Chapter 61: Bandits

In the afternoon, Mu Chen and Mu Jun set off, carrying a package on their backs, and Mu Jun was very happy.

When they arrived in the town, Mu Jun went to buy some red date cakes, Mu Chen's things had already been bought, and the two sisters and brothers soon arrived at the door of the Tiger Leaping Dart Troupe.

There was a gatehouse at the door of the dart group, and there happened to be someone in the gatehouse, Mu Chen walked to the small window of the gatehouse, raised his hand and knocked on the small window.

The man in the small window came back to his senses and asked, "Girl, what's the matter?" ”

The man in the small window was very young, about twenty years old, dressed in a blue gown, which made him even younger.

The voice was faint.

He was dressed in the style of a handsome boy, and there was even a tea set and a book on the small table in front of him.

"May I ask how much it costs to go to Pengxiang County with the Dart Bureau?"

Mu Chenjue's price should not be low, and the two sisters and brothers should be around one or two pieces of silver.

"Three hundred coppers for one person, not including food and lodging, only responsible for protecting your safety on the road."

Hearing that the price was lower than expected, Mu Chen decided to follow the dart group.

"When can we leave, my brother and I should go early to get ready."

Mu Chen thought that if he set off tomorrow, he would go back today.

"There is a team of darts going to Pengxiang County, if you go, you will pay a person a hundred coppers here, and when you gather here, there will be horses to carry you."

Mu Chen happily handed over two hundred coppers, and left with Mu Jun, the time was still early, Mu Chen found a teahouse and asked for two cups of tea, and Mu Jun heard that the storyteller was talking to the book.

When it was almost time, Mu Chen and Mu Jun went to buy four big meat buns, and walked while eating the buns.

When I arrived at the door of the Tiger Leaping Dart Troupe, there were already many people waiting.

At the time of the unitary, a group of people appeared from the door of the dart group, and the handsome son commanded people to remove the threshold.

After removing the threshold, the team just came out, led by a bearded man, and others called him Wang Darttou.

The king was followed by a carriage and its drivers, three points larger than the usual carriages, and the wood was stronger.

"You are divided into men and women in carriages, four people in one carriage."

Wang Dart's voice was full of anger, and he ordered the people who drove the carriage.

The people who drove the carriage got out of the carriage and began to organize people to line up, and the team was lined up in two pairs, and Mu Chen and Mu Jun were also lined up in their respective teams.

The previous handsome boy walked out of the gatehouse, holding the roster in his hand.

began to get into the carriage one by one, Mu Chen and Mu Jun's names were a little behind, and when the names were almost finished, Mu Chen's name was called, and Mu Jun's was behind Mu Chen, and it was also called.

Mu Chen got into the designated carriage, and before Mu Chen got into the carriage, there were already three people sitting in the carriage.

One is an older aunt, the other two are a woman, very young, and the other is about the same age as Mu Chen, but she still looks younger than Mu Chen, and her eyebrows are a little similar to the woman.

I got into the carriage, and I didn't know anyone, and the atmosphere in the carriage was a little awkward for a while.

It didn't take long for the carriage to stagger, and Mu Chen was sitting by the small window of the carriage, when suddenly the carriage didn't know whether it had run over a stone or something else, and suddenly tilted.

The little girl sitting opposite Mu Chen was about to fall down all of a sudden, Mu Chen reached out and pushed it to stabilize the little girl.

"Yuan'er, thank you sister, if it weren't for my sister pushing you, you would have fallen."

The woman also wanted to hold down the little girl, but the action was not as fast as Mu Chen's.

The woman's voice was soft and kind.

"Thank you, sister." The little girl's voice is crisp and crisp, and the jade beads are on the plate, which is very pleasant.

Leaning forward slightly, the earrings in her ears shook slightly as the little girl moved.

"When everyone is out of the house, it's right to help each other."

Mu Chen didn't care about reaching out to help the little girl, she was still thinking about Mu Jun's situation in the carriage.

Worried about being in a carriage with Mu Jun is a group of big men Mu Jun being bullied, or something else.

After a word, the carriage staggered out of the town and got on the pipe, which was lined with green rice, and in three months the rice could be harvested, and the setting sun shone on the rice fields, and the rice turned golden.

At the end of the day, the carriage arrived at a post station, which was brightly lit and lively, and the sky could barely see the road.

Wang Darthead dismounted first, and the carriages behind Wang Darthead came down one after another, Mu Chen's carriage was in the back, and Mu Chen got off the carriage later than Mu Jun.

When Mu Chen got off the carriage, Mu Jun had already accurately found the carriage where Mu Chen was and waited for Mu Chen to get off.

As soon as I got off the bus, the people who got off the bus before came to deliver a message saying, "Tomorrow will be the beginning of the day, please be sure to gather at the gate of the post station on time and arrange them in today's order." ”

Knowing the departure time, Mu Chen and Mu Jun walked directly into the post station, which was the only post station within a radius of ten miles.

As soon as he entered the station, Mu Chen quickly found the counter and asked for two rooms in front of the counter, but it was late, and there were only a few rooms left, and Mu Chen finally got two rooms that were connected together.

