Zhao Yixuan chatted with the four girls about speculation, and the purpose of several people was originally one place, so they had to go to the three thousand rudders together. The five of them met in Suzhou, all the way into the desert, Zhao Yixuan's extraordinary temperament, and the handsome man on his face, the magnanimity when he shot, and the knowledge when talking, so that the four girls all had a good impression of him. So along the way, the four girls of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting also called Zhao Yixuan their son, and most of them made up their minds when they encountered things.

Zhao Yixuan hid the section of being blamed at home, and briefly talked about the experience along the way with Xiao Shanming and others. Although the three of them didn't believe it all after hearing it, they also dispelled a lot of Zhao Yixuan's mustard. Xiao Shanming hugged his fists and said, "Since Zhao Gongzi knows the location of the three thousand rudders, why didn't he go early and stay in this town sand pavilion?"

Zhao Yixuan smiled and said: "This has something to say, the three of you please come and sit down." Zhao Yixuan said, and listened to the proprietress moaning: "You can be regarded as finished, you just say it, and you have to block the way for the slave family to go upstairs to rest." "Since Zhao Yixuan lived in this town sand hall, he has never dared to look directly at this proprietress, firstly, this proprietress is too gorgeous, and he is afraid that if he looks at it twice, he will catch her way. The second is that this proprietress is a little weird, she is always very attentive to the four girls of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting on weekdays, and I don't know what she has in mind.

went downstairs, Zhao Yixuan beckoned to the wood and said, "Bartender, put together two tables and prepare some appetizers." ”

"Gotcha!" said Wood, putting together two large old elm tables, bringing eight more chairs, and humming a little song into the back kitchen. After the eight people sat down around the table, Zhao Yixuan spoke first: "The junior brother is now answering Brother Xiao's question, the reason why the junior brother and the four girls did not go to the three thousand rudders, but stayed here, is completely because the three thousand rudders can't go now." ”

"Why can't you go?" asked Xiao Shanming.

Zhao Yi said: "The rudder of the three thousand rudders is located, in the city of jackdaws." Do you know Jackdaw City?"

Xiao Shanming thought for a moment and then replied: "I have a little understanding, when the wind did not blow the yellow sand, there were originally three states in this desert, which were the three states of bitter and dry skeletons, and the three states had different names with the same sound. But just by seeing these three words, you know that these three states are not a good place to go. And the Jackdaw City in Zhao Gongzi's mouth was the capital of Kuzhou back then. ”

Zhao Yixuan sighed with emotion: "That's true, the three states of bitterness and withering skeletons are lined up from east to west, and one state is colder than the other. The cities built in Sanzhou have been handed down to the present day, and most of them have been swallowed by the wind and sand. And Jackdaw City was preserved because of its proximity to the Central Plains. Because of this, the Three Thousand Helms also made Jackdaw City their foundation. At the end of each month, a storm of sand rises around Jackdaw. You should know that even land immortals may not be able to pass through such storms safely. Therefore, the younger brother and the four girls stayed here completely to wait for the wind and sand to dissipate before setting off. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Shanming said in his heart: "I thought that Shi Dingying and the others were guarding one side separately, but I didn't think that they would get together, which is a lot more difficult. After thinking about it, he asked: "Since Jackdaw City is the lair of three thousand rudders, and it is strictly guarded by Zhao Gongzi, I wonder if Zhao Gongzi can think of a way to enter the city?"

As soon as Xiao Shanming's words fell, he heard the girl in the black and white mixed-color robe speak: "I haven't asked you about your origins yet?"

Zhao Yixuan shook his head and smiled: "Blame me for not introducing it, the chess girl, these are the masters of Luyue Academy." ”

Luo Qi said lightly: "It turned out that the academy was tall and disrespectful. I don't know why a few people went to the 3,000 rudders?"

Xiao Shanming replied: "Don't hide the chess protector, we went to the three thousand rudders to please people." There was a brother below, who was taken by Na Shi Dingying. ”

Luoqi is different from the other three girls, her expression is always with a coldness that rejects others thousands of miles away. After Xiao Shanming finished speaking, she immediately said, "Your Excellency's brother is also from the academy?"

