Lanling covered the moon

Chapter 258 Quicksand

The aunt's scissors pierced her throat. Although it was not deep, she was already dying when the imperial doctor arrived.The blood flowed all over the palm of the third brother's hand covering his throat. In the end, the aunt just held Xiao Wan's hand and whispered something while bleeding.A mouthful of blood spewed out of a word, and the people around didn't understand, but Ke Zimo knew what this woman's entrustment was before she died. . . . . .

The aunt just closed her eyes.

After the death of his father, the Gao Mansion held another funeral.The third brother looked so haggard that Zimo couldn't bear to call him. Occasionally, the eyes of the two met, and the third brother's eye sockets were blue.The look in his eyes made Zimo understand that the third brother didn't want to blame him, but the one lying in the coffin was his dearest mother.

Zimo sat on the horse blankly, letting the strong wind blow his face, his hair flying, and the yellow sand rolled up the sky and the earth, as if the desolation in front of him was boundless.

"Your Highness, the small country of Moyeri is ahead. Although it is at the foot of the Altai Mountains, it is surrounded by two grassland overlords, Rouran and Turks. This territory is really pitifully small." A general stepped forward and opened the sheepskin map, Give Zimo the way.

Zimo covered the face scarf that covered his mouth and nose, and every shake was yellow sand from the scarf.

Now the Northern Qi Dynasty can be regarded as a situation where the military crisis is on all sides, but Gao Zhan does not allow him to lead troops to leave Yecheng at this time.Zhezi went up many ways, but nothing came to light.Zimo thinks that Gao Zhan is really a harem concubine in captivity, and he has the urge to come and make trouble, but he didn't expect to run into the matter of the aunt's suicide.

The aunt didn't kill him, but so many people saw him die beside him, the aunt's hand tightly pressed his hand and held the dagger.The third brother said that he believed him, but behind those sunken eyes, there was a grief that Zi Mo couldn't bear to look directly at.

The death of Empress Jingde should be a national funeral.Ke Zimo was involved, and there are many doubts about the cause of death.Although the emperor issued an edict saying that the Yuan family died of a serious illness, and the burial specifications were similar to those of the empress dowager, but everything was done quickly, there were already a lot of discussions among the ministers in the court, and how to stop the crowd.Zimo knew in his heart who had spread the news, but what he said was not based on what he saw. Some people wanted to use this incident to make waves against him, and some ministers secretly wrote a booklet to send this incident to Dali Temple. Investigate, if it is really investigated, what the aunt said that day may not be perfunctory.

At such a time, Zi Mozheng was helpless.

Emperor Gao Zhan suddenly issued an order to him, neither to go to the northern fortress to guard against the Yan State, nor to go to the Jinyang Fortress to strengthen the city defense, but to buy spices and furs from Moyeli, a small country at the foot of the Altai Mountains.He was ordered to leave immediately after receiving the imperial decree.The fool also understood Gao Zhan's intentions, so Zimo went to argue. Gao Zhan said that going to Moyeri once in a while is at most one month, which is the longest time limit he can let him go.If you don't appreciate it, don't go anywhere!

This bastard's domineering made Zi Mo feel unwilling, but his own Xiliang army was far away in Yuzhou, and without Gao Zhan's military talisman, he could not mobilize troops and horses to go to the battlefield in Yecheng.After thinking for a while, after several days of dreaming about the bloody aunt cursing him, he slapped his thigh and decided that he was going to go out of the city and go to Moye.

Da Niang's first seven, he can't go.The third brother knew that Gao Zhan had arranged it on purpose, but until now, he himself didn't know how to face Chang Gong.Chang Gong can avoid this cusp, when this matter subsides, when his grief over the loss of his mother subsides, it will not be too late for the two brothers to untie their knots.

So, Zi Mo went to say goodbye, and Xiao Wan, who was dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, nodded.

"Third brother, take care of yourself, but don't hurt your body." Thousands of words can only be summed up in this sentence.The third brother lowered his head and turned his back. He was stunned for a long time before nodding his head emphatically.

The weather in the desert is like a child's face, it changes as soon as it changes.

The sky was originally clear, but the wind and sand were a little bit heavy, but now it was overwhelmed by dark clouds, and it seemed that a violent storm would pour down immediately.

