Taiping Inn

As the frost falls, the cicadas are sad, the fallen leaves are all over the ground, and the geese fly south. The coolness in the night wind turned into a bone-broken chill. In the blink of an eye, it was already mid-October. After the beginning of winter, there were only less than three months left before the New Year of the twelfth lunar month.

After Li Xuandu and others stopped in Hejian Prefecture for a while, they headed to the Wucheng, which is closest to Yuguan.

Yuguan is known as the world's number one pass. This place is tight and narrow, becoming the key link from Heshuo to Liaodong. The ancients called it "the unparalleled key is the world's number one level." It is indeed worthy of it.

A large part of the reason why the Liaodong Iron Cavalry can take the world is because they have mastered this powerful pass. They can enter the pass and go south, and retreat and control one side. According to the original idea of ​​the court, Yuguan and Youzhou should be under the control of the Governor of Youyan. Then the court can control Liaodong when advancing, and retreat can be taken by the Guan themselves. Unfortunately, Youzhou is lost, Yuguan changes its masters, and the offensive and defense are changing. The Liaodong Iron Cavalry became a sharp sword hanging above the heads of the powerful people in the imperial capital.

After leaving Wucheng, you have to walk three hundred miles northward to reach Yuguan. During the three hundred miles of road, except for a few inns that were only for the imperial court, there were only a few people and no inns at all. Moreover, before we reached the gates, the weather here was already very cold, almost as good as the mid-nine winter in Jiangnan.

Experts above the innate realm can be inseparable from cold and heat, so they are not afraid, but ordinary disciples cannot do it and have changed into thick fur clothes early.

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Seeing this, Li Xuandu asked Qin Su about the situation outside the pass.

Qin Su grew up in Liaodong since she was a child and was familiar with her, saying, "Although winter has just begun, it is already very cold outside the pass. If you go further north, it will almost start to snow on the grassland."

At this moment, Qin Buer said, "What the young lady said is that in the past two years, there have been constant white disasters on the grassland, and the snow has crushed people to death. There are really many herders who have escaped from the grassland."

Li Xuandu said, "How could the herdsmen of the Golden Horde flee to Liaodong?"

Qin Buer said: "The herdsmen are grazing like we farm. We must reserve next year's seeds and rations from this year's harvest, and the herdsmen must also reserve next year's lambs and food, but a vacancies will come. , countless animals froze to death. Even if the snow turns into spring, the herdsmen still have to drink the northwest wind. So the herdsmen have only two ways, either follow the Jinguan army south or flee to Liaodong. In recent years, Zhaobutang organized The manpower reclaimed wasteland, with more land and fewer people. As long as we come, we will have a full meal and will not starve to death. After those herders who are unwilling to fight the war learned the news, they took their families to Liaodong. "

Qin Su agreed: "In the past two years, the Jin Horde has repeatedly invaded the border, either to capture cities and plunder land or to survive the winter. However, Zhao's troops were in charge of military affairs, and the Liaodong iron cavalry was not inferior to the Jin Tent cavalry, and they often occupied the It wasn't that cheap, and those ordinary herders didn't want to die in vain, so they naturally ran to Liaodong. "

Li Xuan nodded, thinking.

Although he had never been to the grassland, he also knew that it was all about grazing. If the snow was heavy and the grass was buried deep, the livestock would not be full, and some of them would starve to death. If they did not starve to death, they would be weak. , the weather is too cold to resist the freezing, and some of them will inevitably freeze to death again, so the herdsmen will suffer heavy losses.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This kind of war has nothing to do with doing things for heaven, just for survival. When the two countries compete, no matter who wins or loses, the people below are in a miserable situation. It really corresponds to the ancient poem: "The people suffer when the prosperity occurs; the people suffer when the death occurs."

Seeing that Li Xuan was silent, Qin Su said, "Do you want to go to the grassland to see? When I was a child, I went to the grassland with my father. It was really snow-white between the world, without any variegated colors, and the sun shone down. Bai Xueyao was so hard that she couldn't even open her eyes. I couldn't see things clearly for several days when I came back from the grassland."

Li Xuandu said, "If I have the chance, I don't mind going to see the scenery outside the border."

