"Slow down, just look at your feet..."

"Old Yang, give me your hand!"

"Team leader, it's okay, I can do it, oh..." Yang Si screamed, stepped on gravel under his feet, and almost slipped down.

Fortunately, Luo Yao was quick and grabbed him.

"Team leader, thank you." Yang Si was so scared that he might have been crushed to pieces with this kick.

"Well, what are you?"

Along the way, the situations encountered are endless. This road is much more difficult than on the flat ground. In some places, you can only get off the horse and lead it.

At this time, many people in the group understood why Luo Yao also selected personnel through long-distance running. If he did not have enough physical strength and endurance, how could he walk?

This is something that might have been foreseen.

"Brother, there is a valley in front of you, and the place is quite big." Yang Fan, who was walking in front to explore the way, heard the voice of him.

"I understand, everyone should work harder, go to the valley in front to take a rest, drink some water, eat something before leaving." Luo Yao shouted loudly in the team.

"Yes, team leader."

...

"I'm so tired..." When I arrived at the valley, someone sat on the ground like a ball of soft mud.

Especially the girls in the team, each of them looked like eggplant caused by frost.

Someone distributed dry food.

It’s just a kind of noodle pancake that tastes quite delicious at first, but if you eat too much of this thing, it’s hard to swallow it.

There is no way, there is no village in front and no shop in the back, so I can only eat this, let alone a bite of it.

The weather is hot, which means that this salty dried noodles cake can be preserved.

"If you come here a bowl of Yangchun noodles, sprinkle a little chopped green onion, and drizzle two drops of sesame oil, it would be beautiful!"

"What are you thinking? Have a quick meal. After eating, I'll continue on the way!" The person next to him pushed him and said.

"You can't let me take a bite before talking?"

"Ha ha……"

"Don't worry, when I arrive at the next town shop, I will treat everyone to noodles and meat!" Luo Yao said, biting the dried noodles pancake.

"The team leader treats you, you must eat. Don't save money for him, everyone!" Yang Si said cheering.

"That's sure!"

"The weather is hot, everyone should pay attention to preventing heat and cooling. Anyone who is not feeling well should report it immediately!" Luo Yao reminded.

"Team leader, Yingying has a fever..." As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a report from a girl.

"Xiao Liu, what's wrong?" Luo Yao said in a voice. He was a girl named Liu Ling in the group. She had the impression that she was the radio operator responsible for copying and collecting telegrams.

The fever is called Chu Yingying, who is responsible for radio listening work. They have a good relationship. The two of them are walking together along the way and taking care of each other.

"Oh." At this time, don't worry about the difference between men and women. Luo Yao, the team leader, reached out and touched his forehead.

Very hot.

"Everyone is dispersed, don't gather here to ventilate and cool down." Luo Yao said, "We still have to hurry up. We can't boil the water. We can't cool it with cold water. We have to wipe it with alcohol. We have to give him an injection to reduce the fever. We have to find a shop in the town as soon as possible, tiger..."

"Come on, brother, please give me instructions!"

"Take two people forward first to see if you can find a town or village. We won't leave today, have a good rest and leave tomorrow."

"yes."

"Be careful, bring the gun with you." Luo Yao grabbed Yang Fan and reminded him.

"Xiao Liu, have Xiao Chu taken anti-heat medicine?"

"Xiao Liu and I have eaten it early in the morning." Liu Ling nodded.

Because the other party was a girl, Luo Yao called Zhao Shiyin over and asked her to give Chu Yingying a fever-reducing injection.

"Let's go on the road later, find two people with good physical strength and take turns carrying Xiao Chu on their backs!" Luo Yao ordered.

"Xiao Liu, follow me and take care of Xiao Chu at any time." Luo Yao walked over, took out a small box in English from the bag he carried with him and handed it to Liu Ling, "You can hold this, Xiao Chu can't eat anything. Then, you can give her some food."

"Team leader, is this chocolate?" Liu Ling said in surprise when she knew the English on the box.

"Speak quietly, don't be heard by others."

"I understand, thank you team leader." The girl blushed excitedly and quickly put away the box of chocolate.

The chocolate was brought to him by Gong Hui.

Half an hour later.

The team re-dragged.

