After the territory of several horse bandits in a row, Qin Dong and the others are safe and sound, in view of the fact that the guards of the two caravans of Qin Dong and Gebuus are too many, several horse bandits along the way do not dare to act rashly, although they covet Qin Dong's super large caravan, but their own strength is too weak, if they are forcibly looted, they will suffer heavy losses, and thus be swallowed up by other horse bandits, and now they can only watch Qin Dong's caravan pass, just hope that the horse bandits in front can take the lead in robbing regardless of casualties, then they will have the opportunity to make a move Yellow Sparrow behind, It's a pity that the other bandit leaders are not stupid.

In this way, Qin Dong and the others mixed the territory of the five horse bandits along the way, walked more than forty miles, and camped on a flat meadow before dark.

Although it was not an army march, Qin Dong still ordered Su He to surround the cart in a circle according to the military defense, and the arrangement of the tents was also carried out in accordance with the military defense regulations.

Not long after dinner, Qin Dong, who was sitting in the tent wiping his saber, received a report from Su He: "My lord, the situation is a little bad, according to the report of the scouts who were scattered just now, the detective sentry who found the horse bandits in the surrounding area sneakily followed us, there are a total of six groups of people and horses, I think those horse bandits are not dead, they must be waiting for the opportunity!" ”

Qin Dong put down the rag that wiped the knives, picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of beer and said, "It's not good!" Let's go, let's go to Peteaus, and invite Gebuus over! ”

"Yes, sir!" Su He saluted and retreated to the right. Let Qin Dong go out first, and then he followed Qin Dong out of the tent.

After Su He went to invite Gebuus, Qin Dong went to Peteus's tent alone. At this time, Pethius was writing something on parchment with a reed pen, Qin Dong walked behind him and looked, but it was written in Greek, Qin Dong couldn't understand it, and suddenly asked, "Peteus, what is this written?" ”

Qin Dong suddenly spoke, startling Peteus. The ink shook out, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Qin Dong, and immediately said with a bitter face: "Ouch." My lord, you scared me to death! My subordinates have the habit of taking notes, and they like to write down what happens every day."

Isn't this just journaling? Could it be that people in this era have the habit of keeping diaries? However, Qin Dong thought about it and felt that it was possible, there were not a few celebrities in the ancients who had the habit of writing down what happened every day. For example, Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty wrote "New Preface? Miscellaneous Matters One": "Si Jun's mistakes are written." Lu You of the Song Dynasty wrote in the third volume of "Notes on Lao Xue'an": "Huang Lu has a diary, which is called "Family Ride", and he still does not quit writing in Yizhou. ”

Since it was a diary, Qin Dong didn't care too much about it, and sat down to wait for Peteus to finish writing, but how could Peteus continue to write? Put down the reed pen and asked: "Master Qianfu doesn't rest so late, there must be something." If there is something going on, you can send someone over and ask your subordinates to come over. You don't have to come by yourself, do you? ”

Qin Dong shook his head and said: "Lord Peteaus, please remember that in the future, you are the principal of this caravan, you are my maternal uncle, I am your nephew, even when no one is around, it should be like this, to prevent being discovered, now that we have been out of the territory of the Xiongnu Empire, if people discover our identity, the consequences are really unpredictable, I hope you can understand our situation!" ”

Beads of sweat oozed from Peteus's forehead, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, ahem, Bull, do you have anything to say about coming to your uncle's tent so late?" ”

Qin Dong was very satisfied with Peteus's quick reaction and entering the state, he saluted and said: "Uncle, my nephew just got a report from the scouts, we seem to have been targeted by the spies of those horse bandits before, and those horse bandits don't seem to plan to give up such a big piece of fat as us!" ”

Pethius was shocked in his heart, and comforted him: "Bull, don't panic, we can't panic, we can make more money when we are gone, and if we are gone, there will be nothing, according to our current strength, except for the largest one called ' Hurricane Thieves' horse bandits, any other horse bandits do not want to get a bargain with us, we are now only worried about two points, first, someone can't help but take the lead, then other horse bandits in order to prevent the goods from being snatched away by the first horse bandits will definitely flock to it, if so, the horse bandits carry out wheel warfare, we will be difficult to get out, second, the horse bandits reach an agreement to unite against us, then we are afraid that it will be difficult to compete with the joint multiple horse bandits! ”

Qin Dong listened to Peteus's analysis and nodded, thinking in his heart, at this time Gebuus was invited by Su He, Qin Dong immediately reported the situation to Gebuus, Gebuus was frightened by the news announced by Qin Dong, he couldn't believe that the horse bandits had collected tolls, and even wanted to eat all the goods, he asked with a little pale face: "Peteus, is what you said true?" As far as I know, it seems that the horse bandits here have never done anything like collecting tolls and killing people and goods, so this time the situation has changed? ”

Qin Dong asked, "Mr. Gebuus, how many times have you walked this road?" What is the amount of goods at a time? ”

"Fifteen years ago, I walked a few times, at that time there were no horse bandits here, to be honest, I was also the first time to take this trade route, if it wasn't for the Hun border guard commander to open the border trade, promised to protect the business travel, I would not come here, generally only to Dimit will turn back, before this time I also heard the news of the horse bandits here before I dared to come, when I came to find that those horse bandits only collected tolls and let them go, and did not see the horse bandits do the thing of killing people and goods!"

The situation is already obvious, and it is the first time for Gebuus to take this trade route, and the news he gets about the horse bandits is only hearsay, and the code of conduct of the horse bandits here is not very clear.

Qin Dong pondered for a while and asked, "Mr. Gebuus, which horse bandits' territory will we pass through next?" ”

Gebuus said without hesitation: "Next is the territory of the biggest horse bandit 'Hurricane Thieves', his men have the most horse bandits and the largest territory, we need to walk forty miles, at a normal speed, we need a day to get through the territory of the 'Hurricane Thieves'!" ”

Qin Dong remembered what Gebuus said before, his heart moved, and he asked again: "Mr. Gebuus, according to what you said earlier, the horse bandits here usually pay attention to their reputation?" All you hear in Dimit are rumors about the morality of the bandits here? ”

"Of course, if you think about it, there is no one else living here except the horse bandits, and if there is no caravan passing here, whose food and whose drink will they eat? If they have a bad reputation, and kill people and sell goods without credibility, and the caravans will not take this trade route, will they not starve to death? ”

Qin Dong and Peteaus listened to Gebuus's words, and their expressions became very solemn, if it is really according to what Gebuus said, these horse bandits are very well-behaved, then he Qin Dong is nothing even if he pays a little more tolls, it is nothing more than a little money, but according to what Gebuus said, these horse bandits are definitely not very well-behaved as rumored by the outside world, they do one thing on the surface, and they also do one thing secretly, the general caravan, if it is not particularly oily and watery, In order to maintain their reputation, the horse bandits will naturally collect tolls and let them go, but if they encounter a particularly oily water, the horse bandits will definitely not be tempted. They want to kill people and steal goods, and they do it neatly and neatly, and never leave a living mouth, so that no one will spread the word that they secretly slaughtered merchants and robbed goods!

Qin Dong stood up and took a deep breath and said, "It seems that we are in big trouble this time!" (To be continued......)