There was another moment of silence, the black-robed man seemed to be thinking about something in his heart, Gao Cai didn't dare to disturb, just stood in place without saying a word.

"In recent years, the prince's faction and the prince's faction have been in a lot of uproar, and now that Xiao Yuzhi has lost power, the prince's faction will definitely suppress the people who supported Xiao Yuzhi at the beginning.

"You instruct this matter to go on, no one is allowed to meddle in this matter, no matter which side it is, neither co-opt nor suppress, let them make trouble, and when the trouble reaches a certain point, the saint will make up his mind, and he can't show any deliberate feeling in this matter."

Gao Cai's face was surprised, and he asked puzzledly, "Doesn't the Lord think this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?" Wouldn't this opportunity be an opportunity to push things in the way we wanted? Why did the Lord choose to keep a low profile at this time? ”

The black-robed man gently shook his head hidden under the cloak, and said in a calm tone: "Don't think that the saint is a fool, don't look at the saint who hasn't said anything or done anything now, at this time he is just waiting for someone to jump out."

"He will be clear about what is saying and what is being done, and if he chooses to be high-profile at this time, wouldn't he jump in front of the saint?

"The loser moves first; The plotters are hidden; Those who succeed think far away. The reckless will be in a hurry to act, the cunning will only hide behind their backs, and the schemer will think long.

"Quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit. The important thing is timing, when to hide and wait, and when to act decisively is the key to success. ”

Gao Cai showed a look of sudden realization and bowed deeply to the black-robed man.

"The Lord has said very much, and the slave has the privilege of being taught today! I wonder what else the Lord has to do? ”

The black-robed man thought for a moment.

"The secrets hidden in the old and young who fled to the land of Beihu back then are related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, but unfortunately we did not have the ability to enter the grassland to find these two people.

"Now that the various departments of the grassland have been almost co-opted by us, and the people who compete with each other are no longer a problem, since the child back then may be the one who created the thunder god's weapon, you might as well do these two things together.

"The next thing to find the child of the Feng family back then is the top priority, since he has more and more secrets, this matter can't be delayed any longer, finding him will get a lot of things we need, you should put more thought into this matter!"

Hearing this, Gao Cai bowed down and said, "The slave obeys the order!" The servant then proceeded to do it, and if the master had no other command, the servant withdrew. ”

"Well, go ahead!"

Gao Cai bowed down and exited the dark room, leaving only the black-robed man sitting alone, playing with the pair of Yunxia glass beads in his hand.

The black-robed man looked at the glass beads in his hand and said to himself, "Shao Xi, what are you doing on your long journey to that remote place in the Western Regions?" Is it to find someone? Or to find something? Or is it some mysterious mission? ”

Shao Xi used the pattern of "Soaring Kite" as a price to ask the Ghost Emperor's Mansion to kill Wantian for him, which seemed to arouse the interest of the black-robed man.

His perverse way of acting aroused the vigilance of the black-robed man, who naturally didn't believe that Shao Xi simply wanted to avenge Ruan Haoyang, but faintly felt that Shao Xi had looked at him.

"There are more and more secrets on your body, and I want to know more and more, I hope that you will come back from the Western Regions as soon as possible, and it is indeed a very interesting thing to find secrets from you."

The black-robed man unconsciously curled the corners of his mouth, revealing a strange smile.

……

Shao Xi and the four of them followed the camel team of Taihe Commercial Bank all the way to the west, originally Qingshan County was in the direction of the north of the Jingyuan Empire, and the Western Regions should be the northwest region in the general direction.

Therefore, all the way to the west and wait out of the Jade Dragon Pass, then change to the northwest and go, this road can be said to be a long way, before the Central Plains is good to say, but after the Jade Dragon Pass is a sparsely populated desolate place.

At that time, there were Gobi and deserts everywhere, and I could only eat and sleep in the open every day.

Before leaving the Yulong Pass, although it was a bit hard to hurry, it was a good time, the caravan and a group of people, to be precise, a group of camels, all the way west around the mountains of Beiling, through the Loess Plateau of nearly a thousand miles, all the way to the dust and dust for two months.

Although there are some post stations, wild shops, and overnight stays along the way, the more you go west, the more you feel the barrenness, and you can clearly feel that the conditions of diet and accommodation are getting worse and worse.

Despite this, Sun Lichang still took care of Shao Xi and others as much as possible along the way.

Shao Xi is also a reasonable person, and he did not complain about the difficult conditions along the way, but repeatedly expressed humility to Sun Lichang's care.

There are dozens of people in the caravan, if only the four of them are special, it will seem a little out of place, go out to eat and live together, only by taking care of each other and treating each other as equals can they face the difficulties and obstacles on the road together.

Therefore, at Shao Xi's request, Sun Lichang reluctantly accepted that he would no longer specialize Shao Xi and others, but gnaw bread and mutton with everyone every day.

After two months of getting along, everyone is happy, and it has reached the point where they don't distinguish each other.

