Shuzi stayed with Li Xiuyuan at the pass outside the village for a long time, but she didn't understand how her elder brother dug the hole.
Back at the house, Hui Ming had already made a pot of tea and was waiting for the two of them to come back and ask about what happened during the day.
Li Xiuyuan didn't want him to be involved in killing, but just claimed that there were some quarrels among the villagers when he was dreaming.
Li Xiuyuan alone was responsible for the cause and effect that he shouldn't have been infected with.
Even Shuzi, he didn't let her take action as long as he was still here.
That night, the frightened Shuzi went back to her room to rest early, while Li Xiuyuan sat for most of the night with a pot of tea and a volume of Da Qin's "Poetry".
It wasn't until Choushi that the expected sound of horse hooves came from the pass, Li Xiuyuan put down the book in his hand and returned to his room to rest.
Based on his past experience, as long as Zishi stayed still, the bandits would basically not come.
Tomorrow's wind and rain will be faced tomorrow.
After an uneventful night, before dawn, Li Xiuyuan came to the pass outside the village alone.
This time he walked two miles in the direction of the Great Wall. In his opinion, the bandits from outside the desert would be fine if they didn't come. If they did come, they would probably come out in force.
That's fine, it saves him from having to knock on the door again.
After leaving Prince Village, he would go all the way to the grottoes outside Yuezhi City to see if the fat monk from back then was still practicing there.
A gust of mountain wind blew up the long yellow sand, floating on the mountain road like a ghost. Looking at the pass from a distance, there was an inexplicable murderous aura.
Li Xiuyuan, who was walking in the mountains, did not stop, but felt a little wistful, and his thoughts continued to stretch like a thread.
All the way forward from the front, I unknowingly pulled back to the time of Great Qin.
It was like falling into the deepest part of my memory, all my thoughts were placed on the Great Wall where Prince Dan led the Qin army to defeat the Xiongnu army.
The whole person seemed to be flying in the air, quietly looking down at the world.
Those people in the past will never come back again. The Yan family, who did not hesitate to leave the royal city and wander in the desert for the sake of his son, has gone to who knows where.
And what about his beloved disciple Xiaohu? Could it be that it has also disappeared in the long river of time?
Suddenly a few dark clouds floated in the sky, and two thunders fell from the sky. It seemed that a summer rainstorm was about to hit.
Li Xiuyuan looked back at the pass, and suddenly felt a strange feeling.
Is it possible that the magic circle he temporarily set up will wipe out hundreds of bandits deep in the desert?
After walking fast all the way, we finally stepped into the gate of the small courtyard before the heavy rain fell.
Hearing Li Xiuyuan's voice, Shuzi filled a bowl of porridge and brought it into the living room. She looked at him and smiled and said, "Brother, early in the morning, did you go to see the old courtyard again?"
Listening to the heavy rain falling in the sky, Li Xiuyuan replied calmly: "I'm afraid those guys are still evil and want to cause trouble for the villagers."
"Then we can't stay here forever, right?"
Seeing the desert right in front of her, Shuzi couldn't wait to run out of the Great Wall and run wild.
"Three days, at most three days, we will leave here."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the white porridge in the bowl and smiled bitterly: "The most I can do is make it more troublesome. If I go to their lair, I have to kill the bandits here."
When Shuzi heard this, she couldn't help shouting: "Brother, Zhang Liang told me back then that bandits are inexhaustible, just like wild wolves in the wilderness."
Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard Fang smiled and said lightly: "Unexpectedly, that guy actually learned what I said."
At this moment, Huiming walked in, looked at the two of them and asked, "Sir, when will we set off to the desert?"
While Li Xiuyuan asked Shuzi to boil water and make tea, he replied to Huiming: "Three days."
After finishing a bowl of porridge, he washed the dishes and returned to the living room. Li Xiuyuan looked at Huiming and asked, "As for the principles in the Buddhist scriptures, if you encounter something that you don't understand clearly, you can ask me."
"You can also wait until you become a monk and ask your master. This matter is just like practicing, you can't rush it."
He looked back at Shuzi and said, "I'm going to rest for two hours later. Sister, pay attention to the pass outside the village... If there is any movement, wake me up."
Huiming looked at him, nodded, and replied with a smile: "The days are long, I will ask sir for advice another day."
With Shuzi's current cultivation level, she can clearly see not only the pass outside the village, but also the Great Wall further away.
After thinking about it, he looked at Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile: "Don't worry, brother, Shuzi is guarding the door."
…
Summer rainstorms come and go quickly.
Li Xiuyuan slept until he got up at 1:00 am. There was already a golden sunset on the horizon. Meng Jiang had also cooked dinner and was about to wake his brother up.
Li Xiuyuan opened a jar of wine and poured it for Huiming and Shuzi.
He murmured: "This is the wine that my sister Meng Jiang left for me when she was buried in the collapsed yard."
Shuzi nodded and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my eldest brother even made wine when he came to Prince's Village."
For Shuzi, she has not touched the wine buried underground in the imperial city. All she has sold and drank these years has been brewed by herself.
Even when I got lazy later, I hired a man to help me with the physical work. I was busy only a few times a year.
Upon hearing this, Huiming was speechless for a long time while holding the wine in the glass. He sniffed it gently, then took a shallow sip, and then sighed.
He said in a daze, "I'm afraid it's hard to buy a glass of wine with a thousand gold coins."
Li Xiuyuan laughed: "In my opinion, wine and water are not worth much money. But if you really calculate it in time, even if it is ten thousand gold, you can't see the bright moon of Qin Shi?"
Huiming sighed again after hearing this, and drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp.
