By dawn, the rain finally stopped.

Xu Ping gently put Lin Suniang who was still sleeping, stood up and left the door.

Although the wasteland after the rain is still chilling, it also has a fresh atmosphere. At this time, the grass on the ground is half green and half yellow, and the branches are green and yellow and the leaves are sparse, revealing the weather of autumn.

Turning his head, he saw the horse tied under the eaves of the house.

When he arrived here, Xu Ping tied his horse under the eaves to hide from the rain. The horse ran for most of the day yesterday, and few grasses came into his mouth. He was hungry for another night last night. By this time, he was almost collapsed. He looked at Xu Ping with a whine.

Xu Ping could only apologize in his heart. At this time, the rain was clear and the grass outside was full of rain, so he could not let the horse go. He could only let the horse continue to be hungry and compensate for it when he returned to the village.

Horses are delicate animals, and they can't stand this kind of tossing and can't count on them today.

Lin Suniang's voice came from inside: "Dalang, you have gotten up early."

Xu Ping said: "It's just now that I'm up, madam, please take a rest."

Lin Suniang didn't say anything, and it took a while before she came out of it.

Xu Ping looked at her and found out that she had cleaned up in the house. Although she had to work hard for a day and a night, she didn't look so haggard, but her face turned a little pale.

When he arrived beside Xu Ping, Lin Suniang whispered: "Is Dalang's health better?"

"It's much better, it's not a problem."

Even though he said that, Xu Ping's head was still very painful. I was soaked in the rain for a long time yesterday afternoon, so how could a cold be so easy? I just didn't want Lin Su Niang to worry.

Looking outside, Lin Suniang asked, "Dalang, what should we do today?"

Xu Ping sighed: "What else can you do? You can't wait here. If no one comes, it will be really fatal to spend another night here. You go eat a pear, and we will set off in a while."

Lin Suniang said: "Dalang is here to eat one too."

The two of them ate a big pear each, got a little energetic, put out the fire and left the door.

Xu Ping held the horse, touched its neck, and whispered: "Brother Ma, thank you for your hard work. Today, she still has to carry Su Niang for a long time. She is weak and the road is muddy, so she can't walk far away. Fortunately, Su Niang is light and can't take much effort. When she returns to the village, she will give you enough food to eat."

This horse retreated from the army, with a gentle personality, and just hummed.

Xu Ping helped Lin Su Niang to the horse, looked at the direction, and headed north. Even if you couldn't touch Zhengzhou north, you could still go to the official road between the east and west capitals. This road is the main artery of the Northern Song Dynasty's traffic, and it was extremely lively. As long as you got on the road, you would have a way to go home.

I don’t know how long I walked away from the ground, but Xu Ping felt that his head was about to explode, and his vision blurred. He could no longer see what was in front of him. However, Lin Su Niang was young and a woman again, so she couldn’t count on him, so Xu Ping had to grit her teeth and persevere.

Seeing that the sun was about to rise above his head, Lin Suniang saw Xu Ping staggeringly and said immediately: "Dalang, let's take a break, it won't take much time."

Xu Ping couldn't hold on, so he had to agree and found a clean place to sit with Lin Su Niang, let the horse go and find some grass to eat by itself.

Xu Ping calculated that after walking down the road for nearly two hours, he still had nearly twenty miles. Yesterday he came southwest, and at most there were only six or seven miles and ten roads. The official road was almost east and west through Baisha and Zhengzhou. It seems that nothing unexpected happens to be able to go to the official road tonight.

After resting for half an hour and eating another pear, Xu Ping felt that he had the strength again and said to Lin Su Niang: "Let's go on the road, hold on this time, you will definitely meet someone before dark."

Lin Suniang said: "Dalang is right. There will be no mountains to the north and the population will become dense."

After walking a few miles, Lin Suniang shouted immediately: "Dalang, there is a road ahead!"

Xu Ping was shocked when he heard this. He had a way out and there was someone else. He had a hot meal and water. Even if the two of them were saved, they quickly accelerated their pace.

First, I passed a harvested wheat field, which made Xu Ping even more excited. I arrived on the road soon.

This is a country road that is east-west, only two or three steps wide and is rugged.

