Chapter 56
In front of the escort team, the young woman was waiting there with four muscular men. When Pan Yunpeng walked up to him, the young woman gave a gentle salute and said softly: "I am Su Ting. I have met Mr. Pan. head."
"...Miss Su."
Pan Yunpeng nodded, glanced at the four strong men behind the woman, and then asked: "Do you want a book?"
The woman named Su Ting nodded and said softly: "Yes, it would be better to read "Thousand-Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Three-Character Classic" or "Zengguang Xianwen" or "Story Source". If you don’t have any, it would be a good idea to change to some pens and paper.”
They are all enlightenment books for young children that can only be taught by elementary school students...
Pan Yunpeng looked at her deeply, and then waved to an escort beside him.
The escort handed over a book. Pan Yunpeng took it and said with a chuckle: "I don't have any of the things you mentioned, but I have a copy of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" annotated by a great scholar. Do you want to take a look? ?”
With that said, Pan Yunpeng turned over a page seemingly casually and handed it to the young woman.
The young woman subconsciously took it, looked down and found that the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals" happened to be opened in the "Xian Shi Lan·Cha Wei Pian", and the first article that caught her eye was "Zigong's Redemption of People".
Su Ting naturally knew this story. It said that there was a law in the State of Lu. As long as you met your compatriots who were slaves in other countries and redeemed them, you could get compensation and rewards from the State of Lu. Zigong, a student of Confucius He redeemed the people of Lu from foreign countries, but refused the compensation and rewards provided by Lu.
Confucius said that he had done something wrong, and said that receiving the reward from Lu would not damage his character, but not receiving the reward would result in no one from Lu willing to take the initiative to redeem his compatriots who died.
After reading this article "Zigong redeems people", the smart Su Ting immediately understood.
What the kind-hearted chief escort in front of me wants to express is probably not the original intention of this article, but the theme of 'slave compatriots' and 'redemption' mentioned in the article.
He was asking himself if he was being coerced to go up the mountain and if he needed help from the escort team to redeem him.
After thinking about this, Su Ting looked grateful, feeling warm and sad at the same time.
There are still good people in this world...
Unfortunately, this kindness came too late.
Thinking of this, Su Ting sighed softly, closed the book, handed it back, shook her head and said: "This book is naturally excellent, but it is not what I want. If the escort really does not have these books , just sell me some pens and paper!"
Pan Yunpeng frowned, seeing her like this, he knew that she understood what he meant.
So, this means that if you go up the mountain voluntarily, you will become a bandit if you fall into the grass?
Pan Yunpeng sighed: "Okay, then I'll sell you some paper and pens."
After saying that, Pan Yunpeng waved and called two bodyguards, a man and a woman, to deal with Su Ting and others on his behalf.
It should be said that the two bodyguards, a man and a woman, were the ones responsible for dealing with the bandits in the bodyguard team. As the chief bodyguard, Pan Yunpeng would generally not show up easily.
"Haha, a hot face touches a cold butt"
Lin Zhongtian leaned against the carriage and when he saw Pan Yunpeng approaching, he couldn't help but say something with a smile.
Pan Yunpeng spread his hands and said helplessly: "This is voluntary, what can I do..."
Lin Zhongtian chuckled and said, "Actually, I already knew that the woman surnamed Su was voluntary. When you were talking to your men just now, I observed carefully and found that the four men were led by the woman surnamed Su."
"Did you see the man with the mole on his forehead on the left? He just took out his crotch and was glanced at by the woman surnamed Su. It was this look that frightened him so much that he dropped his arms and sweated on his forehead. He didn't dare to act rashly anymore."
Pan Yunpeng looked at the man thoughtfully: "There is still such a thing..."
Lin Zhongtian smiled and said: "Yes, and look at the books she mentioned, they are all elementary reading materials. They may have taken control of the cottage's backyard and monopolized the education and custody rights of the next generation of little bandits. Now they are referring to I’m not sure how high my status is!”
