It is recorded in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": "From the northwest of Daqing Pond to Suye Water City, it is more than 500 miles. The city is seven miles on Saturday, and all the merchants and merchants of all countries live together. ”

Suye Water City is the birthplace of the poet Li Bai, Broken Leaf City.

Tang Seng and his entourage, the three masters and apprentices, arrived at Broken Leaf City, and were warmly entertained by the Western Turkic Yehu Khan.

During this period, the Western Turkic Khan also specially found a young man who was proficient in Chinese and familiar with the surrounding topography to receive them, which can be said to be a thorough courtesy.

This young man is none other than Zhao He.

In this Broken Leaf City, he was only a Han slave of the Western Turkic Khan on the surface, and he knew some small skills, but he was not outstanding, and now the Western Turk Khan transferred him to Tang Seng again.

Tang Seng is a monk, and even all living beings pay attention to equality, let alone people?

Naturally, after receiving the slave, he took the initiative to restore his freedom, and only asked him to help draw a map of the nearby mountains and rivers, so that he could continue his journey west according to the map.

Zhao He agreed, and perfunctory Tang Seng said a few words, and he was not very grateful to Tang Seng for returning his freedom.

When the Tang monks and apprentices all rested, Zhao He touched the night, left the post station where the Tang monks and apprentices lived, and quietly went to the palace in Broken Leaf City.

Seeing that his hands are sharp and agile, he is by no means an ordinary person, but he is willing to be the most inferior slave, which is obviously to hide his identity.

Outside a side hall of the palace, Zhao He hid in the treetops, looking at the heavy figures behind the flying tulle of the palace window, and this squatting was all night.

It wasn't until the sky was slightly hazy that he quietly left and returned to Tang Seng's residence to do his job as a guide.

If so, three days.

It wasn't until the fourth day that Zhao He suddenly received a secret letter.

When night fell, he did not go to the palace to squat outside, but went to a barren slope outside the city.

On the barren slope, the cold wind blows the withered grass, slightly depressed, and the stars hang outside the stars, slightly revealing cold light.

Under the sparse starlight, a man covered in the shadow of a cloak had been waiting for a long time.

Zhao He was also dressed in black, covering his head with a black cloth bag, revealing only two eyes.

"Your footsteps have become more obvious, it seems that you haven't taken a job for too long, and your hands and feet have become rusty. The man in the cloak said, his figure looking stiff and awkward, with an indescribable weirdness.

Zhao He said coldly: "You can't blame me, I'm not interested in jobs below thirty gold." It's you, the middleman, who is too useless. ”

The cloak said: "This time, fifty gold." In addition, I would like to ask you one more question, do you really kill anyone, regardless of the reason, the origin, the right and wrong?"

Zhao He said: "Don't forget what my name is, my name is 'killing', all living things must be killed." ”

"Okay! Kill! That's your goal this time. ”

After the cloaked man finished speaking, he shook his hand, and a piece of white cloth flew towards Zhao He.

Zhao He grabbed it in his hand and opened the white cloth to take a look.

On the white cloth is not only the identity of the target, but also the portrait of the target.

He is very familiar with this person, and he is familiar with her every gesture and movement, and he knows everything about it.

So he would never admit his mistake.

"She's going to kill her this time? He's the Khan's princess, the first beauty in Broken Leaf City. Zhao He folded up the white cloth and said.

Cloak said: "I remember you never asked why. You made an exception this time, could it be that you like her too?"

Zhao He said: "The first beauty of broken leaves, who doesn't like it?"

"In that case... Then I'll have to change people. The cloaked man walked over as he spoke, his toes as if they were not touching the ground, and wanted to take the white cloth from Zhao He's hand.

Zhao He raised his hand and dodged the cloaked man's grasp.

"Wait! Who said this business is not done? Feelings are feelings, business is business, but... This time I'm true love, you have to add money!" Zhao He said to the cloaked man.

"Hahaha... Killing is indeed worthy of killing, and it did not disappoint me. With a hand, a small cloth bag fell into Zhao He's arms.

"Here is fifty gold, and after the deed is done, there will be half of it. The cloaked man said.

Zhao He took the white cloth into his arms and nodded: "Since this is the case, there will be news within three days." ”

After saying that, without dragging his feet, he turned around and left.

The cloaked man watched Zhao He's departing back for almost ten seconds before it turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated.

The barren slope returned to its original calm.

Back at the post station, Zhao He began to redraw the map, and the map that was originally intended for Tang Seng and his apprentices was all destroyed.

A new map gradually took shape under his pen.

Early the next morning, Zhao He handed over the map to Tang Seng and his apprentices.

The Tang monks and apprentices bid farewell to the enthusiastic Western Turk Khan, took the offerings of the Western Turk Khan, and continued to the west according to the map drawn by Zhao He.

However, Zhao He cleaned up, almost strapped all kinds of weapons on his body, and turned into a shadow in broad daylight, sweeping towards the direction of the palace.

In the side hall of the palace, the princess Shu Yun was dressing up in front of a Tang-style bronze mirror.

Only Tang Lai's bronze mirror is so clear and bright, as if it can really shine the whole person clearly, as if it is in that mirror. The craftsmen in Broken Leaf City are much less skilled, and they can barely see human form.

There were only three such mirrors in the entire palace, and there was one in Ge Shuyun's room, which was enough to see the favor of the Western Turkic Khan.

The beauty in the mirror has fair skin, black hair, but a high nose bridge, pink cherry lips, deep eye sockets, and large eyes, as if it can suck people's souls in, making people unconsciously wander in her gaze and can't bear to pull away.

In today's parlance, it's a clear half-breed.

The advantages of the Eastern and Western races are perfectly integrated in her.

Syllable!

Zhao He pushed open the window and jumped in, startling Ge Shuyun.

She opened her mouth and was about to scream, but Zhao He held her mouth down.

"Shhhhh I'm here to tell you that 'Black River' has its sights on you. If you want to live, hurry up and inform the Khan. Let him send heavy troops to protect you!" Zhao He betrayed his boss behind him without professional ethics.

When Ge Shuyun heard this, his face turned pale, his color froze, and his whole person seemed to have been drained.

She didn't doubt Zhao He's words at all, but directly lost her soul and said: "He knows! It must be him! He's going to kill me, he's going to kill me!"

Speaking of large tears, they dripped out of the big eyes.

"Don't cry yet, you can tell you what's going on. Zhao He suddenly felt bad in his heart, although he knew that this matter should be very complicated, but with Ge Shuyun's tears, this sense of complexity became more real.

Ge Shuyun suddenly grabbed Zhao He's hand and said urgently: "Please! Please, although I don't know who you are, you must be a good person! Hurry up and inform him, inform Mr. Li, and let him flee quickly! Since the Khan will not even let me go, he will definitely kill him, so I beg you to inform him and let him flee quickly. ”