"Jun'er, I'll come to you at night, don't open the door if someone knocks, only when I knock on the door, I knock three times, knock on the door three times, you open the door after I knock three times, and insert the door sheath before going to bed."

Mu Chen himself decided to do that, and if someone knocked on the door, he wouldn't open it.

"Okay, sister, I won't open the door."

Mu Chen and Mu Jun entered their respective rooms.

Mu Chen entered the room and looked around the room, the room was very small, there was only one bed, except that the place where the door was opened was larger, the bed was also very close to the door, and when the door was opened, the door was bigger, and it was about to touch the bed.

There is a shelf at the head of the bed, and on the shelf is a wooden basin, and the place where the shelf is placed is far from the top of the shelf.

The top of the shelf is used to store clothes, and Mu Chen put the luggage on the shelf.

Holding a wooden basin, he locked the door, went to the rocking well behind the post station to wash his feet, and asked Xiao Er to fetch water for two coppers.

Mu Chen has already spent forty coppers for two rooms, and he will not invite Xiao Er if he can afford it.

There were only a few people on the side of the well, and they were lining up, and soon they arrived at Mu Chen, who took a basin of cold water and brought it to the door of the room.

He opened the door, put the basin on the shelf, took the candied fruit from his luggage, and brought the wooden basin again.

I walked to the room on the left and clicked on the door three times.

After three knocks, the door opened.

"Jun'er, eat a little preserves, I won't eat for the time being tonight, I'll go tomorrow morning to see if there's anything else to eat, you can eat tomorrow morning, if you don't eat candied fruit tomorrow morning, I'll call you for the footwashing water, bring out the wooden basin, I'll pour it for you."

Mu Chen waited for Mu Jun to bring out the wooden basin.

Mu Chen waited for Mu Jun to bring out the wooden basin.

"Sister, I'll bring out the tub."

Mu Jun quickly came out of the house, holding a wooden basin in his hand, and the candied fruit Mu Jun had already placed in the house.

"Put it on the ground, and I'll pour you water."

Mu Jun put the wooden basin on the ground, and Mu Chen poured half of the basin on the ground into Mu Jun's basin.

"I'll go back first."

Mu Chen divided the water and carried the water into the house, and then Mu Jun also entered the house.

……

The next day, the lobby of the post station was already full of people, waiting for the carriage of the Tiger Leaping Dart Regiment to come.

Within a few minutes, the carriage of the Tiger Leaping Dart Regiment appeared, and as it was yesterday, it was lined up and one by one got into the car.

The carriage staggered again, and by noon it had reached a ravine, where the road was the most precipitous.

There are mountains on both sides of the canyon, and the road passes between the two mountains, and this section of the road is not long, only a mile, but it is the most frequent place for bandits, and the people of the Tiger Leaping Dart Regiment are more vigilant than in other places when they arrive here.

However, when passing through the canyon, there were no bandits, but a caravan that had been robbed by the bandits in the morning.

The bandits left only one piece of clothing for the caravan, and everything else was robbed.

The people of the Tiger Leap Regiment allowed the caravan to follow them to the county seat, but they had to do chores for the Tiger Leap Regiment on the way.

……

In the evening, Mu Chen and his entourage went to another post station, and they could go to the Tiger Leaping Dart Group in the county seat tomorrow.

"Mother, we want a better room today, I slept in yesterday's room with horror."

Ye Yuan'er was coquettish towards Mother Ye.

"If you can live in a good room, you can live in a good room, and if you don't have a good room, then you can live in the same."

Ye Mu herself can't decide what room she can live in, so she can only see what rooms are left in the post station and choose the best one from it.

Mu Chen saw the warm scene of mother and son, turned around and got out of the carriage, the original owner's father and mother went early, Mu Chen is an orphan in modern times.

Therefore, when I saw this scene, I just silently envied it.

Mu Jun was already waiting for Mu Chen like yesterday, the sister and brother went to ask for two houses, and Mu Chen had already eaten the candied fruit.

After getting the room ready, Mu Chen and Mu Jun went to buy three more dishes, as well as some rice, the things in the post station were expensive, these things alone were thirty coppers, and Mu Chen had a pain in his flesh again.

……

Early the next morning, the carriage swayed for an hour before arriving at the county seat, and neither Mu Chen nor Mu Jun had breakfast.

When I got out of the carriage, the first thing I did was to buy two big meat buns, and only when I had my stomach full did I have the energy to do something else.

After filling his stomach, Mu Chen went to find an inn and opened two rooms, and the two sisters and brothers went in to rest and rest.

……

In the evening, after resting, the sister and brother went out of the inn, ready to eat and go to see the night market in the county, the place is bigger, there are more people, and the county town is brightly lit at night.

Mu Chen and Mu Jun ate two bowls of chaos with thin skin and big stuffing at the roadside stall.

After eating, the siblings strolled along the streets of the night market, and soon came to a lake, where a small boat was rippling with the waves.

At the bow of the boat sat each person, playing the pipa with a pipa in their hands, and pulling the erhu with an erhu in their hands.

It was very lively, a thriving scene, and at this time, a somewhat special ship entered Mu Chen's sight.

aroused Mu Chen's curiosity.