The night is getting deeper.

The wind in the moor is always a little cool at night, even if it's just autumn.

In front of the pile of burning flames, the people of the Gao caravan were eating dry food and talking, Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi were sitting in a dark corner, Shao Xiaozi gnawed a few mouthfuls of Hu Biscuits, and saw Jiang Mi who was swallowing hard in small bites, he approached and said, "Hey, are you homesick?"

Jiang Mi turned her head, and in the red fireworks, her eyes were bright and clear, watery and soft-hearted. Shao Xiaozi couldn't help but be stunned.

Jiang Mi didn't notice his distraction, nodded and shook her head, she whispered, "I miss him a little...... But I don't have a home, I don't want to go home. ”

Shao Xiaozi didn't hear Jiang Mi's previous words clearly because he lost his mind, and as soon as he came back to his senses, he was very annoyed: he was stunned to see a kid! He slapped himself with a "snap".

Facing Jiang Mi's surprised eyes, Shao Xiaozi hurriedly said, "Mosquitoes, there are mosquitoes." ”

There were many mosquitoes in the autumn season, and Jiang Mi didn't care, she lowered her head and continued to nibble on dry food in small bites.

Shao Xiaozi is an idle person, he stood up after eating Hu Biscuits, and after a random turn, Shao Xiaozi hummed an unknown song while returning to Jiang Mi.

As soon as he sat down, he saw Jiang Mi's lips moving, as if he was chanting a word, Shao Xiaozi was very curious, and thought: Could it be that this guy still believes in Buddhism? At this time, he is still reciting scriptures, and he is really too sincere.

While thinking, he quietly approached Jiang Mi and listened.

"The way is not good. I know it, those who know it, the fool can't do it, the way is not clear, I know it, the sage knows it, and the unscrupulous person can't do it. People don't eat and drink, and they rarely know the taste. ”

Listening to this, Shao Xiaozi interrupted her with wide eyes, "What are you reading?"

Jiang Mi turned his head. replied in surprise: "The Mean". Haven't you read it?"

Shao Xiaozi glared, and he shouted: "You don't need to test Xiucai, what are you doing so hard at this time." And if you recite a book, you can recite a book, how can you recite the mantra of a great monk by you?"

Shao Xiaozi's voice was not small. Everyone around them turned their heads to look. Pair up with this pair of young boys. The people of the Gao caravan were happy one by one.

Jiang Mi was also embarrassed at this time. She flattened her mouth and said, "I just have this good job, can't I?"

"Okay, okay!" Shao Xiaozi hurriedly smiled, and he approached Jiang Mi. Curiously asked, "Hey, what's the use of you reading this?"

"Nothing to use. Jiang Mi threw a piece of wood into the fire and muttered: "I'm used to reading it like this, and every time I read it, I feel a little more steady." ”

After arguing with Shao Xiaozi for a while, Jiang Mi stood up.

Seeing her leave, Shao Xiaozi asked, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Mi glared at him, lowered his voice and said, "What do you care about me?"

Seeing her blushing, Shao Xiaozi snorted: "Cut! Xiao Xie is Xiao Jie, everyone is a man, just like you dodge and be a thief every time." ”

Because Shao Xiaozi's voice was not small when he said this, Jiang Mi carefully glanced around, glared at Shao Xiaozi angrily, turned around and ran into the darkness.

Jiang Mi walked a hundred steps, and when the lights of the caravan gradually disappeared from this corner, she glanced around, and the ghost picked a place to squat down.

Almost as soon as Jiang Mi unbuckled his belt, there was a noise of horses' hooves in front of him. Jiang Mi was shocked and stuck his head out from behind the stone, watching the group of hundreds of knights rush straight into the caravan.

In the distance, as the night wind blew the orders of those knights, "My son-in-law has an order, all the thin ones will come out of the queue!"

A steward of the Gao clan's caravan hurriedly walked out, he nodded and asked a few words, and when he turned his head again, the steward's voice was no longer nervous, and far away, Jiang Mi heard the steward shouting at the top of his voice: "Don't panic, everyone, it's someone from the Boling Cui clan." A thief stole their young lady's dowry, and the sons and daughters of the Cui family came to find the thief. ”

For a while, the caravan was talking. In this kind of troubled times, even the credit of a monarch is far inferior to that of these gate valve families. As soon as everyone heard that this was the search for someone from the Bolingcui clan, they knew that they would not rob the treasure and kill innocents indiscriminately, and suddenly, the caravan could not wait to line up one by one, as if they had found interesting fun.