"Your Highness, what should we do? I didn't expect the weather here to be so bad even though it's spring!" Moyeri's lieutenant, who accompanied Zimo, had an anxious expression on his face. According to the usual practice, Moyeri should melt the snow in spring Yes, the climate is warm and humid.I didn't expect that this time I was almost there, but I was facing such bad weather.

"Send down the order that the whole army go to the cave in front to take shelter from the rain, and leave when the weather improves." Zimo said to the lieutenant general. I can't figure out the situation inside, but if we don't find a shelter, the hurricane and rain in the desert cannot be resisted.

After turning some directions, the large army went to the cave to shelter from the rain.

Before it arrived, raindrops as big as beans began to slap on Zimo's face.

In order not to attract attention, Zimo and the soldiers he led were all dressed as merchants.The long robe and the face scarf that covered the face with only the eyes exposed just blocked the violent sand and high wind. At this moment, the rain was falling, and the scarf that wrapped the head was completely stuck to the face.The rain was faster than expected, and it hurt when it fell on the face, and the feet were muddy. The team was a little loose without knowing it. The huge wind made the rain change the shape of the rain, mixed with the sand in the desert, which made people confused squinted.

"Ah!!!!!!!" Zimo suddenly heard screams from the soldiers behind him.The sound of the rain mixed with the sound of the wind was already deafening, but the sudden scream was even more frightening.

The horses lost their pace and trampled in all directions, splashing muddy water in the muddy sand.

"Help~~~~~~~Help!!!!" The cries for help came one after another, and the deputy general stopped Zi Mo behind him, and swung his sword back.Unexpectedly, the lieutenant general's horse only went back about ten meters and then leaned forward, and the hulking general fell off the horse all at once.

It was quicksand!

"Your Highness! Go back quickly! There is quicksand!"

The man caught in the quicksand raised his arms and waved them vigorously, making everyone else stay away.Behind him, the soldiers who had fallen into the quicksand earlier had been gradually engulfed by the sand.

Flicking the golden thread on his waist, Zimo wanted to rescue those people.

"Your Highness, let's go! Don't disappoint General Li and the others!"

The soldiers next to him were eager to protect themselves, and they really couldn't let His Royal Highness Lan Ling lose their lives in this kind of place.It was originally a simple errand to buy supplies outside the customs, but it was only in the spring, but unexpectedly, it entered a land with quicksand.

Zimo's hands were bloodshot, but he didn't want these colleagues to lose their lives in vain.The lieutenant-general was a loyal man, and I heard from him that it was hard work for him to rise from the pawn's hard work to the position of military attache of this rank.There was nothing to do along the way, General Li chatted with Zi Mo in his free time, and heard that His Royal Highness Lan Ling was close to his subordinates, so he was very happy to tell him about his mother and sister at home, who came from a poor background and were the pillars of the family .

"Pfft, Your Highness, forget it! My brothers and I thank you! You go quickly! It's late...Pfft, puff!" The officer's upper body was buried in quicksand, and his whole body was sinking continuously.The sand rushed up his neck and poured into his mouth continuously, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

"Hold on, all of you! I will definitely save you up!" The heavy rain poured down, and Zimo patted the yellow rabbit's neck, and said softly, "Baby, I took you out with great difficulty, but I didn't expect it to be like this Dangerous situation! These are my brothers, do your best and help me rescue them!"

The blood from the palm of Zimo dripped onto the head of the yellow rabbit horse. The horse was very spiritual. Zimo was not willing to ride him into battle. The hero was raised in the palace for several years, fat and fat. Now, upon hearing the master's instructions, the horse snorted hot air, and began to kick the horse's hooves, as if trying to stand firmly in the yellow muddy water.The horse was neighing with its head raised, hot air was blowing from its nose, and with a stab of its hind hooves, it began to push back together.

. . . . . .King Lanling was like this, those soldiers who turned their heads and ran away were really sorry for their conscience, and they all turned their heads sideways to watch this life-and-death scene.

"Big fellows take off their robes and weave some ropes, and rescue them up together with His Highness!" Someone wiped the water off his face and called on the escaped soldiers to come back and rescue them together.

This call woke up the panicked and fled soldiers.

How could they leave the commander in chief and become a deserter? !His Royal Highness Lanling is still helping his colleagues in the quicksand, where can these mere pawns escape to? !

