That night, no matter how Laifu asked, the child remained silent, and no matter how Laifu tried to lure him with the naan in his hand, it had no effect. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe child is very thin and has a very large head. The clothes made Laifu feel strange, there were vague traces of Han clothes. In particular, the belt around the waist, although it has been remodeled, the decoration on it is still there.

At dawn, the child did not run away. He should know that even if he ran out, there would be only one result, and that was to freeze to death in the ice and snow. Only by staying in the house, maybe there is still a glimmer of life, at least the stranger in front of him has no ill will towards him.

Laifu opened his eyes slightly and saw that the child was adding firewood to the fire, and Laifu coughed: "Go, help me get some water." ”

The child was very obedient, picked up half of the clay pot on the side and went out to dig up the snow. This is the easiest way to show that this child is not stupid, otherwise it would not be easy to learn Chinese with the heads of people in the Western Regions.

The clay pot was placed by the fire, waiting for the snow inside to melt, and Rifle asked, "What's your name?" ”

The child glanced at Laifu: "Langri! ”

"Langri, good name, what about your family?"

"Dead!"

"Oh, so you live here alone?"

The child nodded.

"Who taught you your Chinese?"

The child looked up at Laifu again: "Are you Han?" ”

Rifle smiled and looked up and down at himself. He wore a fur coat, long boots, and a scimitar from the Western Regions at his waist. The kid slave sniffed twice: "It doesn't taste the same." ”

"Hahaha......" Rifle laughed, and threw the child a naan cake: "You are a smart child, since there is no one to take care of you, why don't you follow me?" At least you can eat enough in this cold and snowy place. ”

The child was only interested in eating his own naan, and had no interest in the words of the blessing. Laifu smiled helplessly: "It's still an assertive child, okay, I should go, since you don't want to follow me, then you stay, I still have a few naan cakes here, and I gave them to you, I hope that when I come back, you won't be starved to death." ”

The snow outside the house was very dazzling, and it hurt to get the light into the eyes. Laifu took out the pair of glasses made of crystal that Su Ren gave him and put it on his head, and the outside of the glasses was brushed with a thick layer of black ink, and I don't know what method Su Ren used to make the black ink stick to the glasses without falling off, and there should have been something like gum in the ink.

Laifu's war horse was already full, and he rolled on the ground to sweep away the fatigue of these days, rubbing his big head against Laifu's chest. While he was saddle the war horse, the boy came to Laifu and stared at Laifu with a pair of small eyes.

Laifu smiled at the child: "I don't have anything to eat, and the nearest city is also seventy or eighty miles away, and you can't go to that place if you give you money." ”

"Are you looking for those Han Chinese?" The child suddenly asked this question, and Laifu was overjoyed.

"Have you seen them?"

The child nodded: "They lived here half a year ago, and they taught me Chinese." ”

"And what about them now?"

The child shook his head: "I don't know, when I left, they said that they would go to the Yueshi country, but I don't know if they have arrived." ”

There are still 3,600 miles from the desolate Hanhai to the Yue Clan, which is not a long distance, but this place in the Western Regions is changing at any time. Wind and sand are the biggest enemy, even the most brave people, once trapped by wind and sand, the best result is to become a dry corpse. The Han mission led by Zhang Qian was so large that the horse thieves didn't have to worry about it, but no one could resist the weather.

Reaching out and touching the child's head twice, Lai Fufei got on the horse. The boy looked up at Rifle: "I can show you the way!" ”

Laifu smiled, stretched out a hand to grab the child's collar, and lifted the child onto his warhorse. The wide fur was pulled forward, and Lang Sun was completely wrapped around his chest. The war horse raised its hooves and left a long trail of horseshoe prints on the snow. Don't worry, these horseshoe prints will be found, because the wind is already rising, and it won't be long before the wind and snow will bury all the horseshoe prints.

Su Ren shivered, the winter in the Western Regions is too cold, no matter how thick you wear, the cold west wind can always find a place on your body that can't be covered by clothes like a knife. Standing at the door for a while, his hands and feet were already a little numb, and he couldn't help but move his feet back and forth to keep warm. It is said that the people who froze to death were all smiling, but Su Ren saw that the beggars who were pulled out of the cart had hideous faces one by one, and there was not a single smiling face.

Hawking has an ice skate hanging on his head, and when he runs back from a rocky slope, everyone will be frozen, and only Hawking's two-pole will also open the cloak, so that the cold wind blows directly to his chest, showing that his heroism is not annoying.

"How?" Without waiting for Gou Tianming to get off the horse, Su Ren opened his mouth to ask.

Gou Tianming shook his head: "Liu Hong's movements are very fast, and by the time we found the trail and chased past, the people had already left, but according to our observations, there were at least seven or eight thousand people living in the camp on the rocky slope, and the hunters who were good at tracking did not find the direction of retreat." ”

"Seven or eight thousand? It seems that this Liu Hong can be said to be a mixed wind and water in the Western Regions. ”

"Another thing, there are no traces of women and children in Liu Hong's camp, I guess this Liu Hong may have gathered a nearby horse thief, only the horse thief has no family on the Gobi Desert."

