Chang'an Youth Tour

A horse cannot go far in the desert, even if it is a bloody horse bestowed by the Holy Spirit.

But Xiao Xu also let go of the horse long ago—shortly after entering the desert, the horns of the Xirong people approached, and the followers were divided into two teams to distract the pursuers. He was very hesitant when he left, probably because he was ordered by the emperor to protect him, so he hesitated and called "Your Majesty."

"Stop dawdling!" Xiao Xu lost his temper as before: "Let me tell you, even if Brother Huang is here, he will let you choose like this."

The master had no choice but to leave to lure his pursuers. Fortunately, it was already dark. Even the Xirong people who are good at hunting would have to work hard to chase people in such a dark night. It lit up again, Xiao Xu's heart was broken, he simply let go of the horse, carried the unconscious Yan Junyu on his shoulder, and walked to the depths of the desert alone.

The people of Xirong might have guessed that they were going to the southwest, so he thought about it and decided to take a detour. He has also read a lot of military books over the years, especially learning from the old princes in the imperial family in the Privy Council. Quite a few, and he has even read the military books in the imperial study room. Even King Guangping praised him for his quick learning.The art of war, geography, and even stargazing and distinguishing the road are also well-learned, and they have practiced for many days before setting off.

But so what?It's always too late.

The desert in the night was very cold, and when Xiao Xu's teeth began to chatter, he was stunned for a moment. He had been surrounded by palace people all his life, taking care of him meticulously, and he was even very unfamiliar with the cold.Fortunately, Xuanhu's cloak is thick and wide, which can cover Yan Junyu and cover him at the same time. With Yan Junyu on his back, he walked in the desert with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and saw the moon shining in the sky. Get up little by little.

Fortunately, he was heading in the right direction. He went west first, then south. He learned to identify the stars best, because he was always guessing where Yan Junyu would be now. He could also see the stars he saw. are you there?

After walking for about half an hour, the pursuers seemed to have been thrown away. There was silence behind him, and a dead silence around him. For the first time, Xiao Xu knew that the desert was so quiet, not even a bird or an insect chirping. This quietness was too frightening, he had to stop from time to time to check if Yan Junyu on his back was still breathing, this panic even overwhelmed the fear of being chased by the pursuers.

He was racing against pursuers, and he was also racing against death.

Fortunately, although Yan Junyu was terribly quiet, she was breathing steadily all the time. Wrapped in a cloak, her chest was still warm. After turning over the sand dune, a strong wind suddenly blew up in the desert, and Xiao Xu was finally able to stop , put Yan Junyu down in the leeward place to check.

Yan Junyu's situation is better than he imagined, God knows, the words that echoed in his mind for half an hour are "Yan Junyu is going to die!"

He didn't even know what to do when Yan Junyu died, the voice was deafening, as if it could directly destroy his world.No wonder the queen mother had to devote herself to worshiping the Buddha. The incessant sound of the wooden fish may be the only thing that can dispel the sound.

The desert in the wind was finally no longer dead and silent, the moonlight was very faint, shining on Yan Junyu's pale face, the wound on his waist was not fatal, the bleeding seemed to have stopped.Xiao Xu thought for a while, then took out another elixir to swallow for him, before he dared to unwrap the bandage.

Yan Junyu's waist was narrow, so the wound looked particularly hideous. Xiao Xu knew a little bit of medical skills, so he knew that no important organs should be injured, but the iron arrow had torn the skin too severely, and the bright red wound looked like a grin. Mouth is the same.

Xiao Xu didn't dare to look any more, sprinkled golden sore medicine, and bandaged him again. He was still too incapable of taking care of others. During the bandaging, Yan Junyu seemed to feel the pain even in a coma, and frowned, as if muttering something What.

Xiao Xu listened closely and heard him call "Grandma" in an inaudible voice

.........

For some reason, Xiao Xu, who hadn't felt hopeless all day, felt his eyes sour after hearing these words.

"I will take you home." He promised the unconscious Yan Junyu, "I will let you see your grandma again."

He didn't waste any more time, put Yan Junyu on his back again, and walked slowly down the sand dunes. He kept walking and stopping all night, and finally curled up in the lee under the sand dunes because of the storm, and rested for several hours .

It was dawn when he woke up, and now he could confirm that the pursuers had been thrown away, because the place they were in seemed to be the center of a sea of ​​sand, and no one could be seen anywhere.The places that cannot be seen at night can now be seen clearly. This place is the center of the black desert rumored by the people of Jingbei, where even camel caravans will get lost. Xiao Xu knew it when he saw the camel bones under the sand dunes.

But he was brave by nature, and he didn't even feel scared. All he could think about was "If I saw that camel skeleton last night, I can block the wind inside."

