The convoy of the Silver Pond Club has more than 20 carriages and more than 30 people, most of whom are coachmen who drive the carriages and also serve as laborers who carry them along the way. This group of people, whether in their movements or body shapes and clothing, is just like ordinary hired workers. In addition, together with Huang Baiding, there are six men, with strong figures, sharp eyes, and hidden blades in their bulging bags. There is also the vicissitudes of the old man Deng Fujian, a kind color that the old man should have, I can't see anything special, only occasionally whip the horse, expert hands, will find that the whip in the old man's hand, the strength is not large, but the whip hand, very steady; steady as if there is no movement at all, the whip is thrown out of the air, the strength arc, are just right.

It's not like an ordinary caravan of merchants. Ordinary merchant convoys, heavy trucks, and many yak-drawn carts with large force and slow speed. However, Huang Baiding's convoy used horse-drawn carriages, and the speed was extremely fast. Once you enter the countryside or the mountain post road, the convoy will rush through like a torrent of chariots and horses, and the smoke and dust will be kicked off, and the boxes and carriages will be like clouds and fog.

At dusk that day, the convoy had arrived at the Antai Post Station, which was less than 100 miles away from Tongchuan.

The post road from Luxu Castle to Tongchuan Castle is called the Lutong Line. This line is a very critical trade lane for the entire five states of the Youyuan.

There are countless large and small immortal sects in the Youyuan, but all those who have a little surplus wealth and spare strength occupy the mountain on the side of the Southern Wilderness Yueling, which is not three feet flat in the ground, but is full of spiritual energy. These mountains are not used to open sect dojos as cultivation places, but to build animal gardens and raise spirit birds and beasts. Or maybe a little lucky, occupy a dragon vein of the earth eye spirit center, the mountain itself, is rich in all kinds of heaven and earth treasures of the excellent place.

The various sects in the secluded plains not only need to transport the gains from the Southern Wilderness back to the mountains of the sects, but also establish intricate business networks with other sects and communicate with each other.

The cultivation of the Taiyi Sect is extremely costly. Refining one's own natal objects and collecting heaven and earth aura to enrich the qi mansions everywhere, in addition to the dry sitting cultivation that has forgotten the passage of time for decades and hundreds of years, every critical node is a bottleneck breakthrough that is smashed out of a lot of gold and silver and heavenly materials and earth treasures. There are also cultivators, those low-level magic weapons practice works, even if they are gifted refining geniuses, before they successfully refine a magic weapon that can be used, they have already consumed mountains of gold and silver.

Therefore, although the Taiyi Sect levied extremely heavy taxes on the heavenly tribute in the human world, in fact, the life of the monk was still very hard. Besides, after the Taoist Qi Practitioner succeeded in the second realm, he entered the bottleneck of the Linyuan Realm, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was to break the desire to tribulate.

Life in the world, first have the need for food and clothing, and then there are worries about life and death; after all the needs and worries are safe, there are the desires of men and women; that is, all this is fulfilled, then there is a heart of comparison, the stone of other mountains can attack jade, other mountains are always endless, and human desires are endless. The so-called high-ranking mansions, golden houses, delicacies from the mountains and seas, gold cups and silver cups, to a certain extent, have become a passing cloud, and they boast of being pure and have few desires, and what more can the husband ask for; in fact, at this time, whatever you want, the threshold will only be higher.

Therefore, the desire is a way, thousands of miles, and there is no end to it; The destruction of the robbery is difficult for the living people to test the test of life and death. The monk's ability to get used to hardship on a daily basis does not help to break the calamity, but if he is extremely poor and luxurious, the chances of even entering the calamity are extremely slim.

In this way, the daily needs of the people have been extremely developed in the bazaars of one city and one township. In addition, those who do not have many cultivation sects for daily needs, but the goods traded are all sky-high heavenly and earthly treasures, spiritual birds and beasts, and spiritual weapons; This can add a stronger copper smell to an urban and rural market and inter-city passage.

