Chapter 17: Caravans
Taicang Mountain Road, across the entire Taicang Mountain, connecting Fengye City and Dayue City, is a very famous trade road in the whole Mingfeng country, in the past hundred years, countless merchants in the two cities are relying on this trade road to travel between the two main cities, creating rich wealth, and even relying on this trade road, so that a declining small family has become the head of the three major families of Fengye City.
Of course, this trade route also attracted a lot of bandits because of the wealth it created, and the major families of the two main cities carried out countless encirclements and suppressions, but they were like weeds, always inexhaustible, and even in the end, the major families were just for show.
Bai Shi is now the sixth layer of the day after tomorrow, and basically as long as he doesn't encounter the bandits of the Yuanmang level, there is no chance of an accident. He'd been on the trail for a day, but he hadn't touched anything. After a day with the little beast Yiyi, his understanding of the little guy has deepened. This little guy has a mysterious fascination with spiritual fruits and the like with abundant aura, but when Bai Shi took out a third-level Dan core, the snow-white little beast pounced almost instantly, holding the Dan core and sucking it like an eggshell before. The little beast ate Bai Shi's five third-level Dan cores on the first day, making Bai Shi sigh if he had picked up a snack item.
At this time, night fell, and it was pouring rain, and Bai Shi took Yi Yi to find a cave to avoid the rain. After a day of running, Bai Shi also became hungry, he took out the thigh of a blood-toothed pig he had killed in the morning, and roasted it on the bonfire, and soon it wafted out an attractive aroma, which made Bai Shi's index finger move. The small nose of the snow-white beast moved slightly, it was the first time to smell the strong fragrance of meat, and the Dan core that was sucking in its hand was thrown away by it with a click, and its fluffy little body suddenly lay on the leg of the fierce pig.
It seems to be trying to suck a pig's leg like a pill core, but it turns out that the pig's leg moves slightly, and Bai Shi has long understood that Yiyi can only eat things with aura by sucking, but ordinary meat is impossible.
Its big black eyes stared pitifully at Bai Shi, as if it was complaining about why it couldn't eat meat.
"Hahaha, this kind of thing, wait until you have teeth. ”
"Babble. ”
The little beast cried out dissatisfied, lying on Bai Shi's shoulder, covering his big eyes tightly with his two little paws, as if he was afraid that he would be tempted by the pig's leg, which made Bai Shi laugh.
After dinner, Bai Shi cleaned up and began to practice again, at this time, the effect of the fifth-level Dan Core on him was already very small, and it was not as much as the aura that he directly absorbed by meditating normally.
It didn't take long for Bai Shi to usher in a group of uninvited guests. Six men and one woman, the woman sitting in a carriage, seemed to be the highest of all the people. This woman has a graceful figure, bumpy and shapely, but unfortunately she wears a veil and can't see her appearance clearly, but no matter how you look at it, you will feel that she should be extremely beautiful. Except for this woman, everyone else was of different ages, a man in a gorgeous costume, in his early twenties, with a haughty expression towards everyone, but all kinds of courtesy to the masked woman. The other two men are middle-aged men who look like they are all five big and three thick, and their eyes are quite fierce, and the last two are two old men, whose dry eyes flash a fine light from time to time, and they are advanced martial arts at a glance.
As soon as the six of them entered the cave, they were a little surprised to find someone, but the woman said with a smile: "It turns out that this place has been occupied by the little brother, but it is raining too much outside, how about we take shelter from the rain here?"
The sound is crisp and pleasant, like a silver bell.
Bai Shi didn't say much, people will always encounter inconveniences when walking outside, he is not the kind of unreasonable person, he nodded towards the woman, signaling them to be casual.
"Then thank you, little brother. ”
The rest of the people also smiled at him, only the man in fancy clothes looked disdainful and snorted coldly, as if he felt that he was already worthy of him if he didn't throw Bai Shi out.
At this time, the little beast, which had already fallen asleep, was woken up by this noise, muttered dissatisfiedly, opened its big black eyes, and looked at everyone pitifully.
"Ah, what a cute little beast, is this your pet? ”
Yiyi's cute and innocent appearance is obviously extremely easy to win the affection of women, who can barely take their eyes off it.
"Beast pet, no, it's my partner, don't look at it like this, but it's a big stomach, you can definitely eat me. ”
The woman stretched out her hand to hug Yiyi, but she didn't want Yiyi to see so many people for the first time, and the snow-white little thing slipped into Bai Shi's clothes, and after a while, her hairy little head poked out of the placket and looked at the woman miserably.
The woman's love was almost overflowing, and she took out a fruit and put it in her hand, tempting the little one, but Iyilian didn't see it.
"Yi Yi likes the spirit essence with aura, you can try it with another spirit fruit. ”
When Bai Shi saw this scene, he couldn't help but remind.
When the woman heard this, she didn't think about it and took out a cyan strange fruit, and she knew that the quality was extraordinary at a glance, but this time the fluffy little thing made a cheerful cry, and it directly jumped into the woman's hand, picked up the spirit fruit and sucked it.
The woman couldn't wait to hold Yiyi in her arms, this time Yiyi didn't dodge, all its attention was focused on this spirit fruit at this time, and from time to time it let out a cry of satisfaction, the appearance was extremely cute, so that the woman couldn't put it down.
