In the early morning, the orange-red sun falls, splashing ink on thousands of mountains and rivers, blending with the thin mist like smoke, covering the mountains and mountains with colorful veils.

Above the blue sky, under the white clouds, there is a goshawk crying, circling by, and suddenly swooping down.

In such an environment, a caravan slowly passed through the mountains and ravines, like ants marching among the mounds.

Squeak!

Behind the caravan, the Fang family's carriage drove by, splashing a little dust and smoke on the ground that was somewhat cracked by the drought.

"Brother, look, a blade of grass here has jagged teeth!"

"Does that stone look like a puppy?"

"What a big eagle!"

……

Fang Ling and Nannan, the two little girls, since they went out of the city, have pulled the curtains, put them on the car window, and looked out curiously, full of interest and chirping, like two birds out of the cage.

It's like: this is not a place to eat and sleep, but to go on an outing.

On the other hand, Fang Xue's nerves were a little tense, his hands were clasped, and he stared nervously outside, paying attention to the danger, for fear of persecution.

The third lady was slightly better, but she was also a little nervous.

This is not surprising.

When they were in the city, they often heard others say how chaotic and dangerous it was outside, and now that they are really out of the city, they are naturally worried.

In addition, it is very normal to step out of your comfort zone and leave the familiar living environment for a while, which is very normal.

"Mother, third sister, don't be afraid, relax!"

Fang Rui smiled, turned around, and secretly patted the back of the third lady's hand: "There is me!" ”

The third lady blushed, Xia Fei took Fang Rui's hand and hid it.

Fang Xue noticed the small movements of the two of them, took a sip, and turned his head to look out of the car window: "Hey, Brother Rui, look, is there a homeless person over there?" ”

Fang Rui looked at it, he was indeed a homeless person, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and his clothes were tattered, like a savage.

In fact, his eyesight is better, compared to Fang Xue and Sanniangzi, along the way, several homeless people have been found one after another.

"These people's lives are hard, they eat grass roots, tree bark, and they don't have the next ......meal after eating," Fang Xue sighed as he thought about the rumored words.

"Auntie, these people are pitiful, but it's not that simple." The third lady shook her head, and there was vigilance in her bright eyes.

"The third sister is right, those homeless people are pitiful, but they are only in front of people who are stronger than them, and if they face the weak, they will rob and even eat ......"

Fang Rui shook his head and didn't continue, 'years of great hunger, cannibalism' has never been an exaggerated rhetoric in history books.

Even if he didn't say any more, Fang Xue and Sanniangzi also guessed the rest of the words, and they were startled, and exclaimed in a low voice, even with Fang Ling and Nannan, the two little girls looked over curiously.

"Let's follow the caravan, don't be afraid. Mother, third sister, look, that homeless person is gone! ”

The advantage of following the caravan is here, you can avoid some dangers and reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.

If it was just one or two carriages, there was a high probability that there would have been displaced people who would have come to attack them, and something unbearable would have happened.

Fang Rui is naturally not afraid, but he is also diaphragm.

It can be said that after leaving the city, the law of the jungle is prominent to the extreme.

"Huh?!"

At this time, Fang Rui's ears moved, and he keenly heard the voice coming from behind.

"Quick, Uncle Wang, the caravan is ahead, let's hurry up, we will catch up immediately!" It was a young male voice, and his tone was full of excitement.

"Childe, if you weren't more serious and refused to give the soldiers guarding the city gate, how could it be delayed for so long? We've already joined the caravan! The voice was relatively mature and complained.

"If it was before...... Alas, don't say it, Uncle Wang, I know it's wrong, let's hurry up! ”

"Okay, son, madam, sit down!"

……

In the distance, a donkey cart gradually caught up.

On the donkey cart, a handsome young man lifted the curtain and looked ahead.

The one driving the donkey cart was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties with an ugly face and a tumor on his chin, who should be the 'Uncle Wang' in the mouth of young people.

Fang Rui looked a little familiar, and suddenly remembered, wasn't this the donkey cart he had encountered at the city gate before?

