Rustle~~

At dusk, an autumn rain quietly fell on the Gobi Desert.

Although the rainfall is so small that you don't need to hold an umbrella and bring a hat, it is like a mist blowing on your face, but it still brings a bit of nectar to travelers walking on the Gobi Desert.

In a small town more than 300 miles away from Langxuan City, two horses stood at the entrance of the town, and Cao Aning and Xu Tianying, who had just been repatriated, sat immediately.

Although Cao Aning was beaten twice and suffered internal injuries, he has not completely recovered until now, but it is a great fortune for him to be able to come back alive from the Hades Palace, and for this reason, he also sighed with some sighs that if he does not die, he will have a blessing, and he is saying:

"I used to say that the Night Yama King is powerful, and he can't be guarded against it, you still don't believe it, but now you believe it, right? If you weren't blessed by me, how could you have the opportunity to be a bad person in the court and win the opportunity to make meritorious contributions......"

Xu Tianying has not encountered a good thing since he met Cao Aning, and when he heard that Cao Aning was still boasting about himself, he responded:

"If you don't come to Yanshan to report the news that the empress has a secret illness, the prince of Yan Wang and the master will continue to hold back. Master doesn't take risks, I am still the young master of the Cloud Interception Palace, and after a hundred years of master, I will become the leader of Yanzhou, innocent and innocent. It's good now, I'm blessed with you, I have become a traitor and traitor without doing anything, and I have to risk my life to lurk in the enemy country and find a way to clear my guilt......"

Cao Aning sighed: "The fate is bumpy, it's all the same." I grew up with the abolished emperor, and since I was a child, I was cultivated as a cronie of the Son of Heaven, as long as there is no accident, I can become nine thousand years old, and I am in charge of the ten thousand people above and under the one, and even the kings have to look at my face and act.

"The result is good, the eldest princess didn't say a word, my master is still drilling, just to fight against the new monarch, but I can't do it, so that my apprentice will either die by himself or be purged by the empress, and there is no way out......"

When Xu Tianying heard this, his heart moved, and he tilted his head and said:

"You not only killed the two princes, but also killed the abolished emperor?"

？

Cao Aning frowned: "What you said is not appropriate, when the abolished emperor was in power, I was not in power, and I was a leader of the secret guard." The abolition of the emperor and the loss of the throne were purely done by himself, and I didn't contribute half of my efforts. ”

"So it's a death killing?"

Xu Tianying said thoughtfully: "Whoever saddles the horse before and after the horse suffers, but you yourself are fine, and you can be regarded as talented." When you get to Zuo Xian's mansion, you don't have to treat yourself as a secret pile, just sincerely help Zuo Xian Wang, and maybe you can do miraculous feats repeatedly......"

……

While the two were talking nonsense, the team in the distance sped in front of them.

There are six people in the team, all of whom are warriors dressed in rivers and lakes, and the leader is Du Tanqing, the spy leader under the command of King Zuoxian.

Seeing this, Cao Aning bowed his hand from afar:

"Du Lao."

Du Tanqing stopped the team, drove the horse to the front of the two, and said approvingly:

"Hu Yanjing Feige sent a message, praising you for doing things beautifully, but he couldn't get off the ground in a day, which is a bit too realistic. However, in the old man's opinion, this is a good thing, since he wants to do a bitter plan, he should not be ruthless, so as not to leave half a flaw. In the future, it should be so rigorous. ”

Cao Aning knew that the Night Yama King couldn't take it lightly, so he was a little ashamed and sorry at the moment:

"Du Lao has won the award, and we have always been pragmatic. Listen to what Du Lao means, I will be a guest of Zuoxian Wangfu in the future? ”

Du Tanqing nodded: "It's okay to do it, the old man will naturally not go back on his word." However, the master under the prince is like a cloud, and if he wants to become a close minister, he still has to climb up from the bottom. There has just been something going on recently, your martial arts are good, so accompany the old man for a trip. ”

Seeing this, Cao Aning hurriedly beckoned the entourage in the town to follow, he drove his horse in front of Du Tanqing, and asked:

"What do you want Du Lao to do in person?"

