Chapter 302: The person who cant rest in the wind and sand
The copper bell under the old cow's neck jingled.
The carriage swayed and passed through Yujian Pass as if it were nothing. Among the Jin army generals guarding the border, some soldiers originally wanted to check, but then they were stopped by the colonel in the city and motioned for them to let them go.
"What's wrong with our captain? He's usually so strict that he wants to turn people and cars upside down, so why wasn't this one inspected?"
When the soldiers who were whispering to each other looked at the ox cart that was passing by, they also saw the captain coming down from the city quickly and bowing to the side of the ox cart. After watching this strange car pass, he came back and wanted to stop it. The soldier in the car slapped him on the head.
"You're looking for death. You can't stop that car."
"Captain, why?" A soldier next to him looked over and asked in a low voice.
"You can't stop me anyway. Why talk so much? If you see me again in the future, you can salute me."
"yes!"
The sound of scolding came from the Chengguan side. Chen Yuan held the book and listened sideways, then smiled and ignored it. Now that he left Yujian Pass, he really entered the Western Regions.
At this time, the car was very quiet. The monk was meditating and chanting sutras silently with his lips pursed. The fat Taoist looked at the menu with the outline of the picture attentively. There was a big toad lying on his shoulder. When he noticed Chen Yuan's eyes moving over, he quickly closed the book. He took a Taoist scripture with a blue cover from his arms, wiped saliva on his fingertips, looked through it with a majestic look, and started to read.
The master and the old man had already run down the mountain after leaving seclusion. Chen Yuan looked up and saw that he was jumping on several weathered hills and rocks. From time to time, he picked up a colorful snake and swung it towards the bullock cart.
No one knows whether these things that the crazy old man caught will be used for eating or playing.
As for the dozen gray sheep, where did the deer-headed priest go before entering the customs? Afterwards, when the crazy old man came back, Chen Yuan asked the master again.
The old man hesitated and refused to answer. When he was finally asked, he had no choice but to do something. The master felt aggrieved and pointed his finger at the sky.
"My teacher saw that they missed the gods, so he sent them up."
"How did you get up there?"
"Blow on them...and then use magic power..." At this point, the crazy old man became excited, dancing with the poisonous snake biting on his palm, and while walking, he said to the apprentice who was driving away: "These people can be regarded as living up to their expectations. , I spit out some mana on them, and they flew very high, higher than your wooden eagle. They quickly disappeared into the clouds, and I couldn't even see them even after I used my mana."
The crazy old man smoothed his hair and sighed with regret.
"It's just a pity that I flew so fast. I still have a lot of things to say to them. I don't know if I will tell them when I meet their gods. If I haven't been able to leave you these past two days, I also want to hold myself back. Turn into a balloon and fly over to catch up with them!"
Uh~~
Chen Yuan opened his mouth slightly and looked at the master blankly. Even the monk in the middle opened his eyes.
Although those Gray Sheep Priests killed them at will, this way of death... I guess there is no other semicolon in the world, and only Master and he can do it.
The noisy mahjong and playing cards in the car behind him came, and Lu Bu shouted: "Explode!" The three people in the car outside recovered from the shock. Chen Yuan covered her forehead, shook her head in a daze, and shouted Master, get in the car and use the speed talisman to drive some distance.
Hearing this, Lao Niu raised his tail subconsciously. Before the talisman came over, he heard the crazy old man's voice urging from the car: "Hurry up and find a place first. I am hungry, and my head is a little dizzy."
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"Master, you are poisoned."
Chen Yuan reached out and took off the venomous snake that was still biting on the old man's hand, and threw it to the fat Taoist. The latter was so frightened that he lifted up his bun and hurriedly turned the snake around in his hand a few times.
Hold it firmly.
"Master, I can't compare to the old lunatic. How can I take just one bite?"
"It's so easy to die. It's amazing to be poisoned and lie down for a few days and a half." Chen Yuan stretched out his hand to write the runes of the running talisman in the air, and waved his sleeves to brush the old cow's buttocks. The golden light flashed, and the old cow mooed.
Neighing excitedly, he spread his hooves and stepped on the soft gravel and ran wildly.
The surrounding Gobi scenery flew backwards. As it approached noon, Lao Niu followed the map and drove onto the official road. The number of business travelers passing by gradually increased.
The camel bells were ringing loudly, and the two-humped camels were stepping on their big feet, slowly carrying heavy goods and following behind their masters. There were also galloping knights passing by, waving their whips, carrying official documents and running towards the majestic Yujian Pass ahead.
This is a city close to the Western Region. The closer it gets, the more prosperous it becomes, with people shouting and horses neighing and caravans flowing in.
Although Chen Yuan had been here before, he led his troops to kill him because of his master's revenge. He didn't take a closer look at the beautiful scenery here. At this time, he stood up from his car and looked up, seeing the sparse Populus euphratica in the wilderness.
