After the system ran, I took off with my family

Chapter 322 I wonder if that master is here now?

After the incident with the bandits was resolved, Hu San took a few of his brothers and buried the bodies of his dead brothers in the woods.

Lin Shuyue watched from afar, seeing the middle-aged man silently following behind with his son on his back. The weight on his back seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, bending the man's waist.

As the night deepened, the caravan lit a bonfire. The cook took out the dried meat that had been stored away from the bottom of the box, cooked several large pots of meat porridge, and boiled several pots of noodles, determined to nourish everyone.

Hu San invited Lin Shuyue and the other two to have dinner together. Looking at the slightly monotonous noodles, he asked Qingzhi to get the meat sauce from the carriage.

This meat sauce was bought in Xinghua Town and was made by an old lady.

The old woman's son was once a soldier stationed in the north. The old woman was worried that her son would not have enough to eat in the barracks, so she often boiled a few cans of meat sauce and asked merchants to go to the north to deliver it to her son.

Unfortunately, ten years ago, the Turks invaded and her son died in battle outside the Great Wall. The meat sauce that the old woman sent was taken back by the merchant, along with the pheasant feather on her son’s helmet.

From then on, the old woman would cook a pot of meat sauce whenever she missed her son. Later, her daughter-in-law opened a noodle shop in the town, and the old woman's meat sauce had a new place to go.

Lin Shuyue also heard this story, so she went to her noodle shop to have some noodles and tasted the meat sauce. She found that the meat sauce tasted great, so she asked the old woman to buy several large jars of meat sauce to prepare for eating on the road.

After dinner, everyone sat around the fire and talked in low voices, occasionally looking up at Lion Rock.

At night, Lion Rock looks like a sleeping giant lion lying among the mountains, with a faint glow of fire on its back.

As the night deepened, the plain gradually became quiet, with only heavy breathing and incessant snoring to be heard.

The person in charge of night watch occasionally added some wood to the fire, then quietly sat back in his place, perking up and listening to the movements around him.

The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is large, and it is easy to catch a cold if you sleep outside. So Lin Shuyue drove Qinghe and Qingzhi into the carriage to rest, and he sat on the shaft of the carriage, leaning against the carriage door and closed his eyes to take a nap.

Just after the third watch, Lin Shuyue, who had been dozing off, suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards the mountain. A quarter of an hour later, a brother who was keeping watch in a tree suddenly shouted, "Something's happening!"

When the people who were originally asleep heard the alarm, they quickly jumped up, gripped their weapons tightly, and stared at the mountain.

I saw a fire dragon winding down the mountain.

At this time, the fire dragon's head was about to reach the foot of the mountain, and then a noise was heard coming from the woods at the foot of the mountain.

"It's Lord Chen and the others!" someone exclaimed in the tree.

"Master Chen and his men are back from suppressing the bandits!"

Hearing this shout, the tense nerves of everyone in the caravan relaxed instantly.

After a while, Lord Chen and the handsome young man led the bandit-suppression team out of the forest, followed closely by yamen runners escorting hundreds of bandits.

Everyone had traces of fighting on their bodies, and their faces were full of fatigue.

Hu San hurried forward, bowed to Master Chen and the handsome young man, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Master! Did the suppression of the bandits go smoothly?"

Master Chen waved his hand, his voice slightly tired, "It went relatively smoothly. It's just a pity that the leader of the Black Eagle Village was out on business, so we didn't catch him. I'm afraid we'll have to put in more effort in the future."

The handsome young man also frowned and snorted coldly, "He escaped a disaster."

Lin Shuyue raised her eyebrows and looked over in surprise.

Hey, it turns out this guy can talk with his mouth.

Hu San's eyebrows also jumped, and he skipped the topic directly, inviting the two to sit down and have a drink of water and rest their feet.

The cook over there started to boil water as soon as the officers and soldiers came down the mountain. It was very cold in the mountains at night, and many officers' lips turned pale.

After a hard night's work, a bowl of hot water may be enough to entertain you.

Chen Huai looked at the young man, as if asking for his opinion. Gu Xun nodded expressionlessly and walked straight to the fire and sat down.

Feeling the warmth brought by the fire, he breathed a sigh of relief.

——Wow, it’s so warm. If he had known it would be so cold in the mountains at night, he should have brought the cloak his mother made for him. Although the color is a bit bright, it is better than freezing.

And this Lord Chen, why is he always looking at him? I told him he was going to hide his identity, so stupid.

Chen Huai didn't know that Gu Xun was silently criticizing him in his heart. Seeing that he had already sat down, he no longer refused and walked over to sit by the fire.

As soon as the two sat down, Lian Bao brought them hot tea, and then took others to bring hot water to the yamen runners.

"I apologize for the inconveniences caused while traveling," Hu San said apologetically.

Gu Xun took a sip of hot tea and sighed to himself, "It feels so good..."

Hearing Hu San's words, he turned his head and coldly uttered two words: No problem.

"Haha, that's good, that's good."

Hu San scratched his head awkwardly, and the atmosphere became a little weird for a moment.

Chen Huai knew that this was the nobleman's nature, so he tried to smooth things over by saying, "In this desolate mountain, it's already good to be able to drink a sip of hot tea. Brother Hu, don't be restrained, sit down and rest."

After saying this, he smiled gently at Lin Shuyue who was standing beside him and invited her, "Young Master, please sit down and have some hot tea with us."

Lin Shuyue and Hu San looked at each other and sat opposite each other tacitly.

Chen Huai was a talkative person. As soon as the two of them sat down, he started chatting and soon found out the details of Hu San and others.

Lin Shuyue, who was sitting opposite, was holding a cup of hot tea and listening silently. When she heard Hu San say that they were a caravan under the name of the wife of the Marquis of Jingyuan, she looked up in surprise.

I've heard a little about Jingyuan Marquis Mansion.

It is rumored that the wife of Marquis Jingyuan was born into a merchant family. She was proficient in the management of gold, silver and other valuables since childhood and owned countless shops, restaurants and farms.

It is said that on the day of her wedding, the dowry she brought was enough to circle the inner city, which made many people in the capital jealous. For this reason, Marquis Jingyuan was ridiculed by his colleagues every day when he went to court.

Lin Shuyue was listening intently when she suddenly heard Gu Xun say, "I heard from those bandits that there's a peerless master among you who can throw arrows with his bare hands and shot down two archers hiding in the trees in quick succession. I wonder if that master is here now?"

Lin Shuyue's eyebrows jumped. Why is this bandit so talkative?

Also, did this person really not know who he was? She didn't believe that the bandits hadn't told him.

Hu San looked at Lin Shuyue, a hint of worry flashing across his eyes.

Lin Shuyue gave him a reassuring look, then stood up and said with a cupped hand, "Sir, your praise is unmerited. This emergency measure, taken in a desperate situation, is nothing insignificant. It was the bandit who exaggerated."

"Throwing arrows with bare hands and killing accurately is something that not everyone can do. That bandit is not exaggerating." Gu Xun looked her up and down, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"Thank you for your praise, sir." Lin Shuyue smiled slightly.

Gu Xun saw that she didn't want to talk more, so he didn't ask any more questions and returned to his silent self.