More than 50 camels marched hard in a line on the Gobi Desert. The members of the caravan were all covered with silk cloth, and most of them led the camels. There was only one slender figure riding on a young camel, leading the The man is an old man who is still burly, and his attire is refreshing and simple. He is obviously the leader of this camel team. A large water bag made of lambskin is hung on his waist, and he rides on a delicate soft saddle made of silk between the two camel humps. The characters always have such and such questions, most of them are unconstrained, and the old people with extremely rich travel experience are caught off guard and don't know how to answer them. During their journey, they encountered two consecutive mirages that ordinary people would never see in their lifetimes. The two mirages are rare images of isolated islands and fairylands on the sea, which may be comparable to the legendary Daodezong Fushan. The figure riding a camel asked As for the authenticity and origin of the mirage, the face-saving old man had no choice but to hew and haw, and was so entangled that he had nowhere to retreat, so he had to change the subject and tell some strange anecdotes about wild fox spirits.
The camel rider spoke softly, "Grandpa Hong, is it possible that after passing this Gobi Desert, we will reach the Great City in the north?"
The old man smiled and said: "Miss, this Gobi Desert still has to go. Do you remember the Huoyan Mountain last time? Looking close, it took a long time to walk. The ancients said that looking at the mountain is like running a dead horse. That's the reason."
The figure on the hunchback was actually a daughter. She stretched out her hand to uncover some silk scarves that prevented the yellow sand from entering her mouth, and she had a pair of refreshing eyes, and asked curiously: "Grandpa Hong, we don't have much water storage. Why do you still have to give that bag of water to the scholar who traveled far away? He said he would give you money, but you wouldn’t accept it.”
The burly old man surnamed Hong said softly: "When you are away from home, it is always a good thing to form a good relationship, no matter how big or small. Old servant, when I was in distress in the desert, it was the young lady's grandpa who saved me, otherwise Hong Bai would not be here today. It is the bones under the yellow sand. Besides, we don’t have many bags and water bags on our bodies, but when we encounter difficulties, we can still kill camels to get water. Can't compare to a living person."
The woman nodded and smiled.
The old man praised sincerely: "Miss has been a bodhisattva since she was a child, and good people are rewarded with good rewards. In the future, I will definitely find a good family with the right family to marry."
This time, the woman who sneaked into the camel caravan asked again: "Grandpa Hong, but I read those novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies engraved in the south of the Yangtze River. Every lady falls in love with a down-and-out scholar at first sight. I haven't seen any woman find a husband who is well-matched." .That is why ah?"
The old man felt dizzy for a while, held back for a long time, and said: "Miss, look, most of those scholars will also get their titles on the gold list, return to their hometowns, and then grow old with women. Miss reading this kind of forbidden books, you can't just see the absurdity of the ladies. The girl's vision is not bad, thousands of scholars go to Beijing to take the exam, carp jumps the dragon gate, there are only a few who can jump the dragon gate, but they just fell in love with them. Is it true that the eyes are even more sinister? If the girl is unfortunate enough to be misjudged and married to the wrong man in the wrong sedan chair, the writer will not be willing to write."
The young woman was stunned, and said with a shameful smile: "In the past, I stole banned books from my brothers, and only cared about making love to each other, and then forgot about it after blushing. I really didn't understand this truth. Thanks to Grandpa Hong, I made it clear."
The old man laughed and said: "If a gifted man and a beautiful lady don't have a reunion, then what kind of gifted scholar and beautiful lady are they? Miss will live a good life when she gets married in the future. If she is bullied, Grandpa Hong will be driven out of the house by the old master, and he has to deal with him." .”
She shook her head and said: "I don't want to get married. My father, mother and elder brother are so kind to me, that's enough. If my husband-in-law has three wives and four concubines in the future, I will cry to death."
In addition to the ancient tea-horse road on the table, there are several silk roads under the table in Liangmang, under the guise of various trades, mostly from border merchants to Liyang Dynasty Jiangnan Road and the old west. Shu and other places bought silks and satins and sold them to the dignitaries of the Northern Mang court. The empress, who governed the country harshly, was somewhat humane about this. She turned a blind eye and did not ban those roads. The business is only a long journey of thousands of miles, and the money earned is hard-earned money. Many of the Silk Road merchants in the early days died on the road. Ushering in the heyday of the Silk Road, because most of the silk was carried by camels, Jiangnan Road has a large number of place names similar to Camel Station and White Camel Bridge.
