At sunset, two Taoist priests, one tall and one short, appeared on the country road, and the sun slanted westward, pulling the figures of the two to grow. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Tiande is tall, with wide and long steps, and walks with great strides. Tianliang is a head shorter than him, and his body is a little stocky, and he often has to walk three steps to catch up with his senior brother two steps.

"Senior brother, let's take a rest again, rest again!" Tianliang flattered: "I still have some dew I collected in the morning, senior brother, you can drink some." ”

Tiande said helplessly: "Senior brother, we have only walked less than ten miles, and you have to rest again." There are still fifty or seventy miles away from Yangzhou City, the mountain road is rugged, and it is even more difficult to walk, such as you walk, and when you get to Yangzhou City, I am afraid it will be in the middle of the day!"

"Slow down, senior brother, let's just bring a message to the prefect of Yangzhou, and it's not an important matter. Besides, what about the middle of the moon, the two of us walking, are we still afraid of any mountain acacia ghosts!"

"Nonsense, the forbidden Dharma Hall is so rampant in Shandong, treating the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism as if they were nothing, destroying countless temples and destroying countless temples, it is simply destroying the foundation of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism. The master asked the two of us to send a letter to the prefect of Yangzhou, so that he could take the lead in writing a letter to impeach the forbidden law hall for arrogance, indiscriminate killing of innocents, and deceiving Buddhism and destroying the Tao. So that the emperor can issue a holy decree, let me fight against it in the name of righteousness, and eradicate it! How can such a big matter be delayed? Hurry up, go quickly!"

Tianliang was helpless, so he could only keep a bitter face and follow the pace of his senior brother.

After walking for another three or four miles, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a lively small town appeared in front of me.

He was overjoyed at dawn and hurriedly shouted: "Senior brother, look, it's actually a bazaar, and my junior brother just has some money on him, let's go and have a full stomach, rest our feet, and have the strength to hurry!"

Tiande looked back at him and sighed: "You want you, when will you be able to change your bad temperament?"

Tianliang laughed and didn't speak.

"That's it, it's up to you, but there is a word first, this is the last rest!"

"It's Senior Brother!"

Tianliang agreed loudly, and his head was already twisting left and right to find a suitable place to stay. "Senior brother, you see there's a tavern there, there must be some food. ”

The two of them walked into Xiaoyi, walked through the dense flow of people, and walked to the front of the tavern.

The tavern was made of straw huts, with burrs still on the trunk of the skeleton, and the straw was freshly woven, mixed with reeds that had not been fully dried, apparently hastily erected.

The two walked into the tavern, and the seven or eight tables were already half full, and there were a lot of wine bottles on each table, and many people were lying on the table crookedly, shouting something indiscriminately.

An old man walked over and wiped his hands vigorously with a rag, squeezing out a smile on his face stiffly, as if he didn't know what to say.

Tiande is not surprising, the countryman is shy, he has seen a lot.

The two of them found an empty table and sat down, and said to the old man: "Don't serve the wine, just get some food, if you have meat, it's better to get more, and then serve a pot of tea! ”

The old man nodded hurriedly, wiped the table with a rag, and turned away.

Someone next to him suddenly laughed: "Do you still have to hurry? If the two Taoist leaders go to Yangzhou City, they can't go." ”

Tiande turned around and saw that the speaker was a man dressed as a businessman, and arched his hand: "How do you say this?"

"The two Taoist leaders have just come here! You may not know that half a month ago, the road to Yangzhou City was blocked. ”

Tianliang said strangely: "Is the road still passable? Could it be that some mountain spirit tree monster is doing it?"

"If only it were these monsters!" the merchant said with a wry smile, "The one who robbed the road was a swarm of bees on the notorious horizon." ”

Tiande glanced at each other at dawn, not knowing why.

"The two Taoist leaders are not locals, so they may not know that this swarm of bees on the horizon is an extremely famous group of bandits, with high force and a large number of people, who come and go like the wind. In the surrounding green forest, it has a great reputation. ”

"Since he is a good man in the green forest, he will talk about some rules, if he needs to give him some tolls, why do you say that this road is impassable?"

The merchant shook his head and said, "I thought the same way before, but after seeing a colleague encounter, I realized how murderous this gang of bandits is. They saw the goods and grabbed the goods, and when they saw the people robbing the people, a caravan passed, and all the people who stayed behind were called Hanako, and they didn't even leave you a complete piece of clothing, how dare my generation of merchants go forward!

After saying that, he let out a long sigh and took the flask and drank it all.

"Doesn't the government care?"

