"Yarkand, Aturu!"
Men introduce themselves to their families.
Aturu comes from the Shache Kingdom, one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Region.
Arturu's sharp eyes were full of understanding, and he made no secret of his intentions.
He glanced at the small cup on the table and swept the small cup off the ground with a sweep of his hand.
"Bang!"
The cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
Aturu raised the wine jar with one hand and poured it into his mouth.
"Ah! What a bad wine!"
After Atulu finished throwing the cup, he even threw the wine jar aside.
Xie Luohe walked out of the kitchen with a kitchen knife and stood behind the counter, silent.
Zheng Xiu glanced at his wife, shook his head, and drank a small cup by himself.
"Just drink, don't throw things." Zheng Xiu put down his wine glass, pointed at the fragments on the ground, and said with a smile: "You have to compensate."
Zheng Xiu's terrifyingly dull reaction from beginning to end made Atulu's heart ache.
Sure enough, he was the one behind it!
What the book says is true, people from the Central Plains should not be judged by their appearance!
The arrogance on Atulu's face subsided, he grabbed the pickled mutton on the table with his hands, stuffed it into his mouth with big mouthfuls, and said with a smile: "What we have in the brake country is gold. Boss Mo, you can ask for as much as you want." "
Although Yarkand is only a small country, it has mines, especially gold mines.
When Zheng Xiu didn't answer, Atulu grinned: "As long as Boss Mo hands over a road map that can cross the desert and enter the Central Plains, and gold, Boss Mo can have as much money as he wants!"
Zheng Xiu smiled and pushed the jar of wine in front of him to Atulu.
Atulu was stunned. As the saying goes, making friends with wine, he thought Boss Mo wanted to test his drinking capacity and clapped his hands to become good friends. Aturu was so happy that he raised the jar of wine without hesitation and drank it all in one gulp.
After Atulu finished drinking, Zheng Xiucai said: "We and I are just ordinary people, living in Richan Town. We accidentally crossed the wind and sand and came here ten years ago. We have no idea what the 'Green River' the general mentioned is."
Atulu's expression changed drastically and he was about to have a seizure.
He suddenly remembered the strange behavior of his subordinate a few days ago, and then looked at Boss Mo's fearless expression in front of him.
"This meal is my treat."
Zheng Xiu stood up, put his left hand behind his back, and made a "please" gesture with his right hand.
Xie Luohe silently took out the whetstone and began to sharpen the knife, making a harsh sound of "hoohoho".
"Okay! Okay! Okay!"
Atulu's drinking capacity was obviously much better than that of Monk Zhazha. After two jars of wine, his face was not red and his heart was not beating.
He laughed three times, turned around and left without saying anything more.
Xie Luohe walked around the counter with a knife and walked to her husband.
"Do you want?"
Xie Luohe shook the butcher knife.
"want."
Zheng Xiu smiled and touched the back of Xie Luohe's smooth hand.
Xie Luohe's long hair fluttered and he was ready to fight out.
Zheng Xiu said, "Tonight I want to eat your best fennel and sheep head stew."
After Aturu left.
The sun and the earth looked hurriedly in.
Seeing the debris on the ground, he was stunned: "Fight, fight, fight started?"
It’s not clear whether Boss Mo can beat him.
But he knew very well that the Sierra was very capable.
That's why he dared to let Atulu in alone after he learned that Atulu was looking for Mohexuan.
"Not really."
A few words comforted Brother Ridi and told him not to think too much.
At night.
Xie Luohe cooked and let Zheng Xiu have a full meal.
Xiao Zheng also gave his wife a few hearty meals.
Three poles in the sun.
A few days passed.
The expert in the clan who ventured into the Central Plains to inquire for information once again crossed the desert and returned to the valley.
This young man is called "Ding", and his full name is naturally Ri Ding. Ten years ago, he was still a little boy with a runny nose, clumsily learning archery behind Xie Luohe. Today, ten years later, he is able to cross the desert alone.
Riding's skin was tanned and his soles were chapped and covered in blood.
He had lost weight visibly, but when he returned to the valley, his eyes were shining brightly as if he had been baptized.
