Ye Xingyuan said it easily, but he didn't dare to slack off. After saying goodbye to the county, without delay, he immediately led the crowd to cross the Dinghe, and the boatmen were grateful and grateful, and vied to send him across the river.

Although they couldn't get any compensation, they were sincere, and dozens of ferries willingly surrounded Ye Xingyuan together and sent him to the other side of the river. When Ye Xingyuan got off the boat, all the boatmen also prostrate on the boat to salute him, and only praised Ye Zhuangyuan's kindness.

Lu Shiniang has been feared and hated, but she has never been so respected, and she couldn't help but exclaim: "My lord killed this demon, and he can win the hearts of the people on both sides of the river!"

Ye Xingyuan glanced at her and said lightly: "Be cautious, we are officials, nothing more than for the country and the people." If the hearts of the people are all attributed to the saints of the court, how can they belong to private individuals?"

Lu Shiniang also felt that she was speechless, so she smiled embarrassedly: "This is natural, the adults are loyal to the emperor, so the people are attached to it." But I was very surprised in my heart, this boss was only a teenager, how could he be cautious and old, just like an old fritter who had been in the sea for a long time.

Sure enough, someone is naturally suitable to be an official, Lu Shiniang sighed, changed the topic and said: "This time the killing of the black fish essence, although it was ordered by Changqing County, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that it means an adult." I'm afraid that I have already formed a deep enmity with the Dragon Palace, and I don't know how the adults plan to deal with it. ”

Ye Xingyuan said confidently: "The black fish spirit is just the brother of a concubine of the Dinghe Dragon King. Even if this demon girl is favored again, it is not so fast to blow the pillow wind and say that the dragon king will come to deal with us, and it will be a while. ”

He had clashed with the forces of the Dragon Palace, and knew that the Dragon Palace was very bureaucratic and reacted very slowly. The Hanjiang River is still like this, not to mention that the Dinghe Dragon Palace is even larger and bloated, and the so-called tail is too big to fall, and it is almost impossible to react in time.

The black fish spirit is arrogant and domineering, but he is actually not an important person in the Dragon Palace, and the person he relies on is just his sister to get the favor of the Dragon King. If it's as the legend goes. The Dragon King of Dinghe is lustful and insatiable, then his harem will also be extremely vast, and it is not easy for the demon girl to see the Dragon King, and when she cries and cries in front of the Dragon King, she complains about it, and the Dragon Palace is rejuvenated to ask the guilt, and they don't know how far they have gone.

Sure enough, as Ye Xingyuan expected, they walked for three days after crossing the Dinghe River, and they still didn't encounter anyone from the Dragon Palace to find trouble. Lu Shiniang also gradually put her mind at ease and shifted her focus to the more threatening Liukou.

In the past few days, the Jinyi Wei secret agent has been receiving news. It is said that the king loach appeared in the east of the river again, plundered large households, and caused a riot. However, this made Lu Shiniang breathe a sigh of relief.

She reported to Ye Xingyuan: "Wang Loach appeared in Hedong, hundreds of miles away from us, it seems that the adults should not be able to bump into this bandit when they take office this time." The rest of the bandits have no courage to fear, at least in the land of two rivers, the safety of adults can be guaranteed. ”

Ye Xingyuan instructed: "Don't be careless. Wang Loach's whereabouts are erratic, but we still step up our march and wait until we get out of Hexi before we can live in peace. ”

Wang Loach's news has never been very accurate. Sometimes it is said that he was still wreaking havoc on the seaside of Hedong the day before yesterday, and he arrived in the mountains of Hexi the next day. This is not impossible in the world of Xuanyuan with supernatural powers, maybe he has a similar ability to teleport.

Of course, it is more likely that someone impersonated the crime, or maybe the local report was not true. This may not be confirmed. Lu Shiniang believed in Jinyiwei's report, but Ye Xingyuan would always unconsciously discount it.

Hearing Ye Xingyuan say this, Lu Shiniang didn't think so. However, she has a delicate mind, and since her boss says so, she will not argue, and only make promises, but she doesn't take it to heart in the end.

There are still about ten days to go through the entire Hexi and turn north into Jianmen through Tongguan. Ye Xingyuan knew that Hexi was more chaotic now, and he was more cautious, and after encountering a large group of merchants on the road, he hid his identity and walked with him.

Along the way, the merchants who traveled from south to north complained again and again, which also made Ye Xingyuan more aware of today's chaos. Someone sighed and said: "After doing this business this year, I won't come out next year, who knew that the north would be in chaos like this now? There are bandits in a mountain, I just sell some tea, why do I need to carry my head?"

Everyone echoed one after another, but they all smiled bitterly and said: "Boss Zhang, you have earned enough, you can rest as much as you want, we don't have such a big business, how can we sit and eat empty? ”

It turned out that the south was barely peaceful at this time, but the north was very different. Ye Xingyuan left Dinghu and went to the capital, and he walked all the way through the canal and waterway, and he didn't feel deeply. Now that I have changed to the land route, I understand what it means to "leave the hometown and be cheap".

In fact, it is just the changes that have happened in the past two years, when Ye Xingyuan first arrived in your realm more than two years ago, although the Xuanyuan world cannot be said to be prosperous, at least it is not so peaceful.

As the vitality of heaven and earth became more and more insufficient, even with the desperate efforts of local officials, the rain was still far from enough, and food production fell further. When people have no food to eat, they will inevitably take risks and bandits will be rampant.

