With Yuwen Hongcai's hospitality, Shao Suyi and Duan Ziyi stayed in Yuqiang City for two more days, waiting for the caravan organized by Jingyao to prepare all the things needed, and then they said goodbye to Yuwen Hongcai, who was "reluctant", and left Yuqiang City with the caravan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

To be precise, the trade route of the Western Regions is just a rough route from Weiqiang City to the coastal port that was explored by countless merchants one after another by death. In addition, the climate of the Western Regions is special, cold in the morning and evening, very hot at noon, and strong wind and sand, if there is no experienced local guide to lead the way, even if it is equipped with complete materials, it is very likely to get lost in the vast Gobi.

Speaking of which, it was also Shao Suyi's good luck, this time their caravan invited the most experienced old guide Lei Shi. This Ray father has been going back and forth in the desert since he was a child to make a living, and he is as familiar with the Kurobna Desert as his own back garden. Although he has passed the age of sixties, his body is very tough, more energetic than a young man, and he is never afraid of the wind and sand and heat, so that the guide apprentices he taught are all sighing to themselves. Originally, Daddy Lei was willing to stay at home and tease his grandson in recent years, and he rarely led the team in person, but he couldn't stand Yan Yuan, the team leader who was responsible for leading the team out of the customs this time, had a deep friendship with him, and the old and strong Daddy Lei was indeed so idle that his bones were itching, so he readily agreed to go out of the mountain again.

And Yan Yuan, the eloquent team leader, is the person in charge of the Sixteen Cities Branch of the Western Regions in Jingyao Society. It is said that he had spent several years under Tao Zhugong Fan Li, who was in charge of the business of Wenyun and Langfu, and was specially selected to manage the trade routes of the Western Regions because of his brilliant mind and outstanding talents. After all these years of careful management, although Yan Yuan's reputation is not as beautiful as that of the Seven Gods of Wealth, he is also highly respected by the dignitaries of the sixteen cities in the Western Regions, and the businessmen who come and go to do business also call him Boss Yan.

The wealthy businessmen in the Western Regions, who were keeping an eye on Boss Yan's movements in order to seize business opportunities, almost dropped their jaws when they heard that Yan Yuan had actually invited Father Lei as a guide and personally led the team to get out of the customs. Knowing Boss Yan's "unprofitable and unprofitable" profiteer character, the rich businessmen were afraid that they would miss a good opportunity to make a fortune, so they brought gifts to visit, and arranged their families into Yan Yuan's caravan under various pretexts.

Later, when he learned that this farce was all caused by himself, Shao Suhui almost sprayed a sip of tea on Yan Yuan's face opposite. Originally, Shao Suyi just arranged the identity of a special envoy for himself, and took the token of Jingyao Society and asked Yan Yuan to arrange a caravan casually, and take him and Duan Ziyi out of the pass and into the desert. Unexpectedly, Yan Yuan was worried that Shao Suhui had come to inspect the trade routes in the Western Regions for the master, for fear that the poor hospitality would snub Shao Suyi, the "special envoy of the leader", and affect his "glorious image" in the mind of the master, so he decided to personally lead the team to accompany them out of the customs. Not wanting to cause misunderstanding among the wealthy merchants who didn't know the truth, it caused such an uproar, so that the special caravan with only five or six people in the interior suddenly expanded into a huge team of more than twenty people.

However, Shao Suyi, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, felt that it was not a bad thing to have a lot of people, on the contrary, the caravan was mixed, which invisibly helped him and Duan Ziyi share a lot of attention, as for whether Yan Yuan, who was dealing with the eyeliner of each family, was lacking in skills and anxious, it was completely out of the consideration of Shao Suyi, the unscrupulous boss.

Because the temperature is too high after the sun rises, it is too much physical strength and water consumption, and it is easy to suffer from heat stroke, and the temperature drops sharply at night, and it is difficult to see objects and other animals are infested, so the caravan is in the early morning and evening, and the rest of the time is rested and replenished. There is a gold-lettered signboard of Jingyao Club, and this road is safe and sound, and it goes very smoothly. Not to mention the horse bandits who robbed their homes, even the wild wolves didn't meet one, which made Shao Suyi, who was eager to move his muscles, a little disappointed.

After leaving the customs, the surrounding scenery changed several times, from the initial occasional gliding of a few people, to the vast Gobi as far as the eye can see, so desolate that it can make people who are psychologically fragile feel hopeless. With the boring itinerary day after day, Shao Suyi, who was still a little curious about the scenery of the Western Regions, soon lost interest, and could only find fun for himself to relieve his boredom. Every day, in addition to carrying good wine and running to fool Daddy Lei to tell him about the strange things in the desert, he was nesting in the luxury camel cart specially prepared for him by Yan Yuan to "harass" Duan Ziyi. Once when he was camping at night, Shao Suyi also annoyed Duan Ziyi, who lived with him, because he drank too much wine and didn't take care of his proportions, and was immediately "taught" by Duan Ziyi and kicked out of the carriage unceremoniously, making the entire caravan unpeaceful for several days.