Because it is winter, the daytime in the desert is not difficult, but unfortunately there is no snow, all he brings is the cowhide water bag that he carries with him in the army, and the water in it is probably only enough for a day, but there are two people here .

Because of Yan Junyu's injury, he felt extremely thirsty. Xiao Xu carried him for a while in the desert, and heard him call "water" in a weak voice on his back.

Xiao Xu didn't dare to let him drink more, so he carefully fed him some water, after thinking about it, he drank half a sip himself, which wet his lips.

There is still a long way to go out of this desert, and he can't waste it.

The first day was spent in his stop and go. At this time, the Xibing soldiers were no longer afraid. The difficulty was how to identify the direction and how to avoid possible sandstorms.He walked out of the sand dune with camel bones and rested there for several hours.

He decided to take a night walk.

The stars at night are more reliable, and there is no dry sun. The only annoying thing is that occasionally there are very scary snakes in the desert, entrenched in the shadow of the sandy area, and even almost bit them once. Xiao Xu's boots.

He walked at night with Yan Junyu on his back and didn't rest until dawn. He walked like this for two days and even lost his way once in the middle. Fortunately, he finally corrected his direction in time.

Yan Junyu's situation had stabilized, but then a new situation appeared - their water ran out.

Xiao Xu didn't realize the danger until the arrival of the vultures. Those vultures were circling above their heads, and they seemed to regard them as a piece of delicious meat.Maybe it was Yan Junyu's injury that attracted them, Xiao Xu's heart tightened just thinking about it.

He knew from the books recording the situation on the frontier that vultures, like crows, can smell the breath of dead people.Yan Junyu was getting better at first, and the wound even started to heal, but because there was no water to drink, it suddenly became serious again.

The last sip of water was drunk at nightfall on the third day. Xiao Xu wanted to take him out of the desert in one go, because Yan Junyu suddenly started to have a fever, and Xiao Xu had already been blown by the desert wind and sand and lost the ability to perceive. , I just know that his body is starting to heat up, but I don't know how hot it is.

The most deadly thing was that he himself began to become weak.

Yan Junyu on his back became heavier and heavier, and there was a sand dune that Xiao Xu couldn't even climb up, so he had to take a detour, which caused them to walk for half a day longer.Sometimes he couldn't even lift his legs, and every step he took, his boots seemed to be filled with sand, and the healed blood blisters were worn away again. He hated himself for being a pampered prince like this at any time in his life.

If it was Wei Ru, Ao Ji, or even Second Brother himself, they would definitely be able to bring Yan Junyu out of this damn desert.

At dawn, Xiao Xu even fell asleep to death. He was so tired that he even worried that he would not wake up before falling asleep, so he pressed Yan Junyu on his arm so that if he moved, he could wake himself up .

He woke up suddenly.

The first thing he did when he woke up was to check Yan Junyu, and then he saw a figure in the distance, which looked like a camel, and he was startled for a moment before realizing what it was.

That is his horse.

The blood-sweaty BMW given by the emperor is so psychic that he found him in the vast desert, maybe he has been following him from afar.Xiao Xu's first reaction after being overjoyed was: If the horse can follow, then the Xirong people can also follow.

Fortunately, the pursuers did not follow.Xiao Xu even hoped that a few sporadic pursuers would follow, so that at least they could fight to get their water.

Then he had second thoughts.

It is said that he is smart, and he is indeed smart. The first reaction was not to call the horse, but to slowly fall to the ground and not move.He remembered that Uncle Guangping said that when he was a child, he heard old Yanbei King tell the story of his campaign, saying that he passed out and was found by his horse, and when he woke up, the horse was licking his face.King Guangping was young at that time, and he said naively: "A good horse can protect the master." Only his father was smart and said, "That's because there is salt in human sweat, and horses like to lick it."

So he held back his temper and waited for the horse to approach slowly. He knew that the horse was also frightened by the storm, otherwise he wouldn't have followed him so far away.Sure enough, the horse approached slowly, Xiao Xu squinted his eyes halfway, holding back his temper, and waited until the horse's snort hit his face.

That moment seemed as long as 1 years. He waited until the horse stuck out its tongue before grabbing its reins and showing the dagger hidden in his sleeve.

But he still overestimated his own body, he was too weak, he had no time to kill the horse, only had time to scratch a little skin, the horse neighed and struggled violently, Xiao Xu was almost kicked in the ribs, and fell from the sand dune. Get down.

Fortunately, the horse didn't step on Yan Junyu who was on the ground when he was frightened, otherwise it would be a big loss.

Xiao Xu fell short, so he had to forget it. He thought that the horse would never come back after being frightened, but he didn't expect it to follow him far behind.

