Chapter 5 Ghosts are rife in the city of Night Sand

Feng Chen took Hai Lanzhu all the way to escape for several miles before slowing down the trip slightly, but fortunately, the horse was still quite strong, and the two of them did not stop all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Hai Lanzhu's eyes were hanging with undried tears, her ruddy lips were also chapped, Feng Chen said by the moonlight: "It must be too windy and sand here, the girl should put my felt hat on!" Usually, Hai Lanzhu seems to be gentle and not good at words, but she is like a fierce woman in her bones. When she returned to the yurt at the wedding banquet, if she dared to plot against herself, she would take out the dagger hidden under the pillow and stab the wicked man. Thinking of this, she couldn't hold back her tears. Feng Chen stopped the horse, turned over and jumped off the horse, led the horse to the tree, and comforted as he walked: "I have no father and mother since I was a child, and I don't know who my father and mother are. Hai Lanzhu snorted and laughed, that smile was like a night primrose in the bright moonlight, quiet, comfortable, and indisputable. Feng Chen also relaxed: "What are the girl's plans in the future?" Hai Lanzhu shook her head helplessly, closed her eyes, and tears from her cheeks fell on the horse's mane.

On the quiet grassland, although the third watch has passed at this time, the sky is white, and the stars are about to pass. With a good view of rivers and mountains, Feng Chen said in a high-spirited manner: "If the girl doesn't like this journey, it is better to accompany her to Shengjing." Hai Lanzhu widened her eyes and asked in surprise: "What are you doing in the Houjin Jurchen tribe?" Feng Chen smiled and quipped: "The Central Plains and Mongolia have been traveled, and I also want to go and see this legendary white mountain and black water." Hai Lanzhu looked a little tired, and wanted to get off the horse, but it took a long time to exert her strength, but the horse was shaking back and forth, making her in a dilemma. Feng Chen stretched out his arms: "Come, you jump down, I'll pick you up." Hai Lanzhu suddenly fell into the arms of Feng Chen. After catching her steadily, Feng Chen asked, "Is the girl okay?" Hai Lanzhu hurriedly pushed away Feng Chen's hands and hid shyly to the side. Feng Chen took out some dry food and a water bag from his cloth pocket and handed them to Hai Lanzhu: "Eat something and rest for a while, we have to continue our journey." Hai Lanzhu took what he had handed over, put it aside, and slowly closed her eyes a little tiredly leaning against the stone. Feng Chen sat on the other side of her, slowly draped his light cloth cloak over her body, and then Feng Chen went to the other side to get some firewood and light a small fire. In this way, the cold wind of the night will not hit her weak body.

The sky was already white, and when the first rays of morning light reached Feng Chen's eyes, he was also woken up by Hai Lanzhu's soft call: "Feng Chen, let's hurry!" Feng Chen led the horse and said, "Where there is a horse market in front of me in a while, I'll buy another horse." Otherwise, it would be somewhat inappropriate for you and me to share a horse along the way. Feng Chen turned sideways and asked, "How long does it take to get to Shengjing from here?" Hai Lanzhu thought for a moment and replied: "It will take five or six days to say the least, and even if you are fast, you can't fly back all at once." Feng Chen laughed: "Yes! I can't fly over!" But Feng Chen thought in his heart: If there is no Hai Lanzhu girl, he can fly with a sword, and he can reach Nashengjing in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves on the official road behind the two, and dust covered their vision. When Feng Chen tried to take a closer look, the carriage had already run away. Hai Lanzhu said calmly: "I recognize that carriage, it is Huang Taiji's carriage!" Feng Chen couldn't imagine that the footsteps of his two brothers were so fast, it must have been after the battle of Ningyuan City, Nurhachi suffered a heavy blow, otherwise he would not have ordered these sons to rush back to Shengjing overnight.

Hai Lanzhu muttered suspiciously: "Strange! This Huang Taiji and his aunt have just gotten married, and they rushed back in such a hurry, it must be something big going on in Shengjing." Feng Chen didn't care, as if he was going to travel through the rivers and lakes, but he was very anxious, if he arrived in Shengjing before these Baylors went back, it would be fine, if this Nurhachi once whined, it was not clear that this throne fell into the hands of others, and the safety of the Central Plains martial arts would be difficult to escape even if there were ten Yuan Chonghuan.