The other party is not interested, does not pay the benefit fee, and is in a stalemate with the soldiers guarding the city gate, but I didn't expect that he also followed the caravan to Fucheng?

As the donkey cart approached and noticed the gaze ahead, the young man opened the curtain of the cart a little, straightened his waist, patted the brocade robe on his body, and revealed the jade pendant hanging from his waist without a trace, showing the identity of the big family.

Then, slowly, he commanded Fan Er: "Uncle Wang, slow down, my mother is a little uncomfortable." ”

A graceful and mature female voice came from the carriage: "It's too fast, it's a little bumpy." ”

"Okay, Childe and Madam!" Uncle Wang agreed, slowing down the donkey cart.

"Wow, look, that's a donkey!"

"It's not as good as our horses!"

Fang Ling and Nannan, the two little girls, looked at the back curiously.

"Don't look around, that's a big family!" Fang Xue pulled them over, his expression a little restrained.

The third lady is slightly better.

In the past, she helped those military leaders take care of the industry, and she also had contact with the children of some big families, but she didn't feel cold, and she knew that these people were beautiful on the outside, but most of them were 'golden and jade, and they were ruined'.

"Big family?! In Changshan City, where are there any big households? ”

Fang Rui shook his head.

After the Taiping army entered the city, even if the big families in the city escaped a catastrophe, they were also ruined and avoided disasters, and declined, and now they are not much different from the common people.

This should be one of them. However, looking at the things at the city gate, and the way the young man was holding it, he probably hadn't changed his mentality yet. ’

It's like: After the death of the Qing Dynasty, those old Eight Banners were still poor and exquisite.

'The phoenix that landed is not as good as a chicken, that is, it feels good about itself! Besides, what kind of big family, how does it compare with the Lin family and the Xia family? Isn't it also destroyed? ’

Fang Rui shook his head slightly, he didn't pay much attention to it in his heart, and said casually: "Mother, third sister, don't care too much, just look at it as an ordinary person." ”

"This is a big family, how can it be regarded as an ordinary person?" Fang Xue's mentality has not yet changed.

"Auntie, our brother Rui, but a middle-grade martial artist, if you really talk about it, it's no worse than a big family!" The second half of the third lady's voice was extremely low.

She glanced at Fang Rui, Qiushui's eyes were full of admiration and pride: "However, let's straighten our backs and live our lives, don't bully people, and don't have to please people, each has its own way, and the well water does not interfere with the river water." ”

……

At this time, because the donkey cart joined, someone from the caravan came in front.

"Doctor Fang!"

"Steward Chen!" Fang Rui bowed slightly.

This Chen steward's name is Chen Yu, and he paid the deposit and contacted the caravan along the way, all through this person.

After Steward Chen greeted Fang Rui, he looked at the young man, and his attitude was obviously more eager: "It turned out to be Young Master Chang, I thought your house was gone?" Seems to be delayed? It's good to catch up! ”

He naturally investigated the background of the people who followed the caravan.

Fang Rui is a high-quality martial artist, and it can only be regarded as average; And this Chang Gongzi, as Fang Rui expected, is a big family in decline, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the guard of the prince is a seven-rank martial artist.

"My family is in the middle of the road, so I can't say 'Young Master Chang', just call me Chang Qing, or Chang Gongzi." Having said that, there is obviously self-restraint in his expression.

However, Steward Chen is an old man, and when he greets two sentences, he will smile at Changqing.

Of course, he was more eager towards Chang Qing, but he didn't snub Fang Rui, and also said a few words.

Fang Rui didn't care, whether it was Steward Chen, Chang Qing, or even this caravan, they were just passers-by.

'But, Chang Jia? I remember! His heart moved.

At the beginning, after selling drugs on the black market and killing Zhou Changlin and Qualcomm, there was a big family that invited Fang Rui to be a nurse.

If he remembers correctly, this Chang family seems to be the first to find it.

It's just that the feng shui in the back takes turns, and Fang Rui breaks through again and again, stirring up the wind and rain in secret, and dominating the wind and clouds; On the other hand, the Chang family has declined.

