At noon on the second day, Li Mao went to the princess Xian'an to resign, last night the noble lady surnamed Wang, was a palace maid in the Daming Palace, Princess Xian'an married the grassland, she also came to the grassland as a dowry, over the years she followed the princess Xian'an to marry four khans, gave birth to three sons and three daughters.

Li Mao is not familiar with her, but he is more familiar with her nephew, and the two even used to be brothers-in-law, and her nephew's name is Wang Xun.

Xiao Ru had already changed into Uighur clothes, and as the female official in front of the princess, Xiao Ru was ordered to go out to meet Li Mao.

When they met on this occasion, they both felt very embarrassed, Li Mao smiled at her, Xiaoru smiled back, and then said what should be said, and Li Mao also solemnly returned the salute.

Xiao Ru led the way in front, and Li Mao followed behind, it was a short distance away, but it seemed to be separated by the end of the world.

No one mentioned last night's incident again, after Li Mao said the meaning of his resignation, Princess Xian'an explained a few more words, called Wang here, and said to Li Mao: "Speaking of which, you are still related to each other, but you have become an enemy." ”

She turned to Wang again: "Maohua is just a chess piece in the hands of the Ziqing Li family, the chess piece can't help himself, it is the Ziqing Li family brothers who forced your nephew to death, people kill people with knives, and those who are killed should hate the person with the knife, but they should not hate the knife that kills." ”

Wang said: "The concubine understands. ”

Princess Xian'an turned to Li Mao again: "Wang Xun's wife, you have to settle it properly, since you are an official of the imperial court, you must not help the people to abuse and do those things that hurt the heavens and reason." ”

Li Mao said: "The princess's teachings are remembered by the ministers. ”

Princess Xian'an stood up and said to Wang: "You may not have been here for a long time, accompany me to the back garden for a walk, and we will talk in private." ”

Since it was a private conversation, it was naturally difficult for others to follow, and after bidding farewell to Princess Xian'an, Xiaoru glanced at Li Mao, walked along the corridor to the backyard, and Li Mao followed.

No one enshrined in the inner tent is a fool, the princess's purpose in luring Mrs. Wang away is to create an opportunity for Xiaoru and Li Mao to meet in private, Xiaoru leads her lover to the backyard, who dares to stop it?

When he arrived at a grape trellis, Li Mao saw that there was no one around, and pounced forward, but Xiaoru giggled and dodged. Li Mao said: "Hugh wants to be hippie and smiley, the fire is burning, come and put out the fire." Xiaoru said: "Liar, where did you go last night, do you still have fire in your stomach?" Li Mao praised: "That's good, Xiaoru has no teacher and has already entered the role." ”

took Xiaoru into his arms, Xiaoru struggled for a while, and in turn hugged him tightly.

After saving for a while, Xiaoru raised her face and said with tears in her eyes: "You must remember to pick me up." Li Mao also shed tears in anger, and he solemnly replied: "Don't worry, I will definitely ride a tall horse across the grassland and welcome you back." ”

suddenly remembered that there was still something to do, and asked Xiaoru where the battlefield was.

Xiao Ru punched Li Mao twice, burst into tears, and took Li Mao's hand to a cool house in the depths of the garden, which was a place where Uighur nobles often spent their summers.

During the long summer months, the nobles sat in their rooms and talked about literature, drank fine wine, enjoyed the songs and dances of beautiful women, or played a game of ball on the green lawn, sunbathed comfortably, and had their own fresh fruits and vegetables in the vegetable garden, and the table had rare and exotic fruits from all over the world.

On such a day, Li Maowen suddenly yearned for it.

However, the season is not right at the moment, the cool room has not yet been activated, and there is no one around.

Pushing open the door of the cool room, Li Mao's eyes lit up, and the beds were being laid in accordance with the habits of the Tang people, and a product was also Li Mao's favorite and familiar.

Naturally, Xiaoru's strength can't do this, this is the kindness released by Princess Xian'an.

Keeping Xiaoru by the princess's side seemed to be the right move, and Princess Xian'an accepted Xiaoru and Li Mao as a person, and with this channel, confidential information about the highest Uighur levels would continue to flow to Chang'an in the future.

When the wind and rain stopped, no one would get up, let alone mention the word "go". But no one can escape the pressure of time.

Xiaoru got up first, put on her clothes, sat in front of the dresser and looked at the bamboo outside the window in a daze, this bamboo was brought by Princess Xian'an from Chang'an, unaccustomed to water and soil, long out of shape, thin and yellow.

Li Mao hugged Xiaoru from behind with his bare back, arched her ears with his nose and asked, "What do you want?" ”

"I'm afraid I'll be like this bamboo, thin and yellow one day."

"No, it won't."

"Remember to pick me up early."

"Hmm." Li Mao nodded, his eyes were a little red. Xiao Ru gently stroked the knotted muscles on his arm, and suddenly lost his temper and said, "Put on your clothes and go, go, go." Don't lie here to my tears. ”

Li Mao was stunned and finally fled.

After a grand farewell ceremony, Li Mao embarked on the return journey, the trip was finally successful, but Li Mao was not interested at all, his mind has been haunting Xiao Ru's expression when he drove him out of the cool room, that expression, just think about it is heartbreaking.

Li Mao tried to dispel this scene from his mind, but he couldn't do so, he could only anesthetize himself with exciting hunting and strong milk wine.

The beauty of the grasslands in early summer is thrilling, and last year the nobles of the Uighur royal court were busy fighting for power and profit, and the heavens were beautiful again, and the tribes of the grasslands spent a rare harvest without starvation.

People's memories of suffering are often not hostile to happy memories, just after a good year, people seem to forget the difficulty of surviving on the grassland, Cang Liao knows the etiquette, the grassland people who are full of food are open-minded, very enthusiastic about visitors from afar.

Li Mao asked Qin Mo to put away the golden umbrella given by the Tengli Yehe Khan, with this golden umbrella, all the tribes along the way that submitted to the Uighur Khan had to provide food and drink for free, and if they violated it, they would offend the authority of the wolf master, and the end would be very miserable.

Put away the golden umbrella, as a passerby, Li Maoxing walked, saw what he wanted to see, heard what he wanted to hear, and gained a lot along the way.

Half a month later, Li Mao's horse team appeared in the north of Yinshan Mountain, carrying a map and a letter in his arms, the letter was written by Xu Wusi, and the map was drawn by Li Mao himself according to Xu Wusi's description.

Li Mao was going to a place called Shattered Peak Fort.

Broken peak fort was originally called Sui Fort, is the military fortress built here in the former Sui Daye period, Sui died Tang Xing, this place was once abandoned, during the Kaiyuan period, the edge of the edge set up nine towns to make the degree, so the geographical location is very important, and re-activated, renamed Broken Peak Village.

Anshi rebellion, the border army into the customs to quell the chaos, broken peak village fell into the hands of the party people, after several changes of hands, rise and fall several degrees, about ten years ago by a group of displaced people from the Tang Dynasty Shengzhou occupied, according to the mountain to build a fort, changed the village to a fort, renamed the broken peak fort. (Dissertation College)