It is a small town on the banks of the Malian River.

Scorching sun, windswept sand, loess, poverty.

The unclothed woman, holding a dish-faced child, cowered behind the wooden door.

To tell the truth, this place is more suitable than Junshan as the helmsman of the beggar gang, because it is so poor.

But the poor and the rich depend on the comparison, compared with Gusu and Jinling, there are simply beggars here who are unwilling to come.

But compared to the surrounding villages and towns, the town is already rich and prosperous, because within fifty miles of it, it is the only place where there is a well.

The loess is flying, and the shopkeeper of the small wine shop on the street is constantly blowing the wind and sand on the pancakes with a broom.

As soon as he stopped his hand, a layer of butter-like loess would accumulate on the cake, and such a dough cake could be regarded as an absolute delicacy in such a poor place.

Such a place where birds are silent, flowers are not fragrant, chickens are not flying, dogs are not jumping, rabbits are not pooping, and the dashing Chu Liuxiang has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Chu Liuxiang rode a horse for five days, and finally arrived at this broken place.

It wasn't that he had to come to this place, but he followed the clues left by the black pearl and chased it here, and he wanted to find a place to rest for the night and then continue the pursuit.

Unexpectedly, I met Hu Tiehua.

He hadn't seen Hu Tiehua for seven years.

The last time we met was also in the summer, and the location was Mochou Lake in Jinling, and the lotus flowers on Mochou Lake were in beautiful bloom.

Chu Liuxiang, Hu Tiehua, Ji Bingyan, and Gao Yanan, the "Qingfeng Female Swordsman" of the Huashan faction.

They rolled the lotus leaves into wine glasses and drank wine, drank a glass of wine, threw a lotus leaf, and they didn't know how much they drank, but they remembered that the boat was almost filled with lotus leaves.

Just when the lotus leaf pile was higher than his nose, Hu Tiehua asked Gao Yanan for marriage with the strength of wine, Gao Yanan agreed, and then Hu Tiehua ran away.

Gao Yanan has been looking for Hu Tiehua for seven years, and Hu Tiehua has been hiding from Gao Yanan for seven years, don't you like it? I naturally like it in my heart, but liking does not mean getting married.

Hu Tiehua has a bitter fear of marriage, he is a more prodigal son than Chu Liuxiang, and he will never get married.

Hu Tiehua ran away, and Ji Bingyan also left.

Chu Liuxiang's wings have been missing for seven years, although he has made a greater reputation, but he always feels that something is missing.

Now that Hu Tiehua has been found, Chu Liuxiang feels very happy, and his confidence in defeating the desert is inevitably three or four percent, probably three or four percent.

After all, even Chu Liuxiang does not have the ability to change the nature of heaven and earth, he is just Chu Liuxiang, not a peerless powerman who can change the weather of heaven and earth.

Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua alone, of course, could not defeat the desert, they had to find another person.

Ji Bingyan!

One of the richest men in the desert!

It is important to know that the Silk Road is a road of wealth and gold, and rich businessmen and magnates gather, and wealth is nothing here, because it is full of rich people.

But if you have enough wealth, you can still get enough respect.

Ji Bingyan is one of the ones who can make local businessmen awe-inspiring, which means that there are very, very few rich people like him no matter where they are.

He didn't do any regular business, as long as it was a profitable business, he would plug in.

In this vast oasis, if he can earn ten taels of silver a day, one tael belongs to him.

If a person can earn so much wealth from scratch in seven years, he will inevitably be more worthy of respect, even more than just because his surname is "Ji".

Here, no one doesn't know Ji Bingyan.

Just asked for directions at random, and Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua found Ji Bingyan's mansion.

The burly, djinn-like porter ushered them into the courtyard of Konoha Morimori, where two teenagers dressed in spotless white robes politely led them both into the spacious and ornate living room.

There are several bamboo curtains hanging in the living room, which isolates all the summer heat from the curtain, and the breeze blows the bamboo curtains, and there seem to be swallows flying in the heavy curtains.

It is hard to imagine that in this yellow sand desert, there is such an elegant garden, such a rich atmosphere, and such a big family.

