July 13 of the 12th year of Daqian Yongchang, Jiayuguan in the northwest.

"Hey, you're not done! It's not that it's okay to end at that mountain, it's clear that it's even better to go down! Xia Yixue was angry.

"You can stop if you want to give up, but if you abstain, I won." Yu Zexuan chuckled, the horsewhip did not stop, and went straight to the pass.

"You're cheating, isn't it because I overtook you when you were about to reach the mountains," Xia Yixue chased after her horse, "When you get down to Jiayu Pass, there is no way forward, see how you still cheat!" ”

Two horses side by side, carrying the wind and sand flying.

Under the city wall of Jiayuguan, Xia Yixue leaned against the corner of the wall and raised a water bladder to drink: "I haven't seen my brother for more than half a year, and I think he is in a good mood." Ay! She sighed faintly, and also gave birth to infinite melancholy.

Yu Zexuan led the horse with one hand, brushed the dust from the official uniform of the grain superintendent with the other, and his mood was also low: "Actually, if he didn't come to the northwest this time, he might not come." ”

Xia Yixue raised her head and closed her eyes: "Yes, he is still sparing no effort to find out the news of the ugly." But all this time has passed......" she couldn't go on, and covered her lips and began to cry.

After the news of Ugly's death reached Xia Yichen, he was depressed for more than half a month. After the last moment, Yu Zexuan beat him up, and he was often absent-minded after waking up. Later, Yu Zexuan suddenly petitioned to come to the north to be a grain governor, and then stayed for half a year.

Yu Zexuan sat down cross-legged in front of Xia Yixue and comforted softly: "If even you are crying, how can your brother be strong?" ”

"No," Xia Yixue shook her head and wiped her tears, "the strongest among us." Actually, it's ugly! She is the one who holds us up. But now...... God has already treated her badly enough, so why make it worse? Just like my brother, he's hard enough. But why is it that even the last wish is ......?"

The sunset on the horizon is even more desolate in the wind and sand, Yu Zexuan has a little more wind and frost, and his face is slightly raised: "County Lord, it is precisely because of the injustice of God that we will have the motivation to make ourselves better; It is precisely because the future is unpredictable that we must cherish the present. ”

The sound of horses' hooves came from the city walls. Xia Yixue woke up from her stunned, got up from the ground, and rushed up to the city tower.

Enemy? Ally?

Border life these days. As soon as she heard the sound of horses' hooves, there were only these two thoughts.

"Hua Xu's golden and white phoenix banner," Xia Yixue breathed a sigh of relief and began to shout excitedly. "Huaxu's people have arrived! Hurry up and report to the prince of Yu. The Huaxu envoy has arrived! ”

The shouts of internal force spread throughout the camp in Jiayuguan.

Xia Ming was helping Xia Yichen change his clothes: "Do you have to wear such a formal court dress?" He had the impression that the prince had basically never worn this set of clothes, and even if he entered the palace on weekdays, he had never been so formal.

Xia Yichen's peach blossom eyes were closed, and he couldn't see his expression: "Hua Xu's envoy last time was not a good mouthful, but he was very smart, don't treat them as a small country." Underestimated. We can't afford to lose the face of Daqian. "Although he is absurd. But if the serious matter is really in his hands, he will not mess it up.

Outside Jiayu Pass, Xi Ning in the carriage clenched his wet hands.

"Your Highness, the gate of Jiayu Pass has been opened." Qingying reported outside the carriage.

Xi Ning took a deep breath, wiped his palms with Juanpa, and finally kept his tone calm: "Who is guarding Jiayuguan now?" ”

"I heard that she is also a female general, the one who pulled the heaven-shaking bow." Qingying can't remember her name.

"Lixue County Lord Xia Yixue." Xi Ning's tone began to be calm again—they were all acquaintances. The so-called homesickness is probably like her, right?

Xu Ziyu guessed that this person was familiar to her before, and after listening to her tone, she couldn't help but be a little worried: "Xi Ning, you have nothing to do, right?" ”

Xi Ning took a deep breath, shook her head, and warned herself: She didn't do anything wrong, what are you nervous about, meeting these old people is much better than meeting the fourth prince and Rong Qinglan!

Thinking like this, I had confidence in my heart: "I don't have anything to do, the prince of King Yu and the lord of Lixue are cousins, but you just need to understand it yourself." ”

The implication is clear, this is inside information, and the channel cannot be exposed.

The yellow banner of Da Qianming fluttered among the people who lined up to welcome the city tower and the pass, and standing facing the gate of Jiayu Pass was Xia Yichen, the son of King Yu.

Xu Ziyu was tired of the reins of the horse, and looked at the man in front of him with some amazement. Hua Xu is not without beauty, nor is there no beautiful man, but like this man in front of him, who is as handsome as he is, and seems to be able to suck your whole person into it after a long time, Xu Ziyu is the first time I have seen it, and I also feel that I will probably not know a second person like this in the next few decades of life.

(Obviously, later on, Xu Ziyu overturned this conjecture because he met Xia Yichen's son.) ）

"General Hua Xu, Xu Ziyu." Xu Ziyu bowed his head.

Xia Yichen looked at the pair of beautiful eyes that were naturally emotionally exposed, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - he was not a person who was difficult to guess.

"The prince of the Great Qianyu Wang, Xia Yichen." Xia Yichen also bowed his head to say hello.

At this time, the carriage behind Xu Ziyu, the curtain slowly lifted, and a woman in golden and white costumes with a slender figure and a peerless appearance walked out.

