The thirty-third (first) red face disaster, water horse thief turned his face, and the disaster was not alone, and the sandstorm struck

More than 30 horse thieves stepped back and forth around the Anping camel gang, and the sand and dust were blowing.

Drifting Wind and Snow found that the hooves on the soles of the horses' feet were much wider and thinner than ordinary hooves in order to adapt to the desert environment, but in this soft desert, the horses' hooves were still sunk deep.

The leader of the horse thieves, Sherke, was in front of Paletahun and Rudaki, a pair of small triangular eyes focused on Rudaki, his right hand tightened the knife in his hand, and he glanced at Paletahon next to Rudaki, and laughed loudly: "Hahaha-little Pale, we meet again, it's a pleasure to see you again so soon." ”

Paletahun frowned and said in a deep voice, "Shirk, didn't we already pay the grain when our Anping Camel Gang went to Menglu City yesterday?"

Shirk tugged at the reins, drove the horse a few steps forward and then approached half a zhang, and glanced at the camels in a circle of Anping's camel gang: "Little Pale, since the rules are set by everyone together, of course I, Sand Vulture Sherke, will not take the initiative to break the rules." ”

Shirk didn't care much about the full load of goods on the saddle of the Anping camel camel, but kept wandering on the swollen hump on the camel's back: "I just heard that it rained in Menglu City today and was rushing over, no, I happened to meet you on the way, do you think we are very fateful?"

"Shirk, if you want to go to Menglu City, you can go. The road is facing the sky, go to one side, you just received the grain yesterday, and today you stopped me again Anping camel gang, and said that it was not a violation of the rules?" asked in a loud voice, and took a few steps forward without showing weakness, and the distance between him and Shirk was no more than six feet.

"Sherk, you know the weight of my Anping Camel Gang's position in the Camel Gang's caravanserais, tearing your face, no one's life is easy!"

"Tsk-" Shirk finally withdrew his gaze from Rudaki, who showed no signs of making a move, and turned to Paletahun, the young leader of the Anping Camel Gang in front of him, pointing his knife forward.

Seeing this, several camel gang warriors behind him pulled out their swords and rushed to Paletahun's side, and a group of horse thieves saw this, and a few horses also drove their horses to the leader Shirk and raised their sabers in their hands.

Shirk sneered: "Little Paler, although we know each other very well, but you suddenly get so close, it will make me think more." ”

Shirk also swept away the true vitality of a four-rank martial artist: "I have to admit that you do have some talent in martial arts, and you are already a four-rank martial artist with one block of ten at a young age, but there are many sons and daughters under my command, which one's life is not picked up under the tip of the sword? ”

Rudaki, who had been standing silently on the side, walked over, stood beside Paletahun, and raised his eyes to look at Shirk: "Sand vulture, if you have something to say, you and I both know that on this yellow sand desert, one more moment of delay is more dangerous." ”

Shirk pulled his lips and smiled: "It's still old friends who are easy to talk to, look at these young people who don't know the height of the sky, and they want to tell their elders about the rules of this yellow sand desert?" ”

The Anping Camel Gang was in a hurry, and Lu Daji's second-grade martial artist Zhenyuan suddenly puffed up: "Sha Vulture, do you really want to break the rules? ”

More horse thieves surrounded the Anping camel gang drove their horses closer.

Sirk was not afraid to look directly at the second-grade martial artist Lu Daji, who was two orders higher than himself: "Lu Daji, don't think that this can scare me Sand Vulture, what about the second-grade martial artist? My subordinates all hang their heads on the waistband of their trousers, as long as I say a word, four or five lives will be filled, and I can't bite you a few pieces of meat?" Schalke sneered and looked at the ordinary gang members hiding in the middle of the camel in the Anping camel gang: "We don't have any hind legs to worry about. ”

The camel caravans and horse thieves on the Silk Road have bred the most basic unwritten rule over the years - robbing money and not life. In this yellow sand desert, this sentence can actually be simply understood as "asking for money but not water".

The horse thieves were not at all interested in the ironware, porcelain, silk and tea that the camel gang had brought from the Minglei Empire to the Western Regions, and they were even less interested in the grapes, pomegranates, walnuts and humelons that the camel gang had brought back from the Western Regions.

