The sunset falls on the Wei River, and the golden light is rugged.

The orange-red sun hung over the mountains on the right, half of which had already set, revealing only the small half of the head, and the sunset was like a burning cloud, rendering the western sky like a floating sea of blood.

With the mountains on one side and the Wei River on the other, the official road winds between the mountains and the water, like a long snake.

On both sides of the official road, a willow is planted not far apart, at the end of autumn, the willow is still green, has not been yellowed, hangs in the autumn wind, gently flutters with the autumn wind, but, because the wind sometimes comes from the river, sometimes from the mountain, the angle of the flutter is also changeable, there is no certain rule. There are unknown birds perched on the branches, in flocks of three or five, boasting of their singing voices to each other, and the sound of birds is unusually crisp.

"Fluttering ......"

Suddenly, the sound of flapping wings sounded, and a flock of birds left the willow branches and flew into the air.

After a moment of turning in the air, as if everyone had discussed and reached a consensus, the birds turned their heads and flew towards the mountains, disappearing behind the mountains on the side of the road.

Subsequently, the convoy turned out from behind the hillside.

It was said that it was a convoy, but in fact, there were only three carriages, one carrying people, and the other two carrying goods, and there were seven or eight men in leather armor riding war horses in front and back of the carriage, and marching towards the east at an unfast speed.

This is the closest section of the Weishui and Qinling Mountains, and out of this narrow valley the two will go their separate ways, the Wei River flows northward, joins the great river, and then the mighty soup rushes eastward. However, the Qinling Mountains turned to the south, undulating for hundreds of miles like a land galloping horse, before turning eastward, stretching to the bank of the Yellow River and then to the south, connecting with the Taihang Mountains.

Among them, there is a section of the mountain range called Huashan.

The Huashan faction is on top of Huashan, and there is a county seat under the mountain, also called Huashan.

Tianjian Peak, Lotus Peak is the highest peak of Huashan, the mountain is steep and straight, although it belongs to the branch of Qinling, but it is very different from the momentum of Qinling.

Qinling is known for its majestic momentum, incomparably broad, across between Sichuan and Shaanxi, called the moat, there are often, Shu Road is difficult, Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, even if there is a Fu car, even if there is a Fu Master to participate in the construction of the plank road between Sichuan and Shaanxi, its traffic is still unchanged.

This is because there are many demon beasts in the Qinling Mountains, and from time to time there are demon beasts rushing down the mountain, even if there are nodes on the plank road, there will be warriors, and even some nodes have mages, every year, there are still many people killed and injured under the attack of demon beasts. Even if, almost all of these traveling convoys are martial artists, and few ordinary people accompany them.

Even so, losses are still unavoidable.

Therefore, many warriors even talked about the color change of the Qinling Mountains.

In this world, after being far away from the towns, even in the rich and well-developed Guanzhong Plain, there are still many remote and undeveloped areas, and there are some more famous wild lands, in these wild places, there are many resources needed for martial artists to cultivate, and of course, there are also a lot of demon beasts lurking. As for the evil things that are weird, as long as they are not in big cities like Chang'an and Luoyang that have a large protective array, they will appear at any time.

It doesn't matter if you're in a bustling town or a remote mountain village.

Of course, those guys are not everywhere, and if you want to generate, you also need a lot of conditions, and most ordinary people have never seen them once in their lives, and of course, once they appear, it is a disaster many times.

Speaking of Huashan, although Huashan belongs to the branch of the Qinling Mountains, the mountain is extremely steep, which is completely different from the style of the Qinling Mountains.

This section of the road is equivalent to the end of the Guanzhong Plain, the west of the official road, is the rich Guanzhong Plain, the east exit of the official road, is the boundary of Huashan Mountain, there is a small plain, and further east, that is, the famous Tongguan, this area, the development is not perfect, there are cities and towns, there are also wilderness, monsters are rampant, strange haunts.

Although this mountain road is not as dangerous as Shu Road, it is not a safe place.

Under normal circumstances, if there is a convoy, it will definitely be dozens or hundreds of large vehicles dispatched together, connected to the front and back, like a long snake, and the warriors escorting the convoy are often hundreds, and sometimes, there are even innate warriors in charge. In addition to preventing monsters, you are also worried about being attacked by some bandits, after all, no trade is the best business in any world, as long as you are not afraid of death.

It's safe to get out of this narrow mountainous area.

Once you enter the realm of Huashan, the thieves are extinct, the monsters are not there, and even the elusive evil monsters do not dare to appear in Huashan, once they appear, they will definitely be destroyed, and there will be no accidents.

In fact, the Huashan faction can also expand its power, set this mountain road as its own territory, and even extend its tentacles to the Guanzhong Plain.

However, the Huashan faction only firmly controls its own territory, that is, Huashan County, for the territory outside the boundary of Huashan, there is no peeping heart at all, even if it is recruited by the government, or invited by other families, the brigade of people out of Huashan, once the matter is done, it will also be withdrawn, until now, it is only a station in Xuanzhen Temple, Wannian County, outside Chang'an City.

