There are many ways to crack the scheme.

But Li Kui's problem, Wei Mingde Yuan, he can't solve it. The team had already marched to the center of the Sand Sea, and it would take almost three days to choose whether to get out of the desert or out of the desert.

But the amount of water Li Kui left for them was only half a day's worth at most.

Because of the hot weather, even half a day is not enough.

The guards of the national division are definitely an army that is absolutely loyal to the national division. But it depends on the situation.

If the people of the guard are allowed to die, they will die immediately, and they will not hesitate to pick up the sword and serve the national teacher.

Because such death is quick and the pain is short, and the fear of death does not shake one's faith and determination. Of course, there are also family reasons. If they hesitate or even resist, their families will accompany them to hell.

But there is also a situation where death is made in the midst of torture. For everyone, it's not just about the strength of the faith. Dying by thirst is undoubtedly a long torture.

It's a slow process, not just a test of will, but a torture of human nature. After patience again and again, people's will like a rock will become weak, and even if there is a moment of trance, they will lose their minds.

He is a smart man, and he knows that most people will not be able to pass such a test. Although his guards are loyal, there is a limit to loyalty, and once that limit is exceeded, man becomes an animal. Losing reason, only instinct. He was even sure that once he was in a desperate situation, the soldiers of his guard would force him to hand over the water with knives. At that time, the lonely Wei Ming Deyuan may really be irresistible.

Therefore, he could not stay in the team, because the water he was carrying did not lose anything, and it was enough for him to get out of the desert. The soldiers' water was destroyed. If he continued to stay in the ranks, a day later, the hundred-strong guard would face an outbreak of mutiny. He definitely wouldn't believe that at that time, his status as a national teacher was still of much use.

Another way is to kill most of the useless people and let the water be enough for a small number of people to get out of the desert.

A tenth of the water can only support a dozen at most, no more than twenty guards soldiers.

Those who survive will be happy, but what about those who are facing death?

What should they think?

Even if they survive, the next time, when they face the same problem, it is unknown how much of the awe they can leave for the national teacher in their hearts. Even he has to bear the reputation of brutality. Those who survive will not be grateful to the national teacher, because as long as they are smart enough, they should know that the next time bad luck is likely to befall them.

Although the national teacher is not the emperor, in terms of reputation, the standards of the national teacher and the emperor are the same, and mistakes are absolutely not allowed. It is not allowed to lose a reputation for brutality.

Rather than this, it is better to use the simplest way to not let a person out alive and leave the secret to the dead.

Ye Lijian had already checked the food and water, but once again he pretended to be very concerned and went to check the water bladder, but no one noticed that he had put some small things in the water bladder. These little things can make people quiet, close their restless mouths, and keep the little secrets of the national teacher.

And the captain of the guard secretly hid a water bladder. It was in the sand beneath his feet.

After the sandstorm, it was as if everything had calmed down.

But at the same time, it is just a matter of calm, and under the dark tide will be a turbulent wave that can destroy everything.

"Teacher, it's all ready."

"Take this map, divide the team into quarters, and let them go in search of water."

The water source in the desert is the most important secret. In Western Xia, a person who controlled enough desert water sources must have been a great nobleman.

Little by little, the queue is getting smaller.

Wei Ming Deyuan watched the last team leave the camp, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the three people around him: "Let's go." ”

Riding on the camel again, Wei Ming Deyuan stood still like a great general, staring into the distance. But at the same time, it was like a beast that had torn off its disguise, and its eyes burst with a vicious cold light.

Li Bingqian hurriedly urged the camel to follow, he was deeply afraid that he would become the target of the emperor's uncle's anger. After all, the person who brought them such bad luck happened to be brought by himself, and he had nowhere to say if he was justified. Could it be that he said that Li Kui and Luda would not listen to him at all, but his disaster star?

Wei Mingdeyuan's vicious methods have caused great psychological pressure on Li Bingqian. Earlier, when Yeligian left to check the water bladder, he saw with his own eyes that the other party had taken out a few pills from the rucksack. This was obviously meant to be put into the water bladders of the guards soldiers, and if it was said that this was a tonic, Li Bingqian would not believe it if he killed him.

