Born of Worry

The sun passed the commanding heights and began to slant to the west.

Li Xian rode his horse and galloped for an hour, the clothes on his body were already dried by the wind.Going upstream along the rivers and lakes, finally, in the far distance where the sky and the earth connect, some buildings appear.

If his predictions are correct...the place where those buildings should be is Tahan's imperial city.

He reined in the horse, and suddenly hesitated.

Want to get any closer?

Influenced by the Khans of recent generations, Tahan has basically become a nation that hates the Han, and he has a very obvious appearance of the Han. If he enters the imperial capital, will he be killed directly as a Han spy?

He absolutely cannot die here.

But if you don't get close to the imperial city, how can you know the location of the opponent's food and the deployment of troops?

He frowned and thought for a moment, got off the horse, walked to the river, knelt down and took some water to drink, washed his face again, felt sober, and then sat down where he was, thinking about his next move.

If Hu Lugu wanted to find him, he would first go downstream to search for him, and by now it was almost time to finish the search. If he couldn't find him downstream, he would definitely think of searching upstream. If this is the case...his situation can be described as very dangerous.

But if he can't enter the imperial city, where can he go to hide...

so hungry...

He looked down at the fish in the river, but he had no strength and no way to catch them. If he had known this, he should have done more sneaky things with the third brother when he was a child.

Why don't you just get caught by them?But this excellent opportunity will never come again.

At this time, he suddenly felt that Feichen was biting his clothes, turned his head away, and said, "What's wrong?"

Feichen hissed a few times and continued to pull at the corner of his clothes.

"You want me to go with you?" Li Xian frowned, "Well, since we are desperate now, I might as well trust you once."

He got on his horse and let it gallop.

Feichen brought Li Xian into a herd of horses.

He looked at the apparently occupied residence not far away, and there were two other people moving about. He couldn't help being speechless for a while, leaned down and leaned into its ear and said, "Why did you bring me here?"

Those two people soon found him, walking towards this side, Li Xian was relieved after being nervous for a while.Forget it, God won't help me, so I just stop struggling.

The two people are also in standard Tahan costumes, a man and a woman, they look like a couple, but they are not young, they are about 50 or [-] years old.They were talking as they approached, and Li Xian could barely understand what they meant:

The man said: "[Tahan] Why did it come back? Didn't it run away in the morning?"

The woman shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.

Li Xian got off his horse, thinking that he would not be able to run away anyway, so he simply went to ask them for something to eat, to fill his stomach, and to take a rest.

He took the initiative to approach those two people, and the man walked up to him and asked, "[Tahan] who are you?"

Although Li Xian could understand simple Tahan language, he couldn't speak it, so he shook his head. The other party said another word, but he didn't understand it. After staring at them for a while, the other party began to make gestures and words. , pointed at him, pointed at his mouth again, and then waved his hand: "[Tahan language] you can't speak?"

Li Xian realized that the word he just said should be "dumb" in Chinese, so he shook his head again.

This time, a man and a woman looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to ask.Li Xian thought for a while, and didn't want to hide it anymore. He racked his brains to come up with the few words he knew, and said, "[Tahan] I am a Han Chinese."

The man's eyes widened, and Li Xian lowered his eyes. He thought he was about to get angry or arrest him, but unexpectedly heard the other party speak in his not-so-fluent Chinese, "You...are you really Han?"

Li Xian was stunned.

Feichen hissed next to him, and walked away slowly to graze.

The man was overjoyed, and immediately invited Li Xian into their residence - different from the Han people's brick and tile houses, Tahan's houses were like camp tents, square and round, easy to carry.

Li Xian was pressed hard on the cushion by them, stuffed with drink and food, and was still in a dazed state.Why are there Han people in this Tahan territory?

"You two, may I take the liberty to ask... who are you?"

Hearing his words, the man sighed, shook his head and said, "It's a long story..."

"Speak slowly."

"Okay." The two sat down opposite him, the man took off his coat and hat, and put them aside.But Li Xian suddenly saw something, and said in surprise: "Wait a minute! You...why is there a scar on the skin of your neckline?"