"The government wants to take care of it, but it depends on those weak township soldiers, who are the opponents of those bandits. I heard that the leader of the swarm of bees on the horizon was a woman, who had thaumaturgy, and was the best at coercing the countrymen. If the officers and soldiers don't go to suppress the bandits, they will send soldiers to the enemy once!"

Tiande Tianliang looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Bang!

Someone next to him slammed the table and said loudly: "TNND, I can't bear it! If I endure it any longer, the goods brought here this time must be rotten, and I don't believe that a swarm of bees in the sky is so powerful that it can catch all the caravans." I will take the small road this time, even if it is a little far away, I will enter Yangzhou City!"

Bang!

Another person stood up and shouted: "Brother Li is so courageous, brother will go with you, there are five truckloads of goods by my side, but the guards are enough to wait for more than 20 people, even if they encounter those bandits, they will not have a hard time!"

The man was overjoyed, bowed to the ground, and laughed: "Okay, good, you and my brother work together today to overcome this difficulty, and we will definitely be rich and rich in the future, go!"

The two laughed and left, attracting everyone's attention.

One shook his head and got up, sighing: "Hot-blooded and heroic is a good man, but unfortunately he doesn't measure himself, and tries in vain to challenge the swarm of bees in the sky. Shopkeeper's. I want a tael of silver here, and if they come back from despair, give them a bowl of hot noodle soup!"

The old man nodded hurriedly.

Tianliang said curiously: "This layman, are you so optimistic about them? Listening to the conversation between the two of them, there are forty or fifty guards under his command, even if they are defeated, they can retreat with their whole body, right?"

The man arched his hand: "The Taoist chief doesn't know, the Phoenix Evil Sect was very evil that day, no matter how strong your will is and how noble your identity is, as long as you are caught by her, the next time you appear, it will definitely be the other party's embrace."

A friend of mine also rose to the challenge, and wanted to break through with luck, and the whole caravan disappeared without a trace, and when he reappeared, he was already a pawn of the bandits, with a hideous face and a ruthless heart, as if he had changed a person. It's a terrible scene!"

Tianliang suddenly stirred up a spirit, and hurriedly turned his head and asked Tiande: "Senior brother, is it an evil law?"

Tiande's face changed slightly, and he waved his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense, it's easy to cause panic." ”

The man smiled bitterly: "The Taoist is kind-hearted, but you don't have to be so careful." This evil method has long been mentioned, and several senior monks and Taoists have been invited from the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism to accompany the formation, but there is no effect at all!

I don't care if the evil law is not evil! Since the road in Yangzhou City is so difficult to walk, I will go home, even if I lose money, it is better than losing my life and becoming a bandit. ”

After the man finished speaking, he clenched his fists, picked up a package and turned to leave.

The movements are clean and neat, and they are chic.

Tianliang said with contempt: "Knowing the difficulty and retreating, like a turtle with a shrunken head, such people should not be friends!"

Someone next to him disagreed, and another man dressed as a businessman interjected: "The Taoist chief is wrong, he knows the timing of advance and retreat, this is my generation of businessmen, that brother is decisive and neat, and he should be a good man." ”

His tablemate sighed: "If you and I are trafficking in seasonal fresh fruits, we will have to face the same choice." Fortunately, I'm selling porcelain, you're selling furs, and the goods of you and me will be okay for a year, so I have time to wait for the government to come and deal with it!"

Tianliang said strangely: "Didn't you say that the government can't suppress it?

"The government naturally can't do it, the Forbidden Law Hall does have a way, but the sky is full of swarms coming and going like the wind, fluctuating, if you want to exterminate them, you have to make a long-term plan!"

At this time, the old man brought his son and daughter-in-law over to serve the food, and got a bowl chicken, four big steamed buns and five or six small dishes, which was very hearty.

Tianliang was very satisfied, raised his hand and threw out a piece of silver, fished out a chicken leg and gnawed it.

Seeing his heartless appearance, Tiande couldn't help but shake his head, turned his head and asked the merchant over there: "I heard that the Forbidden Law Hall has only been established for three months, and it is already the responsibility of the world to suppress lawlessness, and it is specifically the enemy of illegal officials, and they will still suppress bandits?"

The man smiled and said, "Suppressing lawlessness is naturally to suppress bandits!" Actually, we didn't know before, but it was only later that a forbidden law hall team came from the waterway and posted a notice on this makeshift market, so I waited to know. ”

"Is this bazaar built temporarily?" Tianliang said in surprise.

