Chapter 3 of the Desert Lonely City Volume
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However, he did not express his suspicions, and on the second day, he prepared the medicinal materials needed along the way, and the three of them quietly set out on the road. After continuing to walk west for another seven or eight days, it became more and more desolate, and the wind and sand became more and more intense. The three of them rode on their horses, wrapped tightly in furs, and walked slowly. After Zhou Qinglian's careful treatment, Wei Xiu gradually got better. But after all, because of the continuous travel, I am afraid it will take some time to fully recover.
On this day, the three of them came to a market town. In the vast Gobi Desert, it is difficult to find such a town. The three of them were naturally overjoyed. This place is the junction of the three kingdoms of Daliao, Western Xia and Uighur, and the people in the town come and go, dressed in strange clothes, and most of them are people from the Western Regions with high noses and deep eyes. However, when the three of them walked on the street, they suddenly found many people from the Central Plains!
These people are all dressed in Liao costumes, but their gestures are all the customary ways of the Han people. What's even more strange is that these people have swords and swords hidden around their waists, and they bulge out of their leather robes, which really has a sense of wanting to cover up.
Su Zhuo suddenly called Xiao Er and asked, "Are there any gangs in this town?"
That Xiao Er happened to be also a Han man, from Xiliang, came here to eat mixed rice thousands of miles away, met Su Zhuo and a few people, and suddenly became homesick, and the conversation box was also opened. He said, "This guest officer is not bad at all! There is indeed a gang in this town, called the Silver Gate. As he spoke, he pointed to the two people with knives on the street, lowered his voice and said, "Look, then try the people of the silver gate." They have a monopoly on this town, just like a soil emperor. Every family in the town is protected by them, and they have to pay a lot of money every month, otherwise they might get into trouble one day. In fact, there is no one else within a hundred miles here, so where do we need their protection?
Su Zhuo nodded, pointed to the people who were hiding the blades, and asked, "Those are also the people of the Silver Gate?" It seems that this gang is very powerful!"
Xiao Er shook his head and said, "Those people are fresh faces, I have never seen them before! In the past few days, somehow, a lot of outsiders have suddenly come to the town, dressed in various costumes, and there are more than 100 people, filling several taverns. There are only one or two hundred people in this town, and how can we afford to feed so many people to eat and drink......
Su Zhuo and the others couldn't help but pay attention. Wei Xiu frowned at Su Zhu: "It seems that there is excitement again!"
Zhou Qinglian twisted her beard and said in a deep voice: "Baiyinmen? Today is the night of the fifteenth full moon, is it ......?"
He wanted to speak and stopped, and Su Zhuo hurriedly asked, "What about the night of the full moon?"
"Isn't it strange to look at those people's blades?" Zhou Qinglian asked inexplicably.
Su Zhuo nodded and said, "I have never seen their blades, I'm afraid that these people are not like martial arts decency, I'm afraid that they are evil outsiders!"
"Of course they are evil outsiders! I can't imagine that after more than 20 years, I can still see these people......" Zhou Qinglian paused and said: "The moon is full tonight, and they are afraid that they will have to meet in the wilderness in the suburbs." If you want to see the excitement, it's just right!"
Wei Xiu clapped his hands, extremely excited: "In this case, eat and drink enough now to recuperate." In the middle of the night, look at what kind of demons these people are dancing around!"
In a deserted town, there are no pedestrians on the streets when it gets dark overnight. Houses are closed, and there are no guards to maintain law and order. But tonight was a little strange, one by one dark shadows under the cover of the night, quickly towards the west of the town.
Su Zhuo and Wei Xiu stood on the second floor, looking out of the window, a smile on the corner of their mouths. Zhou Qinglian was right, but what did these people do? Why did Zhou Qinglian know that something was happening?
"Tuk tuk", the door was knocked gently, and Zhou Qinglian whispered outside the door: "If you want to see the excitement, don't go quickly!"
The three of them secretly followed behind a few sneaky people and headed all the way to the west of the town. The moonlight illuminated the road clearly, and a few people left the town and saw a barren mountain in the distance. In the open space below the mountain, torches were lit, and there were hundreds of people. The firelight reflected half the sky.
Su Zhuo and the three of them stood in the crowd, silent, only hearing the noise of people around them. All of them are talking to each other, and the accents are all dialects in the northwest. Su Zhuo and Wei Xiu didn't know very well, but they saw that there were ten pillars standing in the middle open space surrounded by everyone, and a flag was hung on the top of the pillars, fluttering in the night wind.
