The old forests of Kanto will eat people, and how many people will never come out as soon as they step into it. Right now, there is such an old forest in front of Zhu Wanqing and her party.

According to Wang Qi's previous plan, they would take the official road eastward, although it would be an extra ten days of travel, but it would be relatively safe.

If you go directly through the old forest, you can reach Tongxian in two or three days, of course, you have to take a lot of risk to walk through the forest.

Zhu Wanqing discussed with everyone, in order to find the incriminating evidence of Hua Changluo as soon as possible and protect Xu Guangyan, they decided to change their route and go directly through the old forest.

Wang Qi found an old guide who led a caravan all the year round, and it is said that he was the most familiar with this old forest.

The old guide looked in his fifties, his hair and beard were all white, and he was wearing a leather jacket that had never been washed and dirty, and it smelled of soot.

When Wang Qi first went to his blacksmith shop to look for him, he was holding a cigarette pot more than two feet long and laboriously lit it.

Seeing this, Wang Qi hurriedly took the candlestick and stepped forward to help him light the cigarette.

The old smoke pot was not polite, closed his eyes and took a few puffs, and then spit the cigarette directly on Wang Qi's face, choking him back a few steps.

"What's going on?" After a while, the old smoke pot slowly opened his eyes and asked.

"Old man, we are going to the north to collect ginseng, and there is no goods for the time being." Wang Qi replied.

"How can you count the money if you don't have the goods, I'll take a trip according to the price of the goods." The old smoke pot looked at Wang Qi carefully, this person looked like a ginseng seller, but he looked like an official, but his words became twisted, obviously his tongue was not good.

Wang Qi was said like this, and he didn't know how to talk about it for a while.

"You say a price, we are four of us, and you can take us out of the forest." Zhu Wanqing listened outside for a while, and saw that Wang Qi couldn't cope with this old Jianghu, so she went in to meet him in person.

"Yo, where did the girl doll come from, why don't you stay at home and run this old forest?" The old smoke pot thought to himself what these dolls were thinking of the old forest, thinking that it was a place of amusement for casually entering and leaving?

Zhu Wanqing knew that people with blacksmith shops like this could be regarded as wealthy everywhere. This old man also took people to the old forest in his spare time, and the remuneration was obviously not low, otherwise the blacksmith shop would have enough food and drink, and he would not have taken that risk.

"Old man, don't look at us not bringing the goods, this reward is not less than yours, otherwise, you say the number, as long as we can afford it, we will never press down one." Zhu Wanqing said.

The old smoke pot was slightly stunned at first, and then he looked at the people in front of him a few times. is young, with fine skin and tender meat, obviously not a businessman, and looks like a big family. Even if the source is unknown, I am afraid that I will leave this old forest to escape for my life if I don't cause any lawsuit, so it is better not to take this job in order to cause less trouble.

"I can't take this job, I only care about the goods and the guarantor, the caravan that used to go is this rule, the guy is not responsible when he dies, just transport the goods out of the old forest intact." The old smoke pot tapped the cigarette stick and shook the ashes out.

"You old man doesn't do anything if you give money, you have a dead brain." Ling'er didn't hold back, and the horn opened fire.

"Ling'er can't make mistakes." Wang Qi hurriedly stopped it.

Ling'er was already holding her stomach last night, but now she was even more angry when Wang Qiyi said it, but fortunately, Zhang Xiaohu persuaded her on the side.

"Then you can just treat the four of us as goods." Zhu Wanqing couldn't figure out why this person didn't want to take this job.

"People are alive and things are dead, not the same. Do you think this old forest is easy to get in and out, and you can throw your life into it casually. I'm not trying to scare you, just like you, you can't walk three miles in and come to the situation. "The old smoke pot is not a nonsense, no matter how familiar he is with the road alone, he can't guarantee that everyone will not have problems, this is his experience over the decades.

Zhu Wanqing finally had no choice but to say: "Then whether we can walk or not can we walk this forest has nothing to do with you, you are only responsible for leading the way, and we don't need you to be responsible for any of us who are in it, we will double the money." ”

When the old smoker heard this, he groaned for a moment, and what he was most worried about was not whether people could live, but that he was afraid of causing trouble.

