CHAPTER IX

The scale of this camel team is not small, at a cursory glance, it should be three or five hundred people traveling together, although many of them are like Shen Xingsoul and others who want to cross the desert with the camel team, but the scale of three or five hundred people, ordinary horse bandits will never dare to act rashly.

Although it is safe to go on the road, you will inevitably be questioned by the camel caravan, although you will not care what purpose you are traveling with, but you are also afraid that there will be horse bandits lurking in the camel caratoo.

These business travelers traveled back and forth between the two places, bringing the things here to places where they didn't have, not only for material transmission, but also for cultural exchanges, and the things they brought with them were of course valuable.

In this way, it is natural that some people covet it. And there were horse bandits in the desert.

Usually when they encounter small caravans, the men are killed, and some of the children and women are taken back to the bandits' dens.

The large camel caravans are relatively safe, but if you want to cross the desert together, you need to pay silver taels.

A group of three or five hundred people, mighty, plus thousands of camels, this team of people and horses, can not see the edge at a glance.

It took three days to walk before approaching the largest desert in the Great Xia Empire.

Although there are still thirty or forty miles away, it is obvious that the temperature here has risen a lot, and some people have already removed their cotton clothes.

This desert is called the Devil's Continent by the caravans, and there are some horse bandits who live in the desert all year round, and they occupy this water source that no one else can find, and barely survive in this desert.

They usually dare not leave the desert, and once they lose a barrier like the desert, they will definitely be wiped out by the army of the empire.

Only by hiding here, the imperial army has no way to enter the desert to suppress bandits, first, this desert is too vast, and it is impossible to get out without a detailed route map, and secondly, whether the desert bandits can be broken in one fell swoop, it is not to mention that the financial resources and manpower consumed alone also make the imperial high-level feel that it is not worth it.

Li Shan was seriously injured and couldn't walk, so he simply bought two camels from the camel team, and the two of them sat on the camels and looked at the people around them.

Most of the people around me are in a hurry on their own, and they rarely communicate with each other, but this is not always the case.

Behind Shen Xing's soul, a camel dragged an old man, and the old man was pregnant with a little girl of five or six years old.

Looking back a few times, the little girl was as delicate as a porcelain doll, with upright and delicate facial features, a pink little face, and big eyes like stars in the sky, flashing and flashing.

Seeing Shen Xingsoul's gaze, he was not afraid at all, but said hello with a smile.

The old man was the little girl's grandfather, and this time he took the little girl to meet her parents.

The little girl's name is Xiaoxuan, her parents are also business trips, every time she goes out, she can't go home for half a year, Xiaoxuan is soft and hard, and finally persuaded her grandfather to take her over the desert to meet her parents.

The little girl was very curious about everything along the way, and kept asking his grandfather all kinds of questions, and her grandfather thought she had too many questions, so he pretended not to hear.

The little girl shouted loudly to Shen Xingsoul, not timid at all, as if Shen Xingsoul was his own brother, chattering with Shen Xingsoul.

Looking at the cute appearance of the little girl, the sadness in Shen Xingsoul's heart was dispelled a lot.

"Brother Shen, you wait for me slowly! My grandfather said that I was talking too much, saying that he was going to give me away, I want to ask you if you lack a sister, if you don't lack it now, then I will ask you again later." ”

Looking at the little girl's quirky appearance, Shen Xingsoul stopped the camel.

"I'm really missing a sister, but you talk so much, I'm afraid of being annoyed by you, I don't dare to accept your sister. ”

Shen Xingsoul's face was helpless, as if he was saying the truth.

"Hmph, Brother Shen, you are as bad as my grandfather, you are all big villains, when I grow up, I won't clean you two up!" Xiao Xuan frowned, her little hands on her waist, like a little adult.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was knocked on the head by his grandfather, and the little girl covered the place where she had just been knocked with her hands, with tears in her eyes and a pitiful look.

"I have a bad grandpa!"

After finishing speaking, he wiped his tears and went away, no matter what the old man said, he just ignored it.

The old man quietly took out a piece of osmanthus cake from his arms and shook it in front of the little girl.

"No one pays attention to me, I have to eat this osmanthus cake by myself, this sweetness can't find a second piece in the desert!"

