The setting sun sinks in the distant mountains, sprinkling the last rays of afterglow.

Whew~~

The night breeze carried the chill through the swaying woods, and under a large rock embedded in the hillside, there was a fire burning against the hazy moonlight, and the old donkey lying on the ground next to the rock, blinking his eyes boredly at the master and the four scholars beside the campfire.

"National teacher, how long do you think it will take for us to return to the Central Plains? ”

The toad Taoist held the small bowl of red rooster and drank a breath of gruel, and in the afterglow, Wang Feng whispered and threw a dead branch into the fire.

A crackling spark rises up.

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting in the middle, closed his book and raised his face, looking outside, in the night, the grass and forests, the soil was dry and raised sand and dust, and he was used to seeing the good mountains and rivers of the Sui Kingdom, how could it be desolate here.

Thinking about it, he smiled, looked at the four people with a melancholy look on their faces, and scooped them up with another spoonful of gruel.

"As long as you follow the east, you can always go back, not to mention that I use spells to hurry, much faster than ordinary people use their legs, of course, if there is no delay on the way. ”

"That's right, good life. The toad Taoist suddenly put down the delicate bowl and turned to the toad's face: "I just remembered for the teacher, what about the merman who was in the same boat as us?"

“...... In the sea. ”

After being reminded by the master, Lu Liangsheng remembered that there was still a mermaid in the East China Sea, and he had considered that it was impossible to return by sea, and the other party could not stay out of the water for too long, so he could only choose to release her back into the sea, and came all the way to look at the customs along the way, and almost forgot about the other party.

"After all, the sea figured it out, and now it'...... I think I'm already on my way back to the East China Sea...... bar. ”

Lu Liangsheng squeezed out a little smile on his face, and seeing that the atmosphere was dull, he simply turned out a pair of chess pieces that had not been used for a long time from the bookshelf, and by the light of the fire, the toad Taoist walked to the side, picked up the sunspot, raised the toad's face, and swept the four scholars opposite heroically.

"Who's going to play against the old man?!"

The four of them glanced at each other, pushed and shoved a few times in an instant, scrambling to play chess with Toad Daxian, Lu Liangsheng chuckled twice, and then took the book again and flipped it up next to him.

Early the next morning, a few people dealt with a simple meal, packed their bags, Lu Liangsheng rode on the old donkey, with four scholars, continued to go east, on the way met a group of travelers who traveled a lot, and walked together for a few miles, in the caravan, the old man at the head introduced himself as a Greek, crossed the Mediterranean to Egypt, just poured goods in Egypt, ready to pull some specialties to Sassanid Persia, saw that the five people got along well, so he kindly told a few words.

"Go east, be careful. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The Persians and Arabs have not been at good terms lately, so don't be involved in religion. ”

"That's right......"

Lu Liangsheng was Egyptian at this time, trying to keep the tone of voice over there to speak, and when the intersection in front of him was separated, he also saw the Persian cavalry wearing open beard clothes and pointed hats, carrying bows and knives on the left and right sides of his waist, and the Greek merchant who turned to another intersection hurriedly lowered his head and took off the hat on his head.

Pedal Pedal ~~~

The sound of horses' hooves approached, and he quickly crossed the other party, came to Lu Liangsheng and the others to take a few looks, and then continued to move forward.

Whew~

One of them suddenly stopped, stroked the horse's mane and looked over, and asked in Greek, where Lu Liangsheng responded calmly with a smile, and when he heard the accent, the Persian nodded, grabbed the horse's belly, galloped, and caught up with his companion in front of him and roared away.

After separating from the Greek caravan, Wang Feng and the four people who followed behind the old donkey followed and asked in a low voice, "National Teacher, what did the barbarian cavalry say just now?"

