The guards of the relatives stretched for several miles, and the yellow flags floated in the air, and everything looked solemn and heavy. In the bustling crowd, the Lin Mansion came up and down to say goodbye. Lin Sirou was crowned with a phoenix and was helped onto a sedan chair by the palace maid.

"Hahaha, the third lady of Mo Mansion is really a woman who doesn't let her eyebrows!" Guo Zhixi raised the wine glass in his hand and drank it all: "This trip is far away, I hope Miss Mo will protect the county lord of Sirou all the way." ”

Mo Ruxue also drank the wine in the cup, she was dressed in a military uniform, holding a long sword in her hand, riding a horse, and bidding farewell to the Lord. The horsewhip was lightly raised, and the group set off in a mighty manner, and the road ahead was eager to penetrate. There were fewer pedestrians around, and soon they were out of the capital.

On the border of the Jin Kingdom, there is a deserted Gobi, and on the opposite side of the Gobi is the Yan Kingdom. On the 35th of the race, all the way to the east, the weather gradually became cold and dry. Unlike Zhong Lingminxiu of the Jin Kingdom, the eastern border is particularly lonely and desolate.

The environment of yellow sand everywhere made it a little difficult for the group to adapt. Mo Ruxue was worried about Lin Sirou's body, so she rode to the sedan chair.

"Sister Sirou, do you need to take a break? After five days of traveling, Xiaoxue is afraid that her sister's body will not be able to bear it. ”

Lin Sirou picked up the corner of the roller blind, covered her head and replied in a muffled voice: "No need, the road is far away, you need to hurry up." The border is not as good as the capital, if Xiaoxue is tired, come and sit in the sedan for a while. After walking for a long time, I happened to be a little bored, and I wanted to chat with someone. ”

Mo Ruxue smiled and excused herself: "Thank you Sister Sirou for your kindness, it's just that Sister Sirou is now the county lord, and Xiaoxue is just an accompanying maid, if she rides in the same sedan chair with Sister Sirou, it is really inappropriate." ”

Lin Sirou silently put down the curtain and didn't speak.

Under the sun, the desert is surprisingly quiet. Mo Ruxue opened the map and carefully studied the route: "After more than forty miles, there is an oasis, where we rest......"

"Miss Mo, be careful!"

The guards in the team shouted, and before everyone could react, the sound of arrows rushed straight into their ears, and the vast sky outside the plug was like arrows raining down.

Oops, it's an ambush.

Mo Ruxue ordered: "Protect the county lord......"

Before he finished speaking, a pain came from his body. She turned her head and saw a long arrow embedded deep in her left shoulder.

The severe pain caused Mo Ruxue to fall off her horse, and she hurriedly broke the shaft of the arrow on her shoulder, and once again shouted a loud order: "Protect the county lord!"

The guards received the order and rushed forward to fight the attackers. There were three or four hundred sneak attackers, but the guards had less than a hundred, and soon the guards who sent off the relatives had the upper hand.

Mo Ruxue endured the severe pain and took the reins, pulled the horse to Lin Sirou's sedan chair, and said, "Sister Sirou, you get on the horse and leave quickly." It doesn't matter if you go back to Jin or Yan, they won't catch up with you. ”

Lin Sirou was wearing a wedding dress and slowly got out of the sedan chair, she lifted her hijab unhurriedly, and there was no panic in her eyes: "Go, why did Xiaoxue let me go?

Mo Ruxue frowned and replied, "Xiaoxue doesn't know, what does Sister Sirou mean by this?"

Lin Sirou watched the people in front of her fight as if she was watching the excitement. She laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "A victim, what fate does there be. ”

Wails and sword shadows bloomed in the dust and smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, almost suffocating.

"Sister Sirou, Xiaoxue knows that you are forced to do so, you and your second brother are childhood sweethearts, and they are happy with each other......"

"Shut up, don't mention him!"

Lin Sirou's voice was so cold that it seemed to freeze: "Childhood sweethearts, the two hearts are happy, it's just a joke, it's just my own wishful thinking." ”

There were fewer and fewer guards around, more and more corpses fell, and the situation of the two became more and more dangerous. There was a smile on the corner of Lin Sirou's mouth, and the terrible smile made her whole person look like a devil.

"Xiaoxue, you won't understand. I'm in the Lin Mansion, just a chess piece, my father has been using me, including me and Mo Qiqiu's affairs, everything is unwarranted. My father made a big fuss and lied to everyone, and even I believed it, until—that day I saw Mo Qiqiu......"

Mo Ruxue was speechless, she never thought that the matter of Lin Sirou and her second brother turned out to be unwarranted. The sneak attackers gradually approached, and they shrank into a circle, surrounding her and Lin Sirou.

"Sister Sirou, please leave quickly......"

Lin Sirou tore off the red wedding dress and said calmly: "I won't leave." Everybody used me, and now I'm going to take advantage of someone else again. ”

The leader rushed towards Lin Sirou, who was undressing widely, but she was so shocked that she immediately resisted with a sword. After a long struggle, Mo Ruxue's vision began to blur, and she supported her body with her sword, trying not to let herself fall. Weakness and pain continued to intertwine in her body, and suddenly, her eyes were pitch black.

In the darkness, the sound of everyone cheering, Lin Sirou's exclamation, and the sound of cloth tearing constantly ran through her mind. She wanted to get up to stop their humiliation of Lin Sirou, but her body couldn't move. The sound was far away, and only the sound of the wind was left around her, and she fell into a deep sleep in her struggle.

