Chapter 15: Road Encounters
"Brother Zhang, how long will it take to get to the capital?" Jiang Nian turned over and asked the young man in front of him.
"Wake up, haha, I guess I won't be able to get there today, but we rushed to the post station in front of us, and we can enter the city early tomorrow morning!" The young man's name is Zhang Heng, he was born tall and big, with a pair of thick eyebrows that are very eye-catching, and his personality is bold, and he is also the main piggyback on Jiang Nian's family into Beijing.
Since the three members of the Jiang family left Luoxian City, they went straight to the capital of Qianwu Kingdom. Jiang Nian felt that after all, it was the capital of a country, and those monks didn't dare to make too much of it, so he decided to temporarily live in the capital and make plans again.
Zhang Heng's family did a cloth business, and often had to go to the south to find the best silkworms to pick silk, and provide silk and silk for the dignitaries in the court. This is not about to enter winter, the palace lacks a batch of thick furs to keep out the cold, and the Zhang family has traveled thousands of miles to purchase a batch of furs to ship, which is also to lay the foundation for next year's silk business.
It has been more than ten days on the way, and there is only one carriage with a carriage in the procession, which is reserved for the ladies to ride.
Jiang Nian has made a lot of progress in the past ten days. There are many people and eyes during the day, and there is not much left of Linggan Food, so Jiang Nian chooses to cultivate at night. When avoiding the heaviest yin qi, the manipulation method cooperated with Linggan Diet, and successfully broke through to the third layer of spiritual qi on the night of the fourth day!
After the third layer of aura, Jiang Nian began to have a strange feeling, as if he could enter another level with more effort, and this feeling became more and more obvious in the next six days of cultivation. But his intuition told Jiang Nian that this would be a qualitative change, no longer a simple spiritual cultivation, if he hadn't experienced the good cultivation of the white-sidedness monk, Jiang Nian would almost have to adapt to this feeling.
At least to reach the level of spiritual power of a white-sidedness monk, Jiang Nian demanded this in his heart.
In the afternoon, the wheel of a carriage in the convoy was broken, and it took several hours to repair it.
That night, the ladies were resting in the carriage, and Jiang Nian secretly climbed the rock wall when everyone was asleep and came to the top to practice. After playing the exercises three times, Jiang Nian's whole body was boiling, in order to save a little Linggan Food, Jiang Nian waited for his muscles to be quite sore every time he swallowed Linggan Food, and the cool and refreshing feeling made Jiang Nian linger every time he practiced.
The spiritual power turned around in the meridians, and as the spiritual power cultivation reached the third layer, Jiang Nian's sense of the flow of spiritual power became clearer, and he found that there were some places on his body that he didn't know were also absorbing spiritual power.
One is the umbilicus, every time the spiritual power flows to the umbilicus, it will lose a little, but fortunately, the loss of spiritual power outside the body is not sensed, and Jiang Nian is still very relieved in line with the idea that the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders. The second is the limbs, every time the spiritual power is operated in the limbs, the spiritual power will be less returned.
This originally made his boss reluctant, and with his induction, if there was no such loss, his entry would be at least half faster. But once Xiao An told him that Jiang Nian's own vitality had become much stronger, and he didn't even need it to help him with some minor injuries to his hands and feet. Xiao An was also a little speechless when he found out, and at some point, his owner began to become a bit of a rich slave, and he was very happy when he took advantage of it.
The time had passed, and after practicing the Edgeworth Handprint for an hour, Jiang Nian felt that the yin qi between heaven and earth was gradually dissipating, and he would be able to cultivate again in half an hour. Since his aura is three layers, he can do whatever he wants, in fact, as long as he doesn't use that weird flying sword, the sword skills are tried, which also makes Jiang Nian a little disgusted with the bronze ancient sword, and the two flying swords on his waist, one black and one green, seem to be a little different...
Just when he was thinking about whether to try to eat half of the Linggan diet for a while, in the dense forest behind him, more than a dozen people were lying on the ground and planning to rob, woo, that's right, it's robbery.
"Boss, there's a man on the top!" a thin, toothy man pointed to the big man next to him.
This group of people was dressed in a mess, and they were also night thieves, and they didn't even have the basic configuration of night clothes.