"……interesting."
Pan Yunpeng had a smile on his face and suddenly asked: "Brother Fu, are you interested in hearing her story?"
"Not interested in."
Lin Zhongtian shook his head, looked up at the sky in boredom, and said indifferently: "On the way to the capital, I have seen too many similar tragic stories. The story of the woman named Su is probably not much different. It is really nothing interesting to hear. Besides, this woman has finally made up her mind and wants to survive in this cruel world on her own. You suddenly show up and interfere with her, and you still think you are doing it for her own good. It is really laughable. ——”
"Brother Fu, what are you thinking?!"
Pan Yunpeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly interrupted Lin Zhongtian's words, then leaned into his ear and lowered his voice.
"I mean...organization."
"You want to drag her into the Alliance?"
Lin Zhongtian came back to his senses and frowned.
Pan Yunpeng shook his head: "It's not that simple. We need to investigate for a while first."
Lin Zhongtian glanced at him, turned around and boarded the carriage: "You make the decision yourself, I won't care."
Pan Yunpeng looked at the carriage thoughtfully, and suddenly realized that Lin Zhongtian must have encountered a similar situation, and the result seemed not to be good, otherwise he would not have said such words in this tone.
After thinking about it, Pan Yunpeng leaned against the carriage and was about to speak, but was overtaken by Lin Zhongtian in the carriage.
"Okay, stop guessing. I did slaughter a village, killed many bandits, and saved a woman. I watched her kill herself with a sword in front of me, but this kind of bad thing is not something that would make me happy. Annoying, I am far more understanding and open-minded than you in this regard. If you really want to comfort me, then do your best, clean up the mountains and rivers as soon as possible, and build a brand new world."
Lin Zhongtian's faint voice came from the carriage.
Pan Yunpeng smiled slightly, cupped his fists and saluted: "Brother Fu taught me a lesson."
In the carriage, Lin Zhongtian shook his head, poured a glass of wine, and drank it in one gulp.
It’s really troublesome. This belongs to human morality and empathy...
That afternoon, the escort team did not have many things that the village needed, and the rules of the escort agency's mountain worship stated that the escort team was obliged to trade with good friends who had accepted the wine.
So Pan Yunpeng made a temporary decision to rest at the foot of the mountain for a day and send people to nearby counties to purchase the materials needed for the village.
Su Ting was a little embarrassed when she saw this, and enthusiastically invited them to go up the mountain to rest.
Pan Yunpeng knew that she meant no harm, but he still refused very decisively.
No matter whether the other party accepts the wine or not, no matter how deep the friendship between the two parties is, Pan Yunpeng will never let down his inner guard. This is a lesson he learned from his dead father.
Back then, his father died at the hands of those bandits because he believed too much in the escort agency's rules of worshiping mountains.
Lin Zhongtian is somewhat interested in this different one.
But he also had to find time to teach Yang Suhua fingering and claw techniques, so he really didn't have much time.
So, the night that was supposed to be full of troubles passed peacefully.
The next day, the escort team traded the purchased materials with the villagers in exchange for a pile of scattered silver and dozens of intact animal skins.
Originally, the deal should have ended here, but when Su Ting saw that there were women in the escort team, she seemed to have sensed a business opportunity, and deliberately had some little foxes they captured brought to the women.
Sure enough, Yang Suhua and Zhang Yan took a liking to those little foxes at a glance.
But what Su Ting didn't expect was that these two girls were both good girls with soft personalities.
Even though they were very fond of these little foxes, they would just look at them eagerly and would never say anything to trouble others, let alone let others buy them for them.
Just when Su Ting was a little disappointed, the big enemy in the escort team finally spoke.
"You two, just ask if you want, only the crybaby will get milk, do you understand?"
Lin Zhongtian gave a few scoldings angrily, then took out a few golden melon seeds and threw them to Su Ting.
"Miss Su, I want those little foxes."
"You don't have to refund the extra money, it's just this price."