Chapter 4 The Ancient Tea Horse Road

August 16 of the sixth year of the Imperial Calendar

The Ancient Tea Horse Road, which runs through the entire Yingyang County, is also the only way to Xudu, Wen Qubing sat on a bamboo chair and was carried by his subordinates, thinking about the key points of participating in the auction.

"Family master, Xihong is already preparing in Xudu, plus us, the elite of the Wen family is roughly ready, so you shouldn't have to worry. ”

“...... When you say that, I don't think I'm going to be able to worry about it. ”

Wen Quzhi glanced at his henchman, the man who followed him with a saber, Wen Qingwei.

Wen Qingwei and Wen Xihong are a new generation that has grown up in the past few years, Wen Qingwei is a strong and fierce man, with a knife in his hand, charging into battle, brave and fearless; Wen Xihong is a scribe with a scholarly temperament, with long sleeves and good at dancing, often as a representative of the head of the family, running around to communicate, and playing a good secret weapon.

Among the two, the former is a son of the Wen family, and he voted after hearing that Wen Qubing reinvigorated the family business, but the latter was persuaded by Wen Qubing and changed his surname to be a prisoner, this kind of thing is not uncommon today, if it is not Wen Qubing is too young and has no daughter, you can use the way of adding money, so that talents can change their surnames to join and inject vitality into their own bloodlines, which is a practice used by many big families.

Pouring a lot of resources into cultivation, Wen Qingwei and Wen Xihong have all attained fifth-level cultivation, and they have just entered the advanced level, and at the age of more than twenty, they can be regarded as outstanding, but compared to the current business of the Wen family, the two fifth-level ones are uncontrollable.

Today's power grading is basically divided into ten levels, from one to ten, and then with various occupations and bloodline inheritances, there are low, medium, high, earth, and heavenly order drops, and each two levels are one order, such as Wen Qingwei and Wen Xihong, which is to gradually complete the marrow washing and prepare to enter the five high-level levels.

As soon as you enter the high level, you can basically use it to scare people, after all, there are dozens to hundreds of ground steps on the earth, and there are more than ten people at the top of the ninth level heavenly level, and ten levels...... Even before the gods, I don't know if there was one, and now it's impossible.

Ordinary people practice, even if they have better qualifications, to practice to the high level, often forty years away, and even a lifetime can not go up to the big people, can step on the high level in their twenties, qualifications, hard work, cultivation are indispensable, even if placed in the big family, the big sect, are outstanding achievements, enough to be proud, but the Wen family has developed too fast, but the manpower can not keep up, it is completely low-key, mysterious to confuse the public, if people know the details, even if it is not a disaster, there will be no peace.

“...... It's not enough to only have a high level, it's nerve-wracking. ”

Wen Quzhi frowned, and Wen Qingwei, who was guarding the side, immediately said, "This is not a problem, you have the head of the family to ...... it yourself."

"Ahem!"

“...... It is a weapon and armor prepared by himself, and the brothers' combat power can be exerted at a higher level, and it is very advantageous in the battle of the same level. Wen Qingwei said: "If you cooperate with the weapon to urge, you can also push the strength up to one level, or even the first order, even against the ground level, it is not impossible to fight." ”

“...... Fight your mother!"

"Uh, why are you ......, master?"

"Don't say it directly, I'm afraid your dead brain won't understand...... I should have said early in the morning, don't rely too much on the equipment I have given you, it will only hinder and overdraft your growth......"

"We've always kept it in mind!"

Raising his fist on his chest, Wen Qingwei looked serious and made an oath gesture, Wen Quzhi glanced at it, and said angrily: "More important than this, don't think about fighting with people all day long." The cultivation of combat power pays attention to the power that can be exerted normally and performs steadily, who is gambling with their lives every time they start fighting? Can this be counted as combat power? You don't care if you love to die, and your brothers under you also follow your example, they all die one by one, and when you catch the prisoners in the back, you let me go up by myself?"

has a rough appearance, but Wen Qingwei is not stupid, and he cares after hearing these words. The Wen family is on the rise, and small and medium-sized families like this, in order to climb up, the head of the family is usually ruthless and uses his own family as a chess piece, and his own one, although he has a bad reputation outside, is benevolent to the people below, and even the self who tried to replace him at the beginning was finally convinced.

People like the head of the family, in today's era, can be said to be rare, and even a little out of fashion, and I really can't understand why a benevolent person inherits his father's business and starts this business......

A group of people on the road for several days, sometimes carrying bamboo chairs to walk, sometimes changing to carriages and horses, after a round of hurrying, this evening came to Xudu, Xudu is the old capital of Yingyang County, the accumulation of thousands of years of construction, the thick city wall extends out, like a stone dragon, antique, don't see the style.

Wen Xihong, who arrived here one step earlier, was already waiting at the gate of the city to welcome the head of the family and other brothers in.

"Head of the house!"

A scribe in a white robe, wearing a scarf, Wen Xihong was full of energy, first saluted the head of the family, and then hugged Wen Qingwei, really happy.

"All the preparations have been completed, the funds have been gathered, and the batch of ordnance that has been delivered without pay has a quota of two thousand eight hundred gold coins for the use of the head of the family, and if necessary, you can also ask for the support of several big money houses, so that you can show your skills at the auction. ”

"Good job, behind the auction are the gangsters, who is the local gangster?"

