Chapter 746: Sparrow
Xia Xun was very careful, he carried the lantern and wandered repeatedly between several tents, focusing on the inside and outside of the kitchen for a long time.
In the distance, Lao Fei was inspecting the defense, and when he saw Grandpa Guo coming out with a lantern, walking around the tents around the handsome tent, he was about to rush over, Xia Xun immediately raised his voice to stop him: "Don't move, don't come over!" β
There are not too many footprints in the core guard circle centered on the Shuai tent, and the traces left by clearing the snow when we first set up camp have been covered by a thin layer of snow blown by the wind, so the footprints below are not obvious. Since then, the people who come in and out mainly enter the handsome tent, and no matter how many traces there are on this road, there is no need to care, Xia Xun walked around a few military tents for a while, and gradually found some strangeness.
He found that there were really some shallow marks on the thin floating snow, like footprints, but the footprints were too many, his slap didn't need to be opened, it could be easily covered, how could there be such footprints in this barracks, whose feet would be like this, could it...... Is there really such a thing as a spirit?
As soon as this idea came to mind, he denied it, and he carefully scanned everything in the guard circle of the Shuai Tent: a big tent of the Chinese army, which was the place where he discussed, raised, and handled military affairs. Not far behind the tent was his bedchamber, to the left of which was the tent of Celine and Jeanne, and to the right was just a simple tent to protect against the wind and cold, and in it was a horse given by the Emperor.
This horse is the Timurid Empire's prime minister Albasha and the general Gaisuyaddin two years ago to the Ming Emperor's thousands of miles of good horses, according to the Timur Emperor's father rode the horse, into the Ming Emperor His Majesty, in order to show respect.
The lifespan of horses is generally twenty or thirty years, and those who take care of it also live for sixty or seventy years, but how old was Timur the Great himself? Timur is sixty-nine years old this year, if this horse was really ridden by his father back then, it would be a big deal for them to pull this old horse to the Ming Empire, anyway, it was a matter of face, and Zhu Di didn't take it seriously.
After the horse was sent to the Imperial Horse Prison, a horse mouth was checked, and it was really just a five-year-old horse, only seven years old this year, still in the prime of life, Xia Xun went west, Zhu Di specially gave him this Western Regions BMW, of course the Royal BMW had to take care of it, so it enjoyed special treatment.
Xia Xun's eyes were staring at this place at the moment, there was a carriage outside the tent, and there were various horse materials such as forage and bean feed on the car, Xia Xun looked around the entire Shuai tent area, and the only suspicious place was here. Xia Xun walked over, he went into the tent first, came out again, circled the tent twice, and soon found some footprints that did not attract much attention.
If it was daytime, everyone was busy, and no one would pay attention to these footprints, in fact, when the wind blew overnight, even if there were any traces, they would have been blown out earlier, and at this moment, there were still some traces faintly on the snow. Xia Xun tiptoed those traces and gradually walked to the carriage. He circled the hay cart twice more, fixed his footsteps, looked up at the starry sky, suddenly took a long breath, cleared his eyes, and began to settle down, his consciousness expanding to the maximum in this quiet night, perceiving everything around him.
Tang Sai'er was frightened, she hid in the hay pile, frightened by the light outside, and did not dare to move, for fear that the slightest movement would make the hay rustle.
When Tang Sai'er fled from Yang's Mansion that day, he was just in time for Xia Xun to say goodbye to his family, the front yard was full of people, Tang Sai'er was weak-hearted, how dare he go out in a grand manner. She dodged behind those maid rings, and overheard those maid rings making fun of Celine and Jeanne, they were going to go to the Western Regions with the lord or something, Don Seer didn't know what the Western Regions was, but felt that it was a place far away.
In a hurry, he hid on the roof of the car and hidden, wanting to leave Nanjing with Xia Xun's car. Although the guy also knew that the most dangerous place was the safest, who knew that she would have no chance to escape next. In full view of everyone on the march during the day, Tang Sai'er could dodge the eyes of one person, or even ten people, but it was impossible to dodge thousands of pairs of eyes in a place where there was no evidence, not to mention that she didn't have many props on her body at that time, and she only had some body skills and local ingenuity.
And at night it was even more hard, this way Xia Xun was in full swing to carry out military exercises, at night, in order to prevent people from attacking the camp, the Ming army was deployed layer by layer, and the bright and dark sentinels emerged in endlessly, how could Tang Sai'er, who lacked the props in hand, quietly escape? However, the inside of the camp tent is far more lax than the outside, especially around the tent, the soldiers are only deployed on the outside line, and there are only a few soldiers and Sirin Jeanna in the activity area around the tent, which is the easiest to hide.
So, Tang Sai'er only hid in this place, marching during the day, as long as she hid in the hay pile, she was not afraid of being discovered, when camping in the evening, she relied on her skills to steal some food, for safety, she only stole once in the evening every time, no matter how much she stole, enough to eat three meals to eat the scraps of cold and hot three meals, not enough to starve, and followed all the way down.
