"Oh, what's that funny?"

Nie Donglai was a little unsure, but when he saw the fat man's eyebrows, he was still a little apprehensive.

Mu Guitian also felt a little overjoyed, slightly embarrassed, stretched out a hand to his mouth, coughed lightly, and pretended to be annoyed: "What?

"Well, it's not impossible!"

Nie Donglai nodded solemnly.

"You...... Do you think God I am that kind of person?"

Mu Guitian said faintly, looking at Nie Donglai's eyes, as if she was a girl waiting for a negative person in the boudoir, sad and complicated.

"Aren't you? You must have forgotten that we had been walking for more than two hours?"

Nie Dong looked at the sunrise in the east and said with most of his face exposed.

The rising sunrise slowly crossed the horizon, like a girl who was about to leave the pavilion, shy and waiting to be released, and a ray of glow shone on the land of China, putting on a robe for this desolate mountain.

Like a dream, like a fantasy.

Beautiful, beautiful.

What a fairyland on earth.

"Then you can't blame me entirely! I've never walked one step at a time before! It's normal not to know!"

Mu Guitian whispered with an aggrieved face.

Nie Donglai glanced at him and said, "Fatty, what's the matter?

"Yu ......"

Before Mu Guitian could explain, the horse let out a roar, stomped the ground with a pair of front hooves, and shook his head, as if he was a little impatient with the two of them chattering.

Under the bath of the morning sun, the bright red coat is dazzling.

Mu Guitian was clever, and his heart suddenly became attentive, holding the reins and gently stroking the horse's forehead for a while, and said, "Look, the horses can't wait!"

Then he stuffed a rein into Nie Donglai's hand and said, "Let's go!"

After that, without waiting for Nie Dong to answer, he stepped into the saddle with a light car, pulled the reins with both hands, turned the horse's head, and shouted softly: "Drive!"

The horse moved on slowly.

After a moment's hesitation, Nie Donglai stepped on the horse's back and followed.

......

Half a day has passed in the blink of an eye.

At noon, the sun with the big lid of the pot hung high in the air, emitting bursts of heat, urging passers-by, but the season of the wax moon was still cooler after all.

On an official road paved with bluestone slabs, occasionally a few passers-by in a hurry walked quickly, sometimes there were one or two decent carriages and horses passing by every few days, and sometimes, there was no carriage for ten days and half a month.

The official road with no end in sight looks desolate and lonely.

On one side of the official road is a row of green and tall pines, and on the other side is a piece of verdant bamboo forest in the four seasons.

"Stomp, stomp..."

Suddenly, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and in a short time two horses appeared at the end of the official road, galloping from far and near.

When the two horses ran closer, they found that the reddish-brown horses were carrying a figure on their backs, a fat man in front of the left, and a thin young man in the back right.

It was Mu Guitian and Nie Donglai.

"How's it going? Doesn't it feel like riding a horse?

Mu Guitian glanced back at Nie Donglai, who was slightly behind, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, lifted the reins slightly, and let the horse under him slow down a little, and said with a smile.

"It's cool, it's much better than walking!"

Nie Donglai caught up, went hand in hand with him, glanced up at the end of the official road, and said, "Fatty, where are we going?"

"Phew!"

Mu Guitian suddenly grabbed the reins in his hand, stopped the horse under him, looked at Nie Donglai's back, his expression gradually became serious, and said, "Do you remember that there is a place called Shengxuan City?"

Seeing that he didn't follow, Nie Donglai hurriedly stopped his horse, pulled the reins and turned around, and said, "What did you just say?

Because Mu Guitian stopped a little suddenly, he didn't hear what he said clearly.

Mu Guitian looked at Nie Donglai and said word by word: "I said: Do you remember that there is a place called Shengxuan City?"

His eyes were full of anticipation.

Nie Donglai shook his head, a little confused, and said blankly: "Why do you ask that?"

Mu Guitian stared at him for a long time, and after making sure that Nie Donglai was not pretending, he sighed with some disappointment: "It seems that you really have amnesia!"

"Nonsense, didn't I tell you before?

Nie Donglai scolded with an angry smile.

"Not really, but I still can't believe it!"

Mu Guitian sighed and said: "It's really a cloudy and sunny moon, and people have good fortune and misfortune!"

"Along the way, I don't think you're a person who sighs for a long time, why do you sigh?"

Nie Donglai jumped off the horse, tied the reins to the pine tree on the side of the road, and found a shady place to sit down, a little curious.

Mu Guitian also jumped off the horse, tied the horse to the pine tree on the side, and said, "I'll tell you a story!"

As he spoke, he sat next to Nie Donglai and beside him.

Nie Donglai frowned, looked back, and said, "Something to do with Shengxuan City?"

Mu Guitian nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Let's talk about it!"

Nie Donglai turned his head again.

"The city of Shengxuan is located at the junction of the desert and the plain, and it is the only place to enter and exit the fortress, and there was no city in the original place, but a lonely city wall, on which lived an envoy, who was responsible for the registration and inspection of all people entering and leaving the territory. He stayed there for ten years, most notably because there was no one within a hundred miles of the city walls. Some people rumor that he is a close confidant of His Majesty, and that he is deeply favored by His Majesty, and that he is closely protected by ten powerful guards sent by His Majesty, and that he is a prince who loves the people like a son, and personally asks His Majesty to transfer him here to guard the peace of the border passes, and it is said that he has a mysterious army, which is haunting and unpredictable......

Mu Guitian depicted it with a look, and his expression was a little reminiscing.

"And who is that envoy?"

Nie Donglai suddenly interrupted him and turned his head to ask. He was very curious about what kind of person could persist in such a vicious environment for ten years.

This perseverance alone is awe-inspiring.

Mu Guitian paused, and then continued: "The outside world is just a rumor, and there is no way to know who it is, but then a young man came there, and after the young man came there, he carved the word 'Shengxuan' on the city wall with a sword and left with the envoy, but it is strange to say, not long after the young man left, His Majesty ordered the construction of a city there, named [Shengxuan City], and sent heavy troops to guard there, day after day, year after year, never stopped. ”

Nie Donglai asked with a puzzled expression, "You mean that the purpose of our trip is Shengxuan City?"

Mu Guitian nodded and said, "That's right?"

"Why?"

Nie Donglai was a little unclear, since Shengxuan City was just a fortress, what were they going there for?