Shen Yuelan and Mi Yuan looked at each other after hearing this. Both of them saw helplessness in each other's eyes. If what Zhang Sixun said was true, then they had made another trip in vain? The Bazhou that Si Ziqin was referring to was actually Guangwu Mountain, which was a little south of Xingyuan Prefecture?
However, judging from the jurisdiction alone, it is indeed the territory of Bazhong. Shen Yuelan rubbed his temples, feeling that she had worked in vain for the past few months. Si Ziqin really gave her a big problem.
But it has come to this point, and it is impossible to change the order overnight. The only thing to do is to give the team members a half-month vacation first, and then talk about other things. After dinner, Shen Yuelan saw that Zhang Sixun was drunk and didn't look like he could pay the bill, so she simply paid the bill herself.
By the way, I'll pack up four or five tables of food to take back and feed the hungry guys at home. These guys go out for a stroll every day and don't buy their own food. They just wait for me and Mi Yuan to feed them every day. It's really annoying.
The two of them took the packed food back to the inn, and Zhang Sixun was sent back to the mansion by the waiter they hired. After waking up, Zhang Sixun saw that the money in his wallet was not missing at all, so he knew that he had made a big mistake.
After asking his family members, he learned that it was the two young ladies who paid the bill, or that they paid someone to carry it back for him. For this, Zhang Sixun's old wife scolded him.
[You, you can't even learn the basic skills of a man, even though you learned the romantic life of others? You even let two unmarried girls get you drunk. Zhang Sixun, you are really good. You are really improving! ]
Zhang Sixun's face turned red when he heard this, especially when his wife said she couldn't do it. He wanted to refute her several times, but he hesitated every time and ended up with nothing. He could only curl up in the corner and draw circles.
From then on, Zhang Sixun never dared to drink with strange young women again. It was not because he was afraid of something going wrong, but because he really couldn't afford to lose face.
Shen Yuelan and the others thought that Zhang Sixun would come to visit them the next day, but he disappeared for several days. After asking around, they found out that he had drunk too much that day and his self-esteem was hurt, so he refused to see them.
Mi Yuan smiled slightly and did not go looking for him because she had more important things to do now. She was now pressing Shen Yuelan and asking her to recite "Li Sao".
She had been with Shen Yuelan for several months, and she had never seen her use herself once. She was obviously very convenient, but she just didn't use it. After being questioned for a long time, the little girl finally said that she couldn't recite "Li Sao".
This made Mi Yuan very angry. Why didn't you say so earlier if you couldn't recite it? After a round of negotiation between the two, Shen Yuelan was finally defeated because she was in the wrong. She was confined to the inn and was forced to recite the entire "Li Sao".
Mi Yuan's request was not excessive, and she did not force her to understand the meaning of every sentence immediately. As long as Shen Yuelan memorized the entire article first, she could learn the analysis and appreciation of the poetry after returning to Tokyo City.
Shen Yuelan was depressed when she heard this. Listen to what this guy said, is there any human language? There are more than 370 sentences. It was difficult for her to memorize 70 sentences, let alone 370.
Shen Yuelan negotiated with Mi Yuan several times, trying to reduce the amount of recitation, but to no avail. After several struggles, Shen Yuelan finally succumbed to Mi Yuan's power and recited the entire article.
Because Mi Yuan threatened her in the end that if she didn't memorize the entire "Li Sao", she would stop cooking and go on strike! Shen Yuelan didn't do anything after hearing this.
The demon sword girls were scared first. They were not used to the spicy food in Shu, so they relied on the meals made by Mi Yuan to survive every day. If Mi Yuan went on strike, they would starve to death in Bazhou, so they all ran over to persuade Shen Yuelan to recite poems.
Finally, under pressure from both sides, Shen Yuelan had to accept her fate and obediently recited "Li Sao". But you know what, the food Shen Yuelan had during the two days when she was reciting the poem was pretty good.
Mi Yuan's current behavior reminded Shen Yuelan of how her parents were in her previous life before the college entrance examination. They were also very attentive to her, but turned against her after the exam. Alas.
[I am a descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, and my father is called Boyong. I was born on the Gengyin day of the Shetizhen year.]