Most of the Western Regions use all kinds of bread as staple food, and dry food is not difficult to find. Only drinking water is the absolute lifeblood of the camel gang business traveling on the yellow sand desert for a long time, and no matter how much valuable goods and goods are on the back of the camel, before they are transported to the destination, they are just a pile of dead things.

This piece of yellow sand desert under the feet, I don't know how many gold and silver treasures left by the camel gang merchants were buried, whether it was robbed by "unruly" horse thieves, or attacked by fierce monsters, there are not a few Luo Gang merchants who abandoned their goods and fled, but more, those treasures buried together with many dry bones, which are the legacy of the Luo Gang merchants who encountered quicksand or sandstorms and were wiped out.

Man dies for money, and birds die for food. In the Western Regions, yearly, monthly, daily...... Too many outlaws have left the Silk Road and set foot in the endless desert of yellow sand, all in search of these treasures, but most of them are lost in the desert, and none of them remain.

Over the years, countless predecessors have been summed up at the cost of blood and tears, and tragedies have often occurred along the relatively safe Silk Road, not to mention the endless desert that has not been explored.

Due to the fact that the desert landscape is extremely changeable and lacks a fixed reference, even if he has been running trade routes for decades, Rudaki does not dare to say that the road he chooses is the same every time, and only relies on rare and obvious landmarks to determine the route of travel. On such a desert trade route, which can be lost at any time, not having enough drinking water savings means increased danger and increased mortality.

Therefore, the horse thieves who fell into the grass around Chi Town generally did not rob the Luo Gang merchants of water, these horse thieves understood the truth of killing chickens and eggs, and the Luo Gang merchants could successfully pass through the Silk Road in order to send them silver taels.

Sherk the Vulture heard from his men who had returned from going out in the morning that it had rained in Menglu City today, so he led thirty of his men to prepare to replenish and drink water. No way, horse thieves are also human and need to drink water.

Ten years ago, Shirk gathered a group of outlaws, started a gang, named after his own nickname "Sand Vulture", and after many confrontations with some old horse gangs, he gradually became famous, was recognized, and set up a village next to Menglu City.

However, a group of gangsters who lived a life of licking blood from the knife edge did not have the ability to build a good hanging beam earthen canal on the cottage earthen house, and in the rare rainy weather, the cottage could not store much water. Moreover, the moon rain in Menglu City is indeed strange, most of the time it just falls within the city, and the sand vulture village is less than ten miles away from Menglu City, and the moon rain often does not arrive.

The Silk Road on the Cutting Path horse thieves as distinguished from the Thunder Empire's army

An absolutely feuding gray force, maintaining a delicate balance with the Khiyi royal court, the Sand Vulture Gang of Sherk is cautious every time they go to Menglu City to replenish supplies, and there are many difficulties, especially drinking water, and the people are unwilling to sell it and dare not force it to buy.

Helplessly, two subordinates with mothers-in-law in the gang have become fathers at the same time, whether it is the two women who are in confinement or the three cubs who cry every day, they all need water.

As for why three babies?

Damn, one of the women actually gave birth to two of them at once! Lao Tzu has already said that we are horse thieves, robbers who hang their heads on the waistband of their trousers and don't know when they will catch a cold! What kind of mother-in-law and aunt to marry? What a fucking ......

Xie Erke was really ready to go to Menglu City to replenish drinking water, and before leaving, he specially explained to a group of hideous subordinates that they must not use strong to buy water in the city, which alarmed the royal court but there is no good fruit to eat, anyway, the skin is not worth much, for the sake of the brother's mother-in-law and cubs, he has to pull down his face and beg the people of Menglu City to sell more water.

As a result, I happened to see a camel gang on the road, and when I rode my horse to a close place, I found that it was the Anping camel gang that had already paid the road money yesterday.

Shirk had already planned to turn the horse's head and pat his ass and leave, but when he saw that the camels were full of humps and obviously drank enough water, sure enough, after careful observation, he found that the water bags hanging on the camel saddle were also swollen and full, and he couldn't help but move his mind.

Shirk thought to himself, from Menglu City to the neighboring city of Red Scorpion, it usually takes four days of effort, and with the old ghost of Rudaki leading the way, three days is completely enough.

