[Comprehensive martial arts] Take a mountain to cross quickly

Xu Baijin sat in front of the window all night unknowingly, when the first ray of sunlight in the morning passed through the trees in the courtyard and fell on his cheeks, he slowly opened his eyes.

Feeling that he was full of energy, Xu Baijin got up and went out. He walked to the yard and slowly moved his hands and feet. He heard the door of his father's room behind him. When he turned around, he saw Qin Niang standing at the door with unkempt hair.

"Why didn't you go back?" Xu Baijin asked in surprise.

"I also want to know why..." Qin Niang raised the jade bracelet in her hand with a mournful face.

"Try a few more times." Xu Baijin comforted Qin Niang.

"That's the only way I can think of it." Qin Niang nodded, put away the bracelet, walked lazily to the well, fetched water to wash.

During the wash, Qin Niang took the time to ask Xu Baijin: "Are you going to the field today?"

"Go, the hoe is still under the tree in the field." Xu Baijin replied to Qin Niang.

"Then go early and come back early, and accompany me into your city later." Qin Niang told Xu Baijin.

"Why do you want to go to the city?" Xu Baijin was puzzled.

"I can't always live and eat for free..." Qin Niang raised her head and smiled, "I'll go to the city to have a look, to find a way to support myself."

"Are you going to abandon my father?" Xu Baijin was inexplicably unhappy.

"No, the livelihood I'm talking about is not working with others, but being self-employed." Qin Niang explained to Xu Baijin, seeing that he still didn't understand, she simply said bluntly: "It's just opening a workshop at home or something."

"Do you know crafts? Embroidery or weaving?" Xu Baijin responded.

"I don't know any of these." Qin Niang showed a look of enthusiasm.

"Then what kind of workshop do you open!" Xu Baijin curled his lips.

"I can make some things that I have in my world, but you don't have them here." Qin Niang gave an example very excitedly: "For example, soap, perfume and so on."

"Of course, the premise is that I have to go to the city to investigate to see if there are any of these things in your world."

"I understand." Xu Baijin finally understood Qin Niang's purpose, and he said to Qin Niang: "You stay at home for a while, and I will take you into the city to have a look when I get back the hoe."

……

When the sun was three poles high, Xu Baijin rushed back from the field with a hoe on his shoulders, and Qin Niang had already tidied things up.

Xu Baijin hung a big pancake around his father's neck, and led Qinniang out the door.

The two walked for a while, and walked into a mess of graves. There were tombs under the black pine trees by the roadside.There were wild foxes, snakes, and rats running around among the tombs, and they occasionally took out a bone or two, scaring Qin Niang tightly to the corner of Xu Bai's skirt, not daring to let go.

Fortunately, this mass grave is not big, and soon, the two passed through it.Further on, there is a river.

There is no bridge on the river, and the river is very wide. Qin Niang followed Xu Baijin to the river, she looked at Xu Baijin curiously, and wanted to see how Xu Baijin crossed the river.

Unexpectedly, Xu Baijin sat down, neither in a hurry nor in a hurry.

"Why are you sitting here?" Qin Niang asked Xu Baijin.

"Wait." Xu Baijin turned his head, pointed to a big rock beside him, and also pulled Qin Niang to sit down.

"Wait a while, there should be a boat coming." Xu Baijin told Qin Niang.

"This is not a thoroughfare, why would there be a boat coming?" Qin Niang was puzzled, but she expected that Xu Baijin would not lie to herself, so she suppressed the doubt in her heart and sat beside Xu Baijin.

……

The river was rushing by, and the two sitting by the river were speechless for a while, thinking about their own thoughts.

During the period, Qin Niang recalled the experience of the past two days. She seemed to be dreaming, and she turned her head slightly. She looked at Xu Baijin's side face, and couldn't help using modern spoken language again. She asked Xu Baijin, "Xiao Brother, how long have you taken care of your father like this?"

"Reporting to my lady, it has been more than two years since we moved out of the city." Xu Baijin replied casually.

"It's been more than two years, and you were only 15 years old at that time! It's really hard for you." Qin Niang sighed.

"It's not bitter, just get used to it." Xu Baijin smiled, and by the way, he corrected Qin Niang and said: "Xiao Niang, don't call me little brother next time, it's wrong in terms of etiquette."

"Oh, then what should I call you?" Seeing the young Xu Baijin's mature demeanor, Qin Niang couldn't help laughing as a casual modern person.

"Call me Jin'er." Xu Baijin stared at Qin Niang, and he said slowly: "My mother loved calling me like that at the beginning, I miss it very much..."

Xu Baijin's words were serious and deep, which made the laughing Qin Niang instantly crazy.

After a while, Qin Niang suddenly stood up, pointing to the middle of the river and shouting joyfully: "Jin'er, look, the boat is coming!"

……

The boat was crossing from the upper reaches of the river. As it rowed closer, one could gradually see a coffin on the boat, as well as several men and women in white filial robes.

When the boat stopped at the shore, the four of them carried the coffin and got off the boat first, followed by those men and women in white mourning clothes. After a while, the boat was empty of people, leaving only one boatman standing at the bow.

Xu Baigui led Qin Niang, and jumped onto the boat at this time, he threw two copper coins to the boatman, and told the boatman: "Don't wait, there is no one behind."

Hearing this, the boatman turned the bow of the boat and returned along the same route.