This camel caravan belonged to the side house of the Tantai family in the Southern Dynasties. Tantai was a big surname with the character Jia. A big family naturally has the courage of a big family, but it depends on various means of making money to support its style. The chef, with a clean sleeve, not to mention dealing with yellow and white things, all the dirty work falls on the head of the side house who is not favored. The Tantai family is flourishing, and the old man has a lot of children and grandchildren, and he may not remember half of his name and face. Kong, the branch that Hong Bai belongs to is just a small branch, otherwise that young lady would never dare to join the camel caravan. There are strict rules in the high family, who would allow their own girls to show their faces in public. This spoiled woman is called Tantai Changle, and she yearns for Xishu, the hometown of the Tantai family. It just so happens that the caravan has thousands of acres of Shu mulberry in the old Xishu territory. do not wanna go Home. After crossing the desolate border, heading north along the Silk Road, it became more and more desolate and difficult to travel. Fortunately, she could bear the hardships and always enjoy the hardships, which made Hong Bai's burden much less.
This Miss Tantai, who grew up in a rich mansion, always has inexplicable problems. This time Hong Bai went south to Jiushu and went north to Wangting, and almost wiped out all the ink in his stomach, and he will be able to cross the Gobi Desert to reach the imperial tent in half a decade. It belongs to the edge of the land, and when the time comes to return home, the young lady probably won't bother to ask why. At this time, Hong Bai told her from the origin of the Silk Road to Beiliang. When it comes to Mrs. Gaoming's make-up, when it comes to this crop, the old man who has suffered a lot is also deeply touched, "Our official uniforms in the Southern Dynasties are all evolved from the Spring and Autumn Central Plains, like the make-up clothes that Madam she wore at the celebration ceremony. , that is, from the fourth grade, it corresponds to the saying that a woman is valuable by her husband. Of course, there are also many women who get rich by their sons, especially those women in the palace during the Spring and Autumn Period."
She tilted her head and asked: "But my father is a general, why is my mother's patch a bird-pattern patch?"
Hong Bai laughed and said: "Miss, there is something particular about it. Elegance is the beauty of a woman, and she admires literature and not martial arts. But there are indeed women who wear official uniforms in the world, and there may be no one before or after."
She widened her eyes and asked, "Whose?"
Hong Bai led the camel and walked on the scorching saline-alkaline Gobi, and said with a smile: "Princess Beiliang's make-up clothes are the beast-patterned clothes of the first-class lion. It is rumored to be very gorgeous, and it can be called seamless. The king's python robe hangs together, but it doesn't lose the slightest elegance."
Tantai Changle lived in a deep boudoir for a long time, after all, he just liked the poetic and picturesque women, and never cared about the change of dynasty. As for those princesses of Beiliang, they only heard that they died young and did not enjoy a few years of happiness. Hong Bai was born in a reckless city, traveled north and south, and had several karmic encounters that ordinary people envied. In his prime, he also gained a good reputation in the Jianghu of the Central Plains. As for why he was caught in the torrent of scholars running north, and why For Tantai to live under the fence, it must be some bitter things that cannot be laughed about with others. After the first year of Ershun, he didn't practice swords and guns much. Instead, he picked up the books that he hated when he was young, and cultivated himself. When the old man mentioned this princess, he also spontaneously respected him, and said softly: "This princess was the only female sword fairy in three hundred years."
She asked naturally: "What is a sword fairy? Can you step on a sword and fly around?"
Hong Bai, who has not entered the second rank, does not know the depth of the land's immortal realm, and his straightforward temper can't let the old man talk nonsense, so he can only say embarrassingly: "Maybe it's possible."
She turned her head and covered her mouth with a smile, kindly not revealing her old background, Hong Bai became a good character, and her old face flushed.
Tantai Changle withdrew his smile and asked: "Do we have sword fairy embryos in the Southern Dynasties?"
Hong Bai shook his head and said: "I heard that there are more people in the Liyang Dynasty. I have to admit that since ancient times, the swordsmen in the Central Plains have been more romantic. In the past, there was Li Chungang, who was a leader in the rivers and lakes of my generation, and now there is Deng Tai'a, the peach blossom sword god. , I think it will definitely be from Liyang in the future, and it will not be Beimang's turn to be the leader of swordsmanship."
The woman looked fascinated and said: "Sword Immortal, I really want to see it with my own eyes."
Hong Bai didn't like to refute it openly, so he just laughed in a low voice: "One sword can easily break the river, or shake the mountain and destroy the city, we ordinary people, it's better not to see it."
A vision suddenly appeared between heaven and earth. It's like the unpredictable God got angry and suddenly became manic. The business of begging for food with God is like farming with tenant farmers, like a shepherd driving sheep, this is what I am most afraid of. Tantai Changle didn't know how serious it was, but Hong Bai's face was already pale and dejected. The old merchants in the camel caravan who walked the silk road all the year round were exactly the same. At noon, the sky gradually dimmed like dusk. Walking in the thousands of miles of yellow sand, one is afraid of land dragons drawing water, and another is afraid of this kind of sandstorm. The former is relatively rare, and the latter generally occurs in spring. Now it has changed from summer to autumn. Why are there such things for no reason? Heinous disaster? The key point is that this sandstorm is particularly violent. Looking at the terrifying posture of wind and sand in the distance, Hong Bai never expected to encounter such a large-scale sandstorm in this Gobi Desert. There was no way to retreat, and ordered the camel team to start killing and skinning the camels, removing the internal organs, and freeing up a camel skeleton so that the Tantai business traveler could get into it. More than 50 camels gathered in a pile, and then covered with camel skins to cover the gap, Maybe you can escape the catastrophe. Usually, there are small sandstorms, and you can hide near the kneeling camels. Today, this huge sandstorm is absolutely unreasonable. Fortunately, the camels raised by the Tantai family have big skeletons, and they can squeeze two people together. As for such utterly reckless calculations, whether they can survive the wind and sand depends on destiny.