After walking and stopping in the northwest direction for more than ten days, this mighty caravan, under the leadership of Yan Yuan and Lei Laopa, finally arrived at Rongzi City, which was regarded as a desert transit point by all caravans, when Shao Suyi was tired of the yellow sand on the Gobi Desert.

Because it was built close to the riverbed of the Baimang River, the only river basin in the Western Regions, and close to the trade routes developed by Jingyaohui, although the scale of Rongzi City seemed to be much smaller than that of Weiqiang City, which controlled the entry and exit of the Western Regions and the Central Plains, it had a lively atmosphere brought by business travel.

After Yan Yuan entered the city with a caravan that was sleepy and lacking, he went straight to the inn under the Jingyao Society to stay. After leaving the city of Rongzi, it is a truly deserted desert, and you will never see such a lively town again. Therefore, the merchants who come and go will choose to spend a few days in Rongzi City, replenish their food and water sources, rest and recuperate, and then start again.

As soon as he entered the inn, Yan Yuan, who had a good eye, instructed the shopkeeper to prepare two buckets of bath water and sent them to the guest rooms of Shao Suyi and Duan Ziyi respectively. Although Rongzi City is close to the Baimang River, due to the special climate of the Western Regions, only in the winter rainy season every year, there is a small amount of rainfall mixed with the snow on the extreme west peak of the Lingqing Mountain Range, supplementing the bare riverbed of the Baimang River all year round, and gradually drying up at the beginning of summer of the next year. Families in the city rely on the meager water stored during the rainy season to barely meet their drinking consumption for a year. Therefore, when the business travelers in the inn heard that someone asked for bath water, they immediately inquired about the identities of Yan Yuan and others, after all, in this land where water resources are scarce, people who can comfortably take a hot bath must be either rich or expensive, and they are worth bothering to befriend.

Shao Suyi, who had been sleeping in the open air for days and was covered with sand, finally freshened up and changed into clean clothes and came out, but saw that the guests in the inn looked at him with a little eagerness, as if he was not taking a bath, but plated with gold. Although Shao Suyi felt a little strange, he didn't pay attention to it because he didn't lose his flesh after being looked at a few times.

Shao Suyi looked around casually, and was about to go to the next room to find Duan Ziyi to eat with, but saw that the originally noisy crowd in the hall downstairs suddenly quieted down, and the passengers in the lobby spontaneously gave up a spacious open space to the few people who had just entered the door, and retreated to the side with a little fear.

"They are the eagle dogs of the city lord of Rongz."

Seeing that the guys in the store were very attentive to the few big men who swaggered into the store, Shao Suyi was just a little curious about the identities of those people, and heard someone next to him answer him just right.

Hearing that voice was a little familiar, Shao Suxuan turned his head to look at the brown-clothed young man standing next to him with a smile, and was stunned for a moment before remembering that this person was also a member of their caravan, and it seemed that he was from Langfu Country, as if he had done business with Yan Yuan a few times.

"It turned out to be ......" Seeing that the other party was staring at him with a smile and an angry face, even though Shao Suyi didn't have the heart to talk, he still had to pretend to be polite on the surface. It's a pity that he thought about it for a long time, and he didn't remember what this person's name was.

"Contemptible Autumn." The young man in brown informed and informed his name, and the smile on his face was kind and kind, which did not seem overly enthusiastic, but also made people feel comfortable knowing him for a long time. "When I was in a hurry before, I had the fate to meet Su Gongzi with Boss Yan."

Xu Shiqiu's attitude was modest, and although Shao Suyi knew that he came over on purpose to talk, he didn't feel bored. After listening to Qiu Qi's self-report, he just nodded and continued to play his noble and arrogant envoy of the Jingyao Society. "Boss Qiu is polite, just call me by name, you don't have to be so polite." For the sake of convenience, Shao Suyi's current name is Su Xuan, and he can just pretend to be a brother with Duan Ziyi, who has the pseudonym Su Yan. "Boss Qiu said that those people below are all subordinates of the city lord of Rongzi, could it be that I have seen them before?"

"It's just that I've just asked the local people a few words."

After finding out the news, you immediately ran to share it with him? Is it really for the sake of getting close? …… Shao Suyi, who was unsure of Qiu Qi's intentions, couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and was about to test a few more words, when he heard another commotion at the door of the inn, and then another group of people walked into the inn.