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Chapter 231 All the old men

One meal doesn't change much.

Even though Li Si took care of three meals in Qingshanfang in three days, he had to take out a fairy stone again to buy supplies.

In the end, there were 51 poor settlers who were willing to stand in front of his carriage.

Except for the 27 Wang Shuangxi brought back from the beggars outside the city, the remaining 24 came from Qingshanfang.

In fact, there are quite a few half-children who wanted to follow Li Si, but they were all beaten back by their parents with sticks, so those who were able to follow them really couldn't live on, or just didn't want to live.

Because counting the 27 people outside the city, he is actually the youngest in Li Si's team, and the others count as one, and the youngest is twice his age.

White beard and eyebrows will remind people of kindness and free and easy, but gray beard and hair will only make people look more vicissitudes.

When the group of people washed up and changed their clothes, they were all old men at a glance.

But that's not even the best.

Among this group of people, six had a broken hand or an arm, and three were blind in one eye. Thanks to Wang Shuangxi, he didn't invite someone who was blind in both eyes.

Four of them broke a leg, thanks to Wang Shuangxi, old iron.

Three of them were seriously ill and coughed all the time, coughing up blood.

The other one is deaf and can only communicate with gestures.

Fortunately, there are no special circumstances other than these.

Li Si really wanted to persuade them to leave, but in the end he endured it.

"Is there anyone who can drive?"

Li Si asked, and all 51 old men including the deaf man raised their hands in unison.

"I mean the kind who is very proficient, and at the same time knows the way, and can take care of horses." Li Si had to add.

But the 51 old men never let go of their hands. He almost thought that these guys were teasing him.

"Then come."

Li Si pointed to Sai Chunfeng's father, the one called Sangmen Nail. Who knows why he came, but he did not eat three meals in the past three days.

His daughter doesn't eat a bite of the rice cooked for him, but Li Si's rice can make nine bowls...

The mourning nail moved over without saying a word, leaning on his cane, got into the carriage, and sat there, really looking like a mourning nail.

The other old men put down their hands in unison, their expressions were indifferent, detached, and had nothing to do with me. Even if they all held swords and spears, they looked more like a group of old men herding sheep.

It wasn't laziness, it wasn't depression, it was a strange feeling that even Li Si couldn't describe.

"Do you have good legs and good eyes? I need a few spies."

Li Si asked again, but except for the three seriously ill guys coughing violently occasionally, no one raised their hands, okay.

"Then let's go, you three, the one with the broken leg gets in the car, well, you three, the one who coughs, get in the car too." Li Si felt a little pity for the old horse, although he said that the old horse matches the old man, referred to as the old man Erle, but he really has a lot of supplies in this cart.

Seeing the bony old horse struggling to start, Li Si was worried.

The rest of the old men kept up sparsely, like a funeral procession under the gaze of thousands of eyes on Qingshanfang.

No one spoke, did not laugh, and of course no one cried, they just watched numbly.

"father--"

It was Sai Chunfeng who was crying, heart-piercing, she was only 16 years old.

After leaving the gate, the sun was shining in the sky, and everything was normal on the street. Li Si finally saw the fat butler Li again. He smiled at Li Si, and Li Si also smiled gently at him.

Along the way, many people gave warm smiles to Li Si's team, and Li Si also responded with warm smiles.

Only the old men are numb.

After leaving the gate of Qingshan Town, Sangmen Nail turned the carriage, not in the direction Li Si came from, but towards the northwest direction of Qingshan Town. There is also a road here, but it is overgrown with grass , it seems that few people leave.

Li Si didn't ask, because the road he came from rarely saw wild animals or monsters, unless he entered the deep mountains.

After walking for seven or eight miles, the road was fairly flat, and along the way we could see the ruins of several farms surrounded by stone walls.

"Rest here."

After walking about ten miles away, the road was about to turn to a low mountain ridge, and behind the mountain ridge were endless mountains, Li Si said.

The nails at the funeral door shook the reins lightly, and the old horse stopped immediately. There was no need to order anything. Several old men had already brought stones from the side of the road, supported the four corners of the carriage, and quickly unloaded the old horse. The two were busy grooming the old horse. , and the rest are already mowing the grass, as if they are serving Ma Zuzu.

None of the rest of the old men was idle, those who moved stones moved stones, those who built walls built walls, centered on the carriage, in four directions, within a short while, there were four stone walls half a person high and only three to four meters long. Just build up.

Then a group of old men sat down to rest, those with shields sat on the gap in the stone wall, those with guns leaned against the stone wall, as for the mourning nails and the three broken legs, the coughing old man didn't get out of the car at all. The fine steel components and wooden components were assembled in a click, and after a while, a god arm crossbow was assembled. Except for the six old men who lost one hand, the rest had one.

It was a pleasant surprise.

"Dead nails, how did you guys assemble this god arm crossbow?"

Li Si finally couldn't help but speak.

But the death nail didn't say a word, but another white-haired old man with a broken leg laughed and said: "So it's called the God Arm Crossbow. , you can call Niu Tail Uncle Niu, but I, Zhang Sankuang, can’t call you Uncle Zhang? Back then, your father had to call me Old Brother.”

