Chapter 340: There is an ambush
Wearing that Jiuxiao was going to practice, Yu Zhi naturally called He Xiaodie back. To practice hands, you have to be diligent and conscientious. To be honest, you can't take shortcuts, and you can't use cheats.
Master Xiaowen is worthy of being the champion, and his learning ability is too strong. Ever since he listened to Yu Zhi's class, the first time he did it, he did it in a decent manner, the information was grasped too accurately, especially his judgment, tsk tsk, he really is a master at judging cases by observing words and deeds, a top student is a top student, It has to be admired.
As you go south, the population becomes less and less populated, and the pipes become narrower and narrower. The roadsides are covered with various lush plants, at different heights. Occasionally, some lakes and swamps can be seen, dotted among the jungles, which looks like a virgin forest. scene.
The road is even more difficult. I used to be able to walk 80 to 100 miles a day, but now I can walk 50 miles. The distance between the last city and the next city is getting farther and farther, more than three hundred miles. Sometimes you can walk for half a day without seeing a single family.
Fortunately, Wen Jiuxiao and Yu Zhi were well-prepared, had enough food and drink, and also brought tents and medicinal powder to repel insects and snakes. Even so, Wen Jiuxiao also ordered to use the pipeline as much as possible to be safer. After all, he carried a lot of valuables. Although there were two hundred guards, there were still dozens of ordinary people who were powerless.
Oh, by the way, the guards escorting the abducted women had already caught up with the main force, and Yu Zhi was buying and selling, in fact, to wait for them.
It is more than three thousand miles from the capital city to Shanyun County. If there is no delay, it will take more than a month to walk. Wen Jiuxiao has been walking for more than two months now, and he is still on the way... Ha, this couple, their hearts are full It's so big, just go to the place before the year. Anyway, the emperor didn't specify a specific date of arrival.
On this day, they went to sunset and did not reach the next city. Seeing that the surrounding area was deserted, and they could not find a village to settle down, they had to find a relatively flat place, some distance from the dense forest, and a nearby water source to set up camp.
Everyone is familiar with cooking along the way, and sleeping in the wild is nothing. Everyone divides the work and cooperates. Some guards are responsible for safety and vigilance, some are unloading the carriages, let the animals eat grass and drink some water to rest, and another part is responsible for eliminating dangerous animals in the camp, sprinkling insect and snake repellent powder, and building sleeping quarters. tent or something.
The servants are responsible for gathering firewood, collecting water, lighting a fire and cooking. Even when he is away from home, Yu Zhi attaches great importance to everyone's diet. Whenever he goes to a place, he always prepares all kinds of ingredients first. There is never a shortage of dried mushrooms and dried shrimps. Now boil a few large pots of porridge with wild vegetables, put chopped mushrooms and dried shrimps on it, and everyone can drink a bowl, not to mention how delicious it is! Then eating the sesame seed cakes bought in the last city, hey, it’s not worse than eating at home. Everyone doesn’t feel bitter at all, and many people have gained weight.
After dinner, it was completely dark, and everyone was tired after a day's driving. Except for the night watch, everyone else went to rest.
Corrected for one night. In order to be able to reach the next city before sunset, everyone got up at the fifth watch, fed the animals, set up the car, ate something and was ready to go.
The dawn in the south was early, and the sky had already opened a ray of dawn when they set off.
It's just that today's luck is not very good. After walking for more than an hour, the road ahead was blocked by a huge rock. Each of these boulders weighed over a hundred catties, and was covered with a layer of dry leaves, which should have been there for some time. This place is far away from the government offices in both places, and no one came to clean it up in time.
what happened? Where did the stone come from? How is this going to go?
Wen Jiuxiao sent someone to explore the way, Zhuo Zhengyang led a few people around the stone pile to explore the way, and came back soon, "My lord, look on the right side, there is a small road that can be passed, walk a few tens of meters, the road ahead It's the pipeline."
Wen Jiuxiao looked in the direction of his finger, and there was indeed a dirt road trampled on the right side of the stone pile, with traces of carriages and people on it, probably because these stones blocked the way, and a road was opened beside it. a small road.
Wen Jiuxiao nodded, "Okay, let's go from here."
The road is too narrow to allow only one carriage to pass, so the carriages must be arranged so that they can pass one by one.
Right at this moment, Yu Zhi came over, "Wait a minute!"
"What's wrong?" Wen Jiuxiao turned his head.
