Chapter 357

The climate in the desert is fickle, and the scenery in the desert is never calm.

As usual, the fierceness of wind and sand in the Gobi Desert is unimaginable. This is Liudao Ridge 120 miles southwest of Yumen Pass. On the road from Yumen Pass to Loulan, there are basically all the vast Gobi Desert Sea, with yellow sand, and the endless yellow sand reaches the sky, and even the shadow of a small tree cannot be seen.

The climate in the desert is sometimes cold and sometimes hot, sometimes sand and stones fly, and sometimes snowflakes fly.

The wind on this day was particularly fierce. I saw strong winds roaring, yellow dust surging, floating sand was swept up by the strong wind, flying all over the sky, and the ground was covered by flying sand and dust, a dim and sad scene.

On the Huangsha Ancient Road, two fast horses had to stop due to the fierce wind and sand after a rush. Liulang and Murong Xuehang rarely walked through such a path full of wind and sand.

They followed the mysterious residents from Wangjiang City, but they suddenly disappeared just now, because the man said that they would go to Longteng Inn to get a link sooner or later, so Liulang and Murong Xuehang went straight to Longteng Inn.

After inquiring, I found out that there was a Longteng Inn in Liudaoling in front. This inn is located on the border between the Song Dynasty, Loulan and Uighurs, and is also a place where secret sentries from both sides often appear and connect.

Seeing that the current weather was really bad, Liulang had to jump off his horse and said to himself: The ghost weather is interfering. It seems that he can't get to Longteng Inn before dark today. This annoying wind and sand must find a place to bear the lee.

He and Murong Xuehang led their horses to hide under a leeward dune, looked up at the front, the wind and sand covered the road, the sky and the earth were dim and there was nothing to see. The yellow clouds in the fields were connected to the sky, and the sky was so low that it was about to press over its head.

At this time, the sunlight was gone, and the western sky also turned dark and red.

The two were thinking about how to avoid the annoying wind and sand when they suddenly heard someone talking on the side of the sand dune. It turned out that a group of horse teams had gathered here at some point, and it seemed that they were also coming to avoid the sandstorm.

Murong Xuehang was as careful as silk. She found that these people had long yellow marks printed on the corners of their sleeves. When she moved her heart, the yellow marks were the unique symbol of the Tibetan tribe's Red and Yellow Cavalry stationed in the Five Color City.

When she was in Mount Li, she had fought with Tubo soldiers, so she knew some Tubo military discipline.

After eavesdropping on a few words, Murong Xuehang concluded that these people were definitely under Sluo. Liulang also knew that the Tibetan cavalry in Wuse City in Xihai was a friendly army of the Song army. The leader, King Sluo, had already accepted the Song court and served as the Hexi Road Pacification Envoy.

Si Luo has five-colored divine cavalry under his command, and all the cavalry and horses are brave and good at fighting. At present, the people with yellow icons on their sleeves must be subordinates of the Red and Yellow Cavalry.

Hearing that their voices were mixed with female voices, and then the fat and strong men called Miss Female Teacher. Murong Xuehang boldly guessed that this woman was the daughter of General of the Red and Yellow Cavalry.

The two approached them and found that there was a beautiful girl from Jian Xiuzhengqun in the crowd. She must be the beloved daughter of General Shi Yan. But she didn't know the name of the other person. She not only had a beautiful appearance, but also had a righteous body. A long sword hung from her waist, which added a bit of heroic posture to her. No wonder these people couldn't help but please the lady.

The lady of the Shi family was losing her temper and complained that her subordinates were accidentally caught in the siege of such ghost weather. It was getting late and if the wind and sand were not stopped, she would have to spend the night here. She was a yellow girl and was sleeping in the wilderness with a group of men. She couldn't understand her face.

I didn't expect that the first time I performed the task alone would be so unsatisfactory.

A man in high spirits around Miss Teacher kept comforting her and said: Junior sister, we can never estimate the weather in the desert, but don’t worry, based on my years of experience, these wind and sand will weaken when sunset.We can go straight to Longteng Inn.

