Chapter 33: The World is Different

Chongqing falls into the wild goose valley, and the wild goose sings waterfall.

Luoyan Valley, like a shy virgin, met a big day that had been chasing for a long time, and finally took off the half-covered silk scarf to let the other party have a glimpse of the face.

The high hanging day did not hesitate to praise the Falling Wild Goose Valley, knowing that there was only one hour of time to get along every day, and the more diligent and eager to play with the Falling Wild Goose Valley, the Falling Wild Goose Valley was a little ashamed, and turned his back to not look at the big day, so the breeze in the valley rose, the sun crushed in the swaying dense forest, and the nocturnal animals hibernated, leaving time for the lovers who wanted to talk and were about to separate at the first touch.

Six black-robed people gathered in front of Yanming Lake again.

At this time, it is the end of the summer, and the water of the waterfall is more abundant than in other seasons, and the surrounding area is full of mist.

However, the six black-robed men were surrounded by an invisible cover, and the mist could only swirl around them.

Still no one could hear what they were saying, and after less than a moment, the black-robed man in the Garuda mask was choked by the throat by an invisible hand and hung in the air, and was about to suffocate to the ground before being suffocated.

Just like last time, the Falling Goose Valley was dark, and the black-robed man was gone.

Across Xitang Prefecture, through Xibu, Xijin, Xijiao, and Xilengzhou, Pucao and Su Zizhong are closer to Daxue Mountain.

From a thin shirt to a thick robe, and then from a thick robe to a snow-capped fur.

Su Zizhong and Pucao stood side by side on a low mountain, the blue sky was like a wash, and the continuous meadow was far away from the sky, and occasionally a goshawk flapped its wings and flew by.

"If you travel more than 200 miles today, you will be considered to have entered the country of Long. The closest is Liujiabao, and the owner of the fort, Uncle Liu, is a world friend of our Su family. "Su Zizhong is more familiar with the surroundings of Longguo, "Turning over the mountains we just passed, we can't see tall trees in front of us, there are meadows all the way, the deeper you go, the more you go to the vicinity of Sujiabao, there are basically no plants, except for people are snow, you must not be used to it as a southerner." ”

"Doesn't there be summer in your snowy mountains?" The summer in the south is like a steamer, but here you have to wrap your fur tightly.

"Yes, the snow line has become higher, many glaciers will thaw, the land will soften, and the people of the snow-capped mountains will depend on the summer months for a year's food."

"It's so beautiful, I feel small in front of nature when I'm here, and I can't wait."

Pucao doesn't know if it's an illusion, close to the big snow mountain, the body is a lot more comfortable, although it can't see inside, but it is always like a long-thirsty traveler encountering the oasis spring, there is a kind of instinctive joy.

Six fast horses galloped across the meadow, gradually turning into black dots and disappearing into the sky.

Liyang Town, Xilang Prefecture.

This town is not a market town, but a town of guards.

Liyang Town is the northwestern place of Muguo, and beyond Liyang Town, it is the territory of Liujiabao in Longguo.

There were no walls, no towers, not even decent arming.

A boundary monument is buried alone in the meadow, representing the dividing line between the two countries.

The boundary monument is close to the side of the Muguo, and several low huts are set up at random, plus a dozen or so soldiers guarding the border of the Muguo Town, which is the whole picture of the military strength of Liyang Town, which is completely symbolic, in a remote place, even the military supplies of the soldiers can only be provided once a month, and it is impossible to station too many troops.

And on the side of Longguo, not even a single soldier was arranged.

Of course, there are commercial exchanges on the border between the two countries, and the commercial transactions here are all traveling merchants, and the traveling merchants are more able to endure hardships than the foot merchants, and the places they go to are more remote. The people of Daxue Mountain do not want gold and silver, and have always bartered, and on a fixed day every month, they set up some tents in Liyang Town, and went home after changing things. But don't think that the people of Daxueshan are easy to deceive, it's not that there are no people who are cheating and cheating, people have suffered a loss, and the second time they want to play tricks, only to find that the entire Daxueshan people no longer deal with him.

No one will be bored enough to play a game of crossing the two countries with their feet in two countries, and even if you go to play, no one will look at it, and if you really have nowhere to go, no one will care if you run dozens or hundreds of miles to Longguo. If you want to go deep into the gathering point of the people of the snowy mountains, it is a bit choking if you want to survive without a valid reason.

