At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 53

It just rained yesterday, and the official road was extremely muddy, Gao Bufan drove his horse forward with a single knife on his back, Gao Shou and Gao Ren each drove a horse and cart, and the cart was loaded with several sacks of purchased beans .

During this period of time, the whole Gao family was busy with the delivery of the war horses. Naturally, Gao Bufan was embarrassed to hide at home and live a peaceful life, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to go out to buy beans.

Gao Kaishan knew that although his son was young, he was prudent in his work, rarely lost the chain, and his ability was not weak, so he was relieved to let him go out to do errands.

Since the nearby villages and towns have been visited by Gao Kaishan and Xia Guanjia some time ago, Gao Bufan can only take Gao Shou and Gao Ren to further places to buy beans, but the results are not satisfactory, and he has been busy for three days , as a result, only three stones of beans were purchased, which is more than half away from the goal of ten stones.

It’s not that Gao Bufan and the others are lazy, it’s really caused by natural disasters. Shandong (to the east of Taihang Mountain) was hit by a severe drought last year, and this year it suffered floods. Now there is famine everywhere, and there is a serious shortage of food. Even if there are beans at home, few people are willing to sell them. If it wasn't for Gao Bufan's high price, Sanshi probably wouldn't be able to buy it.

Ever since Song Qichen, the captain of Bohai County, was defeated and beheaded by the gangster Zhang Jincheng, everyone in the county was in danger. Even the official roads during the daytime were deserted. Gao Bufan, master and servant, drove the carriage for a long time, I didn't even meet a ghost.

At this time when passing through a mountain forest, Gao Bufan stopped his horse suddenly, Gao Shou and Gao Ren also stopped the carriage when they saw this, looked around suspiciously, and found that there were no shops in front of the village or back, and it was not time for dinner , Could it be that the young master wants to show respect here?

Sure enough, Gao Bufan got off his horse and walked straight into the forest, probably to solve the problem of the next three roads, so Gao Shou and Gao Ren waited on the carriage, and took turns to get out of the carriage to sip twice Urine.

"It's weird, is the young master going to pull the iron ball? Even if you pull the iron ball, you have to finish pulling it."

The two waited for two cups of tea but Gao Bufan didn't turn around, so Gao Shou couldn't help muttering, this guy is a bit impatient.At this time, Gao Ren's eyes lit up and said: "I'm coming back now, hey, where did the young master get the burden?"

Gao Shou took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw the young master walking out of the forest, with a big bag on his shoulders, which looked quite heavy, but the bag looked a bit weird, it seemed to be a sheet.

Gao Bufan's movements were nimble and nimble. Although he was carrying a big burden, he rushed to him after a few ups and downs, and calmly put the burden on the carriage, and suddenly there was a heavy muffled sound, even the driver of the cart The horse also took half a step back, which shows that the burden is extremely heavy.

Gao Shou and Gao Ren looked at each other curiously, and before approaching them, they carefully opened the bag and took a peek. Suddenly, their eyes were straightened, and their hearts jumped. It turned out that there were all yellow gold ingots and white silver ingots inside. Estimated to be worth five 6000 taels of silver.

Gao Ren rubbed his eyes, looked at Gao Bufan's butt in disbelief, and said in a stuttering manner: "Master Ganqing is not pulling an iron ball, but gold and silver."

"And I pulled so much at once, I've seen so much in my life!" Gao Shou stupidly continued, his chin almost drool.

Gao Bufan couldn't help sweating, he kicked the two guys' buttocks, and said with a smile: "Stop talking nonsense, let's continue on the road!" After speaking, he jumped on the back of the big green horse.

Gao Shou and Gao Ren obviously also guessed that the origin of the gold and silver is unknown, and they still understand the reason why the money is not revealed, so they didn't need Gao Bufan to order, and immediately hid the baggage under the beans, and then continued to drive excitedly. The first time I went out, I didn't buy many beans, but I made a windfall!
"Master, where did you... get these? Don't tell us that you did it." Gao Shou still couldn't help asking.

Gao Bufan said indifferently: "It grew out of the ground!"

"Really, where? I'll dig too!" Gao Ren joked.

At this time, there were suddenly noisy human voices from the official road ahead, mixed with neighing of horses, yelling of cows, and cries of women, and soon, a group of sloppy guys appeared in the sight of the three masters and servants Inside.

There are about three to forty people in this group, dressed in nondescript clothes, some are leading horses, some are driving cattle, some are carrying a sheep on their shoulders, a chicken or something in their hands, and even a few people are carrying women.

These women all look very young and have pretty faces, but their clothes have been torn out of shape. Stretching his hands into their arms to grope wretchedly, and the man next to him occasionally reached out to have fun, a bunch of guys were laughing and laughing, while the women were crying to tears, that scene was simply outrageous!
Gao Bufan's face sank like water, and he strangled the big green horse suddenly. At this time, the group of people also found the three masters and servants of Gao Bufan. Surrounded.

