In the capital of the Han Dynasty, in the palace, Emperor Liu couldn't sleep well all night, Xiao Qiao was frightened all night, and when he woke up, he cried and cried, and asked the reason, and the two almost said in unison: The child had an accident on the road.

Liu Ze looked for various reasons to comfort him, and Xiao Qiao's crying stopped, but he couldn't sleep anymore. Cai Wenji was also alarmed, came to the palace of the second daughter, and asked the reason, Liu Ze said, Cai Wenji said: "The nightmare of the two sisters must not be for no reason, can the husband still remember what happened outside Luoyang City?" ”

How could Liu Ze not remember, it was something that he would never forget in his life, Xu You conspired with the Xianbei Great Wizard to kill him, so that his life was almost lost.

Cai Wenji continued: "I was in Jixian County at the time, and I had a nightmare at night, and when I woke up, I only felt cold all over my body, and my heart was beating unstoppably. Now the two younger sisters have nightmares for several nights, as the saying goes, the mother and son are connected, and the two emperors may have had an accident. Husband, think of a way. ”

Liu Ze said: "I have already sent a message to Ziyang and Fengxiao, but the distance is far away, and the information is inconvenient, so I want to get the news in a few days." ”

Cai Wenji said: "Along the way, won't the husband let people investigate?" ”

Liu Ze said: "Calculating the time, Liu Jian and Liu Qian have already arrived in the Western Regions, and we have to wait for the news." ”

Xiao Qiao said: "Let the child experience, why go to the Western Regions of Nalaoshzi, thousands of miles away, so many places in the mainland, can't the child go?" ”

Liu Ze shouted: "The current war in the Western Regions is imminent, two people have gone, they can exercise more, and other places are stable, what's the use of going?" Don't weep any more, and send out men and horses to inquire as soon as the day dawns. ”

Xiao Qiao sobbed and said, "What's the use of coming out of the capital? ”

A word woke up Liu Ze, and Liu Ze said: "I immediately sent the book to Wen Ze and asked him to find out on the spot." ”

Xu Yi saw that there was no one outside the window, and motioned to Liu Zhen, Liu Zhen said: "Listen to the voice, something was inserted in the window just now, you look carefully." ”

Xu Yi poked his head out and saw a flying knife stuck obliquely in the wooden lattice of the window, stretched out his hand and pulled it out, turned around and closed the window, and handed it to Liu Zhen. When Liu Zhen took it, there was a ball of paper on the flying knife, carefully took it off, unfolded the paper ball, and wrote a few Chinese characters on it: The person you are looking for is in the reeds in the north of the city.

Liu Zhen was taken aback, who is the other party? How do you know who you're looking for? How did you know that you were in this inn? And you know where you are? A series of questions swept through Liu Zhen's heart.

Zhang Hu said: "Prince, our whereabouts have been exposed, and we don't know who the other party is." ”

Yang Fu said: "Did the other party deliberately confuse us, divide my hands, and break each one?" ”

Liu Zhen woke up from her thoughts and said loudly: "If the other party has malicious intentions, how can he remind us? No matter what, I have to go to the north of the city. ”

Zhang Hu shouted: "Be careful of deception. ”

Liu Zhen said: "I can't take care of it, Zhang Hu, you go and select two hundred people to go with me, and the rest will stay at the inn to protect Shopkeeper Yang." ”

Zhang Hu said: "Why should the prince take the risk himself, just let his subordinates go and check it." ”

Liu Zhen said: "They are my own brothers, if I don't go, this heart will be uneasy." ”

Zhang Hu was helpless, so he selected people, prepared enough bows and crossbows and arrows, and each of them carried several gunpowder bags and several ropes, and went to the city gate. There is only one avenue that runs through the east and west of the city, the north and south are swamps, and there is not even a city gate, Zhang Hu spent a lot of money to find a guy from the inn and let him lead the way.

When they came to the west gate, the officers and soldiers guarding the city saw so many people, holding torches high, cowardly in their hearts, and bluffing: "There is an order from above, it is strictly forbidden to go out of the city at night." ”

Zhang Hu shouted: "Who is the head of you here?" ”

A sleepy-eyed man came to him, rubbed his eyes and said, "I am, I said everyone, don't embarrass us errands, let's go back and rest and leave early tomorrow morning." ”

Zhang Hu said: "I don't know who you are under the jurisdiction of? ”

The leader said cautiously, "Of course, we are under the jurisdiction of the king of Khotan. ”

Zhang Hu said: "Who does the king of Khotan listen to?" ”

"This, it seems to be the long history of the Western Regions of the Great Han Dynasty."

"Okay, what do you think this is?" Zhang Hu flipped his hand and showed a waist card.

The leader watched for a long time by the light of the fire, how can a small leader of the Elite City recognize it? Zhang Hu said: "I am the commander of the Han Imperial Forest Army, I have come to the Western Regions on business, there is something important tonight, open the city gate quickly." ”

The leader said: "I don't know if this brand is true or not, this lord, the villain is just a city gate leader, and there are only thirty brothers under him. ”

Seeing that the leader was verbose, Liu Zhen threw out a bag from his side and said loudly, "Catch it." I have something important to do when I get out of the city, and this bit of silver will be given to your subordinates, if you don't know each other again, don't blame us for turning our faces and being ruthless. ”

The leader weighed it for a moment, smiled and said, "If you did this earlier, it will be all right, brothers, open the city gates." ”

Zhang Hu spent so much time on his lips, not as good as Liu Zhen's silver, he hated the little leader so much that he bit his teeth, glared at the little leader angrily, and followed Liu Zhen out of the city.

