Mr. Fan didn't insist, smiled and signaled to Changgong to put away the wine jug, and let the five of them eat and eat, Li Xiaoqi was full of thoughts, and his thoughts were focused on Mr. Fan's words and expressions, and he didn't know the taste of the food he ate, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng were full of vigilance while eating and talking to Mr. Fan, Li Zonggui looked at Li Xiaoqi and Wei Shuisheng, and also raised his ears vigilantly, only Li Erhuai, who had no heart and lungs to eat happily!

After eating, Mr. Fan placed the five people in the outermost three guest rooms in the outer courtyard, the guest room had already built a stove, burning the room warm like spring, the warm room was prepared with tea, and the bed was covered with clean and soft bedding, Li Zongliang thanked Mr. Fan, sent him back from the guest room, flashed in the door, watched him enter the inner courtyard through the crack in the door, and then turned around and whispered: "Don't take it lightly, let's still guard it for an hour." ”

"Well, it's still the old rule, the eldest brother keeps the first post, and then me." Wei Shuisheng replied, Li Erhuai burped, and kept nodding: "I listen to the eldest brother." ”

Li Xiaoqi picked the outermost bed, yawned and climbed into the quilt, and fell asleep in a moment, this vigil is none of her business, besides, it is useless for her to worry about it at this time, anyway, there are big brothers and them.

The night was peaceful, and the next day, the first rays of dawn had just come out of the sky, Li Zongliang and Li Erhuai had already gone out, led the old green donkey out, packed up the car, and prepared to set off on the road.

Li Xiaoqi yawned, climbed out of the warm and comfortable quilt with difficulty, put on a long jacket, poured out the hot water in the stove and rinsed his mouth, washed his hands and face, and finally went out of the guest room.

Mr. Fan has already entered the yard, with a few long-term workers to send hot porridge, steamed buns, vegetarian buns, meat buns and a few plates of pickles mixed with sesame oil, beckoning Li Zongliang and others to eat, a long-term worker led yesterday's Tie Qing big mule out, Mr. Fan smiled and let Li Zongliang: "This mule will be used by you, it is better than the old donkey, the road from here to South Vietnam is not easy to walk, with this stronger mule, the road is also a lot easier." ”

Li Zongliang was stunned for a moment, reacted for a moment, and hurriedly waved his hand and excused himself: "Mr. is too polite, this is not good, this mule, to say the least, is worth seventy or eighty taels of silver, no matter what, I dare not accept it!" ”

Mr. Fan's eyes swept over the busy Changgong in the distance, with a smile, he lowered his voice slightly and said: "Bring it, and then it is Zheng Cheng, although it will soon be able to enter South Vietnam, but the sooner it arrives, the easier it is to have an accident, this healthy mule, running is not much slower than a horse, it is really something, maybe it can be used at the top, although my family is not good, a mule can still afford to send, several are good and blessed people, and I will leave a friendship with you, when we meet again in the future, maybe I will rely on you!" ”

Li Zongliang didn't know how to excuse himself for a while, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Wei Shuisheng and the others, Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui twisted their heads, their eyes stared at Tie Qing's mule and couldn't move away, Wei Shuisheng looked at Li Zongliang and said hesitantly: "This is also Mr. Fan's kindness••••••

Li Xiaoqi looked at Li Zongliang with expectant eyes, she naturally wanted this mule very much, if it weren't for them, those wolves last night might have to eat his son, this grace to save the son, changing the head and walking the mule, is not expensive at all,

"Hmm." Li Zongliang agreed, and thanked Mr. Fan with a fist hug and said: "Mr. is kind, my brother will not refrain much, if there is another day to meet in the future, I will definitely repay Mr. Fan for today's gift." ”

"That's it."

Mr. Fan breathed a sigh of relief, with a relaxed smile on his face, and instructed the chief worker to take steamed buns, a few catties of cooked meat, pickles, and bean cakes to feed the mules, and directly loaded most of the car, and asked people to take two wolf skins over, and said with a smile: "I let people skin the wolves that a few strong men fought yesterday, but it is too late to sheath them now, there are only these two wolf skins at home, and the remaining four, even if it is biased to me!" ”

"Sir is polite, you don't have to have these two!" Li Zongliang hurriedly excused himself, but in the end, he still received these two sheathed wolf skins and spread them in the car, a few people packed up and stopped, Li Erhuai excitedly pulled Tieqing and walked the mule, a few people quit Mr. Fan, Li Xiaoqi sat in the car, waved goodbye to the old green donkey, went out of the village, and rushed all the way to Zhengcheng.

With this extremely strong and handsome big green mule, everyone finally dared to let go of their courage and sit in the car to rest, except for Li Xiaoqi, the other four people took turns to lead the mule and hurry.

After walking for another eight or nine days, inquiring all the way, there were still two or three days away from Zhengcheng, and several people were nervous and excited, and they didn't dare to be careless, far bypassing those more and more dense contiguous military camps, and only dared to take the remote road.

