Seeing that neither of them wanted to talk to him, Sheng Huailing could only walk out and walked to the door. He turned around and said, "Mr. Xie was also lucky. He hunted rabbits and picked up five thousand taels of silver in vain..."

Zhong Yishi understood what he meant and said: "Don't worry, Boss Sheng, this favor is half of yours. If this escort trip goes well, your escort fee will be halved."

Sheng Huailing was waiting for these words, and immediately went downstairs with a smile on his face.

"Profiteer." Zhong Yishi said.

"With these profiteers and corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty, there is no hope." Xie Yutian sighed.

"Fortunately, the Qing Dynasty not only had profiteers and corrupt officials, but also honest men like Xie Daxia. The country still has hope."

Xie Yutian stopped his hand, looked up at Zhong Yishi, and suddenly said: "In fact, you should go and 'revolution' with He Shaobai. There is no future in the escort agency."

When I said this, I laughed first: "It would be great if you were a boy."

It would be better if I were a man, and my father would not have died an unexpected death. Zhong Yishi looked out the window at the snow-capped Taihang Mountains in trance.

My father is lying on the other side of the mountain, in a deserted grave, cold and lonely, unable to reunite with my mother under the Nine Springs, where is my hope?

"Second Master, we have two cars and the Zhang family has five cars. Such a huge convoy is really eye-catching on the road. What are your plans?"

Xie Yutian said: "There is another car."

"Is there another car?"

"The patrol censor put an amulet on his money."

Zhong Yishi looked at Xie Yutian in confusion.

After Zhang Xing purchased the coffin and buried Zhang Shengxiang, he also rented a hearse. Xie Yutian ordered all the vehicles to be covered with white cloth. Only then did Zhong Yishi suddenly realize that this was not a "talisman."

Bandits have their own way of doing things, and those who like cars, funeral cars, practice medicine, or rush for exams will not rob them. Once Zhang Shengxiang dies, the huge amount of property he embezzled will be safe.

As long as the gang of thieves from last night don't come after me, I can rest easy this way.

Eight carriages, covered with white cloth and fluttering snow flags, Zhang Xing dressed in mourning clothes and supporting the spirit, followed by a carriage of family members mourning, left Hui County and meandered southward.

Except that Mrs. Zhang fell ill in the car due to excessive grief and accidentally caught a cold wind, everything went smoothly until the end of the Taihang Mountains.

It is getting late, the snow on Taihang Mountain has not melted, and the road is slippery and difficult to travel. It is absolutely forbidden to cross the mountain at night.

Fortunately, there is a village at the foot of the mountain. There is no inn in the village, but there is a large courtyard where soldiers were stored and dozens of barracks. There is only an old man guarding the courtyard.

Huang Yi discussed with the old man for a long time and promised him ten taels of silver. Then the old man opened the courtyard door and let everyone in.

This place is two hundred miles away from Hui County. If the thieves came after them, they would have caught up long ago. Xie Yutian felt that there would be no more danger, so he would not let Zhang Xing unload his luggage, so as not to delay his journey tomorrow morning.

Xie Yutian asked the Zhang family's five cars to line up against the door, and placed his car and hearse outside. He also found two huts from outside to cover the hospital door. Even so, Xie Yutian was still worried and asked Huang

Yi and Yin Si'er stayed in his car and took turns keeping watch.

Sheng Huailing said: "It looks like an iron bucket, so I can sleep well at night."

Zhong Yishi said: "Boss Sheng, you'd better not turn off the lights at night."

Xiao Ji said: "That can't be done. Master Sheng won't be able to sleep until the lights are turned off."

"Are you worried about the lamp oil?"

"Young man, haven't you listened to the old saying? If you don't have enough food and clothing, you will suffer poverty if you don't calculate it. Do you think I earn my money? No, it's all saved! Unlike some people who wear a collar on their heads.

A black gauze hat, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver in three years!"

Zhang Xingwen blushed when he heard this, turned around and went into the house. After a while, he ran out in a panic, looked for Xie Yutian and said: "Mr. Xie, it's not good, my mother is vomiting violently..."

