September is late autumn, and the south may still be as warm as spring, but the northwest is gradually getting cooler, and by night there is already a bitter cold wind.

The silver moon is like a hook, the bleak white moonlight is sprinkled on the endless Gobi Desert, the sturdy white Pegasus passes through the barren grassland, and the moon looks like a ghost, and the hare from the crypt probe has not yet seen what it is, and it has reached the end of the field of vision.

On horseback, Night Terror Hall wore a black cloak and a windproof face scarf around his face, and his eyes searched the wilderness for all the time.

Bird Bird was too fast to stand on his feet because the horse was running too fast, and he hid directly behind the butt of the Night Terror.

Although Night Terror grew up on horseback and rode one of the best horses in a thousand places, the bumps of the horse's galloping could not be avoided.

He didn't dare to let the fainting Queen Mother be impacted again, so he stood on the stirrup with his legs slightly bent, raised the princess with his arms and hugged the Queen Mother, and used his legs as a shock absorber buffer, trying his best not to let the bumps pass on to the Queen Mother.

The night terror hall horse step skills are very good, and the body control is the top in the world, the queen mother is lying in the arms of the night terror, and her chest does not tremble, just like lying on a soft bed.

And the night terror's legs were retracted at a very high frequency, and after a few hours of running, it was a little backache.

Fortunately, this little problem is nothing to the Night Terror Hall, but I am a little worried that the temperature is low and windy at night, and the Queen Mother's body can't withstand it.

Hoohoo one by one

The wind was blowing, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed in my ears.

The Queen Mother squinted her eyes, her cheeks rested on her warm arms, because she was petite, it was not uncomfortable to be held horizontally.

It may be that it is indeed a little cold in the middle of the night, the Queen Mother was confused, frowned slightly, and then felt that the wind was blowing in her ears, as if sleeping in the open air, she subconsciously pulled the cloak wrapped around her body, and immediately heard a low call in her ears:

"The Queen Mother?"

"Hmm"

The Queen Mother's body perception gradually recovered, and she found herself lying in the man's arms. She was slightly shocked in her heart, opened her eyes and looked, just in time to see the face of the Night Terror Hall close at hand and the crescent moon and starry sky in the sky, her eyes couldn't help but widen a little, and then looked left and right, obviously a little dazed.

"Woo 1 1"

"The Queen Mother? How do you feel?"

"I...... Hongu"

The Queen Mother was quite blindsided, and she didn't understand why she was still watching a big drama in Langxuan City just now, and she ran away to the wilderness in a blink of an eye, and was still sitting in the arms of the Night Terror Hall......

The Queen Mother noticed that the two were too close and wanted to move out a little, but her hands and feet were a little weak, so she asked suspiciously:

"What's wrong with Hongu?"

"In the afternoon, the mother suddenly fainted. I'll take my mother to Hongshan to see a doctor now, and I should be able to get there tomorrow."

"Fainting ......"

The Queen Mother felt that there was nothing wrong with herself, but her limbs were weak and weak.

Could it be that he fainted from hunger......

"Hongu is fine, it's just that I haven't had an appetite these days, and I'm hungry and faint...... Well, now that I suddenly want to eat, I should be fine when I'm full, you don't have to be in such a hurry."

Night Terror Hall held the Queen Mother's back with one hand, drove the horse on, and at the same time took the food box prepared for the departure from the side of the horse.

"It's fine. Eat something first, anyway, it's already off, rush to Hongshan as soon as possible, and let the doctor take a look......

The Queen Mother put the food box on her thigh, and after raising her hand to open it, it can be seen that it is boiled porridge; And there are a few small snacks to nourish the stomach underneath.

The Queen Mother accidentally fainted, scared the night terror hall like this, she must not dare to toss blindly, she picked up the small porcelain jar, opened the lid and poured a big mouthful, and then puffed out her cheeks, feeling that the night terror hall was looking at it without turning her eyes, a little embarrassed, so she covered her red lips with her sleeves, and waited for the warm white porridge to enter her throat before asking:

"What about them?"

Night Terror Hall raised his hand to caress the back of the Queen Mother, so as not to choke her:

"In the back. The horse was running fast, so he took the first step, and the bird followed......

