"You always have a reason." Shen You pouted and complained to him, "I was deceived and helped others speak." ”

"You are still young, and you don't understand the truth that suffering losses is blessings." Gu Beimo just smiled, not caring about Shen You's complaints.

The car drove away from the Gobi Desert, and there were no large or small stones under the wheels, but golden sand and gravel.

The road to Xingtang Town was long and boring, Shen You, a little talker, naturally couldn't stop talking along the way, she saw Gu Beimo adjusting the direction of the car according to the compass from time to time, so she pulled Ding Xiu to talk.

"Ding Xiu, how long have you been a soldier?"

"I've been living in a barracks for as long as I can remember." Ding Xiu said, his words made Shen You a little curious.

"How did you become a soldier at such a young age?"

"I'm an orphan, and I didn't even know how to walk when Uncle Rong picked me up, and I have been living with him in the camp since then."

"Ah, so you're an orphan too!" This was the first time Shen You heard about his life experience from Ding Xiu's mouth, and he was suddenly a little surprised in his heart, and he also had the same sad feelings.

"Uncle Rong raised me and taught me a lot of knowledge and skills to be a soldier, but unfortunately he had an ......accident during a mission," Ding Xiu sighed when he said this, and Zhang Rongshe's voice and smile appeared in his mind again.

"I didn't expect that we were all orphans...... But I'm luckier than you, at least Lao Gu is still alive. Shen You said and glanced at Gu Beimo, "Old Gu, you have to live a long life." ”

"Got it." Gu Beimo just raised his hand and didn't look back, but his heart was full of warmth.

The three of them chatted along the way to pass the time, and the sun gradually shifted from the top of their heads to the horizon.

The sun is red, the sunset is all over the sky, and Lulonggang is about to arrive.

After leaving the Gobi, the car passed through a desert in the middle, and when it was about to reach the edge of the desert, a hill suddenly appeared on the flat ground.

"That's Lulongong." Gu Beimo pointed to the mountain in front of him, "Lulong Village is on that mountain, and we will spend the night in the village tonight." ”

Ding Xiu looked in the direction of the front of the car, and saw that there was a little greenery on the hill, and he was a little curious. Unlike many people who live inland, he is familiar with the only colors that are blue of the sky and yellow of the desert.

The fact that there are greenery on Lulongong is entirely due to the oasis behind it, but its relationship with the oasis is also interdependent: the oasis retains the vitality of the hills, and the hills provide shelter for the oasis.

The villagers of Lulong Village were once members of a caravan that had lost their goods in the desert and would face severe punishment when they returned, so they settled down on the hill and lived. The hill acts as a barrier to the oasis from being buried prematurely by the sand, and it also provides water for the people of the village and the conditions for growing food and vegetables.

As soon as the car came to Lulonggang, he saw more than a dozen cars suddenly driving out at the foot of the mountain, Gu Beimo frowned, and had a faint bad premonition in his heart.

"What's going on?"

He muttered something quietly, his hand unleashed from the steering wheel and hung beside him, ready to grab the gun from under his seat as soon as the situation was not right.

"What are they going to do?" Ding Xiu also saw that something was wrong.

The cars that came out of Lulonggang were of different styles, and Gu Beimo looked at them and confirmed that they were at least armored. This simple modification is mainly to facilitate combat and provide better protection for the occupants of the vehicle.

Dozens of people got out of the car, and each of them was carrying a gun. Here, Ding Xiu and the three of them were all sitting in the car and did not act rashly.

"They've got somebody coming." Ding Xiu said.

"Looks like nothing is going on." Gu Beimo looked at the figure walking towards this side, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The other party did not shoot directly, and also sent someone over, which means that it is likely to be a misunderstanding.

"You're not from Xingtang Town?"

It was a medium-sized forty-year-old man, dressed in dark blue jeans, with a wide belt around his waist, his upper body bare, and the muscles on his arms protruding and slightly thick.

The middle-aged man had a stubble with a thick and black hair, and under his broad eyebrows, a pair of deep eyes looked at the three people in the car vigilantly.

"We're coming from the west, and we're going to Xingtang Town." Gu Beimo pressed the window of the car and nodded politely at him.

"What are you doing in Tang Town?" The man asked.

"Start a small business and resupply." As he spoke, Gu Beimo looked at the companions behind the man, and asked, "Brother, is there something wrong with you here?" ”

"Listen to my advice, don't go to Tang Town." The man turned and waved at his companions, and those standing next to the car lowered their guns.

"What's wrong with Xingtang Town?" Gu Beimo asked.

"There is a business, and it is the same as us." The man patted on Gu Beimo's car door, "My name is Liang Zu, you look a little familiar." ”

"Last year, I beat you here, and I bothered you once." Gu Beimo said.

Liang Zu stared at his face and recalled, then nodded, "Let's go up the mountain." ”

With that, he turned and walked back to his car.

