After about four or five breaths, a loud shout sounded, and the team immediately started to move.
Zhao Yan stared blankly at the squirming crowd like water, her slender neck stretched out, as if she wanted to find a certain sweetheart whom she had just parted with.
"Sister, stop looking. Junior brother has already left!"
The little money fan laughed and teased his sister.
Zhao Yan glared at her and blushed slightly.
"Don't talk nonsense, let me take a look at the sky."
After all, I'm not looking at my sister anymore.
She was not in a hurry to go back, and waited until the team disappeared from sight, then reluctantly took her sister and rode back to the city.
After knowing that the entire route was filled with "his own people", Huang An no longer worried.
He led ten personal guards and walked at the head of the team.
Everyone talked and laughed, deepening their relationship with each other.
These ten people were carefully selected by the master. They were originally fighting with the foreigners on the front line of the border army, but they were urgently transferred back and then served as his personal guards.
One of them said that he had some connections with Huang An.
He is his nominal senior brother, named Yang Chengwu.
The master specifically told him yesterday that this disciple can be trusted.
Of course, there is no senior-brother relationship between Huang An and Yang Chengwu now.
It is a strict hierarchy of superiors and subordinates, or it can be said that Yang Chengwu is now Huang An's private army!
Even according to the current tradition of the Youzhou Army, even his family can now be regarded as his private property.
He only met the remaining nine people at yesterday's dinner party. However, he has a good memory and wrote down their names and looks.
When communicating at this time, you won't be embarrassed because you can't call each other by name.
They had a meal together yesterday and got to know each other better.
Judging from Huang An's experience, these ten people selected by the master are all honest men.
After all, when chatting with these ten personal guards, Huang An, the originally introverted superior, came up with most of the topics.
If he had a little bit of foresight, the person who took the initiative to speak and warm up the scene should not be Huang An.
Similarly, from the content of the chat with them, Huang An could also clearly realize that they did not have much foresight at all and were considered very easy to control.
Although it was a bit tiring to take the initiative to find topics, Huang An still enjoyed it.
Although there is no problem with his introverted personality, it won't work for him. He needs to adapt to his current identity and status as soon as possible.
After all, Huang An is a person who has gone through nine years of compulsory quality education and experienced the influence of the university in his hometown.
Although he has killed people and wiped out whole families, most of the time he is easy-going and speaks well.
He did not boss Yang Chengwu and others around or take the opportunity to show off.
Even if they were ordinary people in the crowd, even if they accidentally blocked his way, Huang An would not do anything to them. At most, he would ask them to make way.
Therefore, Yang Chengwu and the other ten people also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Now I basically have some recognition of Huang An.
After all, they had known since the day they came out of the army that from now on they would only have one superior officer, and that was Huang An.
They are basically bound to Huang An.
Whether he lives or dies, whether he will eat chaffy vegetables or drink spicy food, all can be determined by Huang An's thoughts.
Among them, Yang Chengwu's mood was the most complicated.
Just one thought, two worlds.
He is also a disciple of his master, but he started earlier and has a higher level of cultivation.
But now, he has become his junior brother's personal guard.
Only he knows how it feels.
However, even though he was jealous of Pantothenic Acid, he didn't dare to show off to Huang An.
All he wanted was to break through the copper-skin realm, exchange his family's savings from five generations for a fortune, and become a master from now on.
He didn't dare to ask for more.
The way Yang Chengwu lives his life is not to be jealous, not to actively provoke others, and to hide behind everything.
These were the last words his great-great-grandfather left him with tears streaming down his face as he held his hand before he passed away.
The master has already promised him privately that as long as he follows Huang An, his chances of making meritorious deeds will be greater than in the army.
Although he is not good at words, he also knows that his master will not harm him.
Being able to remove himself from the dangerous frontline of the frontier army was the unique care given to him by his master.
As for other things, he didn't dare to think too much.
Therefore, since their meeting yesterday, he has been extremely respectful to his former junior brother, Huang An. Like the other nine brothers, he calls him Big Brother Huang An.
These eleven people, each riding a tall horse, talked in harmony with each other, and burst into laughter from time to time.
They were simply the odd ones in the team. Their harsh laughter made Yu Mao, who was patrolling in front and behind the team, turn green.
When he just saw Huang An dismounting from his horse, his eyes widened.
That solid maroon horse named Meteor was caught from the prairie north of Beishan. He was probably the King of Horses.
I'm afraid I can't even afford two or three hundred taels of silver.
When he asked Huang An again, he said that it was given by his master Zhao before he left. Yu Mao's jealousy reached its peak at that moment.
A pair of brown tiger eyes once again shot out a green light of jealousy.
His intestines are green with regret now. If he had known that Master Zhao was so kind to him, even if he, Yu Mao, did not have this old face, he would have worshiped Master Zhao as his disciple before Master Zhao could break through to the Iron Bone Realm.
He has worked hard for half his life, plus his father and grandfather's life savings, three generations, hundreds of people in the family, seventy or eighty years of hard work, but it is not as good as the property that Master Zhao gave Huang An in one go.