"Tss

The bird who was sleeping behind the back probably smelled the fragrance of rice, and at this time he also woke up, looked at it from the side of his waist, and then ran to the front, squeezed between the night terror hall and the queen mother, rubbed the arm of the queen mother with his brain, and began to ask for food with a worried look.

After the Queen Mother ate a few bites, the hunger and thirst in her stomach were finally relieved, and even the sickness that had been in place for many days was disappearing, she picked up a piece of dried meat, and privately fed a small piece to the bird's mouth, seeing that Night Terror Hall was looking ahead with a resolute look in her eyes, she thought about it and handed the rest to Night Terror Hall's mouth:

"So, you're hungry too, aren't you?"

Night Terror Hall looked down, thought about it and didn't refuse, raised his hand to catch the dried meat and threw it into his mouth, and said: "This horse is the baby bump of the witch horse department, just this one, it was supposed to let Xuanji Zhenren escort the Queen Mother, but Xuanji Zhenren and Jiang Zahu are not familiar with each other, so I came over, um......

The Queen Mother knew the meaning of the night terror, and said softly:

"Shui'er sent this palace, this palace is not at ease, maybe she will get drunk in the end, I will carry her to Hongshan."

"Hehe......" Night Terror Hall couldn't help but laugh when he thought there was nothing wrong with this.

After the Queen Mother said a few words, she rubbed the birds that were waiting to be fed, and then looked at the whole body of the Night Terror:

"You got into a fight with someone today, and you weren't hurt, were you?"

"What can I do?"

Night Terror Hall shook his head and smiled: "The Empress Dowager and King Jing are watching from the side, if I lose, I am afraid that I will have no shame to go back to meet the elder of Da Wei, so I fought very seriously, and even took out the move at the bottom of the box."

The Queen Mother was far away, and she didn't see it very clearly, and the deepest impression was the scene of the night terror spear like a dragon, so she held the circle with her left hand and the index finger of her right hand......

Night Terror reacted quickly this time, and hurriedly stopped the Queen Mother:

"It's a last resort, not this one."

"Oh, yes."

The Queen Mother seemed to understand and nodded: "The martial arts of this palace are not proficient, so I feel that it is very powerful to poke and poke with a big gun...... Isn't it nice to see someone? She likes the masters of the rivers and lakes the most......

"yes."

The two chatted softly on the horse, and the weather was indeed a little cold at night, and the Queen Mother sat in front, and after eating, she put away the food box, wrapped the cloak on her body tightly, and kept sitting upright all the time, obviously a little tired. Night Terror Hall sat on the saddle, much more comfortable than just now, afraid that the Queen Mother would be strong and would have an accident, so he asked the Queen Mother to lean in front of her and said, "When you go out and are in a hurry, you are in a hurry, and the mother still focuses on her body, so she doesn't have to worry so much."

The Queen Mother didn't want to care too much, but her identity as the Queen Mother was here, leaning on the arms of the male guard, and she always felt a little rebellious.

However, because her body was indeed weak, after her body tensed for a moment, she still relaxed a little, put the bird in her arms, scanned the boundless field, and had nothing to say: "Where is this?"

"Rebellion. The last battle of King Tianlang was here, and I guess it was also picked up by my father-in-law here, but I don't know ......where it is."

"Burning the Plains ......"

The Queen Mother thought about it a little, touched it from her arms, took out the book she was carrying, turned to the back, and found one of the pages: "I have read it in the book before, and it is written on it, 'The galaxy is hanging on the top, the four fields are lonely, and it is exactly the same as here, so the prince of Liang must have been here......

Night Terror Hall looked down, but saw that the book was "The Secret History of Cleopatra", and the content on it was that after His Royal Highness returned to the fiefdom, he took the Queen Mother out of the customs to go on a safari, and walked here to recall the wars in the history of the past, and then the sky was covered by the earth......

It's a pity that the specific content was covered by the Queen Mother's hand.

Night Terror Hall shook his head secretly, feeling that the Queen Mother had done too much, this book was bought by him, and it was taken to the Queen Mother by Shuishui, what was written in the covered part, could he not know?

Isn't it just wearing a tail and pretending to be a vixen, and hooking up with an innocent son in the wilderness......

Although he knew it, Night Terror Hall was not easy to say after all, so he just responded in accordance with the words:

"King Shizi of Liang is a figure in the early days of Dayan, and the book was written a hundred years ago. It should be the person who wrote the book......

