After getting out of danger, Bai Sheng left Xiao Rang at the edge of the desert as promised, and led more than a thousand Ma Kui into the desert himself.

Although these more than 1,000 Ma Kui were captured from the more than 100 fortresses that had been conquered by Bai Sheng before, and they were not very familiar with each other, they all regarded Bai Sheng as a hero, and Bai Sheng's status in their hearts had surpassed that of Wei Minghui.

Wherever Bai Sheng wanted to go, they accompanied him, saying that the escort was a little unprecise, to be exact, they were escorting Bai Sheng to where he wanted to go.

Wei Minghui consulted Bai Sheng for his opinion and asked Bai Sheng where he wanted to go, and Bai Sheng indicated that he was going to Xingqing Mansion. So he had a thousand more women's guards.

He didn't want to take so many women to Xingqing Mansion, he just wanted to bring three or five people with heads and faces, and it would be enough to testify for him and gain the trust of Princess Xixia, but these women were unwilling to leave his side.

What made the women worship even more was that when they came out of the village, Bai Sheng also asked the women to rob some dry food and enough water to drink for three days in the village, and even let the women rob some silver taels and copper coins.

How can women not like having food, drink, and money? Most of them just hope to return to Xingqing Mansion to buy a piece of land, to stay away from the war and the hard life in the fortress, and to marry a man and run to a happy and well-off life.

This is one of the reasons why they are reluctant to go to the nearest fort to suffer.

The fly in the ointment is that there is not enough transportation.

Wei Minghui told Bai Sheng that the road west out of Hengshan to Xingqing Province was difficult because most of the vast land was desert or Gobi.

Even if there are many guides who are familiar with the route, the absence of horses or camels adds endless difficulties and risks to the journey.

Take the Song-Xia War, which lasted for decades, for example, even before Song Renzong ascended the throne, in the most glorious era of the Yang family, at that time, the Western Xia people had not yet occupied Hengshan, and it was an extremely difficult journey for the Song army to fight Xingqing Mansion through this desert.

Only the Liaoxing clan led 100,000 iron cavalry was able to drive straight into Helan Mountain over these barren lands, but what happened after the long drive went straight in? Li Yuanhao cleared the wilderness by the strong wall, and then used the strategic depth to retreat to the depths of the desert, and finally wiped out the 100,000 iron cavalry.

From this, we can see how difficult it is for these thousand women to walk in the desert.

"Not only is there a risk of being swallowed up by quicksand, but you also have to guard against the fierce horse bandits in the desert!" this is Wei Minghui's reminder to Bai Sheng.

Just as there are pirates on the sea, there are robbers in the desert, and these robbers occupy several little-known oases, looting across the desert, killing people and robbing money, and are the most feared existence of business travelers.

Only more than a certain number of regular troops are not afraid of horse bandits. But the horse bandits were not afraid of the regular army, because they came and went without a trace, and they never fought with a large number of regular troops.

The Iron Harrier could not catch up with them, the Foot Warrior could not beat them, the Divine Arm Bow could not shoot them, and the guides in the desert could not find them.

Don't look at these thousand Ma Kui, they are all spicy women who can get on the big bed and go down to the battlefield, they are a hundred times stronger than the women of the Great Song Dynasty, but if they are skilled in bowing horses and brave and good at fighting, it is not enough to see it.

If the horse bandits find out that there is such a group of travelers passing by in the desert, they will inevitably follow them and rob the women back to their nests as playthings.

Wei Minghui explained the benefits and disadvantages to Bai Sheng out of consideration for Bai Sheng, but Bai Sheng had already made up his mind, "You don't want to accompany me, I can go by myself." ”

"How can that be? Our sisters must live and die with you!" said in unison.

Bai Sheng was both moved and guilty, he wrote, directed, and acted in such a big scene, and he actually gained the loyalty of so many women, but it was unexpected.

But since the women are willing to accompany him, he can't say anything, in short, he will try to protect them when he encounters horse bandits, he doesn't believe that horse bandits also have the same martial arts as Ba Xijing Ming's monks.

Two days later, at noon, under the guidance of the guide, the group came to a freshwater lake, where the water and grass were abundant and the water was as clear as blue.

The guide said that there were more than 300 such lakes in the desert, and that this unnamed lake was neither the largest nor the smallest, but it was possible to drink water and bathe.

According to the plan, the mahikis will rest here for an afternoon. The climate in the desert is hot during the day and cold at night, although the Ma Kui have more or less martial arts, they dare not sleep at night, they can only walk to warm up.

The women were overjoyed to see the lake, and for a while their clothes flew all over the sky, and nearly a thousand carcasses of white flowers rushed into the lake.

Bai Sheng felt extremely embarrassed, because he, the anti-string Mulan, couldn't go to the bath with him, not only could he not take a bath, but he couldn't avoid the flesh of these white flowers.

Everyone is a woman, what are you avoiding? I haven't heard that women dare not look at women, if you don't look at them, you have a ghost in your heart.

The most embarrassing thing for him was not only this, the most embarrassing thing was that someone came over and suggested that he should also go down and wash.

Sister Ye Liping was already pulling his arm, "Let's go, sister, I'll rub your back." ”

Bai Sheng was immediately embarrassed, so he had to prevaricate: "My sister doesn't know, my little sister suffers from a strange disease, that is, she can't get wet." ”

Ye Lifang was very understanding, and said: "Since you can't go into the water, take off your clothes, I'll wash you, wash it, spread it on the sand for a while, and then dry it......"

Bai Sheng said: "That's not good, I have sprayed medicine in this clothes, and if you wash it for me, it will have no effect." ”

Wei Minghui looked at Bai Shenglu's hand on the outside of his clothes strangely, stared at his neck for a while, and asked, "What disease are you suffering from?

Bai Sheng recalled an incident that An Daoquan once said, and said: "I was once bitten by a fierce dog, and then I was afraid of water, the doctor said that this is called rabies, and the doctor told me that only by coming to Xixia to find the master of Baicao Sect can I find a cure for this disease." ”

After hearing this, Wei Minghui suddenly said: "So that's the case, if you want to find the master of the Baicao Gate, you must first find our princess Pingnan, because the relationship between the master of the Baicao Gate and the princess is very close, and it is said that the princess's internal strength is to take the elixir of the master of the Baicao Gate to skyrocket." ”

Bai Sheng showed a mixed look and said, "I don't know the princess, will the princess help me with this?"

Wei Minghui said: "Don't worry, sister, just because you saved more than 1,000 of her subordinates, she will definitely help you with this! Not to mention that I also wanted to recommend you to Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

What Bai Sheng wanted was Wei Minghui's words, he was still worried about how to talk about this topic, but he didn't expect to make a mistake, and he casually made up a reason not to go into the water but succeeded in setting the answer he was looking forward to, and he was overjoyed immediately.

Wei Minghui and Sister Ye Liping glanced at each other and said, "Since this is the case, then we will go wash first." ”

Bai Sheng said with relief: "Go ahead, go ahead, I'll show you clothes here." ”

The three women took off their clothes and walked into the lake naked, and Bai Sheng sat on the shore to enjoy this lively scene.

Some of the women were swimming in the deep water, and some were standing in the shallow water to wash themselves, and suddenly, a woman shouted in horror, pointed behind Bai Sheng and said, "Look, what is that?"

Bai Sheng looked back and saw that the half sky behind him was covered with yellow clouds.