Chapter 109: Joint venture

The team of Meng Wugongzi camped across the road. The next morning, the two teams naturally joined together.
The Meng family's caravans are much larger. There are fifty or sixty camels, and the same number of horses. There are hundreds of people together, and there are more than 30 guards.
These guards are all Meng family's own. Only the person who walks in front of the Jinpeng flag is the Shibao killer. The brown belt killers don't know him. He is not interested in a group of teenagers with brown belts.
Meng Mingshi seems to have changed a person, courteous, and chatting with the Qing slaves. He neither entangled the two sons of the official family, nor showed a hatred of the slaves. In fact, he did not seem to recognize it at all. Out of the "boy with a knife."
Gu Shen ordered the brown belt killers to keep alert. There are only seven people on this side, and there are more than 30 people with the knife. However, the bodyguards of Meng’s family are all casual wanderers from Nancheng. They look scary and knife. The law is sluggish, Gu Shen has carefully observed, and only two or three of them are barely experts.
The two new guards, who were surnamed Shangguan, began to obey the orders of the leader. They did not want to provoke the Meng family’s caravan. It didn’t take long for them to join in, ridiculed and mocked, and did not carelessly. Meng Wu’s son could calmly Accept, a look of remorse, just rushed to the slave, one persuaded, and the other apologized.
Shangguan Ru, Shangguan Yu said that he was annoyed, and he returned to the team and ignored Meng Mengzi.
In the first three days, nothing happened. On the third night, the two teams camped in a mountain pass. This is the border of the Jinpeng Fort, and then to the north is the endless grassland, nominally belonging to the territory of the North Court. The bandits are rampant, but the Jin Peng flag can still be unimpeded.
After another two days, it was still unremarkable, people were getting less and less, and finally looked at it. It was a deserted wilderness. It was boundless and seemed to never go. Shangguan began to complain that the journey was boring. The Meng family was provocative and was persuaded by the slaves and the slaves.
At one intersection, the two teams had differences.
The road to the north looks better, and every few days will encounter a place where people gather. There is a guardian of the North Court. It is very safe. I just want to find the Tieshan camp. This road is far away and needs twenty. Around the day.
The other road leads to the northeast and goes directly to the capital of a small western country. It is the end of the Mengjia caravan. It is also close to the Tieshan camp. It takes about ten days, but the path is rugged. It is said that it is not too peaceful.
Meng Wugongzi decided to go near the road early. His team had Jinpengqi in front of him, followed by more than 30 swordsmen. He was fearless. He officially bid farewell to the two official sons. "There are many bandits on this road." Intimidate the two, no one can afford it. In fact, the ten sons do not have to worry, stay in the city for ten more days, it is estimated that you can see the ten sons, and then ask the ten sons to learn more."
This is almost a naked stimuli to the law, but the Shangguan began to eat this set, once again surpassed the status of "knife", and strongly demanded to approach.
Responsible for leading the way to the three children and Gu Shenwei want to go to the original North Road, far away does not matter, Gu Shenwei has not said the reasons, he thinks that Meng Wugong's purpose of this trip is certainly not simple, no need meter.
The last decision was made by the Qing slave. He was the big head. Everyone had to listen to him. "Isn’t it good to go together? There are still many caravans in Mengjia. Everyone cares for each other. The bandits don’t dare to approach. Not?"
The Qing slave had already been accepted by Meng Ming, and now he is allowed to change to the door to the Meng family as a servant, and he will agree with it.
The team turned to the northeast road. Under the insistence of Shangguanru, they kept the distance from the caravan of the Meng family. For this reason, they camped early that night and went on the road the next day. The ten sons could not have the robbers to go to the door. Let her show the power of Jinpeng's knife.
Gu Shenwei secretly ordered that the brown belt killers strengthen their alert and let the lotus women take care of Shangguan. The most valuable thing in this team is not the box on the camel's back, but the uninvited female "knife."
Gu Shen is once again feeling unpredictable. The girl he is now wholeheartedly protecting is the enemy he must kill in the future.
For two consecutive days and two nights, there was nothing wrong with it. The biggest accident was that a gray wolf did not know how to get close to the camp. It was shot by a stream of arrows. This is what makes Shangguan so excited for a long time.
On the third morning of the path, Gu Shenwei was collecting horses and saddles. Shangguan Ru came over, his left hand pressed the handle, and his head was slightly raised. The scorpion under the backlight appeared to be darker in the morning light. Why have you ignored me?"
"You are a knife, I am the leader, it should be like this."
"No, you are talking and laughing with the few brown belt killers."
Gu Shenwei didn't talk or laugh with anyone, but he felt that he was an adult, and he didn't want to get caught up in the childish problem, so he smiled. "We are talking and laughing now."
Shangguan’s mouth was sulking, his face was cold, and he walked around the Huannuo for half a lap. He suddenly asked,
Why did you come out to protect me in Bodhi Garden that day?

