The king of Yiqu took the people who had been to Loulan before as guides, selected twenty Yiqu warriors, bought a few camels, prepared all the things, and let everyone dress up as a caravan, and the group drove towards the city-state of Loulan.

Everyone walked along the semi-desert area in the north of the Loess Plateau for more than ten days, and walked along the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains for a few days. As soon as everyone heard about the Black Water Country and knew that there were also descendants of the Ghost Fang Country entrenched here, their hearts immediately became nervous. At this time, he was completely out of the sphere of influence of the Yiqu Kingdom, and the king of Yiqu ordered everyone not to reveal their identities, so as not to invite unforeseen disasters.

Everyone slowly entered the city, and saw many women with high noses and blue eyes along the way, Song Heng couldn't help but say to Qianqian and Pianyan:

"These women are so beautiful, they look so strange!"

"Are you prettier than us, look at your eyes, they shine when you see a woman!" sneered.

"Don't talk nonsense, where am I shining, Senior Brother's eyes are much brighter than mine!" Song Heng deliberately shifted the target.

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you! Don't say a few words, don't let Master hear!" Deng Hozi warned.

"Moxia is not close to women, so he is too lazy to pay attention to you!" Song Heng turned his head and grimaced at Qianqian.

"Obviously, still pretending!Too lazy to pay attention to you!" pouted shallowly.

Mi Yue and the King of Yiqu walked in front, and when they saw that the customs along the road were very different from those of the Central Plains, they also talked to each other in a low voice, and the guide of Yiqu said to them:

"Heishui is a small country formed by migration and mixed residence, with Yueshi, Xiongnu, Xirong, Linhu and other people, as well as a small number of Yiqu and Central Plains people who fled here, but the Yue clan is the mainstay, and the Xiongnu are secondary. Those blue-eyed and high-nosed women are the members of the Yue Clan, who are said to have come from the far Western Regions and settled here after migrating here. ”

"I heard that the Heishui Kingdom was founded because of the Heishui River, could it be that the river in front of it is the Heishui River?" asked King Yiqu, pointing to a river in front of him.

"Yes, this river runs through the city, and the water is black, so it is called the Black Water River, and it is in front of it!" said Yiqu guide.

"With so many ethnic groups living together, won't they fight each other, who is the king of the Black Water Country?" asked Mi Yue.

"Originally, the Yue clan and the Xiongnu had the biggest contradiction between each other, and they often attacked each other, but after the new king ascended the throne, it seemed to be calm! The old Heishui king was a member of the Yue clan, and he was killed by his son a few years ago, and the current king is his son. The guide replied.

"There are many people in the city, I'm afraid it's too eye-catching to walk in the city, it's better to be careful everywhere!" Meng Ying said.

"What the hero said is good, it's better to find a place to settle down as soon as possible, settle down and then make plans!"

"I have already found a place when I come back, so please come with me, the king and you!" said the guide to King Yiqu and the others.

"In the future, you can't call the widow a 'king' outside, just call him Mr. Zhai!" commanded King Yiqu.

"That's right, I'll tell you right away, and everyone will call them one by one!" Yiqu said.

Everyone followed the guide of Yiqu to the foothold, and each rested for a while, and the king of Yiqu came to see Miyue, said hello, and then said with a smile:

"When you go out later, you and I will be commensurate with husband and wife, and you will be called Mrs. Zhai!"

"You want to be beautiful, but that's not good!" Mi Yue said angrily.

"No, I won't go out!" said King Yiqu.

"To be serious, it's not you and me here, so as not to cause gossip later, I have already told them, call me 'Miss'!"

"Then I'm your father? No, no!"

"My father is the king of Chu, so I didn't insult you!" Mi Yue said with a smile.

"You don't call 'Madam,' I won't go out with you!" insisted King Yiqu.

"Then let's call Mrs. Mi, that's fine!" Mi Yue had no choice but to change her name.

"That's fine, I'm not going to be your dad anyway!"

"Then I'll be your mother!" Mi Yue said and laughed.

"Then you can give your son milk!" King Yiqu said and came to hug Miyue, Miyue was caught off guard, hugged him, and while struggling, he lowered his voice angrily:

"Don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss!

Mi Yue earned a lot, her words were angry, King Yiqu smelled at her neck, and then let go of Mi Yue and said:

"I want to kill the widow, as soon as the widow returns to the righteous canal, he will lead the army to fight to the death with that Yingxi, and the beauty will never stop!"

