Qiu Hu and his entourage came at a gallop and did not slow down when they reached Lu Xu's caravan. They ran back and forth around the caravan twice before dismounting with a smile.
"Brother Lu, long time no see!"
"Xiao Lu, have you grown taller again?"
"No way, I didn't even look at him in the first lap."
A group of people laughed and laughed at Lu Xu.
Lu Xu said angrily: "Of course you can't see the mule because it's covering me. Could it be that I'm going to be taller than the mule?!"
"Our stone is about to catch up with the mule!" Uncle Tan said proudly.
Lu Xu heard the sound and looked for someone, but almost didn't recognize him.
Uncle Tan, who used to be dark and lean, is actually a lot stronger than when we last parted.
Lu Xu blurted out: "What did you eat? Did you steal someone else's sheep?"
Uncle Tan laughed loudly, "I can't even eat enough!"
After Qiu Hu exchanged greetings with Lu Qing, who was standing at the front of the team, he walked towards Lu Xu and slapped Lu Xu on the shoulder with his big, calloused hand. Lu Xu almost staggered, "Brother, long time no see!"
"Brother Tiger!" Lu Xu didn't notice anything, and went up to give him a bear hug. He touched Qiu Hu's armor and swallowed with his eyes shining, "This is so handsome! Brother Tiger, you look even more heroic!"
Qiu Hu blushed, not used to Lu Xu's unsubtle enthusiasm. He hugged Lu Xu awkwardly, patted Lu Xu on the back, "Let's go, it's not safe here, let's talk as we walk."
"good!"
The caravan was escorted by cavalry, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.
The guys who took turns to be scouts also returned to the team, walking and chatting with Qiu Hu's cavalry, asking about the situation here, and talking about the situation in Guanyang. In the past, there was a little gap between the mountain people and the county people, but now in Qianjiao Ridge Besides, they all became like a family.
Qiu Hu stopped riding and led the horse to accompany Lu Xu and Lu Qing on foot. "A few days ago, the new military household in the village said that they met a caravan from Guanyang on the road. I guessed it was you. Count the days. We should have arrived a long time ago, why are we so slow, but what trouble did we encounter on the way?”
"No, no, I was delayed in Dengzhou." Lu Xu crackled as he walked, briefly describing how he opened a tea shed and bought a shop in Dengzhou along the way. The only embellishment was that he met Chen Lian to suppress the bandits.
According to Lu Xu, the bandits were forced by life, and Chen Lian made great achievements in suppressing the bandits. Now the former is a prodigal, and the latter has great merits in persuading people to improve. Anyway, they are all good people, and we will all be one family from now on.
Chen Lian and the Menliang County bandits who were still in the team listened silently. No matter what Qiu Hu thought after hearing this, they were so ashamed that they felt uncomfortable all over.
As a result, Qiu Hu actually bowed his hands to them after hearing this, "Everyone who is Lu Xu's friend is my Qiu Hu's friend. Cooperating with Lu Xu means cooperating with me, Qiu Hu. I dare not say it anywhere else. If you are in the north of Qianjiao Mountains, If you encounter any trouble, just come to me, Qiu Hu, at any time!"
Everyone hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, Qiu Baihu is too polite." "We rely on Boss Lu to take care of us all the way." "In the past... in the past... uh..."
Lu Xu thoughtfully said: "A hero should not mention his courage in the past, but he should look forward from now on!"
Qiu Hu nodded with deep understanding.
All the "heroes" burst into tears, and all of them wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground.
Chen Lian quickly changed the topic, "Qiu Baihu, you said it's not safe on the road, but the barbarians did something strange?"
Qiu Hu said with a smile: "They don't dare, but they can harass and rob passing military households and small traders. Sometimes lone soldiers will also be harassed. Their horses are fast, their riding skills are skillful, and they are familiar with the terrain of Qianjiao Ridge. We all know that there are some stubborn enemies of us Daqi people who will secretly shoot cold arrows."
Lu Xu asked: "Can't you control it?"
Qiu Hu shook his head, "Unless you catch them on the spot, they won't recognize you. If you force them to arrest someone in their camp, there might be a conflict. Let's go to the peak to make peace the most important thing."
Lu Xu silently guessed whether the imperial court wanted to adopt a gentle policy towards the barbarians or was afraid that it would trigger the whole body and start fighting again accidentally.
But 80% of the 100 households in Qiu Hu are not good at it.
Even if they are willing to value peace, if there is a conflict and their own people are wronged, the soldiers below will definitely not do it.
Daqi finally won the battle, could he still let his subordinates defeat him?
When he finally arrived at the camp, Lu Xu found that his mouth seemed to be open. The good and the bad were not working. A group of Daqi people were quarreling with the barbarian herdsmen. Both sides were holding weapons, including hoes, hammers and other farm tools. They were haring horses, whips and other grazing equipment, and they were shouting in two languages. The Daqi soldiers in the middle were obviously trying to deflect the fight, and from time to time they shouted threateningly at the barbarian herdsmen.
The person acting as translator in the middle was Tan Shitou, who had grown half a head taller.
Before Lu Xu could hear what was going on, the two sides started fighting as the interpreter roared.
Lu Xu: "..."
Hiss, as expected of the northern border, the folk customs are indeed fierce!
When the soldiers on duty in the camp saw a fight, they walked over without being surprised. They stepped forward calmly, beat them with wooden sticks, and scolded them in two languages: "Don't fight! Anyone who fights will be locked up as a coolie." !”
Lu Xu asked: "What are they doing?"
