From the capital to Beiliang, it is about 270 kilometers if you take the official road. Of course, the Daming transportation industry in this world is actually relatively developed, whether it is a profit-making private post station, or the [Gaoma Station] in which the imperial court participates, it can be seen everywhere on Daming Road.

Among them, private post stations belong to the for-profit industry founded by major chambers of commerce, this kind of private post stations are often one-to-one service, the more money you spend, the more services the post station will give you. For example, the leading "Baobi Station" of Daming's private post station can provide high-level escort services, and even directly purchase the service of "Didi beating" on the way.

As a state-founded project, Gaoma Station is more civilian. Compared with a four-person station that costs five or six taels of silver at every turn, Gaoma Station generally only needs forty or fifty copper plates to be able to travel back and forth between the two cities.

It is worth noting that the carriage at Gaoma Station is a special carriage, which will carry twenty or thirty people at a time, and if there is an unscrupulous stationmaster at Gaoma Station, you can even buy a ticket.

Of course, you just spend this money, and don't ask for any comfort or discomfort, after all, the carriage at the high horse station belongs to the face of the country, as long as the water content in the brain is less than 90 percent, the bandits will not dare to take the carriage from the high horse station.

So the question is, which one will Zhou Li and Tang Wan choose?

"You can even buy a ticket, I'll you!"

On the side of the official road of Beiliang Gaoma Station, Zhou Li, who didn't care about the strange eyes of others, grabbed Tang Guan's slender and slender arms with his left hand, pushed him to the ground with a super knee, and shouted with a desperate face:

"Damn, this is Beiliang! North Beam! How can you buy a ticket from Beijing to Beiliang?! Is it Brother Sun, can you buy a ticket?! ”

"Actually, I already noticed something was wrong when I bought it."

The petite girl was pressed under her knees, without any shame, but with her hands behind her back and a solemn expression: "But I think normally Takaba Station will not sell me a ticket in the opposite direction, so you know." ”

"I understand, you hammer understand."

It's back, it's all back.

Looking at the snow-haired girl with her little head on her back and looking at her innocently, Zhou Li was angry for a while, but he was helpless. After a long time, he slowly let go of Tang Guan's arm, stepped back to sit on the chair, stretched out his hand, and rubbed his cheek vigorously.

"It's okay."

Tang Wan patted the dust on his body casually, walked to Zhou Li's side, stood on tiptoe, patted Zhou Li's shoulder, and said maturely: "There will always be a solution to difficulties." ”

"You are Lao Tzu's biggest difficulty."

Zhou Li sat down in his chair and sighed weakly. He raised his head, glanced at the water stone clock, and said to himself decadently:

"I'm so stupid, really, I know that your imbecile will decline as soon as you touch money, but you still let you buy tickets by yourself. Everyone is a body, although the mind is still smart, why is your body shrinking with the brain..."

"Maybe it's because I'm a mother."

Holding the still prominent part of the long skirt, Tang Wan said with a solemn face: "Since I got bigger here, I do feel a little stupid, which should be related to the big breasts and brainless things you often say in school." ”

Tang Guan, a genius Tang who will directly degenerate into a mentally retarded as long as she is separated from "poison, combat, and art", although she has all kinds of shortcomings, she has an advantage that Zhou Li has to admit.

Have the courage to admit mistakes and be willing to admit them.

"Fuck you."

Zhou Li expressed the rich emotions in his heart with three simple words, and after sighing, he had a headache:

"I just asked the dispatcher, and the car we missed was the last one. The horse bandits caught the students of the Taixue Academy, and the official government will seal the official road tomorrow, and it is estimated that there will be no high carriages in the past few days. ”

"Where's the private inn?"

Tang Wan on the side crossed his waist and slowly turned his upper body, his cute appearance attracted the attention of passers-by, "Next time, make my waist hurt." ”

"Don't be disgusting buddy."

Zhou Li tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "The words of a private post station are indeed feasible, after all, they can not take the official road, and the comfort is also high, but..."

patted his waist, Zhou Li said numbly: "We have no money." ”

"No money?"

Tang Wan was stunned for a moment, and then puzzled: "Don't you still have a golden bean?" ”

"Fake."

Zhou Li touched his waist, and then threw the golden melon seed to Tang Guan, and said with an indifferent face: "Lead-filled copper, specially used to deal with the eunuchs and Jinyi guards in Dongchang, this thing does not have a lead seal The government does not recognize it, so most people throw it away after accepting it, or don't spend it at all." ”

"It's got to be your craft."

After taking a closer look, Tang Guan raised his head, and a look appeared on his face that it was really you, "It's too fake." ”

"So, we only have one choice now."

Taking out a map of Beijun, Zhou Li pondered for a moment, and then spoke:

"There is a small town on the east side of the North Liang called Fir Wood Town. I looked at the marking, and there should be a sub-station of the Gaoma Gang here, and it doesn't take the official road that has been seized. I've calculated, let's leave now, and we should be there in two hours at most. ”

"Really?"

Tang Guan came directly to Zhou Li's side, and his long white hair mixed with the unique fragrance of a girl came to his face. Looking at the girl's delicate jawline and those jewel-like eyes, Zhou Li smiled.

