Meng Huaiyu and Meng Zhixi went to Brilliant City, and Ding Xiu was also rushing to the next city on the way.

After the three of them made a big fuss in Xingtang Town, they spent a few more days helping Xu Jingnian to rectify, and after a lot of work, the Skull and Bones Society could no longer make any waves.

As a thank you, Xu Jingnian gave them a lot of property, these things were originally free to choose from Ding Xiu, but Old Man Xu was very ghostly, and he had already taken the lead in borrowing flowers to offer Buddha.

Ding Xiu got an extra car in Xingtang Town, so that the three of them could not only bring a lot of things, but also replenish ammunition and gasoline. After getting back on the road, I felt much more relaxed.

Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo each drove a car, Shen You stayed in Gu Beimo's car first, and the little girl was still worried about the goods that the skeleton would accumulate, and her heart was quite entangled.

"Eh, Lao Gu, I think it's good for us to stay in Xingtang Town, I can't figure out why Ding Xiu insisted on leaving. This is good, it's all cheaper Old Man Xu. ”

"How do you call it cheap, Xu Jingnian?" Gu Beimo asked.

"If we stay in Xingtang Town, won't everything there be ours? Now Old Man Xu took out some of those things and gave them to us, making us feel like we owe him a favor. ”

"Haha, you're still thinking about this." Gu Beimo laughed, shook his head and said, "Do you hate skeletons?" ”

"Of course I hate it." Shen You nodded, not quite understanding the meaning of Gu Beimo's words.

"If you hate them, why do you want to learn from them to do the same thing?"

"We're not the same as the Skull and Bones Society." Shen You hurriedly shook his head and denied Gu Beimo's statement, "We are us, and the Skeleton Society is the Skeleton Society." ”

"But if we stay in Xingtang Town, sooner or later we will become like the Skull and Bones Society." Gu Beimo said to her calmly.

"I don't believe how we could be like that. Don't lie to me, Gu. Shen You glanced at him, a suspicious look on his face.

"Let me tell you a story." Gu Beimo thought for a while and continued: "There was once an evil dragon that asked the village to sacrifice a young girl to himself every year. In order to resist the dragon, a young hero in the village fights the dragon every year, but so far no one has been able to return. On this day, another hero set off, and someone quietly followed him and ran with him to the dragon's lair to find out. As a result, the man saw that the dragon's lair was full of gold and silver treasures, and the hero who fought against the dragon stabbed the dragon to death with his sword, and then the hero sat on the dragon's corpse, looked at the jewels that glittered all over the ground, and slowly grew scales, tails, and tentacles on his body, and finally turned into a dragon. ”

Shen You listened to Gu Beimo's story, was silent for a while, and finally sighed faintly.

The next stop on the trio's journey was Jiaping City, which is still the western border of the country, but it is far more prosperous than the small towns of Luxu and Xingtang.

As one of the important towns in the west, although the scale of Jiaping City is not as large as that of several other military regions, its location is located on the only way for Ding Xiu and others to travel south. So when Gu Beimo made a route, he made a plan to stay there.

As the car approached Jiaping City, Ding Xiu found that the nearby population was becoming more and more dense, and he followed Gu Beimo's car, quietly feeling the different environment here and around the camp.

"In the future, if you have the opportunity, go to the big places to see, go for a walk, take a look. You're young, and if your limited life is spent in a camp, it's a tyranny. ”

This is what Chen Jiansen said to Ding Xiu at the beginning, and now that he thinks about it, he thinks it is true.

It's just that the deceased is gone, and in Ding Xiu's cognition, Chen Jiansen has died in the battle between the camp and the bullet ant colony, so thinking about it, he can't help but feel a little sad in his heart.

"Uncle Chen, I remember you said that you have been to many places, Pingyao, Tongtu, Guyuan...... Even the glorious city of our country's capital. I listened to you and came out of the camp, and I'm going to go to the City of Splendor next. In the future, as long as I have the opportunity, I will step on every inch of the land where you have left your footprints, and see the outside world that you have no time to tell me. ”

Ding Xiu thought silently in his heart, this thought was not only his farewell to the past, but also his declaration to welcome his future life.

When the car entered Jiaping City, Gu Beimo first found a hotel with a good environment, set the room to stay, and then spent some money to ask the hotel staff to help take care of the car and the goods on it.

After settling these things, the three of them went out into the street together, strolling around as they went, to see if there were any business opportunities to dump goods.

Gu Beimo wanted to sell some of the goods in the car in Jiaping City, and then see if there was anything suitable worth buying. Although he was an intelligence merchant, when he traveled from south to north, most of the expenses on the road had to be maintained by reselling things from various places.

There are not many transactions involving intelligence, but they are basically big business, and they belong to the kind that has not been opened for three years and eaten for three years, so in this "three years of not opening" time, Gu Beimo has been doing part-time business as a material merchant.

The street was full of people coming and going, and it was very lively, Ding Xiu and Shen You walked in front, looking everywhere, both of them had a fresh face. Gu Beimo followed behind, his eyes falling more on the signboards of the shops on the street.

"Sifang Material Store." A huge signboard caught his eye, and the five big characters on the sign were vigorous and powerful, and they were divided into three points, giving people a feeling that this store was very substantial.

"Ding Xiu, Xiaoyou, let's go in and have a look." Gu Beimo shouted to his companion who was running to a stall.

