Section 24 - Encountering bandits
Leaving Xiyan Town, all the way to the east, the grass and trees gradually thinned, the gravel covered the long loess, and the air was a little hotter. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In addition to the Kunlun Demon Domain, the northern border of the Dawu Dynasty and the Fengxuan Kingdom under the rule of the Rong people is a Gobi Desert that stretches for more than a thousand miles, and between the two is an important trade route between the two countries.
The dry and sultry Gobi Desert winds blow into the northern border of the Dawu Dynasty day after day, if it were not for the ripples of the water for dozens of miles next to the Jumo Lake, which is known as the emerald of the northern part of the country, Xiyan Town, which is located on the trade road, may also be the same desolate and arid appearance that is used in the north, with cracked ground, earthy yellow sand and stones, and flying dust in the sky are the constant themes.
A few unidentified weeds scattered haphazardly poked their heads out from under the stones, and two deep ruts stretched into the distance, barely telling that this was an official road.
The old cow dragged the cart unhurriedly and leisurely, and kept regurgitating and chewing in his mouth.
In the grass pile in the body, a young man in white sat with his knees crossed, his eyes slightly narrowed, as if he had woken up from sleep, and listened to the creaking of the wheels in the rocking.
Around his waist hung a delicately embroidered brocade bag, embroidered with colorful cloud snakes of the finest Shu brocade fabric from time to time slightly undulating, which seemed to contain living creatures.
The old man who drove the car wore a hat obliquely, holding a big whip as if he was drowsy, and let the old cow who knew the way drag the car body slowly forward.
There was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and the old man was startled, as if he had regained consciousness, and turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound of horses' hooves came.
The two horsemen rushed past the cart with sand and dust, and the knight on horseback looked at the ox cart by the way.
The tattered leather armor and sheepskin gland, the straight knife behind his back, the disheveled beard, and the three or four large bulging packages on the horse's back left and right, even as the horse galloped by, it still left a strong smell of the mixture of man and horse in the air.
"Phew!"
One of the knights suddenly grabbed the reins.
The horses beneath him neighed, slowed down and turned around towards the ox cart that was slowly rutting along the road.
"Big Green Tooth, what's wrong?"
The other knight followed and turned around.
"Anlu, don't you see a fat sheep?"
The knight who was the first to turn looked the ox cart up and down, especially the white-clothed man in the cart, with undisguised greed in his eyes.
Hearing the conversation between the two knights, the old man who was driving the car still couldn't understand at this moment, this was a bandit.
Looking at the other party's dress, it is clear that they are bandits who came out of the Gobi Desert to hunt wild food.
He rolled off the carriage with a bone, threw the whip aside, and shouted like throwing himself to the ground: "A good man spares his life! A good man spares his life! The little old man has this little asset, please take it from the hero, the little old man still has two grandsons to raise, please be pitiful!"
While lying on the ground and wailing miserably, he trembled and took out a small string of copper treasures from his arms.
This string of money is still the ride fee given by the son on the ox cart, I didn't want to collect it, but I couldn't stand it, so I had to accept it, but at this moment it was all the money on the old man.
The bandit knight pulled out the straight knife behind his back, and the angular blade waved at the old man who was kneeling on the ground, and said impatiently: "Get out of the way! Old thing, don't get in the way of our brothers getting rich!"
"Yes, yes, thank you, thank you!"
The old man who drove the cart got up as if he had been amnesty, and immediately fled into the distance as if he had lost his life, not even caring about his ox cart and the passengers in the car.
In this place where bandits are rampant, any strong move will bring death to himself, and the old man who drove the car did not hesitate to choose Mingzhe to protect himself.
An Lu, who followed the U-turn, looked around, for fear of seeing the figure of the officers and soldiers, and those sergeants never knew how to deal with robbers and bandits.
Under the grass and trees, although he didn't find anything in fear, he still said with some worry: "Da Qingya, let's hurry out of the customs, if we bump into the official army, it will be over!"
The old knife handle led thousands of horse bandits through the black wind outlet, and went south along the trade road, but in the process of sacking Xiyan Town, he lost his troops and lost his generals, and he could only flee in embarrassment in the face of the army of Zhichong Mansion that poured out of the nest.
Da Qingya and Anlu, who were improvised to do another job, were the horse bandits who escaped from Xiyan Town.
Since the government soldiers of Zhichong Province entered Xiyan Town, which was almost a ruin, they began to attack everywhere, sweeping and killing the fleeing horse bandits with all their might.
I don't know how many horse bandits with innocent blood on their hands have been decapitated, nitrated, and inserted into the top of a stake on the side of the road as a tribute.
The two horse bandits who narrowly escaped the slaughter were hiding everywhere looking for an opportunity to escape back to the Gobi Desert with the stolen gold, silver and jewelry, but they didn't expect to move their minds again in this wilderness.
"You coward, you're afraid of a ball, your head is off but the bowl has a big scar, it's not far from the pass, and if you make the last vote, you should pick it up." ”
The big green tooth that looked at the white-clothed "fat sheep" on the ox cart glared at his companion with disdain.
