Chapter 238: Leaving

"There is another worse news. I wonder if you want to listen." Zhou Wutian said that the news came from the Luo family and was not important to the situation, but it might be a huge blow to Luo Hui and his brother.

"What else is worse than now?" Luo Hui asked with a frown, obviously she couldn't think of what was going on.

"You said before that you have an aunt, right?" Zhou Wutian asked.

"What's wrong with her?" When Zhou Wutian mentioned her aunt, Luo Ming rushed over. However, the injury on his leg was not very good, so he was unstable and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong with her? What's wrong? Tell me?" After falling to the ground, Luo Ming crawled for a few times but didn't get up, but shouted roaring.

""Based on the information I received, your aunt was forced to marry the city lord's mansion after you two left, but your aunt was banned from compromising. "After that, Zhou Wutian paused, "It seemed that he heard the news of the murder of you two in the sidelines, and then committed suicide."

After this news, Luo Hui and Luo Ming were both silent. The environment was unprecedentedly quiet. I guess this news would have a great blow to the two.

After a while of silence, Luo Ming silently climbed onto the bed, and Luo Hui continued to cook medicine without saying a word, as if nothing had ever been born, and as if everything had passed.

Zhou Wutian didn't say anything. After slowly quitting, he turned around and closed the door, and no longer disturbed the two of them. No matter what the result of this news, they both need to slowly digest and bear it themselves.

At dusk, Luo Hui's brothers' emotions still did not ease, and Zhou Wutian did not intend to interfere more. Instead, he disguised himself and went to the mountain city to collect information again.

During the day, Zhou Wutian collects various widely circulated information in the mountain city through open means. At night, Zhou Wutian goes deep into various families in the mountain city, hiding in the darkness, and collects more secret information.

After all, although the information circulating on the surface involves all aspects, the accuracy of it still needs to be investigated. Most of the information obtained from deep into the family forces is relatively accurate. This is how the news about Luo Hui and his sister and sister were obtained.

With Zhou Wutian's strength, he traveled freely in the mountain city. Even in the city lord's mansion, Zhou Wutian had gone deep into it two or three times, but was not revealed. However, the people in the city lord's mansion went out to find the people from the imperial city where something was wrong, so he did not get any useful information.

The person from the imperial city was probably Hu Yang and others who were rescued by Zhou Wutian under Miteng Xi before. With the responsibility of the city lord's mansion, from receiving information to sending people to find Hu Yang and others and then coming back. If you calculate the time, you may be back tomorrow. It seems that you must leave the mountain city before this to avoid causing trouble.

Late at night, after these family forces fell asleep, Zhou Wutian saw that there was no valuable information to obtain, so he returned to the place where he stayed.

As soon as I returned to the accommodation, I saw that the lights were still on in the room of Luo Hui and his brother. Needless to say, I must have been waiting for him if I didn't sleep at this time.

Zhou Wutian pushed the door and went in. Sure enough, Luo Hui and his brother did not sleep, but sat on the table. Seeing Zhou Wutian coming in, Luo Ming came back to his senses and said, "My benefactor, can you help us?" A simple sentence had too much helplessness and sadness.

"Of course." Zhou Wutian nodded. Although he didn't know how much impact this incident had on the two, he could feel that Luo Ming had already learned the truth.

"We swear to follow us to the death. If we have two hearts, we will be punished by heaven and earth." As they said that, they knelt down on one knee at Zhou Wutian, each with a bowl of tea. This is the highest etiquette in the country that is willing to surrender to each other. Whenever a family or other forces gather people, they will ask for this etiquette. However, other people who work in important places will not ask for such a ruthless oath, and generally, the oath will be set.

After all, many people will not stay in the same family all the time. If the family falls for a long time or the family falls, they will have to change places. Therefore, the oath is only valid when they serve in their family, and there is usually no oath to restrict leaving.

This practice is also recognized by various forces. After all, once only one has strict requirements and others’ requirements are relatively relaxed, one will inevitably not be able to recruit people here, but will encourage other people’s forces, which is something that everyone wants to avoid. However, because of this, it is difficult for these people recruited from outside to enter the top leaders of these family forces, and even if they enter it, they will be despised by the family because of the constraints of family concepts. It can be said that Fang Guo’s family concept is even more serious than Yu'anguo.

However, it is precisely because outsiders cannot integrate into the family's top leadership that the mercenary group that does not need to look at relationships and bloodlines can grow. Even if there is a big gap compared to the family's forces, their power cannot be underestimated. Therefore, the family will not do too much when hiring mercenaries, so as not to cause trouble.

"Let's go." Zhou Wutian took the tea bowl and drank it all, and then took the lead and walked out. Luo Hui and his brother followed.

It was late at night, and the people on the street were quite small. Even the guards patrolling in the city were transferred away because the city lord's mansion went to find Hu Yang and others.

After leaving the residence, the three of them got on the carriage that had been prepared long ago. Although Luo Ming had recovered 60% or 70% due to his physical condition, it was inconvenient to move. Moreover, his strength was not very high, and he was not as good as a carriage when walking.

"Stop, what are you doing?" The carriage was walking on the road and was suddenly stopped by a group of people.

"What are you doing? What are you stopping me from doing?" Zhou Wutian asked immediately.

"We suspect that you have a criminal in your car, so why don't you get out of the car and let us investigate." Someone from the group said.

"What are you doing? Just watch it if you want?" Zhou Wutian immediately refused.

"Bold, do you know who this person is?" As he said that, a young man from the group walked out, wearing fine linen clothes, probably had some identity.

"I don't know, let go, don't block my way." Zhou Wutian said immediately without looking.

