The long road is long, and the wild fox is crying.

Where does love go, who knows that the acacia is full of roads?

The end of the world is easy to grow old, and the waning moon is as cold as a knife.

It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

Don't hold a grudge when you think of me, O I love!

My bones have your name engraved on them...... In the early morning wind, there was a faint mournful singing, and the rising sun danced gently on the beautiful Yaozhi River, like golden scales.

A caravan of a few dozen people slowly moved westward, most of them Han faces, but there was not much cargo left from the Central Plains, and the road they had traveled was too long and too long.

Today is August 15, and in the Central Plains, every household is busy celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival!

Li Xiangxian couldn't help but look at the road, a few mountains, a few waters, a few layers of wind and dust, the Central Plains has been far away, there are thousands of rivers and mountains...... They walked for nearly a year, starting from Xining Prefecture in the Great Song Dynasty, crossing the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains, passing through the Huangtou Uighurs through the Puchang Sea to Shicheng, that is, Shanshan, and then to Khotan, where the state had been destroyed for nearly a hundred years and now became the territory of the Eastern Black Khanate.

After passing Khotan, he took Shule to the east of the Green Ridge, crossed the Tianshan Mountains from Shule to the north, and arrived at the capital of the Eastern Black Khanate by the Sea of Rehai, which was near the city of Broken Leaves in the Tang Dynasty.

Then he went west from the Eight Thorns Sagon to the city of Talas, and then walked thousands of miles west from Talas before he came to the Yaozhi River.

Although most of this journey was carried out within the territory of the Black Khanate, the country still followed the ancient "two-king method". The eldest of the Khans was appointed as the Great Khan, and the second eldest was appointed as the Deputy Khan, with the Great Khan governing the Eastern Black Khanate and the Deputy Khan governing the Western Black Khanate.

More than 50 years ago, the Eastern and Western Black Khanates broke up, and the two sides fought endlessly, and the two Black Khanates implemented a feudal system, and the little Khans and the princes and nobles fought for territory in order to fight for territory, and there were constant wars.

Li Xiangxian and the others have traveled tens of thousands of miles all the way! I have seen too many scenes of tearing and killing, experienced countless hardships and dangers, and died nine times, and it is already a miracle to be able to get to this day.

Li Xiangxian's ancestors were Sogdians, and the banks of the Yaozhi River were still the main settlements of the Sogdians during the Sui and Tang dynasties, but now, Li Xiangxian couldn't help but burst into tears when he looked at it.

Since Khotan, there have been all Muslims who believe in the Qur'an, where are the followers of the God of Light?

Li Xiangxian originally thought that if he came here, to the hometown of his ancestors, he would find hope; However, after hundreds of years of vicissitudes on both sides of the river, although many Sogdians can still be seen, they have forgotten the god of light, they have long forgotten that light will eventually triumph over darkness, and they only know to go to the mosque to pray with the Koran in hand...... After the Yaozhi River is the area in the river, which is now the territory of the Western Black Khanate. The khan called himself the Peach Blossom Khan, so the Western Black Khanate was also called the Peach Blossom Khanate.

The word "peach blossom stone" means China, which originally referred to the Central Plains Dynasty, so it can be seen that although the Black Khanate converted to Yi/Silanism, it still retains a strong oriental complex in its bones.

But so what?

More than 300 years ago, Gao Xianzhi of the Tang Dynasty fought with the emerging black-clothed Abbasid Dynasty in the Talas War, and the Tang army was defeated, and since then the power of the Han people has withdrawn from the Hezhong region and has never been repeated.

The Yi/Si/Lan world is not as tolerant as the Han Chinese, it has a strong exclusivity. Manichaeism has long been intolerant here.

Li Xiangxian tried her best and inquired cautiously, hoping to find traces of the remnants of Manichaeism here, but she was disappointed again, except for Muslims or Muslims, most people didn't even know what Manichaeism was.

It was already tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, but she had to continue to go west, and she decided to go to Khorasan, where there might be a glimmer of hope.

