Xia Xun was very careful. He carried a lantern and walked around several tents, focusing on the kitchen area for a long time.【】
In the distance, Lao Fan was inspecting the defense. He saw the Duke of Guo coming out with a lantern and walking among the tents around the commander's tent. He was about to rush over. Xia Xun immediately raised his voice to stop him: "Don't move.
, don’t even come here!”
There are not many footprints in the core security circle centered on the handsome tent. The traces left by clearing the snow when setting up camp have already been covered up by a thin layer of wind and drifting snow, so the footprints below are not obvious.
After that, people who came in and out mainly entered the military tents, and no matter how many traces there were on this road, there was no need to pay attention. Xia Xun walked around several military tents for a while, and gradually discovered something strange.
He found that there were indeed some shallow marks on the thin floating snow, like footprints, but the footprints were too small. He could easily cover them without opening his palms. Why in this military camp?
There may be such small footprints. Who has such small feet? Is there really something like a spirit?
As soon as this idea came to his mind, he rejected it. He stopped and carefully scanned everything in the warning circle of the commander's tent: a large military tent. This was the place where he discussed matters, raised accounts, and handled military affairs. Not far behind the commander's tent.
There is his sleeping tent. On the left side of the sleeping tent are the sleeping tents of Siren and Jeanne. On the right side is just a simple tent to keep out the wind and cold. Inside is a good horse given by the emperor.
This horse was a horse that was presented to the Ming Emperor by the Prime Minister of the Timur Empire Albasha and General Gesuyedin two years ago. It is said that it was the horse that the father of the Timur Emperor rode on and was presented to His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
To show respect.
The lifespan of a horse is generally twenty or thirty years. If you take good care of it, some may live for sixty or seventy years. But how old was Tamburlaine himself? This year Tamburlaine is sixty-nine. If this horse is really his father
Those who had ridden it back then, it was a great skill for them to bring this old horse to the Ming Empire. Anyway, it was just a matter of face, and Zhu Di didn't take it seriously in the first place.
After the horse was sent to the Royal Horse Prison, the horse's mouth was examined and it turned out that it was only a five-year-old horse in its prime. It was only seven years old this year and was still in its prime. When Xia Xun went to the west, Zhu Di specially sent this horse from the Western Regions to him.
As a gift to him, the BMW must be taken good care of, so it enjoyed special treatment.
Xia Xun's eyes were fixed on this place at the moment. There was a carriage outside the tent, which was pulling fodder, beans and other horse feed. Xia Xun looked around the entire handsome tent area, and the only suspicious place was here.
Xia Xun walked over. He entered the tent first, then came out. He walked around the tent twice and soon found some small footprints that did not attract much attention.
If it were during the day, everyone would be busy, and no one would pay attention to these small footprints. In fact, by the time dawn comes and the wind blows all night, any traces would have been blown away, and at this moment, they can still be seen faintly on the snow.
He found some traces. Xia Xun followed those traces and gradually walked to the carriage. He circled the forage cart twice more, stood still, looked up at the stars, suddenly took a long breath, closed his eyes and cleared his mind, and began
After entering samadhi, the spiritual consciousness expands to the maximum extent in this quiet night, sensing everything around it.
Tang Saier was frightened. She hid in the hay pile and looked at the light outside in fear. She didn't dare to move, for fear that the slightest movement would make the hay rustle.
When Tang Sai'er fled the Yang Mansion that day, she happened to catch up with Xia Xun saying goodbye to her family. The front yard was full of people. Tang Sai'er felt so guilty that she dared to go out openly. She was dodging behind those little maids, unintentionally Hearing those little maids teasing Xilin and Jeanne, saying that they were going to the Western Regions with their master, Tang Saier didn't know where the Western Regions were, but she just felt that it was a very far away place.
In desperation, she hid on the roof of the car and wanted to leave Nanjing with Xia Xun's car. Although the little guy was young, he knew that the most dangerous place was the safest. Who knew that she would have no chance to escape? . During the daytime march, in full view of everyone, Tang Saier could hide from the eyes of one person, or even ten people, but it was impossible to hide from thousands of pairs of eyes in a place where she had no confidence, not to mention the props she was carrying at the time. There are many, and all they rely on are some physical skills and the ingenuity of using local materials.
It was even more difficult at night. Xia Xun was engaged in military exercises in full swing all the way. At night, in order to prevent someone from attacking the camp, the Ming army deployed defenses at all levels, and there were many overt and dark sentries. How could Tang Saier, who lacked the props, be able to Escape quietly? However, the inside of the camp is much more relaxed than the outside, especially around the commander's tent. The soldiers only set up defenses on the outside. There are only a few soldiers and two women, Siren Jeanne, in the activity area around the commander's tent. It is the easiest to escape. Hiding.
So, Tang Sai'er had no choice but to hide in this place. During the daytime march, she only needed to hide in the hay pile without being discovered. When camping in the evening, she relied on her skills to steal some food. For safety, she would only hide in the haystack every time. He stole once in the evening. No matter how much he stole, he ate the leftovers for three meals. If it was not enough, he starved and slept in the open.
