In Steward Cai's transport team.

Luo Ming had already sat in Cao Yan's carriage, and his carriage was bulletproof, well, at this time, it should be said that it was a knife-proof soldier.

And Cao Yan and his family were a little closed, sitting on a small horse on the side.

Calm and relax.

Lin Yiru sat in a straight posture, with a pitch-black and shiny recurve bow on her thigh, her hand on the bow, and behind her was a shelf, on which was placed a pot of arrows, and leaning on a spear, and the shape of the spear was very strange, it was clockwise with a spring steel slightly thinner than the little finger, rotating and wound around the body of the gun in the middle, forming a three-centimeter-thick body that seemed to be twisted.

The head of the gun is twice as long as the gun head used by others, and it is also a Mitsubishi shape with a little rotation, if there are modern military fans who can recognize it at a glance, this is the shape of the Mitsubishi military thorn.

As long as someone who is familiar with Lin Yiru sees this gun, and when they think of the scene when her spear rotates through a hundred layers of wooden planks that day, they can immediately feel cold all over their bodies and their scalps numb.

Cao Yan lowered his head, a pitch-black and wide Han sword, erected in front of him, his right hand grasping the hilt of the sword, and his left hand supporting his forehead, as if he was dozing.

The relaxed demeanor of the two of them made the surrounding dart masters and the people of Cai's Mansion who began to feel uneasy because they knew that they were surrounded by more than a thousand bandits.

Steward Cai also followed Luo Ming to sit in Cao Yan's carriage, a little distracted, if it weren't for Cao Yan here, he would have left the goods and ran away with his cronies.

More than 300 people, against more than 1,000 people.

He didn't think he had swelled to that point.

Minutes and seconds passed.

Suddenly, Cao Yan and Lin Yiru both opened their eyes and looked up in the direction of a forest.

I saw three people coming out of there.

It was the three who ran back to report the news.

The three of them didn't come over, but stood far away and began to shout: "Mr. Fuhu, let's bring you a message, he said, misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding, let Mr. go slowly, he won't come to see Mr. off." ”

"Oh! Thank you for me, you're in charge. Cao Yan stood up, patted his buttocks, looked at the relieved people around him, and said to the few people sitting on the ground over there: "Let them go, let's go!" ”

Lin Dazhuang, who was guarding the bandits who were taken as hostages, heard Cao Yan's instructions and shouted: "Get out, next time if you are blind again and we are caught, be careful that Lao Tzu pulls your skin." ”

"Yes! Be! Big strong brother, little one knows! "They all knew Lin Dazhuang, at that time, he followed Cao Yan every day and wandered in the cottage, several ruthless people in the cottage who were not afraid of death, but they were all taught by him to be a man.

"Let's go!"

The team set off again.

But this time I was more careful.

Cao Yan asked Lin Dazhuang and his people to divide into four groups and start patrolling along both sides of the official road.

And Steward Cai was worried all the way, and it wasn't until he entered Chuzhou City that he put his heart down.

……

Town.

Luojia Inn.

In the lobby of the inn.

Steward Cai and Cao Yan sat at a table.

"It's all about the presence of Mr. today, or the consequences will be unimaginable!" Steward Cai said politely.

"Steward Cai is polite, but at this level, I don't know if Steward Cai has thought about how to pass?" Cao Yan asked, he was referring to the last time, Steward Cai overturned the car and put Cui Juncai and their pit bankrupt This section of the road was occupied by the people of Jiulongzhai.

Thinking of this, Cao Yan was also quite helpless, there were really many bandits in this ancient world, basically there would be a group on a mountain.

The only difference is the problem of fewer people.

Judging from today's situation, Steward Cai estimated that he wanted to save money because he and others followed, so he only hired more than 300 people.

Cao Yan remembers that he hired more than 2,000 people for the last Chinese New Year.

Therefore, no one dared to touch him along the way.

But this time, this old boy employee is directly missing eight layers, which saves money, which makes Cao Yan want to scold her mother a little.

Steward Cai was a little embarrassed: "What should the gentleman say?" ”

There are about 2,000 brothers in the group in Jiulongzhai, which is twice as many as today's group in Laoshan.

Moreover, those masters are also famous, and they are enemies with Cao Yan, so if you don't fight, there will be ghosts.

"I mean, just invite some random people in this city, just follow us to the next city, and it won't cost much." Cao Yan said the words casual and not much expensive, and he knew that this Steward Cai probably didn't want to spend more money.

And as long as the number of people on their side is about the same as the number of thieves on their side, the bandits will generally not come to rob them, so their losses will be too great, and they will not do it.

Steward Cai instantly understood what Cao Yan meant.

"Then I'll hire thousands of people to walk around this road tomorrow."

"Hmm!" Cao Yan nodded.

……

The next day.

It wasn't dawn yet.

Cao Yan heard a commotion outside.

He put on his clothes and walked out.

Steward Cai stood in the courtyard in front of the inn with a serious face.

And his nephew Cai Heiniu was holding an iron horn and shouting there.

"Listen to me, today everyone will get a note from me, follow us to Dingyuan County, you can get the same money, men, women and children, as long as the first three thousand people, if you are willing to go, come quickly, now you can take the note and set off."

Cao Yan listened a little smacked, this old man is really a pit, this round trip is more than 140 kilometers, what can this money do?

And Cao Yan didn't know that since his carriage was sold, people in many cities have started to do passenger transport business, and the general road fare between cities like this is also calculated according to time, generally about 100 wen a day.

From Chuzhou to Dingyuan, taking an ox cart is two or three hundred Wen, of course, it must be faster to take a carriage, but the price is about the same as our later generations, and the faster one is more expensive.