With a sigh in his heart, Shirk said loudly: "Rudaki, my Sand Vulture is not an unruly person, from Menglu to the Red Scorpion, with your ability, you can get there in three days, there is a well in the Red Scorpion City to replenish drinking water, we don't want much, you deduct the amount, and sell me the Sand Vulture a face." After a pause, Shirk continued: "It's your next food." ”

Rudaki has an introverted temperament and is taciturn, but he is not ignorant of the world, but he has seen a lot of people in the world during his many years of business.

Rudaki read the pleas and concessions from the expression on Sherke's face.

Rudaki was about to discuss with Paletahun, and today the drinking water supply of the Anping Camel Gang can be said to be saturated, and Shirk, who has always only recognized silver taels, suddenly asked for drinking water, as if there was another hidden reason, and it should not develop into a normal situation in the future.

Just as Rudaki patted Paletahun on the shoulder and was about to compromise and give in, a horse thief drove his horse to Sherke's side, covered his mouth with his hand, whispered something, and looked at the center of the ordinary gang in the inner circle of the Anping camel gang.

Shirk followed his men's instructions, followed his gaze, and his triangular eyes widened in vain when he saw the flowing wind and snow standing with Aggie.

"Array—"

Sand Vulture Sherke had a rough life, he was born in the Khiyi trading city of Tsrha, as for who are his parents?...... The streets of Tsrha City are full of wild seeds without parents and fathers, and many of them can die a day, but the funny thing is that there are still not as many people as they are thrown every day.

Relying on the ability to fight and beat, Shirk survived on that street, and the little Shirk who wanted to change his fate often went to eavesdrop outside a school in the city, and the kind Mr. Xueshu found Shirk, although he did not specifically help him, but he did not drive away the little Shirk who listened to the wall outside the school every day.

The emperor does not live up to the painstaking people, Shirk in the youth, with the money saved by the daily coolies to repay the Qiyi from the thunder empire to learn the scientific examination, very competitive in the first official, helpless, due to the influence of the growth environment, soon, Shirk was degraded to the army because of offending the magnates, later, on the border battlefield encountered the right deputy commander of the Shizi army of the thunder empire Xu Lin, the army was defeated and retreated, Shirk in order to survive, escaped, afraid of the overseers chasing and killing, fled all the way into the endless desert, unexpectedly, in the desert luckily saved his life, but also accidentally obtained martial arts and lost treasures, based on this, Shirk cultivated step by step to the realm of the four-grade martial artist, wandered to Menglu City, gathered the scattered horse thieves, and set up the grass for the coward.

The sound of Shirk's "array" carried a strong military atmosphere.

The horse thieves of the Sand Vulture Gang gathered one after another, and the warriors of the Anping Camel Gang saw that the horse thieves no longer surrounded the Camel Gang, but retreated to dozens of feet away and set up a charging formation, all of them clenched their swords in their hands in horror and inexplicably, and set up a defensive formation under the order of Paletahun to deal with it.

Shirk raised his sword in his hand and shouted: "Rudaki! Paletahun! Although my sand vulture is a thief, I have not forgotten that I am a Khiyi person, and I have Kyi blood in my heart! I didn't expect that the Anping Camel Gang would actually be doing the business of buying and selling Khiti women!

Liufeng Xue has been quietly watching the situation in the field, but he can't understand the Western Regions, and he is confused, and at this time, he sees the change in the field, and can't help but ask the boy next to him: "Aji, what's the matter? Why is there a fight all of a sudden? Isn't it that these horse thieves only want money?"

Aji listened to the sand vulture Sherke's strong shouts not far away, and his head cleared up in an instant, and he looked at Liufeng Xue in a complicated way and explained: "They think that sister, you are a Qiyi girl who was taken captive by the camel gang and wanted to be sold...... Looks like they want to get you back......"

Liu Fengxue was stunned, turned his head, looked at the thirty-one horse thieves with apricot eyes, and said in a daze: "I didn't expect the horse thieves to have such a family and country mind......"

Liufeng Xue took a step and walked out, Aji saw Liufeng Xue's movements, and quickly stretched out his hand to grab Liufeng Xue and said urgently: "Sister, what are you doing? It's dangerous! Don't make trouble for the gang leader and Uncle Rudaki, you have to believe that they will handle it!"

