Eight hundred miles of Pingchuan in Guanzhong, there are large areas of farmland outside Luoyang County, occasionally there are not high mounds, and the villages next to them are dotted in between, and it looks like there are beautiful pictures everywhere.

The Xie family's convoy moved forward unhurriedly, and gradually slowed down thirty miles away from the county seat.

"What does that mean?"

Seeing that the Xie family's train fleet was getting slower and slower, Fu Su frowned and thought.

At this time, there were some dry fields and uncultivated wasteland on both sides of the road, and there were no villages, except for a small horse farm on the bank of a small river not far away, and only a dozen horses were scattered on the grassy slopes gnawing on the grass shoots.

No matter how you look at it, there is no one around who can trade with the Xie family.

"It's just a complete slowdown, but it doesn't stop completely, which means that this place is where they want to do things, but the other party hasn't arrived yet. Ding Ning turned his head and glanced at Fusu and said slowly.

The ancestor of the Zhou family squinted his eyes slightly, as if he was dozing off all the time, but his mind in his heart was extremely active.

Suddenly, his ears moved slightly, and he had heard something.

"It's a horse thief. ”

It was only a few breaths later, Ding Ning took a deep breath, looked at Fusu and said.

"Horse thief?"

Fusu was stunned and a little puzzled, but he immediately felt a slight tremor on the ground transmitted from the wheels of the carriage to the bottom of the carriage, and he immediately reacted completely and frowned deeply.

The Great Qin Dynasty has 800 miles of Pingchuan in Guanzhong, and there is no kind of poor mountain and bad water that is difficult for thousands of troops and horses to pursue as soon as they escape in, but the absence of the mountain king of the Wuthering Mountains and forests does not mean that there is no Dakou.

This kind of flat river gave birth to horse thieves on horseback.

Horse thieves generally have three or four horses, never stay in one place for more, and the places where they camp are different every day, for the Great Qin Dynasty, this kind of horse thief who does not produce and only destroys is the real locust, and hates it. The Great Qin Dynasty had guerrilla horsemen in Guanzhong who specialized in chasing and killing horse thieves. However, elite cavalry is extremely difficult to train, and this kind of horse thief is very easy to form, often killing one, but two more come out, and it is impossible to kill.

In the dry land in the distance, a long smoke of mud dragons suddenly rolled up, and in just a moment, a group of horse thieves appeared in the sight of Ding Ning and Fusu.

The group of horse thieves numbered more than a hundred, each carrying at least four horses, except for one on horseback. Except for the empty reserve horse beside him, the rest of the horses were carrying wrapped weights, not only on the cloth used to wrap the loads, but even on the horses' bodies, there were dried and blackened bloodstains.

All the horse thieves were dressed differently, and they were masked with yellow scarves, even if their bodies were not at all like the cavalry of Great Qin, they sat tall and cold, but there was a cold and murderous aura that constantly emanated from their bodies.

Ding Ning's gaze became even colder, quantitatively. These horse thieves are nothing, powerful horse thieves often have more than a thousand horsemen, thousands of horses, and have the ability to compete head-on with small groups of rangers and cultivators. However, just by looking at the height of the dust raised by the hoofs of the horses and hoofs of the horse thieves, he could tell that the weight on the horses was unusual.

It's normal for a caravan to carry more goods, but for horse thieves, the weight of the caravan is the difference between life and death.

The Xie family just came to a few carriages carrying people. And there were obviously passengers in every carriage, and it was impossible to carry the weight of all these horse thieves.

For Ding Ning, this means danger.

"These thieves seem to be carrying a heavy load. At this time, Fusu also turned his head. looked at him solemnly and said softly: "And it doesn't look big, it's likely to be some talisman or ordnance." ”

Fusu was the most valued prince of Emperor Yuanwu and Empress, and he was naturally taught by the Master since he was a child, and it did not surprise Ding Ning to be able to make such a judgment.

He nodded, "These horse thieves don't look like they're here to trade, but like they're here to fight." ”

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"Even the coachmen of these three carriages are not ordinary people. In the carriage of the Xie family, Xie Lianying did not look too much at the team of horse thieves who came with the dust dragon, but paid more attention to the three black carriages that followed behind.

