Chapter 102 Chapter 24 Double Touch

"Mr. Zhu, Amber County is ahead. Let's rest there for one night and start our journey tomorrow morning. In two days, it will be Tang Jing." A stout man with beards all over his face and a strong figure, but with a simple and honest face, shouted loudly to a carriage covered by a blue and white cloth. Then, a pair of slender bones, but they didn't look thin, but rather aristocratic hands stretched out, opened the curtain, and revealed a handsome and elegant face.The man was dressed in a blue cloth robe, which was not gorgeous, but quite chic. His pair of red phoenix eyes were slightly half-closed, his face was calm, and he had a good temperament. It seemed that he came from a wealthy family. With a bit of nobility, he couldn't get far or close, and he said to the big man on the horse: "Thank you, brother."

The big man smiled casually, showing his white teeth, and said in a low voice, "Is my daughter-in-law feeling better?" When the man heard the words, he immediately showed a smile. He nodded and said with a smile: "Thanks to the good medicine, brother, it's already much better." "Hey," the big man cheered up, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I see that you are from a rich family, and you have never suffered such a crime." The man nodded slightly, as if unwilling to say more, he just smiled lightly and said, "Brother has good eyesight."

The big man waved his hand heartily, but stopped answering. Seeing that the curtain of the carriage was lowered to block the man's smiling face, he breathed a long sigh of relief. Even when this person smiled at others, his expression was cold. The smile never really slipped into his eyes, which made people feel terrified.Except for his beautiful little daughter-in-law, who seemed to have the same expression on everyone, but his daughter-in-law didn't treat him very well. The big man shook his head in puzzlement. It was the first time he had seen such a woman in his life. "Drive! Brothers, hurry up! Work harder, everyone will have a good rest when we arrive at Tangjing!"

There was a burst of echoing in the team, the rough voices of the men pierced through the high clouds, and the birds flying peacefully in the midair were startled into panic. As soon as the curtain was lowered, the smile on the man's face disappeared immediately.Inside the carriage, there was also a girl in a lake green dress. The dress was very gorgeous, but the hem was a little damaged, obviously after a series of arduous long journeys. These two people were exactly Chu Qiao and Zhuge Yue.No matter how tough Chu Qiao was, she would not be able to sustain herself under serious injuries. If Zhuge Yue hadn't been there to protect her all the way, she might have died in the wilderness long ago.

The woman named Xijiu was right. Although it was not highly poisonous, it was not a simple poison either. Although the ancient poisons are portrayed miraculously in movies and TV, most people living in the 21st century disdain them.Everyone agrees that with the ancient technology level, it is difficult to extract any strong toxins. Except for a few rare snake venoms, there is basically nothing deadly. But as the commander of MI11, Chu Qiao knew that many things were not as simple as they appeared.In the 21st century, the research and development of poisons has reached the point of being miraculous. A small NH6099 gas bomb can destroy a medium-sized city with a population of one million within 30 seconds. The latest VX3 toxin developed by country M can corrode seawater twenty nautical miles away with just one drop.Not to mention Country R, ​​which is well versed in this. During World War II, their death drug research was already leading the world, and now they are far ahead.

This is a kind of research and development without humanitarian spirit. Compared with atomic bombs, gas bombs are more powerful, less expensive, more brutal in terms of death, and have more profound follow-up effects.And Chu Qiao knew that as early as two thousand years ago, the research on poisons in our country was already miraculous. Don't think that the ancients had no wisdom. When you really stand in front of them, you will realize how small you are. For example, right now, with her limp body, she has no way or ability to reverse all this. After walking out of the swamp that day, they did not go to Thief Pass to intercept Zhu Shun. Given their current state, going there was undoubtedly courting death.Therefore, Zhuge Yue decisively chose to go south to Tang Jing.After walking for a day, Zhuge Yue saw that Chu Qiao's face was pale and her lips were ashen. He knew that she had a stubborn personality, and she didn't speak even though she was exhausted.So he stopped, and happened to meet a group of bodyguards on the road to escort the goods to the capital, so they picked them up along the way.Here comes the most cliché movie plot, a down-and-out scholar who goes to Beijing to visit his relatives with his seriously ill wife.