After hearing this, Miss Shi felt a little relieved. Suddenly, she found Liulang and Murong Xuehang coming with the wind and sand. She was immediately alert and held the hilt of the sword in her waist with her jade hand and asked: Who, stop me!

Liulang quickly explained: Don’t get me wrong. I am a business traveler who is passing by, and I am here to hide from the wind and sand. When I saw it getting late, I was afraid of meeting robbers. When I saw that all the heroes were carrying weapons, I wanted to borrow light as a companion.

The man in strong clothes said: We have official duties, so I will not be able to protect you. Please respect yourself and stay away from us so as not to hurt the harmony.

Liulang also said: Dear brothers, it’s not easy for me to sell from the Central Plains to the Western Regions. Although I earn some silver, these are all my belongings!If you encounter a robber... I really don't know what to do.These silvers can be divided into some of them as rewards.

As he said that, he took out the silver from his waist.

The man in a strong manner said impatiently: Are you annoying? Do you think we are escorting us?Get out of here, be careful to treat you as a spy.

Miss Shi stopped the angry man and said softly: Wei Bin, what the young master said is reasonable, it doesn’t matter whether he helps or not. You can’t scare him at any time.Judging from his weak appearance, how could he be a spy from the Uighurs?What's wrong with us taking him for a long journey?

After saying that, he waved to Liulang and Murong Xuehang and said: Don’t be afraid of you two, come here, are you going to rush to Longteng Inn?If so, the wind will stop later and we will go together.

Liulang smiled in his heart, nodded secretly with Murong Xuehang, and immediately thanked Miss Master with courtesy.

Looking around, the men with swords and swords seemed to be hostile to him.

After a while, the wind and sand stopped a little, Miss Shi and everyone rushed to the front and drove quickly. Liulang and Murong Xuehang followed them to speed up in the long yellow sand for about a stick of incense. The wind and sand began to get violent again. Fortunately, they could see the wind lights hanging high outside the Longteng Inn gate from a distance.

Finally approaching, Weibin asked everyone to dismount and called Xiao Er inside, but no one agreed. Due to the strong wind and sand, everyone tied the horses into the horse shed and entered Longteng Inn together. When they entered the door, they realized that there was a fierce dispute here.

The downstairs of Longteng Inn was very wide, with about 30 or 40 people gathering together, clamoring. It was already tense, and the tables and chairs were scattered in the middle, and a corpse was lying horizontally in the pool of blood.

Miss Shi and Wei Bin came to take a look. Wei Bin saw that both sides had a quarrel. It turned out that the brothers from Zhenbaiqi in Wuse City had a dispute with Li Deming's spies under Yumen Pass, which led to both sides taking action, and the result was that the deceased was accidentally injured by a brother from Zhenbaiqi. The spy from Xiliang wanted to kill the man from Zhenbaiqi to avenge the deceased.

The leader of Zhenbai Banner Zhan Qingfeng wanted to protect his brothers.

He had already apologized to the other party, but the other party refused to rely on it. He had to take the other party's life because of innocent losses. The leader of the Xiliang army was named Yi Qianshan. He was originally the commander of the Guards around Li Deming, and now he is the intelligence supervisor of Yumen Pass. This incident made everyone feel very harsh.

In recent days, there has been a great conflict between Wuse City and Xiliang due to the incident in Wangjiang City. Logically speaking, after Li Deming raised his troops to quell the rebellion, he should return Wangjiang City to Sluo.

But after so many days, he had no intention of withdrawing troops at all, so although both sides were on the Song Dynasty numbers, they were full of gunpowder.

Zhan Qingfeng said to everyone: Misunderstanding is a misunderstanding, and I don’t want to explain it any more. We received a secret order to kill the spies from the First Pintang of Xixia here. Due to the military emergency, we accidentally injured our friends in Xiliang. We also asked Brother Wei Bin to mediate.

Wei Bin said to Yi Qianshan: Brother Yi, everyone is a businessman, and I understand that brother died innocently, but the overall situation is important. If there are Uighur secret spies here, we should assist Lord Yi in capturing it. How can we raise our own swords and guns and let the Uighurs take advantage of the loopholes?