【When the Emperor first saw me, he bestowed upon me a good name. My name was Zhengze, and my courtesy name was Lingjun.】
Shen Yuelan was bored and recited Qu Yuan's famous works, looking at the window and studying the bench, but she didn't want to read. But when Shen Yuelan took out a jar of wine that Lao Zhao had collected for her, she suddenly remembered what Lao Zhao had taught her.
[Life is always unpredictable, and you never know when you will encounter danger. When that time comes, I don’t want you to die in regret because you didn’t learn what you should have learned.]
Shen Yuelan's mind was reverberating with Lao Zhao's admonition. She sighed, "This old man will spur me on even after he dies." However, despite her complaints, Shen Yuelan still sat back at the table and began to study "Li Sao".
【The craftsmanship of the time is so ingenious that it breaks the rules and corrects mistakes. It goes against the rules to pursue the curve, and competes with the circle to make the standard.】
This sentence means that villains are good at taking advantage of opportunities, trampling on rules and changing norms, violating moral standards to pursue evil ways, and competing to flatter and please as a rule.
Well, a simple understanding of this sentence is that Qu Yuan was satirizing the villains around King Huai of Chu for their unruly behavior and trampling on the law. Perhaps it can be used as a magical sentence to destroy the enemy's trap.
Next sentence………….
Chapter 56 A Tasty Chapter
After a month of urging from Mi Yuan, Shen Yuelan finally managed to memorize the entire 370 sentences of "Li Sao". Satisfied, Mi Yuan finally let Shen Yuelan go, and everyone was able to set off again, heading north along the old road of Mi Cang.
Go to the Swallow Cave in Guangwu Mountain in the north of Bazhong and dig out the magic sword from the cesspool. However, Shen Yuelan seriously doubts whether Si Ziqin will still want the sword if she knows what the magic sword has experienced over the years.
As they were familiar with the route, it didn't take them long to reach Guangwu Mountain. Although it was already early winter when they arrived, they could still see the sight of red leaves on the mountain, which looked extremely pleasing to the eye.
After resting in the mountains and enjoying the scenery for two days, they began to look for the Swallow Cave. After a simple search for two days, they actually found the Swallow Cave that Zhang Sixun had mentioned.
The reason why they were found so quickly was that an unlucky team member stepped into a pile of bird droppings. Fortunately, it is early winter now, and even the bird droppings are relatively dry. The team member did not sink too deep and was successfully rescued by others.
According to Fu Xi's later field investigation, if they had come a few days earlier, the Yaodaoji Squadron of the Demon Coin Inspection Team would have experienced its first record of casualties since the team was founded.
Person XX was drowned by bird droppings during a certain mission. This is recorded.
The unlucky girl Yaodaoji was very angry about this, but thanks to this, everyone successfully found the Swallow Cave and looked at the huge amount of bird droppings that almost covered the entire cave.
The demon sword princesses were a little daunted for a moment, but Shen Yuelan had not counted on them. Shen Yuelan waved her hand, and 20,000 Qin warriors and 2,400 palace guards arrived in an instant and began their most disgusting journey.
After Shen Yuelan determined the exact location of the demon sword through her red eyes, she directed the soldiers to start digging the soil. Although the moisture on the surface of the bird droppings had almost evaporated and had no smell.
But this was not the case with the deep-seated bird droppings. The moment Shen Yuelan and others dug up the surface of the droppings, a strong stench formed by fermentation instantly overwhelmed the circle of Qin soldiers around it, and Shen Yuelan was almost taken away by one wave.
As a last resort, we had to stop work for three days to let the smell go away.
It is hard to imagine how the demon sword can survive in here in the future. Shen Yuelan was quite curious and used her skills to take another look. What was the demon sword doing now?
I saw that the demon sword seven meters below was constantly emitting electric current, burning the feces around it, preventing the surrounding feces from contaminating its blade.
He also tried to burn the surrounding manure to make a dung shell for himself, but the effect was not very good. The surrounding manure would soon be burned to ashes, and the effect of building a wall could not be achieved at all.
Shen Yuelan watched with great interest as she watched the little creature struggling on the ground. This guy was a man who kept himself clean and remained untainted even in the midst of mud.