Therefore, on the Lutong line, there is an endless stream of businessmen and horses. The various trade services of the post stations along the way are also extremely developed. Many post stations in large towns and towns not only have stables and hotels, freight yards, and cars, but also may have intimate services such as changing horses and fostering and selling spring warm beds.

Today, the Antai Post Station, where the Yinchi Hui caravan is located, is one of the largest post stations on the Lutong Line, and there are all kinds of business transactions. Not only could the caravans change their horses and raise their livestock, but they could also recruit hired laborers if they were short of manpower and labor before bartering into the city. If the value of the goods is extremely high and the security capacity is insufficient, you can also recruit idle warriors or casual cultivators here as caravan darts.

Since the caravan of the Silver Pond Society has arrived here, Tongchuan City is only two days away, and the villages along the way are relatively dense, and there are six men with hidden blades, so there is no need for bodyguards. However, the chauffeur of one person in each car, because of many unaccustomed water and soil, and many diseases, when the goods are loaded and unloaded, and the hired workers who watch and count the goods during the transaction need to add one or two heads.

Huang Baiding fostered the old and sick horses in the team in the stable of the post station, rented a few healthy horses, and stayed at the post station in Antai Township that night. Seeing that it was not too late, Huang Bai Dingtuo Deng Fujian settled the caravan, horses and people, and went straight to the most lively "waiting hall" in the post station.

The so-called waiting hall is the place where people of all kinds of people from the three religions and nine streams are most concentrated. Passing merchants, who are in demand, can come here to select hired workers.

And the hired workers who gathered in the waiting hall were divided into three, six, nine and so on. The seats of the ninth class are several rows of benches, and they are all hermits with unique skills, including Taoist cultivators, warlocks, wizards, engineers, and doctors...... There are all kinds of people, each with their own magical powers, and the hiring price is also expensive.

The sixth-class seats are a few benches, all of which are sitting in the rivers and lakes, idle martial artists or soldiers, and are the best candidates for caravan bodyguards. Although most of these people's killing power is not as good as that of Dao cultivators or warlocks with special skills, the price is much lower. If you're lucky, you may not be able to cross the border to kill those more lethal Dao cultivators if you encounter a martial artist who has been boiled up with steel and iron bones, or who have formed a pure heroic courage.

As for ordinary laborers who do not have any skills, they do not have seats, and most of them sit on the floor or lean against the railing in the spacious lobby.

Huang Baiding came here mainly to hire two or three strong laborers who could drive and car. This kind of person is everywhere, but the business of the Silver Pool Club is more special, not only to have strength, hands and feet, but also to be moral. Hire someone who is both honest and tight-lipped and, ideally, not only can all of the above requirements be met, but also be a widowed, lonely or homeless person who has nothing to worry about.

Huang Baiding walked into the three-panel wall, facing the open waiting hall on the side of the road. There were twenty or thirty people sitting in a group all over the place, each occupying different positions according to their identity and ability. The person to be hired will never choose the wrong position as many pounds and two weights as he wants. Among these twenty or thirty people, the most naturally sat on the ground, and the total number of people who could sit on benches or benches was only five or six.

Huang Baiding's eyes wandered, and he wandered around among the groups of people who were scattered on the ground. This kind of thing is really a test of vision. After taking a good look at the dozen or twenty people two or three times, Huang Baiding still couldn't pay attention to it. And from the moment he stepped into this hall, the stout men who had sold their labor had come up to him one after another to talk to him, and they were all kinds of courtesy, begging for a job.

If you want to sell your labor, of course, you must at least have a visible body and bones, otherwise, you must have a unique job that you can handle.

Among the sturdy people of this gang, there was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young man in green shirts, who attracted the attention of Huang Baiding. That kid, if you want to have a body and bones, if you want to say that you have any unique work, you are too young. It's just that behind the young man's shoulder, a sword hilt wrapped in dirty gauze is revealed, which is very eye-catching.

