Chapter 64: Heading to Xianyang
Seeing Xiao Chuan get up so early, Chen Jia remembered that people in the Qin Dynasty generally got up early, usually got up around five o'clock in the morning, and only ate two meals, Xiao Chuan had lived with his master for a year, and he had already changed his habits.
And Chen Jia has always maintained the work and rest time of modern people...
Of course, this little episode did not affect anything, at about nine o'clock in the morning, after breakfast, the two came to the intersection of Xidepei County.
Chen Jia had seen Liu Bang when he was in the city before, but at that time he was calling for conscription, and it seemed that he would be able to leave soon.
So Chen Jia didn't bother at that time, but waited for them while chatting with Xiaochuan at this intersection.
didn't let the two of them wait long, about half an hour, Chen Jia's sight appeared Liu Bang and the group of conscripts.
The so-called conscription, in fact, they are not slaves, but like the compulsory soldiers in some countries now, they only participate in labor because of their obligations, and this obligation is divided into two kinds, military service and forced labor, which is equivalent to a special kind of worker.
However, the status of conscription is low, and they are generally poor people, whose body is not as good as those regular soldiers, so they can't survive at all when they are soldiers or laborers, and often die of exhaustion or other reasons.
Most people are afraid of this kind of service, which has a very high mortality rate, and on the way to the service, there will often be a phenomenon of desertion.
It was a great headache for the above, and soon after, they issued an order that one person would be escorted each time they went to service, and that if one of them was dead or disabled, then all of them would be executed!
After this decree came out, the phenomenon of conscription escaping was much less, after all, because one person escaped and all of them were executed, everyone in the team would look at each other, so that those who wanted to escape could not run, and Liu Bang was the one who escorted the conscription this time.
Seeing Liu Bang's group of people walking towards this side, Chen Jia stopped talking to Xiaochuan and turned to look at Liu Bang.
"Brother Liu, let's meet again." Chen Jia smiled when he said this, looking very harmless to humans and animals, although he punched Liu Bang before, but in Chen Jia's opinion, it was just a lesson for his arrogance, and Chen Jia didn't take it to heart at all.
However, Liu Bang didn't think so, in his opinion, what Chen Jia did before was a great insult to him, and when he achieved something in the future, he would definitely make Chen Jia look good.
But that's just for the future, and now Liu Bang's heart exploded: Why is this surnamed Chen blocked here, could it be that he didn't succeed at the last banquet, so he came to find trouble this time? If so, it's terrible, this person is strong in martial arts, and if you want to embarrass yourself, you can't resist at all.
But it's not right, if he wants to be embarrassed, he should wait until the way to do it, now this is a suburb of the city, people often pass by, and then look at him with a smile on his face, it doesn't look like he wants to do it.
Thinking like this, Liu Bang also suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, Brother Yi, I don't know what is going on with the two of you here?" ”
"That's right, I heard that Brother Liu is going to Xianyang with a group of conscripts today, so it just so happens that the two of us also want to go to Xianyang to have a look, can we go with you?" Chen Jia arched his hand, looking sincere.
Liu Bang was stunned when he heard Chen Jia's words, he had thought a lot about Chen Jia's purpose before, but he didn't expect to go to Xianyang with them, which was really beyond his expectations.
However, their journey to Xianyang is full of dangers, any natural disasters, man-made disasters may occur, Chen Jia's martial arts are strong, Brother Yi can save Lu Gong's family, presumably they are also people with martial arts, if the two of them join their team, their safety will definitely be greatly improved.
And if you run into a bandit or something, you can kill this person named Chen Jia, it would be the best news.
Thinking like this, Liu Bang hurriedly smiled: "Okay! Yes! Why not! The two of you will go forward with us, and be a great good! ”
"In that case, then I'll nag later." With that, Chen Jia and Xiaochuan followed up with the team.
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Three days later, the people who had traveled all the way had already arrived in the Chenjun area.
During this period, there were no unusual incidents, everything seemed very normal, and along the way, Xiao Chuan, who couldn't bear it, looked for people to talk to everywhere, and now he is almost familiar with everyone.
At least everyone can call out their names, and Chen Jia is more than a step behind, he is not good at words, except for talking to Xiaochuan, everyone else is just nodding friends, let alone knowing other people's names.
But in this way, Chen Jia is also happy, he walks silently on the road alone, no one comes to quarrel with him, he can silently practice his mind while thinking about things.
Soon, though, he didn't have time to think about things.
For at this time they were walking into a canyon, where the terrain was sunken, and there were cliffs on the left and right, with only two exits, the front and the back.
Originally, it was nothing to walk here, but now when they reached the middle of the canyon, seven or eight men armed with large knives and sticks suddenly popped out of the two exits in front of and behind them.
One of them, the bearded man who seemed to be the leader, jumped out and shouted: "I planted this tree, I opened this road, I want to cross this road, leave to buy road money!" ”
Seeing a group of knife-wielding robbers surrounding them, this group of conscripts suddenly panicked, and Liu Bang also looked gloomy when he saw this, he didn't expect that robbers would encounter such a thing, it was really unlucky!
However, when Liu Bang set his eyes on Chen Jia, his eyes flashed ruthlessly.
At this time, Xiao Chuan just smiled and said: "I said brother, your slogan is too new, can you change the word you haven't heard before?" ”
Listening to Xiaochuan's words, Chen Jia smiled, but there were no words.
But when the big man heard this, he yelled impatiently: "You kid don't talk nonsense, hurry up and hand over the money on your body, otherwise I will cut you!" ”
The Han were originally bandits on this mountain, and they usually made a living by robbing the rich family members who passed by, and they would not rob the team that escorted the conscripts like Liu Bang, and these were all poor people, and they had no oil and water on them.
However, looking at Xiao Chuan and Chen Jia in the crowd dressed decently, they looked like the children of rich people, so they couldn't help but set up an ambush here.
Dahan is right, Chen Jia is very rich, but they don't have the ability to take this money!
After hearing the roar of the big man, Xiao Chuan didn't talk nonsense, and directly put on a posture and rushed towards the person in front of him.
The few people in the rear watched their boss being attacked, and they also rushed towards this group of people after shouting, and Chen Jia saw this, smiled slightly and greeted them.
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