Late at night, with the bright moon hanging high, in the northern part of Qin State, somewhere in an unknown dense forest, a group of people were gathering around a bonfire to keep warm. In the flickering light of the fire, eight men and two women were talking and laughing. .
These people were dressed in coarse linen and linen clothes, and their clothes were not gorgeous. Many of the men's faces were still stained with dust. At first glance, they looked like people who had lived in the open all year round.
Although it is summer, in this dense wetland forest, the temperature at night is still very low, so a bonfire is needed to keep warm.
There was an iron pot on the bonfire. At this moment, someone took out a strip of bacon from the bag, cut a few pieces with a knife and threw them into the pot.
There were two carriages parked in an open space not far away. Four tall brown-red horses were tied to thick tree trunks, eating stacked horse grass leisurely. The carriages contained a few horses tied with hemp ropes. big wooden box.
At this moment, among these people, a middle-aged man with the longest face and wrinkles on his face was sipping broth and urging a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl next to him:
"Yun'er, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the old forest. Go and light the mugwort, and then bring out the realgar wine. Don't just eat it."
A middle-aged man named Wang Lei is the leader of this team.
The girl he called was named Wang Yun, and she was his daughter. The people around the bonfire were basically related by blood. They were a caravan that traveled between Qin and Tang. Wandering back and forth, reselling things to make a living, it was a small family caravan.
The girl who was also drinking broth by the campfire heard his urging and reluctantly said:
"Dad, let me go. My brother eats more than me."
"Hey, I'm talking about you girl. Brother, I work so hard every day. Why don't you eat more meat? How can you be like a little girl like you? You don't learn crafts from your father day by day and just want to play around." Her Her brother urged her: "Go and burn the wormwood, otherwise I will sell you to the bandits as a maid."
Wang Yun pouted when she heard this, and continued to drink the broth by herself, assuming a posture of saying whatever you like, I won't move anyway.
Seeing that his sister was ignoring him, the elder brother immediately wanted to urge him a few more words, but a middle-aged woman next to him smiled and said:
"Huzi, don't keep scaring your sister. Our family has been walking this way for so many years. Where did the bandits come from?"
After saying that, the middle-aged woman was about to get up and light some mugwort by herself. When Wang Yun saw her mother about to get up, she immediately put down her bowls and chopsticks and "hummed" at the young man. As she stood up, she pursed her lips and muttered:
"That's right, you are so grown up and you still scare me like a child. All the uncles in our Wang family caravan are masters of martial arts. How dare any bandit come here after eating a leopard?"
As soon as these words came out, the other men drinking soup laughed and praised the girl for being able to talk.
Seeing that she was praised by everyone, Wang Yun also raised her head happily, and walked past her brother like a proud little swan.
She came to the carriage and quickly prepared to light the mugwort with a fire stick. Suddenly, in the darkness in the distance, there was the sound of trampling dead branches.
This startled Wang Yun. She pulled out the dagger from her waist and shouted:
"who!"
Wang Lei and others beside the bonfire also reacted immediately. They stood up vigilantly and looked at the girl.
Soon, in the dark forest, accompanied by the chirping of several nightingales, a little Taoist priest wearing a navy blue robe, carrying a cloth bag and wearing a bun on his head walked out of the darkness.
Seeing that it was a little Taoist priest, the group was stunned for a moment. Wang Yun even looked at the little Taoist priest's face curiously, a little surprised that the little Taoist priest's appearance was so good-looking.
She looked at him once, then couldn't help but look at him again, then couldn't help but look at him again, and finally stopped looking at him and stared at him directly, blinking lazily.
"who are you!"
The father's cold shout awakened the girl from her obsession. When she came to her senses, she immediately held the dagger and shouted: "Who are you! What are you doing!"
The little Taoist priest also seemed a little confused. He blinked and looked at the girl in front of him who was wearing cloth, with a bright red face and braided braids. He looked at the group of big men around the campfire again, then sniffed and focused on the fragrant broth.
Finally, he reluctantly looked away from the broth, looked at the girl and the men in front of him again, and then showed a kind smile:
"Hello, I'm a bandit and I want to rob."
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Lin Xiaolu felt that he was quite unlucky. After he left Emei at noon, he ran eastward in the direction told by his senior sister. The senior sister said that at his own speed, as long as he kept running eastward, he could reach the nearest village to Emei before night. Country - Jin State.
Sadly, it suddenly turned cloudy when he was halfway through the afternoon run, and the sun was completely invisible in the sky. This caused him to get completely lost, and he could only wander around in the direction he remembered, and finally ended up here somehow. In the deep mountains and old forests.
For a whole afternoon, he didn't eat a drop of water or a bite of food. He ran away with only a bag of gold ingots on his back. He didn't find the Jin Kingdom and could only wander around in the deep mountains and old forests.
Maybe it’s because I used to collect protection money to bully others. God knew that it was not easy for me and specially arranged for me to meet this caravan. Every one of them was a good person. They knew that I was hungry and took the initiative to make broth for them. Okay, so I robbed them as a matter of course.
Beside the warm bonfire, the young man sat cross-legged and devoured a pot of cooked bacon. Not to mention how happy he was eating.
The taste, of course, can't be compared with the food in the dining hall, but it's not bad.
While he was eating, he felt very comfortable and happy, while beside the campfire, Wang Yun was staring at him angrily, her eyes full of anger.
Her father, mother, brother, uncles and uncles all stood there with expressions of confusion on their faces. They looked at the twelve or thirteen-year-old boy for a while, then at the fallen tree not far away. Their faces were all expressions on their faces. Terrified and confused.
This little Taoist priest didn't know how to find a way out, so he suddenly emerged from the deep mountains and old forests at night. The first thing he said after emerging was that he wanted to rob. Everyone wanted to draw their swords to resist, but the little Taoist priest didn't say anything. He punched the towering tree next to him, and the power of the punch directly shattered the waist-thick giant tree.
This frightened them so much that they froze in place. Then, under everyone's shocked eyes, the little Taoist swaggered to the bonfire, sat cross-legged, and started cooking in front of a large pot of bacon. The kind of people who eat wildly and smack their mouths while eating.
Oh, what a sin~
"Hey, are there any more?"
While everyone was helpless, the little Taoist priest suddenly pointed to the empty soup pot and shouted: "We've finished eating the bacon, uncle, give me some more."
Wang Lei, the leader of the caravan, was forced by his power to break the tree with one punch and did not dare to say anything. He took a large piece of bacon and silently stepped forward to cut it with a knife.
When Wang Yun saw that this little Taoist priest who was younger than herself actually asked his father to serve him, she became even more angry. She stared and cursed in a low voice: "Gold and jade on the outside, but filth on the inside, scum!"
It was windy at night, the broth was bubbling, and she deliberately lowered her voice, so Lin Xiaolu didn't hear it at all.
The middle-aged man Wang Lei cut him a few more pieces of bacon, and Lin Xiaolu smiled at him:
"Hey, thank you, uncle."
When Wang Lei heard him thanking him, his face looked a little strange, but he didn't say anything and retreated to his relatives and friends without saying a word.
Then he asked his relatives to sit down.
He found that the little Taoist priest in front of him who smashed a towering tree with one punch was not as ferocious as he thought. He seemed to be just hungry...
