"Ga~Ga~"

In the wilderness, grasslands and shrubs became erect due to lack of water. Several old trees were probably caused by insect plagues, and were edible one hole after another, which was almost as old as rotten wood.

The tree branches stretched out in a twist and crooked manner, and a few black crows stood on the branches, making hoarse calls to the voices gradually coming from afar.

This scene is not a desert or a desert in the Western Regions, but an official road leading to a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River.

This place is located in a valley with barren mountains on both sides and a ditch in the middle. This valley is called Lao Crow Valley, where tens of thousands of crows live in the valley, hence the name.

After passing Laoya Valley, you can reach Changzhou Prefecture in about one day.

...

On this day, in the inn in front of Laoya Valley, several passers-by were drinking tea.

Although Laoya Valley is very desolate and a bit scary, it is located on the important road and there are still many pedestrians coming and going every day. It is early now, and if you wait until noon or in the evening, there is no place to sit at the inn.

While having breakfast, several passers-by watched as the guy steamed at least dozens of trellis of buns, and specially invited several old ladies to make wontons in the kitchen, and they were all a little puzzled.

"Boss." A diner asked, "What are you doing? Doing business at home?"

The boss smiled, "Oh, this guest official is a foreigner?"

The man nodded.

"You don't know. Lord Bao is coming to Changzhou, and Lord Zhan from our Changzhou Prefecture is also going back to his hometown." The guy was quite proud. "I heard that the team of the imperial envoys on patrol had at least six or seven hundred people. If the last stop was Yangzhou Prefecture, it's almost time to get here now, and it's time to have breakfast."

"Wow." Several guests asked after hearing this, "Mr. Bao from Kaifeng Prefecture? By the way... Nanxia Zhan Zhao is from Changzhou Prefecture."

"That's not." The boss smiled, "One bun costs two cents, a bowl of wontons cost five cents. I have prepared a thousand buns and three hundred bowls of wontons. I made a profit this time, haha."

Passers-by all laugh at him for losing money. If someone delays something or comes late, your wontons and buns will be enough for you to sell for two months.

"I can't come, Zhan Daxia can eat my wontons..."

Before the boss finished speaking, he heard the sound of chariots and horses coming from afar. Everyone looked at the official road and saw smoke and dust rolling, and a long team of chariots and horses slowly moving.

"Oh, here we come!" The guys all looked into the distance with their awnings, "Look at the big fair and honest sign in front of them!"

...

Is this the tour team of Lord Bao? Of course.

By the way, everyone just came from Yangzhou Prefecture yesterday.

Because I was in a hurry to go, I didn't stop to enjoy the beautiful scenery even though I passed by Yangzhou. I kept rushing to Changzhou Prefecture.

The team was really huge. Because Zhao Pu also came, Ouyang Shaozheng brought another 500 cavalrymen to follow him. That posture was so scary.

When leaving the city, Zhao Pu looked at the five hundred cavalry and curled his lips, "It's Kaifeng Mansion to investigate the case, I'm going to watch the fun, are you doing it like a war?"

Ouyang Shaozheng thought about it and nodded, "It makes sense!" So he asked Long Qiaoguang to silently lead three thousand people and drag him back to meet him in case of an accident.

Zhao Puwangtian.

Zou Liang also arranged a hundred masters under his command to sneak into Changzhou Prefecture to find out the news.

Bao Zheng was very happy, so if you follow Zhao Pu, you will save manpower, and if you have Bai Yutang, you will save financial resources. As expected, the time, place and people are in harmony!

Originally, when he went on tour, Grand Master Pang said he would not follow him. He wanted to take care of Xiangxiang at home at any time. When Lord Bao heard that he would not follow him, he felt that it would save some trouble, so he nodded and agreed. Unfortunately, the emperor said that Grand Master needed to walk more, otherwise it would be bad for his health if he was too fat, so he drove the Grand Master here. So the Grand Master had a lovesickness and lay in the carriage all day long to think of his granddaughter. Fortunately, his son Pang Yu was with him.