It is tall and crisp, and occasionally you can see green ripples in the water pool and swaying reeds on the eucalyptus, which complement this ancient earth city full of potholes, giving it an indescribable sense of vicissitudes.
When they arrived and entered the city, the monk from Zhenhai said, "I am a poor monk asking for alms." He got out of the car, agreed on a rendezvous route, and disappeared on the street.
"This monk my boss is really brave. He would rather beg for alms than eat with us."
"I admire you so much? You can do it too." Chen Yuan handed the bullock cart to the store clerk and led the master into the wine shop. The fat Taoist who followed behind laughed and sat down opposite, "I am not stupid.
How can your strength be compared to being hungry? Man!"
He shouted at the top of his voice, and the store clerk who had finished working on the table over there quickly came over, "You three objective, what do you want to order? The accent sounds like someone from the Central Plains, it's my first time here, and it's our store, but I'm in the right place.
Yes, we have all the delicacies from the Western Regions in our store."
"Just a simple meal."
The waiter didn't say so much. Chen Yuan only ordered some side dishes and showed his contempt for others, and responded with a smile: "Okay. Let the chef prepare it objectively for the three of you.
Wait a moment.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The store was quite busy. The waiter memorized the menu and quickly went to the kitchen. After coming out, he hurriedly went to greet other customers. Chen Yuan was not idle here either.
Before eating, I turned out the map, followed the path I took, and based on my general understanding of the map in later generations, I randomly added the name of this earth city in the blank space.
"Objective, are you going west?"
At this time, the waiter came over with a wooden tray and placed the above dishes on the table one by one. Seeing the brochure drawn in Chen Yuan's hand, he asked curiously. Chen Yuan put down his pen and nodded.
Put the map away.
"Yes, after I came out to lie down, I naturally wanted to see what the Western Region is like when I came here."
"Objective pride." After the waiter put down the dishes, he lowered the wooden plate and gestured with his thumbs, and then said: "But I still want to persuade Objective. After leaving the city and going more than a hundred miles to the west, I saw an unknown person.
For the stone monument, you can just change the route and go north or south, but don't go any further."
"Oh? Why? Could it be that there are still demons and monsters?"
Chen Yuan said with a smile, picked up a quick dish and put it into Master's bowl. The fat Taoist over there also became interested. The good guy could hear strange things as soon as he arrived here. Now he might see what the monsters from the Western Regions look like.
He looked good, so he immediately urged the guy.
"Come on, tell me, what's over there with the stone monument?"
"This..." The clerk was obviously frightened by Chen Yuan's look and the fat Taoist's excited expression, and his voice stuttered: "This is not a monster, it's just a bit scary. I don't know if it is dangerous.
, I have also heard from businessmen in the past that in the afternoon, there will be many strange people floating in the wind, as if they are made of sand, and sometimes they will fall, but early tomorrow morning, there will be
Fly away..."
A weirdo made of sand? Can it fly?
Could it be that the clay sculpture of the human figure turned into a spirit? Just like the stone Buddha we encountered back then, it had internal organs and became a spirit due to its popularity.
This is somewhat strange.
Anyway, we are all on the west side, so there is no need to take a detour. If there is a monster causing trouble, just kill it. If not, just treat it as a vision. It is also a beautiful scenery on the way, isn't it?
After thanking the waiter, the three of them finished their meal quickly and paid 40 Wen for the meal. Then they got on the bullock cart and left Tucheng to meet up with Zhenhai. The latter was already waiting and was eating with a golden bowl.
The pancakes placed inside.
"Little monk, there's a good show to watch, get in the car quickly!"
Along the way, the fat Taoist was bored and panicking. Finally, he found something he was interested in. He was more excited than anyone else. Zhenhai nodded, put the unfinished pancake in the golden bowl and got into the car.
"The Taoist priest said it's a good show, but there are sand people flying in the wind on the road to the west?"
"Young Master also knows?"
"Well, when the poor monk asked for alms, he asked about the nearby roads. A donor told the poor monk not to go there easily." The monk sat in the middle, stretched out his orchid finger while speaking, flicked his middle finger, and stuck out his tongue from the back corner to curl it.
The toad, which was walking on the broken cake, bounced around and its limbs twitched.
Soon after, I came to the road to the stone monument that the guy pointed out. It was exactly as he said. A stone monument without words was erected next to the forked road. However, there was no scene that could see people in. Instead, there were several roadside tea sheds.
Doing business.
The cold wind was blowing, and passers-by on official roads and vendors wrapped in thick wraps were welcomed and escorted off. From time to time, travelers in groups walked into the teahouse to rest and quench their thirst, gathering around the table and talking about interesting things they had seen in various places recently.
When the bullock cart came here, an old man waved to them with a smile.
"To be honest, you are also here to see the man flying in the wind?"
"Sellers, aren't you afraid of doing business here?" Chen Yuan replied with a smile. From the corner of his eye, he caught a stick of incense burning in the corner of the tea shed, "Aren't you afraid of people flying in the wind eating you?"
