When I arrived in Chang'an, it was already the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and when I left the Western Capital after the Shangyuan Festival this spring, the two sides of Weishui were still covered in silver, and today I returned to the city full of verdant.

Things are gone, are people still there?

In the interval between the caravan and the inn outside the city to change horses before going to Yizhai to change horses, I went to the Los Angeles Post Post in Xishi with Qin Chong, Guo Helmet Liu, and Sha Mihan.

Mrs. Shangguan received us warmly, but unfortunately Miss Yanxi had already left Chang'an.

Listening to the old lady say that the drought in Loulan in the Western Regions was raging this spring, and the yellow sand was buried in the city, Miss Yanxi was temporarily sent to the Western Regions to deal with the relocation of the Loulan branch of the Los Angeles Post Station.

Whether to move to the capital of Shanshan State, Hunicheng, or go west to Qiuci and Wusun Kingdoms, is still undecided, and a decision will be made after arriving in the Western Regions.

When I left the Los Angeles Post Post full of loss, the old lady Shangguan suddenly remembered that her daughter Shangguan Yanxi had left me a letter before leaving, which read as follows:

"Brother Jincheng Yi, Shangyuan is goodbye for a while. Yan Xi couldn't sleep day and night, looking forward to Jun's return and going to the Mountain League together. How can the family affairs be difficult, Loulan is in danger, Yan Xi went with tears, and there was a promise of the day, don't blame my brother!

When the northern geese returned to the south in the golden autumn, outside the Yumen Pass, Yan Xi was waiting eagerly. The mountains and rivers are long, the brocade book is difficult to support, and it is difficult to express heartfelt feelings in a few words! ”

The white silk letterhead still had a faint fragrance, and after reading it twice, I couldn't help but think of the disaster, and tears rained down.

Miss Yanxi, I have failed your heartfelt feelings, there is already a woman from Liu Nan'er waiting for me in the Dunhuang sandbank in the east of Yumen Guandong, what should I do! How to be good!

"Young master! Why are you crying! Ha ha! I miss Miss Shangguan! Seeing me weeping silently on the horse, Shamihan smiled in surprise.

"The young master wants to get a girl, not just a Miss Shangguan! There must still be that Liu Nan'er, haha! That's a real beauty! ”

When I was in Longxi Manor, Qin Chong, this kid, should have seen the indescribable ambiguity between me and Liu Nan'er.

At this time, when Liu Nan'er was mentioned, it just kicked my sore spot, which is really amorous and hateful!

On the street ahead, a group of official chariots and horses were galloping towards us, and we hurriedly hid on the side of the street to make room for these invincible Qiang and Qin forbidden troops.

"It's better to be a young master! Everywhere I go, there will be beautiful women to meet with beautiful people, and in the next life, I will definitely be reincarnated into a rich family, and be a young master who is loved by everyone! ”

Shamihan sighed enviously, patted his fat belly, and complained about the injustice of the sky.

"Old man, don't sour me! Don't you want me to be a matchmaker? All right! If that Liu Nan'er can take a fancy to you, how about I be an old man under the moon for a while? ”

I was worried about how to solve Liu Nan'er's matter, and Shamihan's sigh was right in my arms.

This guy can also be regarded as a child of a family in the Western Regions Rouran Kingdom, because his ancestors failed in business, and his family fell into the middle of the road, so he sold himself to my family.

Tall and mighty, a very good young man.

But Liu Nan'er didn't hesitate to come to me wholeheartedly, but in the future, I asked her to marry a guy, what a mess of mandarin duck scores!

"Is this true?"

At my words, Shamihan turned over and dismounted, and fell to his knees at my feet in joy.

"This and this, fate is destined! You just wait, old man! "I suddenly regretted what I said.

"Young master, don't frame us old men! Liu Nan'er is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, do you think the old man is the prince of the Xiongnu Kingdom! Another time Zhao Jun out of the plug? ”

Qin Chong stepped forward and handed over the scabbard to pull Shamihan up.

"Young master, Miss Lan from Guizhifang asked me to buy a piece of silk cloth from Jiangnan to make a summer shirt, hehe, I want to send it over now!" Liu Zhen'er, who had never spoken to her, suddenly smiled wryly.

"Let's go! We'll go with you! The cost of drinking and having fun, this young master is all-inclusive! ”

The young man's love and hate are just a matter of a moment, just now I was still thinking about Miss Shangguan Yanxi, and I was worried about Liu Nan'er's affairs.

Now when I heard Liu Zhen'er's proposal to go to Guizhifang, all my thoughts and sorrows were swept away, and my mind was full of the weak and crispy fragrance of those orchid sisters, and the wheezing and murmuring of warblers.

The four of us didn't have any disagreements or distractions, followed Liu Zhen'er's horse closely, and galloped in the direction of Guizhifang.

After Chang'an, we crossed the Yellow River, passed Guzang City, Wolf Goddess Mountain, and came to the Qishan Horse Farm under the Tianzhi Mountain, which was already the sixth month of the summer calendar of this year.

Further west is the desolate Gobi Desert, where horse-drawn carriages are no longer suitable for walking.

Therefore, changing clothes and replacing the carriage with camels here is a must-do for my caravan every time it passes through the Heavenly Mountains on the way back.

