and his arms are much thicker and longer than Sun Yunwen, so most of the time it is Giant Wei Zhi who is responsible for driving the carriage.

Sun Yunwen only took over the reins when the giant Wei Zhi was tired and tired, and temporarily operated for the giant Wei Zhi for a while!

Sima Mao and Hei Qilin sat in the carriage, and the two of them chatted a lot along the way.

Every family has a difficult sutra to recite. The two talked about a lot of things, including family affairs that are difficult to talk about in their own family, some interesting stories and wonderful things that are heard from, some insights into the cultivation path, and some major national events.

However, at this moment, the carriage was slower, and because of the bumpy and shaking all the way, Sima Mao and Hei Qilin were already sleepy. Suddenly, the two sat upright, stopped talking, and began to open their eyes and rest on their own.

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"Great man, after the level ahead, how far will it take to reach the boundary of your Northeast Grottoes?"

Wherever Sun Yunwen's eyes reached, she could see a level made of mud from afar.

On both sides of the level are all high hills facing vertically, and the highest point is about thirty feet.

Countless mounds are bare, and no grass or trees are found.

Since the high hills on both sides extend infinitely and there is no road to climb to the top, these high hills that are endless are like a natural barrier.

If you want to enter or leave the pass, there is only the middle path, and there will be no other way.

With such a barrier, no matter how many troops are, it is difficult to resist the courage of a man as a pass.

If the level of soil is blocked, the inside and outside the pass will not be smooth.

Da Ku chose to set up a checkpoint here. With the help of natural danger, he can save money and not invest much energy.

"After the level ahead, go north for fifty miles and you can see a primeval forest.

We don’t have to enter this primeval forest. We just need to walk about thirty miles along the edge of the forest to see a loess hilly area, which is the boundary of our northeast grottoes.”

When the giant Wei Zhi heard this, he was slightly stunned at first, then laughed loudly, shook his head and said, "Salt does not grow from the sea. The water in the sea is salty. This salt is extracted from the sea water.

As for this method of refining! The rules in our clan must not be mentioned to foreign clans.”

Since his birth, Sun Yunwen has never seen the sea. Now that he is in middle age, his longing for the sea has never diminished at all.

Suddenly seeing the loess high hill in front of him, Sun Yunwen immediately remembered a salt merchant who once told Sun Yunwen that their salt was produced in the sea hundreds of miles outside the Northeast Pass. Therefore, Sun Yunwen suddenly asked about the giant Wei Zhilai.

"So that's it! Uh... We traveled thousands of miles to the Northeast this time, and the opportunity is very rare. We must take the time to take a look at the sea."

Sun Yunwen looked up at the sky and suddenly looked emotional.

The giant Wei Zhi glanced at Sun Yunwen's blank look, couldn't help but smile, then he fell on the horse's back, shook the reins lightly, and shouted: "Go!"

The three tall horses, as the giant Wei Yi shouted, quickly accelerated their pace.

After about a cup of tea, the carriage reached the level of soil piled up.

There is an empty space inside the pass, like a gourd, in a trumpet-shaped mouth.

A lot of tents were built with tarpaulin along both sides of the level.

At this moment, most of the tents are covered by hot steam, some sell buns and some sell noodles, and the store is busy greeting customers.

Although Dahu and the Northeast Grottoes are not very harmonious, they often have business dealings.

The giants in the Northeast Grottoes need to purchase cloth, rice, grain and other things from Dakan in order to survive, and Dakan also needs salt and sea fish and other things from the Northeast Grottoes.

Therefore, there is a convenient trade deal! Traders entering and leaving the checkpoints will most likely take a break here, rest and have a full meal.

As the saying goes, there will be something to offer.

In this open land, many people near Dalu rented a small piece of land from the government, but set up accounting rooms to start business with these businessmen.

"Master Shang, should we go down to have breakfast and then go out of seclusion?"

The giant Wei Zhi glanced at the bun shop beside him, turned his head slightly and looked at Sun Yunwen, and then asked slowly.

Sun Yunwen was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "After leaving the pass, we still have to catch up with a distance of nearly a hundred miles. It is really difficult to run through the journey.

Uh... it's okay to stop the carriage. We'll go down to eat something to warm up our bodies. It's not too late to rush."

"No need, don't waste time. Just go down and buy some buns to come up. We can get rid of breakfast on the way."

As soon as Sun Yunwen said this, Sima Mao's voice in the carriage suddenly rang out.

After hearing Sima Mao's words, the giant Wei Zhi turned his head and nodded to the carriage, drove the carriage to a nearby open space, tied the reins, jumped off the carriage, walked to the door of the bun shop, and asked the shop for four cages of buns.

When the owner of the bun shop wrapped the four cages of buns for Wei Zhi and handed them to the giant Wei Zhi, the giant Wei Zhi had already taken out the silver and paid the buns.

The giant Wei Zhi returned to the carriage and handed the bun to Sun Yunwen beside him. Wei Zhi shook the reins and continued to drive the carriage to the road and headed towards the level.

Sun Yunwen took the four-part buns handed over by the giant Wei Zhi and divided them two for Sima Mao and Hei Qilin in the carriage. She chewed them slowly but only ate one bun, leaving the rest to the giant Wei Zhi.

"Stop the carriage and get inspected."

When the carriage reached the gate, it was stopped by a guard with a long sword on his waist.

“Well…”

The giant Wei Zhi immediately tightened the reins of the horse and stopped the carriage.

Although Dahu has trade with the Northeast Grottoes, there are some special items, such as weapons and concentrate military supplies, but Dahu is strictly prohibited from selling them.

After all, the two sides are not very harmonious and there are occasional military conflicts. If the military power of the Northeast Grottoes is strengthened, it will undoubtedly pose a certain threat to Dalu.

Therefore, businessmen who go out of customs must undergo inspection.

As soon as the carriage stopped, two soldiers with big swords hanging on their waists immediately rushed to the carriage, opened the window, and looked into the carriage.

"Captain, there is no cargo in the carriage."

As soon as this was said, the twenty or thirty soldiers guarding the checkpoint immediately looked at each other, all with anger on their faces. They immediately drew out their big sword, long sword and other objects.
Chapter completed!