Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

It was said that Luo Yu wanted to leave, but in fact it was Xia Liang's idea.

It was very tiring for her to hold her bowel movements and urine every day. The carriage was stuffy and hot, and even putting a few buckets of ice in to cool it down didn't have much effect.

She couldn't eat or sleep well, and she missed running freely and happily in the wild with her lackey.

In order to stay cool in the summer, Luo Yu decided to live in the wild and bought pots, pans, utensils and food to take with them on the road so that they would not have to go into the city to stay in an inn.

It is only more than 150 kilometers away from Liangzhou City. If the journey is smooth, we can arrive there in about three days.

However, it is normal to waste time eating and going to the toilet in the cool summer.

For the first time, Bai Lingyi was not so eager to return to Liangzhou City. He was even a little afraid to return to the unfamiliar Fang family.

Along the way, we chatted about everything under the sun.

Luo Yu took out a deck of homemade cards and began to explain to Fang how to play poker.

After playing a few games, Fang had memorized most of it, so she smiled and said, "If only learning to read and write were this easy."

Luo Yu thought about it and realized that knowing how to read is indeed very important in this era, but there are few people who can truly read, and even if it is passed on by word of mouth, it cannot be popularized. So how can literacy be popularized?

"Mother, what do you think is the greatest need of the people today?"

"I think it's about filling our stomachs. The gap between the rich and the poor is huge these days. What I've seen and heard these past few days has made my mother realize that it's very difficult for ordinary people to have enough to eat."

Qin Bingrui's leisurely voice came from outside the car: "Having enough food is certainly important, but I think people should learn to think, learn to think independently, so that they can find ways to eat well and live well in this dynasty."

"If people don't have enough to eat, how can they think? All they think about is how to get enough to eat."

Luo Yu counterattacked what Qin Bingrui said.

Qin Bingrui smiled and said, "That's why we need to eradicate illiteracy. If everyone can read and write, they will naturally learn to think independently."

When Fang heard this, she thought it was easy to say. Making everyone literate and reading was probably something that even the current emperor would not dare to make a decision on.

Bai Lingyi rode closely beside Qin Bingrui's carriage, side by side.

He listened to what Qin Bingrui said and wondered, how can we make everyone literate? This is much more difficult than ensuring everyone has enough food to eat, right?

At this time, the voice of Sister Luo Yi was heard: "Xiao Yi, do you think there is any way to make it possible for everyone to buy books, read books and learn to read?"

"Ah, this." Xiaoyi thought with a frown.

"Just say whatever you want. If there's nothing else to do, we'll just treat it as a way to kill time."

"Paper, ink, brushes, and inkstones are too expensive. I heard the teacher say that even if an ordinary family saves and lives frugally, they can only afford to send one person to college. If there is even the slightest problem with the family's livelihood, it will be difficult to send only one person to school."

"Then we have to solve this problem."

Luo Yu thought that a book cost several hundred coins, which was enough for a farmer's family to live on for a month, plus the price of pens, ink, paper and inkstone. It was really unrealistic to expect everyone to have enough food and learn to read.

Forget it, don’t think about it for now.

Luo Yu was holding a deck of playing cards, but two people were not enough to play with them. His lackeys also didn't know how to play. Bingrui and Xiaoyi needed to drive the carriage, so it seemed that they were still missing someone along the way.

"Bingrui, we always feel that there is not enough excitement on this trip. If there were more people, we could play Landlord on the road."

"I think so too. We should find another traveler who can compose and sing. That way it will be more lively!"

"We're still lacking someone who knows how to cook. Sister Luo's food always tastes the same."

Xia Liang then blurted out a sentence that scared Bai Lingyi. Why did the white tiger roar as it pleased without any warning?

At noon, the carriage left the official road and prepared to find a secluded place to start cooking.

After getting off the car, Bai Lingyi took Baihu and Goupuizi to the forest to relieve himself.