Liufeng Xue turned around, took the boy's hand away, narrowed his apricot eyes and smiled softly: "Don't worry, Aji, it's okay." ”

When Paletahun heard Shirk's shouting, he couldn't help but be stunned, and when he was about to explain, a gust of incense wafted into his nose, and a goose-yellow figure had already floated in, standing beside him.

Liufeng Xue took off his veil and blessed his voice with spiritual power, and his voice spread clearly and far away: "You should be able to hear it, I'm not a Qiyi girl." ”

Flowing Wind and Snow was about to say some more words of praise, but unexpectedly, Shirk's eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted: "Charge!"

After accelerating in the sand, it is not easy for the thirty riders to take off and raise the sand and dust, and charge towards the camel gang!

Good and evil are always related to the position, and they are always in a thought.

Thundering Woman?hehe...... Speaking of which, Lao Tzu also lacks an aunt......

On horseback, Sergei held his bearded knife in both hands, pointed straight forward, licked his chapped lips, and fixed his gaze on Liufeng Xue's face.

......

"Hmm...... Anping Camel Gang ......"

"Oh...... An hour before he went out of town......"

"Hmm...... Because of the moon rain, you sold them a few more bowls of water......"

"You are really a good believer, may Lord God Ahura Mazda bless you......"

Shi Nianyuan stood at the door of an earthen inn, his hands folded together in a handprint, and he recited a Zoroastrian prayer in the Western Regions that he didn't know if it was an accent.

The head and face of the middle-aged woman shopkeeper at the Tsuchiya Inn were wrapped in black veil, and only the face was exposed

After answering a series of questions raised by Shi Nianyuan, the two eyes listened to Shi Nianyuan's pious prayers, and said earnestly: "Little brother, why do you wear the clothes of the Thunder Man? We Qiyi people don't like or even hate the Thunder Thunder People, if it weren't for those camel gangs that could help us sell a lot of things, we wouldn't have paid attention to them. Alas...... I really don't know why there are Qiyi people who do things for those camel gangs, their hearts are so good...... May Lord Hurama bless those good believers......"

"Zoroastrian ......" Shi Nianyuan chanted the name of the ancestor of Zoroastrianism, which is roughly equivalent to the "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" in the Taoism of the Minglei Empire, or the "Southern Amitabha Buddha" in Northern Desert Buddhism.

All the countries of the Western Regions believe in Zoroastrianism, and the unified belief keeps the countries of the Western Regions from fighting and chaotic, and the Zoroastrian faith can be said to be the main reason why the Khiyi Kingdom has the energy and no worries about the border with the Thunder Empire.

The middle-aged woman of the inn liked the pious young man in front of him very much, but he didn't understand why he was wearing the clothes of the thunder man. scratch

Unexpectedly, this young man speaks fluent Western Regions, his accent is still the standard accent of the national capital Yiwu, his speech and demeanor are so good that he can't find any fault, and his faith is still so pious, which is very rare for young people now, so I chatted happily with him.

Hearing this young man inquire if the camel gang had arrived or left in the past two days, it was a coincidence that in the morning, the gang of the Anping camel gang had come here to buy water. After telling him, I saw that he was so happy, and I was also happy, and I helped others, that is, I did good deeds, and in this life, I have been seen by the great god Hulama for good and evil, and I heard that if you do too many evil things, you will go to hell after death, and you will be tortured in all kinds of ways, obediently, you want to go to heaven in the future, and you can do more good deeds.

Hearing Shi Nianyuan say goodbye and was about to turn around and leave, the middle-aged woman shopkeeper hurriedly stopped Shi Nianyuan, hurriedly ran to the backyard water storage well and scooped up a bowl of Tianshui that was newly received today and handed it to Shi Nianyuan.

"Little brother, take a sip! God Hurama blesses, this month's moon rain is heavy, this is the heavenly water that has just been received today. ”

Shi Nianyuan secretly said in his heart, what is the blessing of the great god Hulama...... It's obviously blessed by the old woman in the funeral palace...... Menglu City covers such a large spirit forbidden, which specializes in absorbing water and converging into rain every month, at this scale, if those disciples of the Funeral Palace don't come over every month to maintain and replace them with a batch of spirit stones, I don't believe it......

