- No one knows him, so naturally it is not easy to evaluate the facts, so the source of the intensification of public opinion is cut off. In some respects, the spread of the people is still relatively objective, and rumors without evidence and new evidence are difficult to perpetuate.

Jiuniang only saw Liao Shi in person yesterday, probably because of Liao Shi's external reputation, which prompted her to be mentally preconceived, and she also felt that Liao Shi was very strange. However, Lin Shan trusted him very much, and didn't care about those miscellaneous words, Jiu Niang was originally very obedient to Lin Shan's intentions, so she also had some respect for Liao Shi.

But at this time, after listening to the imperial doctor's words relayed by Liao Shi, Jiu Niang finally couldn't help but question again. The strange old man, who was as thin as firewood, knew that San Lang was on this trip, and he had to use strong medicine to tie his life all the time to get through it, could he still say that he was not in the way? He's joking with Saburo's life!

She was about to scold, when she felt the hand she was holding move.

The seriously injured Lin Shan was very close to her, and his slightest movement could tug at her heartstrings. In fact, at this time, even if Lin Shan just wanted to move his fingers slightly, he had to show the same strength as he used to swing his sword and cut bamboo.

Jiu Niang lowered her eyes, and saw Lin Shan raise her eyelids, and said in a slightly breathed voice: "Jiu'er, in front of the medical officer...... Don't be rude ......"

The imperial doctor on the side saw that Lin Shandi's breathing rhythm suddenly became a little short, and he was also a little anxious when he had been calm. didn't care about the conversation between the previous few people, and didn't listen to what Lin Shan said at this time, he just persuaded softly: "Lord Lin." It's not right for you to talk too much right now. I'm sure you can get to your destination safely, but you don't have to hold on to comfort the people around you, it's not good for your body. ”

Jiuniang looked in a trance. She seemed to understand something, and her heart tightened.

The imperial doctor sighed softly, and said, "Yes, when Pharmacist Liao left, he did give you a medicine, saying that it would make you live in peace, and you wouldn't want to go anywhere if you stayed in the car." At first I thought he was treating you like a naughty boy. also secretly mocked him a few words. Now I suddenly understand a little, it seems that he knows you very well. ”

Lin Shan took a deep breath, slowly calmed down the rapid breathing rhythm that had been stirring up from speaking before, and didn't say anything more.

The imperial doctor said to Jiu Niang in a blink of an eye: "If you want to make people feel at ease." As far as lying about the illness is concerned, only picking soft words. Such a healer is strictly speaking. is dereliction of duty. The situation that Pharmacist Liao said is all true, the same. He said that Lord Lin was out of the way, and saying these three words in his name would be a great success. The ginseng soup on the stove was the blood ginseng that he had been squatting in the Great Wind Ridge for several years, and he had seen it grow to a hundred years old, and at first I didn't believe the three words he said, but he was willing to take this thing out, so he didn't need to explain anything. ”

"Centennial ......" Lin Shan suddenly sighed, "Uncle Liao is really ruthless to me." ”

People often hear about the legend of ginseng, all of which are based on the millennium as the standard to reflect the precious value, but Jiu Niang did not fully understand until she accompanied Lin Shan for a few years that the price standard of blood ginseng was already the peak in a hundred years. And what kind of "monster" is the hundred-year-old blood ginseng! Embodied in Lin Shan, what kind of "ruthless" word!

……

After leaving the forked official road that ran through Tutuo Town, the Yan family caravan entered a vast open land. There are no mountains in this place, and even the trees are very few, the view is wide, and the most on the ground are only small stones and white sand.

Such a vast field, but because there is no waterway to crisscross it, it is impossible to cultivate, and it is difficult to have a permanent livelihood, and it gradually becomes a dry land - or is it an excellent reserve for the battlefield?

There is no formal official road in the wilderness, only a road that is walked by pedestrians themselves, like a shallow mark drawn by a dagger in the gray and white area, although the path is naturally composed of human tracks, it is very straight, as if drawing a huge ruler on white ground as a paper measure.

The ground was uneven, causing the vehicle to jolt suddenly, but fortunately it quickly came to a slow stop.

Located in front of the Yan family caravan, about ten zhang away, a group of troops was stationed, and two phalanxes on the left and right were opened.

