When people are tired and cold, hot water is the best medicine, as long as you drink a bowl, you can eliminate the cold and fatigue. Everyone drank a bowl of hot water and felt comfortable from the inside out.

Zhuang Rou used the hot water from the bamboo tube she brought, leaned against the back of the door, felt the cold wind blowing in the crack of the door, and drank the water in small sips.

There is something she can't understand, the hand she saw just now must be a woman's, if Boss Hu is a smuggler of mouths, then there should be a woman in every back basket. It couldn't be dead bodies, eighty percent of them were drugged so that they couldn't struggle to get away.

This kind of mountain road is not easier to climb with a group of ordinary women than to drive a group of pigs up the mountain, and the loss of one will be a lot of money.

Therefore, it is better to drug them to make them unconscious, and it is better to carry them in a back basket, which is simple and troublesome for these strong porters.

Just, why didn't the three of them be drugged?

He and Tang Wushu have martial arts, and it is reasonable to be drugged for fear of being discovered, why didn't Wu Shufu take the drug, and he had to take it all the way?

There must be a reason why Boss Hu has to do this, what could it be?

Zhuang Rou guessed several possibilities, but there was no evidence, not only Boss Hu and they had problems, but Wu Shufu was also weird.

But let them come nonsense, as long as they go down the mountain, everything will fall into place, and there is no hurry at this time.

The wooden house was crowded with people, and with charcoal burning in the brazier in the middle, it felt very warm, but it didn't taste good.

Zhuang Rou always sat by the door, the windows and doors in the house were not closed, and they also knew that they could not close the doors and windows with a charcoal fire, otherwise dozens of people would die here silently.

If that's the case, when someone finds out, it must be very amazing.

However, a warm room can prevent the woman in the basket from freezing to death in a long coma, and this trafficker named Hu Yuan is definitely not the first time to do this kind of business.

Everything was arranged along the way, which shows that he is very experienced.

Zhuang Rou didn't show anything abnormal, she honestly sat at the door and slept, and after everyone fell asleep in the middle of the night, she heard a trembling sound, as if someone got up and walked quietly.

She quietly opened a crack and saw Hu Yuan squatting in front of the back basket, reached in and probed, and then retracted to check the second back basket.

Looking at his appearance, he seemed to be inspecting the goods, but Zhuang Rou thought that he might be looking to see if the woman in the back basket was still alive.

Hu Yuan checked each back basket and saw that he was relieved, and then returned to the place where he was lying.

Seeing him like this, Zhuang Rou was also relieved, those people are still alive and well, and it is absolutely no problem to hold on until tomorrow to go down the mountain, after all, Boss Hu is a skilled hand, and he will not let people freeze to death.

The night was peaceful, and everyone ate something in the early morning, and then carried the basket and continued to climb the mountain.

Liu Lang gave Wu Shufu the opportunity to sit in a chair from Boss Hu, which made Zhuang Rou even more strange, and even suspected that she was originally Hu Yuan's gang, so he treated her favorably everywhere.

The road on this mountain near Qingliang Country is more difficult, but fortunately, Wu Shufu was carried on his back, so he did not continue to drag his feet, and everyone's speed was not much slower, even Boss Hu did not lag behind.

It was better to go down the mountain than to go up, and before evening they finally came down the mountain and came to the boundary of Qingliang Kingdom.

Compared with the desolation of Dahao, the edge of Qingliang is much more prosperous, at least when you go down the mountain, you can see many villages and towns from afar, cooking smoke in the sunset, a state of living and working in peace.

A big city towers in the distance, it should be the majestic city, and I am afraid that there is a lot of walking to get there.

Under Hu Yuan's leadership, the group walked down a remote path, and occasionally met some local villagers, who greeted them in a Qingliangguo accent, and seemed to be familiar with the people here.

These villagers were familiar with the caravan, as if it was a normal caravan, not smuggled from Dahao.

Zhuang Rou thought that the place where she settled was this village, but she didn't expect Boss Hu to pass by the village and not enter, but instead took off half a basket of goods at the entrance of the village and gave it to a few elders who looked like they were respected locally.

The people asked the villagers to take their things, and they happily gave him a prosperous business.

There are three such villages, and there are a lot of goods missing, and the villagers have a good attitude towards the caravan like relatives, not to mention that they will report to the officials, and maybe there will be officials who will report the news first.

Zhuang Rou is a pity in her heart, if the surroundings of Dahao Shuangmen Pass are also like this, at least the people can live well like this, without worrying about food and clothing.

She glanced at Tang Wuving, as a noble daughter of Qingliang Kingdom, she had definitely never seen this kind of scene, and she didn't know if she could understand it.

saw Tang Wudi frowning slightly, as if she was holding back some emotions, but she could feel that she was not happy.

"Seeing that the people of Qingliang Country are living so well, I'm the same as you, thinking about Dahao's side and the wasteland, I'm not in a good mood. But we have something else to do here, so don't show it too clearly and make the local people resent. Zhuang Rou turned his head and whispered.

Tang Wushu let out a sigh of relief, the expression on her face forcibly eased a lot, she just felt that the people around Xiongcheng were too disagreeable, and for the sake of some money, they treated Dahao's smuggling caravan as if they were nothing, and collected benefits with peace of mind.

If Dahao's army comes over, is it possible to surrender to the enemy country as long as they don't rob and kill, but give them benefits!

She was angry about this, but she couldn't say it directly, so she could only sulk alone.

On the other hand, Wu Shufu was a lot happier, she looked up curiously, as if it wouldn't be long before she could become the people of Qingliang Kingdom.

