The group walked forward on the road, such a long journey, at first walked still felt novel, walked for more than twenty miles, and suddenly felt bored, even the talkative Taoist priest did not have the spirit to speak. Chen Feng enjoyed the autumn scenery of Beizhou on horseback earlier, and felt that the trees in early autumn had become quiet and peaceful as if people had reached middle age, and there were no flamboyant leaves and branches in midsummer, and it was like a general who had taken off his armor and returned to the countryside to be an ordinary person. In short, Chen Feng felt very relaxed and comfortable, and even when he closed his eyes, he felt that he was integrated into this autumn breeze and autumn color.

Zhang Sansheng actually fell asleep against the outside of the carriage like this, and even snored lightly, holding his wine gourd tightly in his arms.

Chen Feng carefully examines this gourd, the wooden color, the top looks smooth at first glance, but when you look closely, you can see the complex texture, like the gourd when it grows up, and it seems to be drawn with some kind of fine pen or carved with a small carving knife, and the layers are intertwined and appear mysterious. The gourd stopper was tied up with fine hemp rope and hung on the gourd body. Chen Feng is not an expert in this, he only thinks that this gourd looks pleasing to the eye. And after holding the wine for many years, it seems that the aroma of the wine has soaked the gourd itself, and before you drink the wine in it, you are already drunk by three points just by looking at the wine gourd.

Chen Feng didn't look at him anymore, and closed his eyes to recuperate. I silently recited the sword technique in my heart, but I felt that it was obscure, so I had to study it paragraph by paragraph, and even word by word. Now that he wants to become stronger quickly, there is no other way than to rely on the three thousand sword intent and three thousand sword tricks left to him by his cheap master. However, the cultivation of the Yun Qi Realm is good to say, the master can also be regarded as entertaining, through the concrete cultivation method of writing, he has taken a shortcut, eliminating the complicated steps of penance and comprehension, and directly imprinting the sword intent into his heart through one by one, so as to achieve the miraculous effect of three thousand penetrations and one epiphany. This can be regarded as Master Liu Qingshan's good time.

But now, with an empty set of obscure sword tricks, the master said that she didn't understand the sword and didn't leave any cultivation methods for herself, and her master was not around and didn't have to ask, but she really put her cultivation in a difficult situation. He meditated in his mind for about an hour or so to evolve the sword technique, but he didn't understand it at all. The sword technique has been conveying something like "immobile like a mountain, moving like thunder", but it is really weak to understand it out of thin air. He opened his eyes and rubbed his temples, probably to gradually understand the mystery of the sword technique through actual combat in the future. He knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, so he put it aside and didn't think about it. Silently calculated in his heart, his group had almost walked twenty-seven or eight miles.

Before, Wu Deyang promised him that he could send a master to secretly protect him within thirty miles of leaving Feiyun City, and if he left Feiyun City thirty miles away, he would be beyond his reach, and it would be up to Chen Feng to fend for himself.

Chen Feng suddenly remembered at this time, no wonder he hadn't met any gangsters and robbers along the way. You must know that Feiyun City is located on the border, and illegal activities such as smuggling business are extremely rampant, and the government naturally does not protect the rights and interests of smugglers. Once they are investigated and dealt with by officers and soldiers, they don't say much, first detain the people and goods together, and then slowly interrogate them.

While the government won't keep an eye on the smugglers, the robbers do. The smugglers are already street rats that everyone shouts at on the pipelines, so they will naturally choose some remote roads where there are no officers and soldiers to set up checkpoints to investigate. And these trails have local snakes blocking the road and charging fees. Those who have some experience in doing illegal things at the border will prepare silver taels in advance in order to avoid disasters, and the local snakes are also quite face-saving, and they charge according to the size of the robbed team and the value of the goods, and the money is naturally released when it is in place. After a long time, it even became a rule that could not be put on the table: if there were less than three carriages, each person would receive one piece of silver, and if there were three to ten carriages, each person would receive two taels of silver. The larger teams up the top will be charged according to the leader's idea, because, once the team size reaches that point, there are generally martial artists or specially invited thugs to suppress the formation. And the reason why it is a hired martial arts office instead of a dart bureau is because the law of Dachu is perfect, and all the major dart bureaus are included in the government, and every dart will be clearly recorded, if it is a person wanted by the government or a dart that violates the law and discipline, it will cause a lot of trouble to the dart bureau.

