Chapter 5 Youth Travel
Ten days later, sunny.
The hunting park is extremely nervous and busy today because something will happen.
The steep and cold Qinling mountains and the dense jungle like mazes are completely covered with ice and snow for more than half of the year. Dangerous and bloodthirsty beasts are everywhere, which makes the "hunting garden" almost isolated from the world. It is almost impossible for people outside to come in intact. So every once in a while, the hunting garden will send a team of strong hunters to transport mountain goods such as animal skins, game and medicinal materials to find merchants outside the mountain to conduct secret transactions, so as to exchange for food, rice, oil and salt, such as daily necessities.
People in the hunting garden call it "shipping", which is related to the life and death of everyone in the hunting garden.
There is no doubt that shipping is the top priority of the hunting park.
The shipment is about to be shipped today, and from dawn, all households are busy. They took out their own mountain goods and handed them to Gao Yu to record and make bookings, and then loaded them into six donkey carts in order. More than ten strong hunters who were about to come out to participate in the shipment were gathered together to check swords, chariots, horses and other things, meticulously. The women were busy packing these heroic hunters and preparing dry food, and were very attentive.
Li Cangyu and Gao Ju each carried a big luggage, stood in front of their aunt Liu, and listened to her repetitive words over and over again.
"Alang, you must be careful. Don't forget that you don't have a household registration, and don't be arrested by the government."
"Zhi'er, when you go outside the mountain, you must listen to Brother Alang, don't be naughty, have you ever recorded it?"
"If you need to change your new boots, don't save it. Don't freeze your feet. It's not good to get cold when you are young. If you wear them badly, I'll do it for you."
"Is there enough steamed cakes? Why don't I make a few more for you?"
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"Mom, stop talking!" Gao Jue was a little impatient and scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "You have been saying it for almost an hour, and it is all the same..."
"Shut up!" Li Cangyu scolded him, then bowed to Liu, "Jess, don't worry, I will take good care of myself and my brother!"
A Xiang is the verbal name of my aunt, also called a concubine and a concubine.
"Okay, okay... Then I won't say it." Liu's eyes were red. When he looked around, he suddenly stuffed Li Cangyu a heavy cloth bag, "Hold it quickly, don't let your uncle see it!"
A pack of copper coins.
"Among, this is not possible!" Li Cangyu quickly pushed the cloth bag back.
"Take it quickly and go to Chang'an to buy more food." Liu's tears flowed down in desperation and said in a low voice, "You brothers are still growing, remember to eat enough! Be obedient, remember!"
After saying that, Liu turned around and left.
While walking, wiped tears with your sleeves.
Gao Bi came over to see the bag, "Brother Lang, how about buying some wine when he went to Chang'an?"
"Boom!"
Li Cangyu slapped Gao Ju on the fur hat, "You naughty kid, you just deserve a beating!"
"Hehehe!" Gao Zhen smiled foolishly and begged for mercy.
Li Cangyu looked at his aunt's back from a distance and sighed in his heart... How could I spend this money?
"Why are you two still dawdling?" Gao Feng shouted at them from afar, "Count the equipment and set off immediately!"
"good!"
Li Cangyu and Gao Ju immediately became busy and conducted a final inventory of the accompanying equipment. Gao Feng was worried about his two younger brothers after finishing his work, so he came over to check all their equipment one by one.
While checking carefully, he said tirelessly: "If you want to walk out of the Great Snow Mountain, besides knives, bows, arrows, food, water, and cold protection, there are many fragmentary items, and you must not miss it. Because any small negligence may bring fatal consequences. This snowy area is born to be so ruthless and dangerous."
"Take this golden needle and sheep intestine thread as an example. If you accidentally scratch your face by a branch that is as hard as iron, if you don't sew the wound immediately and tie the antifreeze medicine, the flesh that comes out of the wound will soon be frozen to death, and the whole face will be ruined!"
"So facial towels must not be missing, at least three pairs are required. If they are wet, replace them immediately!"
"Remember to cover your ears. Four of us have already frozen our ears. Four!"
