Chapter 3 It's Snow
The north wind is cold!
The sea was surging with the biting cold wind, and the waves slammed on the reefs, rumbling and splashing out countless small bubbles.
And in such a cold weather with ice, a man was cursing and catching fish and crabs by the beach.
Yang Yi has been on the beach for three days. He was inexplicably swept in by a white light at the entrance of the bronze gate. When the white light dissipated, he was already standing on a reef.
In such a cold weather, he felt like the north wind was blowing like a knife. When the strong wind was blowing, the last bit of heat in his body drifted away. In an instant, his body became stiff.
But this was also a matter of moment. After he reacted, his internal force quickly dispelled the cold air and his body returned to normal.
After carefully looking at the surrounding environment, Yang Yi was stunned. He found that he was standing on a reef the size of a house, and the reef was covered with sea water. Looking at it, the beach closest to the reef must be hundreds of meters away.
"Depend on!"
Yang Yi cursed at the sky: "I'm going to blame your mother!"
"What the hell is this?"
After considering that it was unrealistic to wait for the police uncle to come to rescue, Yang Yi had to take off his clothes and go into the water, and swim to the beach for a while.
After walking along the beach for a long time, no one could see it. Yang Yi was so unbearable that he had to go into the sea to fish, dig crabs by the beach, and became Robinson by the beach.
Today is the second day he has come here. After finding a cave last night for a night, Yang Yi started catching fish and having dinner this morning after tomorrow, and was about to go to the land to see if he could see the villages and towns. At least he had to figure out where he was, so as to make plans for the future.
After catching the fish, I was too lazy to make a fire and cook. There was no lighter here, and it was hard to find something to cause fire. He didn't have a pot, so it was really a luxury to make a fire and cooked food.
He carried a dagger with him, which was a birthday gift given to him by an official from the Han Dynasty. It was extremely sharp and could be called a magic weapon.
He rarely uses this dagger, but it has come in handy these two days, but it is just right to use it to peel fish fillets now.
After a few fish were eaten, Yang Yi looked at the big green crabs with their teeth and claws spitting bubbles under his feet, and smiled and said, "My uncle is in a good mood today. Let's take your lives for the time being, you can go with them!"
He kicked out a few times, and he had already kicked several crabs into the sea water in the distance, and he didn't know whether they were dead or alive.
This time, Yang Yi no longer walked along the beach, but turned his back to the beach and walked inland. As expected, he walked in the right direction. After walking for five or six miles, a small village appeared in sight.
When I arrived at the nearby village, I found an old lady basking in the sun at the door and asked. It turned out that this small village was called Hongjia Village, and the sea near the village was called Bohai, but now it was during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.
"So, I came to the Ming Dynasty, and I was near the Shandong Peninsula?"
Yang Yi thought something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. Just as his thoughts were flying, the old lady who spoke to him saw that he was unkempt and thin, and couldn't help but feel kind-hearted and said to Yang Yi: "Young Master, I see that your clothes are thin and the weather is so cold, why not go to my house to drink some water and warm it up?"
Of course, Yang Yi was reluctant to ask for it. After following the old lady into the yard, he found that there was only one daughter-in-law and a three-year-old granddaughter in her family. Seeing that a guest had entered the yard, his daughter-in-law hurriedly boiled water and made tea and cooked for life. After a while, a delicious meal of fisherman's house was on the table.
From the table, I learned that the old lady’s husband’s surname was Hong, and her husband died early. Only one son worked in the gang. He could earn a few taels of silver every year. Compared with other families, the family was still rich. The old lady believed in Buddhism and always felt that doing things for the gang may not be a good thing. Therefore, she would do good deeds when she had the opportunity to atone for her children. This is also the reason why Yang Yi could have this meal.
After a meal, Yang Yi's body had become warm. He carried an embroidery bag with him, which contained a lot of gold leaves. Yang Yi pulled out a gold leaf from the embroidery bag and handed it to the old lady: "Auntie, thank you for your hospitality. I have been shipwrecked now. There is nothing else on my body, only this little gold leaf."