In this way, in addition to some simple food and drink on the road, you can still make some money.

And what Cao Yan didn't know was that in the case of no burden, people in ancient times walked very quickly, referring to the Red Army march at the time of liberation, walking sixty or seventy miles a day is the same as playing, that is still the case of baggage, and without weight, it should still be possible to do it for hundreds of miles a day.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible for so many people to sign up early in the morning.

Steward Cai saw Cao Yan come out and smiled at him.

"Sir, you are up."

"Hmmm! What do you think? ”

"It's okay, from just now, we let them go first, and secretly arranged for some of our people to follow, and we waited for dawn to have breakfast before leaving."

Steward Cai was very thoughtful, so that if someone stopped him on the road, someone would report in front of him.

……

On the way, Cao Yan saw what it means to walk like flying.

In ancient times, the working people walked very fast, but now they are walking empty-handed, and that is even more so.

Of course, more of them are that some people sign up as a family unit, not only report themselves, but also report their own children and the elderly, after all, this money is quite easy, at this time, people work hard for a month and only about three times, and such a family can get more than five times at a time, and as long as they walk for a few days, they all think that this money is picked up.

However, in order to take care of the old and weak of their families, the young and strong people carried their children and the elderly or some simple wheelbarrows to carry them on the road with baskets and flat burdens, while their mothers-in-law followed behind with dry food and water.

Along the way, Cao Yan met many such families.

Although it looks hard, many of them have smiles on their faces.

……

Cao Yan and the others set off more than an hour late, but in the afternoon.

came to Cao Yan's previously planned destination, Daishan Village, more than 30 kilometers away.

Some of the temporarily hired villagers had already arrived, and they didn't dare to go too far at one time, for fear that they wouldn't be able to catch up in time for an accident.

This made Cao Yan extremely impressed.

In the town, a guard was arranged.

After eating dinner and taking a shower.

With the exception of a few vigilers, all the others who had been tired from the day's work rested.

……

"Smack," Cao Yan's sleeping window was hit by a small pebble.

Cao Yan opened his eyes.

He gently put on his clothes.

Picked up the eight-sided Han sword next to the bed.

Opened the door and walked out.

As soon as she went out, she saw Lin Yiru, who was already waiting for Cao Yan at the door of her room.

She is also holding a Han sword that is very similar to Cao Yan's appearance, but the scabbard and hilt are white, unlike Cao Yan's one, which is all black.

The two walked downstairs along the aisle of the inn, followed by Lin Dazhuang and others.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the night watchman, he walked out of the inn.

looked at the dark dense forest in the distance at the entrance of the village, but the two of them did not speak.

After a while.

A group of people appeared in the dense forest.

There are eight Cao Yan who are acquainted.

The first to eight masters of Jiulongzhai didn't know the other people Cao Yan, and they didn't see Liu Junshi and his nephew in the crowd, after all, those two goods were also one of the two or five boys, and they definitely refused to be with them anymore.

"Hehe," Cao Yan smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are so interested in coming to me tonight?" ”

Everyone looked at Cao Yan and his wife with a toothache, but they didn't even want to say cruel words.

If you put this out, it's just a joke, this Lin Yiru can't beat it, not to mention that there is Cao Yan and others next to him.

"We're just here to see if you two are here, and since you're here, then we'll take our leave." Chi Jinlong looked at Cao Yan and both of them holding weapons, sighed, and felt that he was still in his heart.

After getting the communication from the old mountain, they didn't want to do it.

For Lin Yiru, they are really empty-hearted!

Originally, she wanted to let them go as if she didn't see it, but Hongjinlong didn't agree, she always wanted to ask Cao Yan in person.

Chijinlong also knew about this, so he could only helplessly accompany her.

"Then I'll thank you all for being in charge, and I'll invite you to gather again another day when I'm free." Cao Yan hurriedly smiled and thanked, there is absolutely no element of falsehood in this.

"Why?" An abrupt voice sounded, it was the Red Gold Dragon of the Eight Masters.

"What, why?" Cao Yan didn't understand what this sudden question meant.

"Why, you saved us, and you arrested us again." The red gold dragon had a little whimper in his tone.

"Alas!" Cao Yan sighed, this is a special task, but I don't know if they believe it? If you don't say that, how can you say it? There's no way to say that!

But who knew that hearing Cao Yan's sigh, the red gold dragon seemed to have misunderstood something, and suddenly suppressed the tears that were about to fall: "You have to be careful of the gang in Lao Shan, they deliberately told us your news and wanted us to deal with you here." ”

"Thank you, Red Girl reminded me." Cao Yan thanked, but at the same time, a question arose, what kind of people from Laoshan recruited them themselves and provoked them?

I actually want to pit myself, is it that I have been too low-key recently, so they have floated?

The red gold dragon looked at Cao Yan and Lin Yiru again, hugged his fists, turned around and was the first to leave.

"Alas! See you soon, sir! The red golden dragon hugged his fists and turned to leave.

"Goodbye!"

……

See them leave.

Cao Yan retracted his gaze, reached over to take Lin Yiru's hand, and said with a smile: "Yiru, the moonlight is good tonight, let's take a walk around here." ”

Lin Yiru did not refuse and nodded.

……

The next day, Cao Yan suggested that Steward Cai not let them follow all the people he invited, of course, the money was still enough for Chen Nuo before.

Although Steward Cai was a little reluctant to give so much money, he still agreed to Cao Yan's proposal.

After announcing that there was no need to follow the road behind, and giving enough money, many people present were grateful to Cao Yan and others.

After that, the road is much easier, and it is basically flat.

The road has become too peaceful.

In this way, after half a month, the caravan finally arrived in Jingshi (Kaifeng).

(End of Volume 3) ()