The walls of this desert town are just over two meters high. Shi Hu easily climbed up and entered the city, and at this moment he had already changed the costume of the Song people in the city.

There was no one on the gloomy street, and Shi Hu decided to sneak into a house and wait for an opportunity.

There was a knock on the door, and there was a rustling sound inside. An old man trembled and opened the door and looked out.

The wind was blowing, rolling up the sand and slapping against the wooden door and the old man's old face.

Under the moonlight, the figure of the old man swayed under the wind and sand, he... There are no eyeballs.

Shi Hu's back was already in a cold sweat, not only did the old man have no eyes, but even his head was pitted.

Don't say it's a ghost, even a demon doesn't look like this. They all said that they didn't do anything wrong, and they weren't afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, but now they knocked on the door of the ghost's house.

The old man looks like this, it is obviously impossible to see people. Shi Hu, who was hiding on the side, simply sneaked into the house. And when I saw that the house was in a mess, it looked like a place where someone lived, and there were white bones everywhere on the ground. It was messily placed, if it weren't for the fact that these white bones had been weathered, Shi Hu would have already begun to vomit.

By this time the old man had already entered the house and sat down on a stone slab. It's this slate, which seems to be the most valuable thing in the house. And the old man's bed, where there is a bed, is a mat with countless holes, spread on the ground.

The roof, to be better heard, actually has hundreds of holes. I can't imagine what it would have been like if it rained, maybe it was because it couldn't have rained, so the house didn't fall. But the sand had already buried half of the room.

What else is there to inquire about, it's better to leave early.

Shi Hu turned sideways and rolled out of the house, wanting to go back. After thinking about it, I turned back and wanted to go to another house to see it again.

Shi Hu let out a big hiccup, and the voice was heard by the old man.

"Young man, since you came, why did you leave again, I think the old man is more ugly than a ghost, and it scares you, right?"

After Shi Hu heard the sound, he immediately turned over and entered the house.

"Old man, I'm really sorry to disturb you! Please bear with me. ”

After saying that, he turned sideways and ran behind the old man.

"How... You still want to play hide and seek with me, a blind man, this waste! I'm too old to play. ”

"Alas!" Shi Hu sighed and said, "The yin qi here is too heavy, and I am a little timid. ”

"What are ghosts terrible about, there are more terrible things than ghosts!"

"I think the old man is also happy, and my Shihu is also happy. Walk right, sit up straight, and dare to ask the old man a few questions! ”

"Young man, you are too proud... that you who can call the shots come and speak to me! I'm afraid that there are some things that you can't do! ”

"Don't you ask me where I'm from and where I'm going?"

"Those who come from the south and those who go north, few can get out of this desert, and without my help, it is impossible for you to get out."

Under the moonlight, the old man was pacing, dragging a leg that had no flesh and only white bones.

Shi Hu pulled out his gun and pointed it at the old man, wanting to shoot, but he put it down, he remembered Mei Xiaohan's confession, and he should not act rashly.

"Okay, I promise you, call our head to talk to you."

"So, very well, I'll wait for it again!"

Back at the camp, Shi Hu looked embarrassed and explained to Mei Xiaohan what he had investigated. Mei Xiaohan said: "I don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, since that's the case, I'll take a look!" ”

After explaining that Lin Hao and Zhang Tianbao, the captain of the guards, were in charge of standing by in place, they added ten newly appointed guards to maintain order, and Mei Xiaohan was relieved to go to the old man with Shi Hu for an interview.

When he came to the old man's house, the old man had already warmed a pot of tea and placed it on a stone table, and there was no stool, so he could only sit cross-legged on the ground.

The old man took out two cups, one luminous and one wooden. put the luminous cup in front of Mei Xiaohan, and used the wooden cup himself.

"Beware of poison in the cup!" Shi Hu was a little worried.

"You shouldn't be poisonous in this cup, right?" Mei Xiaohan asked with a smile.

The old man smiled: "I have no grievances with you, why should I poison you?" ”

This tea is the famous tea of our clan, but unfortunately, there will not be many opportunities to have such a leisurely tea tasting in the future. After the old man said this, he took the wooden cup in his hand, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and took a small sip with his mouth.

"Where is the little brother, what kind of business does he do, where does he come from, and where is he going?"

Mei Xiaohan smiled and said, "A small business is not enough to say, not enough to say!"

"It seems that the little brother still doesn't trust me at all for an old guy who doesn't look like a human and a ghost doesn't look like a ghost!"

The wind suddenly became stronger, rolling up the yellow sand in the sky, and beating.

Mei Xiaohan couldn't understand how this old man survived in such an environment, he was simply an immortal Xiaoqiang!

Putting down the wooden cup, Lao Tzu told the story:

Youlan City, Fengyu City, Yunmeng City, and Sand City are four small cities built on this desert. After the fall of the Later Zhou Dynasty, some warlords with military power established these four cities here, and the outside world called the four cities desert ghost towns.

It nominally belongs to the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty, but there is not a single soldier of the Great Song Dynasty.

Another branch of the Uighurs, the leader of the Fire tribe, Abuhei, swept through the entire northern part of the sandbar region.

On the day of the destruction of Youlan City, hundreds of women were taken captive, hundreds of young men were slaughtered, and all children were taken captive.

It took only three days for the cavalry of the Fire Clan to level the entire Youlan City, and the five-hundred-year-old ancient city was reduced to ruins, with ruins everywhere.

After slaughtering all the way to the north of Youlan, the Fire Clan turned their horses around and turned south, marching all the way to Yunmeng City.

The soldiers of the Fire Clan Department were furious, and they almost wiped out the women of Yunmeng City, even the ten-year-old girl.

Three days later, Yunmeng fell into a sea of fire, the city was broken, and the city lord killed himself.

In just one month, the Fire Clan expanded its territory to hundreds of kilometers and annexed dozens of tribes, large and small.

The Fire Clan is like a bamboo, moving south and north, moving freely, and has opened a passage, which may soon invade the frontier towns of the Great Song Dynasty, and achieve the purpose of slowly encroaching.

At this moment, Fengyu City, deep in the hinterland, is still in a civil strife! The danger has come, but the infighting is still going on! Although Fengyu City is the strongest of the four cities, according to this fierce offensive of the Fire Clan, Fengyu City, a stormy city, will not be able to hold on for long.

The old man suddenly knelt on the ground with an ordinary sound, and asked the nobles to help! As long as my Fengyu City survives this difficulty, I will give horses and camels as gifts! ”

The old man untied the mask on his face, revealed his true face and said, "It's really helpless for me to put on makeup like this, otherwise I would have died a long time ago!" ”

"What is your identity?"

"I am Guo Xiao, the general of Fengyu City, because I was framed by the villain, and was given death by the city lord, I was unwilling, so I killed the guards and escaped."

"Where is Fengyu City?"

The old man pointed to the front and said: "Twenty miles ahead is Fengyu City, this city covers an area of twenty miles, it is the largest of the four cities in the desert, and the population has reached tens of thousands. ”

Mei Xiaohan never imagined that a small city covering an area of twenty miles was already the largest city among the four cities, and he didn't dare to imagine the scale of the other three cities.

The territory of a small town in Raozhou City is far more than twenty miles, and it is no wonder that there is such an allusion as Yelang's arrogance handed down.