Chapter 193: Night Smell
Because it is early spring, there are not many insects in the mountains, except for the occasional birdsong in the distance, the surroundings are very quiet, Wu Zhongyuan led the horse to walk in the dark night, although the north and south are distinguished, but I don't know where this road leads.
At this time, although there were horses, there were few carts, and most of the roads were very narrow, and the road he was walking at this time was only more than two feet wide, not that he deliberately chose a narrow road to walk, but that the other fork in the road was as narrow as this one, and it was impossible to distinguish between priority and priority.
Wu Zhongyuan walked very slowly, it was very dangerous to walk alone in the mountains in the dark night, there were wild beasts hiding everywhere, and he had to keep his spirits up. However, this is only one of the reasons why he is walking slowly, and another reason is that he is not sure if he is taking the right path at the moment, and if he takes the wrong path, he will have to go back.
The sound of horses' hooves when he walked with the white nose made him feel a little relieved, and with the white nose beside him, at least he was not alone.
Fear mainly comes from the unknown, and darkness is a kind of unknown, but fortunately, he has night vision and can see the surrounding scenery clearly, which also makes him panic, but he has never been afraid.
I have been walking for more than half an hour, and a black shadow faintly appeared in front of me, because the distance is still far away, I can't see the real appearance, I can only see that the black shadow moves in a posture that looks like a human walking.
Although he had been hoping to meet a passer-by to ask for directions, but someone really appeared, Wu Zhongyuan began to get nervous, because he couldn't be sure whether the person who came was a good person or a bad person, those who could rush in the dark had night vision, if it was a good person, it was okay, if it was a bad person, when he saw the horses and the goods on the horse, he was likely to move.
As the distance shortened, Wu Zhongyuan saw the appearance of the person who came, he was a short and fat man, wearing a big jacket, a yellow dogskin hat on his head, carrying a burden and a knife, with a fierce face.
At the same time that Wu Zhongyuan was looking at this person, the short and fat man was also looking at him, his eyes were not very friendly, he was hostile and vigilant.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't stop, and the short and fat man didn't stop, when he walked head-on, whoever stopped first meant who was timid, and when the short and fat man approached, Wu Zhongyuan said in a loud voice, "It's not easy, I finally met someone." ”
In fact, his voice was not so rough, the reason why he spoke in a rough voice was to show that he was bold, as soon as this remark came out, the short and fat man frowned slightly and tilted his head to look at him.
"This big brother," Wu Zhongyuan raised his hand at the other party, "It's cold, let's take a sip of wine and leave." ”
"What do you want to do?" the stocky man looked at him with a frown.
"I don't want to do anything," Wu Zhongyuan immediately took down the jar of wine that the inn had given him before, "I seem to be lost, and I want to ask you something." ”
"Where are you going?" asked the stocky man.
"Go to the fox clan, but take this road?" Wu Zhongyuan handed the wine jar to the short and fat man, "Come on two bites." ”
"Yes. After the short and fat man finished speaking, he walked forward, and did not take the wine jar handed over by Wu Zhongyuan.
"Take two sips. Wu Zhongyuan said again.
"Don't drink it," the short and fat man waved his hand, "the fox clan is not close to here, let's go quickly." ”
Wu Zhongyuan shouted and thanked him loudly, put away the wine jar, and led the horse again.
When he walked again this time, he didn't panic, but in fact, the difficulties he might encounter along the way were not what he was most worried about, what he was most worried about was that he was going in the wrong direction.
Not far away, there was the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and along with the sound of horses' hooves, there were also the sounds of men and women laughing.
Hearing the two talking, Wu Zhongyuan hurriedly led the horse into the roadside woods, the man's voice was very unfamiliar to him, but the woman's voice was very familiar to him, it was the Hundred Flowers Lady who talked to him last night.
The Hundred Flowers Lady and the man were in love at this time, and they didn't find Wu Zhongyuan in the forest, so they galloped past and went to the southeast.
When the two of them went far away, Wu Zhongyuan walked out of the woods with a horse, the Hundred Flowers Lady had seen him last night, fortunately she hadn't found it just now, otherwise she wouldn't have been entangled.
After walking not far to the south, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking wind behind him, and when he looked back, he saw two men rushing from the north, a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old in front of him, and a middle-aged man of about forty years old behind him.
The two of them were in a hurry, and when they arrived at Wu Zhongyuan, they neither stopped nor circled, but jumped straight over his head and continued to sweep forward.
Wu Zhongyuan frowned and looked at the two people who went away, he didn't know who these two people were, but he knew who these two people were, these two people were the warriors of the bird clan, and the basis for judging was that they were carrying a small wooden box behind their backs.
What Sanhu transferred was not all of Wu Tai's memories, but some things that were not mixed with Wu Tai's subjective cognition, and in Wu Tai's memory, this small wooden box was used by the Bird Clan warriors to store their armor.
The Bird Clan is good at smelting metal, and their warriors can improve their strength by wearing special armor, and the level of armor that different levels of warriors can wear is also different, and the range of inspiration armor is also different, the red warrior can be inspired by ten miles, the blue warrior can be inspired by a hundred miles, and the purple warrior can induce and summon his armor from thousands of miles away.
The two Bird Clan warriors in the past should have been blue qi or dark blue cultivators, and the scope of the inspiration armor was limited, so they needed to carry it with them.