"Xudu's black market is managed by the Guangyang Gang, but it is a third-rate gang, and the whole gang only has a fifth-level gang, and its strength is not worth a damn, but they have a backstage, in addition to the support of the Gao family, the city lord of Xudu, there are also ......" Wen Xihong frowned and said cautiously: "It is rumored that they are the periphery of Xingyue Lake. ”

Speaking of Xingyue Lake, even if Wen Qingwei was conceited and heroic, his face changed, after all, such a long-standing evil sect as the Nine Outer Dao could not afford to offend casually.

Within the empire, the most well-known big forces and organizations are collectively known as the Seven Families, Eight Gates, and Nine Outer Dao.

The Seven Families, headed by the Li family of the central imperial family, and the county princes of the six major counties, belong to six families, and these seven families hold all the official power of today.

Eight doors, is the style of the eight is still called decent, the most powerful, the strongest sect sect, some have a long history, some disciples half the world, the power of the eight doors together, can move the country.

The Nine Outer Ways are nine evil sects, each with different purposes, and they may not be friendly to each other, and they often fight with each other, but in any case, they are opposed to the Seven Families and the Eight Sects, and they can almost be said to be enemies of the world, but they can still open up their own living space, and this alone should not be underestimated.

The most important thing is that no matter the seven families, the eight sects, or the nine outer paths, there is no shortage of ground-level combat power, and there are even heaven-level strongmen in charge, if they are against them, ordinary small and medium-sized sects will be wiped out at any time.

Realizing this, the expressions of the Wen family here are much more cautious, even if they are not cowardly people, they all understand the consequences of provoking the top forces, which is not what to do now.

Wen Quzhi said: "How is the investigation of the relevant information of the auction?"

"They are all people who sell their bodies because their families are poor, or because of crimes, and their whole families are sold by the government, and they are basically civilians, and their quality is not very good. ”

Wen Xihong said: "There is a local gentleman surnamed Zhou, who was accused yesterday, and the government quickly tried and arrested, and the whole family was imprisoned on the same day, and the female dependents were sentenced to official sales. ”

“...... This level of buying and selling, I don't have to run it myself. Wen Quzhi said: "Is there any news about the matter I ordered to investigate?"

"It's a bit of an eyebrow, the premonition of the head of the family is really powerful, the origin of that fragment is very problematic......" Wen Xihong looked left and right, "This is not the place to talk, go back to the store first, and then I will tell the head of the family." ”

No one would have an opinion on this arrangement, but when everyone was about to leave, there was a sudden commotion at the city gate, and a red carriage that was about to enter the city was stopped by the soldiers.

The horse pulling the cart has dragon patterns on its body, and at a glance it is known that it is from Aolong County, and its status is definitely not low.

Wen Quzhi raised his eyebrows, feeling quite weird, guarding the city requires a certain amount of eyesight, as long as he is not blind, he can recognize that this is the carriage and horse of the Long clan, not to mention Xu Du, even in the capital of Yingyang County, where the soldiers do not dare to stop the Long family's car so casually, this is really unusual......

A group of Wen family members followed the gaze of the head of the family, and soon found an abnormality, tsk and surprise, how do you know that things have taken a turn for the worse, the Long family's guard soldiers, surrounded by the city gate guards, the two sides clashed, the Long family soldiers some angrily drew their swords, as a gesture to intimidate, but the city gate guards reacted fiercely, more than ten guns surrounded and stabbed down, in an instant, the corpses of the Long family's soldiers were on the ground, blood stained under the guns.

The servant girl next to the carriage, her eyes full of disbelief, screamed in disbelief, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed over, knocked the screaming maidservant unconscious with the back of their knives, and broke the door of the carriage and pulled out a bride in a red wedding dress.

The bride was covered with a red cloth on her head, and her face was not revealed, but looking at the figure, she was obviously a beauty, and she was pulled out without resistance, and followed, along with the carriage, and the whole process was abrupt, but it happened very quickly, and the commotion had not yet expanded, and it was over, as if everything had been arranged.

Wen Quzhi watched all this, did not speak, Wen Xihong smiled: "In the past two days, several households in the city have been illegally copied, which may also be implicated, it seems that she is a beauty, if it is auctioned, we can ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped on the chest by Wen Qingwei, and threw a look that showed inappropriateness, Wen Xihong was stunned, and then remembered an unconfirmed rumor circulating in the family.

...... It is said that when the head of the family was a teenager, he once had a marriage contract with a woman next to the Long family, and the two had no guesses, but because of the fall of the Wen family and the human trafficking, the other party directly repented of marrying him, and the head of the family left home angrily and exiled himself...... This is a big taboo for the head of the family, no one dares to ask, no one dares to mention it.

...... Besides, the woman must have been married a long time ago......

Worried about evoking the unhappy memories of the head of the family, no one dared to speak for a while, and soon, Wen Quzhi smiled.

"Let's go!" Wen Quzhi chuckled: "I have to admit that when I saw this, I felt a sense of joy in my heart, and human nature ...... Sure enough, it's ugly. ”

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