"Although the hunting park is also cold, there are houses that can shelter from the wind and snow. During the shipment, the cold wind raged in the snow. You can't imagine the coldness. Especially at night, you will definitely splash water and turn ice. If you want to pee, you have to hold it in your pocket and not leave the bed. Otherwise, you can imagine the consequences yourself!"
Gao Feng has always been generous and unrestrained, but at this moment he is like his mother-in-law nagging. When he counts those trivial things one by one, he is absolutely serious to the point of being harsh.
Li Cangyu and Gao Ju learned very seriously and did not dare to miss any details. Because they all wanted to walk out of the mountains alive, and they could not miss any parts on their bodies.
When the counting was completed, Gao Yu walked over and said to Li Cangyu: "On the Zhongyuan Festival, you'd better come back in person to pay tribute to your mother."
Li Cangyu clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, uncle, if there is no special situation, I will definitely come back."
Gao Yu nodded and said no more.
Half an hour later, everything was ready and everyone had breakfast.
Gao Feng turned over and rode his horse, raised his hand and waved his hand to "set". More than ten people from Li Cangyu followed him, protecting six donkey carts loaded with mountain goods, and walked forward.
More than a hundred hunting gardeners watching and seeing off, shouting words like "Return safely" one after another, reluctantly following them all the way.
There is a big smell of a man leaving home for an expedition and sending his family to each other for ten miles.
The Qinling Mountains are covered with ice, fog and snowy roads all year round, and are full of dangers and cannot pass through. In order to avoid accidents, the government has adopted a forced order to "close the mountains". Only in the midsummer season will the mountains be opened and allowed to pass through.
The shipment of the hunting park can only be done the opposite, because they are black market population and their transactions are smuggling. In order to avoid the review of the government, the heavier the fog and snow, the safer the travel. The route of shipment is the lifeline of the hunting park, and you have to deal with the invasion of beasts along the way. Therefore, only the most outstanding and trustworthy hunters are qualified to join the shipment team. In the past, Gao Yu personally led the team to ship, and there has never been any mistake in several years. The title of Hunter King is not a false reputation. In the past one or two years, this task has been handed over to Gao Feng.
Facts have proved that Gao Feng, who is young in the twentieth century, did not do much worse than his father.
Li Cangyu couldn't help but recall that when I was 20 years old, I seemed to be playing basketball and playing games on the university campus, feeding each other in the cafeteria without any brainstorms, right?
Thinking of this, Li Cangyu not only misses her but also feels ashamed.
There are no idle people in the shipping team.
Under the leadership of four old hunters, Li Cangyu and Gao Ju were responsible for cleaning up snow and cutting branches and carrying stones in front of them, and opening up the road for the passage of donkey cart fleets. The road was very difficult, and everyone often needed to carry the goods and donkey carts on their shoulders for a period of time, and then loaded them again.
This is really exhausting!
Li Cangyu almost exhausted several times, but they all survived. Everyone was gritting their teeth and going through hardships, and they had no reason to be a giant baby who could not take care of themselves.
The road is blocked and long, and I walk day and sleep at night.
Along the way, Li Cangyu thought of Li Bai's song "The Journey of the Boy", "Sweeping the Spring Breeze in the White Horse in the Silver Saddle", and "Laughing into the Hu Ji's Restaurant", how comfortable it was. However, they were all teenagers from noble families. A teenager from a commoner family was not as tired as a dog when he pushed a cart and moved goods, and had no wine or meat to eat steamed buns?
"Ho, good poem!"
"We are from the Chinese department!...Four teachers, don't hit me!"
Finally one day, the shipment team stopped temporarily in a valley and stopped leaving. Gao Feng said that this is the agreed transaction location, and the other party will come to complete the transaction tomorrow at the latest.
Li Cangyu felt relieved. He felt that the hardship he suffered in these few days could be able to overcome the sum of the suffering he suffered in his previous thirty years. But at the same time, he seemed to have a truly "rebirth" rebirth, and he also had more desire and passion for future life.
He even made a wish: one day, I will let my uncle and his family leave this frozen mountain and live a better life outside the mountain.
Chapter completed!