"There's something wrong with this Pegasus Ranch!"
Fu Junma stood next to Xu Yi and spoke softly.
Normally, if someone comes to buy a horse, even if it looks a little different, Pegasus Ranch, which has always advertised itself as a 'merchant', should welcome the person in. Is there any reason to directly stop the person?
Isn’t this just pushing customers away?
"There is indeed something wrong, but it has nothing to do with us."
Xu Yi said.
The people at Pegasus Ranch were so nervous, even a little bit like they were on the verge of war, mainly because of another group of people.
I have to say that Pegasus Ranch is indeed a treat!
In addition to Xu Yi, there were other people who were also eyeing them and wanted to take a bite out of them.
What makes Pegasus Ranch so tense now is the infamous Four Bandits!
There is a folk saying that describes these four bandits.
Not even an inch of grass grows to fight against the sky, chickens and dogs don’t have room to see the cauldron, the scorched earth encounters roughness for thousands of miles, ghosts cry and gods howl like Cao Yinglong.
These four detestable people ran around and looted, causing havoc everywhere like insects, raping, looting, and committing all kinds of crimes.
In the original book, the four major bandits joined forces to deal with Pegasus Ranch. With the help of a traitor, they almost occupied Pegasus Ranch.
It's still a long time before the plot of the original story begins. The four major bandits have not joined forces yet, but are doing their own thing.
From the voices of these guards, Xu Yi learned that the reason why they were so nervous was none other than Cao Yinglong, who was said to make people 'cry like ghosts and gods howl'.
Just the day before yesterday, Cao Yinglong led his men to attack Pegasus Ranch.
Although he was repulsed by the people from Pegasus Ranch, Cao Yinglong was not resigned to it and still lingered around, waiting for opportunities.
At this delicate moment, Xu Yi's suspicious trio will naturally attract attention, and they may even be regarded as spies sent by Cao Yinglong.
Inside Pegasus Ranch.
Several deacons argued endlessly, and most of them disapproved of letting Xu Yi come in. In the end, the owner Shang Xiuxun made the decision.
"Let them in!"
Shang Xiuxun kept a straight face and tried to look serious.
She had just taken over the position of host, and she was a female figure. Only in this way could people not look down upon her.
"Our Pegasus Ranch sells horses. If people come to buy horses, we have no reason to turn them away. Besides, haven't you all verified that this letter is indeed written by Yuchi Sheng?"
"This, Xiao, the owner of the field, the letter is indeed written by Yuchi Sheng, but whether the person is still the same person as General Manager Yuchi needs to be discussed."
Second Deacon Liu Zongdao pondered for a moment and then spoke.
"Whether it is yes or no, won't you know it once you see it?"
Shang Xiuxun insisted on his opinion and said in a deep voice.
"Here, the leader of the field, according to what the guard just said, the leader is not weak in martial arts. I think we should be careful!"
Liu Zongdao continued to persuade.
"That's wrong!"
Third Deacon Tao Shusheng shook his head.
"With just three young people, can't we Pegasus Ranch be able to handle it? Owner, in my opinion, there's no harm in meeting them!"
Liu Zongdao glared at him, but before he could say anything more, Shang Xiuxun just waved his hand.
"Okay, that's it! If the second deacon is worried that there is a problem with these three people, we can secretly arrange more manpower."
Liu Zongdao glanced at the chief deacon Liang Zhi who closed his eyes and said nothing, and then at the fourth deacon Wu Zhaonian who was only following Shang Xiuxun's lead.
The most important thing is to take a look at the butler Shang Zhen sitting in the first place.
This great steward is not an ordinary person. Although he is not among the four great deacons, his status is still above them.
For Shang Xiuxun to be able to sit in the position of the owner of the farm as a female classmate, apart from the Shang surname since the establishment of Pegasus Ranch, Shang Zhen played a vital role!
Liu Zongdao looked at Shang Zhen who was smoking and the old god was there, and he instantly understood what the other person was thinking.
He wanted to gradually let go and let Shang Xiuxun start managing everything at the ranch.
This decision was probably Shang Xiuxun's attempt. No matter whether the outcome was good or bad, it was a kind of training.
'The most important thing is that those three people can't make any waves no matter what! '
Liu Zongdao pondered in his heart and felt that this was the key to the matter.
According to the news from the guards, the visitors were only three young people, all under thirty years old, and two of them were women.
No matter how you look at it, this combination is not too threatening.
Even if they are really sent by Cao Yinglong, they still have enough means and ability to stop them!