Standing on the road, Xu Ping was a little hesitant. At this time, a village often had ten or eight miles away, and there were some scattered families, and they might choose somewhere to live. If you walk along the road, you would have to travel 10 or 20 miles before you could have a resident, and you were cheated badly.

Lin Suniang said: "We just go east and we are always getting closer and closer to home."

After hearing this, Xu Ping thought it made sense, so he led the horse to the east.

After walking for another two or three miles, he still didn't see the village. Lin Suniang said, "Look at the front, are there two people coming here on horseback?"

Xu Ping was under the horse and couldn't see that far away. After listening to Lin Su Niang's words, he stopped there.

After a while, two horses appeared in front of them, with people riding on them. After the rain, the road was soft and there was no sound of horse hooves.

Xu Ping looked around, in the wilderness, except for the two horses in front, there was no other figure. He moved his heart, pulled out the long sword and held it in his hand, and then hid it behind his back.

I was afraid of the way of disaster, so I should not be regarded as the way of disaster.

It won’t take long before the two horses got closer and suddenly heard the shouting in front of him: “Are they the little official and the wife of the Lin family? I am Gao Daquan!”

After hearing this sentence, Xu Ping's tense spirit suddenly relaxed and he could hardly stand.

In the past day and night, he forced himself to hold on with his will, and his body had almost collapsed. After relaxing, he felt that there was nothing in his body that was not painful.

Lin Suniang waved her hand happily immediately and said yes.

Seeing that there was a response, Gao Daquan rushed over and dismounted to greet Xu Ping.

Xu Ping was already shaking, just waved his hand and couldn't speak.

Gao Daquan hurriedly came up to support Xu Ping.

Another person came up and it turned out to be Shi Yannian, which surprised Xu Ping and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Gao Daquan said, "This time, thanks to Shi Guanren, I went to the town to find Sang Xiucai, and I wanted to come out with him to find you. Who knew that he couldn't find him. It happened that Shi Guanren was having a drink in the town. When he heard about it, he found me along the way. God was so pitiful, and finally found you!"

Xu Ping hurriedly thanked.

Shi Yannian said: "I just do it casually. I have nothing to do on vacation these two days. I heard from you, the patrolman, that you may have left the Kaifeng Prefecture Realm, so you are afraid of accidents, so you follow me and take a look."

This era is different from Xu Ping's previous life. You can run around the country with an ID card. Ordinary people need to have a reason to pass through the state and obtain permission from the government, especially in rural areas. There is no statement that they may be taken as thieves or smuggled. Although Shi Yannian did not wear an official robe, he still carried it with him. This is the strongest proof. No one dared to take him without the permission of the court.

After listening to Gao Daquan's words, Xu Ping realized that there was another large army in the village, and more than a dozen tourists from the village were led by Sun Qilang and followed Lin Wensi in another direction. Lin Wensi had the status of a tribute student and could also move around the country freely, without fear of difficulties made by people in the local area.

After the Song Dynasty passed the Zhouzhongfajie Examination and became a tribute student, he basically had two privileges, one was to exempt himself from his service, and the other was to travel across the country. Therefore, some people who felt that they had no hope of going further after the trial, would use the convenience brought by these two privileges to do some business activities. As for the later years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Juren was able to become officials and exempt the whole family from taxes, which were not dared to think about at this time.

Xu Ping was almost exhausted and had no strength. Gao Daquan rode the horse of Xu Ping in the village, so he gave him out and rode him, taking over Xu Ping's position and leading the horse to Lin Suniang.

When Xu Ping got on his horse, Shi Yannian said, "Follow this road, walk about ten miles to a grass market, where we can rest."

Gao Daquan and Shi Yannian walked along the Yi Road to Putian Town. They felt that it was meaningless to find it on the official road, so they went down from Putian to the country road and searched along the rural road, and they just happened to meet it. This was all due to the sparse villages in this area at this time, and there were not many rural roads, and the density was lower than that of Xu Ping's previous life, so this luck was achieved.

Three riders and one man walked along this country road for more than half an hour, and finally saw a village.

There are fifty or sixty families in this village, scattered by a large pond. A small road passes through the village, and there are several places on both sides of the road, which are complete, including those who sell alcohol, medicine, and groceries.

When he arrived at a tavern, Shi Yannian said to Xu Ping: "We eat here and have the strength to hurry up. There is no inn in this Cao City, so it is difficult to rest. Fortunately, after passing this Cao City, we entered Kaifeng Prefecture, not far from Baisha Town."

