A place called Yunshan!
The old Zhuang man handed the sweet potato over again, "Look at you, dressed like a vagabond, you must be starving, right? Hurry up and eat it, if you starve to death, everything will be gone, even the rarest things can't be treasured!"
"Hmm," Tang Lin's eyes reddened, and she nodded heavily before taking off her camouflage backpack and placing it on the stone steps beside the old man. She took the wrapped sweet potatoes from the old man's hands, sat down on the steps, and without even peeling the skin, bit into a charred end, devouring it ravenously. It was as if she hadn't eaten in days, her eating manner extremely urgent.
The old man glanced at her and chuckled, "Girl, slow down, there's still some left, don't choke yourself!"
"It's so delicious!" Tang Lin spoke unclearly, chewing and speaking at the same time, completely unable to control her mouth. After eating for a while, she swallowed a big mouthful and asked the old man, "Old sir, can you tell me what place this is?"
The old man looked at her in surprise, "How is it that you can come here, yet don't know where this place is?"
Tang Lin smiled foolishly, "Newcomer, haven't even asked around yet."
"This is the most prosperous place in our Yu Xin Huang Chao - Du Cheng!" The old strong man said while roasting sweet potatoes, "It's a place under the emperor's feet!"
"No wonder," Tang Lin glanced around, "this place is more prosperous than I imagined. So this is the capital city. By the way, old man, does the Yu Xin imperial court have a place called Yun Shan?"
Lao Zhuang Han was stunned, his eyes filled with incredulity as he stared at Tang Lin, "Wow, young lady, I didn't expect you to be well-read in poetry."
Tang Lin didn't understand the old man's meaning, "Does Cloud Mountain have anything to do with reading poetry and books?"
Lao Zhuang Han said, "The relationship is great. In ancient times, this city was Yunshan, a desolate and barren Yunshan. And the foot of Yunshan was adjacent to the imperial city, which was next to the imperial palace. Yunshan has been recorded in books, but people who have not read ancient books will not know that Yunshan is now a prosperous metropolis!
After listening to Lao Zhuang Han's words, Tang Lin couldn't help but furrow her brow and make a bitter face. "Wu wu, this game is too big!"
"Huh? What's wrong with you?" The old strong man looked at Tang Lin in confusion.
Tang Lin looked at him with a tearful expression, "I know Yunshan is big, it's our military base. But how did it become like this? I want to find Yunshan, from the original crossing place, take a look and see if we can find the time tunnel back to modern times. But everything has changed here, where can I go?"
"What's going on?" The old man became increasingly bewildered.
"Nothing." Tang Lin bit into a sweet potato, continuing to look worried and dejected.
It was almost noon when the old man's roasted sweet potatoes were all sold out and he was packing up to leave.
Tang Lin sat on the stone steps for half a day, with her hands propped up on her knees and her cheeks resting on them, watching the people coming and going.
"Hey girl, don't you have a place to stay?" The old man finished packing up his things and looked at Tang Lin with a lack of energy.
Tang Lin weakly replied: "Not a single cent, where can I live?"
The old man glanced at the sky, then took out a piece of broken silver from his embarrassed pouch, took Tang Lin's hand, stuffed the silver into her palm, and closed her hand again. "Go find an inn to stay in, tomorrow go around to find a job, just do it for now, can't be so down and out!"
"Old man," Tang Lin's eyes were hot again, with a hundred emotions converging at once.
"Here you go, oh, I'm going home now!" The old man let go of Tang Lin's hand and pushed his roasted sweet potato cart away.
Looking at the silver coins in her hand, then looking at the old man's back, Tang Lin bit her lower lip, "Don't worry, I'll definitely pay you back several times more, wait for me!"