Steward Chen didn't stay long, and greeted Chang Qing and Fang Rui for a few words, telling 'If you encounter refugees on the road, don't send kindness relief, otherwise the other party will swarm around', and after some other matters, he returned to the front.

The caravan continued to move.

Perhaps because he felt that the carriage was too stuffy, the evergreen Chang Gongzi didn't go in again, and sat down next to Uncle Wang, in the position of the co-pilot of the donkey cart.

can be matched with his dress, brocade and jade wear, it looks a little funny.

'Rolls-Royce's rich second generation got on the co-pilot of the donkey cart?! ’

Thinking of this metaphor, Fang Rui smiled lightly, shook his head, retracted his gaze, and continued on his way.

……

It's actually very monotonous and boring to be in a hurry all the time.

On the way, there was no plot of slapping his face or stributing, and that evergreen Chang Gongzi was just a gentleman in the middle of the family, maybe he was self-conscious and had a good face, but he was not mentally retarded, and Fang Rui did not have his own aura of ridicule.

Even, in this wilderness, the caravan was faintly tense, how could there be so many thoughts and pay attention to others?

Fang Rui is relatively relaxed, he has a keen perception, coupled with his strength, as long as he does not face hundreds of well-trained and stubborn troops, he is not afraid.

That's confidence.

The ones who are really relaxed and carefree are the two little girls Fang Ling and Nannan.

However, the wild scenery was monotonous, and most of the places were dull yellow, and they were tired of seeing too much, and in the middle of the morning, they lost their vigilance and became wilted.

Fang Xue and Sanniangzi are also not in good spirits.

Fang Rui also has a way.

When encountering an uphill slope, he pushed behind, and let Fang Xue, Sanniangzi, Fang Ling, and Nannan come down and walk, or, take turns to sit outside in the co-pilot position of the carriage to breathe.

Not only Fang Ling and Nannan, but also Fang Xue's and Sanniangzi, will all rotate.

When he waited for the third lady, Fang Rui would also make some small movements, sneaky, and excited, not having a honeymoon feeling.

In stark contrast to the five members of the Fang family, it was Chang Qing in the rear, shouting 'It's too boring', 'I knew it was so hard, I wouldn't leave' and so on.

Hearing this person's complaining voice, Fang Rui and the five of them were inexplicably in a better mood.

That evergreen Chang Gongzi didn't know at all that he had become someone else's fun, and he was a mood adjuster for the family all the way.

……

At noon, a mountain spring stream.

When he arrived at the planned location, Steward Chen came to inform him, rested for half an hour, and after eating and repairing, he went on the road again.

For people like Fang Rui who follow the caravan, the caravan does not provide food, and they have to do it themselves.

It's also simple.

'Isn't it just camping in the wilderness?' I'm familiar with this! ’

Fang Rui skillfully set up the iron pot, found firewood, and made a fire.

Fang Xue's and Sanniangzi took ingredients, fried eggs, and boiled dried noodles; Fang Ling and Nannan, the two little girls, also helped to light the fire.

With the concerted efforts of a family of five, a strong aroma soon came out.

Under the tree.

In the mottled light and shadow, Fang Rui, Fang Xue, Sanniangzi, Fang Ling, Nannan, the five of them sat on the bench holding a bowl, eating lunch, talking in a whisper, and the fatigue of the morning seemed to dissipate.

……

The other side.

Chang Qing, Uncle Wang, and a woman, who is an evergreen mother, looks like she is in her forties, well-maintained, with plump breasts and fat buttocks, delicate appearance, fair skin, and quite a bit of beauty.

However, the family did not seem to have prepared pots and bowls, but only some cold dry food and pastries.

Chang Qing looked over there, even if he covered it up a little, but he was also a beautiful third lady, and her eyebrows and eyes gently gave Fang Rui a meal, and the family was happy;

Looking at this side again, the pastry in his hand was already a little rancid, and he couldn't help but take a sharp breath of the aroma wafting in the air, frowned, and took a big bite of the pastry.

