Chapter 6 Blue Grass Stream

The mountains around Lancaojian have been eroded by excessive human footprints. The formerly steep mountain beams have become flat and thin.It is already the frontier area of ​​Qingyun County. Thirty miles away from the mountain pass is the legendary Qingyun Pass. After passing Qingyun Pass, it is Pingyang County. Pingyang County is boundless plains and farmland. Chariots and horses are galloping mysteriously on that plain. Binu finally saw the donkey and ox carts with wheels.Horses were requisitioned to the north, and cattle and donkeys were reused by merchants and pawns. They wore bells made of copper skin, were harnessed to carts, and gathered on the side of the road waiting for heavy loads.The cow and the donkey behaved differently in Lancaojian. The cow let out a loud and confused snort when it left the desolate farmland.Countless terrace-shaped houses were built beside a laterite road leading down the mountain. It was hard to tell whether the owners were nobles or gentry. Binu had never seen such a house.The banner hung high in the air, most of which were painted with colorful and beautiful words. Binu couldn't read. She asked a donkey driver what was written on the banner. It was obvious that the driver couldn't read. He blinked, After a while he guessed the word, squinted at Binu contemptuously, and said, don't know this word?Is it a character for money? What is it if it is not a character for money?This place costs money for everything!

Polygonum indigo is like gold adorning the mountain pass area. In the era of panic and chaos, indigo is still growing here crazily. Obviously, indigo jian prospered because of a kind of grass, and quietly became a new market town in Qingyun County.Binu met many women and children with baskets on the road. She thought they were going to the north, but they said, what are you doing in the north? Are you looking for death?Let's go to Lancaojian to pick grass, and ten baskets of grass sell for a dollar!Binu looked around and saw that the mountain was slightly shining with blue light, those indigo were indeed blue in the sun, and the grass pickers in ragged clothes were looking for leaves of indigo along the stream, scattered figures In the end, they often get together. Even at the foot of the mountain, you can see the figures of the grass pickers scrambling for bluegrass on the mountain. Those flickering and angry figures look like a group of wild beasts snatching food from a distance.

Are you also here to pick bluegrass?Why is there a parcel on your head, where is your basket, and where is your sickle?The donkey driver had a green headband and a black beard and beard. His age could not be seen. He squinted at other people's eyes, half of which were evil, and the other half were a little warm. I don't pick grass.They told me that there is a donkey cart going north in Lancaojian.Binu said, brother, is your donkey cart going to the north? What are you doing in the north, looking for death?The coachman asked fiercely, his hands were in his arms as if he was afraid of the cold, but his feet were bare and turned up high.He squinted his eyes to study the package on Binu's head, but without coming to a conclusion, he suddenly raised his foot, kicked Binu's body, and said, what's in the package, open it and have a look!

The township soldier asked me to open the package, and the county soldier asked me to open the package. Brother, you drive a car, why do you want to check my package?Binu muttered and took off the package on her head. There was nothing there. She loosened a corner of the package carelessly and said, the package looked big and contained no valuables, so she put my man's winter coat and a frog on it. What frog?You got a frog in your package?The coachman was a little startled, his eyes lit up like lights, and he opened the package, what kind of frog, let me see clearly, you are from Huangdian, right?People from Huangdian bring a rooster to lead the way, why did you bring a frog?You hide the frog in the package, how does it guide you?

I'm not from Huangdian. Brother, I'm from Taocun. Taocun and Huangdian are separated by a northern mountain.My frog can't lead the way either, it still depends on me to lead the way. You still say you are not from Huangdian?From your accent, you are from Huangdian. Huangdian people are sneaky everywhere, and the parcels are worthless and still carry on their heads?There must be ghosts in your package! Binu didn't know how to prove that she came from Taocun, but Bao Bao's innocence was easy to prove.Binu shook the package angrily.Come out, frog, come out and let this big brother see, what the hell is in my package?A frog is nothing to be ashamed of!It's not private salt, private salt is not allowed, and it's not daggers, daggers can't be put in the package!Binu encourages the frog to jump out to testify, but the frog curls up in Qiliang's shoe. It seems to be used to the softness and darkness of the shoe hole, and refuses to come out no matter what.It frightened the frog, the frog was timid, and along the way one scared it and the other scared it, scaring it to death.Binu explained for the frog, and showed the shoe to the coachman, brother, I won’t lie to you, there is a frog inside, what law am I breaking if I take a frog to Dayanling?

It doesn't count whether you break the law or not!The coachman said loudly, I see you look like a ghost, you must be from Huangdian!Let me tell you, the king has arrived in Pingyang County, and the Huangdian people and snakes will all be wiped out! I am not from Huangdian, but from Taocun!This frog is not a snake either, brother, you can see clearly, there are frogs in the shoes, not snakes! And you said you were not from Huangdian?People in Huangdian have been rebelling against the imperial court for thirty years. Men and women have come out to be assassins and robbers, not women from Huangdian. Who walks around the world alone, who hides frogs in shoes?This frog is also dangerous, maybe it was transformed from a snake!I am kind enough to tell you that as long as you go down from this mountain pass, pass Qingyun Pass, and enter Pingyang County, you will be beautiful. What the king fears most is snakes. No matter how snakes are raised, they can bite people. The people of Dian and Huangdian will not obey no matter how they control them. They are born to murder the king. Let me remind you that the grass in every village and town of Lulin County has been burned several times, and the snake eggs must be burned clean. All the Huangdian people in Yangjun, young and old, were arrested, and they were all set on fire, and they were all going to be burned to death!

