last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

The road to Xibeiguan is a long way.

Lan Jiansu, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, was still choked up by the weight of "disturbance" on the road.

He didn't have much money to carry, and he ran out of money on the road, so Lan Jiansu set up a fortune-telling stall on the spot, and he could earn a lot of money on the road all the way to the northwest.

But after entering the Northwest Territory, most of the magic sticks came from the Baila Kingdom, and they grabbed a good deal with him.As soon as customers heard that other people's homes came from the Baila country, they rushed to patronize the business of Baila people based on the subjective awareness of the good quality of the imports.

Relying on setting up a stall to do fortune-telling could no longer support the travel expenses, so Lan Jiansu had to find other metaphysical technical jobs to do, after all, he couldn't waste this good skill.

Coincidentally, a rich man died of his son, and he did not believe his son, so he went there.Lan Jiansu stepped forward to take a breath, and the corpse was still hanging on, not dead.He opened an altar to spread out and helped the rich man's son come back to life.The soul still went in, but the son didn't wake up.Lan Jiansu came up with an unearthly method, borrowed a flute from the snake-teasing Indian, and played a soul-inducing song with incomplete pentatonic notes and irregular scores.As the flute blew, the corpse jumped up, mounted their horse, and rode off.

The son of the rich man came back in soul, but Zhi did not, and the crowd snatched their horses and ran away.

The rich man asked someone to chase after him, he hurriedly gave Lan Jiansu and the others two ingots of silver, and sent them away.

Horses are expensive in the northwest, and two ingots of silver can't even buy a horseshoe in the northwest.There is still a hundred miles to go to the Northwest Pass, and walking will either waste your time or your feet.

It was also a coincidence that I met a merchant who wanted to do a big business with Lan Jiansu, and he took two ingots of silver from Lan Jiansu to buy high-quality grass-fed from outside merchants, and he could sell it for double the price.At that time, Lan Jiansu would be returned four ingots of silver and a horse as reward.

Li Xingxi said: "When I was at home, my father told me that the merchants in the Northwest are honest. I believe he will not lie."

Since the two ingots of silver were useless except for eating and drinking, Lan Jiansu believed in this honest northwestern businessman and lent him two ingots of silver to invest.

Li Xingxi's father didn't lie, and God didn't lie to him, the Northwest businessman was indeed very honest.But he was honest, and foreign merchants did not follow him.Take away his two ingots of silver, and throw in two boxes of water-soaked grass feed as good goods.

The Northwest businessman found out that he had been cheated and had no money to return to Lan Jiansu, so he "honestly" fled in fear of crime, leaving a letter and a camel for Lan Jiansu to repay the debt.

He didn't buy a horse, but he got a camel by accident. Lan Jiansu found it difficult to describe his mood. When he led this huge animal to set off, he felt a strange feeling more depressing than losing money in stocks.

After entering the Northwest Chengguan, what greeted us was an endless wind and sandstorm, and the yellow dust swept across the sparse and dilapidated houses one after another.The hot air under the round sun steams up on the rolling sand dunes, and the withered grass and cacti stand tenaciously in the desert.The white snow that condenses at night on the hills and valleys presents the seasons of the desert in a nondescript way.

It's windy here, so it's not too hot, but the glare of the sun is still so strong that it's hard to keep your eyes open.

Li Xingxi was most afraid of glare. The Yunshan blue forehead scarf with broken hair was blown on a layer of gray sand, and the head was rounded by the fleece scarf. He couldn't find his way on the soft desert.

"Sit on it." Lan Jiansu said, and lifted him onto the camel to sit on.

Li Xingxi rode on the camel, and Lan Jiansu walked in front.Li Xingshi blocked the glare of the sun with his hands, and squinted through his fingers to see Lan Jiansu's double image dazzled by the sun: "Brother Lan, are you tired? Or would you sit up too?"

Lan Jiansu said, "I have to explore the way ahead."

