That night, Cheng Dalei left Toad City alone and headed east, trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers to find the Hua clan in the East China Sea.
This is naturally not an easy thing. Not to mention that Xiliang and the East China Sea are thousands of miles apart. The key point is that Cheng Dalei doesn't even know whether the Hua family is in the East China Sea.
After so many years and the chaos of war, it's hard to believe that they had moved together en masse long ago. In such a huge empire, it's not easy to find a little-known village.
Cheng Dalei's plan was to start from Liangzhou, go all the way through Jingzhou, Qingzhou, and then enter Xuzhou from Yanzhou. After arriving in Xuzhou, he would inquire about the Hua clan in detail. Cheng Dalei thought in his mind that since the Hua clan has been passed down for generations with their medical skills, they should have some influence in the surrounding area.
To become more or less famous, a few disciples will be sent out. When the time comes, I will dive in and inquire, and I will be able to find out some information anyway.
Along the way, Cheng Dalei did not dare to go near the city, lest he be arrested as a wanted criminal. He mostly walked and slept in the mountains and forests.
After walking like this for more than ten days, Cheng Dalei left Liangzhou and carefully passed through Jingzhou. By this day, he had arrived at the junction of Qingzhou and Yanzhou.
The road was blocked by a large river in front of us. The river flowed from north to south. It had been raining heavily for several days in this area, and the river was open for fifty or sixty meters.
With the ability of Hei Niu, he could carry Cheng Dalei across the river, and Cheng Dalei's water resistance was not weak. However, due to the heavy rain for days, the river was very fast. Cheng Dalei felt that there was no need to take risks, and he still wanted to find a bridge to cross the river.
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He rode on the back of an ox and walked south along the direction of the river. There were gradually more and more pedestrians on the road. Cheng Dalei lowered his head subconsciously. With Cheng Dalei's current reputation in the empire, once someone discovered him, he didn't know how many people would be killed.
With Cheng Dalei's ability, he certainly doesn't need to be afraid, but after all, he has a guilty conscience.
Before Cheng Dalei went out, he put on a disguise and deliberately dressed up like Master Wen Sheng. With the current information dissemination channels in the empire, few people in the world knew Cheng Dalei's true appearance. However, the black bull under Cheng Dalei was really conspicuous.
Cheng Dalei is wearing a Wensheng gentleman's shirt, which is really strange.
But as he walked, Cheng Dalei no longer worried about this. Because there were too many strange people on the road, including people with disheveled hair, people with shirtless tattoos, and people with two wheeled axes behind their backs. Of course, there were more
A commoner with a sallow complexion and skinny muscles.
Now that the kings of the empire are divided, all the princes have issued recruitment orders to recruit masters from all over the world. Therefore, the demons, ghosts, and heretics hiding in the world have heard the news and emerged from the ground, hoping to join the various princes.
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Cheng Dalei mingled among them, inconspicuous at all, and even seemed a bit unremarkable.
He mingled among the pedestrians and listened to their conversation. Thirty miles downstream, there was a stone bridge. Crossing this stone bridge was the boundary of Yanzhou. Once in Yanzhou, it was close to Cheng Dalei's destination.
Cheng Dalei calculated the distance all the way. He would be able to reach Xuzhou in about twenty days. Generally speaking, Cheng Dalei traveled very quickly. The main reason was that Cheng Dalei had a black bull that lived both on land and water.
He lowered his head and thought about it, and unknowingly he could see the stone bridge. He raised his head and saw three to five hundred people gathered at the bridge. Everyone gathered together, but no one crossed the bridge. Cheng Dalei felt a little strange, so he came down and led the cow close to the bridge.
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"We, the Nine Ghosts of Heihe, rely on this mountain and water to draw water. This bridge now belongs to our brothers. Anyone who wants to cross here must leave money to buy the road."
When Cheng Dalei got closer, he realized that it wasn't that everyone didn't want to cross the bridge, but that the bridge was blocked. Fifty or sixty strong men were guarding the bridge, each holding a sharp knife. The leader had a broad mouth and a big mole on his forehead.
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This man's nickname was the One-Horned Ghost. He had nine sworn brothers and robbed houses in this area. Cheng Dalei was twenty or thirty steps away from them and saw several corpses lying at their feet. He must have been killed on the spot because he could not cross the bridge.
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Cheng Dalei didn't find it strange at all when he encountered this kind of thing. The world was in chaos, and these kinds of robbers appeared one after another. Cheng Dalei encountered a few of them along the way, but he couldn't avoid them, so he showed his sword and saved their lives.
Cheng Dalei glanced at them and didn't think there was any master among them. There were fifty or sixty people, and they couldn't pose a threat to him. The reason why he didn't take action immediately was because he was worried that there were too many people at the scene and his whereabouts would be exposed.
"Heroes, I am from Huangtu Town, Yanzhou. Here is a small gift for all of you to buy some wine." A young man who looked like a businessman came forward and held a small box full of silver.
"Hey, do you think we, the Nine Ghosts of Heihe, are beggars? We are not borrowing one point from you, we are not borrowing two points from you, we want them all." The one-horned ghost said loudly, and kicked the young businessman to the ground.
Broken silver was scattered all over the floor.
The people who were blocked at the bridge were complaining endlessly. Some of them had to work hard for a year to earn some money and food. If they were robbed by this water thief, the whole family would have to drink the northeast wind.
Cheng Dalei searched for information in his mind, and the Xizi Team collected intelligence. They also had a list of capable and powerful people in the world. However, about the Nine Ghosts of Heihe... Cheng Dalei had never heard of it.
He was probably an extremely small thief, and the Xizi Team felt that he was not worthy of being looked at by Cheng Dalei.
Of course, Cheng Dalei is no longer what he used to be. He is even registered on the emperor's desk. In terms of being a thief, he is already the founder of the thief industry, so naturally he does not need to care about these thieves.
"Hahaha!"
As a last resort, Cheng Dalei was already planning to take action. At this moment, a loud voice sounded.
"A few little thieves dare to rob my master's road. Tsk tsk, we will inevitably face injustice on the road today and act for God."
The one-horned ghost squinted his eyes and said, "You are a brother on that road. Can you tell me your name? We brothers are really not afraid of anyone on this river."
"Uh... Hahaha! When I mention the name of my boss, you still have to listen carefully. No one in the world knows it. I'm afraid that if I say it out, I'll scare your nerves!"
The voice buzzed in the ears, and everyone turned around to look. Cheng Dalei was also a little curious, who was this, with such a loud voice. If it was really someone with a name in the world, he would have heard of it.
Looking back, I saw a big man, riding a ferocious black bull, wearing a big cloak, holding a Xuanhua ax in his hand, getting closer and closer to Cheng Dalei...
Cheng Dalei opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time...