Three days later.
The autumn air is crisp and the wind is as light as ever.
Li Ran half-squinted on the carriage for a while, and received a report from the front. It turned out that the mark left by Sun Wu was found on the road. He quickly got up and went to check.
"Great, with these markers, we can know what's ahead."
After confirming the route of Jiyi and Jixun, he immediately ordered everyone to speed up their journey and be sure to catch up with Jiyi and Jixun before they arrived in Weiguo.
However, he still overestimated the foot strength of these horses. After two days of driving, more than a dozen horses were so tired that they fell to the ground. Even Li Ran couldn't help but feel extremely anxious.
He had calculated everything, but he never thought that he would be tricked by these horses.
You must know that each of these grain carts is pulled by two horses side by side. There are not many horses that he can replace now, so once these horses have a large-scale shedding, it will fall into a vicious cycle.
In this case, let alone catching up with Ji Zeng and Ji Xun, even arriving safely in Weiguo would be worrying.
"These damn horse dealers!"
When I was buying horses in Zhengyi, I was told many times that since I would be traveling long distances and carrying heavy objects, I must choose a group of good horses for myself.
But who knew it would be gone in just a few days? Li Ran couldn't help but secretly curse these horse dealers for being unscrupulous.
But actually? How can we blame those horse dealers? After all, these good horses on the market in Zheng came from Qin. Qin was thousands of miles away, how could he get so much together in one go?
Besides, even if all of the exquisite objects for Ji Le and the dowry jewelry she asked her servants to secretly take out from the house were sold, it would only be enough to buy enough food. If she had to buy good horses, it would be really hard. So stretched.
In desperation, Li Ran had to slow down his speed and strive to safely transport the food to Weiguo.
He knew that if he continued to hurry, he might not be able to reach Weiguo, and all the horses would have to play.
Three more days later, Li Ran saw the mark left by Sun Wu again. He was sure that his judgment was correct this time. The grain truck escorted by Ji Zong and Ji Xun was indeed not filled with grain, but was covered with a layer of grain covered with sand and gravel.
This also proves that Shu Niu sent people out of the city in the middle of the night to subcontract the family's grain truck in order to harm his two younger brothers.
Poor these two brothers, they thought they were escorting only food, but they were still unconscious until now, rushing all the way to Weiguo.
"That's not right... In that case, why didn't Changqing try to delay them?"
Li Ran had doubts again at this time. According to his previous plan with Sun Wu, as soon as it was determined that there was something wrong with this batch of goods, he would immediately hold them back.
But now Sun Wu and his party are still out of sight. Li Ran knows that something must be going on ahead...
"Sir, there is a stream not far ahead, which can be used as a place to camp tonight."
After hearing the report from the servant, I thought I had confirmed the place to camp tonight. These horses have been traveling all day, so resting in a place with water and grass is the most important thing. Li Ran is now counting on them to persist until Weiguo.
At dusk, Li Ran asked his servants to set up the tent and piled all the grain trucks outside the tent as a barrier. As for burying pots to make rice, Chu Dang was born as a cook, and he was the best at this kind of thing, so he went on his own without Li Ran's orders.
Li Ran sat on a carriage and looked at the hills in the distance. The setting sun hung on the top of the hills, exuding the last ray of warmth.
But at this moment, an extremely brief vibration came from the ground!
"Dong dong dong!"
I heard the sound of horse hooves approaching from far away, and I was there in the blink of an eye!
Li Ran suddenly turned his head and saw a group of warriors in different clothes suddenly approaching on fast horses!
But when this group of people came closer, they suddenly stopped and surrounded the entire convoy. Knowing that a bad guy was coming, Chu Dang hurriedly returned to Li Ran, holding a huge spatula in front of him.
"Who is Li Ran?"
A leader among the warriors rode out and shouted to them across the grain cart.
As for Li Ran, everything was silent for a moment. Since this group of people were recruited temporarily, they only knew that they were employed by the Ji family, but they did not know Li Ran. Therefore, for a while, no one supported him.
After a while, Li Ran walked out from Chu Dan's side and shouted to the warrior:
"I am Li Ran, who are you?"
"Oh, are you Li Ran?"
"Now that you've found it, come with us."
The warrior sat on the horse and looked at Li Ran condescendingly, his face full of arrogance.
"A trip? But where are you going?"
Li Ran asked still indifferently. The warrior was not anxious when he heard the sound, and just said calmly:
"My master has told me that your life must be taken by him personally, so you'd better be sensible and come with us. In this way, maybe you can live for a few more days. If not, today is your day The day of death!"
At the end of the conversation, these people all held weapons in their hands, and their fierce fangs were still exposed.
Ji's! These must be Ji's killers!
The only person in the world who wanted to take his life with his own hands was Ji Sun Yiru, and he really couldn't think of anyone else.
"I didn't expect you guys to be so persistent! You chased me all the way and you were so tireless. How respectable!"
His face darkened.
He just counted silently, there are at least a hundred warriors in this group, and he doesn't know if there are more behind them. So if he really started to take action and it was just Chu Dang, he would be a little worried now.
"Haha, that's an exaggeration. We've come a long way, sir. You won't let us go in vain, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense, are you leaving or not?!"
This warrior leader was obviously impatient. After hearing a very clear metal sound, the warrior unsheathed his sword, and hundreds of warriors behind him were also eager to try.
However, Li Ran turned his eyes at this time and stared at the warrior looking up and down.
"It seems like you won't shed tears when you see the coffin."
"superior!"
When the warrior saw that Li Ran was silent, he immediately took action.
But who would have expected that at this moment, a tall figure rushed out from behind Li Ran, and then a scream was heard from the stream.
The leading warrior actually fell directly into a pool of blood, and standing beside him was Chu Dang.
"It's so rude to talk to you like this! Damn it!"
Chu Dang weighed the spatula in his hand, and the flesh on his face kept shaking.
But this time, when the warriors saw that their leader was killed, they had nothing more to say, so they picked up the guy and rushed towards Chudang.
Li Ran stood there in shock, unable to recover for a long time. He didn't react until the servants swarmed over to protect him and retreated.
"Boss, why do you need to take action when something can be solved with words..."
Originally, he was thinking about how to solve the problem without taking action or following these people, but who knew that Chu Dang, a fierce man, just went up and stabbed the hornet's nest with a spatula. Now, nothing he said would work.
"kill!"
Hundreds of warriors rushed towards Chu Dang.
Chu Dang picked up a dead wooden stake from the ground and swept it across the ground. The warriors on horseback lost their balance and fell to the ground.
Then, I don't know where Chu Dang got the brute force, he threw down the wooden stakes and crushed several people. Then, he rushed straight towards a horse.
"Wow!"
Since the saddle had not yet been invented in that era, it was very difficult to stay steady on horseback. Therefore, after hearing a burst of war horses neighing, the warrior riding on them immediately became unable to hold on. He immediately flew backwards, hit a boulder, and died from a broken head.
It wasn't over yet, Chu Dang fought back to Li Ran's side, holding the bronze sword he had taken from his opponent in his left hand, and actually holding a spatula in his right hand, blocking the way with the grain truck, and guarding the exit alone.
Seeing this, the warriors outside had no choice but to dismount and fight. Chu Dang, on the other hand, gave Li Ran a vivid performance of what it means to be in charge of one person and not open to ten thousand people.
"He is truly a man of God!"
Even Li Ran couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw this. I have to admire Chu Dang's brute strength.
