It's a pity that there is no fire cloth in the field. Even the merchants from the Western Regions were pitifully few.

Now in the Hexi Corridor, horse bandits are rampant, and the merchants on the side of Daliang can't get by, and the merchants on the Western Regions can't get over.

Although there are many businesses in the field, they are far less than the word "prosperity".

After an afternoon of inspection, Song Che felt that with the current scale of commerce, it was far from meeting the standard of opening a money bank.

It took nearly three months, from Jiangnan to the northwest, if he only came to sell cloth, Song Che was somewhat unwilling.

These horse bandits are really blocking Lao Tzu's financial path.

……

That night, Song Che and the others stayed at the inn in the field, preparing to return to Xiliang City with the army at dawn the next day.

Today's blood earns a piece of mutton fat jade, which can make Tang Hulu, the old fox, very happy, for him, if he can make a fortune every day, it doesn't matter if he goes to the Western Regions or not.

Song Che didn't have so much passion, this Xiliang was too desolate, so cold that it was so cold that he even wanted to resell the goods in his hand to Tang Hulu so that he could go home.

"Alas......"

Song Che pillowed his head and looked at the top of the bed lightly, on this hot day, there was a lack of water in the field, and he couldn't sleep with a sweat.

"Smack!"

With a slap on his arm, Nangong Yueyu flipped her hand and handed him a flattened, bloody mosquito in front of him, and asked:

"You said you don't lack anything, why did you come to such a place to find guilt?"

Song Che smiled and lightly spit out two words: "Pursuit." ”

Nangong Yue said: "When I am juju, I will also run after the ball. ”

"When I say pursuit, I mean what I want to achieve at every age and stage of life.

Money, fame, status, women, these material pursuits have been achieved, and now I want to pursue spiritual freedom,"

Song Che wrenched his fingers one by one in front of her, and said with a smile: "Go to the highest mountain peak to watch the sunrise, go to the vast sand sea to watch the sunset, go to the Western Regions to see the beauties, go to Persia to see the glamorous dance, go to Siam to see the ladyboys, oh yes, you have to go to the Western Hemisphere continent, looking for something called 'tobacco', life is longing, and if you solve the problem of food and clothing, you should yearn for poetry and distance." ”

He tilted his head and looked at Nangong Yue next to his pillow: "So, Nangong Beauty, what about you?" ”

"Me?"

The more Nangong Yue thought about it, the more dazed she became, and finally she simply fell into Song Che's arms: "I don't have any pursuits, I just want to follow you, the boss." ”

"Now, you're doing the right thing."

Song Che said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you are confused in life, choose a person who is not confused, step on his shadow, follow him, and one day, you will be able to get what you want." ”

"Hmm."

……

Night.

In the dead of night.

Suddenly!

There was a lot of noise.

Overheard someone shouting:

"The horse bandits are coming!"

The dark night was instantly lit up by firelight.

Song Che hurriedly turned over and got out of bed, wrapped his clothes and came to the window, opened the crack in the window and poked out, only to see that in the direction of the town, countless rockets flew into the field like meteors, and the guards quickly gathered towards the town, and the sound of fighting, fighting, and horses' hooves was mixed up.

"Such an arrogant horse bandit, he even dares to rob the official house!"

Nangong Yue took off the sword on the bow of the ship and asked, "Boss, are we going to support?" ”

Song Che shook his head, the horse bandits who dared to come to loot the field must be quite a few in number, if they couldn't even stop the guards, how could they be opponents?

"Get out of the back of the field, quick!"

All the merchants in the field were awakened by this sudden attack of the horse bandits, and for a while, cattle, sheep, horses, carts and carts hurriedly moved back.

"The horse bandits are coming!"

"Run!"

The horse bandits broke through the town, armed with torches and machetes, and rushed into the field in one fell swoop, and seemed to hear them shouting:

"Don't kill indiscriminately! Catch the merchants! Especially the big beam merchants! Fast! ”

How can a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse? Soon, the merchants were overtaken by horse bandits.

The horse bandits were obviously purposeful, and whenever they saw a Liang merchant wearing a long shirt and dressed richly, they would stun with a knife on the back and take them directly on horseback.

Song Che was obviously among them, several horse bandit cavalry rushed towards him, Nangong Yue and Lu Jingxiang struggled to block it, and Song Che also distanced himself and counterattacked the horse bandits with muskets.

But there were too many bandits, not a thousand, but eight hundred, and soon they were outflanked from another block, and surrounded the merchants.

"Boss Song, save me-"

"Bang!"

Before Tang Hulu finished speaking, he was knocked unconscious by a knife and dragged onto the horse.

Nangong Yue and Lu Jingxiang couldn't parry the large number of horse bandits, and they were gradually dispersed, Song Che saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ran into the alley, thinking about sneaking to escape, but just when he got into the alley, a heavy blow suddenly came to the back of the head, and the sky swirled with it, and then it was dark in front of him, and his consciousness gradually blurred......

"Everyone is done, let's go! Don't wait for the West Cool Banner to come! ”

"Drive! Drive! ”

"Boss! ...... owner"

……

……

Vertigo.

Heaviness.

Fall.

Pain.

"Hiss......"

Song Che opened his eyes suddenly, subconsciously wiped the back of his head, and puffed out a big bag.

It took at least a quarter of an hour for the blurry scene in front of me to become clear.

The rickety prison cart drove in the desolate hills and ravines, the chirping of geese could be heard from time to time in the sky, and outside the prisoner cart was a group of horse bandits armed with knives.

There were three prisoner carts, and all the Liang merchants were imprisoned in them, and there were more than twenty of them, who were still unconscious.

Song Che moved his body with difficulty and shook Tang Hulu, who was lying opposite, "Boss Tang, Boss Tang ......"

Tang Hulu slept like a dead pig, and even snored slightly. Song Che patted him on the face, pinched the middle of the other person, "...... huh" He snored, opened his eyes suddenly, straightened up and shouted:

"I'm not a Liang merchant! Don't catch me! Don't catch me! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The horse bandit knocked on the prisoner cart with a knife and shouted: "What a noise! Don't make a sound! ”

As soon as Tang Hulu saw the knife, he instantly came to his senses, he pulled the prisoner cart, and cried: "Guys, look at me, I'm not a Liang merchant, I'm just a Persian in a long robe, you caught the wrong person......

The horse bandit said: "I've been caught, is it difficult to put you back?" Be honest with me, or let your blood go! ”

Tang Hulu was so frightened that he hurriedly shrank into the prisoner car, not daring to make a loud noise, so he could only wipe his tears and sob:

"It's over, it's over, it's all over, my family business, my Dina, my three illegitimate children, how can they live without me......"

No way!

Don't you remember that Thaking believes in Allah? And where did bastards come from?

Song Che comforted: "Boss Tang, don't cry yet, if they want to kill us, they don't have to go to great lengths to catch us here, it should be fine." ”

Tang Hulu was stunned and continued to wipe his tears: "They must have taken us back to the horse bandits' den, and then blackmailed our families to pay the ransom, and if we couldn't pay it, we would tear up the tickets, we still have to die, it's over, it's over, it's all over......"

Song Che felt that it was not necessarily.

If it is really kidnapping for ransom, why only tie up the Liangren?

And the attack on the field is not a trivial matter, can you take such a big risk to seek wealth?

Moreover, looking at this team of horse bandits, they didn't even grab a single carload of goods, their purpose was definitely not pure.