Chapitre 17: The Capital City Is North of the Divine River
Éditeur: Dragon Boat Translation
Cheng Ling was looking forward to the answer and chose to look at the map of Zhangjiakou first.
The map that had been collected was about ten inches in length and width, square, neither big nor small. It was presented on a smooth piece of paper that was slightly yellow, and the scale ruler in the upper left corner was clearly marked.
This was the drawing method of modern maps, which was undoubtedly more clear and accurate than ancient maps.
Cheng Ling felt that her collection ability was impressive. What was the principle behind it? Since she couldn't figure it out, she could only treat it as a gift from the heavens. She would slowly study it when she had the opportunity in the future.
She looked at the map carefully.
The main part of this map was of course Zhangjiakou. The terrain of Zhangjiakou, where there were mountains, where there was water, where there were roads, where there were fields, where there were houses, all were clearly marked.
There were even some houses with the owners' names written in nuanced simplified characters, such as the Li Zheng family, the family of the clan leader, and so on...
It was an accurate satellite cloud image!
However, this wasn't Cheng Ling's main focus. She was mainly looking at the surroundings of Zhangjiakou.
To the North of Zhangjiakou, over the mountains, was Ping County!
The county that Zhang Jiagou belonged to happened to be Lu County.
It turned out that the refugee, Zhang, was from Lu County.
Cheng Ling's heart trembled.
Zhang, a citizen of Lu County, came to the mountains of Ping County and became a refugee. He even became a cannibal... What did this mean?
It meant that Lu County must have also suffered a disaster, and it was very likely to be a disaster more serious than that in Lou County!
Cheng Ling's heart started to beat faster as she carefully looked at the map again.
The main part of the map was Zhangjiakou, so only Zhangjiakou was drawn in detail. The rest of the map only had the main routes and rough terrain, which was naturally much simpler than Zhangjiakou.
However, this also revealed a lot of information.
For example, the mountain where Cheng Ling and the others were now.
This mountain was called Mount peace. Mount Peace was a mountain that extended from east to west. The mountain range rose and fell, starting from the west of Wei County in the east and ending in the west... But where the west ended was not indicated on the map.
However, Cheng Ling knew that Mount Peace divided Ping County and Lu County into north and south.
Ping County was in the north of the mountain, and Lu County was in the south!
Crossing the mountains was undoubtedly the shortest route if there was transportation between the two counties. However, if one did not want to cross the mountains, they could take a detour from Wei County to Ping County.
That was all the information on the map. However, through Cheng Ling's memory, she knew that after she escaped from Lou County, she had passed by Zhu County and Wei County.
With that, Cheng Ling figured out the route from Lou County to Zhu County, Wei County, Ping County, and Lu County.
She let out a light breath and put the map back into the medium under the cover of her bag.
Next up was the merchant Liang's merchant map.
This merchant map was obviously not as detailed as the map of Zhangjiakou, but it showed a wider geographical scope.
From Lou County, to Ping County, to Yun An County, and then to the North, it was Red Cloud City.
And Chixia city was the capital of Yunchuan County!
Chixia city was located in the North of Yunchuan County, guarding the key traffic point. Further north was the Shenchuan County.
After the divine river, it would be the capital Area.
Unfortunately, the map only had the words "capital" roughly written on it. As for the specific route and terrain, it didn't show anything.
But that was enough.
At this point, Cheng Ling went from being completely clueless about this world to a basic understanding of its administrative geography.
She let out a sigh of relief and put away the map.
At this time, she looked at Mu Sanniang and the others. Mu Sanniang had already washed the wolf meat. Cheng Dani had brought the two children to pick up a lot of dry wood and half a basket of wild vegetables.
Hong Guangyi had finished boiling a pot of water while Cheng Erni checked their rattan basket backpack.
"It's been worn out," she said with heartache as she checked. "I have to pick up some materials and make another one."
This was what it meant to escape. Everything was lacking along the way, and they had to collect everything constantly. Many things that were obtained from local materials were very fragile, and they had to be remade after a few uses.
Cheng Dani bit her lip. "It's not difficult to make it. There are willow trees by the river. I'll go and pull some willow branches over. The woven basket will be more solid."
Third aunt mu looked at the pile of wolf meat that had been washed clean and felt a little worried.
The weather was hot, so the wolf meat wouldn't be preserved for long even if it was salted, not to mention that they didn't have enough salt.
How should he preserve the wolf meat?
"Mother, I found a map on the bodies of those refugees," Cheng Ling said softly as she walked over.
Third aunt mu raised her head, her eyes lighting up.
"Mother, we'll go down to the middle of the mountain later," Cheng Ling said. "We'll walk a hundred miles east along the foot of the mountain, then cross the mountain to the North. There's a road there that leads to Yun An County."
In other words, they had to go along Mount Pingming, take a detour to the East, bypass Ping County, and go directly to Yun An County.
He couldn't go to Lu County, and he couldn't stay in Ping County. Yun An County wasn't far from Chixia city, but he could try.
For a County that was closer to the prefecture capital, it was generally better than a remote area in terms of policies and facilities.
Cheng Ling explained the geographical location of Yun An County to Mu Sanniang.
Mu's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she immediately said, "Then let's cook all the wolf meat and let it be smoked and dried under the sun. It should be able to last for a longer time, at least enough to support us through this hundred li!"
"We only have two jars," Cheng Ling said. "I'm afraid we won't be able to cook so much wolf meat before dark. I'll build a few more stoves and find some thin stone slabs to cook the wolf meat on. It'll be edible."
This was a good idea. Third aunt mu nodded her head.
Cheng Ling got to work and ordered Hong Guangyi, "Second brother Hong, please cool the boiling water in the clay pot and take out the clear parts for brother Shi to clean."
There were also many small wounds on Shi Hong's body, but they weren't as serious as the knife wound on his arm, so Cheng Ling didn't treat them before.
She couldn't handle it. If she really wanted to clean all the wounds on Shi Hong's body, she would have to use up all the saline and iodophor she had in Cheng Ling's space.
In addition, Hong Guangyi had many small wounds on his body.
However, they were used to the rough way of escape, and sometimes they didn't even care about small injuries.
Hong Guangyi quickly agreed. He was not good at finding work, but if someone asked him to do something, he would do it quickly.
On the other side, Cheng Ling was busy, and from the corner of her eye, she saw Cheng Dani washing the wild vegetables.
Among the wild vegetables, there was one that looked familiar. Cheng Ling's heart moved, and she quickly pointed to the small handful of green vegetables and said, "Big sister, let me see this."
Cheng Dani raised a few wild vegetables in her hand and handed them to Cheng Ling. Cheng Ling took them and was a little surprised. "This is little li!"
"Tang Ben Cao" records that Xiao Li specializes in blood.
This was a medicine that could cool blood and stop bleeding!
-- Cadeau
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