"Oh? Hehe! Su Ren said with a smile as he walked inside: "Liu Hong seems to be a little self-aware, and he doesn't plan to stay here for a long time, since that's the case, let him go, send someone to release the news that there is a group of people outside the city who have stayed in the rocky slope, and the matter of tracking down Liu Hong is left to the Mo family to do, and they are professional in doing these things." ”

Gou Tianming nodded: "Understood!" ”

Su Ren glanced back at Hawking, frowned, and said, "Okay, don't pretend to be pitiful, you still untie your cloak on horseback riding in winter, who do you think you are?" What should I do if it's freezing out on such a cold day? Mr. Chunyu is not here! ”

Hawking smiled and came to Su Ren's side: "It's still the eldest brother who cares about me, I'm in good health, it's okay!" ”

"Lao Huang, let people prepare hot water and ginger soup, the brother who came back must take a hot bath and drink ginger soup before he can sleep, the weather in this ghost place is too cold, I have run such a long way, and the cold in my body is too heavy to go."

The inn where Su Ren lives has always been the object of key surveillance. The news that Hawking and Gou Tianming took people out of the city for three days soon reached the ears of Mo Cong and Shao Weng. As for the movements of these people, some people have already made a detailed report. The rocky slope is not far from Qianni City, where 8,000 people are stationed, which makes Shao Weng surprised.

"Brother Mo, do you think those people will be Su Ren's backhand? Eight thousand Han troops can attack cities in the Western Regions, and a small place like Thousand Mud City and the military horses of Shanshan Kingdom are not the opponents of eight thousand tigers and wolves! ”

Mo Cong nodded, the movements in his hands have not stopped, since he drank the roasted tea of Shu County, Mo Cong was very fascinated by this natural taste, and he felt that something was wrong if he didn't drink it for a day: "Eight thousand soldiers and horses may not be Su Ren's, even if the Han Emperor agrees, the Huns don't want eight thousand soldiers and horses to enter the Western Regions, from Chang'an to Qianni City, it is impossible for more than a thousand miles and eight thousand people not to be discovered." ”

"Who's that? In addition to Su Renzaimen, who else has such a ability? ”

Mo Cong turned around and asked Mo Yu, "What did those people from the butcher's family say?" ”

Mo Yu said: "The butcher has been killed, everyone in the family has left, and I don't know what is left, and the chubby Han man has not been found, it seems that he disappeared in an instant!" The old man who sold firewood and the widow who had half-closed the door were gone, and the nearby residents did not know where they had gone. ”

"Hey!" Mo Cong sighed: "It's still the old man's carelessness, I didn't expect that the few people Su Ren sent to deliver the letter have problems, it seems that these people should be in the same group as the butcher, and they are also related to the eight thousand people in the rocky slope, and immediately ordered the shadow department to make every effort to investigate, the old man now wants to know who is behind the butcher!" ”

At the beginning of winter, there was a snowfall, but the snow did not melt for a long time. The snow that has not been cleaned becomes an ice skate when stepped on, and you need to be careful when walking on it. The three horsemen in front of him were thrown and turned over on their backs, so Laifu could only dismount and lead the horses to the city step by step. According to Langri, this city should be the capital of Yanqi.

It is not so much the capital of Yanqi, but the line of the child servant Du Wei under the command of the king of the Xiongnu. Yanqi City is built on the mountain, and Yanqi Mountain is located in the west, which just blocks the cold wind blowing from the west and makes it warm. Most of the Yanqi people are Hui people, known as Hui Hui, and the yellow-headed Hui who are further north are brothers. The Hui of Ranyan Qi are different from the Huangtou Hui in that they believe in Buddhism that has just been introduced here.

There is a temple built at the gate of Yanqi City, although it is simple, there are many pilgrims. Monks with flowing hair, dressed in red robes, stood at the door and saluted everyone who came in. The pilgrims even knelt reverently in front of the half-human-high Buddha statue, which was almost built in the open air. Lang Ri kept staring at the pilgrims curiously, and after being discovered by the monks, he quickly turned his head.

Rifle asked, "Do you believe in this too?" ”

Lang Ri hurriedly shook his head. Laifu smiled: "If you want to see it, you can look at it generously, since they open the door to let people in, they won't stop you from looking, look at the year, that old man is still smiling at you." ”

"That's not an old man, that's a guru!"

"Good, good, Master!"

Laifu led the horse to find the inn. There are many inns in Yanqi City, but they are occupied by a large number of pilgrims, and they are full of people who ask several places. After searching for almost an hour, I found one in a secluded alley. asked for a room and a meal, and Laifu generously threw out a silver coin, and the shopkeeper immediately became extremely courteous.

After eating, he wiped his mouth, and asked the shopkeeper who poured water in a lame Western dialect. The shopkeeper didn't understand for a long time, and Lang Ri immediately played the role of a tongue man. Laifu smiled: "You ask him, is there a shop in this Yanqi City that only sells mutton soup?" ”

The shopkeeper saw that Laifu reached into his money bag, and immediately said while gesturing: "Yes, yes, yes, in the west of the city, next to the city gate, his mutton soup is a must in Yanqi, if the guest officer wants to drink, I will sell two bowls." ”

Rifle shot with another silver coin: "No, there is no need to prepare dinner, we are ready to taste it, just take care of my horses!" ”

After receiving the silver coin thrown by Fu, the shopkeeper nodded and retreated, and he could hear his son shouting loudly to feed the horses.