In the blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the past few days of the end of the month, Ma Xuan and the Beiting Ya soldiers did not go out to hang out anymore, but were busy in the Beiting Jinyuan Courtyard. Because he received the holy decree a few days ago, in order to show the prestige of the country, the saint decided to let the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate sacrifice the heavenly horse in court at the Yuan Day Great Court Meeting. This is a rare opportunity to show the military might of Beiting in front of the saint and the other capital protectors, Ashina Yang deputy capital protector attaches great importance to this matter, and has repeatedly discussed with Ma Lu, constantly revising and improving the process and details of the dedication to Tianma, and striving for perfection. The soldiers of the North Court are all gearing up, ready to put on a good show. You must know that the country of Datang is bustling with hundreds of millions of people, and how many people can see the face of the sky! What's more, this is to show martial arts and heroism in front of the saints on behalf of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, which is simply green smoke on the ancestral tomb!

When you are busy, you don't feel that the sky is full of stars. Ma Lan was concentrating on wiping the armor of Mingguang, when he suddenly heard a burst of noise on Chengtian Street, and when he looked up, he found that the night had shrouded Chang'an City, and there was no crescent moon in the starry sky. "It's already time!" Ma Lan glanced at the moment.

"Boss, the team of the people is on Chengtian Street!" The skinny monkey ran over happily.

"Chang'an's exorcism must be very lively!" "Boss, let's go out and have a look." The tooth soldiers began to talk nonsense, yearning for the noise in the streets.

"On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Jin Wu can't help it, it's rare to catch up with Chinese New Year's Eve in Chang'an, so you guys go and have fun." Ashina Yang once again showed his sensible and gentle side.

"Thank you, vice guard!" Ma Lan led the tooth soldiers of his team to make a gesture together, but his gaze deliberately avoided Ashina Yang's eyes that looked as warm and translucent as jade. On the way from Tingzhou to Chang'an, Ma Lan has always had a good impression of the elegant and chic deputy capital protector, and he is even a little ashamed of himself in his heart, feeling that he is really a country village man, compared with the noble Ashina deputy capital guard, he is like a cloud.

But these feelings, as bright and clear as the stars, were clouded with an unpredictable fog on the night of the receiving decree. When the envoy came to deliver the edict that night, Ashinayang, who was in charge of the overall situation on this trip, disappeared and did not know where he went. Ma Lan led people to search for a long time, and only then did he find Ashina Yang who was drinking flower wine in Pingkangfang. Ma Lan has no dissatisfaction with drinking flower wine, after all, this is human nature and even the habit of some men. What Ma Lan really cared about was that when he helped Ashina Yang into the carriage, he was keenly aware that the two horses pulling the carriage were tired and sweaty......

"It's a pity we don't have masks?" A tooth soldier's somewhat disappointed muttering broke Ma Lan's deep thought, and Ashina Yang had already turned back to his room.

"Haha, I thought of it a long time ago. The day before yesterday, when I followed the leader to the West Market, I bought some masks by the way. "The thin monkey is very proud, Chang'an and his party, he, a native of Chang'an, tried his best to perform, so that his popularity among the tooth soldiers has increased.

"Go along! Let's go! The giggling tooth soldiers took all kinds of masks from the thin monkey's hands, bypassed the burning courtyard in the vestibule of the Jinju Yuan, and walked towards Chengtian Street.

Ma Lu also grabbed a blue-faced ghost mask and blended into the ranks of the carnival on the street. At the front of the procession, there are women and mothers wearing masks of old men and old women; Surrounding the man and the mother were hundreds of guards wearing children's masks; The rest of the team wore ghost masks with blue fangs and acted as targets for expulsion by the puppet and the mother.

Chang'an implements a strict curfew system on weekdays, and it is forbidden to wander outside the square without an order. This makes the nights of Chinese New Year's Eve and Shangyuan especially lively, and the entire Chang'an City has become a huge sea of joy.

In the crowd, Ma Ling gradually separated from the tooth soldiers, surrounded by people wearing strange masks, but he couldn't tell who the deity under the mask was.

The wide Chengtian Avenue is bustling with elated "demons and ghosts", and the residents of Chang'an City are immersed in the joy of Chinese New Year's Eve.

When the romance is prosperous, it is inevitable to be sad and painful. At the gate of Honglu Temple, the thin and sluggish Ainise, in the noisy sound of gongs and drums, quietly looked at the "demons dancing" on Chengtian Street, but what he felt was only the biting chill of Chang'an City.

Anicee unconsciously wrapped herself in the white fox fur on her body, and her thoughts flew to distant Damascus once again. Anicee especially likes the weather in Damascus, where the summer is not too hot under the Mediterranean breeze, but the winter is very warm, not as cold as Chang'an.

