The flower is a tulip [Chu Liuxiang]

Chu Liuxiang was still holding the jet-black pearl almost as big as a longan, meditating.

The sun scorched his skin so hot that he didn't seem to feel it.

Ji Bingyan suddenly said: "Do you think this is the token of the little prince from the Kingdom of Wind?"

Chu Liuxiang nodded and said: "Pearls are produced in water. Such a large pearl is rare in the desert, and it can only belong to princes and nobles."

Ji Bingyan said: "Shi Guanyin is not poor either."

Chu Liuxiang said: "But why did Shi Guanyin let her subordinates come out with such a precious treasure?"

Ji Bingyan shook her head, but did not speak.

Chu Liuxiang continued: "If the little prince and Rongrong are really in her hands... Maybe this is their distress signal."

Ji Bingyan raised her eyebrows and said, "Signal?"

Chu Liuxiang said: "If the Wind Tribe finds this pearl, they will definitely go to the little prince."

Hu Tiehua laughed loudly, jumped up and said: "So, those girls must be in Shi Guanyin's hands! Let's go quickly, so that they don't have to wait in a hurry!"

Ji Bingyan and Yidianhong also showed some excitement when they thought that their speculations along the way had been confirmed.

Although Shi Guanyin's reputation is as loud as a storm in the desert, what is there to fear for them?

Ji Bingyan thought for a while, and said: "It must be dangerous to go any further, I'll tell Xiao Pan and Shi Tuo to go back to Qingbeard."

As he said that, he stood up and planned to greet the two companions brought out from Lanzhou.

A hand quickly grabbed him.He heard Hua ManLou's voice saying, "Wait a minute."

Hua Manlou continued when everyone looked at him questioningly, "I think it's a bit strange."

Hu Tiehua immediately asked: "What's so strange?"

Hua Manlou spoke very slowly, as if he was thinking at the same time: "What do you think Shi Guanyin sent this team here for?"

Hu Tiehua quickly said again: "Of course it is to hunt down and kill those people in front, maybe to rob money, or maybe those people knew her secret and sent someone to silence her."

He thought he had said enough, so he smiled and looked at Huamanlou.But Hua Manlou sighed softly and didn't speak immediately.Instead, Ji Bingyan suddenly realized: "In other words, this group of people did not come for us!"

Hu Tiehua scratched his head and said: "So what? Maybe... Maybe it's those girls who are clever, looking for an opportunity to put this thing on the person who is going out..." As he said this, he gradually felt that something was wrong , the voice became quieter, and finally stopped.

Ji Bingyan sighed, and said: "If that's the case, their hopes are too slim."

Because of such precious pearls, there must be only a few of them in the hands of the black pearls, and they will not throw them away easily until the last moment.

However, the desert is vast, how can they be sure that this pearl brought out will definitely fall outside, and will definitely be picked up by Chu Liuxiang or the people of the Kingdom of Wind?

Besides, since they were captured by Shi Guanyin, they would definitely be searched carefully. How could the black pearl keep this pearl?

More and more doubts slowly piled up in front of everyone.

"And," Yidianhong also said suddenly, his voice was still so flat, but there was no doubt about it, "If this pearl was not dropped by the last person in the team, or someone threw it far away on purpose, it should have been thrown by a horseshoe. stepped into the sand."

After listening to what they said quietly, Chu Liuxiang let out a heavy breath and said, "Let's go."

Hua Manlou followed him without hesitation, followed by Hu Tiehua and Yidianhong... Ji Bingyan looked at their backs, stomped their feet, and then walked over.

They walked all the way to the place where the stone camel and Xiao Pan were waiting.The camels and horses were all called together by the stone camels, taking this opportunity to rest.

Ji Bingyan led her own horse, but looked up at Hua Manlou who had turned over on the horse's back, and said in a deep voice, "You suggested that there was a fraud in it."

Hua Manlou suddenly smiled, and said, "We were going to find Shi Guanyin, weren't we?"

Ji Bingyan paused, and had no choice but to get on the horse too.

He already understood in his heart that what Hua Manlou said was not wrong.

Their initial plan was to take the initiative to find Shi Guanyin's stronghold, and they had already anticipated their actions when Shi Guanyin's subordinates brought Su Rongrong and the others to the desert.

Regardless of whether they will find the black pearl or not, Shi Guanyin will be there waiting for them, arranging all kinds of sinister traps early on.

This pearl is not so much a bait as a gauntlet.

Chu Liuxiang also laughed loudly: "At this time, if you stretch your head out, it's a knife, and if you shrink your head, it's still a knife, you can't dodge it!"

Hearing Chu Liuxiang say such words in Hu Tiehua's usual tone, Ji Bingyan's heart suddenly became lighter.He knew that Chu Liuxiang was right, even if they didn't go to see Shi Guanyin, Shi Guanyin would not let them go.

The black pearl that Chu Liuxiang had put in his pocket meant that Shi Guanyin had discovered their whereabouts.

