Chapter 22: The Night Trail

"It's getting dark, you can rest inside, let's go ahead and see if we can find a village to rest. Li Jin smiled embarrassedly, walked out of the carriage and continued to guard the car in front.

After Chris waited for Li to enter and go out, he immediately confirmed to Mei Lin with a flash in his eyes whether Zhu Fat Man was really frozen, and after getting Mei Lin's affirmative answer, after the stiffness of his body gradually dissipated, he got up in the small carriage and moved his body that had been lying uncomfortably for a long time, and then clenched his hands to secretly lift himself, wanting to confirm something he cared about.

However, aside from the pain in his arms, the expected situation did not happen, and Chris endured the pain and tried several more times, but to no avail.

"I guess it's a muscle injury, and it seems that I have to recuperate for a while. Chris sighed, feeling the pain in his arm, and gently squeezed it twice with his hand.

Looking at Chris's depressed expression again, Merlene saw pain in her eyes.

"Oh, by the way, that's what the troubadour asked me to give you. As she spoke, Merlin pulled out a parchment roll sealed with a magic candle from her pocket.

"Is the fire burning? Chris looked at the fire seal printed on the seal, and then opened the scroll.

"Hello friends, you must be safe now. You may think about why I would help a person who has never lived in life, remember the king story we discussed that day, it turns out that when our business is not good, we will add some light and humorous words and actions to the story to attract and capture the audience, the audience is happy, and we are happy. We are the most taboo in our profession to spread lies, and at the same time, we are afraid that the story we have obtained at the risk of life and death will be lost. And now, if there is no poignant love story in a story, and there is no complex character relationship, the audience will not buy it, thinking that it is fake, false and true, true and false, and the advantage is an insistence. Originally, I thought that I was above the clouds in the industry, and I could ignore the changes of those warblers and swallows, but in the end, I realized that I was the most ordinary and ordinary one. I just wanted to do something that I felt needed to do while I was still alive, so that I could sit comfortably in my rocking chair and smoke a cigarette while I was still in my old age, and then watch the sunset peacefully. Well, looking forward to our next meeting, oh yes, don't forget the things you promised me. When Chris finished reading the last word, the eyelid scroll automatically began to burn, and in a few moments, a wisp of green smoke was left in the air.

The mountain path grew rougher and the carriage became more and more wobbly, and as Chris awoke, Jack and Ryan were active again, laughing and gesturing as the carriage rose and fell.

Although they ran around in the carriage for two days, the two little ones always found their own joy.

The night gradually covered the whole land, and in the thin moonlight, the carriage moved along the uneven path. The vision ahead was blurred, and the carriage was not moving very fast. Suddenly, the horse in front of him came to a sudden stop, and the carriage made an unpleasant noise.

The carriage stopped.

Jack and Ryan were staggered by the sudden stop.

Li Jin motioned behind his back with his right hand to Chris and the others not to come out.

Through the moonlight, which was not bright, I faintly saw a huge dead tree in front of me, along with the rocks, across the road.

Li Jin walked out of the car, stepped forward to check for a while, and returned to the carriage to inform the Chris family,

"It's no big deal, it's estimated that it's a landslide, the road ahead is blocked, the night is too dark, it seems that I can only rest here tonight for the time being, and I'll find a way after dawn tomorrow." ”

When Jack was about to complain, Li Jin suddenly stretched out a finger in front of his mouth and made a shushing gesture.

Tonight, the mountain breeze moved slightly, and there were some sparse woods on both sides of the rugged mountain road, and at this time a group of people wearing black clothes, black masks, and sharp blades were squatting in the woods on both sides of the mountain road, watching the carriage stop on the side of the road.

"Are you sure it's this carriage?"

"Yes, sir. ”

Hearing this, one of the tall men in black stretched out his hand to stabilize the movements of the others, and after half an hour, seeing that there was no movement in the carriage, the tall man in black waved his hand, and the man in black hidden in the shadow of the woods jumped out with a bang, forming a circle around the carriage.