Liu Zhen said to the guy at the inn: "You only need to point out the path, and you don't need to lead the way in front." ”

The man was overjoyed, and stumbled and said: "Follow the city wall, less than two miles north, it is the north of the city wall, and look for it along the root of the city wall." Tonight, one must guard against mosquitoes, and the other must pay attention to your feet, this swamp is evil, and there are many poisonous snakes. ”

As soon as she heard about the poisonous snake, Liu Zhen was anxious, if her two brothers and a thousand guards were really in the swamp, her lives would be difficult to protect. According to the mood of patience, two hundred people opened a long line, slowly searched, and after walking a short distance, one of them shouted: "Look, the reeds here have been trampled." ”

When Liu Zhen came to take a closer look with a torch, she saw a crooked path leading to the depths of the reeds. Asking people to call their fellows, Liu Zhen asked, "Are the people in the city walking through the reeds at will?" ”

The guy said, "How so? Even in the middle of the day, no one dared to approach this reed, and it was rumored that evil spirits were haunted inside. ”

When Liu Zhen heard this, she knew that something was wrong, and immediately said: "Anyone who is light and clever, come with me." So saying, he took the torch and entered it proudly.

Zhang Hu didn't hold it, Liu Zhen had already walked a long way, so he had to arrange for a few people to answer outside, and then entered the reeds.

Liu Zhen didn't have a score in her heart, holding a torch in one hand, while holding the foot crossbow with arrows in her hand, and a few people behind her were holding big knives, and they followed suit. Strange to say, it is said to be a swamp, and so many people walk up to it, but they feel that the ground under their feet is solid, and there is no feeling of sinking. Liu Zhen knew that this was done on purpose, and that there were either wooden stakes underneath, or wooden planks were laid and soil was sprinkled on them, so that they couldn't be seen at all.

The mosquitoes saw the firelight, and the black pressure pounced, and the reed roots under their feet made a slight noise from time to time, which was the creature in the swamp, seeing the firelight, and was vibrated by the crowd, and quietly slipped away. After walking for about half an hour, moaning and groaning came from time to time, Liu Zhen's ears were amazing, she listened sideways for a moment, and immediately quickened her pace.

Liu Zhen walked hundreds of steps quickly, the faint smell of realgar mixed with the smell came, the moaning and groaning of people became clearer and clearer, Liu Zhen took a few arrow steps, and his eyes suddenly opened up, a large piece of reeds fell on the ground, and the reeds were lying full of people.

Liu Zhen was anxious and shouted loudly: "Liu Jian, Liu Qian, are you here?" ”

A weak voice rang out, "Who are you?" Hey, it's big brother, why are you here? ”

Liu Zhen walked quickly to the man, and when she looked at it in the firelight, who was it if it wasn't Liu Jian? Liu Zhen cried with joy, hugged Liu Jian and said, "What's going on? Brother, are you hungry, thirsty or not? What about Liu Qian? ”

Liu Jian said with difficulty: "Liu Qian next to me, he may be unconscious." ”

Liu Zhen took out the water bag from her arms, threw it to Liu Jian, and hugged Liu Qian again, "Brother Qian, wake up, big brother has saved you." ”

Liu Qian was still asleep, Liu Zhen flexed his index finger and hit Liu Qian's person fiercely, Liu Qian sighed and woke up, Liu Zhen snatched the water bag from Liu Jian's hand and said to Liu Qian: "Don't talk, drink saliva quickly." ”

Zhang Hu and the others were already busy, and Liu Zhen asked loudly: "Zhang Hu, can you send someone back to the city?" ”

Zhang Hu said: "Go directly over the city wall and go to the inn to call someone." ”

Liu Zhen saw that the two brothers were not worried about their lives, so they hurriedly went to treat the others, and soon after, the brothers in the city pulled the cart over, and it took a long time to move a thousand people to the city.

Liu Zhen asked Liu Jian, and Liu Jian said: "Big brother, after I went to bed with my brothers, I woke up and was in this place. After waking up, my body was soft, and I didn't need half of my strength, so I had to lie down, so for three days, I had to face the ground when I was thirsty, and I had to take a few breaths of damp earth. Some of the brothers didn't care much, so they drank the sewage from the swamp. ”

Liu Zhen said: "It's good to be alive, my brother will definitely find an enemy for you and swear to kill him." ”

Liu Jian said with a smile: "It's better to get some food quickly, and the matter of revenge will be talked about later." ”

Liu Zhen saw that all the people who fell to the ground were carried away, and her anger swelled, and she raised her head to the sky and roared. By this time it was already dawn, and the whistling startled the birds in the swamp in all directions. Liu Zhen turned around, and when he looked up, on the city wall, a beautiful figure was staring at him. Liu Zhen's heart was shocked, and she said secretly: Why is her?

The figure on the city wall saw Liu Zhen staring, turned around, and floated down the city. Liu Zhen was stunned in her heart, why can't you get along with my brother?