Chapter 111: A Chance Encounter with a Business Trip
The rain has stopped, and the sky is still 'overcast'. )
Two days of 'cloudy' and cold rain have drenched the already poor condition of the trail even more and more unbearable. The time and the ground are like this, but it is a pain to the group of people who are in a hurry.
After Fang Xing rode out of the Cold Mountain Fortress, he traveled dozens of miles at a rapid pace before he slightly dissipated the depression in his heart. After his mood calmed down slightly, he glanced at the guards around him and couldn't help frowning. Liang Mengzi was left in the cold mountain fortress by him and never followed, while Fang Wu and Fang Laifu each had a task. Now there was not a single Qi Refiner of the Divine Realm beside him.
The situation in Dongping County has been unstable recently, and all kinds of killing machines are in the dark, and even the air seems to be much heavier. In this crisis-ridden situation, even if Fang Xing had a surging pride in his heart, he was unwilling to appear in a high-profile manner without the protection of strong force. After thinking about it, he took a dozen guards behind him, disguised himself in a post station at a three-way crossing, and 'blended' into a passing caravan.
Right now, Fang Xing was struggling on a muddy country dirt road with a well-behaved escort with thousands of men and horses. The young escort was called Yang Yu ('Jade') Hui, who was about three years older than Fang Xing. Fang Xing saw that he was young, and his cultivation had reached the realm of the second day of the True Spirit, and he was not only diligent and diligent, but also did not lose his innocence in the turbidity current, so he specially promoted him and brought him with him.
As for the rest of the guards, these people are probably usually in the family compound for a long time, and they have all developed a habit of arrogance. In addition to facing Fang Xingshi, he looked honest and diligent, and when he turned his face to talk to the other people in the caravan, he looked different. Yi Zhiqi made Shi Xingzi bigger than Fang Xing, and he almost didn't use his nostrils instead of two eyeballs to look at people.
Fang Xing was disgusted with this kind of style, and thought that these people were 'messing' in front of him and annoyed him, so he sent them away one by one, letting them follow him from a distance, and only one Yang Yuhui who still maintained a normal heart was left by his side.
Although the guards around Fang Xing were scattered throughout the team, invisibly dispersing the guards around him, none of the surrounding characters could exist as a threat to him.
The scale of this caravan is still huge, and among the thousands of people, there are nearly a hundred Qi Refiners, but there is not a single person in the God Realm.
Scanning the people around him, estimating the strength in his heart, Fang Xing thought to himself that with his current cultivation, even if he didn't use two innate spiritual lights, he could single-handedly kill seven in and seven out here. It was with this contrast that he came to his senses - it turned out that in the blink of an eye, he had grown into an 'amazing big man' in the eyes of ordinary people.
The courtyard of the Fang family is deep, and the people Fang Xing has come into contact with and paid attention to since he was a child are people like talents, and his vision is cultivated from an early age. After beating him and being reborn, the ancient true emperor, the immortal real person and other divine dragons who saw the head and the tail also broke into his life one after another. As a result, his vision has advanced by leaps and bounds, to a point that is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
The people he was worried about were already dominated by supernatural masters, and even Fang Chuanwu, who needed to look up to him in the past, had gradually detached from his sight, not to mention Fang Wu and Fang Laifu's generation—they were no longer in the scope that Fang Xing needed to consider.
Fang Xing originally didn't know the true face of the world in the mountains. Now as soon as he came out to see the world, he suddenly found that he was already a big person, and he had a different taste in his heart.
Fang Xing has walked all the way, watching and listening to all directions. After traveling with the caravan for several miles, he also found out the details of the caravan.
This winding caravan is a team that is about to go to the steppe to do 'smuggling' trade. The whole team has a little more than a thousand people, and if you count all kinds of pack horses and pack beasts, then it is a large army of thousands of men and horses. It's just a pity that although this team has a wide range of personnel, there is no heavyweight. Its sheer size is the result of a few small teams coming together.
This caravan is neither led by a family, nor is it a master of supernatural powers, nor even a qi refiner of the Tongshen realm, it is purely an adventurous team formed by the children of the Han 'Gate', which can be described as a rabble. However, Fang Xing rode on the ink of the divine horse, walked among the scattered and chaotic teams, 'mixed' among all kinds of characters, and listened to the words of various accents 'intersecting' in his ears. But I unexpectedly found that I was at peace, and I had a feeling of being at home.
However, although Fang Xing had the intention to cover it up, he stood in his pocket and showed his edge. The ink mantle, after the dragon horse, is extraordinary. Even though there are many horses and beasts in the team, none of them can compare with it, and it stands out from the crowd of 'chickens' in the queue. And Fang Xing looks dignified, with a horizontal whip and a green robe wrapped in armor, which sets off the heroic posture of the young man. At a young age, when he looked around with the whip, the majestic and heroic posture he 'revealed' was not like that of mortals.