"It's nonsense again! The concubine is already a wife, how can I get close to you again!" Mi Yue said angrily.

"Angry, it's all Zhai Li's whim, you can slap me twice! Come on, hit me!" King Yiqu said and leaned his face over, with a deliberate look of sincerity on his face, like a child.

The two of them sat on a piece of felt, and Mi Yue gently kicked King Yiqu in the face and said:

"I'm going to dirty my hands when I beat you, look at your cheap face!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" King Yiqu laughed in a low voice:

"If I want to be cheap, can I run so far with you at the risk of life and death?

"When am I going to call you?"

"When have I not listened to you?"

"This is the life and death of your Yiqu country, I risked life and death to help you, but you said that you helped me, and you used strong words!"

"Okay, I'll thank Mrs. Mi here first!, let's go out and have a look!" said King Yiqu, preparing to get up.

"Let's go!" Mi Yue got up and prepared to call Mi Ri and Meng Ying.

The four of them followed the guide to the street, and the guide told them that a trading house not far in front of them might be related to the Ghost Fang Kingdom, and that they also had a stronghold in the west of the city.

When the five of them came to the door of the firm, they saw a sign hanging at the door, but they didn't know the words on it, and the guide told them that it was the meaning of the Loulan firm. Mi Yue found that this place was much more magnificent than other trading houses, and the goods sold and exchanged were fine white jade and gold objects. King Yiqu deliberately let Mi Yue take his arm and go inside to watch, while several other people stood outside to watch carefully.

A few people didn't notice anything unusual here, and after going out, they walked to a smaller jade trading house in front of them, pretending to look at the goods while inquiring about the situation. Mi Yue bought a piece of jade at random, took out the prepared gold coins and gave it to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper thanked him repeatedly, and Mi Yue waited for the opportunity to say:

"I just looked at the goods in the front Loulan Commercial Bank, and the people there were very domineering, does the shopkeeper know the origin of the business?"

"That's Prince Loulan's business, but I've always been polite, and I've never heard of offending a guest!" replied the man.

"Xu I'm too small-minded!" Mi Yue looked at King Yiqu and said with a smile:

"No wonder it's so magnificent, it turned out to be the prince's business, why did Prince Loulan's business open here?"

"This 'Loulan Commercial Bank' has a business name in more than 30 countries in the Western Regions, and it is a big business, not like us doing some small business!" said the shopkeeper.

"Oh, it seems that there is some origin, I think the things in their number are good, clean and tidy, this Prince Loulan is not only a prince, but also a business talent, it is rare!" Mi Yue deliberately opened the topic.

"The prince has always been kind, and he never bullies others!" said the shopkeeper.

Mi Yue was secretly surprised, pretending to look at the goods, and had the intention of leaving, so King Yiqu smiled at the shopkeeper:

"Farewell!"

When a few people came to the west of the city, the guide of Yiqu pointed to a building on the bank of the river and told everyone that it was the stronghold of the Loulan people. Everyone looked at it from a distance for a while, and the houses here were only a few times larger than the surroundings, and they couldn't see anything outside, so Mi Yue asked the guide of Yiqu:

"We haven't found anything special along the way, how do you know that these Loulan people are related to the Ghost Fang Kingdom?"

"Madame, don't you remember the ghost pattern? I waited a few times to go back and forth, and saw this Loulan signboard, so I paid more attention. Last year, when it was hot and we were passing by the door, one of us happened to dismount at the door of the shop, and a strong wind blew his clothes up, and I waited until I saw the pattern on his body!" replied the guide.

"This is a coincidence, can you find anything else?" Mi Yue asked again for fear that they had seen it wrong.

"The problem is this place!" the man said, pointing to the building in front of him.

One night, a few of us wanted to take advantage of the darkness to get close to the house to listen to the movements, and found that people were constantly carrying out the earth and rocks from inside, and they were like this for several days, and they scattered the earth and stones that were transported out, obviously deliberately covering up something! According to my estimates, there was a lot of excavation inside, but we couldn't stay here all the time, and we didn't dare to go in to check, so we didn't know the specific situation!"

"This place is built by the river, and it is right at the bend of the river, I'm afraid there are some articles!" Miyue said.

"It's probably the construction of an underground palace or something!" King Yiqu seemed to suddenly remember something, and turned to the guide and asked:

"How many people live in here, and in addition to the people in the trading house, can you find other suspicious characters?"