Chu Liuxiang came quickly, but there was someone who came faster than Chu Liuxiang, and that person was Li Jinyu.

Li Jinyu never wronged herself, and it was impossible for her to go to a broken place where birds don't, and after receiving Chu Liuxiang's message, she immediately set off to find Ji Bingyan.

Of course, Li Jinyu can find Ji Bingyan.

In this vast yellow sand desert, if there is a person who is Li Jinyu's friend, it must be Ji Bingyan.

The two are not close friends who are as good as new and as old as ever, but through continuous contact, they do business again and again, and become friends little by little.

Many people know that in this oasis, one-tenth of the profits belong to Ji Bingyan.

Few people know that if Ji Bingyan earns ten taels of silver, three taels of which belong to Li Jinyu.

Li Jinyu is his major shareholder.

Long before digging up the treasures of Liancheng, Li Jinyu dug up a few small treasures and did business in the Western Regions, and Ji Bingyan was Li Jinyu's biggest collaborator.

Well...... In fact, it was the sale of stolen goods at the beginning!

The jewels in the treasure are not good to be sold in the Central Plains, and they can only be sold in this kind of land where dragons and snakes are mixed.

Since then, some of the treasures of Liancheng, the treasure of the underground palace, and the treasure of Xu Jingye have also been given to Ji Bingyan.

Most people only know that Li Jinyu does shipping business through the Giant Whale Gang, and they know that Li Jinyu does business in the Western Regions through Ji Bingyan, but there are few of them.

How to say, prudence is prudence!

Chu Liuxiang didn't wait too long, and four girls dressed in white like snow had already walked in carrying soft couches.

A person leaned down on the soft couch and laughed loudly: "Chu Liuxiang and Hu Madman, I can't imagine that you two drunkards haven't forgotten me." ”

He was laughing, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle.

Laziness, sluggishness, and indecision are the usual faults of most people, but at any time, no matter who they are, they should not find the slightest such expression on his angular face.

He is like the embodiment of shrewdness and toughness.

Only such a person can make such a name in this ghost place that eats people and does not spit out bones.

Li Jinyu didn't have such a big shelf, and walked out with a pot of grape wine, and the cold air of the ice silkworm flashed by, and it had turned into cold wine, and there were even ice cubes.

"Come on! Have a drink! Go to the heat! ”

Hu Tiehua never refuses any wine, especially in this hot weather, so he will not refuse.

Chu Liuxiang said: "I really can't imagine how the two of you became friends. ”

Li Jinyu smiled: "I don't know, I can only say that the two of us may be more compatible." ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Your peach blossom eyes are worse than the old bedbug, how can you get along with a dead rooster?" ”

Li Jinyu said: "Both of us like to enjoy it very much, and we are also very good at making money. ”

Chu Liuxiang said: "Ji Bingyan can make money, I believe that all the money is picked up?" ”

Li Jinyu said: "The money picked up will never be cherished, and it will be spent quickly, and only the money earned with ability can be preserved for a long time." ”

Chu Liuxiang said: "How do you know that I will come here?" You seem to have known this for a long time! ”

Li Jinyu said: "There are too many dangers in the yellow sand desert, and if there is no person who is familiar with the desert climate to lead the way, it is definitely the way to die." ”

The yellow sand desert is so hot during the day that you want to peel off the skin, and at night it is so cold that you can freeze all the blood.

A hill can become flat land in an instant, and a flat land can become a hill in the blink of an eye.

The sky is connected to the earth, and the earth is connected to the sky, so that people can't even distinguish between east, west, north and south, and ordinary people can't understand the dialect of people who have lived in the desert for a long time.

Even if you're lucky enough not to encounter a sandstorm, just being thirsty can turn you into a dry corpse.

If you encounter a black sandstorm, even if you are a master of the four great gods, it will be very dangerous.

