The soldiers brushed his mane, prepared a saddle, a bag of dry food on his backpack, and a quilt made into a backpack, and everything seemed to be in order for the journey.

Fumeng Lingcha has already sent someone to deliver the news, he has stayed in the city post station, and he will leave tomorrow morning, and Li Siye needs to go and wait in advance tomorrow.

In the evening, Yan Xiaosi led a horse and bolted it to the wooden fence of the school field. He secretly looked up and saw through the wooden crack in the window that Li Siye was sitting cross-legged in front of the desk, holding "Li Weigong's Art of War" in his hand and reading hard.

He quietly walked to the door, straightened his head with both hands, and then called softly: "Captain." ”

Li Siye closed the book and squinted, and saw that it was Yan Xiaosi, so he put down the book and said indifferently: "It's Xiaosi, come in." ”

After Yan Xiaosi entered the door, he bowed respectfully and asked him: "I heard that the captain is going to follow the Jiedu envoy back to Chang'an to report his work, I don't know if there is anyone around to accompany him." ”

Li Siye's eyes lit up: "Not yet, do you want to go to Chang'an with me?" ”

Yan Xiaosi raised his eyebrows and crossed his hands and said, "Xiaosi has this intention." ”

"Okay, go back tonight and get ready, and set off with me tomorrow morning."

"Whoa!" Yan Xiaosi rubbed his hands with each other, as if he was very excited and surprised, he smirked twice crampedly before he spoke: "That, captain, I'll go back and prepare." ”

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Li Siye woke up, pushed open the door with sleepy eyes, reached out and picked up the dark blue crotch robe from the hanger next to him, and put it on his body indiscriminately. The dyeing and printing technology of this era was not yet mature, and the color of the robe was uneven, with some places being deep and some places being shallow, and it looked like a specially made mottled pattern. He lifted the knife from the wall, put it on his waist, and turned to go out the door.

Pushing open the door with a bang, the sky was slightly drunk, and the vast dark blue was dotted with stars. He turned his head to look, only to see a gray figure leaning against the wall with his chest crossed, looking down and napping.

"Yan Xiaosi, have you come a long time ago?"

Yan Xiaosi hurriedly stood up straight, crossed his hands and said, "No, I just came over." ”

"In that case, let's go."

The two of them each led a horse, leaving the empty school field, the early morning light fog shrouded the surroundings in the white vastness, just out of the camp, I saw four people standing next to the well platform in the hazy fog, namely Yuan Tao, Cheng Jichang, Fuji Mu, and Tian Zhen each holding a wine bowl.

Li Siye was surprised, and then arched his hand and smiled: "I'm just going back to Chang'an, why do I need to put on such a battle to see me off." ”

"No, the ancients said that a day is not as good as three autumns, you go to Chang'an for four or five months, thousands of miles apart, brothers prepare a glass of thin wine to see you off."

Li Siye took the wine bowl handed over by the other party, Yan Xiaosi also got a bowl, the two drank it in a big gulp, Li Siye handed it back and said: "Thank you brothers for sending each other, the spring is cold, go back." ”

The two turned around and beckoned, leaving everyone in the mist.

They led their horses to the gate of the inn, and sure enough, before General Fumeng got up, they stood by the roadside and waited in the morning mist. The merchants of the various inns in the city had already drawn out their camels to load their goods, and the misty city of exchange was very clear in the sound of camel bells, and the outlines of the earthen walls and long flags of the inns were drifting in the thin haze of quicksand, and there were many flat-roofed houses in the distance.

Fumeng Lingcha began to move, and a dozen or so attendants around him acted neatly and competently, leading the horses out of the stables in turn, erecting the saddles and asking the envoy to turn over and get on the horse. Fu Meng Lingcha had not yet been contaminated with the habit of a large entourage of high-ranking officials when they traveled, and he was afraid that he would be quick when he reached the festival.

