9 fine monkeys
No one can predict what will happen tomorrow, and if you can predict it, it will only be the inevitable result of things.
Murong Shang and Shen Luoluo, who were buried in the carriage under the sand, clearly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming slowly in the distance, the sound was like knocking on the state of mind of the two people, it seemed that every stroke was so real, and each stroke seemed to indicate to Shen Luoluo that the danger was slowly approaching, but this sound seemed to be good news for Murong Shang, because he felt that the person who saved them was coming.
Shen Luoluo knew very well that this was danger, because the unique horse bell made her know very well who was coming.
Who's coming? In fact, the soldiers of the border fortress are almost all stationed on camels, and the jingling camel bell will sometimes be tied to the horse's body, so this crisp camel bell has almost become a unique representative of the border city fortress in the northwest steppe, whenever you hear this crisp camel bell, you will know very clearly that the people of the border city fortress are coming.
"We'd better keep quiet, we don't know if it's the soldiers who rebelled against you or the soldiers who still support you, so the best thing to do now is to hide." Shen Luoluo's mouth had already been attached to Murong Shang's ear, and the heating from her mouth when she whispered made Murong Shang's ears itch abnormally, and the smell of fragrant and non-fragrant was like a flower suddenly blooming, so that his mood was instantly covered with dewdrops, the dew was not static, the dew was the dew that kept rolling on the lotus leaf under the breeze. Dewdrop's state of mind made him accept Shen Luoluo's suggestion very obediently.
"Now it is better for one of the two of us to be a blessed man, for their horse's hooves will surely find us if they step on this carriage, and I don't know if your stupid horse has been lazy to bury us deep or not, and if it is shallow, I am afraid it will be only a matter of time before we are unlucky." Murong Shang was very surprised and thought about Shen Luoluo's words, this woman's thinking was too fast, could it be that the iron rider who came really wanted his own life as Shen Luoluo said?
The sound of horses' hooves approached, and the sound of horses' hooves was mixed not only with camel bells, but also with the voices of several people.
"There seems to be a dead snow wolf up ahead."
"What's the fuss about a dead snow wolf, last night's big sandstorm didn't kill a few snow wolves, and they couldn't stand the group of people who died in our army."
"I really don't know what the general thinks, almost more than 200 cavalry died in the sandstorm, thinking that the prince must be dead, why do you want to do this more, we want to divide the troops out and explore around, this unflattering thing has become a chore for a few people who are not welcomed."
"The contradiction between the eldest prince and the second prince has been going on for a long time, and you and I know the truth that there is no family affection in this imperial family. I heard rumors that taking this attack on the desert as an example, it is actually a big conspiracy to let the eldest prince be the supervisor of the great northwest, and the sphere of influence of the great prince is actually in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and letting him come to the great northwest to be the supervisor is actually to secretly ask for his life, just like yesterday's incident, the discerning people can know what is going on at a glance, and they are doing this is nothing more than clearing the obstacles for the second prince to be able to ascend the throne smoothly in the future. ”
"Although the root of the matter is such a truth, but you and I can't talk nonsense, this matter before we see the body of the eldest prince, the second prince's gang, we had better not go to stand in line, after all, there is a rumor that the life experience of the second prince is a little strange."
"How is that possible? The emperor of the dynasty is not a fool. Is there something strange about his son, can he still tell the difference? ”
"It is clear that it is the emperor's family affair, and besides, the old emperor has been in poor health in recent years, and he has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the breath that lingers between his noses is like a residual candle in the cold wind, which is extinguished when he says it is extinguished. The old emperor has not established a prince for many years, and the people around him want to come, so he pretends to brag about it. ”
"I think it's best for us to get closer to the second prince now. Although the iron cavalry of the Great Highness of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun can fight well, if the court cuts off the offerings to them, those iron cavalry will instantly become praying mantises. If this iron rider becomes a praying mantis, it will be like becoming a sentence, and the mantis arm is not capable of blocking the car. Besides, now that the eldest prince is probably dead, I think it is best for us to stand with the second prince and support him. ”
"That's it, the most important thing now is to find the body of the eldest prince so that he can go back and ask for a reward."