It is clear that these more than 100 people were abandoned by the emperor's uncle, and Wei Ming Deyuan didn't even give them a chance to live, and directly poisoned them.

More than 100 lives!

are all good men who protect the emperor's uncle on weekdays and dare not have a trace of slackness, and they will be killed if they are killed. What kind of bad heart must be in order to do it?

With such means, he dares to say that he is a hero. Li Bingqian shook his head, his small methods were not opponents at all in the face of such vicious elders. Maybe Uncle Huang saw that his methods were not ruthless, so he gave up on himself. Li Bingqian thought so.

And Wei Ming Deyuan seems to have been restrained by the Empress Dowager Liang, what kind of cruelty does this woman have to become, and even the old plaster of her imperial uncle has to be avoided?

Coup?

Is this a game played by good guys?

It was only at this time that Li Bingqian truly realized the danger he was facing.

Besides, Li Kui and Luda, they actually didn't go too far.

It was difficult to discern the direction in the sandstorm, and Li Kui didn't dare to deviate too far from the direction, resulting in getting lost in the desert.

They captured not only two monks, but also two guards.

The monks were very cooperative, they had no force and could not resist at all. But the guards tossed for a while. But Ruda single-handedly suppressed these two disobedient guys.

But unluckily, neither guard could speak Chinese.

A strong Qiang language made Li Kui frown when he heard it. When he was impatient, he said to Ruda: "Kill them all, lest they go back to report the news." ”

When he faced the two monks, the other party stared in horror and inexplicably at the Luda knife not far away, and then the knife rose and fell. was so frightened that he suddenly trembled, and scrambled to say: "King, I will speak the official language of the Song Kingdom!" ”

"King, my official language is better."

A mouthful of Western Xia's earthy Chinese, do you dare to say that your official language is good? Fortunately, Li Kui didn't dislike it, and said to the two: "You know where to go to get out of the desert, right?" ”

The two monks nodded hurriedly.

They were afraid that if they disagreed, Li Kui would kill again.

It's not that Li Kui is cruel, it's that he doesn't understand the language, and he can't be a guide if he stays. Wouldn't it be a hassle to waste water and energy to take care of it? Besides, which of the Western Xia soldiers does not have the blood of the Song people in their hands? Since Li Yuanhao, the Song State and the Western Xia have become a blood feud, the war between the two sides without scruples, the death of millions of people, this hatred falls on every ordinary Western Xia and the Great Song people, it is difficult to resolve.

Li Kui squinted, looked at the two monks who were a little too obedient, and said, "I want to know how the national teacher will leave Sha'erhai, and he will take that road." At the same time, I also need to know how to get out of the route of the Sha'er Sea and draw a map. Tell me everything you know, word by word, and if you can draw a map, I will spare your lives. When you get out of the sand sea, I will let you go. ”

"I'll say it first!"

"I'll say it first!"

I have to say that the monastery is a very nurturing place. In Western Xia, where illiteracy rates were staggeringly high, illiterate monks were almost rare in monasteries.

There are many reasons for this, such as the monk is too idle, the monk needs to be able to recite the scriptures, read the scriptures, and so on.

There is no need to work, there is no need to run for life, and the monks have a lot of time to study. Literacy, literacy, is just the basics. Li Kui knew that many monks in the temples of the Great Song Dynasty knew a foreign language - Sanskrit.

The monks can speak Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and can speak, read and write at the same time, and they will not surprise him.

Li Kui had to say that his methods of catching monks were too clever. After all, according to Ruda's mind, it is best for the guide to run at the front of the line, and among the team of the national teacher through the desert, it is the guards who run at the front.

But here's the problem, most of the guards in Huguo Temple are tribesmen, and Li Kui is very suspicious that they can speak Chinese. And Li Kui himself can only say two simple party words, which are still learned and sold, and learned from Jueming Temple in Youzhou City. And the party members speak Qiang language, which really can't be listened to as a dialect, from pronunciation to chanting, it has run to the category of foreign languages. What's worse is that the Qiang people have no writing.