Since it is already put to death, it is better to give it a go.

Ji Bingyan also laughed, and turned to Xiao Pan and said, "You and Shi Tuo go back first, and stay with the Wind Tribe, and you'll be safe."

Xiao Pan actually hesitated for a moment, turned his gaze to the stone camel, and said after a long time: "I...then I will send the stone camel back..."

What he said was "send", and the implication seemed to be "if the stone camel hadn't been afraid, I would have gone with you".

This ordinary person who doesn't know any martial arts at all and shuttles across the border for his livelihood seems to have infected the passion of this group of people, and even wants to go on an adventure with them.

Just based on this, who can say that the human heart is only ugly and mercenary?

Although Ji Bingyan felt a little emotional in her heart, she still nodded lightly and said: "Then I will trouble you."

Xiao Pan's eyes lit up when he heard this.He knew that this seemingly indifferent man had regarded himself as a true partner.

And the stone camel was still standing there, seemingly ignorant of everything.

Hu Tiehua watched them say goodbye, suddenly smiled and said: "Guess what? Just now I searched for those who were killed by Shi Guanyin's mad knight, and found that there was a lump on his shoulder, which was hard and round, like an egg Like! Do you think it's strange?"

In fact, he also knew that he might not be able to come back after this trip, but he didn't want to leave so embarrassingly, so he had nothing to say.

As expected, Ji Bingyan moved the corner of her mouth and forced a smile.Even a little red face is not so cold.

They had just made up their minds to turn the horse's head, but found that there was another wave of dust in the far horizon.

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Chu Liuxiang and the others looked helplessly at the knights who surrounded them.

These people wore white embroidered silk jackets, black breeches, sturdy leather boots, and white crane feathers on the brim of their hats. They were dressed exactly like the group of people killed by Shi Guanyin's subordinates.

Because of this, they firmly insisted that it was Chu Liuxiang and the others who killed their own people, no matter how they explained it, it would be useless.

At this time, Xiao Pan couldn't leave.He spoke the same fluent language as the other party, and kept talking about what happened just now, but the leader of the other party, a sharp knight with a black mustache, still had a strong look of suspicion.

After all, no one could immediately believe that just five people could kill nearly twenty brave knights, and then died like lightning under a sword technique they had never heard of.

Yidianhong looked around at the surrounding knights coldly, and suddenly stretched out her hand, a cold light flashed in front of everyone's eyes, and then seven or eight feathers fluttered down.

The leading knight was so shocked that he lost color, and quickly touched his hat, only to find that the feathers on the brim of the hat had been cut off.He managed to regain his composure, only to realize that what Didianhong was holding was his own saber.

Chu Liuxiang coughed, as if trying to hide the smile on his lips, and then said, "Can you trust us this time?"

The leading knight made an expression of unbelief, stroked his chest and saluted, and said, "Then, where are the things our companions are carrying?"

After hearing Xiao Pan's interpretation, Hu Tiehua immediately yelled strangely: "Why are you people so unreasonable! Do you still suspect that we stole things from the dead!"

Chu Liuxiang's eyes flashed, and he said, "We didn't see anything on these people, so I don't know what you are referring to?"

The leading knight seemed to suppress the panic, looked at Hu Tiehua, then at a little red, and finally sighed: "I won't hide it, it's a gem called 'Star of Bliss'."

Ji Bingyan suddenly asked: "Are you the knights of Kucha?"

The leading knight bowed again on the horse and said, "Yes, we are the personal guards of King Kucha."

Hu Tiehua asked inexplicably: "What Kucha country?"

Ji Bingyan said: "Kuci was one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions in ancient times. The capital was in Kuxian, but it was already destroyed by Chahatai Khan Tuhei Lu Timur. How can there be a king of Kucha?"

The leading knight sighed: "Your Excellency is indeed a knowledgeable person! Our king is a descendant of the royal family of Kucha. He has been wandering in the desert for many years. Although we follow him, it is like going to heaven to return to his homeland." It's just as difficult!"

Ji Bingyan's expression seemed to have moved, and he said: "We are Han people, and we didn't want to take care of things in the desert at first. But since your Excellency said that you are a survivor of Kucha and the king's personal guard, why even the royal family's symbol 'Star of Bliss' are all lost?"

Hu Tiehua listened by the side, and without waiting for the other party to answer, she leaned into Chu Liuxiang's ear and whispered: "This dead rooster really knows a lot! What is he asking all this for? Could it be that he still wants to restore the country and seal a palace?" A former general or something?"

Chu Liuxiang held back a smile and did not answer. Hearing the leading knight say bitterly: "The Star of Bliss is our national treasure, and it has been well preserved. But a few years ago, we were raided by rebels, and they were killed by them during the battle." Take away the gem, and its whereabouts have been unknown since then. Until a few days ago, one of our sentry teams found traces of the rebels, and the king personally deployed them. We surrounded the rebels in three ways and finally wiped out the rebels. This... this team of light cavalry , is specially escorting the star of bliss to return to the king, who would have thought..."

