Compared with the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom was even more populated. Even near Nanjing, there were still not many towns. The official roads were intermittent. If the caravans wanted to rush to the same place, the best way was to find the rivers and flow up and down.

Not far from the official road heading west of Youzhou, there is such a relatively wide river. Today, a horse-trafficking caravan is slowly moving along the river. For example, the three powers in the lower three countries are standing together. Although there are disputes from time to time, the trade routes have not been cut off. Various exquisite goods from the Song people, such as tea, silk and porcelain, horse fur of the Liao people, and green salt of the Xia people are the most intimate goods in the eyes of merchants from all over the world. They are also the main ways for many capable, visionary and ambition to make a lot of money.

However, because Liao and Xia countries knew that the disadvantages of Song were scarce, they deliberately listed horses as banned items for the Song trade during the three parties' trade, just like Song banned the sale of iron and other strategic materials to these two countries. However, there was no ban on this aspect between Liao and Xia, so many horse traders in Liao countries also like to sell horses to the west and then exchange them for a large amount of green salt from Western Xia, so that they can make a lot of money.

This horse-carrying team heading west obviously had this idea. There were hundreds of horses in the team. As long as they arrived in Xixia, they would be enough to become the targets for local merchants and wealthy families to compete for. After all, even Xixia horses could not match the Great Liao Xiongjun.

The sky was getting darker, and with the shouts of the leader in front, the team finally stopped. After some busyness, people set up bonfires and began to prepare for nighttime food. At the same time, many men who were good at raising and shepherding horses untied the bridles of the horses that had been tied tightly and let them eat grass and drink water. After all, long-term confinement will only make the horses tired and weak, and they still need to relax.

Several horses of different sizes shook their heads and tails and went forward while eating grass. They soon arrived at the riverside. A few horses drank water on the shore, and two small ones went directly into the water and sprinkled with joy.

At this moment, one of the little foals was having fun suddenly stopped and found something floating towards him not far away. He was curious and went up to take a look. Then, it bit the thing with its mouth and dragged it to the shore with difficulty.

Because it had just rained heavily before, the river water is now a little turbulent, and the pony is not strong enough to drag the thing to the shore. He can only go forward two steps to block the thing and continue to go down, and at the same time, he screams in his mouth.

When it screamed, several companions around it were affected, and they all neighed together. The sound of the dozen horses making was really quite loud, and it immediately attracted the attention of people in the camp there. Soon two or three men ran over with a knife bow with a look of vigilance.

In addition to the difficult journey, these merchants traveling abroad also have to overcome various sudden changes, such as robbers with clipping paths and ferocious beasts wandering outside. This allows them to carry their own weapons, bows, arrows, swords, guns and other things with them.

At first, these people thought that the horses by the river had encountered wild animals such as tigers and wolves. They ran over and found that it was a pony that had found something strange in the river. After a little discussion, the few people rushed over quickly, waded in the river water that was not across their waists, and soon came to the strange black "thing".

"This... is this human?" After carefully examining the strange thing for a long time, someone muttered in surprise. Because it was dark and the "thing" was half-sinking and half-floating in the water, they could not see it for a while, and now they finally made a judgment.

In fact, it's no wonder that they are because this person's outfit is too unreasonable. The black layer on his body is not known to be skin or clothing. He has a strange black tube on his back. There is a tube extending outward and leading to a mask pressed on the person's face. This mask completely covers the person's face. If he suddenly meets him, this person looks like a ghost more than a human.

But after careful examination, they confirmed that this was a man who fell into the water, and there seemed to be several serious wounds on his body. At this time, he was completely unconscious and just breathed a sigh of relief.

"What should I do?" Someone asked, and after hesitating, the others suggested: "After all, it's a life. Let's take it back to the shore first." As he said that, the few people worked together, and finally moved this heavy and weird guy to the shore and then took him to the camp.

At this time, the others in the camp were also paying attention to this situation. Seeing them rescued such a strange-looking guy, many people were uneasy, and some even directly suggested: "This person is unknown, so he should lose it..."

"This is not good. It should be the one who died in a long journey. Since we have encountered it, how can we not save us?" Some people also objected: "Whoever has no three disasters and six disasters when they go out. Only by supporting each other can we ensure everyone's safety..."