From the outside of the customs back to Shengjing, the way to walk is all the mountain road, although the road is flat, but the wind and sand hit the face painfully. Seeing that there is a small town in front of him, Feng Chen can no longer withstand such a big wind and sand weather, so he has to find a place to settle down and rest, just push open the door of a wine house, this hotel Xiao Er saw two Mongolian dressed guests, so he closed the door and went out, Feng Dust only felt strange, stopped Xiao Er and asked: "Little brother, do you still have a reason not to let guests stay in the hotel?" The shop Xiao Er picked up the towel on his shoulder and dusted off his body: "I don't live here for Mongolians!" Feng Chen took off the leather coat he was wearing outside, and then he saw that this young and handsome son was indeed from the Central Plains, and the little two people relieved the embarrassment and said: "Recently, this Mongolia and Houjin have been fighting fiercely, I heard that they have formed an alliance, and I think that I, General Yuan, is still guarding Ningyuan, so that the barbarians of Houjin have suffered defeat." Hai Lanzhu asked puzzledly: "Little brother, where is this?" The little brother pointed to the sand and dust outside and said: "This place is also called Yesha City, which is the junction of Horqin and Houjin, and it originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty. Feng Chen looked around the house with suspicion, the bare walls, the walls that occasionally leaked in, the wooden tables that would collapse if he touched it slightly, and the dusty benches, but the shopkeeper said unceremoniously: "Within a radius of dozens of miles, where my family settled, the people in this town have moved away, some went to the customs to herd horses and feed sheep, and some went back to the Central Plains to start a small business, but I thought that there were constant travelers here and needed a place to stay, so I stayed." Feng Chen poked his head out to look at this ancient town of wind and sand and said, "The people behind here have all moved away?" The shopkeeper glanced at him: "Hero! If you don't believe it, go and see for yourself! If you can find a second place to stay in the hotel, I will let you live here for nothing!"

Feng Chen took out a few taels of silver and put them on the table of the shopkeeper and ordered: "Prepare a clean upper room for this girl, and I can prepare one casually." The shopkeeper was embarrassed to push back these silver taels and said, "It's not that I don't want to do your business, it's that all the rooms have been booked out these days." Although I haven't seen anyone come to the store for a long time, after all, this room was booked by someone at a lot of money before, and I can't change it. Hai Lanzhu grabbed Feng Chen and said: "It's already excellent to have a place to live, little brother, please prepare a few basins of hot water." The shopkeeper put the broken silver on the table into his coat pocket, and said with a smile: "How good it is to do business like this! You two come with me!" As he spoke, he led the two into a few simple rooms at the door of the first floor: "You can take a look at it, just choose two, and I'll go and prepare hot water for you first." Feng Chen looked at Hai Lanzhu with a little embarrassment, but the bad guy is also Gege, and living here really wronged her. But Hai Lanzhu said: "This place is already the best place I have ever lived, and if there is another cup of hot tea, it will be even better." Feng Chen looked at the weather-beaten girl in front of him with pity, and the wrinkles had already been quietly engraved on the skin of her hands.

Just as the two of them were about to go out to find the shopkeeper, they were bumped into each other: "You two must not come out! Be quiet!" The shopkeeper looked at the two of them with an embarrassed expression, although he didn't know what was going on outside, but from the look of the shopkeeper, he should have waited for the distinguished guests who came here to stay in the hotel. The shopkeeper put a basin of hot water into Feng Chen's arms and said, "Don't come out if you two are fine, if you want to come out, go through the back door." Then he pointed to the door panel next to the window, and Feng Chen walked over and gently pushed it, and the wooden board fell to the ground. What is the back door here, it is clearly caused by the leakage of the house. The three of them were about to argue, but they heard someone on the second floor walk up, and the dust falling from the cracks in the wooden planks sprinkled Feng Chen's face, and Feng Chen was so angry that he was about to pull up Hai Lanzhu and go out, the shopkeeper knelt on the ground with a puff: "My ancestor, you can't go! If you go out, my life will not be guaranteed!" Hai Lanzhu looked at the shopkeeper's abnormal behavior strangely, but Feng Chen ignored the shopkeeper's pull and insisted on going out. I only heard the distinguished customer upstairs say: "Shopkeeper, please come up and talk!" This voice was clearly Dolgon's, Feng Chen's heart was startled, and he immediately stopped. The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and kowtowed again: "My ancestor, you can speak quietly, this master upstairs is not easy to mess with." I said that my distant cousin came to stay with me for a few days, and you didn't dare to tell me about it. Hai Lanzhu nodded slightly, blocking the dust, which made the shopkeeper feel at ease.

The soundproofing of the room is very poor, and the whole house can hear the slightest movement. Fortunately, the room where Feng Chen and Hai Lanzhu were was leaning against the door, even if there was any abnormal noise, these people would just think that someone was hiding in the house, but blame the bad weather outside. It just so happened that the room chosen by Huang Taiji and Dolgon happened to be above the heads of Feng Chen and Hai Lanzhu, and the two had no choice but to spend the night in this small room.

Suddenly, there was a loud wind outside, blowing the wooden door over, and several attendants hurriedly blocked the door with their bodies to prevent the dust from blowing upstairs. The shopkeeper shouted: "There is also a big wooden board at the door, you can move it to block the door." Upstairs suddenly quieted down, only to hear the shopkeeper pinch his throat and say, "It's not peaceful here at night, the two noble sons rest early." ā€