Chapter 352: Master Chen doesn’t even recognize you? Why are you escorting?
Outside the city, the Xu family caravan heading to Tianshui was ready. The person in charge of purchasing goods this time was the third daughter of the Xu family.

The Xu family is a large business family. All members of the family, regardless of gender, have to learn business skills, and the eldest and third daughters are especially good at making money.

The business currently run by the eldest daughter is North Iron Machinery, which is said to be connected with the Prince of Qi’s Palace.

As the main business of the family was controlled by her eldest sister, the third daughter, Xu Caijin, took a different approach and chose to sell cloth.

Since ancient times, any business that wants to make money has focused on the four necessities of life: food, clothing, housing and transportation. Among these four necessities, clothing comes first, which is very telling.

The profit from selling ordinary cloth is limited, and the highest-quality cloth is the Huangzhou cotton cloth.

Therefore, Xu Caijin directly chose to come to Huangzhou Prefecture to sell cloth.

Xu Caijin was sitting in a rather luxurious carriage at this time. He lifted the curtain and looked at the old butler behind him and asked, “When are we leaving?”

After hearing this, the old housekeeper said, “Miss, the people from the escort agency insisted on waiting for someone and said they would leave immediately.”

“What kind of escort agency is this? How can they escort like this? Can’t we change to another one?”

After hearing this, the old housekeeper smiled and said, “Miss San, the north has been in turmoil recently. The people in Huangzhou are living a wealthy life, so there are very few people willing to escort. I have looked for many companies before I finally found this escort company willing to take on this job.”

Xu Caijin said with an unpleasant expression: “Really? There isn’t even a poor person in Huangzhou Prefecture. How did that Chen Jiusi govern?”

The old housekeeper said, “Yes, this Huangzhou Prefecture is quite weird. The people live too well. If I were a resident of this prefecture, I would probably not want to go out. After all, these years are full of chaos and war.”

Hearing this, Xu Caijin said, “Okay, stop complaining. Go ask the escort agency staff if they want to leave. Stop dithering.”

After hearing this, the old butler immediately agreed and went to find the people from Zhennan Escort Agency.

The Zhennan Escort Agency has two team leaders, the chief and the deputy chief, five escort masters, and forty porters, a total of forty-seven people, which is all the personnel of this escort agency.

This time they also attached great importance to this escort mission. After all, they could earn 5,000 taels of silver from this trip, which was considered a lucrative job.

At this time, an escort complained to the escort leader: “Why hasn’t that person who was sent in with connections come yet? Isn’t this delaying our business?”

“Yes, Escort Leader, why don’t we go? The boss has urged us twice.”

“Why are you walking? Wait a moment.”

At this time, the escort leader spoke up. He was a thirty-year-old man from the old Huangzhou Prefecture.

He knew that the person who was sent to the team this time was the director of the Huangzhou Prefecture Textile Factory. Although he was not a high-ranking official, he ran an escort agency. Who would dare to mess with this family? After all, many people depended on the textile factory for their livelihood.

After hearing what the escort leader said, the escort who spoke looked at the deputy escort leader and said, “Deputy escort leader, what do you think about this?”

Upon hearing this, the deputy escort leader looked at the escort leader and stood up and said, “You can wait if you want. It’s impossible to make the boss wait in an escort agency. Let’s go, brothers, prepare to move the goods.”

“Hey.”

After hearing what the deputy escort leader said, most of the people stood up and followed the deputy escort leader, not paying any attention to the escort leader at all, leaving the escort leader looking very embarrassed.

But there was nothing he could do, he could only get angry, and a few of his trusted subordinates said, “Boss, this guy named Ma is not a good person.”

The escort leader didn’t say anything, but had an unpleasant look on his face.

There was no way. The new escort leader Ma was a great master from the Langyan Realm. He was not from Huangzhou Prefecture before, but from Huanggang Prefecture. Later, when Chen Jiusi went to Wushan and sent Wu Daojun to recapture Huanggang, he escaped and later joined their Zhennan Escort Agency.

But after he came, he directly led the people in the escort agency astray. There was nothing that could be done about it, since he was the leader of the escort agency who had just reached the Dan realm.

The industry of bodyguard is very realistic. You will listen to whoever is stronger. So who is stronger?

