After a while, Fan Youfu in the carriage said, "Don't get me wrong, Mr. Xia, the horse bandits on the grassland are actually too ferocious. With more people protecting the convoy, everyone will be safer on the road."
The guy on the carriage echoed: "One more person means more strength. The Jurchens are powerful enough. With the Jurchens here, ordinary horse bandits don't dare to have an idea of our convoy. What do you think I said, Mr. Xia?" Does it make sense?”
"It makes sense." Xia Biaotou opened his mouth and cursed.
"Hey, Mr. Xia, why are you scolding me!" The guy looked ugly.
Captain Xia no longer paid attention to the guy on the carriage, and only looked at Fan Youfu.
"Captain Xia," Fan Youfu said, "I think that during these days in the convoy, I must have heard someone mention that our convoy, Fan Ji, had two rumors of encountering horse bandits on the grassland."
Biao Xia nodded.
Fan Youfu continued: "To be honest, these are not rumors. Not only that, none of the guys that Fan Ji sent to the grassland came back, and their bones were all buried on the grassland."
"Is it all done by horse bandits?" Officer Xia frowned.
Fan Youfu nodded and said: "These horse bandits are extremely vicious. We, Fan Ji, have suffered big losses twice. We really have no choice but to invite the Jurchens for help. We want to use the Jurchens' reputation to scare away the horse bandits, and also I hope that Head Guard Xia can understand."
Captain Xia furrowed his brows and asked, "Aren't your Fan Ji's goods sold to the Jurchens?"
"No, absolutely not." Fan Youfu hurriedly denied, "The convoy only goes as far as Horqin, and will return when it reaches Horqin. It will never go to Houjin's territory."
"Whatever Jurchen territory is, that is my Ming Dynasty territory." Xia Biaotou said with dissatisfaction.
The White Mountains and Black Waters, the Longxing Land of Hou Jin Dynasty, were once under the jurisdiction of the Ming Nuer Gandu, and they were all the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
"Yes, yes, yes, they all belong to our Ming Dynasty." Fan Youfu nodded in agreement, and then said, "Aren't those places already occupied by the Jurchens now? That's why I said this, please don't blame Head Xia. "
Head Guard Xia said in a deep voice: "You, Fan Ji, have to give me an explanation for what happened this time. Although I, Xia Guang, am just a bodyguard, I have never been with the Jurchens."
Fan Youfu, who was in the carriage, smiled apologetically and said, "What the Xia escort leader said is that we, Fan Ji, had no choice. The two convoys that came to the grassland encountered horse bandits before. We, Fan Ji, suffered too much loss, so we had no choice but to invite the Jurchens. Please be considerate of Mr. Xia."
"Don't worry, I will finish it after accepting your escort from Fan Ji." Xia Guang said, "But I, Xia Guang, do not associate with Jurchens. When the Jurchens invited by Fan Ji arrive, I will take them away. , as for the money I received from you Fan Ji this time, I will return it to you, I, Xia Guang, don’t earn this kind of money."
"Tou Xia, why bother!" Fan Youfu advised, "I, Fan Ji, are just a business. No matter how the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens fight, it's none of our business. We can't just let the money go without making money. Bar!"
"Steward Fan, you have to know that some money can be earned, and some unscrupulous money cannot be earned. Earning such unscrupulous money will bring disaster to future generations." Xia Guang replied.
Before Fan Youfu could speak again, he spurred his horse and left Fan Youfu.
"you……"
Fan Youfu looked at Xia Guang's retreating back, his teeth itching with hatred.
The boy in the carriage said: "Butler, if you really want this Xia Guang to see Houjin, he will definitely know that our Fan Ji's goods are sent to Houjin."
"This Xia Guang is simply careless." Fan Youfu cursed bitterly, and then said, "Don't worry about him, I have my own arrangements for this matter."
The guy next to him said, "When the Jurchens come, do we really want Xia Guang and the other bodyguards to leave?"
"It's not that easy to leave." Fan Youfu said, "Now we still need people like them to protect the convoy. We can wait until the Jurchens arrive."
The guy nodded.
Fan Ji's motorcade continued to walk on the grassland. The sky in the west was red, indicating that it was about to get dark.
At this moment, Xia Guang, who was walking in front of the convoy, suddenly shouted: "Stop the car, everyone be on guard, there is an unknown cavalry approaching from the front."
Following his shout, all the escorts in the convoy gathered around Xia Guang on horseback.
In the distance, under the sunset, a cavalry team was approaching in the direction of the convoy.
"Boss Xia, what happened?"
When the motorcade stopped, Fan Youfu asked Xia Guang in front of the motorcade.
Xia Guang turned his horse's head, retreated to Fan Youfu's carriage, and said: "There is an unknown horse team approaching in front. I suspect it may be horse bandits. I also ask Butler Fan to gather all the carts and manpower together so that my people can protect them." "
"It should, it should." Fan Youfu nodded repeatedly.
When the convoy encountered something like horse bandits on the grassland, he knew that he couldn't do anything to help and could only count on Xia Guang and the escorts he brought.
After Xia Guang finished instructing Butler Fan, he turned the horse's head again and returned to the front of the motorcade, continuing to stare at the horse team approaching in the distance.
"Big, big housekeeper, what should we do?"
The guy who was sitting in the same carriage with Fan Youfu started to stutter in panic.
"Why are you still stunned? Didn't you hear what Mr. Xia said? Why don't you quickly gather the cart and the manpower together." Fan Youfu patted the guy on the back of the head with his hand.
I was very confused.
What he didn't expect was that the Jurchens didn't come, but the horse bandits on the grassland arrived first.
The man in the carriage shivered as he walked down from the carriage. As soon as his feet landed, he collapsed directly on the grass.
"Useless thing." Fan Youfu cursed, and then got off the carriage.
Although he was just as scared in his heart, because he had been with Fan Yongdou for many years, his knowledge and experience were much better than that of that guy, so naturally he would not be as miserable as that guy.
After getting off the carriage, he first glanced at the front of the motorcade. In the direction that Xia Guang and the others were facing, as if at the end of the grassland, there was a black shadow shaking.
He knew that it was because the distance was too far. In fact, the black shadows moving in that direction were all human figures.
Seeing this, he didn't dare to waste time, and hurriedly called to the driver and the guys in the team, and rushed all the carts pulling the goods together, including the people and the goods on the carts.
Some waiters who didn't know what was going on asked the people on the side and said, "What's going on? Why did the butler gather us all together instead of rushing?"
A coachman on the side replied: "We must have encountered horse bandits. Didn't you see that the bodyguards of Xia Guard Head are in front?"
As he spoke, he raised his chin in Xia Guang's direction.
"What? Horse bandit!" A waiter exclaimed.
The other guys also looked panicked, and some wanted to escape in a panic.
But he was stopped by Fan Youfu.
Just listen to Fan Youfu saying: "Everyone be quiet. If you leave the convoy at this time, you will die on your own. Do you think you can survive alone on the grassland?"
The guy who had been following Fan Youfu also said: "The convoy is protected by the Xia guards. Ordinary horse bandits can't touch our convoy. Don't worry, everyone, everything will be fine."
These words comforted others, and also reassured him.
