Chapter Eighty-Seven: On the Road
"And to conform to the general trend, it is necessary for Chen Dong to be able to arrive at the time specified in history, although the space has an ambiguous attitude towards the behavior of changing history, and according to our previous experience, changing history can indeed gain more benefits, but ......" Li Zhishi frowned and pursed his lips.
"But what?"
At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came from behind the two of them, who were lost in thought and their perception of their surroundings had declined.
"Uh, Jinxiu, why did you come out?" The fat man, who was thinking about Li Zhishi's words, was stunned suddenly, and then turned his head back and smiled with a stiff face.
Jinxiu didn't pay attention to him, but looked at Li Zhishi, who was obviously not surprised that she came up, and didn't speak, just silently followed behind.
In this way, even if Li Zhishi is calm, he can't stand it, especially under this seemingly plain, but in fact cold and unrestrained gaze.
"Ahem, what are you talking about, I just took a nap and didn't hear clearly."
Jinxiu looked at Li Zhishi, a "budding new contractor" who blatantly opened his eyes and said nonsense, and really repeated the question just now.
"But what, you ask? But...... Eggs are eggs, such as eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, turtle eggs, donkey eggs, ......" Li Zhishi was a little shameless and pretending to be stupid and cute, and scratched his head after speaking, as if something strange had just been mixed in his words?
"Poof!" As soon as Li Zhishi's words fell, the fat man's laughter suddenly came out for half a second, and then he held back stiffly, even so, the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.
For the fat man's smiling, the chill on Jinxiu's face added a little bit, Li Zhishi really had the next second that the black-haired witch would draw her sword, no, it was the feeling of pulling out a dart to kill someone, and she had to stare at the fat man at the moment, and then sighed.
"Actually, I'm curious why you chose to join this death decoy team with us." Li Zhishi did not answer Jinxiu's question, but asked rhetorically. Not to mention that Zhu Cheng couldn't figure it out, in fact, even he really couldn't understand why this woman, who could really torture and kill fat people on a certain occasion, would make such a choice.
Li Zhishi's rhetorical question made Jinxiu a little silent for a moment, and after a few breaths, he said: "I heard before that Zhu Cheng is not very good in character. ”
"Oh." Li Zhishi nodded, and then continued to look at her with a smile.
"Hmm...... Also, I don't want to be with that Luo Can. This time, it was Chang Jinxiu, who was a little flustered under Li Zhishi's gaze.
"Oh, the personality is incompatible?" Li Zhishi expressed his understanding of Jinxiu's reason, and then showed a smile and squeezed his eyebrows.
One second......
Two seconds......
"Why are you looking at me laughing!" Jinxiu, who was uncomfortable at home, snorted heavily, and her cold body disappeared, highlighting the word witch even more.
"That'...... Did I really say that? ”
"Speak quickly!"
In response to the questioning with Jinxiu, Li Zhishi had to shrug his shoulders, and then said: "Actually, I want to tell you, well, you have a worm on your shoulder, a big thief." ”
“……”
After a moment of silence, a scream resounded throughout the official road in an instant, startling countless birds.
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"They should have been followed by those who were being stalked...... It's time for us to go. In an abandoned temple, Chen Dong, Zhu Cheng and his party, who were hidden in it, finally decided to go on the road after waiting for about half an hour.
"Luo Can, you are on guard around, if you find a secret sentry approaching, report it immediately, don't act rashly, what we need now is to hide."
"Tang Qi, you have to make sure that you are within the range of me and Chen Dong at all times, now that the manpower is less than half, although we should be safe enough, we must still have enough time to face the emergency."
For Zhu Cheng's order, Luo Can and Tang Qi quickly carried it out, obviously the shortage of manpower gave them a certain sense of urgency.
After instructing the two of them, Zhu Cheng walked to Chen Dong, who was talking to the two companions beside him, glanced at "Brother Li" and "Brother Zhang", who appeared with him at the beginning, and then said: "Brother Chen, I request that your two guards be used as sentry agents in front, so that you can be invincible only if you take care of both inside and outside." ”
Zhu Cheng's words made Chen Dong stunned, and Brother Li and Brother Zhang changed their expressions.
"What does Brother Zhu mean by this? Brother Li and Brother Zhang are my best friends, and they are also students, what kind of guard is that, Brother Zhu is cautious, cautious! Chen Dong was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, his expression was very serious.
Since Chen Dong didn't admit it, he couldn't forcibly debunk it if he was still counting on the latter as his next borrowing object, Zhu Cheng just shook his head after looking at the other two, and then said no more.
Although they had been delayed at the inn for a night, they had already calculated the route and time Zhu Cheng determined, as long as they were not hindered along the way, they would definitely be able to arrive at Ying Tianfu at least five days earlier than the time they had reached Yingtianfu in history.
As the Ming team, Li Zhishi's threesome is naturally an official road, and in order to ensure that Zhu Cheng, who is hiding his traces, chooses the path outlined according to the description of the locals. As for the convenience of traveling, it must be that the official road is wilder and smoother, and the speed is faster, although the trail can avoid the line of sight, it must meet the mountains, the mountains and the water, and the road is naturally not the same. In fact, according to the distance, Chen Dong should have been able to rush to Yingtianfu before Li Gang was demoted, but Chen Dong in history only walked less than half the distance when Li Gang was demoted, thinking that there must have been many changes, and these changes were what Zhu Cheng tried his best to avoid.
After a few days, although the road was a little more difficult, they had already completed more than half of the journey with enough dry food and water.
But at this time, they who had no carriage and could only walk the path were actually in a state of extreme exhaustion, so they really needed to stop and rest for a day, otherwise they were afraid that they would not be able to hold on and fall down before they arrived at Yingtianfu Chen Dong, after all, the Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts to a certain peak, and under the rule of Confucianism, which was self-emasculated for the sake of centralized power, caused the students to regard the people who practiced martial arts as vulgar villagers, so that they were powerless and weak, completely forgetting that the ancestor of Confucianism, the Confucian saint, was nine feet and six inches long. With the three-foot Qingfeng in his hand and the three thousand apprentices of the martial arts people under his door, he was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period where bandits were rampant, and he traveled around the world......
Looking at Chen Dong, who was already pale, Zhu Cheng had to sigh and make the whole team stop, and at the same time glanced at "Brother Zhang" and "Brother Li", who were tired but obviously had spare energy, thinking that unless he was really a fool, he couldn't see that there was something wrong with these two people.