After another half a day of westward travel, it was almost dusk.

The caravan has found a small sand dune, where they will rest tonight.

Hundreds of camels were formed in two large circles, and the goods were unloaded and piled in the center of the circle.

The surrounding dart masters and their retinues set up seven or eight bonfires, and there was not much food left in the caravan, and all that was left were old pickles and dry cakes.

I don't know which retinue hid some jerky in the corner of the caravan, but when he was carrying the goods, he was discovered by other entourage, and was immediately robbed by many dart masters and entourage.

Not all of them had to eat the leftover pickles and dry cakes, and there were two women in the caravan who served the steward's daily diet.

Guo Xiaojiu was invited together for the first time today, and was able to share a meal with the horse steward, beside him, it was the two women, the horse steward sat opposite him, and Kuizi waited beside the horse steward.

Behind the steward of the horse, there were two very young attendants with knives, probably the personal attendants of the steward of the horse, squatting behind the steward of the horse, looking at the broth in the iron pot on the bonfire in a daze.

There were only a few people around the campfire, and behind the steward were camels and mountains of goods.

There was also a young desert ronin wrapped in a straw mat, squinting listlessly and occasionally glancing over the side.

Steward Ma rubbed his wrinkled cheeks and pinched his beard again: "Go and bring that man a bowl of broth to moisturize." ”

A woman with a mediocre appearance but a good figure smiled and picked up the porcelain bowl beside her, raised a spoonful of broth, and poured it into the bowl: "Okay, Steward Ma, you are really a bodhisattva." ”

The other woman didn't say much, and she barely spoke when she had eaten just now, and only occasionally raised her head when the steward occasionally complimented or asked her questions.

This seemingly indifferent woman had a haggard face, probably unable to stand the climate in the desert. This woman is a little more irritating than the previous woman, and no matter how young she is, she must be a sought-after lovely person.

Soon after, the woman returned, put down the dishes, and began to stare at the campfire.

A few days ago, a few dart masters broke their mouths, saying that these two women were the love debts caused by the horse steward in the early years, and they couldn't get rid of it.

Somehow, these words reached the ears of the horse steward, and the two dart masters were dragged to a secluded place by Kuizi that night, and they were beaten so hard that they couldn't even walk the next day.

Steward Ma didn't deny it, nor did he admit it, and others only dared to say a few words in secret, but they didn't dare to publicize it loudly.

When the sky is completely dark, a cool breeze blows in the desert for a while, so that people can forget about the heat of the day.

The steward waved his hand at the two personal attendants behind him, and the two attendants impatiently removed the iron pot from the campfire.

When it was almost cleaned up, the horse steward stretched out his hand and put it on the side of the jumping bonfire, looked at the brilliant starry sky at the end of the Gobi in the distance, and squinted his eyes: "When I was young, I was looking forward to being able to run Mobei for a few masters, and later, I got my wish, but I wanted to go back to stay in Longdong City to retire peacefully, and I didn't have that chance." ”

"My old man, when I ran to Mobei for the first time, I met a horse thief, at that time the steward of the Ma family was not me, I was looking at the old man, fell in front of me, and later, someone else came, my Ma family's goods were not lost, but the life of the old steward was lost in this yellow sand, I shouted, most of them are also this fate. ”

There was already the kind woman sitting beside him at this time, and the woman smiled, and pulled the hair of her sideburns: "Steward Ma, your body is still strong, what kind of nonsense is this?" ”

Unlike her, the woman who seemed to be indifferent, but at this time, she raised her head, looked at the horse steward a few times, and did not speak, maybe she was a little bored, she nodded at the horse steward: "Ma steward, I am a little unwell,......

"Then go and rest, I'm an old man, I don't have to watch all the time. The steward nodded at the lady as well.

Kuizi has already gone to instruct the dart master on duty at night, and plan the path for tomorrow.

One of the attendants quietly approached the steward's ear and whispered a few words in his ear.

