Chapter 4 The Long Road

"Drive-"

Hoofs hooves dack......

Under the gloomy canopy, a team of horses galloped across the moor, bringing up billowing dust and smoke.

Night Terror walked in a black cloak, taking out its binoculars from time to time to look at the small spot hovering in the sky miles away.

The team behind was the Winter Underworld tribesmen led by Qing He, followed by a carriage in the middle, in which Hua Qingzhi's master and servant were sitting.

Hua Qingzhi was inexplicably kidnapped to the Southern Dynasty, and during this time, she either hid in the carriage and horse shop in Jingjie City, or migrated with the army, and basically did not go out to turn around.

thought that the way back to her hometown was far away, and she would stay here in the next few years, and she might never even see her father and mother again.

But suddenly, she re-embarked on the road to reunite with her father, and with the speed of the horse team, she was likely to return to her father in a few days, and Hua Qingzhi couldn't be happy.

After all, the first time I followed the envoy to Yun'an, I left a lot of good memories - the first encounter in the Wang Family Medical Hall, the accidental reunion in the Hibiscus Garden, and the poetry confrontation in Longyinlou, everything is enough to make people think back for half a lifetime.

And this time......

On the carriage, Hua Qingzhi lifted the curtain and looked at Heishi Pass, which was no longer visible in the rear, trying to recall the experience of this trip, but found that all she could think of was the hesitation and anxiety when she was kidnapped, and the shamelessness of the female master's nonsense.

It is rare to have a few unexpected experiences in life, but it ends so without a problem, it is inevitable to think about it......

Grunt......

On the carriage that was speeding forward, Lu Zhu sat in front of her, looking very lost, but at this time she had already set off, and she couldn't say anything.

On the opposite side of the carriage, Xuanji Zhenren, who was dressed in a snow-white dress, leaned on the couch, her hands supporting her side face, and her eyes were always on Hua Qingzhi.

This trip to the Xihai Zhubu, Night Terror Hall also had to take Hua Qingzhi to the Xihai Metropolitan Protectorate, and then it was impossible to bring too many people into the city, for safety reasons, Shui Er also followed the team and served as the No. 2 main force to protect the safety.

Although Xuanji's real demeanor is out of the world, and he has the demeanor of a worldly master who 'everyone in the world is awake and I am drunk', but his character is destined not to think about serious things, looking up and down at this time, just observing Hua Qingzhi's figure.

Hua Qingzhi is a delicate lady from a scholarly family, with a slender and graceful body, although she doesn't know martial arts, her figure and Xuanji real person belong to the same type.

Xuanji is really well-dressed, both the shape and the proportions of the body are perfect, but she can't stand the talent of the apprentice's best friend, not to mention the stupid Sanniang, even Ning'er dares to mock her, she is not easy to compare with Yunli's niece, and now it is not easy to see a girl who is on the same level, so she naturally feels pleasing to the eye.

The long road was quite boring, and Qinghe didn't accompany her to drink to relieve her boredom, so Xuanji was bored, so she simply sat up and asked:

"Miss Hua, do you know how to drink?"

Hua Qingzhi knew that the fairy in white opposite was the female martial artist above 10,000 people in the Southern Dynasty, and she was also the teacher of the empress and King Jing.

Seeing that the other party opened her mouth first, Hua Qingzhi put down the curtain, turned her cheeks back, and bowed:

"I don't usually drink much."

Xuanji Zhenren took three small cups from the side and put them on the small case between the two:

"A drunk relieves a thousand sorrows, Miss Hua doesn't seem to be in a good mood, maybe after a few drinks, all the troubles will be forgotten."

Boom~

Hua Qingzhi is really worried now, but she doesn't know what she is worried about, seeing the clear wine falling into the cup, she really has the idea of getting drunk and resting a little bit in her heart, and she sat forward a little bit at the moment, and asked curiously:

"I heard that Senior Lu is a disciple of the Daomen?"

Xuanji Zhenren blinked her peach blossom eyes: "If you don't mention it, you're about to forget it." That's right, I am the nineteenth generation disciple of Yuxu Mountain, and Lu Taiqing is my senior brother. Seniors or something are old.,If you don't dislike it.,Just call me the same as Night Terror.。 ”

"Huh~"

Although Lu Zhu is not a person in the rivers and lakes, a living immortal like 'Lu Taiqing' has naturally heard of it, and when he saw Xuanji Zhenren claiming to be a junior sister, his eyes were surprised and said:

"Lu Zhenren is said to be a master of the Tao on the mountain, he is already seventy or eighty years old, if Fairy Lu is the junior sister, then this year ......"

