Chapter 24 The inside should be the outside
After walking for about an hour, it was getting dark, and the caravan found a shady slope to rest.
The caravan of the Xu family walks outside all the year round, and of course the common sense of condescending is understood, otherwise if someone is unfavorable and is condescendingly sprinted by dozens of horsemen, it will be in chaos, with countless casualties.
The convoy formed a circle, surrounded the goods, lit a lit bonfire, and then the trimming of the trimming, the patrol of the night, everyone performed their duties, and the cooperation was very skillful.
Nanhai County is not as developed as Anzhou City, and the towns are all lofty mountains, and sleeping in the wilderness is a common thing, and the people of the Xu family's caravans are already commonplace.
Qin Ming has now changed into the clean clothes given by the Xu family, although it is a coarse cloth shirt, the fabric is not precious, but it is very clean and fit.
After tying up his horse, Qin Ming found a tree root outside the caravan and sat down, and took a dough cake handed over by Lao Zhang.
Someone next to him seemed to be blind, and shouted strangely: "Lao Zhang, this kid doesn't have a lot of strength, why is he so good?"
"What do you know, the young man is growing his body, and if he doesn't eat much, he will look short and small like me, and what if he can't marry a daughter-in-law in the future. Lao Zhang raised his eyebrows and said angrily.
Qin Ming smiled, but did not speak.
In fact, with Qin Ming's current cultivation, it is okay to not eat for three or four days, but Qin Ming is unwilling to refuse Lao Zhang's kindness, so he took the bread in his hand and said with a smile: "Where are we going?"
"If you want to go back, you just need to find a carriage and horse shop, and walk more than two hundred miles to the north, and you can return to the boundary of Anzhou County. ”
Lao Zhang also sat down, loosened his sore back, and said with emotion: "When you are old, you can't stand it if you walk dozens of miles, if you ...... when you are young."
"Mrs. Xu is also old, and after completing this vote, she will wash her hands and not dry it, and I am afraid that it will be the world of young people in the future...... It's time for us old people to rest......"
Maybe he talked too much during the day, and after chatting with Qin Ming for a few words, he fell asleep with a horsewhip.
Qin Ming didn't feel sleepy, when he cultivated to the point where he did, it didn't matter if he slept or not, he just used the time he slept to cultivate.
Martial arts all the way, do not advance but retreat, only diligent cultivation can go higher and farther than others.
Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and only a dozen points of starlight can penetrate the clouds and sprinkle silver light.
It was the good weather that was suitable for Qin Ming to practice the "Yang Xingchen Refining Body Technique".
Qin Ming's figure was like a mystery, and he easily bypassed the night patrol, found a remote place, and began to cultivate the Yang Xingchen Body Refining Technique.
According to the practice line of "Yang Xingchen Refining Body Technique", Qin Ming sat cross-legged, constantly absorbing Zhou Tianxing's power.
The starry power in the night sky hung down, constantly falling into Qin Ming's body, running along the meridians, and finally merging into the sea of qi.
After a big week of running, Qin Ming's stomach qi and sea of stars flickered, and he only felt as if he had washed his hair and cut off the marrow, and his whole body was extremely comfortable.
Qin Ming knew in his heart that his true yuan had already approached the realm of Gang Qi infinitely, and he was only one step away from being able to step into the realm of refining the seventh-layer Gang Qi.
"This last step is really difficult to cross, I am now at the peak of the sixth layer of body refining, and the effect of cultivating like this is not great, I am afraid that I still have to break through in the critical moment of life and death. ”
Qin Ming knew in his heart that although the battle with the second master was fierce, he had always relied on a variety of tricks, and there was no real life-and-death struggle.
While he was thinking, Qin Ming only felt the sound of light footsteps coming from his ears.
In the wilderness, it will not be a good thing for someone to suddenly appear.
Qin Ming's heart moved, and he jumped on the trunk of a tree next to him like a tanuki, squatting quietly, and reined in his voice.
The person who appeared here turned out to be the leader of the Xu family's scarface-faced guards.
Qin Ming wondered in his heart, Leader Wu walked here alone, and his appearance was sneaky, it didn't look like he had come to patrol the night at all.
"This man is weird!"
Qin Ming is also a veteran of stalking, plus Qin Ming's cultivation is far better than that of this Wu leader, so he quietly followed him all the way, and he didn't even let him notice it.
It wasn't until he reached the back of a slope that the Wu leader finally slowed down.
It was pitch black on the slope, and there was only a faint glow from a small fire fold that would not have been noticeable if you looked at the caravan's station.
Although the night was dark, Qin Ming found that there were already at least thirty-four people waiting on the slope with his keen sense.
The men were all masked with black cloth, and armed with swords, and even the hooves of the horses were wrapped in cloth so as not to make a sound.
"The clothes and weapons of these people are the same as the Sulfur Mountain horse bandits who besieged the Qinjia Mine that day, could it be that they are from Sulfur Mountain?"
Qin Ming looked at it at a glance and felt that this group of people was very familiar, and he was secretly surprised in his heart.
"Leader Wu, what's the situation? More than thirty of our brothers in Sulfur Mountain are already waiting impatiently. ”
Seeing Scarface coming, the leader of the group of bandits laughed and said.
