Marriage.

Before Li Qingru came, Yu Zhi couldn't wait to marry Li Wantong immediately and live a life without shame.

After Li Qingru came, Yu Zhi hesitated, he felt that he might die suddenly, in an unknown place.

If so, didn't Li Wantong become a widow?

Yu Zhi didn't want Li Wantong to accompany him to bear so many dangers.

At night, Yu Zhi had just finished practicing, exhausted his true qi, and sat in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, most of the time he didn't like to practice, but the current situation forced him to practice.

"Auntie." Yu Zhi saw someone coming and shouted.

Li Qingru sat down beside Yu Zhi and said, "When are you going to go to Nanzhou Mansion?" ”

Yu Zhi looked at the stars in the sky and sighed. "I wanted to leave as soon as possible, but in the afternoon Tong'er told me that she wanted to marry me. I hesitated. ”

"You don't look like your dad at all." Li Qingru said.

Yu Shanhe will not worry about these children's affections, and Yu knows differently. He is sensitive and careful, and the more he thinks, the more sorrows he has.

"You already have a family affair with the Li family, and your father never thought that the young lady of the Li family would give birth to a pair of twins. And you met Wantong by mistake. It's fate. Fate can't be avoided. ”

Yu Zhi grinned, and also sighed that there was a certain number in the dark.

"But I didn't dare say yes to her. I wanted to avenge my father, who I hadn't seen, and the road in front of me was a sea of swords and fire. I'm afraid that one will accidentally die in Nanzhou Mansion. ”

Li Qingru was silent, anyone facing an enemy like Xiang Ji would have a feeling of being in a desperate situation, not to mention that Yu Zhi was just a teenager.

Yu Zhi sighed, glanced at Li Qingru, and continued: "Auntie, I don't want Tong'er to be in danger. ”

At this moment, Yu Zhi made a very important decision.

"It's good that Kiri stays in Kyoto, if I can come back alive, then ...... We'll talk about that then. ”

With unprecedented danger comes unprecedented confusion.

It is as if wandering in the mist, even though the stars twinkle in the depths of the mist, guiding the way, but the road under your feet is full of thorns, and you will fall off the cliff if you step on the wrong step.

Li Qingru looked at Yu Zhi and said, "I will protect Wantong, and you must also protect yourself." ”

......

In the early morning, when Li Wantong opened her eyes, two sandalwood boxes appeared in her hazy vision.

In an instant, Li Wantong's heart was shocked, and she had an uneasy premonition in her heart.

"Yu Zhi ......"

The two boxes contained the phoenix golden hairpin and the phoenix blood white jade. These are all things that Yu Zhi wanted to give to Li Wantong when he got married, and now he has given them in advance.

Li Wantong rushed out of the room and went straight to Yu Zhi's room. But Yu Zhi has long been gone.

Qiu Ruoruo had already anticipated the scene in front of her, she appeared behind Li Wantong and said, "Sister Li, last night, Brother Xiaoyu had already set off for the south. He said that he didn't know how to say goodbye to you, so he simply didn't say anything. ”

Last night, Yu Zhi found Qiu Ruoruo and gave her all his entrustment. He believes that Akiruo will be able to handle everything in Kyoto.

And Qiu Ruoruo also told Yu Zhi some things, including Liuying's stronghold in Nanzhou Mansion.

Qiu Ruoruo continued: "Brother Xiaoyu said that he would come back to marry you. It's just not now, the future is dangerous, and he doesn't want you to take risks with him. ”

Li Wantong knew Yu Zhi's life experience, and she knew that Nanzhou Mansion was in a desperate situation, but she was willing to accompany Yu Zhi to live and die together.

Li Wantong shed two lines of tears, and said in a resolute tone: "In this life, I, Li Wantong, will not marry." If he was left behind like this, leaving him alone to face a desperate situation, I would rather die with him. ”

Women are not weak, especially when their convictions are firm.

Qiu Ruoruo sighed and didn't say anything more. Yu Zhi has already gone to Nanzhou Mansion, what can Li Wantong do?

And in Kyoto, Akiruaka also has things to do.

......

Yu Zhi left Kyoto and wandered slowly towards the south.

It took only about ten days to return to Kyoto from the north, but six of those days were spent in the clean cells of Dali Temple.

These six days did not make Yu Zhi feel unforgettable, but he lived in a house where he couldn't move around for six days, and met an old man by the way.

Oh yes. He also received a golden dagger.

I should have been able to exchange it for some silver.

However, Yu Zhi also learned from the autumn wind that this dagger was very valuable, especially in Nanzhou Mansion. Yu Zhi put away the idea of exchanging it for silver.

In addition to the six days of imprisonment, the remaining days made Yu Zhi remember deeply.

On an ordinary day, Yu Zhi met Jiang Xiyue and met his biological mother and son who did not know each other.

On an ordinary night, Yu Zhi learned of his life experience, and the deep hatred of the sea of blood pressed on his heart, haunting Yu Zhi like a mist.

The dog's bloody background made Yu Zhi have to take on unprecedented dangers. Even if he escapes, those people will come to the door. What's more, he has been running away for more than ten years.

Therefore, Yu Zhi chose to become Xiao Yuande's knife and swung the blade towards Nanzhou.

When you go north to the north, you gather in groups, as if you are going out with friends.

Now that he is alone in the south, he is more like a young chivalrous traveler traveling through the rivers and lakes.

Leaving Kyoto, Yu Zhi found a caravan to accompany him. The banditry in Nanzhou Mansion made the caravans more vigilant, doubling the number of bodyguards they usually hired.