Of course Xu Ping had no objection.

Everyone entered the shop and saw only five or six tables and stools, which were all very worn and there was no customer, and they knew that the business here was not good.

All this kind of rural hotel is done is the business where Caoshi is crowded in the morning. At this time, the market is distributed, so of course there are no people.

Xu Ping is so hungry that he doesn't care about these things.

Several people sat down, and an old man with gray hair from the countryside came to greet him: "What dishes do you want? How much wine do you want?"

Xu Ping said: "What are you ready-made food here?"

The old man said: "With the best snowflake yellow beef, do the guests want a few pounds?"

Xu Ping was surprised. He didn't expect that there was beef sold here. This was a forbidden matter. He couldn't help but look at Shi Yannian sitting next to him. Seeing that he looked peaceful and had no strange expression, he said to the owner: "The beef comes first with three kilograms. Is there anything else that is hot?"

The old man nodded hurriedly: "There are chickens and geese, but they all have to be slaughtered and cooked. If the guest wants to eat rice and cakes, I can cook some rice and flour in the store. If the firewood is not charged, you can cook it yourself."

Xu Ping smiled bitterly and said, "That's it, just serve us beef and the wine is hot. Also, I have a few horses outside. Please find some good ingredients to feed them, and I will calculate the money together later."

The old man was a little disappointed and turned around to work hard.

This kind of rural wine lover is not as good as the towns and towns. They only sell wine, and they are all the best, so they will not spend the time preparing. The rural people have low consumption capacity, which makes them too many tricks and not enough capital.

In a short while, the wine and meat came up.

The meat is real beef, but it is cooked very roughly, but it is cooked. The wine is very turbid. Not to mention the sorghum rosé made by Xu Ping, even the rice wine in his restaurant is clearer than this.

This kind of rural wine merchant has a fixed tax of tens of cents or hundreds of cents a year, and there are even a few cents, so the government is too lazy to take care of it and let them do whatever they want.

Xu Ping was so hungry that he picked up a large piece of beef and sent it to his mouth. The meat was cooked so hard that it tasted very strong, but it was so light that it didn't taste much.

Xu Ping swallowed it and said to the old man: "Master, your beef is too light. Give us some salt to dip it in your mouth!"

The old man looked bitter when he heard this: "Celebrity, in the countryside, salt is a precious thing, so you need extra money."

Xu Ping didn't care about him, so he just called him up and asked the store to put a bowl of salt water next to him.

Shi Yannian and Gao Daquan barely drank a bowl of wine, but they couldn't sip it again. The wine was as light as water and tasted badly. How could they be interested?

Xu Ping said to Shi Yannian: "People eat some food, so please drink good wine in the evening."

Shi Yannian smiled and said, "Then why don't I keep my stomach until night?"

As a result, Xu Ping ate and drank alone. Lin Su Niang frowned and ate a little beef. Shi Yannian and Gao Daquan were just watching.

Shi Yannian was an official after all, and it was understandable that he had a clever mouth. Unexpectedly, Gao Daquan stayed in Xuping Village for more than half a year and his mouth became tricky.

After filling his stomach, Xu Ping finally got a little bit of energy and asked Gao Daquan to check the accounts.

Gao Daquan came out to find someone, and he had a few chunks of money that Xu Chang specially gave him.

The old man settled the bill and surprised Xu Ping that it was only more than 300 cents, and the price was really low. You should know that although Xu Ping didn't eat much of the three kilograms of beef, he had to pack it and take it away. It was his first time to eat beef in this world, and he didn't want to waste it. This was a lot of money, not to mention that he had a lot of horse ingredients.

But I don’t know that due to the court’s policy, beef on the surface is the cheapest meat. In rural areas, beef cannot be sold to the city, so of course it is not expensive. The so-called people who slaughter cattle and make money are all in the prosperous city and can be secretly and quickly sold, not including this small tavern in the countryside.

Looking at the sky, the sun was already west, and the four of them dared not delay.

Xu Ping took Lin Su Niang to ride with him, and the ravaged Li Wei horse carried a tall and tall body. The horse had just eaten a lot of good ingredients and was just enough to digest food, so it was difficult for it.
Chapter completed!