A month after leaving the state in the southwest, Ye Chu, Du Gong, and Wen Qian came to the desert eight thousand miles away.

The yellow sand flying in the sky rushed to his face, and Ye Chu covered his face with his hands, barely blocking it.

The wind and sand gradually subsided, Ye Chu immediately took off his clothes, waved his hands away, and the sand that fell from his clothes weighed about two catties.

"Master, what are we doing here?" Ye Chu couldn't help but complain.

Du Gong was shaking his head slightly.

As soon as he is old, of course he doesn't shake his head to pretend to be cute. The ancients regarded white hair as rejuvenation, but at this time, Du Gong would not be happy at all because of his white hair mixed with yellow.

Thin scattered sand fell from the gray hair, and Du Gong said, "We are here to find someone." ”

Looking for someone, who are you looking for? Ye Chu didn't ask, but for the first time, he realized that his master was really insisting, "Life can't rely on cultivation, otherwise it's always boring." Such beliefs.

Along the way, Du Gong took him to find many people.

Ye Chu saw many old ministers of the Chu State, and some were even still powerful, but when he saw Du Gong and him, they were all in tears, or they wept and knelt down.

After the Battle of Shouchun, the state of Chu was destroyed, but there were not a few people who missed the old country.

At that time, the state of Chu was politically clear and economically rich, and the people of the king of Chu lived and worked in peace and contentment, and everyone was fortunate to be born in the state of Chu.

Moreover, when the three kingdoms of Jin, Yan and Qi were destroyed, the atomic brothers in the world looked down on the Qin people who were born outside the Guan, and even regarded them as barbarians, and moved to the Chu State one after another.

But such a strong country was successfully defeated by Emperor Qin in two years, and the reason for this can only be called providence helplessly.

After the destruction of the Chu State, Du Gong once raised troops and horses again in Huainan, but was conquered by Daqin in one fell swoop, and since then, he has been operating silently in secret, looking for Ye Chu.

Ye Chu stopped complaining, put on his clothes and continued to walk.

The three of them have been walking in the desert for two days, not to mention sleeping, and even very little rest, which can really be regarded as non-stop.

"Master, look at that end. Wen Qian pointed to the other side of the sand dune and said.

Ye Chu followed his fingers and saw a few dilapidated houses standing desolate in the yellow sand, but there were wine flags erected at the door.

"There are still people running liquor shops in the desert?" Ye Chuqi said.

Du Gong smiled, and a little sand shook off his beard.

"It's here. ”

The three of them quickened their pace and walked towards the liquor store.

"Tuk Tuk-" Ye Chu knocked on the wooden door a few times.

The liquor store is open in the desert, and there must be very little business, and the door is covered in broad daylight.

A moment later, a footstep accompanied the woman's voice sounded.

The proprietress who opened the door and held the door frame said with a smile: "Yo, it's rare to see such a young man with clear eyebrows!"

Although she is in the desert, she is not as tender as a woman in a southern water town, but this woman in her thirties has a different temperament.

Danfeng has willow eyebrows, a slender waist and a tall figure, long hair is pulled casually, but it is lazy but full of charm, except for the fine lines at the corners of the eyes, it is almost impossible to see age.

Ye Chu said respectfully: "In the lower Ye Chu, follow the master ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the woman walked behind him on her own.

I saw the woman striding up to Wen Qiande, stretching out her palm, and pinching Wen Qian's face.

"I'm going to kill you! I haven't come to see Aunt Liu for so many years!"

Wen Qian was in pain for a while, and cried out: "Aunt Liu, what did you say!

Du Gong looked around awkwardly, dodging someone's angry gaze.

She glared at the white-haired old man beside Wen Qian, and dropped a sentence: "Come in." And he walked back.

Wen Qian, Du Gong, Ye Chu and the three walked into the wine shop together.

The liquor shop was quite shabby, with tables and chairs scattered around at random, and there was no business at all.

The three of them found a seat and sat down, and after a while, the proprietress served a few side dishes and sat down without saying hello.

She looked at Ye Chu, as if she had thought of something, and asked with some surprise, "This is the prince of Chu?"

Du Gong nodded.

Ye Chu stood up and said again: "In Xia Ye Chu, now he is only the master's apprentice. ”

"You're not your master's apprentice, are you my apprentice?" quipped the woman surnamed Liu.

Ye Chu was embarrassed.

A few people talked and laughed until the sun was getting west.

"Boss, all good wine and good food are served!" Several big men walked into the door, led by a square face with Chinese characters, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and scolding in their mouths.

The woman went to the other side to greet her, and Ye Chu looked at the lewd eyes of several people, a little displeased.

The wine shop did not serve guests, and several big men ate and drank well, threw down some broken silver and walked away.

That night, several people stayed separately, and Ye Chu was glad that he could finally sleep peacefully.

The night in the desert came very quickly, and after a while, it was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers.

Except for the proprietress in the wine shop, there was no one left.

The cold moon hung alone in the night.

The proprietress of the liquor store leaned alone against the door panel, looking at the moon.

"It's eighteenth year, are you really going to stay here for the rest of your life?" said an old voice in the silence of the wine shop.

The proprietress of the wine shop didn't look back at the white-haired old man behind her, and said to herself: "I said that when he comes back, then where can I go?"

"Congratulations on finally finding the prince of Chu, more than ten years of hard work have not been in vain. ”

"What about me? When will I wait for him?"

This question doesn't need to be answered, and it's something that can't be answered.

The problem is like a stone sinking into the sea, in exchange for a moment of silence in the field.

After being silent for a while, Du Gong continued: "Senior brother has been missing for eighteen years, life and death are unknown, why are you suffering? If senior brother knows, he will definitely not want you to be like this. ”

"What am I like?" she smiled and said, "He's gone, where am I going?"

"He's not here, isn't it the same everywhere?"

The starlight in the desert is shining, shining on the infatuation of the world.

Du Gong was silent, shook his head and sighed lightly, knowing that it was useless to say more, so he went upstairs.

But a few figures with filthy thoughts quietly approached in the night.

The night passed, and the sun rose in the east.

Different from the mild morning sun in the south of the Yangtze River, even the sunrise in the desert has a feeling of majestic mountains and rivers, Ye Chu looked from afar, but found that there was a white smoke stretching into the sky in the distance.

It is difficult to have a breeze in the desert, and the wind is rolling yellow sand, and if there is no wind, it is completely dead and sinking, and there is no movement.

Burning underneath are corpses.

A few burly men became charcoal in the fire.

It is better to throw it away and burn it than to die in a liquor store.

How could she, who had lived alone in the desert for more than ten years, not have the corresponding strength?

Of course, Ye Chu naturally didn't know what the situation was, he just felt this majestic and magnificent scene from afar.

The desert is lonely.