It turned out that she still knew that Gu Shen had stopped her work and regretted the impulsive action. "That is my fault. You have already discovered that someone is close, just sleeping, isn't it?"
Shangguan is as strong as she is, and Gu Shen thinks that she will follow the course of "of course". As a result, she said, "No, I am drunk and I have not heard anything."
Gu Shen was speechless and silent for a while. "Because I am a slave, it is the apprentice of the ten sons, or the killer of your men."
In a few months, Shangguan will spend his thirteenth birthday. From then on, she will be called the
Ten Majors
and will be qualified to lead the real killer. She has received all the education that the Lord should have, including How to see through and close the heart, but she will never hear the hidden hatred and irony in the words of the slave.
Shangguan’s smile reveals a little smugness.
You remember it. I have a chance to compare with you and see if your knife has grown.

Gu Shenwei is slightly stunned. "The disciples will not be able to progress to Master, but now I am the leader."
Shangguan is also slightly stunned, with a smile back, "every day or two of silver can not earn."
On this day, Gu Shenwei is eager to kill, eager to stab the neck, bright red blood will make his stomach rush, let his heart quiet.
That afternoon, his hunger was partially satisfied and he saw a body.
The gift-giving team looked at the Mengjia caravan from afar and stopped at the roadside as if they were waiting for them.
The slaves, the slaves, and the three children drove up and the others waited in the same place.
The caravan was filled with an ominous atmosphere, and even the slaves felt it. His face became pale. When he ran to the front of the team, the blind man became hoarse.
"How..." Only half of the words of the slaves were asked, and the body lying in the middle of the road made him close his mouth.
It was a knifeman from the Meng family, lying on his back, with a black arrow standing at his heart, and the knife under his waist was not yet sheathed.
The killer carrying Jin Pengqi looked up and looked at it. "Someone looked at our goods."
The slaves looked around nervously. "Where? Who is so bold? Let's turn our heads to the original way?"
"No." The killer shook his head and refused. The slaves sneaked. His position in the fort was no more than before. An ordinary killer should be polite.
The three children are experienced and explained, "This is the bandit is making a mark, indicating that they want the goods, others can not get involved, and it is impossible to turn back. The road behind it must have been cut off."
"What, not a batch of bandits, this... we have Jinpeng flag..."
"The famous bandits let our flag, those nicknames of the rogue can do nothing." The killer said indifferently, as if this thing is used to it.
"Rogue? The rogue is not bad?"
"Not very bad, as long as they dare to show up, kill them and keep them."
The calmness of the back flag killer greatly inspired the morale of the people present, the sneaky arrow is unpredictable, wants to rob, and finally has to rely on face-to-face knives.
"Just camp here." The back flag killer said to Meng Wugongzi, rather than suggestion, it is better to say that it is an order.
Meng Mingshi’s face was as pale as the slave, and nodded again and again, and was ordered by the entourage around him.
"Everyone is better to follow up." The back flag killer also said to the slaves, the slaves can not do this, the head is faster.
The two teams once again joined together. Shangguan Ru, Shangguan Yu did not believe the Meng family, and deliberately ran to see the body. After returning, he looked serious and took the initiative to ask for a vigil.
Gu Shen arranged for them to keep the first class.
As always, the closer the crisis is, the more lucid his brain is, the more accidental, coincidence and adventures are taken away, and everything is analyzed with the simplest and most optimistic eyes. The cause and effect of the matter naturally reveals to him.
Gu Shenwei felt that she had seen through the intrigues and tricks hidden in the body.
As the night fell, he looked around the team and finally walked over to the camel.
Five camel people sat around in a circle, chatting on a small pile of fire and drinking, Gu Shen joined in, and there was a ride without talking.
Everyone is old and the lake, and the four camel people hired by Nancheng quickly excused to go to bed early, leaving Jinpengbao's camel and guard head.
Gu Shenwei stared at the camel, he still did not know the other's name, and there is no need to know.
The camel man kept bowing for a long time. When he looked up, his eyes were sharp. It was the murderer’s gaze. "I am doing my good job, you are doing your business."
Gu Shen nodded and walked. As long as he can prove that his guess is correct, the Camel Man is the killer of Jinpengbao to protect the ten sons. The Shangguan is so careful, he has not left Jinpengbao, he has been See through, there are him, two girls have no worries.
The two sons of Shangguan’s family were still vigil, Gu Shen called the other four brown belt killers, ordered the white camel to stay, and the other three started with him to perform the task.
"Let's go to the ‘bandits’. If I guess it is right, these ‘bandits’ are not far from here.

Four people took their horses, avoided the night watchman, bypassed the camp from the other side, and flew away from the front.
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