It's night.

The dark clouds in the distance looked like a heavy mass of sand, rolling in the wind, rolling and obscuring the stars and moon over the cicada town.

The air was stuffy and panicked.

The wind and sand are coming.

A couple walk through the deserted streets of Cicada Town.

The woman was holding an orange cat in her arms.

"Meow."

The little phoenix meow, curled up in the woman's arms, raised her meow head, whimpered, and pressed the soft part of her nose with her paws.

This big pillow made Meow's heart panic.

"Don't make a fuss."

Xie Luohe soothed softly, and Meow'er quickly quieted down.

After appeasing Xiao Fengmeow, Xie Luohe raised his eyes and looked into the distance.

On the roof of the house, there were many figures, hidden in the night, and she subconsciously clenched her fists.

"It's almost home, don't worry."

Zheng Xiu smiled slightly and reached out to wrap his arms around the woman's shoulder.

Xie Luohe lowered his head: "Hmm." ”

The two returned home undisturbed and lit the oil lamp.

"Husband, I have a bad premonition."

Meal.

Zheng Xiu took out the dusty wooden box from under the bed.

Call~

Blowing the dust off the wooden box, Zheng Xiu slowly took out the Luohe pen that had been dusty for many years.

Xie Luohe, who was lying in bed early, turned around lazily and watched Zheng Xiu's movements of taking the pen quietly, and her eyes inadvertently fell on the longbow that had been hanging on the wall for many years.

Zheng Xiu walked out of the house, picked up a bucket of water from the well, dipped a towel, and sat at the door to carefully wipe the stains on the Luohe pen.

After a while, the Luohe stirrup was as bright as new.

Go back to the house and close the door.

Zheng Xiu pressed the Luohe pen under the pillow and blew out the oil lamp. In the darkness, Xie Luohe's bright left eye looked directly at him.

"Tonight, let's sleep honestly."

Zheng Xiu rubbed Xie Luohe's long silky hair and said with a smile.

Remembering what happened in the Mohe Xuan during the day.

Xie Luohe felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"Husband, I always have a sense of foreboding."

"Don't worry, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge."

"They won't rest on their laurels."

"Hehe, naturally."

"But they inquired about the Green River trade in order to ......"

"I guess something happened in the Central Plains."

Zheng Xiu sighed lightly: "The confrontation between countries has never been so simple. It's just that what do these powerless ordinary people like us have to do with it? ”

Hearing this, Xie Luohe was silent, turned around and closed his eyes.

Call...... Call...... Call......

It's the middle of the night.

There was a faint movement outside the house.

Xie Luohe tossed and turned in bed.

She would get close to Zheng Xiu for a while, touch Zheng Xiu's chest for a while, rub Zheng Xiu's cheeks for a while, and cover her ears tightly for a while.

Xie Luo River had insomnia.

In the dark, she sat up reluctantly, stared out the window through the coarse cloth window, and subconsciously made a "tightening of gloves".

The other hand sneaked out from the quilt, it turned out that the husband didn't sleep either, and accurately inserted five fingers into Xie Luohe's fingers, ten fingers intertwined, Zheng Xiu used this posture to control Xie Luohe's murderous little hand with a little force.

"Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night, do this weird action."

Zheng Xiu rubbed his five fingers and said with a wicked smile.

"Husband hates it." Xie Luohe, who was domineering in the past, has already become a clever young woman who knows everything after ten years of married life. As soon as she saw Zheng Xiu's movements, she knew what Zheng Xiu was alluding to, and the murderous aura in her heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, and she sneered.

"Can't sleep?" Zheng Xiu saw that Xie Luohe's murderous intent had calmed down, hugged Xie Luohe, pressed her back into the bed, and asked softly.

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"Noisy," said Xie Luohe pitifully.

Zheng Xiu thought for a moment.

"Done."

He had only said a word, then got up in the dark and lit the oil lamp.

