When it was time for dinner, Siming finally came back from outside, the gloomy clouds between his eyebrows also stretched a lot, and at the dining table, he said, "Let's wait here for three or five days, and there will be a caravan that has dealings with the Zeng family to go to Shazhou City next to Mincheng, and we will save a lot of trouble on the way with them." ”

Liang Tian still knows a little about the cities on the eastern coastline, and the further he goes inland, the more strange he feels. Shazhou City is not small, Liang Tian has only heard of it, and he is unfamiliar with what it is like inside, and he only thinks that if there is a sand word, it should be a place full of yellow sand.

Five days later, the caravan in Si Ming's mouth finally arrived belatedly, led by a dusty young man, who looked to be only three or five years older than Siming, wearing a square scarf and behaving elegantly.

Siming hurriedly went up and said, "Brother Huang, you've had a hard time all the way. ”

With a leap of his feet, the man got out of the carriage and saluted back, "Let my brother wait for a long time, it is raining heavily on the road, and the team is walking slowly, I hope you will forgive me." I received the message a few days ago, and since I am an old neighbor of Uncle Zeng, I can trust it. It's just that I have to talk about this ugly thing first, and don't expect the caravan to do anything other than my peers. ”

"This is nature, a little courtesy, not a respect." As he spoke, Siming presented a square scarf embroidered with carp to the man.

The man touched the embroidery on the scarf, picked it up again and looked at it, and in the sunlight, it was really like a living carp at the bottom of the pool, and it was a good product. The man looked his eyes up and down again, and asked with some disbelief, "This is from the hand of Jin Cuitang Embroidery Niang?" ”

"Exactly."

The man laughed and said, "You are willing, the girl knows, but she is afraid of dying of sadness." ”

"Brother Huang misunderstood, it's just a reward for doing things for others, and it has nothing to do with the embroidery girl."

"Whatever you say, I'll take this thing, take your people with you, the caravan won't stop along the road, if you have anything to buy, buy it as soon as possible, and when the horses have been fed, you'll be on the road." After the man finished speaking, he went to beckon the men behind him to feed the horses.

"Everything is convenient for Brother Huang." After Siming finished speaking, he also went back to the inn to find Liang Tian, and after telling Quan Gui'er to put on the carriage, the three of them followed the caravan on the road.

There were many caravans, and they often walked on this road, and the road was peaceful, and the three of them were not as panicked as before, and gradually returned to the idle state when they first went out.

On the third day of the journey, the leader of the team suddenly came over and asked Siming, "Wang Gongzi, I am kind enough to take you on a ride, you better not hide anything from me." ”

Siming hurriedly got out of the car, pulled the person aside and said, "Brother Huang, what does this mean?" ”

The man shook off Siming's hand and said indignantly, "According to the report from the martial artist, since I brought you, there has been a tail behind the caravan that can't be shaken off, don't tell me that it's a coincidence." ”

Siming frowned, thinking to himself, could it be that Li Ming sent someone to follow, bowed down and said, "I really don't have anything to hide from Brother Huang, and I have also told Brother Huang the reason for requesting access." If Brother Huang is still not at ease, let me go with the martial artist tonight, and meet that person for a while. ”

"You'd better not have anything to do. If it weren't for Uncle Zeng's face, I wouldn't have brought you. The caravan is a matter of the life of the whole team, and you can't be sloppy on the road, so don't blame me for being harsh. ”

"It's nature."

"At night, I asked the martial artist to call you. It's just that your friend is going to stay here first. ”

Siming arched his hand and said, "If anything happens to me, I hope that Brother Huang will send that friend to Uncle Zeng." ”

"You'd better take care of yourself first." When the man had finished speaking, he went back again.

In the evening, a martial artist with a beard came to find Siming and invited him to go with him. Taking advantage of the moonlight, the two left the caravan and walked back two or three miles, then they saw a place with a flash of fire, and they were about to find a hidden place to investigate, but at some point, the two people's necks had been wrapped around the person behind them with a knife, and the moonlight reflected on the blade, reflecting in Siming's eyes.

"Let's go, since I'm here to investigate the situation, wouldn't it be better to ask myself." Without waiting for Siming to speak, the person behind him had already spoken, and after the words fell, he put away his knife and led the way in front. The two of them couldn't, so they had to follow forward, and the closer they got to the fire, the colder they felt.

On the way, the bearded martial artist scratched his head, and said to Siming with some embarrassment, "Prince Wang, I hope you will come to negotiate for a while, our martial arts practitioners have never been good at this aspect, and if one of them does not pay attention to the contradictions, this place is not easy to clean up." ”

By the fire, there were a few stout men scattered around, either sitting or lying, but the eyes of the two of them were not very friendly, and a little far away from the fire, there was a slightly heroic carriage parked, and the door curtain was closed.

