After entering the city, Zhou Fang took the caravan to the merchants of Yuhua City to sell this batch of silk, as long as it was Central Plains silk, basically there was no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

After sending them to Yuhua City smoothly, Ning Xiaochuan and the others can be regarded as having finished the task of promising Elder Liu, and it has nothing to do with him whether the next batch of caravans is dead or alive.

Ning Xiaochuan and the four of them quietly left the caravan, and did not say goodbye to Zhou Fang, and those dart masters originally looked at them unpleasantly, so it was appropriate to go quietly like this.

It's just that I don't know how those dart masters will understand Ning Xiaochuan's and his party's farewell, they see it as ashamed and embarrassed, and leave on their own; Or is it regarded as rude and disrespectful?

For these, Ning Xiaochuan was too lazy to think about it, and walked to the west of the city accompanied by Yuan Haibei and the three of them.

Although the scale of Yuhua City is not large, although the sparrow is small, it is not bad at all here in the big city, the inn restaurant, storytelling, telling and fortune telling, selling constantly, and even there are hook fences and washe arches to and from the business travel to relax and play.

When you come to Beiban, if you want to go to the extreme north, you naturally can't rely on two legs, even if you are a martial artist, you can't stand such a back and forth, at this time, Ning Xiaochuan can't help but think of the night rain left by Yu Xining for himself, this trip is really inconvenient, otherwise he will take it.

Therefore, the first thing Ning Xiaochuan and the others did after coming to Yuhua City was to go to the horse market to buy horses.

The foundation of the Northern Barbarians is the nomadic people, as a nomadic people, nature and horses are inseparable, the Northern Barbarian cavalry is brave and good at fighting, the world knows, at the beginning of the founding of the country, because it is located in the Central Plains, there is no grassland to domesticate good horses, and then the cavalry of Dafeng is not a grade compared with the Northern Barbarian cavalry.

As long as you encounter the Northern Barbarian cavalry on the battlefield, the final result is a fiasco for Dafeng, until Dafeng took the Hexi grassland, there was a high-quality grassland, and the quality of the war horses improved, which pushed the Beiban back to the north of Sanguan.

Although the horses in the horse market in this Yuhua City are not as good as the war horses of the Northern Barbarian cavalry, they are still much better than the horses in Dafeng Horse City.

The owner of the horse market has never seen such a bold and atmospheric guest, not only sent a set of horse harness, but also intimately reminded them to be careful when going out of the city from the west, there is a tribe fifty miles west of the city, called the Twenty Tribe, this tribe is aggressive by nature, brave and abnormal, in order to meet the aggressive genes in their bodies, these Twenty people specially built a dueling arena in the tribe, which is called the Colosseum by the people.

These people not only like to fight within the clan, but also like to pull passers-by through their tribe to fight, sometimes even if they know that the other party is not a warrior, they will be forced to fight in the Colosseum, and these passers-by will either die or be maimed.

If you ask why the guards of Yuhua City don't care, it's because the young patriarch of the Twenty Clans is named Hui Lie, who is the personal guard of the Lord Murong Baoyu of Xilin Leg, and he is the right-hand man of the Young Lord Murong Zhuozhuo, with this background, who dares to provoke these Twenty Clansmen.

This is the second time Ning Xiaochuan has heard the name Murong Zhuozhuo, the last time he heard it was in Pingjiao Pass, the guard general Zhang Xingshan told him that Yan Ziyue's death was because of Murong Zhuozhuo, since it was the clan of Murong Zhuozhuo's capable generals, Ning Xiaochuan pondered slightly, and then showed a meaningful smile.

Nie Hongyi next to him had followed Ning Xiaochuan for so long, and he understood at a glance what his son-in-law wanted to do, and reminded with a slight frown, "Childe, we came to Beiban this time for the Twelve Kingdoms, and before coming, the second young master specially told us not to make extraneous branches, and we can avoid it if we can." ”

Yuan Haibei coughed and looked at Ning Xiaochuan with slanted eyes, as if he didn't quite believe Nie Hongyi's words, because he didn't think that this gentleman could do such a risky thing.

Lu Yi didn't say a word, he had a plan in his heart.

Ning Xiaochuan turned to look at Yuan Haibei, crossed his arms around his chest, and said with a smile, "General Yuan, as a general of the DPRK, do you think we should go to this Twenty Clan?" ”

Yuan Haibei frowned and said: "I am under the order of the Son of Heaven, follow you, protect you, if you really go, then I will give up my life to protect you." ”

"Don't don't, don't give up your life, Young Master Ben doesn't like to owe people things, especially his life." Ning Xiaochuan said disapprehantly, then turned over and got on the horse and tried it a little.

"It's not bad, rest here for two days, buy some dry food and water, and after two days, we will set off for Hanging Pot City."

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The next morning, after Zhou Fang contacted the merchants of the Northern Barbarians, he loaded a batch of gold, jade and animal bones, and after a simple rest for a day, he set off south.

This time the route back to Dafeng is not the same as when he came, this time Zhou Fang chose to go out of the city from the west of the city, and Zhou Fang, who has been following President Liu, made Liu Zisu very surprised, because they have already heard of the consumption tribe in the west of the city, why Zhou Fang still takes this road specially, isn't this a death?

Zhou Fang reluctantly explained, "Our car is full of gold and stones, these stones are all gold nuggets, jade, the slightest mistake will lose all the money, when you come, it is already very thrilling, who can guarantee that there will be no horse bandits in the way when you go back."

But walking from the west of the city is different, fifty miles away there are twenty tribes, although these tribes are aggressive, but not greedy for money, as long as you go up and fight with them, no matter whether you win or lose, they will let you go, but the price of losing is a bit big.

