Qi Cheng glanced at the audience, there were only eight guards standing, and there were corpses lying on the ground.

"It's me who failed to protect everyone, and I can't help everyone!" Qi Cheng looked depressed.

"These thieves and robbers are ruthless, and they are ambushed in advance, Captain Qi, the brothers won't blame you!" Pili gasped and comforted with difficulty.

"Alas! Let's take a good rest, take care of the wounds on our bodies, and then we will dispose of the bodies of our brothers together. ”

After Qi Cheng finished speaking, he walked towards the Qi family sisters, and halfway through, he turned to look at Lin Jian again.

"Thank you Brother Han for saving your life!" Qi Cheng bowed deeply to Lin Blade, who arched his hand and began to clean up the battlefield.

Qi Jing sat paralyzed on the ground, stretching out her hand to comfort Qi Qian, but her eyes stayed on Lin Jian, confused, confused, surprised, and afraid.

With a pillar of incense, everyone has dug a big pit, covered up the dead guards, and set up a thick branch as a tomb.

After finishing the finished work, the people led the horses and continued on the road, and after walking some more distance, they rested on the spot.

More than half of the guards were killed, and only twelve of the caravan were left alive, three of whom were seriously wounded.

The new guards who joined the caravan were the only two left, Pi Li and Zhang Manliang.

Everyone's wounds had been bandaged, and they were sitting and resting, and no one went to chat with Lin Jian anymore.

Lin Jian was holding a thin yellow book and was fascinated, and when Pi Li ran to his side, he realized that he put the book on the placket of his clothes and asked, "Brother Li, is there something wrong?" ”

Pi Li looked a little panicked and impatient: "I'm only a few years older, I don't dare to call myself the eldest brother, Brother Han will call me by my name in the future." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Jian was a little puzzled.

Pi Li hurriedly waved his hand and replied: "I don't mean anything else, Brother Han is more capable than me, I don't dare to call myself big brother." ”

Lin Jian was a little speechless, "Say it!" What's the matter? ”

Pi Li scratched his head again: "It's nothing, I just can't hold it back, come and say thank you!" If you hadn't done it today, we would all have died here. ”

At this time, Qi Cheng also ran over, "Brother Han, with all due respect, with Brother Han's ability, even if he goes to Yue Country alone, he can be safe and sound, but why do you spend a lot of money to enter our caravan?" ”

Lin Jian shook his head and explained, "I'm not familiar with the terrain, and I'm not 100% sure of going alone. And your caravan must have the safest and shortest route. No matter how strong I am alone, I am weak after all, and it is much safer to join the caravan! ”

After speaking, seeing that the two of them still didn't leave, Lin Jian sighed: "Don't worry, my purpose is to go to Yue Kingdom, and I don't have any idea about the caravan, otherwise I won't bother to save you." As for my origin, you don't need to ask more, just know the origin I mentioned earlier! ”

After a pause, Lin Jian continued: "As for the caravan's affairs, I will not interfere, everything is as usual, as long as I arrive in the Yue Kingdom, I will be separated from you." ”

Qi Cheng thought about it, got up and said, "Today's matter, I still thank Brother Han for my brothers!" All the way back, if necessary, Brother Han must say! ”

Lin Jian waved his hand, Pi Li wanted to say something more, but was pulled away by Qi Cheng, and Lin Jian took out the yellow book and read it.

It's a big deal all the way back. Everyone respected Lin Jian very much, and basically except for Qi Jing and Pi Li, no one else talked to Lin Jian anymore.

Of course, at the beginning, only Qi Jing and Pi Li talked to Lin Jian, but at that time, others looked down on Lin Jian and felt that he was just a hairy boy who spent money to escape, and Pi Li looked for Lin Jian because Qi Cheng told him to look at Lin Jian.

Now everyone is in awe of Lin Jian, Pi Li is very respectful of Lin Jian, and Qi Jing no longer treats Lin Jian as a little brother.

Qi Jing pestered Lin Jian from time to time to ask him to tell him about the past, but Lin Jian was helpless, so he made something random to tell Qi Jing.

And most of the time, Lin Jian was studying the yellow book.

The book was found from the burly man, and there were also a dozen silver carts, which made Lin Jian rich again.

The Yellow Book is a book of martial arts secrets, called the Flowing Breath Sword Technique, through the past few days of research, Lin Jian found that the strange moves used by the burly man were learned from this book.

This book is a book of swordsmanship, and I don't know why the burly man still uses a big sword.

The swordsmanship of flowing breath pays attention to fast and smooth, the sword is like a snake, sticking to the opponent's weapon and waiting for the opportunity, and the sword must also be fast, instantly changing the direction of the attack, and instantly hurting the enemy.

Lin Jian read books and studied when he was in a hurry, and tested with a short gun when he was resting, and combined with his own characteristics, he also learned many moves.

The moon set, and in the blink of an eye, the caravan arrived in Hongjing City.

The caravan queues up with the pedestrians outside the city to enter the city, Hongjing City is located on the great plain of a horse and Pingchuan, because there is no shade of mountains and trees, the daily sunrise and sunset are very huge, so that people can see clearly, so it is named Hongjing City.

Hongjing City is located at the border of the Yue Kingdom, and it is also a fortress city, and the city wall is made of nearly two meters long bluestone, which is six zhang high.

The walls were guarded by a large number of guards, and the gates were iron, and there were many spikes cast on the gates, but too many of them were broken or bent.

The entire city wall is 100 zhang wide, and there is a moat 5 zhang wide in front of the city, which is not visible from end to end. There is a drawbridge over the moat, and only from this bridge can you enter the city.

