Chapter 57 by chance

"Thousands of feet of waves cross the river, thousands of poles of bamboo are slanted"

As one of the grand projects of human construction, although it is only a seasonal product, it needs to be re-layed once a year.

However, the layers spread to the blue-white river. The ships that remade floating bridge piles looked like a long dragon exploring the river, spanning across the horizon, which was spectacular.

At both ends of the bridge, one of the most prosperous and glorious creations of the Tang Dynasty, was known as the southeast straight road that connects ten horses and has no smooth travel.

The river that seems to have a very small amplitude is rushing, but it looks surging and swaying. It has a throbbing that sucks the soul in it.

Stepping on the bridge deck made of thick log support, although the excitement and tremor come from the river, it can still impact everyone passing by.

The thick ropes and columns on both sides are connected to form guardrails, which can only provide some psychological comfort effect that is better than nothing.

Therefore, everyone who has just stepped onto the bridge deck will not help but fight, with pale or blue faces, and moves forward step by step, but after gradually getting used to the amplitude and rhythm of this vibration, there is nothing left, at least compared to the bumps of the ferry.

Every person who crosses the river has to pay 500 yuan, and the livestock and car drivers are calculated separately. Just a few months of history can receive hundreds of thousands of coins, not to mention the tax on taxes generated by the river city and various service needs caused by the bridge ferry.

This is also an important source of income and foundation for the small-scale deputy general manager of Huaiyang, but he can raise troops and manage troops on land and water. He is known as one of the strong towns in Huainan.

After preparing enough water and food in advance, it took almost two or three hours to complete the long crossing of the bridge due to various reasons and reasons. From the moment you walk down the bridge board, you will step onto the land in Jiangnan.

After landing, my face turned pale and held the grizzly panda tightly. I didn't dare to look at both sides and squatted with my head. I still refused to come down, so I had to let her go.

Although it is Jiangbei and Jiangnan at the same latitude, the scenery and atmosphere give people a very different meaning, although it is still similar to people and things.

This is the Jiangning Army whose old nest is located in Jianye. Its sphere of influence is nominally also a hostile force with the deputy general manager of Huaiyang in Jiangdu.

But the actual situation is another matter. Stepping on the wet sand shore, what we see is not the sergeant soldiers and camps, but a riverside town filled with boats.

As the first batch of guests set foot on the south side of the Yangtze River, all kinds of local people who were attracting merchants flocked to him and shouted loudly.

From the fragrant flowers and fruits of tourists to the wine, boarding and boarding shops, cars and horses and buses, the lively and complex people feel the illusion of being in a peaceful state.

If you can ignore the market town on the bridge, like a crow, the refugees in Jiangnan who are entrenched in the wilderness, begging for food or waiting for death.

If I had not found enough of my companions to travel with me, these poor people who seemed helpless and desperate might turn into lonely travelers, the most terrifying nightmare and threat, I had already experienced this in person.

As the most common derivatives in troubled times, they always kill and kill, and expel them all. Therefore, what the local controllers can do is isolate them from an isolated island called local order.

The business and travelers who sway through the streets with bows and swords are the best portrayal and endorsement.

The southeast straight road that once ran through the north and south sides of the river bridge and was crowded with passengers, is now only some damaged foundation sites that cannot be completely destroyed by time, buried in the weeds.

Only Qiaokou towns continued in the cycle of destruction and reconstruction due to some reasons.

As a moment of comfort and habitat that can escape reality, it is still a good job of doing it. As long as you have enough money, you can find most things and enjoyment here.

The smell of powder mixed with lights and green wine, followed the woman with her shoulders and arms exposed in front of the window under the corridor, and a certain desolate smell in the air in broad daylight.

"This is where eating people does not spit bones..."

I squatted towards the grizzly panda's back with my head held on her back

"As long as you are moved, you will be pulled in, intoxicated, attached, and indulged in the way you think you enjoy the most. Until you can't squeeze anything out of it anymore."

Before I finished speaking, I saw a man who could almost be called naked, rolling out of a window under some force.

“It’s so ruthless.”

After getting up again while cursing, he looked sideways or used to it, and left with his head held high and his chest, as if what he was covering his crotch was not an optional box and nose pants, but a full-clothed dress or formal outfit.

Then he heard a sneer, and a basin of dirty water falling from the sky brought him back to his original form. He had a few vegetable leaves and unknown debris on his head, and he could no longer scold him. Instead, he was trembling and running away in the slightly cold air by the river in the early spring.

She squatted with her head in her arms but burst into laughter, which made her water-phobic syndrome look much better when she crossed the river.

Fortunately, there are not so many messy hotels, and there are still normal hotels with messy things, but the grade is not much higher. The best room is also a few small compartments under the roof of the second floor. You can hear the snoring sounds and various sensations under the floor through the floor.

I don’t have to keep food, and I have to carry all the food utensils myself or go out to solve the problem.

Therefore, when I went out by chance, I had to squat with my head and grizzly pandas, otherwise I would disappear from this place where there were so many people.

The place I chose to eat was a large restaurant with tight carriages and horses. After my preliminary observation, I had the largest flow of people and the concentration rate. I could hear chats from all over the country more clearly.

However, the most discussed are disasters and war news in various places. Other real and false information are very complicated. It is really not easy to filter out useful things from them.

