Early the next morning.

The sun rose in the east, and everyone in the convoy woke up one after another.

Hua Duxiu and Shen Lijia still huddled in the carriage for the night, while the rest of the guide and five guards slept in sleeping bags around the campfire.

Everyone fetched clean water, washed up, had breakfast, and began to pack their bags and prepare for the journey.

At this place, the official road is getting narrower and narrower, the wild grass on both sides of the road is getting denser and denser, and there are more and more poisonous snakes hidden inside.

The mountains are high and the road is long, and the steps are difficult.

The guide gave the order, and everyone began to change their costumes.

It wasn't that they were changing into any special clothes, but that everyone was below the knee, and they wrapped a layer of cowhide leggings around their entire calves.

And the people no longer wore cloth shoes, but all of them were replaced by leather boots.

In this way, even if the poisonous snake that has escaped the net is not dispersed and escapes to the human legs, they cannot bite through the sturdy cowhide.

Shen Lijia was overjoyed: "Mr. Wang, are there any more? Do we have leg guards and leather boots to wear?"

The guide, Mr. Wang, said with a smile: "Two guests, there are a lot of spare leather pants and leather boots in the carriage behind, you two can wear them whenever you want." ”

Shen Lijia hurriedly went to the third carriage and turned out three sets of leather pants and leather boots.

Not to mention, it's very well-made and looks pretty sturdy, but it's not really that thick.

The humidity and temperature in Snake Valley are very high, and it is easy to cover up eczema if you wear very thick and not very breathable leather boots and leather pants, so these equipment are very cleverly designed to prevent snake bites and be loose and breathable.

Shen Lijia ran to Lou Qin and said, "Sister Lou, do you want to wear it?" This set of sizes is relatively small, which is suitable for your explosive figure. ”

Lou Qin smiled: "I stay in the carriage when I am in a hurry, and I don't need to wear it." ”

Shen Lijia said: "Then if you want to boo or something, don't you still have to get out of the car? And it's inconvenient for us to follow you." ”

Lou Qin blushed and said, "You kid." ”

Shen Lijia handed it over again: "Try it, try it, your legs are thin and long, you definitely look good in these leather pants and leather boots! It's best to hold a small leather whip in your hand, it's like a domineering queen." ”

Lou Qin couldn't resist Shen Lijia's kindness, so she had to take the leather boots and leather pants, close the curtains and reluctantly put them on.

Shen Lijia shouted outside the carriage: "Are you dressed?"

Lou Qin said angrily: "...... Dressed. ”

Shen Lijia said: "Let's take two steps after dressing, let's have a good time." ”

Lou Qin opened the curtain and said angrily: "You kid, you know how to run a carriage with a mouth!"

Shen Lijia laughed evilly, and Lou Qin jumped out of the carriage with a red face.

She wears a tight-fitting military uniform on her upper body, high-top leather pants on her legs, small leather boots on her feet, a long sword stuck in her waist, and her hair stands up on the back of her head like a samurai.

Lou Qin asked in a low voice, "Is my sister good-looking?"

Shen Lijia swallowed his saliva wildly and nodded his head: "Good-looking, good-looking!"

The guards also looked at Lou Qin in surprise, and Xie Escort said: "Sister-in-law, even if someone says that you are a soldier in the army now, I believe you that you are a top swordsman in the rivers and lakes!"

Lou Qin said with a smile: "My kindergarten teacher has learned a little swordsmanship, and it is not nonsense to say that I am a swordsman. ”

Shen Lijia exclaimed, "Ah? This long sword of yours is not for decoration, and you really know how to use the sword?"

Lou Qin stroked the long hair hanging down in front of her forehead, and said with a smile: "What, little fat dragon, are you surprised that my sister can do martial arts?"

Shen Lijia shook his head: "Don't be surprised, don't be surprised, if you don't know martial arts, I don't believe it if you don't know how to do martial arts." ”

At this time, Young Master Hua also jumped off the carriage, and his legs and feet were also changed into equipment.

