More than a dozen cavalrymen followed Li Qi's gesture and rushed out of the team to explore the way into the mountain, and the barking of dogs in the air had already warned that there might be danger.

Li Qi has dogs in their team, like having the best scout in the world.

A team of more than a dozen people followed the mountain road into the valley and soon disappeared from Li Qi's sight.

"Look here."

Yu Jiuling sighed: "This can almost be regarded as the most remote place in Dachu, but there is some peace and tranquility here, when Dachu was strong, even such a remote place has built official roads, but now no one takes care of it." ”

He bent down and tried to pull out the grass that came out of the official road, but the grass grew so strong that the leaves were pulled off, but he couldn't uproot it.

Tang Pidi glanced at him and said, "You try to use your mouth." ”

Yu Jiuling: "......"

"This road is called the Nalan Straight."

Tang Pidi explained: "At the beginning, Da Chu built this road to allow the defenders of Jizhou to support the border pass as quickly as possible, starting from Jizhou, along this Nalan straight road to the northwest border pass, day and night, only twenty days. ”

He looked at Yu Jiuling and said, "At the end of this straight road, is Liangzhou. ”

Just then, one of the scouts sent out to explore the path came back, and gestured to them at the mouth of the valley to signal that there was no danger, and the party set out again into the valley.

"It's a pack of wolves."

The scout reported back: "There seems to be a team in front of us that has been attacked and besieged by wolves, and we helped disperse the wolves, and that team has dozens of people, and it is a juggling team. ”

"Juggling?"

After hearing this, Li Qi was a little curious, how could such a place, barren mountains and mountains, meet a team of performers.

He and Tang Pi glanced at each other, and then stepped forward to ask.

The leader of this juggling team was an old man who looked to be fifty or sixty years old, with gray hair, wrinkled face, and a dark complexion.

He claimed to be surnamed Luo, called Luo Yuanchu, his hometown is also from Jizhou, and he took his juggling team to run around the states and counties under the rule of Jizhou to seek a living, and then there were soldiers everywhere, they discussed, and simply came to the grassland, out of the Nalan grassland is Daxi Mountain, and there are many tribes living outside the mountain.

It seems that only their team of performers knows about this matter, and they also abide by the requirements of those young people and do not publicize it to the public, because Li Qi's team saved them, so they made it clear.

After the destruction of the Youshan Kingdom, a large number of young people left the Central Plains, but they could not return to their former hometowns, and the people and herdsmen of the Nalan Grassland would not accept them, so they went out of Daxi Mountain and lived here.

The terrain here in Daxi Mountain is like a huge basin, close to the Nalan grassland is called Daxi Mountain, to the north is a depression, but the grass and trees are abundant, there is a mountain range in the east-west direction a hundred miles away, it is also a branch of Yanshan, called the North Branch Mountain.

These small people of various tribes have lived between the Great West Mountain and the North Branch Mountain, which has lasted for hundreds of years and has developed into a country within a state.

There are dozens of tribes here, ranging from seven or eight hundred to more than 100,000 people, totaling about five or six hundred thousand people.

The largest tribe is called the Yuan tribe, which was originally not a northern ethnic group, but lived in the south of Shuzhou, where the place was almost primitive.

During the time of Youshan Kingdom, the emperors of all dynasties had a similar preference, that is, juggling and juggling.

At that time, there was a member of the Youshan tribe, who was an official in Youshan Kingdom, and he told the emperor of Youshan Country that his people were all masters in this field, so the emperor of Youshan Country ordered him to summon the juggling masters of the Youshan tribe to come to the capital.

In fact, it is because the people of the Yuan tribe live in a very primitive jungle, everyone is good at climbing and jumping, even if they are given a big bamboo pole that is not stable, they can climb to the highest place by poking it on the ground.

And they hunt, and they are good at using various tools, such as blow needles, rope lassoes, these are practiced accurately, and it is really shocking to watch.

Later, the people of the Yan tribe continued to pour into the capital of Youshan Country, relying on this

Some skills are good at performing arts to survive, but in fact, life is not very good.