"How?" Seeing Chu Qiao slowly opened her eyes, Zhuge Yue asked in a deep voice. Chu Qiao's complexion was still not very good, and her body was also very weak. There was a trace of exhaustion in her eyes that could not be concealed. She took a deep breath and shook her head slowly.Suddenly, the carriage shook violently, as if it had been crushed by some hard object, the carriage without any anti-shock measures shook instantly, Chu Qiao lost her balance, and fell limply in the direction of Zhuge Yue.Zhuge Yue was quick-witted, and supported her waist with one hand and her shoulder with the other to prevent her from bumping her head. After waiting for a while, the carriage gradually calmed down.

Chu Qiao leaned on Zhuge Yue's chest, and quickly sat up with both hands, pinning her sideburn hair behind her ears, with an embarrassed look on her face.Zhuge Yue remained calm, let go of his hands and leaned against the carriage, and remained silent. Chu Qiao glanced at him obliquely, and suddenly felt that the world was really strange.If someone told her a year ago that one day she would sit in the same carriage with Zhuge Yue and would not try to kill each other, even if she was killed, she would not believe it.Now, even she is a little confused about the awkward relationship between the two of them. She really wants to say stubbornly that they are still enemies with many new and old hatreds, and they are irreconcilable class opposites, but if this is the case, even she I feel far-fetched when I say it, so I don't think about it anymore. Anyway, Zhuge Yue will go to Li Ce's big wedding after arriving in Tangjing, and I will divert to the southern border. It's better not to think too deeply.

She slowly closed her eyes and rested quietly, when suddenly she heard the head of the escort shouting loudly. "Take it easy, Mr. Zhu's daughter-in-law is sick!" It's good not to say this, but it makes the two of them relatively speechless.Fortunately, soon after hearing a burst of voices, Chu Qiao opened the curtain on the window and looked out.I saw bustling crowds everywhere on the official road. People in common clothes carried poles and baskets of flowers. Old and young, men and women, walked forward hand in hand. Along the way, everyone talked and laughed loudly. scene.

There is still a big difference between Da Xia and Bian Tang.And this difference, the closer to Bian Tang capital, the more obvious. Escort Yu, who was riding a tall horse with a group of bodyguards outside, looked at Chu Qiao, laughed, and said loudly: "Miss Zhu, Amber County is here, I will find you a good doctor later, let's go in Once you’re in the city, go to the inn to fight for the top!” Chu Qiao responded with a smile, the crowd was crowded, you come and go, all kinds of business, and the traveling businessmen all rushed forward.Chu Qiao looked far away, and saw that the dense fog was gradually dissipating not far away, and the evening sunlight was slowly projecting through the branches of the trees on the carriages that were running darts. She raised her head slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. .Ahead, Bian Tang's important city... Amber County is already in sight.

