Chapter 188

The Gobi in the northwest of the royal capital here is endless, only irregularly shaped stones, and you can't see a village for hundreds of miles. There is no road, you can only walk in the direction of the sun, and the route is often marked by a yellow sheep skull stuck in a dead tree by a former merchant.

  Wanggi is a highland, and the Sanhe Plain, where the royal capital is located, is a depression on the highland, where all the water sources are gathered, and it is extremely fertile. whereas

  It's different here, there are few rains throughout the year, and it is said that when the country was founded, the land was sealed, and no one wanted it here. In the end, the Qiu Kingdom reluctantly took over this land, but the Qiu Kingdom was already a thing of the past, the Qiu princes cut off their blood, and the land was merged into the Shen State, and the Shen Kingdom simply gave up this desolate land.

  This place has become an ownerless land, whether it is to come here to make a fortune or kill people and goods, no one cares.

  No caravans should have ventured into such a place, but there were no taxes to pay for trading here, and anything that was forbidden, from standard weapons to living people, could be bought and sold here. There is nothing here but gold. Therefore, at the turn of spring and summer every year, businessmen from all over Wangji gather here to do great business.

  Li Changwen stuffed the account book back into his sleeve, touched the iron box on his waist by the way, and sighed at the merchants who were roasting the fire, "I will make all the money you make in one trip!"

  He looked smug and didn't dare to show it. He had to be careful not to let these people know the secret of his wealth.

  A gust of wind blew, penetrating through the muscles and bones, and Li Changwen sneezed coldly. The sneeze was so bad that he almost jumped up from the ground. He rubbed his nose and thought to himself that he would need to have a sip of hot water.

  There is a spring not far away, so you can fetch water and boil it over a campfire.

  But braving the cold wind, he walked to the fountain...... It's a long way off. Li Changwen pondered in his heart.

  "Oh, my waist, if you shake it again, it will break, this big brother is convenient, it's good to help the villain get some water." He suddenly pressed his back and wailed.

  The merchants by the campfire turned their heads to glance at him, then turned back silently, and began to chat and joke. They are all out of the house, and it is natural for each other to help each other, but Li Changwen is really a headache character, he has been with him for more than ten days, every time he collects firewood and lights a fire, he runs to the back of the slope to have diarrhea, and only comes back when the pot is hot, and apologizes one after another that he is the son of his parents, and he has been weak since he was a child, and he will inevitably have diarrhea if he eats too much meat. The merchants kindly said that you should soak some fried noodles in hot water and eat them? Li Changwen said with a bitter face, I can't eat enough fried noodles, I have been weak since I was a child, and I will starve to death if I am hungry.

  Anyway, if he was asked to work, he would die, and the head of the caravan, Fei Po, couldn't laugh or cry. Fei Po is an elder and is too lazy to bother with him, but the others are not so good-tempered.

  Someone on the other side of the fire snorted coldly, "Li Changwen, why is your waist broken again? It's broken dozens of times along the way, and you can still rub it here, I'm afraid you have to take the extra lumbar vertebrae, and change it all the way, right?"

  Li Changwen was thick-skinned and never cared about ridicule, "Which big brother? If it weren't for the dead father at the top and the brothers below, it would not be my turn to come out to make money. My waist is really a problem left since I was a child, and I can survive here, and I owe it to the big brothers. ”

  "Wait?" the man's voice wandered gloomily, "Wait for you to get here, it's almost enough, right? Your waist is so hard, you might as well leave something and sleep here!"

  The shadow on the other side of the fire suddenly got up and strode towards him, and when he passed by the fire, he was so sparkling that he couldn't see his face clearly, but only a tall and thin figure.

  "This big brother, this is ......"

  Xi Yue's voice declined. More than a dozen figures around the fire got up at the same time and forced up in a half-circle. In the darkness, a pair of eyes shimmered, like a pack of wolves. Li Changwen's face turned pale, there are everyone on the business road, and there is no shortage of outlaws who dare to run to such a desperate place, and some of them may have done murder and goods in the past. He had heard that some of the foot merchants who had set up other people's caravans had disappeared, and when they were found, they were already a dried corpse hanging from a dead tree.

  He suddenly remembered something terrible, and all these days, he had never figured out what this caravan was selling.

  The caravan that is so secretive is already full of all kinds of strangeness.

  Li Changwen screamed, jumped three feet, and drilled into the darkness without a head. Before he could run a few steps, he hit a man headfirst and lost his balance.

  "It's dead, it's dead, there's a tiger in front and a chasing soldier in the back!" he hugged his head and lay down on the ground, curled up like a shrimp.