Chapter 72: The Bloody Case in Luomei Town
Two hundred miles outside the imperial capital of the Northern Dynasty, Guangling.
Luomei Town.
This is an ancient town at the foot of the Kunling Snow Mountain, located in the northern traffic fortress, and the imperial city of Handyong Guangling City is only more than 200 miles away.
It is also an important town for many businessmen to trade in the north and south, and when they go north, they trade and trade.
At this time, the post station on the outskirts of Luomei Town fell into a chaotic fight.
It is said to be a fight, but it is not true.
It's more like going through a massacre and looting without suspense.
Liu Zhiyuan, the steward of the An family, had a wound on his arm, and his face still had the blood stains that had been splashed during the fierce battle, and he hurriedly pushed open the door of the easternmost guest room of the post station with an anxious face, and urged the master who was gorgeously dressed but full of panic in the room:
"βHead of the House! We have encountered the mountain bandits of Luomeiling who came down the mountain to ransack, they are numerous, and the number of guards at home is too small to match!
Hurry up and take the lady and the little master first! After everyone comes to the end, they will delay the time for the head of the family and his wife! β
The head of the An family looked at the appearance that he was not very old and had just passed.
And his delicate lady was still holding two trembling children in her arms, one son and one daughter looked young, not yet the height of an adult's knees, and they were very frightened by this change.
An's was the richest family in Huzhou in Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty, and he was doing silk brocade trading, and most of the goods were sold and circulated in the Jiangnan area of Tianchen, and there were also excellent cloud brocades sold into Zhaoge City, which was once all the rage.
coincided with the death of An's old man this year, and An Xuan, the new head of An's family, who had just passed the year of establishment, became the director.
The head of An Xuan's family is young and vigorous, and he is not willing to lay out the industry only in a corner of the south of the Tianchen River, so he wants to take advantage of the crisp autumn weather before winter, and personally take a few good hands to take care of the family and nursing home, and go north to the Imperial City of Handyong to explore luck.
If you are lucky enough to find any business opportunities in Handyong in the Northern Dynasty, wouldn't you be able to connect the north and the south with home trading and go to the next level?
When his wife Mu heard the idea of the head of the An family, she not only did not object, but also strongly agreed, in order to solve her husband's worries and not shake the An family, so his wife Mu took out all her dowry to help An Xuan buy this trip.
An Xuan was moved, so he also decided to take his wife and children, who had never left Huzhou and had seen the vast world outside, to travel together, and to travel around the mountains and rivers and see the world.
I thought that in recent years, there would be no danger or mistakes in the truce between the north and the south for many years, and with the fact that a few people from the rivers and lakes of the spiritual realm were hired along the way to guard them casually.
Who knew that they had no danger all the way, and they had all arrived at Luomei Town safely, and then walked more than 100 miles to reach Guangling City, the capital of Handyong in the Northern Dynasty, but they encountered such fierce mountain bandits!
"But the goods in the courtyard of the innβ"
An Xuan said anxiously: "That's the gold brocade silk that Mrs. bought all the dowry, and all the net worth we want to sell to Guangling City on this trip!" β
The housekeeper Liu Zhiyuan said urgently: "The master of the family! Hurry up and run for your life! Now that the lives of your family are only in an instant, where can you still manage these things outside your body? β
Mrs. Muhammad patted the frightened child, and hurriedly followed suit:
"Yes, husband, Uncle Liu is right! When the money is gone, we can earn it again, but if we are gone, we can't turn it around. Fortunately, the dowry used in our purchase on this trip is the dowry of the concubine, not the family business of the An family, even if it is lost, it will not shake the foundation of the family. β
An Xuan has a gentle personality, and he is even more heartbroken for his wife's true feelings.
"But...... That's all Huan Niang's dowry, because your husband wanted to make money by opening up the business route for this trip, so he gave you all the money with the interest. β
Mu led the two children to his feet, smiling pale but gentle.
"Husband, the concubine has the same heart, you and I are husband and wife, there is no distinction between you and me, as for money, we might as well redouble our efforts in the future, and we will naturally earn it back."
An Xuan was moved by his wife's words, and the screams of the fight outside were getting closer and closer, so there was no time for him to entangle anymore. So, he hurriedly cleaned up the room, and then he and the housekeeper held a child in their arms, and took his wife Mu Shi and fled from the back door of the post station.
