Not long after leaving Shuanglong Town, Qin Xiaotian found the official road. The so-called official road is a road built by the government. It is flatter and wider than ordinary dirt roads.
There is a big difference between ancient times and modern times. The land is vast and sparsely populated. There are almost no human settlements after leaving the towns and villages. There are barren mountains and wild ridges everywhere. You can't see a few people even if you walk for a whole day. The land road is much more difficult to walk than the water road.
A few travelers on their way could also be seen on the road. They were all small businessmen or people visiting relatives in a short distance. No large-scale caravans were seen. There were a few people where there was farmland, but there was not much farmland.
After Qin Xiaotian walked out of Shuanglong Town, he walked north along the official road. In the evening, he walked to a small river and went down to the river to wash his body. He also scrubbed his tattered linen clothes and washed his head carefully.
Fortunately, he found a honey locust tree. Without the honey locust, his hair would not be clean. Then he sat by the river and started practicing until the next morning.
Because I had the experience of practicing once, this practice went very smoothly. After practicing, I felt that my body was a little stronger and I no longer felt that extreme weakness.
The way of traveling in ancient times was completely different from that of modern times. If the conditions were good, you might have an ox cart or a horse and a donkey. If the conditions were not good, you would have to rely on two feet. You could just walk through thousands of rivers and mountains little by little.
Qin Xiaotian felt very uncomfortable. He had been able to fly before and had already begun to learn teleportation. Suddenly he lost all his abilities and had to rely on his feet to travel long distances. This was a very uncomfortable feeling for us.
Man is a strange animal. No matter how hard it is, he will gradually get used to it over time.
After walking on the road for about twenty days, Qin Xiaotian gradually adapted to this method. He didn't spend much time on the road, and spent most of his time hiding in the grass or trees to practice.
In his free time, in addition to traveling, he also searches for edible wild vegetables and herbs, and sneak attacks on some hares and pheasants. He can now accurately hit small animals within fifty steps with stones.
At noon that day, Qin Xiaotian was carrying a jujube wood dog-beating stick, with two pheasants on the end of the stick. They were prey shot with stones, and they were going to be roasted and eaten in the evening. He wandered along the official road, humming a tune.
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Over the past few days, he has fully understood that as long as he keeps practicing, he will reach his original level sooner or later. There is no use in getting angry now.
After dozens of days of exercise and practice, Qin Xiaotian's body has gradually become stronger. Although he is only about 160 centimeters tall, he has gained a lot of weight and is no longer skinny. Now, he is confident that he can defeat several strong men.
It felt uncomfortable to start everything from scratch, but this was a completely new experience, and he could not have realized these changes before.
Qin Xiaotian concentrates on practicing every day, clearly grasping every change in his body. Different from the past practice in which he quickly improved his cultivation level, this time's cultivation is driven by realm.
His original body has reached the Yanlansong realm, which is the realm after entry, but his current body is still that of an ordinary mortal, so he can only use the realm to improve his cultivation and supplement the missing parts of the original realm, so as to lay a solid foundation.
The basis of practice.
There was a faint sound coming from a distance. Qin Xiaotian looked back and saw bursts of smoke rising from the road behind him. The smoke was very light, so he could see very clearly and thought: "Maybe it's a caravan?"
It turned out to be a large caravan, with about fifty or sixty carts, all made of ox carts, with huge wheels, and the goods on the carts were covered with straw curtains.
There were more than 280 people, including more than 100 big men, wearing bamboo hats on their heads, waist knives on their bodies, and large swords with long wooden handles in their hands, which were simple swords unique to the Song Dynasty. Everyone was walking.
Qin Xiaotian stood on the side of the road waiting for the bullock cart to pass by. Those big men were all wearing gray or blue clothes and trousers. They were all sweating. When they walked by, they could smell the strong smell of sweat.
At first, there were a few big men looking at him, but soon people turned a blind eye to him. He couldn't help but laugh in his heart, because he didn't look threatening at all.
The motorcade passed quickly, and Qin Xiaotian followed leisurely. He couldn't strike up a conversation with these people. Even if he approached to strike up a conversation, no one would pay attention. The little beggar in this world was not even as good as a cat or a dog.
The sky was getting dark, and there was a commotion ahead. The caravan found a relatively flat place and began to set up camp. The carts formed a circle, and some people fed the cattle fodder, and several bonfires were lit.
Qin Xiaotian watched from a distance. He didn't want to get closer and be kicked away again. He found an open space sheltered from the wind, picked up some dead branches, used a sharp stone to make a hole under the pheasant's wing, took out the internal organs, and removed them from the ring.
He took out some herbs and stuffed them in, wrapped the pheasant in mud, dug a hole in the ground, and lit a fire.
The cooking method of beggar's chicken can only be used as an emergency, but it is actually not delicious. What is really delicious is the modified beggar's chicken, which requires many processes. But now this kind of beggar's chicken is the most authentic, and it is indeed a beggar's chicken.
Way.
Qin Xiaotian felt very comfortable after eating two beggar chickens. The two pheasants and the herbs were enough to supplement the nutrients his body needed.
He started his daily homework as usual, extinguished the fire, found a secret place, sat cross-legged and started practicing.
In the early hours of the morning, Qin Xiaotian suddenly felt something in his heart and woke up immediately. He felt a strong sense of uneasiness. He picked up the dog-beating stick and sneaked towards the caravan, and soon arrived near the caravan.
There was no moonlight in the sky, and under the reflection of the bonfire, he saw vague shadows around him, and he was startled: "Bandits? Bandits?" Just as he was about to step back, several black shadows were already approaching, so he hurriedly lowered his body.
"Kill!"