Du Tanqing had already said something last time, and he didn't hide it at this time:

"Hu Yanjing said last time that he met the descendants of the Qi Chi Department, and the palace attaches great importance to this matter, and the remnants of the Northwest Royal Court naturally have to be cut down and eradicated."

When Cao Aning heard this, his heart moved: "Elder Du has already found the whereabouts of the descendants of the Chi Division?" ”

"The people who have been cultivated in the West Sea have provided some clues, and they should be inseparable."

Cao Aning bowed slightly, feeling that this news was very important, and as a spy, he should send this news out immediately.

But it has always been the Night Yama King looking for him, and he doesn't know how to find the Night Yama King, this kind of urgent information is really difficult to handle, and he can only ask at the moment:

"Our trip is to destroy the remnants of the Northwest Royal Court?"

Du Tanqing stroked his beard lightly, and a touch of depth flashed in his chest:

"The plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, someone will help us fight, let's just look at the battle situation in the past, and at most we will finish it."

？

Cao Aning didn't know why, he was stunned when he heard 'driving tigers and devouring wolves, borrowing knives to kill people' or something, but he didn't have much say when he first arrived, and he didn't ask much at the moment......

——

On the other side, the town of Taniguchi.

At dusk, two fast horses galloped from the Gobi Desert and entered the small town of Biansai, where dragons and snakes were mixed.

Dressed in a black robe and wearing a hat, the dragon knife hung from his waist, and the dragon spear hung on the side of the horse, he looked left and right after entering the town.

Fan Qinghe was dressed in a colorful skirt with red flowers, a belt hanging from her waist, and there were many bottles and cans on it, and she did not carry any weapons, and walked on her side on a horse.

The two of them said goodbye to Xuanji Zhenren the night before yesterday, set off from Langxuan City, and spent two days speeding to the vicinity of Huanglaoguan.

Huanglaoguan is close to a mountain range, the territory of the Great Wei is called Hongshan, out of the pass is called Huangming Mountain, it is rumored that it is the place where the ancient hermit cultivates immortals, the altitude is very high, the main peak has the top of the snow, the west side is thousands of miles of yellow sand, the east side is the grassland and the Gobi Desert.

Because the terrain is relatively steep, it is inconvenient for horse-drawn carriages to pass, and it is a thousand miles of desert after the mountains, and normal caravans will not go from here at all; But also because this place is not easy to manage in the north and south dynasties, so it has become a gold trade route for smuggling business, the largest of which is the Hongshan Gang.

Although the geographical location is very remote, it is profitable to go here because of the smuggling caravan and the people who dare not see the light of day, so there is still a small town as a supply point.

There are more than 20 houses in Taniguchi Town, and the flow of people is very small, and even at noon, you can't see a few passers-by.

The night terror hall traveled for two days in a row, and the people were fine, but the birds were sleepy and the horses were tired, and when they arrived in the town, they found a small inn to settle down.

Fan Qinghe runs around all the year round, and it has become a habit to sleep in the open air, and there is no discomfort after running for a long time, and after arriving at the inn, he asked the guys at the inn for clues:

"Little Er, about two months ago, a small caravan of six people passed by here, two cars, all full of medicinal herbs, do you have any impression?"

Crossing Huangming Mountain to cross the mountains and mountains and then cross thousands of miles of desert, all the way to the no-man's land is extremely risky, can walk from here, either a large caravan of dozens of people together, or a strong martial artist who is lightly armed, six people pull two cars, it is likely that they can't get out of the desert, so as long as they have been to the town, the people in the town must have an impression.

The shopkeeper saw that Fan Qinghe was a woman, although she was veiled, she didn't look bad, but she was also kind, as long as she had a tip of one or two silver, she responded:

"Six people pull two carts of medicinal materials without pulling materials, it is impossible to cross Huangmingshan, not to mention these two months, I haven't seen it in the past two years."