If you look closely at this army, it is not difficult to find that although the young and middle-aged soldiers in the queue are all in armor, except that there are no chariots accompanying them, and the spears, bows, arrows, swords, and shields are fully equipped for land warfare, but on the whole, there are fewer people and more horses. If a man with military knowledge were to stand here, it would be strange to see such an army.

The army seemed to have stopped here and waited, and all the soldiers dismounted, but instead sat down on the ground to rest, but stood beside the horses like a spear. If one observes and estimates carefully, this should be a well-equipped cavalry, and the whole army is still a little too much assembled, which is reflected in the fact that even if all the soldiers are on their horses, there will still be many extra horses, and they will accompany them in the queue without any load.

That's right, just as the Gao Qian group who had passed by the Yan family caravan twice before had guessed, this army waiting in Guangye was actually a border army that had returned north from Bailupo, a northern suburb of Kyoto. The reason why the official road of Hongdu suddenly fell into that state was also deliberately caused by this army, in order to create obstacles and cover the people walking from another route.

This year, the process of their return to the north was more rapid than in previous years, so there were also some mistakes in the reorganization and return of the team. For example, this year, more horses were brought back to the north than in previous years. These horses were originally intended to be invested in the southern trading houses, which indirectly promoted the vitality of trade in other places, but if they were to be brought back to the north as weak horses, it would undoubtedly be an economic loss for the south.

But they must close the team at the allotted time, this is a military order, unshakable.

Nowadays, there are very few wars, and the reason why this border army that supports the construction of southern merchant horses has to leave the post of Bailubo horse training farm in such a hurry is not to return to the north to participate in any battles, but to escort a person north to recuperate.

……

When the Yan family caravan completely stopped walking, a military general immediately strode out of the cavalry camp.

This general is dressed in gray armor and has a horizontal sword at his waist. The eyebrows are thick and black, and the face is resolute. In contrast to his rough skin, his eyes were as bright as the North Star, and it seemed that because he often cast his gaze on the vast four fields, he was not narrowed, making his gaze also strong and powerful, as if he had the edge to hurt people.

Yan Yu met such a gaze for the first time, and couldn't help but have a slight idea of dodging.

As a businessman, when talking to people, I often like to look into or glance into the other person's eyes. Subconsciously, your mind moves. I want to peek into the other party's state of mind from the other party's eyes, grasp the other party's hopes and weaknesses, and negotiate a transaction that is absolutely beneficial to me.

And yet in the face of a military man. And he is also a general in the defense army around him. Yan Yu found out with some hindsight. The reason why he wanted to avoid the other party's gaze before was because he saw a spirit called the military spirit, which was on the border line. Like the color of the sand stone in the scorching sun, it is pure but dazzling, without a trace of gaps that outsiders can invade.

The two groups of people from the first army and one merchant stopped steadily opposite each other, and the contrast formed a somewhat strange scene - these two types of people would not have met in such a way that was almost confrontational between the two armies, but at this time, the respective leaders of the two sides had already come out, and on an open field, with their backs to their subordinates, the two figures gradually approached, isn't it just a bit like two generals preparing to fight with their blades?

But this is just a fantasy that occasionally slips through the minds of the subordinates in the rear, Yan Yu and the general over there approached each other to a distance of about three steps, and after stopping, they bowed to each other almost at the same time. The smile on Yan Yu's face has the gentleness that businessmen are used to, while the smile on the face of the border general is tougher, but it is very pure and high-spirited.

Naturally, the two parties did not have the slightest intention of hostility. This meeting is actually the first time that the military businessmen of the Yanjia Commercial Bank Group and the Nanzhao Border Army Group have cooperated.

The two of them greeted each other face-to-face, and they were about to start talking about the main matter of this convergence, but at this moment, Yan Yu suddenly felt that the direction of his right hand seemed to be far away from here, and there was a rumbling sound, which made him slightly distracted. He thought it was because he rarely saw such a tough military array in front of him, and he was slightly oppressed by the almost scorching gaze of the martial artist in front of him, which made him hallucinate slightly.

However, the rumbling sound did not end in a moment, above the vast field, it was unusually quiet, and there was no high mountains and the murmur of trees around, and after listening for a while, you could recognize that the rumbling sound was rhythmic.