Su Zizhong and Pu Cao have been on the road, and the news is very clogged, they don't know that several major events have happened in the world these days.

The Yu State dispatched Xiong Zhengwei to frantically burn, kill and loot at the border between the Yu State and the Jing State and the Muyu State.

Ling Yingxia, the general of Fengguo, rebelled, established himself as the emperor, and had invaded Fengdu and destroyed the entire royal family.

Daye King took advantage of the civil strife in Feng, no longer hiding in the depths of the grassland, once again magically through the giant elephant mountain, unlike last time, the steppe wolf put away its fangs and steel claws, gave up the way of playing like the wind, and changed to a face, attacking a city to occupy a city, and the people reduced the tax steadily.

Muguo and Yeguo fought for decades, and after an armistice without warning, the spearhead was pointed at Daxue Mountain, and Emperor Muguo issued a letter to the whole country to crusade against Longguo, vowing to avenge the soldiers and civilians of Muguo who died in Liyang Town.

The world is in chaos.

When Pu Cao and Su Zizhong arrived at Liyang Town, Liyang Town was no longer what Su Zizhong had in his impression.

There were only a few remnants of ruins, and Su Zizhong had been around for a long time, if he hadn't seen the boundary monument, he would have thought that he had memorized it.

The original plan to supply in Liyang Town failed, but fortunately, Liujiabao is not far from here, and the six forts of Snow Mountain have always been the same as each other, and the Su family's sister-in-law did not visit after Liujiabao, which made people say that Su Zizhong lost his manners.

When the lord of Liujiabao heard that Su Zizhong was coming, he personally took his son and daughter to the gate of the fort to greet him.

"How dare you let Uncle Liu greet you in person, Zizhong is terrified." Su Zizhong saw Liu Hemin standing at the entrance of the fort, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted.

"No worries, no worries, and no outsiders. I've been out for more than a year, and my uncle is not eager to see you sooner. Come on, come on, let Uncle take a good look. Liu Hemin took Su Zizhong's hand and looked at it, "It's still the water and soil in Luoling, and you kid will look better." When you run out, you can envy a few unsuccessful sons in my family, and they pester me every day to go to Luoling to find you. ”

Liu Hemin turned back to his sons and daughters and said, "No matter how good it is outside, Zizhong is not coming back, you guys will save me some snacks, and you will want to go out all day long." Later, son, you can help me talk about them. ”

Su Zizhong and Liu Hemin's children met one by one, and they didn't have any life after going out for more than a year, laughing and laughing at each other, and introduced Pucao to them, saying that they were good brothers who had experienced life and death together.

The people of the Great Snow Mountain, there is a natural spontaneity in their bones, between brothers, their lives can be entrusted, Liu Hemin's children are very enthusiastic about Pucao, and they sit together with Pucao, saying that they want Pucao to taste the pilaf with the most snowy mountain characteristics.

Eating pilaf in the snowy mountains is a special experience, and if the people of the snowy mountains treat you as a guest, they must eat pilaf first and then drink alcohol.

The pilaf is cooked in snow water, which is particularly soft and delicious, and it is really delicious in the world when you grab it with your hand and wrap it with snow beef and dip it in snow chili sauce. Su Zizhong often comes to Liujiabao, and Liujiabao does not treat Su Zizhong as an outsider, but Pucao came for the first time, and was pressed by Su Zizhong and Liu Hemin's children under Liu Hemin.

Su Zizhong sat opposite Pucao, according to the rules, Liu Youzhi, the eldest son of Liu Jiabao, should sit with Su Zizhong, Liu Hemin's youngest daughter Liu Jingqiu was going to sit next to Su Zizhong, saying that such a good-looking brother Zizhong was going to marry the Pearl of the Snow Mountain, and he had to take advantage of the fact that Brother Zizhong was not married for a while, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

When the banquet began, Su Zizhong muttered a few words to Liu Jingqiu, and then saw Liu Jingqiu stand up and say to Pucao, "Brother Ji, I heard that Brother Zizhong said that you are his brother in life and death, Jingqiu respects you with a bowl of wine and welcomes you to Daxue Mountain." As soon as Liu Jingqiu raised his head, a bowl of Snow Flame Wine from the Great Snow Mountain fell into his stomach.