The lackey was responsible for digging the hole, Xiaoyi was responsible for cleaning up the two of them, and was also responsible for burying them, which made Baihu very happy. It turned out that having more younger brothers was not bad.

After that, Baihu took his lackeys to go hunting. Bai Lingyi felt that he was powerless, so he asked Brother Bingrui for a sword and went hunting with Baihu.

Fang looked embarrassed. Yier didn't dare to kill even a chicken, let alone hunting.

Luo Yu saw what she was thinking and smiled to comfort her: "Mother, Xiaoyi is not young anymore. In three or four years, he can get married and have children. Look at him, he can't lift anything. What's the point of having a good appearance?"

"Chu'er is right. Our Bai family's eldest branch has no power, no influence, and no money. If Yi'er reaches the age of getting married, I'm afraid there won't be many girls from good families willing to marry him."

"So, I think Yi'er should study hard, take the imperial examination and become an official in the future, and also learn martial arts to become a good man who is both civil and military."

Fang chuckled, thinking that Luo Yu was only a few years older than Yi'er, yet he was still thinking about Yi'er's future. He truly treated Yi'er like his own brother. If Yi'er could really stay with Qin Bingrui and Luo Yu, wouldn't it be much better than staying with his mother?

When she thought of this, she suddenly became nervous.

Luo Yu didn't know what she was thinking, and he was busy preparing to light a fire and cook.

Fang had recently learned how to burn firewood, so she took the initiative to ask to make a fire. Luo Yu asked Qin Bingrui to wash the pots and pans, while he went to pick some wild vegetables and fruits.

I walked into the woods and found some edible wild vegetables. Just as I was about to leave, a fruit hit my toe.

Looking up, I saw a wild peach tree full of wild peaches.

"Hey, wild peaches, I don't know if they taste good, let's pick them first."

If all else fails, you can just boil a pot, add some sugar, and then cool it with ice cubes to make a nice summer dessert.

Luo Yu thought happily, put the wild vegetables on the ground, and was about to climb the tree to pick the fruit, but he didn't expect a peach to hit him on the head.

Damn it, someone dares to hit me.

When Luo Yu looked up, he saw that it was not a human, but a monkey, a little monkey with golden hair. How could there be golden monkeys in this damn place?

How could Luo Yu be the one being bullied? The monkey hit her, and she picked up the peaches on the ground and hit back.

Let’s see who is better.

After a while, half of the peaches on the tree fell under the tree, and most of them were not broken. Luo Yu was too lazy to argue with the monkey anymore. He picked up the peaches under the tree and put them in his backpack, leaving the peaches on the tree to the fierce little monkey.

When they returned to the fire place, Xia Liang and Bai Lingyi had also returned from hunting. Xiaoyi was talking to his mother about his heroic hunting skills with gestures, and Fang was smiling happily.

Xia Liang lay on the side, and the lackey used his claws to tickle her. Qin Bingrui dragged a sika deer that was bitten to death by the white tiger and the lackey, and prepared to find a spring to wash it.

The scene before my eyes was extremely heartwarming.

Luo Yu felt very happy. He thought that it was worth the trip as long as everything in the world was beautiful for just this moment.

Seeing the peaches that Luo Yu had brought, Bai Lingyi picked up one, wiped it on his body, and put it directly into his mouth. Ouch, he had never eaten such a bitter and sour peach.

"Sister, you brought back so many sour peaches. How can you eat them all?"

"If monkeys can eat it, why can't you?"

"Sister, where did the monkey come from? I'll go catch it." Xia Liang became very excited when he heard there was a monkey, and the lackey also barked twice.

There was no need for them to bother catching them. Luo Yu picked up the peaches and asked Bai Lingyi to wash them together. Unexpectedly, she was hit on the head just after she picked up one. This time, it was not a peach that hit her, but a wild hawthorn.

Damn, this wild monkey followed her.