One night, the moon climbed up the branches, and the moonlight shone on the window, filling the room with silver.

Inside the screen of the inner bedroom, Yu Wenrui prepared hot water for bathing for Nan Rongyue, and sprinkled osmanthus petals in the bathtub.

After a while, the water vapor was dense, and the faint fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus floated in the room.

Yu Wenrui tested the water temperature, and it was just right, so he went outside to call Nan Rongyue to come over to take a bath.

Seeing Yu Wenrui's straight gaze, Nan Rongyue said awkwardly, "Sister Rui, go out first, and Yue'er can come by herself."

She raised her hand to push Yu Wenrui out, but she didn't.

"No, my lord saint," Yu Wenrui said with seriousness on his face, "it is the duty of a servant to serve her lord personally, how can I bother you to do it yourself!"

As he spoke, he was going to go forward to undress Nan Rongyue.

Why didn't she realize that Sister Rui was so prudish before!Nan Rongyue laughed and cursed in her heart.

Seeing that Yu Wenrui's "salty pig's hand" was about to reach out, she hurriedly grabbed her belt and took a few steps back.

"Beauty, don't go!" Seeing that Nan Rongyue was confused, Yu Wenrui changed his previous seriousness and changed into a shameless ruffian, so he wanted to post it.

To get along with a daughter-in-law is to have a face thicker than the corner of the city wall. This sentence won Yu Wenrui's heart.

"Stop!" Nan Rongyue shouted lightly.

Unexpectedly, Yu Wenrui intensified and said: "Is this beauty trying to welcome or reject? Don't be afraid, beauty, my sister will be very gentle..."

She stared lewdly at Nan Rongyue's beautiful face, and approached her like a hungry wolf.

Knowing that Yu Wenrui is deliberately playing a rogue to play with her at the moment, Nan Rongyue is anxious and funny.

She, Nan Rongyue, would not succumb to this guy's lust!

Nan Rongyue raised her chin, put her hands on her hips and pretended to be angry: "If you make trouble again, you can sleep in the study tonight!"

"Yue'er!" Yu Wenrui looked at her pitifully.

Nan Rongyue didn't even look at her.

"Master Saint..." Yu Wenrui leaned in front of her and swayed from side to side like a dog's leg, desperately trying to gain a sense of presence.

Nan Rongyue simply turned her eyes away.

Yu Wenrui couldn't resist her, thinking that the water would be cold if he delayed, so he could only compromise.

"Then the holy lady takes a bath by herself? The servant waits outside, why should I call the servant again?"

"Go, go!" Nan Rongyue waved her hand proudly to signal her to back down.

In the evening, the two lay on the bed shoulder to shoulder and chatted.

"Yue'er, let's discuss something with you."

"What's the matter?" Nan Rongyue was half asleep and half awake, her voice a little confused.

"I heard that thieves are rampant in the barren desert recently. The thieves plundered a large number of food supplies in the border towns. What's more, they even robbed the women of various households?"

As soon as she mentioned this, Nan Rongyue immediately woke up. In the darkness, she opened her dark eyes to look at Yu Wenrui.

"Hey," Nan Rongyue sighed quietly, "It's not been a day or two. It was reported to Tianting a few years ago, but it has been shelved because there is no solution."

The barren desert located on the west side of the mainland is covered by vast yellow sand all the year round, where the water resources are extremely scarce and the vegetation is scarce, and there are strong winds and sandstorms from time to time, and the weather environment is quite harsh.

I heard that there is an oasis in the barren desert, and there is a mysterious tribe living in the oasis. The people of this tribe are savage, cruel by nature and love to plunder. From time to time, they ride to the border of Xizhou on the unique camel beast in the desert. Wanton looting, all kinds of evil.

When it comes to bandits disturbing the people, as a saint, she is very worried.It's ashamed to say that the common people in the frontier are suffering, but she is helpless, and she stays in the Temple of Light every day enjoying peace and happiness.

"Grandma sent troops to encircle and suppress when she was the governor of Xizhou, but those bandits were very cunning and fought with us..."

"Guerrilla warfare." Yu Wenrui reminded.

"Yes, yes, guerrilla warfare." In my impression, Yu Wenrui had taught her such a vocabulary.

Speaking of this, Nan Rongyue frowned, "As soon as our army attacked, they ran away without a trace. When our army retreated, they came out to rob the people again. You said that in this vast desert, we are not as familiar with the terrain as they are. Where can I find them!"

