The eighth day of the fifth month of the second year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is advisable to make alliances, sacrifices, travel, and meet relatives and friends. Do not go out of the fire, break the ground, and dig wells. Five ghosts northwest.

Out of the Suzaku Gate, the group of white chess pieces put on black cloaks, covered their heads, and mixed their bodies with the night before dawn.

When Kavard and his servant Haz saw Bai Qi and the others coming out, they jumped on their horses and ran out of Chang'an City with them.

At some point, the eastern sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and occasionally electric snakes could be seen scurrying through the dark clouds, and dull thunder came from the distant horizon. Thick clouds slowly drifted into the sky above everyone, and all the stars hid behind the clouds, and the dawn became dark again.

The wind rose between heaven and earth.

The willow trees on the edge of the bridge swayed in the dark, and many of the willow branches had been almost broken.

The eldest grandson stood not far away in Nanpu, and behind her were the two brothers, Li Chengqian and Li Tai.

Ying Niang commanded several palace maids who were nervously preparing the ancestral things, a small wooden square altar, on which a few simple offerings were placed, and incense was lit.

Bai Qi put down the black hood, turned over and dismounted, and saluted the eldest grandson from a distance.

The eldest grandson lit three sticks of incense and handed them to the white chess. White took it, bowed respectfully three times to the altar, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner.

The eldest grandson walked up and carefully sorted out Bai Qi's clothes, and said with a smile like a mother bidding farewell to her son on the expedition: "In the Han Dynasty, Li Guang led the army out of the Western Regions, and the prime minister was the ancestral road, and he was sent to Weiqiao. Now that you are on the march, for various reasons, you can't be treated as you deserve like a normal soldier, so I, an old woman, have the cheekiness to come here to see you off! ”

The eldest grandson smiled and broke off a willow branch on his head, then took out a small cloth bag from his arms and handed it to Bai Qi: "You are going, the road is far away, far away from your homeland." This bag of dirt was specially selected by me from Chang'an and Taoyuan Village, you take it with you, and when you feel homesick, take it out and take a look. ”

The white chess tiger was red-eyed, and he lowered his head and took the willow branch and the small cloth bag.

Li Chengqian walked over with a smile, handed a glass of wine to Bai Qi, and then instructed the palace maid to fill every soldier of the Cloud Breaking Army with wine.

The eldest grandson held a wine glass in his hand, accompanied by Li Chengqian and Li Tai, walked in front of the soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army, raised his glass, and the majesty of the eternal years was all displayed at this moment.

"Soldiers, please drink this glass of wine, break through the thorns and thorns on the westward journey, the old woman and Your Majesty are waiting for your victorious return in Chang'an!"

White led the group up, drank the wine in the cup, and then slammed it to the ground.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai drank all the wine in the cup as the eldest grandson drank it, and the two walked up and punched Bai Qi and Changsun Chong's chests respectively.

"Take care! Be careful along the way! ”

With red eyes, Bai Qi bent down again and saluted the eldest grandson and others who came to see him off, turned around and trotted all the way back to his horse, jumped on the horse, looked back at Chang'an City in the dark, took a long breath, put the hood back on, and turned the horse's head suddenly.

"Let's go!"

The sound of "tick tick tick" sounded, and hundreds of horses passed through the Baqiao in an orderly manner, stepped on the road outside Chang'an City that had been dried, raised the wind and dust all the way, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

"This should be to take the enemy's blood, and be brave and ambitious to pick Kunlun!" A strong wind suddenly blew between heaven and earth, and the passionate sound of white chess pieces that had gone away was heard in the wind.

"Crackle!" There was a loud bang in the sky, and a long white snake cut through the sky, tearing a huge crack in the clouds. Immediately afterwards, the thunder rolled, as if the gods were rolling thunder hammers on the clouds, rolling from the edge of the sky, and the sound became smaller and smaller. Suddenly, as if something had exploded, a loud roar of thunder shattered the entire dark dead silence at once.

Then, a long serpent cut through the darkness and illuminated the earth silvery white.

"Bang la", a rainstorm came to the earth so suddenly.

The eldest grandson, who was sitting in the carriage, lifted the corner of the curtain and looked in the direction of their departure, but saw that the sky and the earth were vast, and occasionally lightning and thunder illuminated the darkness, but he could no longer see the way they left.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai let themselves rain heavily and rode on both sides of the carriage to escort their mother back.

"Lord Bai, the rain is too heavy, do you want to find a place to shelter from the rain first?" Kavard ran to White's side and shouted loudly, his eyes squinting at a slit that could only be opened.

Bai Qi looked up at the dark environment around him, let the rain hit his face, and said loudly: "Prince Kavad, we can't stop now, and when we get to the predetermined place, we will camp over there to rest!" ”

Bai Qi and Cheng Chumo have already agreed on a time, and he will wait for the arrival of his people on Longyou's side. For the Cloud Breakers, time is of the essence, and unless there is an irresistible factor such as a landslide, the march will never be delayed by this weather.

Seeing that White and the others had no intention of stopping, Kavard had no choice but to return to the middle of the group and follow them closely.

The rain in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and the soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army fastened their backpacks behind them and rode their horses in the wind and rain.