This man was a strong man, his arms were as thick as ordinary people's thighs, his muscles were bulging, and he was extremely vicious, and he would have failed to be a bandit.
"Fourth, I've been drugged with water and food today, and I should be about to have a seizure at night. ”
Leader Wu nodded, snorted coldly, and said, "Okay, after the matter is completed, I only need thirty percent of the goods, but that Mrs. Xu must give it to me." ”
Seeing that Leader Wu only took 30% of his speech, the faces of the four masters also looked a little better, who doesn't like white silver?
"Leader Wu, your taste is unique, but I see that Mrs. Xu is very well maintained, maybe she has a different taste in bed......" The fourth master said with a lewd smile on his face.
"Hmph, this slut, I worked hard with her back then, creating such a big foundation of the Xu family, she lost her husband and had no children in her early years, I thought that the Xu family's huge industry must have my share, but who knew that she didn't miss the old love at all, no wonder I was unkind and unjust. ”
Leader Wu said viciously with a grim look on his face.
Qin Ming's heart suddenly dawned, during the day, Lao Zhang said that after Mrs. Xu finished this trip, she would wash her hands, thinking that this Wu leader did not get enough benefits, and immediately reversed.
Qin Ming sighed secretly in his heart, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and most people will be consumed by interests.
The Xu family is like this, why is the Qin family not like this?
His cousin Qin Heng played well with him back then, but who knew that after so many years, the two brothers actually became enemies?
The group chatted a few more words, and seemed to have made up their minds, agreeing to let Wu Tou take the lead and go back, preparing to join the inside and outside, and the group of horse bandits in Sulfur Mountain would immediately set off after waiting for another quarter of an hour to wipe out the Xu family's caravan!
Qin Ming secretly estimated in his heart that this group of people seemed to be menacing, but it was not worth mentioning to himself at all.
The cultivation of these four masters is only about five layers of body refining, not only is it not as good as the second master, but even the third master is far behind.
But think about it, this sulfur mountain is just a bandit nest, it would be good to have these few masters who support the scene, where can there be so many masters of the Gangqi realm.
A real master, who is the most unfortunate and also serves as a guard for the high-ranking families, how can he become a bandit?
Since he has met, Qin Ming has no reason not to stand idly by, not to mention that Mrs. Xu has an excellent impression on Qin Ming, even if it is for the sake of the grudge between this sulfur mountain and himself, Qin Ming will also intervene!
Qin Ming quietly returned to the caravan, returned to the place where he was lying down, and watched Leader Wu, who was one step later in his life, return to the caravan casually, and the center suddenly sneered.
Sure enough, not long after, I heard the light of a torch in the distance gradually approaching, and the faint sound of horses' hooves came.
The night watchman was the first to notice the situation and immediately shouted at the top of his throat.
"Enemy attack!"
"There are enemies, at least thirty horsemen!"
There was an immediate commotion in the caravan, and the people woke up in their sleep, sleepy-eyed and hazy with their weapons ready for the enemy's attack.
Qin Ming didn't panic at all, his eyes just stared at Leader Wu, checking his reaction.
This Wu leader's acting skills are also first-class, one will kick wake up a guard, and the other will direct people to hide in the carriage.
Only Qin Ming could see that Leader Wu's movements were deliberately slowed down, and the formation also left a few weak parts.
At this moment, someone beside Qin Ming suddenly shouted loudly.
"It's this surnamed Qin boy, I didn't see anyone when I went to pee just now!"
"I said that this kid is strange, could it be that he is an enemy spy!"
Someone in the caravan soon shouted angrily.
It's no wonder that Qin Ming, as an outsider, suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night, and at this moment, an enemy suddenly attacked, how could they not suspect it?
One of the guards looked at Qin Ming, his eyes were red, and he raised his knife to slash at Qin Ming.
Lao Zhang was shocked and angry, and immediately protected Qin Ming's body, and scolded: "Don't do it, didn't you kid disappear for a while just now!
He had never married a daughter-in-law and had children in his life, and since he saw Qin Ming during the day, he felt inexplicably pleasing to the eye, and immediately protected Qin Ming without thinking about it.
"What's the panic, from now on, everyone obeys my orders!"
Mrs. Xu suddenly appeared and scolded loudly: "Send a signal to the night watchers, let them return immediately, the old and weak hide in the inner circle, and the rest of the people will wait for me to meet the enemy on the periphery!"
"You're lucky!"
The guard who was about to cut Qin Ming just now spit on a mouthful of spit, scolded and scolded, and ran to the front.
Seeing Mrs. Xu appear, this group of people seemed to see the backbone of the heart, and years of training allowed them to quickly regain their composure and form a formation.
The remaining 20 or so guards took advantage of the terrain to surround the caravan's wagons and belongings, and raised their spirits and prepared to resist the enemy's attack!
Seeing that those horse bandits were about to approach, suddenly, only a few sounds were heard, and the weapons in the hands of several guards suddenly fell, and the people suddenly foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground on their stomachs!
The remaining dozen or so guards also felt nauseous in their stomachs, their arms were limp, and they could barely wield their weapons.
When Mrs. Xu saw this, why didn't she understand what was going on?
"Someone was poisoned!"
Although her face was still forcibly calm, her heart suddenly sank!