No need to ask, the deputy leader is definitely stronger, so his position as leader has been basically sidelined.

It’s a pity that the foundation you have worked hard for your whole life may be taken over by someone else in the end.

The escort leader was thinking about it, and at this time he saw the deputy escort leader walking towards Xu Caijin’s carriage. On the way, he met the old butler, who said, “Captain Ma, when are you leaving? The boss is waiting anxiously.”

After hearing this, the deputy escort leader walked over and said, “We’ll leave now, don’t worry.”

“Come on, I’ll go meet the boss with you.”

At this time, Deputy Escort Leader Ma came to Xu Caijin’s carriage and said, “Boss, don’t worry, we are leaving now.”

Hearing this, Xu Caijin said, “Well, I’ll have to trouble Ma Biaotou.”

After hearing this, Deputy Escort Leader Ma raised his lips and said, “It’s not hard, it’s not hard.”

As he spoke, Deputy Escort Ma glanced inside the car, a smile on his face, then turned around and said, “Brothers, get ready to set off.”

Seeing Deputy Escort Leader Ma like this, Xu Caijin frowned and said to the old housekeeper behind him, “Is this Zhennan Escort Agency reliable?”

The old housekeeper said: “He should be reliable. He was introduced by someone from the Huangzhou Prefecture Textile Factory.”

Xu Caijin said: “Well, let our people be careful. By the way, how is Master Li’s injury?”

As soon as these words came out, the old housekeeper said, “It should be fine.”

“That’s good.”

Master Li is the Xu family’s martial artist, and he also has the strength of Wolf Smoke Realm. Such strength is nothing in the eyes of big forces, but it is already a great figure in ordinary merchants.

After all, according to the power division of this world, at the county level, Hua Jin is the peak, and Bao Dan can basically dominate everything in the county.

When you arrive at the mansion, it is usually the Langyan Realm that is in charge, and those in the Changhong Realm are all high-ranking bosses.

Although the Xu family has been engaged in business for generations, it is not easy for them to afford a martial artist at the Wolf Smoke Realm.

Therefore, Master Li is the backbone of this caravan.

Just as the caravan was about to leave, they suddenly saw a man rushing in from outside the city. This man was riding a poor horse, wearing coarse cloth clothes, and looked like a wanderer.

It fits the factory director’s description very well. He has a distant cousin who travels around the country and hopes to come to the Zhennan Escort Agency to gain some experience and learn the rules.

The man came closer and asked, “Is this the Zhennan Escort Agency?”

After hearing this, one of the escorts said, “Yes.”

Chen Jie said: “Director Zhao introduced it.”

After hearing this, the escort said, “You must be Director Zhao’s cousin. We have been waiting for you for a long time. Come and meet the deputy escort leader and the escort leader.”

Chen Jie was stunned when he heard this. Why did they always speak in reverse order? The deputy escort leader was more important than the escort leader?

Chen Jie looked puzzled, but still said, “Okay.”

Soon Chen Jie was pulled in front of the two escort leaders. At this time, Chen Jie got off the horse with a bamboo hat on his head.

Deputy escort leader Lao Ma glared and said, “I’ve been waiting for you for a long time. As an escort, you can’t be late. Don’t you know that?”

“Who asked you to wear a hat? Take it off.”

Old Ma glared at Chen Jie with a frown, as if he wanted to intimidate him.

Chen Jie originally wanted to keep a low profile and didn’t want to cause trouble with him, so he took off his hat as he requested, revealing his lightly made-up face. In fact, he didn’t make any major changes, he just painted his face a little darker.

Because Chen Jie is usually very low-key, many people in Huangzhou Prefecture and low-level gangsters have never seen him, and Chen Jie doesn’t think he will be recognized by anyone.

However, the moment Chen Jie took off his hat, the leader of the escort team, who had been listless and dispirited, suddenly widened his eyes with a look of disbelief.

He even blinked secretly, and then looked at Chen Jie with a look of horror on his face.

Chen Jie originally thought that no one recognized him, but he didn’t expect that the escort leader looked like he knew him, so he gave him a look.

The escort leader was not stupid and understood what he meant immediately. He allowed the person who actually controlled Huangzhou Prefecture to disguise himself and join his small team, which obviously meant that he did not want others to know his identity.

So he didn’t say anything.

