Great Sui Storyteller

Chapter 203 202. A Smelly Taoist Priest Who Knows a Hammer
One person and one horse rested for most of the night, and at dawn the next day, Li Zhen rubbed his face with snow.

Seeing that someone was already coming in and out of the gate of Yunwu City, he walked over directly.

He didn't intend to enter the city, but just asked the soldiers how to get to the capital.

The transportation in this era is relatively simple. The place he went to was the west gate of Yunwu City, and the soldiers pointed directly in the direction of the city wall:
"Go out from the south gate and just walk along the official road. I'll ask when I get to the next city."

Thank you politely, and lead the horse to leave.

Walking around Yunwu's not-so-high city wall, he came all the way to the south gate, stepped on the official road, and walked towards the south.

This walk is ten days.

During the ten days, Li Zhen deliberately accelerated his pace halfway.

A lot of things happened in ten days, and Li Zhen also met a lot of people.But it must be admitted that the west is much more peaceful than the east.

There are no thieves who fall into bandits and become kings, and there are no tragic scenes of starvation everywhere.

In general……

not bad?
He can only give this answer.

And these days, it was enough for him to adjust his mentality.

All the way to the border of Shanshan, there are more people on the road.In the final analysis, although Daxing City is lonely now, the background is still there. The place where the Guanlong family dominates the dragon is far more peaceful than the outside.

But Li Zhen didn't go to see the prosperity of those Guanlong people in these cities. Even if he needed supplies, he would just complete the supplies as soon as possible when he passed by the cities and villages, and then left.

Along the way, he gave way to cars and gave way to horses, and he didn't argue with others, and he didn't care about the affairs of the "heroes" who could be seen everywhere.

Speaking of which...there are quite a few heroes.

Occasionally passing by some teahouses along the road, I can always hear the high-spirited talks of those heroes, and the love between their children.

But after these heroes left, maybe within ten miles, they could see them, who just boasted about their martial arts prowess, die by the side of the road, even their bodies were still warm.

So, if you enter the rivers and lakes, you are a poor man.

People are floating in the rivers and lakes, so they must be prepared to be stabbed at any time.

He kept shaking his head while watching, but when he met him, he would always ask Brother Feng to dig a hole and bury him while no one was paying attention to him.

Although I don't know if these heroes and fairies will be chased by people from the master's sect to avenge them.And whether his digging and burying people will cause trouble to the other party... But as long as you are not stupid, you can always see that this kind of digging and burying people with a bag of dirt is done by "good-hearted people".

If this kind of kindness is taken seriously again, it is estimated that this person will not live long.

In short, Li Zhen walked all the way, buried all the way, and he saw the world below this cultivator.

To sum it up in one sentence:

"Zi are not fish, know the joy of fish."

Although the martial arts are not high, but at least they live with true temperament.

Three or five bosom friends, join hands with women, eat and drink, and sleep soundly.

It was really quite simple.

And he, like a spectator.

Occasionally, one or two people will be saved, but they never show up.

A seven-inch flying knife went over, broke the blade, and saw that there was an expert present, and ordinary people left as they should.

And after saving people, they leave, and others will not admit it even if they come to ask.

Play stupid.

It's easy to save you, so where should you go next, hero.

Regardless of whether it is fighting for some martial arts cheats, or trying to be the leader of the world, I am just a stinky Taoist priest who knows a hammer in martial arts.

So, it's been a safe journey.

It's just that the Taoist robe on his body has added a bit of wind and frost.

After crossing the boundary of Shaanxi all the way, and arriving in Shanxi, the road is a bit difficult because of the Taihang Mountains.

The corpses on the roadside also gradually increased.

Only then did Li Zhen see a taste of troubled times.

But at this moment, he has arrived at the boundary of Hejin.As long as you pass Hejin, you will be considered to have crossed the Taihang Mountains. According to later generations, you will pass Jiaozuo, enter Henan, and then go to Luoyang.

Although there are some detours, this official road is built with such virtues, and there is nothing he can do about it.

After entering the Hejin area, the taste...is a bit different.

It is obviously not far from Luoyang, but the painting style of this place is completely different from that of Li Zhen in Shaanxi and Shanxi before.

There was no official army at all.

Instead, there was a group of soldiers dressed in ragged clothes and armed with various weapons.

These soldiers don't look like regular troops.

However, the strangeness of this group of people's painting style is not their clothes, but the chaos and disorder.

Yes, that is chaos.

This place belongs to the Dragon Gate of the Yellow River. If you dig out the natural danger outside the Taihang Mountains, it can be regarded as the west gate of Luoyang.When Li Zhen first stepped into the Hejin area, he first came to a place called "Zhemayu".

He had asked earlier.

There is a cliff on the back of Zhemayu, called "Siezi Cliff". There is a very flat boulder on the other side of Zheziya. It is said that Guan Yu, a martial sage, once stepped on this boulder to mount a horse and set out to battle, so he got the name "Zhemayu".

In fact, Li Zhen really wanted to call the second master out to ask if there was such a thing.

Is there, or is it simply that the people in this place are stalking Er Ye for your traffic.

But he reckoned that if the second master really spoke, he might be scared to death, so he didn't think about it.

And why do you say this place is chaotic?

because……

There is a traffic jam.

Yes, you heard that right.

A real traffic jam.

This is the gateway to Luoyang from the west. If you want to go to Luoyang, unless you make a detour, you have to go this way.The reason why there are no officers and soldiers in this place is also very simple. There is a local general named "Wu Duan'er". Because he was dissatisfied with the oppression of the Sui Emperor, he raised his troops to revolt. A team of 8 people is entrenched in the Taihang area.

He fought several times with officers and soldiers, and they all won.

And this Wu Duan'er doesn't know what his origin is or what his composition is. Logically speaking, the 8 horses are not a small number, and it shouldn't be difficult to take down the few cities near Jiangzhou.

But he didn't.

Instead, he occupied the mountain as king and collected tolls.

I don't stop you from going to Yuzhong, and I don't stop anyone from going from Yuzhong to Shanshan.

Just pay.

But the problem is that the toll you charged is too low.

Li Zhen followed the queue in the crowd, and heard the two people in front who should be merchants chatting there:
"Why are these three checkpoints getting slower and slower? Don't you usually just leave after giving money? If this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of Hejin in the dark. What should I do?"

"It's not getting slower and slower, but two more checkpoints have been added. Now there are five checkpoints in Zhemayu alone, one checkpoint and one exploitation. Do you think this speed can be faster? Sigh... want to do so much What, just prepare the money.”

What Li Zhen heard was admiration.

Good guy.

One road, five hurdles.

Only seek money, not life.

He also understands the principle of not being able to exhaust the water.

profession.

(End of this chapter)