Volume 1, The King's Decree Chapter 14, The Official Road is Difficult

It was not until three o'clock in the morning that the door was reopened, and the warm sunlight poured into the wooden floor through the doorway, and everywhere was quiet, without the shouts of the shopkeepers and the men, and a few early customers had already left the store with their luggage.

"I'll never come back again, the store is still lazy, and I don't make any money!"

The noise outside gradually sounded, and the pedestrians on the pipeline in front of the door were also coming and going, and a young man with a young girl rode two tall horses on the side without slowness.

Since it is a black shop, you must be prepared to eat black and black, Liu Xiaoyi is not good at stubble, so she walked to the backyard and ransacked it.

There were dozens of taels of silver ingots hanging in the money bag of the waist bag, dozens of silver tickets in his arms, and he was holding his waist straight.

It turns out that it's such a feeling to be rich, it's amazing.

Yu Wen will ride a horse at night, he never expected, rich and noble, horseback riding is a necessary skill, after a night of recovery, her state is finally better, and she can communicate with him.

In September, the most active month of the caravan, the pipeline also began to become crowded, and the dress of the two was very conspicuous in it, and in just thirty miles of territory, there were several batches of ill-intentioned little thieves who wanted to lean over and do it.

Turning the mountain pass in front, he suddenly heard three earthen cannon sounds, and Liu Xiaoyi pressed his right hand on the hilt of the sword and pushed away the tension spring.

Looking at the surrounding thieves, one by one they scattered and fled, rushing out of hundreds of people in the mountains and forests on both sides of the mountain pass, blocking in front of them, constantly waving their flags and shouting.

"Xiao Yi...... What are these people doing?" Yu Wenwan was frightened one after another, like a birdfinch blown down by a storm, hiding behind Liu Xiaoyi with a panicked face.

"Don't be afraid, it's a nearby bandit, and I've taken a fancy to the goods of the caravan in front. ”

There were more than a dozen carriages in front of the road, and judging by the thickness of the ruts, the bandits could conclude that the goods on the carriages were worth a lot of money.

"Who should I be, it turned out to be the Song family's convoy, what good goods are you bringing today?" The thief shouted, and gradually stopped as a strong man with a beard flashed out, and the thief turned back and forth around the convoy, seeing that it was the Song family, an antique dealer in Changle City.

Every year, the Song family will come here to pay some protection fees, so his family's convoy is unimpeded.

On the carriage at the front, two young people came out with curtains, "The Song family also paid on time this year, why are you blocking the way?"

The thief said: "Young Master Song, Miss Song, the old thief was killed, why do we have to ask for some Sichuan money before we leave here." ”

This time, it was the two sisters and brothers of the Song family who led the team, and on the carriage behind, there were indeed valuable treasures, which were set by the four princes as a birthday gift to the prince.

In Zhongzhou, only the Song family can have the strength to protect this treasure, and there are more than 30 dart masters alone, all of whom are experts.

There were also sporadic vendors around the convoy, all waiting with sad faces to pay for the disaster, and it was impossible to leave.

When a thief saw a young woman with a good posture here, he shook it over with a knife: "Little beauty, do you want to be happy with your brothers?"

The dirty palm touched Yu Wenwan's face, and she was so frightened that she almost fell off the horse.

Before the screams could reach his throat, the bandit wailed first, his palm was severed from his wrist, and blood spurted out from the big wound at the mouth of the bowl, "Boss, help!"

Seeing that things couldn't be better, Liu Xiaoyi took the first step, slapped the horse and rushed towards the thief with a sword.

Several chain ball ropes were thrown over, trying to put down people and horses, but they were all picked up by Liu Xiaoyi when he raised the tip of his sword.

The horse's hooves were raised, and a sword slashed sideways, and the thief hurriedly swung his sword to meet him, and after two contacts, the whole person's body was taken back several steps by the impact force.

"Little ones, chop him up for me! Dare to break ground on my head!" The thief's head was shaken and his mouth was numb, and the secret way was not good, so he quickly called someone to do it.

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen bows and arrows hit the horses, and seeing that his feet were unstable, Liu Xiaoyi jumped into the air with his legs on the horse's back.

The sword body slashed a full moon in mid-air, and the sword slashed a long hole in the ground.

The bandits, who were caught off guard, suddenly had several blood spurting from their chests and fell to the ground on their backs.

Among this gang of bandits, there are a few people who have some skills, and they are fighting with Liu Xiaoyi with their weapons, and they are inseparable for a while.

On the carriage, Shen Xu and the two sisters and brothers discussed, "Sister, what should I do? Do it or wait?"

"It's not good to involve other people for no reason, but I'm afraid that the goods will be lost in the fight. ”

Although the sister and brother are young, they have also pressed the goods many times, and this time they are entrusted with a heavy responsibility, which is also the importance that their father attaches to the goods.

"Master Zhong, what do you say?" Shen Xu also wandered, got up and jumped to the front of the team on the side, the leader was their martial arts teacher, and he was also the dart master of the Lion and Tiger Dart Bureau in Changle City, surnamed Zhong Mingli.

Zhong Li was stunned, he should have retreated from the enemy, but he never thought that he would be preempted by a young man, looking at the solid swordsmanship, he had forgotten what he should do.

"Let's get rid of these people, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

Zhongli lifted the iron disc pattern stick, stepped on the horse, and made the long snake out of the hole, and went straight to the battle circle.

He didn't notice that in the bushes beside him, there was a short crossbow, which was already aimed at Shenzhong.

The Shen family has been running an antique shop for several generations, and it is quite famous in Changle City, it is said that there are no ancient books of calligraphy and painting that their family can't get, and this time they found a statue of Pegasus in the night eight hundred years ago, which was bought by the four princes at a sky-high price.

If the Pegasus statue is lost, the antique store will not want to open in Zhongzhou, and the few stores that have always been at odds with him will be prepared early, either snatching the Pegasus statue or killing Shen Chong.

The short crossbow hooked the trigger at the right time, and an inch-long crossbow arrow whizzed out of the woods, striking straight at the heavy back of the heart.

The crossbowman was overjoyed, and he was rewarded with two gold bars.

Coincidentally, at this time, Liu Xiaoyi was pressed by the weapons of five people at the same time, so he had to jump backwards to unload his strength, and the route of the backward jump just coincided with the crossbow arrow.

Liu Xiaoyi thought that the crossbow arrow was coming at him, pinched his fingers with his left hand, popped out a water droplet, knocked the short crossbow crooked, nailed it to the top of his heavy head, and scattered the bun.

Shen was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he shouted in a winning streak: "Where is the assassin! Get out of here!"

There was no answer around, Liu Xiaoyi looked in the direction where the crossbow bolts were coming, the bushes were rushing by, and the sneak attacker should have taken the opportunity to leave.

Looking at Zhongli swinging his stick again, as if he had entered a no-man's land, he rushed left and right with dozens of dart masters around him, quickly resolved the battle, and the corpses of the bandits were scattered.

When he returned to the carriage, he raised his hand to pull off the short crossbow, and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look at the dark green liquid on the arrow of the short crossbow: "This crossbow arrow is poisonous, it seems that it is not only the goods, someone is eyeing the two of you." ”

Liu Xiaoyi saw that the road was clear, so she put away her sword and turned over on the horse, and comforted Yu Wenwan with kind words, she got into his arms and cried for a while, and then sobbed and wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

"Dare to ask the little brother, where are you going next?"

Zhongli drove behind him and asked in a low voice when he saw the girl stop crying.