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Not everyone can be a camel rider. To become a camel rider, one must not only have a physique that can withstand the extreme heat and cold of the desert, but also have extremely skilled equestrian skills and kung fu that must be possessed as a camel rider.

The so-called kung fu, apart from the knife skills of fighting with people, the most important one is archery.

Luoyan Town has a population of more than a thousand people, but not all of them are camel customers. The Qiu family and the Ma family are the two strongest camel customers, but there are no more than 30 camel customers under them. Seventeen camel customers in Luoyan Town, Even the youngest family is headed, but there are only four people.

The total number of camel passengers in the whole town is less than 300.

But these 300 people are all excellent in riding and archery, and everyone is proficient in riding and standing, but it is not uncommon to see people as accurate as Lang Wazi.

The wolf kid had already passed by, so he stood still without too much hesitation, let go and shot the arrow, this time it did not disappoint, although the distance was far, it still hit the earth and rocks on Ma Zhengyi's head.

From the beginning to the end, Ma Zhengyi's expression was very gloomy, but his eyes were very calm, and he seemed to have great trust in the wolf boy's arrow skills. Even if the arrow came through the air, his eyes would not blink. .

Qiu Mingdao had no choice but to step back and bend his bow to set the arrow. Everyone waited for a long time before he shot the arrow. When the arrow was shot, Qiu Mingdao himself changed slightly, but luckily the arrow hit the target He was relieved, but the tension in the depths of his eyes could be seen with a little observation.

Qiu Yinghao laughed loudly and said, "Ming Dao, well shot!"

Seeing that Qiu Mingdao was also shot, the wolf boy lay down expressionlessly, propping his bowed body with his feet, and pulling the arrow string. His body was lying on the ground, only his feet were slightly raised, and his head was also raised. Xue Huai'an and the others were amazed, and they couldn't help but get nervous. They just felt that such a weird movement is difficult for ordinary people to do. Although this wolf boy did it, the difficulty of shooting arrows is obviously far more than that of previous archery.

This time, the wolf boy didn't shoot the arrow immediately, and Ma Zhengyi had already said loudly: "Wolf boy, you don't want mother-in-law, mother-in-law, shoot it quickly!"

As soon as the words fell, the wolf boy had already let go of his hand and shot the arrow. The arrow was like a shooting star. Even Chu Huan opened his eyes wide. There was silence all around, and the sound of the arrow piercing the wind could even be heard.

"puff"!

Right in the middle of the earth and rocks, the surroundings were quiet for a while, and then thunderous applause erupted from all directions, even the other camel passengers applauded one after another.

The wolf boy moved quickly, turned over, turned his head to look at Ma Xiulian, saw that Ma Xiulian was staring at him fiercely, and immediately grinned, revealing an extremely simple and honest smile.

Ma Xiulian turned her head away, looking angry.

Qiu Mingdao gritted his teeth and took a look at Langwazi, the muscles on his face twitched, and he lay down slowly, just like a wolfboy, holding the bow and arrow, and saw his father standing over there like a stone pillar, motionless, slowly pulling the bow, the string was stretched Tight, there was silence all around again, after waiting for a long time, Qiu Mingdao did not release the arrow, but suddenly he saw Qiu Mingdao let go of the bow and arrow, stood up, shook his head and said, "I can't do it!"

As soon as he uttered these four words, he was ready to admit defeat.

Qiu Yinghao's face darkened, and he shouted angrily: "What are you doing? Come here quickly, you must not lose to others!"

Qiu Mingdao looked at his father, shook his head and said, "I can't do it, Dad, if you kill me, I can't even shoot this arrow!"

Qiu Yinghao was extremely annoyed, he raised his hand to take the earth and rocks from the top of his head, and slammed them on the ground, like a leopard rushing over, kicking Qiu Mingdao's chest, Qiu Mingdao said "Ouch", and was kicked to the ground, Qiu Yinghao had already Pointing at the bow and arrow angrily, he said, "Pick up the bow and arrow, just shoot it, even if you die, I don't blame you!"

Qiu Mingdao struggled to sit up, his face was pale, he shook his head and said, "Father, you killed me, I... I can't shoot this arrow...!"

Qiu Yinghao grabbed the horsewhip from the person next to him, frantically whipped Qiu Mingdao's body, and roared: "The Qiu family's face has been completely lost by you, today I will beat you to death...!" It seemed that he was so angry pole.

Seeing this, several camel guests from the Qiu family had already rushed forward. Some hugged Qiu Yinghao's waist, some grabbed Qiu Yinghao's arm, and tried to persuade him, "Don't beat me, the master. If you beat him again, you will destroy the master!"

People are also talking about it.

"It's not that Master Qiu lost." Someone said in a low voice, "Master Qiu has extraordinary courage, but it's a pity that Master Shao has softened his heart, and his courage is still not as good as Master Qiu's!"

"Shao Dangjia made two arrows before, Qiu Dangjia did not change his face, stood like a pine tree, and he was not inferior to Ma Dangjia." Someone said: "Ma Dangjia and Qiu Dangjia are two heroes in our Luoyan Town. Courage is also between Uncle Zhong, but the courage of the young master is still a little smaller than that of the wolf boy."

