They covered their mouths and smiled, looking at Xu Chen, but they didn't say why they laughed.

Xu Chen was a little embarrassed, in order to hide this embarrassment, he looked up at the sky and found that a few rice-grain-like stars appeared on the edge of the wasteland, looking at the sunset across the sky, and subconsciously sighed: "There is still no moon." ”

In the car window, Duanmu Rong put down his pen in the inkstone, followed his gaze, and Mu Ne asked, "What nonsense?"

Xu Chen was slightly stunned, remembered something, and a smile gradually appeared on his cheeks.

Duanmu Rong looked at his side face through the car window, the breeze on the wasteland blew his hair, and a cute little dimple faintly appeared between the hair, and she suddenly found that this guy's smile at this time was so sincere and sincere.

Suddenly, Xu Chen's palm pressed against the car window, his body swept up, and disappeared like this.

There was a soft sound at the top of the carriage, and Duanmu Rong looked up, puzzled what he meant.

In the wasteland wind, Xu Chen stood on the top of the carriage, looking at the smoke and dust rising under the round sunset in the distance, his brows gradually furrowed, and he put his hand into his lips and blew a sharp whistle.

There was a sudden silence in the camp, and the horses began to stir.

Border, Immortal Town.

It was quiet, and even felt a little quiet, in a courtyard not far from the General's Mansion, Lu Yin walked quietly, occasionally looked up at the person standing outside, and quickly lowered his head.

The man was holding a butter umbrella under his arm, and his face was calm and gentle, he was the apprentice of the junior brother.

"It seems that that guy still hasn't returned to the south, this unworthy descendant. ”

A moment later, a carriage came slowly, luxuriously and steadily, and the people who could walk here were not ordinary.

And that person is also Lu Yin's junior brother, Xi Fan.

Xi Fan looked at Master Lu Yin on the opposite side and said slowly, "Senior brother, that person should be coming here." ”

Master Lu Yin glanced at him deeply, and there was no usual obscenity in his sunken eye sockets, but he indifferently added a few traces of deeply hidden sadness: "He is not recuperating in the sect, when he comes here, who does he want to find or death?"

Xi Fan smiled slightly and said, "Xuanwei Zhenren, such a character...... Even if he came here to look for death, he must have made the whole world shake and uneasy before he died, not to mention, in his current state, he may not be sent to death. ”

Master Lu Yin was silent for a moment and then said, "Reason. I want to know why he came. ”

Xi Fan took out an extremely thin letter from his arms, put it on the black floor, and said: "According to speculation, it should be here to understand, for the incident sixteen years ago, the thing we know but don't know." ”

Master Lu Yin frowned slightly, and did not continue this topic, it seems that the matter of sixteen years ago, even their two senior brothers did not want to talk about it more.

"What does this letter say?"

"Kill, can't be used, then there is only this result. ”

Xi Fan noticed that after hearing this, his eye sockets seemed to be a little deeper than before, and after a pause, he continued to say in a deep voice: "It seems that the time to stand in line is coming, think about it, this Xuanwei old man is not here just to kill people, right? I don't believe it, the Book of Heaven is not attractive to him at all?"

Master Lu Yin's expression didn't know whether it was admiration or sighing.

Xi Fan listened to the word Book of Heaven, raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "There is already a storm in the wasteland, so all parties only send the younger generation to try to find it, and if your old friend reappears in the world, Senior Brother, the weight will be much heavier than that over there." ”

Master Lu Yin looked at him and said directly: "He was stronger than you and me before, and I believe that he is stronger now than he was before." ”

Xi Fan smiled and said: "Everyone has a time when they don't count, maybe he will be beaten to death with a stick." Haha!"

Master Lu Yin knew what he wanted to express, and couldn't help frowning.

Xi Fan filled the teacup in front of him for his senior brother, and said with a smile: "Although I am not talented, senior brother, I am always much better than that little rascal." ”

The terrible sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air, like a sharp flute, instantly tore through the twilight above the camp.