Although there are still a lot of drinking water savings in the Sumeru ring, Shi Nianyuan did not refuse the kindness of the middle-aged woman's shopkeeper, took the bowl and drank a small sip, did not leak a drop from his mouth, handed back the remaining half of the bowl of water, sincerely thanked him, and then recited a prayer in a decent manner, as a result, this move moved the middle-aged woman shopkeeper even more, and repeatedly told him that no matter what reason he put on the clothes of the thundering man, he must change back quickly. This is not the end, went out and took Shi Nianyuan's hand and walked to the intersection, pointed ahead and said that there is a clothing store over there, and she can still get a discount if she reports her name.

Shi Nian couldn't help nodding yes, and turned to leave.

Adhering to the principle of following the local customs, coupled with the middle-aged woman's eyes still staring at the back, Shi Nianyuan reluctantly walked into the clothing store, and spoke the Western Regions again, facing the question that the clothes shopkeeper and the middle-aged woman shopkeeper were similar to the inn, Shi Nianyuan blindly made up a Thunder Empire clothes on his body that were given by a friend of the camel gang, and he was curious to wear them and try them out, and bought several Western Regions robes in a row.

The old lady of the clothes shop intimately helped Shi Nianyuan put on a hat, tied a scarf, and kindly gave Shi Nianyuan a veil to block the dust.

When the old woman was afraid that a young man like Shi Nianyuan would not wear a veil, and was about to waste her tongue to say that the era is different, and the veil is not something that only women wear, Shi Nianyuan has taken the initiative to wear the veil.

Young Master Shi, who habitually wanted to take out the blank check of the builder's bank, fortunately, did not make a fool, took out eight silver ingots and put them on the counter, picked up the clothes and ran out quickly.

When the old woman was still amazed at how Shi Nianyuan took out so many silver ingots from that small purse, and wanted to stop Shi Nianyuan from looking for money, she raised her eyes and saw Shi Nianyuan's figure.

"Zoroastrian who advocates the dualism of good and evil is really too enthusiastic to meet fellow believers......" Shi Nianyuan, who had already hid in the corner of the street and changed into the robe of the Western Regions, threw his original clothes into the Sumeru ring casually, shaking his head and sighing.

It is not surprising that Shi Nianyuan speaks the Western Regions and knows the culture of the Western Regions very well.

Young Master Shi didn't have any friends at all when he was a child, and if he really wanted to talk about playmates, no matter how he counted it, he could only count it on the head of the lame butler Li Shutu. As Mao Caishen said, Shi Nianyuan was familiar with the history of internal and external scriptures when he was young, and there are many books that record the customs and national culture of the Western Regions. One is that Shi Nianyuan was really bored when he was young, except for the strange things in the eyes of all kinds of people in the Wuhou Mansion, he didn't know what to do when he didn't read to pass the time in his spare time, and the second was that Wuhou Shi Qinlian guarded the western frontier of the Minglei Empire and refused to defend the Qiyi, Shi Nianyuan was naturally very interested in the Qiyi Kingdom.

Shi Nianyuan walked out of the city gate, glanced back at Menglu City, and walked towards the vast desert.

"The eldest lady is not stupid, since you said that you will wait for me in the Tianshan Mountains, it should be impossible to cross the Qiyi Kingdom alone and cross the endless desert alone...... If it's not still hiding somewhere in the city, it's going to set off with the Anping camel caravan......" Shi Nianyuan muttered, looked left and right at the scenery outside the city, and saw only some scattered dead shrubs and some huge cactus cactus balls in strange shapes, and there was no way at all.

"I hope that the geographical map of the Western Regions that I have seen will not be outdated for too long...... The wind and sand obscured the traces of the caravans...... Chase along the direction of the Silk Road, if you haven't caught up with the Anping camel gang when the double moon rises, you must rush back as quickly as possible...... Spending the night alone in an endless desert...... "......Thinking of the horror, Shi Nianyuan fought a cold war, mobilized the spiritual power in his body, and traveled at high speed with the instantaneous turning method.

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