In these years, he tied his head to his waist, carried a knife, and did deadly work, which did not support the bold and starve the cowardly.
I really don't know how this melon coward became a horse bandit, and he is still alive until now.
"Okay, okay! After this ticket, I'll leave right away!"
After being constantly pursued and killed by the officials and soldiers of the Zhechong Mansion, the horse bandit Anlu, who was already a little noisy, immediately became a lot more courageous, choked and pulled out his straight knife, and yelled viciously at the young man in white who seemed to be stunned on the ox cart: "Who is that! If you don't want to die, hand over all the valuable things on your body! The knife in the uncle's hand is not vegetarian!"
In the end, it is professional, and once you let go of your worries, you will immediately become professional.
Da Qingya nodded with satisfaction, that's right!
The corners of Li Xiaobai's mouth twitched, he really had a relationship with horse bandits, as soon as he left Xiyan Town with his front foot, he met two more horse bandits with his back foot, and he had encountered horse bandits for the second time.
Riding the horse unhurriedly approaching the ox cart, the horse bandit Da Qingya waved the straight knife in his hand a few times, and threatened: "What are you hanging on your waist? Throw it over!"
His eyes fell on Li Xiaobai's right waist, the beautifully embroidered Shu brocade fabric pocket was estimated to be worth at least four or five yuan, and most of it contained valuable things.
Although Lord Zhichong Mansion, who occupied the Li family's mansion in Xiyan Town, did not return the house to its original owner, he compensated some silver coins and was packed in this Shu brocade pocket.
The horse bandit's eyes were very poisonous, and he caught it at a glance.
"Okay, okay!
Li Xiaobai had no choice but to untie the Shu brocade money bag tied around his waist, and he was inexplicably relieved in his heart.
was trying to clean up these two guys, but he didn't expect that there was a way in heaven that would not go and hell would not break in, and the greed of the other party made him unexpectedly save a lot of effort.
"Throw it here!"
The horse bandit Da Qingya, who was staring at the Shu brocade money bag, couldn't wait more and more.
The brocade bag made some crisp sounds in mid-air, and the greed in the eyes of the two horse bandits became even more intense.
Grabbing the flying Shu brocade bag, the horse bandit grinned with a big mouth full of yellow teeth and smiled with satisfaction.
The bag was very solid and heavy to hold, and it seemed to contain not only strings of copper coins, but also gold and silver of higher value.
Sure enough, it's a big fat sheep!
Big Green Tooth's eyes were almost gone.
"Big Green Tooth, what's in it?"
Another horse bandit, Anlu, rushed up in a chair.
According to the rules, the money in the pocket should be divided equally between the two.
"Haha, it's money! a lot of money, maybe gold and silver, I almost missed it!"
The horse bandit Da Qingya happily untied the vermilion silk rope that bound the mouth of the bag, and put his hand into the pocket.
I can't wait to die? IQ is a hard injury!
Li Xiaobai covered his face with his sleeves, and couldn't bear to look directly, but my son's silver money was so easy to take?
As soon as his hand was put into the mouth of the Shu brocade bag, Da Qingya suddenly felt an inexplicable pain in the tip of his index finger, and before he could react, his body quickly stiffened and he could no longer move.
Immediately afterwards, a blue-black color quickly spread down his hand, and the skin on his arms, neck, and even his face quickly changed color, and the whole person lost his breath on the spot.
The other horse bandit, Anlu, had no idea what had just happened to his companion, and still shouted with anticipation, "Big Green Fang, what's in it?"
However, Da Qingya still maintained his original posture and did not respond.
"Big green teeth! big green teeth?"
The other bandit, Anlu, had no idea what was happening to his companion, and he screamed twice before finally realizing that something was wrong.
Two steps closer, I looked closely, and gasped on the spot.
Da Qingya, who was still a good companion, still had a strange smile on his face at this time, and he still maintained the movement of groping into the brocade bag, but his whole body was blue and black, and he was already out of breath, and even the horses under him did not notice the abnormality.
Suddenly turned his gaze, glared at Li Xiaobai, pointed at the blade, and shouted, "You, what kind of demon magic did you use?"
The unclear death of Da Qingya made Anlu feel inexplicably afraid.
Li Xiaobai shrugged his shoulders and said calmly: "I am a human, not a demon, how can I know the demon law?"
An Lu was stunned, and he didn't have the heart to debate, he directly waved his knife and picked up the brocade bag in the hand of Da Qingya, who had been killed, to Li Xiaobai, and said in a rough voice: "Open this pocket and put your hand in!"
He guessed that there must be some vicious trap in this brocade bag, and if he touched it, he would die.
"Well, it's just money!"
Li Xiaobai reached out and grabbed the Shu brocade bag that was thrown, calmly put his hand into the bag, and easily touched out a string of treasures to govern the world, and there were no accidents during the period.
He put the string of yellow and clear copper coins back into the bag, and took out an official silver weighing about five taels, and then replaced it with a gold leaf, seeing that the horse bandit Anlu was dumbfounded, and his saliva was almost about to flow down, and the silver coins in the bag were worth at least 100 yuan.
There is no doubt that it is definitely a silver coin that is not deceived by children.
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