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the soldiers threw many ropes made of coarse linen clothes into the quicksand.

Five or six people form a group, so that a person who has fallen into the sand can be pulled up.

Quicksand seemed to feel the resistance of the group of people against it, and continued to expand under Zimo's mount in the heavy rain.

The lieutenant general surnamed Li watched the sand bury the top of his head, and then was pulled out of it by the metal wire that was too thin to see.

"Your Highness..." The rain washed away the heart-pounding scene, and the dark red blood bypassed Zimo's palm and flowed along the Jinling Line to the side that bound the lieutenant's body.

"You guys, help Your Highness quickly! Pull General Li out together!" Seeing this, the soldiers next to him came to help together. Half of General Li's body was pulled out of the quicksand. The same has made the strength of breastfeeding.

There is great power in numbers, which is like a tug-of-war. When the hearts of the people are united, the natural power is also great.

Seeing that General Li was finally pulled out of most of his body, and he himself kicked his legs and kept struggling, his face was covered in sweat and rain, everyone finally saw the hope of victory!

The hills of the desert change shape imperceptibly.

The scar on Zimo's palm could no longer feel pain.

"Yellow Rabbit, let's work harder!" Zimo gritted his teeth and said, the Yellow Rabbit neighed, raised his head and kicked the horse's hoof to pull it back desperately, and several soldiers around him also helped. With a loud sound, the stout Deputy Li was pulled out of the vortex-like sand lair.

Everyone was elated, and several people went up to carry Lieutenant General Li and fled for their lives.

Zimo pulled the reins, and the horse's hoofs let go and ran away.The desert terrain shifts like a wave like a man-eating beast.

The cave is right in front of you, but everyone feels that the more you run, the sand dunes are getting higher and higher.

This time, Zimo knew that what he had encountered was serious.

"You all run forward with the wounded! Don't look back!"

The topography of the desert is changing rapidly. If you don't rush out of the quicksand before dark, the entire purchasing team will never return and will be submerged in the rolling yellow sand.

Gao Zhan also said that the sheepskin map given was sent by the messenger personally by the monarch of Moyeri. Now it seems that I really don’t know the road map hundreds of years ago!It's almost here, and there is such a big trap waiting for them to come and die!

The yellow rabbit neighed suddenly, and the horse's hooves knelt down heavily in the yellow sand.Unable to see the scene in front of him, Mo rolled and fell, just a somersault.

This is obviously a desert?Why did he have the illusion of falling from the top of the mountain? !

"His Royal Highness Chang Gong!!!!" Lieutenant General Li, whose life was saved, yelled, and to Zi Mo's ears, there was only a distant voice.

The yellow rabbit kept neighing as it stomped on its front hooves, and it didn't care that the quicksand was changing its terrain violently, and it chased Zimo in the direction where Zimo rolled down.

It was raining heavily, and this weird devil desert was still changing every second. Lieutenant General Li pressed his broken leg and wanted to rush down, but was held down by the soldiers next to him.

"Don't go down! If you go down, you will die together!"

"No! Your Highness saved my life. If he dies, we people don't have to live anymore!" Lieutenant General Li roared.

"Let's get out of this quicksand first, and detour down to find His Highness! Your Highness is auspicious, and we will definitely find it!" Everyone here understands what it means that King Lanling is missing, but this piece of quicksand has already cut off the previous situation like a river. On that road, there is sand constantly slanting and leaking down, and if it goes down, it will undoubtedly be a dead end.

"Master, why do people live so stubbornly while eating and starving every time?" A child asked him innocently.

"It must be something in this world that they never get tired of, pursue it painstakingly, and even linger on it."

"Huh? Does Master have it?" The child's voice echoed.

"Master is a fairy, not a human being, so..."

"Eh? Master doesn't want to be with Yan'er? Don't you want to watch Yan'er grow up?!"

"Heh...of course I want to."

I don't know when it started, this kind of remembrance sprouted in his heart that has been empty for thousands of years, so he couldn't break free from the shackles of this worldly world.

Zimo clutched a rattan-like thing tightly, and the sand was pouring into his mouth and nose, which was very painful.

He wants to live. . . . . .

The author has something to say:

I'm sorry, I broke my promise.mwah