Xiao Shanming nodded, and said, "Since he is also from the academy, why did the academy only send the three of you to find him?" Could it be that the academy doesn't know the danger of the Clan?" Even Zhao Yixuan felt that she was a little aggressive. Xiao Shanming didn't explain much, only said one word.

Thinking of that day, outside the sword ruins, when the wind and clouds fluctuated in the sword ruins, and the sky and the earth changed color, Lu Liangmeng suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood, and then fell to the ground. Everyone immediately panicked, and after Yang Xianbao and the Purple Cloud Dao Elder joined forces to stabilize their injuries, several Luyue Academy students who accompanied them sent Lu Liangmeng back to Yanlin. At that time, there were only three people left in the field, and in desperation, the three of them had no choice but to go west. Although Wei Li promised to send Dong Ping back intact that day, they had already learned the treachery and changeability of the people in the Fu clan, so naturally they would not trust Wei Li, the leader of the thieves.

Luo Qi said lightly: "It's not difficult to enter Jackdaw City, now the four elders of the three thousand rudders, three of the three elders are seriously injured, so there is no need to worry." As for the hall master and the helmsman under them, they are just local chickens and dogs. After two days, take advantage of the sandstorm to weaken. My three younger sisters and I took the lead in Jackdaw City, helped Zhao Gongzi and a few others to punish Shi Dingying first, rescued the trapped academy student, and then went to kill the three thousand helmsmen Wei Li. ”

Xiao Shanming and the others were angry and laughing in their hearts, and he also said that this chess protector had any good ideas, and how he said it was like a child's joke. Seeing Xiao Shanming and the three of them frowning, Zhao Yixuan smiled and said, "Don't believe it, according to the strength of the four girls, I don't think it's much of a problem to walk back and forth in that Jackdaw City." ”

At this time, Mu came up with wine and food, and he shouted, "Come on!" the tip of the pig's tongue, the membrane of the heart, the tenderloin, and the root of the tail...... There is also a jar of good wine bamboo leaves, several and slow to use. ”

After Xiao Shanming opened the mud seal of the wine jar, he poured a bowl of wine and said to the wood: "I can enter the desert safely and without incident, thanks to the little brother's care, I Xiao Mou respects you with this cup." ”

Mu first excused himself, and then he was really hungry for wine, so he drank the glass of wine that Xiao Shanming poured for him into his stomach. Wood stuck out his tongue and sucked it twice, "Good wine!"

Seeing that Mu Tou drank the wine, Xiao Shanming secretly gave everyone a look, meaning that this wine could be drunk.

The chess girl shook her head and said, "If you want to test whether it is poisonous, then it is simpler, why hide it." After that, Luoqi took off the big hairpin that bound a green silk, and after probing into the wine and food, he said, "It's not poisonous." ”

When the chess was played like this, everyone in the field was embarrassed. The woman in the blue palace dress on the side shook Luoqi's arm and whispered to her again, and Luoqi frowned to express displeasure. At this time, Sun Mingxiang smiled and said: "What the chess girl said is that this group of big men are five big and three rough, but they are not as bright as their sisters. ”

Luo Qi smiled faintly and said: "Although I am acting brightly, I don't know how many people are scolding me for not having eyesight." ”

Several people laughed dryly, but none of them spoke.

As soon as Mu came to the back kitchen, he took a sip of the glass of wine he swallowed into his mouth, and squirted it out again, and he smiled: "I want to play tricks on Master Mu, I'm sorry!"

At the dinner table, Zhao Yi looked at the silent crowd, and said, "Have you noticed that there is something wrong with the boss?" ”

Lin Sanchuan drank wine and ate meat, and said vaguely: "That thief doesn't know how long she has been in this desert, how can she not know where the three thousand rudders are, I think she may be an old lover with that history, and the child in her arms may be the wild seed of the two." ”

Sun Mingxiang smiled helplessly: "I said Brother Lin, you should keep some morality." ”

Lin Sanchuan shrugged his shoulders, and said with a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water: "Everyone else uses seven holes to vent gas, but now I use six holes to vent, so it is inevitable that there will be more words." With that, he pointed to the blindfolded eye.