Xuanji Zhenren was accepted as an apprentice by his senior brother on behalf of his teacher, and he had never even seen his master, so he was not very old. However, seeing that the two little girls were curious, Xuanji Zhenren still joked:

"Ben Dao went to Yuxu Mountain at the age of three, and now he counts it, and he has practiced for a long time."

"Huh?!"

Hua Qingzhi was secretly guessing the age of this stunning fairy, and when she heard this, she couldn't believe it:

"Fairy Lu is already thirty out of sixty?"

Xuanji Zhenren picked up the wine glass and handed it to the two who were suspicious:

"Not like?"

What can this look like?

Hua Qingzhi looked at Xuanji's real skin and figure, and said that she believed that she was only two or three years older than her, how could this be like an old man in his sixties? She took the wine glass and held it in her hand, and looked at it carefully:

"I really can't see it...... Could it be that Fairy Lu has practiced the art of Daomen's appearance and immortality? ”

Xuanji Zhenren did not deny or admit this, but just asked:

"Want to learn?"

Hua Qingzhi, as her daughter's family, must still hope that her appearance will not be old, but it is still too abrupt to open her mouth to apprentice directly, and she shook her head:

"I'm just curious. I heard that the literary and martial arts of the Great Wei Shengshang and King Jing were all taught by Fairy Lu? ”

Xuanji Zhenren naturally nodded at this:

"It's a pity that it didn't work, I only learned half of my master's skills, and I'm embarrassed to talk about it to the outside world on weekdays. If I want to say that the most powerful thing I have ever taught, it is still Night Terror, and his characters are taught by me. ”

The first time Hua Qingzhi saw Night Terror Hall, she was attracted by its silver hook iron painting-like handwriting, and she was naturally surprised when she heard it:

"The calligraphy of the night boy was also taught by Fairy Lu?"

In order to teach the night terror hall to write, Xuanji Zhenren even had the bow and pants taken away, but these things are not easy to say, just said:

"The monks don't gossip, the night terror hall is outside, if you don't believe it, just ask him."

"How could I not believe it, it was just an accident, I didn't expect Fairy Lu to look so young and be able to teach three masters. I toast Fairy Lu. ”

Hua Qingzhi raised the wine glass and toasted, and drank it very solemnly.

As a result, I never thought that this fairy who was beautiful and dusted, drank more wine than a rough man, and the entrance was like burning a knife, she choked and coughed twice, and tears came out in an instant:

"Ahem......"

Lu Zhu accompanied the toast, and also choked, his face was flushed, and he hurriedly put down the wine glass, helped the young lady to calm down, and interjected at the same time:

"I heard that killing, stealing, fornication, delusion, and drinking, for the five precepts of Taoism, Lu Xianzi drank wine, did he break the vows?"

Xuanji Zhenren poured wine for the two of them again, and said nonsense:

"There is an old saying outside, 'Wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart', which is the principle of cultivation. The body and mind do not move, and the hundred precepts are also on the path of cultivation; If you don't move your body and heart, you will only be a worldly idiot if you practice penance for life......"

Hua Qingzhi finally suppressed the wine, but her head began to dizzy, and she answered:

"It means 'practicing the mind without any traces'?"

"Uh-huh, a bit of a Huigen."

"Huigen seems to be a Buddhist saying......"

"The road is simple, and the different paths are the same. Come and drink. ”

"Oh, teachable ......"

……

At the same time, outside the carriage.

Because Fan Qinghe didn't want to hook up with the demon girl in front of the clansmen, he kept riding a horse and walking outside, maintaining the steady look that the 'Winter Hades King' should have.

Hearing that the demon girl began to pretend to be a ghost again, and fooled the little girl, Fan Qinghe was a little annoyed, and sped up his horse to the Night Terror Hall, and said in a low voice:

"Shocked, don't you care about her? It's almost crippled Miss Hua......"

Night Terror Hall was originally tracking birds with a telescope, but when he heard this, he put down the binoculars, his eyes were a little strange, and he said in his heart:

Crippled at least one good leg, Miss Hua......

However, these words were not appropriate, and Night Terror quickly swept away the distracting thoughts and looked back:

"It's boring to be in a hurry, it's okay to joke about it, why don't you go have a drink?"