They are not familiar with the roads in the desert, and they are afraid that they will not be able to see the blind spots when riding on camels.So there must be someone walking below, in case of being caught off guard in case of danger.

The silver bells hanging on the camels jingled, and the crisp silver bells sounded like a whitebait swimming in the whistling yellow wind, gently stroking their ears.

"Brother Lan...Brother Lan..." Li Xingxi muttered to himself.

Lan Jiansu thought he had something to call her, "What's wrong?"

Li Xingxi said: "When we first met, you told me that your name was Lan Juan. Later I found out that your name was Lan Jiansu. But sometimes when I write about you in my notes, I still get used to writing about the blue of the blue sky, and I can't change it. He said in a low voice, "Did Brother Lan think that we were all going to die and we would never see each other again in the next life, so he made up a random name and told me?"

He didn't want to blame Lan Jiansu, but Li Xingxi felt a little sad when he thought that this might be the meaning.

"No, my real name is Lan Juan." Lan Jiansu said, "This is a name only you know."

"Oh, this is your name, isn't it?" Li Xing smiled sweetly with his mouth hidden under the velvet scarf, and his heart relaxed.

Lan Jiansu gave a long "hmm": "Almost."

"Lan Juan, Lan Juan..." Li Xingxi murmured the name over and over to himself, "Lan Juan" softly, one after another, resting on the camel's silver bell, fluttering in the yellow wind.

There is a large temperature difference between day and night in Xibeiguan, the sun is surprisingly strong during the day, and it snows heavily at night.

What I fear most in snowy nights is encountering wild beasts. People's endurance is not as strong as wild beasts, and with poor eyesight, it is difficult to escape. Once they encounter them, they are almost dead.

They were afraid that there would be beasts, and the beasts appeared as they heard their calls.

A few desert snow wolves, three on the left and four on the right, stood on the snow hill in the distance, facing the wind and snow without blinking, watching them quietly.

Li Xingxi said vigilantly: "Brother Lan, there are wolves."

The foreign gun that Shen Pinglu gave him should be able to kill one of them, but it is not as troublesome to reload as the updated firecracker. If one wolf is killed, the others will rush up.

Lan Jiansu took out the Zhang Talisman from his bosom. If the Talisman hadn't been squeezed, it should be able to conjure up a fireball.Wolves are afraid of fire, which is better than firing a foreign gun.The improvised mana might only last for a moment, but as soon as the wolves were scared away, they would have time to ride their camels away.

At this time, the leading wolf walked towards them step by step with its back arched, while the other wolves remained standing still.

The wolf flew over suddenly, Li Xingxi called out to him, Lan Jiansu was startled, and threw the talisman away.

Because the shock was too great, after throwing out the talisman, only a small spark appeared and then went out, basically useless.

The snow wolf had already pounced on Lan Jiansu.

Li Xingxi drew out the sword he was carrying and was about to stab at him, but saw the snow wolf lying on Lan Jiansu's lap, wagging his tail coquettishly at him.

Lan Jiansu was stunned, as if seeing a puppy grinning at him in a daze.

Then he raised his head to look at the other wolves, and they all wagged their tails at him.

It is strange that the wild wolves here are so hospitable and have a tendency to evolve into huskies.

These northwestern snow wolves are ferocious beasts among the population in the northwest.But the wolves that Lan Jiansu came into contact with now were like domestic dogs, obedient to him and very clingy.It can be seen that people's words cannot be believed.

The wolves were leading the way for them, as if they were going to lead them to a certain place.

After walking with them against the wind and snow for about half an hour, in the snowy valley, a dilapidated inn whose signboard was blown to the sky by the wind was shining faintly by candlelight.

Such an inn in the desert is located here, no need to think about it, it must be a black shop.

However, the climate here is too bad, and the weather is getting colder and colder. As long as there is a place to take shelter, black shops will also get in.

After entering the inn, there was no one in the store, only a one-eyed man was eating dried fruit with his legs crossed.Seeing Lan Jiansu and Li Xingxi coming in, he didn't say hello or look up.

