The woman forced herself to calm down and asked in a deep voice, "You calm down!" Tell me what the hell is going on?! ”

She stepped forward and slapped the man in the face, and the other man was stunned, and then he really came to his senses and was no longer so crazy.

The guy said, "Yes...... That's right, this time it was supposed to be fine......"

It took me intermittently to make it clear.

It turned out that the Jiao family was going to make a big deal this time, so they dispatched almost all the trucks, but they didn't expect to be robbed by a group of robbers when they passed by the border between Nanming and Northern Qi, and the head of the Jiao family was also arrested, and all the goods were detained.

The sky is falling.

The woman was stunned: "This ...... How can it be? Didn't you go the official way? ”

The guy said, "Gone, it's been on the official road." ”

"How can there be robbers?"

"I don't know, I don't know, the little ones don't know, anyway, they came out, and there were only a few people who escaped back, or those robbers, and now they are still lying in the gatehouse, and one of them doesn't know if he can live!"

The woman broke down in a cold sweat, and she didn't even make a move, but ...... Bandit?!

How can there be robbers? Not to mention anything else, as early as three years ago, Nanming sent troops to suppress bandits, and the entire trade route was a hundred miles away, not to mention bandits, even a small thief who cheated and stole his family.

If this is not counted, in fact, the Northern Qi Dynasty also dispatched a large army to suppress the bandits, so that all the bandits in the world did not dare to come to this business road that can almost be said to be flowing with spars.

And the Jiao family is really nothing on this trade road, and the scale of the caravan is afraid that it can't even squeeze into the top 100, so how can it be robbed?

The entire Jiao family was anxious.

The old man's birthday just passed, the excitement at that time was in stark contrast to the current depression, and the old man himself suddenly fell ill because he was in a hurry, and there was no one who could speak in the whole family.

And the three sons of the head of the family proposed to split the family for the first time at this time.

They feel that their father is dead, and instead of guarding this precarious family business, it is better to divide the family and the fields, and they can still be a rich man.

The consciousness of small-scale farmers, who can share weal and woe, has been fully reflected in them.

In the face of major rights and wrongs, they can often be ruthless at the first time and make the most correct choice.

The old man dragged the sick body and recruited the people who were having a good time in the family to his sickbed.

"Which of you can save your father? Since the robbers were able to release a few of them, they must be going to talk about which of you can bear the burden of your family in this time of crisis? ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all shrink back.

The old man looked left and right, and when he saw anyone, he took a step back, lowered his head and did not make eye contact with him.

In the end, he had no choice but to set his eyes on the woman and said: "Qiu'er, grandpa knows that you rarely refuse people, even if it is difficult, you will do your best, this time...... You can take this trip instead of grandpa. ”

Take a trip? Alone in that robber's den? Or a big girl with yellow flowers? This one is to throw a piece of fat tender meat to a pack of wolves.

A group of people all looked at the woman known as Qiu'er with a pitiful look.

Qiu'er, Dong'er's sister, is the eldest girl in the family, because the family was poor before, the girl was not qualified to have a name, so she gave Qiu'er and Dong'er two nicknames, and she couldn't have an official name until she got married.

Qiu'er is an ordinary girl, but she has a fatal flaw, that is, she doesn't reject people very well.

Now her grandfather's words made her face white, but she couldn't think of any reason to refuse.

I hesitated for a while, and then ...... The matter was settled.

It wasn't until a carriage departed from Jiao's house that Qiu'er sat on the carriage and blinked her eyes, and then cried.

She is crying here, and she can't laugh or cry when she sins.

Because he was also sitting in this carriage.

"That...... For...... Why did you bring me out? ”

Heavenly Sin asked innocently.

Qiu'er glared at him viciously and said, "Die, we will also die together!" ”

It seems to be some kind of declaration, and it seems a little ambiguous. But Heavenly Sin still understands what she means, if she dies, then she will definitely have to use herself as a cushion to feel better.

Heavenly Sin smiled bitterly: "That...... Do you know what to do? ”

Qiu'er rolled her eyes and said, "How do I know?!" ”

But although she said so, she took care of these carriages in an orderly manner.

How to guard, how to advance, how to protect the chariot in the middle, which was full of ransom goods.

Tiansin asked her curiously if she had run a business before, but Qiu'er shook her head and said that she had never been.

This makes the heavenly sin very ashamed.

There is a very strange kind of person in this world, who looks ordinary, but if he is forced to do something in a certain position, he will do it better than anyone else. It's weird.

"You can't do that!"

