Chapter 136 Tang Lei

Hua Kai agreed with his grandfather's idea. Since the two families have been quarreling to such an extent, there is no need to consider each other's feelings. It will be less dangerous if they enter the grassland one step faster. The Hua family has such a powerful carriage team and they are still walking slowly behind others. Doesn't this increase the danger of the caravan?

Hua Kai asked his grandfather to tell the leaders of the Jia, Tai and other caravans about the situation on the battlefield in Leling City. These leaders are very smart and can easily analyze the current situation of Qi. Starting tomorrow, the Hua family caravan will surpass the Han family caravan, and some people will have to make a choice.

In addition, Grandpa told Hua Kai that the caravan met the Guangxian caravan heading to the Linhu grassland the day before yesterday. The leader of the Shen family was only in the Qidong realm. It was too difficult for such a person to pass through the Panlong Eighteen Bends.

The Han family received the Guangxian caravan of the Shen family and several other families heading to the Aohan tribe, but they didn't know whether to send the Shen family to the Aohan tribe or take them to the Huhan tribe of the Xiongnu country.

The Han family's actions made many family caravans in Guang County very dissatisfied. The caravans of the Shen family and other families were too slow, which would drag down the entire caravan's journey. It was reasonable for the Hua family to step over the Han family and walk in front of the caravan.

Some Guang County caravans began to struggle at this time. Whether to speed up with the Hua family or continue to follow the Han family slowly, this may be related to the safety of their caravans this time and the team between the Hua and Han families.

This was the first time that a caravan came out to challenge the Han family's status, which made everyone feel like everything was a dream. However, the Hua family team had a total of 7 Qi training realm members, which was much stronger than the Han family with one Qi training realm member. The families that bought carriages from the Hua family basically followed the Hua family this time, and the caravans that still used old carriages still followed the Han family.

Han's team leader Han rode at the front of the caravan. He watched the Hua family lead more than a dozen caravans and slowly surpass the Han family caravan, with a trace of helplessness in his eyes. The Hua family finally made a decision, so that the danger of their caravan was greatly increased. Without Hua's own Qi training realm leading nearly 20 ordinary caravans to the Huhan tribe, he had no confidence in his heart!

The Hua family caravan left the Han family team and the speed suddenly increased. In the past, they could only travel 40 miles a day, but today they walked hundreds of miles at once. Although everyone was a little tired, they felt at ease. At this speed, they would be more than enough to enter the Xiongnu Kingdom by the end of June.

The Jia family chose to follow the Hua family caravan this time, so there were 8 Qi training masters in the caravan, less than half of the burden, and the strength and efficiency of the caravan were actually improved a lot.

Hua Xing finally summoned all the caravans following the Hua family for the first time and presided over the affairs of the entire caravan. The influence of the Hua family was increasing step by step, but at this time Hua Kai entered Taishan County for the first time. When he entered the territory of Zhao State, he knew why no one was willing to take this road.

Taishan County is mountainous, and the mountains are so long that you can't see the end. Hua Kai walked for ten consecutive days from Acheng to the territory of Taishan County, but he was still more than halfway to the next city on the map, Bo County. He and Han Jinsheng walked in the mountains and forests for more than ten hours every day, but they could only walk 30 miles at most every day.

The road ahead became rugged again, and the mountain road became only more than one foot wide. Hua Kai led his horse and looked carefully at the cliff beside him. If he fell from here accidentally, he would be seriously injured if he didn't die.

After finally walking through the dangerous path, he encountered a small river in front of him. The river was nearly ten meters wide. Fortunately, the water was not very deep. Hua Kai got on the horse and crossed the river carefully.

"Master, there seems to be a small village ahead!" After crossing the river, Han Jinsheng pointed to a cliff in the distance and said.

I saw rows of wooden houses built on the cliffs, and there was a flat land in the middle of the cliffs with an area of ​​about dozens of acres. From a distance, it seemed that crops could be seen on it.

Hua Kai looked at the small village from a distance and found that the design of this village was very wonderful. To enter, you must use the rope above to enter, so that even in the mountains, ordinary wild beasts cannot threaten the safety of their village.