Time is also fate, Yu Mao once again tasted the cruelty of the world and saw the wonderful taste of power.
His heart bleeds when he thinks of the negotiations with the two brothers that day to help Huang An integrate into Xialin Village and the promised property and troops.
For someone as poor as him, he still had to dig into his own pocket to give money, men, horses, fertile farmland and livestock to Huang An, the old man. Isn't this bullying?
Out of sight and out of mind, Yu Mao shrugged his head and ran to the back of the team.
Although Huang An has walked the 120-mile journey from Youzhou to Fenxian once, he still feels lingering fear after walking it again.
However, the journey on the first day was relatively easy. Today we can stop at the first line of sky behind Luoyangpo.
Not even fifty miles away.
Huang An rode a big horse with a wide view. He even explored the cliff where the corpse mountain was found last time.
That small mountain of corpses was the handiwork left by Yu Mao and his brothers who returned to Longshan.
They are all the bodies of people from the Yang Family Martial Arts School and the Yunshan Chamber of Commerce.
However, when I look at it now, I see that the mountain of corpses has long since disappeared.
Where the mountain of corpses originally stood, bones were scattered all over the ground, scattered everywhere.
There are many traces of wild beasts around, and they must have been killed by wild wolves or other wild beasts.
Huang An felt anxious in his heart. The scene of vomiting that day was still before his eyes. Those people died here without any explanation, and no one investigated them. It was really like human lives were like a piece of grass.
His fiery heart and floating spirit were as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him in the middle of winter.
He secretly warned himself that no matter what situation he encountered in the future, he should be cautious.
He didn't want to become that pile of dry bones that no one cared about, not ever.
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The one hundred and twenty miles from Youzhou to Fenxian will take two days no matter which direction you go.
At least this is the case for ordinary people and warriors in the Six Fu Realm.
Huang An and the others arrived at Luoyangpo around 10:30 in the morning.
Less than fifteen miles further from Luoyangpo, there is a sliver of sky.
This line of sky is extremely dangerous. It is difficult to stand on the cliffs on both sides, which are hundreds of meters high. The gap in the middle is the passage.
The stone and soil layer on the cliff is soft, and flying rocks often fall into it and even the sound is muffled.
Because speaking loudly may cause the gravel to fall.
It's fine if it's a small stone, but if a big stone falls, it might smash someone into pieces.
The road behind the sky is also extremely difficult.
People from Feng'an and Fen counties have become accustomed to walking this route.
Therefore, a group of them set up camp on a half-mile-long route just outside the sky at noon.
Nooks and crannies, mountain nests and tree roots are full of people gathering together.
There is no spacious place beyond the sky, so everyone can only form a long queue along the road.
Huang An is already the fourth leader of Xialin Village, so he naturally knows that the foreigners or bandit forces he can encounter on this entire route are actually "one of his own."
Even if real bandits occasionally appear, they are small groups of a dozen or even seven or eight people.
However, the target group of these people are those who are alone and have no money to pay for the escort, or pedestrians whose number is less than ten, not Huang An and the others.
After all, not just anyone can afford the escort fee of one tael per person.
However, knowing it in your heart is one thing, but how to do it is another.
Warriors and ordinary people are like people living in two worlds.
To warriors, these people are like sheep in the sheepfold and leeks in the vegetable field.
Although Huang An had money, he looked down upon Yu Mao and his friends for their business of fishing in the marsh and calling out thieves to catch thieves.
But he is actually not a good person, at least his moral bottom line is not high.
Similarly, as the fourth leader of Xialin Village, he would naturally not take the initiative to reveal the truth of the matter at this juncture.
He even arranged for Yang Chengwu's ten personal guards to be on guard around him.
Although Huang An wants to change his crude idea of amassing money and cutting leeks, he doesn't have the ability. What he can do now is to integrate into it and strengthen himself.
Seeing Huang An's performance, Yu Mao also smiled slightly and nodded towards Huang An.
He was very satisfied with the fourth brother's behavior.
The slight worry also dissipated.
As for the snake-like jealousy in my heart, it was hard to let go, but at least it was suppressed.
He, Yu Mao, has long passed the age of dreaming. He must learn to accept reality and wait for opportunities to find benefits that can be obtained for him.
He felt that Huang An understood the ways of the world, and he and he should be on the same page.
Yu Mao thought that these actions were all done by Mr. Zhao to Huang An, in order to integrate into Xialin Village as soon as possible and earn profits!
Xialin Village is guarding the main road between the two counties. Basically, 100 people go to Youzhou, and 90 people have to pay for them.
The combined population of the two counties is more than 700,000, and they basically take this road when entering and exiting Youzhou.
It can be said that the income and economic status of Xialin Village are very good.
Otherwise, we would not be able to support so many brothers in Xialin Village, as well as three bronze skin level warriors, as well as many five internal organs and six internal organs level warriors.
This is a fat job. Of course, most of the money has to be handed over to the backers behind the three brothers.
Now that Huang An has arrived and has become the fourth leader of Xialin Village, Xialin Village has a new and powerful backer.
But similarly, the three Yu Mao brothers want to share their profits with Zhao Dun, who is behind Huang An.