"There are quite a few people coming in and out, and it seems that they are all from Loulan!" replied the guide.

"Look at this house, it doesn't look big from the outside, if there are more people living inside, there must be underground fortifications!" said King Yiqu to Miyue.

"Go in and explore tonight?" Mi Yue said as she looked at Meng Ying.

"Good!" Meng Ying nodded.

In the evening, Mengying's master and apprentice were ready, and before leaving, Mi Yue instructed:

"Don't take risks, don't startle snakes! I'm waiting to come here this time to verify the main thing!"

"Madame, don't worry!" Meng Ying replied, and then the three of them went out.

The three of them soon arrived outside the house, Meng Ying asked the two apprentices to stay outside to answer, and quietly climbed over the wall to enter alone. Meng Ying remembered Mi Yue's words in her heart, and only moved forward when she saw it, not daring to be careless. At this time, it was still a little cold at night, and many Loulan people rested, and Meng Ying saw that there were not many people walking inside, so he gradually moved to the house.

The house is not big, with the help of the faint light, Meng Ying quickly found a gate of the underground palace, thinking that the king of Yiqu expected that there was indeed an underground palace here. Meng Ying hid in a corner and did not dare to act rashly, while watching the movement of the gate, he looked around carefully. About half an hour later, someone opened the door from inside and led a horse out. Meng Ying was shocked, thinking that if horses could be raised inside, there must be a lot of space. After the man left, Meng Ying waited quietly for a while, resolutely moved quickly to the gate of the underground palace, and gently pushed the door in. As soon as Meng Ying sneaked in, he found that it was a narrow passage, and the walls were lit with lights, and he thought that if someone came, he would have nowhere to hide. Thinking of this, Meng Ying had to move forward quickly, but fortunately there was no one all the way! Meng Ying quickly turned around inside, and saw that several places were engraved with ghost patterns, so he found a dark place to hide, settled down, observed carefully, and listened carefully to the movements inside. Meng Ying noticed that there seemed to be the sound of water flowing inside, so she looked for the sound, and saw several rooms on the way, and did not dare to approach. After a while, Meng Ying really found a water surface, and when he looked closely, it seemed to be a pool formed by an underground river. Meng Ying didn't dare to stay for a long time, and immediately began to slowly retreat out, and after a while, he left the gate of the underground palace.

Song Heng and Deng Hozi saw that Meng Ying had not come out for a long time, and they couldn't hear any movement inside, and when they were anxious, they saw a figure come out over the wall, and the two knew that it was the master, so they made a gesture and left the house quickly.

Mi Yue and the others had not slept and were waiting for them to come back, and when they saw that they had come back safe and sound, they immediately asked:

"But it's going well?"

"Well, all the best!" replied Meng Ying.

"Have you found anything?" asked King Yiqu.

"It is indeed a native of the Ghost Fang Country! Just as the King of Yiqu said, there is an underground palace built in it! The scale of the underground palace is huge, and it is unimaginable to connect to the underground water flow!"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and King Yiqu asked:

"Is it much bigger down there than on the ground?"

"It's ten times bigger!And the further you go, the more gloomy it becomes, and it's very weird!" replied Meng Ying.

"What do you see inside?" asked Mi Yue.

"It's empty, it's just a few people! I guess it's just been built for use!" Meng Ying said.

"Such a large-scale underground fortification must be protracted, and if it is built secretly, it will take even more time, I am afraid that it has been planned for a long time!"

"Exactly! I think this dungeon must be related to the ghost soldiers, maybe it is the place used to hide the ghost soldiers!" Mi Yue said.

"It's terrifying! If it weren't for what the hero saw with his own eyes today, Zhai Li would never have believed all this!" King Yiqu was surprised.

"This should be the front station of the Ghost Fang Kingdom attacking Yiqu and Great Qin, I'm afraid that the Loulan city-state is hiding a bigger secret!" Mi Yue said.

"It must be so! I'll go to the Loulan city-state and make plans after looking at the overall situation!"

"Okay, but do you want to meet the king of the Blackwater Kingdom? I wonder if the king of the Blackwater Kingdom is colluding with them?" asked Mi Yue.

"It's hard to say about this matter, let's go to the Loulan city-state first, don't startle the snake!"

"Then you'll leave tomorrow?" Mi Yue asked.

