Song You passed by Yuanzhi City again, and now there are not many defenders in the city, and he has no intention of entering the city, just passing by from a distance, turning his head to look at it a few times, and then walking towards Liaoxin Pass.

I found a random place to spend the night in the middle.

It's just that when I woke up, the three-flowered cat was no longer around.

“……”

Song You straightened up and looked around.

The grass not far away was squeezed, and the withered grass sometimes fell and sometimes trembled, thinking that it was the cat's noise.

Song You ignored her, poured water to wipe his face and washed, and then began to clean up.

As soon as he put the wool felt and wool blanket into the quilt bag, he only heard a movement in the grass behind him, and when he turned around, a three-flowered cat came out of the lush grass, followed by a stone figure. What attracted attention was that the cat was holding a thin yellow bamboo tube in its mouth, walked straight over, and placed the bamboo tube on the ground at his feet.

"What is this?"

"It's bamboo."

“……”

Song You bent down and picked up the bamboo tube.

The bamboo tube is thin, about the same thickness as the calf of the three-flower cat, with a cover on the top, wrapped with hemp rope, and the cat bites the hemp rope to bring it over.

As soon as he got started, Song You knew that this was a mailbox.

When I left Yizhou, I brought a letter to Lingbo for the roadside tea shop, which was packed in a bamboo tube. Some literati were particular about it, and they would carefully select different varieties of bamboo, and choose bamboo knots close to the roots, and fortunately, they would be carved with exquisite patterns on the top, making them as beautiful as works of art.

The mailbox in his hand was simple, with little decoration, only the address was carved out with a knife on the surface.

"Yuezhou Wu County, Huangsha Mountain, Spear Gate, Chen Shi."

Song You muttered, and then looked at Sanhua Niangniang: "Where did you pick this up?" ”

The three-flowered cat didn't speak, only turned its head to look back.

It was the direction in which she came out of the prairie.

"Anything else?"

“……”

The cat thought for a while, as if this question was not easy to answer with eye expressions, so she spoke:

"That's a lot!"

"That's right."

Song You took the bamboo tube in his hand: "Please ask Sanhua Niangniang to take me to have a look." ”

When the cat heard this, she turned around and ran backwards.

The humble stone figurine followed her closely.

It's just that the grassland is not flat, and there are often small pits, large and small, but it is difficult for the three-flower cat and people, but for the little mountain god she summoned, it is a big disaster.

I saw that the stone villain accidentally stepped on a pit about the size of an egg, accidentally lost his balance, and fell to the ground with a click, and immediately scattered from the stone villain into a pile of rubble.

When the three-flowered cat heard the voice, he immediately turned around, but he only glanced at it, and continued to run forward.

Soon took Song You to a place in the grassland.

Sure enough, there were a lot of bamboo tubes scattered on the ground, all of which were thin, and the thickest ones were no more than the thickness of a baby's arm, some of them were scattered on the ground at random, and some were half of them sunk into the mud. Some are fine, others have been opened, and if you are lucky, you can still find a rotten ball of paper, and if you are unlucky, you will have long since disappeared.

Song You glanced around, unhurried, and picked up a few to check, all of which were engraved with different addresses.

It looks like a letter sent back by the Northern Frontier Army.

After looking left and right, I found a scattered oil paper bag, which was thrown on the grassland at random, and half of it fell into the mud.

But there were no bones.

“……”

Song You picked them up one by one, and looked at them one by one.

Just look at the address engraved on the surface of the bamboo tube.

It's all over the state.

There are both those sent to Yizhou, those sent to Changjing, and those that are in Yanzhou. There are even some sent to the Western Regions. However, the most of them were sent to the spear gate of Huangsha Mountain in Yuezhou.

What's amazing is that Song You actually found a familiar address on it-

Send it to the Lin Chang of Yanzhou as much as that.

Song You knew that this was from Liaoxin Pass.

Perhaps because the Saibei army was about to overwhelm the border, or was preparing for a decisive battle, the defenders of Liaoxinguan sent a letter home again. Or maybe they were sick in the city, so they sent out their last letter home. However, the postman was only halfway to the end of the year, but he was intercepted by the horsemen or a small force behind the Saibei, after which the Saibei people took these things, and found that they were just a pile of useless family letters, so they threw them on the side of the road.

It must have been a long time ago......

Liaoxinguan was lost at the beginning of this year, and now it is late autumn, and this pile of letters was sent at the beginning of the year at the latest. In the summer, there were several heavy rains on the grassland, and even if this side was not flooded by the Saibei Demon, the grassland was flooded, and many bamboo tubes were washed away.

Some were buried in the ground.

Until today, it was discovered by Sanhua Niangniang.

Song You turned his head and said to Sanhua Niangniang, who was staring at him with puzzled eyes: "Sanhua Niangniang has made a great contribution again......

"What is this?"

"Yes, faith."

"Is it worth a lot?"

"It's precious."

“！”

The three-flowered cat stared at him without blinking.