Yu Wenrui knows that the rear supply is particularly important for troops stationed at the border. If a letter is sent from the barren desert to the main city of Xizhou to ask for food, and then wait until the grain truck reaches the border, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth.

As for the bandits, their food was plundered directly from the people nearby, and in terms of consumption, the army could not consume them.

I heard Nan Rongyue continue: "Later, when my brother became the governor of Xizhou, this problem became even more serious. The people on the border were harassed by bandits and suffered unspeakably. He was also strongly opposed by the other city and county lords, among which the Lan family was the most vocal. My brother wanted to fight against all opinions, but his generals refused to send troops to the desert, so in the end it was nothing."

"What's the matter, Sister Rui, why did you mention this all of a sudden?" Nan Rongyue turned over and faced Yu Wenrui, asking her.

Yu Wenrui said lightly: "When I was sweeping the floor yesterday, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a solution to the problem."

Nan Rongyue grabbed Yu Wenrui's arm and hurriedly asked, "Really? What method?"

Yu Wenrui was not in a hurry to say it, but kept it a secret, she said with a mysterious smile: "It depends on whether Yue'er is willing to go to the barren desert with me..."

Regarding Nan Rongyue's going to the border, Jiang Liumu was against it at first, but as the elder brother, he couldn't resist his sister's begging, so he had to agree.

What's more, if his sister really has a way to get rid of this increasingly rampant banditry, that would be great.

Jiang Liumu originally wanted to send a team to protect Nan Rongyue's safety, but she stopped her because the saint was traveling in secret, and this matter should not be publicized, the less people know about it, the better.

After thinking about it, Nan Rongyue was protected by the divine beast Jin Qilin, and beside her was a maidservant with strong martial arts, so she should be able to deal with the mere bandits with ease.

Ten days later, the two who were ready to go secretly boarded the flying dragon beast car and went to the border town of Xizhou.

Stepping into a small town at the westernmost end of Xizhou, you can see everything yellow and misty as far as you can see. The empty streets are covered with a thick layer of loess, and small, square, single-story earthen buildings are lined up on both sides.

There is a similar-looking earthen building every few meters on the road, and a Populus euphratica tree is planted in the middle of each earthen building to shelter from the wind and sand.

Perhaps no one has cleaned it for many years, and the plaque on the door of the tulou is covered with yellow sand. Whether it is the streets, buildings or plants, it looks a bit dilapidated and dilapidated.

The desert was very windy and sandy. Both Yu Wenrui and Nan Rongyue wore veils, covering most of their faces. They also wore black cloaks to prevent wind and sand.

The wind containing sand blew against the ears of the two of them, slightly stinging.

There was not a single pedestrian on the street, and the two were tired after walking for a while, and because there was no one to ask for directions, the two had to try their best to distinguish the handwriting on the Tulou plaque.

Walking to one place, they finally saw the four characters of "Hongyun Inn" on a certain plaque. The two were overjoyed, looked at each other and went to knock on the door of the store.

- knock knock knock

The two waited for a long time but no one came to open the door.

- knock knock knock

Yu Wenrui knocked hard on the copper ring on the door a few more times.

"Is the store here?" Yu Wenrui raised his voice and asked into the room.

No one answered.

With the scorching sun hanging high above, how could the inn not be open in broad daylight?

Nan Rongyue was puzzled, thought for a while and said: "Please open the door, we are travelers from afar, and we are here to stay!"

After waiting for a long time, there was finally the sound of the door lock colliding inside the tightly closed door, and the door was opened a gap from the inside.

A pair of shrewd eyes inside the door peeked at the crack of the door, and after looking at the two of them for a while, they pushed open the door and said impatiently, "Come in quickly!"

As soon as the two entered the room, the person who opened the door closed the door again with a bang, and then locked it sloppily.

Intuition that this person is weird, but he can't tell what is strange, so Yu Wenrui can only protect Nan Rongyue behind him, and carefully look at the person in front of him.

The man in front of him was wearing a cloth shirt, about 40 years old, with thick eyebrows and small eyes, and a thick beard. Although he was about the same height as Yu Wenrui, he looked very strong and strong.

"You are the store owner, right?" Yu Wenrui glanced calmly at the dagger on the man's waist.

The man nods.