Others couldn't hear what he was saying, but although the horse steward was old, his ears were not deaf, and he could hear it really.

I saw that his eyes were round, and he raised his head again, and looked at the night in the distance a few more times: "My Ma family is walking in this desert north, and I haven't encountered the idea of a horse thief daring to attack us for more than ten years." ”

"Is there really a horse thief?" The woman on the side, seeing the horse steward like this, remembered the horse steward's broken thoughts just now, and frowned and asked.

"You, a woman's family, it's so late, let's go and rest first, what are you doing with this heart. The steward patted the woman on the shoulder, unable to see the expression on her face.

Long before this, Guo Xiaojiu had already sat alone on the side of a camel, holding the back of his head, thinking about the girl in his heart.

"Howl!" A sudden roar from the end of the desert interrupted Guo Xiaojiu's thoughts, he frowned, and gently patted the scabbard on his side with his hand.

"It's a horse thief!" the dart master, who was in charge of the night shift at this time, turned around and shouted at the caravan.

The dart masters who were already preparing to rest, all carrying weapons, some got out of the camel pen, some leaned on the camel's back, and they all looked at the night in the distance.

In the night, a few bright lights jumped out, then a dozen, then hundreds. Hundreds of bright lights illuminated half of the sky on the Gobi, brighter than the stars in the night sky!

Those bright lights did not rush immediately, and stayed in the night in the distance, quietly waiting for the movement here.

Guo Xiaojiu stood up, did not walk to the ranks of those dart masters, but quickly approached the direction of the horse steward, there was also a sabre of the rivers and lakes ronin, if I didn't guess wrong, this time happened to be the best time to do it.

At the side of the horse steward, Kuizi was already holding a sword and standing aside.

Guo Xiaojiu approached the bonfire, and happened to hear Kuizi's thick voice shouting: "We will do our best, if we really can't stop it, old man, you will lose this goods and leave here quietly with the two women." ”

"Phew!" The horse steward spat at the bonfire: "This is in Mobei, I met a horse thief, there is no reason to talk about it, I can't escape at all, and besides, if you can't stop it, you have to stop it, your life can be lost, and my Ma's goods can't be lost!"

"But......" Kuizi spread his hands, looking helpless, this is the life of Brother Seventy or Eighty.

"Not so much, but, don't forget, you have four or five hundred mouthfuls of dart boards, over the years, in Longdong City, whose family has eaten and drunk?"

Steward Ma's face was extremely ugly, he had already stood up, and folded his hands in front of his lower abdomen: "When you see those horse bandits, first ask them if they don't know what my Ma family in Longdong City relies on in this Mobei business?"

may be angry, the horse steward didn't see that Guo Xiaojiu was already standing next to a camel behind him, quietly hiding under the belly of the camel, and if he didn't look carefully, he really couldn't see where a person was hidden.

"The lives of our seventy or eighty dart masters today, I'm afraid we will be buried in this yellow sand!" Kuizi said a word that didn't hurt or itch, and ignored the old stubborn steward who didn't understand the feelings, and had already turned his back and walked in the direction of the firelight, where there were already seventy or eighty dart masters, holding weapons, and he was a little at a loss and looked back here from time to time.

When Kuizi walked farther, Steward Ma had a bitter face and sighed slightly.

Just as the sigh of the horse steward fell, the Mobei Langren, who was lying in the straw mat with his illness before, sat up with his body propped up, and squeezed out a few smiles on his face: "The steward of the Ma family?"

When the horse steward heard the voice, he turned his head and looked at it a few times: "Are you really a horse thief?"

"Yes!" The man stood up completely with a smile: "Your Ma family in Longdong City relies on Xujiabao in Mobei, but unfortunately, Xujiabao was destroyed a few months ago, and now, the eldest son of Xujiabao is still a pioneer in our village, your whereabouts are still thanks to that kid!"