marriage.
Before Li Qingru came, Yu Zhi wished he could marry Li Wantong immediately and live a life without shame.
After Li Qingru came, Yu Zhi hesitated. He felt that he might die suddenly and die in an unknown place.
If so, wouldn't Li Wantong become a widow?
Yu Zhi didn't want Li Wantong to endure so many dangers with him.
At night, Yu Zhi had just finished practicing. He had exhausted all his energy and sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. Most of the time, he didn't like to practice, but the current situation forced him to practice.
"Auntie." Yu Zhi called out when he saw the person coming.
Li Qingru sat down next to Yu Zhi and said, "When do you plan to go to Nanzhou Mansion?"
Yu Zhi looked at the stars in the sky and sighed. "I originally wanted to leave as soon as possible, but this afternoon Tong'er told me that she wanted to marry me. So I hesitated."
"Your temperament is nothing like your father's." Li Qingru said.
Yu Shanhe would not worry about the love between his children, but Yu Zhi was different. He is sensitive and careful, and the more he thinks, the more sorrows he will have.
"You are already related to the Li family. Your father never thought that the young lady of the Li family would give birth to twins. And you met Wan Tong by accident. This is fate. Fate cannot be avoided. .”
Yu Zhi grinned and sighed, feeling that there was a certain destiny.
"But I don't dare to agree to her. I want to avenge my father whom I have never met. The road in front of me is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire. I am afraid that I will die in Nanzhou Prefecture accidentally."
Li Qingru was silent. Anyone facing an enemy like Xiang Ji would feel like they were in a desperate situation, not to mention that Yu Zhi was just a teenager.
Yu Zhi sighed, glanced at Li Qingru, and continued: "Auntie, I don't want Tong'er to be in danger."
At this moment, Yu Zhi made a very important decision.
"It's fine for Tong'er to stay in Kyoto. If I can come back alive, then... we'll talk about it then."
Unprecedented danger brings unprecedented confusion.
It's like wandering in the fog. Even though there are stars shining in the depths of the fog, guiding the direction, the road under your feet is full of thorns. If you take one wrong step, you will fall off the cliff.
Li Qingru looked at Yu Zhi and said, "I will protect Wan Tong, and you must also protect yourself."
...
In the early morning, when Li Wantong opened his eyes, two sandalwood boxes appeared in his hazy vision.
For a moment, Li Wantong was shocked and had an uneasy premonition in his heart.
"Yu Zhi..."
The two boxes contain the Phoenix Golden Hairpin and the Phoenix Blood White Jade respectively. These were all things Yu Zhi wanted to give to Li Wantong during their wedding, but now they were given in advance.
Li Wantong rushed out of the room and went straight to Yu Zhi's room. But Yu Zhi had already disappeared.
Qiu Ruoruo had already anticipated the scene in front of her. She appeared behind Li Wantong and said, "Sister Li, last night, brother Xiaoyu had already set off south. He said that he didn't know how to say goodbye to you, so he simply didn't say anything. ”
Last night, Yu Zhi found Qiu Ruoruo and handed over all his instructions to her. He believed that Qiu Ruoruo could handle everything in Kyoto.
Qiu Ruoruo also told Yu Zhi some things, including Liuying's stronghold in Nanzhou Mansion.
Qiu Ruoruo continued: "Brother Xiaoyu said he would come back to marry you. But not now, the future is dangerous, and he doesn't want you to take the risk with him."
Li Wantong knew Yu Zhi's life experience, and she also knew that Nanzhou Prefecture was in a desperate situation, but she was willing to accompany Yu Zhi through life and death.
Li Wantong shed two lines of clear tears and said resolutely: "In this life, I, Li Wantong, will never marry except Yu Zhi. If I am left by him like this and let him face the desperate situation alone, I would rather die with him." .”
Women are not weak, especially when they have firm beliefs.
Qiu Ruoruo sighed and said nothing more. Yu Zhi has already gone to Nanzhou Mansion, what can Li Wantong do?
In Kyoto, Qiu Ruoruo also has things she should do.
...
Yu Zhi left Kyoto and wandered slowly towards the south.
It only took about ten days to return to Kyoto from the north, but six of them were spent in the clean cell of Dali Temple.
These six days were not unforgettable to Yu Zhi. He just regarded them as living in a house where he could not move around for six days and meeting an old man by the way.
Oh, right. He also collected a gold dagger.
It should be exchanged for some money.
However, Yu Zhi learned from Qiu Jinfeng that this dagger was very valuable, especially in Nanzhou Prefecture. Yu Zhi gave up the idea of exchanging it for money.
Except for these six days in prison, the remaining days left Yu Zhi with a deep memory.
On an ordinary day, Yu Zhi met Jiang Xiyue, a biological mother and son who were strangers to each other.
On an ordinary night, Yu Zhi learned about his life experience, and the blood feud weighed on his heart, plaguing Yu Zhi like a fog.
Gouxue's life experience forced Yu Zhi to take unprecedented risks. Even if he escapes, those people will come looking for him. What's more, he has been running away for more than ten years.
Therefore, Yu Zhi chose to become Xiao Yuande's sword and swung the blade towards Nanzhou.
When we go north to the northern border, we gather in groups, as if we are going out with friends.
Now going south alone, he is more like a young knight traveling around the world.
After leaving Kyoto, Yu Zhi found a caravan to accompany him. The banditry in Nanzhou Prefecture made the traveling caravans more vigilant, doubling the number of bodyguards they usually hired.