As he spoke, he started to cry.

When Zhong Yishi heard the cry, he came out of the room and said, "The boss's man is crying and crying. What are you talking about?"

Xie Yutian and Zhong Yishi arrived at Mrs. Zhang's room and saw that her face was pale, her eyes were closed, and she had vomited a pool of filth in front of the bed.

Xie Yutian stepped forward to take a pulse and said for a long time: "Mrs. Zhang's condition is very serious. We must hire a doctor as soon as possible."

"I'm afraid there is no doctor in this barren mountain, and even if there is a doctor, there is nowhere to get medicine." Zhong Yishi said, turned around and went out, and asked the old man looking at the yard if there was a doctor in the village.

The old man said: "There are about three hundred people in this village who never get sick, so I don't know what the doctor does."

"Never get sick? Is there such a thing?" Zhong Yishi asked curiously.

"Well, if you have a headache and a fever, you are ill. But if you go to the mountain to pick some herbal medicine and decoct it, you will be cured immediately."

"We have a patient here who keeps vomiting. Does your old man have any herbal medicine that can cure it?"

"It can be cured, myrrh."

"Isn't there any herbal medicine?"

"It is unlucky to put medicine at home. It is always necessary to collect medicine when there is a disease. At this time, it is snowy and icy on the mountain and it is dark. How can we collect medicine?"

"Is there a medicine shop nearby?"

"Of course there is one in the prefecture city, but the prefecture city is far away from here. The weather comes and goes all night long, and it's not good. The city gate is closed at night and you can't get in."

Zhong Yishi had no choice but to come back and repeat the old man's words. Xie Yutian sighed and said, "It's all fate."

At midnight, Mrs. Zhang couldn't stand it anymore. Zhang Xing was afraid and invited Xie Yutian over again.

Xie Yutian took her pulse again, but could no longer detect it. He shook his head at Zhang Xing and said softly: "Let's prepare for the funeral."

Zhang Xing burst into tears, and his little sister Xiumei, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, crawled onto the bed and forced herself into her mother's arms. Zhong Yishi came in and took Xiumei into his room, refusing to let her go.

come out.

At this time, Mrs. Zhang suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes were bright, and she looked at Zhang Xingdao: "My son, go find your father for your mother... Find a husband for Xiumei, who doesn't want to be an official. You don't want it either."

Become an official... Also, scatter all the money, the root of trouble..."

The words stopped abruptly, and Mrs. Zhang breathed her last.

"Don't be too sad. The couple has a companion on the road to Huangquan." Xie Yutian comforted Zhang Xing.

In less than two days, his father and mother passed away one after another. The greatest sorrow in the world could not be greater than this. Zhang Xing cried to death until the end of the fourth watch, when he fell asleep from exhaustion.

Xie Yutian didn't close his eyes all night yesterday. His eyesight was not good in the first place, and now he was even more depressed. So he accompanied Zhang Xing to his mother's room, sat in a chair and fell asleep.

Zhong Yishi was also sleepy and tired, and wanted to lie down on the bed to rest for a while, but Xiu'er kept crying, so he finally managed to coax her to sleep, and he took her in his arms and folded her clothes and lay on the bed.

As soon as she fell asleep, she started to dream. She dreamed that her father was teaching her to box. His legs were not kicked high enough and a stick hit her. The pain made her sweat on her forehead and she said, "Daddy, don't hit me. I don't want to practice boxing."

Her father acted fiercely, placing a bowl filled with boiling water on her head and forcing her to practice squatting. She cried while practicing, and when she stopped, her father put the peeled hard-boiled eggs into her hands and put on a face.

Kindly, he stroked her face and said, "My child, dragons and phoenixes are born. If you are born into the Lian family, you must know martial arts."

Zhong Yishi said: "I am a girl, and I want to learn female sex with them."

"You are a girl with your brother, but without your brother you are a boy..."

"I don't practice martial arts, I don't practice martial arts! No..."