Khorasan was once the homeland of Persia and is now part of the Seljuk Empire, and the Seljuks, like the Sogdians, were once one of the nine Zhaowu surnames and submitted to the Turks.

After the collapse of the Turks, the Oghuz tribe of the nine surnames of Zhaowu moved westward to the Chamde region in the lower reaches of the Yaozhi River; Sixty years ago, taking advantage of the Ghaznavid Dynasty's foreign wars and internal strife, the Seljuks, the head of the tribe, took the opportunity to expand their power and invaded Khorasan to the south, thus gradually rising and eventually establishing a powerful Seljuk Empire, but the Seljuks had already converted to Islam.

But Khorasan is the homeland of Persia after all, where can Li Xiangxian go except to try his luck?

In Middle-earth, the rivers flow eastward; And here, including the medicine killing river, it is all rolling westward; These are two different worlds, overwhelmingly distant; Is he okay? Do you still think of this man who traveled thousands of miles to the west?

O my lovers! When you think of me, please don't hold a grudge against ......**** Huanzhou.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qing Niang took Yahuan Xiaoai to send some fresh fruit food to the Salesian Bureau, and then hurried back, but to her disappointment, seeing that it was noon, she still didn't see Yang Yi come back.

At this time, Huanzhou is vigorously rebuilding those villages destroyed by the war, Yang Yi travels around every day, often not going home for several days, and this time he has been gone for seven days!

Qing Niang thought that he would definitely come back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but when she saw the cold and deserted appearance of her home, she couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

She ordered sickly: "Xiao Ai, you go to the camp outside the city to have a look, Sister Qing'er, she is not well, and many people are taking care of it." ”

Xiao Ai was a little worried: "But lady, you are at home alone......"

"Go ahead, I'm fine."

Xiao Ai couldn't, so he had to go out, there were many people in the camp outside the city, Yang Yi was busy building a village, and Thirteen Niang had to go to the camp on his behalf to offer condolences.

In the birdcage under the eaves, the beautiful parrot saw Qing Niang coming back and shouted happily: Qing Niang is good! Good girl!

Qing Niang changed her sleeves, took some food for it, added some water to the small cup of the birdcage, and said: "It's a pity that Xiaocui, you are not a goose, you can't help me send a letter to Brother Yang, I'm afraid he will forget that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

The parrot cared for food, and no longer answered her.

Qing Niang walked into the study alone, lying on the window with her chin propped up, the lotus leaves in the small pond outside the window have dried up, a tree of osmanthus by the pond is fragrant, and the autumn chrysanthemum in the corner of the pavilion is unappreciated, and it is lonely in the wind.

Qing Niang's eyebrows were not raised, and her eyes slowly drooped, half-covering the bright eyes of the two autumn waters.

Yang Yi, as the governor of the state, can understand that she is worried about the suffering of the people, but today is the Mid-Autumn Festival after all, and in the lonely backyard, a wisp of sorrow inevitably floats to Qingniang's heart.

She sighed leisurely, turned around and carefully studied the ink, spread out the plain paper, closed the pen and pondered for a while, and gently wrote down a beautiful line of poetry:

The red lotus fragrance remnants of the jade in autumn, the light horn Luo Shang, alone on the orchid boat.

Who in the clouds sent the brocade secretary to come, when the word goose returned, the moon was full in the west building.

Flowers float and water flows artesianly, a kind of acacia, two sorrows.

There is no way to eliminate this.

I frowned, but I was on my heart.

When she put down the pen, the feelings of longing had crawled all over her beautiful face, and the various scenes she had experienced with Yang Yi in the past were quietly reflected on the heart lake...... At this time, Yang Yi with more than a dozen guards was galloping towards Huanzhou, and when he returned to the front of the ya, a woman in a cloth and hairpin skirt suddenly went out of the middle of the road and stopped Yang Yi's horse's head.

"Boom!" With a bang, Ma Hanqing's sword next to him was unsheathed, and the sword light pointed directly at the woman's throat.

