Economic and Trade Song Dynasty

Taohua's lips were bitten, but she didn't cry out for pain. Qin Juan smiled softly, and tore off the clean cloth to quickly wrap up the wound on Taohua's leg.

"I'll help you sit by the fire." Qin Juan picked up Taohua, who staggered to his feet. His clothes were still wet and needed to be baked.

Qin Juan helped Tao Hua to sit by the fire and then went to hug Xiao Qu'er. Xiao Qu'er hadn't woken up yet, so he was naturally worried.

Qin Juan sat for a while and noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Gu Yue couldn't have sat for so long without saying a word, his intuition told him that something was wrong with Gu Yue.

Qin Juan patted Gu Yue's shoulder and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Gu Yue snorted, and shook off Qin Juan's hand, Qin Juan was stunned for a moment, because Gu Yue was unhappy, either yelled at him or fought with him, and would not throw away his hand so lightly.

what happened?Could it be that he is really unwell?

Thinking about it, Qin Juan sat over and wanted to grab Gu Yue's wrist.

Gu Yue froze for a moment, threw him away, and growled, "Don't bother me."

"..." Only then did Qin Juan confirm that he was fine, and sat back beside Tao Hua holding Xiao Qu'er.

Taohua lowered her head, staring at the bonfire, as if she was also preoccupied.

Qin Juan only felt that the atmosphere today was weird, which made him feel a little uneasy, but he was not yet clear enough to realize that something was wrong with the two of them.

Taohua coughed suddenly, and Qin Juan came to his senses. He looked at Taohua, and then realized that Taohua's clothes were wet.

Qin Juan said to Taohua: "Take off your wet clothes, and put on mine first." He put Xiaoqu'er on the ground and untied his outer robe.

Taohua froze for a moment, took off the wet clothes, and hesitated until the innermost layer of clothes.

Qin Juan handed him the clean clothes, and he took them and put them on, feeling much warmer immediately.

Qin Juan set up Taohua's clothes and put them on the fire.

Xiao Qu'er woke up, thirsty and wanted to drink water, he rubbed his eyes and sat up, Taohua saw that he woke up, immediately rushed to him and asked him if he was not feeling well.

His move surprised Gu Yue who had been silent for a moment.

Xiao Qu'er shook his head blankly, he stood up and wanted to find his water bag, but he didn't know where he put everything.

After Qin Juan baked Peach Blossom's clothes, when he looked up, he saw Xiao Qu'er standing up, and he walked over with a smile: "I want to drink water and eat, Xiao Qu'er waits first."

He said looking for the luggage, he and Taohua had tied the luggage to their bodies and horses before, so there were still a few luggage that were not lost.

He trotted over, first took out the water bag and gave it to Xiao Qu'er, and then went to find the dried meat.

The jerky is swollen by the water, I don't know if it still tastes...

Qin Juan looked at the river again, wondering if there were any edible fish in the river.

Of course, it's dark now, so it's not easy for him to go fishing.

He had only stood for a while, when he heard footsteps, it couldn't be peach blossoms, he turned his head slightly and saw Gu Yue walking over.

Gu Yue came here to get food, seeing Qin Juan lingering for a long time, he didn't want to say anything.He unpacked his bag and found that the pancakes had been soaked in water... He pursed his thin lips without saying anything, and went to look for jerky again.

"It might still be edible after roasting it," Qin Juan said.

Gu Yue didn't say anything, took the whole bag over, and roasted all the edible ones inside on the fire.

Xiaoquer passed the water bag to Taohua when she was full of water.

Taohua smiled, took the water bag and drank it.

After Tao Hua finished drinking the water, Xiao Qu'er wiped Tao Hua's mouth with her sleeve.

Gu Yue just turned his head to see this scene, his eyes dimmed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Just when Qin Juan came over, Qin Juan handed him a few pieces of dry cheese: "These pieces are still good, eat some when you are hungry."

Gu Yue took it and started eating without saying anything.He knew that Qin Juan didn't like cheese or meat.

He is different from Qin Juan in this point, he will not be picky when he is hungry, because he has been hungry all the time.

It's ridiculous to say that in Yinshan, a nobleman like him would starve all the time.

"Water." Qin Juan handed him the water bag.

Dry cheese has a bad taste and is hard to swallow without water.

Qin Juan sat down and turned the roast meat over, and handed the ones that had passed the test to Xiao Qu'er and Tao Hua.

Xiao Qu'er couldn't eat too much, so after eating a few mouthfuls, she gave the rest to Tao Hua, who took it and ate it one by one.

After finishing his work, Qin Juan drank a few sips of water and lay down.

In this way, the few of them spent the night indiscriminately.

The next day, at dawn, Qin Juan woke up. He sat up and found that Gu Yue had woken up a long time ago, sitting not far away, looking at something.

Although I fell here and I don't know where it is, but one thing is very reassuring. I didn't worry about it all night, and I slept peacefully.

There was no movement of beasts, not even the sound of birdsong...

Thinking of this, Qin Juan's heart tightened, there was no bird song?

Sometimes too much silence is also a terrible beginning, when you realize that there are no beasts or birds here, and there is not even a single fish in the river...