No one really believes that the three of them can do anything to Pegasus Ranch, right?
No way, right? !
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"Mr. Xu, our owner has invited you!"
The guards opened the city gate and welcomed Xu Yi and the others in.
Shang Xiong, the owner of the Pegasus Ranch who first built the castle, was a military general in the late Jin Dynasty. At that time, Liu Yu replaced the Jin Dynasty and changed the country's name to the Song Dynasty, and the country was divided.
In order to avoid the disaster of war, Shang Xiong led his men and tribesmen to go south. By chance, he found this hidden valley, and settled here and established a pasture.
In the 160 years from the establishment of the ranch to the unification of the world in the Sui Dynasty, the Pegasus Ranch experienced seven owners, all of whom were inherited by the Shang family, possessing supreme authority.
The other ethnic groups are Liang, Liu, Tao, Wu, Xu, Luo and other ethnic groups. After more than a hundred years of reproduction, they have moved out to the surrounding areas and formed nearby towns, as well as Yuan'an and Dangyang, the two big cities in Jushui. , more than half of its residents originate from Pegasus Ranch.
The first generation owner, Shang Xiong, was a military general, and he understood the importance of fists at hand, so he encouraged his tribesmen to learn martial arts and promote martial arts. As a result, everyone in the ranch was brave and good at fighting, and was not afraid of bandits and gangsters. A force that can ensure the safety of the area and win the respect of the residents of nearby towns.
After entering the city, there is a spacious ramp extending upwards, leading directly to the inner castle where the highest owner lives. There are continuous houses on both sides, connected by branch roads to the ramp, giving it the characteristics of a mountain city.
People and cars are coming and going on the road, making it look like a prosperous big city, and children are playing in groups.
The buildings are all rough and simple, built with stones and magnificent in shape. Along the way, there are many bell pavilions, archways and gates, which are simple and unpretentious, showing the heroic spirit of the city builders.
The inner fort is even more grand in scale. The main building has five-layered halls and pavilions, as well as side halls and verandas. The large and small buildings are arranged in an orderly manner in the fort, decorated with gardens, flowers and trees, small bridges and waterfalls, which is elegant and pleasant.
But behind this elegant and pleasant scenery, Xu Yi discovered that there was a hidden mystery. There were at least a hundred eyes, quietly staring at the three of them.
It seems that if they do anything wrong at all, they will immediately jump out of the darkness and capture or kill them!
Fu Junma frowned slightly and unconsciously clenched the sword in her hand.
This is a stress reaction!
Obviously, the gaze behind this made her feel very scared.
Xu Yi and Wei Zhenzhen looked normal, as if they had not noticed anything unusual at all.
The latter is indeed the case.
Although under Xu Yi's guidance, she can now be regarded as a warrior, it is obvious that her strength and experience are not enough to detect the hidden gaze behind it.
As for Xu Yi...
Is that a magic horse? !
Is anyone watching him? !
Chamber.
"Mr. Xu, our owner is inside, please."
The leading guard stretched out his hand to signal Xu Yi to go in on his own.
Xu Yi didn't hesitate and stepped in directly.
Fu Junma and Wei Zhenzhen naturally followed closely behind.
Get through the door.
Suddenly, a series of sharp or serious gazes fell directly on them.
There is a strong martial will in these eyes, penetrating into the depths of people's souls.
Wei Zhenzhen felt very uncomfortable, so she lowered her head subconsciously and hid her body behind Xu Yi's back. Only then did she feel better.
Fu Junma frowned and responded directly with martial arts will.
As a person who dared to assassinate Sui Emperor Yang Guang and escaped from Yu Wenhua and his men several times, she was naturally not someone who could be suppressed by these mere eyes.
Her martial arts will rose up, and in a short period of time, she actually became one against many.
Everyone looked at her in shock. Before that, everyone thought that only Xu Yi deserved their attention, and the remaining two were probably just Xu Yi's maids, responsible for taking care of Xu Yi's daily life. .
Judging from the fact that both of them felt half a step behind Xu Yi and Wei Zhenzhen's performance afterwards, their guess should be correct.
But Fu Junma's performance broke their understanding.
'This is a master! '
A master who is at least an innate level!
Shang Xiuxun and the four deacons suddenly looked at Fu Junma solemnly.
Although the environment in this world has resulted in a much greater number of innate warriors than in the previous world, this does not mean that innate warriors are worthless.
