Leaving the imperial city of Ningcheng, Zhou Zhi stood on the edge of the watchtower, overlooking the entire gorgeous palace city

A black shadow floated by, hiding in the eaves of the watchtower and said, "Shen Zhitang is gone?" ”

Zhou Zhi looked in the direction of the west gate of Ningcheng and said, "He is still waiting for my letter."

The black shadow suddenly jumped down from the eaves and said urgently: "Why don't you discuss this matter?"

Zhou Zhi flicked his sleeves and left and said coldly: "You are also ready to leave for Xilin City, he will take your son to find you"

The black shadow chased out two steps and muttered, "Bang Bang". Then he flicked his sleeves, closed his eyes and turned around and disappeared into the high wall

The southern Xinjiang country is full of water and mountains, and the west gate of Ningcheng is a bridge built by the water

Outside the city of Lining, Situ Mo saluted Shen Zhitang and said, "I want to send it to the Prime Minister of the Southern Xinjiang Country."

Shen Zhitang waved his hand and said, "You and I are the same product and the same official, so don't do these false courtesies."

Situ Mo laughed and said, "Yes, then the six princes of our country will be handed over to Lord Shen."

Shen Zhitang smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just a gesture!" ”

Situ Mo got on a fast horse and drove away, and in an instant there was no one left, only to see the white smoke rising from the road

Shen Zhitang looked at the spot for a long time

A young man wearing a blue and ink-colored robe quietly stood next to Shen Zhitang and said, "Teacher, Situ Mo really wants to return to the Western Zhou from the mountain climbing border."

Shen Zhitang smiled at the young man and said, "I see you coming!" Then he looked at the mountains in the distance with his back hand and said: "From Ningcheng back to the Western Zhou Imperial City Yihe, it is indeed closer to the border of climbing."

Li Jianqing said: "Then why did he go to the Xilin border when he came to pay tribute?"

Shen Zhitang's eagle eyes were facing Li Jianqing's black eyes, and in a trance, he seemed to see that person's eyes, but he felt that something was missing

Li Jianqing was puzzled: "Teacher, but is there something?" ”

Shen Zhitang smiled: "It's old, it's not good to stand for a while."

Li Jianqing said: "The teacher is just a young man, how can he talk about the old words?"

Li Jianqing has been by Shen Zhitang's side since he can remember, and now he is the year of dancing elephants, but he has a perennial hair and Tibetan robe, and he looks a little old

The attendant Shen Qiu waited in front of the carriage for a long time, and then stepped forward and shouted, "My lord, it's time to go."

Shen Zhitang smiled: "Don't worry, don't hurry......"

Shen Qiu stepped aside and continued to sort out the things on the carriage

Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves from the city gate, and Shen Zhitang smiled at Li Jianqing and said, "It's coming~"

A guard in official uniform flew down from his horse, knelt down on one knee in front of Shen Zhitang and said, "Lord Shen, the emperor wrote a letter himself."

Shen Zhitang took the letter and motioned to Li Jianqing to help the guards and said, "I'm tired!" ”

Outside Xilin City in the southern Xinjiang Kingdom, the sky was getting dark, and a few fires had been lit under the trees in the distance, Li Zhilian walked towards the nearest fire, only to see several women and old people munching on steamed buns by the fire, but no men

The woman who was furthest away from the fire saw an outsider coming, stretched out her hand and signaled, and all the people around the fire stuffed the steamed buns back into their sleeves

Li Zhilian saluted to the fire and said, "May I sit here?" ”

Everyone looked at the old man who was sitting under the big tree, and his hair was graying

The old man slowly opened his eyes, and looked Li Zhilian up and down with a pair of sharp eyes, "You are the little girl from Zhongluan City today?"

Li Zhilian replied: "Exactly"

The old man nodded and said, "Sit down!" ”

Li Zhilian distributed the dry food he carried with him one by one and said, "The little girl came from the Yunshan Academy in Zhongluan City and went to Xilin City to save her relatives, do you know when this city gate will be opened?" ”

Everyone looked at the old man again, and it wasn't until the old man closed his eyes that the woman next to Li Zhilian said, "My surname is Fan, just call me Aunt Fan!" Girl, you don't look like you're thirteen or fourteen, and they left you so relieved?"