At the beginning, the people who came over did get a heavy reward, and some even became officials because of their good juggling, and after the news came back to their hometown, more and more people ran to Jizhou.

At most, there were more than 30,000 people in Baocheng at that time, but none of them really lived a prosperous life.

In the beginning, because the people of the Yuan tribe showed juggling in front of the emperor and received a big reward, the people also wanted to see what kind of god it was, anyway, it was a god.

If any merchant can invite a performer from the Yuan clan at a high price, it will be overcrowded during the performance, and he will make a lot of money.

But later, there were too many people, and there were people selling artists everywhere, and there was a gang not far from the street, so that no one looked at it anymore.

After the destruction of the Youshan Kingdom, they were cut off from the way back to their hometown in Shuzhou, afraid of war, so they had to go north, originally wanted to settle on the grassland, but the people of the Nalan Department were afraid that they would not leave, so they were driven out of the country.

They lived in the area of Daxi Mountain and Beizhi Mountain, and multiplied into the largest tribe and had the most soldiers, so the leader of the Yuan tribe here, who was also the leader of all tribes, called himself the King of Leisure.

Luo Yuanchu told Li Qi that it would be the birthday of King Shanhuanzhou in a while, and they were going to rush over there to make some money.

Perhaps because of historical reasons, the people of the Yuan tribe are also particularly fond of juggling, after arriving here, they were originally prostitutes, but they became the largest tribe, and their leader called himself the King of Xiaoyao, and began to learn from the emperor of Youshan Country, and let others perform juggling for him.

The first question that came to Li Qi's mind after listening to Luo Yuanchu's words was not these tribes, but where the money came from.

It stands to reason that these young people of all ethnic groups who fled from the capital of Youshan Country do not have much money, and the gold and silver that can be circulated must be limited, not to mention gold, and the silver will be pitiful.

Now that they have been closed for hundreds of years, they are basically closed, have little contact with the outside world, and don't even deal with the people of the Nalan grassland, so where does the silver they circulate come from?

When his eyes narrowed slightly, Tang Pi knew that this guy was thinking about something related to money.

Tang Pidi pulled Li Qi aside and asked with a smile: "If you squint your eyes, there must be treachery." ”

Li Qi smiled and said: "You want 50,000 war horses, 50,000 soldiers, I don't want money, who wants?" I want to see where the money of this free king comes from, just now Lao Luo said that he spends money like dirt, if this is the case......"

Tang Pi said: "If this is the case, we will give the ninth sister a strengthening training now, it should be too late, let the ninth sister practice more climbing poles and drill fire rings or something, there should be a lot of rewards." ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "Relying on the ninth sister alone, after all, the strength is still a little weaker, besides, the pole climbing and the like you said are not unique skills, there are more people who can do it." ”

Tang Pi said: "There are more people who know, and no one is more sassy than the ninth sister." ”

Li Qi: "The main reason is that the time to practice now is too short, and it is not good to be light." ”

Tang Pi said: "You can let him last longer, let's go ours, leave the ninth sister here, and we will collect the money after half a year and a year, the ninth sister is so cute, the king must love him." ”

Li Qi said: "The ninth sister turned out to be a leek sister, how much stubble are you going to cut him." ”

Tang Pidi waved his hand and said, "What kind of stubble, don't you get it if you cut it to death?" ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "Just now Lao Luo said that the people here in King Xiaoyao have never fought, their army has not fought for hundreds of years, and they have not even moved, and the tribes are also very harmonious, there has been no bullying of outsiders, and it will be very lively on King Xiaoyao's birthday, so let's go and see it." ”

He wanted to take Gao Xining to see it.

Tang Pi said: "Everyone is a team of performers, we look like an army, maybe we will be stopped, that place has been known for hundreds of years, if it weren't for Lao Luo and they accidentally entered that place, maybe no people in the Central Plains know that there is a small country there, so they must be heavily guarded." ”

Li Qi looked back at himself

His own team really doesn't look like a team of performers.

