It was already evening when the convoy arrived at Qiuci, more than an hour later than scheduled, and the messenger of Anxi, who had rushed to Qiuci first, had not yet appeared, and it was not clear whether he had arrived at the capital to inform the prince of the royal family of Qiuci and the princess of the peace of mind to visit.

The messenger did not come for a long time, and the gates were closed, and it seemed that he did not intend to let them in. The envoy sent by Tu Qitang was not in a good position, he felt very shameless, and did not wait for the division to urge, and then sent his attendants to discuss with the guards guarding the city gate.

Before Liu Ye and the others left, they had already sent a letter to the Qiuzi royal family, and it stands to reason that they would not fail to give this face. Although I didn't receive a reply, the relationship between Wusun, Anxi, and Kauzi has always been good, and even if I didn't say hello, I can't turn them away!

Tu Qitang's attendant has been gone for a long time and has not returned, just like the messenger who has disappeared, Tu Qitang's brows are furrowed deeper and deeper, and his patience is about to reach the extreme. Thinking of his dignified Royal Highness the Prince, no matter where he goes, he can enjoy the supreme treatment, and no one dares to snub him at all.

When night fell, the wind under the city gate was much lighter, but the taste of yellow sand blowing on the face was still unpleasant. Liu Ye and Feng Yan gave the two children food and coaxed them to sleep, seeing that the city gate was tightly closed, they thought that they would probably have to spend tonight in the carriage.

"Didn't Prince Sabbath send messengers into the city? Why don't you even have a person to open the city gate for us? Qing Ling sat in the carriage for a day, and there was no comfortable place on his body, "By the way, the princess also wrote to them, yo ho, the shelf of the Qiuzi royal family is so big, I don't put Anxi and Wusun in my eyes at all!" The princess did not reply to the letter, and the prince's messenger was gone! Princess, tell your imperial uncle that the Han army will be sent to raze Qiuzi to the ground......"

Feng Yan glanced at her and said angrily: "The more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, it's not clear what happened, how can you blame the Qiuzi royal family!" Maybe they didn't receive the princess's letter, nor did they see the prince's messenger, and they didn't know what was going on, and they would blame the princess for her arrogance......"

"Yes, yes, I'm reckless again, I know, don't say it again." Qing Ling interrupted her irritably, shook her head and said, "But how can there be such an evil thing, it doesn't matter if the letter is not received, who knows what happened on the road." However, the messenger rushed over early this morning, could it be that he also had an accident in the middle of the road? ”

Hearing movement outside the carriage, Liu Ye waved his hand, signaled them not to make a sound, lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked, it turned out to be Tu Qitang's attendant who had returned. Tu Qitang and Shizhong listened to the attendant talking, and the two kept asking him, but they couldn't hear what they were discussing.

"Maybe, there was some surprise!" Liu Ye said thoughtfully, there was no radio and broadband more than 2,000 years ago, the information was not well-informed, the Western Regions was vast and barren, and the wind and yellow sand were raging, so it would not be strange if an accident occurred.

Can't enter the city, Chang Hui is also very anxious, it's nothing for their big men to sleep in the wilderness and forests, but they can't let women and children spend the night outside the city. Looking up at the walls of Qiuzi, the loess wall about two people high could not stop him, but if he rushed over, people thought that an assassin was coming. The city wall stretched from east to west, stretching into the mountains, and the cold moonlight shrouded the shadows of the trees that swayed in the wind, gilding the yellow earth under their feet with a layer of silver. From time to time, there was a shrill bird cry in the distance, which sounded like a crow reporting a funeral, which was very unlucky.

"Princess, are Lord Weng and Zhao Gongzi asleep?" Chang Hui approached the carriage with the hilt of the sword in his hand, and when he saw Liu Ye looking out, he thought she was scared, and he didn't know what to say if he wanted to comfort her, so he thought about it for a long time and started chatting with the children.

"Well, they slept." Liu Ye noticed that Chang Hui's eyes flickered, and wanted to see Feng Yan in the carriage, but he was afraid that his behavior was too frivolous, so he didn't dare to look.

"Sister Xiao, let's get out of the car and walk around!" Liu Ye made a favor and asked Chang Hui to meet Feng Yan, so that he could put his mind at ease.

"Okay, okay, sitting for so long, my waist is about to break!" Qing Ling lifted the curtain, pulled Feng Yan's arm, dragged her off the carriage, and brought her to Chang Hui.

Chang Hui couldn't help blushing when he saw the person who was thinking about him, lowered his head embarrassedly, and smiled stupidly. Feng Yan looked at his clumsy appearance, and couldn't help but chuckle, this person is tall and big, and his appearance is quite fierce, I didn't expect to be so interesting. Thinking that there was a marriage contract between them, and she still couldn't remember him, she felt that she couldn't laugh at him, so she quickly restrained her smile.

The medicine gourd that came from the night turned his hands behind his back, pointed at Qingling who was shaking his head, and scolded: "You girl, you are naughty again, I didn't ask you to go down the mountain at the beginning, but you were good, you ran away by yourself, and you didn't even listen to your grandfather's words." ”

Qingling stuck out his tongue, stepped forward to hold the medicine gourd, and said coquettishly: "How can there be, how can I not listen to my grandfather's words, I am not naughty, I am moving my muscles, I don't believe you ask the princess and the little sister-in-law!" ”

"Alas, I really can't help you, you've reached the age of getting married, and you're still so big and small." The medicine gourd glanced at Shizhong not far away, shook his head regretfully and sighed, "You girl is so unlikable, when will you get married!" ”

Qing Ling pursed his lips unconvinced, let go of the medicine gourd's hand, and wanted to go around. The medicine gourd grabbed her, and glared at her: "Where do you want to go, come back to me, stay honest." ”

"I, I can't take a walk!" Qing Ling's little mouth was about to pout into the sky.

"No way!" The medicine gourd answered categorically.

"Humph!" Qing Ling got into the carriage and didn't go anywhere at all.

Liu Ye saw that the face of the medicine gourd was not quite right, and asked, "Old gourd, are you not feeling well?" ”

"No, I'm fine." Yao Hulu turned to look at the vast dark night, his expression was gloomy, and he said in a low voice, "There is something wrong with this place. ”

"Questions?" Liu Ye looked along his line of sight and couldn't see anything wrong.

Feng Yan and Chang Hui followed for a while, and asked incomprehensibly, "What's wrong?" Nothing! ”

The medicine gourd narrowed his eyes slightly: "There is evil energy!" ”

Liu Ye remembered what Tu Qitang had told her, and couldn't help but shudder, is there really a demon or a monster in the world! At this time, Shi Zhong walked over, gave a salute to the medicine gourd, and looked at Liu Ye with a solemn expression: "It's not the right time for us to come!" The guards guarding the gates did not believe in our identity and refused to open them anyway. ”

Chang Hui was anxious: "The princess has written a letter to the royal family of Qiuzi, and the messenger of rest ......"

Shizhong shook his head: "It seems that they have not received any information. ”

"So, what then? You're all here, can't you go back without even entering the door? Chang Hui spread out his hands, pointed to the city wall, and shouted, "I'll go, I'll open the city gate, I don't believe that King Qiuzi dares to say a word." ”

"This town is still some distance from the capital of Qiuzi, and they promised to wait until dawn to report to the capital, and we can only wait outside the city until the king gives the order."

"Why? Let's go in and wait, can't we? It's easy to deal with rough old men, women and children can't be offended! Well, I don't think the rest of the people are doing anything, so I'll talk about it! ”

Shizhong stopped Chang Hui and said: "If you go, the more you talk, the more chaotic it will be, those people can't make sense, if we insist on entering the city, we have to fight." ”

"Fight them, who is afraid of them!"

"General Chang, don't be impatient, listen to me." Shizhong rubbed his chin, as if there was something unspeakable, and he didn't know where to start for a while.

"Tu Qitang's attendant consulted with the Qiuzi guards and heard about some very evil things. Recently, children in the town have been dying one after another, not only newborn babies, but also children under the age of ten. Most of these children were healthy, they died without any warning, and when they died, they cried and screamed all night, and they died before dawn. The child's father and mother called all the doctors and could not see the cause of the disease, and more and more children died, and now they are convinced that it is an evil ghost. Not to mention at night, even during the day, he refused to let outsiders in. ”

Chang Hui was stunned when he heard this, and said funny: "Evil ghosts? What a demon! These people are so foolish, they must have eaten something unclean, or they had a plague!

The medicine gourd glared at him disdainfully: "Can unclean things eat the dead?" Children die of the plague, but adults are okay? You're foolish! ”

Chang Huibian stopped talking, Liu Ye thought for a while, and said, "Since they believe in this reason, it's useless for us to argue, so let's wait!" ”

Shi Zhong nodded: "The wronged princess spent the night in the car tonight." ”

Liu Ye smiled disapprenosingly: "You take turns to rest, don't tire yourself." ”

Feng Yan helped Liu Ye to get into the car, Qingling heard their conversation, he was completely sleepy, looked at the young man and Zhao Ziqing worriedly, and said, "Princess, let's go back after dawn, there may really be monsters in the town who eat children." ”

"Qingling, you're talking nonsense again, where are the monsters? Aren't you usually quite bold? Feng Yan covered the quilt for the two children, "Fortunately, they are all asleep, what if you are frightened by your nonsense." ”

"I'm not afraid, I say this, it's not for the two of them!" Qing Ling turned his head to look at Liu Ye, "Princess, I'm not alarmist, some things are really evil, it's not that you don't believe it won't happen, okay, you don't listen to me, you should always believe your grandfather's words!" Go and ask him, do you believe that the death of the children in the town is evil? ”

Feng Yan heard the medicine gourd say that there was evil qi around, and she didn't want to be attached to this problem in the middle of the night, so she lay down and hugged the two children: "Okay, go to sleep, I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

"yes, let's talk about it tomorrow!" Liu Ye patted Qingling's hand and said comfortingly, "At this time, I can't ask anything, don't think about it." ”

Qing Ling sighed, when she encountered this kind of thing, she didn't want to sleep peacefully. Liu Ye didn't lie down, not to mention that the carriage was crowded, she really couldn't sleep, the two sat cross-legged opposite each other and closed their eyes to recuperate.

Liu Ye's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she was just about to fall asleep, when a terrible scream pierced her heart like a sharp blade.