Hawking led people to search outside the city for three days. When they reached the rocky slope, they found traces of people and horses stationed there. This is a good shelter from the wind. The mountains to the west block the cold wind, and the woods on both sides of the mountains are just right.
Wood is provided for heating. The stream at the bottom of the ditch is enough for three to five thousand people to drink. The most rare thing is that this place is very hidden. The entire area of 30 miles is the endless Gobi Desert, and no one will come here at all.
The bonfire has been extinguished, the traces of departure have been carefully cleaned, and even the horse manure has been disposed of, which is the best fire-making material in the wild.
Touching the roots of the chopped tree, Gou Tianming frowned: "If these people stay here for no more than ten days, then there are eight thousand people! You see, the livestock sheds they built are continuous.
It may be one person and two horses, but there are no traces of old people or children, which means they are all strong and strong!"
"Eight thousand people are strong, Liu Hong can actually get so many people in a blink of an eye!"
Gou Tianming clapped his hands: "Actually, there is no shortage of people in the Western Region. What is lacking is food for survival. Whoever has food will immediately be followed by thousands of people."
"Then where did Liu Hong get the food? People from the Western Regions probably don't have much in their hands?"
Gou Tianming sighed: "Liu Hong has gone crazy. Part of his food was obtained by robbing merchants in the Western Regions, and the other part was obtained by robbing the Huns. It is said that the name "Hai Hu'er" can stop children from crying in this area. It is powerful.
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"brute!"
Gou Tianming smiled: "We don't need to judge whether he is a beast or not. Liu Hong has run away, and it will be difficult to find him. We'd better go back and report to Mr. for him to make a decision!"
Liu Hong actually didn't go far. He stayed in the Western Regions for so many years. On the one hand, he expanded his power, and on the other hand, he looked for hiding places. As a horse thief, before he grew stronger, he was the enemy of everyone. Whether it was a caravan or a caravan.
The people, as well as the king of this land, all knew that the horse thieves had what they needed most, money and soldiers. As long as they were discovered, they would be immediately besieged, so Liu Hong was very careful.
The rocky slope camp was abandoned, and the black pine forest became his only remaining hiding place in Shanshan. It was safer than the rocky slope. The black pine forest was very large, and I didn't know how there were so many pine trees growing in this place.
The terrain of the black pine forest is good. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has only a narrow road on one side. Hiding here, Liu Hong can still hold on even if he is attacked by many people. For this reason, Liu Hong has made a strict plan in the black pine forest.
Prepare and store enough food to feed 10,000 people for a year.
After settling down again, Liu Hong was wrapped in fur and sitting by the fire. The flames of the pine wood were very strong, and the room was soon filled with a light pine scent: "Can you see how many people there are?"
The burly Huns said: "There are only more than thirty horses, and we didn't take action without the Young Master's order."
"Very good, let's go down and rest. We are safe for the time being!"
Nie Yi came back, and brought back the dying Young Master Ji. The ten whips were heavy, and Young Master Ji's back was torn to pieces, and the blood was frozen into ice skates hanging on his clothes, making a tinkling sound. Young Master Ji bit him
He gritted his teeth without making a sound, and the sweat on his forehead showed how painful his body was.
Liu Hong waved his hand and signaled Nie Yi to take Young Master Ji down. Nie Yi let out a long breath. This move meant that he had bypassed Young Master Ji. Among the people who followed Liu Hong at the beginning, he and Young Master Ji were the only ones.
The two helpless men followed Liu Hong for more than a year. They did not help much, but they were getting closer and closer to death. Nie Yi could feel that Liu Hong had changed and was different from before.
He helped Young Master Ji out of Liu Hong's house, and immediately sent people to find medical doctors and medicinal materials. It was very troublesome to treat whip wounds, not to mention that after a night, the clothes and blood had frozen together. He had to move the whole back.
The skin would be torn off. As a last resort, Nie Yi asked the medical officer to use a knife. Each of the ten whips was very hard. The Huns who were executed were experts. They looked bloody but did not damage the internal organs. This is from Sla.
This can be proved by the fact that he died after being whipped ten times, and that Young Master Ji was still alive after being whipped ten times.
Medicine was applied on the knife to stop the bleeding, and Young Master Ji was wrapped up with a piece of clean linen. He could not lie down to rest, but could only crawl to rest. Nie Yi gave Young Master Ji water and sighed: "Brother Ji, there are millions of people."
Don't blame the young master for being cruel, we are in a place like this in Qianni City, but someone discovered it, you were hiding well, why did you go outside?"
Young Master Ji drank hard and took a breath of cool air: "I heard that something happened outside, so I went out to take a look. In the past, there was no problem when I went out. Who knew that that day..." Young Master Ji sighed.
: "It's my fault. I received a letter the night before, asking me to get up early tomorrow. I thought it was all Su Ren's fault if someone contacted us!"
Nie Yi sighed: "Do you regret it?"
"How can we not regret it? We shouldn't have fallen into the trap! We have our own way of communicating, and it is absolutely impossible to send letters!"
