After the current emperor ascended the throne, the Great Zhou Dynasty was stable inside and outside, the national strength was growing day by day, and the envoys of various countries began to pay tribute to Beijing one after another, and the northwest trade route, which had been abandoned for many years, was lively again.

Merchants transported goods to and fro, and many inns and wine shops were built in the former desolate places, and naturally there were bandits who targeted the caravans and came to loot the goods, and the imperial court sent soldiers and horses to clear the bandits, and the trade routes were restored to peace.

In the wine shop, everyone listened to the guys in the wine shop, the trade route to the northwest had already reached the halfway point, and such a long journey would inevitably feel tired, and listening to the guys' gossip could also relax the tense spirit.

After the guy finished speaking, he immediately poured tea for the guest, and a cold snort came from the corner: "Let you say this, it seems how simple it is to go back and forth to this trade route." ”

Everyone immediately followed the sound and looked over, only to see a middle-aged man raise his eyelids: "From the Great Zhou Road to the west, the road is far away, even if the robbers dare not blatantly come to snatch the goods, there may be all kinds of mistakes, and there are not a few businessmen who die on this road." ”

After the middle-aged man said this, he looked at the guy again: "In order to attract guests, it is too black-hearted to say that it is too black-hearted."

Wealth and danger in seeking, take this trade route to bring a lot of benefits, the danger can also be imagined, last year there was a caravan relying on their own on this road back and forth many times, a careless ambush, more than 20 people died, the goods were also lost, and this is not the first case, maybe where there are hidden eyes, is staring at everyone, who is single, made a mistake, he will immediately shoot, everyone should be careful. ”

The middle-aged man's words were like throwing a stone on the water, and the atmosphere changed, and everyone began to talk about it.

"It seems so."

"More than two dozen dead? I haven't really heard of that. ”

"Come here, man, is what he said true?"

The man at the liquor store couldn't help but glance at the shopkeeper, the place where the dead man was not far from their place, and many caravans chose to take a detour when they heard the news, so the shopkeeper told them not to mention this, and if any guests asked, they would say that everything was peaceful.

The guy thought for a moment before he said: "That trade route is immortal, as long as everyone leaves early, it's okay if you don't rush in the dark." ”

"So it's true? Are there bandits around here again? ”

The man didn't dare to speak anymore and hurried to make tea.

"It's not the bandits," said one of the men, "I heard that it was the unclean things, and alas, the caravan was too careless, and the accident would happen if it missed the lodging on the way, and the people died, and all the goods were lost." ”

The man looked like he didn't want to say anything when he said this, and was about to leave, when suddenly there was an extra plate of food in front of him.

The snow-white sweets are sprinkled with golden osmanthus flowers, as if they have just been made from the hands of the cook.

After coming out for so long, he hadn't seen such delicate food for a long time, the man couldn't help but swallow, raised his head and looked to the side, only to see a little fat man with a round face standing in front of the table, about eight or nine years old, with dark skin, looking at him with a pair of crystal eyes.

"This uncle," said the little fat man with a smile, "can you go on, I will treat you to a snack." ”

The little fat man said and glanced at the snack again, "Goodong" swallowed the saliva in his mouth, and soon he looked away, clenching his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he would take the snack back if he looked at it again.

Naturally, the man would not grab food with the children: "It's not easy to bring snacks here, take them back, it's better to listen to these things less." ”

"I still have it." The little fat man said and tightly covered the purse around his waist, but he could only take out so much, and it was not easy to accumulate these foods.

Before leaving Beijing, his mother told him that he must take care of these things, unless his son needs them, he must not give them to others, he has firmly remembered them, and his mother also said that no matter what difficulties he encounters, he can not reduce the amount of food, in order not to worry his mother, he has to eat a lot of things every day, and if he loses weight, his mother will be distressed.

Seeing that people didn't persuade him, the little fat man was about to take back the dim sum, but it was a pity that this plate of food was eaten, and he lost a lot of frosting back and forth, and the little fat man just thought of it......

"It's also fate that everyone gathers here, if you know the inside story, you can talk about it, maybe it will save many people's lives."

Another slightly immature voice came, it was a little boy, he had a delicate face, wearing a cyan short brown, spotless from top to bottom, there seemed to be water beads hanging on his hair, obviously he had just been cleaned, he raised his head slightly when he spoke, and he knew that it was the child of a large family, and some merchant families began to let their children and grandchildren come out to experience it early, but ...... On this trade route, this age is inevitably too young.

"Coming out at such a young age, do the adults in your family know? It can't be sneaking out, right? The person who spoke before couldn't help but say.

The little boy seemed to have been said to be in his mind, and his cheeks were slightly red: "Of course I know." ”

The people present did not believe this, and some people began to persuade: "The road ahead is more dangerous, so let's go back!" ”

"We've been in business." The boy couldn't help but say.

"Where have you been?"

"Southeast."

Everyone shook their heads and laughed: "It's okay to walk with your eyes closed, where can it be compared to here." "Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, this young man really doesn't know the height of the sky.

The boy continued to argue: "I have my brother with me. ”

"Your brother is probably not very old, right?"

The little boy's face turned even redder, and at first glance, he was said again.

"Alas," sighed the man who had just spoken, looking at the children with compassion, "I tell you what happened before, and you will leave at once, and do not go any further." ”

The young man immediately walked over to the man and sat down.

The man continued: "This matter starts from a year ago, when a caravan passed here, there were some disputes in the family of the owner of the caravan, the daughter-in-law of the long house was killed by the second room, the poor woman's husband had just died, and there was a posthumous child in the belly, after the woman was killed, she was about to be wronged in her heart, and often came out to make trouble, once the single caravan was entangled by her, everyone would be killed by her, and the goods would be gone. ”

As soon as the man said this, the people around him couldn't help but say, "What you say is a little strange, how do you know that it is a ghost and not a person who kills people?" Killing people and selling goods is what gangsters do, and no one in the yamen came to investigate? ”

The man said: "Qi is strange here, after the caravan repeatedly had accidents, the yamen came to investigate the case, and found some of the goods lost by those merchants, those goods were buried, and there was a woman's body next to the goods, so the court found out that the woman was killed, which can be traced back to the beginning of the woman being killed by the second room."

You can inquire about it, and everyone in the neighborhood knows that it is a woman who is avenging herself. ”

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