And the shore they were on was simply a dead end, with no way out or way out.

"Surprised? I'm surprised too." Sensing Qin Juan's emotions, Gu Yue said, he checked this place as soon as he woke up. It's not that there are forests behind or connected to the grassland and the foot of the mountain as they thought, it's not here at all. It's just a "dead corner" with a radius of several hundred meters.

Or a larger cave would not be an exaggeration.

"We can't stay here for too long, so we have to find a way." Qin Juan stood up solemnly and walked to the place where he picked herbs yesterday.

It was too dark yesterday, and the grass over there was very deep, so he didn't dare to walk further, for fear of encountering snakes.

I just think it's funny today, I'm afraid there won't even be snakes in this place!

"Taohua, you guys wait here, don't run around." Gu Yue walked to the opposite place from Qin Juan, and she still told her so before leaving.

Tao Hua was startled, why did Gu Yue take the initiative to talk to him, and how did Gu Yue know that he had woken up long ago?He didn't even open his eyes, how could Gu Yue know that he was awake...

At the moment when Taohua was stunned, Gu Yue had already walked away.

The place is not big, Qin Juan walked to a stone wall within half an hour after walking...

At first he thought it was a stone wall, but when he looked up, he saw that the stone wall was towering into the sky. It would be impossible to climb it... He quickly dismissed the idea.

It's just that they can't wait to die here?

There is absolutely nothing to eat in this place!

Qin Juan thought for a while, then suddenly ran towards the river. If they followed the river, where would the river take them?

Looking at the rushing river, Qin Juan also dismissed this idea.

It is estimated that if you stay in this river for a quarter of an hour, you will die, and there are huge stones everywhere in this river, and it is possible to die on the stones...

The more Qin Juan thought about it, the more frightening he felt. When he was looking at the river water, he felt chills in his heart, when he heard someone calling him.

He walked back and saw Gu Yue running towards him within a short distance.

"Come with me." Gu Yue approached and grabbed Qin Juan's wrist.

Qin Juan didn't ask any questions, and followed him quickly.

Tao Hua and Xiao Qu'er also followed.

Looking at it from a distance, this side of the mountain wall is the same as the other side, going straight into the sky, with no end in sight.

This made Qin Juan feel dazed. They obviously fell in from the ground, so why did they go through the river and come to such a place?

What kind of terrain structure is here?Can't tell.

Gu Yue walked up to the stone wall, knocked on the stone wall, and growled, "This is it."

Qin Juan frowned slightly and walked over: "You mean there is a road behind here?"

Qin Juan couldn't help but think of the other side of the stone wall he went to just now, that side of the stone wall was not far from the river, if that side of the stone wall was empty, there should be the river behind it.

But the stone wall that Gu Yue inspected was still a long way from the river.

Qin Juan put his hand on the stone wall. Yes, he could instinctively sense that the stone wall was empty, not solid...

"I've checked everything around here, only the back of this stone wall is empty." Gu Yue said.

Qin Juan asked Gu Yue to work with him to smash through the stone wall.

"Taohua, stand far away." Gu Yue turned her head and said to Taohua who was not far behind her.

Tao Hua froze for a moment, Xiao Qu'er tugged at his sleeve.

Tao Hua nodded, and walked back holding Xiao Qu'er's singing hand.

Qin Juan and Gu Yue asked them to find something to break the stone wall here.

"Put a tree." Gu Yue pointed to a tree not far away and said.

Qin Juan and Gu Yue quickly brought the tree down, and they carried the tree to hit the stone wall.

It took about a quarter of an hour to bump into a crack on the stone wall.

Qin Juan and Gu Yue were already sweating profusely.

Taohua looked at them who were busy, and then at the rushing river in the distance, feeling in a trance.

It's like a dream.

Finally, with a click, the stones on the stone wall shattered and collapsed.

What presented in front of them was a dark passage.

"..." Everyone was noncommittal.

But this is the only way before them, and there is no other choice.

Qin Juan: "Go and put away your things."

They went back and put away their things and carried them on their backs.

Just when they thought they were ready, Gu Yue asked, "What about the horse?"

Qin Juan paused: "It broke a leg..."

"I'm asking you what to do with it!"

"..." Qin Juan was in a dilemma.

Seeing that Gu Yue was about to roar again, Tao Hua said: "It's better to let the horse choose for itself, we keep it here, if it wants to follow, it will follow."

Without waiting for Qin Juan to agree or not, Gu Yue immediately said, "Just do it like this!"

Qin Juan thought for a while, they couldn't survive on their own, and they couldn't tell what was going on in the secret passage, and although there were no birds or beasts in this place, there was a lot of grass, and horses could survive, but people couldn't.

Afraid that Qin Juan would disagree, Gu Yue hurriedly said, "Why are you standing still! Do you still want to stand here and wait to die? We only have dry food that can last for about three days."

Gu Yue walked in the front, Tao Hua and Xiao Qu'er followed, Qin Juan stood for a while, picked up his bags and followed.

I don't know how long the torches can burn, but they each have a torch before entering the secret passage.

I just hope that this secret path can lead directly to the forest.