Shen Lijia glanced back, then looked at Lou Qin, and exclaimed: "If you only look at the lower half of the body, Xiao Bailong and Sister Lou are indistinguishable, they are both sisters." ”

Hua Duxiu scolded with a smile: "Dead fatty, have you finished speaking?" and got into the car, we are on our way." ”

Shen Lijia glanced at Lou Qin reluctantly, tsk, what a beauty, this dress has a feeling of a female horse thief who flies on the wall and comes and goes without a trace.

While they were chatting, suddenly there was a faint sound of horses' hooves behind the mountain in the south.

The guide Mr. Wang's face changed drastically: "It's bad, how can there be a horse team passing by early in the morning? Could it be a passing bandit? Everyone quickly drive the carriage off the official road and hide in the forest!"

There are many poisonous snakes in the grass by the roadside, and there are even more poisonous snakes in the forest, but at this moment, there is nothing to care about, and it is obviously more important to avoid the elusive and fierce bandits.

Fortunately, they still have a lot of snake repellent powder, everyone is driving the car, and the snake is repelling the snake, although there are only six people cooperating, they have a very tacit understanding, almost a tea kung fu, they drove the carriage into the dense forest to hide.

After a while, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves got closer and closer, and a group of men and horses suddenly appeared at the bend in the distance of the official road.

There were more than a dozen of them, all of them dressed in black and trousers, and the horses they rode were all tall, large, fat and strong horses.

The horse's legs were wrapped in cowhide, and the black-clothed man was also tied with cowhide leggings on his legs, and they were not afraid of the poisonous snakes on the road.

Shen Lijia couldn't help but admire, this is called hurrying! What demons and monsters, what beautiful women paint skins, what swords, mountains, fires, seas, and traps, this directly galloped all the way over, all crushed, hurry, hurry.

In the blink of an eye, the horse team roared in.

Apparently, they noticed the ashes left over from the campfire burning by the roadside, and also saw a large circle of earthy yellow powder, and guessed that there had been people camped here for the night, but at this moment it was empty, and most of them had gone.

The horse team only slowed down slightly, and did not stop to search and check.

Shen Lijia and Hua Duxiu hid in the carriage, looking at the horse team from a distance through the gap in the curtains.

Shen Lijia whispered: "Alas, it would be nice if we had such a horse, what kind of snake would we drive, so that we can be energetic." ”

Hua Duxiu said: "What's the hurry, isn't it also a pleasant experience to rush so leisurely?"

Shen Lijia was about to speak, when suddenly there was a "poof" sound above his head.

Something fell on the roof of the car.

Shen Lijia and the others were stunned for a moment, and when they looked up, they happened to see a poisonous snake with the thickness of a small arm, full of colorful bodies, and spitting letters, poking its head from the roof of the car.

The poisonous snake was almost face-to-face with Shen Lijia, only an inch or two apart.

Shen Lijia's fat head immediately sweated like rain, and he didn't dare to move, and the snake's fist-sized snake head suddenly opened its mouth and suddenly let out a hiss!

Shen Lijia was frightened, his whole body quickly fell backwards, and a miserable scream came out of his mouth: "Ah......! brother-in-law save me!"

The poisonous snake immediately pounced towards Shen Lijia, Hua Duxiu's eyes were quick, and the sword in his hand was quickly drawn.

"Boom!"

Emma, the space in the carriage is too small, Hua Duxiu actually pulled out only half of the sword, and the hilt of the sword fell on the carriage.

Didn't pull it out.

At this time, the poisonous snake had already pounced on the carriage and bit Shen Lijia's calf.

Shen Lijia was so frightened that he immediately jumped out of the carriage, screaming and running wildly. On his legs, the small arm was thick, and the poisonous snake that was more than a foot long flung behind him, not to mention how happy he was.

The guide's scalp was numb, and he shouted, "Come back quickly!"

He rushed up quickly, grabbed Shen Lijia's arm while he didn't run far, and then flew up with his big foot and kicked the head of the poisonous snake on Shen Lijia's leg.

At this time, the horse team on the official road had just run by, leaving only a burst of green soil.

The guide said angrily: "What are you running blindly! If you alarm the bandits, do you know how serious the consequences will be!"