The reason why the bandits behaved like officials was that if a local snake blocked the way, they would rob people and the smuggling merchants would not want to come, and they would rather go far away than pass through other roads. "It's called fishing with all your might, and it's not a long-term way to make money. Sun Yinxian, the second leader of the Tiger King Gang, the largest bandit in the neighborhood, is a scholar who became a robber halfway, he said. Since the big gangs have done this, the smaller gangs have followed suit, and in the end it has become the industry price. No matter which road you pass, it is at this price, but some long roads, because of the small flow of people, will more or less reduce the price to stimulate the flow of people, but it is quite a taste of businessmen doing business.

Of course, they do, but the banditry is very powerful, and there are exceptionally many exiled criminals at the border, so this force has been constantly increasing, and it has been suppressed several times, but they have never thought that the interests of the gangs will collude with each other, and it will easily cause the gangs to jointly counterattack them. And if you want to catch it all, it may be possible, but the loss is too great, and no official is willing to compromise his power to do such a thing.

What's more, the border area is vast, and it is extremely difficult to clean up, maybe this gang has just been wiped out, and tomorrow a new gang will be set up on that hill to continue to block the road and rob. After all, the last thing in this world is desperate fugitives, and in the end, it is these border areas that must join these gangs if they want to survive. Therefore, the government almost turned a blind eye and pretended not to know, and both sides were safe and happy.

Chen Feng pinched his fingers and calculated, about to reach the position of thirty miles, and his party had to change the path until they left Beizhou.

Looking at it from afar, there is a stone tablet standing one or two hundred meters ahead, and when I walked in, I saw that the stone tablet about one zhang high was engraved with a column of words: This goes to Feiyun for thirty miles.

The jurisdiction of Feiyun City is probably within a radius of thirty miles from the main city of Feiyun City.

Once the masters in Feiyun City are out of this range, Li Zhengde, who is always sending secret sentinels to keep an eye on the movements of Feiyun City, will naturally send people to find out, which will be harmful to Chen Feng and his party on this long trip.

The wooden wheels of the carriage turned, and after walking more than ten meters, the road forked. Continuing on, there is a flat official road for four carriages to drive side by side, and to the right, there is a path that can only be used by two carriages. Chen Feng did not hesitate, turned the horse's head and let the carriage drive to the right.

If you take the official road again, there is a great possibility that you will be investigated and dealt with by officers and soldiers, and once it is a sentry set up by Li Zhengde, not to mention Wu Wenjie, the culprit who injured his son, will not be able to live in peace in the first place. So I never dared to touch this mold, so I had to go around it from afar.

He would rather go and play with the robbers than reason with a sinister villain like Li Zhengde.

As soon as the vehicle turned around and drove to the right side of the road, two people appeared out of thin air at the huge stone monument. One person is older, dressed in sackcloth, with a rickety posture, and the other is dressed in white brocade, holding a folding fan, and is introverted.

The man in white said lightly: "The movement some time ago was very noisy, and those people were very cautious, and there were nearly twenty famous sentry and secret sentry along the way, among which there were even masters at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, if it weren't for Elder Li's help, I would never have been able to take this job." ”

The old man said with a smile: "Mr. Wan is too modest, the killing machine in the fan is famous for hundreds of miles, where can I compare the old bones? I just hope that the whereabouts of the eldest lady and her party have not been leaked, and you and I can be regarded as living up to the expectations of the general." ”

Mr. Wan shook the folding fan, and the fan surface was painted with light ink on the gentleman's bamboo, which is called the high wind and bright festival.

