mousepad-d2 Chapter 115 Under the Moon
Chapter 115 Under the Moon
The wind whimpered and passed over the cold lake, like the unwilling complaints of the wronged.The master said: "I have heard that there is a brave person in your country. Xiang Wei, who was in Chang'an in a dangerous place 300 years ago, was the one who attacked the Xirong Royal Court from the rear, which severely damaged the vitality of the Jinzhang and had to move to the north. Yan Mu Yun went to Xirong as an envoy, and returned to her homeland after going through all kinds of difficulties. Mr. Li, but you are different from them."
Her low voice was full of bewitching, and she said: "You were sent here to exchange your life. No one wants you to go back, and no one thinks you can go back."
The blade was pressed against her neck, and she didn't even move a bit. The will of the visitor was definitely not what she had imagined, it was just that she survived the grass and vaguely remembered who she was.
"Don't talk nonsense," said the person behind, "The people who went on a mission were originally detained in the gold account, but where are they now?"
The mage didn't speak, the knife tightened, and she immediately felt the heat gushing out, just like her incomplete and decaying fate.She moved her throat, turned her eyes around, and said, "Didn't you already know it, in the royal court."
Qingping was silent, the moonlight shone on her face, making her look a little too pale and weak.The mage guessed that she might ask something more, and thought about it a few times, and just about to speak, he felt a chill in his right chest.
Looking down at the bloody point, she recognized it as an ordinary saber.Blood slid from the knife, and the mage fell to the ground, looking up at the person in front of him.
"I won't kill you."
The moonlight is so cold tonight, the man's knife tip slid across her chest, and tied her hands with a string of green stones.The gravel behind the mage was soaked in blood. She felt that the sound of her breathing sounded like an old bellows. She didn't know if it was an illusion of blood loss. In her blurred vision, the person under the moonlight was like a jade statue, very golden. The statue of the god hidden in the depths of the tent.
"I want to keep you..." she said, as if she was dreaming, before the wizards arrived, she turned over the dunes and drifted away in the night.
The emerald bead strings looked like the fangs of a poisonous snake, shining with a charming but deadly luster. The mage heard her and said, "I will return this thing, thank you for your hospitality."
The last thing she saw was the long trail of the saber sliding in the sand, smoothed by the wind in the moonlight.
"What's my name? Li Qingping?"
Mingsha Lake was shrouded in the desert. After escaping from the sacrifice ceremony at night, she walked aimlessly in the vast night, standing on the scorched hot sand, looking at the place that was distorted by the heat in the distance, of course , this place is nothing but sand.
In the midday sun, the yellow sand was like melted gold, shining so dazzlingly that she had to cover her eyes with her hands to avoid hurting her eyes from staring at the strong light for too long.
She had only a jug of water with her at this time, which she took in her tent at the beginning of the ritual, while the watchers were kneeling and praying.At the same time, the tent is also full of weapons unloaded by the visitors, most of the strange-shaped daggers and machetes, only the saber worn by the watchman is the most pleasing to the eye.
There was no scabbard for the long knife, and Kiyohei wrapped it with a cloth behind his back.She had already started preparing for last night's action since she accidentally heard when the sacrificial ceremony would start half a month ago.Every day, she vomited the medicine behind the idol.With the golden tent's respect for this statue, I am afraid that no one would dare to move the statue easily, and naturally no one would find out.
Indeed, as the mage said, in the first month, she lived in a daze, her mind went blank, but she couldn't remember anything.Everything seemed to be hidden in a box. She knew that there was something important to her in the box, but she couldn't find a way to open the box.
Until that day, when Bi Shu took her to the tent to listen to the chanting of the wizards, someone lit a piece of spice and put it in a golden cage. At that moment, she was struck by lightning, and the long-lost familiar fragrance was inhaled from her nose. So she thought of a vibrant green.
Starting from this piece of green, she thought of many things.Every day that followed, she went to listen to the wizards chanting on time. The familiar spices seemed to be different from what she remembered, but at this time she had no time to care about so much, but gradually found them in the sound of chanting in unfamiliar tones. Memories of old fragments.
She first remembered her name, then why she came here, and finally understood how those hostile eyes came from.The things she remembered were very limited at first, but after hard thinking day after day, she finally remembered most of them.
One day, the wizard in charge of changing the spices changed a new one. Qingping heard her talking with another wizard, and she suddenly realized that there must be extremely important information in it.
Just for this sentence, she imitated the pronunciation of the two people speaking at that time every day, using the scriptures as a cover, and finally understood the meaning of that crucial sentence.
"This is the spice from the sea in Minzhou."
But this was just a sentence, it just said where the spices came from, and she didn't know why it could awaken her memory.
The afternoon sun is no longer so glaring, and there is nothing in the desert, except for a little dry grass on the ground.She chased the grass, squatting down from time to time to see if there were any grass roots in the sand.When traders in Xirong transported fragile things such as porcelain, they often filled the sacks containing the goods with grass seeds. Grass seeds were light and could protect the porcelain.Trade routes are usually fixed, and traders passing by over the years will leave behind grass seeds, which will grow grass during the rainy season, roughly depicting the trade route.