Because of the distance, when the arrow flew outside the camp, it was already crooked and slow, and fell to the ground like a drunken man, without causing any damage, but the people in the camp knew that the other party's arrow was intended to warn or show off, so the mood did not become relaxed.

The smoke and dust in the far side of the grassland gradually dispersed, revealing the true faces of more than 100 riders. Vaguely you could see the majestic barbarians on horseback, wrapped in animal skin and cotton armor, holding the reins in one hand, screaming madly, as if they had seen a large number of prey.

The Yan cavalry in the camp divided into a group to meet them, and when they were a few arrows away, those grassland barbarians whistled and scattered, circling around the shallow waters of Pingchuan around the camp, refusing to approach, but they had no intention of leaving.

Xu Chen was the first to find the trace of the horse thief, and after the first warning, he jumped out of the carriage, silently led the big black horse, and was ready to saddle at all times, just looking at this group of grassland barbarians who were wandering around, his brows gradually wrinkled - in the winter grassland, he was able to gather more than 100 elite horsemen, which was already a large group of horse thieves, and he didn't know when the other party began to focus on the grain delivery team, he subconsciously glanced to the side.

The boys and girls of the Jade Xuanmen have lived in the peaceful Western Jin Dynasty for a long time, and they have only heard of the ferocious horror of the northern horse thieves in legends, and this is the first time in their lives that they have confronted these grassland horse thieves. But including Yaxiu, all the disciples of the Jade Xuanmen occasionally showed nervousness between their silent eyebrows, but they did not look panicked, each holding the long handle of the thin knife in their hands, vigilantly waiting for the battle later.

At this moment, three horsemen from the north of the camp galloped out with dust, and dispersed at high speed by the last red fire twilight.

This trip to the grassland to give gifts, nominally by the Western Jin Dynasty Yuxuanmen disciples are in charge, but the Western Jin Dynasty cavalry, who is responsible for the safety of the grain team, does not obey the orders very much, if they are separated from each other, they do not belong to each other, and they are not pleasing to the eye, but looking at the three horsemen who galloped out, Zhao Ling'er couldn't help but praise.

"I was able to decide to send an envoy to Beiqiang to report the news at the first time, and the general's response speed was not slow. ”

Hearing this, Xu Chen shook his head, led the big black horse to her side, and said, "These barbarians who look like horse thieves may be the cavalry of Beiqiang. ”

Zhao Ling'er and the girls next to the carriage were shocked when they heard this.

Xu Chen didn't explain, looked at the wandering grassland horse thieves in the desert wilderness, looked at the cavalry galloping out like three feathered arrows, and said: "There is still a possibility of success in sending the messenger to report the news, but now that they have gone deep into the grassland, it is impossible for these three cavalry to run out." ”

Defeating the monk on the shore of Bijiao Lake, coupled with the experience of living together these days, the girls of the Western Jin Dynasty trusted Xu Chen more and more, and subconsciously believed in his judgment, Yaxiu jumped into the carriage in shock, and looked at the three cavalrymen who were getting farther and farther away, with a worried look on their faces.

The general's reaction speed is not unfast, but it is precisely because of the speed that Xu Chen can no longer change the fate of those three cavalrymen, not to mention that he is now just an ordinary disciple of the Jade Xuanmen of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The sun was getting lower and lower, the light on the grassland was getting dimmer and dimmer, the twilight was getting thicker and thicker, and the three horsemen gradually became tiny silhouettes in front of the blood-red canvas.

After some time, dozens of steppe horse thieves drove from there, and the corpses of the three messenger cavalrymen were dragged behind their horses by ropes, and from time to time they collided with the low-lying mounds on the ground, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and the picture looked terrible.

Two groups of steppe horse thieves converged in one place, and let out a burst of arrogant laughter, the so-called clamour, but that's it.

As for the two hundred cavalrymen, when they saw the tragic death of their comrades and the humiliation of their comrades, there was an uproar, and they barely calmed down under the strong suppression of the commander - in the upper grassland action battle, no one was the opponent of these barbarians, at least before the Qiang people moved south, the previous picture is clear, so it is clear that the army is superior in numbers, and there are Yuxuanmen disciples as the main combat force, everyone can only suppress their anger and fear, and set up a rudimentary car formation with a grain convoy, and arrange a defensive offensive as quickly as possible, waiting for this group of grassland horse thieves to attack.