Shen Lijia's face was still pale, this was the first time he had looked at such a huge poisonous snake face to face, and it was also the first time he had been bitten by a snake.

It's horrible.

Hua Duxiu had already chased out of the carriage, he apologized to the guide repeatedly, and asked nervously: "How is it, where was the bite?

Shen Lijia raised his legs in shock and looked at them, and there were two crystal white teeth inlaid on the leather pants of his calves. This is just now, the king guide had great strength, and kicked the snake's head, but the poisonous snake's fangs stuck on the cowhide and broke on it.

The king guide said, "Don't move, I'll get it!"

Wang Gui took out the short dagger and carefully picked out the two fangs, and said with a sigh of relief:

"It's okay, I didn't bite through, I don't need to bleed. ”

Shen Lijia almost sat on the ground, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Fortunately, I wore leather pants just now, otherwise I would have gone to see Master Zu now." ”

He looked at the poisonous snake on the ground that had been kicked to death, the poisonous snake was thick and long, and its body was colorful, with a triangular head and a pointed point, which looked like it was highly venomous.

They were in a hurry to hide in the woods, and the poisonous snakes on the ground were almost dispersed, but the ones hanging on the branches above their heads did not have time to disperse, and it happened that such a big snake fell on Shen Lijia's carriage.

Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the sound of horses' hooves, which had been far away on the official road, suddenly came back in bits and pieces.

Everyone hastened to hide.

A masked old man appeared on the official road on foot, and several more people appeared behind him, all of whom looked at the forest.

The masked old man drank: "Who is hiding his head and tail here?"

The guide, Mr. Wang, shook his head and smiled bitterly, so he had to come out of the forest, hugged his fists and said: "Guide in the Lower Golden Horn City, take the guests on the way, I don't know what the seniors call it?"

Although the masked old man covered his face, his hair was gray, and he looked like an old man at first glance.

The masked old man nodded slightly, and looked behind the Wang guide: "It turned out to be a traveling passer, I thought it was an ambush horse bandit." Don't be afraid, we are also passing travelers, not bad people. ”

Guide Wang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The contemptible people are also worried about encountering horse bandits, and when they heard the sound of the horses' hooves of their seniors and others, they hurriedly hid in the forest. ”

Guide Wang carefully looked at the masked old man and the others, they were obviously people in the rivers and lakes with strong martial arts, and their bearings were completely different from those of the horse bandits.

Wang Gui said secretly, fortunately, fortunately!

He turned around and said, "Come out, everyone, they are not horse bandits!"

Stimulated by the smell of snake repellent powder, more and more poisonous snakes fell from the canopy, and the people hiding in the forest were already miserable, and hurriedly drove the carriage to the official road.

Hua Duxiu walked behind, carefully looking at the masked old man.

Although he could only see the old man's blazing tiger eyes, he suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while?

It's strange, I don't have any acquaintances in Snake Valley, if I want to say that there is, it's also the two younger brothers of Bohu and Zhenqing.

That's right, Bohu and Zhenqing are both from the Snake Valley clan.

Could it be that this old man is the elder of one of them?

So look familiar?

Hua Duxiu looked at the masked old man, and the masked old man was also looking at Hua Duxiu.

When he saw Hua Duxiu, his expression immediately changed to surprise, and from surprise to ecstasy!

The old man shouted fiercely: "Hua Duxiu ......!"

Hua Duxiu was startled, her expression was terrifying, my God, is it really an old acquaintance?

When did I have an "old" acquaintance in Snake Valley?

Hua Duxiu asked, "You, who are you?"

The old man pulled down the face towel on his face and laughed: "It's really hard to find a place to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get here!"

Hua Duxiu saw that familiar old face and immediately realized: This person is definitely an old acquaintance!

Still, he couldn't remember who he was.

Hua Duxiu asked again: "You, who are you?"

The old man was stunned, and then said angrily: "Have you even forgotten who the old man is!"

Hua Duxiu scratched her head: "I've been more forgetful lately, I'm sorry ......"

Everyone, including Shen Lijia, Lou Qin, etc., all looked at Hua Duxiu and the old man with inexplicable eyes.

Is this man friend or foe?