Yang Yun left Chengdu with the caravan and traveled eastward.

Seeing the green mountains and green waters along the way, Yang Yun was in a good mood, and he felt a sense of relief from the cage, and instantly understood Li Bai's happy mood of "the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed over the ten thousand mountains".

He secretly rejoiced: "I thought I was going to use the 'portal' as a strategy, but I didn't expect to get out of the city so smoothly, and I was so lucky to be able to take a ride to Luoyang." ”

Yang Yun's original idea was to use Yarou's portal to transport the five masters and apprentices and their luggage out of the city one after another, first find a place to stay, and then go to the nearby village to hire ox carts to send people to Dongyang County, and then think about going to Luoyang.

But doing so would be too much trouble.

First of all, Yarou's portal is not stable, and her mental power is far from strong enough to teleport living individuals over long distances without stopping.

Although Yarou and Yang Yun are together now, their spiritual strength has grown greatly, it is still very difficult to send people out of the city on a large scale.

Secondly, whether it is to find a place to settle down after leaving the city to let Yarou recover her mental strength, or to hire ox carts to carry goods to the nearest Dongyang county seat in a nearby village, or to buy a horse-drawn carriage in the mule and horse market after entering the county seat for a long journey, it all involves the problem of news leakage.

Once the Jiedu Embassy found out that the situation was wrong and issued a document to investigate, the characteristics of Yang Yun and his party were too obvious, and it was easy to expose their whereabouts.

Now relying on the Liu family caravan to go north, not only is it unaware, but there are people along the way to take care of and take care of it, which is really good.

As for the sour plum soup and the method of making ice, in Yang Yun's opinion, it was nothing at all, and it was more important to meet Yang Yu earlier than anything.

"Brother Yang, this road goes all the way to the east, take Jianzhou, Puzhou, Suizhou to Guozhou Nanchong on Shannan West Road, the road is still easy to walk, if you take the Sword Pavilion to cross the Qinchuan Shu Road for eight hundred miles, it is called a risk. This time the number of goods is very large, we go to the eastern capital of Luoyang, after the Shu land if you go together, if you want to go alone, you can make it clear to me. ”

The caravan steward Lei Jiao was hearty by nature, and he was initially prejudiced against Yang Yun and stayed away from ghosts and gods. As they got along for a long time, Lei Jiao's attitude towards Yang Yun changed, and Yang Yun's understanding of customs and human geography far exceeded expectations, and over time, Lei Jiao let go of his prejudices and became friendly to Yang Yun like most people in the caravan.

Because the caravan would not go directly to Chang'an, it had to deliver goods to Luoyang first, so that the caravan went all the way to the east, and Yang Yun did not see the Shu Road that was "difficult to go to the blue sky".

However, from the east out of Shu, not all easy to walk, in the hilly area of western Sichuan do not feel how, after passing Suizhou the road began to become steep.

Along the way, there were people from the Liu family caravan to help with the dots, everything was quite smooth, and Yang Yun was also in the mood to enjoy the scenery along the way.

"Why don't you transport the goods to Yangzhou and sell them?" Yang Yun drove the carriage and asked with a smile.

Lei Jiao rode on the horse and said with a smile: "How can our Liu family leave Yangzhou's feng shui treasure land alone?" We have a caravan going over there, but it's not under my control...... That caravan set off half a month ago, but unfortunately you didn't catch up. ”

While speaking, a man riding on a horse and a knife at his waist leaned over and said: "Brother Yang may not know, go to the south of the Yangtze River and take a boat directly outside the east gate of Chengdu, and go south and east along the river, which is much smoother than taking the land route, but there are many bandits in the Sichuan River waterway, and there are huge cowards entrenched along the coasts of Jiazhou, Rongzhou, and Luzhou. ”

The person who spoke was named Ruan Yue, the deputy foreman of the escort team, and there were more than sixty guards with knives under his command.

Unlike Lei Jiao, who pays attention to how much the caravan earns and how little he earns, Ruan Yue is more concerned about whether the road is safe and easy to walk, although the Liu family caravan basically opens up the relationship between black and white, but there will still be various accidents on the way back.

Caravans like the Liu family transporting a large number of money and goods are often the target of thieves, and they can wash their hands once they succeed, and they will never have to worry about money for the rest of their lives, so there are not a few bandits who take risks. Especially if you take the waterway, the Minjiang River has to pass through the barbarian-controlled area, and the journey is extremely dangerous.

Lei Jiao said: "Even if we don't take the waterway, we will have to deal with the thieves along the official road, but we have all worshiped the mountain in advance, and there should be no accidents." ”

At this, Reggio's tone became a little hesitant, as if he had thought of something.

On the other side, Ruan Yue also looked over, and when he saw Yang Yun beside him, he stopped talking.

