The Tamar Desert is full of sand dunes and sand seas, with a huge temperature difference between day and night, riding horses during the day, sweating and wet clothes, resting at night, and sleeping in blankets.

The moon rises in the western hills, the desert is vast, and Huma bows his head and shakes his tail, gnawing on the scattered grass around the dry riverbed. The wind and sand were blowing, behind the dunes, a bonfire lit by a bunch of dead bushes lit up the desert night, Yuan Xiu and Wei Zhuozhi sat with their backs to the sand dunes in woolen blankets, baking dry cakes in their hands. Yue Kill and Yuan Xiu's personal soldier Meng San went to pick up dead bushes together, and Twilight Qing squatted alone in the distance and fiddled with the yellow sand, not knowing what he was doing.

"What are you doing! Come and make a fire! Yuan Xiu shouted from afar.

Twilight was silent, still tinkering with the yellow sand under the sand dunes in the distance.

Wei Zhuozhi glanced at Yuan Xiu, his eyes showed admiration, this desert is scorching, a mouth can pour a mouthful of mud and sand, at this time it is wise to be dumb, and the person who shouts at the top of his voice is worthy of respect.

"Tuesday Egg!" Yuan Xiu shouted again, and when he saw that Twilight was ignoring people, he laughed and got up and strode over.

Wei Zhuozhi followed the look, and saw Yuan Xiu walking towards Dusk Qing, and before the person arrived, he asked, "What are you doing?" You're withdrawn again, kid? ”

"Ahem!" Wei Gongzi, who endured not speaking along the way, still choked on a mouthful of sand, withdrawn?

She's lonely! At least cuter than when you have a poisonous tongue.

Twilight didn't answer, and kept her head down and went on with her work.

At this time, Yuan Xiu had already arrived behind her, and his eyes fell into the sand in front of her, slightly stunned.

The moonlight was cold, the yellow sand was like snow, and a skeleton lay quietly, half of which had been excavated, half of the skull was buried in the sand, half of it was lying in the moonlight, and its empty eye sockets and open mouth were filled with yellow sand.

"What's the use of digging this thing?" Yuan Xiu frowned, his smile was heavy, the desert had buried too many loyal souls of the Northwest soldiers, and these bones had too many indelible memories for him.

"Research." Twilight didn't reply. During her years in Yizhuang, Gushui County, the bones she saw were all from Daxing, and it was rare to have the opportunity to go outside the Saiwai to see the bones of other races.

There are no Mongolians, Caucasus and other places in this time and space, and the human race cannot be divided into the race, the Caucasian race and the Negro race, but in terms of skin color, the Daxing people are still yellow people, and the skin color of the steppe Wuhu is white and brown, and the bones are also different.

"What is there to study?" Yuan Xiu glanced at the bone, and couldn't see anything to see at all.

"Yes!" Twilight replied succinctly, then lowered her head and carefully cleaned the bones, she folded some dead grass as a brush, and carefully swept the yellow sand on the bones, as if sweeping the dust from the antiques, carefully and caring for them.

She cleaned up very slowly, Yuan Xiu watched from the side, and felt that if she didn't help, she would probably clean up until tomorrow morning, so she went to the side to pull out a handful of dry grass and squatted down.

"Don't touch it!" Before he could touch it, he heard Twilight stop him, "This skeleton is partially exposed, weathered for a long time, and fragile. ”

Her earnest appearance seemed to her as if no one was more valuable to her than the skeleton in front of her.

Yuan Xiuqi was not laughing either, he returned the withered grass in his hand and sat cross-legged on the spot. It's a pity that this kid will be crowned a Zhonglang, she should go to the Criminal Division of the Central Punishment of the DPRK! came to the desert, immediately bumped for a day, finally rested at sunset, she was still rushing to dig bones, and the court's criminal department was not as competent as her!

He untied the water bag from his waist and took a sip on his head.

The full moon hangs high, the sand dunes are like snow, one person crosses his knees and carries the moon, one squats to the moon, and a skeleton is half-hidden in the yellow sand, sprinkled with a layer of frost, and the west wind is alone.

In the distance, Moon Kill put the bushes he had picked up next to the campfire, turned his head to look at Twilight and Yuan Xiu, and got up to call someone.

"Hey!" Meng San hurriedly grabbed him, "What are you going to do?" ”

"The cake is baked." Moon Kill glanced at Meng San's hand and resisted the urge to cut it off.

"Put it away first when it's baked, don't you see the general and the general busy?"

"Busy?" Yue Kill glanced at the other side coldly, one person was sitting leisurely drinking water, and the other was digging sand, busy? He looked at them idle!

"Ahem!" Meng San also felt that this reason was far-fetched, and coughed embarrassedly, but he just pulled the sleeve of Yue Kill and didn't let go, "Hey, don't go over anyway." ”

"I wonder, why can't I go there?" Wei Zhuozhi blew the yellow sand on the baked cake, there was a playful smile in his slender phoenix eyes, and there was interesting news to listen to, he didn't mind opening his mouth to eat some sand.

