Chapter 216: The Gray Family Collection (2)
A group of men with different complexions stood on both sides of the gate of the Gray Family Market, staring at Yan Liqiang and his party who were riding into the Gray Family Market with a strange look.
This group of men, one by one, are dressed in shabby and shabby, unkempt, but their expressions have a fierce taste, even if the gray family has opened the door and made a gesture of greeting, but these men are still holding weapons in their hands, looking at Yan Liqiang's expression, there is still a trace of vigilance.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the contemptible people are the normal Lu of this gray family set, often often, the Lu of Fulu, I'm late, I'm late, I don't know if you're a big boss, there are too many bandits outside, we have to be careful, and I ask you to ......forgive me."
An old man with gray hair, wrinkles on his face like a ravine in the wilderness, and a somewhat thin body, but with a shrewd look in his eyes, saw Yan Liqiang and them come in, and immediately walked over with a smile on his face and gave everyone his hand.
Seeing this old man, Yan Liqiang thought of the wild wolves he had seen in the wilderness who had lost their hair and their bodies were no longer strong, but they were more cunning and their teeth were just as sharp.
"You should have a post house here, right?" Liang Yijie asked.
"Yes, yes, yes, of course there is......" The man named Chang Lu nodded hurriedly.
"Then take us to your inn!"
"Okay, okay, okay, please come with me......" The old man nodded, and then glanced at the corpses of the dead guards carried by the rhinosaurs who had just walked to the gray family set, his eyelids trembled, and his body suddenly became more rickety, lowered his voice, and asked in a low voice, "Officials, this ...... Did you get into any trouble on the way?"
"We just met more than two hundred Black Wind Thieves on the road...... Liang Yijie said calmly.
The three words of the black wind thief really have a huge deterrent effect, as soon as Liang Yijie said it, the old man and the men standing at the door of the gray family market all changed their faces......
“...... However, those Black Wind Thieves we met have already been killed by us, so you don't need to be nervous!"
I don't know whether Liang Yijie's words are stating the facts or warning, when he heard Liang Yijie's later words, the old man who had just changed his face suddenly laughed again, "That's good, that's good, it's just that this black wind thief is not easy to provoke, and we who are keeping vigil in the gray family at night have to cheer up......"
"Well, we'll have people keep a vigil with you!"
"That's, that's, gentlemen, please come with me......" the old man said, and led everyone to the gray family market.
Yan Liqiang rode on the horse, without saying a word, feeling that someone was watching him, he turned his head, and saw a man in a gray cotton jacket standing on the earthen wall, looking at the bow of the horned python bow on his horse's back with burning eyes, and then slipped on his face, the expression on his face was a little puzzled, and there was a trace of solemnity - this man was the person who had just shot the bow and arrow by himself.
At that time, the distance was more than two hundred meters, and it was dark, and he shot two arrows in the crowd, if this man didn't have any special ability, ordinary people, at that distance, couldn't see themselves clearly, so this man should be guessing whether the person who shot the two arrows just now was himself, because the bow sac of the horned python bow on his horseback was much larger than the bow sac of other guards, and it seemed unique, and his age didn't seem to have such an ability, so the man looked puzzled, maybe he was still guessing whether the war bow in the bow pouch on his rhinosaurus horse was used by himself。
Yan Liqiang didn't explain anything, just followed everyone forward.
At this time, it is also good to let these people in the gray family set not understand the details and be a little in awe.
The houses in the gray family set are low and low, all of them are rammed with earth, some are dilapidated, there are very few two-story buildings, and almost all of the walls of the buildings have traces of the vicissitudes of sand.
The arrival of Yan Liqiang and his party made many people in the gray family set walk out of the room, looking at Yan Liqiang and his party curiously with various eyes.
To Yan Liqiang's surprise, since there was still a brothel, when passing by an intersection, several women in red and green clothes walked out of a low mud house on the side of the road, holding handkerchiefs, and waved enthusiastically to a guard on the horse. Of course, as for the appearance of those women, it is really miserable, and Yan Liqiang really doesn't know how to describe it.
......
After a while, everyone came to the post house of the gray family.
If it weren't for the wooden sign hanging next to the door of that place with the word post house written on it, Yan Liqiang couldn't believe that this was a post house.
Half of the collapsed earthen walls, three earthen houses with broken doors, a leaky roof above the earthen house, a yard that is not big or small, black lights blinding, and all over the ground, saying that this is a ghost house may be regarded as a compliment, the ghost house is at least a house, and here, if you put it in Liuhe Town, many people's pigsty is probably more elaborate than here.
"This is the post house of the Gray Family Collection?" Liang Yijie's voice already had a hint of anger.
"Not bad!" the old man nodded and sighed, "There has been no silver allocated for more than ten years, and this post house can only be like this, even the post chief here, who couldn't survive a few years ago, ran away early......"
"Is there an inn in the Gray Family?"
"Yes, yes, ......yes," the old man laughed at once, "Do you want to stay at the inn, but if you want to stay at the inn, then you have to count the money......"
"Just the guest house, we pay, just take us there......"
"Okay, okay, okay, go this way, go this way......"
......
After walking for another two minutes, everyone finally came to an inn in the Gray Family Collection.
Although this inn is also a little dilapidated, but it is dozens of times better than the inn just now, there are two large courtyards in the inn, which is also spacious, as soon as Yan Liqiang and the others arrived, the old man immediately commanded the guys in the inn, so that the guys in the inn were busy, boiling water, slaughtering sheep, cooking, and feeding horses......
Because the men in the inn were not manpowered, the old man asked one of the men to call many people from the town to help.