After waiting for three days, when the smell was no longer so strong, Shen Yuelan led people to work again. Their main purpose was to watch the demon sword save itself. After watching for three days, Shen Yuelan got tired of it and decided to dig it out quickly.
Shen Yuelan still has to go south to Chengdu Prefecture. She was originally going to go to Yuzhou, but now she is a bit late. It will take three or four months to walk from here to Yuzhou.
By the time they arrived in Yuzhou, Zhang Yudu had died in Jiazhou (Leshan) for more than a month. Given the same journey, it would be better to go directly to Chengdu Prefecture and wait for the rebel army to be completely defeated in Qiongzhou and Shuzhou before Shen Yuelan could go find Li Shun to have a good talk.
[Master! Something has happened. We dug something out!]
Just when Shen Yuelan was thinking about the next itinerary, Qin Ruishi in front seemed to have discovered something and called Shen Yuelan to hurry over.
Shen Yuelan took a piece of rag, dipped it in some water, covered her mouth and nose with it, and ran towards the direction of the shouting. When she looked closer, she found that it was not the magic sword that Shen Yuelan had seen, but a large pile of copper coins.
Shen Yuelan took one and took a closer look. It turned out to be a pile of Kaiyuan Tongbao coins. Shen Yuelan didn't take it seriously and threw the Kaiyuan coins back into the pile. He ordered people to dig out the pile of coins and take it to the river to clean it up. When they arrived at Xingyuan Prefecture, they might be able to spend it.
The group dug down another five meters and dug out all kinds of monsters and demons. In the east, they found a bronze mask, in the west, they found a large bronze tripod, and there were also a bunch of axes, knives, and forks with broken limbs.
Shen Yuelan looked at the mountain of copper coins on the open space behind her and couldn't help but twitch her lips. It's just a digging knife, why is it so difficult? Little did she know that she was being pitted by her boss's physique.
Otherwise, why would she have gone back and forth to Shu so many times? It's a pity that Shen Yuelan still doesn't know that her cheating boss's physique is such that he can only lead people around in circles in the mountains.
After digging for a whole day, Shen Yuelan finally got the magic sword. The sword was called Baojun Sword. It was the national sword of Bao State in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was sent to Haojing together with Bao Si as a dowry.
Later, King You favored Bao Si, and the Baojun Knife fell into Bao Si's hands. After Si Ziqin's mission was completed, she saw that he was about to be resurrected, so she returned to the vicinity of Bao State, found a tribe, and induced them to worship, in order to speed up the progress of the resurrection.
However, they never expected that this tribe was not strong enough and was destroyed by other countries within a few years. The Baojun Sword was not provided with food and was covered with bird droppings, so it has been unable to revive until now.
The reason for all this was Si Ziqin's habit of betraying her subordinates. If she had not fallen into Si Ziqin's hands, Baojun Dao would have become a demon queen long ago.
Bao Jundao hopes to become Shen Yuelan's subordinate, either as a team member or as a enchantress, she never wants to go back to Si Ziqin.
Listening to Bao Jundao's crying, everyone was silent. No wonder everything had been going wrong recently, it turned out that someone was holding them back!
Shen Yuelan finally figured out why that bastard Si Ziqin paid her two contract coins so readily. It turned out that he was waiting for her here.
Although Shen Yuelan really wanted to find Si Ziqin to argue, her work phone had not been issued yet, so she could not make the cross-time call.
What's more, the two contract coins were paid at a premium and in advance, so the money and goods were cleared. At most, the difficulty of the task was concealed.
People can say, this won't cost you your life, is there any need to say it? And in the end, he also told me where the other contract money went.
If I really argue with others about this matter, I will probably be attacked back by them very quickly. It is better to wait for the day and make up for it in other ways later.
[Okay, don't be unhappy anymore. A gentleman's revenge is never too late. We'll get back at him when we have the chance.]
[As for the Baojun Knife, I have received your request, but I still need to discuss this matter with Si Ziqin.]
[But don't worry, there is still a great chance that you can escape. After all, if that guy knew that you had been in the cesspool for more than a thousand years, there is a high chance that he would give up on you. Rest assured and have a good rest.]
After calming down Bao Jundao, Shen Yuelan turned around and ordered the soldiers to clean up the antiques behind them and put them away. She planned to build a private museum for fun after returning.
