As soon as Yue'er woke up, she took two steps back.

"Sister, I'm leaving, I've been in for too long to arouse suspicion, I'll definitely find a way to help you do your request, if I have the chance, I'll come to see you again!"

Sikong Wenlan suddenly knelt down towards Yue'er with weak knees, with an eager expression in her eyes.

"Sister, I only know now that you are a good person, I still have one last request, I don't know if my sister is willing to fulfill my sister?"

"Sister, don't be like this, please say something if you have something."

Yue'er hurriedly went to help Sikong Wenlan, Sikong Wenlan grabbed Yue'er's hand tightly, and tears flowed down her eyes.

"I—I want to see Princess Yingying one last time!"

Princess Yingying is the daughter of the queen and Xuan Ling, and she is only eleven years old this year, which is also their only child.

Yue'er nodded.

"Okay, I'll try to figure it out!"

Yue'er knew that Xuan Ling would definitely not agree, and the only way to let Princess Yingying come here was to ask Huang Jien to help her, but she was not sure whether Huang Jinn would take this risk.

When they left the cell, Prince Dongping and Huang Jien had already left, and only Zou Xiaoyuan and two guards were still waiting outside.

As soon as Zou Xiaoyuan saw Yue'er, he said: "Miss Sang, just now the emperor was looking for the prince to discuss things, and when he saw that you didn't come out, he left with Huang Daguan first." ”

Yue'er nodded.

"Okay, then I'll go back too, I'm a little tired from coming out today, and it's time to go back and rest."

In fact, she still wanted to see Concubine Yuan, because Concubine Yuan might have an attack at any time, but Prince Dongping was not there, and she was not ready to ask her anything, so it was better to come back tomorrow.

Yue'er has gained a lot today, knowing the life experience of the Queen Mother and the reason why Concubine Ren hanged herself, she felt that she had to go back and sort out her thoughts, she wanted to write to Zhaoju and tell him the news she asked, but she didn't know how to send it.

Red and yellow clouds appeared in the northwest sky, which was very magnificent, and Yue'er looked at the sky for a while.

Zou Xiaoyuan pointed to the sky and smiled.

"There is an official named He Zhang in Hejian, who wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that there will be a vision in the northwest in the near future, and he asked the emperor to send a letter to Gaochang and ask them to prepare carefully."

Yue'er was stunned.

"What letter does he preach, and what vision does he know?"

"He said that he repaired and improved a piece of instrument according to the drawings of the ancients, and predicted that there might be a disaster of ground movement in the northwest, mainly in Gaochang Kingdom, and maybe Dajing Kingdom will also be affected!"

"What should the emperor do?"

"The ministers are all talking nonsense, there is no evidence, isn't this a curse on others, we can't figure out our own place, and what are we doing to spread rumors and make things happen to others, besides, Gaochang and Dawei are also separated by a big capital, as for the impact on Dajing, they have already had a famine this year, didn't the mission come this time to ask for food, and what else to notify? The emperor laughed it off! ”

Yue'er sighed, but her heart suddenly pinched, Zhaoju is in Dajing, he was in Youzhou when he wrote to himself, where is he now?

The sky is full of yellow clouds, and it is dusk again.

At this moment, on the Gobi in Gaochangguo, there are two people and a horse walking slowly.

The sun was about to set, and the sky was a layer of cirrostratus clouds, some like galloping horses, some like flocks of sheep, and some like roaring waves.

These two people, one old and one young, are dressed up as Gaochang people, the young man has a flower hat on his head, he has distinct facial features, a tall figure, seven points of handsomeness with three points of wisdom and calmness, the old man has gray hair, black and red face, although he looks nearly seventy years old, but his steps are calm and vigorous.

These two people are none other than King Zhaoju and Zhuozhou Zhigulu.

Zhiguru was Wei Fengchun back then.

At this moment, Zhaoju is completely different from when he first came out of Gale City, he is stained with wind and frost, there is not much scholarly breath left, and there is a little more fortitude and determination in his eyes.

The road they walked was a bit thrilling, there were cracks in the ground here, these cracks were intermittent, rugged and winding, stretching for dozens of miles, and some of the cracks also gave birth to horizontal cracks, the widest part was several zhang, the narrowest was only one or two feet, if you accidentally fell into it, you would die.

