Seeing the sandstorm coming, Hong Chen turned over and dismounted, took out his worries and quickly pouted a pit on the ground, Lei Feifeng took advantage of this time to take a few thick cloths to cover the mouth and nose of Xuelifei's body, and then tied it tightly with a rope. These are all experiences that I heard from the Palestinians before leaving, and they come in handy at this time.

Hong Chen and Lei Feifeng lay down in the pit, and Xue Lifei also lay down. When the sandstorm approached, it had turned from a scattered golden yellow to a heavy brown black, and it crashed into it with a bang. If a person walks in a sandstorm, even if he is not blown away, he will be hit by oncoming stones, or his mouth and nose will be stuffed with sand. The master and apprentice hid in the pit, and there was a thick cloth as protection in the snow, and they were all safe and sound.

Sandstorms come and go fast. After the wind stopped, the master and apprentice shook off the sand on their bodies, fed Xue Lifei some water and forage, and then set out on the road again. After a day of non-stop travel, I finally left the Gobi region and arrived in an oasis.

Tired Xuelifei needed to rest, and the few bags of hay he had brought with him when he came out had eaten up. So after spending the night in the oasis, Master and Apprentice Hong Chen flew to the nearest tribe in the snow. That tribe, like the White Fang tribe, was a hospitable little tribe, and was very warm to passers-by, and Hong Chen and Lei Feifeng were well fed and drunk. There is also a horse breeder in the tribe who knows Xue Lifei, knows that it is a famous horse of the White Fang tribe, and loves it very much, so he specially carried five large bags of good forage and sent it.

When leaving, Hong Chen wanted to leave them a lot of money, but the people there insisted on not accepting it, and packed a lot of food for the master and apprentice. The leader stared at the wolf tooth pendant around Hong Chen's neck and said with a smile: "Although you are a foreigner, you have already formed a wolf tooth alliance with the people on the grassland, and you are also a brother on the grassland." Everyone has a time to travel, today you are a guest, we are the host, maybe tomorrow we are a guest, you are the host. Today's host treats guests well, and tomorrow's host will naturally treat guests well. ”

Two days later, Hong Chen encountered another snowstorm, although the snow flying hooves and long legs, not afraid of the snow road, but the speed of the road, not as fast as normal weather. So Hong Chen had no choice but to abandon the route of the near no-man's land and borrow the road from the vicinity of other tribes.

There are friendly tribes, and naturally there are also hostile ones. Halfway through, a group of horses surrounded Hong Chen, and a tall prairie man rode on a horse taller than flying in the snow, holding a scimitar, and asked Hong Chen to turn around and go back to their pasture. Hong Chen asked them to be the guards of a nearby tribe, and showed the eagle and wolf order sent by the White Fang Khan.

The Eagle Wolf Order really worked, and this group of guards allowed Hong Chen to borrow the way, but they followed Hong Chen all the way and closely monitored him. It wasn't until Hongchen left their pasture that the guards realized that in the winter of five years ago, their tribe's pasture had been set on fire, most of the forage had been burned, and many cattle and sheep had starved to death. The tribe also fought a battle with another nearby tribe that had been named the target of suspicion, killing and wounding hundreds of people on both sides. Since then, they have stepped up patrols of the pastures every autumn and winter to prevent vandalism.

Hong Chen has also learned a lot about the situation in Qiangzhou so far. In the whole Qiang Prefecture, there are thousands of large and small tribes, small tribes may have dozens of people, and large tribes have tens of thousands. Although the various tribes have migrated from time to time, they all move according to certain areas and routes. King Daqiang is the leader of a state respected by all tribes, and his subordinates live in the royal city in the west of Qiangzhou, responsible for coordinating the activities of various departments, scheduling material exchanges between tribes, and resolving conflicts between tribes.

However, not all tribes obeyed the management of the Great Qiang King, and at the same time, many tribes had friction from time to time due to the contradictions in the distribution of resources such as grazing areas, so the more they went to places where the tribes were dense and the cities were prosperous, the more chaotic and xenophobic the tribes they encountered. By the last seven hundred miles, Hong Chen could no longer find the tribe that received him without reservation at the beginning, so in order to replenish supplies in time, he could only go to the town as much as possible. When the silver taels were spent, they sold some of the furs given to them by the White Fang tribe to save up for the rest of the journey.

