The carriage of the three mothers and sons of the Jiang family was in the front, Song Xiaochi's was in the back, and there were other military attachés' families and subordinates in the carriage behind, and the men were all riding horses, surrounding both sides of the carriage, and a long group of people went out of the city from the west gate of Maoyuan Mansion and set off to the west.

On the way from Momoto to the west, they had to pass through several castles, and if they had enough time, they could even pass through Yudu Prefecture and go to Kyoto in Daning.

It's just that the weather is too cold, and Qu Jing is worried that the snow behind him is too thick and the road is not easy to walk, so he went directly west from outside the Yudu and did not enter the city.

The location of the jade capital is exactly in the center of Daning, and after the jade capital, the customs and customs along the way are completely different from those of Maoyuan Mansion and the closed city.

On this day, out of the first city after the jade capital, Liushan Mansion, to the next city at least five or six days away, in the middle of which except for the scattered villages and towns with inns or places to stay, the rest of the place is barren mountains and mountains, which is already within the scope of entering the West.

As soon as you enter the western range, you can obviously feel that the air is much drier, and a gust of wind blows that seems to be able to take away some of the moisture on the human face, and the skin on the face tightens day by day, fortunately, Song Xiaochi has clotting cream, and Qu Wenshu and her maids are also stained.

Of course, this kind of daily cream, even if you add a colorful colorful beads, the amount is very small, otherwise you really can't afford it.

"Xidi and Maoyuan Mansion are different, and Chaohuai Mansion is also different, I feel that the sky is higher, the land is broader, even if it is a mountain, it seems to be more heroic."

In the evening of that day, the team had to sleep outside, and after getting out of the carriage, Qu Wenshu looked at the surrounding scene of the sky and the sky, and sighed.

Indeed, the mountains here are like standing here quietly from ancient times without any carving, the mountain shape is simple and natural, the outline is rough and clumsy, unlike the mountains they saw before, Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, like the magic of nature, after some meticulous carving to create the exquisite.

The guards are setting up tents, although the weather is good these days, it is still sunny, but the wind is very strong, so the tents must be set up firmly, otherwise it will be troublesome if the wind blows up in the middle of the night.

The people are busy burying the pot and cooking, but when they get here, there are no fresh ingredients, they are all beef and mutton, or dried vegetables, and they have eaten for a while, and the others are okay, that is, some military attachés still have children, and they eat some beef and mutton and dried vegetables for a long time, and their appetite becomes worse, and they are easy to get sick.

Therefore, on this day, Song Xiaochi took out some fresh vegetables and asked the cooks of the Coral and Qu families to make them and distribute them to the families of those military attachés.

After they received the food, although they were surprised that there were fresh vegetables at this time, they just thought of Qujing's identity, and they only thought that the rich and noble family had a secret recipe for unique storage, so naturally they didn't want to ask too much.

It's just that Qu Jing and Jiang were a little confused, but before Song Xiaochi and Xie Yan could come up with a reasonable reason, they saw Qu Jing holding a piece of fresh lotus root while saying, "That powerful warlock taught you again?" Well, why don't you meet such a master, if I do, ask him if he understands the art of war, and let him teach me how to win more with less, and how to win undefeated! ”

"Dad, you're thinking too much!" Qu Wenshu said.

"A layman like you, even if you meet a master, you will only treat a master as an ordinary person, and you have not met a master!" Jiang also ridiculed his father-in-law.

Qu Jing was in a good mood, laughed at being ridiculed by his wife and daughter, and hugged Qu Xinghui again, "Come, Brother Hui, what do you want to eat, Daddy will clip it to you." ”

"Lotus root, green vegetables, and mutton!" Qu Xinghui said obediently.

"Okay, my son just knows how to eat, there are vegetables and meat, and only if you eat well can you grow well......"

Qu Jing began a new round of fancy praise for his son, since Qu Xinghui could speak, Qu Jing's greatest pleasure is to praise his son, every day to change the tricks to praise, and not repeat it every time.

Qu Jing praised tirelessly, Jiang and Qu Wenshu listened helplessly but funny, and Qu Xinghui looked at Qu Jing with big eyes every time his father praised him, and his well-behaved and cute appearance seemed to encourage Qu Jing to continue to praise, so Qu Jing's praise was even more energetic.

This time, Song Xiaochi thought it would be the same, but Qu Jing had just praised a few words, and suddenly, Xie Yan stood up violently, "Someone is coming!" ”

Before others could ask, Qu Jing also restrained his expression and handed over Qu Xinghui in his arms to Jiang, but his expression was not very serious, and he said to Jiang: "There is the sound of horses' hooves, one, don't worry."

Jiang and Song Xiaochi were relieved when they heard that there was only one person.

It's just that when this breath was halfway relaxed, I heard Xie Yan say: "Not only that, but there is a team of people behind me, at least there are ...... More than a dozen. ”

When Jiang Shi heard this, he hurriedly looked at Qu Jing, and Qu Jing said embarrassedly: "Listen to Ah Yan, I will let Fan Jia come here to protect you."

Fan Jia is the captain of the Qu family's guard.

Qu Jing and Xie Yan gathered all the other military attachés and asked the guards to protect Jiang and Song Xiaochi and all the military attachés' families in the middle, some of the family members were so frightened that they hid directly in the tent, some asked "what's going on", and some children were also frightened by the panicked atmosphere and cried.

Their side had just been arranged, and the sound of horses' hooves was already close, and even the families of military attachés who had no martial arts could hear it.

"Hey, the man seems to be lying on horseback?" Qu Wenshu wondered.

Song Xiaochi also saw it, the first thing he saw was really only one person, now the sun has set, it is dark early in winter, and the sky has darkened a lot, but he can still see clearly that the person on the back of the horse galloping from a distance seems to be a little wrong, but before the person rushed in front of them, there was a team of people in black behind the person and the horse, black clothes and black hats, and the face was covered with a black scarf to cover the mouth and nose, only a pair of eyes were exposed.

Obviously, the man in black behind was chasing the person in front, not only chasing, but looking at the menacing appearance, it should be a chase.

"The man must have been injured." Song Xiaochi Road.

Just as she was talking, the person in front of her had already approached their group, Qu Jing and Xie Yan were officials of the imperial court, and when they encountered this kind of chasing and killing incident, they happened to bump into them, so they naturally had to take care of it.

Therefore, after seeing the man in black behind him and discovering their group of people, he suddenly shot an arrow with a bow, wanting to directly kill the person in front, Xie Yan's hand moved, and a stone flew out like an arrow from the string, colliding with the arrow of the man in black in the air.

And the shocking thing is that the others thought that it was already incredible to be able to shoot an arrow with a stone, but what was even more incredible was still behind, after the stone shot the arrow, it did not fall with it, but continued to fly forward, flying straight to the chest of the man in black who had just shot an arrow with a bow, and directly knocked the man in black off his horse.