Hearing that the camel was going to be killed to avoid the wind, the woman was reluctant to sit on the emotional white camel, her eyes were red from crying, and she was unwilling to pull out a knife to slaughter and skin it. Hong Bai and the members of the camel caravan who were nimble and quick-witted didn't care about the goods whose price was equivalent to gold. They quickly killed the camels who depended on each other, and were busy removing the internal organs and stomach sacs. The black sand came from the northwest, and countless flying sand and rocks were rolled up, whistling like thunder. Turning around, he saw that the young lady was still looking at the white camel. The old man blushed anxiously. He didn't care whether the young lady would hold grudges against him, so he raised a knife and wanted to kill the camel for her. Just as the old man said, The goods carried by the camel caravan are very valuable, but human life is even more valuable. This merchant traveler is an elite in the Tantai silk trade. Anyone who dies will be a loss that the family cannot make up for in a short time, not to mention that Tantai Changle is the old master's favorite. The little granddaughter who was drowned, even the old man liked her from the bottom of his heart, if she died in this wind and sand, Hong Bai would have no face to go back alive.
Hong Bai shouted loudly: "Miss can't delay any longer!"
Her face was full of grievances, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, she was so pitiful, Hong Bai sighed in his heart, he raised his knife and walked towards the most beautiful little white camel in the camel team.
Tantai Changle turned his head, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, he was not ignorant enough to stop him.
When she turned her head, she suddenly widened her radiant autumn eyes, and saw a white-bottomed scholar in a black shirt floating towards her. She thought she was dazzled, so she blinked vigorously, but it was only a blink of an eye. In a short time, he passed by, came to Hong Bai holding the knife, pressed the old man's arm, Hong Bai raised his head with a blank face, and the scholar who once borrowed a bag of water from the camel team shook his head, as if signaling Hong Bai not to use the knife When Hong Bai was hesitating, it should be the scholar who has reached the age of the crown and went on a study trip to continue to swipe forward without knowing what to do. After a swipe, he fluttered for five or six feet, with an indescribable chicness. Tantai Changle was dumbfounded when he saw it. Isn't it the scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken? Seeing him paying for water at that time, she still joked in her heart that he didn't know the dangers of traveling, and dared to travel alone in the yellow sand desert.
At that time, she had an unknown woman's thoughts, she only thought that a handsome scholar like him should read at night in a dilapidated ancient temple in the wilderness, maybe there will be a fox fairy to recommend himself What about pillow seats? Fortunately, at that time, her face was covered with a silk scarf, and no one saw her pretty face turn pink.
The scholar swept forward alone, only about three miles away from the black wall.
There is a sword unsheathed in the bookcase.
A red robe appeared out of nowhere, appearing beside the scholar.
It was Xu Fengnian's scholar who, apart from Chunqiu's sword floating in the air half a mile away, even sacrificed twelve flying swords, spinning rapidly around him and the red-robed Yin Yin.
A huge circular sword array was born out of thin air.
The sword formation is made of black silk, and the twelve flying swords are forged according to the time. Naturally, half of them are Yin swords, but the few swords of Chaolu Gold Thread are all Yang swords.
The business traveler only heard one word from the scholar, like a Taoist immortal uttering the truth, like a Buddhist teaching Buddha to recite the Buddha's voice.
"rise!"
Wherever the torrent came, it was blocked by the sword array, and the two sides flowed away. Only the front of the sword array was forced to rise, and it was like a black rainbow hanging above everyone's heads, drawing an arc, and then a few miles away behind everyone. come down.
The Tantai camel team was completely in this kind of vision, Hong Bai was shocked beyond measure.
He could really see with his own eyes that a swordsman can reach the sky with human power!
After a stick of incense, the black rainbow and the sand and dust moved behind together, and the world where everyone was in returned to peace.
The scholars who went to study abroad have long since disappeared.
The business camel team that survived the catastrophe looked at each other in blank dismay.
The woman looked forward obsessively.
In Hong Bai's eyes, he vaguely remembered the rivers and lakes fifty years ago, and there were also many women who looked at the green shirt with swords like this.
Once the sword is out of the sheath, there will be no injustice in the world.
Hong Bai sighed softly: "It really looks like Li Chungang."