On the ancient tea horse road to the south, there are teenagers leading horses.

The young man carried a cyan scabbard sword, a wine gourd hanging from his waist, a reins in one hand, and an emerald green bamboo pole in the other.

It was Shi Yu who went all the way south after leaving the Broken Soul Cliff.

After leaving the town, he used the little money he had left to buy the lean horse from a farmer.

Then one person and one horse, sleeping in the open.

When you are hungry, you will hunt wild game to eat, and when you are thirsty, you will take mountain spring water to drink.

The wine in the wine gourd has long been drunk, and only one gourd of water is filled.

A young man, a long sword, a thin horse, and a bamboo fight.

Shi Yu went south alone.

Before this, it was actually not really walking through the rivers and lakes, but now it is finally a chance to walk the rivers and lakes alone.

Half a decade has passed, and it is almost the border of the Great Xia Kingdom.

Along the way, he passed through many large and small towns, and if ordinary people, like him, did not have the customs clearance documents of the secular dynasty, let alone go out of the city, if they were discovered by the officers and soldiers, it would not be too much to be arrested as a homeless.

Of course Shi Yu didn't, but he wasn't an ordinary person after all, and the small city wall couldn't stop him.

It's just that every time you have to go into the city, you have to ride around it on horseback and tie it to the exit at the other end, which makes it a lot of trouble.

As a result, although Shi Yu rode on horseback, the speed of his movement was not fast.

It's just that I couldn't leave the seals of each city on the paper, which is still a big pity.

The southernmost part of the Great Xia Kingdom is a large river, the northern end is Great Xia, and the southern end is the Jinpan Kingdom.

There is a lonely city standing by the river, which is the southern pass of the Great Xia Kingdom.

It is said to be a pass, but in fact, there are not many people stationed, and the neighboring subordinate Jin Pan State has shown enough sincerity, rather than putting all the manpower in this city, it is better to guard against the reckless detention of the north.

It is not difficult to exit from the southern end of the country of Jinpan, sparing the pass and passing through a steep rope bridge.

The rope bridge was crumbling on the river, if it was only Shi Yu, there would be no problem, but the horse he was holding had to waste a lot of effort to cross the bridge.

After that, it's all the way south.

During this period, I met officers and soldiers passing by, but no one paid attention to this young man.

So, Shi Yu went all the way to Beiyue in the Jin Pan Kingdom unimpeded.

Different from the Nanyue called Kunwu Mountain, the Beiyue of Jinpan Kingdom is much more desolate, the mountain is bare, and there is still no trace of spring in the spring season.

If you want to spare this mountain, you will have to walk an extra day.

There was the matter of the female ghost in red last time, Shi Yu still has some heart palpitations, but he still chooses to climb the mountain, not simply to take a shortcut, since he came out to practice, he must face the difficulties with many others.

Although the mountain is desolate, the road is not as rugged as Kunwu Mountain, but a wide avenue.

Moreover, there are a lot of footprints and horseshoe prints on the ground, and it is obvious that people often climb the mountain.

Seeing this situation, Shi Yu was actually a lot more relieved.

The mountains are crisscrossed by roads.

It was a smooth climb up the mountain.

It's just that after going up the mountain, Shi Yu's expression tightened.

On the top of the bare mountain, there is a stone pavilion abruptly.

There is a chessboard in the center of the stone pavilion, and there are four people sitting, an old and a young man sitting on both sides of the chessboard, the old one has gray hair, is dressed in embroidered poultry clothes, and his head is wrapped in a gray scarf. The young man was a scholar, dressed in plain clothes, with a flag twisted in his hand, and a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, gentle and elegant.

Standing next to him were two women, an old man and a young woman, the older one wearing a white gauze skirt, wearing a conical hat and a white gauze covering her face, the younger one was about ten years old, wearing a pink skirt, stepping on the stone bench with one foot, pointing at the chessboard.

There was a carriage parked next to the stone pavilion, and the white horse pulling the cart lowered its head and picked up the grass roots on the ground to eat.

I don't know if it's a human or a mountain spirit.

In line with the principle that more things are better than less, Shi Yu did not lean over, but only stopped in place, sat on the ground, untied the gourd and drank saliva.

The woman in the gauze glanced at Shi Yu.

Shi Yu felt something, made eye contact with it, and bowed his head slightly, which can be regarded as a greeting.

The woman also nodded in return.

The young scholar with his back to this side, seeing the woman's movements, turned his head to look at Shi Yu, his eyes were dark.

Shi Yu clearly felt a flash of hostility.

He has a little judgment about this reader, and it is definitely not a simple character.

After a short rest, Shi Yu took the reins and walked to the stone pavilion.

It's not that I want to go to the gang to say hello, but the stone pavilion is the only way down the mountain.

When passing by the stone pavilion, the old man glanced at him, stopped paying attention to this ordinary young man, rolled up a flag, and played chess with the young scholar.

Walked through the stone pavilion unharmed.

Looking up, it was getting late, Shi Yu rode on horseback, and he didn't rush to catch up, just walked down the mountain slowly.

The border towns of Jin Pan Kingdom were not as martial law as in Great Xia, and the officers and soldiers stationed there never asked about the papers, but in the border towns, body searches were inevitable.

Shi Yu knew these things when he first came to Kunshi Town.

This time he went down the mountain, he planned to buy some necessities in the town closest to Beiyue, but he didn't have much silver on him, so he could only buy some necessary things at the moment, such as fire folds.

Along the way, whether it is grilled fish or grilled game, the fire fold is used every day.

When Shi Yu was in the Nine Swords Gate, he knew that the coins used by people in cultivation were actually different from ordinary coins, but with Li Xiao, he also had little intersection with the mountain sect, so he had never seen what the money on the mountain was like.