Gradually, Fang Xing's appearance and demeanor still fell into the eyes of those who cared. After traveling for dozens of miles, under the invitation of someone with a heart, Fang Xing was already walking in the inner circle of the caravan, and he was talking with the four people around him.
The four people around Fang Xing are all the core figures of this team. Among them, there are Pan Long, the family leader of the declining family, and his family general; There is a commercial house dedicated to Yu She; There is also an invited escort, Liu Jia (lí), a master of loose cultivation.
These four people are all cultivators of the third day of the True Spirit, and they belong to the top people in this caravan. And their identities represent the three most powerful forces in this large caravan. If you add Fang Xing and his party, it can almost represent all the voices of the entire team.
Although their identities were as high as Mount Tai in the eyes of others, they were not mentioned in Fang Xing's eyes. He walked among the four people, neither pretending to be cowardly, nor 'making' mysteries, but just casually 'talking', and often asking about anecdotes about local customs. It is his indifferent attitude that makes his image more and more unfathomable in the eyes of Pan Long and the others.
Seeing this, Yu Shi and Liu Jia nodded secretly, convinced by Pan Long's judgment.
Among the four, Pan Long was the highest. Before the Pan family declined, it was a 'door' family in Dongping, relying on the ancestral inheritance method "Wushuang Admiral Dragon and Phoenix Decision" was also ranked among the ranks of the 'door' family. In the past 100 years, although the Pan family has decayed and cannot even keep the ancestral ancestral hall, the heritage of the family still retains a few points.
The Pan family's ancestral "Wushuang Admiral Dragon and Phoenix Jue", although most of it has been lost, there are still some true legends that have been handed down. Pan Long's combat power may not be as good as the general next to him who specializes in cultivating the Peerless General's Fengjue combat skills, but his eyesight is the best among everyone. This time he invited Fang Xing to join the inner circle, and it was he who advocated it.
As a former son of a family, Pan Long misses all the times as a son of a family. Eager to re-enter the ranks of the family, he has a natural keen perception of his own kind, coupled with the old spicy eye that he has honed and refined over the years, so that he discovered Fang Xing's extraordinaryness soon after he joined the team.
After paying attention to it for a while, Pan Long judged that Fang Xing should be a traveling family. The family background is extraordinary, at least higher than the previous grade of the Pan family. It was a pie in the sky for him. Ku Wu had no connections to return to the family circle, so he immediately told everyone about this discovery, and invited Fang Xing to join the caravan core to speak right.
In the entire caravan, the Pan family's men and horses accounted for more than half, and the overall strength was at the top of the list, allowing Pan Long to firmly control the dominance of this caravan. The power of the Pan family, coupled with Fang Xing's unfathomable performance, made the other three people in the same core convinced of Pan Long's speculation, and the tone of voice when talking to Fang Xing became more and more respectful.
Fang Xing didn't know the thoughts that were wandering in the mind of this Master Pan Longpan beside him. Even if he knew, he didn't care. He intends to rise, and he doesn't mind making more 'friends' with a few smart people. He regarded the 'exchange' with Pan Long and others as an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the world. Under the heartfelt flattery of Pan Long and others, they consciously gained a lot.
Pan Long and the others valued the identity of Fang Xing's family and the family forces behind him, hoping to introduce a strong reinforcement for their 'smuggling' team through Fang Xing. Therefore, when explaining trade with Fang Xing, there was nothing to hide. No matter what kind of question it is, as long as it is asked by Fang Xing, they will answer it and strive for perfection, which can be described as sincere and dedicated.
While talking, Fang Xing not only knew a lot of rumors, but also had a clear understanding of the 'smuggling' trade between Dongping County and the grassland. It turned out that although the Great Zhou court had an explicit rule of 'ten in and ten out', strictly prohibiting the local family forces and the grassland Hu tribe from conducting border trade, but driven by interests, the local families regarded the king's order as child's play, and this royal decree was also like a dead letter, without any effect.
In the north, the entire Youzhou, including Dongping, and the 'smuggling' trade with the grassland Hu is completely a blatant and normalized behavior - this is why Pan Long and others dare to explain the 'smuggling' of the other party without taboo - as long as the qi refiner knows the benefits of 'trading' with the grassland Hu Bu, everyone is keen to go to the grassland to find and buy those high-quality and low-cost gas refining raw materials.
Most of the 'smuggling' trade between Dongping County and the grassland was monopolized by the Liu family, and the remaining part of the channel was divided between the Fang family and the Yang family. In the end, the little leftovers left were all snatched up by other small families. The small 'door' small households who can't even get soup can only rely on their hard work to get a little opportunity and a little opportunity to earn huge profits.
Pan Long and the others' trip to the grassland this time was a downright risky move. Now, they plan to invite Fang Xing to join them in this adventure.
PS: This chapter is later, sorry. In the future, I must write it as soon as possible and publish it as soon as possible.