There are 800 miles of plains in Guanzhong, and there are large areas of farmland outside Lueyang County. Occasionally there are low-high mounds, and the villages next to them dotted, looking beautiful scrolls everywhere.

The Xie family's convoy moved forward without any rush, and gradually slowed down thirty miles away from the county town.

"What does this mean?"

Seeing the Xie family's convoy getting slower and slower, Fusu frowned and thought.

At this time, there were some dry fields and uncultivated wasteland on both sides of the road, and there were no villages. There was only a small horse farm not far away by a small river. There were only a dozen horses scattered on the weed slopes and eating the grassy grass.

No matter how you look at it, there is no one around who can trade with the Xie family.

"It just slowed down completely, but didn't stop completely, which means that this place is where they want to do business, but the other party has not arrived yet." Ding Ning turned his head and looked at Fusu and said slowly.

The ancestor of the Zhou family narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was always dozing off, but his mind was extremely active.

Suddenly, his ears moved slightly and he could hear something.

"It's a horse thief."

After only a few breaths, Ding Ning took a deep breath and looked at Fusu and said.

"Horse thief?"

Fusu was stunned and a little puzzled, but he immediately felt the slight tremor of the ground being transmitted from the carriage wheels to the bottom of the carriage. He immediately reacted completely and frowned deeply.

The 800-mile plains in Guanzhong of the Great Qin Dynasty did not have the kind of poor mountains and rivers that could not be pursued by thousands of troops as soon as they fled in. However, the mountain king without the whistling mountains does not mean that there were no great enemies.

This kind of horse flat gave birth to horse thieves on the horse's back.

Horse thieves usually have three or four horses, and never stay in one place for more than one place. The places where camps are set up every day are different. For the Qin Dynasty, such horse thieves who do not produce and only destroy are real locusts, and they hate them deeply. The Qin Dynasty had guerrilla cavalry specializing in chasing horse thieves in Guanzhong. However, elite cavalry troops were extremely difficult to train. This kind of horse thieves were very easy to form. They often killed one, but two more were poured out, and they were unable to kill them.

In the dry land in the distance, a long mud dragon smoke suddenly rolled up. In just a moment, a group of horse thieves appeared in Ding Ning and Fusu's sight.

There were more than a hundred horses in this group, each carrying at least four horses. Except for the one riding and an empty horse beside him, the rest of the horses were covered with weights. Not only were they used for the cloths wrapped with weights, but even the horses had dried and black blood stains.

All the horse thieves were dressed in different clothes, with a yellow turban mask on their faces. Even though they were not as tall and cold as the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, they had a cold and bloodthirsty aura that kept emanating from their bodies.

Ding Ning's eyes became even colder. In terms of number, these horse thieves were nothing. The powerful horse thieves often exceeded a thousand horses and had thousands of horses. They had the ability to compete head-on with a small group of rangers and practitioners. However, just by the current dust height raised under the hoofs of these horse thieves, he could judge that the weight on those horses was extraordinary.

It is normal for a caravan to carry more goods, but for horse thieves, the weight of more cargo is related to life and death.

The Xie family only came several carriages carrying people, and there were obviously passengers in each carriage, so it was impossible to carry all the weights of these horse thieves.

This is a dangerous meaning for Ding Ning.

"The loads of these horse thieves who prepare horse belts seem to be very heavy." At this time, Fusu also turned his head and looked at him solemnly and said softly: "And it doesn't look big, it's very likely that it's some talismans or weapons."

Fusu was the prince that Emperor Yuanwu and Empress valued the most. He was naturally a wise teacher since childhood. It was not surprising that Ding Ning was able to make such a judgment.

He nodded, "These horse thieves don't seem to be coming to trade, they seem to be coming to fight."

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"Even the drivers of these three carriages are not ordinary people." In the Xie family's carriage, Xie Lianying did not go to see too much of the horse thieves carrying the Chenlong, but instead focused more on the three black carriages following behind.

Looking at the quiet appearance of the three carriages, a relaxed smile appeared on Xie Lianying's fat and slightly oily face: "Even the groom driving has a calm and relaxed demeanor, and the status of this noble man in Changling must be extremely high."

"Let's go out."

The next moment, the smile on his face disappeared, and a rare layer of coldness slowly emerged, "Don't waste the time of Changling, the noble man."

