The sound of being hoarse from thirst echoed through the poplar forest with the "crackling" sound of dead branches burning in the fire.

Suddenly, Xie Shuning listened a little carelessly.

Some people, even if they lie, can tell it as if it were true.

But there is also a group of people who can distinguish the lies they hear, no matter how true they are, with their intuition.

She was sure that not a single word of the words in the mouth of the young man in front of her was true.

Scar was more sophisticated than her, and certainly wouldn't immediately believe what he said. However, the Song family was different, she approached Xie Shuning, and sighed, "Poor thing, after a storm, only the two brothers are left. I'm young, but I'm afraid I'm panicking. ”

"Mother's ......" Xie Shuning couldn't help frowning as she listened.

As he spoke, Turan quietly returned.

Xie Shuning temporarily extinguished the idea of explaining to the Song family, and turned his head to look at Turan.

The tall girl was as strong as a calf, standing firmly there, bowing her head and saying in a strange Xiyue dialect: "Miss, there are no other traces, there are only two people." ”

Others said no, Xie Shuning still had to weigh it, but Turan said no, then there must be none.

Xie Shuning smiled and nodded.

Turan, the maid, Song Yanzhao took a lot of effort to find it, and she is by no means an idle person.

Closing her gaze, she was about to tell Song Shi Ming that the two of them might be lying, when she saw Song Shi pinching the handkerchief and wiping the corners of her eyes, "Aman, it's really pitiful, tell Scar not to step on people, it won't be good if it hurts again." ”

In this barren sand and desert, medicine is scarce, and it can be used without it.

But even if they are scarred, what does it have to do with them?

Xie Shuning opened her mouth. "Mother, the scar is in the ......"

"What to judge! Look at the kid's leg, it's still bleeding! ”

But before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Song.

Song raised his voice and shouted Scar, then looked at Xie Shuning again, and said with emotion: "A few days ago, if we had set off a few days earlier, did we happen to encounter that earthquake?" If your mother is gone, and you are left alone to survive in this vast desert, are you afraid? ”

It was true that the last earthquake was only a few days before they had scheduled to leave. But these are clearly two different things.

Xie Shuning clenched her hand helplessly, "Mother, don't talk nonsense." ”

If the Song family is gone, how can she survive and steal her life?

She couldn't even think of such a thing.

However, after the last earthquake, the Song family was very worried about the disaster of life and death. After their departure. She spent half of her time in fear.

Now that she heard what happened to those two teenagers, her heart softened suddenly.

What's more, she also heard Turan's words. There are only two of them. There are so many people in their caravan, are they still afraid that these two children will not succeed? Even if the two of them are covered in yellow sand, they can still see that they are injured, look at that appearance, they are afraid that only one Turan can be submitted, why be afraid?

"You just heard that. What they speak is the authentic West Vietnamese language. Song hesitated and persuaded Xie Shuning to come, "Let's give them dry food and water first." It's not too late to interrogate in detail. In such a situation, even if they want to run, they can't run. ”

When Xie Shuning heard this, he subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when his eyes touched his mother's warm and hazy eyes, the words of refusal were stuck in the depths of his throat for some reason, and he refused to come out.

She looked around and carefully observed the terrain before nodding her head in agreement with her mother's words.

But without waiting for the Song family to be happy, Xie Shuning immediately said to Scar, "Uncle Dao, take a rope to tie the two of them up first, and then let someone get some water and dry food." ”

She is not very old, but she has always done things in a measured manner, before leaving Dunhuang, Scar got Song Yanzhao's personal advice, and when she heard Xie Shuning's order, she did so.

"Aman, how do you drink water and eat with them?" It was the Song family, who was surprised.

Xie Shuning turned her face slightly, and said softly: "Mother, I just tied my hands and feet, and I didn't seal my mouth, what does it matter?" Let the winter solstice feed a few is. ”

The treatment of captives is the same as that of friends.