Then he pressed the other person's head against the chair.

"Be mindful of keeping a distance between men and women."

Zhou Li looked at Tang Guan, who was struggling to stand up, and said with a faint smile: "The next time you attack so suddenly, I'll screw your head off~"

"But I'm a male."

Tang Wan said to Zhou Li with a serious face: "I think I should be considered a man. ”

"Girls at Takama Station buy tickets at half price."

"Then I'm a woman."

Zhou Li was silent.

"Woo."

Zhou Li nodded, didn't dwell too much on this matter, picked up the petite girl and left the high horse station on the beam. The two returned to the city gate, and after explaining their whereabouts, they left Shangliang City at night.

However, what Zhou Li and Tang Wan saw was that just as they left the city gate, a pair of eyes with a cold light disappeared from the darkness.

"My lord, the furnace is dead."

Warm incense lingers, spring curtains, and a round white incense ball exudes a refreshing aroma in the luxurious golden furnace. On the red velvet bed behind the barrier, a graceful woman loomed. She slowly raised her hand, and the shadow revealed by the incense candle was yearning.

"What about the seeds?"

"My lord..."

At this time, the man who reported to the woman behind the tent knelt on one knee, his head bowed tightly, and a strange purple light flashed on his rough skin. Someone took it away. ”

Boom.

The sound of his heartbeat suddenly amplified, and the man's pupils suddenly constricted, and a painful palpitation spread. He gritted his teeth and hurriedly explained: "My lord, there is someone else who killed the Ding Furnace, not Hou Jue. ”

"Not Hou Jue?"

With the woman's question, the palpitations suddenly dissipated, and the man knelt on the ground gasping for breath, glad that he had picked up a life. After a moment, he lowered his head and said in a deep voice:

"For some reason, the small hundred households under my command suddenly expelled Hou Jue from Jinyiwei, so Hou Jue did not participate in the operation to exterminate Hongweilou. Seeing that Hou Jue was not there, he asked the deputy commander of Jinyiwei to delay his action. Unexpectedly, less than an hour after I left Shangliang, a demon hunter who went to Beijing broke into the magnificent building alone, killed the Ding furnace, and took away the seeds. ”

After finishing speaking, the man respectfully kowtowed his head three times, threw himself to the ground, and said tremblingly: "My lord, this matter is a crime of negligence, and I hope you can give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the crime." ”

"You are not the one who inspected the magnificent building, so this crime has nothing to do with you."

The woman behind the gauze tent slightly pulled her slender fingers and drew a semicircle, and her voice was as sweet as honey in a jar:

"If I can't even distinguish rewards and punishments, I am not qualified to be the king of the Northern Demons, and it is even more nonsense to turn a snake into a dragon. Red Scorpion, you can continue to be the Lord of these Thousand Households, dormant in the brocade guard. Of course, you can also go and find these seven seeds to help me turn into a dragon, so..."

The gauze tent slowly opened, and a beautiful woman's face was covered with strange but gorgeous diamond-shaped scales. The woman spit out her long tongue, and a strange beauty lingered on her body. She looked at the Qianhu who was covered in cold sweat, and asked softly charmingly:

"Which one do you choose?"

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"I'll pick the left."

Next to the fork with no signs and no road signs, Zhou Li rubbed his chin and said firmly: "According to the arrangement of these footprints, as well as the traces of ruts, I think the left side should be right." ”

"Then I'll take the right side."

Tang Wan on the side sat on the stone, holding his cheeks, his cheeks puffed up slightly, and said firmly: "There is no reason, the main thing is that two people must have a different opinion in the face of two forked intersections, otherwise it will be too smooth and it will always feel a little wrong." ”

"You."

Zhou Li gritted his teeth, gave up the urge to punch the other party into the mud, calmed down the restlessness in his heart after taking a deep breath, and said to Tang Guan calmly: "Go, I listen to you, just go to the right." ”

"Huh?"

Tang Guan was stunned for a moment, and then said with relief: "I didn't expect that Zhou Li, you would listen to me." ”

"Hmm."

Zhou Li nodded and said calmly: "If the road on the right is fake, I will press you into the dung pit and drown." ”

"Let's go to the left."

Tang Wan said with a pale face, she was not worried that Zhou Li would drown her, after all, he was not a bad person. But Zhou Li will definitely press her into the dung pit, because Zhou Li is a demon, and he is not a human at all.

"That's not going to work."

Zhou Li smiled coldly, and Tang Guan, who was carrying his teeth and claws, walked towards the path on the right. Now an hour had passed since they set out from Beiliang City, and they would be able to reach the destination of their trip as long as they walked another twenty or thirty miles.

And the dilemma they faced was because the map was a little old, and Zhou Li didn't expect that there would be an unknown fork in the road in front of them. After communicating harmoniously, the two chose to take the right path.

On the right···

The man in the flying fish suit and the embroidered spring knife at his waist lowered the brim of his hat, slowly walked out of the forest, and walked to the right. Under the moonlight, the man's black pupils faintly appeared with the light marks of compound eyes.