Both sides stared at each other and were stunned at the same time. Cheng Dalei also recognized the other party at this time, but he couldn't believe it for a moment. How could the sixth prince of the empire be in such a miserable state, with disheveled hair and dirt on his face?
Tarzan of the Apes.
"My own people, my own people, have recognized each other, so why are they suppressing me?" Li Xingzai struggled and said, "Let me up!"
Cheng Dalei waved his hand, and Qin Man and Zhao Zilong let them go.
Li Xingzai was in good spirits. He jumped up and down after standing up and said to Li Waner: "Little sister, why are you getting together with this bandit? You were kidnapped by him!"
"It's a long story, sixth brother, let me talk about you first." Li Waner suddenly felt that it was embarrassing to have such a brother.
"My words are longer." Li Xingzai put his hands behind his hands and sighed, but because his body was in tatters, he really had no temperament.
Cheng Dalei shifted his gaze to the other person and said, "You are good at lassoing, you Rong tribesman?"
Li Xingzai patted the other party's shoulder excitedly: "Fudler, my friend."
Cheng Dalei had never met Fordler. He had no feelings for the empire, and he certainly didn't have any deep hatred for the Rong people. He just vaguely felt that the other party looked at him with a bit of fear.
But the others were in a different mood than Cheng Dalei. When they heard that the other party was from the Rong tribe, they immediately felt like they were facing a formidable enemy, and each of them had already grabbed their weapons.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous." Li Xingzai waved his hands: "This is my friend, my brother. He is not a bad person, not a bad person."
Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with what Li Xingzai said. The Rong people also have good and bad people, and Futler is not necessarily a bad person.
But he is not a bad person, we are.
"Have you eaten or worn?" Li Xingzai said, "Hurry up, we have been hungry for several days."
Cheng Dalei found that it was really embarrassing to know Li Xingzai.
On the avenue, Li Xingzai was devouring his food as if he was the reincarnation of a starving ghost. Everyone looked at him and was speechless.
"Brother Six, why are you here?" Li Waner held the water bag.
"How else could I come here? I escaped." Li Xingzai said: "I was captured in the northwest. After the battle, I fled to Bingzhou, and then fled from Bingzhou to Qingzhou. I was almost captured in Qingzhou again. Damn it.
So I escaped here again."
"Why don't you go back to Chang'an? Everyone is looking for you."
"I plan to walk around and take a look again." Li Xingzai said while eating. Suddenly he choked and coughed. Li Waner hurriedly handed over the water.
"What's going on with you?" Li Xingzai asked, "Where are you going?"
"Hey, you don't know yet." Cheng Dalei shook his official uniform: "I am now a border guard appointed by the imperial court, and I am about to go to Qinchuan Pass to take up my post."
"Hey, I was just here to eat, but I didn't notice that you look quite energetic in this outfit." Li Xingzai finally gave up and put down the dry food in his hand. Suddenly he remembered something, looked at Cheng Dalei and said, "Where did you say you were going?
?Qinchuan, I advise you not to go?"
"What's wrong with Qinchuan?" Cheng Dalei asked.
"We just escaped from over there, look at me like this, don't you understand something?" Li Xingzai.
"Well, it fits your current temperament very well."
Li Xingzai curled his lips, drew a line on the ground with a branch, and said while drawing:
"The eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is the most important line of defense in the northwest. Beyond Qinchuan Pass is the Rong grassland. This road has always been an important place for east-west trade."
Li Xingzai was worthy of being educated by elites. He drew the general landform of Qinchuan with just a few strokes. Others couldn't understand it, but Cheng Dalei was extremely serious. He had some inexplicable obsession with maps.
"The silk, tea, and iron items from within the pass are worth tens of thousands of gold when transported outside the pass. The furs, jade, and horses from outside the pass are also rare goods within the pass. However, the empire does not allow business with the Rong people, so this trade route was banned."
Cheng Dalei nodded: "Then where is the danger in Qinchuan Pass?"
"The person who currently occupies Qinchuan Pass is named Mo Mingmi. He was originally a group of bandits who gathered in the mountains and forests, but now he has been recruited and made the deputy general of Qinchuan. The entire Qinchuan Pass is under his control."
"Bandits?"
When they heard this, everyone laughed. They were all bandits to begin with, and even the Rong tribe had been beaten, let alone a few bandits.
"It seems that we are traveling together. It's time to let them understand who the ancestor is."
"Teach them how to behave and do things."
Li Xingzai looked at this scene blankly and thought to himself: What kind of subordinates did Cheng Dalei bring out?
"Mo Mingmi has more than 10,000 people under his command. How are you going to teach him the principles of life?" Li Xingzai.
Everyone was speechless.
Cheng Dalei asked: "Is Mo Mingmi controlling this road and doing smuggling business? If that is the case, he will not allow others to get involved."
"Not really." Li Xingzai said: "Iron ore was discovered at Qinchuan Pass. He robbed nearby civilians to mine for him and sold them to surrounding merchant houses for huge profits. These civilians were fed and housed in the mines, and many of them were alive.
In, the bones come out. Fudler and I were also snatched in by him, and we finally escaped."
"Then this is a sweatshop."
"How dare they mine iron ore privately, Sixth Brother, are you going to mobilize troops to attack them?" Li Waner.
"Hey, it can't be that easy. The interests are so intertwined that I have no soldiers to control. Moreover, Mo Mingmi cannot handle such a big deal by himself. There must be someone behind him, but I don't know who it is." Li Xingzai.
Cheng Dalei had vaguely understood that iron mining was very profitable. How could Mo Mingmi let himself get involved in this business? There were ten thousand soldiers at Qinchuan Pass, and he would die if he went there alone. And Cheng Dalei had probably guessed that the person behind Mo Mingmi
who is it.
"Then let's not go to Qinchuan first." Cheng Dalei said: "Find a place to camp, and then we will see if there is a suitable place in the mountains to build a cottage. We will settle here in the future."
"Master, do you have any requirements for the new cottage?" Xu Shenji asked.
"Of course there is." Cheng Dalei spat out a sentence: "There must be water."
"If you need a new cottage, I know a place." Li Xingzai said.
"Hey, did you know?" Cheng Dalei opened his eyes wide: "So you are the guiding NPC this time. Tell me, what do you know?"
"What is an NPC?" Li Xingzai was a little confused and shook his head and said: "The place I'm talking about is the original Mo Mingmi's village, or it can be said to be a water village. It has no other characteristics, except that there is a lot of water."
"Is it easier to do things if there is more water?" Cheng Dalei asked: "Where is the place?"
"The place is easy to find, but I'm afraid it may not be easy to find. It's also occupied now."
"Occupied by who?"
"It's not a human." Li Xingzai said, "It's a snake..."