Siming was taken to the front of the carriage and stopped, and soon a slightly immature voice came out from inside, "I wonder what happened to you two coming to me at night?" ”

The voice that I hadn't heard before, it shouldn't be the circle of people around Li Ming, Siming took two steps forward and said, "It's really not my intention to come here late at night to bother. The two of us are the martial artists of the caravan in front, and the leader of the team is not at ease, so let me wait to take a look. ”

"Martial artist?" The boy in the car laughed, "What are you here to see?" Did you buy out this road, or did you pay the money and not allow others to go? ”

What a prickly boy! Siming was beating a drum in his heart, and he couldn't figure out this person's way, and the man on the side was eyeing him again, so he had to change his tone and say in a more friendly tone, "Childe said that he laughed, we didn't come to embarrass Childe and ask Childe to change the way, but to make way for Childe." There are many of us and the queue is long, so we go slower on the road, for fear of delaying the child's trip in front. ”

The young man still didn't have a good tone, so he snorted and scolded in a low voice, "That's a nice thing to say." After a long while, he said lazily, "No need to let us, we will be at the place tomorrow, are you going to Sandbank City?" ”

Siming said, "It's a small town next door. ”

"Mincheng?" The young man suddenly became interested and persistently guessed.

"It's a small town to the south. ”

The young man suddenly got angry, and said angrily in the car, "Send off guests, let's leave tomorrow morning, don't make trouble for the big caravan, something goes wrong with other people, and you can't pay for your daughters-in-law." The surrounding men were also happy when they heard this, and held up a torch and handed it to Siming, signaling him to leave quickly.

"There's Lao Gongzi." After Siming finished speaking, under the gaze of several people, he walked back with the martial artist, and after a mile, they were relieved to see that no one was following behind.

After going back, the martial artist talked to the leader of the team again about this meeting, forgetting all the bad words he had just said.

When the team leader heard this, he was also a little relieved, and said to Siming, "During the day, my tone was too impulsive, and I hope that Brother Wang will understand, but this is a matter of life and soul, and I can't be sloppy." When I get to the sandbank, I will prepare a little wine and treat my brother well. ”

"It's okay, it's naturally best to wait for that person to leave tomorrow."

It took a lot of time back and forth, and when Siming returned to the carriage, Liang Tian hadn't slept yet. Looking at Siming who came back, Liang Tian immediately leaned over and said, "Why don't you tell me that you are going to do such a dangerous thing." ”

Siming smiled reluctantly and said, "Isn't this okay, it's not a dangerous thing, just go and see the situation." ”

Liang Tian suddenly thought of something, and whispered to Siming, "Is it someone sent by Li Ming?" ”

"No, it's a teenager."

"You've seen him? Did he hurt you? When Liang Tian heard this, he was a little flustered, and pulled Siming to see if he was injured.

Siming said with a smile, "What did he do if he hurt me as a passerby, I just went over to negotiate and didn't get in the way." But the man didn't come out of the carriage all the time, but his voice was a little immature, and I couldn't tell if he was. Don't talk about that, let's rest for a while, and we'll be on the sandbar in three or five days. ”

The next day, the team had indeed gone first, and they didn't go far, and then they changed their route to another way, and when the martial artist who spies on the situation brought back the news, it also made the team leader breathe a sigh of relief.

The caravan traveled for another five days before finally reaching the outside of the sandbank, where the city gate made of loess was slightly different from the city walls in other places, and looked very solemn in the bright sun. The soldiers patrolling the city wall stared straight down, and most of the guards guarding the city gate were stronger, with stronger armor on their bodies, and they scolded the merchants and ordinary people to pay money and taxes.

Siming had no goods on the car, paid a few head money, and was quickly released. The caravan often entered and exited the gate of the sandbank, and the leader and the guard were also acquainted, so they let the wagon carrying the goods pass first, leaving an accompanying man to deliver the tax money for the goods.

When a few people arrived, it was noon, and after having dinner at the leader's house, Siming was about to leave. The man was embarrassed by the embarrassment a few days ago, so he pushed a familiar rice shop to Siming, and borrowed a few more guys for convenience.

When Siming went, the rice shop was already crowded with all kinds of people, and the guys in the store lined up at the door, saying over and over again, "Come one by one, don't crowd, if you have an invitation, please go to the right, and if you don't, line up on the left." ”

Siming touched the post in his arms, went to the right, there was an old gentleman with a white beard there to collect the post, took the post handed by Siming, glanced at it, and checked it with the post in his hand, and whispered a few words to the young man next to him. The young man immediately reacted and shouted to the back hall, "Shopkeeper Qin, the one from the Yixian Hall has come to post it." ”

As soon as the young man read the 'Yixiantang', the crowd immediately reacted, and a few whispers began to be made. Siming was far away, and he didn't know what those people were talking about, but the envy in his eyes couldn't hide it, so that the three of them understood what kind of status this caravan had in this city made of loess.