After one night, the sun slowly rose the next day, Li Maicheng opened his eyes and looked at Bai Ruoxue who was lying asleep beside him.

Li Maicheng kissed Bai Ruoxue, and Bai Ruoxue seemed to feel the kiss, her eyes slowly opened, and then said, "Maicheng, it's dawn?"

Li Maicheng said: "Ruoxue, the sky is already bright, and the sun is drying your buttocks." ”

Bai Ruoxue said: "Then let's get up, I'm afraid we will leave Jikang City today and continue westward." ”

Li Maicheng nodded and said, "Yes, Ruoxue." ”

Then Li Maicheng and Bai Ruoxue slowly got up, got dressed, and then washed up, and after washing their faces, they went to eat.

And at that dinner table, Zhang Qian and Zhou Xiaotian were already eating.

Li Maicheng and the soldiers of the mission were eating a hearty breakfast, and at this time, King Chen personally came over with the customs clearance papers.

Seeing that King Chen was followed by a large number of guards, King Chen handed over the customs clearance document to Zhang Qian, and said, "Zhang Qian, Han envoy, you should be more careful when you go west this time." ”

Zhang Qian said: "Thank you, Your Majesty King Chen, our Han mission will pay attention." ”

King Chen said: "Zhang Han, I have sent someone to prepare horses for you, as well as dry food, water and coils on the road. ”

Zhang Qian said: "Thank you King Chen, thank you for your preparation." ”

King Chen said: "Zhang Han, thank you to your apprentice Li Maicheng, as well as his junior brothers and sisters, for their great help, eradicate those lizard goblins, so that our Jikang City can escape from the dire situation and return to the homeland of Jimo Mountain." ”

At this time, Li Maicheng said: "Your Majesty King Chen, you are polite, the Han and Jikang City will be friendly for generations in the future, after we return to the Han Dynasty, we will definitely play the Ming Han Emperor, and let the Han send more caravans to Jikang City to do trade." ”

Chen Wang said: "Thank you Maicheng." Dahan is a big country, and you develop commerce, we have a lot of benefits for Jikang City, your Han silk, tea, ceramics, the world is famous, in the future I will arrange my Jikang City caravan to Dahan to buy more back. ”

Li Maicheng said: "Thank you, Your Majesty King Chen, it's not too early this day, I think our Han mission is about to leave." ”

King Chen said: "Okay, then I will lead a few ministers to send you, it is you who saved our Jikang City, you have to leave now, we will definitely send you." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Okay, thank you Your Majesty King Chen." ”

Then King Chen ordered someone to open the door of a secret passage from the dungeon to the ground, and King Chen said: "Maicheng, you take this road." ”

Li Maicheng nodded and said, "Okay, thank you Your Majesty King Chen." ”

Then Li Maicheng, Zhang Qian, and the soldiers of the mission, each of them rode a horse, walked in the secret passage, and then gradually ascended to the ground, while General Chen sent several ministers to follow out of the secret passage.

After going up to the ground, Li Maicheng and Zhang Qian waved goodbye to King Chen and the ministers of Jikang City.

Li Maicheng and Zhang Qian rode on their horses, and after bidding farewell to King Chen, they continued on the road and went west.

They walked through the mountains, through the dilapidated houses, through the jungles, and gradually walked out of the boundaries of the city of Jikang and into a field.

Li Maicheng rode a horse and walked while saying to Zhou Xiaotian beside him: "Xiaotian, this way west, can you still adapt?"

Zhou Xiaotian said: "Maicheng, I have adapted very much, I have long been accustomed to this life of sleeping in the open and wearing the stars and the moon." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Xiaotian, you and I are officials in Chang'an City together, and we follow Zhang Qianhan's envoy to the Western Regions together, which can be regarded as the fate of this life." ”

Zhou Xiaotian said with a smile: "Senior brother, what you said is really right, I feel that meeting you, a good brother, is the greatest happiness in my life." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Senior Brother Xiaotian, to tell you the truth, you and I are officials in Chang'an Palace, and I didn't know you very well before, I have always been curious about your life experience, but I haven't spoken?"

Zhou Xiaotian rode a horse, held up the water bag and drank a sip of water, and then said: "Senior brother, in fact, three generations of my family were born and died for the Han Dynasty. My grandfather is Zhou Ce, he used to be Zhou Bo's subordinate, when Gaozu Liu Bang rebelled, my grandfather Zhou Ce and Zhou Bo were both from Zhoujiazhuang, and later my grandfather followed Zhou Bo to fight for the Han Dynasty, until Gaozu Liu Bang overthrew the Qin Dynasty, defeated Xiang Yu, and pacified the world. Later, Empress Lu was in power, and my grandfather followed Prime Minister Zhou Bo to eliminate Empress Lu's forces. More than ten years later, my father Zhou Weihu followed Zhou Bo's son Zhou Yafu in the Jingdi period, pacified the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, but unfortunately Zhou Yafu was framed and died, my father Zhou Weihu was also affected and was assigned to the north to garrison the Great Wall, and my father was afraid that I would end up miserable in the future, so he sent me to practice martial arts, I followed the Shangshan Taoist to learn a lot of attack and kill techniques, and then when the folk demons were subdued and demons were eliminated, they also met Qianbao Zhenren by chance, and later they were transferred to the palace to serve after killing demons and demons. ”

When Li Maicheng heard this, he said: "Xiaotian, I didn't expect that the three generations of your family are loyal and good, and they are dedicated to the Han." ”

