Lao Qian and I were walking on the rugged mountain road. Because I couldn't get used to the mountain road, we walked very slowly. It was only after 1:00 in the afternoon that we had crossed two ridges! Lao Qian urged me, "We have to leave quickly, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with Guantou!"

I wiped the sweat beads on my forehead and said panting: "Don't urge me anymore, I can't walk anymore... You don't know, the water blisters have been ground under my feet!" Lao Qian saw that I couldn't walk anymore, so he stamped his feet and said: "You guys who drink foreign ink are just too cute!" I knew he was anxious, so I deliberately teased him and said: "There is a saying since ancient times that I am a scholar, and I am probably talking about people like me!"

Old Qian felt that he was speechless, so he changed his face and asked me, "Sir, how are your feet?"

I smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just worn out!"

Lao Qian sucked his teeth and frowned and said, "How is this good?" He asked me to sit by the side of the road, took off my shoes and socks, lifted my feet and looked at them and said, "Sir, your soles are all bleeding, how can you go?"

I said, "It's not too tight, I'll take a break!" I frowned and put my shoes and socks back. Lao Qian raised his toes and looked behind him. I asked him, "Hey, Lao Qian, what are you looking at!"

Lao Qian's eyes suddenly lit up and he said to me: "Did you hear the sound?"

I was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's the sound?"

Lao Qian said, "The ringtone!".

I smiled and said, "How come there is a ringtone here? Did you hear it wrong?"

Lao Qian said, "Don't make a sound, the ringtone is behind us!"

I quickly put on my leather shoes and looked behind me. I saw clouds and mist behind me, and the way I came was already hidden in a rain and fog!

I asked Lao Qian softly, "Where are they?"

Lao Qian pointed to the fog and said, "They are in the fog, let's wait for them here!"

I asked Lao Qian curiously, "What do they do?"

Lao Qian smiled and said, "They transport salt. Mr. may not know that we do not produce salt here, so the salt that the people eat must be transported in from outside the mountain by pack horses!"

Lao Qian and I were chatting casually when we saw a team of pack horses walking out of the clouds! The pack horses looked about fourteen or fifteen, with sacks on the horses carrying them, and walked towards us step by step!

We saw them, and they also saw us. A middle-aged man walking in his head led a red horse and shouted to us: "Hey! Friends in front, what are you doing?"

Old Qian whispered to me: "They thought we were bandits, so they were talking to us!" After that, he shouted, "My fellow villager, we are not bandits, come here!"

The man put on a pergola in his hand, looked at us carefully for a while, and shouted, "Why are you not leaving?"

Old Qian smiled and said, "Our gentleman can't walk anymore, don't be afraid..."

The big man turned around and muttered to the young man behind him, then shouted: "Then you give in, we're going to get over!"

Lao Qian pulled me to the side of the road and told me: "Be careful, these horses carry things very heavy, don't let them squeeze you into the ditch!"

The big man used a wooden stick to slap the horse's butt. The horse was "bare and bald" sniffing, pursing his ears, bent his back, and rushed up hard. The horse's hooves

Stepping on the stone pavement, it was a clanging sound! I saw the horse being skinny and carrying two heavier marijuana bags that were heavier than its body, staggeringly walking on the uphill road more than one meter wide. On one side of the stone pavement was a mountain, and on the other side was a bottomless mountain stream. As long as the horse's hooves slipped, they would go down the mountain with goods and horses!

The fog in the mountains became heavier and the sun was shining brightly just now, and the sky was completely cloudy at this time! The leaves of trees and grass were wet, full of water, and the air became wet, and the fog filled the hills and valleys.

Lao Qian looked at the sky and said regretfully: "It's raining!"

The horse team walked up to us, Lao Qian called the middle-aged man and started talking to him! He discussed with the middle-aged man and wanted to rent one of their horses. The middle-aged man shook his head and said that their horses were all used for salt transport, not for people to ride, and they had no idle horses!

Lao Qian didn't give up and said that I was a guest invited by the county magistrate and asked him to find a way to free up a horse! The middle-aged man looked at me and muttered, "Is he really a guest of the county magistrate?" I couldn't help but panic when I saw Lao Qian lying, so I took a stern face and said to the middle-aged man in English: "I need to rent one of your horses!"

The middle-aged man had seen some of the world. Seeing that I was not only wearing a dress but also talking birds, he couldn't help but be respectful to me and asked me, "This...this...". Lao Qian reminded me, "Sir, call me sir!"

The middle-aged man slapped his head and said, "Yes, call me sir! Sir, do you speak Chinese?"

Lao Qian turned his eyes and said, "Sir, he is a foreigner, so of course he can't speak Chinese anymore!"