A sudden shout interrupted Chu Qiao's contemplation, but before she could react, she saw a thick hand covered with disgusting hair suddenly opened the curtain of the carriage. I saw it was a soldier wearing the military uniform of guarding the city gate, and the escort head who followed beside him said cautiously: "It's just a scholar who went to Beijing to visit his relatives with a sick daughter-in-law. Let us go." The little soldier didn't intend to do anything at first, but he saw such a large bodyguard team in the past and wanted to charge a few coppers for wine.But when the curtain was lifted, she suddenly saw the pretty Chu Qiao with a frosty face inside, and her eyes were immediately stunned without blinking. Seeing the soldier's gaze, Zhuge Yue's eyes turned cold, and the brows could not help but twitched slightly, just about to explode.Suddenly, Chu Qiao was holding a few coins that are common throughout the Simon Continent, handing them to the soldier, and said softly, "This military lord, please do me a favor. My husband and I are newcomers, and we are not familiar with the place we live in. It may be offensive." Please take care of the place, Lord Jun.” The soldier was immediately flattered, and obediently let him go. The crowd quickly threw off their whips and beat them hard on the horse's stock. They consigned a large amount of goods and marched into the city in a mighty manner. The curtain of the car was lowered slowly, Zhuge Yue looked at Chu Qiao with a strange expression on his face, Chu Qiao squinted his eyes at him, and didn't look at him directly, just curled the corners of his mouth coldly, and muttered: "It's not enough..." However, it was rare that Zhuge Yue, who was repeatedly accused by Chu Qiao of being narrow-minded, did not refute and ridicule with tit-for-tat as before.The man didn't even hum, he turned his head surprisingly, looking at the street full of cars and horses outside, with great interest. Seeing that he didn't speak, Chu Qiao felt a little bored. She opened the curtains on both sides and looked out, ignoring him. However, at this moment, the expression of the fourth young master of the Zhuge family suddenly softened, and the words just now slowly echoed in his mind: My husband and I... Amber County is located in the east, although it is not bordered by Daxia, and it is far away from the border city of Huai Song Dynasty. However, as the important place of the Bian Tang Empire, although there is no threat from powerful neighboring countries in the surrounding area, it is because the largest wasteland on the mainland is to the east of the city. Pinggui Wasteland has always been an important military town with over 10,000 soldiers in order to prevent the fierce bandits and bandits on the wasteland from invading.Although Bian Tang has never had a martial arts style, the martial arts style in this important town is somewhat stronger, and those who are skilled in martial arts are often treated and respected very high. For this reason, there are many martial arts halls in Amber County. Chu Chu, along the way, unexpectedly saw the arena where three groups gathered to compete, and Chu Qiao was amazed to see it. In addition to the prosperity of Wufeng, Anbo County is also an important commercial county in the eastern part of Biantang. It is close to the Pinggui Wasteland. Although there are occasional fights with several powerful gangs on the wasteland, they also conduct frequent commercial exchanges and exchanges. Trade, the import of cattle, sheep and horses accounted for almost half of the country.In addition, Bian Tang is adjacent to Huai Song, and Huai Song has the longest coastline among all countries on the entire continent, so the salt trade in Amber County is also very developed, almost responsible for the entire Bian Tang's fish and salt industry.Just like the escort Yu and his party that they carried this time, they were ordered by Liu Shi, a Xianyang firm, to transport sea salt to Tangjing. In addition, because Amber County is close to Huai Song, many islanders from the coastal islands of Huai Song do some business in Amber County, and come to Amber County to exchange some necessities of life with their native products.Like silk, tea, bronze swords, pottery, medicinal materials and so on. On the spacious street where eight black-blooded dragon horses can run side by side, there was a constant flow of pedestrians, the carriages went around and stopped suddenly, and the voice of the head of the escort urging everyone to get off the carriage sounded outside.Zhuge Yue raised the curtain and looked up to see an inn displaying a wine cover in front of the door. Before it was dark, two red lanterns had already been hung up.There were two large characters splashed with ink on the plaque, and Li Escort, who was driving the carriage in front of him, saw Zhuge Yue coming out, and hurriedly leaned over his head, and asked with a smile, "Mr. What is written? I can’t come out once and don’t even know where I live, if I ask them, they will definitely laugh at me.” There are two deputy escorts in this line, one chief escort, fifteen escorts, and the rest there are more than forty guards driving horses and carts. Everyone is simple, and the few escorts are also bold. The two have always been very polite.Although Zhuge Yue didn't want to say too much, he still replied politely: "The name of the store is Guiyan, you can just say that you are staying at the Guiyan Inn when you go back in the future." Escort Li read the words silently twice, and then his face was full of joy, he jumped off his horse and walked towards Escort Liang who was urging the guards to carry the goods. Although they were far away, with Zhuge Yue's ear strength He could still hear it clearly, only to hear Escort Li slap on the back of Escort Liang, laughing loudly: "Old Liang, are you literate? Do you know the name of this shop?" Zhuge Yue smiled faintly. He had very little contact with these people at the bottom of society in his life. At this time, I suddenly saw the waiter from the store running out cleverly, and shouted loudly: "Guys, you should stay in the store or eat. The small store is comfortable and clean. When you come to our