Chapter 16: The Horse Bandits (I)
Wu Mu felt that his biggest mistake was to persuade Mo Wunian not to go through the matter of slaying demons.
Just half an hour ago, she was still in the heart of persuading Mo Wunian, and walked around Kyoto City with him for a while. But he followed him to a post in the city where passing merchants rested, and even followed a caravan out of the city.
Only then did she realize that the other party might not have listened to a word of what she said.
"Hey, did you listen to what I said!" Wu Muliu's eyebrows were upside down, and his apricot eyes widened and glared at Mo Wunian again.
Now she felt that she hadn't persuaded anyone, and she also took herself in to kill the demon with him.
But only she knows best, than staying in Kyoto City to help Zhou Deming look at the store boringly, she is more willing to follow Mo Wunian to see what the real demon looks like, anyway, there are still a few days before Zhou Deming comes back.
But it was also natural that she counted all this on Mo Wunian......
Now she and Mo Wunian were sitting in one of the caravan's carriages, which were large, like moving wooden houses, with some simple antique furniture in them, and a light incense on the wooden table in the middle.
The incense exudes a faint fragrance similar to peppermint, which makes people smell and do not feel tired, but in fact, the greater effect is to repel mosquitoes.
Mo Wunian chose the caravan, naturally he didn't choose it randomly. In the fifteen years in Kyoto City, he rarely went out, so he naturally didn't know what Zhao Guowuling County was.
Fortunately, he also knew that there was a post house in Kyoto City for merchants to rest, so he wanted a caravan to take him to Wurei County.
And although the caravan he chose now would not go directly to Wuling County to buy and sell goods, it was a must-pass place.
Originally, at the beginning, the owner of this caravan did not agree to take Mo Wunian and Wu Mu, two irrelevant people, he wanted to go to the Qi country of the leading country, not to mention the long distance, there were also fierce horse bandits on the road, it was impossible for him to bring two more burdens.
But sometimes money can be everything, and after seeing Mo Wunian take out a spirit stone, he changed his flattering expression without saying a word.
Although he is not a monk, he has seen this thing, and a small stone is worth a hundred taels of silver!
So he arranged Mo Wunian and Wu Mu together with the dart walkers of the same group of bodyguards, and explained that if he met horse bandits, he would not guarantee their life and death.
Mo Wunian didn't care about this, all he wanted was to go to Wuling County.
So in the carriage where Mo Wunian is now, in addition to Wu Mu, there are five and Liu guards of the man, but the leader is an old man in a shabby gray cloth clothes.
It had been two hours since the caravan walked out of Kyoto City, but along the way, Wu Mu was chattering non-stop to Mo Wunian. Mo Wunian closed his eyes slightly, and he always ignored it.
But it is the suffering of this group of dart men, all the year round on the tip of the knife, some of them can't take care of starting a family, for them, a few more darts to marry a virtuous girl from an ordinary family, is their greatest luck in this life.
Not to mention, there is a girl in a pink skirt who looks like a fairy in the painting in front of me.
For these men, Wu Mu has a lot of words, but the voice is like "big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate", which makes people want to stop. Coupled with the delicate face, even the frowns are slightly wrinkled, which makes people unable to take their eyes off.
Although the mouth is not dry, the girl is like a flower that has just bloomed in the warm spring season, and the breath emanating from her body makes people feel happy when they see it.
Wu Mu naturally didn't know this, as far as she was concerned, the more Mo Wunian ignored him, the more angry she became, and the more she took it for her to take him on the matter of going out with him to experience demon slaying.
She didn't want to, obviously she wanted to come out of curiosity......
"Think less about irrelevant things, have this kung fu to nourish your spirit and spirit! If you meet a horse bandit, don't say anything if you lose your dart!
Perhaps he sniffed out the men's movements, and the old man in the lead scolded him sharply, coupled with the look on the pubic side of his face, the men immediately retracted their thoughts.
"Little brother, old man, I am from here, this little girl is very attentive to you, don't let down the kindness of others!" After that, the old man said to Mo Wunian again, and then sighed.
It's just that as soon as he said it, Wu Mu's face turned crimson with shame.
The men who had just calmed down took the opportunity to coax, and in the laughter, Wu Mu blushed even more and lowered his head.
At this point, she was ashamed and angry, and she should have blamed all this on Mo Wunian. She looked at him viciously, but saw that his eyes were still slightly closed, and he seemed to care nothing about the outside world.
But in the eyes of outsiders, all this is a flirting and scolding of the little couple, and the laughter is heavier.
It's just that seeing that Mo Wunianhao didn't react, the men felt bored again, and after a while, the laughter dispersed again.