A group of black-clothed men gradually approached, and seeing that there was no reaction in the carriage, one of the masked men stepped forward and cautiously opened the curtain of the carriage with a scimitar in his hand.

"Bang!" the man in black fell to the ground.

"You bandits, if you force yourself any longer, I will be dead with you, and I am only an old troubadour, with no value on me, and you must obey the covenant. ”

An old, hoarse voice came from the carriage.

"Are you sure you're a troubadour?"

"Yes. ”

"You're alone?"

"Who else would be with me as a bad old man. ”

The tall man in black frowned and winked at the person next to him,

The black-clothed man next to him understood,

"Since you are a troubadour, then come out and show us and make sure that it is correct, and we will naturally not embarrass you. ”

"I hope you are a group of robbers who keep their promises. ”

After saying that, the old man in the carriage slowly moved out of the carriage.

With the help of the thin moonlight, I saw that the old man was full of white hair, with three deep forehead lines on his forehead, and he was still holding a dwarven musket in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was still slightly smoking, obviously caused by the sound just now.

A man in black immediately unscrewed the curtain and took a look, and saw that there was indeed no one in the carriage.

The tall man in black frowned slightly, and with a wave of his hand, the other men in black withdrew with the man in black lying on the ground as if in the darkness.

Along the way, one of the men in black trembled and said to the tall man in black, "My lord, we did find out that it was this carriage." ”

"Shut up, you idiots. ”

The tall man in black looked angry, and ripped off the mask covering his face, faintly revealing a striking scar on his face.

After a long time as Li Jin made a boo, he vaguely heard a burst of sound from behind the car, and the sound became clearer and clearer.

"Who's in front of you!"

As the sound approached, there was a shouting from behind the carriage, with a little nervous tremor in the voice.

This was followed by the sound of weapons coming out of their sheaths and the clash of iron.

Li Jin motioned to everyone not to act rashly, and he got out of the car to check it himself. After getting out of the carriage, Li Jin looked behind the carriage, at this time the two carriages were placed side by side, about six or seven people used the carriage shed and carriage arms as cover, only the small half of the body was exposed, the weapons in their hands were held in their hands, the torches had been extinguished, and they were ready to fight at any time.

Quite a standard skillful response, it seems to be a team of mercenaries, not bandits.

Seeing this, Li Jin hurriedly took out the torch on the side of the carriage and lit it above his head, and walked out of the edge of the carriage: "Don't get excited, everyone, we are civilians in a hurry, the road ahead is slippery, we can't pass by, we are sealed here." ”

On the mainland, it is an unwritten rule that when two parties meet at night, in order to show their friendliness, they must hold a torch above their heads to show that they have no malicious intent. At night, when you light a torch, you may be exposed to everyone's view and show that you are not a threat.

Seeing Li Jin light the torch and raise it above his head, a voice came from the side of the carriage: "Where are you from, why don't you take the main road at night, and go on this small road." ”

It seems that the other side is still very cautious.

"We are from Peng Village, and the eldest brother in the village was injured while hunting, so he took his family to the monastery in the city to ask the priest to show him. ”

Seeing Li Jin wearing a dress through the torch, he believed most of it, and lit his own torch.

One of them signaled that the guard was lifted, and the two carriages over there were back to normal, and two people came from behind the carriages.

"Can you check your carriage? One of them, a stout man with a shield on his back, walked over and looked at Li Jin.

"This ..... All right. Action tap. Li Jin reminded.

The stout man with the shield on his back walked to the front of the carriage and lifted the curtains, saw Chris's family in the carriage, noticed Chris's bloodless face and bandages all over his body, and lowered the curtains.

The stout man with the shield on his back led the man to the front to inspect the mud and rocks falling from the landslide, shook his head, and then returned to the back of the carriage and said something to the people behind him.

After a while, three more people came over, two of them had come to see the road before, and the other was a middle-aged man dressed in fancy clothes and with a slightly chubby body.