"A drop of water?"

"Exactly! That is, not long ago, many people have seen it with their own eyes, otherwise in the depths of this desert, how could there be such a spring on this shoal out of thin air? It's not the mercy of the gods, specially for us business travelers to come here to quench our thirst. ”

"That's really a fairy......"

"Not really. The stele over there says that the water in this spring is borrowed from the southeastern islands, so it is also called a borrowed spring, a fairy spring. If it weren't for the gods, who would have the ability to borrow spring water from an island thousands of miles away? ”

"Reasonable......"

In the confusion, there are constant sounds coming into the ears.

The clear spring he drank quickly moisturized his body, and at this time he felt that his body was like a desert after the scorching sun, every inch could store a large amount of water, and the clear spring poured into this desert was quickly absorbed by every part of the body, quickly becoming moist and rejuvenated.

The merchant finally slowly climbed up.

The two people who were talking in front of them were saying goodbye, although they were just strangers to each other, but it was not easy to meet, and why did they have to know each other before, so the two sides were still respectful, and then they left each other.

One to the east and one to the west.

The merchant stood still, looking at the fountain, and then looked around, his mind gradually activated, and his memory slowly became clear when he compared the surrounding scenes.

The picture of the Taoist sitting in front of him and talking to him also came to mind.

At that time, there was no lake here.

“……”

The merchant couldn't help but smile.

It turned out that the one who saved him for the second time was still the same one.

The merchant slowly led the camel over, drank enough water, and filled it himself, and then walked up to the stele under the scorching sun, and read it carefully.

Just two sentences, no name.

But it is full of fairy style.

Only then did the merchant realize that he had traveled with him for a while, and had received two lives of his life, but he had only spoken a few words, and had not yet announced his name, so he did not know which way the immortal was.

"Heh......"

The merchant couldn't help but smile, but he had already expected that in the future, there would be one more immortal rumor on this desert.

The spring water is not dry, and the rumors do not stop.

It's just fortunate that compared with the latecomers, I am a first-hand witness of this rumor, and if I tell it to future generations when I am old, it may be a little more exciting and mysterious.

"There are real immortals in the world......"

Such emotion is far more than his sentence.

At that moment, there was a rumbling overhead.

There seemed to be a flash of lightning in the sky.

Everyone looked up one after another, only to find that at some point, a layer of cloudy clouds had accumulated overhead, as if it was going to rain.

No wonder today is not as hot as it used to be.

Everyone was even a little incredulous for a while.

"Boom ......"

Thunder rang out one after another.

It didn't take long for the rain to fall.

Although it was very small, it didn't take long before it stopped, and it was really a drop in the bucket for this long-dried desert, and even if it was just enough to wet the ground and moisten the throat of the earth, it was already the first rain in this desert in recent months.

……

The summer of the first year of Daan.

Song You, who was regarded as a god by merchants from the Western Regions, had walked out of this arid land and traveled westward, still a man and a horse, a cat, and a swallow.

The amazing thing is that as soon as you walk out of these two thousand miles, the climate immediately becomes pleasant, and even in early summer, you can still feel a little cool.

The trip is destined to be a long process.

Climate change is also unusually large.

Even the climate varies not only with the seasons, with day and night, with the weather, but also with distance and space.

Often a mountain has four seasons, a hundred miles of different days.

When it is sunny, it is summer, and it is rainy in winter.

It is hot during the day and cold at night.

Sometimes when you walk into the mountains, the alpine meadows are full of wheat, and the summer is when they are ripe, and the mountains are gently undulating, and the whole world becomes a golden wave, just like walking into a fairy tale. During the day, the sun on the high mountains makes people's scalps hot, and at night, they shiver from the cold.

Sometimes when you walk into the colorful Gobi rocky beach, there is water flowing everywhere, which is completely different from the thousands of miles of dry land you have walked before.

Sometimes they sleep by the lake, the blue water is light or salty, not polluted, and there are no people around, like a jewel set in the land of the Western Regions.

Sometimes over the snow-capped mountains, the cold is biting, the wind blows so that Sanhua Niangniang can not stand steadily, the thin air makes her feel dizzy, once she reaches the foot of the mountain, it has become a normal summer weather, the water turned into ice and snow is rushing and jumping in the mountains, making people feel that the thousands of miles of dry land that they have walked before are false like a dream.

When you go to autumn, you can see the Tianshan Mountains.

When I saw the Tianshan Mountain for the first time, a group of people happened to climb a snow-capped mountain, Sanhua Niangniang was very puzzled by the Taoist priest's idea of wanting to climb when he saw the mountain, and the higher he wanted to climb, but he had been with him for many years, but he was completely accustomed to it, and he didn't bother to ask him, so he just hummed and followed him over the snow-capped mountain that was difficult for ordinary people to climb, and when he reached the top of the mountain, the snow was thick enough to bury her whole cat in it, but when he reached the top of the mountain, he saw the Tianshan Mountains in the distance -

It is a mountain range that stretches from east to west, stretching from one end of the line of sight to the other, so far away that it seems as if it were just a line between heaven and earth.