Only then did Gao Shou and Gao Ren realize that they had encountered a robber, they couldn't help but yelled at each other, and sat frozen on the carriage as if under a holding spell, not daring to move rashly.

This group is Zhang Jincheng's bandits. The leader is Guo Xiaode, a native of Pingyuan County. He recently joined Zhang Jincheng's command. Because of his martial arts skills, he took the position of the fifth master.

In other words, Zhang Jin said that since he killed Song Qichen, the captain of Bohai County, his reputation has been greatly improved. There are an endless stream of people from the green forest who have come to join him, and his power has increased sharply. Now nearly 2000 people have gathered under his command, and he claims to be [-] people. , but the nearby states and counties were terrified, and they dared not even open the city gate during the day!

As a result, the outside of the city became the domain of the bandits. They plundered towns and towns with impunity, and even swaggered outside the county seat to yell and provoke, with arrogance and arrogance.

This Guo Xiaode led dozens of minions to rob a market town today, and took some cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock, as well as some women who had no time to escape. The remaining few young and beautiful ones plan to take them back to the cottage to continue having fun.

Guo Xiaode took a fancy to Shenjun's big green horse at a glance, raised his sword and pointed at the "scared" Gao Bufan, and said calmly: "Get off, this horse belongs to me!"

Now that Wudang's family wanted the big green horse, the other bandits naturally didn't dare to argue with him, they turned their attention to the two draft horses pulling the cart and the bags of beans on the cart, and asked loudly, "What is the cart pulling?" ?”

"None of your business!" Gao Bufan said flatly.

Guo Xiaode was stunned for a moment, thinking he had heard it wrong, he frowned and said, "Boy, what did you just say? Say it again if you have the guts!"

"Master said it's none of your business!"

"Hahaha!" Guo Xiaode laughed back angrily, scraped the old mud on the back of his hand with a shining single knife, and said harshly: "If you really don't cry when you see the coffin, let me take it down and chop it up, so as not to make it dirty My BMW."

The two bandits immediately rushed forward with teeth and claws, trying to knock Gao Bufan off the horse, but before they could touch the latter, they were already kicked in the face like lightning.

Kacha Kacha...

The tooth-piercing sound of bone fractures could be heard clearly, and the faces of the two bandits sunk in like landslides, and two dazzling pools of blood splashed in the air.

plop plop...

The two thieves flew several meters before they landed. They twitched for a moment and then stopped moving. Their faces were completely unrecognizable, their noses were collapsed, their mouths were rotten, and even their eyeballs were almost squeezed out. They were obviously dead. .

Seeing this, Guo Xiaode's complexion changed drastically, and the bandits around took a few steps back in fear.

Gao Bufan's expression was stern, and there was a faint murderous look between his brows. At this time, he was already murderous, so he was merciless in his attacks.

Guo Xiaode settled down, although he was shocked, but he didn't panic, after all, there were only three people on the other side, and dozens of brothers under him, even if one of them spit, they could drown the other party, he was afraid of a bird!
"The boy is very skilled, no wonder he is so arrogant, but do you know who we are? We are under the command of Xing Shilang Zhang Jincheng, and Song Qichen, the captain of Bohai County, was killed by our head. Our people, you ran away!" Guo Xiaode said fiercely.

At the beginning of this year, Wang Bo, a native of Zouping County, Qi County, first raised a flag of righteousness to fight against the Sui Dynasty, and called himself Zhishilang. Lang, by the way, take a look at Wang Bo's enthusiasm.

Gao Bufan heard that the group of people in front of him were Zhang Jincheng's subordinates, he couldn't help sneering, if it's really the narrow road to Yuanjia, then don't blame the young master for killing.

Gao Bufan didn't bother to talk nonsense anymore, he clamped the horse's belly fiercely, and the big green horse flew out like an arrow, and then the knife flashed, the single knife he was carrying was out of the sheath in his hand, he used the speed of the horse to drag the knife, Guo Xiaode Before he could react, his neck had already been wiped by the blade, and his head rolled down into the mud. The headless corpse still stood upright, until the blood spurted from the incision on the neck, and then slowly fell back fall.

Gao Bufan didn't bother to look back at all, he directly rode his horse and broke through the encirclement of the bandits, dragged him all the way, and cut several bandits in half in a moment, while Gao Shou and Gao Ren, who were sitting still, also Suddenly, they pulled out single swords from under their seats and jumped up.

Although the skills of these two guys are not very high, but they are not at all vague when they really move. After a few swipes of knives, they chopped down several bandits surrounded by the carriage.

It was only at this time that the bandits came to their senses and roared and attacked Gao Shou and Gao Ren. The two men were in danger immediately. Fortunately, Gao Bufan had already turned his horse's head and came back to kill him. Most of those bandits were mobs, how could they resist, they were killed instantly, and the five masters were killed in seconds at the beginning, and the group of worms without a leader would be even worse than worms, and in the end they left more than a dozen The corpses scattered in a herd!

(End of this chapter)