There was indeed a tea stall on the road, so they ate a hot meal at the tea stall at noon. They planned to take a rest before starting the journey, but they saw two horses running up the road, and the horsemen were carrying big horses on their backs. I got off the horse with my luggage, asked the shopkeeper for two biscuits and a bowl of soup, and then sat on a chair outside to eat.
Da Yu couldn't help squinting to look at them, and Nie Canjun and Li Guanshi also looked over.
Sensing the strange atmosphere, Bai Shan and Man Bao also turned their heads to look at them. After staring at those two people, Bai Shan frowned, "I seem to have seen them before."
Man Bao looked around and felt familiar, and was about to ask Ke Ke, the two of them took the cakes and got up and walked towards Manager Li, she looked over and didn't ask Ke Ke for now.
Fu Fu and his companions were on their backs, and they didn't want to find Manager Shang Li so early, but they couldn't help it. Their gaze was too compelling, and he always felt that they would doubt his identity if he slowed down.
The two of them approached Li Guanshi and begged to go with him, saying that they would also go to the Western Regions, but the journey was far away and there were only two of them, so...
Li Guanshi looked them up and down and remembered, "Are you two of those people who came to see me the day before yesterday?"
Fu Fu humbly replied "Yes" and begged Li Guanshi, "The family is in urgent need of money, so there is no way to venture to the Western Regions at this time, please intercede with the adults and let us follow behind the team, don't worry , we will follow from a distance, absolutely not disturbing the adults."
This kind of thing is actually not uncommon. Some scattered merchants will attach themselves to large caravans for safety, and some merchants will give a gift to the large caravan because they are too shy, and then follow them from afar without asking them. Asylum, as long as you can follow.
But their excuses...
Steward Li glanced at their horses, nodded and got up and said, "I'll ask our master."
He leaned close to Bai Shan and Man Bao and whispered in their ears: "Shortly after we arrived in Shazhou the day before yesterday, when I went out to replenish rice and noodle ingredients, a group of people came up and said they wanted to go to the Western Regions with our convoy. "
He said: "I feel that there are quite a few people in our team, and it would be cumbersome to bring more people, so I refused. These two people were among them at the time, but I didn't expect them to come here today, and they said that they were struggling at home. , in urgent need of money... "
He glanced at their horses, and said in a low voice: "You see, this is just an excuse. If the family really needs money urgently, they should sell the horses. What's the use of rushing to the Western Regions to make money at this time?"
Li Guanshi meant to reject them.
Bai Shan frowned and asked, "Where did you meet them? Why do I find them so familiar?"
Nie Canjun at the side immediately said: "Young Master Bai, I also think they look familiar, but it's probably not the past two days."
Man Bao asked Keke: "I also think they look familiar, Keke, where did I see them?"
Keke screened it out and said, "In the desert inn."
At the same time, Bai Shan also lowered his voice and said: "I seem to have seen it in the desert inn, yes, it was in the desert inn, the group of people who clashed with us in the bathhouse, didn't they meet you outside the store that evening Than wrestling? I've seen him in crowds."
Although he didn't seem to make a move, he was indeed there.
Nie Canjun froze, and said in disbelief: "No way, they came here for revenge? Are you so narrow-minded?"
Da Yu, who was sitting at the next table, couldn't bear it any longer, and leaned over to ask, "What are you talking about? Can you speak louder? I can't even hear you."
Everyone glanced at him and said nothing.
After a pause, Bai Shan asked, "Do you think those two people look familiar?"
Da Yu pouted and said, "I haven't seen them before, but I am familiar with their smell."
He said, "They smell the same as we did before."
There is no explanation, but everyone understands, this is a horse thief!
Man Bao cheered up, and couldn't believe it, "Do we look so easy to rob?"
After thinking for a while, Da Yu said: "It's weird. Usually, even if they want to rob, they wouldn't come to the door so early, and they took such a big risk to follow up personally. Could it be that their people are not here?"
The rich and the two were a little anxious. They were far away from Zhou Man and the others. They could only see them muttering together, but they couldn't hear the specific content.
There is no way, their convoy has a lot of people, and these people have been surrounded in the middle since they got off their horses, and they can't get close at all.
Bai Shan glanced at them, and said to Guanshi Li: "Promise them, ask them for some money, expose their lies directly, and say that they don't believe that their family needs money urgently, but want to follow us to the Western Regions to make money. In this case, Just show some sincerity."
Li Guanshi was stunned, and said in a low voice: "Master, is it not good to let them follow?"
Bai Shandao: "It's even worse not to let them follow, it's better to keep people under their noses."
After speaking, he looked at Nie Canjun and said in a low voice, "Please trouble Nie Canjun to ask the scouts to look back and forth to see if there is another person following us."
Nie joined the army to answer.
Li Guanshi went there, and after a while, he came back with ten taels of silver, handed it to Empress Bai Shan and said, "Master, I asked for five taels of silver from each of them."
Bai Shan took the silver, and seeing Bai Erlang staring at it, he gave one to him, and the other to Man Bao.
He nodded and said, "Give them a seat near our carriage."
That's the middle position, so the two people behind will not attract attention at all.
After the convoy started again, two scouts went out to investigate openly, and two scouts quietly left behind. They quietly pulled their horses into the forest, and only got on their horses and left after the convoy had gone far away and could no longer see them. , Go back to Yumenguan to investigate.
Although there is instability outside Yumen Pass, there are still post stations and platforms.
It's just that the post station is very small, and it can't accommodate more than a hundred of them. Fortunately, it is summer, and the night is not very cold, but there are many insects.
Man Bao and the others lived in the post station, while the others were stationed around the post station on guard.
The two ate and drank separately from them. Man Bao stood upstairs and took a look at them, then turned and went to the kitchen, took a look at the mutton soup they ordered, and then added something to it.
The cook at the side: ...
Man Bao hissed at him and said, "Don't say it outside."
The cook didn't say anything, but told Yi Cheng.
Thinking of their customs clearance documents and official seals, Yi Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry about it, just stay in the kitchen and don't go out."
Then have another guy bring the soup out.
The most common soup here is mutton soup. Soldiers and guards also have two large buckets of mutton soup.
Li Guanshi, who watched Miss Man administer the medicine with his own eyes, went to make a bowl of soup, then walked to the two of them and said with a smile: "Brothers, forgive me, we only take you with us, and you have to come by yourself for board and lodging."