At this time, the caravan and pedestrians were queuing up on the drawbridge to enter the city, Lin Jian walked to Qi Cheng's side and said: "Captain Qi, thank you for taking care of the caravan along the way, I will leave on my own after entering the city, let's go our separate ways, if we have a fate, we will meet again." ”

Qi Wei wanted to win Lin Jian to join Qi's cloth shop, but after saying this, Lin Jian's attitude had not changed in the slightest, so he had to give up.

"Brother Han, if you have any trouble, you must come to me, in this Hongjing City, my Qi clan cloth shop still has some prestige."

Lin Jian smiled and said, "Definitely, Captain Qi won't bother me when the time comes."

Qi Cheng frowned, and replied seriously: "How can it be troublesome, you and I are brothers in life and death all the way, if you encounter trouble, Qi will definitely do your best to help." ”

Lin Jian thanked him and turned around and walked back to the end of the caravan.

The reputation of Qi's cloth shop was really loud, Qi Cheng showed the signboard, and the city gate guards only checked it for a while, and then let him go.

After entering the city, Lin Jian returned the horses to the guards and stepped forward to say goodbye to Qi Cheng.

Qi Cheng sighed and patted him on the shoulder, but the leather force next to him kept talking. Lin Jian was helpless, turned around and waved his hand and left.

At this time, Qi Jing ran down from the carriage: "Little Brother Han, wait a minute!" ”

Lin Jian turned to look at her, Qi Jing ran to the front, and her tone was a little hurried: "Little Brother Han, if you are bullied, come to me, my grandfather is very powerful." ”

grabbed the corner of his clothes again, and twisted it slightly: "If you have nothing to do, you can also come to me, and I will take you to eat delicious food!" ”

Lin Jian scratched his head and smiled happily: "Okay, I'll go find you!" Let's go, I'm fine, take care! ”

"Wait!" Qi Jing hurriedly spoke, "Uncle Qi, you take twenty taels of silver to Junior Brother Han." ”

Lin Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and waved his hand again, "No, no, no, what do you want to do with my silver." ”

Qi Cheng took a bag of silver and handed it to Lin Jian: "Brother Han take it, it can be regarded as a thank you gift from Brother Han for saving the brothers." ”

"Little Brother Han, you take it!" Qi Jing stared at Lin Jian, "Don't starve to death, you still have to come to play with me." ”

Lin Jian stretched out his hand to take it, "Then thank you, farewell!" ”

turned around and blended into the flow of people, and disappeared in a flash, Qi Cheng saw that Qi Jing was still in a trance, so he reminded loudly: "Miss, the people are gone, we have to go back as soon as possible to report safety." ”

Qi Jing glared at him, turned around and ran back into the carriage.

After separating from the caravan, Lin Jian first went to have a meal and bought a topographical map of Hongjing City, and then found an inn to live in.

After sleeping until noon the next day, Lin Jian got up, stretched, sat at the table and studied the map for a while, and then went downstairs to the teahouse restaurant.

Two days later, Lin Jian learned about some recent events in Hongjing City.

Earlier, most of the spikes on the city gates seen outside the city were broken, because the Wu State had attacked Hongjing City, but at this time it had been recovered by the Yue Kingdom. At this time, the Vietnamese army was stationed 500 miles outside the city.

A major event is going to happen in Hongjing City recently, the head of the Qi family has a big birthday, many people come to congratulate him, and what makes Lin Jian happy is that some of the main generals of the Yue army also ran back to celebrate his birthday.

Through inquiry, he knew that the military advisor Zhang Mou didn't like to be lively, but he also returned to Hongjing City, just to be idle, and he had been closed all the time, and he was living in the city lord's mansion at this time, this news made Lin Jian ponder for a long time, and he had a rough plan in his heart.

There are eight days, the Qi family's birthday banquet will be held in the Hongke restaurant in the center of Hongjing City, the Qi family only entertains VIPs in the Hongke restaurant, and next to the restaurant, it is a hundred tables of flowing water banquet, no matter who goes, as long as they go to celebrate a birthday, they can eat a full meal at the flowing water banquet.

The birthday banquet was held for two consecutive days, and now everyone in the city is talking about the Qi family's generosity.

During the day, in addition to inquiring about more detailed information, Lin Jian slept in the inn. But in the middle of the night, he put on a night suit and went to the city lord's mansion to inspect the terrain.

Sometimes, you can hear some useful news from the small talk of the guards of the Castle Lord's Mansion.

For example, the lord of the city likes to drink flower wine, and he returns drunk every night, and the general advocates force, and every morning he will run to the martial arts training ground, and stay all morning. In the afternoon, I will go to the restaurant to hide my injuries and have a drink with those people in the rivers and lakes.

Every time he passed, Lin Jian was like a gecko lying on the eaves. Once Lin Jian stepped on a loose tile, and the guards heard it and shouted, "Who? Who's where? What do you want to do on the sly?"

Lin Jian hurriedly slid down the eaves and slipped away, fortunately hiding on the roof, otherwise he would have been found and surrounded by the guards.

On the fourth night before the birthday banquet, Lin Jian went to check the terrain in the backyard of the city government, and it happened that two guards came to patrol the backyard, so Lin Jian hurriedly hid.

As soon as I listened, I heard a guard whisper: "There are few people in this broken backyard." ”

Another voice replied, "No way, the military advisor lives here, and his safety must be guaranteed." ”

"What is there to guarantee, in this city lord's mansion, there will be someone who can't open his eyes, and he can't sneak in and assassinate him?"

"Yes, let's just walk around twice, I'm sleepy, let's go, go and sleep twice." One yawned and said vaguely.