"I'm Zhu Zong of the Winter Hades, what do you say when you drink during the rapid march?"

After Fan Qinghe raised his head and said a word, he looked back to make sure that the clansmen were not paying attention, and said in a low voice:

"Also, last time you went out, there were only me and Yunli by your side, and I asked me every day to help you adjust your body, and I didn't say anything. This time the demon girl followed, you ......"

Night Terror Hall hooked the corners of his mouth:

"Understood, together."

"What together!"

When Fan Qinghe was playing in the group, she was bullied by the demon girl, and Sanniang Ning'er could still help her block, if the two of them were together, with the demon girl's vegetable and playful temperament, she might have to pit her into a pitiful appearance, and her eyes were slightly fierce at the moment:

"You can only bully her, you can't bully me, otherwise, I won't come out of Winter Styx Mountain this time!"

Night Terror Hall didn't believe it at all, but verbally nodded along with Aunt Fan:

"Got it."

Hoofs hooves dack......

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The group galloped northward, tracking the trail of the unknown horse team ahead, keeping a distance of twenty miles from each other, while Bird Bird was in charge of guiding the way back and forth as a reconnaissance plane.

The scene outside the pass is very different from Liangzhou, more than a month ago, the king of Liang arrived at Liaoyuan with the Liangzhou army, surrounded the Pingyi City, the entire Liaoyuan has been turned into a battlefield, and sometimes you can see the traces of small-scale battles.

And the few villages and towns that were originally scattered on the prairie have been turned into empty cities in the war, and no one can be seen except for the scouts of the two dynasties who occasionally bump into each other.

Because Pingyi City has been completely besieged, tens of thousands of troops of King Liang are stationed around, and the horse team of unknown origin in front of it did not go to Pingyi City.

Night Terror Hall followed this for two days, thinking that the other party wanted to go directly to the Xihai Metropolitan Protectorate, but after passing through Pingyi City, he found that the tracking team began to march towards the northwest and slowly arrived in the area of the Black River.

The Xihai tribes are not all wasteland Gobi, after passing the Liaoyuan, they will arrive at the Hexi Plain on the north bank of the Heihe River, which is considered to be a rare area suitable for cultivation in the Xihai tribes, ruled by the Gouchen tribe and more than 20 small tribes, the area is about the same size as Liangzhou, and after crossing the Hao Mountain, it will arrive at the area where the Xuanhao Department is located.

After the fall of the Northwest Royal Court, the leader of the Xihai tribes was the Gou Chen Department, Sima Yue paid tribute with the various ministries on the surface, but privately colluded with Zuo Xian Wang, did not pay taxes, not to mention, and also helped to suppress the various ministries in exchange for the benefits of the Northern Liang, and quietly developed the wasteland and farming.

In the past 20 years, all the ministries have not had enough to eat, but the population of the Gouchen Department has doubled, and the extra ones are still young and middle-aged, and they can be called a dominant family in the Xihai Tribes.

On the other side of the river, you can see the cultivated land and cities on the plain, and the population is far denser than that of the Winter Hades, because the two countries are fighting on the Liaoyuan side, and many soldiers and horses are stationed along the Heihe River.

Fan Qinghe drove his horse to follow all the way, and at this time he stood beside the Night Terror Hall, and motioned to a city on the other side of the river:

"There is the Black Cluster City, stuck in the Black River Triangle, named after the shape of an arrow, which used to be an important military town of the royal court, specially used to prevent the south from going north."

Just looking at the location where this city was built, the Night Terror Hall knew that this was the southern gateway of the Northwest Royal Court, and nodded:

"Looks solid."

"That's natural, the Gouchen Department is the strongest of the four major departments, the south is bordered by the Heihe River, and the other three sides are surrounded by mountains, and there are passes everywhere that are much more difficult to fight than the Winter Underworld Mountain. If it weren't for Sima Yue's refusal to fight to the death and rebel to the end, it would not be a problem for the royal court to hold out for a few more decades......"

When Fan Qinghe said this, he said:

"The various tribes are proud of their ancestors, and the Gou Chen Department and the Wuma Department kill each other's patriarchs, which is not an irreconcilable contradiction, but it is a big sin not worthy of entering the ancestral hall to be a dog for the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

"You are a member of the Xihai Tribes, even if you kill Sima Yue with your own hands, the Gou Chen Department should return to the royal court or will return to the royal court. Now there is a big disagreement within the Gouchen tribe, mainly because it is too close to the Xihai Protectorate.

