Changning suddenly interjected: "Wu Gongzi, why do you want to ransom this girl? ”

Li Luo smiled faintly: "I didn't think about it." Changning was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Shen Xiangdong and the others, but his face was normal, as if it was commonplace, Changning smiled and didn't ask anymore.

I was silent all night, and the next morning, it snowed again, and it was a little colder. The woman was still wearing the clothes brought by the Diega guards, which were a little thin, and her body had not yet recovered. When the cold wind blew, he shivered a little, and Hu Chajing found a wool coat and threw it to the woman to put on.

Several people marched to Dagan again, so that in five days, they were more than half of the distance from Yingchou Gorge, and they passed at least three checkpoints along the way.

Ni Qing had less than a hundred taels of money left from selling silk fabrics, although a few people did not bring much money when they entered Shuoxi, and they also spent some money on Shuoxi, but such a heavy tax is indeed rare, no wonder the merchants took the risk of transferring from the Chen River Valley to the three-way pass to enter the customs and save some silver taels.

On the sixth day, they found a town, bought some food, and continued on their journey.

At noon, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from behind him, and it sounded more anxious than Li Luo's others.

Hu Chajing carefully distinguished, and said, "It seems to be Xirong's army." ”

Shen Xiangdong frowned slightly and said, "Let's avoid the side of the road and let them pass first." A few men reined in their horses and hid to the side of the road.

The sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, and Hu Chajing suddenly said: "No, the army is scattered, and it is coming at us." ”

Ni Qing and Zhu Zhi took out the long knives at their waists, and took a few steps forward and said, "Son, uncle, you avoid it first, and we will investigate first." ”

Changning said guiltily: "It's me who has caused you trouble, Mr. Wu, you can go quickly." Leave me alone, I'll find a way to get out. ”

After speaking, he was about to get off the horse, but was pulled by Chu Ying'er, and said coldly: "You don't know how to ride a horse, and you have little experience in the rivers and lakes, how can you get out?" ”

Hu Chajing smiled: "Don't worry. Let's take a look, we don't know who is coming, and besides, it's too late for us to leave. As soon as the words fell, I heard the sound of hooves behind me, and the cavalry chasing behind him turned around the hill, and Li Luo and a few people were only a hundred steps away, but the number was not much.

Ni Qing looked at it, counting exactly twenty-two horses, and surrounded a few people and a half in a fan-like manner. He stopped ten steps in front of the crowd.

The leader was the man who saw Changning outside the slave market that day, dressed in golden armor and holding a spear, about thirty years old.

At this time, he didn't look at Li Luo and a few people, and said to Changning in front of Chu Ying'er: "Your Highness, your subordinates are late, please forgive me." ”

Several people were stunned. They all turned their heads and glanced at Changning, not knowing what Changning's identity was. There is the name of His Highness. also let this Xirong military general, who looked at a high official position, claim to be a subordinate, Hu Cha Jinghu looked at Changning suspiciously, turned his head and did not make a sound.

Changning frowned, and said softly: "I am not Your Highness, and General Qian does not need to claim to be a subordinate. Are you coming to me? ”

"That's not sooner or later" Before the military general finished speaking, he saw Changning's face unhappy. Hurriedly stopped, and said: "Your Highness, when you leave, everyone is in a hurry, and my brother almost ran out in person." Under hard persuasion, I endured it, but ordered Beacon Fire to bring you back, and my brother issued seven orders in a row, and Beacon was the first to go out of the city. ”

"Did you recognize me that day?"

"Yes," the man smiled bitterly, "but I thought I was dazzled at the time, and then I told my brother to read it, so I passed the book on." The ridiculously huge ancestral mountain, no one knew that His Highness had left, and His Highness's arrangement really convinced Fenghuo. ”

Changning's face sank, and he said with slight displeasure: "I'm just a servant on the ancestral mountain, not His Royal Highness." ”

After speaking, he sighed to himself, slightly sad, and then put it aside, and said with a shallow smile: "I've bothered Mr. Wu, Mr. Wu Gongzi, and Ni Qing and Zhu Zhi these days, you should also take care, Sister Chu, thank you, it's a pity that we will be separated so soon." ”

As soon as Qi Fenghuo mentioned the reins of the horse, he glanced at a few people, and said indifferently: "These must be a few guests of the Wu family in Dagan Cang'er, I also have the business name of the Wu family in Shuoxi, before going out of the city, Ben Shuai also inquired, I have never heard that there are several noble lords in the Wu family." Who are the people, and what are the intentions of coming to my new year? ”

Shen Xiangdong smiled slightly, and said slowly: "The surname Cang'er Wu is a big surname, and the Wu family in Shuoxi is just one of the thousands of Cang'er clans, and the old man has never said which Wu family we are." ”

"Sharp teeth and sharp mouth, it is not a good class, the most hateful one dares to deceive His Highness, the crime is unforgivable, come on, take it for me." Qi Fenghuo shouted, raised his spear, and the cavalry stepped forward to surround a few people, but Li Luo and the others did not blink their eyes and turned a blind eye.

Changning said, "General Xuan, what are you doing?" They are all friends I met on the way, and I went with them, so how can I deceive them. ”

Qi Fenghuo confessed his guilt and replied: "Your Highness, it is now the Changning Festival, there are many people, and the good and the bad are mixed, and it is inevitable that they are not cunning and sinister, and they have deceived your trust." ”

Chang Ning looked at the Beacon Fire quietly, the Beacon Fire stagnated, lifted the reins of the horse, and took half a step back, Changning sighed lightly: "If I didn't go down to the Ancestral Mountain, I wouldn't know that people in Shuoxi could be sold and sold, and why did you go to the slave market with some other people?" ”

Looking at Changning's clear eyes, Feng Feng Huo panicked in his heart, and said with a forced smile: "Feng Huo just heard that someone was killing and hurting people there, so he rushed over to take a look." ”

Changning shook his head slightly and said: "In the market, even if you kill people in public, no one will ask, don't say that it has alarmed you." ”

Qi Fenghuo seemed to be a little embarrassed, but it was difficult to hide the arrogance between his eyebrows.

Changning continued: "These are all my friends, there are urgent things in the clan to rush back, don't embarrass them, let them leave, I will go back with you." ”

Hu Chajing was about to speak, when Li Luo's voice sounded in his ears: "Don't worry, listen to what this Xirong military general wants." ”

Beacon Huo rolled his eyes, and replied respectfully: "Your Highness, before you come out of the city, my brother must let me bring His Highness and His Highness's companions back, if it is a person with bad intentions, for the sake of His Highness's speech, Beacon Fire can't care about them, if it is really a kind-hearted businessman, naturally the brother's reward is indispensable, and we can't let the businessmen of Dagan laugh at us for not knowing the etiquette, and secondly, these people are all businessmen, and they come to Shuoxi just to ask for money, if His Highness returns to Shuoxi safely, There will be a foothold for the merchants in the Beacon Guarantee, and in the future, the tax will be reduced to 30% of the original in Xirong, how do you think? ”

Shen Xiangdong laughed and said: "Thank you general, but I and a few others really have important things to do, and we need to rush home, and if we go late, I'm afraid there will be other incidents, and we can't be blessed with the general's kindness." (To be continued.) )