"You...... Do what? ”

Xie Luohe looked at his husband in surprise, left his wife in the middle of the night, lit the lamp and sharpened the ink, and said curiously.

"Suddenly I was interested, and I thought... Draw something. ”

Blank sheets of paper spread out on the long table.

After grinding, Zheng Xiu dripped a few drops of blood into the ink.

In a corner of the house, a cat named Xiao Fengmeow raised her head aggressively, and her green eyes looked at Zheng Xiu calmly.

Zheng Xiu sat cross-legged, his left hand touching his sleeve, his right hand holding a pen, motionless, as if hesitating.

Xie Luohe asked, "Is this really good?" ”

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "I know you don't like to be noisy, since you are out of the rivers and lakes, don't go in again." ”

"But you."

"I'm still an artist."

Zheng Xiu, who was still a little hesitant, finally made up his mind at this moment, and his forehead was bruised, as if he was smashing his fist with the strength of his fist, and pressed the tip of the pen heavily on the drawing paper.

"Glamorous and ghostly."

Zheng Xiu used heavy pen and ink to first draw a thick dark night on the paper.

Immediately after adjusting the ink color, in the rich "night", a few strokes are outlined, leaving many light-colored "spots", which look like looming eyes. On the painting paper, there are many ghosts in the boundless night, as if there are many unknown evils hidden in it.

"Alright."

Zheng Xiu got up, and while Xie Luohe didn't pay attention, he secretly pressed his unhealed finger into the "Charm and Spirit".

The lights are out.

The two embraced, and Xie Luohe's expression gradually calmed down.

She curled up greedily in Zheng Xiu's arms.

I want time to stay in this moment.

On the scroll, the little outlined "spots", the "eyes"-like pictures, began to rotate in the bones.

"Sleep."

……

Following.

Three poles on the sun.

At the corner of the street, there are many desert residents.

Brother Ridi is now the patriarch, and he is anxiously running around in Ricicada Town.

The neatly dressed boss Mo was holding a breakfast in his hand, whistling, and walked slowly towards Mohexuan, and when he was about to open the store, he hurriedly passed by Zheng Xiu.

"Brother Di, what's going on?"

Zheng Xiu grabbed the sun and asked as soon as he grabbed it.

"Something strange happened." Ridi, who had just become the patriarch for a short time, didn't want to pay attention to it, but when he looked back, it was his friend Mo Boss, so he could only stop and said with a wry smile: "I don't know what happened on the street this morning, there are many crazy merchants in the Western Regions. If ordinary merchants go crazy, they will go crazy, but these merchants from the Western Regions are full of strange powers, crying and laughing, beating and smashing, causing chaos in the tribe. ”

Zheng Xiu asked calmly: "This can't send them back?" ”

"Yes," Ridi shook his head helplessly: "I have to find some way to send them back, this time and again, the cost of the road will cost a lot." ”

"It's okay, I'll come out."

Zheng Xiu took the initiative.

"Huh? Are you out? But ......" Ridi was dumbfounded when he heard it.

Boss Mo is a businessman, how can he take the initiative to do a business that is clearly loss-making?

"It's okay, I've been taken care of by your clan a lot over the years, the Great Elder has just left, I finally managed to gain a foothold here, you are in trouble, and you should do something to help."

Zheng Xiu said as he followed the sun to a clearing.

I saw a man with a longbow on his back, a spear in his hand, and a scorching sun war tattoo, tying up the crazy merchants of the Western Regions firmly.

Sure enough, as the sun said, these merchants in the Western Regions are crazy. Crying and laughing, some people shouted "Mommy", and some exclaimed "Hell, hell". The people of the Sun tribe circled around and pointed at the madmen.

While maintaining order in the sun, Zheng Xiu returned to the store, took out a wad of gold leaves, and wrapped them carefully.