The man behind him said it was even more popular, so everyone finally agreed to take the person into the camp and treat the man in a tent. Under the light of the fire, everyone finally confirmed that the guy was just wearing a weird dress. After peeling off the black clothing that was closer to the water lining, his body was no different from that of ordinary people. Moreover, there were arrows completely sank into the flesh on his back, and the eyes were filled with arrows that were completely immersed in the flesh. Everyone was even more surprised.

It was really troublesome when he had to take off the mask that was pressed on his face. The thing was too tight and it took everyone a lot of hands and feet to remove the mask, and then a young face with almost no blood was revealed. No matter who was hit by a few arrows and soaked in the river for a long time, it would be considered a fortune to be immortal.

At the same time, these people couldn't help but admire the man's strength. It could be seen that the arrows were originally with arrow shafts, but they were broken by his bare hands, so that they could naturally wear that strange set of clothes. Everyone present asked themselves that they would never be able to do such a ruthless way of taking action against themselves.

The next thing they had to do was to help people take out the arrows on their bodies. After these people pushed each other, someone suggested: "Let Huangfu come. He is good at raising horses and raising horses, and I believe the doctors are almost the same."

When the others heard this, they felt something was right, so someone ran out of the tent and called a strong man with yellow and red bearded bearded who was still caring for horses outside. This person was Huangfu Duan, who had a deal with Sun Tu and others in Yangma City, Youzhou City!

It turned out that after Sun Tu had a fight in the city that day, Huangfu Duan knew that he would be implicated. So he immediately made a decision and quickly paid to bribe the soldiers guarding the gate and escaped from Nanjing City. Then, he stayed in an inconspicuous town outside the city for a while.

He did not show up again until he was convinced that the government had no intention of causing trouble for him. However, Huangfu Duan did not dare to go back to Nanjing this time. After all, he offended too many people that day. Who knows whether others would arrest him as the accomplice of the Song people? Even if he was not, it is hard to say whether those officials would impose Tong Song's charge on themselves in order to extort money.

So after some thought, Huangfu Duan planned to leave this place of failure. With his horse-taking skills and the unsold white horse, he really made him become a companion with a horse-selling team that was about to go west to Xia Kingdom and walk with him.

Huangfu Duan, who was deliberately low-key, knew that a person was salvaged by the river, did not go over to see what was going on like the others. It was not until someone went out to invite him to come that he entered the tent reluctantly. After a few words of politeness to everyone, he came to the coma. Before he could see the wound on the person's body, his eyes had already fallen on the other person's face, and then his body suddenly shook: "How could it be... it was him!"

Although it was just a one-time encounter and the two sides didn't say much, it was not long after all, and they were all thanks to this person when they reached this point today. Huangfu Duan naturally recognized this person's identity at a glance - the General Sun in the Song State delegation!

Sun Tu! This person who was rescued from the river by a group of horse dealers was Sun Tu, who fought several times before and was finally chased by Xiao Yanping. After being caught in the arrow, he was lost in the water!

This place was dozens of miles west of the river bank where he fell into the water, but I wonder what he could have arrived along the river with such a serious injury and waiting for death.

When the merchants around saw Huangfu Duan suddenly changed their color, they asked curiously: "What, Huangfu, do you recognize this person?"

Huangfu Duan's heart quickly changed, after weighing the pros and cons, he immediately shook his head and said, "Of course I don't recognize it. I was just surprised that he was seriously injured and could survive. This person's body was really strong, and his thoughts on survival were much stronger than ordinary people."

Everyone was relieved. Thinking about it, everyone here was shocked when they saw this person's injury. It was reasonable for Huangfu Duan, who knew some medical skills, to have such a reaction.

"Then let's treat him quickly and think about taking down the arrow on him first." Someone suggested. This time Huangfu Duan didn't say anything more. After nodding and agreeing, he asked someone to take Xiaodao to prepare to get the arrow for Sun Tu...

At this time, a hundred miles upstream of the river was still searching carefully for Sun Tu's whereabouts. But no matter how they searched, they still found nothing, which made Xiao Yanping frown even more: "This guy should have hit me several arrows. Even if he doesn't die, he will never escape too far. How could he have no whereabouts?"

He never thought that Sun Tu would escape from this area with a means far beyond this era...

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