Song was stunned, thinking that it was the same reason, so he didn't say anything more.

Over there, the scars and the others had also quickly tied up the hands and feet of the two young men who broke in at night, and the winter solstice was also ordered by Xie Shuning to take a clean cloth and wipe off the sand and soil on the faces of the two.

The skin under the sand was still dirty, with some obvious signs of dryness and cracking.

Scar and his party have been in the desert all year round and know all kinds of appearances well. Now he only had to look at it to be sure that the two men had been out in the sun for at least a few days.

The appearance of ragged clothes is easy to fake, but the traces on the body are not easy.

In this way, the words that the young man just said seemed to have a little more credibility.

"You said that you started from Dashi, so it wasn't the first time you came back to Mobei." Watching the winter solstice feed the two of them separately, Scar narrowed his cold eyes and asked, "How many times have you come in total, what goods have you brought, where are you going, and where are you from?" ”

If it is the first time to return to Mobei, most of them will sell all the goods in Dunhuang and prepare to return, and will not risk continuing to the more distant country of Dashi.

After drinking the water, the young man who was trampled on the ground by Scar replied first, "My father is a merchant and has been walking around all year round, but this is the first time that my brother and I have ......come with him" As if talking about the pain, his voice suddenly lowered, until Scar snorted coldly and urged, he said in a thick nasal voice again, "My brother and I don't trade goods...... I only remember bringing a large number of tea bricks and silk...... We are Kyoto people......"

Xie Shuning listened silently, and as he narrated, the look in his eyes was cloudy.

It sounds like there's no loophole at all.

If he can still answer Scar's question clearly in one go at this time, he will be a thief. But his voice was sad, and the content of his words was unclear.

Just listening like this, it seems like it's true.

And yet she didn't believe it!

"You call him Eleven, he calls you Seventh Brother, are you brothers?" In the dark night, even with a thick coat, the chill still came up unstoppably. Xie Shuning shuddered and asked coldly.

"We are brothers of the same father and mother, and we are called because of the rank of the clan."

The other teenager, who had never stopped sobbing, looked up and whispered.

His dark eyes glistened with water, and his expression was sincere and sincere.

Xie Shuning was stunned.

Under the firelight, the faces of the two haggard young men were indeed somewhat similar, and the expressions at the corners of their eyes and eyebrows were also slightly the same.

She lowered her eyes and exhaled. Then Fang said: "Since you are from Kyoto, you should report the address of your residence." ”

It seemed that she didn't expect her to suddenly make such a request, and everyone present was stunned.

The two teenagers glanced at each other, and Yan Huai, who was known as Eleven, replied. "In Badeng Lane, Dongcheng, my family's house is next door to the dim sum shop. It's that five-flavor restaurant. But. We've never eaten a snack from Gomi Zhai......"

"I'm afraid I won't have a chance to eat ...... in the future" Ji Jun, who was also tied hands and feet on the side and couldn't break free, heard it, so he answered.

Since Yan Huai specially mentioned Wuwei Zhai, it means that this dim sum shop is very famous.

Sure enough, as soon as the three words Wuwei Zhai came out, Song blurted out in surprise: "You live next door to Wuwei Zhai?" ”

Xie Shuning frowned.

Scar asked suspiciously, "Madam, is there really a five-flavor house?" ”

The group had also been to Kyoto. I've never heard of any Wuwei Zhai, so how can I not think it's strange.

But Xie Shuning knew that this small shop did not have a good reputation in the community. It does become famous. However, it is only famous among the official palaces and nobles in Kyoto. The amount of dim sum in Wuwei Zhai is small and the price is high, which is not affordable for ordinary people. So even if they really live on the edge of Wuwei Zhai, they really can't afford to eat.

Even if you know the hidden location of Gomisai, is it really a Kyoto person?

It wasn't until this moment that Xie Shuning's heart was a little shaken.

As everyone knows, Yan Huai knows Wuwei Zhai precisely because he has eaten Wuwei Zhai's pastries.