"From now on, the west is mostly a desert land, and there are few people along the way, so you need to prepare for a day, and you need to find someone who knows the language of the Western Regions!" said the guide of Yiqu.

"Okay, I'll find someone tomorrow, let's rest today!" Mi Yue said.

The next day, the guide found someone who could speak the Western Regions, and everyone was ready and began to continue westward. The crowd walked west along the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains for four or five days, passing through a narrow strip between the two mountains, where there were fewer and fewer people, the water and grass became more and more difficult to see, and the wind and sand became bigger and bigger. The group walked for nearly half a month, and it has always been a desert land with yellow sand, and at this time, Mi Yue and several other people from the south have long lost their initial freshness, and have really felt the vastness and desolation of the desert, and began to complain non-stop. Fortunately, there were no dangers along the way, and dry food and water were adequately supplied, and no one fell ill or died.

Three days later, everyone found that they could see some green and small animals one after another, and the guide of Yiqu told everyone that they were about to arrive at the Loulan city-state. When everyone heard this, they were both excited and nervous, and suddenly a river appeared not far ahead, and several young people rushed over with excitement.

The group took the horses and camels to drink enough water and rested for a while. King Yiqu and Miyue climbed a high ground, and as far as the eye could see, a huge body of water appeared in front of them, rivers and lakes were dotted, green grass and livestock were interspersed, and there was a village looming in the northwest direction.

"Is that the Loulan City-State?" Mi Yue asked.

"Exactly!" replied the guide.

"It's like a village, it's strange to call it Loulan Kingdom, I'm afraid it's not a lot of people, right?"

"This villain can't say well, the villain estimates that there are always 500 households!" replied the guide of the righteous canal.

"There is no city wall to enclose the city here, it really looks like a village! Since it can't be called a 'country', then how can it be called 'Prince Loulan'?" Mi Yue suddenly asked.

King Yiqu looked at Mi Yue and felt that her words seemed to have some truth, so he also asked the guide of Yiqu:

"Is there a monarch or something like this Lan city-state?"

"No, there is only one city lord, but the city lord is not the master of the entire city-state, but the owner of a castle in the city-state!" said the guide of Yiqu, pointing into the distance:

"The people of Loulan call this castle Loulan Castle, this castle is the largest house in this city-state, and the door is carved with the pattern of the ghost country!"

"Could it be that Prince Loulan is the son of the owner of this castle?" asked Mi Yue.

"This little man doesn't know!" replied the guide.

"So Loulan Castle is the Ghost Fang Castle! Let's go, let's go over and have a look! Everyone be careful all the way, cheer up!" King Yiqu said loudly to the team.

The people then entered the city-state, and saw that the goods sold on the street were very different from those of the Central Plains, and there were people with high noses everywhere, and their bodies were tall and burly, and they looked very savage and strong. There are also many people who look similar to the Central Plains, but their clothing styles are different, and they obviously come from different places.

"I didn't expect there to be such a good place in the desert!" Song Heng said when he saw that the Lan City was not only lively, but also the buildings were relatively tall and exquisite, comparable to the capital of the Central Plains.

"It seems that it is worth suffering so much!" said shallowly.

"The people and things here are very different from those in the Central Plains! Are we in another world?" said Deng Hozi.

"It must be another world, probably a ghost world!" Song Heng said as he grimaced at Qianqian, deliberately scaring her.

"It's really fake, don't scare people, okay?"

"Say a few words, wrap the headscarf!" Deng Hozi glared at Song Heng. Song Heng really immediately shut up and tightened his turban. At this time, except for some people from Yiqu Country who did not have anything wrapped around their heads, several people from the south covered their faces with turbans to prevent others from seeing the clues.

Mi Yue and the others didn't expect this place to be so prosperous, and after walking for a while, they saw Loulan Castle from a distance, and it was really built with a grand atmosphere. Mi Yue and the King of Yiqu secretly discussed, and then found a larger inn not far from the castle and settled.

One by one, they entered the inn, which was a large stone house, very neat and beautiful, with all kinds of incomprehensible patterns painted on the walls and roof. The man who could speak the Western Regions brought from the Black Water Country came in handy at this time, and under his arrangement, everyone successfully stayed in the inn. King Yiqu arranged for two Yiqu warriors to take care of some of the objects brought with the car, and inspected the inn and the two with Mengying, and arranged for people to take turns on duty outside the door of Miyue's house, and then went into the house to rest.