It turned out that this old man was both the Lizheng of this gray family set and the owner of this inn.
Everyone fell to their feet and breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone is exhausted from the rush and battles along the way, and many people are gritting their teeth to support them.
Yan Liqiang is the same, his blood was boiling when he fought just now, he didn't feel anything, but now that he is relaxed, he feels that he is already so hungry that his chest is close to his back, not only that, the muscles in his two arms and shoulders and back are hot and painful, and the several big tendons in his arms and shoulders are even more sore and painful.
Shooting so many arrows with a horned python bow in a short period of time has reached Yan Liqiang's current physical limit, although outsiders can't see it, but Yan Liqiang himself can feel that his body is overdrawn a lot, exhausted, now is the time to repay the debt, at this time, if the black wind thief kills again, Yan Liqiang may have to run away.
Although his body had reached his limit, after coming to the inn and getting off the horse and tying up the dark cloud cover snow in the stable, Yan Liqiang was still busy silently like the other guards, and moved the bodies of those guards who died in battle off the horse one by one.
These corpses could not be taken on the road, so they could only be transformed here, and their ashes were returned to the imperial capital.
As soon as the bodies were moved, Liang Yijie came to tell Yan Liqiang that Sun Bingchen wanted to see him, and under the watchful eyes of a guard, Yan Liqiang also came to Sun Bingchen's room.
Sun Bingchen was the only one in the room, sitting upright on a chair in the room, and Liang Yijie did not follow in.
"My lord, are you looking for me?" Yan Liqiang, who entered the room, bowed to Sun Bingchen.
Sun Bingchen glanced at Yan Liqiang deeply, then nodded slowly, and pointed to a position opposite him, "Sit down!"
Yan Liqiang walked over and sat down calmly.
"Thanks to you today, if it weren't for the courtesy you just now, this time, most of these many guards may not be able to survive!" Sun Bingchen said with some emotion.
"I just did what I was supposed to do!" Yan Liqiang replied, and at the same time muttered in his heart, whether Sun Bingchen was going to ask himself about the matter of archery cultivation next, but Sun Bingchen's next sentence was beyond Yan Liqiang's expectations.
"Everyone has their own secrets and things that they don't want everyone to know, if someone asks you in the future, you can say that I already know your bow cultivation before, so that you can become my personal attendant, no need to make any other explanations, it is estimated that many guards outside now, even including Yijie, all think so, if someone is still curious, you let him ask me!"
Sun Bingchen's words directly made Yan Liqiang stunned, he originally wanted to fool the past casually, believe it or not, but at this time, hearing Sun Bingchen say this, Yan Liqiang smiled bitterly, and could only tell Sun Bingchen the truth, " Please forgive me, my archery cultivation was not intended to be hidden from adults before, I just don't want to be too eye-catching, after all, a fifteen-year-old boy has already advanced to the archery triple heaven advancement, and it is really a bit shocking to put it in a place like Pingxi City in Ganzhou, I don't have enough experience, and I don't have any background at home, so I haven't exposed my archery cultivation to others, and even my father doesn't know it until now!"
Sun Bingchen nodded, touched his beard, and looked at Yan Liqiang with appreciation, "I don't know when you found out that you have the talent for archery cultivation, but have you been instructed by a famous teacher?"
"Since the first time I touched the bow and archery, I found that I seem to be a little different from others, others have to practice archery for a long time to find the feeling, and my first archery feels so simple, the arrow that shoots out, just like with their own heart, it is easy to shoot the target, until now, I am practicing alone, without the guidance of a famous teacher......" Yan Liqiang did not say that he only started to learn archery half a year ago, but used a vague statement, the so-called first time to touch the bow and shoot arrows, can be seven years old, can be ten years old, Yan Liqiang feels that it is easy for people to accept a little bit of this, otherwise it is too demonic, it may not be a good thing for himself.
Sun Bingchen sighed, "At the age of fifteen, he bowed to the triple heaven, a person like Liqiang, not only in Ganzhou, even in Dijing, is also a unique bow cultivation genius in ten thousand, what is even more rare is that Liqiang You are cautious, and you also know that Taoguang is obscure, it seems that I am indeed not wrong, you return to Dijing with me this time, I will definitely ensure that you have a bright future in the future!"
"Thank you, sir!"
"When you met the Black Wind Thief just now, you were still too impulsive, and you were in danger several times, remember what I said to you, you just need to protect yourself!"
"Yes!"
"Okay, go down, you have a good rest tonight, you don't have to participate in the night watch, I have already let Yijie order to go down......"
Yan Liqiang saluted Sun Bingchen, then stood up and walked towards the door, when he walked to the door, Yan Liqiang gritted his teeth, and finally couldn't help it, stopped all of a sudden, turned his head, and asked Sun Bingchen a question, "My lord, so many guards died today, just to escort Ye Tiancheng, a person who should have been beheaded a long time ago, to the imperial capital, is it worth it?"
Sun Bingchen was slightly silent for two seconds, "Those guards must have the consciousness of being loyal to the country on the day they join the army, they are now loyal to the country, if one day, I need to repay the country with death, I will not back down!"
"I understand!" Yan Liqiang sighed in his heart, then pushed open the door and walked out.
Sun Bingchen watched Yan Liqiang leave, sat quietly in the room with his eyes closed for a while, and with one hand, he couldn't help but touch the mirror bag that he carefully hid in his arms, and remembered the sentence on the mirror bag.
——A young man in the northwest who dares to swallow the sky with two mouths!
If Sun Bingchen was still a little skeptical before, but Yan Liqiang's performance today made him more and more inclined to his previous judgment, Yan Liqiang was that person......