Yue Kill also looked at Meng San, Meng San was stared at by the two of them uncomfortable, he dared to say that the general was a good man, did he look down on General Yingrui? That night, since he bumped into the affairs of the General's Pavilion, he felt that he had a special mission on his shoulders! As the only soldier who knows the general's good manly style, it is his duty to protect the secrets of his master, and it is also his duty to watch the wind when necessary.

Gongzi Wei Xinlai is not like the general's henchman, and this matter cannot be leaked in front of him, but General Yingrui's personal commander ......

Meng San glanced at Yue Kill, a little entangled. Should General Young's pro-soldier know about this? lest he spoil the scenery!

Moon Kill didn't have the patience to wait for him to entangle, and turned around and went in the direction of Yuan Xiu and Twilight Qing.

"Oops!" Meng San was in a hurry, and dragged the moon to kill.

There was a cold light in the moonlight, and a sleeve swept away with the wind, and Moon Kill put away the dagger, pulled the broken sleeve, and walked away without looking back.

Meng San's face turned pale, and he raised his hand to look at his fingertips, if he hadn't stopped it just now, this person would have cut off all his fingers with one knife! As a general's personal soldier, it was the first time he had encountered such an unkind person, and his temper suddenly came up, "Hey! I've never seen such an ignorant soldier like you! I really won't allow you to go over today, right? ”

He rolled up his sleeves behind his head, and the moon killed and turned back, his eyes showing murderous anger.

Meng San's eyes showed disdain, "You are still the commander of the army, and you don't even know about your general." Today, the master will teach you, how to be a pro-soldier! ”

Moon Kill stared at him and asked, "I don't know what's wrong?" ”

Meng San grinned and said, "Hehe, want to know?" I wanted to cut my master's hand just now, but now I want to talk to my master? You win first, master! ”

"You win a fart!" A kettle smashed in the distance, Meng San jumped away, raised his eyes and saw Yuan Xiu striding over, scolding angrily, "What are you kid thinking about all day!" ”

"General!" Meng San scratched his head, looking aggrieved.

Twilight walked over with a skull in her arms, her face was cold, and she glanced at the aggrieved Meng San, "Your general just showed me his thighs." ”

"Poof!" Wei Zhuo squirted out a mouthful of scones and looked at Yuan Xiu.

Moon Kill's face was cold, and the frost at the bottom of his eyes was like a knife, poking Yuan Xiu directly.

Yuan Xiu coughed in embarrassment, originally he didn't think anything of it, the army was full of men, he had always been casual, but how could he be told by her, he felt that he was abrupt that night?

Meng San smiled, "You didn't just look at the thighs of my general. ”

Moon Kill turned his head and stared at Twilight.

Twilight Qing glanced at Meng San lightly, "I have also seen more than one male corpse, all of them are naked, and your general is still wearing obscene pants." ”

With that, she took her skull and sat down by the campfire, leaving only the three men frozen behind her.

Yuan Xiu's eyebrows jumped strangely, Meng San opened his mouth to eat the wind, and Yue Kill was stunned for a while and relaxed.

Wei Zhuozhi couldn't hold back, he laughed out loud, and looked at Yuan Xiu and Meng San compassionately, and he said, Well, when she has a poisonous tongue, it is better to be withdrawn.

The atmosphere of the meal was awkward that night, but Twilight didn't seem to feel it, she sat cross-legged with a woolen blanket on her legs and a skull on top of it. She held a scone worn by a wooden branch in one hand, and touched the cheekbones and mandibles of the skull as she ate, her eyes were focused and her face was cold, but the gesture always had the strange feeling of teasing the bones of a dead man.

"What's the difference?" The atmosphere was too awkward, and Yuan Xiu had to open his mouth to adjust the atmosphere.

"The cheekbones are not high, the mouth and nose are slightly protruding, and the race is different." Twilight Road.

"What's the use?"

"Some of the bones were ossified when they were found, and the determination of identity first depends on race. The Daxing people and the Hu people are of different races, the Daxing people have high skulls and cheekbones, flat faces, and the Hu people are different. For example, if this corpse was found in the desert, if you want to find out who he is, you can first determine whether he is a Daxing person or a Hu person through his bones. In addition, if the bones are incomplete, the race is different, and the method of calculating the length is also different, the Hu people are taller than the Daxing people, and if the length of the Daxing people is calculated in the way of calculating the length of the Hu people, it will be very wrong, and if the government checks the people, it will be very misleading. Twilight held her skull up with one hand and looked at the firelight.

In fact, there is still a gap in height between the same race, ancient people and modern people, southerners and northerners, so when she first went to Yizhuang with her father, she did not dare to arbitrarily apply the formula of her previous life to calculate her height.

