"It smells so good! This is the first good meal we've had since coming to Beiting." That night, Guo Yuanzhen hosted a welcoming banquet where everyone was busy drinking wine, followed by one meal after another of baked cakes.
"He's a brother who knows how to eat."
"We must meet after we get out."
After finishing his meal, Lou Yunchun wiped his mouth and thought to himself: It tastes really good. If I have time, I will find out the recipe and bring it back to A Jiang so that she can try it.
He still remembered how she looked around for food when they read about the local food in the travelogue.
Listening to the howling of the west wind outside the house, Lou Yunchun calculated the days and knew that tomorrow would be the beginning of autumn.
During every solar term, she always cooks a lot of food to entertain relatives and friends. I wonder what she cooked this time.
He felt a dull pain in the wound on his shoulder. He took out the badge that had been rubbed smooth and held it tightly. All that came to his mind were her every frown and smile, and gradually the pain seemed to subside.
Seeing that he had fallen asleep again, Lao Duan asked his brothers to go back to their rooms and left him alone to guard the room.
He brought a blanket and covered Lou Yunchun with it. Seeing that Lou Yunchun was holding the badge in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh, and then he couldn't help but think of his wife and children.
While he is away, he wonders if the vicious woman at home will miss him.
As he was thinking, he fell into a dream. In the dream, the fierce woman was no longer fierce, but crying pitifully.
It's time to go home.
Hezui Ba is located in the upper reaches of Jiaohe River, thirty miles north of Xizhou, and close to Beiting. It was originally fertile and densely populated, but later it gradually became deserted due to the river diversion and the drying up of the riverbed.
Because of its rich jade resources, it attracted many jade merchants to dig, forming valleys. After the jade veins were cut off, they were abandoned in the yellow sand, like an ancient scar that is difficult to heal.
The valley dug by the jade merchant leads directly to the territory of Beiting. Ayan Lianshan chose this as the meeting place in order to dispel Guo Yuanzhen's vigilance.
However, after the incident at Liuhe Temple, Guo Yuanzhen became more cautious. He sent people to test and explore three times. After confirming that everything was correct, he took fifty elite soldiers, disguised as jade merchants, and left the city at dawn.
It takes a day to travel from Tingzhou to Hezui Ba. Guo Yuanzhen has ordered heavy troops to be stationed at all the checkpoints along the way, and if any accident happens to him, troops will be sent to rescue him immediately.
Hezui Ba, evening.
Zhao Xiu hid in the shade under a rock, chewing a Hu pancake while asking A Yan Lianshan, who was standing by the river valley to inquire, "Hey, how many people did you bring with you? Are they reliable?"
No matter how he inquired and tested the situation along the way, the Turkic barbarian's mouth was like a clam and he refused to speak.
Guo Yuanzhen and Lou Yunchun are both certainties, but this barbarian is a variable. I don't know how many people he brought with him, and whether I can escape from him successfully.
A Yan Lianshan turned around and sneered, "Are you afraid of death?"
Zhao Xiu rolled his eyes so hard that they were almost as big as the cake in his hand. "If you're not afraid of death, why don't you go directly to Beiting and help me deliver the token?"
A Yan Lianshan stepped forward and grabbed his cake, skimmed off most of it, and threw the rest to him. "Don't worry, I won't let you die at Guo Yuanzhen's hands."
Zhao Xiu complained in his heart, I’m just afraid of dying in your hands.
Then he ate the remaining cake in two or three bites resentfully, thinking to himself: Lou Yunchun, ah, Lou Yunchun, my life depends on you.
How could Ayan Lianshan not know what Zhao Xiu was planning? This dead dog must be planning to run away, how could he let him do that?
This Hezui Ba is the headquarters of their Eagle Division spies in Beiting and Hexi.
Only here can he negotiate fairly with Guo Yuanzhen, and Zhao Xiu, don't even think about escaping from his palm.
The sun set over the long river, and when it was almost dark, the sound of horse hooves finally came from the valley.
Ayan Lianshan and Zhao Xiu looked at each other.
Here it comes.
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