Chapter 11 Walk to the city gate

Author: That sour sugar

Chapter 11 Walk to the city gate

Chen Fan took the paper in confusion and opened it. It was a map. She saw the words "Yangtze River" and "Yellow River" at a glance, with clear blue lines. She burst into tears in her eyes. It was the mother river, that It is her kind and estranged homeland. She also saw Kunlun Mountain, several familiar mountains.

The lines on the map are drawn like honeycombs, so many countries? This is similar to the chaotic era of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The pictures are all traditional Chinese characters written in regular script, which is great. If the words are also like the Warring States Period. There are several fonts that she is afraid that she will go crazy. She doesn’t have to be afraid of traditional Chinese characters. She has read her mother’s "Ancient Chinese", which is a traditional Chinese character. Even if there are characters she doesn’t recognize, she can ask others in the future.

The flow trajectory of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River seems to be different from the one on her map. It is normal to think about it. The Yellow River has changed its course several times. Maybe the Yellow River in this era has also changed its course. She has not had any place names and country names. What she has come into contact with is nothing to match the historical knowledge she knows.

Chen Fan sighed, is this in another time and space?

Chu Sheng handed over another note, Chen Fan took it, and the paper wrote several messages that she had always wanted to ask but had no place to ask: Xia Guo, Daxiang Dynasty, Ding Wei Nian, Zai Xi Nine years.

This dynasty is called Xiang, and it is not a dynasty of any historical records she knows.

In the Daxiang Dynasty, the Daxiang Dynasty, it is easy to be called a big sausage with a scoop of mouth.

She looked at the location, shape and area of ​​Daxiang on the map. It seemed to be OK. Compared with the surrounding countries, she was considered a big country.

Chen Fan returned the map and notes to Chu Sheng. The group continued walking and walked out of the forest. When they saw that the village was dense, many houses were still not far from the official road. There were endless mountains in the distance.

After walking for a while, I turned a corner of the village and suddenly saw the city tower in the distance. Everyone looked excited.

Chen Fan saw a long city wall from afar, with high and low mountains on both sides of the city wall. When he saw the city gate, he probably needed to turn a few more turns.

She asked Zhou Qiang: "Is this a military fortress? Build the city wall between two mountains?"

Zhou Qiang shook his head and drew a big circle with his fingers: "There are no wars here that are necessary. There are many counties without walls. There are originally no walls here. This is the Shengping County of Pingzhou and the other side of the mountain. It is Yuanfeng County, Qingzhou, and the two mountains are half each. There are some villages between the two mountains. People often go to Shengping County to grab things, and later they built a city wall to separate them. Later, all the city walls on all sides were built. , Later, the county government moved here.”

Chen Fan thought of a certain capital, and initially he was surrounded by fences.

"Life in Shengping County should be quite good. There are many brick and tile houses here." It is not brick and tile houses, but also stone houses.

Zhou Qiang shook his head again: "Building brick and tile houses does not necessarily mean that life is good, but here it is accustomed to building brick and tile houses. It often rains here, and the tamped mud houses will not last for a few years. If you have money, build taller houses. If you don’t have money to build a house, build a lower house. Our Yuzhou has less rainfall, and many of them are dirt houses. There are brick kilns everywhere in Shengping County, and almost all the bricks and tiles used in Yuanfeng County are bought here."

"Ah? Didn't you say that Yuanfeng County is very good? Why do you still have to buy Shengping County's bricks?"

"The land in Yuanfeng County is so expensive, and it has basically made good land. There are many wastelands in Shengping County, and it is also empty, so I dug the soil to burn the tiles."

Isn’t this a problem of the distribution of regional advantageous industries?

"That's pretty good. The brick and tile business is good, and the people have a lot of money."

"What's the good thing?" Zhou Qiang shook his head again, "The money is all from those gentry. Aren't the people just doing some coolies?"

Alas, the people are too hard. However, Zhou Qiang didn't feel it was hard to chat, so he could continue to chat. She just came here and talked about these things to quickly understand this era. After the days are settled, go to the streets and alleys.

It is also good to listen to various gossips and see the various forms of sentient beings.

As I walked, the city walls were no longer visible.

After walking for a while, my eyes suddenly became clear. The official road led straight to the city gate in the distance. Houses, fields and woods were all distributed on both sides of the road.

Many people cheered.

The crowd saw the city gate and was no longer in a hurry.

Chen Fan found that the land here was not so severely cracked. She naturally told Zhou Qiang, who was her tour guide.

"Oh, it's probably raining here, but it's dry again." Zhou Qiang said casually: "The people here probably have eaten everything they can eat and digging, and the green seedlings have not yet grown.

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I looked right across from it, but walked over for a long time.

They walked through a dead wood in front of the city tower and walked to the open space in front of the city wall. They breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, and some even lay down. When the destination arrived, the people felt relieved and their bodies seemed to be in a sudden state of relief.

It's boring.

Chen Fan looked at the trees in the forest, and many of the barks of the trees were peeled off, and she sighed.

Looking to the city wall, there are large open areas with no tree, like a large square.

Wherever you see, there are people, in groups of three or five. Some families set up tents or huts, and most of them can only sleep in the open.

Their complexion is a little better than those people I saw on the road. Will their complexion even improve when they arrive at the city gate?

Chen Fan looked at the closed city gate in the distance and felt a little disappointed.

They accelerated their walking speed several times and rushed here, but were still locked outside the city.

Look at the tents and huts, which are like a long-term stay.

She wanted to enter the city early. Once she entered the city, she could find work, earn food, find a place to live, and take a bath. But...

Chen Fan's eyes turned to the forest, searching for trees suitable for her to spend the night. Then, she looked at the mountains on both sides of the city: So short? It's only more than 20 meters high, right? Several higher mountains look only

It looks like a thirty meters. Why don’t the refugees climb over the mountains and wait at the city gate?

A wild dog that could not be understood ran over from somewhere, skinny and looking for food on the ground. Several children were frightened and screamed, but several men's eyes were green, holding sticks and swarming towards the wild dog

After a while, the wild dog ran for only a few steps, whimpered a few times, and then disappeared.

The men talked around the wild dog, but Chen Fan didn't listen to it all. He heard the word "dao" clearly, and it was exactly the same as the pronunciation in her hometown. This pronunciation is probably the case in many places.

Two men went to get two kitchen knives and came back. After a while, a bloody smell spread, which caused many people to turn their heads and look over. Some people trembled and wanted to step forward, but were stared back by the men's fierce eyes.

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The people quickly walked away, holding a little flesh in their hands, their faces were very excited, and many people around them had a light in their eyes. What was left on the ground was a pile of messy dog ​​hair and a bunch of dog hairs.

The crimson blood seeped into the soil in a blink of an eye, forming a black piece.
Chapter completed!