Zhaoju and Zhiguru arrived at Gaochang City three days ago.

The city of Gaochang is slightly low-lying on the edge of a large desert, but it is a huge oasis.

Zhaoju didn't expect to walk to such a desolate place, his eyes would suddenly light up, there was simply unimaginable prosperity, although the scale could not be compared with the Windy City, but it was also populous, especially many passing caravans would stop here, take out goods to sell, many things he had never seen.

The buildings of Gaochang City are like white towers with domes, the appearance of the locals is different from that of the Central Plains, they have yellow beards and high noses and curly hair, the men here are tall and strong, rough and heroic, and the women can sing and dance, and fall and be generous.

Zhaoju saw a lot of records in the book, such as Liangzhou grape round, tassel tent sleepless, as well as brocade robe white horse, Hu Ying pipa, used to be just words in the book, but when I arrived in front of me, I realized that the paper was empty, and seeing is believing.

The language of the Gaochang people is close to the big bird, Zhaoju can understand the big bird language, and when he arrives in Gaochang, he is not a black eye, and the straight Guru is much more powerful, he speaks, and the locals are no different.

Zhigulu pointed to the golden-domed tower in the distance and told Zhaoju that Gaochang City, like the Windy City, is divided into an outer city and an inner city, the inner city is the palace, the temple and the houses of the nobles, and the outer city is the common people, but the common people of Gaochang Kingdom are very optimistic, they basically believe in Buddhism and are quite religious.

Most of the married women here have nose studs on their faces, and they are quite bold and arrogant.

Because of the sudden wind and sand blowing in the sky, Zhaoju and Zhigulu stayed in Gaochang City for two days, Zhaoju drew a lot of sketches of pagodas and private house buildings, and also recorded some local customs, in these two days, he felt the deepest, is that Gaochang women are not only beautiful, but also dare to love and hate, if they like a man, they will stop him to ask for a confession.

Zhaoju is a foreigner, and Naoguru has always asked him to wear a scarf without revealing his true face, but no woman stopped him from asking.

Leaving Gaochang City, Zhigulu originally planned to buy a camel, but the wind and sand had not completely stopped, the market had not yet opened, and Zhaoju was in a hurry, so they took Feiqi and rode and walked for a while.

Zhaoju looked ahead, only to see that the front was even more desolate.

"Second grandfather, why are we taking this road, why are there big cracks in the ground here?"

Naoguru laughed.

"There is such a spectacle around Gaochang City, in the event of a foreign invasion, the army will slow down here, and it will be impossible to sneak attack, when the Tang Dynasty, this is still our land!"

Zhaoju nodded.

"It turns out that this is the characteristic of Gaochang City, I thought the earth was going to collapse!"

"Yes, the second grandfather is here for the first time, and he also has this feeling, do you know, there is a group of mysterious bandits here recently, they are all extraordinary, and one is ten!"

Zhaoju was taken aback.

"Since there are bandits, you still take me this way?"

Naoguru looked determined.

"Where are there no bandits on the grassland and desert, the big tribes bully the small tribes, the big tribes are bandits, this gang of bandits only robs caravans, single travelers like us, they can't look down on them!"

"Then what should the caravan do when it encounters them, waiting for death?"

"That's not it, this gang of robbers is very distinctive, they rob things every time with great fanfare, the caravan just drops something and runs, they won't chase, and the caravan can come back after they rob, because they don't want to take everything, they don't want it, you take it back and continue to hurry!"

"This, what kind of robber?"

It was the first time Zhaoju had heard of such a robbery.

"Tell you, walking in the desert and grassland, it is common to encounter bandits, in fact, most of them are ordinary hunters and herdsmen, they rob you of things, you can also ask them for directions, ask for some food and water."

Zhaoju feels that these days have been an eye-opener.

"So, it's safe for us to walk here?"

"That's not necessarily, it's the most terrible thing for ordinary people to encounter wolves, but you don't have this worry when you follow the second grandfather!"

P.S. Grandpa is called grandpa by many people in the north, and some places use spoken language, grandpa is grandpa, so you don't have to feel awkward.