The Taoist was patient and explained to her: "It's like I haven't seen Sanhua Niangniang for a long time, at this time, Sanhua Niangniang wants to tell me something, tell me how Sanhua Niangniang is doing, and also tell me all the words that Sanhua Niangniang often says to me on weekdays, so I write it on paper and put it in a bamboo tube, I can hear it when I see the letter, and if I can't see it, I don't know everything......"

“！”

The three-flowered cat blinked, and there was a process in her eyes from thinking to enlightenment.

Sanhua Niangniang is accustomed to getting along with Taoist priests, Sanhua Niangniang has a lot of things to say to Taoist priests every day, and there are many questions to Taoist priests, so she can't help but meet and talk to Taoist priests. If you haven't met and spoken to a Taoist priest for a long time, you can put the words on paper and ask someone to bring them to the Taoist, it must be very precious, and you must not lose it.

"So what now?"

"Since we met, we are destined." Song You said, "It's time to get them back for those people." ”

"Are we going to deliver it again?"

"That's too far."

"What then?"

"It doesn't matter, the imperial court has a special post office that specializes in delivering letters to sergeants, officers, and candidates, and the like, and we can hand it over to the nearest military town."

"Liaoxinguan!"

"Sanhua Niangniang is too smart."

"Sanhua Niangniang, let's go find it!"

As soon as the three-flowered cat turned its head, it took a bamboo tube in its mouth, dragged it out of the mud, and put it aside.

The Taoist smiled and began to search.

For example, this kind of military mailbox, although the shape is simple, in fact, the function is not bad, in addition to the bamboo tube has a lid and hemp rope to ensure privacy, but also has a certain waterproof ability. However, the bamboo tube itself is hollow, scattered on the ground and washed by heavy rain, it is likely to be scattered everywhere, not to mention that there are weeds with a similar color to the bamboo tube, which is not easy to find.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of time between people and cats.

So I took the oily paper bag as the center, searched around, and found more than a dozen zhang away at the farthest, and found more than 100 complete bamboo tubes, all of which were put back next to the horse.

In this process, Sanhua Niangniang is very active.

It's not that the character is noble, nor is it because of any big truth, but when she heard the Taoist say that, she always felt that this thing was very remarkable. I always feel that if one is missed, the one that is missing is a three-flower lady who told the Taoist priest.

That's something you can't miss.

It wasn't until she didn't find it again after looking for a long time, and the Taoist also told her that she didn't need to look for it, so she reluctantly went back and guarded the Taoist and the bamboo tube.

Song You thought about it for a moment and looked at it again.

This time, I picked out all those spear doors, and anyway, I had to go there, so I went to deliver them in person, and it was safer to be faster, and the rest were stuffed into the quilt bag in various ways, and then I continued to set off.

It should only be twenty or thirty miles away from Liaoxinguan, and it is more than an hour to walk up, but it took half a day to find the bamboo tube, and it was dusk when it arrived at Liaoxinguan.

Liaoxinguan now has only a few thousand guards, and most of Dayan's troops are currently outside the northern border.

Song You brought General Chen's handwritten letter, and when the guards looked at it, they knew that Song You was the Taoist they had heard of who killed countless demons in Yuanzhi City and went out with the army to kill demons.

Although he knew what happened to Liaoxinguan before, Song You still asked Zhenglin You, the cavalry team under the command of that general, only to hear that no one survived Liaoxinguan at that time, and all the dead soldiers had been reported home, so he sighed.

He then left most of the letters to his family, asked him to hand them over to the post post to continue the delivery, stayed overnight, replenished some dry food supplies, and continued to go out of the city.

But this time it's going west and back.

A few days later, he entered the Dora Grassland again, and met the rangers of Shine Night City again, but they were not the same team as before.

Walking into the famous Illuminated Night City, I didn't think there was anything strange about it, it was just a loess military town covered with scars. At this moment, the defensive battle has been won, like Liaoxinguan, there are not many troops left in the city of Zhaoye, and in the eyes of the Taoist, it is like an old man sitting on the threshold on a summer evening, with his chest and belly exposed, calm and vicissitudes, and the wrinkles all over his body even cover the scars, so that it is difficult for an outsider to visit for the first time to imagine what magnificent years he experienced when he was young.

Song You still stayed in the city for one night before leaving.

It's just that when he left the city, the Taoist suddenly stopped, raised his head and looked at the sky.

The three-flowered cat was puzzled and followed to look at the sky.

There was a bird in the sky.

Although it was late autumn, it was not uncommon for birds to have birds in the sky of the grassland, but this bird was unusual.

It's a swallow......

I don't know if there are swallows on the grassland, but this season, the grasslands in the north are already very cold, and there should never be swallows.

I saw this swallow flapping its wings, spinning in circles in the sky, sometimes left and right, sometimes up and sometimes down, just like when I first met Anqing, but I don't know if his heart is as entangled as it was at the beginning.

(End of chapter)