There is no asphalt in this world, and the roads are mostly made of rammed soil. If rice slurry is poured to keep the ground free from insects and weeds, it is considered a road.

The team of thirty horse-drawn carriages was very spectacular. For the sake of convenience and safety, they tried to take the official road as much as possible.

The south is still rich, and the roads will be paved with bluestone slabs or mixed with river sand and gravel. The official roads are wide, and driving a carriage on them is relatively stable.

The farther to the northwest, the narrower and narrower the road, and the more potholes on the road surface.

The government plays a leading role in the construction and maintenance of official roads, and the local people actively respond and work together to prepare for the construction. The daily maintenance depends mostly on donations from local gentry and wealthy households.

People in the Northwest are so poor that they can’t even eat enough to eat. Where can they have money to support the road?
This resulted in a hole in the east and a large pit in the west on the dirt road washed by rainwater.

Xiaoruo, a modern person, is really uncomfortable with the bumps. Even if the carriage is equipped with thick cushions, she still feels as if her buttocks are about to split into eight petals.

After enduring the butt pain for half a month, she finally couldn't take it anymore.

"A-Xun, A-Xun!" Xiao Ruo lifted the veil and waved to Xiao Xun who was riding a horse in front on the left.

The bodyguards guarded the caravan in a herringbone shape, and Xiaoxun specially chose a position close to Xiaoruo's carriage.

He reined in the reins, and the horse under his crotch struggled to take two steps on the spot, just walking side by side with the carriage.

"Is Ruo Ruo hungry?"

Due to the change of the road conditions, they used to travel [-] miles a day, but now they only travel more than [-] miles a day. In addition, the dangerous mountains and forests will increase the danger of the caravan being attacked. From the moment they entered Zhongzhou, the two escorts negotiated to change from the original three One meal was changed to two meals in the morning and evening.

The young and strong guy and the bodyguards had no objection, and Xiao Ruo also felt that there was no problem.

Only Xiaoxun always felt that Xiaoruo would be hungry.

Every time he passed by a town to replenish supplies, he would buy some candied fruit, candy and cakes and stuff them into the handsome carriage.

"No, I'm not hungry, I'm just bored in the car."

Staring at the shiny black horse under Xiaoxun's crotch, Xiaoruo was a little greedy.

She has been on a plane and driven a sports car, and she has also driven many models of aircraft in the base, but she has never ridden a live horse.

"Axun, can we change?"

Xiaoxun didn't understand what she meant, and asked reflexively, "What?"

The slender white fingers pointed at the snorting black horse under his crotch.

"I'll ride a horse, can you take a carriage?"

Saying this to others, maybe she would feel ashamed to cause trouble for them, but now it is Xiaoxun, she knows that he never thinks that she will cause trouble for him.

Xiao Ruo's bright almond eyes looked at him right and wrong, Xiao Xun felt as if he had fallen into two vast rivers of stars.

The hand holding the rein was tightly clenched, and the veins on the arm covered by the sleeve were clearly visible. Xiao Xun took a deep breath secretly to restrain his throbbing heart.

"None of you has ridden a horse. If you want to ride a horse, ride with me."

The restrained voice was calm and flat, and no one could tell that the owner of the voice was already full of turmoil.

Although the request was discounted, Xiaoruo was quite happy.

If you ride together, you can ride together, at least you can temporarily leave the boring and bumpy carriage.

She happily opened the door curtain of the carriage and came to the shaft of the carriage, stretched out her hand in Xiaoxun's direction, and waited for him to pull her.

The convoy will not stop because she needs to change horses, she needs to step on the horses while the carriage is moving forward.

Unexpectedly, Xiaoxun didn't hold her outstretched hand, but straddled the horse, leaning his upper body with the strength close to his waist, and hugged her onto the horse's back.

This movement is a test of core strength and arm strength. The groom who drove the car couldn't help cheering after seeing it: "My brother is so handsome!"

"Hey, brother Xiao's skill is beyond words! He is the best in our bodyguard!" said Ma Laosan, who also witnessed the whole process.

His seat was on the right side of Xiao Ruo's carriage. He originally chose this position because he wanted to chat with Xiao Xun, but he didn't expect to be stuffed with a lot of dog food along the way.

Every once in a while, I saw Xiaoxun looking back to see if the beautiful woman in the carriage was hungry, cold, or sleepy. Instead, I was only separated from Xiaoxun by the carriage, and I didn't talk to him a few words along the way.

"Tsk tsk tsk, brother Xiao is warm, fragrant and soft, so happy..."

Ma Laosan hadn't finished speaking yet, with a whoosh, a sharp arrow brushed across his face, pierced deeply into the wall of the carriage and made a dull "boom".

The arrow feathers still swayed endlessly, which shows that the archer's strength is extraordinary.

"I don't know what to say!" Ma Laosan's sour teasing changed into a series of swear words, and he shouted loudly: "There is an ambush!"

Following his shout, countless flying feather arrows swished out from the dense forest on both sides.

For a while, the neighing of horses, the screams of people, the thud of arrows piercing into wood, and the jingle of arrows being knocked down by escorts were all intertwined.

When the first arrow came, Xiaoxun keenly noticed the danger.

He bent down and pressed the person in his arms on the horse's back, minimizing the possibility of being shot by flying arrows.

Then he pulled out his saber, and the drawn sword flowers intertwined into a fine net at a speed that was hard to distinguish with the naked eye, blocking all the arrows shot at them from this iron net.

Xiao Ruo, who was tightly guarded in her arms, only felt that she was in a dark and warm space, and her ears were filled with the sound of metal impacts. When she looked down, the restless horse's hooves had already fallen. A dozen arrows.

"Axun! Axun!" She couldn't help shouting, wanting to make sure Xiaoxun was safe.

The wide palm with well-defined knuckles blocked her face, and the warm and dry palm was pressed against her eyes.

Xiaoxun's deep and magnetic voice came from beside his ears: "It's okay, it's okay, Ruo Ruo, don't be afraid."

In the darkness, the concept of time was stretched, Xiaoruo felt as if it had passed for a long time, but in fact the rain of arrows only lasted for a few minutes.

As soon as the dense forests on both sides stopped shooting arrows, they heard deafening shouts.

"Come on! Brothers! Kill a fat man today!"

Afterwards, hundreds of people ran out of the forest, dressed in sackcloth and carrying swords and halberds in their hands, rushing towards the caravan like a flood that opened the gate.

"Everyone is on alert!" Jiang Ping's roar came, resounding through the entire convoy: "Bright darts! Hey, hey, hey!"

All the bodyguards moved when they heard the sound, turned their backs to the carriage, and fired back at the bandits with their weapons outstretched.

Although the bodyguards of Shunji Escort Bureau are not world-class in martial arts, they are all extraordinary in skills. One person is more than enough to deal with three or five bandits.

Thin-bladed long knives flashing coldly danced wildly, slashing or picking, or blocking or chopping, all of a sudden the sixteen bodyguards fought against hundreds of bandits, and none of them was injured.

It's a pity that there were only 16 people after all, and the elongated defense line could not take into account the entire caravan, and the bandits soon took advantage of it.

Bandits broke through the line of defense, jumped onto the carriage, and robbed the inside of the caravan.

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