"Exactly, there is indeed a five-flavor restaurant in Badeng Lane." The Song family was shaken in his heart, and he completely believed the words of the two of them, "Do you still have relatives in Beijing?" ”

"Mother is still at home and wants us to go back!" Xu asked them about their hearts, and the two said in unison.

When the Song family heard this, their hearts, which were not easy to be cold and hard, softened even more.

When she met a fellow villager in a distant foreign land, and a poor young man who had just lost her relatives, she just looked at it and thought of her own children.

If she is the mother they are waiting for in Kyoto, she has lost her husband and will lose another child, and it hurts to think about it.

Song said: "We are also going back to Kyoto, why don't we take them by the way?" Fortunately, although she was soft-hearted, she was not so soft that her mind was not clear, and after a slight pause, she then said, "Both of them are injured, and they are afraid that they also need personal care around them, so they will go with them on the winter solstice, and they will be prepared by you for water and medicine." ”

Dong Solstice is the person next to Xie Shuning, and she is very relieved when she sees it in her eyes.

Moreover, as soon as she arranged things like this, it was difficult for Xie Shuning to refuse.

She still knows her daughter more or less.

"Mother, we don't know how they got in." Xie Shuning neither agreed nor vetoed, and asked about the side.

As a result, Scar's face turned strange when he heard this, and he coughed twice and said, "There was a stinky boy who went to relieve him halfway and told them to take advantage of the gap." ”

In this way, it is still the people under his own who have made a mistake......

Xie Shuning was silent.

Before she could speak, the two teenagers covered in sand had already knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily, thanking her repeatedly.

It's really going to climb up the pole.

Xie Shuning looked at the Song family, looking at her mother's expectant appearance, and some words were difficult to say for some reason. Gritting her teeth, she still only said euphemistically in a voice that they could hear, "Mother, how about we decide whether to bring them or not when the sky dawns?" ”

Two strangers, taking them on the road, aren't they asking for trouble?

However, she thought so, and the next morning, the two were still taken along.

Scar came to look for her, and muttered behind Song's back for a while before deciding to take them first, and then discuss them when they arrived at the place where they landed on the next trip.

Along the way, the two teenagers were as quiet as dead objects carrying goods on the back of camels.

The group went to Khotan safely.

The moment the ancient city of Khotan appeared in front of him, the sky was still blue overhead, but the next moment the wind and sand swept in the distance.

The sudden scene caught them off guard.

Fortunately, the towering city walls had caught their eye, and the guide led them to the city as fast as possible.

At this moment, the camel carrying Xie Shuning went berserk, turned around and ran to the back of the team.

Tulan, who was following Xie Shuning's side, hurriedly chased after him.

The wind and sand were blind, and Xie Shuning's heart was almost turned upside down. She clung to the reins, leaned on her hump, and turned her head to look at Turan chasing after her.

The accident came too quickly and suddenly, and everyone was in the tension of the sandstorm, and no one was able to hold Xie Shuning at the first moment for a while.

She never knew that the tame "Desert Boat" could run so fast.

It seemed to be only a blink of an eye, and she was out of the group, and Turan had not yet caught up.

Scar should have been desperately chasing after her, but through the yellow mist that was gradually filling, she couldn't see anything clearly.

His body swayed, and the reins were almost out of his hand.

Her eyes widened in horror!

"Be careful!"

Suddenly there was a shout out of nowhere, and before she could turn her head, she felt that someone had jumped behind her, and then she rolled off the camel with her.

The yellow sand is falling.

She opened her eyes with difficulty, and saw a cluster of red umbrella-shaped flowers like small trumpets blooming quietly a step away, brilliant like a brocade.

She remembered in horror that she had seen it in the Pokédex.

The illustrated book reads—

Tempo flower, also known as desert rose. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the peace charm of Xiaomengwa and Maomao's sleepy kiss~~