Chapter 79: Encounter with a caravan
Wei Yang walked along the mountain road, he looked around, trying to find a cave to rest and rest, but the mountain road was lined with bare mountain walls, and there was nowhere to hide, so he could only continue to move forward helplessly.
Turning a small hill, Wei Yang found that more than a dozen carriages were parked in a flat open space next to the mountain road, several wildfires were lit around the carriages, those coachmen were setting up tents, several dart masters guarding the carriage vigilantly, two men were burying the pot to make rice, the steaming rice fragrance came to his nose, and the hungry Wei Yang took a few gulps greedily.
There were three people drinking tea and eating pastries next to a wildfire, and in the middle sat an old man in his fifties, next to the old man was a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old and a little girl in her teens.
Wei Yang walked timidly towards them.
When a dart master saw someone approaching, he shouted loudly to Wei Yang: "Idle people are not allowed to approach the carriage, hurry away."
At this time, a young man about twenty years old walked over, and he said to Wei Yang: "If you hear it, leave this place immediately, and roll as far as you can."
This young man has a white face and a clean beard, his facial features are thoughtful, and he looks extraordinary, staring at Wei Yang arrogantly.
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl stood up and said to the young man, "Cousin, don't do this, this is just a passing boy, so don't embarrass him."
"Cousin, I'm doing this for the safety of the horse team, this guy is of unknown origin, who knows if he is a spy of a strongman?"
The young man said earnestly.
The girl ignored the young man, beckoned to Wei Yang and said, "Little brother, it's okay, come over here and drink tea to warm up, come over quickly."
Seeing the warm invitation of this beautiful girl, Wei Yang was about to step over, and the young man took a stride, opened his hands in front of Wei Yang and said loudly: "No, the convoy can't be mixed with people of unknown origin, I can't say no, it's not okay."
"Cousin, don't forget that this is Miss Ben's decision, you are just an accompanying guest, please don't meddle in my affairs, get out of the way."
The girl said to the young man.
The young man blushed, and said to the girl with his hands outstretched, "Didn't I do this for you?" You must know that there is the biggest mountain bandit strongman in front of you, how can you do it if you are not careful? “
The old man in his fifties said: "Master Hu, we have people from the Zhenwei Dart Bureau as guards, so you don't have to worry about things here."
This Hu Gongzi glanced at Wei Yang fiercely, turned around angrily and left.
The little girl who was about ten years old ran over and took Wei Yang's hand and said sweetly, "Little brother, come and sit here."
Wei Yang walked into the fire and sat down and said, "I'm really sorry, I'm angry for me to make your cousin."
The girl smiled and said, "It's okay, he's just like that, he has to take care of everything that shouldn't be in his hands, and it's annoying to death along the way."
"My name is Ye Jing, this is my sister Ye Huan, this old man is our Ye family's chief housekeeper Uncle Chen." The girl introduced to Wei Yang.
Wei Yang nodded to Uncle Chen, Ye Jing handed over a cup of fragrant milk tea, Ye Huan also sent a piece of pastry, and Wei Yang said thank you.
"Little brother, where are you going?" Ye Jing asked.
"I'm going to Jin'an City, I wonder if this road will go there?"
"You took the wrong path, little brother, this road leads to Kangning City, but it is not too far from Jin'an City, and I can take you back to Jin'an City in a carriage when we arrive.
Wei Yang could only do this after hearing it.
This enthusiastic and beautiful sister made him feel good, and he asked puzzledly: "Are you at the helm of such a large convoy of yours?"
In Wei Yang's mind, the general large caravan fleet is handled by some experienced and young men, and it is impossible for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl to bear it.
Ye Jing lowered her long eyelashes, and a look of silence crossed her delicate and delicate face.
Uncle Chen said: "Little brother, I won't tell you, our Ye family is also a big family with a head and face in Kangning City, just because the head of the family has no son, that is, Ye Jing and Ye Huan's two precious daughters, in the past, things like this kind of big business and long-distance trafficking were personally taken care of by the head of the family, how could it be that before leaving, the head of the family was accidentally injured and couldn't go, so the old man took the two young ladies out to experience it."
Saying that, Uncle Chen sighed.
"Then what happened to Sister Ye's cousin just now?" Wei Yang asked.
Ye Jing said: "My cousin is my aunt's son, their Hu family and my Ye family are both big businessmen in Kangning City, but no matter how hard his Hu family tries, he can't do our Ye family, this time my father is injured and can't travel, my cousin saw that there was no one in my house, and asked to do this business instead of my father, but my father politely declined, so he followed in the convoy in the name of going out to understand the market."
"This Hu family and our Ye family are competitors in business, but the business acumen of the Hu family is much worse than that of our family." Chen Bo added.
It turned out that this was the case, Wei Yang basically understood the situation of the caravan in front of him, and he saw that the tent was still short of manpower, so he took the initiative to go over to help.