No one expected that at such a time and in such a place, a story of power and killing would be heard.Ji Bingyan still said calmly: "Your Excellency must have hoped that we would return this 'Star of Bliss'."

The leading knight hurriedly said: "If you really get the national treasure of our country, you will be distinguished guests of our country. We will escort you to meet the king. When the star of bliss returns to the country, the king will definitely reward you with great gifts!"

Hu Tiehua tugged on Chu Liuxiang's skirt again, and said in a low voice: "The old concubine is getting more and more evil, how does he know where the national treasure is?"

Chu Liuxiang still didn't speak, but Hua Manlou turned his head and said, "Brother Hu just said that when searching for that Kucha knight, someone's shoulder protruded, right?"

Hu Tiehua scratched his head and suddenly yelled.The surrounding knights were startled by him, seeing that he had already charged out on his horse, and ran towards the corpses of the Kucha knights.Before the people behind could catch up, he had already jumped off the horse, bent over to feel something on the dead man, and after a while stood up straight again, with one hand raised high in the air.

Glittering in the sunlight was a diamond the size of a pigeon egg in his hand.

The author has something to say:

First of all, thanks to Anthea and Chang'an Sleepless Little Angel for mine!Forgive me for taking so long to remember to thank you...

Then...how did you tell me that Xiaohong was getting married yesterday?Is it too early for Xiaohong to get married?Ni Meng still think about the issue of tricks to kiss [Hey]

This chapter is relatively short, so it's a transition, and the next chapter will focus on the plot.

-----------------The nest is the dividing line that the author occasionally does not open the forest -----------------

There was a comment yesterday that really bothered me.

To be precise, it is a comment replying to other people's comments, in Chapter 8, and I am very surprised that this comment disappeared on the copywriting page after I finished replying, and I can only see it when I click on the chapter.I don't know if jj occasionally does some good things to reassure the author.

In short, an unregistered reader said in Chapter 8 that my character collapsed, yes, he was talking about Huamanlou.Then yesterday's reply followed up with "the collapse is boundless".

I really never thought that for the same character, people's opinions could vary so much.

And because the two unregistered commenters didn't talk about Ziwu Maoyou in detail, I didn't even have the opportunity to refute that I didn't write Beng, at least I didn't plan to write Beng.

I generally don't take offense at such unreasonable judgments.If you leave me a comment saying "Crap! The writing is super bad!", I will probably just say that it is okay to leave.But when it comes to the characters, I, as an author who has been with the characters day and night for half a year since I started saving manuscripts in January, I still can't calm down.

Readers can of course say that I didn’t capture Huamanlou’s soul, that my description was superficial, that he is not this type of gentleness, he is another type of blahblahblah, but these seem to be contained within a certain limit inside.

But what exactly does collapse mean?Unless I write Huamanlou as Hu Tiehua, as Chu Liuxiang, and as Li Xunhuan (hey, wait a minute, Li Ni is playing tricks... Even if readers think "this seems to be more like Hua Wuque", after all, it is not to the point of collapse, right?

I mean, there are still similarities between some characters.When I wrote Huamanlou, of course I was thinking of Huamanlou instead of Hua Wuque. Hua Wuque is actually younger and more lively in temperament, but he is more tolerant of feelings.As for Huamanlou, because he has never had any shadow or pressure from his elders or grievances, no matter how he handles things, he can obviously follow his heart.

I'm sorry that I haven't watched the version played by Yao Da carefully, and to be precise, I haven't seen any actor's version.But I have already written in the copy that I don’t refer to the image of the film and television drama, because the second creation vs the second creation will definitely be found to have great differences.But because you are loyal to a certain version of the second creation and don't accept other ones, it seems that you can't go to others to accuse the other party of being unorthodox?

Since I have never said that Yaoda's version is unorthodox...【Top Pot Cover

And if the person who wrote that comment was based on the original work...I'm really sorry that I can't accept that kind of comment at all!

Although Hua Manlou's appearance in the original book is always gentle and tranquil with a soft light (this is what), but facing Ximen Chuuxue's neither humble nor overbearing, Shangguan Feiyan's loneliness after disappearing, Shi Xiuxue's helplessness and self-blame when she died of poisoning, and then In the next few films, the alertness when returning to the small building to find Lu Xiaofeng, the decisiveness and ruthlessness when facing the visitor in the Gongjiu hut... there are clearly diverse profiles in the few scenes.Compared with Gu Dada, I don't seem to dare to use much force at all!

In order to spend a lot of money, I have to fight so much with two readers who didn't even log in and left without any sense of responsibility.

Thinking about it carefully, maybe it's just that I can't feel as happy as "Get out" to the scumbag who calls Huamanlou a "married wife"?

In short, I am really grateful to the little angels who have been able to follow the article here.