After the game emperor awakens

Chapter 37

The next day, the two continued their journey.

After leaving Pingcheng, the prosperity faded, and the scenery along the way gradually became desolate.Changli has a vast land and few people, and there is a vast wilderness along the way, with no villages in front or shops in the back.Xie Chongjin and Lu Xuechao almost all rested on the carriage, and the secret guards took turns changing shifts, traveling day and night, rushing to the next town to settle down.

Lu Xuechao was a little dispirited after days of exhaustion.Driving through the night, the carriage always bumped, even though the car was covered with the softest blanket, Lu Xuechao could not sleep soundly, and had to catch up on sleep during the day.

In the carriage, Lu Xuechao leaned on Xie Chongjin's shoulder and closed his eyes to sleep deeply, his eyes could not hide the tiredness.The bright sunlight shone through the car window and shone on his long and slender eyelashes, which were coated with a layer of bright golden light.

Xie Chongjin tucked the blanket covering Lu Xuechao's body, feeling a little distressed.He lifted the curtain of the car and asked the hidden guard who was driving: "How long will it take to reach the next town?"

Her body was too weak to take such a long journey, so she had to find a place to rest as soon as possible.

The one who is driving is Dark Seven, and their dark guards can't bear to drive tiredly, and they always change the driver every hour.

"Return to the lord, today plus the overnight journey, we will not be able to reach Qiuling Town until tomorrow." An Qi replied respectfully.

Their speed is already very fast, and the horses they use are all good horses, otherwise it will take longer.

The territory of Changli is too large, and the traffic is blocked. There are few inns along the way for pedestrians to rest-most of them cannot be opened.

Another day and one night.Xie Chongjin looked at Lu Xuechao's tired sleeping face and frowned.

Lu Xue slept on Xie Chongjin's shoulder for a whole morning, and was gently awakened by Xie Chongjin at noon: "Qingshu, drink some water."

Lu Xuechao slowly opened his eyes, and asked vaguely, "What time is it?"

"It's noon." Xie Chongjin handed the dry food to Lu Xuechao, "Eat something, and I will be able to go to Qiuling Town tomorrow, so I can rest."

Lu Xuechao didn't go to pick up the dry food, just took a bite, then turned her head away without any appetite: "I don't want to eat."

Dry food was the worst thing Lu Xuechao had ever eaten, bar none.Changli's dry food is a kind of hard cake, dry and tasteless, hard as a rock, hard to swallow, Lu Xuechao has to drink water to swallow it.The only advantage is that it is easy to store and carry.When you are away from home, it is inconvenient to cook at any time, and you may not be able to find an inn or restaurant. Dry food is a must-have item to fill your stomach.

Lu Xuechao ate it for several days in a row, and now she felt like throwing up when she saw hard pancakes.

Xie Chongjin was helpless: "Now there is only this, you have to eat, what can you do if you are hungry?"

Lu Xuechao said weakly: "I think eating this kind of food is already destroying my stomach."

He has been depressed these days, not sleeping well is one, not eating well is the second.

Xie Chongjin broke the hard biscuit into pieces, handed it to Lu Xuechao's mouth, and coaxed: "Persist for another day, and have a good meal in town tomorrow."

Lu Xuechao kept her mouth shut and refused to eat.

"Qingshu——" Xie Chongjin's tone became serious, and he stopped being so indulgent, "I will be angry if I don't eat."

Physical health is the first priority, Xie Chongjin will not allow Lu Xuechao to be willful.

Seeing that Xie Chongjin was serious, Lu Xuechao reluctantly took a bite, and whispered: "It seems that it is not enough to study restaurant dishes, but also to study how to make delicious dry food."

"After the main traffic roads are built, inns across the country will also have to be opened, so that we won't be unable to find a place to stay and stay in the wilderness. This will also promote economic and trade between various places. There is also a post station ten miles away. Only by supplying supplies to the court messengers can the news be well-informed..." Originally, it was just a complaint, but Lu Xuechao began to plan seriously as he spoke.

Xie Chongjin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Just take a rest."

Lu Xuechao is delicate, and it is different from the delicateness of ordinary aristocrats.Where others think it is bad, they need others to provide better ones to benefit themselves.Lu Xuechao thought something was bad, so she made better ones to benefit the common people.

Being smart is amazing.

No matter how much Lu Xuechao plans for the future, he still has to eat hard cakes to fill his stomach right now.He didn't want to open his mouth after eating half of it. Seeing that he couldn't eat it, Xie Chongjin took the remaining half of the hard biscuit and ate it, so it wasn't a waste.

