"There must be. Let's all rest and fill our stomachs. We'll be on our way in an hour and a half."
After they had eaten and drank enough, rested for a while, and set off again, it was already dark.
Most of the other businessmen set up tents nearby to rest.
Originally there were a few simple teahouses and inns, but the prices were extremely expensive. People basically set up tents in groups to rest, and few stayed in inns.
Over time, the inn was basically gone.
When Shen Mingzhu and the others were about to set off, someone from a caravan that was about to take a break reminded them: "It's better to wait until dawn for everyone to leave together. It's not peaceful on the mountain."
The trestle is maintained and many outposts are set up, with officers and soldiers coming and going.
So bandits don't dare to come openly.
It's just that in such a boundless mountain forest, bandits are absolutely inevitable.
Robbing your own people will anger the emperor, but robbing foreign merchants will be relatively easy.
Therefore, it is said that there are several groups of bandits on that mountain.
After several melees, there is now the largest bandit team.
Shen Mingzhu nodded slightly towards them, cupped his hands and thanked them: "Thank you for reminding everyone. We have to go at night because of urgent matters."
Those people saw that she was a beautiful woman but did not listen to her advice, so they all felt very sorry for her.
In their opinion, Shen Mingzhu is definitely gone tonight.
Some people still couldn't bear it, so they suggested asking her to wait. Maybe a escort team would pass by and she could join them.
Shen Mingzhu didn't want to implicate them. There was nothing to fear from the bandits, but those people.
If she goes with the escort team, she will have to take care of the escort team, and it will be even worse if she causes them to suffer.
So she declined them all, and then asked her subordinates to go on their way.
"It seems like this is the first time." Those people all asserted that they had no means and were quite strong.
Shen Mingzhu asked people to hang up lanterns and plug in torches. There were six people in front and six people behind, with the carriage and people in the middle, and they set off on the road.
There are two large carriages, each with four horses pulling them, so that people can ride without riding horses, which makes it easier.
The two girls were Yue girls who were temporarily bought at the market. Shen Mingzhu named them Yin Zhu and Jin Chuan.
Both were thirteen years old, and they both thought they had been sold away to another place and would never be able to return home again.
Unexpectedly, he was bought back and brought back to his hometown.
However, they also heard many stories about the mountain monsters eating people and bandits robbing people. Although they did not dare to say anything, they were also very scared.
The other porters were also hired from the market. They were all secretly favored by her people. They were capable of their duties and had no unclear backgrounds.
Shen Mingzhu glanced at them and saw that although they were nervous, they were not terribly frightened, so she ordered: "Wait a minute, if there are really bandits coming out, you don't have to be afraid, just say that you are porters and were hired by others."
They're here to pull something, they won't hurt you."
She was confident in saying this, not because the enemies were kind and merciful and would not harm them, but because it was not necessary.
What's more, they speak Yue dialect and bring their own dialects, which cannot be learned casually.
The other party has no reason not to believe it.
This is equivalent to the business of a strong escort agency, but it does not harm the coachman.
Because they are just like carriages and carriages, they are tools, not escorts.
