The weather in ancient times was much colder than modern times, and the economy was very backward. Poor people had to be prepared to freeze to death when winter came.In order to migrate to a warmer place or hide in a cave after heavy snowfall, the ski equipment here is very complete. The cart is replaced by a yellow ox with four stable hooves, and the wheels are removed and replaced with two upturned wooden boards. The speed of traveling in the middle layer is not slow, and it is smoother and more comfortable than sitting on wheels.

Jia Huan was wrapped in a bear's skin, and a tiger's skin was placed under his buttocks. He leaned against a soft cotton pillow and held a hot hand warmer in his arms. What a pleasure.Although he has supernatural powers and is not afraid of the cold and heat, but he suffered too much in the previous life, so he can enjoy it as he wants in this life, without any discount.

Because the carriage was full of salutes, the boy and the coachman had to sit outside in coir raincoats, but they held the burning hand stove in their arms, and moved the salutes out at night, so they could sleep as well, so the days were not counted. tough.After walking for three days, not long after setting off on this day, I suddenly heard the two cattle pulling the cart roaring in unison, and then speeding up suddenly.

Jia Huan took a sip of wine into his nostrils, coughed for a long time before he was able to catch his breath, opened the thick curtain of the car and took a look, good guy, where are the figures of the coachman and the boy, two daggers stuck in the buttocks of the two cattle, blood As soon as it came out, it froze. Because of the pain, I just ran forward crazily, regardless of the deep mountain stream on the other side of the mountain road.

Jia Huan looked back, and saw that the driver and the boy who had jumped out of the car had already got up from the snow, looking at him with indifferent and sarcastic eyes, each carrying a large package in their hands, obviously premeditated.

Jia Huan curled her lips into a sneer, slipped out two pea-sized copper balls from her sleeve, held them between her fingers, and ejected them lightly.The sound of breaking through the air was mixed with the whistling north wind, the servant and the coachman both knelt down with their complacent expressions on their faces, and were horrified to find that a blood hole had been pierced through their calf at some point.

He couldn't move, and his body still smelled of blood. For beasts who lacked food in winter, it was a big meal delivered to their door.Not to mention going back alive to receive the reward, even leaving a whole body is an extravagant hope.This kind of death is comparable to Ling Chi!

Leaving aside the fear and remorse of the two, Jia Huan turned around and pulled out a gleaming dagger from his boots, and quickly cut off the reins, trying to keep the carriage.But he didn't expect that one of the cows suddenly deviated from the direction and took the car body to the side, and was about to fall down the mountain stream that was ten thousand feet high.

The reins finally broke, but the car had already slid downwards. Jia Huan decided to jump off the car and escape for his life. He rolled several times in the snow to stabilize his body, then got up and walked to the edge of the cliff. The stones on the wall smashed into pieces of the carriage.

Fortunately, the mountain here is not high, and there are lush pines and cypresses everywhere, so it did not cause an avalanche.

The carriage was covered with bear skin and tiger skin, which was a trophy he had hunted with great difficulty, and it was a pity to lose it.The hidden compartment under the car floor still holds a little bit of supplies accumulated from previous years, which is enough to support you to walk back to Lijiazhuang, if you don't go down, you can't get it back!Although I can't die from freezing or starving, it's better not to be cold or hungry than anything else.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan looked for rattan everywhere, planning to slide down the cliff.

Because the snow was falling too heavily and the cliff was too high, it was impossible to see the bottom of the cliff clearly from the top of the cliff. Similarly, the bottom of the cliff did not know what was going on above the cliff.Hearing the rumbling sound, the two people at the bottom of the cliff hurriedly hid in a half-recessed rock, looking in shock at the huge carriage that fell half a meter away from their feet.

Both were drenched and shivering.One person was wearing pure white brocade clothes, and a big gash was cut on his abdomen. Because of the cold weather, the bleeding stopped quickly, and he could still stay awake. Otherwise, such injuries would have seen the King of Hades long ago.One was wearing a black military uniform, holding a big knife tightly in his hand, his leg bones seemed to be broken, and he was half kneeling on the ground.

A wide river flows through the mountain stream, which has been completely frozen into ice due to the severe cold weather.There was a huge ice hole in the river not far from where the two were hiding. A sled was half submerged and half floating. The six mastiff dogs pulling the cart had drowned for a long time because they could not break free from the reins.

"It's better to hide quickly, or you will be smashed into a pulp." The man dressed as a guard let out a breath, and then cupped his hands and said, "My lord, wait for my subordinates to go and see if there are any living people."

"Be careful." The man in brocade clothes said weakly.

As promised, the guard walked over with a big knife step by step, and used the tip of the knife to pick apart the scattered wooden boards. No living people were found, but a bear skin, a tiger skin, a squashed hand warmer and many bulging packages .

The guard was overjoyed, hurriedly picked up the things he needed, quickly went back to the bottom of the rock, and handed them to the master, "My lord, here are two animal skins, please wrap them up quickly. There is also a hand warmer, keep it warm! Let me open it and have a look." See if there are any unextinguished charcoal balls, so we can start a fire. This package is soft to the touch, and it should be a dry change of clothes inside. You, my lord, have great fortune and fate, and this time you will be in trouble, and the danger will be saved."

