Li Qingan happily soaked in urine behind the wine shop, and was about to go back, but as soon as the cold wind blew, his chest and abdomen suddenly churned, and he rushed to a corner......

After some time, he slowly raised his head and took a breath, and at that moment, a wet handkerchief appeared in front of his eyes.

"If you can't drink it, don't be reckless, don't you see that those guys are pouring you into their hearts?" Gao Wu said complainingly.

"Thank you!" Li Qingan took the towel and wiped his face, he felt much better, he wanted to stand up, but his legs were soft and he didn't have any strength at all.

"Wu Niang, help me."

"Hey! You are the first arrow in Anxi! I'm afraid you won't even be able to hold a bow now. ”

Wu Niang picked him up and helped him walk back slowly, "I came down to breathe, I just saw you uncomfortable here, I want to ignore you, and I think you are pitiful, I care about you, but I think you deserve it, you stinky men, is it so important to drink?" ”

"I don't want to drink it either, but you can see it, will they let me go today if I don't drink it?"

"Humph! It doesn't matter to me whether you drink or not, I'm just talking casually, don't think I care about you! ”

Saying that, Gao Wu helped Li Qingan into the wine shop, "Don't panic first, rest for a while, and then go up when the wine wakes up, I'm out to breathe, I'm going to take a walk." ”

Gao Wu beckoned to a guy, "Man, pour a cup of tea for this military master, it should be stronger, and remember to help him up later." ”

"Great! Don't worry, girl, I'll do it. ”

Gao Wu arranged Li Qing'an, and then walked leisurely with his hands behind his back.

Li Qingan sat on a cupboard, very uncomfortable in his chest and abdomen, as if his body had collapsed, and he had no strength in his body.

At this moment, several Sogdians entered the door, who had come from a long way off, and had just arrived at the city of Qiuzi.

"Shopkeeper, bring each of us a bowl of soup and thirty pieces of bread."

They spoke Chinese, and were very fluent, and as soon as they entered the door, they sat in a corner, discussing something in a low voice, Li Qing'an sat at the entrance of the back door, with his back to them, about a dozen paces away, he did not take these Sogdians to heart, but took a cup of strong tea slowly.

"Guests, here's your soup."

"This little brother, this is a hundred wen bounty, I want to inquire about something."

"Yo! The guest is too polite, you just ask. ”

"I'd like to ask, have you ever heard of a gem with a flame in it?"

Li Qing'an's teacup shook violently, and his mind suddenly cleared up, as if he had encountered a ghost in broad daylight, and he looked back at a few Sogdians in great surprise.

For a year, he had almost forgotten about the so-called sunstone, and he had visited several jewelry shops, none of which cost more than eighty yuan.

Two months ago, he went to Bahuan City again, only to find that the 'old Sogdian shop' had long been closed, and that the Sogdian who was willing to pay 10,000 yuan to buy his gem had become a distant and unreal memory, but he did not expect that at the most casual moment, he suddenly heard the news about the gem again.

There were five men in all, and judging from the seats they sat on, they were two masters and three servants, one of whom was in his forties and had a goatee, while the other was a young man, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a pointed hat trimmed with gold trim, and his appearance was quite delicate, with a long thin face, a pointed chin, a face so white that there was no trace of blood, and a pair of slender eyes that were more black and less white, giving people a sense of hypocrisy.

"Sorry, guest, I've never heard of a gem with flames."

"If you think about it again, no one has ever mentioned it among the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty?"

The middle-aged man asked, but glanced at Li Qing'an, intentionally or unintentionally, Li Qing'an was already lying on the table, looking drunk and smoky, but his ears were straight up, and he could hear every word of the other party clearly.

Maybe he was embarrassed to receive a hundred yuan, but the guy thought for a while and said, "Some people have mentioned gemstones, but they are all ordinary gems like more than a dozen yuan, and no one has ever said about gems with flames." ”

The middle-aged man whispered a few words to the young man, and although he couldn't hear what they were saying, he could see that the young man had a disappointed expression on his face.

"I think it's better to find Nasuning first, and then trace the whereabouts of the gem."

The young man spoke Turkic, and Li Qing'an could hear it clearly, 'That Suning! That's right, what they're looking for is their own mysterious gem.

"But Suning is already missing."

"It's okay, I have a way to find him, let's go back to Tuozhi City first."

The middle-aged man hurriedly cleaned up the cakes on the table, and when he saw that the young man had left, he couldn't help but shout anxiously: "Yuanen, don't worry, we'll stay in Qiuzi for one night before leaving." ”

Messily cleaned up, he hurriedly chased out.

'Yuanen? Li Qing'an thought secretly, "It turns out that this young man's name is Yuanen. ’

"Guest, I'm so sorry, I'll keep an eye on the ruby for you." The shopkeeper respectfully sent them out.

As soon as he turned around and came back, Li Qingan beckoned to him, "Man, come over here." ”

"Captain Li, please command."

Li Qingan took out the money and said with a smile: "Those people just now, you go and keep an eye on them, remember for me, where did they go in Qiuzi City?" Who did you meet? This is your hard-earned money, and if you get me the news to my satisfaction, I will add your usual reward. ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, he could only earn 500 yuan a month, and in a blink of an eye, he immediately took the money and said: "Please rest assured, Captain Li, I will definitely find out the best news." ”

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The next evening, Li Qingan was writing a report in the barracks, and a soldier came in to report: "General, someone is looking for him outside the barracks, and he says that he is a guy from the Central Plains Wine Shop, and the general asked him to come." ”

"I see!" Li Qing'an took two pieces of money and got up and walked outside the barracks, the guys from the Central Plains wine shop came, of course, just for the Sogdians last night, even if the guys didn't come, he would go to the wine shop to inquire about the situation.

Outside the barracks, the guy in the wine shop was stretching his neck to look, and when he saw Li Qing'an coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Captain Li, I have news of them." ”

"What did you find?"

"After they left from the restaurant last night, they went to the Yuelai Inn at the gate of the city, and they didn't come out, and no one came to look for them, before dawn, a few of them rode out of Qiuzi City, and heard the innkeeper say that they were back to Shiguo, as if they were going to find a person named Suning, and then I saw them go west, and I squatted on the side of the road for a day, and they never came back, so I rushed to report to the general."

After speaking, he looked at Li Qing'an with blank eyes, he didn't sleep all night, and squatted on the side of the road for another day, hoping to get another reward.

"You're doing a great job!"

Li Qingan smiled and handed him the money, "This is two pieces of money, double the reward for you, if there is any news from them, you come and tell me immediately, I will have another heavy reward, you know?" ”

The guy at the wine shop accepted the reward with great gratitude, bowed again and again, and said, "Don't worry, general, as long as they come, I will inform the general immediately." ”

Li Qing'an returned to the camp tent, he opened his carry-on box, took out a small wooden box from below, opened it gently, and a faint luster gem appeared in front of him, he carefully picked up this egg-sized ruby, the mysterious flame in the gem rose again, Li Qing'an's eyes slowly narrowed, he wanted to know, what kind of secret is hidden in this gem?

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