The horse thieves suddenly stopped when they approached the Xie family's convoy hundreds of feet and lined up silently. Under the control of these horse thieves, almost all the horses under them and the horses carrying heavy loads stopped. The dust was lingering under the horse's hooves and were still burning fiercely, but the hoof feet and the riders on them were already silent, giving people a feeling of pressure like a mountain.

A gray-haired horse thief controlled the horses under him to slowly pace out. Looking at Xie Lianying and Xie Rou who were lifting the curtain and walking out, a trace of light flashed quickly in his dim eyes, and then his eyes fell on the three black carriages of the Zhou family in the distance, and his brows were slightly furrowed undetectedly.

“Where are our people and goods?”

Looking at the horse thief who was outnumbering the crowd, Xie Lianying, who also walked to the front of the convoy, smiled slightly and spoke first.

The gray-haired horse thief looked at him calmly, keeping silent without any unnecessary expression.

The dust dragons brought up behind them slowly dispersed, and dozens of horse thieves who were stationed in the distance also slowly appeared in everyone's sight.

The horse thieves formed a small circle, and there were more than ten riders in the circle that were obviously different from their clothes.

"Your goods are there, and all your people know."

The gray-haired horse thief leader spoke calmly until this time, saying, "Your people have seen it, and you should let us see what we want."

Xie Lianying nodded. His appearance had not changed much, but his tone suddenly became sarcastic, "I really admire your courage. Even our people dare to rob us... Do you really think that everyone in our Xie family can move us?"

The gray-haired horse thief leader frowned deeply.

He heard many unusual meanings from Xie Lianying's words, but he didn't say anything, but his left hand broke away from the reins and was about to lift it up.

"Don't think of threatening me by killing me alone."

Xie Lianying narrowed his eyes at this time and mocked him: "I'll talk about it after seeing what I brought you."

As he said this, the coachmen of two of the carriages in the Xie family's convoy lifted the curtains of the carriages they drove at the same time.

The body of the gray-haired thief leader suddenly stiffened.

There was only one passenger on the soft couch of the two carriages.

One is an old woman with white hair, and the other is only a five or six-year-old child.

Xie Lianying looked at the horse thief leader whose body suddenly became stiff, and said with a strong mockery: "How about it, is the things I showed you enough?"

"My people, you can kill them from now on."

In the next moment, the merchant, who looked extremely vulgar, changed his face and sneered, "But as long as you kill one, I will make your Chen family have no elderly or small."

Ding Ning and Fusu have been trying hard to listen to the conversation between Xie Lianying and the leader of the horse thief. Fortunately, their voices are not small, so they can hear them vaguely.

Although they could not see what was in the two carriages of the Xie family at this time, through Xie Lianying's words, both of them quickly woke up.

"These are not real horse thieves, or they have other identities."

Fusu turned his head to look at Ding Ning and whispered: "They robbed the people and goods of the Xie family, but they did not expect that the Xie family also found out their details and robbed their people."

The leader of the horse thief breathed deeply, still silent for a while.

At this time, Xie Lianying had already continued to talk.

Xie Lian looked at the leader of the horse thief with a sympathetic look, shook his head, and said, "Although my Xie family is not as good as those truly noble families in Changling, my Xie family has been in Guanzhong for more than fifty years. I have never seen any wind and rain. Do you children think that just using such means can replace our Xie family's position?"

"It's fine if you want to deal with our Xie family."

Xie Lianying's tone suddenly turned sharply, and a layer of frost began to be covered with greasy face, "But you should know what our Xie family is escorting. You are also from Qin, and you can even do such a thing?"

Listening to Xie Lianying's words, the leader of the horse thief shook his head slowly, and a deep helplessness and emotion appeared in his dim eyes.

Then, he directly removed the yellow turbans that covered his face.

Under the Yellow Turban is a slightly pale and thin face.

"You are unfilial to me, and you are always frightened."

The thin, gray-haired man bowed deeply, bowed to the old lady in the Xie family carriage, and then his face returned to calm. Looking at Xie Lianying, he said in an extremely simple manner: "Switch people."

Xie Lianying smiled coldly, knowing that from now on these people will only become real horse thieves, so he nodded and said, "Trade."

The leader of the horse thief took a deep breath, and his left hand broke away from the horse's reins again and was about to lift it.
Chapter completed!