"Haven't seen ......"

When Fan Qinghe heard this reply, he couldn't help frowning secretly, and asked a few more words before he came to the room behind the inn with Night Terror Hall, and thought:

"I have many acquaintances in the Xihai Tribes, so I inquired all the way and confirmed that the small caravan that left from the Xuanhao Department came here, and I didn't see it turn back, could it be that I went directly from Huang Lao to Liangzhou?"

Night Terror ordered two bowls of green onion noodles, put them on the table, and by the way, took out the bird that had eaten and slept all the way out of the package, shook it awake to eat, and responded:

"When you come out of Langxuan City, you can go directly to Heishi Pass, and it is unlikely that you can run here. I guess the caravan didn't enter the customs, and it didn't pass Huangmingshan, but it went somewhere within a few hundred miles of the neighborhood. ”

Fan Qinghe sat down at the table and unveiled his face:

"There is no man's land nearby, and there is only this small town, and I have never heard of other tribes taking root......

"If you want to refine the strange poison of the Prison Dragon Miasma, it is likely to be hidden in the barren mountains and mountains. The amount of two carts of medicinal materials is not small, and if you want to consume them all, you must have a medical workshop, and it is impossible that there are no traces of life around. Later, let the birds go to patrol the mountains, as long as there are people settled within a few hundred miles, they can see the sky at a glance, and they can look for them one by one. ”

"Twitter......"

Seeing that the bird didn't want to go to work, the night terror hall gave it a poached egg to eat.

Fan Qinghe has hurried to hurry up and inquire about clues in the past two days, but basically he hasn't stopped, and he hasn't had a good chat with the Night Terror Hall. At this time, she muttered noodles, and seeing that each other was idle, she thought for a while and asked:

"Night Terror, you don't have any ideas in your heart?"

"Huh?"

As soon as Night Terror Hall picked up the chopsticks, he raised his eyes to look at the Winter Hades King who was spreading flowers and branches opposite, and said suspiciously:

"What thoughts?"

"It's the matter of the Northwest Royal Court."

Fan Qinghe picked up the bowl, sat on the side, and said earnestly:

"Granny Gui said, you must be a descendant of the Chi Division, but you can't be sure whether it's a descendant or a side line. The strong people of the Qi Chi Department are respected, and as long as you have great ability, you are eligible to inherit, so you are the orthodox heir of the Tianlang King......"

To be honest, Night Terror Hall hadn't thought about any of this, he shook his head and smiled:

"I'm just a ranger in the rivers and lakes, I prefer to travel the rivers and lakes immediately with a horizontal knife, and I really can't do it to be the king or something. Moreover, the status is obtained by ability, I think that the king of Tianlang, even if he is born in the rivers and lakes, can still sit in the position of the king of Tianlang with a knife in his hand, and rely on his bloodline and life experience to seek these, I am really not interested. ”

Fan Qinghe actually saw that Night Terror Hall didn't value fame and fortune anymore, but was just a little lustful, so he followed the temptation:

"It's not about taking, it's about taking back what you have. You don't have the king of Tianlang, naturally you don't understand the good of the king of Tianlang, the king of Tianlang is not an ordinary vassal king, but the monarch of a country, and the monarchs of the northern and southern dynasties are on an equal footing, sitting on an equal footing with three palaces, six courtyards and three thousand beauties......"

？

Hearing this, Night Terror Hall was a little serious:

"Miss Fan, don't you think I'm greedy for beauty?"

Isn't it?

Fan Qinghe thought so, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he said euphemistically:

"It's not covetousness. Don't you like King Jing? King Jing is the empress's own sister, even if you become the first in the world, if you want to marry King Jing, you are also a concubine, and it depends on King Jing's meaning to take a concubine. And being the king of Tianlang is different, marrying a bunch of side concubines, King Jing can't say anything about you......"