Watching those knights inspect one by one, Jiang Mi, who had fastened his belt, lowered his head with his back against the stone.

I don't know how long it took, those knights turned over and walked away, and the people in the caravan sat back by the fire, and Jiang Mi quietly stepped forward.

Jiang Mi returned to the fire.

Fortunately, at this time, Shao Xiaozi was squatting behind those stewards, listening to their discussion of the Boling Cui clan, and no one noticed that Jiang Mi was not there just now.

Jiang Mi lowered her head, she pulled the fire for a while, and behind her, a steward was talking loudly: "When the Jiang family took out the dowry, the old man noticed that something was wrong. How precious is the secret recipe in this world that can make the Boling Cui clan excited? Jiang Shi must have to attract thieves if he takes it out in broad daylight. Isn't this really a thief now?"

Later, a young man said: "Uncle Li's words are arbitrary, how do you know that the Boling Cui clan is really a thief and not something else?"

Another old man spoke, the old man was the head of the caravan, very knowledgeable and well-known in the caravan. I only heard the old man say: "With the importance of face in a family like the Boling Cui clan, if something very important doesn't happen, it won't shout to open the city gate at night, and it won't move the people to look for it one by one. This situation can only be justified by the theft of Jiang's dowry. ”

As soon as the old man's words came out, there was a loud buzz around, and when everyone talked about it again, they all revolved around the topics of "what are the secret recipes for Jiang's dowry" and "Wow, that thief is so powerful, I don't know which monarch sent it, and even the Boling Cui clan suffered a loss".

Jiang Mi felt bored after listening to it for a while, and she didn't wait for Shao Xiaozi to come back, she had already climbed into the carriage and fell asleep.

Most of the carriage was loaded with goods. Usually Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi are too crowded to sit, let alone sleep? Now Jiang Mi is leaning on a bag of goods, his face resting on his arm, and gradually, the noise outside is getting smaller and smaller.

After a while, Shao Xiaozi came back. He lifted the curtain and saw the small space in the carriage, flattened his mouth, and ran away. After a while, he got a piece of felt out of nowhere. Shao Xiaozi put the felt under the carriage and lay down.

Luckily, it's early autumn and it's still a bit hot. Falling asleep like this, although it is slightly cool, is not impossible to sleep.

Not for a while. Shao Xiaozi sank into his sleep.

I don't know how long it took, Shao Xiaozi and the people of the Gao caravan were once again awakened by a rapid and powerful sound of horses' hooves!

In these chaotic years, hearing the sound of horses' hooves in the middle of the night is always panicking. Although they knew that this place was less than twenty miles away from Mingzhou City. There shouldn't be any robbers. But they still panicked one by one.

When the caravan was in chaos, the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer. In the light of the burning torches of the hunt, the knight who was galloping in the front in a dark color came into everyone's eyes.

As soon as I saw the knight. Many people in the caravan were nervous, and Shao Xiaozi leaned back and scolded, "Isn't it just that you lost some dowry?"

In fact, at this time, the people in the Gao caravan were all relaxed, and a man with a thick voice was even pulling his throat and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's Cui Zixuan Cui Lang." ”

In the chaos of the caravan, Cui Zixuan led a hundred knights to whistle, and stopped in front of the caravan. , Cui Zixuan came out of the crowd.

He rode his horse to the front of the caravan, and after glancing around in the burning fire, he commanded in a hoarse voice: "Please also call out all the thin people in the caravan!"

Because there was one time before, this time the caravan was extremely efficient. Just when the steward was shouting one by one in the carriage and one by one on the fire, Shao Xiaozi also remembered Jiang Mi.

When Shao Xiaozi lifted the curtain, a steward also came here, and the steward glanced at Jiang Mi, who was sleeping dizzily in the carriage, and said to Shao Xiaozi: "You go and wake him up." ”

Shao Xiaozi smiled and said, "He doesn't need it, right?" Uncle Chang, you don't know, this kid told me during the day that he hadn't closed his eyes for several nights, and he finally fell asleep......

That is to say, the steward surnamed Chang said that deep down in his heart, he didn't think that the little guy who was too tired to even build a stove could stand on his feet would be a thief, so he nodded and said, "That's fine." With that, he lowered the curtain.