Mi Yuan, a history enthusiast, naturally agreed with Shen Yuelan's idea. However, she looked at the huge amount of bronze artifacts and copper coins in the storage space and asked Shen Yuelan if she wanted to take them all back. Shen Yuelan thought for a moment and said:
[Well, take all the bronze artifacts back, as well as the copper coins, living beings and fast living beings. The remaining ones are of little value, and we will spend them when we get to Xingyuan Prefecture! Spend them all, and I will treat you to a feast!]
【Wuhu! ! ! 】
【Wuhu! ! ! 】
Chapter 57 Shen Huanyan's Promise
Everyone was very happy to hear this. Although Mi Yuan’s food was delicious, one would get tired of it after eating it for a long time, and everyone wanted to change the taste.
Just like that, three days later, an interesting story spread from Xingyuan Prefecture, saying that a young lady from an unknown family spent money like water. She took her maids with her to eat and drink to her heart's content in the city, buying things at will, and her arrogance was comparable to that of the God of Wealth.
A trustworthy person made a rough calculation and found that the woman had spent more than 300 million strings of copper coins in Xingyuan Prefecture during these three days. Moreover, all the large coins that came out of her hands were fine white copper coins minted during the Kaiyuan period, with a high copper content.
When someone with ulterior motives heard this, they realized something was fishy and wanted to find the woman to get to the bottom of it. However, after searching for her in Xingyuan Prefecture for three months, they didn't see her and the matter was left unsolved.
Of course they couldn't find it. After the carnival in Xingyuan Prefecture, Shen Yuelan and others immediately set off and headed south to Chengdu Prefecture. They relaxed while working without delaying the two.
At this time, everyone was traveling on the Jinniu Old Road. Speaking of it, among the Eight Roads in Shu, Shen Yuelan had already completed the Qishan Road, Micang Road, and the Jinniu Road in front of him in the past few months.
In addition, there are five routes in Shu, including Chencang Road, Ziwu Road, Tangluo Road, Baoxiade Road and Lizhi Road. The eight roads in Shu each have their own stories.
Liu Bang, who was secretly developing on the Chencang Road, created the classic idiom "openly repairing the plank road, secretly crossing Chencang". Xiao He and Han Xin, who were running on the Micang Road, jointly wrote the heroic elegy "Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon" and "Success and failure are all due to Xiao He".
There is a love story about Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei circulating on Litchi Road. The "Litchi Post" incident, which is as absurd as the "Beacon Fire to Trick the Princes", took place there.
As for the Jinniu Road that Shen Yuelan and others were passing through, there was a historical story called "Stone Ox Dung Gold, Five Dings Opened the Way".
According to legend, during the Warring States Period, King Huiwen of Qin wanted to conquer Shu, but the mountains and roads were difficult to pass through, so the King of Qin ordered people to make five stone cows and gave them to the King of Shu, claiming that the stone cows could produce thousands of gold coins a day.
He also told the King of Shu that there were many mountains between Qin and Shu, and the caravan carrying the stone cattle could not reach Shu at all, so he had to give up. The greedy King of Shu became anxious after hearing this.
Ignoring the dissuasion of his subjects, he ordered five strong men to clear the way and vowed to transport the stone ox back to Shu. During this period, countless manpower and material resources were consumed before he finally opened up the road between Qin and Shu.
However, when the road was opened to the King of Shu, what he welcomed was not the stone ox that could produce dung worth thousands of gold pieces a day, but hundreds of thousands of Qin elite soldiers and the demise of Shu.
At this time, the King of Shu suddenly realized that it was the stone ox that could dung gold. Later generations named this road "Golden Bull Road" based on this story.
After setting foot on the Jinniu Road, Mi Yuan tirelessly popularized historical knowledge about the ancient Shu Road to everyone. When people were bored on the road, they listened to Mi Yuan's explanations as stories to relieve their boredom.
Shen Yuelan felt somewhat familiar when listening to the historical story of Mi Yuan, as if she had heard a story of the same theme there?
Oh, yes, this is a plot I saw when I was a child watching "The Story of Afanti", but in that story, it was a donkey that could pull gold.