He sighed and said: "This glass of wine condensed with endless years is worth hiding in the desert."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, drank half a glass of wine, looked at Shuzi and said seriously: "Zhang Liang's mysterious master finally went to the Tianshan Mountains deep in the desert to realize Taoism."
"Oh my god! Senior actually went to the legendary Tianshan Mountains, and Shuzi also wants to go and see it."
Shuzi put down the wine glass in her hand and asked in a daze: "I don't know if he is still there? Or has he turned into a god and left this world like the Master?"
Li Xiuyuan didn't take it seriously, because he thought of the tough-headed little disciple, the boy who followed Shuzi all day long.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh and murmured softly: "Actually, I want to find that guy Xiaohu deep in the desert."
Xiao Huling drank a lot of wine back then. In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, if that guy knew how to advance and retreat, he could understand the rules of this heavenly way.
Maybe I can't be like Shuzi and spend hundreds of years cultivating myself.
Upon hearing this, Shuzi couldn't help but giggled and said, "If I really find Xiaohu, it will be really fun for me. I wonder if he has turned into what the Master looked like back then?"
Huiming listened to the conversation between the two people as if in a fog. After being speechless for a long time, he had no choice but to pick up the wine jar in front of him and pour a glass silently.
This cup is worth ten thousand gold?
Even when he was in the palace, he had never enjoyed such treatment.
…
That night, Shuzi kept vigil with Li Xiuyuan and did not take an early rest because she had a hunch that something big that she didn't expect might happen tonight.
Huiming, on the other hand, rests early before Hai hour. This is his daily routine. Even if he becomes a monk in the future, he may still abide by this rule.
A flower jumped out of the oil lamp in the living room. Shuzi smiled faintly: "When the flower jumps, I'm afraid someone will send money to my brother again."
Li Xiuyuan replied thoughtfully: "If you give it away again, let's give it to the people in Prince Village. They have probably been suffering from bandits for decades."
After saying that, he waved his hand and extinguished the oil lamp on the table, and said, "While the moonlight is just right, let's go to the pass outside the village to have a look."
Shuzi clapped her hands and replied, "Okay!"
The two of them walked all the way to the pass at the village. Li Xiuyuan took out two iron bows and took out iron arrows and placed them on the ground.
He handed one to Shuzi and said quietly: "They are here."
Upon hearing this, Shuzi pressed the bow and arrow and held her breath. The ink skirt on her body had merged with the night, and the spiritual power in her body was condensed to ensure that it would explode when danger came.
The consciousness released by the two people had already seen dense black shadows not far from the pass.
The bandits who went out in the middle of the night actually wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth, just to avoid scaring the dreamers in the Prince's Village.
This is to prepare an unexpected surprise for Li Xiuyuan.
But they never dreamed that Li Xiuyuan, who had been waiting for two days, was already waiting at the pass with a bow and arrow in hand.
"Whoosh!" There was a sound, and an iron arrow flew over in the darkness!
The sound of the arrow's sound was so small that if Shuzi hadn't concentrated her attention, she could hardly hear it.
Such an arrow, which seemed to have no power, was ignored by Li Xiuyuan, and he reached out to pull the iron bow extended by Shuzi.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan motioned to her to let them in.
An arrow in the night was just used by bandits to find their way, and Li Xiuyuan didn't care at all.
Whether he is fighting bandits or killers, he always strikes first. As long as the enemy is still motionless, he will not move. He will show no mercy until the moment the enemy takes action.
Whizzing! Then two more arrows flew from under the pass, flew past the two of them, and went into the dark night.
This time the bandits actually released three iron arrows to explore the path.
Gradually, the bandits got closer and closer to the pass.
Li Xiuyuan and Shuzi could even see the horses stepping uneasily on the yellow sand towards the pass.
The bandit on horseback had already taken out his sword, as if he was going to fight with the enemy in the night in the next moment.
Li Xiuyuan released his spiritual consciousness and saw the last bandit two miles away, following the large group of people, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Quietly, he fully drew the iron bow in his hand and aimed at the last man in black in the bandit team below the mountain.
At the same time, he said to Shuzi: "Shoot the guy at the front of the team!"
After saying that, count down softly: "One, two, three, shoot the arrow!"
Whizzing! Two not very loud arrows sounded in the vast night, at the moment Shuzi's iron arrow shot into the body of the bandit at the front of the team.
Li Xiuyuan's iron arrow had already passed through the chest of the last bandit in the bandit team.
He was giving the bandits the illusion that there was an ambush behind them, asking them to rush towards the pass with all their strength!
"Enemy attack!"
When the bandits shouted out an enemy attack in the dark night, the well-trained Kan responded quickly.
The bandits lowered their bodies on horseback, let out bursts of roars, and rushed towards Yapin with bursts of murderous intent.
The sound of enemy attacks came from the rear, and the bandits knew that they might have no way out, so they had no choice but to charge forward to the pass.
Shuzi, who was hiding in the darkness, had an excited look on her face. She looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Brother, do you want to let them come over?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "Keep shooting at the bandits rushing at the front!"
"Enemy attack!"
"Brothers, rush to the pass and destroy the enemy!"
"I'm going to massacre the village tonight!"
In the dark night, the angry and shocked roars of the bandits rang out, and they rang rapidly on the mountain road.
Countless iron arrows were shot out from the hands of the bandits like a heavy rain, making a whooshing sound... The moment the enemy attack sounded, the bandits put away their swords and replaced them with bows and arrows behind their backs.
Li Xiuyuan pulled Shuzi and stood behind him, saying in a deep voice: "Be careful of cold arrows!"