Bodyguards are jobs that pin their heads to their belts, and the price is expensive, especially the bandits in Nanzhou Mansion have made the price of bodyguards rise. The bodyguard of the third grade of the cracked stone costs fifty taels of silver, and the bodyguard of the fourth grade of armor piercing costs one hundred taels. As for the first and second grades of cracked stones, the price is below thirty taels.

There were more than fifty people in the caravan, and the bodyguards accounted for half of them, including five people from the third grade of Cracked Stone, and three people from the fourth grade of armor. The remaining dozen or so people are all cracked stone first and second grades.

In this way, the cost of hiring a bodyguard alone accounts for most of the profit of this business. However, no matter how thin the profit is, as long as the goods are delivered, they will naturally be able to earn some silver.

If the goods are robbed by thieves, there will be no money to be made in this business, not to mention, and the reputation will be lost. Therefore, the bodyguards have to spend all the money they should spend.

These bodyguards are not those talented sect disciples in the 100,000 Great Mountain, they rely on one or two superficial exercises, and it is extremely difficult for them to practice to crack stones, and even break armor. Not everyone has adventures, exercises, and resources to help them practice.

And the cultivation of the four grades of armor-piercing can also mix a better official position in the army, and it is not a problem to be a county guard in some remote places.

Yu Zhi lied that the cultivation was only three grades of cracked stones, and he took twenty taels of silver, and the remaining thirty taels would be cashed out when they arrived safely in Nanzhou Mansion.

A trip to the escort business can earn a full fifty taels of silver, which is the money that most families can only earn in ten years.

The heavy twenty taels of silver also made the eyes of the subordinates who accompanied them, they were the servants of the master's family, and they had a few dollars of silver every month, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work.

The destination of this caravan was Sioux City, which was also Yu Zhi's destination. Sioux City is to the north of Nanzhou Mansion, adjacent to Cangzhou Mansion. At the speed of a caravan, it will take a month and a half to reach Sioux City from Kyoto.

Yu Zhi is not in a hurry, a month and a half can allow him to practice and practice, and polish the realm of the seven products of the opening monument more stable.

The caravan went all the way south, and the first half month of the journey was peaceful, closer to Kyoto, and the people's lives were more peaceful. Furthermore, more than 20 cultivators opened the Dao, and their bodies were full of boiling qi and blood, clearly under the banner of not entering the living.

Some of the mountain bandits who robbed the road along the way were also discouraged, not wanting to cause such trouble.

Except for Yu Zhi, most of these bodyguards have friendships, especially the other four Split Stone Third Rank and one of them, the Armor Piercing Fourth Grade, these five people often move around and have a great relationship. The other armor-piercing fourth product prefers to drink wine and eat meat with the first and second grades of the cracked stone, and the middle-aged appearance is more refreshing.

Yu Zhi's figure only attracted the attention of others, making these cultivators interested in the handsome young man in front of him who had three grades of cracked stones.

The third grade of the Split Stone is nothing in Yu Zhi's eyes, after all, he has killed the strong man who opened the stele and the eighth grade. But in the homes of ordinary people, this is the glory that can glorify the ancestors. With this kind of cultivation, he will definitely not die of hunger.

Moreover, Yu Zhi is still so young, this body of sturdy qi and blood to step into the fourth grade of armor-piercing is just around the corner.

The person who was familiar with the cultivators of the four Split Stone Three Grades was called Zhou Hu, who worked as a bodyguard in Kyoto all the year round, and the four Split Stone Three Grades were also his life and death brothers.

It is common to escort caravans with the repair of the four armor-piercing products. And the four armor-piercing products can also be regarded as one of the higher realms.

Zhou Hu's reputation is very good, and the price is quite fair. Therefore, many people are willing to ask him for escort. However, he is also vigilant by nature, and over the years, there are only five of them, and no one else is accepted into the gang.

After walking for half a month, I have been far away from Kyoto, and there is a lot more unrest on the road.

Zhou Hu is an experienced person, he has walked this road many times, and it is clear who the surrounding mountain bandits are.

However, this time, I felt more and more that something was wrong.

This is a wild place, there is no village in front of the village, there are no shops in the back, and there are a few villages scattered in the wilderness.

In the past, the caravans escorted by Zhou Hu would settle near these villages and take out some silver money to buy some food with the people in the village. But the village was empty, and the livestock had disappeared into thin air.

There was not a single living creature in the whole village.

It was as if all living things had been swallowed up by an inexplicable force.

Zhou Hu discovered the abnormality and didn't say anything, just urged the chariot and horse to move forward and leave this wilderness as soon as possible. The safest place is in the city.

Walking at night is the most likely opportunity for mountain bandits, which is also a taboo for guards.

But the uneasiness in Zhou Hu's heart urged him to move forward and leave this place immediately.

The scene is the same in successive villages, there are no signs of fighting in the village, the houses are intact, and new houses are being built, and this will not be the relocation of the whole village.

Yu Zhi lay on the carriage stacked with goods, his sharp gaze swept around, and a strange aura permeated the entire caravan.

No one spoke, and their minds tensed, not daring to break the marching footsteps and the quietly terrible air. At this moment, everyone was also aware of the anomaly along the way.

During this period, Yu Zhi looked towards the mountain forest on one side several times. He had a vague sense that someone was watching them. That obscure and gloomy gaze was like the gaze of a ghost, which made Yu Zhi chill.

In the early morning, there was a heavy fog.

In the white mist, they couldn't see their five fingers, and the group didn't dare to stay, even if they couldn't see the road ahead, they continued to move forward.

The main family in the carriage did not object, and always obeyed Zhou Hu's arrangement.

This sudden fog kicked off a strange prelude.