The general rode to Li Siye's side, smiled and said, "Get up early enough, I've been waiting for a long time." ”

Li Siye took the reins of the horse: "The humble post has just arrived." ”

"Let's go, there's still a long way to go."

Fu Meng whipped the horse's buttocks, and led the team out of the city.

The rest of the journey was not only long, but also made all kinds of stops and stops, especially after being included in the ranks of the Jiedu envoys. The cumbersome and dazzling travel honor guard, there were more than 400 accompanying escort troops alone, including a carriage carrying the Fire Fairy Khan, the Princess of Jinhe and the two Kedun. From the door in front to the six flags in the center of the team, and then to the five-square flag at the end of the team, the whole team is a long worm dozens of feet, squirming forward on the desert avenue outside Luntai.

Li Siye followed the end of the team unhurriedly, and had long expected this slow trip, with the developed post station transportation network in Shazhou and other places, the team's daily journey was two to three post stations, and when it met a small post station, it stopped resting for half an hour, and when it met a big post station, it was camped and stayed, no matter the time was morning or night.

The team set off from Qiuci and arrived at Dunhuang, a sandbank, more than half a month later, but Gai Zhongcheng's team did not stop here and continued to go to Guazhou. Li Siye rode on his horse and looked to the west, the golden light of the Thousand Buddha Caves under the sunset sprinkled on the yellow rock face revealed a solemn treasure, and the silhouette that the light failed to shine on, made half of the cave wall in the junction of light and darkness, hiding an unknown pitch black. The well-proportioned black holes on the cliff were neat and dense, dotted with red monk's robes, and the sound of a lonely knock on the stone wall.

After a few more days, the party of the Jiedu envoy arrived in Lanzhou through Gaolan Mountain, repaired a little in the city, and then set off again the next day. Li Siye did not go to the pavilion post with the large army, but found a small inn near the pavilion post and lived in it with Yan Xiaosi to facilitate certain things.

Yan Xiaosi has been very well-behaved since the beginning of the journey, positioning himself as a service soldier, serving tea and pouring water for everything. Whenever he goes to a place, he never travels alone, and only when Li Siye goes out, he will follow behind.

Li Siye didn't know whether he should take this kind of thing with him, but this kid was very well-behaved and made him very uncomfortable, so he shouldn't be worried about repaying his kindness because he dragged him up from the snow hole. He was very uncomfortable with the feeling of being reciprocated, not to mention that this was still a man.

The two went to the street to buy a bowl of noodle soup, and when the sky was dark, Li Siye returned to the inn to prepare, took out the Si'enke brand hidden in the corner of his clothes, and carefully rubbed it again.

This is the first time he left Chang'an for Anxi four years ago, and after being plotted on the way, he encountered the desert thief vulture Zhang Kuo, who circled in the desert for more than 20 days before killing all of them, and got the key, brand and sachet from this Zhang Kuo. As soon as Li Siye got the key at that time, he thought of the treasure of the sand thieves, and the sign indicated that Lanzhou Quanye Fang was the red light district in Lanzhou City, and the Heruo embroidered on the sachet may be the Qinglou woman in Quanye Fang.

Yan Xiaosi carried the boiled tea into the door, Li Siye quickly pinched the brand into the palm of his hand, Xiaosi didn't seem to see it, and poured the water into the tea bowl in front of Li Siye with a copper kettle.

"This is the hot tea I asked for from Dr. Tea downstairs, Captain, you can take two bites while it's hot."

Li Siye pinched the tea bowl and nodded slightly, and said seductively: "The market streets of Lanzhou City are much more lively than Dunhuang, Xiaosi, you don't want to go anywhere?" Find a gold cave and be happy, I have two dollars here, you can use it as you like. ”

He took out two strings of money from his arms and put them in front of Yan Xiaosi, and Yan Xiaosi's face showed no joy except for surprise.

"No, no need, Captain, I have money on me, but I don't want to go yet."

"If you don't go, then I'll go."