In this way, the three major and two small schools stumbled all the way, and after coming out of the back door of the post station in a panic, they ran for their lives along the mountain path, leaving behind the sound of the fighting that gradually became smaller and lighter.
I don't know how long I ran, until a few people no longer had the strength to stop.
The hem of their original gorgeous brocade robes was already covered with dust at this time, and a few places were scratched and torn by the strange rocks and trees in the mountains, making them look ragged, and they had never noticed that they had been tired of running for their lives before.
"What's going on? Why is it getting colder and colder in the mountains......"
Mu Shi looked at the tall trees around him with a pale face, "What time is this?" Isn't it just past noon, why can't you see the sun in this mountain? β
The butler's injured arm was no longer bleeding in the cold mountains, and he shivered slightly, but his heart chuckled when he heard the words.
His face froze, "It's bad, Luomei Town is close to the world's first strange peak, Kunling Snow Mountain, could it be that we just fled for our lives in a hurry and ran up to Kunling Snow Mountain in a panic?" β
Mr. and Mrs. An looked at the housekeeper blankly.
An Xuan was puzzled and asked: "Kunling Snow Mountain, why, is it impassable here?" β
The housekeeper shook his head with a wry smile, "The head of the family is the people of Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty, and his family has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and he is not a person from the rivers and lakes, so he doesn't know that this Kunling Snow Mountain is the first peak of Handyong in the Northern Dynasty." The snow on the mountain does not melt all year round, and the wind is as cold as the ice blade, which is extremely steep and majestic, and it is impossible for ordinary people to climb it.
Therefore, thousands of years ago, the first sword sect in the world will be located here, open the mountain and establish a faction, so that the disciples can starve their bodies, suffer their bodies and minds, and temper their minds, and there have been generations of sword immortals for thousands of years, known as 'sword immortal mounds'. We are just ordinary people, and Mrs. and Young Master are delicate, how can we climb over such a precipitous peak? β
"What?"
An Xuan was stunned, he looked at his wife and childish son who was shivering from the strange weather in the mountains at this time, frowned and said:
"Uncle Liu, since this road is no longer passable, why don't we go back the way we came?"
"No!"
Steward Liu's face sank like water.
"The head of the family doesn't know that the people of the Northern Dynasty are fierce, and the mountain bandits are especially cruel and ruthless. Besides, Handan Yong and my southern Chao Tianchen are like feuds.
If their merchants from the Northern Dynasty were kidnapped by the mountain bandits, perhaps their families paid enough ransom to satisfy the mountain bandits, and they could exchange them for a life. However, if our merchants of the Southern Dynasty encounter the mountain bandits of the Northern Dynasty, they will inevitably die! β
His eyes fell on his wife Mu and Miss, not to mention that they also had their daughters and young children......
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, then aren't we going to wait here to die?"
An Xuan was shocked when he heard this, and his heart was anxious.
He stepped forward and grabbed the butler's arm, as if holding the last life-saving straw, and in his anxiety, he actually forgot to avoid the wound on the butler's hand, but Liu Zhiyuan didn't say a word.
"Uncle Liu! You are a good hand in the Golden Yao Heaven Realm, and you were a centurion in the army before you were discharged from the army due to injury. I, An Xuan, will die if I die, but please Uncle Liu must save the lives of my wife and children! β
The housekeeper Liu Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and closed his eyes and thought.
An's late old lady had a great kindness to him, and he couldn't help but repay it!
During the years when Mrs. An served in his army, she helped take care of his blind mother, and when his mother died, she bought a thin coffin and helped her deceased mother to be buried.
The grace of burying the mother, born as a son of man, should be repaid by the grass!
An Xuan is the only son of the old lady, and he needs to be able to repay his life and protect An Xuan's husband and wife and children in order to be loyal.
Although most of the mountain bandits have a low martial arts realm, and most of them are only in the spiritual realm realm, his Jin Yao realm is only one big realm higher than him, not to mention that the other party is too many.
If he was alone, he would naturally be able to come and go freely among the bandits.
But if he wanted to go back the way he came, and protect the women and children of the An family from the many mountain bandits, it would be almost impossible!
Liu Zhiyuan raised his head and looked fixedly at the towering hills in the distance, but now it is only the golden autumn of September, and the snow has fallen on the peak.
Then you can only ......
Bet your luck.
Just bet on them, they don't deserve to die!