It is two hundred miles outside Guangling City, the imperial capital of the Northern Dynasties.
Luomei Town.
This is an ancient town at the foot of the Kunling Snow Mountain. It is located in a transportation fortress in the North, only more than 200 miles away from Guangling City, the imperial city of Hanyong.
It is also an important town for many merchants to make changes when they travel from north to south and go north for business.
At this time, the post station on the outskirts of Luomei Town was plunged into a chaotic fight.
It was said that they were fighting, but that was not necessarily the case.
This place is more like experiencing an unsuspicious and overwhelming massacre.
An's steward Liu Zhiyuan had a wounded arm, and his face was stained with blood from the fierce battle. He hurriedly opened the door of the easternmost guest room of the post station with an anxious look on his face, and spoke repeatedly to the owner who was gorgeously dressed but full of panic in the room. Urgent:
"——The head of the family! We have encountered bandits from Luomeiling who came down to loot the mountain. They are so large in number that the number of guards at home is too small to compete with them!
You hurry up and take your wife and young masters away first! After everyone comes to break up, they will delay the stay for the head of the family and his wife! "
The head of the An family looked like he was not very old, he had just stood up.
And his pretty wife was holding two trembling children in her arms. One son and one daughter looked young, not even as high as an adult's knees. They were very frightened by this change.
The An family was originally the richest family in Tianchen Huzhou in the Southern Dynasty. He was originally engaged in the business of silk brocade. Most of the goods were sold and circulated in the Jiangnan area of Tianchen. The top-quality Yunduan brocade was also sold in Zhaoge City, which was once popular.
Coincidentally, the father of the An family died of illness this year, and the new head of the An family, An Xuan, who was just 30 years old, became the director.
The head of the Anxuan family was young and vigorous, and was not willing to just lay out his property in a corner of the Tianchen River south, so he wanted to take advantage of the crisp autumn weather before winter began, and personally take a few good housekeepers and caretakers to go north to Hanyong Imperial City to explore his luck.
If you are lucky enough to find any business opportunities in Hanyong in the Northern Dynasty, wouldn't it be possible to connect your family's business from north to south and take it to the next level?
When the beloved wife Mu heard about the idea of the head of the An family, she not only did not object to it, but also strongly agreed with it. In order to solve her husband's worries and not to shake the An family's family fortune, Mrs. Mu used all her dowry to help Anxuan with her purchases on this trip.
An Xuan was so moved that he decided to take his wife and children, who had never left Huzhou and seen the vast world outside, on the trip, just to enjoy the mountains and rivers and see the world.
I thought that there would be no danger or mistakes due to the truce between the north and the south for many years in recent years, and the fact that several people from the spiritual awakening realm were hired along the way to protect them casually.
Unexpectedly, they had no dangers along the way, and everyone had arrived at Luomei Town safely. After walking more than a hundred miles, they could reach Guangling City, the capital of Hanyong in the Northern Dynasty, but they encountered such a fierce bandit!
"But the goods in the inn courtyard——"
An Xuan said anxiously: "That's all the gold and brocade silk that Madam bought in exchange for her dowry. It's all the money we have to sell to Guangling City during this trip!"
Butler Liu Zhiyuan said urgently: "Master! Run for your life quickly! Now that your family's lives are only for a moment, how can you care about these external things?"
Mrs. Mu, while patting the frightened child, quickly advised:
"Yes, husband, Uncle Liu is right! We can make more money if we lose it, but if we lose our lives, we can't make a difference. Fortunately, all the purchases we made on this trip were my concubine's dowry, not the An family's family property. Even if If you lose it, it won’t shake the foundation of your family.”
An Xuan has a gentle personality, and is even more heartbroken about his wife's true feelings.
"But... those are all your dowry, Huanniang. I thought that this trip would open up business routes and make money, so I will give you back all the money and profits."
Mu took the two children and stood up with a pale but gentle smile.
"Husband, my heart is the same as my heart. You and I are one and the same. There is no distinction between you and me. As for money, we might as well work harder in the future and we will naturally earn it back."
An Xuan was persuaded by his wife, and the shouts and screams of fighting outside were getting closer and closer, so there was no time for him to struggle anymore. So, he quickly packed up the things in the room, and he and the housekeeper each held a child, took his wife Mu, and fled through the back door of the inn.