The old lady of the Hong family said she didn't want Yang Yi's money. Later, Yang Yi said: "I only have this layer of single clothes now. The weather is so cold. If the aunt has clothes suitable for me at home, she might as well give me one. This gold is considered clothes and food."
The old lady smiled and said, "It's just a piece of clothing, how can you use gold? My son Shenghai still has a few old clothes at home. You can just put it on and wear it first. I'll ask your neighbor to take you to the tailor shop later. You have gold enough to make more than ten silk clothes!"
The old lady asked her daughter-in-law to take out an old winter clothes from the house and put them on. She called a young man from the neighbor and ordered: "Xiaohu, please send this young man to the tailor shop in the town to buy a few ready-made clothes. The tailor shop asked for a high price. You can bargain for the young man more!"
Xiaohuzi is fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same age as Yang Yi, but she is much shorter than Yang Yi, with a face full of food, and she looks malnourished at first glance.
He was wearing a flowery cotton pants on his lower body, and a greasy black cotton jacket tied with a cloth strip on his upper body. His nose was red with cold. He nodded and bowed to the old lady, "Grandma, don't worry, I will definitely give this husband a price and not let the tailor shop cheat him!"
Yang Yi felt warm. Whether it was the old lady of the Hong family or the dirty little tiger, they all gave him a warm feeling.
Although he is not a bit down now, he naturally feels a little confused and helpless in such an unfamiliar place. Now, when he first saw people, the old lady pulled him into the house to take care of a meal. Now he asked Xiao Huzi to accompany him to buy clothes. He has already remembered this favor in his heart, thinking: "After buying clothes, I will leave the gold in my bag to them quietly!"
The nearby town closest to Hongjia Village must be six or seven miles away. Xiaohuzi took out a dog-skin hat from his home and held it on his head, led Yang Yi out of the village and headed towards the main road.
Half an hour later, the two of them had already arrived at the tailor shop in the town. Yang Yi spent money to buy two winter clothes and also bought one for Xiaohuzi.
When he knew that he would buy clothes for himself, Xiaohuzi was so shocked that he shook his hand repeatedly and said he would not dare to take it away. Until Yang Yi was trying to throw the clothes on the street, Xiaohuzi happily took it away, thanked Yang Yi for his thousand-heartedness and kept saying some thanks.
Yang Yi exchanged Jin Yezi for some scattered silver from the silver shop in the town, and at the same time bought some beef and mutton, preparing to give it to the old lady of the Hong family.
The two of them went from the village to the town, and they had spent half a day. During this half day, the sky was covered with clouds and heavy snow was falling.
By the time we were about to arrive in Hongjia Village, the road surface was covered with heavy snow and the snow was more than one foot high.
Xiaohuzi exclaimed, "What a heavy snow!" He had never seen such heavy snow before. The heavy snow fell on the ground like goose feathers, rustling sound. Looking around, I saw a vast white area in the wilderness, which was really covered with silver and whitewashed the mountains and rivers.
Yang Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry about it first when the snow is heavy and the snow is small. It's important to go home now."
When the two arrived at the entrance of the village, Yang Yi asked Xiaohuzi curiously: "Xiaohu, do you burn a bonfire to celebrate when it snows here?"
Xiaohuzi smiled and said, "Young Master really loves to joke! It's a cold day, with such heavy snow, poor people freeze to death every year. Where will anyone celebrate this?"
Yang Yi asked, "That's strange, why did such a big fire ignite in the middle of the village?"
Xiaohuzi also saw it at this time, and saw a place in the middle of Hongjia Village, which had already started to burn. The fire was shining brightly throughout the village. The tongues of flames were several feet high. I vaguely heard villagers shouting.
"Fighting the Fire"
"Save people"
"Go away, it's going to be ruined!"
The sound is noisy and messy.
Chapter completed!