The man was also shocked, "Why, do you think there is anything wrong with this scar?"

Li Xian frowned, and tentatively said: "Your scar...isn't a sharp wound, but it seems that you deliberately made it to erase some traces."

The other party's excited hands started to shake, "Then you, you know... the Xuanjia Army?"

"Are you really a member of the Xuanjia Army?!" Li Xian stood up, thinking for a moment, "I see, my father once told me that when he sent envoys to Tahan to show his favor, he secretly sent another envoy The Xuanjia army was placed in Tahan's eyeliner. But later this group of Xuanjia army was killed by Tahan. Ten corpses were found in Yanmen Mountain, but two of them were headless and could not be identified. It was verified that the 'Xuan' tattoos on the two headless corpses were tattooed on the back, which means that these two people are not members of the Xuanjia Army, but impostors. Therefore, the two people should be You haven't died yet, but you just disappeared, don't tell me you..."

The man knelt directly in front of him, almost crying: "Yes, yes! You are right! The two of us are the two missing Xuanjia soldiers!" He calmed down his emotions, Dao, "All ten of us belonged to the Xuanyu Intelligence Department. We were ordered by the emperor...that is, the current Supreme Emperor to come to Tahan as a secret agent, but unfortunately our identities were exposed later. The other brothers were all killed by Tahan. Suddenly, the man had a plan, and took two headless corpses to pretend to be, and he took the opportunity to escape, but he was also seriously injured."

In the middle of his speech, he suddenly stopped and said, "You... who are you? How do you know about the Xuanjia Army? And you know such details?"

Li Xian sighed, "The Supreme Emperor, Li Zhang, is my father." After a pause, "My name is Li Xian."

After the two of them were stunned for a moment, they directly kowtowed to him, with tears all over their faces: "God has eyes! God has eyes! Before the two of us were buried, we could actually see Emperor Dayin again! Heaven has eyes! Nah!"

Li Xian hurriedly helped them up, "Please get up quickly, the elders don't have to do this."

"Yes..." the man nodded, "Then... according to the rumors, you were killed by Tahan..."

"I was caught by them on purpose. The purpose was to come to Tahan to collect information and decipher their language, so that the eyes of the Xuanjia Army could enter."

"So that's how it is..."

Li Xian asked them to continue with what they just said. It turned out that the two escaped death by that trick. In order not to reveal their identities, they cut out the tattoos of the word "Xuan" on their bodies and hid in Tibet. The Hu people settled down in Tahan, pretending to be husband and wife, and tried to bribe the officers in the army to get a small group of horses, raise and graze them for them, and also took the opportunity to obtain information from the army.They have been here for more than twenty years, and even though they have lost Dayin's assistance, they have not dared to forget their mission to come to Tahan for a day, and they are still collecting information about Tahan day after day.In addition, many brothers died at the hands of barbarians, and every time I think about it, I feel even more grief and indignation, and I dare not slack off for a day.But their information has not been transmitted back to Dayin because they lost contact.

"Your Majesty, I will bring all the information right now!"

"Wait a moment!"

Li Xian hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's not the time yet. To tell you the truth, I escaped secretly today. I think they will find this place in a short time. The most urgent thing now is that you two must help me find someone." A place where you can hide, avoid being searched, and it’s not too late to tell the information.”

"This... this is easy to handle! Your Majesty, please follow me!"

The people Hu Lugu sent out to search finally arrived.

The team leader called the man and woman to question, and they answered one by one, and the other party asked again: "[Tahan] Who is that man who is herding the horse?"

The man replied, "[Tahan] That's our son."

The team leader nodded and asked one of his subordinates to inquire.

In fact, the man who released the horse was naturally Li Xian, but after some dressing up and wearing the clothes of a barbarian, he could not be recognized easily.He heard the man ask himself: "[Tahan] Did you see a Han pass by here just now?"

