Near dawn, Mo Yansi was the first to wake up.

On his side, Shen Pearl took his robe as a seat, lying flat, still sleeping deeply.

She slept quietly, the dawn moment in the desert, the ray of light in the sky was half bright and half dark, and she looked at the vast sea of sand on all sides.

He never imagined that one day, she would be so close to him. It seems that in this vast world, the moon shines on the ancient and modern, there are only two people, him and her.

Everything is as ephemeral as the dawn, and dreams regenerate on top of dreams.

He leaned over to look at her, her breath was like a fragrant orchid, and he was like an iron stone, as if he wanted to stop time. After some time, he reached out and gently stroked her forehead.

Shen Pearl suddenly opened her eyes.

He didn't shy away from it, and smiled at her calmly: "Wake up, then let's eat something and set off quickly." Reach out and pull her up.

Shen Pearl asked him, "What were you thinking just now?" ”

Mo Yan looked at her and smiled: "It turns out that you have already woken up, what are you thinking?" ”

Shen Zhuzhu's face was slightly red, but fortunately, the light was dim, and he couldn't see it, "I'm thinking, back to the cold in winter and hot in summer, the desert is everywhere, and there is no food and wine in the Central Plains, so it's really difficult." She raised her head and smiled, "It's just that I still think that it is a beautiful thing to live in the long house and watch the wind and grass and the sun set." ”

"You?!" A ray of surprise crossed Mo Yan's eyes, looking at Shen Pearl who was smiling and groaning in front of him, he couldn't speak, he took a deep breath and suddenly turned his head away.

Shen Pearl was surprised, but he heard Mo Yan sip and shout "Let's go", one hand was tightly grasped by him, and his body somehow rose into the air, and in an instant, he took him on the back of the horse and rode together. Mo Yan slurped his whip to urge the horse, and the wind whistled through the yellow sand, but half of her body was wrapped tightly in his body.

"Silent sip!" Shen Pearl called out to him, only to feel that Mo Yan's sobbing at this time was too grotesque.

"Khan, Khan!" Several entourages were guarding from afar, but they didn't expect Mo Yansi to set off suddenly, and they all hurriedly got on their horses to catch up.

Mo Yan sobbed as if he hadn't heard it, didn't make a sound, and kept urging the horse as much as he could. Shen Pearl had never seen Mo Yan sip like this, and there was surprise and faint fear in her heart. She couldn't look back at his expression, but the hand that grabbed her waist tightened and tightened, almost making her breathless, and she whispered a low "um" in her throat, and he immediately heard it, and relaxed slightly.

After galloping for three or four hours, he finally rushed into the piece of Jinze, and after a long gallop, Shen Pearl was not only dry, but also hungry.

Mo Yan rode straight to the front of Shen Zhuzhu's house, lifted her left arm, and gently put her down from the horse: "You eat something first and rest." Before Shen Pearl turned his head, he had already ridden his horse and galloped towards his residence in front of him.

Shen Pearl was just strange, stunned for a moment in front of the house, weak and weak, and walked into the room.

"Madame, ma'am, it's not good!" As soon as the front foot entered the threshold, Cheng Yuanzhen hurriedly broke in, his face full of anxiety.

"What's the matter?" Shen Pearl asked.

Cheng Yuanzhen said: "Yesterday, Lord Chen Zhou told me that he had found out where His Highness was detained—in a house in a hidden place in the west of this oasis, and was detained separately from other East Palace guards—and asked us to find an opportunity to rescue His Highness and escape. ”

Shen Pearl changed color: "Didn't I tell him earlier, now that the situation is chaotic, you can't act rashly for the time being?" ”

Cheng Yuanzhen rubbed his hands and said: "Exactly, a certain person has been persuaded again and again, but Chen Zhou didn't listen, and he had already taken advantage of the return to the Khan and did not come back, and quietly sneaked away alone!" Madame, what shall we do? ”

Shen Pearl stomped his feet and said, "He's just nonsense!" "Let's go chase him back, we can't let them go into the desert!" As she spoke, Shen Pearl had already stepped out of the door, and at this moment, two of Mo Yan's attendants were leading a horse past in front of the door, she rushed up in an instant, grabbed away from the entourage, and got on the horse, Cheng Yuanzhen was a little late, and saw the horse galloping out like an arrow between her reins, and the two attendants were stunned.

Shen Pearl galloped to the west, less than three miles away, and several Hui soldiers were already surrounding her, intending to stop her, but one of the Hui soldiers could speak Chinese, and shouted: "The Khan has an order, no one is allowed to go west!" Where else could she care about so much, and shouted: "Get out of the way!" One of the soldiers was annoyed and pulled out his scimitar, and the man who knew Chinese immediately stepped forward and pressed his knife, saying, "Don Mohe said that you must not hurt her!" Those soldiers hesitated slightly, and taking advantage of this gap, Shen Pearl immediately rushed out of the encirclement.

To the west was an open field, Shen Pearl didn't know where Li Yu was being held, and he couldn't see Chen Zhou's figure. She walked on the grassland, from Chen Zhou roughly knew a little way to recognize the way, carefully observed the rut marks on the field, saw that the left and right rut marks lead to the front, the left rut marks are wide and deep, like the ox cart left, the right rut marks are very difficult to detect if not carefully looked, there seems to be nothing, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow, but as if stepped out by people.

According to Cheng Yuanzhen, if Li Yu was detained separately from the other East Palace guards, would it be like a separation? If so, which direction leads to the place where Li Yu was detained?

She frowned and pondered, and suddenly had an idea: Li Yu and those East Palace guards need to eat every day, and there are many East Palace guards, and if the Hui soldiers want to deliver food, they must not be able to carry it on their shoulders, so they can only transport it by chariots and horses; And if Li Yu is detained in solitary confinement, his food does not need to be so troublesome, and one or two people can send it on foot.

In this way, is it the right?

At this moment, she can only gamble on luck.

She turned her horse's head and walked along the right rut. The grass and trees gradually became green, and from time to time you could see small patches of woods, and after walking for more than half an hour, I finally saw a small house hidden in the trees.

Her heart was both happy and a little nervous, and she lowered her horse's steps, and the horse's hooves stepped on the green grass, and her voice was very soft.

Approaching.

On the ground in front of the house, there were three or four Hui soldiers, motionless, seemingly dead or fainting.

Chen Zhou's back was to her, and he was using the key he had turned over from the Hui soldier to open the door of the house.

Shen Pearl lightly dismounted and slowly approached.

"Bang dang!" Chen Zhou pulled back the bolt and moved the door open, "Your Highness, Your Highness the Crown Prince," he called in a low voice.

The footsteps of the extremely learned pawn, but Shen Pearl heard every step so clearly, as if every step was on her heart. She couldn't move, she could only stare at the door silently.

The setting sun casts on the stone window lattice, folding out a cold and clear light.

Finally, a cyan figure appeared at the threshold. It's so thin, and it's long. As if he had not been baptized by the sun for a long time, he took a step back, raised his hand to cover his forehead, and suddenly, he slowly lowered his hand, and he stared ahead-

He saw her.

He looked at her silently.

She couldn't see joy or sorrow in his eyes.

He looked at her as if he were a stranger, his eyes unwavering, suffocatingly calm.

She could only do this, looking at him silently; She was just, unable to look away. Although there are thousands of obstacles in the world, I didn't expect that she could still look at him like this today.

She heard the terrible scream of the falcon across the sky, this moment.

She still slowly lowered her eyelids, and it was time for her to get on her horse and leave.

But at this moment, she saw an unpredictable thing: the light under Chen Zhou's right wrist moved, and a dagger flashed-

"Nope! —" She shouted, lunging forward.

Li Yu was taken aback, but the blade was cold, and it had reached his chest, he instinctively flashed back, and his right palm struck out at the same time, with a muffled sound of "boom", Chen Zhou snorted in pain and took a few steps back, his body was shaky, Li Yu held the door frame with one hand, covered the dagger in his abdomen with the other, his face was painful, and he slowly slid down.

Shen Pearl had already pounced on the general and leaned over to support Li Yu, glaring at Chen Zhou: "What are you doing!" ”

Chen Zhou stabilized his body and smiled fiercely: "The crown prince and the crown princess are here, I can send you on the road together, so that I can explain to the queen mother." ”

"It turns out that you, you, actually took refuge in the queen?!" Li Yu took a breath and said with difficulty.

Chen Zhou's eyes fell on Li Yu's abdomen, and when he saw the blood slowly oozing out, in an instant, his robe between his chest and abdomen was dyed red, and he sneered: "Your Highness, if I count on you again, I'm afraid that I won't be able to turn over until the day I breathe." In a word, Chen can't wait for your promise! You died in this desert, and you were all gone. He said to Shen Zhuzhu: "Crown princess, I am fortunate to have you this time." To be honest with you, it was the queen's idea to ask you to go back and forth to find His Royal Highness. Without you, where would I have been able to find His Highness so easily! He laughed.

This is really a "brilliant plan". Li Yuyuan's return to Hui was the best opportunity to stay with Empress Zhang, although the news of his disappearance came, after all, it was not as good as the news of his death to reassure Empress Zhang, if he could take the opportunity to kill him in the grassland desert, there would be no bones after death, and there would be no proof of death. But to kill him, you must first find him. In order to find the missing Li Yu in Huifu, it is not about how high the martial arts are, how resourceful and resourceful, the best person to lead the way is none other than Shen Pearl - although there has been Mo Yan Sip "death", she was Ye Hu's stepmother after all, and she should be protected to some extent; And the most important thing is that Shen Pearl has been to Hui, and he is very smart, and he is determined to find Li Yuzhi stronger than anyone else. Chen Zhou's utilitarian heart was urgent, and he finally sold himself to join Empress Zhang, who was in her arms, so she appointed him to assassinate Li Yu. It is no wonder that Chen Zhou would take such extraordinary measures to force her to appear in Wuxing Shen Mansion; No wonder after arriving at this oasis, he was so eager to find Li Yu. It turned out that he was not in a hurry to save Li Yu, but in a hurry to kill Li Yu. She is so stupid, although she dislikes Chen Zhou, she has never doubted him, and she has never dissected him from the depths.

Shen Pearl thought through this layer, and suddenly felt cold, only to feel that even his fingertips were trembling, his heart was like a knife, and he turned his head to look at Li Yu. Li Yu didn't seem to have her by his side, his face was slightly pale due to blood loss, and he said to Chen Zhou indifferently: "The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackey cooks, you dare to kill the orphan today," frowned, thinking that he was trying his best to hide the severe pain in his abdomen, "It will be easy for the queen to slaughter you in the future." ”

Chen Zhou sneered disapprelicly, stepped over step by step, pulled out the knife from the sheath of the "bell", and wiped the blade neatly: "Your Royal Highness doesn't have to speak in vain, from now on, the history books will only record that you died in the desert storm in order to save the princess of Ningguo." You never thought that there would be today-back then, I took refuge in you, contributed the most for the country and you-and didn't expect that I would personally send you and the crown princess on the road today. Hmph, as for how the queen will reward me, it is no longer the prince's concern. As he spoke, he walked in front of the two of them, took a knife and moved between Shen Pearl and Li Yu and said, "Who will you send on the road first?" His Royal Highness the Prince, Chen will listen to your orders for the last time. ”

Shen Zhuzhu put her left hand on her chest, where the dagger that Mo Yan gave her was hidden, Chen Zhou's words made her completely confused, her fingertips were still trembling, she was full of guilt and discomfort, and bit her lower lip fiercely. All she could hold was this dagger. Even if you can't die together, you have to try to hit him hard.

"Hmph, what kind of princess is she!" Li Yu opened his mouth indifferently, and without waiting for Shen Pearl to react, he pushed her away with a palm, and she was caught off guard and fell to the ground on her side.

Chen Zhou was stunned, and then laughed: "At this time, you are still fighting-" In the end, the word "persistence" didn't have time to come out, and his abdomen and back were cold at the same time, his eyes suddenly widened, his mouth was wide open, and he slowly looked down: there was a hole in his chest, and blood was gushing; The abdomen was pierced by a dagger, so deep that it was not bladed.

Chen Zhou raised his head slightly: Li Yu's eyebrows were deep, and he put force on his hand, and sent the dagger into his abdomen a few more points!

"Akira!"

The long knife in Chen Zhou's hand fell to the ground, and he fell to the sky with a heavy "pounce", and he couldn't look at it until he died.

At the same time that Chen Zhou fell to the ground, Cheng Yuanzhen put his sword back into its sheath, stepped forward to help Li Yu, and asked anxiously, "Your Highness, how are your injuries?" Li Yuluo supported Cheng Yuanzhen's arm, shook his head and said: "It's not in the way, it's a wound of flesh and skin." ”

Chen Zhou couldn't think of it until he died: Li Yu always wore gold silk soft armor that could avoid knives and guns after returning to the city in order to prevent accidents. Only then did Chen Zhou suddenly attack, although Li Yu's dagger stabbed into the abdomen, but because of the soft armor protection, there was only a slight flesh injury. However, Li Yu knew that Chen Zhou was brave and fierce, and he had no blade in his hand, so if he forcibly attacked the enemy, he would never be sure of victory, so he deliberately showed weakness to him, covered up his injuries with his hands, and even reluctantly pressed the dagger down to several points, so that the wound bleed more and confused Chen Zhou, luring him to attack lightly and reduce the attack distance in order to defeat the enemy with one shot. After Chen Zhou approached, Li Yu pushed Shen Pearl away with one palm, and at the same time pulled out the dagger in his abdomen, and stabbed Chen Zhou in the abdomen.