Although Anicee was young and simple-minded, she understood the weight she was carrying at the moment. In the early days of the Prophet's propagation of Allah's will, there were people in the family who opposed the Prophet and joined other nobles to drive the Prophet out of Mecca and exile the Prophet in Medina. But there were also those in the family who sensed Allah's guidance and became the earliest followers of the Prophet.

The Prophet united all the people of Allah by faith, and his own ancestors, after the Prophet's ascension, inherited the Prophet's authority on the earth and were elected as the caliphs leading the believers. Soon, the family infiltrated the entire country with its power, turning the glorious position of caliph into a privilege passed down from generation to generation by the family. The Umayyad family became the royal family of the empire, with its capital in Damascus, and with the sword and sword, the light of Allah shone on the vast territories of the Two Rivers, North Africa, Spain, and Khorasan.

If the family can always hold the power of the empire, the noble-born Anicee will live a happy life for the rest of his life. Served by Egyptian eunuchs and Spanish maids, he grew up happily in a royal palace laden with gold and jewels, and then, when he was of the right age, married a loyal governor or minister to maintain a vast network of power for the family.

But the vast empire was not impregnable, and Shiite opponents remained a lingering shadow of the empire, who tirelessly opposed the family, insisting that the position of caliph could only be inherited by the son-in-law of the Prophet. At the same time, there are also clowns like Havalij, who jump up and down. They resorted to all kinds of violence against their families, and several of their leaders were killed at the hands of the Assassins.

The family had already suppressed the opposition through years of fierce warfare. However, when the empire defeated the Sassanid Dynasty and conquered the Khorasan region, the stubborn Persians insisted on choosing Shiism as their faith after the defeat of the country, and deliberately kept a distance from the Sunni imperial center. Abu Abu, a descendant of the Prophet's uncle. The Abbasids took the opportunity to collude with the Shiites in Persia and shake up their family's rule in Khorasan. The Hawarijites also reached out to support Abu. Abbasids.

These thieves are dressed in black, to show that they are not at odds with the white-clad family. The anti-thieves are growing stronger, and the Khorasan region has been occupied by them. The family is fighting against the thieves in the Baghdad area, but the battle is not going well. The family began to mobilize all the forces of the empire, sending members of the royal family to various regions to collect troops. Abdul? Rahman was sent to Spain, and Montzil to Egypt...... Family members have stepped forward, shouldered their responsibilities, and sworn to live and die together in the empire.

His father, Marwan II, arranged a special mission for Anice, that is, to go to the Tang Dynasty for help under the escort of elite court guards. Anicee knew a little about the Tang Dynasty, and in the process of the empire's eastward expansion, the fierce rival it met was the Tang Dynasty. The relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Sassanid Dynasty was very good, and the Tang people were also constantly marching westward, and had great influence in Tocharo, Khorasan and other riverine regions. More than 30 years ago, the famous imperial general Gu Taibai had a skirmish with the Tang army, and the invincible Great Food Elite soldiers failed to defeat the Tang army. The family began to realize that the Tang Dynasty was different from Egypt, Spain, and Eastern Rome in the West, and was a great power comparable to or even higher than the empire.

Later, the Tang supported their vassal state of the Turgish, and fought several battles with the empire in the riverine region, but the empire did not gain the upper hand. This forced the family to slow down the pace of expansion in the East, stopping at Samarkand and the Wuhu River.

The great martial arts of the Tuqi Shi people forced the empire to ostensibly ease relations with the Tang Dynasty, and constantly sent envoys to Chang'an to meet the Tang Emperor; Privately, the empire began to use soft methods, constantly infiltrating the Hanzhong region, and established certain ties with the forces of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, Tubo, and Tuqishi.

The family originally planned to gradually plot against the countries in the river and compete with the Tang Dynasty for the river again, but the sudden rebellion in the Khorasan region disrupted the family's plan. Abu. While fighting with his family, the Abbasids actually put their hands into the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu. The gradual strengthening of the anti-thief forces forced the family to consider turning enemies into friends and winning the support of Datang, and this task fell on their immature shoulders.

traveled more than 10,000 miles along the way, and was noticed by the thieves on the way, and was chased and killed by the assassins, and the guards were killed one after another. Outside Broken Leaf City, she was almost caught by the thieves, but thanks to Saiyifudin's desperate resistance, she was able to meet the Tang Army and be rescued.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Anice's melancholy face. That cute little boy in China, his eyes are so dark and bright. He's really funny, and when he was on the run, he actually wanted to block the arrows for himself......

"Princess, it's okay left and right, why don't we find a mask and join in?" Saiifdin, who had been observing the ritual for a long time, keenly grasped the subtle changes in Anice's expression and made suggestions.

"Well, I'm going to wear the most scary mask and make everyone scared of me." Anice's suppressed innocence is finally revealed.