Longyou Road, close to the border between Datang and Tuyuhun.

Liangzhou, the capital of Yongliang, is an important town on the Silk Road and the gate of the Hexi Corridor. "The first line is in the vast desert and the throat of the five counties" is the land of Liangzhou.

On the evening of the fifth day after leaving Chang'an, Bai Qi and his party finally arrived at the area of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion on Longyou Road. After several days of hard work over the mountains and mountains, not to mention the soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army, even the horses under their seats looked very tired, panting for breath, and shaking their heads irritably from time to time.

The flat and vast Liangzhou Mansion is staggered with cars and horses, and the people are densely populated. On the wide avenue, from time to time, there are caravans from the Western Regions or the Tang Dynasty, carrying goods in and out of Liangzhou City.

The white chess pieces broke a hundred or so people into pieces, and they entered Liangzhou City in disguise.

Bai Qi walked in the city with a group of people, and found the code left by Cheng Chumo in the corner of an inn, so he followed the code all the way to a quiet alley, and knocked on the gate of one of the courtyards that looked relatively old.

"Toot! Honk! Honk! Three unhurried knocks rang out at the door.

Soon after, a rough voice came from inside: "Who? ”

"Tofu seller!" Bai Qi replied inside: "The tofu in the west of the city that you ordered in the morning." ”

Suddenly there was a cry of surprise in the courtyard, and then someone walked out briskly from inside, and then, with a "squeak", the wooden door was opened, revealing the face of a young man.

"Xiucai, what are you reading in there?" White asked quippedly.

When Xiucai saw Bai Qi, a smile appeared on his face, and he immediately opened the door and welcomed them in: "I have been waiting for Hou Ye and Cheng Xiaoye all day long, and I am not in the mood to read a book." ”

White and the people behind him laughed.

Xiucai's original name was Shui Anyi, and he was really a Xiucai, but he didn't think about studying to gain fame, but joined the army, and was later selected to the Cloud Breaking Army. After the weekday training was over, everyone was rested, and this guy went to the data room in the camp of the Cloud Breaking Army, read all the information in it, and with his flexible mind, he was selected into the military staff.

In addition to his planning ability, but also because of the entire team of the Cloud Breaking Army that infiltrated the Western Regions, only he could quickly become proficient in the language and writing of Sassanid Persia in a short period of time after learning from Kavad, while the others were all confused.

Kavard was following behind white and laughed at Xiucai, who was very satisfied with the student.

When Xiucai saw Kavad, he also smiled at him and saluted, "Prince Kavad, please go inside and rest for a while." ”

The house is very large, with three floors inside and three floors outside, connected by pavilions and pavilions in the middle, with obvious Jiangnan water town characteristics, it should be a residence built by a wealthy man in Jiangnan, and now it has been bought by Cheng Chumo.

Cheng Chumo walked out of the tiger step from inside, and when he saw Bai Qi, he immediately laughed, grabbed his hand, dragged him into the house, and complained as he walked: "Brother, if you don't come again, Lao Tzu will really suffocate to death!" In the past few days, I have stayed in this place where the bird does not pull eggs, and I can't go anywhere, and the beak will fade out of the bird. Every time I wanted to go out, I was dragged back by this nerd. If it weren't for the sake of a brother, Lao Tzu would have knocked this guy unconscious with a punch and thrown him into the firewood room! ”

Bai Qi glanced at Xiucai, who was standing there smiling, and then at Cheng Chumo, who was in tears, withdrew the hand he was holding, and said disgustedly: "Don't be disgusted there, I know what you mean, get things ready, wait for the other brothers to come!" ”

Cheng Chumo's eyes lit up, and then he patted Bai Qi's shoulder excitedly, and said excitedly: "Brother you know me, Xiucai, quickly tell the brothers to prepare the ingredients for tonight, damn, you are blessed, the little marquis will personally cook food for you!" ”

Xiucai glanced at the white chess pieces with some surprise, and then went down and asked people to disembowel the chickens, ducks, cows, sheep and other foods that had been prepared long ago.

In the backyard of the house, Bai Qi looked at the large pile of food, glanced at Cheng Chumo, who was standing next to him and smiled proudly, and said with a wry smile: "You want to exhaust me to death!" Hurry up and help make meatballs! ”

Cheng Chumo laughed, commanded the brothers of the Cloud Breaking Army, picked up the kitchen knife, and began to beat the meatballs.

When Changsun Chong and the others arrived, they saw more than a dozen big men in the courtyard, shirtless, wielding a big knife with white flowers chopping meatballs, and a few split cutting boards were thrown next to them. More than a dozen meat blenders, that scene makes people feel horrible when they look at it.

On the other side of the courtyard, Bai Qi set up a large cauldron and was boiling mutton.

In the evening, Niu Jinda walked in from outside, still wearing armor.

Bai Qi hurriedly went up, helped Niu Jinda remove the armor, and scooped him a bowl of mutton soup.

"Boy, Your Majesty sent me to Longyou to help you, say, what are you going to do?" Niu Jinda took a sip of soup and said with satisfaction.

Bai Qi's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "Your Majesty is really wise, with Uncle Niu to help, then our pressure will not be so great!" (To be continued.) )