At the front of the carriage was the crazy girl Ouyang Shaozheng riding him.

The five hundred surprise soldiers were all from the vanguard camp and were used to walking in front, but in the sky and sun. If the five hundred surprise soldiers pioneered the way, the people along the way would not make any noise and would be frightened, so they would drag them back. However, Ouyang Shaozheng could tolerate the crazy girl and could not tolerate the horse. He didn't know what was wrong with this horse, so he liked to run in front, and Ouyang couldn't hold it. In the end, he walked in front with one horse and one horse, and the yamen runners held signs of justice, integrity and mightyness.

Ouyang was particularly embarrassed. No matter how he looked at his image, he discussed with the crazy girl, "Oh, beauty, how about we go back after you're over?"

Zhan Zhao rode Zao Duoduo and Bai Yutang rode Baiyunfan. The two walked in front of a large carriage, chatting while walking.

Zhao Pu's black owl was walking next to them, but Zhao Pu didn't ride, Xiao Liangzi rode. Hei Xiao looked at the front of the carriage with dissatisfaction, and sat against the carriage door. Zhao Pu, Xiao Liang, who was lying on his belly, was peeling an apple beside him, Xiao Sizi whispered, and he whispered...

Gongsun, Bao Yan, and Pang Yu were sitting in front of the carriage, looking through the file. There were Bao Zheng who was looking at the official documents in the carriage, and Grand Master Pang who was lying on Xiao Wu's back thinking about his fragrance.

Xiao Wu had just got out of the car and walked for a while, frightened all the people watching along the way and ran away. Finally, Lord Bao simply asked him to lie in the carriage to make a meat pad, leaning against Taishi Pang and the fat dog named Mute of the Lin Yehuo family.

Lin Yehuo naturally followed him, squatting on the roof of the carriage and looking into the distance. The first time he came to Jiangnan, he saw everything was quite fresh.

Zou Liang and Su Qing were both riding horses, right in front of Ouyang Shaozheng's 500 cavalrymen, and they didn't know what to talk about while walking. Su Qing and Zou Liang were both quite bored, but they could talk together.

Tianzun, Yin Hou and Wusha also came together, but the three old men thought it was so slow to go to the Demon Palace first, and Hong Jiuniang and Wu Yifa also returned to the Demon Palace to deal with it first.

Zhan Zhao walked, looking up at the sky with his face.

Bai Yutang saw him looking at the sky and said, "Cat."

"Hmm?" Zhan Zhao continued to look at the sky and replied.

"Did you see the stuffing cake?" Bai Yutang asked him slowly.

Zhan Zhao blinked, then lowered his head and looked at him slantedly.

Bai Yutang laughed, "What are you looking at?"

"Bird." Zhan Zhao wrinkled his nose.

"Bird?" Bai Yutang also took a look and saw that there were indeed many birds in the sky, black ones, probably crows.

"Are there so many crows in Changzhou Prefecture?" Bai Yutang asked.

"There are so many in this Lao Crow Valley." Zhan Zhao said, lowering his voice to Bai Yutang, "Remember, don't let the bird shit fall on his body."

Bai Yutang's mouth moved, and he thought to himself, if any bird was slaughtering it and stuffing it into Xiao Wu's teeth immediately.

Just as I was thinking, I suddenly heard the sound of breaking through the air above my head.

Bai Yutang flashed...

With a "click", a piece of bird poop fell at Bai Yunfan's feet.

Bai Yunfan quickly asked to the side, and his expression was disgusting, which was somewhat similar to Bai Yutang's expression.

As everyone walked forward, they looked up at the crows in the sky, gathering more and more, circling in the air.

The little fourth son lay on Zhao Pu's belly, looking up at the sky with his face raised, "Ninety-nine, so many crows."

Zhao Pu was also very curious and asked, "There are so many crows gathering in the Jiangnan area?"

