Chapter 22: Arriving in Xinglong
Had a good night's sleep, and the next day, everyone was in good spirits. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć InfoEspecially the two injured brothers, the wounds are starting to heal.
Zhang Xiaohua also joined the team of extraordinary darts, and the two corpses left in Zhang Xiaohua's room later caused a sensation in the whole town, but because the murderer could not be found, the result was not successful.
Of course, Xiaohua's joining must be agreed by Wang Rengui, after all, he is the head of this expedition. In order not to make everyone suspicious, Mu Feng could only lie that Zhang Xiaohua was his distant relative, and because he met here, he wanted to go together. And Zhang Xiaohua knows a little martial arts, and now he can just use it to come in handy.
When Wang Rengui heard that it was Xiao Mufeng's distant relative, of course he agreed, and the three senior brothers all agreed, so it was difficult for others to say anything.
After breakfast like this, the group of seven set off again.
After walking for another half a month, I also passed through several villages and towns along the way, but fortunately, I did not encounter robbers as large as Woniu Mountain in the later part of the journey, and there were usually three or four robbers at a time. When I saw the seven people in the extraordinary group, most of them ran away without fighting, and only a few wanted to give it a try, but they were all scared away by the swordsmanship of Extraordinary and Mu Feng.
Seven days ago, everyone's injuries had healed, so they all went back to their original positions. The long journey, at this time, everyone was already tired, only Wang Rengui rode a horse, which was relatively easy, and Senior Brother Li who pushed the cart was the hardest here.
At this time, the Extraordinary Seven saw that they were about to reach their destination, and they set off after eating a few mouthfuls of dry food on the road at noon. In a few days, I will be able to reach Xinglong City, and now I can only grit my teeth and bury my head in the road.
Under the blue sky, a carrier pigeon flew from north to south, from far to near, from high to low. Impartially stopped on Wang Rengui's right shoulder, obviously a carrier pigeon from the dart board.
Wang Rengui untied a roll of paper from the pigeon's leg, spread it out and read it, and suddenly his face changed greatly, fortunately he rode in front, and no one noticed the strange expression on his face at this time.
Wang Rengui put away the small note, calmed down, and then turned to the six people behind him: "Junior brothers, let me go back if there is something in the dart bureau, anyway, I will soon arrive in Xinglong City." When I'm not there, let Mu Feng lead the team, then please everyone, let's see you in the dart game!"
Without waiting for everyone's reaction, Wang Rengui hurriedly turned the horse's head and headed north.
"It seems that something happened to the dart game!" Mu Feng said as he looked at Wang Rengui's back as he gradually moved away.
Fei Fei said: "Well, looking at his hurried appearance, something important must have happened, we must hurry up to Xinglong City, complete the task as soon as possible, and go back as soon as possible." ā
After a few days of traveling, they finally came to Xinglong City.
Xinglong City has been one of the main towns connecting the north and south since ancient times, and the transportation here is well developed, and there are many merchants who come and go. It was the largest town that Extraordinary had ever seen now, and it was twice as big as Sifang Town.
Xinglong City is surrounded by high city walls, there are a total of four city gates in the south, south, west, and northwest, each gate is guarded by officers and soldiers, and there are officers and soldiers patrolling the town. There are so many officers and soldiers here, there is no way to do it, in recent years, bandits have been rampant, Xinglong City as the largest trading mall, of course, the security is good, the tax collected here, but one-sixth of the country's total tax revenue.
"Stop. As soon as they arrived at the north gate, they heard a soldier shouting at them. "Who are you, what are you doing in the city, what are you in the car?" the voice of the officer and soldier drew closer and closer, and by this time he had come to the extraordinary side.
"We are from the Quartet Dart Bureau, and this time we are escorting the darts to Xinglong Town, and the contents of that box are sent to the Treasure Pavilion. "Extraordinary Dao.
"I don't care where you go, I can't confirm your identity yet, do you have a pass?" said the officer and soldier, spreading his hands towards Extraordinary.
"Brother Guan, we have a pass. "Of course Mu Feng knows what the so-called pass is, and he just wants silver! All the way over, now everyone has not much silver, Mu Feng reluctantly took out the little broken silver left and handed it to the officer and soldier.
The officer and soldier did not even look at the silver, and said, "I see that your identity is suspicious, and the brothers have pried open the box for me to see what is hidden inside." ā
Four more officers and soldiers came at once, and it seemed that the first one was the leader of the officers and soldiers at the north gate. They would never let those officers and soldiers touch the treasure chest, and for a while, six people against five people were in such a stalemate.
"I think you want to rebel?" said the leader of the officers and soldiers, "Take them down for me." ā
"Master Zhang, wait!" a little old man in his fifties and sixties walked over.
"Oh! It turned out to be Steward Shi, is there anything wrong?" said the officer and soldier surnamed Zhang, with a smile.
"Lord Zhang, those people were indeed invited by our Treasure Pavilion to escort the darts, and that box is indeed what we wanted. The old man surnamed Shi took out five ingots of silver from his bosom and stuffed it into the hand of the leader Zhang: "It's a misunderstanding, these are the wine money for you and your brothers." ā
The one surnamed Zhang was not polite, he stuffed the silver on himself, and said with a smile: "Steward Shi, you are too polite." I just handled it impartially, if it was really someone invited by your Treasure Pavilion, I would have let it go sooner or later. Then he shouted to the officers and soldiers who surrounded them: "The brothers are fine, there is a misunderstanding, let me go quickly!"
Having money is easy to do, and it was only at this time that he finally realized what he meant when Village Chief Yang gave him silver.
"May I ask who is Wang Rengui?" asked the steward Shi after entering the north gate.
"Senior Brother Wang, a few days ago, there was an urgent matter in the dart game, so I returned on the way. In Xia Xiao Mufeng, now I am in charge of the next dart. ā
"Oh! You're about the same number of days as expected, and I've only been waiting a few days early at the North Gate, so it seems that you newbies are pretty good. ā
"You won the prize, we ran into robbers on the road, so we delayed for a few days. Mu Feng didn't know if Director Shi really praised them or on purpose, so he had to tell the truth.
"Did you meet the robbers? you weren't hurt, were you? The treasure chest hadn't been touched by anyone else, right?" Steward Shi had a frightened expression on his face, but his eyes were still so calm. It just so happened that no one noticed the look in his eyes.
"Luckily, we're fine, and the treasure chest hasn't been touched. He didn't want to tell a mysterious woman who came to save them, men, face is the most important thing. How can it be said that he was saved by a woman!
Steward Shi took a big stride, walked in front of them and said, "That's good! Our lord wants to see you now, so come with me. ā