The Sword Dynasty - 177. Chapter 176

There are large farmlands outside Lueyang County and the eight hundred miles in the Guanzhong Plain. There are occasional low-rise mounds, and the villages next to them are dotted with beautiful pictures everywhere.

The Xie family’s motorcade moved forward unhurriedly, and gradually slowed down 30 miles away from the county seat.

“What does it mean?”

Seeing the train team of Xie family slowing down, Fu Su frowned and thought.

At this time, there are some dry fields and uncultivated wasteland on both sides of the road, and there are no villages. There is only a small horse farm not far away on a small river, and only a dozen horses are scattered on the grassy slope. Green grass shoots.

No matter how you look at it, there is no one around who can trade with Xie’s family.

“It just slowed down completely, but didn’t stop completely. This shows that this place is where they are going to work, but the other party hasn’t arrived yet.” Ding Ning turned his head and glanced at Fu Su, and said slowly.

The ancestor of the Zhou family squinted his eyes slightly, as if always dozing off, but his mind was extremely active.

Suddenly, his ears moved slightly, already hearing something.

“It’s a horse thief.”

After a few breaths, Ding Ning took a deep breath and looked at Fu Su and said.

“Horse thief?”

Fu Su was stunned, a little puzzled, but he immediately felt the slight tremor of the ground transmitted from the wagon wheels to the bottom of the carriage, and he immediately fully reacted, frowning deeply.

In the Great Qin Dynasty, there was no such kind of poor mountains and rivers that would be difficult to chase by a thousand troops and horses as soon as they escaped in Guanzhong.

This kind of horse pingchuan gave birth to horse thieves on horseback.

Horse thieves usually have three or four horses, and they never stay in one place. The places where they camped are different every day. For the Da Qin Dynasty, this kind of non-production, only destroying horse thieves are real locusts, and they hate them. In the Great Qin Dynasty, there were guerrilla horses specializing in chasing and killing horse thieves. However, elite cavalry was extremely difficult to train. Such horse thieves were very easy to form. They often punish one of them, but two more came out.

In the dry land far away, a long smoke of mud dragon suddenly curled up. In just a moment, a group of horse thieves appeared in the sight of Ding Ning and Fu Su.

There are more than one hundred horse thieves, each of whom is carrying at least four horses. Except for the one that is riding and the empty preparation horse next to him, the rest of the horses are loaded with packages and loads. On the cloth wrapped with the load, even the horses have dry and black blood stains.

All the horse thieves have different clothes, the same yellow turban masked face, even if the figure is not like Da Qin’s cavalry sitting upright and cold, but there is a cold and bloodthirsty aura constantly emanating from the body.

Ding Ning’s eyes became colder. In terms of quantity, these horse thieves are not a big deal. The powerful horse thieves often exceed a thousand horses, prepare thousands of horses, and possess the ability to compete head-on with small groups of rangers and practitioners. , But only by the height of the dust raised under the feet of these horse thieves, he can judge that the load on the horses is extraordinary.

It’s normal for a caravan to carry more cargo, but for the horse thief, the extra weight is a matter of life and death.

Xie’s family only came with a few carriages carrying people, and there were obviously passengers in each carriage, and it was impossible to carry all the weight of these horse thieves.

For Ding Ning, this meant danger.

“These horse thieves seem to carry a heavy load on their horse belts.” At this time, Fu Su also turned his head, looked at him solemnly and said softly: “And it doesn’t look big, it’s probably some talisman or weapon. .”

Fusu was the prince most valued by Emperor Yuanwu and the empress. He was naturally taught by the Master since he was a child. Ding Ning was not surprised to be able to make such a judgment.

He nodded, “These horse thieves don’t look like they’re here for a deal, they’re like they’re here for war.”

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“Even the coachmen of these three carriages are not ordinary people.” In the carriage of Xie’s family, Xie Lian should not go too much to see the horse thieves who came with the dust dragon, instead focusing more attention on following them. In the three black carriages at the rear.

Seeing the calmness of the three carriages, Xie Lianying’s fat and slightly oily face showed a relaxed smile: “Even the horseman who drives the car has a calm and relaxed attitude, and the identity of this Changling nobleman must be extremely high.”

“Let’s go out.”

In the next moment, the smile on his face disappeared, and a rare coldness slowly emerged, “Don’t waste the time of this noble man in Changling.”