"Is poverty terrible?"
An old man from a shop with not many people around sat on the stone outside the shed with a smile, pointing to the passing business travelers, "As long as no one is hurt and someone is curious and comes to take a look, there is nothing wrong with me making a living here.
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Chen Yuan is also a little curious now. What is said in the city is so mysterious, how come it has become a business of attracting customers here?
"Boss, I can't say that the old man and the boy are the father and son. The son makes up some mysterious stories in the city and scares people to come here. Isn't that what the old man's business is about? It's impossible to say that these tea sheds are all from the same family."
When the fat Taoist said this, it seemed a bit similar. The one opposite was an old woman, and the one next to her was a young and strong woman.
"Haha, that Taoist priest is right, he is indeed a member of the old man's family."
The old man over there also heard Sun Zhengde's words, but he waved his hands in annoyance, "When doing business here, don't you have to be smarter than others, but to be honest, the old man's son did not cheat.
"
Chen Yuan nodded, got out of the car, took out Ba Wen, asked the store owner to pour three bowls of hot tea, and drank it casually while standing in the shed.
"Can the store tell you in detail?"
The old man tossed the copper in his hand and put it into his sleeves. He sat down on the stone on the roadside with his sleeves wrapped around his sleeves. The white breath floated out from his open mouth.
"You just came here, and you don't know the details. The road behind this stone monument has been abandoned for several years. A group of people also walked here and spent the night on the roadside. You never thought that someone would get up to urinate in the middle of the night, and the result would be...
I saw a dense crowd of figures standing in the Gobi desert, looking directly at him. I was so frightened that I almost died on the spot. After the news spread, many people also came here to have a look. As expected, as dusk fell into the night
, those things flew in from the wind, and when the wind picked up in the early morning, they flew to nowhere.”
"The old donor can see what they look like, are they ghosts?" said the monk Zhenhai.
The old man shook his head and fell silent immediately, looking at the setting winter sun in a trance.
After the fat Taoist shouted and asked him again, the old man in the store smiled, took a breath and continued: "They are human beings... they look like human beings. Old man, I have seen many of them here for many years."
When I came back, I was curious and took a lantern to look over there. In the blink of an eye, a figure floated in the wind and landed heavily in front of me. The figure's body and face were all covered with sand.
...My face is so blurry that I can’t see clearly.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The old man took a breath, looked at the stone monument and sighed.
"They had no intention of harming the old man, and stood there motionless in their respective postures. They were frightened at that time, picked up the lantern and ran back. As they ran, they saw that under the layer of sand on their bodies, there was a layer of armor.
Stomach."
These words made Chen Yuan and the others frown, but they did not interrupt the old man's words and continued to listen quietly.
"...The armor and stomach look like those worn by the soldiers at Yujian Pass, but some of them are from the Posana people. Do you think it's strange?"
"Vashana? Didn't they destroy the country?"
This big country in the Western Region has been torn apart for a long time, and the reason has a lot to do with Chen Yuan. Now that I heard the old man say that there are actually Posana people in it, I am even more curious about the mystery inside.
"The country was destroyed... The old man was also wondering why there were Posana people." The old man outside the shop stood up melancholy, came in with his sleeves rolled up, and went to the stove to heat up tea.
"Later I figured out one thing. These mud-sand people may be my Da Jin men who fought into the Posana Kingdom in the Western Regions a few years ago. Maybe they were lost in that battle, or they fought elsewhere with the Posana soldiers. In the end,
Covered by the wind and sand... that's why it looked like this. If you think about this joint, the old man will no longer be afraid. Every day before dusk, put a stick of incense for them to comfort the souls of these soldiers who once fought for the northwest.
It's just a pity that their bodies are blown up by the wind, wandering around, and then come back at night to look at Yujian Pass."
The old man sighed heavily.
In the tea shed, the fat Taoist touched Chen Yuan with his elbow and said in a low voice: "My boss, I'm afraid this is the sin you committed when you attacked Po Mo..."
As he finished speaking, the smoke from the half-scented incense stick in the corner of the tea shed suddenly became ethereal, and a strong wind suddenly blew outside.
Whether it was the three people on Chen Yuan's side or the business travelers at the tea shed opposite, they all saw silhouettes of people flying past the deserted wilderness behind the stone monument in the wind and sand.
"My Buddha is compassionate."
Monk Zhenhai closed his eyes, bowed vertically and bowed in that direction.
"Let's go and take a look."
Being reminded by Sun Zhengde, Chen Yuan had quite complicated emotions in her heart. She grabbed the master who was still blowing hot air, and strode towards the place with the crazy old man shouting: "Let me take a sip, the last sip."
The vast windy sand rolled up on the sides.
"Hey, don't go there!" Many business travelers in the tea shed opposite stood up and shouted at the four people who stepped into the strong wind over there. It was as if they were dazzled. Only the bullock cart and an old cow were left. The four people's