The road is still not that easy to walk. Although the Lychee Road is also a way to enter Sichuan, there are not many people walking on this road, which is not as good as the Taurus Road and Yonecang Road in the west.

But this road is relatively close and can also be used to ride horses. It will take at least four or five days to go around the west.

Since the Ming Dynasty, with the use of gunpowder and the advancement of mountain cutting technology, craftsmen can shovel and cut rocks in areas with turbulent water flow and steep cliffs, and build stone roads with stones. Their firmness is better than that of the plank road and the carrying capacity is higher than that of the plank road.

Since the Qing Dynasty, the roads have basically replaced dangerous plank roads.

The danger of Shu Road has been greatly reduced, but Shu Road is basically deep in the mountains and ridges, and many of them are unmanned areas with dense forests.

Therefore, the danger is still extremely high, and a single person generally dares not leave.

Generally, they are gangs or go on the road with a horse gang. If there are many people, it will be much safer.

"Be careful, the road ahead will pass under the waterfall, and the road is covered with slippery moss!" The person in front of him heard news.

"Everyone walks by the mountain wall, and the road ahead is very steep."

"Wrap the foot of the pack horse with cloth to avoid slipping..."

I was lucky. The narrowest road came over without any injuries. Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"How is Xiao Chu?"

"It's a little burning, but it seems a little better than just now." Liu Ling touched Chu Yingying's forehead and said.

"Fever is prone to dehydration. You should feed him more water. You can add a little salt to the water. Don't need to have more. Just add a little bit and replenish the electrolyte." Luo Yao ordered.

"Yes, team leader."

"I will take a lot of what I bring out, and it is my responsibility to bring back intact!"

"elder brother……"

Yang Fan's voice came from afar, and he dared to call him like this in the team. You don't have to tell that it was him.

"There is a town ahead, which is probably not small, but if we want to go there, we will have to walk for at least two hours." Yang Fan came back and brought news that cheered everyone up.

"Okay, you go ahead and lead the way. Let's go to the town to rest tonight!" Luo Yao ordered.

...

In the telescope, there are hundreds of families at the foot of the mountain. They are quite large, with blue bricks and green tiles, smoke from cooking, and chickens and dogs smelling each other, which has a little bit of a paradise deep in the mountains.

But if you want to get through, you will really have to go a long way.

Fortunately, it is not very far from the ancient road.

This town should have been developed by an ancient inn based on this litchi road. This is normal. If there is no inn on the ancient road, how did "a concubine riding on the red dust laugh, no one knows that it is litchi coming" come from?

You should know that in order to eat this Lingnan (Lingnan in the Tang Dynasty was south of the Qinling Mountains, which is today's Fuling and Shancheng area, where lychees were produced), this lychee road was established. It took 60 miles to change horses to teleport to Xijing. Without a post station, how could there be a horse that could be replaced?

But there are many stations that have long been destroyed in history, and not many have been preserved.

A group of people suddenly came to the ancient town, which naturally attracted the attention of the people in the town. Obviously, there were few people outside here.

Generally, people from nearby villages or towns are from people.

But they are not unfamiliar with people outside. Since they can form a town, they are not isolated from the world, but they are slightly lagging behind in terms of information.

After all, they also need to exchange their existing materials for external communication, including salt, sugar, cloth, and other daily necessities.

However, it is rare to have such a large-scale "horse gang" come over.

Of course, this was a misunderstanding among the people in the town. Luo Yao and the others were passing by, but it was not a horse gang. Although they carried a lot of things, they were not goods that could be exchanged.

However, they did bring some necessities of daily life such as salt, but these were not used for exchange or business.

It is to make friends with local people, and then give gifts to the left.

These villages in the mountains are used to bartering, and money may not be as good as daily necessities such as salt.

There was only one inn in the town, and there were no people usually, so they were all wrapped up by Luo Yao and his party that night.

The boss is only responsible for providing accommodation, food, etc. He needs to buy rice and grain separately, or he can bring his own money, and the money for firewood is calculated separately.

Generally, one or two customers can just go to the boss’s house to get along with him. With more people, the boss can’t provide him, and the boss can’t afford to support the chef and too many friends.

There are not so many rooms in the inn, but there are two large shops, mainly for the "horse gangs" who walk on the ancient road. There are few individual guests, only four or five rooms, the yard is quite large, and there are ready-made stables and fodder.
To be continued...