Li Zhilian glanced around, except for the old lady who closed her eyes and rested, most of the rest of the people were around thirty or forty years old, if she hadn't come to this world, she should have married and had children with these people now!

Li Zhilian hung his head, and on the way to come, he had already made up a rhetoric and said: "My name is Xiao Lian, my grandfather is the teacher of Yunshan Academy in Zhongluan City, he died of illness two days ago, and ......the dean of the academy can't tolerate me" Don't look over, after wiping the non-existent tears with his hand, he pretended to choke and said: "I can only ~ send me to my uncle's house in Xilin City"

Fan Erniang gently patted Li Zhilian's back and said, "Another poor child"

Li Zhilian stared at his eyes for a long time, and then squeezed out two tears, and after wiping them away in front of everyone, he said, "Aunt Fan, why are you gathered here?" ”

"Alas!" Aunt Fan first sighed and said, "If it weren't for the fact that the family really couldn't survive, who would want to leave their hometown and come here!" ”

Li Zhilian pretended to be puzzled and said, "Sister, aren't you from Xilin City?"

Aunt Fan nodded: "No!" We are the villagers of Ninsse Village, Xisha County, Western Zhou Kingdom."

Li Zhipian said: "But there have been no natural disasters and no wars recently, how can you not survive?" ”

Several sisters on the side also opened the chatterbox and said one after another

"Who's to say it isn't! But this crop just can't be grown."

"At first, I just couldn't grow crops, and then the air didn't work."

"What a poisonous mist! It's piled up on the top of the mountain, and it can't be scattered."

Li Zhilian was shocked: "Poisonous fog?"

"That's not a poisonous mist, I'll be dizzy if I take two more breaths, and I'll faint after a long time."

"Not only poisonous mist, but also all kinds of flying insects, biting people can cause redness and swelling all over the body, fever and contagion"

Li Zhilian pondered for a while, this sounded like miasma, and asked, "Is it miasma!" ”

"Little girl, that's much more poisonous than miasma, let's Nianse Village! It is built at the bottom of the valley, and it is born to deal with miasma, just ordinary miasma, and the time will pass, but this poisonous fog is getting thicker and thicker as it gathers."

The more you gather, the thicker you get? Li Zhilian silently recited these four words in his heart, the cause of miasma is just the gas formed after the decay of animals and plants, this situation is mostly in the hot and humid summer, and now it is autumn, the weather is getting cooler, how can it gather more and more? "How long have you not been back?"

cough~cough~ The old lady who had been closing her eyes and recuperating suddenly coughed twice and said, "It's not early, let's rest early!" Fan Niang, you guard the first half of the night, Ye Niang, you guard the second half of the night"

Li Zhilian found a piece of flat land, used the burden as a pillow, and lay down with his back to the fire, feeling a little uneasy in his heart

This civil unrest seems to be organized and disciplined, and the people who cry in front of the tomb during the day not only do not see half of the grief on their faces at night, but also eat and eat

What exactly is the person behind the curtain trying to do? Is it to provoke a war between the two countries in Southern Xinjiang and Western Zhou?

There was the sound of soft footsteps in the woods

Li Zhilian pretended to turn over

Hearing a whistle, the old woman, who had her back against the tree, slowly stood up and walked into the woods

Li Zhilian pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the nearby movements, but only heard the sound of the wind and the sound of Aunt Fan breaking branches and adding fire

After a while, the footsteps gradually approached

A man's voice said, "This is the little girl from Zhongluan City."

The old woman replied respectfully: "Exactly"

The man replied, "Take her with you, and make sure to disappear in this place before dawn."

Li Zhilian squinted, and saw that the man was dressed in black, and his face was covered with a black cloth, and his triangular eyes were extremely sharp