If the place is not quiet, the heaven and the earth will be polluted, and naturally it will be punished by the Heavenly Dao, and the vitality will further decline, which is a vicious circle of entering the last days.

If this cycle cannot be interrupted, then the imperial court will naturally decline day by day, and finally be limited to extinction, until the change of dynasty becomes a new beginning.

Even an official like Ye Xingyuan has to be scared when he goes to work, and you can even imagine the embarrassment of an ordinary person facing a journey full of robbers and black shops.

Someone noticed Ye Xingyuan, a scholar, and asked, "Childe is on a study tour, right? This season is not peaceful, so it is better to go home as soon as possible to live in peace." ”

Ye Xingyuan shook his head and said, "This time I went north, it was really to visit relatives, and it shouldn't be a big danger to be able to go with you, right?"

The questioning merchant sighed, "If it's a small group of bandits, it's fine." But if Wang Loach appears, I'm afraid that the jade will be burned. ”

The caravan hired a lot of guards, and it was enough to deal with dozens of small bandits, but it was still far from dealing with Wang Loach, who had gathered thousands of people. The rise of this thief in the past two years has reduced the number of merchants who travel by land to the two rivers by seventy percent, and the rest are outlaws who are desperate to make money.

But Wang Loach's elusiveness still made them scared. As soon as this person's name was mentioned, someone immediately shouted: "Silence, don't want a crow's mouth! That person is still in Hedong, and we will definitely not meet him this time!"

These businessmen are extremely afraid of Wang Loach, and it has even become a taboo, but once they mention it, they can't hold it. Someone couldn't help but say: "I heard that Wang Loach has been preached by immortals, and has obtained three volumes of the Book of Heaven, and can scatter beans into soldiers, thousands of miles in an instant, and all kinds of magical powers, but is there such a thing?"

Someone said angrily: "This person has a killing nature, a scourge to the common people, where is the immortal way, it is clearly the devil's way." ”

Someone sighed and said, "Regardless of the Immortal Dao and Demon Dao, it is not fake that he has this magical power." Just last year, he did thirteen major cases overnight in Hedong and Hexi, if he didn't have the ability to move thousands of miles in an instant, unless he could be countless doppelgangers. ”

The countless clones were even more terrifying than the instantaneous thousands of miles, and everyone was shocked by it, and they asked the person who spoke after them for details.

Ye Xingyuan had seen from the dossier provided by Lu Shiniang that the thirteen major cases in this night were the sins of Wang Loach when he first appeared. However, these thirteen cases are distributed in Hedong and Hexi, and the order is even more chaotic, which makes it really difficult to understand how he did it, and there is no detail in Jinyiwei's information.

Hearing that the man just now seemed to understand, he couldn't help but prick up his ears to listen. I only heard the man's astringent voice: "I can't hide it, just last year, I was coerced by Wang Loach's army, and I experienced his magical power to resist the wind once. Thinking about it now, I am still terrified. ”

At this moment, even Lu Shiniang was curious, Wang Loach marched like the wind, and Jin Yiwei never got first-hand news. I didn't expect to walk with people, and actually met a merchant who had been robbed by this bandit, which is really a coincidence.

Someone didn't believe it: "This old man doesn't want to deceive people, who doesn't know that there has never been a living mouth under the Wang Loach knife, how can you escape?"

The man who spoke before was about forty or fifty years old, with a short beard under his chin, and when he heard the questioning, he said with a bitter face: "I'm ashamed to say that I was a fellow villager with that big thief, and I even helped his family when he was young. On that day, I was robbed by another group of bandits, and I was going to die, but I didn't want Wang Loach to attack this mountain and destroy the great thief winged tiger entrenched in Mopan Mountain.

He recognized me, spared my life, and heard that I was going home, and said that they were on their way, so he took me on a journey. I was ordered to choke the dirt in my mouth, close my eyes and wait. After a while, I only felt that the sky was spinning, and when I opened my eyes again, I had already arrived in the east of the river, which was more than five hundred miles away from Mopan Mountain.

Ye Xingyuan was shocked, and sure enough, as he expected, Wang Loach did have the ability to teleport. No wonder he can come and go without a trace, even the Jinyi Guard can't grasp his whereabouts.

Another merchant said: "The winged tiger is also famous, and last year the whole village suddenly died, and the government didn't know who started it." Unexpectedly, it was Wang Loach's means, this person has attacked the bandits in the mountains several times, could it be that he wants to unify the two rivers and green forests?"

There are bold merchants who said: "In troubled times, how can these heroes not have some ideas, the land of the two rivers is located in the heart of the Central Plains, and it is only a few days away from the capital of Beizhi, if Wang Loach really has the ability to integrate the heroes of the three mountains and five mountains, I am afraid that the plan is very big."

From the enthusiastic discussions of these merchants and the files of Jinyiwei, Ye Xingyuan also realized that this Wang Loach was different from ordinary bandits, in addition to robbing large households and merchants to seize military funds, most of his energy seemed to be on the road of unification.

If he really let him gather all the Liukou of the two rivers under his command, I am afraid that compared to a few reckless dragons and snakes in the northwest, the momentum is not bad, and it occupies a more advantageous geographical advantage, and when the situation changes, it is really possible to take advantage of the situation. (To be continued.) )

PS: Trying to make up for the update, there will be more tonight