At each point, Mo Wen and Lao Wu would inquire about the whereabouts of the army from the surrounding shops to make sure they were not going in the wrong direction.
At noon, the two of them were at a food stall in the north of the city, bought two bowls of hot porridge and ate the cakes they brought.
Mo Wen knows the truth of sitting and eating empty, so he is very frugal along the way, and this time he is just to be able to talk to this kind-faced stall owner, who has been setting up stalls on the side of the road all year round, and must be well-informed and well-informed.
"This big brother, may I ask you, did you see a group of Hu officers and soldiers passing by here with looted grain and women a few days ago," Mo Wenchong, a Mai stall owner in his thirties, asked.
"Yes, it's been a day, and I've gone north.
Little brother, where are you going?"
asked the stall owner.
"South."
Don't ask vague words.
"You're from the Jin Kingdom," the stall owner asked.
"Why did the eldest brother ask this" Mo Wen was shocked into a cold sweat when he heard this, he and the fifth child went deep into the land of tigers and wolves at this time, and it was inevitable that the shadow of the bow and the snake would appear.
"The court of Zhao has already issued a notice that it is not allowed to say Hu characters, and Hu people want to speak about Chinese people."
The stall owner stamped his feet, it was cold in winter, and it was also the same at noon.
"Thank you eldest brother for reminding us, it's not a secret, my master and servant and my brother are indeed Jin, but we didn't steal in, but someone sent us a name card to enter the city."
Mo Wen was worried that the other party would denounce him, so he hurriedly explained.
The stall owner didn't say much, but nodded when he heard the words, and didn't speak again.
"When the two of us first arrived in your land, we were ignorant and ignorant, and the eldest brother was kind, but we have something to tell our brother," Mo asked.
"Don't show your wealth, lest you be robbed by the people, the things that the people like can be snatched away at will, and the Han people must not resist."
The stall owner said kindly.
"We are in trouble so far, where is the wealth" Mo asked again nervous.
"It's not wealth," the stall owner pointed to the baggage the two were carrying, which was full of dry food.
Mo Wen suddenly realized that at this time, ordinary people had two meals of gruel a day, and so much dry food was indeed not something that the poor could bring.
"Thank you, big brother, for reminding me."
Mo Wen stood up, took out a small amount of money, and handed three to the stall owner.
"Thank you, little brother, if you can avoid it when you meet Chinese people in the future, you must bow your head and make way if you can't avoid it, so as not to cause trouble."
The stall owner accepted the three small coins, only two for the porridge, and the other one was not rewarded.
Mo asked the stall owner to make a gesture, and the fifth child picked up the package and prepared to leave, when he suddenly thought of something, "May I ask the eldest brother, how much money will it cost to buy a woman in Zhao Kingdom?"
"If it is a young woman, it needs three taels of silver, and the old and young have dozens of dollars, which varies from person to person."
The stall owner replied.
"Thank you, big brother, for your advice."
Mo Wen left the food stall with Lao Wu.
"Master, what's wrong," the fifth child asked, and Mo Wen kept sighing after leaving the food stall.
"At present, it costs nearly ten taels of silver to buy a cow and horse, and people are like grass mustard in troubled times, not as good as livestock."
Mo Wen shook his head and said, the woman was so cheap beyond his expectations.
All the fifth can do is sigh.
The further north you go, the more difficult it is to get information, because there are many forks in the road, and there is no one to inquire about the news at the fork in the road, so you can only go along one of the forks of the road, and then inquire when you reach a city or village where there are people, and if the villagers do not see the soldiers with the carriage and the woman, the two can only turn back and take another fork in the road, and this return may be hundreds of miles, and it will take several days to measure it with your feet.
Mo Wen rarely worked so hard before, and at the end the soles of the feet were foamed, such as a needle board, the fifth child was distressed by Mo Wen, and suggested buying a horse to travel, but this suggestion was vetoed by Mo Wen shaking his head, the people of Zhao State were not as good as the Jin Kingdom, there were few pedestrians on horseback on the road, the two of them were not dressed at the moment, and once they rode a horse, they would attract guidance, in addition, he was also worried that the horses would be snatched away by the Hu people, and he had seen Hu people's unreasonableness for several days, and he had seen Hu people eat in Han people's shops and food stalls without giving money.
Half a month later, the dry food of the two ran out, and they could only buy dry food along the way to continue to search, due to the delay in recuperating at home and the delay in the death of their mother, the road was delayed for more than half a month, and the news sounded more and more difficult, but fortunately, Lin Ruochen was wearing red clothes that day, which made the people along the way have some impressions of her, although they wasted a lot of time, the two never lost it.
However, something happened later, and although the people along the way remembered seeing the Hu soldiers, they did not see the captured women.
"Master, the two towns are less than ten miles apart, why did the people in the town in front of them still see Madame, but when they got here, Madame disappeared," Lao Wu Chongmo asked.
"There are a lot of people here, and the Hu people won't eat people here, presumably she changed her clothes.
It's hard work for you to run around with me.
