Three days later, the carriage was approaching the border between Xiliang Prefecture and Yangping Prefecture.

Along the way, the wind and waves were calm, rushing during the day, looking for an inn to rest at night, Chenfeng and the others and the driver of the car gradually became acquainted, and heard a lot of common sense and anecdotes from the other party's mouth.

The coachman is a spirited and bearded old man, over half a hundred years old, always with a kind smile on his face, always likes to hum some strange songs in his spare time, and will tell some jokes and interesting things to amuse Chenfeng and others.

"It's about to go to the border!"

When the carriage drove into a desert without people, the coachman suddenly reminded him, and there was a serious meaning in his voice, which was a little different from his usual image, so the morning breeze and others who were talking and laughing in the car quieted down one after another.

After a while, seeing that the coachman was gone, Chenfeng poked his head out and asked with some doubts: "Uncle, don't you have any explanation?"

The coachman glanced back at the questioning morning breeze, squeezed out a reluctant smile, took off the cigarette stick on his waist and took a sip, and then replied in a low voice: "It's not true, it's just that the eighteen states of the Great Zhou have always been loners and occupy the king's land, not so harmonious, in the words of you scholars...... What's it called?"

"Divide the territory?" the morning breeze paused for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he still understood what the coachman meant.

The coachman nodded slowly, and said no more.

The morning breeze on the car, including Bai Zhuo Huying and others, was a little shocked, and they couldn't seem to understand how the prosperous Great Zhou could be controlled by the eighteen princes, didn't it say that the strength of the Great Zhou was terrifying and abnormal, why did it feel a little hollowed out according to the coachman's statement?

After thinking about it, Chenfeng still didn't know what was going on, looking at the coachman's weather-beaten side face through the eye circles, Chenfeng hesitated again and again and asked directly: "Uncle, why is this happening, Da Zhou doesn't care?"

"Why should you care?" the benefits are indispensable, and it can also save manpower and material resources, so why should you care?" the coachman smiled self-deprecatingly, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be a little deeper.

"Huh?"

Morrowind was about to ask something more, but was interrupted by a soft sigh from the coachman. Looking along the coachman's line of sight, there was boundless barrenness in front of him, left and right, and he secretly wondered in his heart if this old man was playing tricks on himself and others again.

"Sit inside, don't come out later. Unexpectedly, the coachman was solemn, and the expression on his face was extremely serious.

Chenfeng sat back in the car and looked at Bai Zhuo, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the driver's gourd. Could it be that he and the others have seen the wrong eye, and that the coachman is about to show his fangs when he arrives in this deserted land with bad intentions? Or is there really a crisis?

Chenfeng's mind turned sharply, thanks to the solitary experience in Canglan Mountain, he instantly thought of many possibilities, and how to deal with it later, etc., some flustered hearts quickly calmed down, and whispered to Bai Zhuo Huying and the others not to act rashly, and to act when the opportunity comes.

The carriage moved silently for about half a column of incense and then suddenly stopped, except for the whistling wind, there was no movement, and the scene was a little strangely quiet.

"Uncle, can you make it convenient, just take me to Mingyuan City, and there will be a great reward for great kindness in the future!"

Just as Chenfeng was about to lift the curtain to find out, a crisp female voice suddenly came to mind outside, with earnest words and pleading tones. Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo glanced at each other, and for some reason, they felt that this voice was somewhat familiar.

"I'm sorry, girl, the old man's frame is employed, not to mention whether a few guests are willing or not, even if they do, there is no extra place in the car. The coachman refused the woman's request, but he told the truth and did not deceive him in any way.

"I can drive with you, uncle!"

The woman prayed again, and there was a sudden cry in her voice, which made the unknown Chenfeng and the others in the car even more confused.

"Please also ask my husband to save me, the little woman was killed by a traitor, and escaped all the way to this point, without any water and dry food on her body, if she can't leave this place in time, I'm afraid she won't be able to survive today. ”

As if seeing the hesitation on the coachman's face, the woman hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and gave a general explanation of her origin and leaving the country.

Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo are okay, just like the old coachman, they are still weighing the pros and cons, when Hu Ying and Yao Ling'er heard this, they immediately felt empathy, and their faces were filled with righteous indignation, if it weren't for the fact that Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo were still thinking, it is estimated that they would not have been able to sit still.

"Uncle, can I come out and have a look?"

The coachman, in line with the principle that more is better than less, was about to reject the woman, when there was a sudden inquiry from the morning breeze in the car, and he hesitated for a moment before turning his head and whispering: "Little brother, be careful, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs." ”

The woman saw that she couldn't impress the coachman no matter what, and there was no movement in the car, and it was probably a hard-hearted task, so she had a look of disappointment on her face that could not be concealed. At this time, when I heard the sound of the morning breeze coming from the car, I couldn't help but feel hope again.

"Uh......" When he got out of the carriage and sat side by side with the coachman, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, not for anything else, this woman was none other than the girl who had sold a hundred years of gold and silver leaves that she met in the trading hall a few days ago, no wonder she was a little familiar just by listening to the voice.

"It's just that why is she here? She also said that she was killed by a traitor, didn't she follow Master Yan away? Could it be that ......" The expression on Chenfeng's face changed, and he gradually had a rough judgment on this matter in his heart.

Seeing that the morning breeze came out and stared at the woman without saying a word, and her face was strange, the coachman and the woman were a little inexplicable. Judging from the past few days of getting along, the coachman knew that Morrowind was not the kind of person who had no sense of proportion, let alone a prodigal son, why couldn't he move when he saw someone? The woman thought about it repeatedly, and finally confirmed that she had indeed not seen Morrowind before.