"Nonsense." Someone said unconvinced: "Young master is called emphasizing friendship. Who is the wolf boy? It is the son picked up from the mouth of the wolf by the horse master. This boy was raised by the hyena for a long time, and he drank Wolf nai... you can see that he shoots arrows without blinking his eyes, he is really cruel."

"That's true." Someone echoed: "I heard from the elders that those who have drunk wolf milk are cruel and merciless. The wolf boy shot his master without blinking his eyes or shaking his hands. Strong. Young master's archery skills are already amazing...!"

There was a lot of discussion among the people, with different attitudes. Some thought that the wolf boy was a real archer with a calm mind, while others said that the wolf boy was ruthless and ungrateful.

Wolf Boy stood there, already put away his bow and arrow, expressionless.

After all, Qiu Yinghao was pulled away, and Qiu Mingdao was also supported and stepped aside. Ma Zhengyi had already walked over slowly at this moment. Qiu Yinghao took a deep breath, and finally said to Ma Zhengyi: "Brother, you won. This trip to the desert, you can take [-]% of the commission and go with you on the road, but the thing is, everything on the road is at the discretion of my Qiu family."

His face was a little ugly. This time, the Ma family camel runners won the bid. Although the Ma family will take three out of ten trips out of the desert and hand them over to the Qiu family, the Qiu family will suffer a great loss in money, but today the Ma family The family's limelight overwhelmed the Qiu family's. For this kind of camel traveler who puts face before his life, money doesn't matter, but the loss of face made him feel very ashamed.

Later in Luoyan Town, the Ma family was naturally the No. [-] camel customer in name.

Chu Huan and Xue Huai'an looked at each other, and finally coughed twice, Qiu Yinghao turned around, cupped his hands and said, "Master Chu, both of us will provide staff for this job, but you don't need to pay an extra penny, everything is free. The change is just that there are more people escorting you."

Xue Huai'an saw the result, no one was injured or injured, and he didn't need to spend more money to get another group of people to escort him, so he immediately smiled. In his opinion, the more camel passengers, the safer the trip, and he didn't look at Chu Huan se, already smiled and said: "It's so good, it's so good!" Zhengyi said to Ma: "Ma's boss, I'm sorry!"

Ma Zhengyi still had a gloomy face, approached Qiu Yinghao, and said indifferently: "You are very good at choosing people!" Without saying much, he turned around, got on his horse, and galloped away first.

Ma Xiulian was about to get on the horse, but Qiu Mingdao had already approached, and said a little nervously, "Xiulian...!"

Ma Xiulian ignored him, and got on the horse. Qiu Mingdao had already grabbed her horse's reins, and Ma Xiulian's face turned cold, "What are you doing? Still not letting go?"

"Xiulian, tell me, why did uncle win the bid?" Qiu Mingdao said with a wry smile, "What did our Qiu family do wrong? You didn't look good on me. I don't blame you, but... But why did uncle want to win?" What happened to Daddy like this?"

"I don't know what my father does." Ma Xiulian said coldly: "I don't give you a good face, just because I hate you, it's that simple." Shaking the rein, "Let go!"

She said this in public, which made Qiu Mingdao extremely embarrassed and helpless, and let go of his hand with a wry smile. Ma Xiulian glanced at Lang Wazi, and said angrily: "Why are you standing there stupidly? Why don't you leave!" With a flick of the reins, he galloped The horse went away, and the wolf boy looked at Ma Xiulian's back, grinned, got on the horse, and followed.

The people also dispersed slowly, Qiu Yinghao looked at the back of Ma Zhengyi going away, his face was cloudy, his eyes flashed, he seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while, he said to Chu Huan and the others: "Everyone, let's go into town! "

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This day is not idle, in addition to picking out the mission's horses, in addition to reloading.

The horse-drawn carriage entering the desert has been confirmed by the camel passengers as absolutely impossible. Of course, it is because the carriage travels very slowly in the sand. The most important reason is also because there are no horses to pull the cart. It is said that as long as you enter the desert, the leaves of your lungs will split if you can't last for two days.

The method proposed by the camel guest is naturally to use camels for transportation. In fact, in the north of the town, after turning over two hillsides, there is a pasture that is rare in the Gobi. There is also a small lake there, and the pasture is not too small. Apart from grazing Some of the cattle, sheep and horses, the most are the camels raised by each family there.

The convoy had quite a lot of cargo. The Qiu family had 26 camels, but it was still not enough to use all of them. Eleven camels were transferred from the Ma family, adding up to 37 camels, which was barely enough to load all the goods.

Seeing a camel for the first time, Xue Huai'an and other people were all amazed, they had never seen a camel before, they were all amazed when they saw the camel with two humps on its back.

The carriages of the mission team and the horses that cannot enter the desert can only stay in Luoyan Town for the time being, but there is still one carriage that must enter the desert in the whole regiment, which is the one guarded by Chu Baihu and several other guards. carriage.