Yang Yun realized that there was something strange in it, but he wouldn't get to the bottom of it if others didn't say it.

"As long as everything is safe, anything can be said." Lei Jiao smiled and diverted the topic, "Walk another ten miles, you will go to Fengtingyi, sleep well at night, and pass through Suizhou tomorrow." ”

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Fengtingyi belongs to the official post and does not provide private caravans to stay, but it can still allow some people to have tiles to cover their heads after being dotted in advance, and carriages and goods will also be attached around, and ordinary guards and coachmen and lifu will camp directly around the post station.

In the evening, the people of the caravan had something to discuss, and Yang Yun and a few little Lori went to rest after having dinner early.

Yang Yun and his entourage can also be regarded as "preferential treatment", they can live in a grass house built next to the post station, the house is a single room, there is a long wooden couch in it, Yang Yun and a few girls can sleep on the wooden couch similar to the "Datong shop".

The conditions were a little harder, but much better than sleeping in the wilderness.

"When you get out of Shudi, you must find a big inn and take a hot bath with a bathtub, and the road will be more difficult."

Yang Yun was not satisfied with the sanitary conditions along the way, but because he was running, he couldn't be too demanding, and as for the rough men in the caravan, he never felt that he needed to bathe and change clothes every day, which was also the main reason for the epidemic of epidemics and parasites in this era.

If you are busy with life, you can't care too much about the quality of life, and this kind of environment needs Yang Yun, who was used to petty bourgeois life in his previous life, to adapt to it for a long time.

"Master, do you need me to fetch water to scrub it for you?" An Lun asked with concern.

Yang Yun smiled: "No need, you guys should pay attention to personal hygiene, I'll ask the people in the caravan first, tomorrow's itinerary ...... You clean up first, I don't know how many people have lived here, and you need to clean it well before you can rest. ”

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Yang Yun deliberately kept a distance from a few little Loli around him.

Men and women should be treated differently!

What the girls have to do, Yang Yun can't participate, so he comes out of the grass house "with interest" and goes to find Lei Jiao.

When he arrived outside the tent where the caravan had set up, he heard a violent quarrel coming from inside, and he couldn't help coughing softly.

Lei Jiao opened the curtain and saw Yang Yun, a little apologetic, and then invited Yang Yun in.

"Why, there are a few thieves blocking the road, and we have to hide? Do they still want to fight with us? Zhang Lin, the second steward of the caravan, said loudly, sounding as if he was facing great danger ahead.

When the other people saw that Yang Yun, an "outsider", was present, they didn't answer, and looked at Lei Jiao, which had the intention of making Lei Jiao make up his mind.

Lei Jiao groaned for a moment and said, "Tomorrow will be as usual, and we will talk about it when there is something." ”

The chief steward made a decision, and the people below naturally had to obey, a caravan of the size of the Liu family was very disciplined.

After the others almost left, only Lei Jiao, the guard foreman Liu Tong, and the deputy foreman Ruan Yue stayed, and Yang Yun did not leave.

Lei Jiao said to Yang Yun: "Brother Yang is his own person, there is no need to hide it, I heard that a bandit force has risen in the territory of Suizhou, strong soldiers and strong horses, relying on the complex terrain and landform of the southwest of Tangxing, plundering past business travelers, and often killing ......"

Yang Yun had learned from Lei Jiao and Ruan Yue that all the bandits wanted was money, and they rarely raped and killed, and this gang of bandits like Lei Jiao's mouth obviously belonged to the "bandits" who did not follow the rules.

"We also sent people to worship the mountain before, but were turned away, originally they were active in the north of Zizhou, I heard that the government sent troops to encircle and suppress, so they moved south, to Suizhou generation to take root, a few days ago also robbed a caravan, killed several lives." Reggio said.

Yang Yun asked, "What does Master Lei mean?" ”

Lei Jiao smiled: "The old man has no other intentions, just reminds Brother Yang that if you encounter a thief, it is best to dredge it with money, otherwise you may risk your life...... However, Brother Yang, please rest assured, this gang of bandits is only one hundred and ten people, although the number of caravan guards is not as good as theirs, but it is well-trained and well-equipped. ”

Yang Yun nodded in agreement, but he didn't think so: "There are more people than bandits, but this gang of bandits kills people like hemp, and lives a life of licking blood from the knife edge, how can the guards who have not experienced much actual combat be comparable to ordinary coachmen and forcemen?" ”

"It's not early, Brother Yang should go back and rest first...... Send more people to be on duty at night, so as not to be taken advantage of by thieves. ”

Lei Jiao was afraid that the bandits would attack Fengting Yi at night, so he explained the defense to Liu Tong and Ruan Yue, and Yang Yun came out of the tent with interest and went to the borrowed grass house.