"Childe, why don't I go over and buy some from the people over there?"

"No, you don't! In such ordinary people, the dishes and chopsticks are not necessarily clean, and I am disgusted when I eat! Or our pastry is good, the poor can't afford it, exquisite, and, very beautiful...... Vomit! ”

……

"Huh?!"

Fang Rui suddenly frowned.

"Brother Rui, what's wrong?" Fang Xue's and Sanniangzi all came to see it.

"It's okay! It's okay! ”

Fang Rui shook his head.

It's okay on their side, but it's Chang Qing's side that is really fine, what did he just see? That Uncle Wang secretly pinched Chang's mother's ass!

But isn't that uncle a guard? Diao Nu riding ...... Phew, slave bully? It is worthy of a big family, and your circle is really messy! ’

Fang Rui secretly complained, his face was mysterious, he looked at Changqing over there, his eyes were sympathetic, he had a wild father without knowing it, it was really miserable!

However, this matter has nothing to do with him, and he doesn't bother to care.

At this time, the evergreen Chang Gongzi suddenly put down the pastry in his hand and walked over, and when he got closer, the tempting aroma in the air became more and more intense, making him secretly swallow his saliva.

"This little brother, what's that ......?"

"If you have something, you might as well say it directly."

"What do you think of my donkey? That's it, I want to exchange with your horse, I can add money and compensate ten taels of silver......"

Yes, Chang Qing didn't want to buy food, because in his heart, he still felt that the Fang family's dishes and chopsticks were not clean, and he was disgusted to eat.

And donkeys to buy horses?

The reason is also very simple.

He felt that it was really unsightly for a personable person like himself to match a donkey cart, and only by changing the carriage could he be slightly worthy of his identity.

- Don't ask why don't you just buy a horse, how can a horse be so easy to buy in such a world? At the beginning, didn't Fang Rui also look for a long time on the black market and didn't buy it!

'A donkey, plus ten taels of silver, in exchange for a horse, is probably the market price, but what kind of place is this, tell me the market price?!" ’

'Besides, am I short of money?' Talk to me about money? Hehe! ’

Fang Rui secretly rolled his eyes: "Don't change!" ”

"You...... If it's ...... in the past"

Chang Qing didn't expect Fang Rui to be so uninteresting.

He is a child of a big family, he came over in person, discussed with Fang Rui with kind words, and even generously offered to compensate with money, shouldn't he be grateful to the other party and give it with both hands without money? How dare you refuse?

It just doesn't make sense!

"What about the past? Otherwise, let your uncle come and fight me? Fang Rui's face showed a hint of playfulness.

He was trying to move his muscles and bones, and by the way, he would stand up.

On the surface, the identity of a martial artist is still not enough, showing a seven-eight-grade realm, showing the talent of a 'normal genius', which is quite suitable.

But this thing, and you can't sell yourself and boast, it's better to find a stepping stone, such as: that Uncle Wang.

"Huh, vulgar!"

Chang Qing snorted and waved his robe, but turned around and left.

This made Fang Rui stunned: "No, shouldn't you call your parents?" How can you just go? ’

However, as soon as he pondered it, he figured it out: this evergreen has a heart like an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, willful, self-willed, and good-looking, which is why he doesn't want to 'call his parents if he has something'.

Wait for Evergreen to leave.

Fang Xue asked worriedly, "Brother Rui, you rejected this person, are you okay?" ”

The third lady also looked at it.

"Mother, third sister, don't worry!"

Fang Rui shook his head: "If there is something, if there is something, it will not be us!" ”

……

After lunch, continue on your way.

It was fine all afternoon.

……

During the night, the caravan arrived at another planned location where it camped.

Because there is relatively plenty of time at night.

Fang Rui greeted Fang Xue and the three ladies, took out some bacon, and had a good meal in the evening.

But at this very moment-

"Whew!"

In the darkness, wolf howls rang out one after another, and they approached quickly.

Cry wolf!

……

(End of chapter)