The situation was special, the carriage was going into the desert, but the horses couldn't drag the carriage, so Chu Huan came up with a way to hire two more camels to pull the carriage instead.

By the time everything was ready, it was already night.

The two sides have already made a decision, and they will set off early the next morning. The mission rested overnight outside Luoyan Town. Early the next morning, Qiu Yinghao had already brought fifteen camel passengers outside the town. , fully armed, everyone has water bags hanging around their waists, the young master Qiu Mingdao is also among the 15 people led by Qiu Yinghao, these people plus Qiu Yinghao, exactly 16 people.

The Qiu family only had 26 camels, and all the 26 camels were hired to the mission, but the camel passengers themselves had to bring some necessary items, so they found three more camels from the town, full of the needs of the Qiu family camel passengers. must-haves.

It was just dawn and the air was still very cold. The mission and the Qiu family camels were all ready, but the Ma family camels hadn't appeared immediately. Chu Huan accompanied Qiu Yinghao to the hillside, waited for a while, and saw the people on the other side of the town Three fast horses came galloping. At first, Chu Huan thought it was the camel riders from the Ma family, but after a closer look in the light of Chen Xi, he found that the three people who came galloping didn't seem to be camel riders.

Of these three people, one of them was wearing a blue brocade robe inside, but he was wearing a fur waistcoat outside, a bamboo hat with black gauze hanging from the edge of the hat, behind him were two riders, the rider on the left was wearing a gray robe, He also wears a bamboo hat on his head, while the rider on the right is wearing fur clothes. He is tall and tall, with a leather felt hat on his head and a machete on his waist.

While Chu Huan was puzzled, Qiu Yinghao had already explained: "Uncle Chu, I almost forgot to tell you. The three of them are also going to cross the desert, and they happened to be traveling together. I don't think Uncle Chu would mind?"

Chu Huan let out an "oh" and asked, "Who are they?"

"They want to go to Xiliang to find someone." Qiu Yinghao pointed to the rider in front and said, "This girl's father went to Xiliang a year ago and never came back, so this time she has to cross the desert to go to Xiliang to find someone." .”

"It turned out to be a woman!" Chu Huan frowned slightly, and in a moment, the three riders had already galloped up the hillside, and Qiu Yinghao had already introduced to Chu Huan: "Master Chu, this is Miss Liu!"

Liu Meiniang was wearing a bamboo hat and a black veil covering her face. Through the black veil, Chu Huan could vaguely see that she was wearing half of the mask, and those eyes seemed to be looking at him.

Chu Huan cupped his hands, smiled faintly, and did not speak, but Liu Meiniang had already smiled lightly and said, "My lord, the little girl is going to cross the desert, and I will walk with you on the way. Don't be disgusted, take care of me!"

Chu Huan smiled indifferently, and said, "It's not about taking care of you. Since Master Qiu took you across the desert, Master Qiu will naturally take good care of you!" But he was still somewhat dissatisfied with Qiu Yinghao's move in his heart.

If it wasn't for the camel passengers to take them across the desert, Chu Huan would not even want to get involved with the camel passengers. After all, the journey is very difficult, and he doesn't want too many people to get involved. One more person means one more person. There are very uncertain factors. First, Ma Zhengyi's Ma family camel riders won the bid inexplicably, and then got involved. Now there are three more people with unknown origins, but Chu Huan has already begun to be wary.

Liu Meiniang giggled and said, "Of course Master Qiu will take care of you, but since we are traveling together, the little girl also hopes that this adult will take care of you more. Without your help, the little girl is a weak willow, and she will never be able to get out of the desert. "

She was wearing a sheepskin waistcoat, which looked very thick and bloated, but it covered her fiery figure and concealed it. However, the charming face under the black veil was still charming and charming.

Chu Huan didn't pay much attention to it, and when he heard the sound of horseshoes at the entrance of the town, he saw seven or eight riders galloping towards him this time, and knew that this time it was really the camels from the Ma's family who came and rode very fast. As soon as they went up the hillside, they were all fully armed, except for Ma Zhengyi, who brought a camel guest from the Ma family. Chu Huan glanced at them, and found that Ma Xiulian and Lang Wazi were not among them.

Qiu Yinghao saw that the camel riders from Ma's family had also arrived, so he finally turned his horse's head, went down the hillside, reached the side of the team, and shouted loudly: "Let's go!"

The team was ready long ago, Chu Huan, Liu Meiniang and others also galloped down the hillside. Qiu Yinghao took the lead and was the first to lead the way. The long team began to squirm and head north.

Xuanyuan Shengcai still divided the team into four teams, front, back, left, and right, and protected the team's camel team and the only carriage. Because more than 100 horses were picked out, more than 100 guard soldiers only Those who can walk on foot, these more than 100 people are divided into the front team, while the cavalry is divided into the two wings and the rear.

The camel passengers were all leading the way in front, keeping a short distance from the embassy group. Liu Meiniang and the three followed the camel passengers and could not get close to the embassy's camel convoy.

The air was still a little cold, and the team was like a long snake, slowly moving forward in the Gobi under the sky. When the sun rose, the team had already turned over several hillsides.

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