Not only had he heard of it, but the cavalry on the opposite side, although all the soldiers abided by military discipline, and more than a thousand people lined up in the local area, without the slightest abnormal sound, the horses under their seats could not help but make some movements. Animals are much more advanced than humans in some aspects of their perception, so humans sometimes need to rely on the power of animals alone to accomplish certain tasks. The war horses raised by these border guards are becoming more and more sensitive to a certain kind of sound.

As soon as the rumbling sound came, the merchant horses on the side of the Yan family's caravan did not react much, but the war horses on the side of the border cavalry consciously swung their horses' heads slightly towards the place where the sound came from, and raised their long horse ears.

The frontier general also heard some kind of heavy rumbling sound from afar, he was used to this kind of sound, but when he saw the slight change on the face of the young head of the Yan family, who was always rich and rival the country, he thought about it for a while, and finally opened his mouth to explain: "This is the voice from Kyoto, the first sound of the sea trade giant ship setting off, and there are two more after." ”

After Yan Yu understood the meaning of the general's words, he couldn't help but be surprised: "This place is four hundred miles away from Kyoto, to say the least, what kind of thing can make a sound that can be transmitted so far?" ”

The border general hesitated for a moment, and then replied with a light smile: "At this year's shipping ceremony, the general missed the opportunity to watch it again, so Yan Shao asked the general, and the general didn't know the specifics, but he was also very curious!" Yan Shao is wise and sensitive, maybe when it is his turn next time, he will take a look in person, maybe he can see the truth at a glance. ”

Yan Yu hurriedly waved his hands: "Don't dare to be." ”

The frontier general laughed loudly, raised his hand casually, pressed the handle of the knife that shook on his waist, and said: "However, if the general does not remember the time of the first sound of the merchant ship in the East China Sea, in this way, Yan Shao's family arrived more than an hour later than the agreed time, and it really made the general worry for a while just now!" ”

Yan Yu immediately apologized: "It was Yan's fault." ”

The border general shook his head with a smile and said: "Yan Shao does not need to bear his own responsibility, this trip is a special situation, and the merchant has no obligation to trek for this matter, but we have brought a lot of trouble to your caravan, and the general should apologize first." ”

……

After a brief conversation, the general who had left the army summoned a group of ten soldiers to the ranks. When the ten men ran close to the Yan family's caravan, none of them had weapons in their hands, but they were divided into groups of two to carry a long wooden plank similar to a flat pole, but wider than the flat pole. There were eight soldiers with planks, and two others with tools similar to those used by carpenters.

These eight people entered the middle of the Yan family's caravan, and Yan Yu just raised his hand and pointed, and they accurately found the carriage that Lin Shan was riding. Immediately afterwards, the sticks in their hands passed under the board of the carriage, and at the same time, the two soldiers with carpenter's tools had already dismantled the carriage. Specifically, the wheels are separated from the body.

It was only half a pillar of incense time later, and the carriage that Lin Shan was sitting in turned into a sedan chair, which was lifted up by eight middle-aged soldiers with long legs and thick arms, and ran away from the Yan family caravan with brisk steps, and entered the middle of the cavalry phalanx opposite.

The cavalry, which was originally arrayed into two phalanxes on the left and right, suddenly turned into two dumpling skins when Lin Shan's "sedan chair" entered the position of the Chinese army, and Lin Shan, which could be treated as meat filling, merged and surrounded. The original formation of the cavalry phalanx was quickly disrupted, but it was quickly and neatly replaced, except that the shape was formed into a separate long phalanx from the original left and right phalanxes.

From the periphery, Lin Shan seemed to have disappeared into the military formation.

……

Seeing that the gray cavalry team moving away with the dust flying in the sky at an extremely fast speed, Yan Yu was still standing in front of the Yan family caravan, where he was standing when he talked to the general over there just now.

The protagonist of the last mission in this trip was also sent out, Yan Yu thought that he would feel very relaxed, but the figure of the cavalry just now was entrenched in his heart at this time, making him feel a new invisible pressure.

Seeing that his young master was still standing in place after the cavalry walked away, he seemed to be thinking about something, but it didn't seem to be so simple, because there was a clear hint of tightness between his eyebrows, and Governor Wu, who was in charge of the general affairs supervision on the trade road, approached, hesitated for a moment, and then asked softly: "Young master, can we start now?" ”。 (To be continued......)