The carriage staggered for three days, and on the third day, at sunset, the Wei family's convoy stopped at a large carriage and horse shop in the western part of the country. Liu Tianbao jumped out of the carriage and knocked on Yuanxi's car window with a stool: "Shaodong, we have arrived." ”

Ling'er opened the window and shouted: "What are you knocking, the young owner is napping, you wake her up again." ”

Liu Tianbao put down the stool: "I said Aunt Ling'er, you don't get out of the car yet, you plan to let the owner sleep in the car tonight?"

Yuan Xi felt that the car had stopped in his sleep, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the sky had darkened a lot, and Liu Tianbao was lifting the curtain and waiting for him to get out of the car. Yuan Xi tore off the silk cloak covering his body and pushed the order: "Let's go in." ”

Chema Dadian, this place is the first time to live, as soon as you enter the door, you can smell a musty smell of disrepair. Liu Tianbao beckoned and called a runner: "Open us an upper room, a chase shop for ten people." ”

"Tianbao," Yuan Xi called out to him, "What is the Chase Shop?"

Liu Tianbao smiled and scratched his head: "This Datong shop is ...... It's just ......" He thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with a slightly elegant statement. But the runner in the store smiled: "This young lady, the Chase shop is dozens of children sleeping on a kang, haven't you seen it?"

"You bastard," Liu Tianbao slapped the head of the running hall: "This is our host, can we see your obscene residences?"

Dozens of people slept together, and it felt awkward to think about it, Yuan Xi said: "Forget it, open six ordinary guest rooms, one for two people." ”

"Don't don't, that's too extravagant. Liu Tianbao flattened his mouth, a little embarrassed.

"It's not easy to be poor outside, don't treat yourself badly. Yuan Xi smiled: "If you don't have any money, I'll come out." ”

It was the first pleasure of the runner: "I said this young lady, you just want so many rooms, and we don't have them." There are only two regular rooms left, so let's talk to them. Twenty miles before and after, just our shop, if you don't believe it, go look for it. ”

Yuan Xi looked around, this store is not big, and he was a little surprised. Although I had heard of the poor countryside of Yuexi before I came, I didn't expect it to be this scene. Yuan Xi shook his head: "Forget it, then we want these two rooms." ”

Liu Tianbao answered and asked the accompanying guys to pay, and he commanded a few guys to carry the luggage.

The man who ran the hall brought a pot of hot water: "This proprietor, I think you are a businessman, I have to remind you a few words." This Yuexi Prefecture is next to Donglinzhou, and there are bandits and homeless people everywhere, so don't be kind here, that person's life is not valuable, and wealth is not exposed, you know. ”

Ling'er was a little scared, shrunk beside Yuan Xi and whispered, "Miss, what does he mean by this?"

What he meant was that let us not give alms to random people, because beggars may be informants of bandits, and if we give alms, it proves that we have money, and the robbers will come and rob us. Yuan Xi said and swept around the guests who were eating in the store: "You tell Liu Tianbao to go to the backyard in a while." ”

"What are you looking at?" Ling Er was puzzled.

"Look at the horses, if they are ordinary horses for pulling goods. If there are exceptions, we have to be careful. ”

In this wilderness, donkeys, horses, and mules have become the only means of transportation, and as long as you look at the stables, you can know who the people live in this shop, and those rogue bandits are not barefoot, right? Liu Tianbao went to the backyard and walked around, and really saw a few fat and strong tall horses, so he ran back like a smoke.

"You see, don't scare people. Ling'er was so frightened that she couldn't even drink water, for fear that the water was mixed with sweat medicine.

"It's good, and it's not an ordinary horse, those are Mongolian horses, you must know that this breed is a war horse. I also asked the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper said that there was no place for soldiers to live. Liu Tianbao was also a little short of breath: "Dongjia, do you think those will be plainclothes deserters?"

In times of war, deserters are often more terrible than bandits, they are often well-armed and professionally trained to kill, and taking people's lives is only a blink of an eye, and they don't even need to think about it.

Yuan Xi froze: "It's okay, let's just sleep, don't provoke them, and tell the brothers that no one is allowed to cause trouble, even if the knife is on the neck, they are not allowed to fight back." ”

"Yes. Liu Tianbao responded: "One more thing, I saw some scattered medicinal residues, tangerine peels and citrus aurantium shells in the stables in the backyard, which were fresh." ”

"It's strange that medicine is more valuable than human life these days, and some people throw it around. Yuan Xi said for a long time and felt hungry: "Let's go downstairs to eat." ”

There were still a few empty tables downstairs, Yuan Xi and ten guys found two empty tables in the corner and sat down, ordered a few vegetarian dishes, and ate them with clear soup noodles. Outside the two tables sat more than a dozen middle-aged men in the same clothes, sweating profusely as they pushed cups and changed glasses. Seeing that those people were well-proportioned and not small, Yuan Xi and Liu Tianbao glanced at each other, the two coincided, and several war horses in the stable were theirs.

They were arguing so loudly, but Won-hee was dead silent, and there was no sound of babbling. As soon as I swallowed the last bite of food, something happened. An old man covered in blood fell into the door, and before he could finish shouting for help, he fainted.

