Chapter 1634: Robbing the Road

The premise of wanting to be a bandit is to have mountains. In this way, you can have sufficient strategic depth and space for transfer to avoid the pursuit of the government. Otherwise, it is not in the mountains, but kneeling under the mountains to beg for food.

And the mountains and rivers near Yangzhou are only those two places, the Dabie Mountains in western Anhui, and the Huangshan Mountains in southern Anhui. The distance to these two places is not much different. But on the other hand, southern Anhui was slaughtered in the subsequent war, and western Anhui was relatively better.

Without leaving the battlefield, the Dabie Mountains, 700 miles to the west, became inevitable.

On the dusty road, more than 20 carriages were loaded with goods, surrounded by shop assistants and a pile of strong men. And behind this caravan, there was a long stream of people dragging out.

The caravan looked strong, and the people they met would naturally fall behind the caravan. But because the foot strength was different, they were gradually thrown away, and became the current appearance.

"Looking at the four of you, you are not old, and you are dressed well. You must have a lot of family assets. Why is there no adult accompanying you?"

People behind the caravan, seeing the four people following them closely, couldn't help but curiously ask.

Zhao Erhu led the donkey, Liansheng sat on the donkey, Jiang Wuyang followed, and Wang Yan carried the knife on his neck with both arms, swaying and walking.

Jiang Wuyang replied: "We can do it ourselves, look, there are knives."

He patted the knife he was carrying to show. This was bought in the city when passing through Chuzhou for rest. He and Erhu each had a steel knife, and they were also equipped with daggers. Spent a lot of silver.

The man looked up and laughed, and others followed: "The hair hasn't grown yet, can you use a knife? Huh? Hahahaha..."

Jiang Wuyang was a bit annoyed. It was like this when he was young. When others said some teasing words, it touched the sensitive self-esteem. Children also want face.

But thinking about causing less trouble, he didn't say anything.

Wang Yan took the words: "This big brother, we don't have any adults to take care of, born and raised by heaven and earth, the clothes we wear well are grabbed."

"Grabbed? I think it's stolen. You guys are also bold, a few girls and boys whose hair hasn't grown yet, dare to dance with knives and guns and travel south and north, not afraid of being caught and made into rice meat?"

"Isn't there a knife? Can't kill others, can't you wipe your own neck and suffer less?"

"This sentence has a bit of spirit." The man nodded and praised.

"This big brother, where are you going?"

"Hefei. Why, want to follow the same way?"

"We are going to Lu'an, on the way. Also learn from the big brother about the experience of walking the rivers and lakes."

"Listen to what this silly boy is saying? Experience of walking the rivers and lakes? Hahahaha..."

Everyone laughed, and the man said, "Silly boy, where is there any rivers and lakes? Isn't it people eating people? Whoever has a big fist eats more. Tell you one more sentence, do this sentence, you boy is not too unlucky, you can live long."

"Please give advice."

"Listen more! Look less! Don't say!"

Jiang Wuyang took the words: "Then why do you tell us?"

"Hey, you silly boy, looking for a beating!" The man didn't say a word, and slapped Jiang Wuyang on the back of the head.

Jiang Wuyang was furious, and then was angry...

Wang Yan took back his gaze, turned his head and asked with a smile: "Big brother, you are escorting darts, how is the business?"

"Can you read?" The man looked at the flag erected on the caravan, which was written with the words "Zhiyuan Escort Bureau".

"Recognize a few, and can also write one, two, three, four, five, six."

"That's stronger than those who are illiterate. Finally, you said about the business of escorting darts..." The man shook his head, tsk tsk, "Escorting darts, walking south and north, the face is familiar everywhere, it sounds very majestic, but it is also hard-earned money."

Jiang Wuyang inserted: "Shouldn't it be life-selling money?"

With a muffled sound, the man slapped Jiang Wuyang on the back of the head again.

"Say you are stupid, you are really stupid. Escorting darts is to make money, not to send life. We are to make the heads and small hungry ghosts along the way clear, some give money, some do things, everyone gives each other face, no need to move knives and soldiers, safe and sound. If you walk all the way, fight all the way, how many can live and earn money?"

He looked old and god-like, waiting for the silly boy to ask.

So Jiang Wuyang asked: "Why?"

"What else can it be? People want to stand up, they have to let the people who come and go east and west know who is the master. If you don't kill a few people, how can you stand up? There is also a kind, that is, there are really people whose brains are not smart, only know how to kill and rob and don't do return business. Such business doesn't last long. When no one walks from their side, they learn to follow the rules."

