Silver Overlord - Chapter 780

[Chapter 751 Distress]

Because Concubine Rong Gui and others didn’t want to spend the night in Luming Pass, Yan Liqiang had to lead the team to try to travel as much as possible in the first half of the night, and then prepare to find a place to camp and rest in the second half of the night.

Not long after leaving Luming Pass, the sun completely set, and the sky gradually turned completely dark. Well, the preparations were made for the overnight journey. Everyone ate, the horses rested for an afternoon, and the water and grass were fed, and they were in good spirits.

The weather in the past few days is not bad, the sky is bright at night, and with the horse lanterns in the team, there is no problem in rushing.

In the first three hours of leaving Luming Pass, the official road was fairly smooth and easy to walk, but three hours after leaving Luming Pass, the mountains on both sides of the road became higher and higher, the terrain became more and more dangerous, and cars and horses entered the mountainous area. , the so-called official road has become potholes, there are still a lot of gravel on the road, the whole official road is excavated on the mountain wall, under the mountain wall, there are deep ravines and ravines, bottomless, A turbulent river is tightly next to the official road, roaring and rushing like an angry dragon in the mountains and mountains, making a huge roar under Yan Liqiang’s feet, which is daunting.

This kind of official road, horseback riding is okay, but there is no way for a four-wheeled carriage to run too fast on such a road. Once the four-wheeled carriage is fast, when it passes through some potholes or the wheels hit the stone, the whole carriage They will be jumped up from the road, and the people sitting inside will be uncomfortable, not to mention the vehicles are easily damaged. Or in a rushing river.

In this case, the speed of the entire team suddenly slowed down, and they slowly shuttled through the mountains at a speed not much faster than pedestrians walking.

It was late at night, and there were no pedestrians on the road. Walking on such an official road, apart from the sound of hooves and the sound of wheels, the only sound that could be heard in the whole mountain was the sound of rowing. Birds such as owls breaking the night sky, forest owls, and chestnut squirrels, and occasionally a few shrill sounds of tigers, wolves and apes echoed in the valley, which was extremely frightening.

“Why are the official roads in Gaoyi County so potholes, and the situation is so bad, how long is this road?”

Yan Liqiang originally thought that such official roads were just a short section, but he didn’t expect to start walking. Actually it was endless. After walking for four or five hours, it was almost finished in the first half of the night. The situation on this road was still the same. There were none in the hotel, and a little impatient, he couldn’t help but ask Sima Qingshan next to him.

“The road in the next few days is almost the same!” Sima Qingshan replied.

“Isn’t there anyone to repair the official roads in Gaoyi County?”

Hearing Yan Liqiang’s question,

Sima Qingshan suddenly regained his spirit and began to speak in a familiar way, “Your Excellency may not know about this Gaoyi County. In the case of Gaoyi County, there are many dense forests and dense forests in the middle of the county, and the population is sparse. Even the county seat of Gaoyi County has a population of more than 200,000 people. The tax and silver collected by Gaoyi County in a year is less than that of Luquan County. According to the system of the Han Empire, this official road is in Gaoyi County, so it is natural that Gaoyi County is responsible for repairing and keeping the official road unobstructed and intact, but because there is really no money in Gaoyi County, the usual The repair and maintenance are also much worse. In addition, the official roads in Gaoyi County are basically in the mountains. Mountain torrents and rockfalls occur from time to time, and they are more likely to be damaged. This road condition is even worse. When the weather is bad, Gaoyi County can’t even collect the money to repair the official road, and it needs to ask the Guzhou Governor’s Office to pay. In the whole Guzhou, if the adults see the clothes worn by officials and servants, they will be beaten. Patch, that person must be from Gaoyi County. In the officialdom of Guzhou, officials of Gaoyi County are often ridiculed and become a joke. I heard that the governor of Gaoyi County visited Gaoyi County the year before last. I saw that most of the officials who came to greet them, even the officials who were wearing their county governors, had patches. As a result, even the governor couldn’t stand it. Starting from the previous year, at the end of each year, the governor’s office will deliberately allocate a sum of money to Gaoyi. The county officials are called Xinfuyin, and the whole Guzhou is the only one.”

“Since Guzhou is so poor, how do the people of Guzhou live?”

“Of course, it depends on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to drink water. There are many mountains in Guzhou, and there are many medicinal materials in the mountains, and some medicinal materials are relatively rare and expensive. The people of Guzhou almost rely on the medicinal materials in the mountains to subsidize their living. During the period from June to the beginning of winter every year, there are more people who enter the mountain vegetable medicine. Many medicine merchants in Guzhou and Jinzhou come to Gaoyi County to collect medicines, and the government in Gaoyi County pays the main tax and silver. , is the Guan Li who cleared the customs for these drug dealers!”

“I didn’t expect that there would be such a poor county in the Han Empire, it was really unexpected!” Yan Liqiang shook his head and said with a sigh.

Sima Qingshan looked at Yan Liqiang with admiration, and his eyes flashed, “The situation in Qiyun County under the control of the adults is naturally a thousand times stronger than that in Gaoyi County, the subordinates heard that the wool monopoly of the Gulang Grassland was decided by Created by your lord, with just this one strategy, your lord can easily make millions of taels of silver every year, monopolizing most of the profits of the Han Empire’s wool, and looking around the entire Han Empire, such as your lord, you can make money and a wealthy prefecture, and then I can’t find the second one, even the prefectures of the Han Empire that have the benefits of coastal commerce and trade are not as good as adults when it comes to making money!”

