After entering the Liao Realm, Zhao Ying quickly got lost.

Although the two countries have stopped fighting, there are many border posts, in order to avoid the interrogation of the Liao, Zhao Ying, who disguised herself as a man, specially drilled into some deep mountains and old forests. The mountain road is winding, and the mountain is inaccessible, Zhao Ying has been around the mountain for several days and still has not been able to get out of the mountain.

In the past few days, she has been looking and looking for no one to ask for directions, she is worried that Li Kang has gone away, and she is not annoyed, she knew that this is the case, she simply pretended to be a soldier of the forbidden army and mixed in Li Kang's mission, then Li Kang may not know every soldier.

What's more serious is that the dry food brought from Taiyuan City has already been eaten, and her stomach is hungry, she was born in the palace compound since she was a child, and she doesn't know which plants can satisfy her hunger, and at this time it is late autumn, and most of the fruits on the trees have fallen out, and those small animals seem to be hiding along the way, and she can't see a hare pheasant.

Finally, Zhao Ying found a stream, but the flow was too shallow, there were almost no fish in it, and occasionally saw a few, all of which were less than the size of a fingernail.

The sky was gradually darkening, the temperature was dropping, and Zhao Ying, who was cold and hungry, only felt weak, she recognized the direction of the north, and continued to move her body step by step.

I don't know how long it took, the sky was completely dark, Zhao Ying sat on a rock, felt the residual temperature of the sun on the rock, and looked ahead, there were no lights or smoke in front of him, only boundless darkness.

Zhao Ying felt that she had found some dead branches and leaves, and built a simple tent for herself, and she decided to spend the night on this abrupt rock tonight.

At this time, the autumn insects chirped lowly, and occasionally the roar of wild beasts could be heard in the distance.

Zhao Ying lay on the rock, and found that the residual temperature on the rock was gradually receding, and the rock became very cold, although separated by thick leaves. Zhao Ying still felt that the body temperature of her whole body was dropping as the temperature of the rock dropped, and it was definitely not a good way to go on like this. Zhao Ying decided to build a bonfire next to her, although she knew that this bonfire could attract annoying autumn insects, but after all, it could still bring warmth to herself.

Her hands and feet were cold, and she needed the temperature from outside, and she knew that if she stayed on this stone like this, her body would be frozen to death.

Zhao Ying was about to jump off this big stone to find more dead branches, when she suddenly heard a rustling sound not far away, where would there be people on this mountain at this time, Zhao Ying guessed that the sound was mostly caused by something. At this time, Zhao Ying wanted a delicious beast to comfort her stomach.

Zhao Ying was afraid that the fire would scare away the beast, so she gave up the idea of lighting a fire for the time being, leaned over the rock, and looked in the direction where the sound came from with the faint moonlight.

"Babble!"

There was another sound of grass and trees being turned, and now Zhao Ying heard it very accurately, and she found that the sound came from less than fifty steps directly in front of the rock where she was hiding.

Zhao Ying took out her Hidden Arrow, and she wanted to use it to deal with the beast.

At this time, my eyes suddenly lit up. There was a firelight in front of him, Zhao Ying was stunned, and with the firelight, it meant that it was not a beast that made a sound in front of him. It's people, and only people make fires.

Who is at this time. Would you like to hide in the mountains like yourself? Zhao Ying, who is a master of art, decided to sneak over to take a look. In order not to make too much noise, she slowly slid down the rocks and crept towards the firelight.

"Crack, crack!" The sound of branches snapping kept coming. Then there was the faint sound of someone talking.

Zhao Ying didn't know how many people were in front of her, let alone whether they were friends or foes, she hesitated for a moment and slowed down. After all, she was in another country, and Zhao Ying knew at this time that if she encountered any trouble, she would no longer be able to use her status as a princess to help her ward off disasters.

At this time, she felt a little weak because she had not eaten all day, and what she wanted most at this time was to fill her stomach. She gritted her teeth, she decided to see who was in front of her, how many people there were, and then decide whether to be a female thief and steal those people's food.

Zhao Ying quickly touched the side of the bonfire, and she hid behind a big tree. She peeked over and saw a total of five people gathered around a campfire on a flat ground in front of her, eating dry food and talking.

A man in brown said to another man in brocade: "Big brother, after this trip, I want to wash my hands and don't dry it!" ”

A short man next to him pushed the brown-clothed man and said, "Cao San, are you really getting along with the mother-in-law in the next village, and you want to wash your feet and go ashore to live a stable life?" ”

The man in brown let out a "hmm" and didn't speak.

The man in brocade frowned and said: "Third brother, you have the greatest ability in our group, and it is inevitable that there will be dangerous times when you do our business. ”

Several other people also said: "Yes, Cao San, how can you say that if you don't do it, you won't do it, we haven't earned enough money to make our wife?" ”

The person called Cao San shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to do it, it's really that Gui Fang won't let me do it." Besides, we can't get good books now, and even if we go to Beijing, we can't get a few yuan, we can't buy much fur musk, and we can't go back and forth for thousands of miles, and we are so frightened along the way, but we can't make much money! ”

The man in brocade also sighed and said: "Yes, there were Liao people on the border to buy these scriptures and classics, but I don't know why they have disappeared in the past two years, and we have to go to Beijing to sell these books, it is really too far, if there is no strong martial artist like the third brother on the way, the beasts on this road alone are enough for us." ”

The man with short stature said: "I heard that the Liao people have also been very serious about selling and buying prohibited items without permission recently, so the Liao people don't dare to go to the border to buy books. ”

……

Zhao Ying now understood, it turned out that the five people in front of him were a group of smugglers, although the Song and Liao countries set up a field on the border to promote the exchange of materials between the north and the south, but the two countries still have some things that are strictly forbidden to sell, the Song Dynasty stipulates that books and classics are strictly forbidden to be exported, these people in order to seek profits, do not hesitate to risk their lives, deliberately went to Shangjing in Liao to sell books. (To be continued......)