The army set out from Hami, all the way to the yellow sand... The sun is scorching, and it is very hard. But there is always a time when the road is exhausted, and now clumps of trees, verdant weeds, occasional lakes, and small villages are gradually appearing in front of us, and Dunhuang is getting closer and closer.

While walking, a team of cavalry suddenly galloped in the distance, dressed in Daming clothes, Rao is so, the guard commander sent by King Hami did not dare to slack off, and immediately led a team of soldiers to pick up the horse to meet him, the two met, talked for a while, and the guard commander turned around and drove towards Xia Xun with one of the people who came to ride.

A light car, with a cover on the top and no curtains on all sides, is slightly cool in this hot summer day, Xia Xun and Celine, Jeanne, and the little girl Tang Sayer are in the car.

The commander of the guard galloped to the front of the car with the comers, and said in a loud voice: "Guogong, Han Dongwei commanded Sunan and commanded Tongzhi to attack, Shazhou Wei commanded Kunji and Wei commanded Mai Jia, and they are greeting Guogong ten miles away from the road ahead and waiting for Guogong to enter the city." ”

"Dunhuang, we won't go in, our country is like an arrow. When you go back, tell Sunan and Kunji to prepare water and food immediately, arrange a team of soldiers and horses, and escort your father to Jiayuguan.

Commander Song, you have worked hard all the way, but you can rest in Dunhuang for a few days, and then return to Hami, and thank the King of Zhongshun on my behalf! ”

"Yes!" The two knights were given instructions and each turned their horses away.

Liu Yujue said: "Guogong, all the way to the trek, the soldiers are a little tired, I see that Sai'er and the two Ru Lady are also very tired, anyway, the news has been sent back, why should Guogong rush to go, if you rest in Dunhuang for two days, you won't delay anything." Lou Xun shook his head and said: "These soldiers who survived the festival are all Xiliang people who have been away from home for so long, they are concerned about their relatives in their hometown, my life and death news, the court and the family can learn as soon as possible, but many of them, the family still does not know life and death, it is good to be able to arrive a day early!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yujue no longer persuaded when he heard this, Xia Xun raised his eyes and looked into the distance, there were still dozens of miles away from Shazhou City, and the outline of Dunhuang City could not be seen, but it was close to Dunhuang Oasis, trees and grasses appeared intermittently, and occasionally some small villages could be seen.

Xia Xun leaned back, wrapped his arms around the slender waists of Celine and Jeanne and asked softly, "Are you lacking?" The two girls had light veils on their faces, and only lù showed a pair of charming and moving big eyes, and leaned towards Xia Xun when they heard the words, and said softly: "Master, we also want to go home quickly!" ”

Tang Sai'er pounced on Xia Xun from behind and wrapped his arms around his neck, and said, "Godfather, I miss my mother!" ”

Xia Xun nodded silently, raised his eyes, Bai Yun was leisurely, and suddenly missed his relatives: Ming'er, Ziqi, thank you, Su Ying, 1 Xiaodi, the four baby girls and his son Yang Huaiyuan......

There are only two mothers and daughters in the winner's meditation hall: Snow Lotus and Miaoyi.

The wooden fish rolled out of the distance "dangdangdang", and a scroll of scriptures was also thrown to the ground.

Snow Lotus was plain and sat cross-legged on the futon.

Compared with back then, her cheeks were a little thinner, and the strong woman who originally held the power of the Sun family's medicine hall had been replaced by softness after ten years of the influence of the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, and there was a faint hint of dust.

Maybe it's because her heart is like stopping water for ten years, and she has practiced vegetarian fasting for ten years, except that her cheeks are slightly thin and her chin is pointy, and the whole person looks the same as ten years ago, and she still looks like a person in her thirties.

The scroll was thrown to the ground, and the wooden fish was also broken by Miao Yi, but Snow Lotus still sat cross-legged, her eyes closed, and she seemed indifferent to what she was looking at.

Miao Yi's xiōng chamber rose and fell sharply, and said in a trembling voice: "How many times have I said it, mother! That man is dead, long dead! Did you listen? If we are at fault, isn't ten years of repentance enough? Why can't you still let go? ”

Xue Lian's eyes are still closed, since she built this meditation hall for her and became a layman, Xue Lian has lived here alone, isolated from the world, and whenever her daughter comes to see her in the meditation hall, she will close her eyes, just like at this moment.

Miao Yi said: "Mother, do you really believe in Buddhism, do you live in this meditation hall to take refuge in the Buddha, or to escape from others and from me?" You think I don't know, you are afraid to see me, because when you see me, you will remember the kind of unbearable back then, but ten years in prison, isn't it enough? You can't let it go, how can you let it go of your daughter? Xue Lian's body shook, she still didn't speak, but her eyes trembled sharply.

Miao Yi's tears have flowed down: "Mother, I am your sin, why are you not my sin?" We have to forgive ourselves and forgive each other before we can truly let go! My mother has been reciting the Buddha for ten years, but she still can't figure it out and can't let it go? If the mother can't accept the reality with her daughter for a while, maybe it will be better to be separated for a while. ”

Miao Yi turned around lightly and said in a low voice: "Guogong didn't enter the city, he took a short rest outside the city, and then continued to go east, my mother understood what he meant?" Shenglong Toast is really good to you, in this life, I finally have a person who is sincere to you, my mother has married twice by mistake, and the real fate has arrived, but do you want to give up? That's all my daughter says, think about it! ”

Miao Yi walked out lightly and walked out of the meditation hall, and Sheng Long, the toast master at the foot of Tanggula Mountain, was standing there respectfully, holding a box in his hand. Those were the treasures, jewelry, and spices that he had bought for Snow Lotus when he went to the Western Regions.