Their group set off from Wucheng in Chen Shi and only walked more than a hundred miles until Shen Shi. At this time, many disciples of the Butian Sect who had no innate realm cultivation no longer rode their horses, but instead dismounted and ran on foot. In Qin Su's words, if you keep sitting on the horse's back, you will soon be numb from the cold. If you don't move around, you will be able to warm your body and suffer less.

After half an hour of this, he finally arrived at the reserved camp. The disciples of Butian Sect began to set up camp, while the disciples of Wangqing Sect were responsible for reheating the already cold food.

It is said that the house is raining all night long. At midnight, a sudden heavy snow fell. It is hard to imagine that the autumn rain in Jinzhou a few days ago was still shaking, but now it has already snowed heavily in Youzhou.

When I woke up the next day, the snow had stopped. In addition to the blue sky, I could see the vast whiteness of snow, as if everything in the world was integrated, and even the road under my feet became blurred.

Li Xuandu only has four words in his heart to describe this situation: "Only the restless."

The world is high and vast, and their group is like a small black line on white paper, walking slowly. Because there is snow on the road, it is becoming more and more difficult to walk, and it is a bit difficult to walk. Occasionally, you have to look at the sun to distinguish the direction so as not to go a fork in the road.

Qin Su saw that Li Xuan was full of strangeness and smiled and said, "This is pretty good, because there is a post road, you can barely distinguish the direction. If you reach the grassland outside the border, there is no road at all. When the wind passes, what are the horseshoe marks or rut marks? All of them were covered up, the sky was vast and the earth was flat. Looking around, it was white, and there was no tree or hill, and there was no trace of a person. That was where the road was. Most people who go to the grassland will get lost, no way out, and cannot find the way back. When the dry food is finished, they will starve to death on the white grassland. This is the greatness of the Baichao."

Li Xuan was shocked and said, "It's really different from the Central Plains." Then, he said, "I'm very familiar with the grassland when I hear you."

"It's not easy to be familiar with it." Qin Su said, "I've been there just a few times. You also know that I like to travel around the mountains and rivers, so how can I let go of the scenery outside the border? You're catching up with winter, if it's summer, the grassland There is another glory on it."

Li Xuandu said: "Winter is white, summer is green."

While talking, the wind blew again, the sky gradually dimmed, and it was seen that it was heavy snow again.

Li Xuan did not put on the winter clothes, and was still wearing the crane cloak from the Spring and Autumn Period, and was blown by the strong wind. He didn't care. It was normal for the great master of the Heaven and Human Realm to sympathize with the heaven and earth, calling the wind and rain, so how could he be afraid of the severe cold?

He stretched out his palm and silently used the mysterious skill, trying to dispel the heavy snow with the method of "Borrowing the Power of the Five Elements", but found it difficult. According to the principle of taking advantage of the situation, in this case, he caused a heavy snow, which was to adapt to the weather. It was like opening the gate in advance to release water, which was extremely relaxed, but if you wanted to disperse a heavy snow that should have fallen, then It is not about taking advantage of the situation, but about going against the trend, just like blocking a turbulent river with a large dam, which takes a lot of effort. After all, the realm of heaven and man is to follow the heavens and cannot be said to move against the heavens. That is the power that only the immortal immortals have.

Li Xuan quickly gave up this idea and took back his palm.

Qin Buyi saw this and smiled and said, "Young Master Li, it's okay. Our disciples of Butian Sect have been born in Liaodong and grew up in Liaodong since childhood. This kind of snow is just a common occurrence for them. Besides, It’s just just now that winter has begun, and there is still a lot of snow in the future. You can’t disperse it once, even the immortal immortal can’t stand it.”

Li Xuandu smiled and nodded: "What Senior Qin said."

Qin Busan interrupted, "But then again, it's still the warm weather in Jiangnan that nourishes people. The outside world is bitter and cold. Every winter, you must have major illnesses and minor disasters. Every winter, you have to die to some old guys of our age."

Qin Buyi glanced at him and cursed with a smile: "I am still alive, what old guy are you?"

Qin Busi said, "Of course we brothers cannot compare with you, but life is rare in seventy years old, so we are really not young."

Qin Buyi was about to speak when he heard Jing Xiu, who was walking in the front of the team, whisper loudly: "It's finally here."

Several people looked in the sound and saw a little light in the distance, which was particularly conspicuous.