Early the next morning, everyone got up and continued to hurry, all the way was uninhabited, and after two days in a row, seeing that the dry food they were carrying was about to be exhausted, Liu Xie said to the generals: "The grain is about to run out, and there is no village along the way, there is snow everywhere, see if you can hunt some prey to satisfy your hunger." ”

When everyone heard Liu Xie say this, they could only do so, Liu Xie said: "Let you suffer with me, do you have resentment?" ”

All the generals said that they were not bitter.

Yang Wan said: "The concubine thinks that life is to accept challenges again and again, if this challenge can't be endured, then how can you become a warrior, how can you serve Your Majesty?" ”

Liu Xie said: "Yes, I can't imagine that you are so strong and brave as a woman." ”

So they laid an ambush in the woods, laid traps, shot some prey, cut the meat into pieces, ate some of it, and brought it on the road.

Fortunately, although the mountains are desolate, there are wild animals to hunt and use.

According to the map prompts, all the way to the north, no longer encountered obstacles, occasionally encountered some nomadic tribes, Liu Xie and others all claimed to be caravans, with silver to buy grain from them.

When these nomads saw that Liu Xie's troops were well-equipped, they did not dare to associate with them more, so they sold them grain when they had money, mostly beef and mutton and cakes.

In this way, I went all the way to the north, and after traveling for about half a month, I saw that I was about to arrive at the Snow Wolf Valley of Daxianbei Mountain, which is the hiding place of the treasures.

On this day, I saw a small town in front of me, which was surprising to everyone, because after walking more than a thousand miles, along the way, in addition to the inhabited, it was a scattered nomadic tribe, and the market town was the first time to see.

The town was full of stone houses, and the streets were made of stones. As the procession marched through the town, a few residents could occasionally be seen fleeing in a panic, and some of the people at the gate hurriedly closed their doors.

Liu Xie said: "It's strange that there is a small town in such a remote place, with no soldiers and no defense. ”

Chen Gong asked, "Do you want to arrest a few people and ask?" ”

Liu Xie said: "Go ahead, but catch it from time to time, please." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After a while, the soldiers brought a few people, who actually spoke Chinese, and those people were too timid to speak, Liu Xie was about to ask, only to see a few people coming not far away, hugging one of them.

When the old man came over, he bowed and said, "O original guest, there is a dragon living in this deep mountain, which will come here at night to destroy houses and devour people. But as long as you don't make a sound, don't emit light, you'll be fine. ”

Liu Xie listened to him quietly.

The elder said, "So don't stay here, but leave quickly." ”

Liu Xie asked: "You mean that there are dragons, so let's tell you the truth, we are here to slay dragons." ”

The elder exclaimed, "Oh my God, are you here to slay the dragon?" But that dragon, it can fly, it can spit fire, even if you have more people, it can't beat it, and it will be eaten. You'd better go back. ”

Liu Xie asked, "You can actually speak Chinese, are you Han?" ”

The old man said: "Yes, our ancestors fled here when the first emperor was the first emperor, and it is far away from the Central Plains, so we are not worried about persecution." Hundreds of years have passed in the blink of an eye, and now my Great Qin should be very prosperous, right? ”

"Great Qin?" Liu Xie couldn't help laughing.

The old man asked, "What's the matter, am I not right?" ”

Chen Gong on the side said: "Old man, now it is the Han Dynasty, the Great Han, your Great Qin, has perished more than four hundred years ago." ”

The old man was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, not knowing whether to be surprised or happy.

Liu Xie looked at the sky, and there was still some time before it got dark, so he said, "Old man, you are the leader here, right?" ”

The old man said, "I am the mayor of the town here, and my name is Shi Jie. ”

Liu Xie said: "We came from the distant Han Dynasty to slay the dragon, and then take you home by the way, you are Han people, and life here must be very hard." Surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness, there are no people, I don't think there are many people in your town, right? After so many years, it is difficult for the population to reproduce, right? ”

If a small town is in the wilderness and isolated from the world, it will slowly die out after many generations, even if there are no natural or man-made disasters.

The most immediate cause is the problem of intermarriage.

Mayor Shi Ji said: "Yes, there were more than 2,000 people when my ancestors first came here, and now there are only about 100 people, and most of them are single. ”

Liu Xie asked: "Now that the Han is very wealthy, it is not a problem to settle a few of you, so are you willing to go back?" ”

Shi Jun said: "Of course I am willing to go back, but you are ......"

Liu Xie looked back at Chen Gong and motioned for him to speak up. Chen Gong said: "Shi Jie, the person in front of you is my Han Emperor!" ”

The old man muttered to himself: "Emperor of the Great Han? Why did the emperor come to this barren land? ”

Liu Xie said: "Please believe, old man, I am really the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and I came here in person to slay the dragon!" ”

The old man immediately beckoned a few people to kneel down with him and said, "The grass people see my emperor!" ”

Liu Xie dismounted, personally picked up the old man, and said: "Uncle, please get up quickly, since we are here to slay the dragon, we need to know more about this dragon, can you tell me?" ”

The old man said: "Yes, yes, the old man knows everything, and he has no end to what he says, just ask, Your Majesty." ”

Liu Xie told the army to withdraw from the town and garrison outside.

Shi Ji took Liu Xie and others to his residence, and asked people to prepare food for Liu Xie and others, and began to introduce this flying and fire-breathing dragon.

"...... Twenty-One Years Ago"

"21 years ago," Liu Xie asked in surprise, "Are you sure it was 21 years ago?" ”

The reason why Liu Xie was surprised was because he was 22 years old this year, and he was born exactly 21 years ago, and that year was the fourth year of Guanghe, 181 AD. But in this nameless town of Shiji, the residents don't know what age it is because they are isolated from the world.

Shi Ji said: "Yes, I remember very clearly, it was 21 years ago, suddenly a dragon came to our Shijia Town, it can fly, it can breathe fire, it has a pair of big wings, and it drags a long tail. ”

It turned out that since Liu Xie was born, everything was planned, he was born, and Long came here, waiting for a showdown with him 21 years later.

Liu Xie said: "Boss, you are slow, I will roughly draw it for you, do you think it is such a dragon?" ”

After that, he asked his entourage to take a pen and paper and drew a sketch of a western dragon, and Shi Jun pointed to the drawing and said, "Yes, this is such a dragon." ”

(End of chapter)