Xie Changyuan rode Juechen. Although he did not have a giant sword in his hand, his whole body was full of momentum. He fired a crossbow and killed the bandit leader directly. Then he rushed away with the force of ten thousand troops, leaving everyone in the Zhengxing Escort Bureau stunned.
In place.
Ahead, a group of minions were frightened to death when they saw their mountain king being shot dead. How could they withstand Xie Changyuan's violent shout?
By the time Xie Changyuan caught up, the twenty or so minions had already dispersed, leaving only the body of the bearded man still slumped here, with his two legs still hanging on the tree trunk.
"Humph." Xie Changyuan sneered.
Then, he kicked the tree trunk and the body of the bearded man to the side of the road. After looking around for nothing unusual, he got on the back of the cow again. It was only then that the escort team arrived belatedly.
Everyone stepped forward and looked at Xie Changyuan with complicated eyes.
Zhengxing Escort Bureau has been working as escorts for many years, especially Escort Leaders Zhao Lao and Sun Escort. Both of them have rich experience in the world. They are polite first and then attack when encountering any situation. They never shoot arrows from hundreds of steps away.
Although Xie Changyuan scared away the bandits, he broke the rules of the escort agency.
"Xie Shaoxia, you are too young and energetic." Mr. Zhao shook his head repeatedly.
Hearing this, Xie Changyuan frowned, "Why did the old guard say this?"
At this time, the second young lady Li Qing rode out of the team and came to Xie Changyuan with a serious face.
She frowned slightly, her pretty face looked quite heroic, but now she looked very unhappy.
"We have dart rules, and one of them is that words should be taken into account. Even if they are robbers and we haven't spoken to them yet, the situation may not be to the point of drawing a sword. If you kill people at the slightest disagreement, you are not giving us justice.
Will the establishment of the escort bureau provoke enemies? How will we keep escorts in the future!?"
When an escort agency travels around the world, one should always be careful, smile, be reasonable, drink less, and try not to do anything to enemies who can be sent away with a little money. This is because they do not want to provoke enemies. This is what any escort agency places like this.
It is an excellent survival principle.
Therefore, when they saw Xie Changyuan's actions, instead of being grateful, they felt that Xie Changyuan had caused trouble for them.
Of course, this is not very useful to Xie Changyuan as a layman. In his opinion, robbers and thieves who block roads and rob must be punished, and he is not afraid of offending others. His only goal for this trip is to escort this escort to Bailong City smoothly.
He doesn't care about the rest.
In this regard, Xie Changyuan did not explain much. He just said lightly, "A good person is deceived by others, but he will suffer disaster if he attacks later."
After finishing speaking, he turned the bull's head and continued walking in the direction of Bailong City.
The people in the Zhengxing Escort Agency shook their heads repeatedly. Although Xie Changyuan broke the rules, they could not do anything to him. After all, his strength lies here. With him on this escort trip, everyone felt confident.
At that moment, the escort team continued to move forward. It took only half a day to drive out of this forest road, and the journey was uneventful.
In front of the team, Xie Changyuan was still looking at the map and chatting wordlessly with Mr. Zhao.
"Old escort, is there a big problem with the next route?" Xie Changyuan asked.
The route they are currently choosing is the one with the fewest red crosses on the map, which is also the route with the fewest encounters with robbers.
Zhao Lao escort shook his head, "It's hard to say. In addition to the robbers in the Sangui zone, we also have to be careful of some wild beasts that come out at night. When we just left the city, Lao Sun came over and told me that there was a group of people following behind the team.
Half a mile away from us, they are probably people from the other two escort agencies."
Having said this, Mr. Zhao's eyes became sharper.
As the saying goes, there is naked hatred between colleagues. Among the three escort agencies in Qingshan City, Zhengxing Escort Agency was originally the largest, but now it has declined. Naturally, the other two will do everything possible to kill them.
In the past few months, most of the escorts from Zhengxing Escort Agency have been robbed, and indispensable among them were the other two escort agencies.
Now they were following behind them furtively, without making a move or saying hello. They probably wanted to wait until midnight when they were tired and exhausted to strike.
"Then why don't we drive them away?" Xie Changyuan asked puzzledly.
The old guard shook his head again, "Everything must be reasonable. Although they are following behind, what evidence do you have to prove that they have malicious intentions? Besides, there are only a dozen of us, and there are at least a dozen or twenty of them. With their level of strength,
Without knowing it, taking action rashly will be detrimental to us, and there is still a long way to go."
Xie Changyuan finally understood that these people were just a bunch of good old people. They were reasonable and trustworthy when they went out. They took the initiative to hand over money when things happened and just wanted to be safe.
Nowadays, there are not many escort agencies that abide by such rules, and only the time-honored ones like Zhengxing Escort Agency still adhere to this set of rules passed down from ancient times. However, the world has changed, and Zhengxing Escort Agency has also declined, and there is no confidence to support it.
Being so stuck in the rules is just weakness to outsiders.
With escorts like this, it's hard not to get robbed.
Xie Changyuan didn't say much, put away the map and walked on silently.
After a while, Xie Changyuan left the team alone on the pretext of going to go to the palace. Everyone in the escort agency didn't care. Only half the time of the incense stick had passed before Xie Changyuan drove Da Qingniu back to the team.
However, everyone who saw it noticed that there were a few drops of blood on the corners of Xie Changyuan's clothes. They knew what he did when he left without even thinking about it, but no one opened his mouth to reveal it.
In the evening, everyone from the escort agency escorted the escort to a small town. At this time, the sun had completely set in the western mountains. Zhao, the old escort leader, led the team to find an inn to stay overnight and parked the carriage in the backyard.
Everyone reserved a few tables in the hall, and the food served was not sumptuous. After all, they were away from home, and they had to control their expenses. Now that the escort agency is in a downturn, it is better to save money in this province. As for the wine, there must be no wine.
I never drink alcohol during the escort trip.
Fortunately, the rice was provided for free, so the fifteen people were able to satisfy their appetites and went back to their respective rooms to sleep and rest before setting off early the next morning.
Xie Changyuan lived alone in a private room. The room was not too big, but fortunately it was still clean. Xie Changyuan rested cross-legged for a while. After half an hour, the food in his stomach was almost digested before he lay down to sleep. But because of him
Being tall, the bed could not support him to lie flat on his back, so he could only sleep on his side with his feet hanging out.
In the corridor on the second floor, the second lady Li Qing silently came to Xie Changyuan's door with light steps.
In the darkness, her eyes were quite bright, and she was seen listening attentively. After hearing Xie Changyuan's snoring for a while, she walked away relieved.
She walked all the way to the door of a room that was still lit and knocked twice. After a while, her brother Li Yu opened the door from the inside.
There were two men sitting in the room, namely Mr. Zhao and Mr. Sun.
The two head escorts, together with the eldest son and the second young lady of the Zhengxing Escort Bureau, are the leaders of the entire escort team. After Li Qing arrived, they all sat at a round table. The lights in the room were dim, reflecting their faces.
Their faces were uncertain, and their expressions were serious, as if they were discussing something important.