Stopping and stopping all the way, when they arrived in Sky Wolf City, a full twenty-seven days had passed since they set off from the White Fang Tribe. This is still a good horse flying in the snow, overcoming many harsh weather. If it is an ordinary horse, it is estimated that it will take at least thirty-seven days to reach Sky Wolf City.

According to the calendar of the Great Yu Kingdom, it is now late October, almost November. Sky Wolf City is close to Beidi, and it is colder than the Eastern Grassland, but Hong Chen and the others are dressed in wolf skin and cashmere, and they are not afraid. Hong Chen showed the Eagle Wolf Order to the guards of Sky Wolf City, entered the city, and then went straight to the Sky Wolf Palace, where the Khan clan lived.

According to Hongchen's plan, as long as he arrives at the Heavenly Wolf Palace and understands his intentions, he will be able to meet the white lone wolf and fulfill his wish for Ji Cha. But when Hong Chen walked to the gate of the Heavenly Wolf Palace and told the guards that he was looking for Bai Duwolf to give him something, the guards changed color one after another, and a large circle of people pulled out a scimitar and surrounded Hong Chen and Lei Feifeng.

"What misunderstanding do you guys?" Hong Chen only thought that they felt that they were from the Yu Kingdom, and they came to the white lone wolf to compete, so he took out the eagle wolf order from the inner pocket of the wolf's shoulder, and pinched the wolf tooth pendant around his neck with the other hand, and showed to the guards, "I am a good friend of the people of the grassland, not an enemy." ”

"Are you a friend of the lone wolf?"

One of the guards asked.

Hong Chen thought that the white lone wolf and Ji Cha were brothers, and he and Ji Cha were friends, so he was naturally a friend of the white lone wolf, so he nodded and said, "Yes." ”

The guards did not draw their knives back, but shouted coldly: "Follow us honestly, if you want to resist, I will kill you directly!"

Hong Chen didn't know what to do, and wanted to ask, but the guards brought their knives closer again, and their eyes were fierce. Hong Chen knew that once the fight started, there would only be more trouble in the future, so he temporarily obeyed the orders and requirements of the guards.

Xue Lifei was detained to the stable outside the Heavenly Wolf Palace, and a guard still wanted Hong Chen to hand over the sorrow he was carrying on his waist. Of course, Hong Chen refused to hand over the weapon, and frowned: "I don't pull out the sword." The guard sneered: "The person who wants to go to prison, what kind of knife do you draw?"

As soon as Hong Chen heard the word "imprisonment," he realized that the matter was far more serious than he had imagined, so where was he willing to follow the guards? Pulling Lei Feifeng, he rushed out from among the guards, grabbed the road and ran to the stable, rode out in the snow.

The guards in the city received a signal from the guards of the Heavenly Wolf Palace and surrounded them from all directions. Hong Chen rode on a horse, wielding a long knife, whoever stood in front would cut off his weapon, and relied on the speed of the horse, quickly broke through the encirclement, let Lei Feifeng sit in front of him, held the reins with his left hand, and waved the knife behind his right hand, blocking the arrows shooting from behind. When he arrived at the city gate, the sword qi on the long knife condensed, and Hong Chen slashed out a knife that was many feet long, shattering the city gate that had been closed, and escaped from the Heavenly Wolf City.

When he arrived outside the city, he couldn't stop, Hong Chen hurried to the south, twisted and turned, spent half a day and a night's work, estimated that he completely threw off the chasing soldiers behind, and then found a hotel in the desert market to rest. Taking advantage of the opportunity to talk with the innkeeper, Hong Chen asked casually: "On my way here, I heard that something happened to the white lone wolf in Sky Wolf City, boss, you are well-informed, do you know something?"

The boss asked, "Are you from the east?"

Hong Chen nodded: "Exactly." ”

The boss said: "It's not surprising, the matter of the white lone wolf only happened three days ago, and it hasn't reached you yet." ”

Hong Chen raised his eyebrows: "So, what happened to the white lone wolf?"

"As we all know, the white lone wolf is the son of the Heavenly Wolf Khan, the most promising young man in Heavenly Wolf City, and the young warrior who can be ranked in the entire Qiang Prefecture. The boss shook his head and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity, the white lone wolf is just like his name, a white-eyed wolf that can't be raised." His martial arts are indeed powerful, but his ambition is even greater! He was not satisfied with being named a general, and he actually assassinated the Heavenly Wolf Khan, intending to seek power and usurp the throne!"

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