Daqin: Zulong's Traveling Frog

Chapter 309 The Enmity Between Khotan and Loulan

Ai Di saw that the master was embarrassed, so he couldn't help interjecting: "This is our grievance between Khotan and Lou Lan, and it is not your business."

Li Shiqi said calmly: "I know it's not my business, but you used the Night Pearl to frame the Loulan caravan first, and used lynching to torture the guide second. It is really unheroic."

Eddie sneered and said, "Hero? Could it be that the young master wants to become a hero in our Western Regions? The Central Plains is so big, can't it accommodate you as a hero..."

Su Mu suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Shut up! Don't be rude to the young master!" He sternly reprimanded Ai Di, and then said softly: "Frankly speaking, I planned the Ye Mingzhu at the beginning, in fact, to rescue you, young master."

"My lord, you should know that there are pictorial notices that you are wanted everywhere in the border. Even if you pretend to be my attendant, you will still have to go through strict inspections when you leave the customs. If you want to be safe, you can only make some movement in advance to divert those people. The attention of the Central Plains soldiers.”

"If it wasn't for the matter of Ye Mingzhu, how could I have taken the young master out of customs so easily?"

Li Shiqi, dressed as a Khotan warrior, was silent for a long while before saying, "Thank you."

Fan Mu had already spent some time with the mysterious Li Shiqi, and knew that although he had a peaceful temperament, he was extremely moral. He fully expected him to say that he would rather die than frame others to escape danger. Who knew? But he simply said "Thank you", which made him a little surprised. After thinking about it carefully, he replied: "No need to thank me. His Majesty the King of our country promised Princess Huaiyu that he must rescue the young master from the Central Plains. Fortunately, it was not humiliated." Mission. Ye Mingzhu’s plan is really helpless. I hope the young master will not leak it to others."

Li Shiqi responded: "Yes. I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for taking the trouble, and I dare not disobey the Prime Minister's instructions. But judging from the current situation, A Fei is actually just an outsider and has no idea about the Night Pearl." Chanmu said : "I know this."

After a long while, he said: "Thank you very much."

Fan Mu had already spent some time with the mysterious Li Shiqi, and knew that although he had a peaceful temperament, he was extremely moral. He fully expected him to say that he would rather die than frame others to escape danger. Who knew? But he simply said "Thank you", which made him a little surprised. After thinking about it carefully, he replied: "No need to thank me. His Majesty the King of our country promised Princess Huaiyu that he must rescue the young master from the Central Plains. Fortunately, it was not humiliated." Mission. Ye Mingzhu’s plan is really helpless. I hope the young master will not leak it to others."

Li Shiqi responded: "Yes. I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for taking the trouble, and I dare not disobey the Prime Minister's instructions. However, judging from the current situation, A Fei is actually just an outsider and has no idea about the Night Pearl."

Sugi said, "I know that."

This is obvious—since Ye Mingzhu was secretly put into the Ganqi water bag by the Sumu faction's subordinates, the purpose was to frame the Loulan caravan and create chaos.

And Ah Fei stepped forward at the critical moment because he was worried about harming the Loulan caravan. If he had known that Ye Mingzhu was hidden in the water bag earlier, he would have taken it out first.

He didn't confess his guilt until the soldiers searched. It must have been at that time that someone quietly told him about the hiding place of Ye Mingzhu, but he didn't know that the instigator of all this was Khotan Zuo Daxiang himself, otherwise he would definitely be in public Expose the trick of the horsetail yelling to catch the thief.

Unfortunately, everyone's attention was focused on Gan Qi, the leader of the Loulan caravan, and no one noticed what the guide A Fei was doing or who he was talking to.

Li Shiqi said: "In this case, the prime minister's goal has been achieved, why not just let A Fei live?" Chan Mu said: "If the young master had given advice to A Fei on the spot, I could have let him go. But the young master didn't know about it at first. It is very likely that our insiders in Khotan leaked the secret and secretly instructed Ah Fei to come forward and plead guilty so as to help the Loulan caravan get out of trouble."

"If you want to find the traitor, you have to fall on him. I know that the young master believes that what I am doing now is disgraceful, but the situation in the Western Regions is complicated, and you people in the Central Plains cannot understand. The young master is a noble person, I hope you Respect yourself, don't get involved in disputes."

"Twenty miles ahead is Ma Mitu. From there, we reach the border of the Central Plains. Please take off the armor of our warriors, take your own weapons and run for your life."

Su Mu unceremoniously gave the order to drive away the guests, and ordered his warriors to take out the Central Plains bow and sword hidden in the luggage.

In his heart, Li Shiqi admired A Feishe's righteousness and intention to rescue him, but he didn't know that Mu Mu refused to give in, and his words prevailed everywhere, knowing that it would be useless to talk too much, so he had to take away the weapon, took off the black military uniform, and handed it back to the warrior leader Niba.

Mu Mu said: "This place is [-] miles to the west of Loulan Kingdom, half of which is Gobi, and half is desert. The road along the way is completely barren and uninhabited. You don't know the way. You don't know the water source and the location of the inn along the way. For safety's sake, It’s better to go on the road with the Loulan caravan behind. I still have urgent matters to rush back to the country, so I’m leaving now.”

Without waiting for Li Shiqi's answer, he raised his horse whip and led the Khotan warriors to gallop away.

Ah Fei no longer suffered the torture of being dragged, and was picked up by Ai Di and placed across the saddle.The horses' hooves flew to the ground like rain, raising a storm of dust.

Li Shiqi silently stared at the group of people going away, sighed, and reached out to remove the fake beard from his face.He was very young, only in his twenties, but his brows showed a look of weather and vicissitudes that did not match his age, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, and the tip of his brows were slightly raised, full of worry and emaciation.

After noon, everyone in Khotan arrived at Yuanyue Spring, and Sugi ordered his men to dismount to replenish the water source here and rest for a while.

In the low-lying areas of the Gobi in this area, black iron bricks can often be picked up, which are as hard as stone. They are said to be ancient bricks. Because of their fine texture, some people made them into inkstones, called "Guan Inkstones".

It is said that the ink grinded with Guan inkstone does not freeze in winter or shrink in summer, and it has become a very sought-after item in the Central Plains for a while.There happened to be a piece at the foot of Xunmu, but he didn't seem to be very interested, he just stared at the black brick thoughtfully.

Ah Jing, the warrior in charge of the alert, looked up at the high hill for a while, then came down and reported: "Prime Minister, that Li Shiqi is still following us." Fang Mu nodded and said, "I knew this would be like this, he must have wanted to Save A Fei."

Ah Jing was puzzled and asked: "This is strange. Li Shiqi is a wanted criminal by the Central Plains court. It was obviously our Khotan adventure that saved him, so why did he help people from Loulan who had nothing to do with him?" ?”

Chanmu said: "You don't understand, these Central Plains men love to claim to be righteous. Haven't you discovered along the way that he is not on the same path as us?"

(End of this chapter)