"Are you a local?" Yu Wenrui asked casually.

The man nodded again and asked suspiciously, "Are you going to stay at the hotel?"

Seeing that the door-callers were two women, the man's vigilance seemed to have eased a little, but he had doubts in his heart.

The border is in troubled times, and the banditry is serious. Why do people choose this time to stay in this place that doesn't shit?

Really strange!

The two took off their veils to reveal their delicate faces. Both of them were extremely beautiful, and they should not be too ostentatious outside, so both of them used illusion to change their appearance.

But Yu Wenrui said: "Is there any food? Let's take some too."

The man rolled his eyes, and hurriedly led the two of them to the dining table in the inn lobby, and said: "Yes, there are, but some simple food, so bland, I don't know if it suits the taste of the two of you?"

But Nan Rongyue answered casually: "It's okay, I didn't have the opportunity to taste the characteristics of this frontier place before, and today I got my wish."

The man's eyes darkened, and the way he looked at them became even weirder.

After a while, the man brought out two plates of steaming food and put them on the table.

The man introduced: "This plate is baked pancake with shallots, and this plate is stir-fried shallots. Eat it while it's hot."

"Sand onion?" Nan Rongyue looked at the fresh green wild vegetables on the dinner plate.

It looks like ordinary scallions, but it's not like it.

Compared to Nan Rongyue's curiosity about new things, Yu Wenrui stared at the man's hands and feet absent-mindedly.

It's strange, it's so strange, Yu Wenrui always feels that something is unreasonable, but he can't think of the crux of it.

But the man recommended excitedly: "You must have never eaten it before, this sand onion is not an ordinary onion, it is a specialty of our northwest border, unique!"

Nan Rongyue put a mouthful of stir-fried shallots with chopsticks.

"How does it taste?" The man looked at her expectantly.

Nan Rongyue chewed slowly, and waited until she swallowed the scallion before saying, "It's delicious, it smells like chives, but the taste is sweeter!"

"Yes, it tastes better with some mature vinegar!" The man said triumphantly, and ran to the back kitchen to take out a plate and fill it with mature vinegar.

Yu Wenrui hesitated for a moment, then also picked up the shallot, dipped it in vinegar and ate it in one bite.

She cut a piece of green onion pancake with a knife and handed it to Nan Rongyue. Looking at the two dishes with unique local characteristics in front of her, she thought that if she was in modern times, she might not have the opportunity to eat such pure natural and pollution-free fresh wild dishes.

Fresh wild greens... wait for it... not right!

At a certain moment, Yu Wenrui seemed to understand something, she was a little annoyed, and hurriedly signaled with her eyes that Nan Rongyue's situation was different.

While the shopkeeper was returning to the back kitchen with the plate after the meal, Yu Wenrui handed Nan Rongyue a detoxification elixir.

"Is there a problem with the food?" Nan Rongyue asked in a low voice after taking the elixir.

Yu Wenrui nodded slightly.

After a short exchange, I saw the shopkeeper walking over with a teapot and two teacups, and then poured hot tea for the two of them. The two who understood it pretended to be drinking rough tea while chatting with the shopkeeper.

Yu Wenrui pretended not to know the truth, and opened his mouth to ask: "Master, this small town sees so many residential buildings, why is there no pedestrian on the street? How can it be so dilapidated?"

The man sighed, his eyes flickered slightly, but he remained silent.

After a long while, he reluctantly revealed the truth: "It's not like bandits in the barren desert, they go to the town to snatch things and women from time to time. habit, whether it is day or night."

Yu Wenrui seemed puzzled, and asked again: "Then why didn't you report it to the government?"

"Hmph, report to the officer?" The man sneered.

"If reporting to the official is useful, we won't be able to stay behind closed doors!"

But the man said again: "Hey, the report to the officials is the report, and the army and mercenaries have also come here to garrison, but the banditry is still there!"

Yu Wenrui seemed to have thought of something, and asked doubtfully: "But you stay behind closed doors all day long, and the market is not open, so what do you usually eat? Where did you give us the shallots..."

"Hey, why do I feel... dizzy..." Halfway through the speech, Yu Wenrui's upper body wobbled, and he was about to fall down.

Nan Rongyue's eyelids drooped quickly, and she feebly raised her hand to press her temple and said, "My head too..."

Before they could finish speaking, both of them lay down on the table without moving.

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