"Lao Gu, did you see him last year?" Ding Xiu asked, "He told us to go up the mountain, could it be a trap?" ”

"I don't have any impression of this Liang Zu, but they shouldn't have any malicious intent, otherwise they could have done it directly just now. Now that we're all here, we'll have to sleep in the wilderness if we don't go up the mountain. After weighing the pros and cons, Gu Beimo still made the decision to go up the mountain.

His car followed behind the people and cars, and slowly drove towards Lulongong.

There were many fences on the side of the road, and when he reached the foot of the mountain, Ding Xiu saw that there was also a thick fence there.

"Like a small military fortress." He sighed.

"We had this wall when we passed by it last year." The person who answered the call was Shen You, who was lying on the back window and kept looking outside, "But I didn't see these fences at that time." ”

"Something must have happened in the village on the mountain, and it is likely to have something to do with Xingtang Town." Gu Beimo said the situation he analyzed, "I think most of the contradictions are still there. ”

"Quite possibly." Ding Xiu nodded.

"What kind of contradiction could it be?" Shen You asked curiously.

"That Liang Zu just asked us not to go to Xingtang Town, so we will trade with them here...... Hehe, I don't know if there's a gap. When Gu Beimo said this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he began to think about business in his heart.

The terrain of Lulonggang is not very high, and when the car drove halfway up the mountain, I saw that the nearby fields were full of cultivated fields, which were full of yellow, yellow, green and green plants.

"Rice potatoes, mountain corn, millet peanuts, ......" Ding Xiu recognized some of the crops inside, and he was both emotional and a little curious.

"These people are very hard-working, and if they used to run long-distance trade routes, there were many dangers along the way, so they were all very fierce."

"If they want to reason, we will reason; If they are hooligans, don't blame us for being hooligans. Ding Xiu heard the emphasis in Gu Beimo's words, nodded and said.

"I'll get my little friend ready too." Shen You took out a few boxes with ventilation holes from the bag beside her, and when she opened the lid of the box, there were several different insects inside. After she took the bugs out of the box, some of them were divided into small bottles and some were put out of the car window to let them fly away.

Gu Beimo's car followed the people from Lulong Village to the mountain and stopped in a flat area in front of the village. The three got out of the car and took their guns with them.

"Why do you have a gun when you run out of bullets?" Shen You asked.

"They don't know we're out of bullets, bluffing." Gu Beimo gave her a look and reminded her.

"Oh." The girl nodded obediently.

The young people in the village all came to the entrance of the village, and in the houses in the distance, some women and children could be faintly seen.

An old man with a gray beard stood in front of the crowd, his purple-red face smiling and looking radiant.

"On behalf of Lulong Village, I welcome you to do business."

The old man's voice was very loud, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he not only expressed goodwill, but also brought the plan of Gu Beimo and the others into his rhythm. As soon as he said this, Gu Beimo couldn't say that he was going to Xingtang Town to do business.

"As long as you don't blame us for taking the liberty of bothering, uncle, we will be relieved." Gu Beimo smiled all over his face, and hurriedly said politely.

"I remember you." The old man pointed at him, and then pointed to Shen You behind him, "And this little girl." You two came to us last year, right? ”

"Ouch, uncle, you have a good memory." Gu Beimo nodded, and the two of them narrowed the distance again in a few words.

"Hey, you went to Tang Town again last year, and I have to keep you for one night this time." The old man stepped forward as he spoke, pulling Gu Beimo's arm, "Go in and sit and talk." ”

"Old man, is our car parked outside?" Ding Xiu asked at him.

"Just park outside, if there is a screw missing in the car, my old face will be used for you to inlay."

The three of them were brought into the village, and the old man took them to their seats in the lobby, and except for a few people who were sitting with them, everyone else was sent away.

"If I'm not mistaken, you just passed by the foot of the mountain in a hurry last year, and I only met you once, old man, and you may not know me." The old man's smile was very kind, and someone came over to pour tea on the side, and he also gave it to Gu Beimo and the others first.

Gu Beimo nodded, gave a thumbs up and said, "Uncle, you really don't have to say anything about your memory." ”

"My name is Liang Shangang, this is my son Liang Zu, these are the sons and nephews of several of my old brothers, Dou Yonglong, Tan Zhijian, Song Yujing ......"

The young men who were named by the old man all nodded to Gu Beimo and the others, and Gu Beimo also politely returned the salute.

"Liang Zu said you want to go to Xingtang Town?" Liang Shangang waited for the two sides to salute, and then began to get straight to the point, "Although it is inappropriate to stop you halfway, it is for your good." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Gu Beimo said with some curiosity.

"If it had been before, even last year, I wouldn't have said I was going to stop you, but this year the situation is a bit special......"

Liang Shangang stopped the topic when he said this, picked up the tea and took a sip. This is not to serve tea to guests, but as an older person, he will show his identity and sell a pass by the way.

"Please give me more advice."