In the middle of summer, the scorching sun is like a hot charcoal fire, scorching the land of more than 100 miles in Yingtianfu to the point that it is scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. The originally quiet and elegant Jiangnan style also has a hot taste like the Western Regions at this time. The intellectuals in the trees couldn't stand the heat, and hid in the shade of the trees and wailed loudly. The noisy movement made people even more dizzy, and they wanted to plunge into the nearby river to have a good time.

Fifteen miles outside the city, on the edge of the bamboo forest, a very inconspicuous tea shop is booming because of this damn weather. In the palm-sized place, there were four or five tables of guests. These people, who were dressed as merchants and farmers who worked on the farms, ran to this shop to drink herbal tea and go to the heat in order to avoid the sun, which could kill people. By the way, you can take a look at the charm of the proprietress who still exists.

In this shop, the person in charge of greeting customers is a middle-aged woman in her thirties. Don't look at her mediocre appearance, she is still wearing a coarse linen dress. But the fat body of the breast still makes these men who are a little dizzy from the sun a little upset. But take a look at the tea-making man who looks like he can pinch a cow to death, these high-minded tea customers, they can only honestly abide by the dispensable courtesy, righteousness and shame, although they don't dare to do anything out of the ordinary, but they can say two words of meat verbally, and some of them under their hands don't have to take advantage of the two or harmless.

The middle-aged woman is also a long-standing scene, how could she be frightened by a group of guts bandits. Not only that, but her bold and pungent personality also choked a few hairy tea customers from time to time and couldn't speak. For a while, the tea shop next to this official road actually revealed a lively scene of joy and happiness for the guests and hosts.

It was noon, and the scorching sun had climbed to the highest place, as if to vent its anger, and poured all its heat on the land below. On the nearby official road, it was already like boiling water, steaming wisps of heat. Looking from the tea shop, the scenery in the distance is strangely distorted under the action of heat.

Suddenly, the sound of galloping horses' hooves came from far and near. The people in the tea shop were attracted by the sound, and they all looked intently, only to see a team of men in brocade clothes who rode more than ten horses, escorting a carriage in the direction of Ying Tianfu.

But when the group approached, the tea guests, who had seen their clothes clearly, gasped, quietly packed up the luggage around them, and left the tea shop with a sigh like seeing a cat and a mouse.

These more than ten people are all riding high-headed horses, and at first glance they are carefully selected good horses in the Western Regions, and the price of a horse alone is a sky-high price of fifty or sixty taels of silver. And what is even more terrifying is the vigorous skills of each of them, the eyes like eagles and falcons, and the cold-handled embroidered spring knife on their waists. With a brocade dress on a black background, and the hideous tiger and biao patterns.

Brocade-Clothes-Guard!

This name is a terrible existence in the Ming Dynasty that can make children cry at night, not only ordinary people, but even some dignitaries and dignitaries have to retreat when they see this group of cannibalistic demons who do not spit out bones.

Seeing that this group of people turned into the bamboo forest where the tea shop was located, the originally lively tea shop suddenly became deserted. Only the shopkeeper and his wife and a table of tea guests who did not know whether they were alive or dead were still quietly in place.

The brocade-clothed man led by him glanced at it coldly, and the middle-aged woman and the five big and three thick men in his family cowered and hid behind the tea shop, and the only remaining tea guests at the table seemed abrupt for a while. It was five roe deer men, who didn't seem to see the group, still sitting in place, drinking the dusky tea soup without taking a sip. Their thief's eyes were peeking nervously in the direction where the brocade guard belonged. Sitting in the innermost part was a burly man with a large handful of black hair on his chest. I saw him rubbing the black hair on his chest while drinking a few pennies of tea soup as if he were tasting Persian wine. Like the head of the dominant party, he proudly looked back at the leader of the Jinyi Guard.

Baihu, surnamed Geng, frowned, and asked behind him in a low voice:

"Duan Tou'er, do you want to drive them away?"

Behind him, a brocade-clothed guard with a unicorn pattern embroidered on his chest replied in a deep voice:

"Official business is important, don't cause more trouble. He looked up at the sun in the sky and continued, "Let the brothers get off their horses and rest, and I will inform the Heavenly Master." ”

So saying, he rode to the delicate carriage in the middle of the procession, and asked humbly:

"Master Heaven, this day is too poisonous, how about we stop and take a sip of tea and rest?"

Inside the carriage, a thick but not old voice replied:

"Immeasurable Tianzun, the poor road has its own way to go to the heat, and it doesn't bother thousands of households. After a long journey, Duan Qianhu and the brothers should rest and go, and I will keep the things. ”

Duan Qianhu bowed again and saluted:

"Since this is the case, there is Master Lao Tianshi. ”

He glanced enviously at the wisps of wind that were entwined near the carriage, and smiled bitterly and motioned to the surrounding Jinyi guards to dismount and rest.

"Boss, let's have a few pots of good tea, and by the way, we will have to rush if we have anything to eat!"

After the leader Geng Baihu finished giving instructions to the tea stall owner, he turned around and pulled up the chair like a pug, and after trying the seat with the cloak behind him, he waited for Duan Qianhu to sit down before he dared to sit down. After waiting for a while, the woman in coarse linen came over with a few teapots and bowls, and said in a charming manner:

"A few officials, your tea is here. ”

Baihu named Geng Yi took the tea, took out a silver needle from his waist and tested it, and then nodded to everyone to signal safety. Looking at the cautious appearance of several brocade-clothed guards, the proprietress pretended to be displeased and muttered:

"Oh, a few officials, are you still afraid that my little tea shop will poison you?"