The wide carriage could not cross the plank road in the mountains to reach the Qishan Horse Farm, so the two hundred or so camels and horses that we had left at the horse farm to recuperate when we came were driven down the mountain by Mutaniel, Mandongla, and Nuge were replaced on the spot on the edge of the official road west of the river.

All of a sudden, the people and horses on the silent Hexi trade road were noisy, and the hump became a forest.

The men were busy carrying the bags of skins from the carriage to the hunchback, tying them tightly with sturdy leather ropes.

One wagon of silk was just enough for fifteen camels to carry it, so when all the camels' hunkbacks were piled up, all the skins on the wagons were all moved.

Just as Grandpa and the others had guessed at the beginning, although the three old fellows of Mutanier and Mangdongla wanted to return to the caravan, when Su Ye really asked them what arrangements they made, the three old fellows all chose to stay in Qishan Horse Farm with tears in their eyes.

Where the wife and children are, the home is there, they have no choice!

And Qin Chong, Sha Mihan, and Liu of the pot helmet had a false alarm, and when they set off from Jiankang, Qin Chong was still instigating me to ask my grandfather to take the sea route back to Khotan.

The three of them were most afraid of being chosen by Su Ye, and asked them to replace Mutaniel, Mangdongla, and Nuge as the principals of Qishan Racecourse.

Because they are the youngest, they have no small family to drag down, and if they really want to be replaced, the three of them are the best candidates.

But as far as I'm concerned, these three guys have formed a brotherly friendship with me along the way, and I'm really reluctant to leave them.

After leaving Qishan Racecourse, we walked on the wasteland for more than half a month.

Although it is still the same as when you came, the scenery along the way seems to be very different from when you came.

There are only some road signs that my grandfather repeatedly introduced, such as a deserted village, a long moat, a unique mountain peak, a stream running north-south, etc., and there is a vague impression.

In the remnant area of the Heavenly Mountain to the west, passing through a flat and desolate mounds to the north, a desert scene of yellow sand began to appear in the distance.

The scorching sun at noon in midsummer is like fire, and a golden cliff valley can be faintly seen in the depths of the desert, and finally returned to the Mogao Grottoes on the sandbank.

Liu Nan'er and his entourage arrived at Shazhou as early as a month ago.

In addition to the maid and the coachman's family I had seen in Longxi Manor, she was accompanied by five Liu family generals who escorted along the way.

Bai Xuan's painter told us that his grandfather and Wu Wei had just passed through the Mogao Grottoes half a month ago, and now they should have arrived in Qiuzi outside the Yumen Pass.

Looking at Liu Nan'er, who was running towards us from afar, with fluttering colorful clothes, and Bai Xuan's painter who was fairy wind and Shenyi, I felt in a trance that they were clearly the flying fairy and the Qinglian prince who escaped from the mortal world in the cave murals.

It's really a pair of fairy companions made in heaven!

"Childe! Grandpa! With Wu Nong's soft-spoken cheers, Liu Nan'er was already wet with tears like flying flowers.

"Seventh girl, why are you here?" Even when the sky fell, I had never seen my grandfather so surprised.

Looking at Liu Nan'er's affectionate eyes, grandpa seemed to understand everything, and when he turned around, the leather whip in his hand had fallen heavily on me.

"Son! I'm mad too! Grandpa's hair stood on end, and his eyes were full of fire.

If it weren't for Uncle Su and Qin Chong who were present to stop me in time, his old man would have killed me.

Grandpa may think that I am greedy for Liu Nan'er's beauty, and I deceived this hard-working widow to this bitter cold north without telling Mrs. Liu's own permission.

It turns out that the children and daughters of the old people in Longxi are now in-laws, if I really did such a treacherous thing, it would be absolutely unforgivable.

Grandpa has always doted on me, the eldest grandson, and he should know all the ridiculous things that Qin Chong and I have done along the way, but he has never interfered with them, and he is suspected of connivance.

Maybe in grandpa's opinion, it is not a sin for young people to mess with flowers and grass, this is what dolls in the year of weak crowns should do.

But only this one thing seems to be very important, grandpa is anxious and angry, sitting on the big stone on the side of the road and unable to speak for a while, only the leather whip pointed at me, as if he has a common enmity with me.

I was so frightened that I knelt at his feet, and I could only argue with my grandfather's hair.

"Grandpa! Childe is innocent! Everything is the fault of the slave family, if you want to punish me, punish me! ”

Seeing that her grandfather was so angry, Liu Nan'er was so frightened that she quickly knelt down beside me and begged bitterly.

"Seventh girl, you also grew up in a wealthy family, and you married again, don't you understand that my Jincheng doesn't understand the world? I am an old friend of your father and father, and now I am a family of children and daughters! You two ran away from home without the consent of the two parents and clansmen, and without the words of the matchmaker! If you let the world know, what will be the face of your father? Where is the face of your Jiangnan Liufu Gate Lords? What is the reputation of our Yi family style in Jiangnan Jiankang? How can you let my Wuwei and Chang'an grandchildren gain a foothold in this Jiangnan! ”

Grandpa sighed, which made me break out in a cold sweat.