These ten flags are all the same white background. Some are embroidered with a scorpion, some are embroidered with a skeleton, some are embroidered with golden lotus, and so on.
Wei Xiu whispered to Zhou Qinglian beside her: "What do these flags mean?"
Zhou Qinglian sighed and said, "Do you know the Tianshan Sect?"
Wei Xiu was stunned and said, "Isn't that the Demon Sect more than twenty years ago?"
Hearing the word Demon Sect, Su Zhuo couldn't help but pay attention. Zhou Qinglian nodded and said, "Back then, the Tianshan faction failed to invade the Central Plains and was defeated by the heroes of the rivers and lakes. The Tianshan faction scattered in all directions, and many remained in the northwest border and set up factions one after another. Standing here today are the ten small gangs that split from the original Tianshan faction, known as the three sects and seven factions. The one with the scorpion embroidered on the banner is the Scorpion Gate. The one embroidered with the golden lotus is the golden lotus gate, and so on. ā
Wei Xiu nodded and whispered, "Then isn't it a demon conference today?"
Zhou Qinglian smiled slightly and said, "So to speak!"
Su Zhuo couldn't help but froze, and his brows furrowed slightly. There are hundreds of people here, all of whom are remnants of the Demon Sect, and they can't act with common sense. Wouldn't it be bad if the whereabouts of the three people were discovered? Although he was not afraid, there was a Wei Xiu beside him who didn't know martial arts, and Zhou Qinglian had never shown kung fu. Wei Xiu was bold, and he didn't mean to be afraid at all, a pair of eyes looked left and right, for fear of missing something.
While he was thinking wildly, the crowd suddenly fell silent. Out of the crowd came a stocky man, he was bloated, and the strangest thing was a sarcoma growing on his neck. He cleared his throat and said, "Brother Teng, our brothers haven't seen each other for several years, why did you suddenly summon everyone here today?
When Bai Tuo spoke, the sarcoma on his neck trembled, which was very funny. Wei Xiu couldn't help but laugh softly, attracting the sideways glances of several people around him. Su Zhuo was afraid that she would expose Xingzang, so he hurriedly reached out and stopped Wei Xiu behind him. However, judging from what Fang Cai Bai Tuo said, he is the master of the local Silver Gate.
Another middle-aged man walked out, this man also looked strange, and he was exactly the same pair as Na Baituo, tall and thin, like a clothes pole. He walked out from under the banner of the Scorpion Gate, thinking that he was the master of the Scorpion Gate.
The tall and thin man cleared his throat and said loudly: "Brothers, I, Teng Gui, have gathered everyone to come here today, not for anything else, but for a rich and prosperous life, and I want to give it to everyone!"
Suddenly there was a burst of women's laughter in the crowd, and this laughter was so charming that it really fascinated the men present. However, everyone seemed to know how powerful the woman who laughed was, and none of them had evil thoughts, and their faces were a little nervous. A bewitching woman walked out from under the banner of the Golden Lotus Gate and said in a coquettish voice: "Senior Brother Teng, who doesn't know that your Scorpion Sect is the most powerful among the three sects and seven factions. If there is really a good thing, will you still think of us? Isn't it that you are causing some kind of trouble and trying to pull everyone to back your back?"
What she said was very unpleasant, Teng Gui's face flashed with green anger, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said loudly: "Senior Brother Baituo, Fairy Huamian, what you said is not right. After all, our three sects and seven factions are of the same origin, and they are all of the same origin and same ancestry, so how could my surname Teng be a bad heart for my own people? Let's work together to achieve great things. As long as this thing is done, it is not impossible for us to enter the Central Plains in the future!"
His words tickled everyone's hearts, but he didn't specify what it was. The head of the Xuan Snake Sect suddenly said: "Senior Brother Teng is right, what kind of life have we lived for more than 20 years? If Senior Brother Teng hadn't deceived everyone, I think we could do it together!"
Bai Tuo's small eyes were rolling around, as if he was calculating the gains and losses. Fairy Huamian couldn't help but say: "Senior Brother Teng, don't sell Guanzi, what kind of wealth is it, tell me quickly!"
Teng Gui looked left and right, and sure enough, everyone's curiosity had been hooked, and it reached the expectation, so he no longer concealed it, and said: "Do you still remember, it turns out that our Tianshan Sect's General Altar Castle?" )