"Don't you think it's against the law to pile these stones here? The two sides are not cliffs. Where did the stones come from? It happened to block the road, and there happened to be a small road next to it. How could such a coincidence happen?" Yu Zhi said solemnly. She raised her doubts confidently, "If things go wrong, there must be a demon." She always felt that something was wrong in the dense forest tens of meters away, as if there were ghosts and ghosts hiding.
Wen Jiuxiao heard her reminder, and realized that something was wrong. He looked at the pile of stones, and then looked forward along the path on the right. There were huge trees on both sides of the road, and the dense forest was deep.
"Come here, clean up the stone." Wen Jiuxiao decisively ordered.
It is difficult to clean up the pile of stones, but there are so many of them, and they are not in a hurry. They just need to clean up slowly. Safety is the most important thing.
Yu Zhi didn’t even return to the car, she just stood aside and watched the guards clean up the stones, but her mind was still on the road on the right, and her intuition told her that something was wrong there, very wrong.
She thought about it, and walked towards the path. Halfway there, she stopped, closed her eyes and felt it carefully. After a while, he opened his eyes suddenly, turned around and walked back.
"Zhizhi!" Wen Jiuxiao saw Yu Zhi's face change slightly, and strode over to hold her hand.
"There is an ambush, and there are quite a few people." Yu Zhi whispered.
Wen Jiuxiao's eyes froze, and he immediately ordered to retreat. All the female relatives got into the car, and the servants and guards held weapons and entered a state of first-level combat readiness.
The people who were ambushing in the dense forest were dumbfounded, "The master, what should I do if I was discovered?"
The head of the family is about 30 years old, with a burly figure, holding a longbow, and a two-inch long scar between his eyebrows, which looks very hideous. He looked at the fully loaded carriages, his eyes were full of vultures.
Finally, a group of fat sheep slipped away, how could he be reconciled?
"Catch up!" With a wave of his hand, all the robbers holding bows and arrows in the tree and the robbers hiding behind the tree with big knives jumped out, there were hundreds of them. Although they missed the lead, they are so numerous that they are more than enough to take down this team.
An arrow was shot on the carriage, which seemed to be a signal. A large group of robbers chased after them holding bright swords, and soon surrounded the entire convoy, holding swords in the inner circle and bows and arrows in the outer circle.
Although everyone was mentally prepared, they were still overwhelmed by the number of robbers. Isn't this too much? Also everyone has weapons in their hands, this is no ordinary robber!
The chief guard drew his knife to protect Wen Jiuxiao, "How dare you stop the car of an imperial court official."
The robber flashed, and the head of the family came out, his eyes turned around, and fell on Wen Jiuxiao, his eyes were full of evil spirits and jokes, "What about the imperial court's car? Do you know where it is? It fell here Yes, either the criminals who were assigned or the abandoned sons who were excluded, don't use the imperial court as servants, the imperial court is useless here."
The arrogance was so domineering that the guards couldn't bear it anymore. They pulled out their knives and stared at them gloomyly. The atmosphere on both sides was tense.
Seeing this, Wen Jiuxiao took a step forward, "Wen is the magistrate of Shanyun County who is about to take office. His ancestors made a fortune in military service, and the emperor conferred the title of Marquis of Wu'an. I don't know which path this brother is on? Can you sell Wen a certain face? These five chariots Food is a small gift."
The head raised his eyebrows wickedly, looked at Wen Jiuxiao for a long time as if looking at the goods, and said slowly: "Okay, to save you, all the carriages are left, and people can leave."
What is five carts of grain? Not enough for him to get between his teeth.
Wen Jiuxiao was not angry, but his face was extremely cold, "I have a lot of appetite, and I don't want to see if my teeth will break."
There are so many materials and gold that have been brought here after traveling three thousand miles, how could it be possible to discard them?
The head of the family glanced at him gloomyly, and with a wave of his hand, the robbers with knives took a step forward, and all of them stared at them fiercely. The head of the family gave a sinister smile, "Our Tiger Village has always only sought money and never killed people. But if you don't know how to play, I can't break the precept for you today. I will give you half a stick of incense time, think about it before you speak."
As soon as he finished this sentence, his face changed, gloomy and ferocious, "It's very good that you don't eat the toast and eat the fine wine, I will fulfill you."
What's going on? It turned out that Yu Zhi took He Xiaodie to do things under the cover of the carriage. Yu Zhi had a modified hand crossbow on his wrist, and the small arrow was smeared with blood-sealed throat poison. Yu Zhi's speed was extremely fast, before the robbers could react, several of them had already fallen down.
It is a pity that this small arrow is made of a special material, which is very rare, and there are only 18 remaining branches.