"And what if a few of us find a living person?"
"If we find a living person, then we have to help him turn into a corpse. Although the living are worth more than the dead, the most taboo thing for the living is that they have many dreams at night, and the dead can do nothing to say a hundred. ”
"Isn't it too early for you to say this, the eldest prince respects the corporal on weekdays, and treats the soldiers like brothers, I think even if he encounters an accident, there will be benevolent and righteous people who are ambitious for him, and it is not good to say that there are such people among the soldiers in the fortress of this city."
"That's you! I advise you to say less, the victory and defeat of the two princes have been divided, and now even a fool will know whose team he should go to. One of the older ones spoke his most direct thoughts in a serious way.
A few people from a group of iron riders spoke one by one, and a few words sounded like a thunderbolt in a sunny sky to Murong Shang. His state of mind changed, he became flustered, and he became clueless. It seems that Shen Luoluo is right, he is a step to promotion and fortune for these people. If it weren't for the faint and fragrant body fragrance that Shen Luoluo snuggled up to him, I am afraid that at this moment, he would have stood up and rushed out of the carriage to question the talking iron horsemen.
Now he can only say that he is going to die.
"Something doesn't seem right with this snow wolf? You see that the wounds on this snow wolf are still bleeding? Isn't it ......."
"Why are you making such a fuss? There is not even a ghost shadow on this desert, the wound on the body of a dead wolf must have been caused by a bird of prey in the sky, you see that there is not even a mark around this wilderness......" The cavalryman's words were not finished before he suddenly froze, because everyone, including him, was surprised to find a series of shallow horseshoe prints, and the shallow horseshoe prints extended to a Gobi desert in the distance.
"There must be something strange between the Gobi over there, and this shallow horseshoe print may bring us good luck." A man with a fairly white face in the iron horse said solemnly. Everyone understands the meaning of what he said, and if this shallow horseshoe print was left by the eldest prince, then they caught the prince or found the body of the eldest prince, and it would naturally become a matter of course to ask for merit and reward.
"Do you see that the horses on the Gobi in the distance look like the horses of the great prince? Let's chase it. I don't know who looked at the Gobi in the distance and shouted.
The horse of the eldest prince Murong Shang is probably very psychic, and when it saw that there was some trouble here, it took the initiative to appear and successfully attracted everyone's attention.
The sound of horses' hooves faded away, and when the camel bell was blown away by the wind, Murong Shang gently patted Shen Luoluo a few times with his right hand and said, "Should we be safe now?" ”
"Don't make a sound, don't you hear the sound of horses' hooves and there's a horse missing? If I'm not mistaken, there is a man outside who is standing beside the corpse of the snow wolf with a camel bell in his hand. ”
Holding the camel bell with his hand is not to let the camel bell make a sound in the wind, and looking around is because this person is a smart person.
The eyes of a smart person can always see something that others can't perceive, and then analyze the results that others can't think of.
There were indeed people outside, and just like Shen Luoluo said, he held the camel bell with his hand, he was thin, his limbs were thin, and even his facial features were delicately arranged on his thin head. But it was this thin man who sensed something very important, and he felt that there must be someone around here. Because his horse's hooves stepped on something.
His horse stepped onto the carriage carriage.
There is no half a figure around here, and it is even more impossible to have one in the sky, and the only possibility is under this yellow sand. The horse he rode was not thin, and the spear he wielded was not short, and he could now have ridden around and stabbed his spear into the sand to prove the idea that had suddenly occurred in his head, but he didn't, and he had proved the idea in his head by holding the bell still and not making a sound.
"Monkey, why are you stupid staying there? Before we could keep up with us, we seemed to have spotted the great prince's horse. In the distance, a black-faced man shouted next to the Gobi.