Mo Wen said to the fifth child with a slight apology, the two of them have gone through hardships for more than half a month, needless to say the hard work of the journey, because they are in an unknown place and geography, they have missed the camp many times, and they have lost a lot of weight after a period of time.
"Master, what you said is not right, I should follow you, shall we still look for it" Lao Wu sat on the side of the road and watched the passers-by.
"Seek, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death."
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Mo asked Zhengse to speak, and the hardships along the way did not make him change his mind.
"Master, there's something I haven't been able to figure out."
Lao Wu shook his head.
"Do you want to ask me why I have to find her" Mo asked with a wry smile, during this time he often asked himself this question, the answer he gave himself was that the two of them were married couples who had visited the church, and he still had a strand of Lin Ruochen's hair in his arms, and similarly, Lin Ruochen also had his hair in his hands, this is a promise given to each other, Confucius and Mencius both said that people must have faith and cannot break their promises.
"It's not this, I want to ask people that the cave room is quiet, how do you and your wife do the same blowing and playing as singing" Lao Wu asked with a grin.
"The two are inevitably embarrassed when they meet for the first time, and they play the kite and flute to get acquainted with each other."
Don't ask and answer truthfully.
"Master, you and Mrs. don't have anything like that," the fifth child asked curiously.
"How can you wipe your face away from the blue sky and white sun," Mo Wen hesitated for a moment and answered the fifth question.
"You scholars have a lot of rules, if it were me, I wouldn't care what the day or night, it's good to let others take the lead."
Lao Wu looked unwilling.
Mo Wen Wen glanced at the fifth child helplessly, although the fifth child continued the loyalty of the ancestors, but did not continue the ancestors' Mu Ne, he did more than once when he peeked at the maid taking a bath after being sensible.
"Master, what should I do now" Seeing that Mo Wen was displeased, Lao Wu hurriedly said something else.
Mo Wen stood up straight and walked east, "Inquire again in the town." ” The town is not big, it didn't take long for the two to hear the news, the Hu people's large army carrying grain and grass to the north, the remaining dozens of people with the captured women in the east of the town to occupy dozens of houses for a night, the next day with those women to the city located 80 miles east of here, most of the women plundered by the Hu people will be sent there to sell.
"Auntie, have you ever seen a young woman dressed in red?"
Mo asked an old man who had been requisitioned for news.
"I haven't seen anyone in red, but there is a girl in red pants, and her eyebrows and eyes are very handsome, and she lives in my house."
The old woman recalled.
"Was she also taken to the human market by the officers and soldiers?"
asked Mo Wen eagerly.
Now there are people who wear red clothes alone, but there are no people who wear red pants alone, so he is sure that the person the old man said is Lin Ruochen.
"We were all taken away, and by the time we came back, the officers and soldiers and the girls were gone."
The old woman shook her head and said.
Mo Wen let out a long sigh when he heard this, and bowed to the old woman, "Thank you, auntie." ” "Who are you?"
asked the old woman kindly.
"The elders asked, don't dare to deceive, we are from the Jin Kingdom, this is my younger brother, and the woman in red pants is my wife, she was captured by the Hu people a few days ago, and we are here to look for her."
Mo asked.
"Alas, the heaven-killing Hu people, the evil Hu people, by the way, you came just in time, you wait a while."
After the old woman finished speaking, she turned and walked into the house, and after a while there was a noise in the house, and it seemed that the old couple were arguing.
Mo Wen and Lao Wu, who were waiting outside, looked at each other, not understanding what the old woman was going to do, and they didn't know whether to go in to dissuade them.
After a while, the old woman ran out of the house, holding a small cloth bag in her hand and stuffing it into Mo Wen's hand, "This is what I picked up from under the bed, it must be your wife's thing, and I will return it to you." ” Mo Wen opened the cloth bag in confusion and found that there was a hairpin wrapped in it, and the moment he saw this hairpin, Mo Wen had the urge to cry, which was the one that was inserted in Lin Ruochen's bun that day and fixed the red silk hijab.
Just when Mo Wen was grieving, a short and fat old man came out of the house, holding a broom to sweep the bed in his hand, and shouted at the old woman, "How do you know it's theirs, see if I don't kill you." ” "Uncle, don't be angry, this is indeed the thing of the inner son, today the aunt will return it, we are willing to pay three taels of silver."
Don't ask why the old man blames the old woman.
After Mo asked, the fifth child immediately took out the silver taels from his arms and handed them over, so it was the turn of the old man to be stunned, only the hairpin flower of this hairpin is silver, and the other parts are copper, which is not worth three taels of silver at all.
The old man naturally would not shirk, three taels of silver was a lot of money for the farmer.
The two said goodbye to the old woman, wore the stars and the moon and went east, at this moment Mo Wen no longer had the luxury of meeting Lin Ruochen in the human market, because Lin Ruochen was very beautiful, once he arrived in the human market, he would inevitably be bought quickly, he only hoped to find the person who bought Lin Ruochen and spend a lot of money to redeem Lin Ruochen.
During the day, they were in the town, and there was a moon at night, and the two of them drove out of eighty miles overnight, and at dawn, Mo Wen and Lao Wu, who were covered in frost, saw the people in the city that Zhao Ren said: