Aturu 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 floor 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 also threw the wine jar aside.
Xie Luohe walked out of the kitchen holding 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 debris on the ground, and said with a smile: "You have to pay for it."
Zheng Xiu's terrifyingly bland reaction from beginning to end made Atulu's heart ache.
Sure enough, it was him who was causing trouble secretly!
What the book says is true, people from the Central Plains should not be judged by their appearance!
The arrogance on Atulu's face calmed down, he grabbed the pickled mutton on the table with his hands, stuffed it into his mouth with big mouthfuls, and said vaguely: "Our brake country owns 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.
Arturu was stunned. As the saying goes, making friends with wine, he thought that Boss Mo wanted to test his drinking capacity, so he clapped his hands to become a good friend. Arturu felt happy and raised the wine jar without hesitation.
Drink 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 the knife in hand and walked to her husband.
"Do you want it?"
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 expressions of sun and earth came in in a hurry.
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 of fighting.
So after he learned that Atulu was looking for Mohexuan, he dared to let Atulu in alone.
"Not really."
I comforted Brother Ridi with a few words and told him not to think too much about it.
At night.
Xie Luohe cooked and let Zheng Xiu have a hearty 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 find out information crossed the desert again and returned to the valley.
This young man’s name is “Ding”, and his full name is, of course, Ri Ding. Ten years ago, he was still a little boy with a runny nose, clumsily learning archery behind the Xieluo River. Today, ten years later, he is able to stand alone and cross the river alone.
Desert.
Riding's skin was tanned, his soles were dry and cracked, and they were 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, asking 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 just worried.
turn out to be.
About ten months ago, after years of recuperation and recuperation, the Northern Barbarians gathered their forces again, divided them into five groups, and broke into the interior through several vulnerable openings at the border.
About ten years ago, after General Zheng led his army to defeat the Northern Barbarians, Daqian got a chance to breathe.
But now that the old emperor was killed by Cheng Xiao and a new emperor has not yet been established, the internal conflicts of Daqian have become prominent and 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 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 raised flags and revolted, hoping to take the opportunity to abolish the Daqian government and establish a new one.
sky.
Among the many insurrectionary groups, the most massive was the "Chushan Army", which was united with people and well-equipped. 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 by the imperial court, there was a faint tendency to divide the north and the south.
Ri Ding told what he knew in one breath.
When I heard the sentences, they seemed to be just four words:
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 were ignited everywhere, setting off a fire 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, but instead 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 Gongsun Mo and she is not 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 closing time, squeezed into a big wooden bucket and took a quiet bath, then lay on the bed in silence, 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 hadn't slept.
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 feigned anger: "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 scratched, itching and itching, making her giggle.
After laughing for a while, Xie Luohe panted slightly and said, "Nacheng, I've hidden a lot of things 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.
"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 hidden thoughts.
"What else?"
The originally heavy atmosphere was suddenly ruined by his wife. Zheng Xiu was angry and funny and continued to ask questions.
"And..." In the darkness, Xie Luohe suddenly changed into an indifferent tone: "From the beginning, I am, Feng Bei."
Zheng Xiu froze, stunned and in disbelief.
"Hahaha!"
Xie Luohe laughed heartily and turned around, pouting towards him, her delicate body 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 thought about the night of his wedding, when Xie Luohe used this trick to trick him into going into the water, and he was a little angry. 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, and there was a question in her heart that had been lingering for many years, but she never dared to ask.
Until this time, "Xieluohe" did not dare.
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 warriors 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. As soon as he caught Zheng Xiu, he came up to him.
"Boss Mo, something happened. Could you please help me and the master to check it out?"
The sun and the 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.
After "inviting" Atulu to withdraw from Mohexuan that day, the general from the Shache Kingdom did not leave. Instead, he camped ten miles away from Richan Valley. This incident made the atmosphere in Richan town The sky is solemn, the sun and the earth are hard to sleep at night, the wind is roaring, the cranes are roaring, and the grass and trees are in danger.
As soon as there was some wind or movement outside, Sun and Di would get up from the bed and run out of the town without even bothering to put on their clothes.
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 several streets, Zheng Xiu found that Ri Ding's house was surrounded by warriors 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 fear.
They were obviously afraid of something.
In other words, I saw something terrible.
"Master, Master."
When the couple entered, a young and shy girl came out carrying a basin. She could not 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 of the younger generation of Lieri 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.
Let Xie Luohe appease Miss Riluo and Zheng Xiu enter.
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 that day. They were cracked due to walking in the desert for a long time. But they were not wrapped into the shape of a mummy today.
Compared with the reactions of others, Ri Ding's eyes were still clear, and he seemed very calm. There was no pain on his face, and he didn't 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, that there is no need to use rituals to drive away the disease!"
"ceremony?"
Zheng Xiu raised his brows. He had heard that the Lie Sun tribe had an ancient tradition, which was handed down from the days of the Sun Chasers. When you encounter trouble, you must worship. As long as you encounter a disease that cannot be solved by the witch doctors of the tribe, you must pray. Pigs and sheep are killed 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, and 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: "A strange man."
Zheng Xiu thought for a while: "Walk on foot?"
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 trip, 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 thrust his feet into the sand pit to stabilize his body. At that moment, he heard a "plop", and his vision went dark, and he fell into the sand pit.
In "water".
In the darkness, he saw a door.
She pushed him away in a daze.
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.
The Japanese tied a wretched-looking clan member to a pillar.
Countless tribesmen poured smelly "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.