Night Terror Hall is somewhat funny:

"I'm really not interested in anything about royal power, but if I find out my life, even if I don't remember, the grudges related to me will be settled, and the kindness will also be repaid, Miss Fan doesn't have to worry that because I grew up in Dawei, I will treat the things before I was born as extraneous things that have nothing to do with me."

When Fan Qinghe heard this, he sighed secretly and didn't say anything more......

———

At the same time, between the mountains hundreds of miles away.

In late autumn, the cool autumn breeze carries the rain, and pours into the basin between the mountains, where knee-deep yellow weeds grow, with a few fields in the center, surrounded by a small, isolated village of seven or eight families.

In the small courtyard at the entrance of the village, Jiang Zahu, dressed in a green robe, leaned his hand out of the eaves, took a few drops of rainwater, and called:

"Girl, it's raining, go and ask your grandfather to add some clothes, don't toss around at night and don't care about anything."

"Got it, Dad."

In the room behind her, a fat girl of seven or eight years old reluctantly put down her toys and trotted out of the door with an umbrella.

In the kitchen, the daughter-in-law, who was washing the dishes, wiped her hands and came to her after the girl went out, and asked:

"In another month, the mountains will be covered by heavy snow, and you won't go out before spring, right?"

"Yanfeng is folded outside, there are few trustworthy people in the gang, and if there is something, he may have to go out a few times."

"Well, you live here, and you have nowhere to spend your money, so why bother with this? If you want me to see it, it's better to give the helper seat to the flower-headed Buddha......"

"Zhan Zhongdao is not good at martial arts, and his personality is reckless, and he sits in the position of the leader, and he can't control the rivers and lakes of Liangzhou. Liu Qiansheng has ten thousand crimes, but when he dominated Liangzhou, whether it was a gang or a horse bandit, he did abide by some rules; I pulled Liu Qiansheng down, and I could only fill the vacancy by myself......"

"If you say this again, I think you just can't bear the reputation and status of the overlord of the rivers and lakes. I shouldn't have begged my father to cure you back then, when your martial arts were abolished, you followed me with a dead face, and kept saying 'always be with me, never separated', and as a result, I ran out twice in three days after being cured......"

Jiang Zahu listened to the nagging, but he was reminded of his past memories by these words.

When he was more than ten years old, he was expelled from the Hongshan Gang, and he went out of the customs alone, came to the Xihai Tribes, and became a dart master from south to north together with Shi Yanfeng.

The core of the trade of the Xihai tribes is Langxuan City, where he also wandered, once took over a business, was hired as a coachman to run to Huangmingshan, the owner of which was a little girl.

At that time, his martial arts were exhausted, and he didn't know that the girl's father was a miracle doctor, because he had a deep blood feud, he didn't talk much on the way, and he didn't have the intention of marrying a wife and having children.

But the girls of the Xihai tribes have always been spicy, and when they found that he was good-looking, and he had read and could write like a weak scholar, they were very good to him, and they surrounded him all day long, and they brought out his life experience when they came and went.

Then he was pulled down into the mountain, and he met one of the most important people in his life, and it was from that day that his experience began to turn around, jumping out of the valley and stepping on the top of the mountain and never falling down again.

Jiang Zahu received the favor, naturally remembered this feeling, and never left after coming to this valley, even if he finally avenged the revenge of his father, ranked as a martial artist, and was in charge of the Hongshan Gang, he also went out for a trip, and returned here after finishing it, from beginning to end, he was the homeless little ranger who was taken in by the girl, and he never changed, and this valley was also the only reverse scale in his heart.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was nagging about the past again, Jiang Zahu responded:

"It seems that you dragged me here back then, and you beat me up if I didn't come......"

"I'm doing it for your good! Besides, 'always be with me, never separated' is what you said personally, right? ”

"Then don't you worship the church, you have to say two sentences......"

"Scenes?!"

"Alas, I'm in my forties and fifties, what should I do if I hear this......?"

……

(End of chapter)