Miao Yi nodded his head slightly, and Sheng Long immediately walked into the meditation hall on tiptoe, as if he was a devout disciple who wanted to worship the true body of the Bodhisattva.

Xia Xun escorted the team to be handed over, he just had a little talk with the officials and gentry who were waiting outside the city, and waited for the handover of the Hami officers and soldiers to Dunhuang, the Hami officers and soldiers entered the city to rest, and the Shazhou Wei commanded Kun Ji to personally lead three thousand elite soldiers to escort Xia Xun and his party on the road.

Passing by the bank of Dunhuang, it has been several miles away from the city, on the sand slope of a well, Xia Xun looked back, but saw a city of mountain light, half of the city tower shadow, reed creek continuous, lakes everywhere, clear, clear sky, white clouds, let the wind move it and change, as if the paradise is as beautiful.

Xia Xun said silently: "Ten years ago, you left the sad land of Qingzhou and exiled yourself. Today, I took the initiative to leave, Dunhuang City, and I won't go in. I think, what you need most now is tranquility, I hope that my arrival has not disturbed your peaceful life, the past is gone, I hope that your mother and daughter can let go of the burden of their hearts and find their own happiness! ”

In a wide courtyard, a stone platform, a bench, and a middle-aged man with a mustache are sitting on the stool in all directions, drinking tea slowly and methodically. This middle-aged man with a beard is the one who Tuoba Mingde tried his best to tie up, and the master of Shao Wangxin of the thousands of households in Suzhou Weizhenyi.

Of course, he is not the real Zhenyi Qianhu Shao Wangxin, this Xibei goods is Wan Songling, a master of thousands of sects who mixed food in the Fengyang area back then.

Back then, Xia Xun moved his family from Qingzhou to Jinling, this Wan Songling saw that his luggage was quite rich, so he wanted to fight his idea in Fengyang, because of a shortage of manpower, he found a colleague Xie Yuli who used thousands of tricks to cheat people in the local area to help, but Xie Yuli knew that this Yang Xu was her husband's family since childhood, and promised to help Wan Songling on the surface, but secretly put him along.

Wan Songling suffered a lot in Fengyang Prison, and after escaping, he gritted his teeth and chased him to Jinling, wanting to take revenge on thousands of thousands. As a result, he fought away, the information was not good, and he was killed by Xie Yuli and her master, Mrs. Xizhu, and finally the money and property collected fell into the hands of Xie Yuli, and he fled from Jinling alone and cleanly, thinking that he had killed the official and caused a murder.

Wan Songling was afraid of being wanted by the government on the way to escape, so he thought of an ingenious way, he carved a radish stamp, forged an official letter according to the format of the envelope of the official yamen, stuffed it with waste paper, glued chicken feathers on the outside, and made a set of bamboo tube yellow burden on his body, and turned into a messenger of the government.

The people of that post station receive more messengers from the south to the north every day, how can there be such vigilance.

In addition, they are only responsible for ushering in and sending them, and they are not the yamen that issues or receives official letters, and they probably believe it at a glance when they look at the appearance of the official documents, so Wan Songling, a liar, "swaggered" all the way west as a person in the official gate, passing through Henan, passing through Shaanxi, and all the way to Gansu, eating, drinking, and lodging all the way in the post station set up by the government.

For more than ten years, Wan Songling has taken root here, and has also accepted a few apprentices, becoming a very important person in the local underworld.

Not long ago, Tuoba Mingde asked people everywhere about the relationship between Zhenyi Qianhu, and he was targeted, and Wan Songling changed into Zhenyi Qianhu Shao Lord. In order to win the trust of Tuoba Mingde, he also entered the yamen of Suzhou Wei once in front of Tuoba Mingde, and then was sent out by the officials in the yamen very enthusiastically, and Tuoba Mingde believed in his identity.

In fact, the land of Gansu implements the same system as the original Liaodong, that is, the integration of military and government, there is no local government, and the guard is used to manage all local administrative, judicial and other matters, so as long as you have something to do, you can enter the yamen. This Wan Songling casually found some trivial things to enter Suzhou Wei, but stuffed a thick red envelope into the official who was doing the work, and the official didn't want to go, of course he had to send him out very enthusiastically.

At first, Wan Songling just wanted to deceive Tuoba Mingde out of a sum of money, but then he found out that this Hu merchant was very rich and ...... It's very stupid, if such a stupid rich man doesn't make a lot of money from him, wouldn't he have to hit five thunderbolts in the sky? Wan Songling was greedy, so he wanted not only to earn him a benefit, but also to cheat him out of the huge amount of money he used to buy goods, which required a bigger game.

Therefore, his plan ... It has been planned that he has sent people to call a few capable apprentices, and is ready to join forces with the apprentices to make a big show and cheat the huge amount of money from the Hu businessman. Ten years have passed, and after the Battle of Jingjing in the middle, presumably his case back then is no longer noticed, and he will return to his hometown when he gets this huge amount of money.

Fallen leaves return to the roots, although he is a thief, but the thief also has a hometown!