But you can imagine its height, like a wall of heaven and earth.

Looking at the past from such a distance, the straight mountain range can't see the body at all, because the earth has clouds and smoke miasma, the farther away it is, the heavier it becomes, the cloud smoke miasma obscures the mountains below, only the top of the mountain covered by snow rushes out of the clouds, leaving a snow-white line in the line of sight of the group, as if the mountain does not stand on the ground, it itself is born in the clouds, located in the sky.

Even Sanhua Niangniang couldn't tell whether the distance was the top of the snow-capped mountain or the clouds on the horizon, and she kept arguing with Song You until Yanzi flew to see it while they were resting, and she didn't close her mouth when she came back.

Song You told her that when she went to a mountain higher than the clouds, people would become stupid.

The same goes for cats.

After that, walk down the snow-capped mountains in the direction of the Tianshan Mountains, continue to move forward, the Tianshan Mountains are often accompanied by the journey, it is a line of the distant sky, a wall, as long as the line of sight is not blocked, no matter when, as long as you look up, you can see the Tianshan Mountains, sometimes it is really impossible to tell whether it is on the ground or in the sky.

In late autumn, the earth is dark red and light red, and the locals only live in very small wooden houses, the picture is primitive and clean, and the Taoists take the horses away, and the ground is full of the sound of branches and leaves cracking.

Walking into the cold winter, the sky is full of snow.

The three-flowered cat was still very excited at first, running and jumping around like crazy, playing with the snow on the ground, jumping up and catching the snowflakes in the sky, and slowly became tired, afraid of the cold, and often shrunk in the jacket, only showing a head to look at the Taoist priest outside, and the top of the head was also full of snowflakes.

When the snow is at its heaviest, the swallows can't fly, so they can only stand on the back of the horse, and their bodies are gradually covered with snow.

A group of people can make a series of obvious footprints.

From the verdant alpine forest meadows to the golden wheat fields, to the autumn pictures covered with red leaves, and finally to another desert, but there is no great drought and heat here, and the cold is biting.

Sometimes the world is so vast that you can't see the edge.

Sometimes suddenly the fog is misty, as if entering a fairyland, the snow-capped mountains around him are continuous, the fog is like the sea, the Taoist and his party are like walking slowly in the clouds, and the snow-capped mountains and scenery are in the sky, a magnificent beauty.

The cultural customs here are very different from those of Dayan, and the language is also very different, although I often meet merchants from the Western Regions who understand Dayan, and I often meet merchants from Dayan, or those who come to take up their posts as officials, and naturally there are also Dayan people who settle here, or local rich aristocrats who can speak Dayan, but there are also many inconveniences.

Whether it is traveling, mingling, or buying goods, it is a lot of trouble.

So in this journey, more often than not, a group of people walked alone, looking at the vast land of the Western Regions, looking for cultivation in loneliness.

Naturally, this place is getting farther and farther away from the Central Plains, and there are small countries everywhere, which are very chaotic, and the influence of the luck of the Central Plains Dynasty is even lower, and demons and monsters emerge in endlessly.

And the demons and monsters here don't seem to have much education in etiquette, and there is usually a lack of people who can cure them, and there is no powerful central court that can suppress them and make them honest, so they are all rampant, and they have become the tools of Sanhua Niangniang to practice spells.

In the spring of the second year of Da'an.

Song You finally stopped.

At this time, the mountains in the distance are green, and the mountains are all straight and standing on the mountain, and the scenery is very refreshing.

"We've reached the westernmost point of the Western Regions." Song You leaned on a bamboo cane, his expression was calm, and he lowered his head and said to Sanhua Cat, "Does Sanhua Niangniang know how far this place is from Changjing?" ”

"I don't know."

"Sanhua Niangniang still remembers that there is a stone tablet outside the west gate of Changjing?"

"I think I remember."

"What is written on the stele?"

"I don't remember." The cat said solemnly, "When you reach a mountain as high as a cloud, the cat will become stupid." ”

"It is written, Changjing will go to the west for nine thousand nine hundred miles."

"I don't understand ......"

"That is to say, if Changjing goes west, you can go out of 9,900 miles." Song You paused, "We are almost nine thousand nine hundred miles away now. ”

"Nine thousand nine hundred miles!"

"From Changjing, 9,900 miles, from Yuezhou, more than 10,000 miles, we often have detours, at least 20,000 miles." Song You looked down at Sanhua Cat, and his tone was also a little emotional, "It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books, congratulations to Sanhua Niangniang, who has walked another 20,000 miles." ”

“……”

The cat listened in a daze.

Maybe the mountain is also very high, and she can't breathe, and the cat is going to become stupid at this time, so she only raised her head and stared at the Taoist in a daze, thinking that it sounded very powerful.

After being stunned for a while, she withdrew her gaze, looked at the mountain in front of her, and said:

"This mountain is blown up!"

“……”

Song You shook his head and smiled slightly.

Looking back on this part of the road, it is truly magnificent.

(End of chapter)