Chapter 131, Snuff Jade Pot

The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains.

A goshawk hovered in the sky, examining the withered yellow thorn grass on the ground, suddenly retracted its wings, rushed to the ground like an arrow, grabbed an inch-long coiled snake, roared proudly, and went straight to the sky.

This sky was a desolate and dusky sky, as if it was covered with a layer of desert yellow sand. The dim light shrouded a lonely pass under the heavenly dome. It looks ancient and solemn. And above the pass is hanging a solemn sù Mu huge stone plaque, on which three real characters are written - Yumen Pass.

Shi Yunyang and his entourage changed their fast horses in the mud city, and since the four of them were full of food and drink, they should naturally go to Dunhuang at this time. Han Lun was going to Dunhuang to run errands, but now that Shi Yunyang and Ran Tianluo had also collected the three soul keys, they naturally wanted to go to Dunhuang to find the entrance to the Nuwa Temple. Luo Xiaocheng is a scattered person, the world is home, and he recognized Ran Tianluo's sister, so he didn't want to leave this team. After a series of events, from birth to death, the friendship between the four people is already very deep, and naturally no one can do without anyone. Everyone hit it off and went to Dunhuang together.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the state and county system, and Dunhuang was set up as Dunhuang County. Dunhuang is about 900 miles away from Loulan City, of which the desert is few, but the Gobi accounts for the majority. The horses of the four were fast, and it only took a day and a half to reach Yumen Pass. Yumen Pass is in Dunhuang County, and it is also a pass to enter Dunhuang City and even enter the entire Central Plains.

Yumen Pass is one hundred and eighty miles away from Dunhuang City, also known as Xiaofangpan City. It was built in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to envoy to the Western Regions and opened the road to the Western Regions, and then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to pacify the disobedient country and set up the four counties of Hexi, and built two famous passes, Yangguan and Yumen Pass. This road is named after the jade that was transported into the countries of the Western Regions. Yumen Pass has always been coveted by soldiers, and it is also an important military town of the Tang Dynasty.

Here the camel bell is long, the people shout and the horses neigh, the caravan is endless, the messengers come and go, and it is a prosperous scene. Ascend the jade gate, overlook the far away, the swamps are all over the place, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the Great Wall is winding, the beacons stand upright, the poplar is upright, it is really the Xiongguan mandao, it is fascinating. The strong commercial atmosphere also makes this Yumen Pass very distinctive.

The four of them waved their whips, and the four horses rolled up a long tail wing in the desert Gobi and spread all the way to the gate of Yumen Pass.

"Stop!"

A soldier guarding the city gate saw the four Pegasus approaching. Drink the order immediately. The four of them reined in their horses, and as soon as the horses' hooves stopped, Luo Xiaocheng took a step forward and said: "This military master, we are merchants who came back from Mud City, and we are about to go to Dunhuang now, please make it convenient for the military master to let a few of us pass." ”

The sergeant said, "Do you have an identity document for customs clearance?"

Luo Xiaocheng said with a smile: "Not long ago, we were killed by horse thieves, and the goods were all lost, and our identity documents were lost at that time. This time I came to Yumen Pass to reapply for customs clearance. ”

The sergeant said: "How do I know if you are a businessman, look at your dress, where you look like a businessman, it is obviously nonsense." ”

Luo Xiaocheng said: "We are indeed businessmen. Now it's just a matter of covering up your identity. So saying, he touched a piece of silver in his hand in the robe, and with two fingers, he struck it out, and the force was not too great or too small, and it was just right to send the silver into the hands of the soldiers above the city gate.

The soldier was amazed at Luo Xiaocheng's kung fu, since he had received the money, it was not good not to open the door. Immediately said: "After you enter the customs, immediately rush to Dunhuang County to make up the customs clearance documents, otherwise I can't afford to check it out." Seeing that you are kind and kind, and you don't look like villains, let you enter the customs. Then he yelled "let go". The soldiers guarding the ground immediately put away their blades and stood there motionless. With the four of them riding into the customs. Although Yumen Pass is a pass, it is not much worse than a small country in the Western Regions. There are still countless business travelers gathered here, all kinds of commodities are dazzling, the sound of selling and soliciting is constant, and people come and go, it is a rare scene.

It was difficult to ride horses in the city, so the four of them led the horses on foot, but because of the huge flow of people and the size of the four horses, it was still very difficult to walk, and the four of them walked very slowly.

"There are a lot of people here. There's so much more to play. Ran Tianluo walked slowly beside Shi Yunyang, his eyes did not stop at all, looking at the surrounding shops.

Suddenly, Ran Qianluo saw a small vendor's stall with exquisite ornaments. Ran Tianluo approached and picked out what he liked.

"This girl is so beautiful, you see my jewelry here with the girl's makeup, it is really beautiful. The stall owner immediately greeted him. Ran Tianluo smiled, picked up a brocade box in the center of his stall, opened it and saw that there was a static snuffbox lying quietly inside.

The snuff bottle is painted with the story of Han Gaozu's beheading of the White Snake Uprising, and a poem is engraved on this small body of the bottle, which is Liu Bang's "Song of the Great Wind". The whole snuff box is no more than half an inch high, and the body of the bottle is extremely transparent, like a condensation of water droplets. It makes people sigh at the ingenuity of the creators of this world.