"That kid is quite smart, there has always been a whistle planted by Li Zhengde on the official road in Feiyun City, but as long as he gets out of Feiyun City, he will go down the official road and blend into the traffic of the traders, plus the path is complicated, and it is difficult to find this person like looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

The old man nodded, "Next, the most difficult thing to deal with is countless exiled robbers... I hope Miss's luck is not too bad. He touched his beard, and then suddenly remembered something, and asked the person next to him: "Don't you know astronomy and geography, can you observe the stars and know luck?

Mr. Wan smiled and said: "I'm also quite interested in this, I sent someone to check a few days ago, and I read a lot of archives and books, that kid should be from Luoxing Village, it's just..."

"Just what?"

He put away his folding fan and turned around.

"The secret of heaven must not be revealed, I am afraid that my own luck will be broken, you and I should go back quickly. ”

"It's really boring to read..."Old man Li also turned around and walked in the direction of Feiyun City.

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The carriage was sometimes bumpy and sometimes smooth, depending on the road conditions. Zhang Sansheng and Chen Feng were outside the car, and Qingluan and Wu Wenjie were in the car.

Qingluan's peers, in addition to taking care of Wu Wenjie, more importantly, arrange for Wu Wenjie to talk to this confidant who has grown up since childhood, otherwise it will be tiring to travel and have no acquaintances around to chat and relieve fatigue, and it will definitely make people break down after a long time, and Wu Deyang is also painstakingly for this.

However, with such a well-behaved girl as Qingluan by his side, it also happened to meet Chen Feng's vision, since it was arranged by Wu Deyang himself, then he didn't have to ask for it anymore.

But at the moment, the biggest headache for Chen Feng is this section of the road, with potholes and bumps that have never been seen before. Originally, it was a yellow mud pavement, but there were many potholes several inches deep attached to it, with strange shapes, most of which looked like an inverted fan, about the size of a palm, densely covered with the entire two-car wide road, and passers-by were easy to walk on their feet, let alone drive.

Chen Feng scratched his head, and regretted that he had gone this way, but fortunately, the carriage in Wufu was relatively new and sturdy, so it did not fall apart in the bumps left and right, if it was an old carriage on this trip, it would have ceased to exist a long time ago. Although the carriage is still intact now, it may be bitter for the eldest lady in the carriage.

When he rides on a horse, the horse itself will automatically stabilize his body, so despite the potholes on the road, Chen Feng is actually fine on horseback. However, the headache is that because the pothole is large enough to fit into the horse's hooves, the horse will sometimes step on the air and cause the center of gravity to be unstable and stagger, so the overall travel speed is not fast, and the group has to bump on the pothole for a longer time.

was having a headache, the curtain of the carriage was lifted by Qingluan, and the delicate Nizi poked out a small head: "Brother Sanniu, the eldest lady said that the carriage shook and made her dizzy and tired, can you find a place to rest for a while." ”

Chen Feng scratched his head and said: "I'm afraid not, this section of the road is located between the two mountains, it is a low-lying terrain, if you rest here, the gangsters attack from the mountains on both sides, the enemy is high and I am low, and the battle is very unfavorable. ”

Chen Feng was a little embarrassed, although the mountains on both sides were not high, but they really blocked the view, and there were woods on the mountain as cover, it was indeed a good place to do ambush. People who have been on the road all year round should avoid this kind of terrain if they are in a place where bandits are rampant. But he was not familiar with the place, and he didn't know much about the various terrains in this place, so he stumbled into a dangerous situation by mistake, and at this moment he naturally wanted to leave quickly, and secretly prayed that no bandits would target his group.

Zhang Sansheng quipped: "Yo, you still know the art of war?"

Chen Feng smiled embarrassedly: "My master used to like to tell me some anecdotes, and when it comes to having fun, he always likes to express some of his own opinions. ”

"Then your master must be a very powerful person. Zhang Sansheng seemed to be suddenly interested, and his eyes were a little more bright.

