Chapter 21: The Robbery (Happy Tanabata, plus a chapter)
The official road was not repaired to Annam, and after two days of walking, the official road ended here.
But this is the road to Annam, although the government has not completed the construction because of the problem of money, over the years, there have been more people walking, and it can be regarded as walking the road.
It's just that after a long time, there are not necessarily people, so over time, this boundary point has formed a gathering of street vendors.
Vendors from nowhere, wearing straw hats, sit on the floor, selling dry food, kettles filled with fresh water, and straw hats.
Zhuang Hao reined in his horse and said loudly, "Phew!" and stopped here.
"Brother Zhuang, why don't you move on?" He Ping asked a little strangely.
"Brother He, you don't know, after here, you won't be so looking for a place to stop. Zhuang Hao pointed to the distance and said with a smile, there were dirt roads as far as the eye could see, and there were many plants and trees around.
"So I need to buy some dry food and water here, I need to buy enough for three days, I estimate that it will take two days to get to the next official road, we don't have to be in such a hurry, just prepare three days of food." Zhuang Hao said as he bought dry food from the vendor on the side and wrapped it in a bag, "Brother He, it's better to buy a straw hat, the sun is big this day, and we coarse people don't even care, but Brother He, you have fine skin and tender meat, and it's not good to get sunburned." ”
He Ping just smiled, he only needed to use a little wood aura to protect his body in this weather, but it was not easy to refuse his kindness at the moment, and he also went to buy some food and a hat.
He Ping saw who was escorting in the carriage in the past two days.
It was a woman, only known as Yan, she wore a veil, and she couldn't see clearly, but she was graceful and light, but she seemed to be suffering from some disease, and she couldn't move much, and stayed in the carriage all day long, and only occasionally came out to breathe.
"Brother He, it's a little dangerous to go further on the boundary here," Zhuang Hao turned back to He Ping while peeing, "The robbers and robbers often come here in the past two days, because there is no inn to rest on the road, so they can only sleep in the wild, and there are many people who are not long-sighted to find unhappiness." ”
"But I'm only afraid that they will come with their lives, and they will not have their lives to leave!" Zhuang Hao's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he could see that he was also a character who licked blood from the knife edge.
The afternoon sun was not scorching, but it was only a little warm today, and the group let the horses run slowly in order to save horsepower.
He Ping put his feet in front of the horse's belly, and he lay on the horse's back, the horse lived with him for a few days, I don't know if it was because of the aura, it was already quite docile.
The sun was just right, but it was a little dazzling, and He Ping put his straw hat on his face, and he was drowsy.
Zhuang Hao and the others laughed when they saw him like this, but they didn't know that He Ping suddenly remembered that Zhao Xianglian was here at this moment.
He Ping dreamed during the day, she seemed to be doing very well in Shuiyuemen, and the head of the sect also carefully taught her spells, she had already refined her qi at the moment, and the disciples in the sect would not bully her and could not speak.
"I hope she's doing well. He Ping thought.
It didn't take long for He Ping to stop as if he had hit something.
He Ping got up and saw that there were several people with fierce faces holding ring knives, all wearing black cloth clothes and a black cloth strip tied to their foreheads.
Presumably it was a robbery.
It's good luck, it's not even night, there is a robbery, He Ping and his party were stopped, and other travelers on the road didn't mean to come to help when they saw them, so they just took the opportunity to escape.
"You kid is pleasant," said the leader, squinting slightly, "I'm afraid you'll have to pay some money to buy the road this way." ”
He Ping was disturbed by Yaxing, and frowned a little, he was about to drive the aura to teach these people some lessons, but was stopped by Zhuang Hao on the side.
Zhuang Hao and the three of them had already dismounted, walked up to those people, clasped their arms and said, "Friend, which way?"
"We are from Montenegro. ”
"Montenegro? I inquired before I went, but I haven't heard of you. Zhuang Hao sneered and touched his fist.
"We'll just take some money to buy the road. Seeing that Zhuang Hao didn't look like something to bully, the leader blushed and his voice weakened.
"If anyone can come and get money, then I'm afraid that my brother will have to break the capital. Zhuang Hao approached and reached out to pat the leader's face.
"So you don't give me face for Montenegro?" The leader was a little angry, and pushed Zhuang Hao's hand away to slap him on the face.
"That's it. Zhuang Hao didn't bother to talk to him anymore.
I saw Zhuang Hao and the others, as soon as they rolled up their sleeves and shouted, they waved their fists at those people, and between the fists, there was a faint sound of tiger roaring.
The robbers were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly slashed down the ring knife.
But before the knife slashed at Zhuang Hao and the others, Zhuang Hao and the others had already avoided it.
"Such a skill, dare to do such a knife edge licking blood!" Zhuang Hao shouted, and punched the leader hard, this punch was extremely powerful.
I saw that there seemed to be a giant tiger, and it suddenly pounced on the man's heart, and the man was hit by this move, took a few steps back, and his eyes were round.
Then he covered his heart in great pain, and opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but it was difficult to speak.
I saw blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, and he fell, and he was already exhausted.
When the other robbers saw this, they were so frightened that they didn't have time to drag away the body of the leader, so they dropped the ring knife and ran away.
Zhuang Hao and the others didn't chase after him, but He Ping felt that Zhuang Hao's blow was quite magical, and it was similar to the aura given to the fists and feet.
"Gengshan, Nie Zi, go and put away the ring knives of those people, it looks like they are still in good condition, hehe, I didn't expect these people to send us money. Zhuang Hao said to the person beside him, and then squatted down and touched the person.
After a while, he found a stone brand, a few taels of silver, and a jade plate.
Zhuang Hao and the others immediately rejoiced when they saw these taels of silver, you must know that this is not a small number, they only received ten taels of silver for this dart, and they will divide the silver immediately.
Zhuang Hao is righteous enough, although He Ping didn't do anything, and said that he would give him a share, but He Ping naturally didn't want it, and the money was probably something outside his body to him, but he was very interested in the jade plate.
The stone jade plate was engraved with the word Miao Ji, which should be the name of this person.
As for the jade piece, He Ping had to look at it in his hand, and after refining the qi, he could control the aura, and he would not have to drip blood.
He Ping looked inward about the aura, and sure enough, it was a set of laws related to cultivation, "Agni Gong", but it was just a set of one-quality exercises, which was of little use.
The person who set up the carriage also noticed this, but he didn't make any changes to this jade piece at all, He Ping was a little surprised, "Could it be that he didn't rely on the jade piece to learn the exercises?"
If a person who relies on jade tablets to embark on the path of cultivation, he will definitely not turn a blind eye to such jade tablets.
Although "Agni Duel" is not very useful at the moment, He Ping still wants to spend money to buy it from Zhuang Hao and others, but Zhuang Hao refuses to accept the money, and only says that he will give him the jade pieces.
This kind of jade piece is not big, and it can only be sold for a few dollars of silver in the market, so He Ping does not force money, but only writes down this favor in his heart.