Li Si was silent, but Zhang Sanlun continued: "We are a group of old people who don't die. It's not because we can't eat that we come to follow you to die. Your Fan family is unpopular, your father fears internal affairs, and your mother is arbitrary. I still only think about her natal family, if she didn't trust her natal family too much, obey her cousin and let him be responsible for internal and external affairs, how could she be poisoned?"

"In the past few years, her natal family has benefited so much from the Qingshan Escort Bureau. The little rich family can actually become the head of a workshop, and the family is short-sighted. , worse than pigs and dogs."

"It's just that today's Lijiafang is very likely to be the tomorrow of my Qingshanfang. We old bones can see it clearly, but we are powerless. That's why we choose to help the young escort, not only for your Fan family, but also for the sake of you. I wait for my children and grandchildren, especially for Qingshanfang."

"In the past few days, we have all seen the behavior of the young escort. The prudence and sophistication are really gratifying to me. It is worth our old bones. To be honest, if the chief escort had a few escorts Today's three-pointer means will not end up like this."

Can't take this.

Li Si could only bow his hands, and then bowed his hands to all the old men around him, this etiquette was considered complete, and the previous topic ended here.

"Master Zhang, Taiyin Mountain is very big. I saw four roads leading to the town. Why did we choose this one?"

"Hey, because this road is the road leading to Xixia Pass. Xixia Pass is the border gate of our human race Great Xia Immortal Kingdom, and it is also the front line against the invasion of monsters and ghosts. Why do you think the Qingshan Escort Bureau started? It is to supply 200 years ago, Fan, Li, Zhang, Wang, Tian, ​​and Sun, the six chief escorts of the Castle Peak Escort Bureau, valued this place and decided to build a city here to farm and raise livestock. At the same time, they built a road leading to Xixia Pass. the way."

"Because this place is only three hundred miles away from Xixia Pass, the transfer of materials will be more convenient and the profit will be higher. In addition, the Qingshan Escort Bureau also had connections in the army at that time, so this is a very profitable business."

"This kind of profit has lasted for 50 years. With these profits, the Qingshan Escort Bureau built Qingshan Town here. It was said to be comparable to a big city in the county at that time."

"But later, as the connections in the military disappeared, some big merchants followed the example of the Qingshan Escort Bureau and built a city and farm in another mountain range of Taiyin Mountain. They all had connections in the middle school, so the small town of Qingshan declined all of a sudden. Fortunately, I have accumulated a lot before, and I have eaten my laurels for decades. Later, all the families gave up, and only the three generations of the Fan family are still working hard for it, hoping to restore the original glory, alas!"

After a long sigh, Zhang Sanfeng continued: "Without the big business of supporting and transporting military supplies, the small town of Qingshan will have no way of life. This place is far away from the big cities of the prefectures and counties. The mountains are high and the roads are far away, and business travel is difficult. Even if it can be self-sufficient, But in recent years, more and more monsters have crossed the border, and they occupy a large area west of Xiaguan in Taiyin Mountain, often forming a wave of beasts to attack our Qingshan Town."

"This time, if you hadn't brought back the big black black stone that can suppress ghosts, the big families in the town would have already prepared to move."

"So, the road we chose to go to Xixia Pass this time is actually the safest. After all, the defenders of Xixia Pass will often come out to sweep up monsters. The closer to Xixia Pass, the less large monsters will be seen. .”

"In addition, we can also go to Xixiaguan to buy some supplies. Seeing how generous you are, you should still have a few fairy stones in your hand. Let's old guys get together. We also have five fairy stones. This trip, those people It’s waiting for us all to die outside and watch our jokes, but we want to smash their teeth.”

It turned out to be the case.

Li Si nodded, these old men are quite capable of tossing around, but they didn’t say anything, there is no need to say anything, these old men are all smarter than monkeys, but they have the right ideas, and they messed around, and it became their innocence. Support the younger generation.

Ok!

"Young Escort, are you preparing to assemble the trebuchet?" At this time another coughing old man asked. There were a lot of supplies on the carriage, but apart from the hundred magic arm crossbows, Li Si He also prepared a small trebuchet. This thing has a simple structure and is easy to assemble. It belongs to his housekeeping skills. How could it fall.

"Yes."

"Short escort, with all due respect, this thing is actually not very easy to use. Firstly, it is slow to launch, secondly, it is not accurate enough, and thirdly, all monsters are fast and alert. It is difficult to use the magic arm crossbow. Hit, let alone a trebuchet?"

"I have my own opinion on this matter." Li Si said lightly, assembled the trebuchet and fixed it on the carriage. He had specially arranged for this trebuchet from the beginning when he wanted to build the carriage himself. The position, even the noose, and the counterweight are all ready.

A group of old men stared at Li Si pulling the noose, and finally fixed it on the carriage. This is a state ready to go at any time, but is it really useful?

In addition, what was fired was not a stone bullet, but an iron cable with hammer heads at both ends. What the hell is this?

(End of this chapter)