The sky is filled with dust and sand.
After leaving Hezhou for about a hundred miles, it felt like entering a desert. Looking up and around, everything was covered with a desolate yellow mud.
"Rest where you are." Xu Mu frowned. According to the route, he would have to walk at least a hundred miles of desert before he could reach the town.
"My boss has spoken, let's rest where we are for the time being." Chen Sheng rode a horse with a sword on his back and circled the entire convoy, shouting several times.
After parking the carriage behind a huge boulder, feeding the horses and collecting firewood, they had the opportunity to sit together, set up a bonfire and bake pancakes, and then swallow them slowly with hot water.
"Master Xu, it's almost time for you." Zhou Fu looked a little unhappy. He had been used to being pampered over the years, and the bumps in his stomach made his whole stomach turn upside down.
"It's indeed the right time." Xu Mu responded calmly.
Youshi is almost dusk.
"Master Xu Fang, if we go further, there might be sand wolves, so why not camp on this huge rock for now."
There was still a hundred miles to go, and no matter how hard we tried, we still wouldn't be able to reach the town outside the desert.
"Listen to Brother Zhou."
"Don't say that, Master Xu. In this round of events, a certain family didn't help much, but Master Xu saved me many times."
Previously, I wanted to help the people of the village find a place to go, but I didn't expect that Xu Mu had made military achievements, and the more than fifty people of the village had a better destination.
"Master Xu, I have something to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
"Brother Zhou, let me tell you, if you and I live and die, there is nothing we can't say."
Zhou Fu was silent for a moment and then spoke slowly, "I was afraid that something would happen, so I kept it quiet. The lieutenant named Zhao Qingyun... When he was serving in the camp in Wangzhou, I heard that he was greedy for merit. Lord, I have also done things to grab credit.”
Zhou Fu's words are actually a bit of hindsight. Xu Mu doesn't care. In a round of life and death with Zhao Qingyun, this young lieutenant is not an incorrigible person. Perhaps after being awakened in Wangzhou, he will become different.
"Sanqiantongziying died tragically for the country, leaving only the last spark of fire. I don't want him to be extinguished."
"I want to believe him."
Zhou Fu hesitated to speak
, had to nod bitterly.
"Master!" At this time, Chen Sheng, who was patrolling far away, suddenly turned back and galloped back, with an angry look on his face.
Xu Mu stood up, feeling a little panicked for no reason.
"What's wrong?"
Stopping his horse, Chen Sheng drew out his knife and spoke decisively.
"My boss, the group we mentioned before are already coming towards us. More than ten martial arts masters!"
Martial arts is a more formal knife-edge business, usually employed by wealthy families, such as escorting people along the way to the inner city.
"Master, I'm going to gather people here."
Xu Mu nodded and did not stop. Again, if the other party dares to fool around, they can only kill again.
Whoever has the bigger fist is the right one.
Several rows of luxurious carriages slowly stopped a few hundred steps away.
Not long after, two figures on horseback came leisurely in the dim sky. Each wore a hat and a linen robe.
There is a knife hanging under the horse's belly. It has no scabbard and is only wrapped with several layers of oil paper.
"Let me ask, who is the boss?"
Xu Mu frowned slightly and took two steps forward.
"Brother, is there something wrong?"
"There is a horse running behind me and I want to buy two horses."
"I'll be in town tomorrow, why not buy it there." Xu Mu shook his head.
These five good horses from Di, two males and three females, he had spent a lot of effort on, and even spent fifty taels at the official house in Hezhou, to keep them.
Later, when I went to the inner city, I still thought about trying to reproduce when I built Zhuangzi.
Only fools sell it.
"The town is too far away." Wu Xing said with his hat on his head, his voice a little impatient, "The owner I'm waiting for has said that he wants to buy it now, and I'll give you ten taels apiece."
"What if I don't sell it."
"If you don't sell it, the owner I'm waiting for will be angry."
Xu Mu nuzzled, what kind of bullshit is this? He still wants to cut it off.
"Tell your boss over there and advise him to rush to the town early and don't worry about me here."
"We can't agree."
Wu Xing, who was speaking, released his hand from holding his hat and was about to reach out for the hanging knife on the horse's belly. He suddenly paused and raised his head with horrified eyes.
At some point, seven or eight figures with swords on horseback gathered around them coldly. If he dared to touch the hanging knife again, he would most likely be killed on the spot.
Wu Xing gritted his teeth, but he didn't dare after all, and hurriedly retracted his hand.
"Go back and tell your boss. When we go together, stay half a mile apart." Xu Mu's tone was cold, "If you dare to get even an inch closer, I will kill you without blinking an eye."
The two martial artists silently hugged each other, reined their horses, stepped on the dust, and walked away.
"These bastards are plotting against me, Xujiazhuang." Chen Sheng cursed, but did not immediately return his sword. Following Xu Mu's instructions, he led three other riders and continued patrolling along the nearby sandy road. stand up.
Walk back to the campfire.
Xu Mu raised his head and found that all the female relatives present, except Jiang Caiwei, had uneasy expressions on their faces.
You Wencai, Fan Gu and Wang Yun, the three of them crowded together, wishing that they could become squeamish little girls and not have to do anything.
Xu Mu became angry just looking at it. As soon as he raised a firewood stick, the three of them ran out in shock, picking up dry firewood randomly.
"Master Xu, this is a bit strange." Zhou Fu moved his bloated body a few times, "Normally speaking, if you take over the martial arts business for a living, you rarely interact with others, for fear of being plotted against."
"I think so too." Xu Mu said in a deep voice, "If you are escorting your employer, when the carriage stops, someone will get off the carriage and relieve yourself."
"But there was nothing just now."
"Master Xu, what do you say?"
"It's hard to say, I just feel weird."
Taking back the topic, Xu Mu leaned against the mountain wall and fell into deep thought.
"Xu Lang, drink some hot water." Jiang Caiwei walked over carefully and handed over a thick bowl.
Xu Mu smiled softly and suddenly felt a little lucky that he didn't get mad and drive Jiang Caiwei away.
"When you get to the inner city, I will go to the official office to apply and transfer your place of birth and household registration to the lintel of my Xu family."
According to the Great Discipline Law, when a woman marries her husband, she is a member of her husband's family, and must move into her husband's family together with her place of origin and household registration.
It was too difficult to live in Wangzhou before, so Xu Mu didn't think too much about these things.
But at least Jiang Caiwei, a good girl like you, has come here with you whether life or death.
"Xu Lang, if, if you marry a real wife in the future, the slave family will definitely know the etiquette and etiquette, and will not make Xu Lang angry."
Xu Mu was stunned when he heard this. He had never had such thoughts before.
Before she could explain, Li Xiaowan, who was not far away, couldn't help but spat viciously even though she was wearing a nice skirt.
"The disciple will be cut into pieces with a thousand cuts."
"Be careful, I've already seen the second round."
Li Xiaowan was stunned, and she was so angry that she picked up a branch and hit it hard on the sand, muttering something while hitting it.
Not long after, Xu Mu was not choked to death by the curse. Instead, she herself was turned into a painted face by the dust and smoke.