Being a bodyguard is a job where you wear your head in your belt, and it is expensive. Especially the banditry in Nanzhou Prefecture has made the price of bodyguards go up. A bodyguard of the third level of cracking stone costs fifty taels of silver, and a bodyguard of the fourth level of breaking armor costs one hundred taels. As for the first-grade and second-grade cracked stones, the price is less than thirty taels.
There are more than fifty people in the caravan, and bodyguards account for half of them. Among them, there are five people of the third level of stone cracking and three of the fourth level of armor breaking. The remaining dozen or so people are all Grade 1 or 2 Stone Splitters.
After calculating this, the cost of hiring bodyguards alone accounted for most of the profits from this business. However, no matter how thin the profit is, as long as the goods are delivered, you can naturally make some money.
If the goods are robbed by bandits, the business will not only make no money, but also lose its reputation. Therefore, the bodyguard money must be spent as it should.
These bodyguards are not the talented sect disciples in Shiwanda Mountain. It is extremely difficult for them to practice to the point of cracking rocks and even breaking armor with one or two superficial skills. Not everyone has adventures, techniques, or resources to help them practice.
And with a fourth-level armor-breaking cultivation level, one can get a good official position in the army, and it is not a problem to serve as a county guard in some remote places.
Yu Zhi lied that his cultivation level was only the third level of cracking stone, and he took twenty taels of silver, and he would only cash in the remaining thirty taels when he reached Nanzhou Mansion safely.
An escort business can earn a full fifty taels of silver, which is money that most people can earn in ten years.
The heavy twenty taels of silver also made the servants who were traveling with him jealous. They were the servants of the master's family. They only had a few taels of silver per month and did the dirtiest and most tiring work.
The destination of this caravan is Su City, which is also Yu Zhi's destination. Su City is actually to the north of Nanzhou Prefecture and adjacent to Cangzhou Prefecture. At the speed of a caravan, it would take one and a half months to reach Sioux City from Kyoto.
Yu Zhi was not in a hurry, as one and a half months would allow him to practice and polish the state of the seventh level of the Monument more firmly.
The caravan went all the way south, and the first half month of the journey was uneventful. It was closer to Kyoto, and the people's lives were more peaceful. Furthermore, more than twenty cultivators opened the way, their bodies filled with abundant and boiling energy and blood, clearly signaling that no strangers should be allowed to enter.
Some bandits who had robbed the road along the way also stayed away, not wanting to cause such trouble.
Except for Yu Zhiduola, most of these bodyguards have friendships with each other, especially the other four of the third-grade stone crackers and one of them of the fourth-grade armor-breaker. These five people often move around and have a lot of connections. Another fourth-grade armor-breaking person prefers to drink and eat meat with the first- and second-grade cracking stone. He looks middle-aged and is even more cheerful.
Yu Zhi's solitary appearance only attracted the attention of other people, making these practitioners interested in the handsome young man in front of them who was young but had a third-level cracking stone.
In Yu Zhi's eyes, the third-grade stone cracker was nothing, after all, he had killed the strong men of the eighth-grade open monument. But for ordinary people, this is an honor that can bring glory to one's ancestors. With this kind of cultivation, he will definitely not die of hunger.
Moreover, Yu Zhi is still so young, and with this strong energy and blood, he can reach the fourth level of Armor Breaking just around the corner.
The person who is familiar with the four cultivators of the third level of cracking stone is called Zhou Hu. He has been working as a bodyguard in Kyoto all year round. Those four practitioners of the third level of cracking stone are also his brothers in life and death.
It is a common thing to escort a caravan with a level 4 armor-breaking cultivation level. The fourth level of Armor Breaking is also considered to be a higher level among them.
Zhou Hu has a good reputation and the prices are quite reasonable. Therefore, many people are willing to seek his escort. However, he is also wary by nature. In recent years, there are only five brothers and he does not accept others to join the team.
After walking for half a month, we were far away from Kyoto, and the road became much more uneasy.
Zhou Hu is an experienced person. He has walked this road many times, and he knows exactly who the bandits in the surrounding area are.
However, as I walked this time, I felt more and more something was wrong.
This is a wilderness, with no village in front or back, and a few villages scattered here and there.
In the past, the caravans escorted by Zhou Hu would settle near these villages and spend some money to buy food with the people in the villages. But there was no one in the village he passed this time, and the livestock seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
There was no living thing in the whole village.
It seemed as if all living creatures were swallowed up by an inexplicable force.
Zhou Hu discovered the anomaly and did not say anything. He just urged the carriage and horses to move forward and leave the wilderness as soon as possible. The safest place is in the city.
Traveling at night is the most likely opportunity for bandits to take advantage of, which is also a taboo for bodyguards.
But the uneasiness in Zhou Hu's heart urged him to move forward and leave this place immediately.
Several villages in a row have the same scene. There are no traces of fighting in the village. The houses are intact and new houses are being built. This will not be the relocation of the entire village.
Yu Zhi was lying on the carriage stacked with goods, his sharp eyes passing over the surroundings, and a strange aura permeated the entire caravan.
No one spoke, and they tensed up, not daring to break the pace of the march and the quiet and terrifying air. At this moment, everyone realized the anomaly along the way.
During this period, Yu Zhi looked towards the mountain forest on one side several times. He vaguely felt that someone was watching them. That kind of obscure and dark gaze was like the gaze of a ghost, which made Yu Zhi feel cold.
In the early morning, there was a heavy fog.
They couldn't see their fingers in the white fog, and the group didn't dare to stay. Even if they couldn't see the way ahead clearly, they continued to move forward.
The owner of the carriage did not object and always followed Zhou Hu's arrangements.
This sudden heavy fog kicked off a strange prelude.