A round sunset clings to the desert ridgeline, the earth is dull, revealing a layer of deep yellow, and the desert that holds the setting sun solidifies, and the boundless desert is like a yellow sea. When Mo Ruxue woke up again, the blood on her clothes had dried up, and the arrows were still embedded in her left shoulder, and the blood was slowly flowing down the wound and dripping in the sand. In addition to the corpses around, only Lin Sirou's sedan chair remained.

The afterglow of the setting sun painted the desert red, and the scorching heat slowly dissipated. She took out a few herbs she had brought with her and applied them to the wound, bandaging it briefly.

Everything happened too suddenly, too strangely, including Lin Sirou's performance. The longer things drag on, the more accidents will happen, and if you want to find out the cause and effect, you must find Lin Sirou as soon as possible. However, the sneak attack team did not have flags, so it was impossible to identify which people were on.

Mo Ruxue thought about it carefully, remembering that these people were dressed ordinary, and there was nothing special, and after thinking about it for a long time, she still had no clue. Suddenly, she thought that before she lost consciousness, she had heard the last two words "Yan Kingdom", so thinking about it, Lin Sirou might be in Yan Kingdom.

The sky outside the fortress is very vast, and before the afterglow of the west has dissipated, the moon is revealed on the horizon of the east, and the whole sky, one side is fiery red, the other side is blue, and the intersection of the two sides is this desert.

She first fumbled to wrap the remaining water and plates in the sedan chair, then picked up Lin Sirou's left Xipa, wrapped the saber, and finally changed into clean clothes and walked to the northeast.

As night falls, the crescent moon and the stars set off the silent sea of sand. A desolate place, cold and depressing. There is no bustle and prosperity of the capital, there is no beauty and charm of the capital, only the sand is under the feet, flowing with the wind.

She walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and before she knew it, the moon hung in the middle of the sky. Looking up, the vast desert seems to never see the end. Despair strikes my heart. She was alone again, just like when she first entered Mofu.

"Second brother, second brother......"

She silently recited as she continued to brace herself through the desert. Will the person who once saved her, the person who once took her out of her nightmare, reappear?

The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the desert, and a vague figure appeared in front of Mo Ruxue's eyes in the dust and mist. The man dismounted and walked toward her. She ran to the man, and as soon as she threw herself into his arms, she fell into darkness again.

Second brother, is it really you......

The eastern sky is white, and the morning sun rises over the horizon. The entire desert is illuminated by the red glow, which is slightly enchanting.

Mo Ruxue opened her eyes slightly, the walls around her were painted with murals, and there were a few red futons on the ground, she judged that she should be in the side hall of a Zen temple at this time.

The clouds were filled with smoke and the bells rang. She walked into the monastery and saw a man and a monk playing against each other. The monk saluted her and turned to enter the main hall.

This Zen temple was built in the desert for business travelers to stay overnight. The desert isolates the temple from the world, the smoke in the temple interacts with the bells, and everything is away from the hustle and bustle. The glazed tiles on the roof of the temple reflect the sunlight into colorful colors, and the whole temple is like a fairyland on earth.

The man slowly got up, his gray coat moving lightly in the wind. He said gently: "It turns out that the girl is awake. I wonder who the girl is, why is she in this desert?"

Mo Ruxue replied: "Thank you Gongzi for saving me." The slave's name is Xue'er, who is a prostitute in the Jin Kingdom, because she is tired of living in the land of women and fleeing with people, and she doesn't want to meet horse bandits on the road, and the group is scattered and scattered. ”

She looked up, and the world outside seemed to be sky-high and wide. Even in the small Zen temple, you can feel the distance between the desert and the sky, and the contrast between yellow and blue.

"I see, no wonder the girl is alone," the man put away the chessboard and poured two cups of tea: "Does the girl have any plans now?"

Mo Ruxue shook her head: "The slave family originally wanted to go to Yan Kingdom, but now that something suddenly happened, they don't know where to go." ”

The temple has a main hall, three side halls, and a stable. There was a large space in the center of the courtyard, but there was only one stone table and two stone benches, and when no one spoke, it was empty.

The man pondered for a while and said, "I am doing business in Yan Country through the next one, I wonder if the girl is willing to go to Yan Country with me?"

Mo Ruxue knelt down and saluted: "Thank you, Childe, the slave family is grateful for Childe's kindness, but the slave family has not yet asked Son's name." ”

The man helped Mo Ruxue up and saluted: "The effort of raising your hands is not enough to worry about." Under the surname Liu, Liu Muchen. ”

The two said goodbye to the monks and packed up. Liu Muchen moved two horses out of the stable, and he handed the reins of one of them to Mo Ruxue. Mo Ruxue thanked him and turned over with the pain in his left shoulder.

Liu Muchen was surprised on the side: "Miss Xue'er can ride a horse?"

Mo Ruxue clenched the reins and said with a smile: "The slave family is fortunate to have learned from a soldier and can barely get on the road. ”

Liu Muchen nodded, and also turned over on the horse: "I just saw the girl frowning slightly, but there is an injury to her left shoulder?"

Mo Ruxue subconsciously touched her left shoulder: "I was injured when I was hiding from the horse bandits, and the slave family has dealt with it by myself." I wanted to hide my son, and I went to Yanguo to find a doctor for treatment, but my son was sharp-eyed and saw the injury on the slave's left shoulder. ”

The two horses were side by side, and Liu Muchen said: "Miss Xue'er won the award, but she just asked casually." If the girl is unwell on the road, please inform the girl in time and do not force the road. ”

In the desert, under the clear blue sky, the two rode away, and behind them was the monastery that was gradually moving away.