"Let's have a night, let's take a break here first!"

Guo Yanwu looked at the people following behind him and said slowly.

After a night of encounter, all of them were in a mess, and their hair was scattered, and their clothes were already covered in blood.

Several people came to a destroyed village, but fortunately they were surrounded by mountains and rivers, so they could take a rest for a while.

Not far from the four of them rested, there happened to be a stream. Seeing this, Guo Yanwu thought to clean up the blood stains on his body.

But at this moment, a slight strange sound came!

The old swordsman moved his ears and looked at the haystack not far away, narrowing his eyes: "Who! Why are you hiding? Why don't you come out soon!"

A angrily shout made the others who had just relaxed immediately alert.

I saw the haystack suddenly move, and then one person said, "Are you a living person?"

"Why are you talking to you if you are not a living person?" Zhao Kuo looked constipated. The person hiding in the haystack was just asking nonsense.

Looking at the haystack, a slender arm stretched out from the inside, pulled away the straw, and carefully drilled out one person.

This man was wearing a gray Confucian shirt and a square scarf on his head, but the texture was made of coarse cloth, and was covered in dust.

It turned out to be a down-and-out scholar. This person was covered in grass and slapped it a few times. Seeing the people in front of him covered in blood, it was not difficult to see that he was a living person.

So he let out a long sigh, too lazy to care about the false rituals, and said directly: "Thank God, I finally saw the living person. By the way, where are you planning to go?"

Seeing that the other party was powerless, Guo Yanwu thought that he had escaped here, so he responded: "I plan to go to Canglan City to have a look!"

When he heard this, the scholar was shocked and hurriedly said, "What are you doing in that place? If you go there, you won't be able to come back!"

Seeing this, the rest of the people felt that this person might not know the inside story.

So Guo Yanwu asked, "So you have been to Canglan City?"

"I escaped from there. Don't blame me for being too verbally. If you want to survive, you'd better leave as soon as possible!"

Guo Yanwu: "Since you have escaped from Canglan City, do you know what happened inside?"

"I…………"

The scholar was about to say something, but his stomach was rumbling and rumbling, as if he was hungry.

Seeing this, Wang Wan'er hurriedly took out her dry food and water bags, came to the person and handed it out: "If you are hungry, eat some first, and chat slowly later!"

The man was not polite either. He snatched Wang Wan'er's food and sat on the ground, swallowing it voraciously.

Then several people gathered around the scholar and saw his desperate eating behavior, he must have suffered a lot of injuries.

Before long, the man had enough food and drink, burped, got up from the ground and returned the water bag to Wang Wan'er.

Wang Wan'er took the water capsule and smiled slightly: "Looking at you like this, you must have suffered a lot along the way. You said you escaped from Canglan City. Can you tell me what happened in the city?"

When the scholar heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red and he started to cry.

Seeing this, Wang Miao frowned: "Look at you, people ask you what it is like to cry a big man!"

However, the scholar wiped his tears and sobbed: "I haven't had a full meal in two months. I'm so bad that I can't help it..."

After the man cried for a while, the man spoke slowly, "Two months ago, my uncle and I came to Canglan City to purchase goods..."

"I was a scholar, but I couldn't pass the exam for a few years, so I lost the idea of ​​studying and entering an official position. In addition, my parents died early, so I followed my uncle to do business and usually take charge of the accounts."

When Guo Yanwu heard this, he said curiously: "Continue, what happened later..."

Speaking of this, the scholar's eyes were filled with gloom, as if he was recalling some terrible experience, so he told the story...

Two months ago...

On the official road of Canglan, one old and one young, one fat and one thin, two men walked on the dirt road.

The thin man, a scholar, was dressed in a box and was carrying a cage on his shoulders, looking dusty. This man looked at the scorching sun above his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Then he turned his head and asked the person beside him, "Uncle San, how far is Canglan City? My nephew's legs are almost broken. If I had rented a horse, I might have arrived early!"

I saw a man beside him, with a fat and big figure, with his hands covering his eyebrows and looking into the distance, his small eyes were full of brilliance.

Seeing his nephew say this, he couldn't help but curl up and said, "What do you know? This business requires careful calculations and save as much as you can. When can you save enough money for your wife?"

"Isn't it just a few bad money? Is it necessary to be so stingy?" The scholar complained in his heart, but he smiled on his face: "Yes, yes, yes, you're right!"

"Just know. We all do small business transactions in medicinal materials, which is not as good as those rich merchants. We need to know the principle of long-term flow and accumulation of small amounts!"

"Uncle San said that, by the way, when I went to Canglan, what happened to the newly arrived medicinal herbs? I heard that the prices in our towns seem to have increased recently!"

"This is why I brought you to Canglan. The price of Canglan has not changed. Let's buy some to store it first, so we can make a big profit.

By the way, when it comes to Canglan, you can be more tight-lipped, don’t say anything out!”

The scholar smiled and said, "Don't worry, Uncle San, I'm not a fool!"

The two of them immediately accelerated their pace. It was not until afternoon that they arrived outside Canglan City. They were relieved to see the tall city walls.

After all, the two of them have been walking along the way, even on the official road, there is a risk of encountering bad people on the road, and it is only true that they are truly safe at this moment!

Just when the two of them were planning to take out the way to pass the door card and enter the city...

suddenly!

A sound of horse hooves sounded behind him, and a tremor came from the ground beneath his feet!

The two hurriedly looked behind and saw a group of troops coming, wearing armor and helmets, obviously soldiers in the army.

The person who was leading the way in front of him held a horse whip in his hand, waving the whip while shouting loudly: "The government will do business, and the idle people will dodge quickly!"

There were thousands of people coming, with smoke and dust rolling, arrogant and arrogant, and roaring on the west wind, regardless of whether they would step on the passers-by.

Seeing this, the fat merchant immediately poked out his fat right hand, grabbed his nephew's arm, and hid towards the roadside.

After a riot, the team of thousands rushed towards Canglan City in a hurry, and no one along the way dared to stop it.

Seeing the other party's arrogant appearance, when the team walked away, the scholar waved his sleeves to dispel the dust raised in front of him.
Chapter completed!