Ji Bingyan said: "If the two of you go to the desert like this, the consequence is only a dead end." ”

Chu Liuxiang said: "As long as others can live, we can live as long as we can, unless the desert is full of dead people, we can also live." ”

Ji Bingyan sneered: "It's different. ”

Hu Tiehua said: "It's really different, our martial arts are higher, and we can live longer." ”

Ji Bingyan said: "It's faster to die, if you enter the desert with this kind of thought, unless you are a supreme grandmaster, it will be difficult to survive for ten days." ”

Hu Tiehua said angrily: "You look down on me? ”

Ji Bingyan said: "Your hearts, your bones, have long been softened by wine and meat, by women, and by too comfortable life, and life in the desert is far from what you can adapt to." ”

Hu Tiehua said: "I have lived in a place that is a hundred times poorer than here, and I have lived for nearly four years. ”

"They can go days without talking or moving in order to reduce the amount of water they consume in their bodies.

When they are hungry, they can eat lizards and poisonous scorpions as chicken legs, can you?

When they were thirsty, they were able to dig a hole in the sand with their hands, so that they could only suck the water out of the sand, and with this water they could live for three days.

They can even drink camel urine, and if you smell it, you will spit it out, and if you spit it out, you will die faster!

People in the desert, what you do to survive, not only can't you do it, you don't even dare to think about it! ”

"At least I don't dare to drink urine."

"When the time comes, if you dare not drink, you will die, and if they dare to drink, they will live.

So they are actually stronger than you, it's a matter of survival, and it has nothing to do with martial arts wisdom. ”

Ji Bingyan's tone was very cold, but Chu Liuxiang was determined to break into the desert, and Hu Tiehua also wanted to break into the desert, and no one could stop it.

If Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua were going to take an adventure, then no matter what Ji Bingyan was doing, it would be impossible to watch it, and he would naturally go too.

As one of the biggest local tyrants, Ji Bingyan can prepare far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

He prepared a long camel caravan, and a very comfortable carriage, as well as two odd people.

A strong man like an iron tower.

His name is Stone Camel.

The stone camel wears an old sheepskin vest in reverse, revealing a body of muscles that are blacker than iron and stronger.

A face is like an air-dried orange peel, convex and concave, without half an inch of smooth and clean places.

A pair of gray eyes, even the whites of the eyes and the eyeballs can't be distinguished, not Jing Wuming's eyes that ignore life, but cloudy.

The inside and outside are cloudy and foggy, and no one would have imagined that there are people in the world who have such eyes.

The most strange thing is that he can sleep under any circumstances, even if he is in a car, walking, or running.

He was a deaf, blind and dumb man, but he could communicate with livestock, discern directions, find water, and be a living map of the desert.

A good-looking kid.

His name is Little Pan.

Little Pan Sheng has a baby face and looks to be in his twenties, but he is actually forty-two years old.

The north and south of the Yangtze River, the banks of the Yellow River, Lingnan in Fujian, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei, no matter what dialect, he can speak fluently and naturally, exactly the same as the local aborigines.

No matter what transaction you make, just rest assured that he will do it, even if he closes his eyes, he will not suffer.

If it weren't for Xiao Pan being Ji Bingyan's confidant, Li Jinyu would have found a way to dig the foot of the wall a long time ago.

Hu Tiehua is very curious about the stone camel, and Li Jinyu is also very curious about the stone camel, he is not born deaf, dumb and blind, but was cruelly tortured.

Shi Camel used to be a normal person, even a famous swordsman in the rivers and lakes, he was born in the Huashan faction.

Shi Guanyin had a blood feud with the Huashan faction, killed six of the seven swordsmen of the Jade Girl Peak of Huashan, and was confident in his appearance and charm, and wanted Shi Camel to surrender completely.

Shi Camel did not surrender, so Shi Guanyin tortured him with all kinds of vicious means.

She made the stone camel grind like a donkey, whipping it whenever she stopped, and it lasted for more than a year, without stopping a single step.

Therefore, the stone camel can not only sleep standing up, but also eat and drink Lazar while standing, eat and drink Lazar while walking, and eat and drink Lasa while running, without any influence at all.

Shi Guanyin saw that he couldn't make the stone camel surrender, so he nailed the stone camel to the ground and wanted to dry the stone camel to death.

The stone camel's eyes were blinded, but he still survived tenaciously, like a half-dried poplar, trying to survive no matter when.

After entering the desert, all the mounts turned into camels, and Ji Bingyan burned his carriage.