However, the deputy escort leader Lao Ma did not know Chen Jie’s identity. He only said to Chen Jie: “Since you are following the escort team, you must understand the rules. It is your job to feed the horses on the road. Also, you should be more considerate and serve tea and water diligently. Also, if you see any escort who is tired, go and give him a leg massage…”

Seeing that the deputy escort leader Lao Ma was talking nonstop, he even used the same tactics he used to bully newcomers on Chen Jie.

The escort leader was terrified, and said directly: “Okay, okay, I’ll take care of him, Lao Ma, you just take care of the escort.”

As he said that, he pulled Deputy Escort Ma aside and said, “Old Ma, he is Director Zhao’s cousin. Aren’t you trying to deceive Director Zhao?”

“Since he’s late, he should learn a lesson.”

The escort leader said, “Okay, okay, don’t worry about this guy, just let him follow me.”

Deputy Escort Leader Ma looked at the Escort Leader and said, “Okay, let’s start the escort.”

As he spoke, he waved his hand forward, and the porter immediately struck the gong.

when!
There was a sound, and then the leading escort shouted, “Start escorting~”

Then all the escorts shouted in unison: “Hewu!”

Then the whole team started to move forward. It was the first time that Chen Jie saw a team of escorts moving forward, and he was quite interested. At this time, the escort leader came over, sent away the nearby escorts and said, “Hewu, the escort car is moving, and we will return safely after half a year.”

When Chen Jie heard the voice, he turned to look at the escort leader. The escort leader immediately saluted Chen Jie with both hands in a very secretive manner and said, “I am Sun Cong, meeting Boss Chen.”

Chen Jie glanced at him and said, “Do you know me?”

The escort leader immediately said, “I am Sun Buer’s disciple. I once had the honor of seeing the true face of Gang Leader Chen.”

After hearing this, Chen Jie said, “Oh, Sun Buer’s apprentice.”

Chen Jie knew very well who Sun Buer was. He was the evergreen tree of Mianshui County and Zhou Chu’s father-in-law. When he was in Mianshui, he also had a high status and face.

“Oh, I didn’t expect that he was the disciple of the old hero Sun, and an old friend.”

Sun Cong said, “I didn’t expect to meet Boss Chen. I’m really lucky. Boss Chen, what’s up?”

Chen Jie said: “I will go to Tianshui with your escort team. As for the rest, don’t ask.”

Sun Cong said: “Yes, I understand. The more you know, the more dangerous it is.”

Chen Jie raised his lips and said, “As expected of a disciple of the Sun Sect, you understand things at once.” Sun Cong smiled and said, “Yes, thank you for the compliment, Boss Chen.”

Chen Jie said: “Okay, just do your thing, don’t let anyone notice your flaws on the way.”

Sun Cong said: “Don’t worry, boss. I can still handle this matter.”

As the convoy moved forward, this time to go to Tianshui, they needed to cross Shaanxi Road and go straight to Shanxi Road.

Chen Jie was quite leisurely on the road, and he saw many sufferings of the people along the way.

After a day’s journey, the caravan took a rest. The carriages were surrounded by the escort team. They lit a bonfire on the outskirts and started cooking.

Chen Jie was sitting by a fire, warming himself, when a woman came over and said to him arrogantly, “Today, we delayed the departure of the convoy by half an hour just to wait for you, right?”

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie immediately stood up and said, “I’m sorry, I was wrong today, I apologize to the boss.”

After hearing this, the woman looked at Chen Jie and said, “Your apology is worthless. Do you know that this batch of goods arrived in Tianshui half an hour late? How much money did our Xu family lose?”

“How much is the loss? I’ll compensate you for some of it.”

“Compensation, can you afford it?”

The woman said helplessly after hearing this. After hearing this, Sun Cong, who was not far away, immediately came over here, but was stopped by the deputy escort leader Ma on the way.

Sun Cong looked at Deputy Escort Leader Ma and asked, “Did you go to the boss to file a complaint?”

Deputy Escort Leader Ma took a bite of the dried meat in his hand and said, “Let him learn a lesson, or someone will teach him a lesson in the future.”

After hearing this, Sun Cong glared at Deputy Escort Leader Ma and said, “Who told you to do this? Do you know that I am the Chief Escort Leader?”

As he said that, Sun Cong pushed away the deputy escort leader Ma, and immediately ran over to rescue Chen Jie.

