Chapter 18 Have a safe journey

Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai circled around the car. Wei Shuisheng stretched out his hand to raise the curtain, probed his head to look inside, looked back at Li Zongliang, who was stunned, and sighed: "I think our little one not only has the ability to make money has so much, but his ability to spend money is also very powerful. Looking at this momentum, our family will be small in the future. Yao, that's a real blessing!"

Li Erhuai stood next to Li Zongliang, looked at Li Zongliang with a calm face, and Li Xiaoyao, who was stared at by Li Zongliang all the way, holding a cooking cake in his hand. I don't know whether it is better to hand it to Li Zongliang or not for the time being. Li Xiaoyao smiled and did not dare to come directly to Li Zongliang. First, he carefully moved to Li Erhuai's side, took the cooking cake from Li Erhuai's hand, and handed it to Li Zongliang: "Brother, try this cooking cake. It's better than the cake workshop in Taiping Prefecture."

Li Zongliang did not receive the cake, but stared at Li Xiaoyao with a calm face. Li Erhuai squeezed his eyebrows and motioned at Wei Shuisheng. Li Xiaoyao handed the cake to Li Zongliang with both hands and said pitifully, "Big brother ate a steamed bun last night. He must be hungry. Eat the cake first. Only when you are full can you have the strength to teach Xiaoyao. Brother, you Eat first."

Wei Shuisheng took the cooking cake in Li Xiaoyao's hand and stuffed it into Li Zongliang's hand. He laughed so much that he couldn't speak. He only pushed Li Zongliang and laughed for a long time before he persuaded him: "It's also Xiaoyao's thoughtful. This is also good. With this car, we can suffer less along the way. If we really can't avoid people all the way, we can also hide in the car. Hiding is not all bad. Last night, I thought it would be nice if I could have a car. I didn't expect that these two small ones also have the ability. I bought an old donkey with five taels of silver and brought a car. If this is in Taiping Mansion, we can't buy ten taels of silver. We used this car and this donkey all the way and sold it in Nanjiang City. Maybe there may be more. How many taels of silver have been sold?

"That's it! Shuisheng is right!" Li Erhuai hurriedly said good words. Li Zongliang took the cake with one hand and knocked on Li Xiaoyao's forehead with one hand and scolded him, "Forget forget it this time. If you have any plans next time, you have to discuss with everyone first. Then make your own decisions, I will..." Li Zongliang can't figure out how to deal with Li Xiaoyao for a moment. Li Xiaoyao quickly answered for him and said, "Just punish me for not eating for a day!"

"I just remembered this on the road with Xiaoyao, and I'm afraid it's too late to come back to discuss it." Li Zonggui finally interrupted and explained that Wei Shuisheng glanced at him and rubbed Li Xiaoyao's head and said, "You can't do this next time. Did you have this idea last night?"

Li Xiaoyao's eyes dodged and simply pointed to the car to change the topic: "It's not early now. It's time for us to go on the road. Let's go quickly. It's easy to have an accident if you stay here for too long."

Wei Shuisheng shook his head with a smile and took a cooking cake from Li Erhuai's arms. As he bit it, he looked at Li Zonggui and asked, "Have you asked the way to Nanyue?"

"Well, after careful inquiry, go all the way west-north, first to Xinyang, then to Zhengcheng, past Zhengcheng, and then walk for a day or two, it will be South Vietnam."

"Let's go, go on the road first and talk while walking." Li Zongliang came forward and took the reins of the old green donkey and said.

"Brother, let's get in the car. It's too close to He County. There are many people on the road. In case people see it, it will be a big trouble." Li Zonggui hurried forward and took the reins and said. Li Zongliang agreed and squeezed into the car with Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai. Li Xiaoyao was afraid of lying down the 70-and-80 old green donkey and did not dare to sit in the car again. Together with Li Zonggui, he led the donkey and bit the cooking cake all the way to Xinyang.

After walking for half an hour, there were so few pedestrians on the road that they could not see one far away. Li Zongliang and the three of them got out of the car. Li Erhuai held the donkey. Li Xiaoyao sat at the door of the carriage, shaking his legs and listening to several people talking.

"Is there any other way? It's better not to go to Zhengcheng. Wei Shuisheng discussed with Li Zongliang with a worried face. Li Zonggui turned his head and explained to Li Zongliang and explained, "Now we can only go like this. It used to be most convenient to go all the way to the southwest to South Vietnam, but now there is a war in the south, and all the way from Guizhou to the north is across the mountain. When we arrive at the time of heavy snow to seal the mountain, we can't pass. Go north and pass Zhengcheng.

"Zheng Cheng is next to Nanyue, Liang and Beiping. At this time, Beiping and Liang have been fighting. In a month or two, I don't know what the chaos will be like!" Wei Shuisheng frowned and said worriedly.