Binu was shocked, she was not from Huangdian, Huangdian and Taocun were separated by a north mountain, but Binu still surprised the driver.In a panic, she carried the package and walked to the roadside stall selling grass baskets.Everyone at the basket stall came to see Binu's package, so Binu angrily unfolded Qiliang's shoes, and everyone took a look, is this a frog or a snake?It was obviously a frog, but the elder brother insisted that it was transformed from a snake!Those people watched the frog in the shoe curiously, guessing about Binu's origin.Someone said, what's the difference between bringing a frog and bringing a snake?This woman is either a witch or a lunatic!A girl in a pink jacket liked frogs. She came up and put a finger in her shoe to invite the frog to show up. But the frog still refused to leave the shoe, so the girl secretly pulled Pinnu's sleeve and asked, Sister, why did you put a frog in the package?Binu talked to the girl about the autumn flood in Beishan, and the raft of the mountain woman who was looking for her child along the river. When Binu emphasized that the frog she brought was the soul of a woman looking for a child , the girl turned pale, yelled, and fled away, grabbing her mother's hand.From a distance, Binu heard the frightened girl asking her mother, is the girl with the frog a lunatic?The mother patted the girl on the back to appease her, and said, looking at her appearance and the things in her package, she must be a lunatic!

In the bustling Lancaojian, Binu experienced the desolation of being alone. Binu doesn't lie, but people here don't believe her.As soon as she told her innocent life experience, others heard suspicious clouds. She said that she was not from Huangdian, but from Taocun. The two places were separated by a mountain, and her accent was completely different.But the people in Lancaojian didn't know how to distinguish the accents of Taocun and Huangdian at all. They asked, do you have assassins in Taocun?Binu said that she is the wife of Wan Qiliang in Taocun, guest officials, has anyone seen my Qiliang?Lancaojian laughed when he heard it, no one knew Wan Qiliang, the listener asked suspiciously, who is Wan Qiliang?Does he have his name written on his forehead?They say that there are tens of thousands of people going to build the Great Wall, but who knows your Wan Qiliang?Many people showed an abnormal interest in the package on her head. Their unclean hands reached into it recklessly, and they fiddled with Qi Liang's winter clothes wantonly. They said, you went all the way to Dayanling just to give your husband send these things?Binu said, yes, send winter clothes, what if you don't?My Qiliang was taken away with his bare back!What ordinary words, they just listened to crazy talk and dream talk.After the girl in the pink robe escaped, Binu decided not to speak.If you don’t believe anything, it’s better not to speak.Binu muttered and tied the package carefully, and she said to the old man selling baskets, it is better not to speak, if I pretend to be dumb, you will not say that I am crazy, and you will believe me if I lie to you.The old man squinted at her, snorted, and said, for a woman like you, it's hard for you to lie, and it's even harder for you not to speak!Binu felt that the old man saw her heart, but refused to show weakness. She put the package on her head again, and said to the old man, how difficult is it to be dumb?How difficult it is not to speak, this time I made up my mind to be dumb, and no one will talk to me!

The coachman was leaning on the magnificent donkey cart, with his legs up in the air, intentionally or unintentionally blocking Binu's path, half of his legs protruding from the flower mask, thin and dirty, but more aggressive than his hands , very outrageously and precisely poked on Binu's buttocks.go, where to go?He said, I heard the sound of knives and coins in your package, leave the money to buy the road before leaving. Binu dodged shyly, pushing that annoying leg back and forth, she decided not to speak, but people used their feet to block her way, so she had to speak.What to buy road money?You are a robber blocking the way, and you always use your feet!Binu humiliated him by scraping his face with his fingers a few times, saying, Brother, I don’t want to swear, other people’s hands are dirty, your feet are even dirty than your hands!

The coachman sneered at Binu for a while, didn't he want to be dumb, why did he speak again?He suddenly raised his hands tucked in his arms and said, hands?Hands are useful. I never touch women with my hands. Look at my hands. Where are my hands? Binu was taken aback, she couldn't see the driver's hand, what she saw was two dead wood-like arms, raised in the air, two dead wood-like arms, showing off their fracture and withering, fingers and palms were nowhere to be found.Binu screamed, and covered her eyes with her hands in desperation. She covered her eyes, but couldn't help asking, brother, who cut your hand like this?

The coachman deliberately stretched his hands, showing his left hand first and then his right hand. You don’t want to marry me as a wife. It’s useless to ask so clearly!He smiled and said, who cut it?Guess who did it?You can't guess for a lifetime, it's me!I chopped off my left hand first, but the catcher said that chopping off the left hand is useless, and the right hand can still lift stones, so I asked my father to help me deal with the right hand, and told you that the officials would knock on the door for fear of scaring you. , I chopped off my hand in the basement, and my father was helping me. When they knocked the door open, my hand was gone! I know your hands are gone.Binu looked at the coachman through her fingers with a pale face, and she said, brother, you have no hands, how can you drive the donkey cart?