"Where's it? You kid fart again, dare to play Lao Tzu, your share tonight is mine!" This man was born with five big and three thick, his face was full of meat, and a thick rope around his waist was wrapped around his pants, which seemed to be difficult to hang up.
"No, boss, I haven't had any clothes for three days, and if I continue like this, I'm going to freeze to death. The thin man looked at the extremely ill-fitting torn shirt on the boss's body, wasn't it the clothes he was preparing for the winter, and his heart was bitter, and the folds on his dirty face were squeezed together, and there were tragic words written all over his face.
"Start and open, don't talk nonsense, Lao Tzu has inquired clearly, the team in front of me is carrying leather, warm and wear-resistant leather! Give Lao Tzu a spiritual point, take as much as you can! This winter, you can't freeze to death anymore, give Lao Tzu a rush!" The leading man got up from the ground with difficulty, and with a bang, the short shirt on his body was torn by the fat meat! A big hole cracked in the back, and the wind blew in, and the man shivered.
"What are you doing in a daze? Waiting for Lao Tzu to whip you! Grab it for Lao Tzu!" The man tried to get up, but when he saw a group of younger brothers standing motionless, he immediately scolded.
"Boss, someone. I don't know which guy said something leisurely in the back, and the leading man was startled, and then turned into annoyance.
"What are you afraid of! We are bandits! Everyone else is afraid of us! Rob Lao Tzu!" The man waved his knife, and the younger brothers around him ran out trembling and silent.
"Ahh
There was a sudden noise ahead, and then a lot of screams were heard, and the leading man hurriedly ran out to take advantage of the moonlight to take a closer look, and a young man in white was stepping on the body of his little brothers, with a blue nose and swollen face under his feet, not like a human being.
Who is this young man in white if he is not Jiang Nian!
"You bandits, I've been listening to them for a long time, and they're going to rob, all of them are good at robbery, but they have to rob every day!" As his physical fitness got better and better, Jiang Nian's hearing became more and more sensitive, and when this group of bandits were talking on the ground, he noticed it, and when he came closer, he turned out to be bandits!
The fat man was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly showed a fierce light, and he raised his knife and came straight to Jiang Nian! Jiang Nian flicked his wrist, but he pinched a few seals very skillfully, and the black sheath flying sword in his hand swept out quickly, and the sword light flashed in front of the fat man.
"Hmm, a little capable, you can dodge my flying sword! Come again!" Jiang Nian was a little surprised, this fat man reacted very quickly, and he was able to avoid his flying sword so fast!
"Master, grandfather, grandfather, don't do it, spare your life!" The fat man's words were shocking, completely different from Fang Cai's fierce appearance, and he knelt on the ground, kowtowing straight to Jiang Nian, and the knife in his hand no longer knew where to throw it.
Jiang Nian was about to ask, and the fat man rushed to say: "Don't dare to bother with the master, the villain Zhu Sanliang, the profession is a bandit, he lives in Xiaocang Mountain, he usually works at night, never hurts people's lives, just wants food and clothing." The villain was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he almost stained the master's sword, the villain should be damned!"
Jiang was a fledgling at the beginning of the year, where did he hear these nonsense words, and he was stunned by the words of this bandit, are they so professional when they are bandits now?
"There are eighteen brothers in the villain's family, and in the past three years, six have frozen to death, all because they have no clothes to wear. The twelve brothers wore a pair of pants in turns, and it didn't hurt to freeze in the summer, but the capital of the post station regarded us as hooligans, in fact, we just had no clothes to wear! And because of the theft for many years, there are familiar people around, and no one is willing to sell a piece of clothing and villains, so I waited for this to go out to rob, I was really forced to be helpless!
Jiang Nian's brain buzzed when he listened, no wonder the ancients said that it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles, today it seems that this is the case, if I don't go out, where do I know that there are such miracles in the world!
A group of bandits surrounded the white-clothed boy and talked in the middle of the night, and all kinds of strange things came one after another, which opened the boy's eyes a lot and taught him the first lesson in the rivers and lakes.
Of course, at his insistence, Jiang Nian is a brother, he is a brother, because his brother will never treat his brother badly, so Jiang Nian gave him an unknown pill as a gift to meet...
With Jiang Nian on the line, Zhang Heng promised to sell them twelve pieces of cloth, and they also promised not to make a living as robbers, change their faces, and become new people.