Most of the people who follow the caravan all the year round are straightforward, rough and bold, and only people with this character can optimistically face the wind, frost, rain and snow, scorching sun and cold.

After a two-month journey, the caravan finally arrived at the Jade Dragon Pass, which is the dividing line between the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

This Jade Dragon Pass is not as big as Shao Xi imagined, to put it mildly, it is a tall and heavy stone wall with a city gate, but this stone wall is wide and long, connecting the mountains on both sides to form a pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although the Jade Dragon Pass is only a pass, it is located in the Central Plains and the Western Regions between the trade and trade must pass through, so this place is a perennial gathering place for caravans and travelers, and a large natural town has been formed under this Jade Dragon Pass.

The town is full of markets, and many goods from the Central Plains and the Western Regions are gathered here, and if you don't care about the price, you can buy almost all kinds of items from the Central Plains and the Western Regions here.

When the caravan entered the town, it was seen that merchants gathered, people flowed like shuttles, horses and camels could be seen everywhere, and all kinds of merchants dressed in exotic clothes set up stalls to sell, or walked through the market, looking a noisy and lively prosperous scene.

After entering the town, Shao Xi couldn't help but be attracted by all kinds of strange goods from all over the world, and there were even many of them who not only couldn't be named, but also didn't even know what they were for.

Sun Lichang saw that Shao Xi was full of interest at this time, and he was also patiently introducing and explaining to Shao Xi on the side.

At this time, Shao Xi couldn't help but want to buy a bunch of new things in his eyes, but Sun Lichang told him that these things were everywhere in the Western Regions, which was not surprising.

When you arrive in the Western Regions, you will find that many things are actually almost worthless in the local area, which dispelled Shao Xi's idea of impulsive consumption.

The caravan of Taihe Commercial Bank is relatively large, there are many small caravans ranging from a few people to a dozen, all of which are engaged in trade and trading between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and only a world-famous large commercial house like Taihe Commercial Bank will have a large caravan of dozens or even hundreds of people.

Therefore, as soon as Shao Xi and the others entered the town, they attracted the attention of people everywhere, after all, the big caravan sold some precious things, which were naturally coveted.

There are also some guys who have some crooked ideas, but the big caravans are usually guarded by many guards, and the thieves who usually fight petty are just moving their minds, but no one dares to really try to rob.

However, it is difficult to say after leaving the Jade Dragon Pass, and horse bandits are rampant in various parts of the Western Regions, and some of them are even very large, which is also one of the main reasons why business is not good.

Every time a caravan goes to the Western Regions to conduct trade, it is actually a great risk, but there is no need to worry about this in the towns within the Jade Dragon Pass for now.

Under Sun Lichang's arrangement, dozens of people in the caravan lived in the largest pavilion post in the town, but the conditions of this pavilion were much worse than those in the interior of the Central Plains.

It's just a few tall two-story adobe houses, and the sleeping place is also a chase shop, and the price of a single room is amazingly expensive.

In addition to bread and mutton, the food provided by the pavilion is nothing more than some mare's milk wine, coarse grain wine, and then some horse meat and camel meat, and the taste is indescribable.

However, according to Sun Lichang, there is a tavern in this city where you can buy good sorghum wine, so it has become the best tavern in this town, and many merchants and people from the rivers and lakes will come to this tavern to drink two jars.

In addition, this tavern can also eat good grassland beef, because the Central Plains is strictly forbidden to slaughter cattle, so some butchers will slaughter cattle outside the customs and then transport the beef into the customs, so it is not a violation of Jingyuan's law.

It's just that this beef is a little more expensive than those mutton, horse meat, and camel meat, so only this tavern will sell it.

This made Shao Xi feel a little crying and laughing, and said that he grew up eating beef in the grassland when he was a child, and now he has to spend a lot of money if he wants to eat some beef, but it is better than not being able to eat it in the mainland of the Central Plains.

So after the caravan settled down, Shao Xi called Lao Wu and the others, and took Sun Lichang to the tavern he said was going to taste the sorghum wine and beef stew there.

A few people left the pavilion and walked in the direction of the tavern, a few people walked all the way to take a look, talking and laughing was very pleasant, and unconsciously came to the tavern that Sun Lichang said.

The tavern looked unremarkable, just a tall adobe house with a wine banner hanging in front of the door, and not even a sign.

There is a large wine vat buried in the doorway, half of the tank is underground, and on the other side of the door hang a few cleaned sheep skulls, which can be regarded as a simple display of goods.

Although it looks very ordinary, you can go in and out, people come and go, and business is good.

A few people just walked to the door and were about to enter the tavern, but they suddenly heard a burst of "smashing" sound from inside the door, followed by several strong men flying out of the door.

Shao Xi and the others dodged sideways, and the strong men fell to the ground one after the other, and some even smashed on others.

Lao Wu counted on the side, not bothered.

"One, two, three, four......, yes! That's six! ”