Qiu Hu looked vicissitudes of life: "Either the barbarian sheep ate our seedlings, or we ate the sheep that ran to the farming area, or they lost their cattle, or their cattle kidnapped our cattle, or else... Was the trade calculation wrong yesterday?”
Lu Xu:? ? ?
He didn't understand, and he was shocked.
He pointed at the crowd over there who had been beaten so hard that they were running around and changing the battlefield, insisting on deciding the winner: "Is this how you adjust?"
Lu Qing said something fair for Qiu Hu: "Just adjust it like this. This is the Lunlan tribe. The Lunlan tribe respects the strong. When the truth is unreasonable, as long as it can win, the winning side will be the reason."
Lu Xu: "..."
Lu Xu was amazed. Seeing the group of people coming toward them while fighting, Lu Xu panicked and asked hurriedly: "Do we need to get out of the way?"
He didn't want the goods he had worked so hard to transport to be implicated. If it was really damaged, would it be possible for him to have a fight and demand compensation?
Lu Xu quickly asked the cars behind him that had not yet entered the camp to change their direction and flash forward!
Before the people behind him understood his gesture, Tan Shitou, who was about to be beaten into a dog's head in the crowd, saw Lu Xu first. He opened his voice and shouted: "Brother Xu!"
The chaotic crowd suddenly fell silent.
Immediately afterwards, someone among the herdsmen suddenly shouted excitedly in this direction. Lu Xu could vaguely hear the word "Lu", but could not understand the others.
Taking advantage of the pause between the two sides, the soldiers on duty suddenly opened their sleepy eyes, thrusting into the crowd like a sharp sword. The two of them held a stick and turned into a partition wall, quickly separating the herdsmen and military households. Qiu Hu was even worse than before. Feeling a little more energetic.
A member of the household who was watching the excitement suddenly came out, stood in the middle and cursed both sides.
This time Lu Xu heard it clearly. It was really a herdsman's sheep that ran into the military household's field and ate his seedlings. The military household saw the sheep and captured them without saying a word. Now the herdsmen who were looking for the sheep stopped. , brought a few people over to ask for sheep. When the military household saw that there were only three of them, could they give it to them? They must be made to pay first. The herdsmen failed to get their sheep back and threatened to come over and snatch them back. When the military household saw this, they also ran back to the camp to call for help. As they went back and forth, the conflict between two families quickly escalated into a group conflict, and a fight broke out at the gate of the camp.
This kind of thing happened more than once or twice. The Lunlan tribe was relatively reasonable among the barbarian tribes. When the officer on duty in the camp saw that it was them, he asked Tan Shitou to come over and mediate with the translator.
But for some reason, some of the herdsmen suspected that Tan Shitou was being unfair, and brought up old scores and mentioned that Tan Shitou gave them less money the last time he went to buy meat from them.
Tan Shitou is also angry. They have argued about this matter more than ten times. It has been more than a month since the incident. It has been a bad matter that the public is right and the mother-in-law is right. How can we explain it clearly?
This time, the new account was not settled, and another payment came in. It seemed that it was hard to explain. Sure enough, within a few moments, the herdsmen and military households did not make a move, and the translator started fighting with each other.
Although these military households are not from Tan Shitou's hometown, they still know each other even though they live in the same camp. Tan Shitou came to help them, so could he be beaten by himself?
Go, must go!
Then there was the melee that Lu Xu and the others happened to catch up with.
The hundreds of families who were being lectured were spitting and scolding, but the eyes of those who were scolded were all looking towards Lu Xu's caravan.
One car, two cars, three cars, four cars... sixty-five, sixty-six...
Sixty-six cars! !
The military households and herdsmen were all excited.
What can be hauled in a car like that?
Those with good eyesight can clearly see how many trucks are loaded with grain and cloth, and those with good sense of smell can already smell the smell of wine.
This was the quietest lecture Zhang Baihu had ever given, but he didn't cherish it, and his attention had long since wandered away.
Qiu Hu went out every day these days to patrol for him, saying that he was going to pick up his sworn brother on the official road. Zhang Baihu glanced around the caravan with his peripheral vision, and suddenly stopped at Lu Qing, who was standing on Qiu Hu's left. , could this be his sworn brother?
Big business!
Big deal!
Oh my god, how many things have been brought here! !
He could no longer care about this group of unruly people, and hurriedly ended his lecture, asking the herdsmen to compensate the military households for their loss of seedlings. The military households received the money and put the sheep back, and then ran straight in the direction of the caravan.
If Qiu Hu and the others want meat, they must also leave some soup for him. They must not let people from other camps rob them all.
Zhang Baihu put on a bright smile that would only show to a biological father, mother, and daughter-in-law, grabbed Lu Qing, and said excitedly: "It must be Brother Lu, I often hear Brother Qiu Hu mention you!"
Lu Qing:? ? ?
Lu Xu:? ? ?
Qiu Hu was stunned, took half a step back, and let out Lu Xu, who was half blocked by him. "Brother Zhang, the sworn brother I'm talking about is Lu Xu. That's my brother's second uncle and my previous brother." Go up to the peak, pioneer officer Lu Qianhu."
Zhang Baihu: "..."
Lu Qing let go of his hand and said, "I have already disbanded my armor and returned to my field. Mr. Zhang does not need to be so polite."
Seeing that the situation was frozen, Lu Xu stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Baihu's hand that was about to drop, determined not to let his hand fall.
Lu Xu put on a brighter smile than Zhang Baihu's, and enthusiastically grabbed his hand and shook it, "Hello Zhang Baihu, my little brother Lu Xu, I often hear my elder brother mention you!"
Zhang Baihu was in a daze, thinking that Qiu Hu was already in the north when he met me. Where could he mention me to you?
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