"Where is the boss lady, we are not deliberately targeting you, but it is no harm in being cautious. What's more, what we are sending is valuables, and if something goes wrong, we will lose our heads!"

"Oh, a few officials are not small at first glance, what valuable objects can bother you to drive?"

As soon as he said this, Duan Qianhu coughed coldly:

"Ahem...... Boss, it's better not to ask about things that shouldn't be asked, and go get some snacks. ”

The middle-aged woman was startled at first, then bowed in a sneer, and turned her head to the shop to prepare snacks. Seeing the woman leave, Duan Qianhu reprimanded him reproachfully:

"When you're out and about, be careful what you say and do, and don't forget who we are!"

A few hundred households around him and the general banner nodded submissively, which can be regarded as covering up the matter. Geng Yi, who was afraid of getting into trouble, secretly glanced at the carriage on the side, and probably asked in a low voice that diverted the topic:

"Duan Tou'er, why doesn't Master Tianshi get out of the car to have a sip of tea and take a rest together?"

The man embroidered with the unicorn pattern poured a large sip of tea, and replied respectfully in his tone:

"What do you know? That's the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, a fairy-like figure, how can he be like us ordinary people? Don't you see, the wind around the carriage, every time I get close to that side, I feel that it is many times cooler than outside. I've heard that it's a vision of heaven and earth that can only be triggered by a master of the Celestial Realm, and it's an amazing supernatural power!"

Duan Qianhu's explanation caused several Jinyi Wei general banners around to nod their heads and say yes.

"I'll tell you, there's more to it than that. He lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Along the way, I found several times that the carriage that the Heavenly Master was sitting in was actually running off the ground!"

Geng Yi was the first to retort:

"Huh...... Duan Qianhu, you're bragging again! How can there be a car that can run off the ground?"

"Hey, you still don't believe me, let me tell you, there's a kind of spell that can make things float. I think this is the kind of spell that the Heavenly Master used, so that after the carriage floated up, it was all dragged away by the momentum of the two horses in front of him. Don't you notice how easy it is for the two horses to pull the cart than the horses we ride? It's a thousand miles away, and our horses are tired, but look at the two horses, it's like they're all right. ”

Speaking of this, a few subordinates beside him turned their heads to look at the two horses that were gnawing grass, and nodded knowingly.

"But Master Duan, this spell must be very consuming of true qi, we have been running for a month this time, is it possible that the Heavenly Master has been casting spells all the way?

Geng Yi still didn't believe it.

"Then you are a layman, the Heavenly Master is a master of the Celestial Realm, can you compare with us?" Duan Qianhu continued: "I have been practicing hard for thirty years, and I have just touched the threshold of the Finger Mystery Realm, one of you and two, at most in this life, it is the life of a first-class Vajra Realm, and the masters who are still commenting on the Celestial Realm here, don't you want to be mixed up, right! Let me tell you, if it weren't for this Heavenly Master accompanying him, just by virtue of our brothers escorting such a few precious treasures, they would have been snatched away on the road a long time ago." ”

As soon as Duan Qianhu said this, the few hundred households and the general banner around him who had seen the Heavenly Master in the carriage closed their mouths honestly.

But isn't it, they encountered five interceptions along the way. One of the most dangerous times, there were two masters of the three grades of the Xuan Realm. That time, thanks to the Heavenly Master in the carriage, he used the spell of sprinkling beans into soldiers to get six gold-armored warriors out, and he defeated the two masters, otherwise with the dozen or so of them, they would have died I don't know how many times. And the other times, it was the Dao Master who casually threw out a few true qi and threw out three or two spells to send away the strong enemy who couldn't be defeated, which made them come to the end without danger along the way. Thinking of this, several men in brocade clothes looked at the still quiet carriage over there in awe.

Duan Qianhu took a sip of tea, sighed lightly and said:

"Alas...... If it weren't for the fact that there was a master of the Celestial Realm with us, our brothers would have gone to Lord Yama to report a long time ago. Think about the entire Ming Dynasty, there are only a dozen masters with the strength of the Heavenly Phenomena Realm, it is said that when they reach that realm, within a radius of a hundred miles, they will have feelings with each other, and naturally they will not rashly find such a god's bad luck. And the things we escort, the masters of the Celestial Realm can't look down on them at all, and the people who refer to the Xuan Realm can't afford to provoke the immortal in our car, so the brothers can live safely and steadily until now. ”

A few Jinyi men around him who had really experienced life and death drank the tea in the bowl one after another, suppressing their apprehension.

"But Duan Tou'er, what kind of treasures are we escorting, why are so many people desperately trying to grab them?"

Duan Qianhu vigilantly observed the surroundings, and after making sure that no one was eavesdropping, he lowered his voice and said to a few brothers beside him:

"Let me tell you, we are escorting, but Zhen Yuanzi specially prepared a birthday gift for our emperor. Among them, there is a white snake that is about to turn into a dragon, a sword pill left in the world after the sword immortal soars, and the most important thing is the 'ginseng fruit' that is rare to see in a hundred years!"