Li Xian sneered in his heart, thinking that I was, but he replied in the Tahan language he had learned: "I didn't see it." Then he added, "[Tahan language] What happened?"

Feichen grazes among the horses, but the red marks on his body have been wiped off with black mud, and he is no different from an ordinary black horse.

The other party waved his hand, didn't hear anything wrong, and said: "[Tahan language] nothing to do with you." Then turned and left.

Those barbarians left quickly, Li Xian heaved a sigh of relief, followed the two into the account, and the two took out all the information they had collected over the years, there was a thick stack, and handed it to him, "Your Majesty , although these thieves will not come again today, you must not stay here. We raise horses for them, and the registers are all registered. It is easy to find out that the two of us have no sons at all. This is to find out our identities. So we have to wrong Your Majesty, leave here as soon as it gets dark, take this information, and take advantage of the night to run as far as you can!"

"That you……"

The man showed a sad but fearless smile: "The two of us have been here for more than [-] years. We have collected all the information we can, and there is no other way to collect the information we can't. The common people, however, can boast that they are worthy of the Supreme Emperor and the Xuanjia Army. Your Majesty, you just leave. After you leave, the two of us will end on our own, and we will never reveal the slightest word! Even if the thief takes my two Even if the human body is hacked into pieces, we can't get a single word out of our mouths!"

Li Xian was so moved that his eyes almost turned red, he closed his eyes and said no more, "Okay."

Li Xian ate dinner at the two people's homes, and read all the information before it was dark. When night fell, he brought some dry food and water, and changed back to the clothes he wore when he first came. clothes, ready to say goodbye.

Before leaving, he knelt down in front of them regardless of the other party's obstruction, kowtowed heavily, and said, "I, Li Xian, will replace all the people of Dayin and my father, thank you both!"

After saying that, he rode on Feichen and rode all the way without looking back.

The night is getting darker.

Hu Lugu paced back and forth anxiously in the military tent.

Xie Yan finally couldn't see it anymore, put down his teacup, "Don't turn it around, you won't be able to turn Li Xian back if you turn it any longer."

"Where did he go?!" Hu Lu was furious, "My people have searched all along the riverside! They have all found the imperial capital, but what happened? I didn't even see a single person!"

Xie Yan seemed to be calm, and said calmly: "If you can't find it today, then look for it tomorrow. Are you afraid that he will not be able to return to Dayin's territory?"

"But what if he dies? What if he dies?!"

"Don't worry, he won't die." Xie Yan yawned and stretched, "He won't let himself die. It's getting late, Khan should rest early."

"you!"

Li Xian no longer knew where he had gone.

After riding a horse for a day, his thigh started to hurt again, and his dinner was about to be knocked out, so he hurriedly stopped the horse and stopped by the lake.

The night was dark, and it was likely that no one would come to look for him again.

He sat down tiredly, drank a few sips of water, and slowly broke up the dry food he was carrying to feed the fish in the lake.

Anyway... I'm going to be arrested tomorrow, so I don't have any intention of bringing these things with me.

But it seems to be quite delicious... He couldn't help but took two bites, and then took out the stack of information.

He absolutely can't take this information back. Fortunately, he took a phoenix feather when he went out, otherwise it would be too difficult for him to memorize all these.

I took out the phoenix feather from the clothes, after many times of wet and dry, it has no luster, and I don't know if it still works.

He put the phoenix feather and the information together, and after a few seconds, the phoenix feather began to emit a faint red light, covering all the paper with the information written on it, and the writing on the paper began to blur and fade, and finally It disappeared completely, and Feng Yu also completely turned into red light and dispersed.

Successful.

He smiled with relief, and threw all the papers with no words into the lake.Tiredness swept over again, Feichen leaned over and lay down, let him lean on his body, and kept flicking his tail to drive away mosquitoes for him.

Li Xian leaned on it and looked up at the night sky.

The night on this grassland is also different from that in Middle Earth...

The open night sky without a trace of impurities is dotted with stars, flickering and dimming, falling into dreams one by one.

He closed his eyes.