"Master, Master."
Ri Ding is now lying on the bed, his breath is weak, but his eyes are exceptionally clear.
When he saw Xie Luohe and Gongsun Mo entering, he struggled to get up.
The master’s name is Xie Luohe, and the master’s wife’s name is Gongsun Mo.
Zheng Xiu pursed his lips.
Want to hit someone.
Ri Di stood aside and asked Ri Ding to quickly tell him the information about the Central Plains.
Ri Ding recounted the information he had gleaned.
Zheng Xiu listened without saying a word the whole time.
Xie Luohe's expression changed several times, and in the end he was only worried.
turn out to be.
About ten months ago, after years of recuperation and recuperation, the Northern Barbarians regained their strength and gathered an army again. They were divided into five groups and broke into the interior from several vulnerable points at the border.
About ten years ago, Daqian got a breather after General Zheng led his army to defeat the Northern Barbarians.
But now that the old emperor has been killed by Cheng Xiao, a new emperor has not yet been established, and the internal conflicts in Daqian have become prominent, it is in an extremely unstable period. The Northern Barbarian King seemed to have known about this for a long time, and suddenly launched an attack, plunging the northern land into a continuous war.
The people in the north fled to the south one after another. Due to the length of the battle line, the Shenwu Army was unable to recover and was exhausted for a while.
At the same time, the hidden dangers laid by the old emperor Daqian's early tyranny and laziness were completely ignited in this special period. Among the people, many people have raised flags and revolted, hoping to take the opportunity to abolish the Daqian government and establish a new world.
Among the many insurrectionary groups, the most massive was the "Chushan Army". It was well-equipped with people's hearts and minds. In just a few months, it set fire to the prairie fire and planted "Chu" characters in cities one after another. Banner, with tens of thousands of troops, entrenched himself in the south, and became a warlord of his own. Taking advantage of the empty military garrison in the south of the imperial court, there was a vague tendency to divide the north and the south.
Ri Ding told what he knew in one breath.
Every sentence seems to be just four words in my ears:
The world is in chaos!
"The darkest twenty years in the history of Daqian."
Zheng Xiu suddenly remembered a period of history contained in a few words in the history books.
Everything seems to echo history.
Zheng Xiu was not involved.
The wheels of history turn on their own like a rolling tide.
Sparks are ignited everywhere. A fire was set off that was about to destroy Da Gan.
But Zheng Xiu knew very well that two hundred years later, the world was at peace in Daqian, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and everything was prosperous. This turmoil did not damage the foundation of Daqian. Instead, it allowed the country to rise from the ashes.
However, what Zheng Xiu doesn't understand is that the two people "Gongsun Mo" and "Xie Luohe" who really lived in this period of history played a role in the darkest twenty years, the twenty years that were annihilated in the history books. What kind of status.
He is Gongsun Mo and she is Xie Luohe. But at the same time, he is not actually Gongsun Mo, and she is not actually Xie Luohe.
In the past two hundred years, will the two seemingly innocent people protect themselves wisely, or will they follow the irreversible footsteps and plunge into the tide of history like "them" in the past?
At night.
The couple returned home after traveling abroad, squeezed into a big wooden bucket and took a quiet bath, then lay silently on the bed, looking up at the dark ceiling, neither speaking, nor in the mood to do anything else.
Xie Luohe knew that Zheng Xiu was not asleep.
Zheng Xiu also knew that Xie Luohe was not sleeping.
The two hugged each other quietly, enjoying a moment of tranquility.
"If I say," Zheng Xiu whispered in Xie Luohe's ear, "I'm hiding something from you, will you be angry?"
"meeting."
Xie Luohe bit Zheng Xiu, leaving a shallow tooth mark.
She bared her teeth in the darkness, and the sheep said angrily: "I will be angry."
"If you don't know how to speak, don't speak. You should say you are not angry at this time."
Zheng Xiu heard the deep meaning of Madam's words and reached out to grab Madam.
The lady's weak spot was tickled, itching and giggling.