Liu Jingqiu wiped his mouth and held the empty bowl to Pucao.

Pu Cao had just finished eating pilaf and was thinking about where to wash his hands, when he saw Liu Jingqiu toasting, he was a little embarrassed to tell Liu Jingqiu that he didn't drink.

Where is Liu Jingqiu willing to spare, dragging Su Zizhong to let Su Zizhong comment.

This matter was Su Zizhong's idea to play tricks on Pu Cao, of course, he helped Liu Jingqiu speak, one moment said that Pu Cao looked down on the children of Da Xueshan, and another time said that Pu Cao lived up to the sincerity of Da Xueshan, anyway, Pu Cao didn't drink this bowl of wine today, it was simply a great crime, and people were outraged.

Pu Caoyuan was originally more rational, Su Zizhong persuaded him to drink on the road, he never drank, what was there to drink wine.

But I really can't stand it today, and I can't stand Su Zizhong's agitation, I am not afraid of death, but I am also afraid of drinking a bowl of wine, so I will do it when I pick up the bowl.

People outside the Great Snow Mountain drink with either a cup, a cup, or a cup, and only the Great Snow Mountain is about bowls.

Snow Flame Wine is the strongest wine in the Snow Mountain, as soon as the wine enters the throat, Pucao feels a knife scraping his tongue, and then splits all the way down the tongue and throat, the first feeling is spicy, after the spicy is finished, it hurts, and the place where the wine passes through is the pain of the fire. Pucao couldn't help but squirt out, so he quickly covered it with his hand, and swallowed it easily, and his head began to feel a little dizzy as soon as the wine rushed.

With the first bowl, there is a second bowl and a third bowl, come to Liujiabao as a guest, there is no reason for the host to toast and not return, back and forth Pucao can't remember how much he drank, anyway, everything is shaking, his tongue is straight, and finally shouting Su Zizhong's name is incomplete, and the twisted chief on his back falls straight down.

Su Zizhong's treacherous plan succeeded, and he was really happy to see Pu Cao drunk, so he asked Liu Jingqiu to arrange for the maid in the castle to help Pu Cao to rest, and he stayed to drink and chat with Liu Hemin.

Liu Hemin told Su Zizhong about some of the things that happened recently, especially Cao Kui's death, what really made Su Zizhong's jaw drop was what Liu Hemin said, "Ling Zi, the princess of Ling Yingxia, the new emperor of Fengguo, is now in Liujiabao, and the scope of his current knowledge is limited to our Snow Mountain Six Castles." ”

Su Zizhong was surprised, "Why is it in Liujiabao?" ”

"Before Ling Yingxia rebelled, he sent his children to different places, Ling Yingxia brought six castles in the snow mountain when he was young, he didn't know each other, his personality and temper were all in love with several of us, in fact, we didn't contact him for a long time, and later I heard that he was the most general in Fengguo. Last month, he arranged for a few people to send his daughter to Liujiabao, saying that he would let his daughter see the scenery of Daxue Mountain, and I would not doubt anything else, so that the Jingqiu sisters led his daughter around the surroundings, but he didn't expect him to become Fenghuang, presumably because he was afraid that the rebellion would implicate his family. Based on what we know about Ling Yingxia back then, he couldn't do such a thing as rebellion, maybe his status has changed, and his thinking has changed. Liu Hemin sighed a little, "Don't talk about that, Zizhong, looking at the situation, the country and the country are about to fight, and this time I have to share more worries about the fort when I come back." We are investigating the killing of the Muguo people in Liyang Town. The people of Muguo said that there was an identity tag of the Shadow of the Great Snow Mountain at the scene, and the weapons left behind were the snake dagger and snow horse knife unique to the Shadow Extinction, in fact, it has nothing to do with us at all, we have passed the Qi with the Great Snow Mountain, and they are also investigating what is going on. ”

Su Zizhong didn't plan to tell Liu Hemin that he was assassinated by Shadow Destroyer, but when he saw Liu Hemin talking about Shadow Killing's killing of the Muguo people in Liyang Town, he took out Shadow Kill's identity card from his body, "Uncle Liu, look." ”