In the afternoon of this day, behind a mess of rocks in the east mountain of Lianyun Mountain, southeast of Zhengcheng, there were more than a dozen men in ragged clothes and of different ages, each man held a wooden stick in his hand, the length of the wooden stick was different, the bark on some of the wooden sticks had not been peeled off, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes were staring at the two people lying in front and looking down the mountain.

The two people in the front are a man and a woman, the man is not tall, although he is thin but looks extremely strong, his face is round like a pot helmet, his eyes are also round, his eyebrows are thick and short, and his lips are thick and pouting, as if he has been holding his mouth, at this time he is holding a sharpened woodcutter in his hand, staring nervously at a cart of mules and a few people coming from the direction of Tang County.

"Sister, this must be a rich man, look at that mule! It's not worse than a horse! It's worth hundreds of taels of silver! Sister, you must do this ticket! The round-faced man licked his thick lips and stared at Tie Qing's big mule with salivation, unable to take his eyes off. My sister squatted next to the round-faced man, also with a round face and round eyes, but she was much better looking than the man, her hair was tightly curled into a bun at the back of her head, her figure was strong, she was dressed shortly, and she looked very neat, and she was staring at the cars, mules and people under the mountain with a twisted brow.

"Well, there are four people in total, take a look and see if there are any people behind you." My sister replied, the round-faced man waved his hand behind his back, and more than a dozen men suddenly became nervous, swallowing their saliva, waiting to rush down, this business just opened, and I did it twice, once I didn't grab anything at all, and once, I didn't expect people to invite a dart master, but I was beaten all over the mountain by the dart masters.

"Wait a while, don't hurt people or don't hurt people, just grab something." My sister turned around and solemnly instructed, and more than a dozen newcomers nodded nervously, holding wooden sticks in both hands, half-standing and half-squatting, waiting to rush out behind the round-faced man.

Li Xiaoqi sat leisurely at the door of the car, his legs hanging outside and flicking around, looking up at the snowy mountain scenery next to him, and gossiping with Wei Shuisheng: "Brother Shuisheng, the scenery here is so good, you can enter the poem, Brother Shuisheng can write a poem, and read a poem." ”

"How can I read the poem of the aquatic life! I'll read you a good poem, and you listen: there's snow everywhere! Li Erhuai jumped over and rushed to read, Li Xiaoqi shook his body and smiled and leaned back and forth, Li Erhuai stretched out his arms and rowed out, just about to read down, when a snow fog suddenly broke out in front of him, and a group of people shouted and rushed down the mountain.

Li Zongliang, who was walking at the forefront, stared at the snow and fog and shouted: "There are mountain bandits!" Xiao Qi got out of the car, led the mule, Guizi protected Xiao Qi, aquatic, Erhuai, take the guy! ”

Wei Shuisheng and Li Erhuai were standing on the side of the car, reaching out and drawing the knife and gun, Wei Shuisheng jumped forward, handed the spear to Li Zongliang, and stood on the right side of Li Zongliang with the gun, Li Erhuai carried the stick, handed the saber to Li Zonggui, and jumped to the left of Li Zongliang with the wooden stick.

When he rushed to the bottom of the mountain, the last mountain bandit seemed to have tripped over something, and one of the people who fell down and threw himself in front of him, and the people in front of him fell down again, but they did not rush down the mountain, and their own people first threw down more than half of their own people, and this half of them simply rolled all the way down the mountain. Li Xiaoqi bent his eyes and laughed, this group of mountain bandits is only afraid that they are still raw, not only alive, but also powerful.

Li Zongliang glanced at Wei Shuisheng, and almost laughed, Li Erhuai simply laughed, Li Zonggui smiled and muttered to Li Xiaoyi: "Stupid like this, you dare to be a mountain bandit." Li Xiaoqi nodded in agreement.

The young man who rushed to the front, wielding a machete, glanced back, his face was flushed with anger, he stomped his feet, and he didn't care about the group of subordinates behind him who had fallen to all odds, and with a few people who had not fallen, he rushed towards Li Zongliang and them fiercely.

"Big brother, let me come!" Li Erhuai said with a grin.

"Good! Be careful! Li Zongliang looked at the mountain bandit leader who rushed over all the way, and said with a slight relaxation in his heart, look at this step, he is a person who has never practiced, and he has no half-chapter method, but he fights with brute strength, if he fights with brute force, there are not many people who can fight Erhuai.

Li Erhuai smiled, jumped forward two or three steps, steadied his horse, watched the mountain bandit leader rush over, the stick head was deftly raised, and the woodcutter in the hand of the robber leader was swept away, and the stick was pressed down with his backhand.

"Phew! Just like you, you still want to be a mountain bandit and rob? ! ”

Li Erhuai 'spit' the leader of the mountain bandits, stepped on the buttocks of the round-faced bandits, and pressed the head of the stick against the back of the bandits, so that the mountain bandits who desperately wanted to get up kicked their legs, but they couldn't move for half a minute. The mountain bandits holding firewood sticks in the back didn't dare to rush forward half a step, and they all turned their heads to look at their sister who was following the round-faced bandits.