The girl holding the book shook her head and smiled: "I see not really, the child in the proprietress is a little strange, living in this inn for four or five days, but I haven't heard the child cry or laugh......" The girl holding the book wanted to speak and stopped, but everyone understood what she meant.

Xiao Shanming said: "No matter what, we still have to be more vigilant. ”

A few people sat down for a while, and after the wood came out of the back kitchen and gave Xiao Shanming and the three of them a few door keys, they said goodbye and went back to their own rooms.

An old wooden house, a four-foot red gauze tent, fireworks are blurred, and children's rhymes are ringing. Casting through the red gauze tent hanging in the room, I could see a graceful figure sitting on a low chair, gently wiping the body of the baby in the rattan basket.

A dream-like voice came through: "Child, mother can be with you for a long time." ”

Suddenly, it was time for the lights to shine again.

Sun Mingxiang had just finished taking a hot bath, and she was feeling comfortable. She casually draped herself on, picked up the scissors in the sewing box and trimmed her nails. Sun Mingxiang said that she had unparalleled beauty, and even the four girls of Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting were inferior to her. At this time, her skin like clotted white jade still had a faint moisture, glowing with cute and moving baby white. With the flick of her fingers, she cut off the nail stubble that grew on her pearly toes.

After cutting her toenails, she began to cut her fingernails again. It stands to reason that if the girl's family has a pair of slender hands and more clean nails, it will be the icing on the cake, but Sun Mingxiang has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she has always disliked keeping her nails. After cutting her left hand, when it came time to cut the nails on her left hand, she made a difficulty. She wanted to call Xiao Shanming, but when she thought that Xiao Shanming would see her like this, she couldn't help blushing.

She was thinking about it when there was a knock on the door.

"Who!" Sun Mingxiang frowned and snorted, and heard the sound of laughter and groaning outside the house: "It's me, Miss Sun." ”

Sun Mingxiang was even more suspicious, and she said in a light tone: "It's the boss lady, what do you have to do?"

"What is expensive to do, what is cheap to do. If it's convenient for Miss Sun, then I'll come in. ”

"I've already ......" Sun Mingxiang wanted to excuse herself and say that she had fallen asleep, but she didn't think that the proprietress turned around and entered the door, the proprietress was still as charming as she had seen during the day, she kicked back with her foot in embroidered shoes, and the door was closed.

The proprietress carried a tray with two delicate dishes on it. The proprietress said to Sun Mingxiang with a smile: "I heard from Mu Tou today that the meal didn't move much, so I specially cooked it myself and prepared a few side dishes for Miss Sun." ”

Sun Mingxiang smiled and said, "The boss lady has a heart." ”

The proprietress put the wine and food on the table, pulled the chair and sat down and said: "What the proprietress is not the proprietress of, it is all some stinky men screaming, I am eleven or twelve years older than my sister, if my sister does not dislike it, then call me Sister Hong." ”

Sun Mingxiang wondered in her heart, but she didn't dare to relax her vigilance at all, she hesitated for a while, and shouted Sister Hong with a smile.

The proprietress listened, and Le's peach blossom eyes were bent into crescents.

Sun Mingxiang pondered for a while, and said secretly: "This boss lady is here, I don't know what it means, I might as well take advantage of this to probe her tone." After thinking about it, Sun Mingxiang smiled and said, "I don't know if Sister Hong is this day, why didn't she tell us where Shi Dingying was staying?"

The proprietress affectionately put her hand on Sun Mingxiang's knees and said: "Sister, it's good for you, how dangerous the location of the three thousand rudders is, it's not to belittle you, if you want to go, there will really be no turning back." Those stinky men will die when they die, but sister, I really feel sorry for you, a delicate beauty. ”

Hearing the proprietress boast about herself so nakedly, Sun Mingxiang couldn't help but be a little shy. In a trance, the proprietress unknowingly took the scissors in Sun Mingxiang's hand. Sun Mingxiang chuckled in his heart, and the true qi in his body was about to come out.

And the proprietress unknowingly held Sun Mingxiang's right hand and cut her nails.

