The post station is very noisy. It stands in a small oasis. When you walk in, you will be surrounded by wooden houses and small buildings. Desert residents in different costumes are sitting idle on the ground, selling all kinds of goods at stalls.

A group of them walked in mightily, and people on the road retreated one after another, looking at them curiously.

"Go and ask where there is a bigger wine shop." Miton turned his head and told the guard behind him. The guard nodded, then turned his head and walked to the side of the road, talking with an old woman sitting on the ground.

Gu Jingyue looked around casually, and when her eyes swept across the crowd, the faces of the people she watched all changed and hid, as if they were terribly afraid of their group.

What are they afraid of?Gu Jingyue pulled out a few Fengguo specialty candies from her carry-on bag, held them in her hands, and walked to the side of the road. There were a few children standing there, looking at them curiously.

Kneeling down and looking at them, Gu Jingyue smiled softly and asked, "Sister, here are some candies, do you want some?"

"Candy?" The children looked at each other with longing in their eyes, but no one dared to come up to get it. There was a thin girl hiding behind a boy who was a few years older than her, showing one eye, timidly. He whispered: "We don't eat sugar."

"Why? It's very sweet." Gu Jingyue moved his hands closer to them, "Sister treats you to eat."

"Mother, mother said, no, you can't eat what the adults give you." The boy in front of her blocked the little girl behind her, stammering with a blushing face.

"My lord?" Gu Jingyue lowered her eyes lightly, "Is there any other noble-looking lord here like us?"

"Yes, yes, a few days ago, many well-dressed adults came, and they took the village chief's money and left."

"Money? Why do you need the village chief's money?" Gu Jingyue asked.

"No, I don't know, Mom, Mom didn't tell me." The boy shook his head, "But when they came, they took Dad away."

"Okay, I got it, thank you." Gu Jingyue patted his head and stuffed all the candies into his hands, "Take it back and bring it to your mother. If your mother tells you that you can eat it, you can eat it. We are not them, no It will take away the people in the village, don't be afraid."

"Okay, okay..." The boy nodded, and led his friends away happily.

"..." Looking at their backs, Gu Jingyue asked Siqian in a low voice, "Do you think the group of people who came here belonged to the Gu family?"

"I don't know. If madam wants to know, I'll go and investigate." Siqian replied.

"No need, we're just passing by, don't worry about it." Gu Jingyue rubbed the space between his brows, "It probably won't be them. It's so far away from Gujiacheng, so they probably won't come over."

"I found a place to stay, girl Jingyue, let's go." Miton called them from the front, and Gu Jingyue suppressed his doubts, turned around and followed.

The place the guards asked was an inn near the outside of the village. A large group of them led the horses and walked over. When the large group of people knocked on the door, they almost scared the owner of the inn.

Knowing that they were going to stay in the store, the boss hurriedly led Xiao Er to clean up the house and arranged for them to live in.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, it's fine if I live in the outhouse tonight." Siqian bowed solemnly, his face full of righteousness, "Don't tell the master that I live in the same room with you, or I will definitely It will be miserable."

"Understood." Gu Jingyue took off the white gauze from her head, and smiled helplessly. Wumao gently poked her head out of her sleeve, stuck her tongue out, and then retracted.

"Hey, you little guy, why are you so casually fitting into your wife's clothes? Be careful. I'll tell the master to let her stew you in soup." Siqian yelled at Wumao, and Wumao moved his tail lightly. But he didn't even open his eyes.

"Wumao doesn't seem very comfortable." Gently picked it up and put it on the quilt, Gu Jingyue was a little worried, "It hasn't moved much all day, is it sick?"

"No, maybe the weather is too hot." Siqian poured a glass of water and handed it to Gu Jingyue, "Don't worry, madam, wash up first, and I'll bring you some food."

"Okay, sorry to bother you."

After she left, Gu Jingyue poured out some water to wipe her body, changed into a light tunic with sleeves, and tied her hair up high. Although skirts are cool in this place, they are really inconvenient.

Four thousand dishes came up and he handed her a package.

"This is..." Gu Jingyue took it apart, and inside were several masks of various materials and styles. She raised her head, smiled and said to Siqian: "Thank you, I was thinking that if I met someone from the Gu family What should I do, thank you for bringing the mask."

"These are not mine, ma'am, you don't have to be polite." Siqian shyly prepared the bowls and chopsticks for her, "One of my colleagues really likes these, so I usually buy them when I see them, and I'm used to it."

"Colleague? Is it the woman who went to Gu's house with Mulan?" Gu Jingyue picked out a white hollowed-out mask, which could only cover the upper half of her face and let it breathe more. "Mulan said she was an excellent magician." .”