"It's a pity, I don't know which part of the Hu clan this skeleton belongs to. Their appearance is a little different, the Di people are whiter, the Ledans are darker, the difference is definitely not only in the skin color, if only more bones could be studied. ”

Yuan Xiu and Wei Zhuozhi listened, their eyes were thoughtful, and they were appointed as court officials during the reign of Renzong during the Wude period, and although it has been more than two hundred years, they still follow the old law and are not valued. But Twilight Qing is reasonable, if there is a case, the government investigates the person, and the difference between the person who is five feet long and the person who is five feet five inches long is too much, and if there is a slight deviation in the post-mortem examination, the direction of the government's investigation will be greatly misled, and from this point of view, the role of the person in a case is extremely important.

Daxing is afraid that it is rare to do something like her, so how many headless public cases and unjust cases and wrongful cases have been investigated by the government in the past?

It's time to change the old law of the court.

"You kid really shouldn't come to the northwest to serve in the army, you should go to serve in the criminal department of Cao Ti in the middle of the court." Yuan Xiu sighed.

Twilight doesn't say anything, if her father is still here, she will really be a maid for the rest of her life.

The atmosphere fell silent again, the five of them ate scones around the bonfire, Meng San taught Dui Qing, Yue Kill and Wei Zhuozhi to speak Ledan dialect for a while, Yuan Xiu was in the northwest for ten years, he could speak Wuhu's words, Di dialect was slightly different from Ledan's dialect, and he taught some commonly used words to the three of them. When it was late at night, Meng San and Yue Kill took turns keeping vigil, and the rest of them slept wrapped in blankets.

The next day they hurried on the road, and on the evening of the third day, the five men stopped behind a sand dune fifty miles from the Sandra Sacred Lake, waiting for night to fall.

Further ahead of this dune, you can already see sparse grass, the oasis of the Tamar Desert is fifty miles away, over the Sandro Sacred Mountain, is the Sandrol Sacred Lake, and after that is the Urkule grassland. They didn't dare to get too close, so in order not to be discovered by the Hu spies, they had to stop fifty miles away, and wait until late at night to hurry at night.

In the past three days, Yuan Xiu has been in contact with the spies sent to Ledan, and after Hu Yanhao arrived in Ledan, there has been no movement in the past few days. King Ledan was killed by Yuan Xiu more than a month ago with an arrow on his right arm, and the injury was severe, these days are still raised, King Ledan has forty years, five sons under his knees, the eldest prince was killed by Yuan Xiu seven years ago, and 30,000 fine horsemen died at the hands of 8,000 fine horsemen led by Yuan Xiu. In that battle, Ledin suffered a heavy blow, these years has been subservient to the Di tribe, now the Di king is seriously ill, the four sons are vying for the throne, the Di tribe is in chaos, Hu Yanhao is willing to lead 20,000 fine horsemen to start an incident, this is a golden opportunity for Ledan, so the king of Letan has decided to send the second prince Tuha and the first warrior of the king Wu Da with Hu Yanhao to raid the Di tribe.

It's just that they are waiting for the opportunity to start an incident, waiting for the opportunity for King Di to be critically ill and the four sons to raise troops to kill each other and seize the throne.

At this time, Yuan Xiu didn't know when it would come, and they were in a hurry for the past three days just to hurry up and not to catch up late. King Di's time was short, and his four sons quarreled in front of his tent every day, and even if they didn't die of illness, they should be angry to death.

The five of them waited quietly behind the dunes, waiting for the spies to send a message, the water was replenished in the dark river on the road, and when the dry food was finished, they went to catch snakes in the bushes, and Twilight did not participate in any of these things, she only cared about digging white bones in the yellow sand, and everyone else was anxious, and she wished that the time would be longer.

But the waiting time was not long, only four days.

On the evening of the fourth day, Yuan Xiu received two secret letters, King Di died of illness yesterday night, and the queen secretly mobilized Wang Wei to help his four sons seize the throne. I don't want to be exposed by the gods and witches who have taken refuge in the eldest prince, the eldest prince took his warriors to surround the king's tent, the fourth prince led the army to rescue, the two sides met each other, killed all night, in the early morning Wang Wei and the four princes' army had the advantage, the second prince and the third prince who watched a good show all night came to sit and collect the benefits of the fisherman, and surrounded the remnants of the eldest prince and the fourth prince's army, but no one dared to do it first, for fear that whoever made the first move would be taken advantage of by the person behind.

When the matter reached Ledan, King Letan decided to act tonight, and ordered the second prince Tuha and the first warrior of the king, Wuda, to lead 50,000 Ledan's fine cavalry, and Hu Yanhao's 20,000 troops responded to it inside.

Yuan Xiu received the secret letter, and when it got dark, the five of them got on their horses and galloped towards Sangzhuo Sacred Mountain. After driving fifty miles, when I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I heard the sound of horses' hooves on the other side of the mountain breaking through the night of the grassland, and the rumbling sound under my feet was trembling. The five of them, wearing the uniforms of the Ledin cavalry, rode the horses and wore the masks of the Huren, waited on the top of the mountain for a long time, listened to the sound of the horses' hooves gradually passed, and then quickly went down the mountain, followed the Ledin army, and went to the Di tribe.