Chapter Ninety-Seven: The One Who Knows the Way
The night breeze is gusting, the night is silent, and when you look up into the distance, the green grassland under the moonlight stretches as far as the eye can see, and the horizon stretches to the farthest point, blending with the dim night.
More than two months ago, she didn't think that she would come all the way in the future, she thought that she would be a master of the government in peace, eating, drinking and having fun for the rest of her life, but she didn't expect to follow the adults to the capital, and also took on the burden of investigating the case for the country.
She was just an ordinary person, and she had the opportunity to experience this.
Shangguan Yinling lifted the curtain of the tent and raised his eyes to see Lu Li sitting on the grass outside the tent, looking at the moon in the distant sky.
Lu Li was in a trance, Shangguan Yuling was sitting on the ground beside her, she turned her head in some surprise, he was looking intently at the moonlight above the sky.
"My lord, why did you come out too?"
"It's too noisy inside." Remembering the scene of thunderous snoring in the tent, he would rather sit on the grass and blow the cold wind.
It's scorching heat now, but in the north of Xinjiang at night, the night wind is actually cool.
"My lord, do you think we can get the war horse back this time?"
The northern frontier is so big, so big that they have to walk for half a day to even cross the outermost Gobi Desert, and they have few people and horses, how can they find the captured war horses in such a wide place?
"Tomorrow we will rest for a day, and we will set off for the Miao tribe early in the morning after tomorrow, and I have met the patriarch of the Miao tribe first, maybe he will have important information to tell us."
Northern Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, and there are too many places that are easy to hide, if you blindly search, you will only be like a headless fly, and even if you turn to Northern Xinjiang for a year, there will be no progress.
The important thing is to grasp the clues of these thieves' crimes, and look for them through the clues they have found, which will be much faster.
"My lord, we don't know the way to the Miao people, the northern frontier is so big, what if we get lost?"
"If the seniors of this family know the way, they will ask him to draw a map, and before leaving, I have already written a book to the patriarch of the Miao tribe, and I believe that they will be able to send someone to meet them soon."
Lu Li nodded, anyway, as long as he goes all the way north, he will always get closer and closer to the Miao Clan.
The night gradually faded, and an orange-red light rose on the horizon in the distance, Lu Li only felt a sore backache, and opened his eyes slightly, he was actually leaning on Shangguan Yuling's shoulder.
Lu Li looked startled, hurriedly straightened up, turned his head to look at Shangguan Yuling, he held his head with his hands, as if he hadn't woken up yet, and before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a shout suddenly came from behind him.
"Brother Lu, why are you sleeping here?"
Lu Li looked back and saw that it was Miss Zhuo Jin who got up early in the morning to prepare breakfast.
"No, nothing." Lu Li ran into the tent in a panic, the other three people in the tent slept differently, seeing Duan Lang's legs resting on Gong Chengqi's waist, she couldn't help kicking him, and hurriedly went back to her bed and lay down.
Damn, Lu Li, Lu Li, how can you sleep on the shoulders of adults?
Shangguan Yinling, who was outside the tent, helped his sore neck and looked back at Zhuo Jin, who had a blank face.
"Big brother is struggling?"
"No problem." Shangguan Yuling got up, turned around and went back to the tent.
Zhuo Jin stood in place puzzled, thinking about the relationship between the two with some curiosity, only to feel that the cutting was still messy, and he was depressed, so he simply didn't want to think about it.
Zhuo Jin prepared breakfast, and woke up a few people, Lu Li finally lay down and slept peacefully, at the moment he only felt a sore back and legs, and his whole body couldn't slow down.
She sat down with her neck on her hands, and several people also took their seats one after another.
"What's wrong?" Duan Lang found out that Lu Li was quite careful, she usually woke up most energetically, but this time it was as if she hadn't slept all night, "Don't you fall into a pillow?" ”
"Brother Lu sat outside all night, thinking he was a little uncomfortable." Zhuo Jin distributed the milk tea and scones to a few people on the opposite side one by one, as if he said casually.
Several people raised their heads and looked at Lu Li in surprise.
"You wouldn't sleep out all night, would you?"
"Nope." Lu Li shook his head and quibbled, "It's just that I woke up early in the morning and went outside for a while." ”
"Really?" Several people obviously didn't believe it, turned their heads to look at Shangguan Yinling, and found that he had been eating with his eyes down, and they felt that something was not right.
"A few guests are in a hurry, why don't you rest for a while?" While gossiping, Zhuo Jin's father came out of the tent, saw that they were already eating, and couldn't help asking.
"Seniors, we have all rested, even a very few people may be more tired." Duan Lang couldn't help but tease, Lu Li raised his head and glared at him fiercely, the uncle smiled heartily, didn't ask deeply, and sat down to eat.
After breakfast, the uncle went out early in the morning to herd the horses, and the herds of horses galloped along the grassland with the head horse, gradually turning into a blurred dot.
"Let's rest for another day today, and we'll go north tomorrow morning."
A few people nodded, and then they flew out to play.
Lu Li was still sitting in the tent, helping Zhuo Jin clean up the dishes and chopsticks.
"Miss Zhuo Jin, have you been living in Northern Xinjiang since you were born?"
"Yes, Daddy and I have never left Northern Xinjiang." Zhuo Jin wiped the bowls and stacked them on the table one by one.
"Does that girl know how to go to the Miao tribe?"
"Miao?" Zhuo Jin turned to look at Lu Li in surprise, "You want to go to the Miao Clan?" ”
"Hmm." Lu Li nodded, "The girl knows about the Miao clan?" ”
"The Miao clan has had a lot of accidents recently, and if a few of them go to talk about buying horses, I'm afraid they won't be able to negotiate, so it's better to go somewhere else." Zhuo Jin hung his head and put the dishes and chopsticks in the cabinet.
"We're here for the Miao people." Lu Li frowned slightly, he didn't expect that the matter of the Miao clan had spread to the entire northern Xinjiang.
"We know about the Miao clan, but have you really thought about it? Now there is chaos in the clan, at this time you enter the Miao Clan, it is easy to be suspected of being a bad person with bad intentions, many people in the Miao Clan are rough in nature, you rush forward, I am afraid that there will be danger. Zhuo Jin said, his brows furrowed slightly, and he seemed to be very repulsive to the people in the Miao clan.
But listening to her words, she seems to have a lot of relationship with the Miao people, and she knows so much about the Miao people, why is she so repulsed.
"Girl, we are going to the Miao tribe this time, if the girl knows the way, can you help us draw a map?"
Zhuo Jin frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and nodded.
"Naturally, I'm willing to help a few brothers, so I'll go back and help you draw a map, I hope you have a safe future."
"Thank you, girl."
Zhuo Jin went back to draw the map after cleaning up, Lu Li sat beside her, watching her draw a map with some twists and turns, and couldn't help but sigh.
Sure enough, the road to the Miao people was not easy.