"Sister, this delicate beauty, the dead flesh in the palm of her hand is really distressing for my sister, as daughters, we want men to protect us, but why do we have to spend our efforts to practice that useless martial arts. ”

The words of the proprietress were sincere, and the true qi that Sun Mingxiang wanted to hit also flowed back into her body. Sun Mingxiang felt that the proprietress held her hand very warmly, and the lights reflected in the proprietress eyes reflected a wave of love. Sun Mingxiang's heart fluttered, and he muttered: "When I was a child, I didn't want to practice, but my father forced me to practice, so I practiced." For more than ten years, although this martial arts practice is hard, it is also used to it. ”

The proprietress was surprised: "My sister's father is ruthless, doesn't my sister's mother know how to protect it?"

Sun Mingxiang's eyes were gloomy, and he muttered, "I don't have a mother's ......."

When the proprietress heard this, her eyes were even more pityful, and she said softly: "Hard-working girl." ”

Suddenly, the left hand of the proprietress holding Sun Mingxiang suddenly moved, and it instantly sealed Sun Mingxiang's sleeping hole and several lucky holes. Sun Mingxiang didn't have time to react, his eyes turned black and he fainted. The proprietress grabbed her hands and hugged Sun Mingxiang tightly in her arms. She patted Sun Mingxiang on the back and said, "Don't be afraid, child, my mother will never let others hurt you again." At this time, the proprietress was confused, stupid and stupid.

She reached for her waist and pulled out a boning steel knife. She gestured the tip of the knife to Sun Mingxiang's face, and murmured, "Mother, I'm here to accompany you." ”

At this time, the wood shouted downstairs: "Boss, there is a visitor!"

The proprietress suddenly regained her clarity and roared impatiently: "If you want to eat rice, let the old lady go!

The wood smiled and said, "People want to see you by name!" The guest also asked me, do I know Yizhang Hong, I said that we have Heding Red here, riding red, but there is no ......" Before the three words of the wood were spoken, I heard a bang, and the proprietress had appeared on the stairs.

The proprietress looked down, but her feet were weak, and she leaned against the guardrail to avoid falling.

I saw that in the lobby, two people, one tall and one short, were standing quietly. Both of them wore camel-yellow hats and camel-yellow hoods. The face covered in the lights was full of wind, frost, rain and snow.

The proprietress bit her lip and said stupidly, "You guys, you're from the depths of the desert?"

The tall guest tilted the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Yes, you are a red man?"

The proprietress nodded weakly, and the wood scratched her head and muttered, "The proprietress still has a name?" ”

After hearing the proprietress reply, the tall guest took out a golden lock from his arms and said, "I was entrusted by someone to carry something for Yizhanghong." Seeing the guest take out the golden lock from her bosom, the proprietress turned her head violently, as if the guest was holding a bloodthirsty beast in her hand, so that she did not dare to look directly. After a while, the proprietress murmured, "He, is he okay?"

The tall guest laughed and said, "He's doing well, but now it seems that the proprietress is doing very badly." ”

The proprietress sat down on the stairs, closed her eyes, and two lines of tears flowed out silently.

At this time, in Xiao Shanming's room, he was sitting cross-legged on the floor and practicing, and Lin Sanchuan on one side had already collapsed on the bed, snoring loudly. Xiao Shanming was upset, and he couldn't calm down for a while, so he got up to go to Sun Mingxiang's room to have a look. The room between the two of them was at the end of the corridor, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw that the door of Sun Mingxiang's room on the other side was wide open, and the bright lights shone out, illuminating a corridor that was unusually bright.

Hearing the movement, Lin Sanchuan's snoring stopped abruptly, he stiffened a carp, jumped off the bed, he yawned and came behind Xiao Shanming and said, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Shanming motioned for him to be silent, and hurried to Sun Mingxiang's house. Lin Sanchuan followed, but when he walked to the front of the proprietress's house, he stopped, he pushed open the door of the proprietress by a ghost, and saw the strange and abnormal red gauze tents floating all over the house, which made him shudder. There was no one in the house, and Lin Sanchuan saw that the child held by the proprietress during the day was lying quietly in the rattan basket, motionless.

"Damn, I want to see, are you a ghost or a human!" Lin Sanchuan's heart fell, and he strode open the red gauze tent and strode towards the rattan basket.

When Lin Sanchuan just lifted the red gauze tent in front of the rattan basket, he put down the red gauze tent again, his hair stood on end, and his head was full of cold sweat.