Yan Liqiang was about to say something, and suddenly his heart moved slightly, and the warning was suddenly born. There is a feeling of being peeped, which is fleeting and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Yan Liqiang frowned and looked at the surrounding environment. To the right of the official road was a steep mountain wall, hundreds of meters high, to the left of the official road was a deep stream, and below was the turbulent river. Although it was pitch black, in Yan Liqiang’s eyes, there was no figure. The feeling of being peeped at just now was too slight, and the time was short. That kind of constant anxiety and vigilance made Yan Liqiang still wonder in his heart. If it was a human, he would never just look at himself as a target. Could it be that there was a beast hiding in the mountains and wanted to hunt just now. He glanced at himself, and then staggered his gaze again. He felt it, or some kind of little thief…

Seeing Yan Liqiang’s face suddenly became serious, watching the surrounding environment without speaking, Sima Qingshan was also alert. He got up, turned his head and looked around.

“Are there any thieves in this mountain?” Yan Liqiang asked Sima Qingshan.

“Yes, but not many. At most, it’s a group of three or two. They robbed solo travelers. In the past, there were several groups of hairy thieves with a little more number, all of which were killed by the rangers invited by the drug dealers in Guzhou and Jinzhou.”

Yan Liqiang nodded, and the average little thief guessed that when he saw the team he was carrying, it was too late to hide, and where would he dare to show his face.

The feeling of being watched disappeared for two minutes, just when Yan Liqiang thought it would never happen again, all of a sudden, Yan Liqiang’s heart sank again—no!

Yan Liqiang tilted his head and looked at the hill on the right side, his eyes flashed, holding the big iron spear in his hand, he jumped up from the horse that Caiyun chased after the moon, and stepped on the steep slope on the right side. The straight mountain wall, the whole person roared loudly, stepped on the steep mountain wall with both feet, and rushed towards the middle of the team to

see Yan Li jumped up with a strong roar, and rushed towards the back, the whole team was shocked. Everyone reacted at once.

A bang…

Just as Yan Liqiang had just rushed out more than ten feet away, a loud bang suddenly sounded from the top of the mountain wall, and a few boulders rolled down from the highest point of the mountain wall with great strength. , Under the boulder, is the middle of Yan Liqiang’s team, which is the area where Concubine Rong Gui and the others are riding in the carriage.

As soon as the people in the team looked up, they saw the several thousand-kilo boulders rushing down from the heights, and everyone’s expressions changed.

Hearing the sound on the mountain road, the guard who was driving the carriage slammed the whip, trying to make the horse rush forward, but Concubine Rong Gui’s carriage just rushed forward a few meters, but the wheels clicked and suddenly fell into the road for a foot and a half. In the deep pothole, the carriage moved twice, but the wheels remained motionless.

Hearing the sudden movement outside, Concubine Rong opened the curtain inside the carriage and saw that under the light of the horse lamp, a stone about the size of a carriage rolled down the hillside, facing where she was. The power and impact of the stone, once it hits the carriage, the people in the carriage and the carriage will definitely be shattered, no luck…

Elder Liu had already jumped up from the carriage just now, roared, and smashed a few rocks the size of a bull’s head that rolled down in the air, but facing the largest stone that rushed down from behind, he saw that the wheels of the carriage were smashed. Stuck in a pothole, a huge boulder was rushing towards Concubine Rong Gui and the others’ carriage, and Elder Liu also changed his face. At this time, it was too late for Concubine Rong Gui and the others to get off the car…

At the same time Concubine Rong Gui saw the boulder , Elder Liu, who rushed to the front of the boulder to stop the boulder from rolling down, spat out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person flew backwards, but the momentum of the boulder rolling down did not diminish at all.

Am I going to die, on this mountain road… At this moment, Concubine Rong’s head was blank, her whole body was completely stiff, time seemed to slow down at this moment, the shadow of the falling boulder , has already shrouded Concubine Rong Gui and their carriages and horses.

At this moment, Yan Liqiang’s figure suddenly appeared in front of Concubine Rong Gui’s eyes, blocking in front of the carriage, looking at the boulder that rolled down with great strength, Yan Liqiang roared, and stabbed the spear in his hand.

The spear in Yan Liqiang’s hand was not stabbed on the boulder, but on the mountain wall below the boulder, and then Yan Liqiang picked it up with the head of the spear, and the gun barrel of the meteorite spear was bent almost ninety degrees in an instant. Then, with a sharp shot, the falling boulder slipped on the tip of Yan Liqiang’s gun, UU reading www.sonicmtl.

com was picked up with a snort, changed direction, rubbed the roof of the carriage that Concubine Rong Gui and the others were riding in, and flew over, rolling down into the river below, making a loud bang, knocking the water out of the river. It smashed high and flew high…

Yan Liqiang grabbed Concubine Rong Gui and the others’ carriage house and lifted the whole carriage from the pothole with only one hand, “Elder Liu, escort the Empress and the two Highnesses away quickly. “…”

Elder Liu with blood on the corners of his mouth leaped forward, stood directly on the horseback of the rhinoceros horse pulling the cart, and escorted Concubine Rong Gui and the others in the vehicle to rush forward.

Another boulder rolled down, but it was still picked up by Yan Liqiang with a spear, and then Yan Liqiang shouted again, jumped up, stepped on the steep mountain wall, and rushed up directly, his figure was like electricity…

The mountain wall more than 100 meters high, Yan Liqiang, rushed to the top in the blink of an eye. When he looked up, three men in black were holding iron rods and were working together to pry a boulder above. The three men suddenly disappeared. Thinking that the people below can rush up so quickly, I was startled and froze. One of them didn’t even think about it. His face trembled, and he smashed the iron rod in his hand towards Yan Liqiang. …

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