The middle-aged man disbelief: "How could he be a foreigner? Foreigners all have blue eyes and high noses. Why did he look like a Chinese?"

Old Qian was afraid that the middle-aged man would ask questions, so he asked for a flaw, so he used his trump card and said, "Okay, okay! Don't talk nonsense, I'll ask if you can borrow a horse from us!"

The middle-aged man looked embarrassed and said, "It's really not that we don't lend it. Didn't you see it? Every horse is carrying something, and even we don't ride it?"

Lao Qian gritted his teeth and pointed at the middle-aged man and said, "You elm-wood, I ask you, do you want to do this job?"

The middle-aged man was startled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lao Qian said, "I will tell you honestly! Mr. Charlie is very angry. As long as he says a few bad things to the county magistrate, you won't be able to do this business. Do you believe it?"

The middle-aged man runs outside all year round, how could he not know how powerful the foreigner is? Not to mention the county magistrate, even the local government-Taiwan Master, he would bow and salute when he sees the foreigner, let alone the common people who are fighting against the common people? Since ancient times, people do not fight with officials, let alone I have a family to support? When the middle-aged man thought of this, he turned around and shouted, "Hei Ni, pour the dark horse for them!"

Heni is a strong girl with dark skin. He tied a braid, wore a floral jacket, blue cloth pants, and a pair of big legs. He heard the middle-aged man's words and asked, "Dad, how are the goods on the dark horse doing this?"

The middle-aged man said, "You go evenly to the other person right away!"

Heni agreed, shook her braid and turned around and ran along the mountain road to the back of the pack team! Lao Qian bowed and said, "Thank you, brother, thank you!"

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "There is nothing to thank for. It's not easy for us to go out. By the way! I'm

There is an oil-paper umbrella soon, and it will rain soon, so you can use it!"

Lao Qian said, "Thank you, brother, you are really our benefactor! When we meet the county magistrate, I will definitely give you some good words!"

The middle-aged man clasped his fists and said, "Thank you! I still have something to do, so I can't accompany you two!"

Old Qian bowed and said, "Brother, please give me a gift!"

The middle-aged man raised his chest and raised his belly, and made a big stride to catch up with his head! I quietly pulled Lao Qian's clothes and asked him, "I said Lao Qian, do you know the county magistrate?"

Lao Qian was stunned and said, "Don't you recognize me?"

I said, "Then are you still giving me good words to others?"

Old Qian smiled and said, "If I don't say that, can we borrow the horse?"

We were muttering quietly when Hei Nier led a white-nosed black horse and walked towards us! Lao Qian blinked at me with a nose and said, "Sir, how are we women in the mountains?"

I pretended to be confused and said, "What's going on?"

Old Qian cast an admiring look at Hei Ni and said, "Look at the women in our mountains, although they are all thick-handed and not as delicate as the women in your city, they are hard-working and tough-minded. The places where they should be high and the places where they should be concave are much better than the women in your city!"

I saw that Heni's chest was indeed tall, and her body was filled with youthful vitality, and she was not as pretentious as a woman in the city! She approached us and smiled kindly at me. Her white teeth shone with ceramic light! I quickly pulled Lao Qian's clothes and whispered to him: "Stop talking nonsense, she is here!"

Lao Qian was embarrassed and said, "She is not a tigress, what are you afraid of?"

I said anxiously: "Who said she is a tigress? Can you say less than a few words?"

When Lao Qian saw Hei Ni approaching, he squeezed his eyes hard and whispered, "Come on, just pretend to be your foreigner!" Then he grinned at Hei Ni and smiled, "Oh, big girl, you have led the horse here, and we are almost dying of anxiety!"

Heni looked at Lao Qian and frowned, curled her lips and said to him: "This horse is for you to ride, but there is one thing, you can't smoke it!"

Lao Qian smiled and said with a smile: "I said big girl, are you mistaken? If you don't let us smoke it, how can we ride it?"

Heni raised her eyebrows and said, "I am a strong horse. I'm afraid you will get angry, so it will lift you into the ditch again!"

The smile on Lao Qian's face froze, and after a while, he said, "Why did you lead such a horse? Did you deliberately not let us ride it?"

Heni giggled and said, "Why don't I let you ride? I'll take you, who will get on the horse?"

Heni raised his chin slightly, blinked his eyes as if he was lying on his shoulders, and looked at Lao Qian and me. Lao Qian took a step back, pulled me out, and said to Heni, "His feet are broken, you can let him get on the horse!"

Heni nodded to me and helped me get on the horse. I sat on the back of the horse and looked up and saw dark clouds above my head, rain and fog steaming in the distance. Heni's clothes were stuck to her body when the wind blew, outlining her graceful and toned figure! I thought to myself: "It's already windy, so it's not far from raining!"
Chapter completed!