"Baby, daddy can't take care of you all your life. It would be better if he could accompany you until you get married. But if daddy leaves early, how will you gain a foothold in the world? Who can say for sure in this world!"

"Where is daddy going? I won't get married, so I will go wherever daddy goes..." Zhong Yishi cried like a man in tears.

"nonsense……"

While the father and son were talking, the father suddenly grew taller and filled the room with his body. You couldn't see his face or his feet. You could only hear his father's voice coming from mid-air: "My dear,

Wake up, it's on fire, it's on fire..."

Zhong Yishi was not afraid of fire. What he was afraid of was that his father was missing. He suddenly woke up and felt that the surroundings were hot. He saw that the roof was indeed on fire.

She quickly picked up Xiu'er and rushed out. When she stood in the courtyard, she saw that four of the five cars of the Zhang family were gone, and fires were raging in every house.

Zhong Yishi shouted: "It's gone, it's gone..." while putting Xiu'er in Xie Yutian's car. He opened the car curtain and found that Huang Yi and Yin Si'er were still sleeping. After pushing for a long time, they just screamed

Not awake.

Zhong Yishi didn't care much, so he first went to Xie Yutian's room to look for it, but no one was there. Then he went to Zhang Xing's mother's room and saw that both Xie Yutian and Zhang Xing were asleep.

, definitely not sleeping deeply, but being drugged.

Zhong Yishi picked up Xie Yutian and rushed outside the house, placed him in the snow, and then dragged Zhang Xing. He wanted to take a breath, but when he remembered that Sheng Huailing was still in the room, he dragged the master and servant Sheng Huailing out.

In all this busyness, I forgot that Xie Yutian also had a disciple in the room.

The house had burned to the point of collapse.

Zhong Yishi took a handful of snow and applied it to Xie Yutian's face. Seeing that he was slowly waking up, he used this method to freeze everyone to wake up.

Xie Yutian stood up unsteadily, looked at the burning house, and said, "Why is it on fire? Where are the people? Are everyone okay?"

Zhong Yishi said: "We were plotted by thieves!"

It was still the same gang of thieves who did it. Zhang Shengxiang had so much money that the thieves watched for a long time and followed him all the way to the foot of Taihang Mountain. Naturally, they were not willing to let go easily. After being frightened away by the yamen guards, they immediately sent spies to guard outside the city.

, waited until Xie Yutian and his convoy left the city and followed the ruts from a distance until they left the territory of Huixian County, before they decided to take action again.

This time they learned from the past and no longer attacked forcefully. Instead, one person quietly entered the courtyard and used ecstasy incense to incense everyone. Then they pulled the Zhang family's carriage out of the courtyard. After leaving the stockade, the thieves who were detained set fire to the house.

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Coincidentally, Alice Chung and Xiu'er wet their pillows from crying, and Alice Chung slept against the pillow, so they were not knocked down. A dream saved her and everyone else.

Xie Yutian counted the heads and found that the disciple was missing. Zhong Yishi felt extremely guilty and burst into tears. Xie Yutian advised: "You have tried your best. You have to drag out so many people by yourself. What can a man do?"

"

Sheng Huailing was so angry that he jumped up and cursed: "How damn vicious! He robs money and wants to burn everyone to death! What kind of world is this? Even thieves don't follow the rules of the world! It's all thanks to those cannibals.

Corrupt officials and thieves who don’t poop on people’s food supply can’t be caught, and foreigners can’t be driven away. The imperial government has no use in raising them!”

Huang Yi had been taking a nap while leaning on the side of the car, and somehow fell asleep. At this moment, he realized that it was all because of his lack of dedication, so he slapped himself twice and said, "Master, shall we go and catch him back?"

Xie Yutian pointed to the horses: "Look, they have killed all the horses, how can they chase them!"

Only then did everyone realize that all the horses had their necks wiped, and the blood was stained black and red.

Zhang Xing cried and wanted to throw himself into the fire, but his mother was still in the room.
Chapter completed!