The Hu Gongzi stopped him and said, "Stinky boy, get out of this caravan quickly."
"Sister Ye left me here, you can't take care of it." Wei Yang said to him coldly.
One sentence made Hu Gongzi angry, and he came to Ye Jing angrily and complained loudly: "Cousin, it's good that we are relatives, even if you don't agree with my family's proposal and refuse to marry me, you will never bury me for an outsider."
In the face of Hu Gongzi's accusation, Ye Jing said: "It's true that we are relatives, but don't mention any family matters, what I do has its own measure, and it hasn't reached your point yet."
"Good, good, good, don't regret it then." Hu Gongzi gritted his teeth and said.
"I won't regret it." Ye Jing said that he didn't pay attention to him anymore and sat down by the fire.
When the meal was served, Wei Yang was invited to sit down with the Ye sisters and Uncle Chen to eat, and Hu Gongzi also sat aside.
At this time, the leader of the dart master came over and said to Ye Jing and Chen Bo: "Tomorrow morning, we will pass through the pass of the first line of heaven, where the terrain is steep, and there is a group of mountain bandits and strongmen, if we can successfully pass through the pass of the first line of heaven, we can reach Kangning City in one horse."
Chen Bo said politely: "The matter of guarding is still the responsibility of Master Jiang."
"This is our duty, with the name of our Zhenwei Dart Bureau, the green forest heroes along the road will give a little thin noodles." Jiang Dart Master said confidently.
Ye Jing said resolutely: "It's okay to give face or not, because this is a necessary way."
Hu Gongzi stood up and wiped his mouth and said, "Thin noodles? A little thin noodles are used for a fart. “
As he spoke, the guy glanced at everyone with a little meaning, and walked towards a tent with a strange expression.
Jiang Dart Master glanced at the yin and yang weird Hu Gongzi and said to Ye Jing, "What's the matter with this guy?" What the hell is he following? Every day the gods chattered as if he were the master.
"Ignore him." Ye Jing said in disgust.
At night, Wei Yang woke up in the tent and found that Ye Jing was still sitting by the fire in a daze, with a worried look, Wei Yang also felt that the burden of a big family was on a young girl, which was indeed a bit heavy.
Wei Yang walked to the fire and sat down beside Ye Jing.
"What is Sister Ye worried about?" Wei Yang asked softly.
"I'm worried about whether it's safe to cross the Tianshan Pass tomorrow, you must know that the goods of these dozen or so carriages are all the wealth of my Ye family, if there is any mistake, my Ye family will collapse, and I will be ashamed of my father."
Ye Jing told Wei Yang that there are three major families in Kangning City that control the economic pulse of the city and divide the market, and the three major families have the Ye family as the most powerful, followed by the Zhou family and the Hu family combined are not as powerful as the Ye family, but the Ye family is thin when it comes to Ye Jing's father's generation, and the heirs are not prosperous, and her father has no sons under his knees, only Ye Jing and Ye Huan's two daughters.
Seeing this situation, her uncle Hu family came to propose marriage, which was called a kiss and a kiss, but in fact, he wanted to monopolize the Ye family's property in the name of marriage.
That Hu Gongzi Hu Jie is unlearned, prodigal, and fools around in Fengyue places all day long, such a person of character comes to propose marriage, of course, he will be rejected by the Ye family, Ye Jing also hates this cousin, and has no good impression of him at all, this Hu Jie wants to marry her.
For this reason, the Hu family was annoyed and angry, cut off contact with the Ye family, and colluded with the Zhou family to unite to deal with and suppress the Ye family in the business field, but no matter what they did, they could not shake the Ye family's dominant position.
This time, the Ye family poured all their financial resources into the south with the furs and precious mountain ginseng from the north to exchange for a large number of pearls, agate and jade, but just before Ye Qinghe, the head of the Ye family, was about to set off, he was unexpectedly attacked and was seriously injured, resulting in the inability to personally lead the team to the south.
There are no men in the family, only two daughters, there is no suitable person to go to the south to finalize this deal instead of him, and when Ye Qing is at a loss, the eldest lady of the Hu family, that is, Ye Jing's aunt, came to the door with her son Hu Jie.
Her aunt first paved the way with family affection, and then persuaded Ye Qinghe to let her son Hu Jie go to the south instead of him, Ye Qinghe immediately replied I'm sorry, I have decided to let Uncle Chen take his daughter Ye Jing to the south together.
The Hu family couldn't make a plan and made another plan, what did they say to let Hu Jie go out with the caravan to experience and understand the market, Ye Qinghe saw his sister's face, so he reluctantly agreed.
Speaking of this, Ye Jing said to Wei Yang worriedly: "Looking at Hu Jie's abnormal behavior along the way, I really don't know what kind of medicine is sold in this Hu family's gourd?"