On the way, the boatman asked Xu Baijin: "Who is the little lady beside you? Why did you pay for the boat for her?"

"My father Xinna's wife, my little girl." Xu Baijin told the boatman frankly.

"Isn't your father stupid?" The boatman shook his head enviously, "You can still marry a woman if you are stupid! It's so annoying to compare people!"

"I can't help it, I owe his family a favor." Qin Niang explained from the side.

"What kind of favor do you owe?" The boatman was probably a chatterbox, so he asked curiously.

"I fell into a well and was saved by their father and son." Qin Niang sighed pretendingly.

"That's fine too!" The boatman's eyes widened, and he inferred, muttering to himself: "How many unmarried ladies have been on my boat, why didn't I think of saving them?"

"Your boat is famously rowed steadily, and they won't fall into the water." The honest and loyal Xu Baijin reminded the boatman: "Why do you need to come to rescue?"

"Jin'er, you don't understand..." Qin Niang interrupted Xu Baijin, she told Xu Baijin, "People can row erratically."

"Right? Boatman." Qin Niang asked the boatman back.

The boatman smiled slightly, and the two of them blinked in the air.

……

In a blink of an eye, the boat reached the other side, Xu Baijin and Qin Niang got up and got off the boat, the boatman waved to Xu Baijin to stop, and returned the two copper coins to him.

Xu Baijin took it in a daze, and he asked the boatman puzzled, "Why don't you charge us for the boat?"

"This is to thank your little lady for your advice." The boatman cupped his hands to Xu Baijin, and said politely: "I won't charge you when you come back."

He didn't understand what Qin Niang was pointing to the boatman, Xu Baijin didn't bother to ask any more questions, he led Qin Niang to move on.

After crossing the river, the road is much easier, and there are more sparsely populated people along the way.

After walking like this for nearly an hour, a magnificent ancient city finally appeared in front of Xu Baijin and Qinniang.The two kept walking, followed many pedestrians on the road, and quickly entered the city.

……

In the afternoon, Qin Niang, who inspected countless shops in the city, was dismayed to find that there are soaps in this world, which are called Xiangpanzi; there are also perfumes, which are called Hualu.

There are even women's underwear, and the styles are not less than those in modern society.

Well, it is true that there are no pure and transparent glass and meth, but Qin Niang is self-aware, and she does not know how to make them.

Feeling that the future is gloomy, Qin Niang reluctantly gave up the investigation, and she and Xu Baijin sat on the side of the street in a daze.

Xu Baijin took out a piece of bread from his luggage, tore it in two, handed half to Qin Niang, and comforted her, "Miss, let's eat something. We'll go home when we're full. Actually, you don't need to bother. I can support you and my father."

"Thanks, I know you are a good boy." Qin Niang took the half of the bread, stuffed it into her mouth and gnawed, but she still continued to think of a way without giving up.

And at this moment, three people passed in front of Xu Baijin and Qin Niang, and Xu Baijin and Qin Niang vaguely heard their conversation.

"Brother Zi'an, there is a haunted house in the north of the city. It is rumored that there are ghosts in it, do you dare to check it out?"

"Why don't you dare, let's go now!"

"Just go, don't cry for your father and mother later..."

……

The conversation between these three people made Qin Niang's eyes brighten.She stood up abruptly, stopped eating the cake, grabbed Xu Baijin, and was about to follow the three of them.

Xu Baijin was at a loss, he hurriedly asked Qin Niang: "Little lady, what are you doing with them? They are going to the haunted house, that is not a good place."

"No, the haunted house is a good place." Qin Niang smiled, she lowered her voice mysteriously, and asked Xu Baijin: "You have been to the world I used to be, but do you know that there is an activity in the world I used to be very attractive?" People, are you making money too?"

"What activity?" Xu Baijin searched his mind for memories.

"It's the activity they are going to do now." Qin Niang quietly pointed to the three people in front.

"Exploring the haunted house attracts some people, I can understand, but it can also make money?" Xu Baijin was surprised and didn't believe it.

"Why not, after our merchant has furnished a ghost house, they have to charge thirty... thirty copper coins at a time to go in and explore." Qin Niang stretched out three fingers.

"Such huge profits!" Xu Baijin exclaimed, followed him and asked curiously: "Is there really a ghost in there?"

"No, they were all pretended by someone." Qin Niang pursed her lips and smiled.

"I understand..." Xu Baijin was stunned, "Young lady, you want to get an idea of ​​that haunted house, and you can also charge people to explore it."

"We really don't have this business here." Xu Baijin nodded slightly.

……

Xu Baijin and Qin Niang followed the three of them secretly, turning all the way, and finally they turned to an abandoned house in the city.

Through the half-covered gate of the abandoned house, Xu Baijin glimpsed that the withered grass was overgrown behind the gate, which was very desolate and dilapidated.The three people who were being followed kept walking in front of the door of this deserted house. They laughed and pushed the door open, and walked in in an instant.

Xu Baijin and Qin Niang looked at each other outside the door of this deserted house, waited for a while, and then stepped inside.

Because the sun was shining brightly above their heads, Xu Baijin and Qin Niang were not too scared.But neither of them noticed that every time they took a step in this deserted house, the sun above their heads tilted a little.

After more than ten steps, the two looked up together, and were surprised to find that it was completely dark.