On the contrary, innate warriors are still the upper-class figures in the entire world. Now that the two major forces of Buddha and Demon have not officially emerged, there are actually very few master-level powerful people active in the world.
Xiantian warriors can be said to be the most mainstream representatives of high-level warriors in the world today.
In a city as big as Yangzhou, before Yu Wenhuaji's arrival, there wasn't even a single master-level expert.
Although the number of innate warriors is larger, there are only less than forty.
Pegasus Ranch is even worse.
In the entire Pegasus Ranch, there are currently only one innate warrior named Shang Xiuxun, the four major deacons, and the chief steward Shang Zhen.
There is not even a single master-level expert.
It can be seen from this that the innate warriors in this world are still quite cherished.
'This person should be Mr. Xu's close guard? '
Everyone guessed in their hearts.
They don't think that anyone can be so luxurious as to have an innate warrior as a maid.
That is an innate warrior!
In the whole world, they are among the masters.
Who can let such a master condescend to be a maid?
Even the young masters of the four great clans don’t have such qualifications!
Coupled with Fu Junma's warrior attire, she indeed looks more like a guard.
Because of this unexpected turn of events, Shang Xiuxun and the four major deacons immediately focused more attention on Fu Junma.
Only Shang Zhen, who looked to be in his sixties or seventies with drowsy eyes, still focused all his attention on Xu Yi.
Even his posture that always seemed like the old god was there, the moment Xu Yi appeared, his whole body tensed up instantly.
He had never smoked the hookah that was so close at hand.
"Has it been discovered?"
Xu Yi glanced at Shang Zhen.
I was a little surprised, but I didn't pay too much attention.
If you discover it, discover it!
To him, there wasn't much difference anyway.
If he didn't have to show off his "courteous corporal" status, he wouldn't need to make any disguise at all and could just break in.
"That might be a good thing after all!"
Xu Yi thought in his heart that others didn't know clearly, but he knew it best.
The fundamental reason why Shang Xiuxun was able to take over the Pegasus Ranch was not because her surname was Shang, but because she had a father named Lu Miaozi!
Shang Zhen, the chief steward of the merchant, actually followed Lu Miaozi's arrangements and secretly supported Shang Xiuxun.
"With Shang Zhen here, I probably don't need to look for him specifically."
Xu Yi felt that he should be able to see Lu Miaozi by tonight at the latest.
To Xu Yi's surprise, not only did he not see Lu Miaozi as he wished that night, he didn't even see Lu Miaozi the next day.
Was it just an unlucky time for him to come because Lu Miaozi was not at home?
Or was it that Lu Miaozi didn't love his daughter as much as the book said, and he could ignore even a strange master-level powerhouse who suddenly appeared at Pegasus Ranch?
Xu Yi was thinking about various possibilities in his mind.
In comparison, the contact with Shang Xiuxun and others on the other side was much smoother.
Although they had doubted whether Xu Yi and others were sent by Cao Yinglong from the very beginning, this suspicion was immediately eliminated after contacting Xu Yi and the others.
There are two major reasons for this.
First, Cao Yinglong himself is only an innate warrior. What ability does he have to order the two innate warriors to do things for him?
Secondly, and most importantly, Xu Yi's temperament!
It was an aura of nobility that was so noble that it was indescribable!
Because people at Pegasus Ranch want to buy and sell horses, what kind of people in the world have not seen them?
Even Li Xiuning, the little princess of the Li Clan, one of the four great clans, is best friends with their farm owner!
But even the well-informed Pegasus Ranch people had to admit that they had never encountered Xu Yi's aura of top nobility from the inside out.
'Isn't this the legendary descendant of the royal family? '
With their limited thinking, they could only think that only the legendary royal family children, and the kind of royal family children who were specially trained, could develop such a noble temperament.
Just such a temperament has eliminated the possibility of the four major bandits having any relationship with Xu Yi.
Not to mention Xu Yi doing things for the Four Bandits, or even the other way around, if the Four Bandits worked for Xu Yi, they all felt that they were insulting Xu Yi.
Although this raises another identity issue, is Xu Yi really Yuchi Sheng's man? But that's something else to consider.
After confirming that Xu Yi had nothing to do with the Four Bandits and that he was probably very noble, everyone at Pegasus Ranch became polite to him.
So and so.
On the third day.
Just when Xu Yi was thinking about whether he should take the initiative, he finally got what he wanted.
"Mr. Xu, there is a gentleman who wants to see you. I wonder if you can meet him?"
(End of chapter)
