Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 141 Meeting a Scholar on the Road
Yingchuan County.

on the official road.

A caravan moved forward slowly, escorting a lot of goods from left to right. There were 60 or [-] donkey carts and carriages in total, and there were many escorts, about five to sixty people. All are embroidered with a flower, a black mandala.

In the middle of the caravan, there is a more luxurious carriage, which is forced to follow the caravan.

In the carriage, there were three people sitting.

The two are playing games, and the other is resting with his eyes closed.

"Hey, you lost again!"

The middle-aged scholar held a white piece, and after making a piece, he looked at the young man who was playing against him, and said triumphantly.

"Don't get too complacent!"

Mu Jing was very depressed, he put down the sunspot that couldn't get down, and said with some gnashing of teeth.

To say that he also played Go in the last life, the game of black and white is also a skill for him, and he thought he could pretend to be thirteen, but when he met Jiang Lu, a chess master, he said that he was completely defeated. he.

"Chess is played with thoughts, and your thoughts are too complicated!" Jiang Lu said with a smile as he stroked his neatly trimmed mustache.

"Humph!"

Mu Jing snorted coldly and said, "One more plate!"

"Then come!"

The two continued to play.

Zhang Huo, who was sitting next to him with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and said, "There is someone approaching in front!"

Zhang Ning had no choice but to be wronged by pleading and persecution, and became Mu Jing's bodyguard to escort him north to Luoyang City. With him as a great expert accompanying him, Mu Jing was a bit confident.

"how many people?"

Mu Jing narrowed his eyes slightly as he put down the chess piece.

Yingchuan's journey was really not peaceful. From Runan to the north, they had encountered robbers four or five times. If the personal guards around him were not strong enough, they might have been in disaster.

"The sound of hooves is normal. Ordinary thieves don't have such riding skills. They should be officers and soldiers!"

Zhang Huo closed his eyes, felt his thoughts, and said in a low voice.

"The caravan ahead stops immediately!"

When the sound of horseshoes approached outside, several soldiers with loud voices were calling.

"My lord, what's the matter?"

Huo Yu, the person in charge of the caravan on the surface, and Mujing's personal security secretary who handles big and small matters, stepped forward, showed a smiling face, and asked humbly.

"Where did you come from, do you have customs clearance documents!"

Dozens of cavalry surrounded the caravan, and the leader, holding a big gun, stepped forward to question him.

"My lord, we came from Wuyin, Nanyang, and we are a caravan of Jingping Trading Company. We are transporting some cloth to Luoyang. This is a customs clearance document. Please hold me high!"

Huo Yu stepped forward, while bowing, secretly took out a gold ingot, and handed it to the leading cavalry general.

The cavalry general weighed the gold ingots in his hand, and after seeing that they were indeed some cloth, he waved his hand and let the caravan pass.

on the carriage.

Mu Jing and Jiang Lu looked out of the small window and shook their heads one after another. Mu Jing said, "It's them again, and the prefect of Yingchuan doesn't care about it!"

"The Great Han Dynasty is rotten to the bone!"

Jiang Lu was a little disappointed.

This group of cavalry should be among the cavalry of Yingchuan County soldiers. They set up a pass in front of them before, and they paid a toll for a toll, which was worth two ingots of gold cakes. The team has a lot of goods, let's exploit it again.

"The upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked!"

Mu Jing didn't care too much: "Today's son used to buy and sell official positions in the West Garden, how could the people below not follow suit!"

Emperor Ling used to sell officials in the West Garden to raise funds, and the news has already spread. There are examples, and everyone follows. Therefore, it is common to buy and sell official positions in various places, and those who sell official positions will naturally get some back. Cost, naturally there are these things.

"Aren't you also going to buy an official this time?" Jiang Lu said.

"I'm not buying an official, I'm buying a background!"

Mu Jing said indifferently.

What is Mushan's biggest shortcoming now? It's his background. He was born in the Yellow Turban, so he was destined to become a target. In the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban was a crime that could kill people. No matter how much credit he made, he would not end well .

So they need a background, which can only be given by today's emperor.

After two days of traveling, the caravan left Yingchuan and entered Guanzhong.

"My lord, Zhongmu is ahead, shall we enter the city?" Huo Yu asked outside the carriage.

"never mind!"

Mu Jing and Jiang Lu played chess for a whole day, and they lost even in a row, so they had no interest in continuing the game. He put down the chess pieces, and then said to the outside of the carriage: "Find a place to camp outside the city. Be low-key!"

"promise!"

Huo Yu took the order, and then ordered Huo Shao and the others to find a place nearby to set up camp. These guards are all Mujing's personal guards, and each of them is a soldier who has been killed on the battlefield. Half of the Baiyu's bandits can't help it They, so they are not afraid to camp outside the city.

In the evening, they found a plain beach by the river and set up camp on the spot.

"Huo San, Huo Yu, you lead people to guard the left and right, take turns to change the guard, be careful, don't be careless, go out, if the son is in the hands, the son of Jingpingying can eat us, you know?" Huo Shao as the personal guard Commander, he is not the strongest in martial arts, and he is not very good at arranging troops, but he has one advantage, which is that he is cautious. People who hunt all year round will deploy their emotions in the state of the mountain at any time, and remain the most vigilant Attitude.

"promise!"

The two each led ten people to guard the surrounding area.

"Huo Shao!"

"Son!"

"I see there's a forest over there. I'm going to hunt prey. I've been feeling numb recently. Let's have another meal tonight!" Mu Jing ordered.

"promise!"

Huo Shao took the order and left.