Looking at the calm appearance of the three carriages, a relaxed smile appeared on Xie Lianying's fat and slightly oily face: "Even the horseman who drives the car has a calm and relaxed bearing, and the status of this noble person in Changling must be extremely high." ”

"Let's get out. ”

In the next moment, the smile on his face disappeared, and a rare layer of coldness slowly emerged, "Don't waste the time of this noble man Changling. ”

The team of horse thieves suddenly stopped when they approached the distance of hundreds of zhang of the Xie family's convoy, and silently lined up. Under the control of these horse thieves, both the horses under them and the load-bearing reserve horses almost all stopped, and the dust under the horses' hooves was still burning fiercely, but the hooves and riders above were already silent, giving people a sense of pressure like a mountain.

A gray-haired horse thief slowly paced out with the horses under him, looking at Xie Lianying and Xie Rou who lifted the curtain and walked out, a glimmer of light quickly flashed in his somewhat dim eyes, and then his gaze fell on the three black carriages of the Zhou family in the distance, and his brows frowned imperceptibly.

"Where are our people and goods?"

Looking at the horse thief who came out of the crowd, Xie Lianying, who also walked to the front of the convoy, smiled slightly and spoke first.

The gray-haired horse thief looked at him calmly, and remained silent, without any superfluous indication.

The dust dragon behind them slowly dispersed, and the figures of dozens of horse thieves parked in the distance also slowly appeared in everyone's sight.

The horse thieves formed a small circle, and there were more than a dozen horsemen in the circle who were clearly different from their clothing.

"Your goods are there, and your people know about it. ”

The gray-haired leader of the horse thieves only spoke up calmly at this time, and said, "Your people have seen it, and you should let us see what we want." ”

Xie Lianying nodded, his expression did not change, but his tone suddenly became sarcastic, "I really admire your courage, even our people dare to rob... Do you really think that our Xie family can move anyone in Guanzhong?"

The gray-haired leader of the horse thieves furrowed his brow deeply.

He heard a lot of unusual meanings from Xie Lianying's words, but he didn't say anything, but his left hand was out of the horse's reins and was about to be raised.

"Don't think of threatening me with someone who kills me at random. ”

Xie Lianying's eyes narrowed at this time, and he mocked: "I'll talk about it after seeing what I brought to you." ”

As he spoke, the drivers of two of the carriages in the Xie family's convoy opened the curtain of the carriage they were driving at the same time.

The gray-haired leader of the horse thieves suddenly stiffened.

There was only one passenger on each of the two carriages.

One is an old woman with snow-white hair, and the other is only a five or six-year-old child.

Xie Lianying looked at the leader of the horse thieves whose body suddenly stiffened, and said with a thick mockery: "How is it, is the thing I showed you enough?"

"My people, from now on you can kill as you please. ”

In the next breath, the extremely tacky-looking businessman changed his face and sneered, "But as long as you kill one, I will let your Chen family have no old and no young." ”

Ding Ning and Fu Su had been listening hard to the conversation between Xie Lianying and the leader of the horse thieves, but fortunately, their voices were not small, so they could vaguely hear them clearly.

At this time, although they couldn't see what was in the two carriages of the Xie family, they both quickly woke up to Xie Lianying's words.

"These aren't real horse thieves, or they have other identities in normal times. ”

Fusu turned his head to look at Ding Ning, and said softly: "They robbed the Xie family's people and goods, but I didn't expect that the Xie family also found out their details and robbed their people." ”

The leader of the horse thieves breathed deeply, remaining silent for a moment.

At this time, Xie Lianying had already continued.

Xie Lian looked at the leader of the horse thieves with sympathetic eyes, shook his head, and said: "Although my Xie family is not as good as those really noble families in Changling, my Xie family has also been based in Guanzhong for more than 50 years, and I haven't seen any wind and rain, you children, do you think that just by using such means, you can replace the position of our Xie family?"

"If you want to deal with us, the Xie family will forget it. ”

Xie Lianying's tone suddenly turned sharp, and a layer of frost began to coat his oily face, "But you should know what our Xie family is escorting, you are also Qin, and you can even do such a thing?"

Listening to Xie Lianying's words, the leader of the horse thieves shook his head slowly, and his dim eyes revealed a deep helplessness and emotion.

Then, he directly removed the yellow scarf that covered his face.

Beneath the yellow scarf is a slightly pale and thin face.

"My son is not filial, and you are always frightened. ”

The gray-haired man with a thin face bowed deeply, bowed to the old lady in the Xie family's carriage, and then his face became calm, looked at Xie Lianying, and said very simply: "Change." ”

Xie Lianying smiled coldly, knowing that from now on, these people could only become real horse thieves, so he nodded and said, "Deal." ”

The leader of the horse thieves took a deep breath, and his left hand was once again lifted out of the reins.

However, at this moment, an indifferent voice sounded behind him, "I want to give it a try." (To be continued......)