"Yes..." Mentioning this person, Siqian felt a little depressed, and a few strands of black hair fell on the side of her face, making it difficult to see her expression clearly.

"..." Although I don't know the specifics, but Siqian and that woman seem to have some past events, Gu Jingyue lowered his head, wrapped the rest of the mask, and handed it to her, "The masks are all beautiful, I think your colleagues will like them. "

"I hope." Siqian smiled, "Let's eat, ma'am, I brought you some special dishes here, come and taste if you like it."

"Let's eat together." Gu Jingyue sat down, looked at the dishes on this table, and looked up at Si Qiandao, "I can't finish all the dishes."

"Okay." Siqian agreed with a smile, "Madam and master are indeed very similar, and master used to let the four of us eat with her. The dignitaries I met before, how could they like us? servant?"

"You four?"

"Well, besides Sanqian and me, there are also Zero and Twenty Thousand. Zero and Twenty Thousand have grown up with the master since they were young. Sanqian is Ling's younger brother. And I, the master saved me four years ago. Followed her all the time."

"Are you from Fengguo too?"

"No, my home is a small country around Fengguo." Siqian lowered his head, with a distant smile on the corner of his mouth, "It's a barren place."

Patting her hand, Gu Jingyue didn't ask any more questions, but changed the subject, and the two chatted and had dinner together.

When night fell, Siqian made the bed for Gu Jingyue, turned off the lights, and went back to the outer room to rest.

At night, the temperature in the desert dropped suddenly, Gu Jingyue wrapped herself in the quilt, and warmed herself with magic power.

After returning from West Sea, her magic power has been rising from a ninth-level magic apprentice to a sixth-level magician. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

Unfortunately, it is still too weak, compared to Mulan.

She closed her eyes, and her breath gradually calmed down.

The moon gradually rose into the sky, and the cool light shone down, illuminating the desert as snow.

It was already late at night, and a light figure appeared outside the inn. He paused at the corner for a moment, raised his head, with a green light shining in his eyes, and kept looking upwards, as if he was looking for something.

His sight gradually stopped at a window, and then he took out a shiny thing from behind, which was a small dagger, and he stabbed it into the wall, using his strength, he climbed up nimbly and silently.

His petite body was hanging on the wall, and his arms were vigorously climbing up bit by bit.

The moonlight hit him, and his face was wrapped in a layer of black cloth, so he couldn't see clearly.

He climbed up to the second floor, took a deep breath, held the small dagger with his hands, and seemed to be resting at the window. After a while, he moved his ears to the window and listened carefully. After hearing no sound, He opened the window lightly, peeked inside, then took out a thin thing from his scarf, and gently threw it in.

He slowly climbed down from the second floor little by little, and after he fell to the ground, he ran out of the inn very quickly, and disappeared on the path of the inn.

"Madam, it's..." The voice of getting up came from the outer room, Siqian paused at the door for a moment, and asked softly, "Madam, can I go in?"

"Come in." Gu Jingyue also stood up, picked up the thrown piece of paper from the ground, and said to Siqian, "Light up the lamp."

"Okay." Siqian took out a torch, lit a few candles, and placed them on the table, "Madam, come here to have a look, it's brighter here."

Open that piece of paper, there is a simple map on it, so simple that only a few circles are used to represent hills, and lines are used to represent trees.

Smiling softly, Gu Jingyue raised her head and said to her, "This kid is quite...humorous."

"What is this painting?" Siqian looked puzzled, "Map? What can you see on such a crude map?"

"It's marked with the name of the mountain, the distance between them, and where he wants us to go." Gu Jingyue lightly tapped the paper with her fingers, her face calm, "It also says, this place , the army of the Gu family is guarding it. The Gu family... What do you think they are doing in this remote place? Could it be that they want to expand their power? From this point of view, I should go and have a look. "

"Gu family, madam, we can't go." Siqian said without hesitation, with a serious face on her beautiful face, "Madam, I'll call Master Miton over."

"No need, it's not too late to talk about it tomorrow." Folding up the letters, Gu Jingyue smiled at her reassuringly. "If you don't go, I won't go privately, don't be so nervous."

"That's good." Siqian heaved a sigh of relief, rubbing his eyes, "I'm almost exhausted, ma'am, let's rest."

"Well, go to sleep." Blowing out the candles, Gu Jingyue looked out the window, "I want to sit by myself for a while."

"lady?"

"Go, I won't mess around."

"Okay." Siqian walked out of the house, and when he arrived, he gave her a worried look.

Hearing the sound of her lying down, Gu Jingyue stroked the palm of his hand and took out a small object in his hand. It was a small, oblate object, something that would never appear in this era. Silver button battery.

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