Li Jing felt despair for the first time, but he was not an ordinary person after all, and his will was as firm as iron.
The direction he had previously galloped on his horse was to the north, and he had already passed through most of Guanzhong. At this time, he continued to go north, and then passed through Yulin County, Mayi County, and Yanmen Pass, and came to a Turkic tribe. He and this tribe
The leader knows each other and has helped each other in the past.
On the surface, he pretended to be an ordinary herdsman of this tribe, but in fact, he secretly contacted a powerful group of horse thieves nearby. That night, this group of horse thieves looted the tribe, and he turned into a corpse.
, but in fact he became a horse thief again.
This time, Jin Chan's escape from the shell was perfect, and it was also in the dark night. However, when he followed the large team of horse thieves to the horse thieves' lair, he saw the woman again.
The woman stood like that in the lair of horse thieves, and countless horse thieves passed by her as if they didn't see her. At this moment, Li Jing's heart went cold because he suddenly had a terrifying thought - this woman was not a living person.
But it was a ghost, a female ghost that only he could see, and that was haunting him. If it weren't for the fact that this woman looked completely different from the Hong Fu girl he abandoned, he almost suspected that Hong Fu was dead and then turned into a ghost.
The evil ghost came to find him.
"Three more times." The female ghost said calmly and then left. Li Jing stared at the woman's leaving figure, but then she disappeared. He couldn't help but turned pale and shuddered.
Li Jing stayed in the den of thieves for three days with fear, and finally judged through reason that this woman was not a female ghost, but her methods were too miraculous.
Li Jing was Li Jing after all. He suppressed the fear and despair in his heart and spent half a month arriving at a port near Youzhou. He used some tricks and methods to follow a merchant ship out to sea.
In recent years, as the sea area has been controlled by the Far Eastern Army, the trade routes leading to Goguryeo, Japan, and even overseas countries in the South China Sea have become more and more open, and maritime trade has become more and more prosperous. However, all merchant ships and caravans at sea must
Register with the Maritime Trade Department of the Far Eastern Army and pay taxes, but this way you don't have to encounter pirates at sea, and no matter what kind of goods it is, it can be bought and sold in the eight counties controlled by the Far Eastern Army and Youzhou.
But without pirates, it does not mean that the sea is safe, unless you can spend a lot of money to sell ships from the Fanyang County Shipyard. It is said that as long as the ships are produced in Fanyang County, they can even withstand ordinary large waves and typhoons.
The ship Li Jing was traveling on had a capacity of 500 pieces, and there were more than 100 people on board. This was not a small ship for a maritime merchant, but it could not withstand the typhoon waves.
I don't know whether it was Li Jing's bad luck or the people on the ship who were unlucky. On his fourth day at sea, he encountered a typhoon. The huge waves smashed the ship into pieces. Li Jing relied on his martial arts skills to grab a piece of wood and survive.
But after holding this wooden board floating for three days and three nights, and after Li Jing soaked in the sea for three days and three nights, he finally despaired. But at the same time, he felt strange joy.
"Hahahahaha... Crazy woman, aren't you very powerful? You can't find me this time! Hahahahaha..." Li Jing, who was about to die, was holding the board and laughing like a lunatic.
However, his smile suddenly stopped, because he suddenly saw a figure floating in the distance. Yes, that figure was standing on the sea, floating towards him at an extremely fast speed.
"It's her. She's not a human being. She's a ghost. Otherwise, why would she be floating on the sea?" Li Jing recognized that the person was that woman. His heart was filled with fear, despair, expectation and joy. It was extremely complicated.
As the woman approached quickly, Li Jing discovered that there was a huge thing at the woman's feet.
It was a big fish. Li Jing had never thought that there was such a big fish in the world. He suddenly remembered the legendary Kun, which was hundreds of feet long and wide, bigger than the largest ship in the world.
This woman actually stood on a big kun and let the kun drag her across the sea.
"He is not a human, but he is not a ghost either. He may be a legendary monster... and he may also be a sea monster..." Although he once studied Taoism with his master, Li Jing never believed that there are monsters in this world, but he suddenly
I suspect this woman is a monster.
The big Kun made a loud cry, which shook Li Jing's mind, and then it hit the broken wooden board he was climbing on without slowing down. The wooden board naturally shattered into pieces, but he fell on Kun's back.
Crawled at the woman's feet.
But Li Jing couldn't care about anything else. He used his last strength to get up and kneel in front of the woman. He cried and said loudly: "I lost. I don't have to try again for the next two times. From now on, I can do anything you ask me to do."
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The woman finally withdrew her gaze from the distance and from the sky, looked at Li Jing, and said calmly in a tone without any emotion: "My name is Nie Xiaoyu, and the name of the big guy under my feet is Nie Xiaoyu."
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Half a month later, Taiyuan, Tang Guogong Mansion.
Li Yuan received the secret report from Li Jing and breathed a sigh of relief. Li Jing had been missing for half a year, and the person he sent to rescue him was also dead. Later, Li Jing took the time to send news that he was being hunted down by super masters of the Far East Army.
According to the secret report sent by Li Jing, it took him half a year to get rid of the Far East Army's thorough pursuit, and then lurked in Fanyang County. He would soon come into contact with Li Xuanba, and from then on he assisted Li Xuanba anonymously.
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"Disciple Xuanba pays homage to Master."
Fanyang County, the residence of the leader of Baoxiong Camp.
Li Jing watched Li Xuanba bowing respectfully to the woman named Nie Xiaoyu.
Li Jing looked at her very carefully. Unlike himself, Li Xuanba was absolutely not forced at all. His respect for the woman was definitely from the heart. As for the title of master, he did not attach much importance to it, because his own master was
There were several of them, two of them were even killed by him himself.
What surprised him even more was that Li Xuanba was obviously similar in age to the woman named Nie Xiaoyu, but they had a master-disciple relationship. The most important thing was that he could see his affection for Nie from Li Xuanba's eyes.
Xiaoyu's feelings are similar to children's dependence on their elders and parents, and even admiration. This is the look and emotion that young children only have when facing their parents and elders.
"Xuanba, now your father and brother are going to be enemies with us, what are you going to do? If you want to go back to Taiyuan, I can let you take 20,000 troops there so that you won't be embarrassed." Nie Xiaoyu felt the look in Li Xuanba's eyes.
There was a feeling of admiration in his eyes, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. After a while, he suddenly said, his voice was still calm, but he spoke slower than before.
Li Xuanba shook his head without hesitation and said: "If I don't go back, my father and several brothers will never be the opponents of my master and uncle. I will stay with my uncle to serve, and one day I can use my military exploits to serve my father and brothers."
They seek a way to survive."
Nie Xiaoyu nodded and said: "That's fine. According to the plan of your uncle and I, in the future your second brother Li Shimin may be able to lead an army to the Western Regions and fight all the way to the west. The territory he conquers will be his.
He could even establish his own kingdom in the Western Regions. Or he could give Li Shimin a naval force and let him lead him to the distant overseas. Opposite this vast sea, there is a continent. Of course, it can no longer be called America, but it can be called Tang Dynasty.
Any continent, Hanzhou, etc. is fine, and it would be a good idea to let your second brother Li Shimin go there to build his own empire."