In the desert sunset, the golden red sunset light sprinkled on her long black hair, reflecting the brilliant brilliance of golden red. The eyebrows are beautiful, but the expression between the eyebrows is detached and calm, and there is a dustless spirit. The two cuts are incomparably clear, revealing not pure goodness, but transparency, which is a contradictory intermediate between simplicity and complexity. The tip of the delicate nose is snow-white and small, and it moves imperceptibly, as if it is tasting the desert air. The corners of her lips were slightly hooked, and the connotation in her smile was not comparable to that of ordinary women.

Therefore, Xia Yixue, who was standing on the city tower stunned, only said four words: "Fenghua is peerless!" ”

Yu Zexuan stood beside her and shook his head slightly: "If you talk purely about appearance, this woman is not the best." It can be said that this woman is not a thing in the pool. ”

Downstairs in the city, Xu Ziyu stretched out his hand with a smile and introduced: "Her Royal Highness Huaxu Tainu Xining." ”

"Xia Yichen, the son of King Da Qianyu, see His Royal Highness Xi Ning." Xia Yichen slightly drooped peach blossom eyes.

Xi Ning glanced at the old man who had not been seen for a long time, his appearance had not changed, but he lacked the misty smile mask like autumn water, and there was a little more vicissitudes of life between his eyebrows. It's not obvious, but it makes her even more entangled.

Tangled, tangled with her choices, but she had no choice.

It's just that why did he abandon even the disguise?

"No courtesy," Xi Ning, who didn't want to think about it anymore, raised his hand slightly, took two steps forward, and looked at the scene of Jiayuguan a few times, "The desert is vast, and my mood is much broader." ”

"Your Highness praises falsely, but now that it's getting late, let's go into the tent first." Xia Yichen's tone was light but polite.

The group walked into the tent where the feast was placed.

Xi Ning undoubtedly sat down in the main seat, on the left hand side was Xia Yichen who was accompanied, on the right hand side was Xu Ziyu, and then down, on the left was Xia Yixue and Yu Zexuan, and on the right was Qing Yingxuan and others. Xi Ning didn't see Princess Long Yu.

"I heard that women are respected in your country?" Xia Yixue was a little curious.

"That's not the case," Xi Ning smiled gracefully, "We Huaxu should say that men and women are equal, but it was women who founded Huaxu Kingdom, so it has always been the empress who ascended the throne, and other aspects vary from person to person." In my opinion, both women and men are the same, and there is no essential difference. This female general must have the same idea, right? ”

Xia Yixue bowed her head and smiled: "It's my honor to have the same thoughts as His Highness." ”

Qingying said appropriately at this time: "Your Highness, this General Xia can pull the Heaven-Shaking Bow, and this bow can only be pulled by the founding general of Daqian before this." During the battle with the remnants of the Great Abyss, General Xia wounded Mo Xuan with the Sky Shaking Bow. After saying that, he secretly wiped a handful of sweat - these words were not what he heard when he was in Daqian, but what His Highness Xi Ning told him......

"I didn't expect General Xia to be so brave," Xi Ning raised the glow-in-the-dark glass containing grape wine and smiled, "I toast you." ”

Xia Yixue hurriedly stood up: "How dare you let His Highness respect me?" Three cups of His Royal Highness next snow! ”

Xi Ning hurriedly stretched out her hand to signal that she didn't have to: "One glass is fine, it's better for a woman to drink less wine." He raised his glass and drank it.

Xia Yichen narrowed his peach blossom eyes and stared at Xi Ning: "Your Highness is a cheerful person, I just looked at the gift list, and the things are indeed very strange, but-I heard that His Highness has a way to find the remnants of the Great Abyss, I don't know what the Dao is?" ”

Xi Ning looked at Xia Yichen intently, and was a little annoyed in his heart - I have always known that you are aggressive, but I have always known that you are easy-going and casual in front of people, and now you put sharp words on the surface, what do you mean? It's just that she didn't show it on her face at all, she didn't want to tear her face: "The prince of King Yu is so anxious about state affairs, which shows that he is a good example of loyalty and patriotism." Ziyu, Daqian's loyal ministers are really different. ”

Xu Ziyu immediately understood Xi Ning's subtext, and hurriedly echoed: "It is indeed extraordinary, and the ministers will definitely follow suit!" ”

"But as far as I know," Xi Ning paused, and glanced at Xia Yichen again, "The thing that Prince Yu just mentioned is not something that can be said in public. When I see Your Majesty, I will give an explanation. ”

Xu Ziyu was a little dissatisfied with Xia Yichen's aggressiveness, and added a few words without authorization: "Your Highness, don't take it to heart, the prince of King Yu is also eager to arrest the thief, and he has not found anything after more than half a year, so he is naturally anxious." ”

Obviously, it is a satire on Xia Yichen's incompetence, he has not been caught for so long, but now he has to rely on Hua Xu's help.

Xia Yichen gently hooked the corners of his lips, as if he didn't understand Xu Ziyu's subtext: "Since His Royal Highness Xi Ning is sure, then I won't worry about anything." I wish His Royal Highness Xi Ning, in Daqian, live habitually! ”

Xi Ning listened to the last two words that he deliberately accentuated, pursed his lips, and smiled elegantly: "You are very thoughtful in your hospitality, I am not a picky person, I should be able to adapt quickly." After that, he lowered his eyes and drank wine, and said no more.

It shouldn't have been discovered, right? If she found out so quickly, she would have failed too much...... (To be continued......)

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