"As long as the Gou Chen Department returns to the royal court, they will definitely be the first to be beaten. And you have an old enmity with the Gou Chen Department, in case you deliberately use them as consumables after you take the throne, they are isolated and helpless and alone Beiliang......"

Before the Night Terror Hall came over, he also learned about the chaotic situation of the Western Sea tribes from Yuhu Benben, and said to this:

"Let's unite with the other ministries first, as long as we cooperate with the imperial court to achieve results, they will naturally follow. The imperial court sent heavy troops this time, even if there was no Gou Chen Department, it was not impossible to gnaw on the Xihai Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

Fan Qinghe, as the king of the Winter Hades, said to this:

"Don't look too high at the Southern Dynasty, Gou Chenbu is in front, and behind is Haoshan Mountain, Dongming Mountain, and Wumabu Grassland. If it weren't for you, the descendants of Queen Lang stood up to carry the flag, all the departments of the West Sea were watching, King Liang smashed his head, and he never thought about the black river in front of him, and dared to go deep into the Xihai Capital to fight the Xihai Protectorate, he would have to be copied by the soldiers and horses of the Black Cluster City to make dumplings. ”

Night Terror didn't know much about fighting, and he didn't delve into these things, so he looked at the horse team that had already crossed the river:

"Look at the direction of this team, is it going to Black Cluster City, is it possible to contact the Gou Chen Department?"

Fan Qinghe shook his head: "The Xihai Tribes are now considered the territory of Northern Liang, and in such an important place as Black Cluster City, how can King Zuo Xian rest assured that the Gou Chen Department will control it." Although the place is from the Gou Chen Department, there is the army of King Zuo Xian in it, and it is said to be a defense aid, but in fact, the defense is that the Gou Chen Department rebelled and seized the city, and these people who went to find King Zuo Xian could not be sure. ”

Night Terror nodded thoughtfully, and after looking at the river bank for a moment, he turned and returned to the carriage:

"Fairy Lu, I'm going to cross the river, I'm going to find a ...... ......"

The curtain opened, and the smell of wine came from the shop.

In the not too wide carriage, Xuanji Zhenren leaned on the small couch, her cheeks were red and her hands were supporting her side face and pretending to sleep.

And Hua Qingzhi, who was dragged to drink all the way to wine, was already not strong enough to drink, and had been drunk for two days, and was resting on Luzhu at this time.

Hearing the voice, Hua Qingzhi opened her eyes in a daze, and after looking at the night terror hall for a long time, a voice came:

"Night Boy, I'...... I'll have a drink with you......"

“?”

Night Terror Hall was directly speechless, came to the carriage, helped Miss Hua who wanted to pour him wine, and turned around to hold the water Tuan Tuan and shook it:

"Water?"

Xuanji Zhenren opened his eyes slowly, first patted it on the hand of the night terror thief, and then looked left and right:

"Got to the place?"

"Somewhere, I'm going to cross the river, I'm going to find a boat."

Night Terror Hall was half-squatting in the carriage, and as soon as he straightened Shui'er, Hua Qingzhi behind him fell down in a daze, and her forehead was attached to his back.

Boom~

Night Terror Hall helped Hua Qingzhi again, and said helplessly:

"She doesn't know how to drink, how can she drink so much, when she is out of the house, what if she is in trouble."

After Xuanji Zhenren woke up, he regained consciousness, got up and helped Hua Qingzhi up:

"Don't ask about the adults, children, look for your boat."

Night Terror felt that Shui'er was a little skinny, and seeing that Hua Qingzhi was dizzy, she couldn't remember anything, so she raised her hand and patted it on the back of Shui'er's waist.

Syllable~

As a result, I never thought that Hua Qingzhi had not completely broken the piece, and after seeing this scene in a daze, she covered her buttocks, obviously afraid that the night terror hall would also spank her.

Naturally, Night Terror Hall didn't take advantage of the situation, and after instructing Shui Er to take good care of it, he got out of the carriage and found a boat to cross the river nearby......

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Rong Aguan writes slowly.,It's not that I don't want to write.,It's true that I'm not energetic.,I've had breakfast since I wrote in the morning.,And only wrote so much.,It should be fine when the weakness eases over.or2

(End of chapter)