Chen Feng waved his hand: "I don't know, the master and I separated early, what kind of person he is, what kind of things he has done, I generally don't know, I will wait for the day we meet again, and listen to what his old man said." ”

"Eh~ I'm not interested in your master, but I'm interested in the anecdotes you said, I don't hide it, I also like to listen to some side theories, and the dream of this life is to travel all over the world, increase knowledge, cultivation and the like It doesn't matter, as long as there are mountains and rivers in the chest, how can it be worse than the ability to pass the sky like the Qiankun in the sleeve?"

"Hahahaha, the Taoist is optimistic and open-minded, but everyone walks a different way, as long as they do their own way to the extreme, to the perfection, no matter what others think, he is already a great immortal in his own world. Chen Feng laughed, feeling that this Taoist priest not only saved his life, but also spoke and acted quite well with his appetite.

Zhang Sansheng also laughed: "Then if you have time, you must tell me the stories you heard from your master before, to see what similarities and differences there are from what I have heard during my travels over the years, and it can be regarded as a way to relieve fatigue on a long journey." ”

Chen Feng nodded.

Qingluan heard the two talking happily outside the carriage in the carriage, and whispered to Wu Wenjie: "Miss, Brother Sanniu and the unruly Taoist priest seem to have a good conversation, and they will not be affected and become a nasty virtue like Zhang Sansheng......"

"One bite of a three-cow brother, you Nizi. Wu Wenjie was already dizzy, but at this time she reluctantly pursed her mouth to make a smile, and tapped Qingluan's nose, who lowered her head with a red face.

Then he felt so dizzy that he poked his head out, frowned, and said, "Then can you go and see how long this road is, and how long will it take us to find a place to stay?"

Chen Feng nodded, ready to get off the horse and go ahead to investigate, people with a little martial arts are indeed much faster to run on such a road than to sit in a carriage, plus Chen Feng's foot kung fu running on the mountain happens to be outstanding.

At this time, there was an insolent voice:

"There is no need to explore, this place is called the Valley of Broken Feet, and it is still five miles away from the flat terrain behind the valley. When they turned around, they saw two people, one tall and one short, both dressed in coarse cloth and with fleshy faces. The tall man was holding a large knife, and the short man was carrying a meteor hammer upside down, the end of which was tied to his hand with an iron chain. At this point, it was the tall man who spoke, and the short man echoed. Then, a dozen or so people sparsely came out of the woods and surrounded a carriage.

"If you come here, you will not be cut off by the potholes in this place, but you will have your foot cut off by the big knife in my hand. The tall man said viciously.

"Hehe, you can also break your foot by my meteor hammer. The short man had a fleshy face, and when he smiled at the moment, he was so cute and funny that Chen Feng almost couldn't help laughing, and Zhang Sansheng laughed directly.

The tall man patted the short man on the head: "How did I tell you, don't laugh when you come out to rob people, look too naïve, and lose the momentum of the brothers." The short man rubbed his head aggrievedly.

"Hey, that skinny one, don't laugh there! Lao Tzu is a robber, if you want to keep your feet today! One or two silver per person!"

Zhang Sansheng touched Chen Feng's shoulder with his shoulder: "Hey, as soon as we get out of the city, we will run into robbers, what do you say." ”

Chen Feng thought about it, one or two silver per person can avoid fighting, plus Wu Wenjie and his father gave a lot of silver when he went out, although it was all silver tickets and broken silver, but it was not his own and he didn't feel distressed to use it all the time, it seemed to be good.

"Two taels!" As soon as he broke off, a person suddenly appeared in front of the carriage, with loose hair, a slight scar on his face, dark skin, and a much more well-proportioned figure than those two, listening to the tone of the voice, he was more like the leader of this gang of bandits.

Zhang Sansheng said cheaply: "Sitting on the ground and starting the price, you don't have to do business, don't you say that we have to take 10,000 taels later." ”

The black-faced man had a gloomy face and appeared even darker:

"Lao Tzu is not doing business, Lao Tzu is robbing!"