Lan Jiansu patted the snow on his body and called, "Shopkeeper."

The one-eyed man said: "I'm not a shopkeeper."

Li Xingxi asked: "You are not the store owner, so why are you here alone?"

The one-eyed man said: "I am a resident here, and I have lived here for more than a year."

Li Xingxi glanced around the humble inn: "What about the store?"

The one-eyed man said: "I've been on the road for a long time. This inn has been abandoned for more than a year. Do you want to live? Do what you want."

According to the one-eyed man, the store opened last year.It turned out that Sanguan wanted to imitate the Jianghu people in the chivalrous novels, earn some black money from butchers, and kill some fat-headed people to make human meat buns.

But the reality is too different from what he imagined. The wind and sand here are so strong that he can't blow a single guest, and it even blows his face full of pimples.He said that it affected both his mood and his skin, so he left the property and slipped back to the central part.This place has also become a temporary shelter for passers-by to enter at any time, but there are really too few outsiders who come here, only the one-eyed man who came to escape the pursuit of the enemy a year ago has avoided until now.Now the Chou family is gone, but he has become like a salted fish, he doesn't want to go back, and he doesn't know what to do, so he just dawdles around.

Lan Jiansu felt that the store owner had no brains, and if he didn't manage such a good property, it was simply trampling the land.At the beginning, he only wanted to spread the news that there was a treasure here, and many people would come to look for it.

By the way, he used this as a theme to write a few novels about treasure hunting and tomb robbery, created a few popular characters, and attracted countless fans to check in. He may not be sure that there will be another grand occasion to flatten the Northwest Desert.It can also be used to develop the tourism industry of Xibeiguan, not only earn a lot of money, but also become a hero of Xibeiguan people.This store is also the mainstay of the tourism industry, the first word-of-mouth store in Northwest China.

He has already borrowed the name of this project, and it is called the Western Project.

After hearing this, the one-eyed man shone brightly and seemed to have regained his ideals in life. He bowed his hands to Lan Jiansu and said, "Thank you for your advice, Mr. I'm going to spread the news." middle part.

So only Li Xingxi and Lan Jiansu were left in the inn.Lan Jiansu didn't know until now that he had a good brain that could make up a few sentences and make money without a trace.

Lan Jiansu found some dry food and some dried meat in the kitchen.The jerky here, he has a psychological precaution not to eat it indiscriminately.Let’s not talk about whether it might be human flesh, even if it’s not human flesh, it might be rat meat, lizard meat, or the meat of all sorts of strange species.The meat of wild animals should not be eaten indiscriminately, as it is easy to be infected with viruses.

He gave Li Xingxi a big pancake, and with one in his mouth, he threw the dried meat out to feed the snow wolves guarding outside.

Taking out the map and eating the pie, Lan Jiansu found their current location on the map.The ghost knife sect ruins are only three kilometers away.The Ghost Saber Sect is now located in the southeast of them, and it will take an hour to walk there tomorrow.

What I am afraid of is that the wind and sand have been constantly blowing these years, and the sand and soil have changed.It would be troublesome if the Ghost Saber Sect was already buried in the ground.

Suddenly, there was a "thump", and Lan Jiansu's attention shifted from the map.Seeing that Li Xingxi was still biting the big pancake in his mouth, and fell asleep with his head heavy on the table.

He hasn't had a good night's sleep these days, probably because he's exhausted.

Lan Jiansu got up to bolt the windows and doors, moved the charcoal-burning stove to Li Xingxi's side, sat down and continued to study the location on the map.

But at this time, the hair brush in his arms was hot.He immediately took it out to look, and saw the pointer protruding from the back of the combing screen, pointing straight to the southeast.An extremely heavy resentment lingered on the pointer, steaming out misty black smoke.

The author says:

Li Xingxi: Brother Lan Juan, I like you! ! !

Lan Jiansu: Children, don't say what you like or don't like.

Li Xingxi: I celebrate my birthday this month...