Shao Xiaozi and the steward surnamed Chang had just turned around, and in the curtain of the car behind them, Jiang Mi opened his eyes.

Quietly lifting the corner of the curtain, Jiang Mi looked at Cui Zixuan who was standing not far away.

In the bright red fireworks that illuminated the earth, Cui Zixuan's dark robe was being blown by the night wind.

Jiang Mi's gaze greedily looked at his cyan jaw covered with scum, at his bright and almost sharp, bloodshot eyes, and at his fist clenching his sword.

He stood there without saying a word, his expression solemn, and his eyes hidden with rage.

His hand gripping the hilt of the sword was bruised by the exertion!

Now is the time when the morning star has just risen, and the heavens and the earth are in the last moment of darkness before dawn, and this time is usually the time when people are most sleepy. But he didn't go to rest, but stood in the night wind with anger and nervousness, staring at the thin figures that walked out of the caravan.

Looking at it, Jiang Mi stuffed his fist into his mouth. It's also strange that she hasn't shed tears for so many days, but at this moment tears are raining down.

...... How she longed to be able to pounce into this man's arms, and said to him, it's hard work outside, she has been busy and always disliked and useless, she really wants to say to him, she is so scared and lonely alone, she wants to be coquettish to him and say, I miss you so much, why did you come?

But she couldn't do anything!

Jiang Mi stuffed her fist into her mouth and wept silently. She thought: In this time of chaos, life and death are often goodbye, maybe this is the last time she will see her Cui Lang.

She wanted to look at him one more time, one more time......

At this moment, as if he felt Jiang Mi's gaze, Cui Zixuan suddenly turned his head and looked, in the dark, his eyes were like electricity!

Jiang Mi quickly pulled down the curtain and shrunk to the corner of the carriage.

Sure enough, she heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, and after a while, outside her carriage, a guard asked, "Childe, what do you see?"

In the carriage, Jiang Mi Se shrank a little.

After a while, Cui Zixuan's low voice came, "It's nothing." Then the sound of the horse's hooves faded away.

Because there had been one before, the Gao caravan was quickly lined up.

Cui Zixuan drove the horse, and looked at the light one by one on the fire.

The more he looked behind, the more ugly his face became. After reading all the dwarfs in the caravan, Cui Zixuan stood there in a daze, revealing a sense of loneliness.

I don't know how long it took, Cui Zixuan rode away. Listening to the sound of horses' hooves getting farther and farther away, the people who had been woken up fell to the ground again and fell asleep.

Shao Xiaozi was young and energetic, but he didn't feel sleepy for a while, he and a few guards who were also sleepless added some firewood to the fire, and sat around chatting.

Because it was not far away, Jiang Mi heard Shao Xiaozi muttering there: "Did you see Cui Lang's last expression? He seems to be very sad, and I now suspect that he is not looking for any thieves at all." ”

One of the stewards sighed and said, "I also think he seems to be looking for someone." ”

Next to him, a middle-aged scribe immediately replied: "It can't be a search for someone!"

Several people looked at him.

The middle-aged scribe plucked the fire in front of him and said, "Well, if he's looking for someone." Who are you looking for? Enemy? Where would the enemies of the Bolingcui clan hide in a small caravan like ours?"

The middle-aged scribe was still talking, but Shao Xiaozi couldn't help but smile and interjected, "Maybe it's a woman......?"

Several of the men around the fire burst into laughter.

The middle-aged scribe laughed and said, "Woman, how is it possible? Not to mention that any woman dares to flee alone in this chaotic world." Even if there is, since the woman has left the Boling Cui clan, and she will be gone for a few hours, maybe her innocence will be lost a long time ago, so what is the Boling Cui clan looking for her to do?"

Shao Xiaozi was still a little puzzled, and on one side, an old man nodded there and said, "You kid is still young, and he doesn't understand a lot of things." In recent years, the soldiers have been scattered and separated, and I have long heard that if a woman is lost in those big families, they will not look for it. It's hard to talk about a woman's innocence when she's been outside, so what do you do when you go back in this situation?"

Shao Xiaozi muttered when he heard this, "The more you talk about it, the more I think that Cui Zixuan is looking for a woman, otherwise what would he do if he was so angry and sad?" ”