Zhou Xiaotian said: "Senior brother, when I came to the Western Regions, I knew that there were so many demons in the world, so I followed the master all the way to the west, and I was determined to wipe out the demons and monsters along the road, so that the people of the Western Regions could live a quiet and peaceful life." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Senior Brother Xiaotian, what you said is really good, enlightened, not bad. ”

Zhou Xiaotian said: "This journey to the west is full of ups and downs, I will regard it as the experience of my life, it is said that cultivation is the process of cultivating morality and experiencing calamities, so this journey to the west is no matter how hard and difficult it is, I will also go on." ”

Li Maicheng nodded and said, "Mmmm, Xiaotian, you're right." This trip to the Western Regions, no matter how hard and tiring it is, we must grit our teeth and persevere, and complete the mission entrusted to us by the Han Emperor to send an envoy to the Western Regions. ”

Li Maicheng was talking to Zhou Xiaotian, when Zhang Qian said to Li Maicheng: "Maicheng, it's getting dark, let's find a place to live in front." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Okay, Master, I'll fly ahead with Xiaotian to take a look, you and your junior brothers and sisters, wait here, let's go and go back." ”

Zhang Qian said: "Okay, you two slow down." ”

Then Li Maicheng and Zhou Xiaotian flew away, and they flew and flew, and suddenly saw several earthen houses on the mountainside in front of them, and those houses were still smoking, presumably the people living there were cooking.

Seeing this, Li Maicheng said to Zhou Xiaotian: "Xiaotian, let's fly there, there are people there." ”520

Zhou Xiaotian nodded and said, "Okay, senior brother." ”

Then Li Maicheng and Zhou Xiaotian flew to the halfway up the mountain in front of them, and they flew, and finally stopped beside the earthen houses.

Li Maicheng looked at the earthen houses, saw that there was some light in the houses, and he smelled the fragrance of rice. He knocked on the door, knocked a few times, and then a woman opened the door, and saw that the woman was so graceful.

Before Li Maicheng could speak, Zhou Xiaotian stepped forward and said, "Girl, you have a place to stay, we are a caravan passing by here, and we want to spend the night here with you." ”

The beautiful woman looked at Zhou Xiaotian carefully, and saw that he was handsome and chic, sassy and heroic, and then said: "Big brother, I live alone, it's not good to leave a few of you big men to live." ”

Zhou Xiaotian said: "Dare to ask the woman's name?"

The woman replied shyly, "What about you?"

Zhou Xiaotian said: "My name is Zhou Xiaotian, and this is my eldest brother Li Maicheng." ”

Chaoyun said: "Two big brothers, fortunately, you haven't eaten yet." ”

Zhou Xiaotian said: "I haven't eaten yet, by the way, you people next door, do they have land for us to stay for one night?"

Chaoyun said: "My sister and brother-in-law's house live next door. My sister's name is Wanluo, and my brother-in-law's name is Jinlang, and their family should have a place to live. ”

Zhou Xiaotian said happily: "That's great, then I'll go to your sister Wanluo's house and knock on the door to ask." ”

Chaoyun said: "Xiaotian, no need, I'll knock it for you." ”

Then Chaoyun came to her sister's house next door, and she knocked on the door of Wanluo's house.

Wanluo saw Chaoyun coming, and said, "What's wrong with my sister, is there something wrong with coming so late?"

Chaoyun said: "Sister, there are a few people from the caravan, they want to stay at your house for one night, and they will give silver." ”

Wanluo thought for a moment and said, "There are a few of them. ”

Chaoyun said: "Sister, they said it was a caravan, I'm afraid there will be a lot of people." ”

Wanluo thought for a moment and said, "Okay then, then let them come." ”

Chaoyun said: "Thank you, sister." ”

Then Chaoyun left her sister's house and said to Li Maicheng: "Brother Maicheng, my sister Wanluo said that you can come to live in her house, but you have to pay two silver taels. ”

Li Maicheng said: "Okay, Chaoyun, thank you." Then I'll go and call our caravan. ”

Chaoyun nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Maicheng." ”

Then Li Maicheng flew away and called the soldiers of the mission.

And Zhou Xiaotian stayed, he looked at Chaoyun was so beautiful, under the illumination of the moonlight, Chaoyun's face was so white.

Zhou Xiaotian said: "Miss Chaoyun, do you have a husband?"

Chaoyun said shyly, "Brother Xiaotian, I haven't married yet. ”

When Zhou Xiaotian heard this, he said happily: "Miss Chaoyun, I haven't married a wife either." ”

When Chaoyun heard this, he said, "It's normal for you merchants to go south and north, and you don't have a wife." ”

Zhou Xiaotian said: "I'm not too young, and it's time to marry a wife." ”

Chaoyun said: "You look very young, don't worry, you will meet the right person." ”

Zhou Xiaotian nodded and said, "Mmmm, I hope it will." ”

While they were talking, Li Maicheng led the soldiers of the mission over.

Seeing this, Chaoyun hurriedly went out to meet Li Maicheng and them, she went out to see Li Maicheng and they rode more than 20 horses, and brought a lot of dry food, she immediately said with a smile: "Brother Maicheng, you are here." ”

Li Maicheng said: "Yes, Miss Chaoyun." ”

Chaoyun said: "Maicheng, let a few people come to live in my house, I have a house that can accommodate a few people." ”

Li Maicheng replied, "Okay, thank you Miss Chaoyun." ”

Then Li Maicheng took a few soldiers to live in Miss Chaoyun's house.

And Su Chengxuan and Wu Shitong went to live in Wanluo's house.