This is also Li Yuanhao, after the establishment of Western Xia, he ordered Yeli Renrong to follow the example of Hanzi to create party writing.

But the party item text, hehe.

Like the Liao script, most of the time it is used as an ornament.

It's a very simple reason, because regardless of whether the Dangxiang people are the main Western Xia, or the Khitan people are the main Liao. Technology and culture were in the hands of the Han Chinese in both countries. Han...... Definitely not going to learn that kind of bloated, ugly, pile-up weird text. In the end, it was the rulers who were considered illiterate by the Han Chinese to compromise.

No way, who made their country all built, and there was no writing?

Without words, there is no history; Without words, there can be no inheritance of technology; Without writing, I don't even know who my ancestors were.

Just like Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Western Xia, the Dangxiang tribe was also known as the Tuoba tribe before, Li Yuanhao stubbornly believed that he was the Xianbei tribe, because the royal family of the Xianbei tribe was surnamed Tuoba, and it was a very noble surname after the Northern Wei Dynasty. But the problem is that Dang Xiangqiang originated in the ancient city of Qingtang around Qinghai Lake. And what about the Xianbei tribe? From Mongolia. What is the difference between these two places, three to five thousand miles?

This is the result of being uneducated, and even the ancestors are wrong.

Of course, it is not the exclusive preserve of the Qiang people to recognize their ancestors indiscriminately, and the Han people do the same.

It's just that the operation is more high-end, and there is a decent name - Xiu Genealogy.

For example, Li Shimin recognized Laozi Li Ran as his ancestor, and later Zhu Yuanzhang recognized Zhu Xi as his ancestor. It's just a different way of operating.

Li Yuanhao felt that the surname Tuoba was very awesome, and Lao Tzu wanted to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

What about the Han Chinese? Whether it is Li Shimin or Zhu Yuanzhang, they all found that there is no awesome ancestor in the family tree, no, a few awesome ancestors have to be used as a façade. Actually, there is no big difference.

Besides, Li Kui, there are two monks, and it is definitely not possible to say it together, it is easy to collude.

Li Kui asked Luda to take one of the monks away, leaving one behind, asking him to tell the route and draw a map.

Wait a while, change another one and continue.

Then the two drawings are combined, and if the deviation is not large, then they should both tell the truth.

It's a pity that the first time the drawings were put together, the bull's head was not in the horse's mouth, Li Kui threw down the drawings, and he was blind and he solemnly drew them with a pen. Yin said compassionately: "I can give you another chance, but ...... The price of deceiving me must be punished. ”

After saying that, both monks had one finger cut off, and they rolled on the ground in pain.

Li Kui said with a calm face: "If you make a mistake the second time, any of you will deceive me, and you will cut off your hands." The third time, his head hit the ground.

”

Very easy to do.

It's a pity that what made Li Kui dumbfounded was that the second time, what the two said was still not right.

Not to mention Li Kui, even Luda broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. They won't be trapped in the desert, will they?

Ruda is not afraid of anything else, he is afraid that he is like a dried fish on a dry riverbed. The thought that he would become a hard dried fish made him afraid.

Li Kui was also a little panicked. Xin said, "If I had known, I would have caught a few more." ”

There are only two, whether you believe the wrong person or kill the wrong person, you have to be finished.

Luda said anxiously: "My lord, what should I do?" ”

When Ruda killed the captives before, it was called Crisp Lisuo. But at this time, there was no such overconfidence at all, but the panic in his eyes, and his nervousness could be seen at a glance. If they really kill all the guides, will they still be able to get out of the desert?

Li Kui was not as flustered as Luda, at least outsiders couldn't see what he looked like inside.

He looked at the two people who were weak because of the severed fingers, and said, "I have seen the map, this time it is very good, you finally know the lesson, I am very pleased." Now you think about it, where to go to block the national teacher, let's go and block him. ”

Regarding Li Kui's ability to come with his mouth open, Luda was speechless. He can't read, but he can still understand the map, the two maps are completely different, but Li Kui was stunned and said that they were all the same, isn't it nonsense?

