Taking the horse from Chen Xiao's hand, Lao Zhang handed 34 gold to Chen Xiao, looked up at the sky, and looked a little nostalgic.
"To tell you the truth, the people in our small village used to be one of the merchants on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, but that was many years ago..."
"Many years ago? What do you mean?"
Chen Xiao has a bad hunch, shouldn't this unscrupulous Nuwa set some perverted tasks?
Sure enough, when Chen Xiao asked, Lao Zhang immediately turned on the memory mode.
"Many years ago during the most prosperous period of our ancient tea-horse road there were nearly 100,000 merchants and thousands of caravans, divided into three roads, north, middle and south, and their footprints reached the end of the world. I think at that time we..."
"North-Central-South Three Roads? You mean three different trade routes?" Chen Xiao asked.
"Yes." Lao Zhang nodded and continued: "The north road is to cross the prairie in the north and arrive at a country that calls itself Romanov. This is a country ruled by women. It is very cold and it snows at every turn... "
Romanov... This seems to be a dynasty in Lao Maozi's history, right?
Chen Xiao remembered that the famous Peter the Great and Catherine the Great in the history of Lao Maozi both came from this dynasty, which was a relatively powerful period in the history of Lao Maozi.
As for rule by a woman... It seems that Nu Wa intercepted the historical background of the reign of Catherine the Great.
"The middle road is to cross the great desert in the west and reach a place at the end of the world called the Roman Empire. This national border is incredible. The area is so wide that it covers a whole sea!"
The Roman Empire, a very powerful country in ancient Europe, stood on the east and west ends of the Eurasian continent with the Han Dynasty, but I don't know which part of its history Nuwa will intercept.
"The south road has to cross a series of high mountains and reach a very hot country called the Peacock Dynasty. The king of this country is called King Ashoka. Although his national strength is not comparable to our big man, he is still very strong in their place... "
"It turned out to be Asan..."
Chen Xiaofue smiled helplessly, Asan is a country... Forget it, she doesn't want to complain, in short, that's it.
I don't know if Nuwa specially took care of poor Asan. The historical background intercepted actually included Ashoka, who was the most influential emperor in Asoka's history!
This may not be good news for players in the Three Kingdoms region.
After introducing the three trade routes, Lao Zhang sighed regretfully, "It's a pity that it happened many years ago. In recent years, the imperial court has been sluggish, and border bandits are everywhere. Due to the lack of guards, many of our caravans always go out after going out. They will be attacked by them, and no one will want to go out for business anymore, so gradually the ancient tea-horse road will be abandoned..."
"Is there no other way?" Chen Xiao asked.
"Yes, of course there is!" Old Zhang replied, "The division of merchants on the Ancient Tea Horse Road is very clear.
For example, our small village belonged to the former Middle Tea Horse Road but it is a pity that the starting point of the Middle Tea Horse Road is Tianxue Mountain. It was occupied by a group of Blackwater Qiang people who didn't know where they came from.
And the officers and soldiers of Luding County have been reluctant to send troops to destroy... So as long as someone can kill this Qiang tribe, not to mention the north road and the south road at least our middle road can resume operation. "
"Blackwater Qiang..."
Chen Xiao's head froze for a while, and Nuwa's perversion has never disappointed her.
If it is a small cottage with dozens of hundreds of people, it's okay to say the Heishui Qiang tribe is a tribe of more than 3,000 people, excluding the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, there are at least 2,000 people who can go on horses to fight. This is not a joke!
Not to mention that the leader of this Blackwater Tribe is definitely not low in strength and besides the soldiers of these virtual NPC forces all have guaranteed damage. Even if one can't beat them, thousands of people can kill Chen Xiao even with their lives!
Chen Xiao remembered the first announcement on the Luding County bulletin board at this moment, and now she finally knew the real purpose of Nuwa's announcement.
It's all tricks! It is basically prepared for the opening of the Ancient Tea Horse Road!p
Leaving this small village, Chen Xiao and Xiao Yunshui first went to Luding County to exchange the head of a goatee for the bounty and then went to Yunshui Village to pick up Aunt Li according to their previous agreement.
After receiving the bounty, Chen Xiao now has a total of 54 gold and 9 silver, which is enough for her for a long time.
In Chen Xiao's original expectation, Aunt Li and Xiao Yunshui were first brought to Luding County to live for a period of time.
After she had settled the matter of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, she would bring them back to Xiaban County together. When meeting with Jiang Yu, the two were arranged in Xueyin Village.
It's a pity that all this can only be Chen Xiao's expectation.
The bright moon is hanging high, and when Chen Xiao and Xiao Yunshui return to Yunshui Village on the moonlight, what awaits them is not Aunt Li, who welcomes them warmly but cold corpses!
Outside Yunshui Village, the bodies of dozens of villagers were piled up in random places, and the death was very tragic.
Even Chen Xiao couldn't help but be moved by this extremely bloody scene.
"mother!"
Xiao Yunshui rushed towards Auntie Li's corpse at the top of the corpse pile like a madman, pulling Auntie Li's already cold body, shouting heartbreakingly.
"Mom, wake up! What the hell is going on? Wake up!"
However, no matter how Xiao Yunshui shouted, Aunt Li would never respond to her again.
This scene made Chen Xiao couldn't help but close his eyes.
"Haha! You two little girls are finally back!"
In the distance a team of dozens of people came out of the woods, fifty of them on horseback and more than thirty on foot, led by the man who claimed to be sewage.
"You! It's you!" Xiao Yunshui recognized the sewage at a glance, "You killed my mother! Isn't it?!"
Chen Xiao also looked at the sewage and asked in a cold tone, "You killed Aunt Li and these villagers?"
"No, I killed the villagers, but Auntie Li committed suicide." Shui Shui denied it, shaking her head with some regret and explained: "I didn't want to kill Aunt Li, after all, she was a bargaining chip I used to threaten you. ...but who would have thought that this woman was so uncooperative! She even took my knife and committed suicide when I was not prepared!
It's a pity, it's a pity... Wouldn't it be nice to live a good life with our leader? Suicide at every turn, is it possible that all of you Han women are mentally ill? "
"Beast! I'm going to kill you!"
Tears flowed down his cheeks, and Xiao Yunshui, who had lost his mind, picked up the wooden stick beside him and was about to rush towards the sewage.
Chen Xiao stopped Xiao Yunshui and looked at the sewage again, the killing intent in his eyes kept overflowing.
"So you are the one who killed the villagers?"
"Yes what's the matter?"
Sewage looked at Chen Xiao and said casually: "Little Niangpi, don't you want to avenge them? I advise you to stop thinking about it. Do you know who the fifty people behind me are?
They are the personal guards of our Blackwater leader, the most brave and skilled in the tribe..."
"do you know?"
Interrupting the sewage, Chen Xiao asked Xiao Yunshui to step back and took off the Huya gun from his back, his tone was cold and biting.
"Two years ago, a guy said he wanted me to stop killing people and I said yes, so I won't take anyone's life unless it's necessary.
Today however, it was just because of my momentary kindness that I brought such a catastrophe to the villagers of Yunshui Village and I regret it... So I want to ask you to do me a favor. "
Chen Xiao looked up at the sewage, the gradually sinister curvature of the corners of his mouth made the sewage feel a chill in his heart.
"Please go back and tell your leader that tonight I will let his entire tribe be buried with the villagers of Yunshui Village. As for these people behind you, I will let them go first, okay?"