Qiu'er jumped out of the carriage and said to a very experienced porter: "The horse is not pulled like this, you have to make it understand that it needs to follow your footsteps, so that you have to walk a little ahead of it, this position, yes, so that it can see you, it will be afraid of you, it will be very stable." ”

The porter was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but say, "Miss...... How do you understand this?! ”

Qiu'er said: "Pay attention to the details! You live on these horses, pay attention to their habits, don't you notice that as soon as you get to where you are, the horse's demeanor will change? The footsteps have become much calmer and more powerful. ”

The porter turned his head to look at the horse that had been with him for many years, he really hadn't noticed this, but now when he looked at it, he saw the horse with its head slightly bowed and its firm steps.

He was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you, Miss, for mentioning it." ”

Dozens of guys looked at Qiu'er and found that the eldest lady was really ...... No one should be a man.

Qiu'er got into the car again, reached out and rubbed her forehead and sighed.

Heavenly Sin looked at her blankly, it turned out to be ...... Is there really such a person in this world......

Heavenly Sin couldn't help but ask, "What should I do next?" Are you really going there? ”

Qiu'er sighed and said: "Naturally, we want to go, what we are sitting on now is called 'business car', it was not called this before, it was called a big board car, since there is this mall, there is also this business car." There are many rules in the mall, and one of the most important is 'faith'.

A man's word is faithful, and the promise he utters is more important than his life.

I remember that the year before last, the Jiao family made a fur deal, and lost it, and the loss was very miserable, and it stands to reason that there is no money to pay for the goods.

My father didn't listen, and under the pressure of the family, he sold what he could sell, and he just replaced the account.

But our Jiao family doesn't have the capital to go to business again.

But what even my father didn't expect was that the mall gave us a lot more goods than before without payment or deposit, and asked us to settle the account after we sold out.

Since then, the Jiao family's position in the mall has been down.

It's just the word 'faith'.

And this cart also has its own rules, but whoever sits on this cart speaks a promise.

I promised my grandfather that he was going to go for a walk, and that it was more important than my life. ”

Heavenly Sin listened to her words and was in a trance.

He created this trade route before, and connected almost all the kingdoms with the Qizong as the center, and before that, he only wanted to 'settle the war with commerce'. The closer the relationship of interests between countries, the people of the Northern Qi Dynasty could not do without the fur of the barbarians, the barbarians could not do without the iron tools of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty could not do without the wood ore of the barbarians, and the West could not do without the food materials of the Southern Ming Dynasty......

In this way, there will be no war between them.

Especially when the interests of all the noble families are placed in this trade route, who wants to go to war? They will be the first to disagree.

But he really didn't expect that in this short period of three years, such a 'reputation' system would be formed.

If the value of a person can be judged by credibility, then the world ...... I don't even know what it's going to become.

Time is running out all the way.

Qiu'er became emaciated, not because she didn't eat much, but because there was a stone in her heart that weighed down and she couldn't breathe.

After walking for more than ten days, I finally got on the trade route.

The merchants come and go, and it is extremely lively and prosperous.

The journey usually takes about three to four months, and even on such a wide avenue, even with excellent horses that travel thousands of miles a day, it takes so long.

The point is that a kingdom is too big.

A man who reported the news gave directions, walked for about a month and a half, and stopped at a place called 'Haishakou' on the official road.

This is the real border between the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and there are no post stations and sentry posts on both sides, which belong to the three-regardless zone.

But it is also relatively safe, because anyone who makes trouble here will be pursued by three parties, especially the barbarians.

Once there was a gang of thieves here who committed several major crimes.

The barbarian queen herself brought people over, and it took three months to not only kill these thieves, but also their family members, friends, and anyone who had anything to do with them, and hang their heads there to dry, until they turned into skeletons. Regardless of men, women and children, even babies waiting to be fed, they have not been spared, which can be called tragic.

However, this also played a great warning effect, no one dared to make trouble here, and everyone didn't even dare to speak loudly when they walked this way, let alone have any arguments with others, and no matter how bad the temper was, they became good babies when they arrived here.

So the Jiao family had a problem here and was tied up by someone, which in itself is a little weird.

The convoy left the trade route and rested at a post house in a nearby town in Haishakou.

There are pedestrians walking by in the streets and alleys, but they all keep their heads down, giving people a sense of caution.

Tiansin was dragged into the guest room by Qiu'er, as if he was afraid that he would escape, and he had to sleep on the floor without leaving his clothes.

Qiu'er's approach seems to be a bit extreme, but Tiansin understands that she is actually just looking for someone to strengthen her courage.

First night.

The moon hangs on the high pole.

There was a knock on the window.

Qiu'er sat up from the bed abruptly and asked in a trembling voice, "Who?" What people?! ”

Someone outside the window said, "May I ask if the people living in it are from the Jiao family?" ”

"Yes......"

As soon as Qiu'er said a word, the window was suddenly pushed open, and a black shadow floated in directly, standing by the window and bowing her hand: "In Xiaping Shanke, this girl is the eldest lady of the Jiao family?" ”