The taste of this kind of roadside restaurant is not very good, and it is just a heavy taste that can barely be eaten.

The one sold a little cold wine that costs ten yuan a cup, and I don’t know how much water is mixed. The white cut meat is quite large, but unfortunately, the taste is also lacking in oil and salt. The homemade cured flavor is old and tickles, which is really unbearable to your teeth. There are very few fresh fruits and vegetables, and the most are all kinds of large jars of pickled vegetables, which have no other characteristics except for the heavy taste.

Compared with Jiangbei's relatively exquisite taste and style, it is very different, which makes us feel a little uncomfortable for a while.

I asked the store to directly put two large soup cake strips, that is, they used a baked big cake, cut them into strips with a knife, and soak them in the boiled soup and become swollen.

The side dishes were bought in the store, half a piece of smoked fish, a few vinegar celery, a piece of bamboo shoots, two taels of old mutton with skin, Xiao Chuo water-laden bean sprouts, and a handful of dried onions. After such processing, it is still possible to eat.

If you occupy a short case, you can start.

Then I saw Brother Naked. He didn't know where to find a set of coarse cloth clothes that didn't look good. He was mixing with a group of squatting in the porch, lying on the overnight leftovers sold by the restaurant half-selling and half-giving. Among the coolie porters, the rice looked sour, which obviously could not affect his appetite.

Even the particles that fell into the gaps in the folds of his clothes were picked out one by one, picked them into his mouth and eaten them, then touched his half-stolen belly, revealing a comfortable expression.

In a group of labor service due to transitional overdrafts and in the hard labor of the porter who had some varicose veins on his arms, shoulders and neck, he seemed a bit out of the way. However, it was obvious that these people knew him well and did not show too much strangeness.

The meal time of the lower-class man seemed to have disappeared in a short time, leaving only a person who was still unsatisfied. He asked for three bowls of noodle soup that was not worthy of money, which made the restaurant's expression become a little bad, and he touched his stomach with some regret.

My heart moved and I asked someone to make a bowl of soup cake sticks and send them to him.

He was stunned for a moment, and without hesitation, swept the big bowl of soup cakes all over the place, and then brought the bowl over to thank him.

"Thank you for your kindness..."

"Don't rush to thank me,..."

I waved my mouth and asked someone to bring a plate of boiled meat, sprinkle with many salt flowers, and push it in front of him.

"No effect is not green."

He held his hands on his chest and said seriously

"I don't know what to do..."

"You should be considered a local person,"

I asked someone to bring half a wind chicken.

"I passed here and there happened to be something, I wanted to ask for some questions..."

“Customer, please ask.”

His expression also relaxed slightly.

Then I asked about the customs and customs nearby, daily situations, etc. Then after I got on the wine I bought outside, his conversation also opened and he talked about his past drunkenly

He has a name but no surname, and is named Bo Fu, but he has the same name as the tiger in Jiangdong in history. He was once the adopted son of an old man from a rebel army in Luzhou. Because he was picked up from a hungry man, he was particularly able to eat physically and physically, and his strength was different from ordinary people. He was given this name that he had no expectations.

Unfortunately, he did not have the family background of Xiaobawang's father, nor did he have the corresponding luck. He followed the official army to fight in many places and participated in dozens of battles.

Apart from having only got the title of a ferocious bird, he basically made no achievements. In particular, he always chose the wrong camp and stood in the wrong team in the last few times. When he encountered a collapse-like defeat, the old brothers who followed him were all killed and injured, and he only escaped with his life without any money.

Then, in recent years, he stayed here, relying on his early experience and skills, he served as a temporary chariot for the caravan, making some input, living a life of having money to buy fun and having no money to sell his life to drink porridge.

Or just go and get the bitch you thought of, eat, drink, sleep for free until you are thrown out...

Then I inadvertently mentioned my original purpose.

“The way to go south…”

He ate and chewed, stopped and pondered for a moment.

“It’s not easy…”

He whipped up the wine and gestured on the table with chopsticks dipped in wine.

"I'll tell you..."

"Although Dantu is a must-see, it is not easy to walk south."

"The way to Fujian has been cut off. There is a Zhangquan army attacking Houguan Town, and all the people who went to the watershed have been detained..."

"If you go to Jiangxi Road from Liyang, you must beware of Wuhu water bandits..."

"Since the Jinghu recruitment and attacking the Jingnan Alliance Army in Pengze in the Southern Dynasty, a large number of defeated soldiers gathered in the local area, and the Jiangxi waterway became a bad road..."

"Of course, you can also go to Jiangyin and buy a boat to go to sea... But now is not a good time, it is a time to go against the wind."

".The official and private ships mainly go to Yizhou or Fusang. If you have any connections..."

I shook my head, if I had the ability and connections, would I have to find you?

"If the customer wants, there is actually another choice, go to Jianye and go down the river."

"Although the power along the river is complex, they can't block the river's exchanges."

"In this way, you can arrive in Yuezhou, go from Dongting to Hunan, Heng, and finally go directly to Wuling..."

"Although the path is farther."

He made another drink, then picked up an empty pot and shook it in his ear.

"How do you know I'm going to be outside the mountain..."

I quietly touched the small crossbow straddling my waist, and then pinched my hand that was squatting with my head in my arms, indicating that she should not be impatient.
To be continued...