As soon as the little girl saw the osmanthus cake, her eyes smiled like a crescent moon, and she no longer had the pitiful appearance just now, so she snatched the pastry in her grandfather's hand and ate it slowly.

"I said that grandpa is the best, and he will take my favorite osmanthus cake with him wherever he goes. Hee-hee!"

"Didn't you just say that you have a bad grandfather, why do you say that you can change now, I'm not afraid that your bad grandfather will knock you on the head!"

"Where is there any bad grandpa, I mean handsome grandpa, if you don't believe it, ask Brother Shen, he must be able to hear clearly, grandpa, you are old, you may not hear clearly. ”

After a while, all the osmanthus cakes in the little girl's hands were eaten into her stomach, and she wiped her little hands, and the little girl looked at her grandfather with unfinished eyes.

"Don't look at me, I brought a little osmanthus cake, but the journey is so long, you have to save some food, what will I feed the little gluttonous worm in your stomach after eating." ”

"Okay, let's stop eating it today, and wait until tomorrow. ”

This pair of ancestors and grandchildren laughed and quarreled along the way, which made Shen Xingsoul's heart a lot more cheerful.

After a day's walk, the caravan stopped at 10 o'clock in the evening to start resting, and set up a tent to shelter from the cold of the night.

The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large, and if you don't keep warm at night, you may not be able to see the sun tomorrow.

The tents were set up, hundreds of people dispersed, bonfires were lit, and dinner was prepared.

Dinner in the desert is very simple, basically some dry food and jerky, put it on the fire to roast hot, just water, and the dinner is over.

Shen Xingsoul helped Li Shan into the tent he had set up, prepared some food and water for him, took care of Li Shan After dinner, and after lying down to rest, Shen Xingsoul sat by the campfire, looking at the crowd around him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Brother Shen!" Just when Shen Xing's soul was out of his mind, a small hand gently patted his back.

Shen Xingsoul knew that it was Xiao Xuan, a little girl during the day, who came to find him.

Xiao Xuan came to Shen Xingsoul and sat down, and mysteriously took out a small handkerchief from her arms.

When I opened the handkerchief, it was a small piece of osmanthus cake, which was originally square, but a corner was missing, and it seemed that it had been carefully broken.

"Brother Shen, I invite you to eat osmanthus cake!"

Xiao Xuan handed over the small handkerchief in her hand, Shen Xingsoul was a little moved in her heart, this little girl likes the taste of osmanthus cake so much, but she also secretly sent a piece to herself, it seems that the missing corner should be that this Xiao Xuan really wants to eat it, broke off a piece, and gave the rest to herself.

Shen Xingsoul took the handkerchief and osmanthus cake in the girl's hand and touched the little girl's head.

"Thank you, Xiaoxuan!"

"Brother Shen, you taste the taste of this osmanthus cake, Xiaoxuan likes osmanthus cake the most, every time my parents come back, they will bring me osmanthus cake, but they can't come back a few times a year, after a long time, I almost forget what they look like, so every time I miss them, I will eat this osmanthus cake, as if the taste of osmanthus cake is the taste of my parents." ”

Although the little girl is still very immature, but there is a strong side in her eyes, a five or six-year-old girl, saying such words, you can imagine how much she misses her parents.

"Xiaoxuan, if you are here, you will know that you will run around, and your grandfather will be looking for you everywhere!" The old man panted and walked over from a distance, and found that his granddaughter was missing, the old man was very anxious, looking for it everywhere, and it seemed that he was not lightly tired.

"Childe, my little girl has caused you trouble, so I'll take her back. ”

Shen Xingsoul got up and saluted, "You're polite, I can talk to Xiaoxuan very well, I like her very much, and I don't say anything about adding trouble or not."

Without waiting for Shen Xingsoul to finish speaking, the little girl also stood up.

"Grandpa, look, I'll just say I'm very popular, now believe it!"

Xiao Xuan's face was proud, as if she was showing off to her grandfather.

The old man grabbed Xiao Xuan tightly, for fear that she would not be able to find her figure, so after chatting a few words, he left with Xiao Xuan.

In the daytime, Shen Xingsoul was already tired, so he returned to the tent early to rest.