Lu Xue looked at him eating without changing his face: "Don't you really think this is hard to swallow?"

Xie Chongjin said: "It's really unpalatable, but there are still many people who can't even eat this."

The first emperor successively attached great importance to the education of Xie Chongjin.Only one who has endured hardships can become a master. If you have never experienced the sufferings of the people, you may become a monarch who "why not eat minced meat".Therefore, Xie Chongjin was taken by the late emperor to go deep into the folk experience since he was a child, and he didn't feel any discomfort after eating these things.

"If you are like this, I will feel ashamed." Lu Xuechao said, "Next time I will try my best to finish eating."

Xie Chongjin looked over and said seriously: "I became emperor to let my people and my loved ones enjoy happiness, not to let them get used to suffering. Qingshu doesn't need to be ashamed of this, and he doesn't have to learn to endure hardship. It is my honor for Qingshu to help me benefit the common people."

Lu Xue looked at him for a moment, then chuckled lightly: "Huaiyun, no wonder I like you so much."

-

I thought I had to rush to tomorrow, but when the red sun was setting, I ran into an inn.

"Master, there is an inn ahead, do you want to rest?" Ying Ying, who had just come to take over the shift, asked.

Xie Chongjin frowned: "How can there be an inn in a barren mountain? I'm afraid it's a black shop."

Inns are generally opened in densely populated areas of cities and towns, where there are only tourists.The wilderness is inaccessible, who would do business here?

Shadow said: "Then the subordinate will not stay."

Lu Xue said: "Just rest there for one night. I need to rest, and the horse also needs to rest."

"Clean." Xie Chongjin stopped, "That place is not safe."

He didn't dare to risk Lu Xuechao's safety.

Having experienced too many accidents with Lu Xuechao, Xie Chongjin is like a bird of fright, and Lu Xuechao's safety and well-being is the top priority.

"With you and the hidden guards here, how can there be any insecurity?" Lu Xue asked, "Since it may be a black shop, it may kill people, steal money, and kill people. Human life is a matter of heaven, how can we sit idly by when it happens? Wait for them to harm others?"

Xie Chongjin also thought about it: "Then go and have a look."

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The inns in the barren mountains are naturally not as grand as the Ping An Inn.But a few boards can prop up a room, and it looks very shabby.

In the room, a burly man was leaning against the counter, picking his teeth boredly.There are few people in the wilderness, and there may not be a business in ten days and a half months, but once a big one comes, it will be enough for them to be full for half a year.

The big man was picking his teeth when he saw two young men coming in.One is wearing a mask in black, and the other is wearing a veiled hat in white. You can't see your face clearly, but you can see that you are from a rich family because of your temperament.

The big man's eyes lit up, and he exchanged glances with another tall, thin man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks in the room-this is a big deal.

The thin and tall guy came forward to greet him warmly and said: "The two of you are here to stay at the hotel. It's so late, you must have not had dinner yet. The small shop has tea wrapped in meat, would you like some?"

Xie Chongjin nodded, and sat down on a long bench in the lobby—this inn only has one floor in total, so naturally there are no private rooms.

The tall and thin man backed away with a smile, and brought a pot of tea and some meat buns in a short while: "Guest officer, take it easy."

Xie Chongjin asked seemingly casually: "Why does the store open in such a remote place? I don't think you raise pigs or chickens. Where did the meat buns come from?"

The thin and tall guy rolled his eyes and replied: "To tell you the truth, there is no shortage of inns in the town, and we can't compete with them. But in this wilderness, a lot of passing businessmen can't find a place to stay, so we don't have to worry about no guests. The meat is We go to the nearest town of Qiuling to buy the goods every few days, keep them fresh, and the guest officers can eat with peace of mind. Speaking of which, the two guest officers don’t look like businessmen, how could they come to such a place?”

This wave is to inquire about each other's details and test the origin.

Xie Chongjin said: "I heard that the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, so I went out to travel with my wife."

The slender guy and the burly guy looked at each other indiscriminately—there were only two of them, so it was easier to do it.

Having said so much, the two of them didn't take a bite of the tea and food on the table.The thin and tall guy revealed a hint of impatience in a subtle way: "Why doesn't the guest officer have to eat?"

Xie Chongjin was about to respond when Lu Xuechao suddenly leaned over and retched.

Xie Chongjin hurriedly helped Lu Xuechao's arm, bent over and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

While Xie Chongjin was dealing with the staff, Lu Xuechao was quietly checking the tea and meat buns.