Others may not know, but doesn’t he know who the man in front of him is?
These people present here may not be much better than garbage in the eyes of others. With just one word from others, they can crush them into slag.

Now you are showing off and giving others a lesson.

Sun Cong just felt that they were a bunch of idiots. A mere young lady from a merchant family dared to speak so brazenly to the dignified King of Huangzhou.

Sun Cong wanted to come over to stop this ridiculous behavior, but when he saw Chen Jie looking at him, he immediately stopped listening.

At this time, Xu Caijin also saw Chen Jie looking at the chief escort Sun Cong and said, “It’s no use looking at him. I tell you this is the first and last time. If it happens again, please get out of my caravan.”

Xu Caijin said sternly, and Chen Jie did not refute but nodded in agreement.

Throughout the whole process, his attitude was very sincere and there was no sign of impatience. Xu Caijin vented a little and turned away.

Only Chen Jie was left standing there. Sun Cong rushed over and asked, “Are you okay?”

Chen Jie sat down and continued to roast the sac in his hand and said, “It’s okay, she is right.”

Sun Cong was stunned and looked at Chen Jie and asked, “Master Chen, you?”

Chen Jie said: “It’s not easy for a woman to manage a caravan. If there were no thunderous means, the people below would have rebelled long ago. We need to understand this and can’t just stand here and look at the problem. Besides, am I really late too?”

As he spoke, Chen Jie took the sac and said, “Here, try it. I roasted it and it smells delicious.”

Chen Jie said as he handed Sun Cong a piece of sang, and then he started eating. After he was full, Chen Jie said, “I feel sleepy, take a rest.”

Just then someone said, “Newcomer, go feed the horses.”

After hearing this, Sun Cong stood up immediately and was about to curse, “Are these bastards crazy? They even dare to give orders to Master Chen. Are they tired of living?”

But Chen Jie held him down and said, “Hey, here it comes.”

As Chen Jie went to feed the horses, Sun Cong thought with a look of panic: “I really don’t know if this kid will be scared to death when he knows that he once ordered Master Chen to feed the horses.”

It was time to rest at night, and Chen Jie closed his eyes and rested.

When everyone was fast asleep, they heard a person getting up and gathering in one direction.

Who is Chen Jie? He is a great master in the Furnace Realm with very sensitive ears. At this time, he listened carefully and heard that they gathered around the deputy escort leader Lao Ma.

Soon Chen Jie heard a sound.

“What are you doing so late?”

It was the voice of the deputy escort leader Lao Ma.

At this time, someone said, “Second Master, why don’t you take action? It’s a good time to take advantage of them sleeping soundly…”

“Yes, Second Boss, this ticket is quite lucrative. If you do it well, you can get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to spend.”

Several people whispered.

Chen Jie narrowed his eyes, it was quite interesting, he didn’t expect that he was trying to rob his fellow thieves.

Chen Jie remained calm, and at this time, the deputy escort leader Lao Ma said, “Damn it, don’t do anything rash. We haven’t even left the territory of Huangzhou Prefecture yet. Chen Jiusi is not easy to mess with. We can rob money, but if we provoke that Chen, I’m afraid we will have the life to rob but not the life to spend it.”

After hearing this, one person said, “Second in command, is that Chen guy that powerful? I heard that he is just from a fishing gang, right?”

“Don’t talk nonsense. We can’t afford to offend Chen Jiusi.”

Old Ma said this with lingering fear, thinking that his eldest brother used to be a bandit in Tiebozi Mountain in Ankang Prefecture, and always wanted him to join the gang and do something big.

After all, these days, anyone with a knife and a gun can be a king. Who would be content to be just a bandit?

However, he also had some foundation in Huanggang Prefecture, so he had never agreed to let them join. But later, a group of people came to Huanggang Prefecture, claiming to be from Huangzhou Prefecture, and posted a notice asking all gangs in the city to surrender immediately. If they refused, they would be enemies.

If it is an enemy, then destroy it. He didn’t care about it at that time, and he, Ma Fude, was not a big shot.

As a result, three days later, people from Huangzhou Prefecture rushed into Huanggang Prefecture. The leader was actually a powerful dragon-level warrior named Wu Daojun.

