The road from Wuxi County to Liping Prefecture is wider and flatter than the previous section. Although it still has to cross many mountains, the mountain roads have been carefully repaired. They are no longer so narrow that they can only access a single person. They can all ride on horses, and even two horses can pull up smaller carriages to rush on the road.

Li Ling and his party looked like they were rushing at this moment. There were both riding horses and sitting in the carriage, moving forward slightly with bumpy all the way. He, who had not ridden a few times, naturally belonged to the latter. He and Long Si Shao looked at the scenery leisurely, waiting to arrive at his destination.

However, Li Ling paid the most attention to the southwest horses around him. The horses here looked different from the horses in the Central Plains. They were much smaller in size, and their strides and speed were not as good as those in the Central Plains. But they also had their own advantages, that is, their endurance was good enough. They ran around these undulating mountains for two or three days, but they did not see these horses slowing down at all, just as they were when they set off.

Moreover, these southwest horses are quite easy to feed. They don’t have to prepare good feed for them like taking care of the Central Plains horses, and they have to wash their bodies at a certain time. During the journey, these southwest horses often only need to eat a few bites of the weeds on the roadside along the way when they stop, and they can continue to jump and take everyone along the way. Perhaps their speed is incomparable to the real Central Plains horses, but they are several times faster than those who make people hike.

Therefore, according to the speculation of the old man and his team, it would take seven or eight days for Li Ling to arrive from the county town to the prefecture city, but in fact, they only took four days to arrive in front of this few big cities in Qianzhou.

It was the turn of Si and Wu. When the weather was beautiful, the sun had risen to a high altitude, shining the golden sunshine on this ancient city, making it look like a layer of gold, giving people a dazzling impression. The wall that rises high, which can almost be higher than the surrounding slightly shorter peaks, gives people a kind of oppression that the mountains dare not look down on.

When Long stood here, he felt a little excited, and immediately urged: "Hurry up, enter the city earlier, I can still go to Chunnuan Building to play."

When Li Ling heard this name, he knew that it was not a serious place to go. Obviously, the Fourth Young Master Long had been a little suffocating recently. However, Long Xiu, who heard this, coughed outside the car and said, "Young Master, don't go this time, it's important to be serious."

While speaking, he shook Long Fang again, and the latter woke up and muttered something. Then he slapped the car window: "Then go back to see my dad first, so as to introduce them to my dad and the others." Finally, the Fourth Master Long could tell which was more important.

Seeing this, Long Xiu was relieved. Then he nodded to Li Ling, who was smiling and continued to concentrate on his journey. Soon, they came to the open city gate. At this time, there were still quite a lot of people entering and leaving the city gate, and some of the soldiers dressed in the city gate only gave up a small gap. Whenever they entered and exited, they had to hand over a few coins before passing.

Seeing this, Li Ling was a little surprised. There were naturally such city gate taxes in Zhongyuan, but whether in Luoyang or other cities, they were generally only targeted at merchants who had bulk goods entering the city. As for those travelers who only brought their bags, or the civilians who only carried firewood or vegetables into the city, the officers and soldiers would not be able to stay and enter as soon as possible.

But this is great. Even ordinary people who came out with bare hands had to pay a few cents. Just looking at their painful appearance, we can see that these few cents were also a considerable expense for them. Based on the tax silver number submitted to the treasury in Qianzhou in the past two years, Li Ling can assert that all this money was probably in the hands of the Long family.

Just as they were feeling that they had the ability to make money, there was a sudden riot inside the city gate, and then a cavalry team rushed over. They were frightened by the people lined up at the city gate, and the soldiers immediately waved their sticks and whips in their hands and drove the people to the left and right. Obviously, some big shot was about to leave the city.

At this moment, Li Ling and his team were just in front of the door and met the team that came out. First, a tall and strong young man looked at Long Fang, who was poking his head out of the car window. This made his lips curl, and he smiled with a contemptuous smile. He waved his whip and said hello: "Oh, fourth brother, you are back so soon. I thought you would have to wait until next month to remember to come back to see your dad."

Li Ling immediately captured the disgust and cringe in Long Fang's eyes, but he still hummed: "Long Yuan, do you think I am the same as you? I only know how to play all day long. I am determined to help my father accomplish great things. Of course, I have to come back early so that I can go to Xunyang with him."

This made the young man Long Yuan laugh out loud, then looked left and right and shouted: "Did you all hear it? Isn't there something wrong with my ears? Our fourth brother actually said that he wanted to help my dad. How ridiculous is this?"