I've heard it before, it seems to be similar to a silver ticket, just a piece of paper with different denominations.

Of course, these are still out of reach for Shi Yu today.

When he walked to the foot of the mountain, Shi Yu saw the outline of a small town in the distance, drank a sip of water, and was about to ride his horse forward, but a team of men and horses blocked the way.

There were five horsemen in total, and the first one was slashing wide, standing with his beard and his chest exposed.

It is also strange that on this March day, I don't feel cold at all.

Shi Yu's face was solemn, most likely he was a thief who robbed his house.

But after a few people saw Shi Yu, they didn't act rashly, the first one frowned, and asked the person next to him, "What's the matter?" ”

The person questioned was a middle-aged man dressed in white and wearing a gauze hat, who looked like a scholar.

He smiled helplessly and said: "Boss, I don't know what the situation is, if you want to blame it, blame our spies, they gave the information." ”

"Could it be that you haven't come yet?" A Taoist wearing a Tai Chi suit said on the side.

"Possibly."

The bearded man nodded, pointed at Shi Yu and said, "That kid, don't go first, stand on the side, and wait for the masters to finish their business, and then you can leave, how about it?" ”

Shi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he was not a vicious outlaw.

He immediately grinned and echoed very doggedly: "Whatever the big brother says, it's what you say." ”

In the rivers and lakes, everything is good to be careful, although these people seem to be ordinary people on the surface, he doesn't dare to guarantee that the other party is not hiding.

Seeing Shi Yu leading the horse in an interesting way, several people stopped paying attention to him, and just regarded him as a passerby.

Shi Yu turned over and dismounted, found a dead wood, tied the horse, and rested on the stump.

Shi Yu had a guess about the purpose of these people, and it was very likely that they were the people he met in the stone pavilion on the mountain.

Sure enough, after half a burnt incense, a white horse pulled a carriage into sight slowly.

The person driving the car was the plain-clothed scholar who was playing against the old man on the mountain.

Seeing five people lined up to block the way, the scholar also stopped his horse.

"Liang Sheng, what's going on?" The old man poked his head out.

After seeing the few people blocking in front of him, the old man's face froze and his brows furrowed.

"But Lord Situ from afar?" The bearded man slapped his horse forward and looked at the old man with a smile.

Hearing this, Shi Yu stopped the gourd he wanted to send to his mouth and looked at the bearded man, it seems that these people are not as simple as robbing the house, this is premeditated.

But no matter what, he was just a small Fusion Realm cultivator, and he had made up his mind not to participate in this troubled water.

Shi Yu took a sip of water and looked away.

"Exactly, what are you?" The old man nodded, looked at a few people, and looked puzzled.

"Someone paid for your life." This time it was the man who was dressed as a scholar in a white shirt and a gauze hat.

The bearded man glared at him, and the scholar in white took a step back with a dry smile, it turned out that he had stolen the limelight from the eldest brother.

The old man was not panicked, as if he had no fear, and asked without changing his face, "I don't know how much the old man's head is worth?" ”

"It's worth a lot of money."

The bearded man smiled, but his eyes fell on the plain scholar who was driving the car, "This must be the jade-faced little scholar Cao Jun and Cao Gongzi next to Mr., right?" ”

The white-clothed scholar turned a deaf ear, but the old man in the Confucian shirt's face changed slightly.

This jade-faced little scholar is his personal guard, and he was also a person in the rivers and lakes in his early years, but he didn't practice swords, and his main study was a secret weapon, which can be regarded as a little famous.

Later, he was hired by him to serve as a servant, and then disappeared from the rivers and lakes, and very few people knew about it.

These people can know the true identity of the jade-faced little scholar, and they are obviously prepared.

Besides, the people in the rivers and lakes are all idle clouds and wild cranes, they are arrogant, and they can be killed for the people in the court, and their kung fu is actually not too high, just like this jade-faced little scholar, who has a secret weapon in one hand, but he really fights with people, in fact, he has little advantage, which is what the old man is most worried about.

"Actually, it is more valuable to capture it alive, why don't Lord Situ go with us, maybe we can be soft and leave a life, after all, the adult who paid for it admires Mr. 's talent very much." The bearded man rolled up his sleeves and held the knife in his arms.

The bearded man's mouth squinted his eyes, his eyes wandering.

He was originally a highly respected old man in the Great Xia Kingdom, but he was unsuccessful in the court and was demoted to serve in the northern battlefield by the Great Xia monarch.

In the north, there are rogues who are detained, and he is an old man, and at most he will only die.

After learning of this, he sent a letter to him, telling him that His Majesty the emperor of Jin Pan Kingdom admired him very much, and hoped that he could take up a post in the court of Jin Pan Kingdom.

The old man didn't do anything, only took two of his closest people, and went south in the name of traveling, intending to meet the emperor of Jin Pan first, and then take his family over when the matter was finalized.

He had long heard that the Emperor of the Jin Pan Kingdom had a great backing, although he was a vassal country of Great Xia, the Emperor of Great Xia was very jealous of this person, and even feared, if he could gain a firm foothold in the court of the Jin Pan Kingdom, then his family would at least have no worries about their lives in Great Xia.

The old man actually guessed the identity of these roadblockers, most of them were enemies of the Great Xia Kingdom, or simply the clumsy methods adopted by the monarch who knew his purpose.

Before leaving, the old man had expected this, otherwise he would not have brought this jade-faced little scholar.

But the other party is so fearless, it is inevitable that the drum will beat in his heart.

The old man was not worried about the life of his old bones, but he was afraid that his family would be affected afterwards.

In the smoky court, there is no misfortune for the family.