Chitose words

Chapter 72

Two hundred miles outside Guangling City, the imperial capital of the Northern Dynasties.

Luomei Town.

This is an ancient town at the foot of the Kunling Snow Mountain. It is located in a transportation fortress in the North, only more than [-] miles away from Guangling City, the imperial city of Hanyong.

It is also an important town for turning points and corrections when many merchants connect north-south and north-bound transactions.

At this time, the post station on the outskirts of Luomei Town was plunged into a chaotic fight.

It was said that they were fighting, but that was not necessarily the case.

This place is more like experiencing an unsuspicious and one-sided massacre and looting.

An's steward Liu Zhiyuan had a wounded arm, and his face was stained with blood from the fierce battle. He hurriedly opened the door of the easternmost guest room of the post station with an anxious look on his face, and spoke repeatedly to the owner who was gorgeously dressed but full of panic in the room. Urgent:
"—Patriarch! We encountered bandits from Luomei Ridge coming down the mountain to loot. They are numerous, but the number of guards at home is too small to be able to compete with them!

Hurry up and take your wife and young masters to go first!After everyone comes to the end, they will delay the time for the Patriarch and Madam! "

The head of the An family looked like he was not very old, he had just stood up.

And his pretty wife was holding two trembling children in her arms. One son and one daughter looked young, not even as high as an adult's knees. They were very frightened by this change.

An's was originally the richest household in Tianchen Huzhou in the Southern Dynasty. He originally traded in silk brocade.

Coincidentally, the father of the An family died of illness this year, and the new head of the An family, An Xuan, who was just [-] years old, became the director.

The head of the Anxuan family was young and vigorous, and was not willing to just lay out his property in a corner of the Tianchen River south of the Yangtze River. So he wanted to take advantage of the crisp autumn weather before winter began, and personally take a few good housekeepers and caretakers to go north to Hanyong Imperial City to explore his luck.

If one was lucky enough to find some business opportunities in Hanyong of the Northern Dynasty, wouldn't it be possible to connect the family's business from north to south and take it to a higher level?

When the beloved wife Mu heard about the idea of ​​the head of the An family, she not only did not object to it, but also strongly agreed with it. In order to solve her husband's worries and not to shake the An family's family fortune, Mrs. Mu used all her dowry to help Anxuan with her purchases on this trip.

An Xuan was so moved that he decided to take his wife and children, who had never left Huzhou and seen the vast world outside, on the trip, just to enjoy the mountains and rivers and see the world.

I thought that there would be no danger or mistakes due to the truce between the north and the south for many years in recent years, and the fact that several people from the spiritual awakening realm were hired along the way to protect them casually.

Unexpectedly, they had no dangers along the way, and everyone had arrived at Luomei Town safely. After walking more than a hundred miles, they could reach Guangling City, the capital of Hanyong in the Northern Dynasty, but they encountered such a fierce bandit!
"But the goods in the inn courtyard——"

An Xuan said anxiously: "That's the rich brocade and silk that Madam bought in exchange for all the dowry, and it's all the wealth that we will sell to Guangling City during this trip!"

The steward Liu Zhiyuan said urgently: "Patriarch! Run for your life! Now that your family's life is only a moment away, how can you manage these things outside your body?"

Mrs. Mu patted the frightened child, and hurriedly persuaded:

"Yes, husband, Uncle Liu is right! We can make more money if we lose it, but if we lose our lives, we can't make a difference. Fortunately, all the purchases we made on this trip were my concubine's dowry, not the An family's family property. Even if If you lose it, it won’t shake the foundation of your family.”

An Xuan has a gentle personality, and his heart aches for his wife's true feelings.

"But, those are all your dowry, Huanniang. I thought that this trip would open up trade routes and make money, so I will give you back all the money and profits."

Mu took the two children and stood up with a pale but gentle smile.

"Husband, my concubine's heart is the same as the king's heart. You and I are a husband and wife. There is no distinction between you and me. As for money, we might as well work harder in the future, and we will naturally earn it back."

An Xuan was moved by his wife, and the screams and screams outside were getting closer and closer, so there was no time for him to struggle.So, he hastily cleaned up the things in the room, and he and the housekeeper each held a child, and took his wife, Mrs. Mu, and fled from the back door of the inn.

