Snow in Chang'an in December

? Around the middle of the night, Shen Zixu woke up suddenly. There was sweat on his forehead. He must have had a nightmare. He turned his face and stared blankly at the flickering candle for an unknowingly long time. Then he blinked. Blinking, I felt that my eyes were extremely sore.

His head still hurts badly, but now he wakes up with a start, only feeling dry in his throat, he gently propped up his body with his arms, got off the bed and poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his mouth, the flickering candle was about to ignite do.He rummaged through the baggage and found a few pieces of shortbread that Ning Feng had put in before, and he ate two of them on the way, and they tasted good.

The night in Nanman was not as hot as the morning, and the cool breeze sometimes entered the room. Shen Zixu read Ning Feng's letter more than three times. No regrets", every time he saw it, he felt a little joy for some reason.He put the letter and the peace knot given to him by Ningfeng that day by his pillow. He tossed it over and over again, only chanting the phrase that I am lucky enough to meet my son in this life.

When Shen Zixu woke up again, it was already afternoon, he was a little surprised that he had slept so late, without thinking too much, he hurriedly washed and packed his things, then went downstairs, found a seat by the window, and Ask Xiao Er to serve some baskets of dim sum.When he was pouring tea, he didn't intend to gossip about the content of the chat, but when he suddenly heard someone mention the word "Central Plains", he immediately stopped picking up the tea.

I just listened carefully, but it was not what I thought, maybe I was thinking too much.Shen Zi smiled, then lightly sipped his tea, just paid a little attention to the person who said the word Central Plains just now, for some reason he always felt that those two people were a bit weird.

After a long time, those two people left, and Shen Zixu also hurriedly put down the money, and as they walked out of the inn, he was not sure that these two people were related to the Southern barbarian traitors in the memorial, but he still didn't know, they Why did the two suddenly bring up the Central Plains?

He was remembering his way, but to his surprise, those two people had already stopped. When he raised his eyes, he happened to see their faces clearly. One had a wide face and a big mouth, the other had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. Shen Zixu couldn't help being startled. The two found themselves accompanying them all the way.

The three of them looked at each other, for some reason, the two turned around and left without asking a question, Shen Zixu couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, and when the two were a little far away from him, he quietly followed, but this But once, he took the map out to record the road, he was not sure that those two would let him go just like that, but as soon as he thought of Ning Feng, as soon as he thought of the brotherhood between the two of them in the past, no matter how scared he was, It is also necessary to remove the rebels for Ning Feng.

He is his elder brother and also his prime minister.

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Shen Zixu didn't know where this place was, he only heard the sound of elephants from time to time. He unfolded the map, but found that this place was not far from the marked place. There was no grass growing here, and it was hot. Shen Zixu couldn't help feeling dry mouth and dizzy before his eyes. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, and after getting used to it for a while, he hurried to the side where the elephant sound was coming from.

As he walked closer and closer, he heard a few "greetings to my king", Shen Zixu understood in his heart that those two people had long since disappeared, and he clearly remembered that he followed them closely. Okay, unexpectedly, the strong wind came suddenly accompanied by fine sand, he couldn't help squinting his eyes, and when he opened them, he didn't know where he was going.At this moment, the sound of elephants was deafening, sometimes accompanied by a few human voices and screams. He walked a few steps quietly and hid behind a boulder. He only watched the elephants led by the soldiers in strange clothes.

But when he raised his head and looked around, he saw a strange man with a black veil standing not far away holding a scepter. Beside him were corpses without limbs. At this time, soldiers were approaching Cutting the corpse into pieces with a sword, Shen Zixu couldn't help feeling extremely sick, he frowned slightly, and tried his best to suppress the nausea.

"Those who betrayed me will end up like this." The weird man finally opened his mouth. He raised his scepter and then resisted a person who was struggling on the ground, and then stabbed it down fiercely. Suddenly, Shen Zixu was startled, almost screaming, he couldn't help but took a few steps back, and almost fell to the ground by mistake.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent, only the sound of the wind, not even the sound of the elephant.

But at this time, Shen Zixu coughed, he quickly raised his sleeve to cover his thin lips, but there were still a few coughs accompanied by the sound of the wind that entered the ears of those foreigners.

"Who!?" asked the weird man with a black veil, not only was he dressed strangely, but his voice was also extremely strange.

How can Shen Zixu not know the art of war, but at this time the enemy army is a foreigner, and the mounts are all elephant soldiers, not to mention that he is alone, he can only gamble, and wait for them to train again time to escape.Fortunately, there was no detailed investigation afterwards, but what happened next was something Shen Zixu never expected——

"If you see this person, you must capture him and come to see me." But seeing that he was holding a picture scroll in his hand, although his painting skills were not very good, the person who could be seen in the painting was Shen Zixu.

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The night was getting dark, Shen Zixu didn't know how many miles he had walked, but now he felt his legs were so sore, he actually met a martial arts practitioner from the Central Plains along the way. I can chat with each other one after another.The man wore a long sword on his waist, with the word "Xu" engraved on the hilt. He was handsome, but his temper was talkative, other than that, there was nothing wrong with it.

Along the way, the man was still smiling all over his face, as if he was not very tired, but he stopped to drink water to moisten his mouth from time to time, and then called "Scholar Shen, Scholar Shen".Shen Zixu actually didn't care how he called him, but after leaving the place, he was already in the bustling market, calling Shen Shusheng all the way, it seemed very intimate, passers-by couldn't help but look at him.

"Scholar Shen, are you hungry?" The man stopped in front of a bun shop.

Shen Zixu glanced at him, then shook his head, but saw that he took out a few pieces of shortbread wrapped in cloth from the bag and ate it.

"Scholar Shen, how about giving me a piece?"

Shen Zi said nothing, after hearing this, he gave him a piece of shortbread, the man ate up the shortbread after a while, and then clamored to take a bath and rest, he had no choice but to find a random inn and stayed.After taking a bath, Shen Zixu took up a pen to write, only writing down everything he saw today.

After writing, he put the letter under the pillow, and held the peace knot that Ning Feng gave him in the palm of his hand, just now he put out the candle and fell asleep, but he still coughed before falling asleep, so he couldn't help pulling the thin quilt on his body, Just hold the peace knot in your hand firmly.The exhaustion of the day made him not think too much. After closing his eyes, he felt drowsy and fell asleep slowly.

I don't know how many hours later, he actually smelled a faint fragrance while he was half asleep and half awake. Shen Zixu didn't understand why he smelled a faint fragrance at the beginning, but when he wanted to get up to drink water, he was horrified to find that his limbs were weak. There is no sleepiness at all. ?