Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Dashu said: "According to the previous letter, it will arrive tomorrow morning."

Zhou Guo nodded, "Master Chu is really amazing. He has put in a lot of effort to build the escort agency into what it is today in such a short period of time."

It is difficult for ordinary people to get a share of the pie in a place like Jinling in such a short period of time.

Dashu agreed and said that he definitely couldn't do it. Even though he had been with his master for so many years, he couldn't learn such a skill.

Zhou Guo went to sleep after watching for a while. He felt a little tired tonight. He walked around the cell and felt very uncomfortable.

She slept peacefully until midnight, when she woke up inexplicably. She opened her eyes and turned to look out the window. A faint firelight shone through the window...

She blinked her eyes, jumped up from the bed, quickly put on her clothes, took her things, kicked the two maids guarding outside, and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up, there's a fire."

The two girls quickly woke up, were startled, and hurried to pack their things.

A few people went to wake up the others.

Xiaoshu found a gong from somewhere and started beating it, shouting at the top of his voice: "There's a fire, there's a fire, get up quickly, there's a fire, put out the fire..."

After hearing this shout, all the brothers in the escort agency stood up, and seeing the fire in all directions, they were panicked and at a loss as to what to do.

"Hey, this, this, where can we get out? There's fire everywhere!!"

Some of the timid ones started crying and looked for ways to escape in all directions.

Zhou Guo calmly said to Xiaoshu: "Ring the gong!"

As the gongs rang out, everyone looked over and saw Zhou Guo, as if they had seen their backbone, "Boss, boss, what are we going to do?"

"We're going to burn to death in there!"

Zhou Guo said: "Don't worry, I will definitely take everyone out, follow me, follow closely, don't take the valuables, it's not worth it to risk your life for those little things!"

After that, he asked Xiaoshu and the escort leader to come forward, "You lead the way."

Every escort agency has a secret passage.

The escort agency has many valuable things, and sometimes it is inevitable that desperate criminals will take risks to steal them. This secret passage is for hiding these extremely valuable goods and money.

Not many people know about it, and it comes in handy at this time.

She was not worried about people finding out, as people were always more important than these dead things.

Besides, this place has been destroyed, so the escort agency has to find another place.

Zhou Guo was so full of energy that he shouted, "Everyone, follow the escort leader!"

Everyone hurriedly followed the escort leader and went down the secret passage.

Zhou Guo and her personal guards stood at the end. After watching the last escort enter the secret passage, she waved to her personal guards and said, "Go in, quickly!"

At this time, the fire was getting closer and closer. As the crackling sound was heard, she could feel the heat all over her body even though it was a cold day.

The smoke was getting closer and closer, and some people began to cough.

The personal soldier said, "No, Master, go first!"

Zhou Guo grabbed him and stuffed him in without saying anything, "Let's go! Don't waste time."

Dashu found a thick quilt soaked in water, and the little girl brought a wet towel, "Ahem, master, here, ahem..."

Zhou Guo took it and said with a breath held, "One for each person."

Xiaoshu and the escort leader were walking very fast in the secret passage, and they kept shouting to keep up. Zhou Guo was still at the end, and if they didn't hurry up, the master would not be able to get out.

When the last person entered the secret passage, Zhou Guo and several others also went in. At this time, they could no longer see the direction in the yard. Thick smoke rolled in from all directions, making it impossible to breathe or see anything.

After entering the secret passage and closing the heavy iron door, the group quickly moved forward. The secret passage was full of smoke, but fortunately, the further they ran, the less smoke there was. Their vision gradually became clearer, and their breathing gradually became smoother. They didn't know how long it had been before they climbed out of the cave and looked up to finally see the sky outside.

The sky is full of twinkling stars.

Everyone was waiting at the exit. When they saw her coming out, they smiled happily and said, "The boss is coming out!"

Zhou Guo looked at everyone and said, "I'm glad everyone is alright. Take a break and we'll go into the city when it's daybreak."

After saying that, she sat down on the ground and started coughing vigorously. She felt a little dizzy after smoking so much cigarettes.

She was careless. She didn't expect that the Chen family would take such a risk and set fire in the middle of the night. She almost died in there. Fortunately, she was lucky and had a long life. She was really blessed by God.

This near miss left everyone terrified and they all sat on the ground in silence.

I don't know how long it took, Xiaoshu suddenly said: "Hey, Master, that fat Master Chen is still in there."

Zhou Guo said, "You are stupid. They have been rescued long ago. This fire has eyes. It is coming for us, not for them."

Dashu said fiercely: "The Chen family really doesn't care about their lives? Or are they just being fearless?"

Zhou Guo said, "We are almost dead. Cutting off their source of income is like killing their parents. They are planning to burn us to death so that there will be no evidence. Even if my uncle and brother come looking for us, we can't do anything to them without evidence."

Unfortunately, she thought it was too simple. She closed her eyes after she said these words.

Xiaoshu led the group of people in the front and busied themselves looking for water and making fire to take care of everyone.

Zhou Guo didn't want to talk anymore. The little girl got a pot of water from somewhere and said, "Master, this water was just drawn. Would you like to drink some?"

Zhou Guo turned his head, opened his mouth, and didn't even want to move his hands.

After drinking, he said, "I'm going to sleep, you guys should take a rest too."

I slept until noon.

When we woke up, we found that everyone was in good spirits, but those who came out later were the most seriously ill.

Hundreds of people were left in this desolate wilderness without anything to eat. At this time, there were no wild fruits left on the mountain.

Zhou Guo stood up and said, "Let's go back to the city to eat. We're hungry after a night of hard work."

The escort leader worriedly asked, "Isn't it unsafe to enter the city at this time? With such a big commotion, the Lord of the Mansion must be unaware of it. We don't have anyone on our side."

What can just a few people do?

After all, Jinling is not their territory, and they are few in number. It would be difficult for them to compete with the local tyrants who have been in power for dozens or hundreds of years.

Zhou Guo smiled and pointed ahead, "Who said we don't have anyone? Aren't they here?"

Everyone looked back and saw several horses galloping towards them from a distance. They were as big as ants and were slowly getting closer and closer. There were five horses, and the leader was Chu Dangjia.

He had a gloomy face and looked like he would keep strangers away, but when he saw Zhou Guo, his expression improved a little.

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You came so quickly!"

Chu Dangjia jumped off his horse, strode over, and looked him up and down anxiously, "Are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?"

Zhou Guo is young and righteous. He is old but still has no children. Sometimes he feels that Zhou Guo is like his own daughter.

Zhou Guo said: "I'm fine, I'm just hungry. When did you arrive?"

"We just entered the city an hour ago."

When he entered the city and saw the escort agency reduced to ashes, he was shocked. He didn't find anyone in the ashes, so he turned around and rushed out of the city in a hurry.