In this way, the three large and two small children stumbled all the way, and after coming out of the back door of the inn in a panic, they ran for their lives along the mountain path, leaving behind them the sounds of fighting that gradually became smaller and lighter.

I don't know how long they ran until they had no more strength and had to stop.

The hems of their originally gorgeous brocade robes were now covered in dust, and were scratched and torn in several places by the strange rocks and trees in the mountains, making their clothes look ragged. They had been so tired of running for their lives that they had not noticed it before. "What's going on? Why is it getting colder and colder in the mountains?"

Mu's face was stern as he looked at the tall trees all around that were blocking the sky and the sun. "What time is it now? It was just past noon. Why can't we see the sun in the mountains?"

The butler's injured arm stopped bleeding in the cold mountains. He was shivering slightly, but his heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

His face stiffened, "Oh no, Luomei Town is close to Kunling Snow Mountain, the most amazing peak in the world. Could it be that we just fled in a hurry and ran up Kunling Snow Mountain in a panic?"

An's couple looked at the housekeeper blankly.

An Xuan was puzzled and asked: "Kunling Snow Mountain, why, is it impassable here?"

The housekeeper smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The head of the family is a citizen of Tianchen in the Southern Dynasty. His family has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and he is not from the Jianghu, so he doesn't know anything. This Kunling Snow Mountain is the first peak in Hanyong in the Northern Dynasty. The snow on the mountain never melts all year round. The strong winds and severe cold are as sharp as ice blades, and it is extremely steep and towering, making it impossible for ordinary people to climb.

Therefore, thousands of years ago, Fuji City, the world's number one sword sect, chose this place to establish the sect so that its disciples could starve their bodies, suffer their bodies and minds, and hone their minds. For thousands of years, generations of sword immortals have been born. It is called the 'Sword Immortal Tomb'.We are just ordinary people, and my wife, young master and young lady are fragile, how can we climb such a dangerous peak? "

"what?"

An Xuan was startled, he looked at his lovely wife and child who were shivering from the cold in the strange weather in the mountains, frowned and said again:

"Uncle Liu, since this road is no longer feasible, why don't we go back the same way?"

"No!"

Butler Liu's face sank like water.

"The owner of the family does not know that the people of the Northern Dynasty are fierce and fierce, and the bandits are especially cruel and murderous. Besides, Hanyong and Tianchen of the Southern Dynasty are like a feud.

If their merchants from the Northern Dynasties were hijacked by bandits, maybe the family paid enough ransom to satisfy the bandits, and they could get their life back.But if our merchants from the Southern Dynasties encountered bandits from the Northern Dynasties, we would surely die! "

His eyes fell heavily on Mrs. Mu and Miss, not to mention that they brought their wives and young children with them.
"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work, so don't we have to wait here to die?"

An Xuan was shocked when he heard this, and felt anxious in his heart.

He stepped forward and grabbed the butler's arm, as if holding the last straw to save his life. In his anxiety, he even forgot to avoid the wound on the butler's hand, but Liu Zhiyuan didn't say a word.

"Uncle Liu! You are an expert at the Jinyao Heaven Realm. Before being discharged due to injury, you were a centurion in the army. I, An Xuan, will die if I die, but please, Uncle Liu, must absolutely save the lives of my wife and children!"

Butler Liu Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and thought.

An's late old master had done him a great favor, and he had to repay it!

During those years when Mrs. An served in his army, he helped and took care of his miserable blind old lady. When his old lady passed away, he benevolently bought a thin coffin and helped her to bury her.

The kindness of burying the mother, born as a son, should be repaid with grass!

An Xuan is the old man's only son, he needs to repay him with his life and protect An Xuan, his wife and children well, in order to be considered loyal.

Although most of the bandits were at the low level of martial arts and most of them were only at the spiritual awareness level, but his Jinyao level was only a big level higher than that, not to mention that the opponent had a large number of people.

If he was alone, he would naturally be able to come and go freely among the bandits.

But if he wanted to go back the same way and protect the women and children of the An family to get away from the bandits, that would be almost impossible!
Liu Zhiyuan raised his head, his tiger eyes fixed on the towering hills in the distance, and it was only September in the golden autumn, and the peaks were already snowing.

then only
Take a gamble.

Just bet on them, their lives should not die!
(End of this chapter)