The Legend of Hinata of Konoha

Chapter 10 Doubt
With Yi Zhe's joining, Qing Shi immediately led the crowd to set off for the Iron Country.

The further north you go, the temperature is getting lower and lower, the snow along the way is getting thicker, and the caravan stops more and more often.

There were about thirty of them in a group, except Qingshi and his five businessmen, the rest were guards.

"My lord, look! These ten or so warriors are our own loyal servants." Taking advantage of the rest time, Qing Shi pointed to the heavily armed warriors near the camel beast, and introduced to the boy.

Although Yizhe is only ten years old, he has successfully practiced physical skills in recent years, and his body is strong. He is much more mature than boys of the same age, and looks more like thirteen or fourteen years old.

He also speaks and acts like an adult.

Qing Shi felt more and more that this young man was very unusual and dared not neglect him.

"It seems that the breath is not weak! You have worked hard on them, right?" Qing Shi and his family generals are all full of energy, and their aura is far beyond that of ordinary warriors. When they saw it, they couldn't help admiring. .

"Of course, we are away from home. Although we are friendly and make money and rarely conflict with others, we are always coveted by thieves. It is impossible to hire samurai and ninjas for a long time. It has become an inevitable choice to support a loyal family and protect ourselves in the future. !” Qing Shi explained helplessly.

"Then...the others must be the guards you hired temporarily!" Yi Zhe glanced at the other mixed warriors.

"That's right! I encountered the Red Ant Thief Group before and sacrificed a few guards. So, when I was resting in the hotel, I recruited some passing warriors to supplement my manpower!" Qing Shi continued to explain.

"Then I'm surprised, you have already met the Red Ant Thieves, how did you escape?" He looked at Qingshi coldly, feeling a little alert in his heart.

Qing Shi showed grief on his face, and whispered: "It may be that we have just stepped into the sphere of influence of the Red Ant Thieves, and they are far away from their main force, so they didn't do their best at first, but just sent a random team Later, our heroic guards detonated the detonators in the last two carriages, and died together with the enemy, which made our caravan escape from disaster!"

"I'm afraid those warriors are not that noble!"

Yizhe looked at Qingshi with a half-smile, he was not a child who didn't understand anything, after a little thought, he realized that it was Qingshi who deliberately detonated the detonating charms on the last two cars, killing the guards and thieves together. That's how I got away.

"Heh, heh! My lord is joking!" Qing Shi forcefully laughed twice, and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Too lazy to pay attention to what was said to be the central matter, Qing Shi, who was a little embarrassed, slowly patrolled the caravan.

In addition to the original samurai of the caravan, nearly 20 other warriors here are hired.

Inevitably, good and bad are mixed, and Yi Zhe even saw a middle-aged man in his fifties, carrying a dilapidated sword, following the team as a guard.

"It seems that this group of red ants and thieves frightened Qing Shi quite a lot! Even these warriors in their fifties were not spared." Yi Zhe's assessment of the danger of red ants was a little higher in his heart.

"what?"

He saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young warrior, and that young man gave him a strange feeling.

All the samurai were taking advantage of the rest time to take a nap on the spot, or wipe their swords, or chat in groups of three or four.

But that young man didn't take a nap, nor did he maintain his saber. Instead, he looked around, as if he was looking for something.

It would be fine to say that the boy is an eclectic swordsman.However, he didn't think that such a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy could reach such a high-end realm of doing whatever he wanted.

"There is something wrong with this young warrior!" He was suspicious.

"Hello there!"

He walked up and said hello.

"Hi!" The boy responded politely.

"Can I borrow your sword? I haven't practiced swordsmanship for a long time, and my hands are itchy for a while, so I want to borrow your sword to practice!" Yizhe said with a smile.

"Sword?" The boy was stunned for a moment, and then he realized: "Yes!"

After all, he touched his waist casually, but didn't want to touch it all.

"Sorry, please wait a minute, I don't know where I put my sword!" The young warrior blushed and apologized.

"It's okay, I can wait!" Yizhe replied with a smile.

Although the smile on his face did not change, but in his heart he kept muttering.

Although he is not a warrior, he also understands the importance of a sword to a warrior!
The sword is there, the man is there!
This is not empty talk!
As a samurai, it's fine if you don't carry a sword with you!He didn't even know where his sword was!

There's something wrong with this young samurai!

After searching for a long time, the young warrior finally found an old long sword under a pile of sundries.

"My lord, here it is!" The boy handed over the long sword.

"What's your name?" He took the long sword, pulled out the blade, and asked casually.

"My name is Hefeng!" The young warrior replied softly.

"Then... would you please comment on my swordsmanship, how about it?"

After finishing speaking, Yi Zhe held his sword and danced in the snow on his own.

"My lord, your swordsmanship is really good!" Seeing Yi Zhe after the sword test, the boy praised him with all his might.

"Really?"

"Really! Better than my swordsmanship!" Hefeng blushed and praised vigorously.

"Shall we make gestures when we have time?" Yizhe returned the sword and handed it to him.

"Let's go—"

From ahead came the leader's call to leave.

"Next time, let's talk again when we have a chance!" Yi Zhe waved goodbye and walked to the front of the line.

"sure!"

The young man who watched Yi Zhe leave with a smile did not know that Yi Zhe had become suspicious of him.

Yizhe himself doesn't know swordsmanship, he just relies on his extraordinary physical fitness to hack and slash indiscriminately.Anyone who knows a little bit about swordsmanship can see it, but even so, the young warrior actually praised him for his good swordsmanship.

Even if it's flattering, it shouldn't be like this!
All kinds of abnormalities showed that the boy did have problems, and he couldn't help but raise his vigilance.

"Team leader Qing Shi!" Yi Zhe called out to the chunky middle-aged man.

"Master Yizhe, what can you do?" Qing Shi replied with a smile.

"You have come and gone to the Iron Country so many times, you should have a map along the route?" He asked, staring at the chunky middle-aged man.

"This... my lord, what are you doing here?" Qing Shi restrained his smile and looked at Yi Zhe warily.

Because the route map of any caravan is very important, once it falls into the hands of people with ulterior motives, it will cause fatal damage to the caravan.

"Your caravans have come and gone on this route so many times, I am afraid that the Red Ant Thief Group is also familiar with your route! I want to see the topographic map of this route, and estimate where they will ambush, so that you can go ahead Get ready so you don't get caught off guard!" he explained patiently.

"Oh—so that's it! You wait! I'm going to get the map right now! I'm going right away!" After listening to the explanation, Qing Shi hurriedly looked for the map with his short legs.

Not long after, he trotted over with a pair of scrolls, out of breath from exhaustion.

"My lord... this... this... this is our route map!" Panting heavily, Qing Shi handed over the map.

Yizhe opened the map, and he could see the caravan's itinerary and surrounding terrain at a glance.

Pointing to a spot on the route, he asked Qing Shi, "How long are we traveling from here?"

Judging from the terrain, it should be a canyon.

(End of this chapter)