As a hunter, he is really good at hunting. Just after dark, he brought two pheasants and a rabbit came back.

"Old Jiang, you are lucky today!"

Mujing prefers the taste of barbecue, so he has also learned a few hands. He handles the little bunny very well, and it is done in two or three strokes, and then add it up and roast it. Unfortunately, there are not many seasonings in this era, otherwise the taste should be more fragrant. He quickly roasted the rabbit: "Mu's barbecue is unique in the world, try it!"

"A gentleman is far away from the kitchen, and the path is too!"

Jiang Lu was so popular, he scrambled to eat, and at the same time played with his character, he ate both rabbit legs, and he was still chattering, which made Mujing want to beat him up.

“It tastes really good!”

Soon Zhang Huo joined the battle group, he is a master of martial arts, once he intervened, Mu Jing basically had nothing to do.

"shameless!"

Mujing was so angry, but he couldn't afford to offend even a giant Buddha, so he had to clean up another pheasant and continue the great business of grilling.

"My lord, I caught a person, and this person is sneaking around outside our camp!"

In the light of the bonfire, Huo Shao came up and reported.

"Take it up and have a look!"

Mujing Road.

"Bring him up!" Huo Shao yelled to the back, and two soldiers walked over, one on the left and the other on the right, with a young man in white robes between them.

"It hurts, it hurts!"

This white-robed young man is only in his early twenties. The clothes on his body are plain white and clean. It is a Confucian robe with a bun and a crown on his head. Pain: "I'm not a spy, I'm just a ranger passing by, take it easy!"

"It seems that he is a scholar, let go first!"

Jiang Lu took a look, waved his hand and said.

"promise!"

Several soldiers let go and stepped back two steps.

"Who are you, why did you visit my caravan?" Seeing this person's demeanor, Mu Jing didn't look like a thief, but a gentle and talented man, he asked.

"Are you a caravan?"

The young man in white exercised his muscles and bones, and sat down grinningly. He was sitting on the stone directly opposite Mujing, curled his lips, and said, "There are dozens of you on the beach as big as a palm, but each of you is in the posture of marching, and you are resting." The place is also arranged in the way of a marching formation. Over there is cover, and here is a breakout. The cover is very good. The left and right depend on each other. Difficult to raid, this is still a caravan, you lie to ghosts!"

His words made Huo Shao inexplicably chill, and he put his hands on the handle of the knife inadvertently, his tiger eyes were stern, staring at the young man in white robe.

"good eyesight!"

Jiang Lu clapped his hands and said: "It seems that not only have you read some military books, but also watched some army formations, so you can react so quickly!"

"Ha ha!"

After fiddling with it for a while, the young man in white looked at the roast chicken in Mujing's hand and salivated: "I am a traveling scholar who traveled to Zhongmu and wanted to go to the city, but it was too dark to go to the city. I was able to deal with it in the wild for a night, and I just finished eating the dry food, and I was really hungry, and I smelled the fragrance, so I came here uninvited, please forgive me!"

"No problem!" Jiang Lu also traveled around the world in the past to increase his knowledge and know the pain of a useless scholar studying abroad. He smiled and said, "It's such a joy to have friends from far away!"

"and many more!"

Mu Jing stopped him, and said with a smile: "You are a scholar!"

"Of course!" The young man in white said proudly.

"Zi said, gentlemen don't eat cheap food. If I gave you the food today, wouldn't it be a charity to your brother? If this is the contempt for your brother, how can you do it!" pleasure.

"I can buy it with money!"

The young man in white was taken aback for a moment, and said.

"Then I have become a merchant, how should I deal with myself!" Mu Jing was in a dilemma.

"Brother, you can say what you want!" The young man in white could see that if he wanted to eat roast chicken today, he had to work hard.

"You can play chess!"

"Know a thing or two!"

"If you can beat him, the roast chicken tonight is yours!" Mu Jing wanted to take revenge, so he caught a scholar and pulled him up. Jiang Lu couldn't be too arrogant.

"This statement is true!" The young man in white was fearless.

"Of course!"

Mu Jing said indifferently: "Everyone in the world can testify, I, Mu Longtu, have a lot to say!"

"it is good!"

The young man in white said: "Play chess!"

Jiang Lu was a little helpless, this Mulongtu was too narrow-minded, didn't he just win dozens of games of chess, why do you hold grudges against you so much.

Still, he laid out the chessboard.

He had to let Mu Longtu know that his chess skills were not something ordinary people could win.

Black and white interlaced, a quarter of an hour.

Jiang Lu is defeated!
"Can I have roast chicken?" The white-clothed youth coveted the golden-yellow roast chicken in Mujing's hands for a long time.

"Hahaha!"

Mujing laughed heartily: "It's all yours!"

"Thank you!"

The young man in white was really hungry. After driving all day, he didn't have a single grain of rice in his stomach. Can he not be hungry? He began to compete with the roast chicken in his hand.

"Old Jiang, don't be arrogant this time!" Mu Jing beat someone down.

"The rings are intertwined, and the bursts are connected, which is enough to show that this person's mind is so secret that I am far inferior!"

Jiang Lu didn't pay attention to Mu Jing's downfall, he kept looking at the chessboard, the situation where the black piece was defeated by the white pieces, he felt a little sigh in his heart.

"Jiang Lu in Xialingling, I don't know your brother's name!" Jiang Lu bowed and asked as a scholar, as a gentleman.

"Yingchuan Xilong!"

The young man in white waved his hand, returned the salute, and then reported his name.

(End of this chapter)