After laughing for a while, Xie Luohe panted slightly and said, "Nacheng, I've hidden a lot from you, so don't be angry."
Zheng Xiu was stunned when he heard this: "For example?"
"For example, I know that you deliberately set up Brother Sun and Earth's wife. I already knew that you shaved off my brother's hair, and I actually told him secretly. For example, I know that you always secretly bleed blood and practice thaumaturgy. , and for example," Xie Luohe said, suddenly blushing and speaking like a gnat: "Actually, I like... lying on my stomach."
Zheng Xiu was stunned when he heard this, thinking that my wife, you have so many little things to hide.
"anything else?"
The originally heavy atmosphere was suddenly ruined by his wife. Zheng Xiu was angry and funny and continued to ask.
"And..." In the darkness, Xie Luohe suddenly changed into an indifferent tone: "I am Feng Bei from the beginning."
Zheng Xiu froze, stunned and in disbelief.
"Hahaha!"
Xie Luohe laughed heartily and turned around, pouting towards him. Her delicate body was shaking violently, as if she had stopped laughing.
"We are an old married couple, and you still haven't changed your bad habits?" Zheng Xiu was a little angry when he remembered that Xie Luohe used this trick to trick him into going into the water on their wedding night. But every time he mentioned Feng Bei, Zheng Xiu felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, his chest tightened, and he hugged Xie Luohe: "Stop talking, just let nature take its course."
Being hugged tightly by Zheng Xiu, Xie Luohe's laughter stopped abruptly. She opened her mouth. There was a question in her mind that had been lingering for many years but she never dared to ask.
Up until this point, "Sierro River" had not dared.
After being quiet for a long time, Xie Luohe turned over and pressed Zheng Xiu down, with a shy and charming look on his face.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Fengbei or Xieluohe.
Really good or fake.
"She" is destined to be crazy for only one person in her life.
"Husband, I want a son."
"Zheng's son."
…
A few more days passed in the blink of an eye.
A strange thing happened in the clan.
Riding's home was sealed off by the clan leader, and men from the clan were stationed outside. No one was allowed to enter.
After talking to his wife Bingzhu that night, Xie Luohe didn't know if he got angry or not. He was particularly concerned about "having a baby" and pestered Zheng Xiu all day and night, as if he really wanted a child.
Zheng Xiu took out the key from his waist with a sore back. Just as he was about to unlock the door of Mohexuan to open the business, he found that the patriarch Ridi had been guarding near his shop early in the morning. He came up to him as soon as he caught Zheng Xiu.
"Boss Mo, something happened. Please help me and the master to check it out."
Sun and Earth looked anxious.
"Is the Shache Kingdom coming in?"
Zheng Xiu's first reaction was that the troops from the Western Regions had forced their way into the valley.
After learning about the civil unrest in Daqian, Zheng Xiu roughly figured out Atulu's purpose of exploring the "Green River" trade route.
Ever since Atulu was "pleased" to withdraw from Mohexuan that day, the general from the Shache Kingdom had not left. Instead, they camped ten miles away from Richan Valley. This incident made the atmosphere in Richan Town solemn and solemn. The sun and the earth could not sleep night after night.
As soon as there was some wind and movement outside, Sun and Di climbed out of bed, not even bothering to put on their clothes and ran out of town.
Hearing this, Ri Di shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no! It's Ri Ding! Something happened to Ri Ding!"
It was the young tribesman who returned from the desert not long ago.
Passing by the house, I woke up Xie Luohe who was still sleeping.
The two of them hurried to Ri Ding's home.
After walking around a few streets, Zheng Xiu found that Ri Ding's house was surrounded by men from the tribe.
When Zheng Xiu entered, he noticed the tribal warriors guarding the door. Their eyes peeked into the house from time to time, their eyes full of horror.
They were obviously afraid of something.
In other words, I saw something terrible.
"Master, Master."
The couple entered, and a young and shy girl came out carrying a basin. She couldn't hide her panic. When she saw the Xieluo River, her hands shook and the basin knocked over to the ground.
The overturned water basin seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She hurriedly collected the water basin and towels on the ground, put them away, knelt on the ground and covered her face, crying.