place, you are at home. The food is delicious. There are all kinds of big fish and meat. Seven Ten years of aging Huadiao guarantees you a home away from home." The head of the security guard laughed when he saw it and said: "What a clever mouth, it's a pity that this kid is a waiter, why don't you go with the uncle, the uncle will tell you about the beautiful woman in the future." The waiter greeted him with a smiling face, and he had already cultivated an indestructible iron mouth, and said with a smile: "Master, I was joking, the youngest son is two years old, thank you for your kindness. It's just a tigress at home. It’s so powerful, I don’t dare to have unreasonable thoughts!” All the bodyguards laughed loudly when they saw how interesting the waiter was.Chief Yu smiled and said, "Son, don't talk nonsense, find us three upper rooms, and the other two rooms, and bring us good wine and meat as soon as possible. After walking in the barren mountains for more than ten days, Lao Tzu The beak is almost fading out like a bird." Seeing that they were talking happily, Zhuge Yue lifted the curtain and helped Chu Qiao get out of the car.Chu Qiao was bumpy all the way, weak and weak, constantly infested by toxins, if she hadn't had a firm mind, she would have been sick and bedridden, and now she can barely support it, which is really rare.Zhuge Yue saw that her face was pale and her lips were blue, and she couldn't even stand still, so she couldn't help feeling anxious, but her poison was too strong, ordinary doctors could only prescribe some ordinary wound medicine, so he had to go to Beijing slowly, and look for it again. method of detoxification. Without saying much at the moment, Da Heng held her in his arms, and said to the shop waiter: "Open me two clean upper rooms, and then deliver the food to the room." Yu Biaotou frowned and said loudly: "They are both husband and wife, why do you have two upper rooms? The siblings are so seriously ill, you should guard them." In the meantime, quickly bring the food and drink, and it will be charged to my account, and then I will invite a doctor." The waiter in the shop agreed and yelled: "Okay! There are four rooms in the upper room, and the elders come with the younger ones." Zhuge Yue didn't say much, and lowered his head to look at Chu Qiao, only to see that she was leaning quietly in his arms, breathing evenly, she seemed to have fallen asleep, but her face was slightly flushed. The room is very quiet, the window is opened, the window is facing a peach blossom forest, the fragrance is everywhere, faintly wafting in, it is refreshing. The setting sun in the sky was as bright red as blood, and the warm red light shone on Zhuge Yue's face. The long hair between his temples was like ink, fluttering gently. At this moment, he is no longer like the powerful figure of the Zhuge family who turns his hands into clouds and turns his hands into rain, with a light robe and a loose belt, a clear temperament, and a different kind of handsomeness. "Zhuge Yue," Chu Qiao lay on the bed and called softly. Knowing that she wasn't asleep, Zhuge Yue quietly turned around and said, "Are you hungry? I'll ask Xiao Er to get some food." "No need," Chu Qiao took a deep breath, and said slowly, "Sit down, I have something to tell you." Zhuge Yue stood there, did not sit down, thought for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "I know what you want to say, you don't have to say it, and you don't have to ask, because I don't know why. I just know that I can't do anything now. Leave you alone, after all, you were injured to save me, let's talk about everything after you recover from your injury." Chu Qiao looked at Zhuge Yue, and suddenly couldn't say what she had been thinking about for a long time. Maybe there was a mess between the two of them. They betrayed each other, killed each other, rescued each other, and showed mercy to each other. , Now, it is really difficult to explain the relationship between the two of them with a mere sentence of hatred. "Zhuge Yue, I owe you another life." Zhuge Yue frowned and looked at Chu Qiao, and said in a puzzled voice, "Why do you never count how much others owe you?" Chu Qiao shook her head without answering the question: "I will repay you in the future." Zhuge Yue sneered and didn't reply anymore, knowing that she wanted to distance himself from him, he sat down on the chair and poured a cup of tea. At this moment, someone knocked on the door suddenly. After Zhuge Yue opened the door, he saw the head of the bodyguard standing there, and said rather embarrassedly: "Mr. Zhu, I may not be able to go with you." "Oh?" Zhuge Yue asked, "Did something happen?" "Our Young Master's family is here," Yu Escort suddenly became excited, and said, "The Young Master's family is coming from Xianyang, just going to Bian Tang, our bodyguard team will be included in the fleet of the Young Master's family, and then we will be in Amber County Take a break and return to Wupeng in three days. But I have already told the owner that you will return to Beijing with the owner's convoy." Zhuge Yue thanked him and said, "Thank you, Escort Chief, but it's not too much trouble. We'll buy a carriage and horses later, and we can go on our own." "How can that be done?" Chief Yu yelled: "You have already paid the money, how can I let you pay for it yourself. Besides, the road is not smooth, there are many bandits, and it is safer to have more people. The boss's guards this time There are four to five hundred people, don't worry, nothing will happen on the road." It's hard to be polite, and besides, they really shouldn't cause trouble, Zhuge Yue nodded and thanked him: "Thank you, Escort." "It's easy to say, rely on your parents at home, and rely on friends when you go out." "By the way, Escort Chief Yu, I don't know where your young master's family is from, and what's their name?" Chief Yu said quite proudly: "Our old boss is Mr. Liu, a grain merchant in Xianyang. The old gentleman has no son, so he adopted his nephew. The young boss who leads the team today is called Liu Xi. , has Mr. Zhu heard of it?" Zhuge Yue was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said in a low voice, "Liu Xi?"