The Queen Mother regarded these books as history books, and hurriedly said:

"There must be something that can find so many pieces of evidence. If it's just an idler's imagination, how to explain the seat in the bath of Fushou Palace? Empress Dowager Yan can't entertain herself with the palace maids in the palace, right?"

Night Terror Hall is really not easy to explain this, think about it and nodded:

"That's right."

The Queen Mother said the contents of the book seriously, and for some reason, she also thought of herself in her heart.

At the age when she was ignorant, she was selected as the new queen to enter the palace, but halfway through, she became a surviving person, although she was destined to be rich and noble for a lifetime, but she was also destined to have nothing to do with her in the future, she could only wait for the old death in the palace one day, to draw an end to this life.

As a human being, she couldn't accept all this, but she could only go with the flow and couldn't escape; After only a few years in the palace, she reached the limit, and she wanted to end this hopeless day early, but at that time, she ran into the ginkgo tree outside the back window.

She didn't know if the ginkgo tree had a spirit, but it did bring her good luck.

After getting the fire map inexplicably, she was happy for several years, hoping that one day she would be able to cultivate and become an immortal and completely jump out of this cage. But after practicing for a few years, she found that the fire bath map could not make her an immortal, but only allowed her to live healthy until she died, and it was difficult to break herself. So the excitement disappeared again, and she felt that the ginkgo tree might have misunderstood her prayer, so she buried the flower and bird hairpins she had worn since childhood under the ginkgo tree. When she buried the hairpin, she didn't know what she wanted to pray for, but everyone knew what the hairpin meant to the woman.

She didn't dare to think about these things, but she couldn't worship every day, after all, she was just an ordinary woman, and she was looking forward to it in her heart. And the ginkgo tree didn't seem to give up on her, an insatiable layman, but still responded, allowing her to get another copy of "The Secret History of Cleopatra".

Empress Dowager Yan in the secret history of Cleopatra, after being widowed at a young age, also worshiped the ginkgo tree like her, and then the handsome and incomparable His Royal Highness, touched the palace in the middle of the night, and the two of them started like that.

The Queen Mother felt that the ginkgo tree was guiding her to learn from her predecessors one by one, to take the initiative, happiness is earned by herself, as long as she meets the right person, she has to dig tunnels and fake her death to pursue her freedom. But the Empress Dowager is different from the Empress Dowager Yan, the Empress Dowager Yan monopolizes power and messes with her husband in her own palace, and no one dares to mess around.

The Queen Mother secretly sighed for a moment, feeling that her thoughts were a little dangerous, so she stopped in time and asked, "After entering the customs, if you go to Hongshan, will you pass by the Truffle Valley?"

Night Terror Hall has been running in Liangzhou since he was a child, and he is naturally clear about the route, and said with a smile:

"yes. The scenery there is good, there are many stone pillar forests, and there are still stone monuments of predecessors. What did the mother read in the book?"

The Queen Mother naturally read it from the book, but it was not easy to admit it, so she responded: "I have heard it before."

"I'll be there tomorrow morning, and if you run fast, you might be able to catch the sunrise, and I haven't been in a few times since I've passed, so I can just take a look."

"Don't be too anxious, there aren't many horses in the whole world for such a good horse, it's a pity to run badly......

Hoof, hoof......

The two of them galloped south, and the words gradually drifted away, and the majestic walls of Heishi Pass gradually appeared at the end of the earth......

Pingyi City is hundreds of miles away, in a small town where three religions and nine streams gather. It belongs to the three-regardless zone.

There are not only businessmen and spies such as Du Tanqing who come and go from the south to the north in the town, but also high-rollers who walk in all directions.

At night, in a small inn in town.

A pair of old and young people dressed as Jianghu people sat in front of the window, eating a light meal slowly.

On the table between the two, in addition to a few side dishes and a pot of wine, there was also a jackdaw with black fur.

The jackdaw was only the size of a palm, it looked a little wilted, and he stood silently on the edge of the table, not very familiar with the old and young, but the old man who ate would still put some food in front of the jackdaw.

The inn was quite small, and there were few tables of guests, and in the middle of the meal, there was the sound of horses' hooves outside, and then a fast horse stopped outside the inn.