"Here we are." Shen You was greedy for the snacks on this stall, and pulled Ding Xiu over to buy a bunch of them, and also brought one for Gu Beimo.

The three of them came to the door of the Sifang Material Store, and were about to step inside, when suddenly Ding Xiu's figure was stunned, and his eyes stared at the two people who came out of it for a moment.

"Huh, Ding Xiu?" The crisp female voice attracted the attention of Gu Beimo and Shen You.

"Gentle? Why are you here? The girl in front of her turned out to be Wen Ya, who had lived in the camp for a period of time before, which made Ding Xiu very surprised. He saw the middle-aged man beside Wen Ya, and greeted him again: "Uncle Wen, long time no see." ”

The middle-aged man's name was Wen Pengzhan, a material merchant, and when he heard his daughter call out Ding Xiu's name, he recognized that the young man in front of him was the soldier in the camp.

Wen Pengzhan nodded at Ding Xiu, his gaze swept over his clothes, and finally fixed on the snack in his hand, his brows furrowed slightly.

"Ding Xiu, I admire your popularity, and you have friends wherever you go." Gu Beimo joked with a smile, ready to come over and get to know Wen Pengzhan's father and daughter.

"It's all women." Shen You muttered quietly, with a slight sour taste in his tone.

"Contemptible Gu Beimo, this is Shen You, let's ...... Ding Xiu" Gu Beimo stretched out his hand towards Wen Pengzhan and said, before he finished speaking, he saw that Wen Pengzhan did not look at him, and the atmosphere became awkward.

Wen Pengzhan just saw that Gu Beimo and Shen You were both covered in dust, and he didn't want to deal with Ding Xiu, so he was even more disgusted with these two people.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Wen Ya hurriedly opened her mouth and said: "My father is a little uncomfortable today, we will meet again another day, we live in ......"

"Xiaoya!" Wen Pengzhan suddenly interrupted his daughter's words, "It's time for us to go." ”

Wen Ya felt the dissatisfaction revealed in her father's words, so she had to stop talking and give Ding Xiu an apologetic look.

Ding Xiu's expression was as usual, nodded at her, and said to Wen Pengzhan again, "Take care of your body."

When the Wen family's father and daughter walked out of the store and got into a car, Shen You couldn't help but start complaining: "Ding Xiu, why does your friend and her father have such an attitude, I think his eyes are good-looking and unattractive." ”

The little girl was indignant, she saw that Gu Beimo was snubbed in front of Wen Pengzhan, and she was angry.

"What is this Wen Pengzhan for? Ding Xiu. Gu Beimo didn't take Wen Pengzhan's attitude to heart, he was only a little curious about the identity of that man.

"Boss Wen is in the material business, and his family is very rich, he and Wen Ya used to live in our camp for a while, and then moved away." Ding Xiu changed his name to Wen Pengzhan from Uncle Wen to Boss Wen, Gu Beimo knew that he was longing for him, so he patted his arm so that he didn't have to worry about it.

"Rich is great? Hum! Shen You is straight, she will keep it in her heart if others treat her well, and if others bully her, she will also hold grudges.

"Since we are businessmen, it is no wonder that our horizons are high, since we can't get into his eyes, let's go our separate ways." Gu Beimo said as he raised his feet and stepped into the store, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

On the other side, the Wen family's car had already started, and Wen Ya sat in the car, not understanding why her father had such an attitude towards Ding Xiu for a long time.

It is said that there are four joys in life, and one of them is to meet a hometown acquaintance. Moreover, businessmen pay attention to making more friends and making money in harmony.

"Are you slandering your father's attitude just now?" Wen Pengzhan could see at a glance what his daughter was thinking.

Wen Ya nodded and looked at him, "Since we came here to join our uncle, we haven't seen those friends we knew before, and today I can't meet Ding Xiu, why don't you let me invite them to sit at home?" ”

"Xiaoya, my father told you that the most important thing for us in business is the circle. What is called a circle, a circle is people who are the same as us, or even better than us. Ding Xiu was just a small soldier in the border guards, and at the beginning, we lived in the camp and relied on them for both life and business, but now it is different. Now in Jiaping City, if people see that our Wen family people are associating with such small characters who are not in the stream, what do others think of us, and what do your uncle think of us? ”

"But......" Wen Ya disagreed with her father's words, she wanted to open her mouth to refute, but when the words came to her mouth, she was a little afraid of her father's majesty.

"Your uncle is a well-known figure in Jiaping City, he brought us here in the hope that I will help him develop his business, not to embarrass him, you will pay more attention to me in terms of making friends and companions in the future." Wen Pengzhan's tone was almost reprimanding, and his daughter lowered her head in fear.

"Got it, father." Wen Ya's heart was a little sad, but she was used to living under her father's majesty. Everything the girl was given by her father, so she acquiesced that her life was also taken care of by her father.

"There's an auction at the Guardian Auction House in the afternoon, I'll take you with me, there's a gun blade waiting for the auction that we have to take." Wen Pengzhan paused when he said this, "We will go to Tianque City next month, and if we want to expand our business there, we won't be able to bypass the Meng family." I heard your uncle say that the Meng family is a family of gun kings, and this gun blade is a welcome gift to bring to the past. And the little son of the Meng family is the same age as you...... If you have the chance, my father wants you to behave well. ”