Suddenly many torches lit up around him, and there were several torches around Qin Xiaotian. He had nowhere to hide, and was immediately discovered and chopped off his head with a simple knife.
The dog-beating stick in Qin Xiaotian's hand suddenly hit the man's wrist, his body dodged to the side, he shouted: "Wow, it's a murderer, help me" and ran away.
The man slashed the air with his sword and felt severe pain in his wrist. He cursed: "Straight bitch, I'll chop you to death!"
Before he could rush out, a little leader next to him yelled, "Asshole, rush in!" The bandits had already seen clearly what Qin Xiaotian was wearing, he was a little beggar.
Qin Xiaotian thought he could escape, but unexpectedly a big man was hiding behind a tree. As soon as he retreated to the tree, the big man grabbed him by the neck. Before he could turn around, the big man shook his hand and threw him out.
There was a big tree trunk not far away. Qin Xiaotian hit it head-on. If he hit it, he would be half dead even if his head didn't bloom. These days of training were not in vain. He shrank his head and turned around, gathered his body, and hit the tree trunk shoulder first.
, there was a sharp pain, and the body rolled down.
"Third Master, what a trick!" someone praised.
The big man took action without even looking, and shouted: "Follow me!" and led his troops towards the camp.
Qin Xiaotian lay down on the spot and pretended to be dead.
This was all he could do at this time. He might be able to defeat two or three big men, but when five or six big men gathered around him, and all of them were holding weapons, he was not sure. Although this body was not very good, it could not be easily
Give up, so the only way is to pretend to be dead.
However, some people pretended to be dead and refused to let him go. The bandits rushed forward, but a thin man stayed behind and stabbed him lightly with the waist knife in his hand. The moment he put away the knife, Qin Xiaotian jumped up suddenly,
He threw him over at once, and suddenly there was a sharp stone in his hand, which was pressed tightly against his throat.
"If you miss, just do it! Say, who are you?"
The man was so frightened that he thought Qin Xiaotian had been beaten to death. He didn't expect that Qin Xiaotian would jump up and stammered: "You, you, you, you, you are dead, you bomber!"
He finally used his own judgment. How could the leader of the third village leave anyone alive? Then there was only one explanation: corpse fraud.
Qin Xiaotian couldn't help but laugh. This guy was obviously trying to avoid being killed and secretly stayed here to pick up bargains. He laughed and said, "Don't scream, have you ever seen a ghost like me?" He took back the sharp stone.
The man moved his arm and quietly held the handle of the waist knife. Qin Xiaotian laughed: "People who want others to die often die faster themselves. Do you believe it?"
The man's hands suddenly didn't dare to move. He was not stupid. The beggar in front of him was very special. He thought about it and said, "What do you want?"
"It's nothing, as long as it doesn't involve me. Well, it's time for me to go. I hope you won't act rashly, hehe."
Qin Xiaotian wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as quickly as possible. He needed a quiet environment to practice, but before he could leave, a group of bandits came from behind the two of them. One of the leaders shouted: "Monkey, why are you here? Zhi Niang thief, you
Hiding behind again!”
The man's face turned pale when he smiled, and he said anxiously: "No, big brother, it's because this little brother wants to join the gang."
Qin Xiaotian couldn't leave. The robbers and men around him could kill him with one knife.
He suddenly thought that being a bandit might be good. Apart from robbery, most of the time should be free, so he said: "Yes, I also yearn for a big piece of meat, a big bowl of wine, and a big scale to divide the money. I have seen a big slab."
Brother." He can also climb along the pole.
The man named Monkey secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that if Qin Xiaotian came and said, "Your Majesty, please spare my life," then it would be completely over.
Daban glanced at Qin Xiaotian and felt nothing about the thin young man, and said: "Give him a knife, children, charge with me!"
Someone threw Qin Xiaotian a broken waist knife with embroidery all over it. The handle of the knife was loose, and the blade was shaking wildly in his hand. Can this knife cut people?
Qin Xiaotian didn't want to kill anyone with his knife at all. He followed the group of robbers. His legs moved very fast, but his steps were very small, and he soon fell behind the group.
Looking at the monkey again, he shouted louder than him, and his steps were also very small. The two brothers looked at each other and smiled at the same time.
The monkey whispered: "Brother, what is your name?" After arriving in the Song Dynasty, the first person to formally ask Qin Xiaotian his name turned out to be a thin bandit.
"Xiaotian, just use me, Xiaotian."
"My surname is Zhang, my nickname is Zhang Hou, and I have a nickname in the world called Monkey."
He seemed to be very proud of his nickname, and said: "Xiaotian, how about I follow your monkey brother from now on and make sure you eat meat every day? Hush, let's hide here and charge forward later."
Qin Xiaotian felt funny in his heart, he had just met this guy and he was so eager to take him in as his younger brother.
The caravan and the bandits were evenly matched, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. However, the bandits had reinforcements and a large number of them. There were five to six hundred minions, plus three village leaders with good martial arts skills. The caravan's casualties increased, and it gradually became unable to resist it. The caravan surrounded them.
Several openings were opened in the formed defensive circle.
Zhang Hou whispered: "Well, it's almost done. Let's go. Remember, don't rush into the big circle, just pick up the bargains outside. Follow me."
Qin Xiaotian couldn't stop the bandits from killing people, but he certainly wouldn't kill anyone. He followed Zhang Hou to the cart, holding up a tattered waist knife. The two of them were like a group of headless flies, wandering around without rushing in to kill the caravan.
The men began to break out of the encirclement. More than half of the 280 people were killed or injured. Only about 50 people broke out of the encirclement and fled in all directions.
A big man who was running away happened to meet Zhang Hou and Qin Xiaotian who were running around, and said viciously: "Killing one is enough, killing two is profitable, take your life!" (To be continued)