"Rareless, even the second young master of the Luo family doesn't know you. I suspect you are from the outer city. Please take this fine work for me." The man shouted immediately, and then five or six people rushed up with sticks in hand.

"What should I do?" Although Luo Hui has been to many occasions and seen many worlds, she rarely encounters such fighting and killing situations. Therefore, after seeing this situation, she was suddenly panicked.

"After a while, we took advantage of the situation and attacked Luo Lang, took him as a hostage, and then ran away immediately." Compared to Luo Hui's panic, Luo Ming seemed a little calmer, and it seemed that he was enlightened.

However, Zhou Wutian did not give him a chance to show his performance. He raised the whip in his hand, and the two people who rushed up were hooked and directly overturned to the ground. Then he waved the whip at the horse pulling the cart, which shocked the horse and immediately pulled the cart forward.

"Royal, I'm..." The leader Luo Lang was about to speak, but was hit by the shocked horse in person. Then he ran over him directly, leaving a deep rut on his face. The others dared not stop him, so they quickly made way out. After the carriage left, the people hurriedly pulled Luo Lang up.

"Damn guy, I have to peel him off by catching up with them." Roland roared in anger, his roar and the ruts on his face were as eye-catching.

"Yes, yes." After helping Luo Lang up, the few people held back their smiles and chased them towards the carriage.

Since it is impossible to leave safely, it is natural to leave as fast as possible. Therefore, Zhou Wutian directly drove the carriage toward the city gate.

Because the mountain city has no resource output and mainly relies on trade to maintain the economy, the city gates are rarely closed, and the city gates are quite relaxed, so that they can attract more merchants to come here to trade.

The carriage driven by Zhou Wutian did not reduce at all when passing the city gate, but it did not cause any trouble. Only some guards who were disturbed by their dreams cursed at the carriage and continued to sleep. Fang Guo had been stable for many years. Although the mountain city was in the border area, it was the farthest place in the depth of Fang Guo because it was backed by Fang Shan, so it had almost never been invaded by foreign enemies. Most of the time, when the foreign enemy's troops arrived at the mountain city, Fang Guo was basically controlled, and there was only a mountain city that was difficult to defend and easy to attack. Surrender was often chosen.

By the time Luo Lang and his group chased the city gate, the carriage Zhou Wutian had already disappeared without a trace, and he didn't even know where he had gone.

"Young master, there are still ruts here, and we may be able to catch up with them." One of the men looked down at the ruts and said.

"Car, are you afraid of being taken away by a wolf when you go out in the middle of the night?" Luo Lang slapped the man to the ground. The ruts on his face were still so painful, but this bastard didn't open any pot.

After Zhou Wutian and his other men drove a carriage away from the city gate, they headed towards the northwest of Shancheng, with the goal of Xuancheng in the northwest of Shancheng.

Hu Yu said before that he left his child in a certain town, but because he was in a state of escape, he entrusted one of his subordinates to take the child away. Therefore, Hu Yu himself did not know where his child was now, and the place where they finally separated was located in a forest in the east of Xuancheng.

When the separation was completed, Hu Yu's child was only five months old and had not even had his name, so he started to flee. This time, Hu Yu gave Zhou Wutian a jade plaque with a blue bird carved on it and a jade plaque. The meaning of it was not very clear.

From Shancheng to Xuancheng, there is a trade road where horse-drawn carriages can walk directly. The road is actually just a road that has more merchants and ruts. The width of the road just accommodates a carriage to walk. The road is overgrown and weeds and bumpy. The only place where it can be seen is a road, which is the trees cut down on the road because they block the road and the sparse road signs set up to prevent loss.

It takes one day to travel from Shancheng to Xuancheng, but in fact, if this road is repaired and has enough power to maintain it, it only takes two hours to ride from Shancheng to Xuancheng. The journey between the two is not long, but this section of the road is very difficult to walk. Not only is it a bumpy, the weeds on the road also obscures most of the road, making it necessary to be careful when walking. In addition to these reasons, the thieves on the road are also quite time-consuming.

There are basically no caravans that go to encounter thieves. There are only one or two waves, and there are four or five waves. Some caravans with weak strength are directly left by thieves. In addition to thieves, the beasts hidden in the mountains and forests are also quite terrible. Caravans that are favored by wild beasts are rarely safe. After all, if a thief sees the opponent's strength, he will run away after snatching things. The beasts come just to hunt, and after eating the last meal, they will naturally not let go of any prey.

However, there is no way to do this. Apart from the difficulty of walking on the road, the population distribution of the country has caused no people to be on the road most of the time.

In fact, after leaving the mountain city, we could see several villages and fields at first, but after about an hour, we could hardly see people. All that was left was the forest with no end. Although it was already outside the square mountain, except for the flat terrain, there was no improvement in the surrounding environment. Many places could also see some very ancient trees, at least a hundred years old.

Fangshan has a large population, but they are all villages built around towns. The population of people is very crowded, just like a mountain city. The entire mountain city has a huge jurisdiction, with nearly 100,000 people in this jurisdiction. However, most of the 100,000 people are crowded among villages near the mountain city. There are 200 villages of all sizes near the mountain city, and there are only fifty or sixty people in the smaller villages. Most of these villages are between the mountain city and the Fangshan, while the villages with a larger population have a maximum of 60 or 700 people. These are mostly in places close to the countryside of the mountain city.

In the central area of ​​Shancheng, there are nearly 20,000 people living in the mountain city. This small town is only four miles in square meters, most of which are houses built with mud. Judging from the appearance alone, you would not think that there are so many people living here, but from the information I found out, there are indeed so many people.
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