"He asked me where I was going, and I said go to Persia and go further east to see where the end of the East is. ”

Lu Liangsheng took the reins and looked back and smiled: "Actually, it doesn't matter what you say, he is testing our accent, the previous team of vendors, I said that Persia is in conflict with another country, most of them are afraid that we are the kind of work of that country, okay, these are none of our business, hurry up." ”

Looking at the smoke and dust in front of him and the sky, the scholar said with a smile, but his brows were tightly locked, and under the smoke and dust in the distance, there was a faint sound of hooves, as well as the screams of people and the sound of swords and soldiers.

Lu Liangsheng pulled the old donkey and immediately turned in a direction.

"We went the other way. ”

When the wind and sand blew, the four of them covered their faces, squinted their eyes and were a little puzzled, "National teacher, how can you change the course of a good person?"

"Don't talk nonsense, the national teacher let us turn, there must be a reason for the national teacher. ”

"My brother is right, what kind of person is the national teacher, how can we figure it out. ”

In the flattering words of sycophancy, the bright sunlight in the sky gradually darkened in everyone's field of vision.

Far away from the direction where the cavalry disappeared, in the sound of hooves, the swords and soldiers bumped and burst into sparks, and two groups of cavalry were fighting around there, among which there were five figures mixed up, pulling a donkey away from the war group and running wildly towards the desert.

"Berhayi, let them kill, let's go!"

"This way!"

The four people who ran shouted back the man with a cheek carrying a scimitar, led the donkey, and looked back at the rear from time to time, and the two groups of cavalry who were entangled and fighting hedged, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.

The spear pierced the chest of the Persian cavalry, and in the next second, the Byzantine cavalry holding the spear was attacked by another Persian cavalryman, wielding a scimitar and cutting off his head, and a bloody arrow spurted from the middle of his shoulder and neck, and his headless body fell straight under the horse.

The clouds in the sky dispersed, the sun pushed along the earth, the voices of the people screamed miserably, the horses fell sideways with a wail, the sound of fighting and shouting stopped, and the few Byzantine cavalrymen with spears remained, making up for the Persians who were not yet dead, and then they remounted their horses and pursued them in the direction that the men had just run away.

"The Arabs are also in the East, and there are exactly five of them, and they have a donkey with them, and it must be this gang who killed the governor of Calabsa!"

Immediately, the knight at the head of the group rushed his horse to gallop with a spear, and the remaining ten cavalrymen behind him shouted loudly and followed closely behind.

......

Rustle rustle......

The hooves of donkeys and the footsteps of people walked through the soft grains of sand, and Lu Liangsheng, who was avoiding the fight in the distance, looked around, walked under a lonely tree not far away, picked up pen and ink, and recalled that the leader of the Greek caravan had shown him a map of going to Sassanid Persia, and there were many big cities in between.

On the other side, the four scholars helped the old donkey pull some grass back, and when they saw the national teacher who seemed to be about to paint, they squeezed each other and ran over.

"National teacher, do you want to paint?" "I'll come and polish your ink with my old horse." ”

"Get out of the way, I'm good at grinding ink, let me come!"

"Three brothers, how can you do such a thing when you have read poetry and books, and the books of the saints...... It's better to let the younger brother do the work for him and share the worries of the three brothers. ”

"Get out!" the other three shouted at him.

Lu Liangsheng frowned, he thought they were noisy, and when he raised his face, the four people over there were smiling, and he didn't know when he stood on the old donkey's side with one hand, nodding or bowing their heads to each other, and they were talking and laughing.

"The national teacher paints, and the four of us should not be noisy. ”

"Well, what my brother said is very, very true. ”

These four guys...... Lu Liangsheng sighed, and was about to bury his head in the pen, when he suddenly turned his head, his brows furrowed even more, and in the distance, there were five figures, leading a donkey, as if they were being chased by something, and they were stumbling over.

"This ..... The picture, how is it so familiar. ”

In the shade of the tree, Lu Liangsheng crossed the five people and a donkey, and in the smoke and dust rolled up in the rear, he vaguely saw more than ten cavalry pursuing, and the killing intent spread.