I have seen many such small villages in the past few days, but this one is the largest. Because of the steep terrain of Taishan County, there are not many wild beasts, so there are many mountain people living here.

"Let's go and take a look!" Hua Kai wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Han Jinsheng.

Along the way, Hua Kai deeply experienced what "the road is difficult". If possible, he will never take this road again in his life.

Someone in the mountain stream in the distance saw Hua Kai and Han Jinsheng leading horses and disappearing into the side of the mountain. The mountain people in the mountains are generally more vigilant, and they are generally unwilling to have more contact with outsiders.

Hua Kai walked along the path for nearly ten miles before he came to the cliff where the village was located.

He saw some mountain people wearing ragged coarse cloth staring at them on the cliff. Several men were holding simple bows and arrows with a vigilant look. For them, foreign merchants might be more frightening than wild beasts in the mountains.

Hua Kai was thinking about how to communicate with the other party. At this time, he saw half of the body of a young man sticking out from the village on the cliff. He was a burly young man who looked less than 30 years old. Given the harsh living conditions in the mountains, his actual age might be much younger than this.

"What are you doing? What are you doing in our village?" The young man asked Hua Kai and Han Jinsheng.

"We are passing merchants. We saw a village here from a distance, so we came to see if you have any spiritual medicine for sale. We have goods to exchange with you," Hua Kai shouted from the cliff.

Although the lives of these mountain people are relatively hard, they can occasionally find some good spiritual medicines in the mountains. Some merchants outside the mountains will bring some necessities for the mountain people to trade with them here. Although the danger is much greater than that of trading on the grassland, as long as they can really exchange a spiritual medicine back, they will make a fortune.

Hearing what Hua Kai said, the leader-like youth led several villagers and began to climb up the cliff along the rope on the side of the mountain. When they reached a valley, there was a steep mountain road. Several people climbed to the side of the cliff like monkeys, and then slid down from the top of the mountain along a rope.

The whole process was smooth and if it weren't for the pale and thin appearance of these mountain people, Hua Kai would have thought they were all masters of Qi training!

"Are you two the only ones? What goods do you want to trade with us? Not everyone can enter [Eagle's Beak Cliff]." The young leader walked around Hua Kai and Han Jinsheng and said to them.

Hua Kai looked at the young man's face, which was a little childish. He was more than 2 meters tall. It was hard to imagine how he had climbed down the cliff just now. He habitually checked the other party's attributes.

Tang Lei: 6th level of Qidong Realm

Qualification: S

Constitution: 46

Strength: 36

Will: 39

Loyalty: 18

Talent: Natural power, super recovery

It's actually S-level qualification! Hua Kai saw that the other party had not practiced any mental methods and martial arts, but his realm could be raised to the 6th level of Qidong Realm. This was simply a miracle. Looking at his two talents and skills, both of which were extremely powerful and practical talents, Hua Kai immediately thought about how to accept him into the family.

"I have a lot of goods here. I can give you as many goods as you can take out spiritual medicine!" Hua Kai said deliberately. He saw that the other party was loyal, which meant that he did not resist him.

"You are so arrogant, kid... What are you doing? You can't touch the guests' things." Tang Lei saw two mountain people helping Hua Kai and the others to lead the horse. One of the mountain people actually reached into the pocket on the horse's back. In fact, there was nothing there except two water bottles and some dry food.

"Whether you have goods or not, come to our village to rest! This mountain road is not easy to walk, but I have also told you not to have bad intentions towards our village, otherwise I will not forgive you." Tang Lei saw that the villager turned over the gift on the horse. There was no goods, but he still invited Hua Kai to visit their village.

Hua Kai showed a smile on his face and followed them to the side of the cliff. He saw two mountain people leading their horses to a hidden thatched house in the back mountain. Unexpectedly, there was a hidden stable here.

The two followed the village villagers to climb up along the rope, climbed to the top of the 100-meter cliff, drilled through the cave tunnel, and came to the sky above the village. They climbed down along the rope again, and soon they entered the village.

There was nothing to see from the bottom. When Hua Kai entered the village, he found that it was much larger than he had imagined. There were rows of simple wooden houses on the cliff, and there were many stone caves between the mountains. There was no problem for more than 200 people to live here.