In that battle, he lost all his foundation in Huanggang Prefecture, and the people in Huangzhou Prefecture threatened to capture these resistance elements alive. He was so scared that he immediately fled Huanggang Prefecture. Later, he contacted his eldest brother.

His elder brother said that Huangzhou Prefecture was a piece of fat meat now, and asked him to find a way to do something big and earn some money to bring back to the mountain so that they could do big things and use it as start-up capital.

So he joined the Zhennan Escort Agency and became the deputy escort leader.

After he stayed in Huangzhou Prefecture for some time, he realized that Huangzhou Prefecture was not a place to be trifled with. If anyone dared to provoke anyone from Huangzhou Prefecture, the Prefecture would definitely track him down to the end.

So he decided to leave Huangzhou Prefecture first. After all, this caravan did not belong to Huangzhou Prefecture, and the territory did not belong to Huangzhou Prefecture. Even if it was robbed in the future, it would have nothing to do with him, Chen Jiusi.

There was no reason for Chen Jiusi to chase him.

“Okay, let’s all go back. We have to endure for the next two days. We will take action once we are outside Hubei and near Ankang, Shaanxi. By then, we can ask Big Brother to pick us up to avoid any problems.”

“Okay then, I’ll listen to Second in Command. By the way, Second in Command, who are the people in this caravan?”

“Kill, leave no one behind.”

A man of small mind is not a gentleman, and a man without viciousness is not a man. None of these people can be kept alive. If one of them escapes in the future and returns to Huangzhou Prefecture, what if the matter is heard by Chen Jiusi?

What if we send more people to destroy them?
Although his elder brother now has a team of a thousand people, it is just a small dish in front of Chen Jiusi from Huangzhou Prefecture.

So in order to prevent the news from leaking out, no one from the accompanying people could be left alive and they must all be killed.

“Second in command, the Xu family’s wife is pretty, it would be a pity to kill her, haha, is it okay?”

“What are you thinking? This kind of top-notch food must be enjoyed by the Second in Command first. When will it be your turn?”

After hearing this, Deputy Escort Leader Ma said, “Okay, follow me, when will I treat you badly? I want to use a woman, and if any of the other brothers want to use her, just line up.”

“I.”

“I.”

A group of people immediately said, and after hearing this, Deputy Escort Leader Ma said, “Okay, don’t stay here any longer, in order to avoid being discovered, go back, go back.”

After hearing this, the group of people went back immediately.

Upon hearing this, everyone walked back together, and Chen Jie heard everything they said.

I thought it was not easy to do business these days, with government officials exploiting you in the city and bandits rampant outside the city.

Thinking of Chen Jie, I continued to pretend to sleep.

At this time, the escorts who had left came back. One of them stood on top of Chen Jie’s head, muttering, “You are unlucky. You said you would not come, but you risked your life. Now, sigh…”

“What are you mumbling about? Go back quickly, quickly…”

As they were talking, everyone went back. Chen Jie saw that everyone had gone back, so he didn’t say anything and just closed his eyes to rest.

At his level, the effect of closing his eyes and resting is actually not much different from sleeping.

In this way, a day passed, and the convoy continued to move forward. The journey was quite smooth, and Chen Jie continued to do his work.

On the fourth day, just when they arrived in Shaanxi, they met an ugly woman with abscesses on her face and knife wounds who had fainted on the side of the road.

According to the rules of the escort agency, they could not accept people of unknown origin, but Xu Caijin was inexplicably kind-hearted and insisted on taking her with her.

After rescuing the girl, Xu Caijin asked her what happened. She said that she met bandits before. The bandits killed her parents and wanted to kill her, so they chased them all the way.

Chen Jie took a look at the injuries on her body and realized that she must be lying, because she was wounded by a sword, and the technique was clean and efficient, obviously done by a master.

So she was lying when she said the possibility of being chased by a group of bandits was almost non-existent.

But this was not Chen Jie’s business, so he didn’t say anything. Even though some of the others wanted to object, Xu Caijin insisted on protecting her, so they had no choice but to listen to their boss.

In this way, the group traveled all the way and finally arrived in Ankang. One day, they passed through a mountainous area.

There was a high mountain ahead, which looked extremely dangerous. Xu Caijin lifted the car curtain and asked, “Where is this?”

Then someone answered: “Iron Neck Mountain.”

(End of this chapter)