Lu Xue turned slightly pale, and said softly: "There are drugs in the tea, and the buns are human flesh."

Sure enough, it is standard equipment in black shops.

He had known for a long time that the inn was tricky, so he didn't feel scared, but it was disgusting.

Xie Chongjin looked cold: "Then arrest and interrogate."

Lu Xuechao shook his head slightly: "They have accomplices. The drug doesn't take effect immediately, but they sleep soundly at night, and they have to wait until night to start. There are no carriages in the store, but there are deep ruts outside the door, indicating that there are often carriages going back and forth here .They must have someone to meet them at night, we will do whatever we can.”

Their trip was mainly for disaster relief, and they had no time to spend on it.Immediately arrest these two minions, if the accomplices are alarmed and run away, there will be endless troubles, it is better to uproot them all at once.

Seeing the white-clothed man retching, the tall and thin man muttered for a long time at a volume he couldn't hear clearly. He suspected that they had discovered something wrong, and his face gradually became vigilant: "What's wrong with this guest officer?"

Behind the counter, the burly man clenched the ax in his hand.

Xie Chongjin looked as usual and said: "My wife is tired from the boat and the car, the climate is not acclimatized, and she is not feeling well. I'm afraid she can't eat meat. We can just eat some dry food that we have prepared. Don't worry, the store will pay for the meat buns."

The slender guy's suspicious expression faded: "Then guest officer, drink a glass of water."

It's okay not to eat human flesh buns, just drink the drugged tea.

This time the two did not refuse, and drank the tea in front of the burly man and the tall, thin man.

——As the royal family, they are really good at preventing assassination by pretending to drink tea without even touching it.Even if he really drank it, Lu Xuechao always prepared an antidote for this kind of low-level drug.

But they didn't drink, and their lips didn't even touch the glass.

Dirty.

The burly man and the tall and thin guy were fooled, and they both felt relieved, and asked them to go to the bedroom to rest, and then immediately sent a message to the connector.

It is said that it is a bedroom, but it is separated from the lobby by a curtain, and there is a Datong shop inside.

This is the condition for barren mountains and wild mountains.

Seeing this, Xie Chongjin didn't bother to make the bed, and just pretended to sleep.

Acting in a full set, no one was sleeping and wearing a mask and hat, the two took off the mask, closed their eyes and waited for the rabbit.

In the middle of the night, one hand opened the curtain, and then two people tiptoed in.

Holding a candle, the tall and thin man took a look at the head of the bed, saw the faces of the two clearly, and gasped in shock.

"Hiss, these two people look like..." The thin and tall guy was at a loss for words, "Is there really someone who looks like this? What is the one from the day before yesterday compared to these two? They sold for a lot of money last time, and this time they will have to eat for a lifetime." Do you worry about wearing it?"

The burly man was also dumbfounded, and looked at Lu Xuechao's face and swallowed his saliva: "Why don't you sell this black-clothed one and keep it for us to use as prison?"

"I have never tasted such a wonderful taste in my life, let him have ten or eight children, and pass on the family to our brothers..."

Both are good-looking, but he prefers this white and beautiful one.

The lanky guy was also impressed.They are always open to money, but this time this one is too beautiful, they have never seen such a beauty in eight lifetimes, who is willing to sell it?

He hesitated: "But didn't you tell them that two goods arrived today, and everyone is waiting outside..."

The burly man said: "Let's just say one is too ugly, it has already been chopped into mincemeat. The rest is also the best, and they won't pursue it...Ah!!!"

He suddenly screamed, and the tall and thin guy was startled, feeling some liquid splashed on his face, and when he turned his head, he saw the big man standing beside him, but his neck was empty.

He lowered his head tremblingly, and as soon as the candle shone, he saw the big man's head rolling at his feet, staring at him with unconcerned eyes.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com!

I never saw who killed him.

Everything just happened in a blink of an eye.Lu Xue opened his eyes, only to see Xie Chongjin stepping out the flame on the candle in an instant, throwing down the butcher knife, and gently covering his eyes in the darkness, preventing him from seeing the bloody scene.

Lu Xuechao trembled her eyelashes.

Xie Chongjin ordered the beheading of many heinous people, but rarely killed them himself.

He doesn't like to kill people, and he is also extremely afraid of bloody, which is a painful sequelae brought about by countless worlds.

"They want to harm you." Xie Chongjin hugged him tightly, his voice was unprecedentedly cold and ruthless.

"They deserve death."