In the blink of an eye, the stone wall is getting closer and closer, like two endless screens, stretching out, the clouds and mist between the mountains and rocks are filled, it seems that there is no other world, and then when running closer, suddenly see a steep canyon exposed in the middle of the cliff, two people in a vertical bridle, white horse in front, brown horse in the back, along the mountain road straight into it.

The stone walls on both sides of the canyon stand awe-inspiring, the grass and trees do not grow, it is difficult to climb, and the mountains are all dark black rocks, and the black light is shining. The road twists and turns, and the twists and turns are unusual. Hu Zhenbang thought to himself: "The mountains in this canyon are so steep, it is really a good place to use soldiers. ”

At that time, it was already winter, and there was snow in the canyon at the beginning of the day, and the sunny place was white, and the sunny place was black. Black and white, a spectacle. The two looked up at the sky in the canyon, but saw that the sky was extremely bright blue, as if the potential seabed was looking up. It turns out that this is the only way to Tibet, the Yunnan-Tibet Grand Canyon.

Walk through the canyon and spend the night in a hut. The next day, there were still black hills on both sides. After galloping for a few hours, he came to a huge grassland. The grasslands are boundless, the Himalayas stretch across the sky, and the white snow-capped peaks seem to be carved out of white jade under the sun, towering into the sky, and the white clouds float on the mountainside like skirts.

It turned out that the two had entered Tibet, where the altitude was very high and the weather was extremely cold, but fortunately the two of them carried winter clothes, cotton clothes, and sheepskin jackets. It's just that when they arrived here, Mu Tie's flying pigeon transmission was impossible to reach, and in addition, the grassland was vast, and the transmission mark here was also difficult to mark, so the two of them could only explore the road while walking, and went in the direction of Tubo Qingtang City.

After walking for several miles, I suddenly saw a group of mules and horses and a crowd of people crossing the grassland, seventeen or eight men and women dressed in various costumes, some wearing Tibetan robes, some wearing back clothes, some wearing small gold silk hats, some wearing yak woven hats, most of the women were riding on horses, and most of the men were leading the heavy mules and horses to walk slowly.

There was an old man sitting on a horse playing Dongbula, and a woman in the crowd sang a love song with the sound of the piano: "How high Mount Everest is, I don't know, my brother's love for my sister, the holy peak is difficult to compare; Although she sang in Tubo, her singing voice was extremely tactful and touching.

Mu Hanyi couldn't help but cheer and said, "Okay! sing so well!", the old man's sound of playing the piano stopped abruptly, but he saw the woman turn her face and glance at her. She was covered with a white veil on her face, and her face was not real, but her eyes were like cut autumn water, as if she was smiling.

Mu Hanyi was extremely beautiful, but when he saw these eyes, he was still stunned, and said secretly: "There are such beautiful eyes in the world, and the appearance of this woman must be excellent." ”

Hu Zhenbang naturally saw it on the side, but he was a man after all, so it was inconvenient to look at this woman directly. So he hurriedly stepped forward and said to the old man: "Uncle, there is a lot of trouble, don't blame, the junior wants to ask, how to go to Qingtang City?"

When the old man and the people in the mule and horse team saw Hu Zhenbang and Mu Hanyi, they all looked at the two curiously. It turned out that Hu Zhenbang and Mu Hanyi were wearing Han clothes, and Mu Hanyi's gender had been known before, so they simply stopped wearing men's clothes, and they also wore Han clothes at this time. This group of people was quite surprised to suddenly see such a handsome pair of Han men and women on the vast grasslands of Tibet.

The old man saw that Hu Zhenbang was quite polite, like a scholar, so he said: "Young man, if you want to go to Qingtang City, then it is a coincidence, and we are all the way, please follow us, and there is a good response." ”

Hu Zhenbang said: "The old man is good, I am in my heart, but the two of us have important things to do, and we are anxious to rush to Qingtang City, and I hope that the old man will tell me the direction and go by myself." ”

The old man laughed and said, "I have been a guide in this area for many years, the weather here is harsh and changeable, the terrain is dangerous, and it is difficult to get out of this area without a guide who is familiar with the terrain to lead the way." He pointed to the accompanying mules and horses, and said, "Look at them, these people have joined my team one after another, although you can rest assured that you will go with us, I guarantee that you will arrive smoothly, and you really don't have to worry." ”

Hu Tuobang knew that he had misunderstood, but he couldn't force him to tell him the direction. had to wink at Mu Hanyi and signal her to try to ask the people accompanying her as well.

Mu Hanyi understood and whispered to the singing masked woman for directions, but she smiled and said nothing, not knowing whether she couldn't understand Chinese or refused to answer. Mu Hanyi was helpless, so he had to quietly ask a few other people, but the rest of them all shook their heads, not that they couldn't understand Mu Hanyi's words, so they replied that they didn't know the direction either, and they only heard that without this guide, it would be difficult to get out of this Tibetan land. It seems that most of the people here are taking this path for the first time.

The two of them couldn't, so they had to follow the team of mules and horses. Hu Zhenbang kept talking to this guide along the way, but the guide just talked about everything, that is, he didn't reveal the slightest tone, and just taught him to follow him.

It turns out that the old man's name is Sando, he is a native of Qingtang City, and every winter he will be a guide for the passing travelers in the Tibetan border steppe, as long as he can bring it to the destination smoothly, those travelers will give him some money and things, how much he does not dislike, and he will not be unhappy when he encounters a really poor person who can't take out his belongings, and he also said that he was good in life, and his soul can enter the kingdom of heaven after death.

