When setting up camp at night, Chen Zining paid attention and saw that a couple in their forties came out of the first carriage, and a woman in her fifties and a man about fourteen or fifteen years old came out of the second carriage. A young girl and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old. Stepping out of the third carriage was a young woman in her thirties with a baby in her arms and a maid.
Chen Zining received a small tent. After eating, he and Shen Yingyang were assigned to watch for two hours in the first half of the night. The two of them guarded a bonfire outside. Shen Yingyang asked: "Zi Ning, who are you?" You are a child of a noble family, right? Why is no one accompanying you to Changfeng Academy?"
"A child of a noble family? Why do you think so?"
"The horse you are riding, Black Cloud Cover Snow, looks like it is not an ordinary species. I am afraid it is worth thousands of gold. Ordinary people with money can't buy it. What's more, you are not even eighteen years old. You have the strength of a warrior at such a young age. It’s not something that ordinary people can afford to cultivate.”
Chen Zining smiled. He really couldn't explain these problems, so he changed the topic and said: "Are eighteen-year-old samurai rare? I heard that Lin Jiwei, who ranked first in the "Rookie List", was promoted to samurai when he was eight years old. .”
Shen Yingyang smiled bitterly and said: "Please, don't compare yourself to these monsters. When such people were three or four years old, they had a peerless master in the family build their foundation. They ate spiritual rice three meals a day." , there are also spiritual fruits and elixirs for snacks, plus his own qualifications, it is not surprising that some monsters will appear, but Vincent, who is ranked ninth, is just a peasant, and he has become a martial arts middle school at the age of twenty-two. This level of cultivation is the idol of us common people."
The so-called "wild people" are people who live in cities and towns. They are nicknames for farmers, mountain people, fishermen, etc. who live in the countryside. The villagers of Chenjia Village are among them. They are only more popular than those who live in rural areas. The uncivilized barbaric tribes in the deep mountains and ridges are superior.
Chen Zining thought to himself that if he didn't hide his cultivation skills, he also had high-level martial arts abilities, and he could barely squeeze into the bottom of the "Rookie List".
While chatting, I observed the movement around me and didn't feel the passage of time. It wasn't until someone came to change my shift that I felt that the night had deepened.
The rest of the trip was uneventful. It was not until the afternoon of the third day that the team encountered a little trouble. When passing through an extremely dense jungle, due to the light, walking in in broad daylight seemed like dusk. The advance team A group of green wolves were not found on both sides of the road. More than a hundred green wolves launched a suicidal charge towards nearly two hundred samurai-level warriors.
I don’t know whether this group of green wolves had no eyesight or were hungry. As a result, except for a few green wolves who were quick to see the opportunity and fell behind and fled into the jungle in a hurry, the other green wolves in front were all knocked down in twos and twos. As a result, before Chen Zining and others who were at the end could intervene, the riot ended.
On the fifth day, the team arrived at a small town called Kinmen. After leaving Kinmen City, they left the mountains of Yunjieling and entered the Red Soil Plains. The terrain here was relatively flat and it was an area where horse thieves were rampant. The spirit was lifted up, and several teams of sentinels were sent out around the team. When setting up camp, there was no shortage of small horses, antler trees, four-cornered iron caltrops and horse pits.
Early in the morning on the sixth day, the sentry in the team discovered horse thieves in twos and threes. At noon, a group of six to seven hundred horse thieves stopped the team.
Everyone surrounded the beasts of burden and carriages, drew their weapons, and waited calmly. Manager Fan stepped forward and raised his voice: "I am Fan Dongcheng, the manager of the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce. I don't know who is in charge? Please come out and speak."
A big man in black stood out from the crowd and said solemnly: "I am."
"This guy has a tight face. May I ask your surname?"
"The surname is Di."
"It turns out it's Mr. Di's family. I understand the rules on the road. Each brother has one silver coin, and I'll make up a small change. I'll give him a hundred gold coins and borrow some money from Mr. Di's family. What do you think?"
Mr. Di's face darkened and he said: "Manager Fan, please don't deceive me. Brother, I have received news from the road. Lord Meng Cheng of Taichang City has retired and returned to his hometown. All his wealth is here. He has pocketed more than 20 yuan."
I am not greedy for years of wealth. If you leave 10,000 gold coins, I will not leave anything difficult for you."
Fan Dongcheng gave a long laugh and said: "Master Di is really good at joking. Since our Qinghe Chamber of Commerce dares to take this job, we are sure to come and go freely. It's just that we have a tight schedule and don't want any delay. Master Di wants to weigh our strength.
Feel free to do it yourself.”
After speaking, he clapped his hands. The seventy guards, sixty guards and more than forty mercenaries in the team began to stir their meridians, and released a trace of thick or light white zhenqi, showing that the team members
Unique warrior strength.
Master Di's expression suddenly changed. He did not expect this team to be so powerful. He turned back and scolded a thin man in a low voice, obviously very dissatisfied with the intelligence error.
Fan Dongcheng felt relieved when he saw this. Horse thieves did not wait and rob on the road like mountain thieves. Once they spotted their target, they would suddenly attack while the opponent was moving, catching the opponent off guard. Like this group
The horse thieves stopped the caravan on the road and robbed it, making full preparations for the caravan. They were obviously hesitant and just wanted to get some advantages.
While the other party was still in a dilemma, Fan Dongcheng took out a bag of gold coins from his arms and threw it to Master Di, who was a hundred feet away. He said, "Master, let it go as soon as you see fit. You didn't come here in vain today, so why bother?"
Let your brothers bleed and die?"
Mr. Di was just in time to reply, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He pointed in the direction of Chen Zining and said, "Manager Fan, give me the Black Cloud Gaixue as well. I will give up this path. What do you think?"
Chen Zining was secretly amused. He didn't expect this matter to be dragged around, but it was brought to his head. He didn't say anything. He wanted to see how the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce would handle it?
Fan Dongcheng was also stunned for a moment. Unexpectedly, the leader of the horse thieves fell in love with a mercenary's mount. He had also seen the world. He saw that this dark-clouded snow horse was a head taller than an ordinary horse. There was not a single hair on its body.
The four hooves were white, making it look majestic and noble. He knew that he could not buy this horse without a thousand gold coins.
He couldn't help but frown, and said to Master Di: "Master, this brother is not from my chamber of commerce, but a mercenary hired by us. I can't decide on his mount."
Mr. Di laughed and said, "That would be easier. Just leave him alone and I will let you go."
Fan Dongcheng's eyes widened and he laughed angrily: "Master, why don't you ask me about it? I, the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce, have a reputation of more than 300 years and have always acted fairly. If you ask me to leave one person behind, ask my brother if he can answer.
promise?"
"No!"
Nearly two hundred people in the caravan replied loudly in unison!