Miss Shi also echoed: General Yi, Wei Bin said it well, don’t be emotional. Now that the enemy is in front of us, we should unite and discuss how to deal with Uighur spies.

Yi Qianshan was also slightly calmer and ordered his men to put away their weapons, shake hands with Zhan Qingfeng and arrange the dead body.

The four leaders asked everyone to sit together. Wei Bin asked Yi Qianshan about the Uighur Spy. Yi Qianshan said: We received a secret order that the Uighur Spy will meet at Longteng Inn today, so we came here to wait early. As a result, we met several brothers from Zhenbaiqi. They were misunderstood due to the quarrel. When Zhan Qingfeng arrived, it was too late.

Wei Bin said: It seems that the Uighur's spy has not arrived yet.

Zhan Qingfeng said: If they want to come, they will come sooner or later.

Liulang didn't understand these cumbersome relationships between them, and didn't know why they were anxious to fight hard just now. In the blink of an eye, they shook hands and made peace. However, one thing he understood was that the Uighur's spy was coming soon.

Wei Bin looked outside and asked: It seems that the secret spies from Xixia have not arrived yet?

Zhan Qingfeng said: If they want to come, they will come sooner or later.

As soon as he finished speaking, a camel bell sounded outside. The door of the store opened and four strange-clad guests walked into one by one. The front was a red-haired and golden-eyed person, holding a deer-headed stick in his hand; the second was five-small and dry, with a big wine gourd behind him, and a dragon-headed stick in his hand; the third was a scholar, with a hand-cranked paper fan, smiling.

The last one had a green face and no beard, his eagle eyes were exposed, and he wore a phoenix-winged finger tiger on his left hand.

The four of them walked into the inn and looked at the many guests in the room. The four of them hesitated for a moment, but still held their heads up to an free seat, and ordered the waiter to come and serve the meal.

These four visitors are named Xiaoyao Four Immortals, nicknames: Flying Fox, Entering Gopher, Smiling Spider, and Green-eyed Wolf.

All four of them are from Persia. Relying on their own superb martial arts, they did not take everyone present at all.

After the wine and food came, they ate and drank, and talked loudly. The green-eyed wolf was lustful by nature. When entering the door, he found Murong Xuehang was extremely beautiful. The Shi family's lady was beautiful and charming. She took a seat next to Miss Shi. During the meal, a pair of erotic eagles were circling back and forth on Murong Xuehang and Miss Shi's beautiful faces and chest.

Seeing Murong Xuehang couldn't eat a bite of food, so he turned around in disgust.

Liulang was furious, but when he thought that there was still important things to do, he had to endure it for a while.But the green-eyed wolf kept harassing Miss Shi, which made Miss Shi very disgusted.

Liulang sat next to Miss Shi, and on the other side was her senior brother Wei Bin. Liulang saw Miss Shi’s thoughts and proposed to exchange seats with Miss Shi and sat down by the blue-eyed wolf.

Miss Shi glanced at Liulang with gratitude and thought to herself: Her senior brother and so many subordinates were on the spot, but none of them understood her feelings like this. When Liulang smiled at him, his face turned red.

The green-eyed wolf had long wanted to say a few warm words to Miss Teacher, but he had not interrupted his mouth. He was angry and said angrily: Do you look down on me?

His tone was rude and harsh, which made Miss Shi’s subordinates dissatisfied. One of them said, “The junk that appeared there was not very straightforward, and he just spoke loudly, so he was not afraid that the wind and sand here would choke your stinky mouth?

The green-eyed wolf stretched his neck and glared at him, and he wanted to come over and do something. Feitian Fox coughed, hinting that the fourth brother should not cause trouble. The green-eyed wolf secretly became angry and sat down and sulked.

In the blink of an eye, both sides used up their food, and no one wanted to leave, and the waiter and the shopkeeper did not dare to come over and ask.

The wind and sand outside stopped slightly, but the air in Longteng Inn seemed to solidify, and the murderous aura was burning little by little. Many people had been holding the knife for too long, and sweat was sizzling between the palm of their hands and the handle.

The door of Longteng Inn finally opened again...