Chapter Eighty-Four: Blocking the Road
"Squeak, squeak—" In the long convoy, on a storage carriage pulled by two healthy horses, a tall and handsome young man was lying on the roof of the carriage, his eyes slightly closed, enjoying the fresh morning air.
Through his perception, Ye Yu knew that the goods covered in the tarpaulin under him turned out to be boxes of precious medicinal materials. It seems that the owner of this caravan should be a medicinal herb merchant. However, this is not necessarily, just as some bards work part-time to beg for food, and many merchants who sell goods deal in more than one type of goods. Medicinal herb merchants, sometimes they may make a cameo appearance as a grain merchant, and a grain merchant may occasionally make a cameo appearance as a medicinal herb merchant. This mostly depends on your own capital and the market situation.
This kind of low-cost walking merchant wanders between the freedmen and the cheap little nobles all the year round, relying on their own price advantage to earn some difference. Being hostile to those formal trading houses, and at the same time befriending the local noble lords and related officials, it is natural that you will inevitably suffer some white eyes and even cynicism. It can't be helped, this is the difficulty of life, and this record is only exchanged for a slightly higher income than the average free man.
Walking merchants are a profession that has been formed almost tens of thousands of years ago, and has a longer history than formal trading houses. After all, at the beginning of history, due to the limitation of productive forces, the purchasing power of human beings was still very limited. And because they have to be on the road for a long time, usually this kind of walking merchant lives in a caravan with his family, and he is powerful with these mercenaries all year round. Life is also not easy.
Of course, not all walking merchants are disgusted with this kind of life. Some businessmen who run a good business can also make a lot of money from it. And from the bottom of his heart, Ye Yu is still very eager for this kind of wandering and free life!
I remember my grandfather, the middle-aged man who was fat and always had a smile on his face, and he was an optimistic and interesting walking businessman.
Ye Yu couldn't even remember his name, only in that limited and vague memory, he remembered that a fat middle-aged man always dragged a tall, thin, and pale woman to visit the Baron's Mansion in late autumn. At that time, it should be the happiest time for me, the fat middle-aged man, always playing with some strange gadgets to amuse himself. The blurred face in the memory seems to be forever sad.
The mother hugged herself, gossiping with the sickly-looking woman on the side, sometimes smiling and laughing, sometimes crying secretly. Later, when he was a little older, he realized that the woman was his grandmother. Ye Yu often asked her mother why she was crying, but her mother just said that she was the most cherished person! In my memory, the woman died within a few years! Later, he never saw the fat figure again. I vaguely heard that he seemed to have had an accident outside.
Her mother was born as a merchant girl, and in terms of status, she couldn't marry her father. It was only when he was a child that his grandfather's family was kind to him, and his father and mother really loved each other, so they finally formed this marriage. If not, you don't have yourself. Every time he listened to Xi'er's sister tell this story in detail, it was always hard for him to imagine that the weak mother in his memory was once a merchant girl.
He didn't understand, no matter what his father said, he was also the lord of a town, and arranging the life of his grandfather's family should be a matter of effort! But in my memory, the optimistic fat grandfather has never settled in Qingshui Town. I don't know if it's because of my father, or the walking merchant who is closest to me, I really like this feeling of being on the road.
Although the cargo is large, it is not heavy at all. The light carriage was pulled by two healthy horses, slowly moving forward, leaving a beautiful scenery in the endless field. …,
With the passage of time, Ye Yu has been able to faintly flip through the bits and pieces of those memories, and every time he thinks of this, he can't help but moisten the corners of his eyes. There are some things that can't be touched, and there are some things that always make people cry when they touch them. If he had a choice, he would rather throw away everything, life, money, and even his martial arts cultivation in exchange for even one day of life in his memory. The Baron's Palace, and those of their own relatives!
As soon as he thought of this, Ye Yu's fists clenched unconsciously!
At this time, a hurried sound of horses' hooves suddenly interrupted Ye Yu's thoughts.
"There's someone over there!" In the caravan, the sniper standing on top of another carriage suddenly shouted. Ye Yushun looked at it, and saw that in a bush not far away, two black-robed figures were slowly walking towards this side. It seems that it has been ambushed here for a long time!
"Stop! This is a caravan heading to Donglin Town, don't get close to outsiders! The convoy was immediately alerted, and four or five adventurers on horses instantly protected this side of the caravan, and the snipers who were high above also instantly focused on the heads of the people who came!
The visitor did not answer, but still walked slowly this way!
"Interesting!" Ye Yu's expression was indifferent, and he recognized those two people at a glance, who were the same killers of the Shadow Group as him. And the purpose of their visit, he can also guess a thing or two, either to search for the whereabouts of Na Xia Ming, or to extort some money, or both.
"Stop, we'll shoot any further! We are the guards of the caravan, and we have the right to shoot those who approach without permission, and when the time comes, we can kill them or bury them! Captain Lehman's thick warning voice resounded throughout the caravan. Hearing this, those adventurers also unanimously pulled the bolt. In the open field, the sound of "click" rises and falls, and it is endless. The warning is very strong.
At this point, the two men finally stopped. Captain Lehman also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, if he can, he will not kill, although he is not a kind person, he is not a person who loves to kill. What's more, after all, these are two lives, although in this wilderness, there are not necessarily good people, but who knows if there is any backstage behind them! If one accidentally provokes something big, then you don't have to mix in this piece in the future!
"We're going to search the convoy!" At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came, it was one of the two black-robed people.
"Fuck you!"
"What do you think you are, military police! Search if you want, search if you want! Roll the calves! ”
"Head, shoot these two things that don't know how thick they are!"
"Kill them!"
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For a while, above the caravan, the sound of resentment and cursing came and went. The quality of these adventurers is not very high, and most of them are irritable, how can they put up with the noise of these two people. In their opinion, no matter how strong these two people are, they are just two people after all. There are many people on his side, and there are so many guns, crossfire, even if those two guys can fly, they will already be beaten into a sieve!