He looked at Tang Pidi, and Tang Pidi said, "This matter has to fall on the ninth sister in the end." ”

Li Qi said: "You're right, it's still too late to train." ”

He turned around and asked Luo Yuanchu how long it would take to walk from here to Xiaoyao Kingdom, and Luo Yuanchu told him that it would take about five days.

Li Qi came back and said to Tang Pidi: "It's only five days, I'm afraid it's ......."

Tang Pi waved his hand: "Let's increase our efforts!" ”

Li Qi said: "As long as the ninth sister can bear it, you will have strength if you want it." ”

A moment later, Yu Jiuling glanced at the two goods sitting in front of him seriously, he felt that these two people must have dug some pit waiting for him to jump in, if he didn't jump, these two goods would press him in.

Yu Jiuling said a little timidly: "You two don't be so serious, I'm a little afraid." ”

Tang Pi said: "Now there is a chance to make a fortune, but we are all too serious, this big fortune, the more unscrupulous people are, the more chance they have to earn, the best is neurotic, let's see, there are only three of us in this team who can take on this big responsibility." ”

Yu Jiuling asked, "I, who else?" ”

Li Qi said: "The Condor and the dog." ”

Yu Jiuling: "Get out!" ”

Tang Pidi patiently persuaded him: "If you don't do it, I'll beat you." ”

Li Qi also patiently persuaded: "Let the Condor and the dog beat." ”

Yu Jiuling sighed and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Li Qi told the matter as it was, Yu Jiuling thought about it, if he could really make a lot of money, he could indeed do it, but he couldn't make a lot of money alone.

Thinking of the three words of impropriety, Yu Jiuling glanced back, and then his eyes lit up, he pointed to the people behind him and said, "Those guys in the Hanging Knife Gate, does one of them seem to be serious?" ”

Li Qi and Tang Pi glanced at each other, and both of them grinned.

A moment later, Jia Ruan, the senior brother of the Hanging Knife Gate, looked at the three serious people sitting in front of him, he felt that these three people had dug a pit and were waiting for him to jump in, if he didn't jump, the one named Yu Jiuling next to him should be pressed in.

"Juggling?"

After listening to Li Qi's words, Senior Brother Jia Ruan began to fall into deep thought, he thought carefully about all the brothers' meetings, and found that the only thing that could be done was one of the three kinds of mastery of their Hanging Knife Gate.

Hearing him talk about the three kinds of peerless learning of the Hanging Knife Gate, Yu Jiuling asked curiously, "Which three?" ”

Jia Ruan explained: "The knife technique practiced by the Hanging Knife Gate is different from other sects, we practice the big knife, the big one, you can understand that it is as big as the guillotine, this is one of the unique learnings, called the Hanging Knife Gate Big Knife." ”

Yu Jiuling said: "What about your guillotine?" ”

Jia Ruan said: "No, it's been robbed by the rebels." ”

He continued: "The second type of mastery is called the middle knife, which is shorter than the horizontal knife you are used to, and the handle of the knife is connected by chains, which can be used to hurt people by surprise. ”

Yu Jiuling said: "What about the knife?" ”

Jia Ruan said: "Are you stupid, you were robbed just after telling you." ”

Yu Jiuling: "......"

Jia Ruan said: "The third type is called flying knives. ”

Yu Jiuling said: "Isn't what you just said about flying knives?" ”

Jia Ruan said: "That's called a chain knife, and this kind of knife is called a flying knife." ”

He took out a few knives and shook them in front of Yu Jiuling: "The flying knife, one of the three stunts of the Hanging Knife Gate, our senior brothers, everyone is proficient." ”

Yu Jiuling asked, "Why wasn't this knife snatched?" ”

Jia Ruan said: "Are you stupid or not, this kind of knife is small, you can hide it close to you." ”

Yu Jiuling sighed, then looked at Li Qi and Tang Pidi and said, "Did you see it, I said that they are all neurotic, more neurotic than me." ”