The old man blinked his eyes

When I looked, I saw that there was a swordsman in a cloak sitting right away. The face of the swordsman is less than forty, his side is quite high, and there are two knives hanging behind his waist, one is three and a half feet long, and the other is more than two feet long, all wrapped in black cloth.

The clothed knifeman turned over and dismounted in front of the inn, and strode into the inn, seemingly wanting to have a light meal; But when he passed by the table, he looked at the jackdaw who was staying on the table, and then looked at the old and the young, and said, "Your Excellency is Zhongsun Yan?"

"Old man Shen Lin, Zhong Sun Yan is my junior brother. Xi Daxia, please take a seat."

"It turned out to be Shen Lao's protector, disrespectful."

Xi Tianyan, who was dressed in a robe, showed a bit of surprise in his eyes.

There are many crooked ways in the rivers and lakes of Beiliang, and the more famous of them is Zhong Sun Yan and his ilk, who are playing with thunder and thunder with one hand, and I don't know how many masters of the rivers and lakes have died.

Zhong Sun Yan was originally a person from the Qianji Gate of the Northern Liang Dynasty, the nephew of Zhong Sun Jin, one of the four saints, because of his rebellious personality, he was expelled from the Qianji Gate early, and relied on his good ability to mix alone in the rivers and lakes, and he can be regarded as a famous Jianghu in the Northern Liang.

As the great master of Northern Liang, Xi Tianyan once met Zhong Sun Yan on the occasion of the rivers and lakes, but Zhong Sun Yan covered his face at that time, and the only impression he left was this inseparable black crow.

At this time, he saw the jackdaw again, and it was Shen Lin, the protector of the Thousand Machine Gate, who was sitting on the table, he naturally understood the meaning and sat down in front of him:

"Something happened to Brother Zhongsun?"

Xi Tianyan's status in the rivers and lakes of the Northern Liang is equivalent to that of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, with a famous knife 'Yuncang' on his waist, a 'two-foot plum', and he has defeated many heroes in the rivers and lakes, and is recognized as the first swordsman in the Northern Liang.

"The junior brother collapsed in Dawei a few days ago, and the old man came out to see what the situation was. Xi Daxia, who has already achieved fame, how can he come out and walk alone?"

Xi Tianyan took a sip of the teacup and said casually:

"I heard that there are people from the Southern Dynasty making trouble here, so let's just come and take a look."

Shen Lin nodded and sighed:

"The Jianghu people of the Southern Dynasty are indeed a bit flamboyant. The rivers and lakes of the two dynasties have always been well water and do not interfere with river water, and they can't control their private grievances and hatreds, but the great master who entered the country to kill my Liang with a single knife also said ruthless words, saying that the Xihai tribes will be covered by him in the future, and he will deceive me and have no one in the Liang."

Xi Tianyan naturally heard what had just happened, and said:

"Zhongsun is one of the Four Saints, and he is the leader of my Great Liang Jianghu. If I go to the Southern Dynasty to kill a martial artist and interfere in the internal affairs of the Southern Dynasty, no matter who kills, Lu Taiqing will have to find me to preach and preach. That night, no one in the hall was at this point, so the old man of Zhongsun would not go out of the mountain to discipline and discipline the young people?"

Shen Lin said: "This matter is under the control of the National Teacher and King Zuoxian, and I am not a thousand machines, and I can't manage it so widely. Moreover, after the night terror hall has released cruel words, he will definitely not dare to continue to stay in Beiliang, and now he has entered the customs."

Qianjimen is good at Qi Yin skill, and the secret weapon can only be regarded as a sideline, and the real power is to build armor and ordnance, build a city and water conservancy and other big jobs, and the disciples who go out of the mountain are almost all guests of the major forces, and the well-informed eyes and ears are far from being comparable to ordinary rivers and lakes.

Xi Tianyan came for the Night Terror Hall this time, and when he heard this, he asked:

"The Night Terror Hall has run away?"

Shen Lin nodded: "After beating Sima Yue, I ran away, and now I'm afraid I'm almost entering the Black Stone Pass, and I won't have a chance to find a place for the Jianghu people at all."

"Yes......

Xi Tianyan rubbed his fingers, and after chatting a few more words, he didn't waste any more time, said goodbye and got up and galloped away, turning the route not to Langxuan City, but directly to the south to kill Liangzhou.