"The valley of the Luhr River, where the snow water collects in winter and dries up in the summer. But near the riverbed, it should be possible to find a source of water. I think the national teacher will definitely bring people over. But if you want to go there, you should go east. ”

"How many days do you need to go?"

"Two days. Once you reach the valley, you can find water, and it's worth the time. ”

The one who spoke was thin, and Li Kui made him a 'monk'.

After he finished speaking, Li Kui was in a dilemma, to go or not to go?

But the monk gave him the feeling that something was very wrong, and it seemed that everything made sense. It was also a normal reaction, but Li Kui always felt that the 'thin monk' was deliberately guiding him down the wrong path.

Li Kui didn't dare to make a decision, and said to the slightly fat monk: "What about you? ”

"How do you think the national teacher will leave the desert and choose that path?" Li Kui abandoned the thin monk and looked at another monk instead.

"Dare you really puncture most of the water bladders?"

"That's right."

"The national teacher's has not been punctured?"

"The national teacher and a few camels around him, we didn't get close."

The fat monk thought for a while, then looked up at Li Kui and said, "The national teacher will pass through the Sha'er Sea according to the original path, and he will not go to the Luer River at all." Not to mention that you can't always find a water source, and even if you do, food will cause trouble. The national division will not take risks, at least not for the soldiers of which guards. ”

Li Kui nodded noncommittally. My heart gradually relaxed, and it seemed that which monk was playing ghosts was about to surface.

Li Kui listened to the fat monk's suggestion and waited for the rabbit on the road to the name of Deyuan after all.

Two hours later, he saw a caravan of camels, only five or six. There is no doubt that Li Kui waited for him to become famous Deyuan. Before that, he hacked the deceived monk to death, and the monk kept cursing the fat monk before he died. It's a pity that the scene of loyalty was not seen by Wei Ming Deyuan.

"National teacher! We met again, what a coincidence! ”

Wei Ming Deyuan sat on the camel, facing the threat of Li Kui's bow and arrows, and got off the camel with a gloomy face. Said to Li Kui: "Who are you?" ”

"Master Li! Artisan Lee. Didn't you know? ”

"Impossible, how can a person like you be a craftsman?" can force Wei Ming Deyuan to this role, except for the woman in the palace, he can't think of such a powerful person in Western Xia.

Li Kui smiled and said: "After coming to Western Xia, I almost forgot that this official is still the general judge of Yan'an Mansion." ”

"You...... Simply a madman! When Wei Ming Deyuan heard it, he thought it was a joke, and he resolutely didn't believe it at first, but the problem was that after Li Bingqian was held hostage by him, he quickly revealed Li Kui's true identity. Yan'an Mansion General Judgment, Secretary Pavilion, Tong Zhilang. is still from a Jinshi.

Such a person, if he really takes refuge in Western Xia, let alone him, even the Empress Dowager Liang will give high-ranking officials a good fortune and rank above the court. But look at Li Kui, a good old man doesn't do it, sneaking into Western Xia, this is a civil official robbing the life of a dead soldier, what else can he be if he is not a madman?

Ha ha......

Li Kui smiled and said to Wei Ming Deyuan: "You are crazy, a coyote provokes an elephant, you should know what the final result will be." ”

"I'm afraid you won't see it, though."

Li Kui suddenly looked at Yeli Ji'an and said, "Brother Ji'an, is it quite a national teacher?" Kill your teacher and become a supporter of the Seven Kings, and you will be the next Western Xia national teacher. ”

Yeli Anji scolded: "Li Kui traitor, you don't want to bewitch my master-apprentice relationship." When death is on the verge of death, he dares to be hard-mouthed. ”

Li Kui's eyes swept over the faces of Ye Lijian, Li Bingqian, and Wei Ming Deyuan with disdain, playing with taste: "Just rely on your little white face, or ...... A great division that sent his own guards to a dead end? ”

The tone was full of contempt and mockery.

Even Wei Ming Deyuan, who was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, was half angry by Li Kui's tone. The cultivation of camouflage has long been lost to the ground. Suddenly, the tall monk who was standing beside Li Bingqian and restrained Li Bingqian suddenly spoke: "Song people, you are too crazy! ”

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