The reason why the hilt of the sword was eye-catching was that the three or four warriors or soldiers present had their own swords and bows, or the wooden sheath was jeweled, or the sword itself was exquisitely crafted, and the hilt behind the young man looked like an untempered black iron bar, and the craftsmanship was very clumsy.

The boy sat in a very unparticular position, not sitting on a bench, but sitting cross-legged on the ground with his back against the foot of a stool. In this way, he occupies both a position on the ground and a place on the stool.

After Huang Baiding came in, the other good-looking men who sat on the ground took the initiative to come up and talk to him and ask for a hire, but the young man sat motionless at the foot of the stool, and even glanced at him from beginning to end, that is, when Huang Baiding crossed the threshold, and then did not give him any color signal.

Huang Baiding was secretly surprised in his heart, anyway, he hadn't chosen anyone yet, so he walked up to the young man and accosted him: "Little brother, are you resting here, or are you looking for a job?"

The young man glanced at him, and his expression was calm that he shouldn't have at his age, "Find a job." However, I will only take jobs in the direction of Tongchuan or Luoji Castle. Where are you going?"

In fact, it has been three full days since Ren Pingsheng came here, and after experiencing the accident in Wumo Mountain, he finally felt that he was such a half-big doll traveling alone, after all, it was too eye-catching. It is a trivial matter to lure thieves and robbers to be greedy for money, but when the conflict is together, the excitement continues. In this way, if you don't pass Tongchuan City, I'm afraid that you will be famous in the entire secluded plain, and it will be difficult not to attract the attention of Taiyimen.

Therefore, he decided to wait for a caravan willing to hire him in this Tai'an station. He set his destination in Luoji City, on the north side of the secluded plain, and it was also the experience he had accumulated in the past three days of waiting for calls.

The caravan that took this line would not go far beyond Luoji City, and from Luoji to the north, there were only three or four hundred miles of hilly mountain roads left from the Savage Mountain where they were going.

In the past caravans, it was not uncommon for a half-grown boy like him to be seen, and the least noticeable was this kind of miscellaneous boy. It's a pity that the teenagers in the caravan are either the descendants of the businessman's own family and have come out to train, or they have a trace of kinship with the boss and take care of them. Hire someone halfway, but no one wants such a bad-looking teenager.

Huang Baiding said, "I'm going to Tongchuan, but little brother, it's not me talking about you, at your age, even if you can really work, it's hard to compete with others." ”

Ren Pingsheng's face was full of expectation, "People can't be good-looking, besides, I don't want to be paid, as long as I have food and shelter." ”

Huang Baiding couldn't help but stagnate in the face of such a self-deprecating offer from the young man, but he didn't agree immediately. It's not that he can afford to pay for a rice bed by hiring a free handyman, but that he hires someone to help but doesn't pay him for it, which is not the style of his silver pool.

But if it is a salary, it is difficult to say whether this young man is worth it or not. In business, he is a young man, and it is impossible for him to do the business that he knows is losing money.

"Little brother, listening to the accent, you don't look like a local, why did you come here to beg for a living?" Huang Baiding hesitated, looking at him left and right, and he was also thinking in his heart, seeing how to find an excuse to refuse. Those enthusiastic and experienced men waiting for calls, there is no burden to refuse, but this expectant young man, Huang Baiding didn't know how to speak.

"I led Peixiu Village in Duoxiang Township, a mudslide, the village and home are gone, and I want to go to Luoji City to join my family. So along the way, I only wanted to mingle with the caravans along the way, not to make money. ”

In this way, Huang Baiding has no burden, everyone just takes what they need, and he is not a bad treat to this young man. Besides, they are all from a bitter background, and this young man's background and life experience really can't help but help him. "Okay, you can follow us. Food and accommodation, this is naturally indispensable to you. As for wages, we will discuss how much you can help. By the way, what's the name?"

"Yuan Ping. Ren Pingsheng said without thinking. It's a good name, and he doesn't bother to give himself another name.

Huang Baiding hired two other men who looked pleasing to the eye and had the right price, and took Ren Pingsheng back to the post house together.