Ran Tianluo carefully looked at the three lines of words on the snuff bottle as thin as mosquito feet, and read softly: "The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, Weijia is returning to his hometown, and the warriors are guarding the Quartet!" Ran Tianluo suddenly remembered that many years ago in the Valley of Mystery, when Shi Yunyang didn't know his real name, Shi Yunyang's three words came from this poem. Ran Tianluo was like a treasure, and said happily: "Yunyang, you see this is your favorite poem." ”

The stall owner saw that Ran Tianluo was interested in buying, his eyes rolled, and he smiled and said: "The girl is really good-looking, this snuffbox is a fine product flowing out of the Tang Dynasty court today." This material is the best mutton fat jade, extremely transparent, without the slightest flaw, warm as fat, white as snow, the girl bought it for this son to make a love object is really wonderful. ”

Ran was stunned, holding the snuffbox in the palm of his hand, but his eyes secretly glanced at Shi Yunyang, but he found that Shi Yunyang's gaze was also being cast here. Ran Tianluo panicked, immediately looked away, and asked, "How can this be sold?"

The stall owner smiled and said, "Since the girl is sincere in wanting to buy it, and the girl's face is so good, she is really a guest of the villain, so let's give the girl a discount, you can give five hundred taels of silver." ”

Ran Tianluo was taken aback and said, "Such a small thing actually costs five hundred taels of silver!

The stall owner closed his neck, shook his head, and waved his hand one after another: "The girl's words are wrong, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for." This is a good mutton fat jade, don't say that such a palace treasure is an ordinary mutton fat jade, which is also worth a lot of money. This snuffbox is the best thing I've ever had in my stall. I saw that the girl was so discerning and very sincere, so I gave the girl this price. If I change someone else, I will ask for 800 taels!"

Ran Tianluo saw that he was very sincere, even if he didn't believe it, he believed it. Shi Yunyang said: "If you like it, you can buy it, you don't need to save money." Shop, we want this. ”

Ran Tianluo paused and said, "Yun Yang, let me buy this thing myself?" said and hurriedly took out fifty taels of gold from the money bag and handed it to the vendor, saying, "I want this thing." Wrap me up. ”

The stall owner happily accepted the money, with a smile on his face, and praised Ran Qianluo's outstanding vision again and again. Ran Tianluo put away the snuffbox and walked away alone. Shi Yunyang followed behind her, and the two approached Han Lun and Luo Xiaocheng. Luo Xiaocheng said: "What did Sister Tilting Luo buy, so happy?"

Ran Tianluo smiled and said, "It's nothing." Big brother, it's getting late today, I'm afraid there is no time to rush to Dunhuang, so it's better to stay overnight at Yumen Pass. ”

Luo Xiaocheng said: "Okay, I don't have an opinion, you can just taste the wine here, I remember that not far from the corner in front, there is a Juxing Inn, which is not bad." Let's go there. ”

Han Lun said: "After a day's journey, not only are we tired, but the horse is also tired." Seriously, I'm still hungry. ”

Luo Xiaocheng said: "Okay, let's stay here today, and make plans tomorrow." With that, the four of them led the horses and slowly walked through the crowd towards the Juxing Inn.

There was nothing to do that day, and at night, the lights were still bright everywhere in Yumen Pass. It's not like the night in the desert at all, because you can't find the sense of crisis lurking in the desert here. After all, this is under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, even if it is in a distant frontier, but this kind of royal breath is difficult to see in the Western Regions.

After everyone had eaten in the Gathering Stars Inn, they went to rest. Shi Yunyang couldn't sleep, so he went out alone and jumped on the roof, climbed the big flagpole hanging under the guise of the Juxing Inn, and sat on it to drink alone. He was still thinking about the two demons he encountered in the desert, and the one who spoke was at least a demon general, and his ability was far above that of ordinary demon generals. At this time, the three soul keys of them have been collected, and the demons will definitely wait for an opportunity to attack the two of them. It seems that everything in front of me is very calm, but behind this calm illusion is a huge storm that is about to be set off unconsciously.

Luo Xiaocheng room.

A pigeon fluttered its wings and flew to Luo Xiaocheng's table, Luo Xiaocheng grabbed the pigeon, took off the letter in the letter box on the pigeon's feet, unfolded it and looked at it, and then held it tightly in the palm of his hand and rubbed it for a while. The note turned into a puff of dust and scattered in the air.

"Green Soul Orb, I've finally found your whereabouts. ”

Luo Xiaocheng clenched his hands tightly, and his face no longer had the usual smiling and bold energy, he looked a little desolate and a little happy at this time. You can see that he is in pain. Luo Xiaocheng may be the most free and easy of the four of them, but he is also the most mysterious of the four.

Ran is in the room.

Ran Tianluo didn't fall asleep, she held the snuffbox she bought for five hundred taels of silver today. After hesitating for a long time, I finally decided to use it for what it should do. Ran Tianluo made up his mind, got up and put on his boots and walked out the door.