"There is no peace in Taiping Mansion, and there is no peace! It's okay if it's messy. While it's chaotic, we just sneak over. Anyway, the eldest brother and the aquatic brother are good at kung fu. We are not afraid of fighting!" Li Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"Your second Huai brother is also very good at kung fu!" Seeing that Li Xiaoyao did not mention him, Li Erhuai quickly turned around and reminded him. Li Zongliang raised his hand and knocked on Li Xiaoyao's head: "You still sneak away. Look at you, this escape is like Youchun!"

Li Xiaoyao shrank his head and didn't dare to say much with a smile.

After walking for two or three days, they left He County. When they arrived at Ying County, Li Zongliang unloaded the car and found a place to hide. Li Xiaoyao and Li Zonggui led the old green donkey into Ying County. The two cautiously checked the four gates of Ying County and did not see the five picture notices. Li Xiaoyao and the old man guard of the door were looking for words. It turned out that this county had never received any notice of someone killing officers and soldiers of Taiping Prefecture, and the old man had never heard of this at all!

Li Xiaoyao and Li Zonggui breathed a long sigh of relief. It turned out that the notice was only sent to He County. It seems that the government really didn't pay attention to their matter. They just issued a notice to deal with it. The two were in a good mood and strolled around Ying County, bought pickles, and bought a bag of charcoal near the city gate. The red braised pork head meat that just came out of the braised meat shop next to it exudes an extremely attractive fragrance. Li Zonggui swallowed his saliva. These days, they are full of pickles every day. The smell of pork makes people want to bite off their tongues.

Li Xiaoyao also swallowed his saliva, stretched his neck and looked at the pot of steaming and fragrant pig head meat, stabbed Li Zonggui, and suggested in a low voice, "We are here, and we are the one who has come out. There is no notice. Or, buy two catties of pig head meat back and we will always celebrate!"

Li Zonggui stopped, swallowed his saliva, looked at Li Xiaoyao, and nodded with a grin: "Yes, you're right. Don't sell too much. Just try it!"

"Two catties! Without Erhuai, you can't even taste it!" As Li Xiaoyao spoke, he had stood in front of the braised meat pot, took money from the coat carried by Li Zonggui with one hand, and picked it with one finger to let the shopkeeper cut the pig's head meat.

With no notice and eating meat, the five people were in a good mood. Although they were still careful along the way, they were much more relaxed and could sleep peacefully at night.

After walking for more than half a month, I didn't see half a notice on the way. Several people were more relaxed and happy. When they met the town, they also began to take turns to go to the city to buy things and ask for information. They walked easily for more than a month. Far away on the way, they saw the action. There were more and more armies in China. At first, they occasionally saw it once or twice, and then they could see it almost every day. Several people were frightened and dared not take the road again and walked back to the remote path in the countryside.

After walking for two months, just passed Tang County, and it has been snowing heavily since midnight. When passing by a town, Wei Shuisheng and Li Zonggui bought two bags of charcoal, and bought a bag of bean cakes for the old green donkey and carried them on the car. Li Xiaoyao nestled in the car and guarded the red mud stove. The rest took turns to get on the car and rest. Continue to move forward with difficulty in the heavy snow.

It was the end of November, approaching the twelfth lunar month. On such a snowy day, there were almost no pedestrians on the road, and the group of people were relaxed. On the way, Li Zonggui happened to beat a stupid roe deer. Several people actually found a broken ancestral hall that night. Li Erhuai found a leely corner for the old green donkey and fed the beans Li Zongliang took a gun and inspected the hay of the cake. Li Zonggui baked the balsam meat with great interest. Wei Shuisheng helped Li Xiaoyao set up an iron pot and cook rice porridge.

Several people had a lively meal, roasted the fire, talked for a while, calculated the itinerary, and could enter the territory of South Vietnam in more than ten days, and only felt more relaxed.

After a night's rest, although the snow was much smaller, it still floated without stopping. More than a foot of snow had accumulated on the road, and it was almost impossible to see where the road was. Several people had breakfast and waited for half an hour before they left the broken ancestral hall and rushed to the road. As expected, they had passed several groups of pedestrians on the road and stepped on footprints and cars. Several people followed the footprints and car prints all the way to Zhengcheng.

At noon, they didn't find a place to rest their feet. Except for stopping to feed the old green donkey several times, they simply did not rest their feet. From afternoon to the evening, they hardly saw anyone along the way. Near evening, the snow gradually stopped, and the red sun in the distance showed half of its face on the horizon and looked at the world indifferently.

not far ahead, a car rolled over in the roadside ditch, and a wheel remained in the middle of the road. Next to the car, a middle-aged man turned around the car helplessly. A ten-year-old boy wearing a leather hat and a thick cotton robe stood on the wheels in the middle of the road, leading the big The green mule, with a cold red face, looked anxiously at the middle-aged workers and the car that fell in the ditch.

Wei Shuisheng and Li Zongliang stopped, and the car also stopped. Li Xiaoyao hurriedly leaned out of the car and followed Li Zongliang's eyes and looked forward. Li Zongliang motioned Li Zonggui to lead the old green donkey and walked over with Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai. Li Xiaoyao hurriedly put on his shoes, jumped out of the car and followed up to watch the fun.