The man laughed, stretched out his hand and pointed to the corner of the wall, and said, "Oh, that fat man in brocade robe, he is the landlord here, seeing that we and other merchants are trapped here, and they are in a dilemma, so they immediately summoned tenants to build this straw shed market, and sorted out his own courtyard as a guest room." I started trading within three days, and I made a lot of money in less than half a month. I'm unlucky, he went to make a fortune, it's really unreasonable!"

Tianliang swallowed the chicken in his mouth, threw away the chicken bones in his hand, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and looked curiously at the corner.

Over there, a fat man in a brocade robe sat there in a big way, surrounded by a circle of businessmen who were making gestures and bowing their hands, their faces were full of flattery, and they couldn't help but wonder strangely: "What are they doing here?"

"Yangzhou City is an important transportation area, both land and water are convenient, and the land route is impassable, so they naturally want to find a waterway. However, all of you here are far-reaching businessmen, and they are not familiar with the place, so where can they go to find a boat? They can only ask him for the landlord! There are many people and few boats, and the supply exceeds demand, so the fat man's shelf will naturally be put up, and there is nothing strange about it. ”

"Then why don't you go find a boat and go by water?"

"Don't worry, my porcelain won't rot, and it will be worth it in a while. Moreover, the commercial road in Yangzhou City is not passable, and there must be a shortage of everything in the city, and the price of this thing will naturally rise as soon as it is scarce. If the porcelain can be sold for a better price in two days, why don't I want to wait!hahaha!"

"Profiteer!" Tianliang glared at him fiercely, muttering quietly.

Tiande shook his head, and admired the insight of this porcelain merchant in his heart.

Sure enough, there are smart people in every industry.

"The people from the Forbidden Law Hall are here, the people from the Forbidden Law Hall are here, everyone go and see it, and a new notice has been posted!" a little ghost ran in, shouted twice, turned around and ran out again.

The merchants glanced at each other, quickly got up and rushed out.

On a high platform in the center of Xiaoyi, several men wearing brocade robes with knives are posting notices, and the three have not yet been posted, and hundreds of merchants have surrounded them.

There was a lot of noise, and everyone was shouting their questions, trying to know when the road was clear or something.

Everyone was shouting, like two thousand ducks quarreling, and people's ears were ringing.

The fat man in the brocade robe came over panting, waved his hands, and shouted loudly: "All be quiet, all be quiet, come one by one." ”

Seven or eight children stood in a row behind him, each striking a large gong vigorously, and the sound of detachment was suppressed.

Seeing that everyone's mood was a little calm, the fat man in the brocade robe arched his hand to the brocade fanzi and said, "This military master, where are you from?"

This brocade man is not very old, but he is very sophisticated, and he arched his hand to the fat man and said, "This is Master Wu, the squire here?"

The fat man said happily: "Where is the squire, just a landlord." The military master has been raised, by the way, this military master, what is your surname?"

"Don't you dare to be, my surname is Lin, Master Wu just call me Lin Qi! I was originally a jailer in the next county, I was appreciated by Shangfeng five days ago, and I joined the Forbidden Law Hall, but now I am only a third-class fan. Don't dare to bother Master Wu's tongue, we came from the waterway today. ”

"Why don't you go overland?"

Lin Qidao: "The large army of my forbidden law hall is fighting with a swarm of bees on the horizon, and the entire Yangzhou City is surrounded by battlefields within fifty miles, and it is easy to be injured by mistake even when you step into it!"

The fat man was surprised: "It was so rampant that day. ”

Lin Qi glanced at the more than 100 businessmen around him, and said with a little embarrassment: "I don't know what evil methods were used by the swarm of bees that day, every time we beat out hundreds of people, they can recover every three or five days." The number has always been maintained at about 2,000 people, and they do not engage the regular army of our Forbidden Law Hall head-on. Guerrilla everywhere is very difficult. Now Shangfeng is having a headache, trying to find out who is sending them combat power. ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding businessmen were embarrassed.

Needless to say, it's your own people who are dragging their feet! The officers and soldiers killed hundreds of people, and the sky swirled around, and as long as they killed two caravans, the number of people would be replenished.

In the past half a month, there have always been fifteen or sixteen caravans, no wonder the number of bandits has not decreased!

Lin Qi arched his hand and said: "I'll wait for the notice to be posted, and ask Master Wu to send someone to take care of one or two, don't let the wind and rain erode it! As long as the living force of the bandits is cut off, I can suppress the bandits faster in the Forbidden Law Hall!"

"Yes, yes, don't worry, I will ask someone to pass the content of the notice through the crowd! Don't let anyone drag the court back!" The fat man's fierce gaze swept down, and all the businessmen bowed their heads in embarrassment.

Isn't that what they are talking about!(To be continued.) )