Standing for a while, Wu Zhongyuan pulled his white nose and walked forward again, and before he went far, he vaguely heard someone arguing in the south, among which there was a female voice, who seemed to be a lady with a hundred flowers.
The place where the voice came from was located in Shanyang, and he was currently in Shandong, so he could only hear the quarrel, but he couldn't see who the Hundred Flowers Lady was arguing with.
The white nose has an advantage, it is not easy to be frightened, it is not easy to sneeze, and it is not dangerous to expose its whereabouts, so Wu Zhongyuan walked forward and listened carefully.
The quarrel with the Hundred Flowers Lady was a middle-aged man, and the reason for the quarrel seemed to be accusing the Hundred Flowers Lady of giving them fake medicine, while the Hundred Flowers Lady was arguing, only saying that the medicine given to them was prepared by snakes and insects, and there would never be a fake.
The middle-aged man has been blaming the Hundred Flowers Lady, complaining that she got a benefit but gave fake medicine, which ruined their big business. The Hundred Flowers Lady seemed to be very jealous of the person who spoke, and she didn't dare to offend too much, only saying that the medicine prepared for them was the nemesis of what bloodline, as long as it was used properly, it would definitely have the desired effect.
In the end, a young man spoke in a dark voice, only saying that he would let the Hundred Flowers Lady go with them and take action in person to ensure that nothing went wrong.
The Lady of Flowers agreed, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded.
When the sound of the horse's hooves was far away, Wu Zhongyuan led the horse around Shanyang, only to see a horse killed not far away, and there was a person lying on the ground.
Seeing the corpses of people and horses, Wu Zhongyuan knew why the Hundred Flowers Lady was so jealous of the two, it should have been the two bird warriors who quarreled with her before, and after the two caught up with the Hundred Flowers Lady, they first killed her concubine to vent their anger, and then talked to her.
The man who died was hit the head, bleeding from seven holes, and his death was ugly, but Wu Zhongyuan did not let him go because of this, he had previously searched for qi tonifying pills on the enemy's body and tasted the sweetness.
However, this time there was nothing decent, only a small porcelain bottle, uncorked, and some small red pills inside.
I don't know what's the use, so I'll keep it first. Then search for the baggage, there are a few gold bars in the baggage, the so-called gold bars, not gold bars in the real sense, to be exact, copper bars, gold in ancient times, in fact, is copper, due to the low level of smelting, metal is relatively scarce at this time, can also be used as currency.
After the search, hurry away, lest anyone see it and mistakenly think that he killed the person.
Most people's thinking characteristics are the same, what is lacking is important, people who have milk feel that bread is important, and people who have bread feel that milk is better. In modern times, there are legal constraints, and many things cannot be done, and at that time, he even had some longing to go back to the ancient times when there were no legal constraints, and he could be happy to revenge. But when I really came back, I found that it was still good to be bound by the law, this is an era when murder is not illegal, anyone can kill people, anyone can be killed, there is no sense of security at all, and the nerves are always tense.
Although it is already spring, the night is still very cold, but Wu Zhongyuan did not make a fire to rest, because there is light when there is a fire, and if there is light, it will expose his position, ordinary beasts are indeed afraid of fire, but there are some who are not afraid of fire, and it is not a wise move to make a fire from the deep mountains at night, and it will do more harm than good.
After walking all night, at dawn, I saw a cottage in the distance, the cottage is located on the mountainside of the West Mountain, and there is a fork in the road leading to the cottage.
After a short stop, Wu Zhongyuan continued to hurry, and did not go to the cottage, he had dry food on him, there was no need to go over the festival.
When the sun had risen, he stopped, led his horse to the side of the road, looked for the branches, and made a fire.
The dried meat and cakes were hard and would become softer when they were roasted over the fire, and a group of people came from the north while they were roasting.
This group of people should be from the cottage in front of them, all men, dressed in tatters, carrying fishing nets and fishing baskets, etc., it seems that they want to go fishing somewhere.
When the crowd saw Wu Zhongyuan, they did not show any friendliness, but there was no strong hostility, and one of them spoke to him loudly, telling him to put out the fire when he left, so as not to cause a mountain fire to affect their village.
Wu Zhongyuan nodded in agreement.
Someone saw something on the horse and asked him what it was right away, and Wu Zhongyuan told the truth.
When they heard that it was cloth, everyone was very interested and came over to see it.
These people are ordinary people, they don't have aura cultivation, and Wu Zhongyuan is not afraid of them, so he takes a horse and spreads it out.
The bears have mastered the most advanced textile technology at present, and the silk and cloth are fine, soft and tough, and everyone likes them very much, so they discuss with him and ask him what he wants.
These things are all used to exchange food seeds with the fox clan, and Wu Zhongyuan doesn't dare to change them easily, the most important thing is that he doesn't know what the other party has.
Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's hesitation, a leading old man offered to exchange five pairs of yin and yang fish for a piece of cloth.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't know what the other party was talking about, so he could only shake his head and refuse.
Everyone was very sorry, and reluctantly returned the cloth, the yin and yang fish they said seemed to be the most good thing for them, Wu Zhongyuan didn't even want the yin and yang fish, and there was no hope for anything else.
Everyone left, Wu Zhongyuan continued to roast the dry food, and after eating, he continued to lead the way......