Chapter 128: The Encounter at the City Gate
Stayed in Ping'an Town for one night, and on the second day, several important people of the caravan and Lu Shaoyu and others got into a luxury carriage with Wan Shengcai and galloped in the direction of Tianshui City.
In the carriage, everyone was silent, there was nothing to talk about each other, and they closed their eyes to recuperate. Lu Shaoyu sat up cross-legged and silently practiced the exercises. And Fang Yi looked left and right, sometimes lifting the curtain to watch the rapidly retreating scenery outside, sometimes holding the strange stone and sticking out his tongue and licking it, as if the smell was endless, and he looked drunk, attracting strange glances from Wan Shengcai and others.
Tianshui City is not far from Ping'an Town, and the carriage is galloping, and it can be reached in a day at the speed of this car.
In the evening, the carriage finally arrived outside Tianshui City.
Compared with the big cities that have been seen before, Tianshui City is obviously much larger, and the towering city walls are like a prostrate dragon, coiling and extending, dozens of miles long. The city wall is six feet high, towering like a giant, and the afterglow is blocked, leaving a dark shadow. The city gate is more than ten zhang wide, like the big mouth of a giant beast, dark and dark, enough to accommodate more than a dozen carriages to enter at the same time.
According to Wan Shengcai, this Tianshui City has a permanent population of more than 600,000 people, plus there is a canal dug out here to connect several waters, and several major trade routes converge here. The geographical position is superior, the transportation is convenient, there are many merchants and peddlers who come and go like carp crossing the river, the floating population is very large, the flow of people is large, it is estimated that the population of the whole city is not less than one million.
It's a bustling city!
There are three main forces in this city, namely the Wanjia family, the He family, and a force in the form of a gang - the Tiansha Gang.
The Hejia ore smelting, weapon casting as the main business, and later began to get involved in the lucrative business of salt. Wanjia is a variety of groceries, salt, supplies, ceramics, cloth, medicinal materials...... All-inclusive. However, the Tiansha Gang monopolized the water and land transportation of the entire Tianshui City and the surrounding 100 miles of area, but more than 95 percent of the galleons and loading carriages seen on the water were marked with the swordfish flag of the Tiansha Gang.
The three forces check and balance each other, and the He family and the Wanjia family are at odds with each other because of their interests, but the Tiansha Gang has no vendetta with the two families, and they have business dealings with each other. Because the He family and Wanjia have a lot of goods that are handed over to the Tiansha Gang for transportation.
The He family and the Wan family intended to win over the Tiansha Gang to fight each other, but the Tiansha Gang was not close to each other and could not be offended, and they had always remained neutral.
However, whether it is the Tiansha Gang, the He family or the Wanjia family, the annual commercial net profit income must be handed over to the Tang family. After all, in the entire Anzhou Mansion, the Tang family is the boss, and these small families want to live in Anzhou, so they have to rely on their snorts and spend money to buy peace.
The carriage slowed down and prepared to enter the city.
"Drive, drive, drive!"
At this moment, there was a rush of shouts behind him, followed by the sound of horses' hooves galloping.
There were at least a dozen people in this group, and they galloped quickly. Fang Yi was curious, lifted the window and looked out, and Lu Shaoyu also looked out.
Saw...... Among the group of people who galloped over, the first two were young men in brocade robes, about twenty years old, one was dressed in red and purple robes, and the hem of his clothes was flying in the wind, and the other was green and graceful.
The two of them were followed by ten black-armored warriors holding iron halberds, these warriors were wrapped in black armor all over their bodies, from their feet to their bodies, except for their heads above the neck, the rest of them were all black iron armor, impermeable. In their hands were long halberds, the halberds were sharp and shining, and the horses under them were also dressed in black armor.
Humans and horses are connected!
When these black-armored warriors galloped, there was an aura of slaughter. Among these ten black-armored knights, they were all acquired realm martial artists.
Looking out of the car window, when Wan Sheng saw the two young men in brocade robes, his face changed slightly, and he was a little confused and unnatural. Especially when he saw the young man in the blue robe, he obviously had some displeasure and disgust.
They saw the people outside the car, and the people outside the car saw them through the car window, and when the young man in the green robe saw Wan Shengcai in the car, he was stunned, and the corners of his mouth suddenly hooked a sinister smile.
"Smack!"
The young man in Tsing Yi clamped the horse's belly, deliberately leaned towards the carriage, and when he was close to the horses pulling the cart in front, the whip was raised in the air, and he swung straight down, and he was going to hit the buttocks of the horse he was riding, but when he was halfway down, the whip suddenly reversed, swept to the side, and only heard a "snap", and the whip swept into the eyes of a horse pulling the carriage.
The power of the whip was strong, and the force was just right, and it hit the horse's eyes, not blinding, but it could make the horse suffer and be frightened.
"Wow!"
The horse was frightened, raised its hooves, and ran sideways, scurrying out. The four horses pulling the cart were connected together, and the other three were also shouting, and after a moment of panic, the carriage instantly crossed horizontally, and the coachman couldn't control it even if he wanted to.
Although the carriage slowed down, it was not slow to gallop, and the body suddenly went sideways, and under such a rapid gallop, it suddenly rolled over.
"Be careful. ”
Everyone in the car shouted, Lu Shaoyu pulled Fang Yi to rush out of the car first, Wan Shengcai also pulled Wan Fubao and rushed out, and the rest of the people jumped out one after another.
The carriage "banged" and turned over outside the city gate. The body was sturdy and did not crumble, but it raised a large cloud of dust. Fortunately, the people in the car were all extraordinary, and they were able to jump out in time when the car fell, and no one was injured, even the driver escaped in time.
"He Tianyi, you ......"
Wan Shengcai glared at the blue-robed young man with resentment in his eyes.
There was an accident at the city gate, another purple-shirted young man hurriedly grabbed his horse, and the other ten black-armored warriors also stopped, although they were all galloping, but their steps were neat and neat, obviously specially trained.
"Hehe, it turned out to be the Second Young Master Wan. ”
The young man in the green robe rode back to the purple-shirted young man and stopped, with a playful smile on his face, staring at Wan Shengcai, raising his eyebrows, and said, "What's the matter, your carriage is slipping, why are you staring at me?
Hearing that He Tianyi said Fourth Young Master Tang, Wan Shengcai was shocked in his heart, his eyes were slightly stunned, and then he turned to the purple-shirted young man beside him, and then looked at the black-armored guards behind them, and his heart suddenly understood.
This young man should be a member of the Tang family of the Poison Gate, and the black-armored warrior behind him is probably the black-armored guard of the Tang family.
It is now the beginning of autumn, and it is also the time to agree to hand over the tribute to the Tang family once a year, and it is reasonable for the Tang family to send a disciple to come over to receive the tribute, no wonder I felt a little embarrassed when I looked at the young man just now, it turned out to be from the Tang family, and this young man was protected by the black armor guard, and his identity was extraordinary.
But, how did he get mixed up with He Tianyi?
Wan Shengcai suddenly became a little worried