Other than that, there are no stations anywhere in the country.

The disciples of Huashan walked the rivers and lakes, they have always been alone, and there is no rudder to receive them, not only the disciples of the Sword Sect, but even the disciples of the Qi Sect are also very arrogant, but they are not as manic as the disciples of the Sword Gate, and they will draw their swords against each other if they don't agree with each other, but if anyone provokes them, it will not die.

Now, there are still hundreds of miles away from the Huashan station.

Even if it is a talisman car, even if the hooves of the war horses are engraved with small light dust talisman arrays, they can travel hundreds of miles a day, and before sunset, it is impossible for this convoy to get out of this mountain road.

Unlike Shu Road, this mountain road does not have an official station.

Under normal circumstances, most of the customs out, will choose the waterway, that is, along the Wei River to the east, and then into the big river, along the big river meandering to the south and then to the east, and finally, into the Central Plains, on both sides of the river, there are many ferries, whether it is south or north, or continue to the east, it is very convenient, so, long-distance people, rarely choose the land.

Generally speaking, the way in and out of this road is a short distance.

Because Huashan is not on the Wei River, if the Huashan Territory wants to communicate with the Guanzhong Plain, it must pass through this official road.

It's just that, as mentioned earlier, under normal circumstances, it is a convoy of hundreds of carriages, and a convoy of only three carriages like the present one can be said to be very rare.

Du Rui did not sit in the carriage, but rode on a war horse like Yue Chong and the others.

Sometimes he looked at the rolling mountains, sometimes he turned his head to look at the water of the Wei River on the left, and when he reached the valley, the Wei River was no longer as wide as in the Guanzhong Plain, but it was rushing rapidly.

Out of town Handan!

Serve as the envoy of the Jingbian Army!

Although he is a prince, although he has the title of King Zhao, after all, he is a child who is a little more than ten years old, even if he looks like a teenager now, can he deter that group of arrogant soldiers?

No one believed Du Rui.

Du Rui himself does not have a strong family support, nor does he have any staff to use, only about twenty guards, and there are probably not a few of these guards who are really loyal to him, and most of them may have the main family, so he can't count on it at all. This time, when he left the town of Handan, Du Rui, the guards with ulterior motives, didn't ask for any of them, and all of them returned to the Internal Affairs Office, and he still took the group of people who followed him before.

Although this group of people was also mixed with sand, it was not as excessive as the latter group.

After being appointed, Du Rui's annex in Momoyama was like a city for a while.

From time to time, some people recommend themselves to come to serve as staff, and there are also some family gate valves who come to the door, especially the Guo family, who is very domineering, saying that they want to arrange entourage for Du Rui, and they must have a lot of their own family members to help them, Du Rui himself does not have many talents, all of them are some children, the Guo family is the queen's family, and King Zhao has a lot of care from the queen, and they have a relationship with each other, so it is also appropriate for the Guo family to arrange some people to help His Royal Highness King Zhao!

However, all of these uninvited guests were turned away by Du Rui.

The Guo family was still angry, and as a result, he was thrown out by Yue Chong.

Yue Chong didn't care about this, he got the benefits of Du Rui and was promoted to an innate martial artist, then he had to fulfill his promise and promised to do things for Du Rui for three years, then he had to do it, at the beginning, Du Rui resisted the scene of the great grandmaster Oubrei Yue Chong had never witnessed it, at that time, he was looking inward, preoccupied with preparing to impact the innate and had no time to care.

So, he didn't actually know what was going on behind him.

In Du Rui's place, he also knew that Gu Daoren appeared, drove Oubrei away, and saved everyone's lives.

Therefore, he actually didn't know that Du Rui's current combat power was already above him, but he still had no intention of repenting, if he repented, it would be a disobedient move for him, so there must be demons in his heart, which naturally would not work.

For Du Rui's orders, Yue Chongyan obeyed.

Since Du Rui said that he would not see outsiders and would not agree to anyone's requests, he and Wei Yue would be responsible for this matter, one singing red face and the other white face, to put an end to the harassment of those with ulterior motives.

Gu Zhenren sits in Xuanzhen Temple, and Du Rui's courtyard is in the mountain behind Xuanzhen Temple.

Therefore, no one dared to react otherwise, and they recognized it if they were rejected, and at the same time, they also put Du Rui on the blacklist, a guy who doesn't know how to work together, basically, is no different from waste materials.

This time, out of the town of Handan, in the face of those proud soldiers, it is unknown whether he can live to see Chang'an City again!

However, Du Rui was able to refuse many people, but he could not refuse Emperor Du Zhen.

The emperor sent him a deputy, a scholar from Bailu Academy, surnamed Zheng, a single name Cheng, the word Yuanxing, born in Xingyang Zheng, but he was born in a partial house, and he was actually not valued by Xingyang Zheng.

He served in the Privy Council and held three official positions.

This one is the emperor's confidant.

He was not in the convoy, but had already taken his brigade of men and horses along the Wei River east in a Fu boat, and rushed to Handan first.