The atmosphere in the camp became extremely oppressive and tense, even after the dozens of cavalry returned to the camp, because everyone, even if they had not seen it with their own eyes, had heard of the murderous blood devouring of the steppe horse thieves, especially the people in the grain transportation team, whose faces were as pale as earth and trembling all over, and they could not complete even the simplest carrying work.

Unexpectedly, this group of steppe horse thieves did not take advantage of the last broad day and the great opportunity of the camp's discouragement to attack, but held the reins and stood outside the land of arrows to watch the camp crowd busy, and three of the horse thieves who looked like leaders waved their horsewhips and pointed at the front, looking extremely arrogant.

As night wore on, the camp lit a fire, and the Yan generals personally set up monitoring posts, and the soldiers nervously looked at the dark grassland periphery, facing the danger that was close at hand, thinking that once they fell asleep, they would probably never wake up again, and they were worried that they would be attacked by horse thieves at night, and almost no one could sleep peacefully.

Xu Chen knew very well the way horse thieves behaved, whether it was a real horse thief or a horse thief disguised by the Beiqiang cavalry, once he got on the horse and became a thief, he would firmly act according to the way the horse thief behaved - it was impossible for the horse thieves to choose to attack at dusk - he set up his own little tent next to the carriage and was ready to sleep well for the bloody battle tomorrow morning.

A gust of night wind blew, lifting the tent cloth and the curtain of the carriage, and his eyes shrunk, because he found that the car was empty, and the girl in white Duanmurong did not know where to go.

He quietly climbed onto the top of the carriage and looked out into the dim starlight to the periphery of the camp convoy, where there was a burning fire, and on the other side of the tongue of fire a thin figure could be faintly seen.

On this winter plain, except for him, who has an extremely keen eye, probably no one can see the thin figure.

Under the reflection of the firelight and starlight, the white clothes on the thin figure became more and more thin, as if they were about to drift away by the night wind, like a ghost, I don't know what I was doing.

Xu Chen looked at that place silently, thoughtfully.

Then he jumped out of the carriage and fell asleep with his clothes upside down.

At the height of the night, several terrible screams suddenly sounded from the southwest of the camp, and the wild howls of the horses, and the cavalry, which had been wary of the north, was startled and looked at that place.

Xu Chen, who was in the tent next to the carriage, didn't know when he had woken up.

He listened attentively for a while, and looked through the gap in the curtain at the figure of the girl cut out by the candle flame in the carriage, which gradually became brighter, and he smiled, then closed his eyes, and went back to sleep in peace.

In his dreams, he wondered when he would be able to write such a powerful fire talisman.

No one dared to investigate at night, and there were people like Xu Chen who knew what was going on and didn't want to investigate.

The people in the camp took advantage of the light of day to discover that the group of horse thieves who had been tightly attached to the north not far away had disappeared without a trace, but before they could rejoice, they heard the horses' hooves and the sharp whistle, and the group of horse thieves came again through the morning light, but they were vigilantly distanced, not as arrogant as yesterday.

Zhao Ling'er summoned the generals of the Western Jin Dynasty and reprimanded them severely, after all, these Western Jin Dynasty girls are cultivators of the Jade Xuanmen, and their identities are different, the generals of the Yan Army can only listen to the training in a daze, and then according to the words, the whole team is assembled, and the camp rises, ignoring those horse thieves who are patrolling outside, covering a gentle slope to the south, and then continuing to advance towards the northeast and the north Qiang royal court.

It wasn't until they left the camp that they saw a few charred horse carcasses in the southwest, thinking that it was probably the chaotic ending of last night.

The charred carcasses of the horses had been eaten by the wolves of the wasteland, and the limbs were shattered and miserable, and the stones in the place were marked with white burns, as if they had been burned all night. Neither the cavalry nor the ordinary coachmen were terrified, and no one dared to speak.