She knew these things in the market. The vendors used cheap grass seeds. This kind of grass is easy to identify. As long as you walk along the place where there is this kind of grass, you can walk out of the desert slowly. .
Qingping walked to the evening and rested beside a huge sandstone.Her lips were cracked a few times, and she frowned after taking a sip of water.She looked at the unpredictable sunset in the sky, like a magnificent picture scroll, she tore off her clothes, and jumped the blood bubbles on her feet with a silver knife, which was not used to cut scripture paper. It is sharp, but because of this, no one cares if it is lost.She wrapped her feet up so she could walk better tomorrow.
She doesn't know how big this desert is, and she doesn't know how long it will take to get out, but she knows that she can last for five days at most.Humans still can't walk as fast as horses. Bi Shu will definitely catch up after she settles the matter of the sacrifice ceremony. She has very little time, so she must hurry up all the time.But the desert at night is too dangerous. If you insist on moving forward and encounter wolves, it will be a dead end.She leaned against the rough sandstone and held her saber in her arms, curled up in the increasingly cold desert.
The huge sandstone is a good hiding place. She is exhausted, but her nerves are very tight, and she will wake up immediately if there is any movement.
A full moon hangs in the dark blue sky. I don’t know why the desert is too desolate. The moon looks cold and lonely. Clouds like veils float through the moonlight, like a lonely traveler. Run to unknown places.The long wind howled and passed over the desert, crying like crying, reminding her of those who died in foreign countries.They came here together, but some of them couldn't go back.
Qingping buried his head in his arms, trying to get rid of these distracting thoughts as soon as possible.After a while, she heard voices.She woke up suddenly, holding the saber close to the rock wall.
The moonlight gradually dimmed and was covered by clouds, so it was no longer as bright as before.It's too dark to see things around.She thought it was the people from the golden tent who were chasing after her, and her heart shuddered.But the familiar voice made her a little surprised, even so, she still didn't dare to take the risk easily.
"...This is already on the edge. If you can't find it, where else can you find it?"
"It must be near here. I saw her leave Mingsha Lake with my own eyes. It has only been a day and a night. She can't get out of this place just by walking."
"Master Wu, it has been a long time to find this person. If His Highness asks you, how should we explain?"
Perhaps out of anxiety, one of them got off his horse and shouted nearby: "Li Qingping! Li Qingping! Where are you? Come out!"
Behind the sandstone, she was in a daze, as if after many years, she almost forgot her name, and repeated these three words every day, sometimes for a long time, the pronunciation of the name showed a strange and strange feeling, She couldn't help but doubt whether this person existed.
Li Qingping, she chewed these three words silently, but from the mouth of others, it was a kind of bitterness and sadness.
The clouds opened and the moon broke, illuminating the desert in an instant. Under the moonlight, the sand dunes stretched, and a few dead grasses swayed in the wind. The huge sandstone stood silently in the moonlight. The horses planed their hooves on the sand, and the leader was a little impatient. up.
She glanced around casually, and the subordinate suddenly came over and pointed to the sandstone, and said softly: "My lord, look there."
She looked along the pointer, and there was a slender thing on the edge of the shadow cast by the sandstone on the ground, but the sandstone was clean, and nothing could be seen.
The leader looked sideways at the person who ran far away and shouted, and told his subordinates: "Let her shout, and you go to the side to have a look, if not, then"
The three people beside her nodded, got off their horses and walked towards the back of the sandstone. The leader watched from the horse, and his hand on the scabbard moved slightly.
In the dark night, there was only a light tinkling of bells, which was the sound of swords colliding, and a person behind the sandstone shouted: "Who is it, get out."
After a long time, one person really came out, but it was the subordinate who had abandoned the sword. The other two pointed their swords behind her. The person showed his figure in the moonlight. Putting it on her subordinate's neck, she stared at the leader on the horse, and the leader suddenly had the illusion that he was being watched by a lone wolf.
"It's not bad to meet an old friend in a foreign land." She said, "Don't move, a sword has no eyes, so be careful."
The leader was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he was being threatened.However, the person's right shoulder was huddled, obviously injured, she blew the whistle and said loudly: "Master Wu, is this the person you are looking for?"
In the distance, a person was walking hard in the sand, and when he saw the scene of swords being drawn nearby, he gritted his teeth and said, "Put down your weapon, don't hurt her!"
The leader smiled playfully, and said: "It's not that we are going to hurt her, you just take a good look, who is going to hurt who?"
Qingping remained unmoved, the saber was still on the man's neck.
The young woman stepped on the sand and walked towards her with her arms outstretched to show that she was unarmed, as if she was afraid of waking up something, she said softly, "Qingping, it's me."
The night wind passed between them, blowing a few grains of gravel and rolling them into the distance.Qingping stared at her and said, "I know. Wu Ying, but you shouldn't be here."
The author has something to say: today's double update, let me code the words, there will be more later.