"Come on, my horse's hind hooves are deep in the sand, and you should put a spare horse to save me, alas! I couldn't have imagined that I would be so unlucky today. "The voice of the soldier, who was called the thin monkey, was high-pitched, like a whistle in a strong wind.
"Among the crowd, you are too thin, you can make your mount deep in the sand, and your riding skills and luck are very poor, and when you catch the great prince, you will be rewarded with the least amount of money." The black-faced man, who was shaped like a black tower, said and waved his hand to cut the reins of the black horse that followed behind him, and gently whipped the black horse's ass with the whip in his hand, and the black horse was like a foal that had been hungry for a day and rushed to the forage field, jumping happily and galloping towards the thin monkey.
"There is no road in the desert, there seems to be no road in the border city fortress, and it seems that there is only a road to the sky on the side of the restaurant, and I left this horse for the eldest prince, and this horse may point out the way to the restaurant for the eldest prince, because I often ride it there to drink." The man, known as the thin monkey, leaned on his horse's back and whispered. He spoke so quietly that even he wondered if anyone had heard what he was saying.
Whether he heard it or not, he couldn't stay here at the moment. He lay on the horse's back and pressed his weight downward, and he forced the hooves of his original horse into the sand, and he actually made the appearance of the horse's hooves sinking deep into the sand. Such a thin physique could have such great strength.
The man, called the Thin Monkey, followed by a high leap and landed on the back of the approaching horse. This series of movements was as smooth as the flowing water of peers, and the sound of horses' hooves fading away told Murong Shang and Shen Luoluo a fact: the man who was called the thin monkey just now had already walked away on horseback, and what would the words he said when he was leaving? Did they really leave a horse outside?
Although Murong Shang didn't understand it very well, Shen Luoluo understood it very well. There must be no way to go in the desert, and the border fortress will probably only go to death, and the last restaurant is alluding to a place, this place she has heard people talk about, it is a group of bandit dens who only steal chickens and dogs and fight and plunder on the Silk Road all day long.
Wouldn't it be a little more suspenseful to go to a den where robbers gathered?
The soldier who was called the thin monkey seemed to belong to the great prince in his heart, if he hadn't been for it, he would have called everyone to dig the great prince out of the sand, not to mention that he not only left a horse for the eldest prince, but also pointed out a direction for him to escape, although this direction is a bit hanging, but after all, the great prince has escaped the current catastrophe.
The cool breeze on the desert always comes as soon as it is said, and after the cool breeze, the desert, which was originally full of horseshoe prints, returns to the form that the sand particles should have. Shen Luoluo and Murong Shang hid in the darkness under the sand, like gophers huddled in the crypt, their eyes symmetrical to each other, but they couldn't see each other's appearances.
After a long silence, Shen Luoluo finally couldn't help but laugh, "I really should congratulate you, it seems that not everyone has betrayed you, at least I know that the soldier who was called the thin monkey is on your side." ”
"Then I should go back to the border fortress now." Murong Shang said and held the palace lamp, and the warm light instantly illuminated the entire carriage.
"Don't you Murong family members have long brains? Didn't the soldier named Thin Monkey just tell you not to go back to the border fortress? Why are you such a disobedient person? Didn't anyone tell you when you were a child that you could only eat well if you listened to others? Shen Luoluo looked a little anxious.
"I'll leave tomorrow at dawn, and I'll definitely send you to a safe place before going to the border city fortress." Murong Shang said lightly, and his tone seemed to be a little sentimental.
"You're just a piece of wood, a piece of wood next to the latrine." When a woman is angry, she usually does one thing, and that is to eat in a big gulp, which you can not believe me, but you can pay a little attention to the fat woman next to you.
Murong Shang's mood suddenly became confused, what should he do? Where should he go and whose advice should he take?
If it was really his own horse that led the gang away, then the fate of the horse would end there.
He couldn't help but feel a little sentimental in his heart, for others and for himself at the moment. Is he going to admit that he's lost? What should be the outcome of himself in the desert, far from his cronies? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Shen Luoluo again, isn't this person's fate the same as his own now?