】
"What's wrong?"
Almost all the younger generation of the Lie Sun tribe are her disciples. Xie Luohe stepped forward and helped the little girl up: "Luo, what's wrong?"
"Ding, Ding's foot is sick!"
The little girl named "Ri Luo" cried so heartbroken that her lungs were broken.
Xie Luohe was allowed to appease Miss Riluo, while Zheng Xiu entered.
A strange smell filled the clean room. Zheng Xiu frowned and came to the bed.
The young man's feet were wrapped in thick gauze.
Zheng Xiu had seen these feet the other day. They were cracked due to walking in the desert for a long time. But it won't make him look like Mina Yin now.
Compared with the reactions of others, Ri Ding's eyes were still clear. He looked very calm. There was no pain on his face, nor did he seem to be sick.
"What happened?"
Zheng Xiu looked at the tightly wrapped feet and asked.
"I'm not sick!" Ri Ding heard this and said firmly: "I'm not sick! Tell the clan leader, Ding, there is no need to use rituals to drive away the disease!"
"ceremony?"
Zheng Xiu raised his eyebrows, he had heard of it. The Lie Sun tribe has an ancient tradition, which was handed down from the days of the Sun Chasers. When trouble comes, don't hesitate to pay homage. As long as they encounter a disease that cannot be solved by the witch doctors of the tribe, they will kill pigs and sheep to worship the "scorching sun" and pray for peace.
It's probably similar to the "exorcism" in Zheng Xiu's impression.
For it to rise to the level of a "ceremony", it seems that Sun and Earth think this is a big deal.
"No hurry, let me see?"
After Ri Ding agreed, Zheng Xiu carefully removed the thick gauze on Ri Ding's feet.
The layers of gauze were peeled off, and the top was clean and tidy. It didn't look like it was stained with blood after being injured.
After peeling off the last layer, Zheng Xiu was shocked when he saw Ri Ding's feet clearly.
Xie Luohe didn't know when he came behind Zheng Xiu and sighed softly: "Sure enough."
Riding's feet are still full of cracks, and in the cracks, where blood should have gushed out, there is a lot of wriggling flesh and blood, growing outward like the "roots" of a plant. This scene looks very leaky. people.
"Alien?"
Zheng Xiu said in surprise.
"No," Xie Luohe took a look, caressed his right eye through his long hair, and said firmly: "Strange man."
Zheng Xiu thought for a while: "Let's go on a trip?"
Xie Luohe pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "Ascetic?"
The two looked at each other and fell into silence.
After a while, Zheng Xiu quickly asked Ri Ding what happened when he was walking in the desert.
Only then did Ri Ding speak of his experience on the return trip in a tone of fear.
On his return journey, he encountered a sudden sandstorm as soon as he left the oasis.
When the sandstorm rolled like an angry dragon and almost swept him into the sky, he pushed his feet into the sand pit to stabilize his body. At that moment, he heard a "plop", his vision went dark, and he fell into the "water".
In the darkness, he saw a door.
Mimi Huhudi pushed him away.
His feet grew roots and were firmly planted in the desert, surviving the sandstorm.
Ri Ding's experience made Zheng Xiu even more convinced that Ri Ding's two experiences of crossing the desert had inadvertently given him a glimpse of the path of an "ascetic", who practiced hard and practiced strange magic.
However, Riding didn't know how to control his magic, which caused the "roots" on his two feet to grow randomly.
Zheng Xiu did not inform Sun and Earth of his speculations with Xie Luohe.
In fact, he didn't know what to say.
The abnormality in Riding's body caused a commotion within the clan that has not yet been resolved.
A few more days.
Another incident completely broke the peace in Richan Town.
A wretched-looking member of the tribe was tied to a pillar in Japan.
Countless tribesmen poured stinky "pig and goat blood" on the people on the pillars.
"traitor!"
"traitor!"
"traitor!"
They want to "burn" the traitor and let him return to the scorching sun.
Zheng Xiu soon learned that the "traitor" who was tied to the stake could not resist the temptation and sold the "Green River" route to Atulu.