Hu Zhenbang and Mu Hanyi then learned that when they asked in the direction of Qingtang City that day, it was not that this Sando refused to tell the truth, but it was as he said, along the way, they had to encounter all kinds of bad weather and all kinds of dangerous terrain, even if they were people with high martial arts, there was nothing they could do at that time.

Not only that, even if he pointed out the direction to Qingtang City, but the grasslands and canyons in Tibet are extremely similar, and if you are not careful, you will get lost, and when you encounter a blizzard, you will block the road out of the mountain, and be besieged by the snow mountain for a year and a half, which is a common thing, but it will not be possible to turn snow until the summer of the next year, and at that time, even the gods who are surrounded will be starved to death and frozen to death.

The two also learned that most of the people in the team went to Qingtang City to do business, and some of them went to the temple of Qingcheng to worship, and the most mysterious was the woman who sang with Sando Dongbula, and Sando did not know her origin, only that she was a Uighur woman, whose name was Haguli, and it was said that she went to the Uighur aunt's house to save relatives. It's a pity that since Hu Mu and the others joined this traveler team, they haven't heard Hagul sing again. It's this Sando, who has to play a few songs from time to time to relieve boredom.

Mu Hanyi intended to get close to Haguli, but Haguli always kept her distance, and her mysterious veil never seemed to be taken off, not showing her true face to anyone, which also made Mu Hanyi even more curious.

Hu Zhenbang saw what was on her mind and quietly reminded her not to be too curious, saying that it was just because Haguli was introverted by nature, or had a rough life, and there was something that no one wanted to know, so he was a little rejected, so why be curious to ask?

Mu Hanyi pouted and said, "Hmph, I'm just curious, I like to inquire." Hu Zhenbang couldn't do anything about her, and he couldn't say anything.

At the time of the day, the weather suddenly snowed heavily, and the team of mules and horses traveled to a mountain col called Qingbeastkou, and the people were sleepy and tired, and they were hungry and hungry, so Sando beckoned everyone to set up a tent and station, and wait for the next morning to go again.

They chose a leeward hillside, pitched their tents, and made a fire. Sandor took some air-dried beef and mutton from the mule, barley noodles, and a tin pot, and boiled butter tea for everyone to drink. Seeing that the hour was not early, they scattered and went to rest in their tents. I agreed to wait for the heavy snow to stop the next morning, and then I hurried slowly.

Hu Zhenbang and Mu Hanyi only said to outsiders that they were brother and sister, and the two were divided into the same tent to rest.

The two of them lay in the tent and were undressed, thinking that now Songzanpu's whereabouts were gone, and they didn't know who the scriptures were in their hands now, and when they would be able to rush to this Qingtang City, and find out whether the scriptures had fallen into the hands of the Tubo king as soon as possible, and then make the next step. Thinking about it, I tossed and turned, and it was difficult to sleep.

When he was about to lie down, just when he fell asleep in a daze, he suddenly heard a roar of mules and horses outside the tent, the noise of people, and the dazzling light of the fire, which was reflected directly on the tent. When the two of them jumped up and rushed out of the tent, they were shocked to find that half of the dozen or so tents that had been erected had been lit by fire.

A group of robbers dressed in black were slashing and killing in the tent with knives and guns, and many men in black were carrying torches and rummaging through the luggage and baggage found in the tent. At a glance, seven or eight of the travelers had been hacked to death and wounded, apparently because they had resisted and been killed, and the women who accompanied them were crying out fiercely.

Hu Zhenbang looked to the west, only to see a man dressed in black who did not do much, but was there directing everyone to take away the mules and horses and snatch the goods. It seems that he is a bandit leader, and he and Mu Hanyi make eye contact at the moment, and the two of them purse their lips and bark, only to hear two neighings, and two big horses, one white and one brown, came running from a distance.

It turns out that after walking for dozens of days, the mounts of the two have long been inseparable, very tacit, and they are extremely humane, and will never leave their respective masters without authorization, because the two never fix them at night, so now they only need to call, and they will arrive immediately.

The two of them got on the horse vertically, Hu Zhenbang rushed towards the man in black who looked like the head, the man in black saw a man and a horse rushing towards him in the firelight, knowing that it was difficult to fight, he rushed to the right to dodge, Hu Zhenbang raised the bridle, the brown horse was also extremely sensitive, a pair of forefeet were raised high, and stepped down on the man in black, the man in black reacted really quickly, rolled on the spot, and actually got into the belly of the horse and penetrated between the two hind legs of the horse, without waiting to get up, he stabbed the horse's buttocks with his backhand, and the brown horse suffered from the knife, and a churn in the neighing, Hu Zhenbang jumped up on the horse's back and landed firmly on the ground。

He has drawn his sword in the air, because he hates the despicable means of the black-clothed man stabbing the horse, he will not tolerate mercy, a move "meteor to catch the moon", "snort" a sound, Rao is the man's quick movements, a move "eighteen rolls on the spot" to dodge, the left shoulder or a sword.

He knew that he was by no means Hu Zhenbang's opponent, so he whistled at the moment, and the two of them came from the east and west, also dressed in black, holding a mace in one hand and a red tassel gun in the other. The mace man saw him holding his left shoulder and said, "Boss, you have been tricked!" and looked at Hu Zhenbang and said, "Is this kid harmed?" The implication is that this scholar-like person can hurt the boss, which is incredible!