"You didn't get into any lawsuits, did you?" The old smoke pot was obviously relieved to ask this question.

"Nope."

"Does the family know?" The old smoke pot must be asked.

"Ouch, you can really ink, or we will write you a note in black and white, and anything happens to you that has nothing to do with you." Ling'er said.

"Okay, then let's make a note." The old smoke pot is finally willing to take this job.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lao Yanguo and his group went to the market to purchase supplies and equipment from the forest. In fact, he has all those things, but seeing that these owners are not short of money, he is just fooling around to buy a new set, and he is not in his pocket when he turns around, don't want it in vain.

The old cigarette pot stopped in front of a store selling dry food, and he knocked the remaining cigarette residue from the pot and pinned the cigarette stick into his waist.

"Second son, good white flour oil cakes, get some for these people, as well as the freshly dried dried strips, also prepare some, this trip is estimated to take four or five days." After the old smoke pot finished speaking, he gave the guy who called the second son a look, which meant that this was the rich master, and he should be slaughtered.

"Well, look at it, these are all good white flour pancakes, with green onions and salt in them, and you can eat one for half a day." The second son made fifty or sixty cakes at once.

Zhu Wanqing and Wang Qi looked at each other, they knew that this old Jianghu chicken thief was very good, but now they are asking for help, and they really have no choice. As long as you can reach Tongxian County smoothly, you can suffer a loss.

"It's eight pieces of silver." The second son tripled the price.

"So expensive!" As soon as Ling'er wanted to question, she was stopped by Zhu Wanqing, and Ling'er had no choice but to give money obediently.

In this way, what ropes, first-aid medicines, and sleds were bought, and they were all bought at a high price.

"I said, sir, it's the beginning of spring, and the snow has melted, what are you doing when you buy a sled?" Although Zhu Wanqing said that she didn't feel sorry to spend money, she really couldn't understand the operation of buying a sled.

"What do you know about a female doll, someone has broken his foot or fallen lame, do you accompany him to starve to death or leave him alone?" The old smoker is right, if there is a sled, if anyone makes a mistake, the others can pull him together.

Zhu Wanqing nodded when she heard this, thinking that this old thing still has two brushes, it seems that he is indeed experienced, and he didn't find the wrong person this time.

"Yo, didn't you just say that you don't care if people live or die, why is there such a kindness at this time?" Ling'er's mouth was poisonous, and the old smoke pot snorted angrily after hearing it and walked away.

After all the supplies were ready, early the next morning, the old smoke pot took them into the forest.

At first, the road was not difficult to walk, there were all kinds of deer, rabbits and other animals along the road, and the scenery was also very beautiful, Zhu Wanqing couldn't help but think that this legendary man-eating old forest was nothing more than that.

After walking for a long time, the sky gradually became gloomy, and it seemed that a spring rain was inevitable.

The old smoke pot glanced at the sky and said to everyone: "Hurry up and climb the mountain behind." ”

Zhang Xiaohu was not happy when he heard it, and said, "We just spared that mountain, why do we have to go back and climb it now?" ”

"You listen to me, don't ask so much why." The old smoke pot ignored Xiaohu and took the lead in turning back.

Wang Qi and Zhu Wanqing didn't say anything and followed.

Ling'er and Zhang Xiaohu were not happy, they were left behind.

"What a man, cut." Ling'er kept muttering along the way, and Zhang Xiaohu couldn't tell whether she was talking about the old smoking pot or something else.

After a few steps, the raindrops began to fall.

The old smoke pot walked in the front, constantly urging the people behind.

Because the heavy rain obscured the view, Xiaohu and Ling'er, who were left behind, gradually lost them.

Zhang Xiaohu was reluctant to climb the mountain, but seeing that there was a cave not far in front of him to shelter from the rain, he dragged Ling'er to the cave together.

Zhu Wanqing and Wang Qi followed the old smoke pot to climb the high mountain, although they were all drenched in soup, they would not be drowned by the torrent.

A few people took a breath and looked back, but they couldn't find Ling'er and Zhang Xiaohu, and the old smoke pot suddenly said secretly in his heart: It's not good, something is going to happen.