It is said that after the prince Zhao and everyone were scattered by the quicksand that day, they rode their horses and galloped, and when they stopped, they found that there were only more than ten horses left in the entourage. At this time, the desert is vast, there is no path, and there is no direction, but the pure water carried by everyone has long been drunk. Prince Showa and the others decided to return to Juyong Pass to make plans again, so everyone walked back in the direction they vaguely remembered.

Unexpectedly, when Wang Zizhao chased them out, the direction was to the north, and when they were scattered, the direction was to the southwest, and at this moment they were going back, but they continued to move in the southwest direction, and the men and horses were tired and thirsty, and they were exhausted, and they walked slowly, so they had not seen the city in the evening.

Just when they were extremely depressed, a crisp bell sounded behind them, and it turned out that a caravan of more than thirty or forty people, more than a hundred horses, and more than ten carriages was walking in the direction of Wang Zizhao and them. Prince Showa and the other soldiers were brightly eyed, and in order to beg for saliva and drink, they asked about the road by the way, and then got off their horses and stood by the road to wait.

The man on horseback was led by a middle-aged man in his forties, who looked very shrewd and capable, and saw that he was wearing a high hat, his complexion was whiter, his beard was sparse, and his eyes were a little yellowish-brown, but he flashed a sharp gaze like an eagle's falcon, his collar and cuffs were relatively narrow, and although the clothes were separated from the top and bottom, they looked like they were also made of relatively precious silk.

Wang Zizhao then took the initiative to step forward and saluted the middle-aged man with a fist: "Dare to ask His Holiness, can you ask for a glass of water?"

The middle-aged man turned back and motioned for all the members of the caravan to dismount, and then walked to the back and said a few words to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in a language that Wang Zizhao did not understand, only to see that the girl's face was as beautiful as a crescent moon, and at the same time there was a heroic spirit between her eyebrows, and she combed her hair in a high bun, and her clothes were separated from the top and bottom, and the top of the blouse was only to the waist, and the cuffs of the outer dress were very short, only to the shoulders, revealing the light yarn inside. When the girl heard the middle-aged man's command, she turned around and muttered a few words to several young men in their twenties and thirties, and then they all took out a sheepskin bag from the rucksack on the back of the horse, and a wooden bowl from the other pocket, came to Wang Zizhao and them, and poured a bowl of water for Wang Zizhao and his relatives one by one. Wang Zizhao grew up in the palace since he was a child, so he had no sense of defense, and the others were really thirsty, so everyone drank it all after taking the bowl.

After a long drought and a rainy season, this is probably the feeling, but before he could be moved and experienced, Wang Zizhao and his entourage fell to the sand one after another. The middle-aged man at the head of the group took down all the weapons and equipment of Wang Zizhao and the other young men, and then stuffed strips of cloth in their mouths, tied their hands and feet, and threw them on the two empty carriages behind them.

"Why did Daddy put sweat medicine in the water?" As the caravan set off again, Dugu Moon Shadow asked.

"Daughter, remember in the future, you have to learn to watch people when you go out. These people have dark eyes, white but yellow skin, wearing battle uniforms, carrying bows and arrows, and carrying waist knives, and at first glance they are not soldiers of our country but soldiers of Yunmengguo. Before leaving, the king was making a plan to attack Yunmeng from Changrong Kingdom, if as expected, Changrong Kingdom should have suffered defeat, so these talents and companions went out of Juyong Pass to chase after the remnants of Changrong Kingdom. It's just that I don't know what's going on, these people are lost and left behind, no matter what, who told them that there is a way to heaven and no way to break in, and it happened to fall into the hands of my Dugu Feiyang. "It turns out that this group of people is one of the eight pillar countries of Lu Fangguo - Dugu Feiyang's caravan, which has just returned from selling salt to the countries of the Western Regions some time ago, and occasionally does some slave trading.

Lv Fangguo is in the northeast of Yunmeng Country, the north of the Moon Country, the west of Fuyu Country, the water and grass are abundant, there are several salt lakes, in the past, by the Su Gu Department, Dugu Department, Baba Department, Daxi Department, Yilou Department, Qiu Dun Department, Tonghai Department of seven tribes together to form the "Eight Kingdoms of Lu Fang", now the Lu Fang Department is rich because of the salt lake, a monopoly unified the ministries, the original Lu Fang Eight Kingdoms became the Eight Pillars of the Lu Fang, and initially established the rules and regulations of the country.

In the middle of the night, Wang Zizhao was woken up by the bumping of the wheels in the carriage, and his empty stomach was so hungry that he did not obey the call and kept gurgling in protest, thinking that he had been clothed and fed since he was born, and how could he have suffered such a hardship. Now, it was dark all around, and I didn't know how far the carriage had gone and where it had gone, thinking of my high spirits when I went out of the customs and my current predicament and embarrassment, I couldn't help but feel remorseful, complaining that I shouldn't act so rashly, and before going out of the customs, I should at least discuss it with the king of Nanping County and Liu Changlin and others before taking action, but now it is useless to complain more, and I have to find a way to escape. Because the carriage was too dim to see the situation clearly, and his mouth was stuffed with strips of cloth and couldn't make a loud sound, he had to use his body to try to gently bump into each other on the left and right, and felt that someone also gently touched him and responded to him, so he knew that he was not alone in the car, but because he was worried that he didn't know what else would happen, Wang Zizhao no longer dared to close his eyes, so he sat with his eyes staring until dawn.

The next day, the sun shone through the curtain hanging down from the front of the carriage, Wang Zizhao opened his eyes wide and tried to see the situation around him clearly, it turned out that there were seven or eight personal soldiers trapped with him in the car, four or five were still sleeping, and there were two or three like Wang Zizhao who also did not close their eyes in the middle of the night, and now they were looking at each other in the car. It seems that his side has been divided into two groups, and I don't know what the situation of the other brothers is.

After a while, the curtain of the carriage was suddenly lifted, and a dazzling white light swept in, and a man in his forties and fifties who looked like a butler stretched his neck and poked his head out to inspect the situation in the carriage, and then ordered his servants to throw Wang Zizhao and them into a room full of firewood for cooking.

At this time, it was noon in Lu Fangguo, Dugu Feiyang didn't care about resting, and he didn't even eat, so he changed his clothes and went straight to meet King Lu Fangguo.

Lu Fangguo, the king of Lu Fangguo, is nearly sixty years old, is a short stature but energetic old man, at this time because of the defeat of the Zhuguo Tuoba Hongbing army in the pull of the Ministry of Trouble, although Lu Fangguo did not send a large army to participate in the war, but donated more than 100 carts of salt to Helian Bobo, and provided tens of thousands of carriages of grain and grass, originally expected to defeat Yunmengguo, so as to get the huge food benefits of Yunmengguo promised by Helian Bobo, but he did not expect to lose his wife and lose his army.