The entouragers who had already followed also laughed at this time. Judging from their appearance, they obviously never took the fourth young master of the Long family seriously, and were full of ridicule and mockery.

This made Long magnify the light, but just as he was about to have an attack, he met Long Yuan's provocative eyes. Looking at his eagerness to try, he knew that as long as he really felt retorted, there would be a conflict.

With the lessons learned from the past, he knew very well what the result would be. Even if there were more people on his side, he was completely unsightly compared to Long Yuan and his subordinates who had been staying in the military camp to make a living. So in the end, he could only swallow his anger and stop talking as before.

As for the followers around Long Fang's carriage, they all bowed their heads and dared not speak out, and they looked completely avoiding. There was no trace of their previous appearance in Wuxi County, and they were really cowardly.

Li Ling and the others were a little stunned, especially the Yang brothers and Li Moyun, who were so provoked, and could not help but look at Li Ling in the car, wanting to see what he meant. Li Ling turned his mind and weighed the pros and cons, but still shook his head and stopped their counterattack. After all, this is the territory of the Long family, and this is another internal conflict. There is no need for him to help Long release it, as an outsider.

Seeing that these people didn't dare to refute, they were all submissive, Long Yuan lost the intention of teasing his brothers, and only threw a sentence: "Bad!" Then he rushed forward, rushing forward to the team of Long Han, and led people straight to the flat field outside. Judging from their dress, they obviously planned to go out to hunt.

Long Xiu's face was not very good-looking, but his reaction was still fast. When he saw someone leaving, he waved his hand and called on the team to continue entering the city. Although they were extremely humble in front of Long Yuan and others, they were still high-ranking compared to ordinary people. The whip in his hand was trembling and frightened the people, and let their team go straight into the city gate and head towards the Long Family Mansion in the middle of the city.

At this time, Long Yuan, who had already run out for a long time, suddenly turned around and looked at the carriage that had entered the city, turned to someone beside him and said, "Tang Shen, have you seen those? They look at them, don't look like people from our Long family."

Tang Shen was a man with a smart look and nodded when he heard it: "There are indeed other people in the carriages, and there were two or three people who looked at us immediately and were not afraid of us. He was not as good as the people around Long Si Shao."

Long Yuan snorted, but thought of what Long Fang said just now, but then he spat again: "Will a waste who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun bring in any other powerful figures? If I see, they are just bluffing, maybe they are so scared just now."

Tang Shen might not agree, but he nodded and said directly: "What the Second Master said is that there are only a few people, so there is no need to worry at all."

After saying a few casual words, Long Yuan put his mind back on the hunting, shook the whip in his hand, and pointed forward: "We need to show off today. The third brother came back from hitting two leopards the day before yesterday. I don't want to lose to him!"

The few people around him quickly agreed loudly, then rode forward and headed towards the dense forest ahead.

Because of this conflict in front of the city gate, Long Fang's face was gloomy until he arrived in front of his mansion that he recovered a little. Then he looked at Li Ling and Mo Li who had already gotten out of the carriage. After his eyes met with them, he couldn't help saying, "Two, are you really sure to help my dad?"

"Don't worry, the ability of our Huntian Army is far above your imagination." Mo Li smiled confidently, then followed behind them and walked forward.

Li Ling was already looking at this magnificent mansion. In a sense, this mansion looked like a small town. It was not only surrounded by high walls, but also surrounded by local soldiers carrying guns and swords. The wall that could not be seen at the end was only a shorter than the city wall that was seven or eight feet tall.

As Long let them enter, he saw many amazing things. Whether it is the road or the architecture here, it is not much different from the arrangements of those wealthy families in Luoyang. It is really luxurious. When you enter the second courtyard, you can see that a lotus pond of more than ten feet in radius was dug inside. Although there are no flowers due to seasonal reasons, you can still see many fish swimming in the clear pond water.

When they saw them entering the door, the masters and others came to greet each other. Obviously, the concept of esteeming and inferiority here was much better than that in Wuxi County.

Seeing that Li Ling was a little strange, Long Xiu came closer and explained: "These are all rules set by my master. Not only at home, but also in the entire city, both the people and soldiers must follow many rules and not do anything wrong."

"Oh? It seems that Master Long is not simple..." Li Ling just commented and saw many people in front of him kneeling down. After Long Xiu Longfang saw the few people coming over there, he paused and bowed: "Bad (I have seen Master)!"
Chapter completed!