The horse thieves’ team stopped abruptly when they approached the Xiejia motorcade’s distance of several hundred meters, and lined up silently. Under the control of these horse thieves, both the horses under them and the load-bearing horses are almost stopped, the dust under the hooves is still burning fiercely, but the hoof feet and the rider above have been silent. Like a forest, it gives people a sense of pressure like a mountain.

A gray-haired horse thief controlled the horses under him to pace out slowly, watching Xie Lianying and Xie Rou walking out of the driving curtain, a ray of light flashed quickly in his somewhat dim eyes, and then his gaze It landed on the three black carriages of Zhou’s house in the distance, frowning slightly imperceptibly.

“Where are our people and goods?”

Xie Lian, who also walked to the forefront of the convoy, smiled slightly as he saw the horse thief who appeared more and more, and spoke first.

The gray-haired horse thief glanced at him calmly and remained silent without any extra expressions.

The dust dragons behind them slowly dispersed, and dozens of horse thieves who were riding in the distance also slowly appeared in everyone’s sight.

The horse thieves formed a small circle, and there were more than ten riders in the circle obviously different from their clothes.

“Your goods are there, and those of you know it.”

The gray-haired leader of the horse thief didn’t speak calmly until then, and said, “Your people have seen it, and you should let us see what we want.”

Xie Lianying nodded, his expression remained unchanged, but his tone suddenly became sarcasm, “I really admire your courage, even our people dare to robbery… I really think that our Xie family is something in Guanzhong. Can anyone move?”

The head of the gray-haired horse thief frowned deeply.

He heard a lot of unusual meanings from Xie Lianying’s words, but he didn’t say anything, except that his left hand got out of the horse’s rein and he was about to raise it.

“Don’t think of someone who killed me at will to threaten me.”

Xie Lianying’s eyes narrowed at this time and mocked: “I’ll talk about it after seeing what I brought you.”

Following his words, the drivers of two of the carriages in the Xie family’s motorcade opened the curtains of the carriage they were driving at the same time.

The body of the gray-haired horse thief leader suddenly stiffened.

There was only one passenger in each of the soft cots of the two carriages.

One is an old woman with snow-white hair, and the other is only a five or six-year-old child.

Xie Lianying looked at the head of the horse thief whose body was suddenly stiff, and said with a strong sarcasm: “Well, do I show you enough weight?”

“My people, from now on you will kill you casually.”

In the next breath, this extremely cheesy merchant changed his face, with a sneer on his face, “But as long as you kill one, I will let you Chen family have no old and no young.”

Ding Ning and Fusu have been listening hard to listen to the conversation between Xie Lianying and the leader of the horse thief. Fortunately, their voices are not small, so they can vaguely hear them clearly.

At this moment, although they couldn’t see what was in the two carriages of Xie’s family, through Xie Lianying’s words, both of them quickly woke up.

“These are not real horse thieves, or they usually have other identities.”

Fusu turned his head to look at Ding Ning, and said softly: “They robbed the people and goods of the Xie family, but did not expect that the Xie family also found out their details and robbed their people.”

The horse thief leader breathed deeply, still keeping silent for a while.

At this time, Xie Lianying had already continued.

Xie Lian looked at the leader of the horse thief with sympathetic eyes, shook his head, and said, “Although my Xie family is not as expensive as those in Changling, my Xie family has been established in Guanzhong for more than fifty years. Feng Yu hasn’t seen it before, you children, do you think that just using this method can replace our Xie family’s position?”

“It’s fine if you want to deal with our Xie family.”

Xie Lianying’s tone suddenly turned sharp, and a layer of frost began to form on his greasy face, “But you should know what our Xie family is escorting. You are also from Qin, so you can even do this kind of thing. ?”

Hearing these words from Xie Lianying, the leader of the horse thief slowly shook his head, and his dim eyes revealed a deep sense of helplessness and emotion.

Then, he directly took off the yellow scarf covering his face.

Under the yellow scarf was a thin, pale face.

“My son is not filial, so you are always frightened.”

The thin-faced gray-haired man bowed deeply and saluted the old lady in the carriage of Xie’s family. Then his face returned to calmness. Looking at Xie Lianying, he said very simply: “Substitute.”

Xie Lianying smiled coldly, knowing that these people can only become real horse thieves from now on, so he nodded and said, “Deal.”

The horse thief leader took a deep breath, and his left hand was separated from the horse rein again, and he would lift it up.

However, at this moment, an indifferent voice sounded behind him, “I want to try.”