"That's not what I'm talking about!" Nie Yi looked around and saw that he and Young Master Ji were the only two people in the tent, so he lowered his voice and said, "I ask you, do you regret following the young master?"
Young Master Ji's eyes widened, with a look of horror on his face: "Brother Nie, what do you want?"
Nie Yi didn't say anything. Ji Shaogong grabbed Nie Yi's hand and said, "It's enough to say this once. Never say it again in the future. Now that we have embarked on this road, it will be difficult to turn back now. Han people and Huns are both
Treat us as traitors, the people from the Western Regions are our enemies, and there is no room for us in this vast world!"
Nie Yi put down the bowl and had a piece of paper in his hand: "Look at this. I found this under the chopping board of the butcher shop. I will make a conclusion after reading it."
Young Master Ji quickly took the note and unfolded it. It was written in Chinese characters. He had scrawled it, but you could tell that the calligraphy was definitely not flattering. Nie Yi didn't wait for Young Master Ji to finish reading it, and said: "It looks like it will stay."
The person who wrote the note is Su Ren, and since he has stated that as long as we are willing to let things go, I believe in Su Ren's promise. It is said that he will never break his promise."
"Brother Nie has already thought about it?"
Nie Yi shook his head: "It's precisely because I didn't think it through that I'm discussing this with you. Do you think it's feasible?"
Young Master Ji crumpled the note into a ball, stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing it. Nie Yi wanted to snatch it away, but Young Master Ji looked at Nie Yi with his mouth tightly closed: "Brother Nie, please don't be deceived.
, Su Ren will probably not embarrass you and me, but what will happen when we really pass? Can those people in the Han Dynasty bypass us easily? Although life here is a bit more miserable, at least we can still survive.
, when we go to Chang'an and people want to kill us, what else can you and I do?"
"Can you survive here? Haha, have you forgotten the injury on your back?"
Young Master Ji was silent, and the big tent became extremely quiet. You could only hear the sound of Young Master Ji chewing the piece of paper. He spent a lot of energy to swallow the piece of paper, and Young Master Ji was satisfied.
He burped and closed his eyes: "Brother Nie, thank you for saving my life today. Don't worry, I will never say anything about this. Please also forget about this, Brother Nie. You and I have no way out. We have to live for one day."
One day?"
The pale moon hangs in the sky, and the moonlight shines on the ground in conjunction with the thick snow, emitting a miserable light. No one wants to stay outside at such a night, even if there is a chance, they would rather huddle in bed and be killed by others.
I am willing to be outside in the cold wind. Horse hooves are flying, and a fast horse is galloping in the thick snow. It has been running for a long time, and the white spurts from the horse's mouth are more than a foot long.
Laifu didn't expect that the heavy snow covered a wide area. After running more than 300 miles, there was still such thick snow. The horse was already very tired, so Laifu could only pull the reins and let the poor horse stop.
Take a rest. He originally had two horses. When he was passing through the vast sea, who knew there was quicksand under the snow. If not for the horse Laifu, he would have died at this time.
He led the horse and continued walking forward. Just now he saw a bright light in front of him, which should be a certain shepherd's tent. Logically speaking, his coming out this time was very secret and no one could discover it.
Whereabouts. But after running for a day and a night, Laifu couldn't bear it, and neither could his horse. He urgently needed to find a warm and dry place to rest.
It turned out that he was not a herdsman but a family. There was only one family. Such people were called savages in the Gobi Desert because they did not belong to any tribe or country. There was only one child in the house. Laifu suddenly broke in and let him know.
The child was stunned for a moment and immediately hid the things in his hands behind his back. The child planned to run away, but unfortunately the door was blocked by Laifu and his horse.
The child was not big, and the clothes on his body were very thin. I don’t know where he got the firewood from, and he burned it in the house. Laifu smiled at the child: "Can I borrow your place to take a rest?"
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The child didn't speak, but stared at Laifu with his big eyes. Laifu took out the dry food from his arms and roasted it on the fire. The naan pancakes baked with wheat flour in a short time immediately gave off an alluring aroma. The child's eyes were attracted by
He was so attracted that he even forgot what he was hiding in his hand.
After the naan bread was baked and crispy, Laifu broke off a piece and said, "Exchange my naan bread for what you have in your hand?"
The child still didn't speak, but he held the thing in his hand closer. Laifu could tell that what the child was holding was a bone, not a human bone, or an unknown animal's bone, and there was no meat on it.
I'm afraid all the marrow inside has been eaten away. What the child just ate was just pure bones.
After a while, the child seemed to have made a lot of determination, moved forward two steps, grabbed the naan in Laifu's hand, and then handed the bone over. Laifu smiled and let go of his hand.
The child looked at Lai Fu, and before Lai Fu could take the bone from his hand, he put the bone at Lai Fu's feet and immediately ran back to the corner to eat naan bread.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?" Laifu asked.
The child didn't look up, just nodded.
"Who taught you this?"
The child seemed to realize that he had said something he shouldn't have said. He glanced at Laifu and quickly lowered his head. (To be continued)
