Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 680: Exploring the Reality on Wolf Peak Mountain

The old man sat up after hearing this. "This is not easy. These are bandits who kill without blinking an eye. Small favors won't sway them. Besides, with the current situation at home, can we afford to support so many people? They are not the kind of people who will fight you just because you give them a bite to eat. Don't think it's too easy."

Zhou Guo said, "That's why I wanted to go take a look. The people who just came up the mountain are pretty good. I think they still have some conscience. They didn't kill us right away. Now they have no one. The fighting power of the bandits is much stronger than that of the refugees. With them, I can save a lot of worries and pull out this thorn. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"

The old man was hesitant.

Zhou Guo continued, "Hey, Master, think about it, when you were an escort, weren't all the people in your team good at fighting? After recruiting this group of people, we will have more than half a year to escort ourselves, and you can build a new escort agency in the north."

The old man was stunned. Building an escort agency? He has been an escort all his life.

Zhou Guo added: "You have been a escort for your whole life. You have encountered all kinds of situations and know how to do anything. It won't be difficult for you to build another one. When we have our own escort agency, we can transport our goods to all corners of the world."

The old man was really tempted. He had been a bodyguard for his entire life and had been on the run for decades. He really missed it. After thinking for a while, he finally agreed, "Okay, then we'll find a time to go quietly."

Zhou Guo said happily: "Thank you, Master. We will be sending mushrooms out again the day after tomorrow. This batch of mushrooms will be sent to Ningping and Kang'an. Let's go together."

The routes of Yunzhou and Chengding are as familiar to Zhou Gu as his home, and he can handle them by himself.

She did what she said. When no one was around, she took out the big knife she had hidden, wiped it clean, and put it back into the sheath.

Early in the morning of the third day, Zhou Guo and the old man set off with the convoy.

Li still reminded worriedly, "Since Huaiyang is not peaceful and there are bandits, we won't go there. We can just go to Kang'an and Ningping. Anyway, everyone says that there are not many mushrooms this year. Several prefectures are not enough to sell. There is no need to go elsewhere."

I reminded him at least eight times in this morning.

Zhou Guo said, "Mom, don't worry. I know. I will definitely not bring the fungus to Huaiyang. I will only go to these two places this time. Don't worry, Master is with me."

Li was relieved now.

The convoy set off, and this time she brought Hu Zi and Dapang with her.

After three days of walking, the convoy came to a fork in the road. One team went west, and the other went south.

Zhou Guo said to the two men, "I will not go with you this time. You have been to these two places many times and you know what to do. We will meet here in five days. If you cannot wait for us in five days, you will go back first. Do you understand?"

Hu Zi said worriedly, "Master, can you and the old man do it together? Otherwise, I will go with you. Although I am not as strong as you, I know a little bit of martial arts, so I can still help."

Zhou Guo said, "No need. You can help by delivering the goods. Otherwise, how can I support people without money? Okay, you guys go ahead."

Zhou Guo rode on his horse and watched the convoy go away.

Then he said to the old man beside him: "Master, let's go. It will only take half a day to get there by fast horse."

The old man pulled the reins and said, "Go!"

The horse under him rushed out like an arrow.

Zhou Guo followed closely behind.

Langfeng Mountain is very big, with one area connected to another and one mountain connected to another.

The two stood at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the mountain, confused.

The old man said, "It's so big, where can we find people?"

Zhou Guo was a little annoyed. Why didn't he ask about the exact location?

This mountain is not only big, but also high, strange, and has steep peaks. It is difficult to attack even if we send troops to attack it.

She said, "For now, the only solution is to go up and take a look."

The path became narrower and narrower as we went up the mountain, and the horses could no longer go up.

The two men had no choice but to abandon their horses and walk up the mountain.

This mountain is so big.

The two searched in the mountains for two days and two nights before they found their lair.

It was only because I met some people who went out hunting in the mountains and followed them back that I found it. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have found it even if I had wandered around for half a month.

Zhou Guo sat on a big rock behind the village, holding a roasted pheasant in his hand. He ate while paying attention to the movements in the village. "Master, their lives are quite regular. They grow vegetables and raise chickens, cut a lot of firewood, and hunt. This doesn't look like a bandit's den. Did we find the wrong place? Could they be decent farmers?"

The old man said, "How can it be serious? Haven't you seen the rows of stakes in the yard? They are all prepared for practicing boxing and kicking. And didn't you notice that in the whole village, there is not a single woman, not even an old person or a child. Which farmer's family doesn't have old people and children?"

Zhou Guo pulled out a big chicken leg and ate it. "But we've been squatting here for a whole day. When are we going to leave?"

The old man patted her head gently and said, "Of course it's getting dark. Even if not everyone in the village is here now, there are more people than the two of us. When it gets dark, we can go straight to their boss's house and everything will be easy."

"I know. To catch a thief, we must first catch the leader. I must be very hungry and my brain is not working. I can't think of this."

The two were speechless.

Sitting on a rock and eating.

Zhou Guo ate a pheasant, a large piece of braised beef in soy sauce, and seven or eight steamed buns. He ate all the food he had with him in one meal. He planned that if he had nothing to eat at night, he would go to the village below to steal some food. There must be a lot of delicious food in that bandit’s lair.

After finally waiting until it was dark, the lights were on in the village, and all the bandits went to sleep, Zhou Guo went down the mountain, "Master, I'm leaving."

The old man nodded and said, "If anything goes wrong, just blow the whistle."

Zhou Guo had been observing from up there for a whole day, so he naturally knew which room the boss lived in, but when he went to the leader's room, he turned and went to the kitchen.

They didn't bring much food, so the remaining food was left for the old man, who hadn't eaten dinner yet.

I went to the kitchen, opened the fire and took a look. My goodness, I wonder what kind of life this group of bandits are living.

She searched the entire kitchen but couldn't find a piece of meat. The most she found were wild vegetables and a lot of steamed buns. She smelled them but didn't smell anything strange, so she grabbed one and started eating.

He didn't mind the wild vegetables and just picked them up to eat, taking a bite of steamed bun and a bite of wild vegetables. He ate all the remaining steamed buns and wild vegetables in the basket.

After eating, I drank another pot of tea.

Then he went to the boss's house.

As we walked along, we found that this village was really poor. There wasn't even a decent house. Except for the house where the bandit leader lived, the others were made of yellow mud and thatch, similar to the houses of most households in the village. It didn't look like a bandit's den at all.

She found the house easily and gently pushed the door open and went in.