"Han Qing, put away your sword! This little lady has no ill intentions. Although Yang Yi didn't recognize Alain, in her eyes, he could feel that she had no malicious intent.

Ma Hanqing hesitated for a moment and withdrew the sword, Yang Yi caused great trauma to Western Xia, and there was news that Empress Dowager Liang escaped Hengshan after the defeat in Huanzhou, and she cried loudly! vowed to take Yang Yi's life to relieve the hatred in his heart. This inevitably made Ma Hanqing very nervous.

"My lord, the people's daughter's name is Li Lan, and she is entrusted by my lady, Li Xianji! Come and say hello to the adults...... I'm sorry. When the woman named Li Lan said this, there were already tears in her eyes.

"Li Xianji?" Yang Yi was still a little puzzled when he heard this name.

Li Lan nodded lightly and said, "Yes, my lady's real name is Li Xianji, and Xiangxian is just the name she used when she was committed to Qinglou." ”

"Follow me into the ya!" Yang Yi handed the reins to Ma Hanqing and took the lead towards the gate of the state government.

Li Lan seemed to have a natural fear of the yamen, and said hesitantly: "My lord, the people...... The folk girl won't go in! ”

"Don't be afraid, come in! You have to tell me clearly, where Xiangxian has gone! ”

Li Lan thought about the purpose of her coming here, so she had to go in with him, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the officials are on holiday, and it is quiet in the yamen, Yang Yi directly led her to his signature room.

Yang Yi invited her to sit down, but Li Lan knelt down with a thud, and said with tears in her eyes: "My lord, my lady took all the elites in the sect to the Western Regions last year to find the classics of the God of Light, and said that she would come back in a year, but now a year has passed, and the lady and they still have no news." When I left, she asked me to apologize to the adults, and she said that she had promised to stay with the adults, but she did not keep her promises, and asked the adults to forgive me. ”

"To the Western Regions? She went to the Western Regions? Yang Yi first muttered to himself, and suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "Nonsense! It's just nonsense, does she know what the situation is like in the Western Regions now? ”

Yang Yi drank and found that he also didn't know much about the Western Regions today, the power of the Han people since the Battle of Talas, retreated to the east and retreated, and now even the Hexi Corridor is in the hands of the Western Xia, thinking of these, a sense of shame unconsciously overflowed in his heart.

Western regions! Western regions!

While Yang Yizheng's heart was fluctuating, Li Lan had already kowtowed and cried: "My lord, our sect members have no intention of going against the imperial court now, and we are forced by the imperial court's ban to hide our whereabouts; Lady She has always wanted to bring the Divine Religion back to the light and re-tolerate the world, just like the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, and lead people to goodness.

O Lord! Please, save my lady, my lady originally planned to find the scriptures of the god of light, and then pass on the position of saint to her, and then serve the adults with peace of mind.

Now that she has been gone for a year, she has not returned, and the folk girls have run in many ways, intending to organize a caravan to find the lady, but they are unable to do so; The folk girl has no way to ask for help, so she can only come to your lord, my lord, for the sake of my lady's deep affection for adults, you can send someone to the Western Regions to find her and save her! ”

Li Lan kowtowed to the ground, crying sadly, Yang Yi said: "You get up first, I won't care about this matter, you let me think of a way." ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! Lady, she really didn't see the wrong person! Li Lan was so excited that she kowtowed a few more times before getting up.

Yang Yi frowned and thought deeply, his fingers unconsciously tapping lightly on the table; In the past, I limited my eyes to the Three Kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia, was it too short-sighted?

If nothing else, as long as the shallow attack continues to encroach, even if the national strength of Western Xia cannot be destroyed soon, it should not be difficult to withdraw from the Hexi Corridor within a few years after suffering major blows again and again.

Once the Great Song Dynasty can occupy the River Corridor and open up this Silk Road, it will have a huge role in promoting the economic and people's livelihood development of the Great Song Dynasty.

And then, the Great Song Dynasty faced a completely unfamiliar Western Regions, is this in the interests of the Great Song Dynasty?

(To be continued)