Going out is only for money, killing and robbing is, blocking the road is, being an official is, doing business is, rebelling is also unable to live and wanting to make trouble, making trouble clearly changes the world, not making trouble is suppressed.

Just as the people of the Escort Bureau said, the Escort Bureau and the road robbers are a group. Everyone earns the money of these businessmen. Even big firms, raising a group of people themselves, cannot take care of everything, and always need these escort bureaus that are proficient in local business. Other small businessmen, if the cargo volume is small, they find someone to accompany them and

Just as the people from the security firm said, the security firm and the road robbers were in the same boat; everyone earned money from these businessmen. Even for large firms, they supported a group of people themselves, but they couldn't cover everything and always needed these security firms that were proficient in local business. Other small businessmen with small quantities of goods would find companions to join and spend money together to hire guards.

In this way, the robbers and the travelers maintained a tacit understanding, which truly solved a lot of employment and stimulated a lot of consumption. After all, these people who claimed to be chivalrous were very worldly, and they spent money much more fiercely than the common people who scratched a living from the fields or worked in workshops...

"Don't believe those storytellers who talk about the 'jianghu' or 'loyalty'; they are all deceiving you foolish boys. If you really believe those things, you won't even know how you died." This person spoke the golden words of wisdom for mixing in the jianghu.

Jiang Wuyang stiffened his neck and said nothing. Wang Yan smiled and expressed that he had learned, then asked the man about the business of escorting goods. Of course, he knew how to flatter; things that weren't secrets, once flattered comfortably, they were happy to say them to show off.

The main business of Zhiyuan Security Firm was in the two provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui. Yangzhou-Hefei-Xuzhou-Huai'an-Yangzhou, this loop was their main route. It sounded like a big business, but in reality, there were only a hundred or so people, and it was impossible to fully spread out on this route. Even for this loop, they didn't have full confidence.

It was all developed bit by bit as the business expanded, constantly giving gifts, visiting the docks, finding people to introduce, and slowly operating. But a hundred people couldn't control such a large route.

Because this area was located on a plain, the robbers were all local hooligans and strongmen. Some of these people would tremble and run away after doing one job, while some foolish and bold ones just wouldn't run, and before long, they would be cleaned up by the government.

So in these places, the security firms got to know the local evil forces, which had been harming people all along, and could harm them from inside the city to outside...

As for the specific revenue situation, this was of course a secret, and Wang Yan didn't get an answer.

"Big Brother, you asked so much, do you want us to also pull up a team to do a security firm?" Zhao Erhu asked in a low voice.

"Food won't grow out of the mountains for no reason, and meat won't grow either. Do you think it's fine just to pull people out? Didn't you hear what people said? Life for robbers in the mountains isn't easy either. Knowing more never hurts; we'll talk about whether to do it later."

Lian Sheng, riding on the donkey, spoke up: "You are too young; you have no hair on your lips, so you can't handle things firmly. Even if you open a security firm, there will be no business."

"Don't talk!" Zhao Erhu glared.

So Lian Sheng curled her lips and looked around at the same scenery.

Jiang Wuyang interjected: "Second Sister-in-law makes sense, Big Brother..."

"Get lost, it's not the time yet." Wang Yan waved his hand, "Li the Squire is a kind person; we still have more than a thousand taels of silver in our hands, enough for us to eat and drink well for a few years."

Just like this, Wang Yan and the others traveled west with the caravan. After walking for more than a day, when they were about to stop and rest near dusk, suddenly there was a clamor in front.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Jiang Wuyang was only thirteen years old, just at the age where he was active and couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Of course, Zhao Erhu wasn't very deep either, it was just that many times the questions he wanted to ask were asked by Jiang Wuyang, and he wasn't the big brother anymore, so he didn't need to answer for Jiang Wuyang, so he remained silent.

The man who had been chatting with Wang Yan sighed: "The debt-collecting ghosts of robbers are here. Don't talk nonsense; if you lose your life, don't blame me for not reminding you."

"Many thanks." Wang Yan nodded with a smile.

The team of more than twenty horse-drawn carts could stretch out for more than two hundred meters from front to back. But when encountering trouble, the team would quickly tighten up, compressing to within dozens of meters.

Those close to the caravan naturally moved closer to the shrinking circle, while the scattered people further back turned around and walked back, running away first as a sign of respect.

In a while, the team finished shrinking. Several men wearing tattered clothes, dragging machetes, walking in all directions, shaking their heads and swaying their brains, with sharp eyes scanning everyone's faces, were truly arrogant.

