A group of extremely vicious bandits wandered onto the Jinniu Ancient Road and had a fierce fight with the Lingnan Chen family caravan. In the end, thanks to the Chen family caravan's resistance, most of the property was regained from the bandits!
In the autumn, as soon as this sudden news came out, it quickly spread throughout Hanzhong.
After hearing this, the nearest magistrate of Mian County immediately summoned the people from the Chen family's caravan, hoping to arrest the bandits.
But when he heard that this group of gangsters had fled deep into the mountains, the county magistrate could only look at Lin Sheng and sigh. Finally, he had to post a few reward notices on the stone walls of the mountain pass and let it go.
Chasing bandits in high mountains? Isn't this like looking for a needle in a haystack? Let alone a small magistrate, even if the governor of Hanzhong comes, there is nothing he can do.
The government had no way to arrest the bandits, and the caravans that frequently entered and exited the Taurus Road immediately became uneasy.
Especially those shopkeepers who knew the Chen family caravan, after seeing their miserable situation with their own eyes, they no longer doubted the authenticity of this rumor!
Perhaps, in the past, there were people who used the name of robbers to embezzle their employer's goods.
But no matter how cruel those people were, they could only fake a few minor injuries, but now almost everyone in the Chen family caravan was injured!
They saw with their own eyes that several guys in the caravan were wrapped like mummies and lay on the bed unable to move. Even the always arrogant shopkeeper Chen had most of his teeth knocked out!
If the play was staged so realistically in order to embezzle some property, those sophisticated shopkeepers would not believe it at all!
Therefore, for a long time after that, the legend of the Taurus Thief was circulated among the merchants, and even some of the later bodyguards followed it and publicized it, thereby raising the price of escort transportation.
However, none of them knew that the legendary Taurus robber: Xiao Han! was walking tremblingly on the cliff with trembling legs, his whole clothes soaked in cold sweat.
What is a great thief but not a great thief?
Xiao Han just wants a road for him to walk on now, which is better than being scared half to death!
He has long heard that the road to Shu is difficult, the road to Shu is difficult! But before experiencing it personally, he never thought that the road to Shu would be so difficult!
If the Qinling Mountain Road they took before was just a winding country road, then the Jinniu Ancient Road is undoubtedly a wire rope stretched above hell.
On one side is an unreachable vertical mountain peak, on the other side is an unreachable bottomless abyss. The mountain wind blows, and the weathered gravel rolls down from the stone wall. It is not until a long time later that you can barely hear the subtle sound of falling to the ground.
It came from under the feet. If a person fell, needless to say, he would immediately fall into a pile of dumpling stuffing.
"When can we finish this journey..." Resisting the urge to look down, Xiao Han asked Ren Qing in front of him with a trembling mouth.
When Ren Qing heard this, he raised his eyes and looked forward, shook his head and said, "It will probably take another hour."
"It will take another hour!" When Xiao Han heard this, he immediately felt like a deflated balloon.
They had been walking on this plank road hanging on the stone wall for more than an hour, and now their calves were getting cramped. If they walked for another hour, wouldn't it cost him his life?
"Master Marquis, why don't you get on the horse and sit on it while I hold the horse for you?" Xiaodong, who was following closely behind, noticed Xiao Han's fatigue and stepped forward to ask with concern.
"Get on the horse?" Xiao Han rolled his eyes, looked at the plank road less than four feet wide under his feet, and then looked at the blindfolded horses. His head immediately shook like a rattle!
Here, my own legs and feet are not trustworthy, let alone those of the animals! If it couldn't think of it for a moment and jumped, wouldn't it be an unjust death for itself?
"Hey, let's go! We can't live here."
With a deep sigh, Xiao Han, helpless, held on to the mountain wall and trudged forward again.
The yellow crane cannot fly past, and the ape is trying to escape its sorrow by climbing on it!
I thought this was an exaggeration before, but now, Xiao Han finally understands Li Taibai's mood...
If nothing else, just look at the horses I brought with me. They were too frightened to move forward when they set foot on the plank road. They had to blindfold themselves and let others hold them before they could walk. You can know how long this road is.
Difficult and dangerous.
"Squeaky..."
Just as I was thinking about it, there was another tooth-gripping sound under my feet.
At first, Xiao Han was scared to death when he heard this sound, thinking that the plank road that had been built for countless years was about to collapse, but now, he is somewhat used to it.
Don't tell me, that's what the ancients were good at! That is, they never cut corners! This plank road has been exposed to wind, sun, and rain for so many years, but it has survived until now. Apart from occasionally making some noise to scare people, there is nothing wrong with it.
at.
"In the beginning, how many people died in order to build this plank road? There are probably many corpses under this cliff."
Holding on to the mountain wall that still bore traces of cuts and axes, Xiao Han sneered at the legend of Wu Ding's founding of the mountain.
If such a huge project can be completed by only five people, then they must not be human beings, but gods! Then since they are gods, why bother to build this plank road? Just hold the stone cow and fly to the King of Shu.
Don't worry about that!
The more nervous he was, the more his mind wandered to random thoughts! His thoughts flew to nowhere. It wasn't until Ren Qing and others in front stopped that Xiao Han suddenly woke up.
"Is the walk finished?" Xiao Han felt excited in his heart. He stood on tiptoe and looked forward, only to find that it was not that they had finished walking, but that another team was coming towards them. At this moment, Ren Qing was stepping forward to say something to them.
If this were normal, Xiao Han would definitely squeeze up curiously to see what was going on.
But here, let's forget it and let Ren Qing figure it out on his own. He just needs to stay calm and don't fall.
The negotiation with the strange caravan didn't take long. Soon, Ren Qing came back and directed everyone to lean against the mountain wall, leaving a distance of less than one meter on each side for the other party to pass through.
There is nothing to say about this. Shopkeeper Wu told Xiao Han and the others that day that the rules of the Golden Bull Road are like this: avoid the humble and avoid the noble, go and avoid the coming, and take the easy and avoid the important.
Since Xiao Han and the others were going away, and they didn't bring any goods with them, they naturally wanted to avoid visitors without revealing their identities.
He pressed his body hard against the wall and watched the men driving their mules and horses past.
However, all the mules and horses were not blindfolded. Seeing that the horses on Xiao Han's side were all blindfolded, the other party deliberately looked here a few more times, but it was just a few more looks, nothing to laugh at.
mean.
"Okay! Let's go too!" After the caravan passed by, Ren Qing in front also breathed a sigh of relief: "I just asked those people, they will be there in less than half an hour.
Jianmen Pass, we can take a rest there and leave again tomorrow!"