Zhuang Rou knew that she was only fifteen years old, which was a good age for a young girl, even if she stayed at home all day and someone came to the door to propose marriage, she was still a child.

Tang Wudi and Zhuang Rou, two people who are eighteen or nineteen years old but have not yet married, are much older than her. Not marrying at this age is not a common thing in both countries, but look at what the two of them have done to know why they can't get married.

"Liu Lang, when can we leave?" Wu Shufu pulled Liu Lang and asked happily.

Liu Lang explained: "We can't go far without a road guide, Boss Hu has promised to help us get a road guide, and now the sun is about to set, we can only stay for another night." Tomorrow I will get the guide, so I will rent a carriage and go to my uncle. ”

Wu Shufu pouted, glanced at Zhuang Rou and the two, and nodded, "Well, then stay for another night." ”

Zhuang Rou also smiled at her, this woman is too problematic.

At this time, Boss Hu, who was leading the way in front, shouted: "We have arrived, everyone can have a good rest!" ”

A few people looked up, and there was a small hill in front of them, and there was a village that looked lifeless and empty.

When they entered the village, the porter and the guard seemed to have returned to their homes, and they were familiar with each of them and pushed open different courtyards.

In the middle of the village stood Zhuang Rou and them, plus Liu Lang and Boss Hu.

Boss Hu took out a bunch of keys from his body, took out two and handed them to Zhuang Rou and Liu Lang, "This is the key to the two small courtyards, let's choose one to rest tonight." ”

Zhuang Rou took the key, found the small courtyard not far away under the guidance of Boss Hu, opened the lock and led Tang Wudi in.

After walking around the courtyard, she found that the courtyard had all the food and shelter in it, and it didn't look like no one lived in it at all. Although there was dust on the windows and floors of the cabinets, there was not much dust on the beds, tables and chairs, and it seemed that people often came to stay there.

Smuggling caravans, so frequent?

Tang Wushu sat down, beating his legs and being unhappy, just thinking about finding an opportunity to sneak out to Xiongcheng to find General Wang Yaoyuan.

Zhuang Rou took out a dry and hard cake and handed it over, "Hurry up and eat something to pad your stomach, and you'll be going to do chivalrous righteousness." ”

"What, are you going to report someone to smuggle?" Tang Wushu looked at her blankly, this ass is not hot, she is going to report the smuggling of Dahao people in Qingliang Country as a Dahao person?

Seeing that she didn't take the bread, Zhuang Rou nibbled on herself, and said while eating: "I saw last night that there were unconscious women hidden under those baskets of goods, they may have smuggled goods just as a cover, but in fact, they are a group of human traffickers. ”

"Those women have been locked up in the basket for so long, they must have woken up, or they might have to die if they went down any further. We'll get the buyers out of the fire pit before they arrive. ”

Tang Wudi opened his mouth and looked dazed, and only asked after a while: "It is only a dozen taels to buy a high-grade girl ring, and the rough one is only three or five or seven taels, and the brocade horse they carry is a few hundred taels of silver, and it is common to sell thousands of taels with unique colors." ”

"How can they compare, they shouldn't pretend to be women in the back basket, doesn't this take up space and earn less? It's worthless! She had learned housekeeping with her mother, and when she knew the price of these things, she immediately told the unreasonableness.

It's obviously just to make money, and it's more profitable to carry a cloth than to bring a woman, who would be so stupid to do such a thing.

"......" Zhuang Rou looked at her silently, she had noticed that there were people inside, but she forgot about the money.

She felt that she couldn't blame herself for this, she had never seen anything like brocade, let alone buy some to make clothes, and the devil knew how much silver it would cost.

Just seeing people hidden in the back basket, I subconsciously feel that people are the most expensive.

Zhuang Rou asked, "What do you think of that sister?" ”

Tang Wudi said casually: "My sister also saw how poor Dahao Shuangmen Guan is, maybe the people in the back basket want to sneak here and live a life without food and clothing, such as selling themselves as slaves, or marrying a man here to live a good life." ”

"Huh?" Zhuang Rou heard that something was wrong with her, no matter how hard the days were when the double doors were closed, could it be compared to the hardship of selling yourself into slavery?

"As for why they hide in the basket, just look at how difficult the mountain road is, how they can walk, of course, depends on people's backs." Tang Wushu said with the superiority of Qingliang Kingdom.

Perhaps, they paid the money and bought the porter to carry them on their backs. However, if you can escape from that poor place to Qingliang Country, you can live a life without food and clothing in the future, and it can almost be said that you will live a new life. ”

Zhuang Rou gave her a big look, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about!" They must have been abducted. ”

Tang Wudi also came to the end, and said unconvinced: "If you don't believe it, we'll ask for a while, it's definitely like this!" ”

"If that's the case, I'll immediately turn around and go back to Dahao and keep guarding the double gate to make it a rich place!" Zhuang Rou let go of the cruel words, she absolutely didn't believe it, and it wasn't that the whole territory of Dahao was poor like this, where to go with this silver, to do this kind of thing as a refugee!

Tang Wudi was stunned by her words, although if she returned to Dahao by herself, she would not be pestering herself anymore, but she still couldn't help but say: "Why do you look official, you can't do anything about this, that's the local government's business, do you really think you can be an official?" ”

Zhuang Rou snorted, "What if you can't be an official, you just need to fight until you serve." ”

"Then I'd love to see it." Tang Wushu teased, and was about to continue, when suddenly there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves from far to near, and a large number of horse teams were galloping towards this side.