minions live

Chapter 72
After another day, the sky in the distance began to become hazy.

Ma Dali came over and reminded loudly, "I'm about to leave Laigu and enter Misty County. Everyone, cherish the sunshine above your heads."

Everyone in the fortress nodded.

Misty County, also commonly known as Misty Wetlands.

In ancient times, this was once a vast ocean.Later, the vicissitudes of life receded and turned into a huge swamp.

This swamp is shrouded in thick mist and miasma all year round, so it is also called foggy wetland.

"Drive!"

All the coachmen waved their whips impatiently, urging the team to go forward.

Laigu County behind him is sunny and beautiful, but there is a suffocating depression.Everyone wanted to leave immediately.

Ma Dalong continued to pass on the news.

"Women and children in the fortress pay attention. The foggy wetland ahead is full of unfathomable swamps and mud pits. After getting out of the car, you are only allowed to stay on the post road, and it is strictly forbidden to wander around. Otherwise, you may fall into it if you are not careful. Get into the swamp and never get out again, understand?"

"Understood." Everyone nodded in response.

"Master Ma Qian," someone asked curiously, "Then what should the female relatives do if they want to relieve themselves?"

"Don't worry, everyone." Ma Dali was not surprised: "We have a plan in advance. When we arrive at the parking place, we will build a batch of temporary toilets for the female relatives to use."

The convoy rolled forward, but stopped shortly after entering the area of ​​Misty County.

"Come on, come on! The car is stuck." Someone shouted in front.

Ren Ning drove his horse up and immediately understood what happened.

After all, the post road under his feet was built on the swamp, and there was no heavy machinery to help compact the roadbed in ancient times.Caravans going east and west, dragging heavy goods, have already made the post road into a "W" shape.

The carriage in front just got stuck in the deep ruts on both sides.No matter how hard the two horses tried, they couldn't drag the cart halfway.

Fuck!
A caravan guard spit out thick phlegm.

"This motherless Sheriff of Misty Fog is relentless in road tax, customs duty and city entry tax, but he never knows to send someone to repair this fucking road."

Scolding is scolding, get down and push the cart.

Caravan escort is not an easy job.When encountering bandits and bandits, they have to go up to them.When you encounter this situation, you have to get off the cart.

Twenty or so guards cocked their buttocks and pushed hard for a long while, but the car was loaded with a heavy Panlong Stone, and it didn't move at all.

"Old Ma, how long will it take to get to the parking spot?" Ren Ning asked Ma Dalong who was most familiar with the situation.

"It depends on luck." Ma Dali raised his head and glanced ahead, "At least an hour or so, at most half a night."

Misty County is full of swamps. When the road was built, some places similar to high-speed service areas were specially built on the side of the post road to stop and rest for passing caravans.

But there are not many such places, and more importantly, other caravans may drive in first to occupy the "service area".Therefore, it is not easy to find a place to rest in the Misty County team.

To encounter the latter situation, the convoy had to brave the night and continue to move forward.

But there is no need to worry about encountering bandits at night, because except for a few small towns in the entire Misty County, it is impossible to live in other places.

"Take a few people to the front to have a look." Ren Ning ordered Ma Dali, and waved back, "Everyone else will come down and help push the cart."

The fortress soldiers were divided into two groups, each performing its duties.

Nearly a hundred people pulled forward and pushed back.After a long while, the heavy car was finally pulled out of the deep rut.And everyone has become a mud monkey.

Ren Ning wiped off the muddy water on his face, looked back at the long convoy, and suddenly felt dizzy.

"Thanks for your hard work, everyone." Gu Fugui brought some food and came over to express his condolences to everyone.

Ren Ning snorted and stared at the old butler angrily.

He is a little skeptical now, the Gu family caravan is playing with this idea.

On the surface, they asked the fortress soldiers to protect the caravan.In fact, they asked these strong soldiers to help push the cart when passing through this foggy wetland.

Ancient wealth is also a personal essence.

Ren Ningcai looked over gloomyly, and he explained that there is no silver 300 taels here. "How can it be? Didn't we encounter bandits and robbers when passing through Luoxia Mountains..."

After some explanation, Ren Ning let him go.

The Gu family caravan takes this trade route every year, and they are no strangers to the road conditions in Misty County, so they have already prepared.

The servant who drove the cart quickly removed some large tree poles from several cars behind them, put them in the deep ruts on the road, and then tried to drive the car over.

It works well.Most cars can drive through without a hitch if they are careful.

But some cars always slipped from the tree poles into the ruts, and at least overturned the drivers.Even the axles are broken.

When an axle breaks, it has to be repaired.But overall, it went well.

It's just that this road is really bad.Before the convoy had traveled a few miles, the wood shipped with the convoy ran out, but another car got stuck in the rut ahead.

The caravan servants were no surprise.They carried tools such as hoes and picks, and went back to dig up the wood that had been buried before.

Ren Ning was speechless.

The road is already rotten, and if we use a hoe to loosen the soil, wouldn't it be even worse?
Moreover, the foggy wetland in front of me is very foggy and humid. After tossing back and forth a few times, the whole road probably turned into a muddy pond.

He looked grimly at the heavy car.

The cart is loaded with heavy and solid stones.Or just unload the stones and fill them in the road as a roadbed.

Of course, this is just his idea, and it is absolutely impossible to happen.

Carrying the stones on the car to the east or south of Yunchui is much more valuable than filling it under the feet as a roadbed.

"This broken road..." Gu Fugui cursed and came to comfort Ren Ning again.

"Commander, don't worry. This short section of the Misty County is the most difficult to walk. After these two days, the road ahead will be easier to walk."

However, after three days, looking at the road ahead is still poor.Exhausted, Lei Er kicked the old guy into the rut.

"Is it easy to walk this way?"

Gu Fugui crawled out groaningly, with a embarrassed expression on his face, "This is none of our business, it should be the reason why it has rained these few days."

As soon as he said it was raining, the thick fog in front of his eyes turned into water, and it started to drip down into the ground.

The rain at the turn of spring and summer is very cold.The convoy couldn't move again, and everyone in the fortress was preparing to go back to rest.

Someone ran back from the front on horseback to report.

"Hurry up. There is a big caravan coming in front. The caravan hastened forward. If you don't move, both sides will be stuck here."

The post road was originally not small, at least two carriages traveling together was not a problem.

But now the whole road is divided into at least three parts by ruts.It's not easy to get past the car.

Everyone had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to pull the cart.

In this way, the entire convoy was almost pulled east by manpower.After stopping to rest at night, everyone was carrying food and didn't want to eat, they were as tired as a dead dog.

This is not a big deal.

Every day is either rain or fog, plus miasma and large temperature changes at night.Children in the fortress soon developed various symptoms of discomfort.

Fortunately, the team brought enough medicinal materials, and the two team doctors worked hard to treat him, so nothing happened.

Ren Ning checked his team, telling jokes to the children in the car from time to time, making them laugh out loud.

He looked forward deeply.

If it hadn't been for taking money from others in advance, and now being blocked behind the caravan, Ren Ning really wanted to give up and leave the caravan to lead the team eastward.

Ma Dali knew he was guilty, and he explained with a bitter face.

"I sent Ling back to his hometown four years ago. Although the roads in Misty County are bad, it's not that exaggerated. Maybe this fucking Misty Sheriff has never sent anyone to maintain this road since he took office."

After walking for almost ten days, Wuliang City, the capital of Misty County, finally arrived.

Close to the capital of a county, the road is finally quite decent.However, there was an uproar in front, even with the sound of weapons colliding.

(End of this chapter)