"There is Lao Crow Valley in front of it." Zhan Zhao stretched out his finger, then quickly shrank his hand, and another drag on the bird shit fell down.

Just then, Xiao Wu shook out in the carriage, stretched his waist, then raised his face and roared a tiger...

This was already a valley. Xiao Wu's throat was so shocked that the crows on the trees around him flew up, flapping his wings and rushing towards the depths of the valley. The four outside immediately became quiet.

At the same time... the passers-by who were already close to the station in front of him stood up in fear, and the guy was holding a basket of meat buns and didn't dare to move.

Ouyang Shaozheng raised his hand, and the people behind him stopped one after another.

Zhan Zhao flew off the horse, Xiao Wu ran over, rubbed Zhan Zhao, then went to Zao Duoduo and Bai Yunfan, and finally rolled in front of the Hei Xiao to play with it.

Zhan Zhao arrived in front of the station and saw the boss at first sight, "Boss Ma."

"Oh, Xiao Zhan, you're back." The boss ran out immediately. The boss's wife seemed to know Zhan Zhao, and said hello to others.

Zhao Pu also came out with the little Sizi in his arms. Lin Yehuo jumped to Zhan Zhao's back, squatted on the saddle and looked in front of him, and asked Bai Yutang, "Does Zhan Zhao even know the guy at the post station?"

Bai Yutang thought about it. Judging from Zhan Zhao's level of friendship, almost half of the people in Kaifeng Prefecture have known each other after several years. In his hometown, I'm afraid he knows everyone in Changzhou Prefecture?

Ouyang Shaozheng asked the horse to separate the two sides and sit down and rest, the carriage leaned against the side, and gave up the middle road.

The guy helped to serve breakfast to everyone. Sure enough, all the buns and wontons were sold, which was not enough, so I had to continue making them.

Lord Bao and Master Pang came out to breathe out. The boss of the station found a big table and asked everyone to sit down for breakfast.

Zhan Zhao brought a bowl of wontons to Bai Yutang and said, "Try it, the wontons here are the best."

Bai Yutang took a bite and nodded, Zhan Zhao sprinkled a handful of peppers into his bowl.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao speechlessly.

Zhan Zhao was about to sprinkle it into his bowl, but when he saw Bai Yutang's expression, he silently sprinkled the handful of pepper into Bai Yutang's bowl again. After saying that, he grabbed another handful and asked him, "Is it still necessary?"

Bai Yutang looks at the sky.

Zhan Zhao refused to laugh, and stopped teasing him, and changed his bowl with him.

Bai Yutang ate Zhan Zhao's bowl, and Zhan Zhao ate the bowl with chili peppers.

The little fourth son sat next to Zhan Zhao. Zhan Zhao introduced him to eat the wontons here. The little fourth son added a little vinegar. He just ate one and smiled and told Zhan Zhao that it was delicious. Then Zhao Pu and Xiao Liang, the master and apprentice around him raised their hands together, "Give another bowl!"

Everyone looked at their empty bowls silently.

Gongsun glanced at the corner of his mouth and squeezed out two words, "Liquor Bucket."

While eating wontons, Zhan Zhao asked a young man who came to pour them tea and steamed buns, "Do you little Liuzi? Have you grown up so old?"

"Brother Zhan." Xiao Liuzi is the youngest son of Boss Ma. He is thirteen years old this year. Today, the boss and his family are dispatched to the station to help. Xiao Liuzi is still a child running all over the ground in Zhan Zhao's memory.

At this time, a few merchants came in front of him, like transporting things from Changzhou Prefecture to leave the city. They were a little stunned at first sight, and then saw Zhan Zhao and came to say hello.

Zhan Zhao chewed wontons and waved to others.

Bai Yutang and everyone looked at each other silently - they knew each other.

Bao Zheng had no airs. When he saw someone among the merchants greeting him, he also greeted him, and asked, "Do you all come from Changzhou Prefecture?"
To be continued...