Who would have known that as we walked down the road, the weather got colder and colder. Her winter clothes were only worn in Jinling. The winter in Jiangnan and here in Shaanxi is only equivalent to the clothes worn in late autumn. Such thin clothes plus a car Firewood was hard to keep out the cold, so she had no choice but to steal a cotton-padded jacket from Lao Pen. The jacket was too small for Lao Pen, so it turned into a coat for her, and she curled up in it at night and used it as a bedding. Even so, she ate all the clothes. suffering.
Tonight, because of the cold, Sai'er couldn't fall asleep for a long time. She was suffering in the car. Someone might as well have brought a lantern and came over. Sai'er left a gap in the firewood pile. Firstly, it was for breathing convenience, and secondly, it was also easier to observe what was going on outside. Knowing that the person holding the lantern was Xia Xun, whom she was most afraid of, Tang Saier held her breath, not even daring to breathe, but her heart was beating as hard as a drum.
She was scared, really scared.
Xia Xun looked up at the sky, as if he was staring at the bright stars in the sky, but his consciousness and will had already dispersed, and he tried his best to expand his hearing and biological instincts. He heard the sound of a heartbeat, a very rapid heartbeat, and then He heard breathing again, which was the sound of a long breath that he had held for a long time, and then slowly released. He also heard the faint sound of small pieces of firewood rubbing against each other.
Tang Sai'er was scared and cold. Although she tried her best to keep still, her body was shaking unnoticeably. This trembling brought out the subtle sound of firewood grinding, a sound that was not easily noticed by ordinary people, but it was clearly transmitted to Xia. Xun's ears.
"When I was a child, I grew up in Qingzhou..."
Xia Xun suddenly spoke. He still looked up to the sky, as if talking to himself: "In summer, there are a lot of cicadas. They are difficult to catch. Using spiders to stick them requires good eyesight. When the bamboo pole moves,
When the cicada is alerted, it flies away. It depends entirely on luck to go around every tree and find those that have not yet completed the process of molting.
However, there is a good way, that is to light a fire in the woods at night, and then kick the trees one by one. When the cicadas living in the trees are awakened, they will rush to them.
It falls towards the fire, around the flames, and falls on the ground. You hold the bag and pick it up one by one, but it won't struggle at all. Is this considered a moth rushing to the flame, or is it throwing itself into the flames?"
The breathing in the grass suddenly stopped, and it seemed that even the heartbeat had stopped. When Tang Saier, who was already extremely nervous, heard what he said, she knew she had been discovered, and was so frightened that even her body's natural functions stopped.
Although she is young, she is actually very courageous. If she risked her life, she would not be so scared. But towards Xia Xun, she never had any thoughts of confrontation at all. She only wanted to escape, so she was naturally nervous and scared.
, this kind of nervousness and fear in turn affected her, making her even more nervous and frightened. She was already trying to scare herself. Xingzang was suddenly discovered, and Tang Saier was naturally extremely frightened.
Xia Xun spoke again. He said that what happened in Qingzhou was actually just his life experience when he lived with relatives in the countryside when he was a child before traveling through time and space: "Cicadas are relatively easy to catch. In fact, for children,
, the most difficult thing to catch is the sparrow. It is very difficult to catch the sparrow with a small stick tied with a rope to hold a basket. But if you use a very bright light at night and climb the ladder to the thatched eaves
Next, use a lamp to illuminate the sparrow's nest, and just reach out and catch it. The sparrow seems to be blind and cannot escape at all, so it can only fall into your hands."
Xia Xun slowly turned around and faced the firewood on the cart in front of him. He raised the lantern high and held the knife at his waist tightly with his other hand under his cloak. He could make a lightning-like strike at any time.
With his current skill and his current speed, he is sure that as long as the person hiding in the haystack intends to break out for a surprise attack, he can kill that person at the moment he hears the violent friction of firewood.
The man and the car were split in half!
"Are you a cicada or a sparrow?"
Xia Xun stared at the pile of firewood in front of him and said slowly.
Tang Sai'er closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, stretched out his little hands covered with frostbite, and moved away the firewood.
The firewood was pushed aside, and the two small hands were opened again, and the gap was widened. The light shone in, and it was shining on her body.
She was wearing a big, bloated cotton-padded jacket, her hair was unkempt, her messy hair was covered with withered grass leaves, her thin little face was pale from the cold, without a trace of blood, and she looked at Xia Xun shiveringly, with her eyes like dotted paint.
, like an innocent sparrow, timidly licking Xia Xun, as if he was about to catch it, ruthlessly pluck out its feathers, put them on branches, roast them over the fire and eat them.
Xia Xun knew there was someone inside, but he didn't expect it to be Tang Sai'er at all. He stared at Tang Sai'er in astonishment with his eyes wide open. After a long while, he shouted in surprise: "Sail, why are you here?"
Tang Saier opened his mouth, and two lines of hot tears flowed down...
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