The royal city of the Rong people is located in the hinterland of the grassland and is built around a lake. The lake is the sacred lake of the Rong people, called Nvnu Lake. It takes about 800 miles to get to Nvnu Lake from Xizhaoguan, with boundless grassland in the middle.
Guan Kele is a merchant who runs this route. The empire's ironware, tea, and silk are popular goods among the Rong people, and the furs and furs of the Rong people can also be sold at good prices in the empire. However, the empire is not allowed to do business with the Rong people. Guan Kele
This kind of behavior is smuggling.
Guan Kele is just a small businessman, and the entire caravan contains only a dozen people.
"Everyone, hurry up. Find a place to rest when it gets dark. You are such a naughty queen. If you dare to be lazy, you will be killed by horse thieves."
Guan Kele cursed loudly as he drove the car, looked back and saw two people walking up the road.
The man is leading the donkey, and the woman is riding on the donkey's back. The woman looks so handsome that people want to look at her but don't dare to look at her. Then looking at the man's appearance, well, I feel like it doesn't quite match.
"Brother, where are you going? Let's go together?"
You may walk on the grassland for several days without seeing a single person. As long as you meet someone on the road and the other person is not a horse thief, you don't mind walking together. If someone is short of food, it won't be a big problem if you give them food and drink.
The man smiled and said, "No, it's not very convenient."
"What's the inconvenience? There are horse thieves on this road. Aren't you two afraid of running into horse thieves? If you go together, you will still have someone to look after you."
Cheng Dalei didn't mean that it was not inconvenient, but that it was not safe. Hearing this, he paused and said, "Aren't you afraid of meeting horse thieves?"
"Hey, brother, I have a sword." Guan Kele was obviously a familiar person, and he immediately became brothers with Cheng Dalei. He said: "To tell you the truth, brother, I have practiced swordsmanship for five years, and ordinary horse thieves will not let go.
In the eyes."
Cheng Dalei looked at him and nodded subconsciously: "Pretty good, pretty good."
"Brother, let's go together. You don't look like a bad person."
As Guan Kele was talking, he suddenly saw the man jumping on the donkey, riding the same donkey with the woman, and driving away in the distance.
"Oh, I don't want to make friends." Guan Kele said: "But this donkey is really fast, and ordinary horses can't keep up."
He called to the waiter to continue on his way. In fact, in this kind of business, you are risking your life to pay back money. If you really run into a horse thief, your life will be buried in the grassland. So what everyone is most afraid of encountering along the way is a horse thief.
Continuing to walk forward, about an hour later, I saw a group of people running forward on the grassland.
"My boss, a horse thief, a horse thief!" a waiter said in panic.
Guan Kele also saw it, but found that the gang of horse thieves ignored him and ran past him.
"Master, did they not see us?"
"It shouldn't be." Guan Kele was not sure either.
"If you saw it, how could you let us go?"
"Could it be that he's not here for us?"
"Who are you coming for?"
Guan Kele was so nervous that he didn't dare to go any further. He stayed at the same place for an hour before he mustered up the courage to go on the road.
My heart was still pounding along the way. At this time, the sky had darkened, and half of my head was still exposed by a red sun without heat in the west.
The sun was about to set, and this scene seemed to symbolize something, which made Guan Kele even more frightened.
As he was walking with his head bent, he was suddenly startled because there was a smell of blood in the air. He subconsciously raised his head and looked forward, and the sight in front of him scared Guan Kele out of his soul.
I saw corpses lying on the green grass, no more and no less than thirteen. They were the horse thieves who passed by just now.
They died at the same time, with shock on their faces, as if they didn't believe they were killed before they died.
What's even more terrifying is that not far from the body, a man and a woman are sitting and eating, while a donkey is grazing leisurely around them.
It was the man and woman who had met not long ago. The woman was still very handsome, and the man had a rough face and was focused on chewing the dried meat in his hand, looking very calm.
It was a bit scary to be calm.
At this time, the man saw Guan Kele, stretched out his hand to say hello, and walked over.
Guan Kele was so frightened that he backed away. If the man took a step forward, he would take a step back. If the man took another step forward, he would step back even further.
Suddenly, he fell down and fell to the ground. When he raised his head, the man was already in front of him.
"What do you want to do? I have a sword. I have practiced swordsmanship for five years. I am very good."
Guan Kele almost burst into tears and hurriedly went to draw the knife. I don't know what happened to the knife on his waist, but he couldn't pull it out at this moment.
"Hey, do you have any clothes?" the man asked.
"clothing……?
"Men wear it, and women wear it." The man spread his arms, and Guan Kele saw that he was covered in blood: "I can't wear it anymore."
The horse thief who robbed clothes was not riding a horse, but a donkey thief. The horse thief wanted money and his life, but the donkey thief only wanted clothes?
"Yes, yes."
Guan Kele really did have some. This time when he went to the Rong people to do business, he really brought some clothes and boots with him in the car, both for men and women.
"Great, great."
The man looked very excited and waved to the woman: "Come here, come here."
The two began to rummage through the car, and their boots and clothes were all turned out.
"Yeah, I also need a robe here, it's nice." The woman said.
"The things are quite complete." The man couldn't help but praise: "There is also a carriage. This carriage is not bad. I want it."
"Come here, bring your goods down, and load everything I like into the car for me."
The man said loudly, the guys didn't dare not listen, and Guan Kele didn't dare not listen. He could only grit his teeth and curse in his heart: rob it, rob it, you two thieves, you deserve to be thieves, you will spend the rest of your life.
Be a thief.
"Hi, thank you very much." The man came to Guan Kele at some point.
Guan Kele snorted coldly in his heart, but said: "Take whatever you like, just take it!"
"That's almost enough. Do you think it's enough?" As he said that, the man took out a luminous pearl from his arms and stuffed it into Guan Kele's hand.
Guan Kele has the ability to identify treasures, and his eyes immediately lit up when he saw this luminous pearl. With this luminous pearl, he can rest at home for two or three years.
"That's enough. This road has not been smooth recently, so be careful."
With that said, the man hung the donkey on the cart, and he and the woman got into the cart and headed north with a wave of their whips.
At this time, Guan Kele had not yet come back to his senses. He looked at the two people walking away, and then looked at the luminous pearl in his hand.
It turns out it's not robbing, it's buying. Hey, if I had known better, I should have promoted more things and exchanged for one more luminous pearl.
"Master, let's pack up the goods."
"No, no, no more." Guan Kele waved his hand: "Go back, go back quickly."
These goods are indeed popular among the Rong people, but they are not worth much money in the empire. Now that I have this night pearl, when I go back, I will not come back again even if I kill it.