After handing over the "travel expenses" to the sun, Zheng Xiu gave a few words of advice, and then returned to Mohe Xuanzhong.

in the store.

Xie Luohe, who was coiled up in a woman's bun, was lying on the counter, holding a wooden board boredly, patting left and right.

When Zheng Xiu entered the store, he couldn't help but smile: "I said madam, don't talk about people in the store, there is not even one more black fly." If you shoot it again, with the strength of your hands, don't accidentally smash the table. ”

"You have to take care of it!"

Xie Luohe walked over with Xiao Fengmeow in his arms, and lowered his voice in Zheng Xiu's ear: "What did you do last night?" ”

She didn't understand Zheng Xiu's operation.

Over the years, Zheng Xiu has silently cultivated the skills of [painter], and in obscurity, Xie Luohe has retired to the rivers and lakes for many years, and she no longer knows how deep Zheng Xiu has gone in the doorway.

Zheng Xiu saw that there was no one around, and there was an accident in the city today, thinking that no one would come to drink. He closed the door and played in advance, and hung a sign at the door that read "The Owner is happy".

"The human soul is divided into four parts: form, meaning, movement, and direction."

Zheng Xiu raised four fingers.

Xie Luohe nodded, she naturally knew this.

"I painted a night, and there were ghosts and ghosts hidden in the night, and this 'scene' temporarily replaced the area around our yard last night. When they broke in, they were eaten by 'ghosts'. ”

Xie Luohe frowned slightly: "Eaten?" ”

"I didn't eat it completely." Zheng Xiu smiled: "'Ghost' is just a 'painting', not real. I used 'painting ghosts' to suck away a part of their souls, that is, 'meaning', and they became 'frustrated people', and naturally they went crazy. ”

He was talking about a terrible thing.

However, Xie Luohe was unmoved, she didn't want Zheng Xiu to gradually go deeper into the doorway, and sighed lightly: "It's better to kill, it's a hundred." ”

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he snatched the board from his wife's hand and knocked it on her head.

Xie Luohe thought of her husband's sudden majesty, covered his head and didn't speak.

"Women's Taoist people, what kind of system does it become to shout and kill all day long?"

Zheng Xiu reprimanded with a straight face.

"It's against you!"

Xie Luohe slapped the table, stepped over the counter with a scissor kick, and locked Zheng Pruning between his legs.

"How dare you, a!"

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

The two rolled under the counter to fight.

On the side, Xiao Feng Meow weakly covered her eyes with her paws.

She didn't know that Zheng Xiu's thoughts were the same as hers, and Zheng Xiu didn't want Xie Luohe to go further into the doorway.

Since he glimpsed the murals of Sunset Mountain and saw the fate of the "Sun Chaser", Zheng Xiu vaguely realized that the path thaumaturgy was not a risk-free way of cultivation.

And the reason why Zheng Xiu is brave and deep is because he is used to it; The second is that he has never forgotten from beginning to end that his real way is the [prisoner], not the [painter], and the painter's path is a part-time practice, Zheng Xiu thinks that it is not a big problem.

There were no serious "side effects" on his body, unlike Fengbei and Xie Luohe, who came with a price while gaining strength.

After a while, the two of them were out of breath.

Xie Luohe bit a bundle of silk scarves in his mouth, smoothed his long hair with both hands behind his head, tied it tightly with one hand, and took off the silk scarf in his mouth with the other hand and tied his hair.

A flick of the long ponytail.

Xie Luohe's face was still flushed, and she asked curiously, "Then they, that's it?" ”

was whipped by her husband under the counter, Xie Luohe will be honest.

Zheng Xiu lifted his pants, tightened his belt, and when he heard this, he smiled: "That's not it." When I go back tonight, I just need to burn the painting, and the 'soul' trapped in the scroll will escape, and in a short time, I will return to the soul and be whole again. ”

Xie Luohe nodded: "The husband is kind-hearted." ”

Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed: "I hope I can use this to make an example of the chickens and monkeys." ”

A few days passed so peacefully.

