It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 267

Both of them stared at each other, stunned at the same time. Cheng Dalei also recognized the other party at this time, but he couldn't believe it for a while, how could the sixth prince of the dignified empire be so downcast, with disheveled hair and dirt on his face, like a human ape Tarzan.

"My own people, my own people, they recognized me and pressed me for something." Li Xingzai struggled: "Let me up!"

Cheng Dalei waved his hand, and Qin Man and Zhao Zilong released them.

Li Xingzai's mental head was quite good. After standing up, he jumped and jumped, and said to Li Wan'er, "Little sister, why did you get together with this bandit, you were kidnapped by him!"

"It's a long story. Sixth brother, let's talk about you first." Li Wan'er suddenly felt that it was a shame to have such a brother.

"My words are longer." Li Xingzai sighed with his hands behind his back, but because his body was tattered, he really didn't have any temperament.

Cheng Dalei shifted his gaze to the other person and said, "You play the lasso well, Rong people?"

Li Xingzai patted the other party's shoulder excitedly: "Fordler, my friend."

Cheng Dalei had never met Fudele, he had no feelings for the empire, and naturally he had no deep hatred for the Rong tribe. He just vaguely felt that the other party looked at him with a little fear.

But other people and Cheng Dalei had different moods. When they heard that the other party was the Rong clan, they were suddenly facing a big enemy, and each of them had already held their weapons.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous." Li Xingzai waved his hands: "This is my friend, my brother, he is not a bad person, not a bad person."

There is nothing wrong with Li Xingzai's words, and there are good and bad in the Rong family, and Fudler is not necessarily a bad person.

But he's not the bad guy, we are.

"Have you eaten or worn anything?" Li Xingzai said, "Hurry up, we've been hungry for several days."

Cheng Dalei found that it was really a shame to know Li Xingzai.

On the avenue, Li Xingzai devoured his food, as if he was reincarnated by a starving ghost. Everyone looked at him and was speechless.

"Sixth brother, why did you come here?" Li Wan'er held the water bag.

"How else can I get here? I escaped." Li Xingzai said, "I was arrested in the northwest. After the battle, I fled to Bingzhou, and then I fled from Bingzhou to Qingzhou. In Qingzhou, I almost got a strong man again. Damn, So I escaped here again."

"Why don't you go back to Chang'an, everyone is looking for you."

"I'm going to take a walk and take a look again." Li Xingzai said while eating, suddenly choked up and coughed, Li Wan'er hurriedly handed over the water.

"What's the matter with you?" Li Xingzai asked, "Where are you going?"

"Hey, you don't know yet." Cheng Dalei shook his official uniform: "I am now a border guard pro-appointed by the imperial court, and now I am going to Qinchuan Pass to take office."

"Hey, I was patronizing and eating just now, but I didn't notice it, you look good in this suit." Li Xingzai finally gave up and put down the dry food in his hand, suddenly remembered something, looked at Cheng Dalei and said, "Where did you say you were going? Qin Chuan, I advise you not to go?"

"What happened to Qin Chuan?" Cheng Dalei asked.

"We just escaped from there, look at me now, don't you understand anything?" Li Xingzai.

"Well, it fits your current temperament very well."

Li Xingzai pouted, drew a line on the ground with a branch, and said while drawing:

"Qinchuan 800 li is the most important line of defense in the northwest. After the Qinchuan Pass is the Rong grassland, this road has always been an important place for east-west trade."

Li Xingzai was worthy of being educated by elites. He drew the general landform of Qinchuan with just a few strokes. Others couldn't understand it, but Cheng Dalei was very serious. He has an inexplicable fascination with maps.

"Silk, tea, and iron from inside the pass are worth tens of thousands of gold. Furs, jade, and horses from outside the pass are also rare in the pass. However, the empire is not allowed to do business with the Rong people, so this trade route is banned."

Cheng Dalei nodded: "Where is the danger at Qinchuan Pass?"

"The person who now occupies Qinchuan Pass is named Mo Mingmi. He was originally a group of bandits who gathered in the mountains and forests, but he has now been recruited, and he has been named Deputy General of Qinchuan, and the entire Qinchuan Pass is under his control."

"A bandit?"

Hearing this, everyone laughed. Everyone was originally a bandit, and even the Rong tribe had beaten them, not to mention a few bandits.

"It seems that they are traveling together. It is time for them to understand who is the ancestor."

"Teach them how to behave."

Li Xingzai stared blankly at this scene, thinking to himself: Cheng Dalei brought out a bunch of his men.

"Mo Mingmi has more than 10,000 people, how are you going to teach him how to be a man?" Li Xingzai.

Everyone was speechless.

Cheng Dalei asked: "Did Mo Mingmi control this road and do some smuggling business? If that's the case, he will not allow others to interfere."

"Not really." Li Xingzai said: "Iron ore was discovered at Qinchuan Pass. He robbed the nearby civilians to mine for him, and sold them to Fangyuan's commercial firms for huge profits. These civilians lived in the mine, and many people were alive. In, the bones out. He also snatched me and Fordler in, and we managed to escape."

"Then it's a sweatshop."

"They dare to mine iron ore privately, Brother Six, are you going to send troops to attack them?" Li Wan'er.

"Hey, how can it be so easy, the interests are intertwined, I have no way to adjust my troops, and with Mo Mingmi's ability alone, he can't play such a big plate, there must be someone behind him, but I don't know who it is." Li Xingzai.

Cheng Dalei had already vaguely understood that iron mining was a huge profit. How could Mo Mingmi let himself get involved in this business? Now that there are 10,000 soldiers at Qinchuan Pass, it would be a death to go by himself. Cheng Dalei had probably guessed who was behind Mo Mingmi.

"Then let's not go to Qinchuan first." Cheng Dalei said: "Find a place to camp, and then see where there is a suitable place to build a cottage in this mountain. We will settle here in the future."

"Master, do you have any requirements for the new cottage?" Xu Shenji asked.

"Of course there is." Cheng Dalei spit out a sentence: "There must be water."

"If you guys need a new cottage, I know a place." Li Xingzai said.

"Hey, did you know?" Cheng Dalei's eyes widened: "So you are the guiding NPC this time, tell me, what do you know?"

"What is an NPC?" Li Xingzai was a little confused, shaking his head and said, "The place I'm talking about is the original cottage of Mo Mingmi, or it can be said to be a water village. There are no other features, except that there is a lot of water."

"Is it easy to have a lot of water?" Cheng Dalei said, "Where is the place?"

"The place is easy to find, but I'm afraid it's not very easy to do, and now it's occupied."

"Occupied by whom?"

"It's not a human being." Li Xingzai said, "It's a snake..."