His fall startled more than a dozen drinking men, and they stood up one by one, and drew the steel knives in their hands one after another. Seeing that there were no pursuers behind, he sat down again and drank as if nothing had happened.

"Tianbao, go and see, what's wrong with that person. ”

Liu Tianbao probed his snort: "Dongjia, this person is still angry." Tearing off his clothes again, Liu Tianbao frowned, a little disgusted. The old man had several knife wounds on his body, and the wounds were all inflamed, and he was bleeding yellow pus.

"Boss, carry him to my house. Liu Tianbao called a few guys to carry it as he spoke, and he ran to the counter: "Shopkeeper, do you have any medicine here?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "This gentleman, we are a carriage and horse shop here, not Jishantang, the medicine is so expensive, it would be good for us to have a little grass and wood ash." As he spoke, he took the incense dew in front of Guan Gong and poured a handful of incense ash to Liu Tianbao: "Only this." ”

"This, it's not to stop the bleeding, he has to reduce inflammation!" Liu Tianbao shouted to the guests who were eating in the lobby: "Everyone, it's not easy to go out, do you have any anti-inflammatory drugs, please be kind, I, Liu Tianbao, thank you." Liu Tianbao shouted a few times, but no one replied to him, so he could only change his words: "I'll pay for it!"

Finally, someone sneered: "Hey, there are really people who don't feel sorry for silver these days." ”

As soon as his voice fell, the dozen or so people accompanying him let out a creepy sarcastic laugh. His entourage also responded: "He doesn't feel sorry for the use of silver, we still feel sorry for the medicinal materials!"

Liu Tianbao was stunned for a moment, remembering that those medicinal materials were found next to those war horses, thinking that they might not be deserters, but sergeants transporting medicinal materials. Since they are not deserters, there is no need to cower, Liu Tianbao glanced at Yuan Xi, and Yuan Xi slowly stood up: "A few gentlemen, aren't medicinal herbs used to treat diseases and save people? Besides, that old man doesn't need much." We don't buy more, we won't delay you, just a few of you."

"Yo, how do you say this, if you buy one person's medicine, we will have one less person's medicine, and when we get to the battlefield, we will save one less person's life. To tell you the truth, several of us are newly trained in the camp, and our medicinal materials are all for the army of the imperial court, so you don't talk nonsense!" After he finished speaking, he regained his smile and shouted to his brothers: "Come on, come on, drink!"

"Master Jun, can't we pay a high price?"

Yuan Xi's earnestness annoyed a few sergeants who were eager to drink, and he shouted: "You disgust me? The uncles are all from the capital, do you care about your little money?"

"Use this. Yuan Xi pulled out a moire engraved gold hairpin from his hair: "I don't have any silver, since the military master is from the capital, he should have seen the world, my hairpin is worth fifty taels of silver, so I will exchange it for a person's medicine, okay?"

The leader took the hairpin and looked at it, a little tempted, fifty taels is nonsense, just look at the hollow red jade beads on the hairpin head to know that it is worth at least two hundred taels. After hesitating for a while, he still shook his head: "No, the medicine of the army can't be moved at all." Although he did not administer medicine, he took the hairpin into his arms.

A rush of anger rushed upward, and Yuan Xi stretched out his hand: "The military master took the hairpin but didn't give me the medicine, it's too greedy, right?"

"Hehe, when did I get your stuff, where are you a poor bastard? Get out of here, don't delay Lao Tzu to eat!"

Ling'er stepped forward and grabbed Yuanxi: "Boss, forget it." ”

"What's the matter!" Yuan Xi shook off the order: "If you are bandits, I have nothing to say, but you are soldiers of the imperial court, why should you oppress the people?"

"Yo he?! Dare to say that the uncle is a bandit?

Liu Tianbao stepped forward to stop: "Master Jun, my owner is young and ignorant, don't worry about her." We don't want the medicine, you keep the hairpin, don't be angry, we have invited this table of wine and food, you can eat and drink well. ”

"This is like a human saying," the leader breathed a long sigh of relief: "Tell you, if you offend us, you will offend the eldest son of the emperor, and when the time comes, I will take you to the barracks and give the eldest son of the emperor a drop, which is enough for you to drink a pot!"

The eldest son of the emperor. Yuan Xi clenched his fists tightly: "Let me ask again, you still haven't paid me back the hairpin?"

"No!" the leader was angry.

"Okay, if you have the guts, you can keep it, and don't let me see you again. Yuan Xi waved his sleeves and turned upstairs, and just after a few steps, the guys in the family rushed down: "Dongjia, it's not good, that old man is dying!"

"Good, good death!" came a cheer from downstairs.

"I'll tell you, it's these people, the army is short of food and grass, and when they go to them to collect food, they are all fucking iron roosters, and they don't want to die. Damn!

Yuan Xi gritted his teeth, this is Xiao Rongshen's soldier! Sure enough, he responded to Rong Zhan's words: There is a pot with a lid. Liu Tianbao took a sip: "It's really a living ancestor raised by the imperial court!"

"Who deserves to die!" a familiar voice sounded in his ears, and suddenly a moon-white dress came into view.

He?!