In this way, the three large and two small children stumbled all the way, and after coming out of the back door of the inn in a panic, they ran for their lives along the mountain path, leaving behind them the sounds of fighting that gradually became smaller and lighter.
I don't know how long they ran, but they had to stop until they had no strength left.
The hems of their originally gorgeous brocade robes were now covered in dust, and were scratched and torn in several places by the strange rocks and trees in the mountains, making their clothes look ragged. They had been so tired of running for their lives that they had not noticed it before.
"What's going on? Why is it getting colder and colder in the mountains..."
Mu's face was stern as he looked at the tall trees all around that were blocking the sky and the sun. "What time is it now? It was just past noon. Why can't we see the sun in the mountains?"
The butler's injured arm stopped bleeding in the cold mountains. He was shivering slightly, but his heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
His face stiffened, "Oh no, Luomei Town is close to Kunling Snow Mountain, the most amazing peak in the world. Could it be that we just fled in a hurry and ran up Kunling Snow Mountain in a panic?"
Mr. and Mrs. An looked at the housekeeper blankly.
An Xuan asked in confusion: "Kunling Snow Mountain, what, is it impassable?"
The housekeeper smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The head of the family is a citizen of Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty. His family has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and he is not from the Jianghu, so he doesn't know anything. This Kunling Snow Mountain is the first peak in Hanyong in the Northern Dynasty. The snow on the mountain never melts all year round. The strong winds and severe cold are as sharp as ice blades, and it is extremely steep and towering, making it impossible for ordinary people to climb.
Therefore, thousands of years ago, Fuji City, the world's number one sword sect, chose this place to establish the sect so that its disciples could starve their bodies, suffer their bodies and minds, and hone their minds. For thousands of years, generations of sword immortals have been born. It is called the 'Sword Immortal Tomb'. We are just ordinary people, and my wife, young master, and young lady are fragile, how can we climb such a dangerous peak? "
"What?"
An Xuan was shocked. He looked at his lovely wife and child who were shivering due to the strange weather in the mountains. He frowned and said again:
"Uncle Liu, since this road is no longer accessible, what if we go back the way we came?"
"No!"
Butler Liu's face was as dark as water.
"The owner of the family does not know that the people of the Northern Dynasty are fierce and fierce, and the bandits are especially cruel and murderous. Besides, Hanyong and Tianchen of the Southern Dynasty are like a feud.
If their merchants in the Northern Dynasties were kidnapped by bandits, perhaps their family could pay a ransom sufficient to satisfy the bandits, and they could still get their lives back. But if we merchants from the Southern Dynasties encountered bandits from the Northern Dynasties, we would definitely die! "
His eyes fell heavily on his wife, Mrs. Mu, and the young lady, not to mention that they also had their female dependents and young children with them...
"This won't work, and that won't work either. Then don't we have to wait here to die?"
An Xuan was shocked when he heard this, and felt anxious in his heart.
He stepped forward and grabbed the butler's arm, as if holding the last straw to save his life. In his anxiety, he even forgot to avoid the wound on the butler's hand, but Liu Zhiyuan did not say a word.
"Uncle Liu! You are a master of the Jinyaotian realm. You were a centurion in the army before you were discharged due to injury. I, An Xuan, will die if I die, but please, Uncle Liu, please protect the lives of my wife and children!"
Butler Liu Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and thought.
An's late old man was very kind to him, and he had to repay it!
During the years when Mr. An served in the army, he took care of his poor blind old woman. When his old mother passed away, he kindly bought a thin coffin and helped his late mother to be buried.
The kindness of burying the mother and giving birth to a human son should be repaid with grass in the mouth!
An Xuan is the only son of the old man. He must repay his fate and protect An Xuan, his wife and their children in order to be considered loyal.
Although most of the mountain bandits have low martial arts realms, most of them are only in the spiritual consciousness realm, his Jinyao realm is only one realm higher than them, not to mention the fact that the opponent has a large number of people.
If he were alone, he could naturally come and go freely among the bandits.
But if he wanted to return the same way and protect the women and children of the An family from numerous bandits, it would be almost impossible!
Liu Zhiyuan raised his head, his eyes fixed on the towering hills in the distance. It was only September in the golden autumn, and snow was already falling on the peaks.
Then you can only...
Let's take a chance on luck.
Just bet on them that their lives should not be cut off!