"Little brother, this little guy is called Yiyi, how about you sell it to me. ”
Bai Shi shook his head resolutely: "Yiyi is not my beast pet, he is my partner, and it is impossible to sell it." ”
"Well, well. ”
The woman's tone was filled with infinite pity, but she didn't force it anymore. But the young man who had been observing his words and expressions on the side, with an arrogant tone, said abruptly: "Miss Qin, it's good that we didn't drive this poor boy out, what is it to take him as a spirit beast." ”
He walked up to Bai Shi and looked at him condescendingly, with a natural sense of superiority, and asked, "Do you have any opinions?" Saying that, he was still running the exercises, and the yuan force was agitated, and a momentum of the fifth layer of the day after tomorrow pressed down towards Bai Shi.
Bai Shi didn't even raise his eyelids, and directly ignored the momentum of this person's "master", he felt that talking to such a guy was an insult to him.
"Young Master Liao, please don't do this, you make it difficult for me to be a man like this. The woman surnamed Qin seemed to be very angry at the man's words and deeds, and she said angrily.
Seeing that the woman was angry, the man's expression suddenly became unnatural, and he snorted at Bai Shi Leng and walked away alone.
"Little brother is really embarrassed, he is not from my caravan, and I can't restrain him. The woman was apologetic.
Bai Shi shook his head, indicating that he didn't care at all.
The two began to chat, and through the conversation between the two, Bai Shi also knew the identity of this group. They belong to a chamber of commerce called Tongbao Pavilion, and the woman's name is Qin Shiyin, who is a person in charge. The two middle-aged men were the guards of the caravan, and the two old men were the women's bodyguards, who were specially sent by the Chamber of Commerce to protect her. This time, they were responsible for pressing a batch of goods to go to Dayue City, and that man was a descendant of the Liao family in Fengye City, whose name was Liao Wuchen, and he was shocked when he first saw Qin Shiyin, and he followed him all the way.
"Oh, your name is Yiyi, and my name is Yinyin, I'm so fated. Qin Shiyin hugged the little guy and petted its little furry head.
The little thing's big eyes flickered, and he stretched out his little paws to point at himself, and then pointed at Qin Shiyin.
"You're saying your name is better, and she's not as good as you, aren't you?"
Bai Shi knew a lot about the little beast, and he could already guess what it wanted to express through its behavior.
"Babble. The little beast nodded its little head happily, and suddenly stretched out two little paws to cover its eyes, looking shy.
"Haha. Everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but laugh.
In the corner, there was a pair of resentful eyes watching everything on this side.
Liao Wuchen didn't like Bai Shi very much, especially when Bai Shi and Qin Shiyin were talking, his eyes flashed with viciousness, and he seemed to regard Qin Shiyin as a forbidden body, which no one could touch.
The night was dark, everyone was looking for a place to lie down and rest, and Yi Yi rubbed back into Bai Shi's arms, which made Qin Shiyin, who originally wanted to sleep with Yi Yi, look regretful. Next, there was no word for the night.
On the second day, the rain had long since stopped, the sky was cloudless, blue like a wash, and the fresh air made everyone feel refreshed in their hearts.
Since knowing that Bai Shi had the same destination as himself and was not a weak warrior, Qin Shiyin sent an invitation to Bai Shi and hired him to be the guard of the caravan until he arrived in Dayue City. Bai Shi thought about it for a moment and joined her team.
During this period, Liao Wuchen did not express any dissatisfaction, but there was a thick evil aura hidden in his eyes.
Because the caravan was escorting two large carts of goods, it was much slower than Bai Shi's usual footsteps, and Bai Shi estimated that there were still three days to go, and he didn't care, and while hurrying, he was caught in the speculation of martial arts. Recently, he had a vague feeling that he was about to master the fifth form of the Innate Mahamudra.
The little beast Yiyi was tempted by the spirit fruit and sat in the only carriage with Qin Shiyin. However, the little beast is very righteous, and from time to time it will run out to offer treasures, as if handing a spirit fruit to Bai Shi.
I have to say that the luck of this caravan was very good, and along the way, not to mention that the bandits did not even touch a single beast that stood in the way.
Night fell again, and the caravan camped a few dozen meters near a small river. After everyone had eaten dinner, they each found a place to rest, Bai Shi continued to meditate, seizing all the time to move towards the Yuanmang Steps, and the little beast Yiyi next to him sat obediently on the side, sucking the Dan core.
Although he fell into meditation, Bai Shi still maintained vigilance against the surrounding environment, after all, this is the Taicang Mountain Road, where bandits are rampant.
A figure flickered slightly, quietly left the caravan, and walked into the distance. Bai Shi judged by her graceful back that she was Qin Shiyin. Bai Shi didn't peek at other people's preferences, just watched for a while and stopped paying attention.
But at this moment, he noticed another figure moving lightly in the darkness, tiptoeing away with Qin Shiyin, it was Liao Wuchen!
Bai Shi thought about it, sighed softly, and made a "shhh" movement at the little beast, until he saw the little beast covering his small mouth with his paws, and he followed silently like a ghost.