Morrowind reacted, noticed the strange expressions of the coachman and the woman, and knew that he was a little out of shape, so he turned his head to the carriage and muttered, "Crow's mouth, come and see." ”

Bai Zhuo in the car immediately pricked up his ears after the morning breeze went out, and when he saw that the morning breeze went out, there was no movement and couldn't help but be on guard, in case something unpredictable happened outside, he would be the first to burst into trouble, but unexpectedly waited for the words of the morning breeze, and didn't care about arguing with the morning breeze, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to look out.

After the curtain of the car was lifted, Bai Zhuo, Hu Ying and Yao Ling'er in the car all saw the woman standing in front of the car, although she was in rags and had many scars on her body at the moment, they still recognized each other at first sight.

"Is that you?" Bai Zhuo blurted out.

Now the woman was even more shocked? After confirming that she had never seen the other party, a faint bitterness appeared in her heart, could it be that she was the traitor's accomplice? Could it really be that the heavens are going to kill me?

Seeing the woman's calm appearance, and then in connection with the other party's words just now, Bai Zhuo couldn't think that the other party was thinking about it, so he explained: "That's the ......"

At that moment, Bai Zhuo roughly told what a few people saw and heard in the trading workshop, and the coachman suddenly realized, not to mention the woman, who was naturally relieved.

"The little woman Zhou Shutong is a person from Xiliang Zhou. The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water, all dynasties have been in the periphery of Canglan Mountain to find some herbs, low-level demon beasts and other materials for a living, an accident grandfather was seriously injured, for this father went to the depths of Canglan Mountain alone, nine deaths, by chance to get the hundred years of gold and silver leaf ......"

Next, perhaps in order to win the trust of others, the woman who called herself Zhou Shutong also roughly talked about her life experience and her experience after being taken away by Master Yan, and heard Chenfeng and others have a chill down their spines, and they can't help but think of the coachman's sentence "Knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing their hearts"

It turned out that the reason why Master Yan was willing to go with Zhou Shutong was not that he was willing to use gold and silver leaves as a alchemy to cure Zhou Shutong's father, but because he wanted to empty the white wolf.

When Master Yan came to Zhou Shutong's house, he saw that Zhou Shutong's father was in a very poor condition and could not be cured by himself, so he left with apologies. This is understandable, but who expected that on the same night, a group of masked thieves came to the door, not only snatched the gold and silver leaves, but also brutally killed all the women and children of the Zhou family, a total of 134 people, and the end was miserable.

Zhou Shutong escaped by luck under the cover of the clansmen's swear, but she also encountered the endless encirclement and interception of the other party, and when she arrived here, she was already exhausted of ammunition and food, if it wasn't for the morning breeze and others, she was afraid that she would really not be able to survive today.

After hearing this, the coachman couldn't help but sigh, and sighed that people die for money, and birds die for food. And Chenfeng and the others are palpitating, although this world is not as dangerous as in Canglan Mountain, but secretly they can't bear to look at it directly, and the danger level is no lower than that of Canglan Mountain.

Hu Ying and Yao Ling'er took Zhou Shutong to the carriage to change clothes, and Chenfeng, Bai Zhuo and the coachman walked side by side in front. The coachman led the horse with one hand and touched his cheek with the vicissitudes of life with the other, seeing that Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo seemed to be in a heavy mood, he changed back to his previous gentle smile, and quipped: "What, scared?"

Chenfeng shook his head slowly, and said in a low voice: "I'm so scared, I'm just a little emotional, for a hundred-year-old honeysuckle, how can it be so cruel, one hundred and thirty-four lives!"

The old coachman couldn't deny the emotion of the morning breeze, looked at the boundless desolation around him, and said: "Being able to have compassion cannot be said to be a bad thing, but it is definitely not a good thing. Heaven and earth are unkind, all things compete, and the fittest survive. Of course, rules are the bottom line of the protection of the weak, but they are not shackles, and how can they be the free boundaries of the strong?"

Morrowind and Bai Zhuo were a little stunned, not only because of the truth contained in these words, but also because these words came from the mouth of a coachman, was he really just an ordinary coachman?

The coachman led the carriage alone and continued to walk forward, and Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo stayed where they were, looking at each other, and they both saw a deep shock in each other's eyes. Thinking of the previous thing that the coachman reminded himself and others, he couldn't help but be afraid, if the coachman really saw Zhou Shutong from such a distance, then his strength can be imagined, at least not what they can deal with now.

"This world is really ......."

After thinking about the twists and turns, Bai Zhuo, who prides himself on being resourceful in the demon clan, only feels that he is as simple as a blank piece of paper, and he can't help but feel a little emotional.

"It's hard to walk, and there are many divergent paths. Uncle Lian once said that cultivation is to act against the sky, so let's pay more attention to potential dangers in the future, and we can't go back now, I can't pull this face. ”

Although Chenfeng's heart was also extremely heavy, he still said the same thing to Bai Zhuo.

When Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo caught up with the coachman, the coachman was still the same ordinary appearance, and he couldn't see any clues. After walking in silence for a long time, Chenfeng hesitated again and again and couldn't help asking: "Uncle, according to what you said, how can you have a clear conscience in this world?"

Bai Zhuo on the side also pricked up his ears, and what Chenfeng asked was exactly what he had doubts after carefully thinking about the coachman's words.

The coachman looked at the morning breeze and smiled slightly, a little meaningful, and then blurted out without thinking

"People's hearts!"

Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo glanced at each other again, not knowing whether this answer was a little unexpected, or even more confused about the identity of the old coachman, both of them frowned.

In the next few days, through the observation of Chenfeng and Bai Zhuo, it was confirmed that Zhou Shutong did not have anything suspicious, and he temporarily accepted Zhou Shutong, and the group quickly headed towards the border passes of Xiliangzhou and Yangping Prefecture.