In the vast darkness, the mountainside was deserted, and the sound of firewood covered the night wind passing through the mountain. After eating and drinking, the two men gave Ji Rongjin the thatched hut to sleep in. One of them slept in the mule carriage, and the other slept by the fire.

They sat in piles and stood guard. Since the trip, Si Dailai and Mai Xiaoji had been taking turns on duty and never slackened off.

Early on the next morning, the three of them pulled the mule cart and climbed up the trampled mountain snowfield with bows, arrows and swords. Fortunately, the winding hillside was not steep, otherwise they would not have been able to take the mule cart up the mountain.

If you are lucky, you can still keep your biggest asset - the mule cart.

The mountain was covered with snow and the cold was so severe that the three of them crawled out and were covered in sweat.

Mai Xiaoji heard the hard breathing of Jin Niang and her husband: "How about we rest before we leave."

"No." Seeing that he was about to climb to the top of the hillside, Ji Rongjin gritted his teeth and persisted, continuing to climb.

Si Dailai was a scholar. After climbing the mountain for a long time, he couldn't bear it and wanted to take a rest. But the young lady didn't even take a rest, so he insisted.

Finally at dusk, the three of them climbed to the top of the hillside. Standing on the top of the high mountain, they had a panoramic view. The terrain on the other side of the mountains winded from high to low, and at the foot of the mountain, there was an endless horizon.

The plains lay before their eyes.

"God, there really is a village!" Mai Xiaoji shouted excitedly.

Ji Rongjin put up a pergola with his hands and kept looking into the distance, "Sir, look, that's the sea." At the end of the plain, the sea and the sky meet, as if there is no limit.

"There are really villages and towns." Si Dailai sighed with emotion, "What do you think is on the other side of the sea?"

"Who knows!" For modern Ji Rongjin, she certainly knows that Yidong is adjacent to those countries, that the north of the plain is a certain country, the east is a certain dynasty, and the south is a certain day, but she won't tell it.

Smile lightly.

Situ Lai looked at the young lady meaningfully and smiled without saying much.

"Have a rest at the top of the mountain overnight and come down tomorrow." Ji Rongjin took something from the carriage and prepared to make dinner.

Mai Xiaoji asked: "Isn't the foot of the mountain the destination of our trip?"

She smiled and said, "Almost."

Mai Xiaoji sighed, "I'm both happy and unhappy at the same time."

Ji and Situ both looked at him, "How do you say this?"

"What will we eat after we come down from the mountain?" he asked the two of them.

Situ stroked his beard and said, "I will still do my old job."

"That's true..." He had forgotten about it. "Then..." he thought for a moment, "I'll just look for those who need coolies. As long as I'm alive, there will always be a way."

Going south to find Ji Rongjin, the journey was full of ups and downs, but this was not a problem for her.

He smiled sincerely and said, "Jin'er, I will support you."

"……"here we go again.

Ji Rongjin was helpless, "I also have ways to support myself."

Now it was the two men's turn to look at her, "Doing business?" After all, she made a living by doing business when she was in the capital.

"That's right." Ji Rongjin did not deny it.

"But now you don't even have a penny of capital, how can you do business?"

Ji Rongjin pointed to the mountains, "They are the best capital."

The two of them were puzzled.

Ji Rongjin raised his eyebrows and pointed to the carriage, "I picked up a lot of things when I climbed the mountain just now."

"Those chestnuts that fell, the black fungus on the dead tree, the shiitake mushrooms under the bushes?"

"Yes, that's right." If it weren't for the fear of wild animals in the mountains and forests, Ji Rongjin would have wanted to get out and pick up a large carriage. Now, he picked up as he walked and only picked up a few kilograms of each item.

"I thought you picked them up as food rations, but it turned out that I had already planned to do so."

"We have to pay for rations and earn money." Ji Rongjin nodded: "Compared with what we do for a living, I am more worried about whether the people here can accept us from outside, what local customs are there, and how to avoid them in order to integrate.
Chapter completed!