Who knows, this way down, the colder it gets, her winter clothes are only worn in Jinling, the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is only equivalent to the clothes worn in late autumn in this Shaanxi place, such thin clothes plus a cart of firewood and grass are difficult to keep out the cold, she had no choice but to steal a cotton jacket from the old spray, the cotton jacket is wearing a suspicious one, and she put it on but became a coat, and shrunk in it at night as a bedding.
Because of the cold tonight, Sai'er couldn't sleep, and was suffering in the car, not to mention that someone came with a lantern, Sai'er left a gap in the firewood and straw, one is for the convenience of breathing, and the other is also convenient to observe the movement outside, the person who carried the lantern is the Xia Xun she is most afraid of, Tang Sai'er held her breath, and didn't even dare to breathe, but that heart beat like a drum.
She was afraid, really scared.
Xia Xun looked up at the sky, as if he was staring at the bright stars in the sky, but his divine consciousness and will had already dispersed, expanding his intuition of hearing and material energy as much as possible. He heard the sound of his heartbeat, a very rapid heartbeat, and then he heard the breath again, it was a long breath, and then a slow release of the breath, and he also heard the faint sound of shredded wood and grass grinding.
Tang Sai'er was scared and cold, although she tried her best to stay still, but her body trembled imperceptibly, it was the very subtle sound of firewood and grass grinding brought out by this trembling, and the sound that was not easy to be noticed by ordinary people, but it clearly came into Xia Xun's ears.
"When I was growing up, I grew up in Qingzhou......"
Xia Xun suddenly spoke, he still looked up at the sky, as if talking to himself: "In the summer, there are a lot of knowing, knowing whether to catch or not, using spiders to stick, it takes a lot of eyesight, the bamboo pole moves, arouses the vigilance of knowing, and it flies away." It is entirely up to luck to walk around each tree and find the cicadas that have not yet completed the process of moulting.
However, there is a way, that is, at night, in the woods, a fire, and then one tree by one to kick, those who are perched on the trees are awakened, they will pounce on the fire, fall around the flames, fall to the ground, you take the bag, although one by one to pick it up, it will not struggle, is this a moth to the fire, or self-throwing? β
The sound of breathing in the grass suddenly stopped, and it seemed that even his heartbeat had stopped, and Tang Sai'er, who was extremely nervous when he heard him say this, knew that he had been discovered, and for a moment he was so shocked that even the natural functions of his body stopped.
Although she is old, she is actually very courageous, and if she is allowed to die, she will not be so afraid. But for Xia Xun, she never had a trace of confrontation, she just wanted to escape, naturally nervous and afraid, this nervousness and fear in turn affected her, making her more nervous and more afraid, already a little scared of herself, Xingzang was suddenly recognized, Tang Sai'er was naturally afraid to the extreme.
Xia Xun said again, he was in Qingzhou, in fact, it was just a living experience when he lived in a relative's house in the countryside when he was a child before he traveled through time and space: "It's okay to catch it, but in fact, for children, the most difficult thing to catch is the sparrow, use a stick tied to the rope to support a basket, want to buckle the sparrow, it's difficult." But if you climb a ladder under the thatched house with a very bright lamp at night, and shine a lamp on the nest of the sparrow, and reach out to catch it, the sparrow will be blind, and the root will not escape, but will obediently fall into your hands. β
Xia Xun slowly turned around, raised the lantern in his hand high against the firewood and grass in front of him, and held the knife on his waist tightly under the cloak with his other hand, which could be slashed like lightning at any time. With his skill today, with his speed today, he was sure that as long as the person hiding in the haystack intended to make a surprise attack, he could split that person and the cart in half the moment he heard the violent grinding sound of firewood and grass!
"Are you a cicada or a sparrow?"
Xia Xun looked at the pile of firewood and grass in front of him and said slowly.
Tang Sai'er closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand full of frostbite, and swayed away the firewood and grass.
The firewood and grass were opened, and the two hands parted again, and the gap was widened, and the light shone in, shining on her body.
She was wearing a bloated cotton jacket, unkempt, her messy hair was full of dead grass leaves, her thin face was pale from the cold, and there was no trace of blood, so she shrank at Xia Xun, and her eyes were like an innocent sparrow, looking at Xia Xun timidly, as if she was about to be caught by him, cruelly plucking her feathers and putting on a branch, and roasting it with fire to eat it.
Xia Xun knew that there was someone inside, but he didn't expect it to be Tang Sai'er, his eyes widened, and he stared at Tang Sai'er in astonishment, and after a while, he exclaimed in surprise: "Sai'er, why are you here?" β
Tang Sai'er opened her mouth, and two lines of hot tears flowed down her face......
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