"You two can stay at my house! When you have a good rest, I will take you out of the village. Don't think about running away after doing something bad. Food will be here soon."

Tang Lei took Hua Kai and Han Jinsheng to his home, which was a three-room wooden house with very simple workmanship, but it was the best compared to other houses in the village.

Hua Kai saw that Tang Lei's family had an old mother and a young wife. The two children had just learned to walk. When he saw his mother take some wheat from the food bowl next to her and pour it into the porcelain jar next to her to prepare for cooking, he stared at her tightly and didn't want to leave.

This family was not rich. Looking at the way Tang Lei's wife poured rice carefully, Hua Kai could imagine the hardships of the mountain people's life.

"Two little guys, come here!" Hua Kai took out two pieces of nut candy and said to the two children with a smile.

The two children seemed reluctant to leave the porcelain jar for cooking porridge. They looked at the candy in his hand but didn't know what it was.

The older child also understood that Hua Kai was going to give him something to eat. He walked over carefully, took a piece and took a bite. His mother saw it and wanted to stop him but didn't say anything in the end.

The child tasted the deliciousness of the candy and happily showed it to his mother. Another younger child, who had just learned to walk, saw his brother had something delicious and took another piece of candy from Hua Kai.

The cheerful voice of the child came from the hut. At this time, Tang Lei walked in from outside with a piece of wild beast meat. He had just borrowed a few pounds of meat from the village. Seeing that his mother and wife at home had become kind to Hua Kai, and his two children were eating happily, he knew that it was Hua Kai who gave it.

"You should be the young master of a family outside the mountain! You look at your clothes so well, how come you come to this mountain." Tang Lei gave the meat to his wife to roast, and sat next to Hua Kai and asked.

Hua Kai saw that Tang Lei's eyes were full of infinite desire, and he seemed to be full of curiosity about everything outside the mountain.

"I'm not a young master from a noble family! I'm just an ordinary merchant! Thank you for your hospitality today. I wonder if your village has any spiritual medicine to exchange..."

"What do you have to exchange with us? Just that thing? Do we have food and salt?" Tang Lei heard Hua Kai talking about the exchange again and pointed to the candy in the child's hand. He couldn't see where Hua Kai and Han Jinsheng could hide the goods that could be exchanged.

"You can also want nut candy... I have a list of goods here. You can choose any of the things on it. Since you are pretty good, I can give you a fair price." Hua Kai ignored Tang Lei's anger and took out a paper list and handed it to Tang Lei.

"I can't read!" Tang Lei blushed when he saw this.

"5 bone coins for a pound of wheat, 7 bone coins for a pound of rice, 1,200 bone coins for a piece of coarse cloth, 200 bone coins for a pound of white sugar, 1,000 bone coins for a pound of snowflake salt... All your spiritual medicines can be exchanged for these materials with bone coins. If there are high-quality furs, animal bones, and strange stones, we will also accept them." Hua Kai handed the bill of goods to Han Jinsheng, and Han Jinsheng read it to Tang Lei.

"But where are your goods? Do you have other teams nearby?" Tang Lei couldn't help but ask curiously.

"You don't have to worry about where our goods are. If you exchange goods, they will naturally appear." Hua Kai looked at him and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll trust you this time. We still have a few spiritual medicines at home. See if you can exchange them!" Tang Lei said as he walked to the corner of the house and took out a box from the bottom of a wooden box, which contained several spiritual medicines.

"A total of 7 first-grade spiritual medicines and 2 second-grade spiritual medicines, the medicinal properties have been greatly lost, and a total of 160 gold goods can only be exchanged. What do you need?" Hua Kai checked the spiritual medicines handed over by Tang Lei and said.

"I want food, salt and cloth." Tang Lei looked at Hua Kai and said, he didn't believe Hua Kai would really give him these things.

"I'll give you 10 stone of wheat, 10 stone of rice, 1 stone of snowflake salt, 160 gold can buy a lot of things, you can choose some other things, or weapons, I have some good weapons here." Hua Kai said to Tang Lei.