At the same time, Cheng Yuanzhen followed Shen Pearl to snatch a horse, and he just arrived along the hoof marks of Shen Pearl. He has martial arts, his hearing is slightly stronger than ordinary people, he heard the sound of talking from a distance and then dismounted and sneaked, to the vicinity of the house, heard the conversation between Chen Zhou and Li Yu, and Chen Zhou's attention was attracted by Li Yu and Shen Zhu, almost at the same time as Li Yu, a sword penetrated Chen Zhou's chest from behind and killed him.

Cheng Yuanzhen hurriedly took out the golden medicine from his arms, helped Li Yu to the threshold and sat down, without waiting to say anything, he untied his robe and soft armor in three or two, and saw that the wound was really not deep, but the blood continued to pour out, and he breathed a long sigh of relief. Shen Pearl gently took the medicine bottle from Cheng Yuanzhen's hand, half-squatted down, she also saw that Li Yu's injury was very light, but her heart was still trembling badly, and she opened the cork, intending to wipe the medicine for Li Yu.

"No need." Li Yu glanced at her, took the medicine bottle from her hand, and handed it to Cheng Yuanzhen, "You come to take medicine for Lone." ”

Shen Pearl was stunned, but Li Yu raised his head and looked into the distance, his tone was still indifferent: "There's nothing for you here, you can go." ”

Cheng Yuanzhen looked at Li Yu, and then at Shen Pearl, only to feel that Shen Pearl was in an extremely embarrassing situation at this time, and was deeply sympathetic, and wanted to say something in his mouth, but he couldn't open his mouth for a while, and saw that Li Yu's wound was still bleeding, so he had to smear all the medicinal powder in person, and immediately stopped the bleeding, and then rearranged his clothes.

Shen Pearl stood up slowly, don't look over, and heard the sound of the horse's hooves rolling over, and the sound reached the people, dozens of horsemen and horses galloped into view in an instant, and the most current person was Mo Yansi.

Mo Yan glanced at the situation in front of him, slightly startled, but invisible, turned over and dismounted, walked like a whirlwind, and laughed loudly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is okay?" ”

Li Yu endured the pain, stood up as if nothing had happened, raised his eyebrows and said, "Li Yu thanked the Khan for taking care of him." ”

Mo Yan glanced at Chen Zhou's corpse, "Your Highness should always believe what Ben Khan Suri said now." "Since Li Yu was detained by him, he has interviewed Li Yu several times and is willing to send someone to escort him back to the Central Plains, but how could Li Yu listen to him. But this time, Chen Zhou's rebellion and Empress Zhang's viciousness are indeed beyond Li Yu's imagination, but if he wants to ignore Li Wan's life and death, he will return with a feather, and he will be unhappy in his heart.

Mo Yan thought that he had seen through Li Yu's thoughts, and said: "In this way, if His Royal Highness still insists on going to my court to save Princess Ningguo, and wait for Ben Khan to go with you in twenty days, what will happen?" He also said, "Your Highness has many guards, and Ben Khan wants to use them to quell the chaos, so please ask Your Highness to help me." Saying this, he greatly took care of Li Yu's face, Li Yu felt a little grateful in his heart, and saluted: "The Khan saved Lone's life, the Tang Dynasty and Hui Su are in the same breath, although Lone is not talented, he is also willing to help Khan calm down the civil strife and Mu Sheng's grace." ”

Mo Yan glanced at Shen Pearl on his side slightly, and saw that her face was as white as Ying, but it was a little whiter than Li Yu, who had lost blood, standing alone on one side, as if he was in a state of confusion, and he didn't know if he heard the conversation between him and Li Yu. He didn't know what to do, thinking that Li Yu had said something that made her sad, so he opened his mouth and called her.

Shen Pearl raised her head as if frightened, looked at him, barely squeezed out a few smiles, and whispered, "Oh, I'll go back first." As she spoke, like a light wind, she came to the horse she had brought.

Mo Yan felt that her expression was very wrong, and she was about to stop drinking, but she saw her on the horse, her legs clamped between the horse's belly, and the horse was like an arrow from the string, and ran away without a trace.

(Tianjin)