74. Pick up salt and go up the mountain
As soon as they arrived at the inn, everyone understood the smooth business from Niu Gu's eyes, and put down one heart, and the rest of the things were that they should eat, sleep, eat and drink, and be full of energy, and they would have to rush to the night at night.
The three dogs lying on the bed have been unable to sleep, and the more they try to make themselves asleep, the more they can't sleep; I simply didn't sleep, thinking wildly, thinking about the situation for more than a month, it was really like a dream.
That is, wait a few more days, and after earning this trip, the money that I was stolen before is almost earned back, and what is even more exciting is that in a few days, I will soon return to my parents, and I can see the bright moon.
How is it not exciting? How is it not exciting? He who flies like an arrow returns to his heart; A heart looking forward to returning, a heart looking forward to a happy life in the future.
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Everyone ate well at dinner, and bought some dry food, brought some water, and prepared to eat on the road. After that, when it was dark (23:00-01:00), there were almost no pedestrians on the road, and the cow took everyone to load salt.
The salt bag is fifty catties a bag, and everyone generally carries a bag of salt in a basket on one side, one hundred catties; The big potato asked for four bags of 200 catties, and the flat shoulder of the big potato was made of miscellaneous wood, otherwise it would not be able to withstand this weight, and the basket and rope were reinforced.
The legs of the ox and the iron farmer are one hundred and fifty catties, three packs, and one bag is divided into two baskets; The cow is called the horned flea Xiucai, and the three dogs can pick a few fifty catties or seventy-five catties, but the three dogs must be one hundred catties, and the bull does not insist anymore.
If you pick more, you will earn more, and Sangou wants to pick more and earn back the money he lost before; Everyone knows and understands this, and everyone will do it.
Niu Gu walked in the front, after hitting Tienon, the three dogs followed everyone in the middle, because it was almost half of July, the moon in the sky was bright and bright, and the earth was clear, so there was no need to light a torch.
A group of people walked the night road with torches, it was too dazzling, it would definitely not do that, and everyone had just walked this road once, and Niu Gu Lao Li had crawled many times on this road, even in the dark night, he could also take everyone out.
So, speechless all the way, not far from each other, not close, close to the fear of bumping and bumping, causing the dog to bark and others to pay attention, far away, afraid of stretching too long, not taking care of each other.
Despite this, you can't hide it from people, but you can't hide it from the dog, who sleeps with its ears on the ground and can receive a slight tremor from the footsteps on the road within a few hundred meters.
There are so many people in the three dogs, and they also carry heavy burdens, and for the dog's ears, the tremor of the ground is even stronger, so when everyone passes through the village at the bottom of the mountain, there will be a dog barking.
The dogs in the village are all bird-like, as long as the dog barks at the head of the village at night, the dogs in the whole village will echo, and the barking will be one after another, until the people have walked through the whole village, and after the end of the village, these dogs will slowly stop barking.
Therefore, people in the village who sleep at home at night can tell from the sound of dogs when outsiders enter the village and when they leave the village. Because generally when people return to the village, the dog doesn't bark much, and it won't bark after two low roars, and other dogs won't bark for so long.
If the outsider stays in the village all the time, or does not enter the house (it may be a guest), then the village dog will bark all the time, which will annoy the people who bark, and also make the petty theft uncomfortable, similar to the car alarm of modern people.
If the barking of the dog does not stop, and even the dog rushes out of the house and runs to a place, and there is the sound of the dog biting, it must be a thief in the village, and the men of the village will get up and come out to check.
Fortunately, the three dogs just walked on the edge of the village, not into the village, from the bottom of the gourd mound to the gourd mound, and then to the Lazikeng, and finally after the pine tree row in the middle of the mountain, the dog barked and fell, and one village after another barked.
As soon as the people in the village heard it, they knew that this was not a thief, and it was estimated that it was a group of pickers who were in a hurry to pick up the husband at night, and there was usually this phenomenon occasionally, so they didn't care about it, besides, it was already late at night, who would like to get up well in a good sleep and watch these irrelevant things.
Therefore, the three dogs and they were halfway up the mountain when there was an alarm, and there was no thrill, and all of them were dead and heavy salt bags, and everyone was tired and sweaty, and their shirts were soaked.
The cow screamed for everyone to stop and rest, and as soon as they put down their burdens, everyone was paralyzed on the ground, so tired that they couldn't speak, thinking, this is going to die or live, and they will never be porters again in the next life, the first bitterness in the world.
But as soon as I looked back at the salt bags in the basket, I felt that they were all as precious as golden lumps, and I couldn't wait to go up and hug and kiss them.
Birds die for food and for money; People in this world, bustling, aren't they all coming and going for fame and fortune, if you want to open it, it's all the same; If you are tired, you will be tired, at least to earn your hard-earned money, and you will not steal or rob, the money that Lao Tzu earns is hard, and you can spend it openly in broad daylight.....
Everyone, you and I will talk about it, and try your best to comfort yourself with words to comfort yourself and cheer yourself up. Sangou saw that everyone took off their shirts and hung them on the flat shoulder, and also took off their sweaty clothes.
In the middle of the night, the mountain wind on the mountain was very strong, which made everyone cold, and they could no longer sit down, otherwise, when the porter was carrying the burden, he caught a cold, and when it was spread, he would not be laughed to death.
Everyone swarmed up, hung their wet clothes on a flat pole, and let the mountain wind blow here, and estimated that after half an hour, the clothes would be dry.
Now pick up the burden, the whole body is steaming, even if it is snowing heavily, the three dogs listen to the old Li Tou they said, there is a year is also to pick the mountain road, the end of the year, pick the New Year's goods, the owner is in a hurry, halfway to the heavy snow.
Wearing thick clothes to carry the burden, after a while, the clothes are sweaty, and they can't dry all of a sudden, and they will really catch a cold, so everyone simply takes off their clothes and picks them, and some only wear a thin piece of clothing.
I didn't expect to be very comfortable to take off my shirt in the snow, and it didn't matter if it snowed heavily.
It's just that after taking off the shirt, the shoulders are directly pressed by the flat shoulder, and the three dogs feel that they can't stand it, so they find a towel to wrap the middle of the flat shoulder, which is much more comfortable, but when it comes to changing shoulders, the towel will be displaced or loosened, making it difficult to live all the way.
Finally arrived at the top of the mountain col of Damen Ridge, that is, the Lingtang Inn, remembering the good time here last night, everyone couldn't help but look at the inn a few more times.
The inn was closed, dark, and everyone tried not to make a sound, so as not to disturb the good dreams of the person inside; Perhaps, on this difficult road of porters, this humble inn is filled with everyone's yearning, everyone's beauty, or it is a dream for everyone......