No one made eye contact with them; everyone avoided their gaze in a panic.

"You! Raise your head!" A robber man walked over, looking at Lian Sheng, who was lowering her head, with a lewd smile.

"You..." Zhao Erhu shouted and was about to act.

Wang Yan put his arm around his neck: "It's no big deal to look, raise your head."

Lian Sheng heard this and obediently raised her head, her eyes flickering, pitiful to behold.

"The little lady is really pretty." The man chuckled, "This little lady has bound feet; if I smell them, I don't know how fragrant they would be. It's a waste to be with you little brats; come with your grandpa me."

"This master..." The strong man from the security firm who had chatted with Wang Yan all the way couldn't help but speak, but was stopped by the person beside him.

"Big Brother!" Zhao Erhu's eyes were wide open, and bloodshot veins appeared.

"I can hear you, why are you shouting so loudly?"

Wang Yan glared impatiently, "How did I tell you? You must have a calm spirit when encountering things."

The strong robber laughed, as if he had heard a huge joke, but before he could say anything, he flew out.

It was Wang Yan who kicked him flying, and then he pulled out his machete very crisply, picked the hand and foot tendons of a robber beside the person who flew out, and kicked another leg broken. Immediately after, he killed toward the other few robbers.

Everything he did, although his movements were swift, was only for the onlookers; it was still far from his actual speed. He was just holding back so as not to be too exaggerated.

Also, after he quickly solved two people, the others reacted. Zhao Erhu shouted "Kill" and drew his machete and rushed up, slashing at the robber directly in front of him.

Encountering this sudden change, the security firm's head and the robbers, who were still waiting to negotiate, also subconsciously drew their machetes and slashed as if reacting to a stimulus, and they started fighting directly.

Wang Yan didn't drag others down, and tried his best not to harm others, so he quickly slashed down the nearby robbers and ran to the front to support the guards of the security firm.

The battle progressed very quickly, and in just a few minutes, this small-scale encounter of sudden robbery and resistance ended.

The scene was not pretty; blood, severed limbs, corpses, feces and urine, wailing. The people from the security firm were silently cleaning the battlefield, watching the few young people on the other side like lunatics.

"Come, Second Brother." Wang Yan hugged Erhu and walked to the robber who had teased them first, "You haven't killed anyone yet; hack him to death to practice your hands."

He pulled Jiang Wuyang to the robber whose hand and foot tendons he had severed and whose leg he had kicked broken: "You too, Third Brother, you've been shouting about killing and seeing blood; come on, I've given you a chance."

The people on the side just watched, witnessing with their own eyes how a fierce bandit is forged.

Even those who mix in the security firm and walk the jianghu haven't necessarily seen blood or taken a life; where are there so many people for them to hack? There are many more people in this world who are hacked. These people who mix in the jianghu are not special either; it's nothing more than having sufficient nutrition, a good body, knowing a few moves, plus some blood and courage for various reasons.

But little brats of the age of Wang Yan and the others, especially the high-level martial arts Wang Yan showed earlier, the crisp and clean way of acting, and the casual indifference at this moment, were what made people afraid.

The man who had chatted with Wang Yan all the way was shivering. Especially watching Jiang Wuyang wiping the blood on his face and turning back to glare at himself...

"What are you glaring at? He is teaching us principles; he is a good person." Wang Yan gave Jiang Wuyang a slap, turned back and smiled at the man, "Big Brother, sorry, the broken child is ignorant."

The man shook his head repeatedly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's my hand that was itchy."

Just at this moment, the head of the security firm walked over, swept a glance at the two corpses on the ground, and smiled at Wang Yan with a salute: "This little... brother, thank you for your righteous action, otherwise..."

"Hey, what are you saying, Head? It was clearly us who caused the trouble, but we also had our difficulties; we couldn't really send my sister-in-law to be ruined by others, right? Your brothers from the security firm were also injured, but at least no one lost their life; it can be considered that our brothers caused less evil. This place is less than a hundred miles from Hefei; we will travel overnight and not add trouble to you."

"You misunderstood, little brother, I just came to thank you. These people have unfamiliar faces and came up to grab a woman; they are not easy to deal with. Even if we settle accounts, compared to giving them silver, the medicine fees for everyone present are too small. And these people died lightly; no one is looking for them, we have no trouble, don't worry. Let's eat together in a while."

"Then thank you." Wang Yan saluted...

The caravan's workers and the security firm's guards were busy digging pits and destroying the corpses...

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