"I hope. I don't know how the Fifth Emperor is doing now." The man in brocade clothes frowned and pondered.

"My lord, don't think about these things, you'd better hurry up and warm up." The guard said while wrapping the tiger skin for the master, and covered the bear skin outside.

"You wrap it up too. Neither of us can die!" The man in brocade clothes held his subordinate's wrist firmly and said firmly.

The guard nodded with red eyes, and said in his heart that if he could go back alive, he must find out the spies around the prince and destroy them.

It turned out that the two were Tu Xiuqi, the third prince of the dynasty, and Xiao Ze, the commander of his bodyguards.

The weather in the Central Plains has been very abnormal in recent years, with floods in summer, severe drought in autumn, and severe cold in winter.The north is not bad, because the people there are used to extreme weather, the houses are solidly built, and the countermeasures are in place, so they can live a good life.But the south is different, especially Jinling, Bingzhou, Yunzhou and other water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Due to the continuous heavy snowfall for two months, the people here have never encountered such terrible weather, and there are no precautions. They are crushed everywhere. The houses and people and animals were frozen to death, and the disaster was very serious.

After the emperor received the report, he specially approved 600 million taels of disaster relief money. He didn't want to be robbed by local bandits while passing through Mangshan Mountain, which caused shock in the whole court.

Mang Mountain is a place where bandits are plagued by rampant bandits, which has become a disaster for decades.The imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress many times, but due to the steep terrain of Mangshan Mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the karst caves inside the mountain are connected in all directions, providing an excellent hiding place for the bandits. .

Especially in winter, these bandits ride sleds and wear pure white rabbit fur, bury themselves in the snow to surprise passing merchants, rob them and quickly drag them away, hiding in countless caves.They come like lightning and go like a gust of wind, even if the magic soldiers fall from the sky, they can't do anything about it, so the court mostly focuses on recruiting security, supplemented by strong attack.

However, the number of robberies this time was really huge, and with millions of people still waiting for disaster relief, the emperor finally made up his mind to eradicate the banditry, and sent the third and fifth princes secretly to Jiangnan.

The mountain is blocked by heavy snow, and the bandit's nest is hidden without a trace. How should this battle be fought?The two princes negotiated for many days, and finally agreed on a strategy to lure the enemy.There is a bird in the Western Regions called the rhinoceros lark, which is famous for its good tracking.Just sprinkle some red beans along the way, and they can travel thousands of miles while pecking.Travelers in the Western Regions love to keep this kind of bird to prevent getting lost in the desert.

Out of curiosity, the third prince once brought back two from his envoy to the Western Regions, and they were carefully domesticated, which happened to come in handy at this time.He asked officers and soldiers to pretend to be grain merchants to deliberately pass by Mang Mountain, and made a small opening at the bottom of a certain grain bag, and sprinkled some red beans along the way for the rhinoceros to track.

Who would have thought that the bandits not only robbed the food, but also secretly lurked behind the place where the two princes were stationed, and came to strike first, and called out the identities of the two princes, and kept saying that they were going to reverse the Daqing Dynasty.To make matters worse, some soldiers in the battalion connected with foreign enemies and turned against each other.

The third prince was caught off guard and retreated in succession. On the way, he got separated from the fifth prince. He finally got rid of the pursuit but fell into the ice cave. It really is a double disaster.

The two tore off their heavy armor and robes and struggled out of the ice cave. Just as they climbed ashore to take a breath, Jia Huan's broken car fell from the sky, and they didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune.

The animal skin was very thick, wrapped it around the back to block some of the cold wind, the third prince rested for a while, seeing Xiao Ze wanted to turn on the hand warmer, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's very windy here, even if there are sparks left, it might not be able to ignite. Wait until you find a shelter from the wind before opening it."

"But lord, we are both injured, and it is difficult to walk. If we don't light up the fire quickly, we will wait for the wild beasts in the mountain to smell the blood..." At this point, he stopped quickly and silently unwrapped the package beside him, hoping to find some dry clothes.

The third prince's expression was gloomy for a moment, and he soon returned to normal. He said with a smile, "There is no unparalleled road. We just landed, and the car fell off. It can be seen that God gave us a chance. There are still many people over there." A package? Go open it and have a look, maybe you can find something that will keep us alive."

Xiao Ze also wanted to smile. After unpacking the package, his face changed, and he said in disbelief, "Who is this? Traveling in the winter, the clothes he brought are all light summer clothes! Look at this material, the wind blows It’s broken!” Wen Wan limped to the side of the car and unpacked all the packages, each of which was filled with incomprehensible things that were completely useless and took up space.

The third prince shook his head and smiled wryly, "This person was plotted against just like us. These packages may be dropped by others when traveling, and the real and practical ones are all left at home. Even if they don't fall off the cliff, they will freeze to death in this icy and snowy place." After finishing speaking, he looked up. Looking up at the sky, he let out a long sigh.

Xiao Ze felt something in his heart, and lowered his head to hide his desperate expression.

"Hey, here is a famous post for the exam. This person doesn't know that the college exam has been postponed until next April, and the news is being concealed by someone who wants to come." The third prince is very good at taking pleasure in bitterness, and picked up the famous post to study it carefully.

Seeing the name, age, ancestral home, guarantor and other information written on it, he was taken aback.Strange, this person might still have something to do with him.

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