He would never leave his beloved things in the hands of others, preferring to destroy them with his own hands.

There was only one person who did not ride a camel.

Stone camel!

The stone camel followed the camel step by step, whether it was a desert, a flat land, a swamp, a river, cold or hot...... It didn't seem to have any effect on this man.

He seemed to be very inferior, and he seemed to be very arrogant, as if he didn't dare to come over to enjoy Li Jinyu's joy, but also seemed to disdain to be with them.

The more empty the place, the quieter the place, the more obvious his expression became.

He sat in the boundless desert, in the cold and silent night, like an exiled emperor, silently enduring the silent loneliness, pain and humiliation!

Hu Tiehua couldn't help but say: "If I let me know who turned him like this, I will definitely return it intact, it would be too cruel." ”

Li Jinyu said: "Whenever I encounter something difficult, I think of the stone camel, and then I feel that everything is just like this, and I can get through it." ”

Chu Liuxiang said: "You use him as an example? ”

Li Jinyu said: "You can also say the same! ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Although I have been in the place where birds don't for four years, I know that you are a very capable person, do you know his origin?" ”

Li Jinyu nodded: "I know, but what's the point?" He can't go back, his life already belongs to the oasis, to the desert. ”

Ji Bingyan said: "You found it?" ”

Li Jinyu said: "It's too early to say this, but with him as an example for so long, if I meet his enemies, I will take action." ”

Chu Liuxiang shuddered, he thought of a rumor in the rivers and lakes - whenever Li Jinyu participates in a thing, that incident must become a small thing and a big thing becomes a killing!

Li Jinyu's name used to be the son of Jade Jie, but now many people call him the reincarnation of the evil star.

If Li Jinyu wants to do a big job, this desert trip is likely to turn into a bloody journey.

Li Jinyu said: "The desert is indeed a little cold, drink a glass of wine to warm up your body, in case you get caught the wind cold, it is not a good thing, the illness is like a mountain!" ”

Chu Liuxiang said in her heart that I was worried that you would kill the desert to the point of a river of blood, who was so caught in the cold?

However, the night was indeed a little cold, Chu Liuxiang took the hot wine, drank it all, felt the heat blooming in his body, and immediately felt satisfied.

"Brother Li, do you have a gun?"

"What is this for?"

"Don't you know?"

"I can tell you responsibly that not only did I have a gun, but I already smelled blood."

"What blood?"

"Bloody from the enemy."

Li Jinyu looked up at Mingyue: "Our enemies have come, they are like poisonous scorpions hiding under the gravel, or collapsing quicksand. ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Do you know where it is? ”

Li Jinyu said: "Do you want to see it? ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Of course I want to." ”

Li Jinyu smiled: "Then look! ”

Before the words fell, only a few clicks were heard, and a spear had been assembled, and in Hu Tiehua's shocked gaze, the spear flew far away.

"Poof!"

Spear into the bunker!

Before Hu Tiehua could say something strange, streams of blood had already gushed out of the place where the spear pierced.

Li Jinyu's wrist was wrapped around the ice silk, one end was at the end of the spear, and with a slight pull, the spear had returned to his hand, without a drop of blood on it.

Hu Tiehua rushed over quickly, dug the person out as fast as he could, and found that the person was buried deep in the sand pit, covered with sand.

"This ...... It's ......"

"Sand thieves, the most common kind of bandits in the desert, burrow into the sand, come and go like the wind, as long as there are enough benefits, dare to do anything."

Ji Bingyan explained coldly.

The first thing you learn to do business in this place is how to guard against sand thieves, and Ji Bingyan has suffered a big loss from sand thieves, and has been deeply remembered in his heart since then.

Ji Bingyan continued: "Yellow sand can bury all traces, no matter what background you have, how famous you are, it is useless here. ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Then what is useful?" ”

Li Jinyu shook the spear in his hand: "Only blood can bring them back to their senses, as long as they are killed, they will retreat on their own." ”

Hu Tiehua said: "Don't you kill people?" ”

This was not asked for himself, but for Chu Liuxiang, because Chu Liuxiang never kills.

"Yes, but it's very difficult!"

(End of chapter)