"Hey, you ......" Wu Mu thought of saying a few more words to Mo Wunian, but when she calmed down, she found that the other party was meditating and practicing, she thought about herself and he were the same age, what were she doing?
During her practice, she had heard that there was a state of self-forgetfulness, and when she practiced, she would forget even herself, and she thought that she might never be able to understand that state, but if she said that there was no distraction, it would probably be like this.
Thinking of this, she looked at the young man next to her again, and she felt ashamed.
But just when she finally made up her mind to learn from the boy to meditate as well, she noticed that there was a subtle and even snoring sound between the boy's nose.
"Mo Wunian, why did you say that this girl was fooled by you!, am I stupid!" So the carriage had just been quiet for less than a stick of incense, when the sound of a girl's chirping sounded.
This time, Mo Wunian opened his eyes, but he was woken up. He glanced at the girl and thought, "It's clear that you're coming with you." And what he thinks...... She was not wrong, she was very stupid and had a bad temper.
And now there is one more to add, and there are a lot of words.
This time, some men also ridiculed Wu Mu, but Wu Mu released his cultivation of the fourth layer of spiritual induction, although the men didn't know why, but the heavy sense of oppression made them shut up immediately.
The biggest difference between mortals and monks is the difference in life level, even if it is the cultivation aura released by the lowest-level monks, it is difficult for them to resist.
During this period, the leading old man took a closer look at Wu Mu with his spare eyes, and decades of experience in traveling south and north told him that he met the rumored omnipotent "immortal", but he also knew the truth of dealing with people, and he pretended not to know anything and did not break it.
Coincidentally, those men were also a little alienated from Wu Mu. It was no longer the scramble to sit closer to her than it had been at the beginning.
The journey to the destination was always long and tedious, and after a short silence, the carriage was again lively, and someone brought out a drink and a little jerky to chat. There is not a lot of wine, it does not make people drunk, only a small half jar, just enough for the people sitting there to have a few drinks.
As they chatted, someone talked about the purpose of their dart.
Some people say that they are walking darts to see a doctor for their mother, some say that they are saving enough money to marry a daughter-in-law, and some people are forced to support their families by making a living......
The speaker had no intention, but the listener was someone, Wu Mu listened and said: "It's all about money, why don't you go to farming steadily?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the men who agreed with each other shut up again, just drank dryly, and did not say a word.
There was silence in the carriage again, only this time the atmosphere became a little dreary and oppressive. Until a long time passed, no one answered Wu Mu's question.
Mo Wunian could see that Wu Mu was really ignorant of the world, he remembered that walking darts was a fast and high business in the eyes of mortals, if it wasn't for the livelihood, no one would want to do this business of licking blood from the knife edge.
Who doesn't want to farm in a stable way, but just to farm in a stable way to get money to be able to treat the old mother at home?
As the sky gradually darkened, and the people were tired and tired all the way, the owner of the caravan ordered a stop, and ordered a few large iron pots to be set up to prepare the meal.
In the wilderness, overgrown with weeds, from time to time there were a few sounds of wild beasts coming from afar, and what was even more unfortunate was that the moon was still half-hidden behind a black cloud for a long time!
And horse bandits also like to pick such time periods and scenes the most!
It seems that this kind of big pot of rice is much better than that of the bad old man who specially cooked for her in the Baicao Sect!
But often the more people are afraid of something, what will come!
In the distance, a few bright lights slowly approached this side, and gradually evolved into bright lights moving closer to this side, followed by a thunderstorm of horses' hooves.
"The horse bandits are coming!"
I don't know who shouted such a voice in the caravan, and the crowd immediately boiled, and the guys in their hands gathered together!
There was a group of tall horse bandits, and there were dozens of young men with big shoulders and round waists, and all of them were bare-chested, showing knotted muscles.
"Hahaha! Brothers! This time there is a nice little girl! Lao Tzu saw it first, it was mine!"
Among the horse bandits, someone saw Wu Mu and made a sound with a cruel smile!
Hearing this, most of the horse bandits rushed to Wu Mu's side.
The fierce horse bandits are like a vicious wolf, with greed in their eyes, which is different from the scoundrels that Wu Mu drove away when he was in Kyoto City, and that kind of greed also has a kind of madness!
Relying on the fact that he was a monk, Wu Mu could easily repel them at first. But no matter how many times she rejected, they would pounce again.
Gradually, she also became a little exhausted.
"You're not doing it right. It was at this moment that Mo Wunian's faint voice sounded in her ears.
Then she saw that Mo Wunian had the stick-like black sword in his hand, and then he slowly walked towards the horse bandit and swung his sword out.
His sword was very fast, there were no fancy moves, only to see that every time the sword was swung, there would be a blood mist floating, and some horse bandits would fall!