Finally fooled the ghost sister away, Yang Huairen breathed a sigh of relief.

Brother Tianba walked into the tent and said in a matter-of-fact manner, "Brother Ren, this girl is chattering, won't she lie to us again?" ”

Yang Huairen shook his head, "It shouldn't be, people's expressions will deceive people, and the words they say will deceive people, but the things that come out of their eyes can't deceive people."

You look at her as shrewd, but sometimes I really don't know if she's really stupid or fake shrewd.

The guards in our camp are all ordered, she can easily walk out from the gate, but she still likes to drill under the tent, do you think she has a bad head?

Leave her alone, that's not the point. I believe what she said, the old emperor of Liao should have some intentions for me, as for whether it is like what she said to win over, it is too early to say. ”

Tianba's younger brother nodded, "Even if he really wants to win over, I think it's all in vain, first, my brother is not short of money, and secondly, there is no shortage of women, what does he use to win over?" If he's willing to hand over the throne, I think my brother can think about it, hehe. ”

"Ahem, you dare to think about it. Go back to sleep, you'll have to go tomorrow. ”

……

On the next journey, Yelu Bawotai was still very enthusiastic to invite Yang Huairen to eat from time to time, no matter what mountains and rivers he passed by, he could not avoid a burst of sighs and boasting, which made Yang Huairen feel as if this guy knew the Khitan Emperor's thoughts, which was clearly trying to win him over.

As for the ghost sister, Yang Huairen can still see her from time to time, but everyone sits together to eat, and in front of Yelu Bawotai, Yang Huairen is not easy to talk to her, and the two of them pretend not to know each other at all.

Just thinking of some of the words that Sister Ghost said, Yang Huairen deliberately went to look at her, and let Yelu Bawotai and Xiao Shi see it in their eyes, so they could be regarded as following Sister Ghost's wishes, and let them speculate and misunderstand.

All the way to the north, the two teams went out of the Great Wall to the Guanwai, and the scene inside and outside the Great Wall in front of them was very different.

Although the south side of the Great Wall is not as fertile as the Central Plains, there are neat fields, with waterways crisscrossing the fields, and the trees along the river and on the mountains are waiting for the spring breeze to blow the green branches.

And to the north of the Great Wall, there is a vast expanse. Although the road was wide, there were no tall trees on either side of the road, and the wild grass that was not knee-high bent over the direction of the north wind facing south.

The grey mountains were clearly visible on a clear day, and all that was left was the endless barren grassland.

There is no sunset over the long river, and there is no curling smoke, there is really only grass. Not to mention the houses or tents where people live, there is not even a single smoke, and the scenery still makes people feel a shocking beauty, but Yang Huairen always feels that there is a lack of vitality.

He looked back at the Great Wall, stretching in the mountains like a long dragon that could not see its head and tail, still lifeless, making him feel unsure of whether it was a sigh or a kind of loss.

The Han people built the Great Wall to resist the invasion of the northern nomads, but today, this section of the Great Wall in the territory of the Liao State is only used as the boundary between Nanjing Road and Zhongjing Road, and has long completely lost its original role, so it has not been repaired and strengthened for hundreds of years, and the city wall is overgrown with weeds and is dilapidated.

The blue-gray wall tiles peeled off from the wall and fell into the deep valley, making the body of the Great Wall look a little mottled, and the howling north wind passed through thousands of years, still roaring, as if telling the passionate past of the Great Wall, the devastated present, and the unattainable future.

Lu Jinyi sighed, "The great creation of our ancestors is about to be destroyed in the hands of these Khitans. ”

Yang Huairen turned his head to look at the other brothers, and they were all heavy, embarrassed and sad.

He closed his eyes and felt the north wind, and said in a deep voice, "The wall is not in our eyes, but in our hearts." And my ultimate ideal is that there is no wall in my eyes and no wall in my heart. ”

Yang Huairen didn't know if any of the brothers could understand his words, so he smiled indifferently.

There is no wall in the heart, this is too difficult, a thousand years later, the people of the earth are still building walls, even between the same nation.

It's just that these walls are not necessarily made of blue bricks, such as a national border or a strait.

The Great Wall has lost the mission it was given when it was built, and it is not necessarily a bad thing as it is now, if one day there is no longer such a wall in the world, in the eyes or in the heart, where will there be sadness?

The wind is strong on the grassland, even if you wear thick clothes and robes, even if the sun is shining, you will still feel cold on your body, especially when you are riding on a horse.

Yang Huairen thought about the south of the Yangtze River, although he had never seen it in person, but he thought that it should already be a spring flower, and then looked at the front of him, and suddenly understood in his heart why these nomads in the northern grasslands and Mobei have been invading the Central Plains so much for thousands of years.

The laws of nature are no different when applied to human beings, in order to survive, for food, they always try their best to pursue them in a barbaric and cruel way, and I don't know how many people have sprinkled their blood on and under the Great Wall.

It is also this wall that once stretched for thousands of miles, which makes people full of fantasy and melancholy, yearning and sadness.

Further north, after more than 100 miles, there is only one town, called Pingqiao. In fact, Hirahashi is called a town, and everyone looks up to it a little highly.

Because there is only one street in the entire Pingqiao, dozens of houses on both sides, plus more than 100 people live here.

When it is the day of the day, many people and herdsmen from the surrounding villages, or tribes passing by here, will come here to gather and exchange their own grain or cattle and sheep skins for salt and cloth from others.

Instead of the day of the market, it seems a little deserted, because the wind is strong, there are no people on the street, only a long flat wooden bridge on the side of the Luanhe River is more than 20 zhang wide across the two banks, maybe this is why it is called Pingqiao.

Geographically speaking, Pingqiao guards a bridge, which is also a traffic artery, so it also forms a town, but more than a third of the year when the Luan River is frozen, so that the bridge loses a lot of its original value.

Yang Huairen really couldn't sleep comfortably in a tent these days, so Yelu Bawotai crossed the river first and camped on the wide ground on the other side of the river, so that Yang Huairen lived on the flat bridge on the south side of the river.

Although Pingqiao is small, there is such a town within a hundred miles, and the merchants who come and go take this road to and from Xijin Mansion and Dading Mansion, and only stay in Pingqiao, so there are so many simple inns in the town.

Yang Huairen chartered the largest place called Jinqiao Inn.