The existence of this Twenty Tribes is a threat to the horse bandits, and their existence at least ensures that there are no horse bandits within fifty miles from Yuhua City to the Twenty Tribes, and if the situation is good, we can go around from the west to the bottom of the White Wolf River, and then return to Pingjiao Pass from there. ”

But if you can exchange a fight for the safety of a full car, the former is obviously better, but the Twenty Tribes are not vegetarians, and it is still unknown whether they can really win and get out at that time.

After listening to Zhou Fang's words, Liu Zisu couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he could only sigh helplessly, this trip to do business said that there was a lot of profit, but these profits were not piled up with corpses and blood?

Two days later, I don't know if it's a coincidence, even if Ning Xiaochuan and they have left early in the morning, they still bumped into the convoy of the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce at the city gate, and after meeting at the city gate, Zhou Fang still said politely, "Ning Xiashi, it's really a coincidence, we meet again." ”

Ning Xiaochuan ignored Zhou Fang, and rode away directly, Nie Hongyi behind him may think that Gongzi is too rude, and everyone understands the reason of reaching out and not hitting a smiling person, but Ning Xiaochuan's behavior undoubtedly gave Zhou Fang an embarrassment, Nie Hongyi hurriedly bowed his head, and caught Zhou Fang's face that was about to fall to the ground.

Seeing the four people in front of him passing by, Liu Zisu, who had been watching Ning Xiaochuan unhappy, was even more unhappy, and walked forward angrily and said, "Uncle Zhou, this kid is too rude, wait until I catch up with him to help you get an explanation." ”

Zhou Fang's face was dark, he shook his head lightly, and said with a light smile, "This kid is a smart person, my old face is not valuable, if you can exchange this old face for your peace, what does it matter if you don't want this face, this kid is very shrewd, and he won't even give me a chance to pull down my face." ”

After pondering for a moment, Liu Zisu suddenly understood what Zhou Fang meant, and then left with his hands.

On the way out of the city, Ning Xiaochuan galloped all the way, and did not stop until he crossed the yellow sand dunes, the jujube red horse under his crotch was panting, Ning Xiaochuan turned around and looked back, and asked, "They didn't chase after them, did they?" ”

"No, Childe." Nie Hongyi replied.

At this time, Yuan Haibei, who had not spoken much, spoke, "Lord Ning, as the former attendant of the Great Bong Rite Department, was your behavior a little too rude just now?"

How can Zhou Fang say that he is also the second shopkeeper of the Chamber of Commerce, and even more an old man, he has been so polite to you, but you don't care about people's faces, turn around and leave, how can you be worthy of the four words of the state of etiquette, and how can you be worthy of the official uniform on your previous body. ”

After listening to Yuan Haibei's words, Nie Hongyi next to him directly put his sword on Yuan Haibei's shoulder, "General Yuan, it's best for you to speak politely......"

"What are you doing, what are you doing...... Ning Xiaochuan frowned and removed the long sword in Nie Hongyi's hand, and sighed, "It's not good, if you have something to say, General Yuan, I'm not afraid of you saying this, I'm afraid that you won't say it, hold it in your heart, and stab me with a black knife in the end." ”

"You know I'm going to question you like that, and you're still saying that?" Yuan Haibei was even more puzzled.

At this moment, a loud eagle roar sounded, it was the eagle raised by Yuan Haibei, who had been quietly following them these days, perhaps because he saw his master being held to his throat with a sword, and the protector was anxious, and roared out directly.

Ning Xiaochuan looked up at the winged eagle and said with a light smile, "You have been in Yindu for a long time, this river and lake is not as good as the court and the people, the rivers and lakes are more righteous, the so-called chivalrous drinking and meeting friends, what will be a meeting is righteousness, a glass of wine, a brother, lift you high and immerse you."

In this kind of righteousness in the rivers and lakes, I don't deny that the rivers and lakes have great righteousness, but I also don't deny that there are many villains in the rivers and lakes, if I just greeted Zhou Fang with a smile, it would be tantamount to accepting his righteousness.

Even if I didn't make a move on the way here, he also knew that our group was not weak, and with their current strength, it was still a bit risky to reach the Pingja Pass safely, but if we helped, it would be different. ”

"I said, Zhou Fang has been ignoring us before, why did he suddenly say hello to Gongzi, it turned out that he wanted to accompany us." Nie Hongyi said in hindsight.

"Use a sentence or two of kindness to deceive the righteousness in your heart, although this kind of self-depreciation behavior will seem very humiliating in the eyes of others, but don't forget, they are not martial arts people after all, they are businessmen.

Compared with the two trucks of goods and a cheek, it is not difficult to choose, but we are different, for the sake of the so-called righteousness, we have to be their bodyguards for free, do you think this is fair to us?

This kind of thing will be done by those chivalrous men who draw their swords to help each other when they see unevenness, and those who walk the rivers and lakes and are free and uninhibited will do it, but I would rather not Yan, I would rather enter the rivers and lakes and get out of the rivers and lakes, the so-called rivers and lakes, but the heart of people. ”

Ning Xiaochuan's words were loud, and Yuan Haibei next to him was stunned.

"General Yuan, now know why I chose to ignore Zhou Fang, only if you are unrighteous, you will not be kidnapped by the so-called righteousness of the rivers and lakes, you can blame me for my faux pas, but if I do it again, I will still choose so." Ning Xiaochuan smiled softly, and his words came into Yuan Haibei's ears with the trembling sound of yellow sand.

Yuan Haibei looked up at this former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and for the first time felt that this waiter of the Ministry of Rites might not be as simple as he saw.