Shen Yuelan silently fantasized that it would be great if the stone cow could really pull gold. Of course, Shen Yuelan was just thinking about it. Gold did not circulate in the other world, so it would be useless even if she really got it.
Before the end of the year, Shen Yuelan and others rushed to Lizhou (Guangyuan) and rented a courtyard in the city, planning to spend the New Year there before continuing south.
It was New Year's Eve, and Mi Yuan and the Yaodao Ji girls all dressed up and went to the streets to have fun at the temple fair in the city of Lizhou.
Shen Yuelan did not follow. She sat alone on the doorstep, brought out a plate of braised mutton and a pot of wine, and looked at the lively scene in the distance, feeling a little bitter in her heart.
She missed the New Year's Eve of the seventh year of Taiping Xingguo very much. At that time, Old Zhao was still there, Sister Yuelong was also by her side, and there was also the little girl Suchang. She didn't know how long she would sleep.
Shen Yuelan felt quite melancholy when she thought of this. She followed Lao Zhao's example and drank a glass of Tusu wine, but the taste of the wine almost choked her.
[Ahem, ah, does this wine taste so bitter? ]
[It's not that the wine tastes bitter, but your heart is crying, Master, Tusu wine is not suitable for you, so you should change to lychee wine. ]
Shen Huanyan came from the yard. She walked slowly in and sat gently beside Shen Yuelan. She took away the Tu Su wine, took out the lychee wine and fruit plate from the storage space, and placed them in front of Shen Yuelan again.
Seeing this, Shen Yuelan looked at Shen Huanyan aggrievedly. Under her repeated insistence, she had to change to lychee wine. Shen Yuelan picked up the bottle of lychee wine in front of her. Ah, this seemed to be something that Lao Zhao had specially found for her that year.
The more Shen Yuelan looked at Lao Zhao, the more she missed him. Tears began to drip from her eyes uncontrollably and she began to cry uncontrollably. In just a short moment, Shen Yuelan had cried like a tearful person.
[Ah, I…why am I crying? What’s going on? Haha, why can’t I wipe it clean?]
Shen Huanyan felt very distressed when she saw her master's sad look. Although she seldom spoke on weekdays, she understood Shen Yuelan the best.
Over the years, Shen Yuelan has experienced too many life and death separations. Shen Yuelan and Zhao Yuanxian only lived together for a short time, and her death was expected. Shen Yuelan could still accept it.
Shen Yuelan and Luo Ning'an had fought side by side for two years, and Shen Yuelan was already a little overwhelmed by her sacrifice. But at that time, Sister Yuelong and Su Shang were all by her side, and Lao Zhao was always waiting for her to go home.
Shen Yuelan still had a sense of dependence and didn't feel anything. She just suppressed Luo Ning'an's death in her heart and didn't touch it.
But Lao Zhao's death was really the last huge wave that broke down Shen Yuelan's inner defenses. The wave was so big that Shen Yuelan directly chose to escape. As long as I didn't feel that Lao Zhao was gone, he would always wait for me in Xiaoguan.
Over the years, Shen Yuelan has been running around, not daring to stop. She would rather wander around and look for the contract money than return to Xiaoguan. It's because she doesn't want to accept the fact that Lao Zhao has left.
Sister Yuelong told Shen Yuelan that after the war, the demon sword princesses should not be allowed to live alone, otherwise they would have psychological problems. This sentence was also to persuade Shen Yuelan, who was also a participant in the whole process of the war.
As Shen Yuelan's enchantress, Shen Huanyan knew from the beginning to the end that her master was not Long Aotian, nor was she Feng Aotian. She was just an ordinary person.
When the people and things of the past have all become a thing of the past, how could she not be sad, how could she not cry? Things have changed, everything is over, tears flow before she can speak, it is nothing more than this.
At this moment, there was not much Shen Huanyan could do. She could only hold Shen Yuelan tightly in her arms and comfort her gently.
After a long time, Shen Yuelan, who had already faced the reality and knew that Lao Zhao would never come back, finally couldn't hold back her emotions anymore and burst into tears in Huanyan's arms. She didn't know how long she cried. Before she fell asleep from exhaustion, she vaguely heard Huanyan say:
[It's okay, Master, it's okay. ]
[I am still here, and my smile is still here. 】
【Huanyan will always be with you, always with you. 】
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