The business of ancient escort agencies was divided into six areas: letter escort, ticket escort, grain escort, silver escort, property escort and personal escort.

According to the literal meaning, we can understand that it is aimed at letters and official correspondence, ancient financial institutions such as silver bills and money shops, grain transportation in transit, gold and silver escort, clothing and jewelry, and personal protection.

Lin Rui’s choice is to use the personal escort to protect the safety of him and Sanliang.

The price of this type of bodyguard is determined by the distance of the journey and the degree of danger. Now that the Dalin Dynasty has been hollowed out and riddled with holes, there may be bandits entrenched wherever there are mountains. If it is a small group, it is okay, as they dare not confront the bodyguards who are skilled in martial arts. But if a large group of forces entrenched themselves, even the bodyguards have to find a new way to avoid their edge.

Even if you are going from Linjing to Linjia Village under Longting Town, if you decide to use escorts, you will be provided with a team of six to eight escorts, and the round-trip fee will be fifty taels of silver.

Hiss! Too expensive!

Lin Rui only had one thousand taels from selling the tea sets, and he had to use this to buy food and supplies for his journey out of Longting. Fifty taels, that was a lot of food, oil, rice, and flour.

Now it's your choice, whether you choose money or life, or you can try your luck and bet that there are no vicious refugees on the road.

"Master, don't spend that money. I can protect you!" San Liang's eyes widened when he heard that his master had spent fifty taels of silver to hire a bodyguard to escort them back to Longting Town. Fifty taels was enough to buy a lot of cakes. It was too much of a waste to spend it on the road.

Lin Rui patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're only twelve years old. What good can you do? No matter how strong you are, you're still a child! Those starving people won't fight us alone. If they swarm over us, they'll gnaw away all the flesh and blood on our bodies, leaving only the bones."

Sanliang remained silent. He thought that he had seen many refugees who were so hungry that they would kill and eat each other on the way to Linjing.

The escort will escort them back to Longting Town tomorrow morning, which means they will have to stay in Linjing for another day.

Lin Rui planned to take Sanliang to find an inn to stay in, and at the same time consider whether to cash in things like glass teacups that could be sold in the modern house. After all, there were too many things needed on the road to escape famine.

"Master, those people behind us seem to be traveling with us." Sanliang whispered in Lin Rui's ear.

Lin Rui suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and stopped in his tracks. He controlled himself and did not look back: "Are you sure?"

Sanliang nodded and said, "These people were watching from the side when you bought me. I thought they were just there to watch the fun, but they have been following me until now."

Lin Rui frowned. When had he been targeted? He had clearly hidden the banknotes securely after leaving the pawnshop, yet he was still saying the pawnshop was planning to rob him?

"Sanliang, let's go quickly, shake them off and find a place to hide!" Lin Rui is a weakling. The physique of his original body is even worse than his. That's right, what use can you expect from a man who is soaked in alcohol every day?

Lin Rui and Sanliang specifically looked for crowded places to rush over, which made the group of people chasing them panic. They would pick up their feet and stride after them, constantly pushing and shoving the people blocking their way.

When they turned into an alley, Lin Rui and San Liang hid in a corner, not daring to breathe, and immediately heard the sound of footsteps chasing after them.

"Where are the people?"

"I just saw that they seemed to be coming in this direction!"

"Have you spotted us?"

"That's impossible. How can you not look back after discovering it?"

"Damn it! We finally found our target! I saw with my own eyes the pawnshop owner give him some silver bills!"

"Go, go, go, look for it again, don't lose it."

After a while, Sanliang was about to go out when he heard no movement, but Lin Rui held his hand and shook his head to signal him not to move.

Sure enough, rustling sounds came from the alley again: "Let's go, Boss. They haven't been hiding here for so long."

"Damn it, I really let this fat pig get away!"

Lin Rui secretly cursed these thieves for being so cunning. If he hadn't been careful, he would have been caught as soon as he got out.

Sanliang also widened his eyes, looking frightened.

The two waited for a while, and only after making sure that there was no movement in the alley did they stick their heads out. They saw that the alley was indeed deserted, with only small vendors setting up stalls and hawking their wares at the entrance.

Lin Rui sat down against the wall. Damn, this was too exciting. He had traveled through time and space to a country with a sound legal system, but this was the first time he had seen such a blatant robbery.

"Master, are you okay?" Sanliang squatted down worriedly and was about to help him up.

Lin Rui shook his head and patted Sanliang on the shoulder; "Thanks to you this time!"

He had just considered taking some of the things in his modern house to the pawnshop to sell as rare treasures, but now he gave up and almost lost his life.

These people are the ruffians on the streets of Linjing. They specifically watch at the door of the pawnshop. When they see someone pawning something valuable in exchange for silver, they will secretly follow and rob them.

This incident also reminded Lin Rui that everything has its limits. This time, it was the ruffians who were targeting him, but as he took more modern things, even the forces behind the pawnshop might become interested in him. His things could not stand up to scrutiny, and if anything went wrong, there would be no future for him.

I originally wanted to take Sanliang to the inn and sleep in a large dormitory, but I was afraid that we might run into those bastards by chance, so I went back to the escort agency.

The guys in the escort agency looked at him in surprise: "Mr. Lin, you..."

Lin Rui smiled bitterly, "The world is so chaotic. I just went out and more than ten taels of silver were stolen. If I wake up in the bunk bed tomorrow, I don't know if I will have enough money to pay the escort agency's travel expenses."

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