A group of troops from an unknown country came from the west, and after a tiring journey, they stopped outside the town of Ricicada.

The lead man is tall, almost two meters. Beneath his seat was a camel with black hair, which was also covered with thick armor. The camel has a pair of dark red eyes, and looks restless under the man's crotch.

"Dilu! Agua Bar Urado! ”

The tall man took off his helmet and shouted into the town.

His voice was like a bell, swinging out far away, and it was heard all over the town of the cicada. The pigs and sheep raised in the town were so frightened that they hit the fence in a panic, and the two camels raised by Zheng Xiu and his wife were also so frightened that they lay on the ground, foaming at the mouth and shivering.

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

Behind the man, hundreds of soldiers dressed in strange armor took out a strange weapon about four feet long and shaped like an iron fan from their waists, and neatly struck the round armor piece on their chests, letting out an earth-shattering roar.

"Husband."

Xie Luohe, who was washing dishes in the back kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, walked out with wet hands, and slapped his husband who was napping on the counter with his palms.

"I hear you."

Zheng Xiu rubbed his eyes, sleepy-eyed, and stretched his waist.

"Then we ......"

Xie Luohe wiped his hands with a towel and showed an inquiring look.

"Wait."

Zheng Xiu got up, persuaded the innocent tea guests in Mohe Xuan, and asked them all to leave.

Then, the door was wide open.

He set a few side dishes on the table, and placed two small wine glasses on his seat, each full.

Outside of town.

Armies from foreign lands are negotiating with Japan and Earth in dialects.

Although the Lieri tribe is not a soldier guarding the Daqian frontier, this place is their homeland. As the new patriarch, Ridi will never allow anyone to get involved.

Since ancient times, the desert has been a natural barrier between the Central Plains and the Western Regions. No army has ever been able to cross the desert without a map.

The passage of the Green River trade route has been a matter of the previous dynasty.

Today, the Green River trade route is detailed, and only the people of the Scorching Sun tribe know about it, and a few other people.

Not long ago, a soldier from the Western Regions pretended to be a merchant and entered the town to inquire about the Green River trade route, which aroused Zheng Xiu's vigilance.

The good hand sent by the patriarch to the Central Plains to inquire about the news has not yet returned, and Zheng Xiu doesn't know what it means.

The negotiations took half an hour.

The tall general, led by the leader, laughed three times, removed his armor and stomach, and threw it aside.

The armor he unloaded, each unloaded, slammed heavily on the ground, making a muffled sound of "winter".

It can be seen that the armor and stomach he is wearing are extremely heavy.

The rest of the soldiers got off their war camels in unison and camped in place.

The warriors of the Scorching Sun Tribe, armed with longbows and vigilant faces, watched far away in the clearing outside the town for the exotic soldiers who were encamped. After the tall man took off all his armor, he finally thrust the fan-shaped strange weapon into the sand and calmly entered the city.

In the past ten years, the comfort of the desert and the gradual affluence of life have made this cicada town in the west of the desert develop from a tribe of only 100 people to a city of nearly 1,000 people.

There was no law, no government, and perhaps even the great cadres who were suffering from civil strife did not know that there was such a rich town bordering the Western Regions, which was becoming more and more prosperous under the management of the Scorching Sun tribe.

It's like a world away.

Winter! Winter! Winter!

The tall man walked steadily and forcefully with every step.

Removing his armor, he wore only a vest-like lining, revealing his strong shoulders and arms.

It is covered with deep and shallow scars that have long healed, showing that it has experienced a hundred battles.

The man finally walked in front of Mohexuan.

The sharp gaze swept in, and the man was stunned for a moment.

I saw that the tables and chairs had already been set up inside, and a handsome man happened to be sitting on the side, with wine and food on it.

"Hahaha!" The man was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Shache country, Aturu!" Drink! ”