Xiao Xu didn't understand the reason until it was dark.

On the fourth night, the desert finally thinned.

It is no longer a sea of ​​sand, and the dunes are not as high as before, but new dangers are coming.

Around them appeared wolves.

At first Xiao Xu only saw one, and followed him far away, and gradually saw three or four. The wolves moved forward alternately, and kept surrounding them. No wonder the horse only dared to follow him. It turned out that the wolves had already watched. The two of them were on the same horse.

That night, Xiao Xu saw a mirage again. It was always during the day before, so he could tell that this time the mirage caused him to walk nearly ten miles in that direction before he reacted.

He was too weak to distinguish the real oasis from the fake, and he couldn't even see the road in front of him clearly.Yan Junyu also became heavier and heavier, almost crushing him.There were many times when he felt that he would never be able to walk again.But that promise has been supporting him, he wants to take Yan Junyu back to the capital, back to his home.

At that time, the way he looks at himself, he will definitely not be as alienated as before.

The sand dunes under the moonlight were silent, the two overlapping figures finally stopped, and it could be seen that the one under the pressure was a young man in black clothes, tall and slender, with a haggard face that could not hide his eyebrows Junxiu, the young man on his back is also very beautiful, such a good-looking person, there will be someone waiting for them to go home.

But the wolves will have no mercy on this.

The pack of wolves in the darkness gradually surrounded them and tightened the encirclement. The frightened horses had already neighed and ran away. Even in the desert, the speed of sweaty horses was not something that wolves could catch up with, so the pack of wolves only moved towards the horse. The two youths who were dying on the ground surrounded them.The leader is a male wolf with gray fur. The only good thing is that the wolves in the desert are very small, only as big as the hounds in the capital.

But no matter how small a wolf is, it is vicious when it bites an unconscious person.

Because the young man in the red shirt was covered with fox gizzards, it was not easy to tear off, so the wolf's target was the exposed arm of the young man in black. The young man in clothes suddenly jumped up, the dagger in his hand was shining with cold light, it was so accurate that it blinded the male wolf's eyes instantly.

He didn't make the same mistake as before this time, he directly caught the male wolf, cut his throat, and the bright red blood gushed out, he couldn't wait to drink a couple of sips, and then pressed the severed throat of the male wolf to Yan Junyu's mouth In the morning, this guy knew he was thirsty even in a coma, so he obediently drank wolf blood.

There was bright red blood on his lips, but his face was as pale as paper. He was dressed in black clothes, and under the moonlight he looked like a Rakshasa ghost returning from hell.It must be scary for him to look like this, because the wolves didn't dare to surround him for the first time, but all lowered their bodies and looked at him vigilantly.

Xiao Xu drank the wolf's blood, and burst out laughing when he saw this scene.In a silent desert, the laughter was so heroic. He had stayed in the palace for more than ten years, and it was the first time he knew that such a thing existed in the world. Just ask for a fight!

The wolves were completely frightened now, and they all retreated, but they did not retreat, but continued to follow them from a distance, obviously reluctant to give up this rare prey.

Xiao Xu fed the rest of the wolf blood to Yan Junyu. He didn't know if it would be useful to drink blood for people who lacked water, but it was better than drinking nothing at all.He even ate a bit of wolf meat raw to fill up his stomach. He didn't have time to start a fire. He knew that both he and Yan Junyu had reached their limits, and maybe tomorrow would be the last day.

Tomorrow is life or death.

Before the sun rose, he carried Yan Junyu to the border of the desert.The desert has completely thinned, and some places even exposed the ground, which is still covered with black gravel, and there is still no drop of water.

The Black Desert is certainly terrifying, but countless travelers have died in the Great Gobi.

Xiao Xu couldn't judge the location of himself and Yan Junyu, but he knew that the end of Jingbei, the old Gobi outside the black desert, was thirty miles away, so this place could also be counted as thirty miles.

Thirty miles in the desert is sometimes the distance between life and death.The most difficult thing was the self-doubt that couldn't distinguish the distance. He didn't dare to sleep during the day, and he couldn't walk at night, he was almost crawling with his back bent and Yan Junyu on his back.

Maybe both he and Yan Junyu will die here, it's not necessarily the first time he thought so.

At night, there were still packs of wolves around, but this time he couldn't trick the wolves anymore. In fact, if the pack of wolves approached now, he might not have the strength to resist.

Yan Junyu was still in a coma, and his condition became more serious. Xiao Xu didn't know if it was the last darkness, or if he really couldn't save him.Because Yan Junyu's whole body was burning hot, his forehead was so hot that Xiao Xu could feel it, and sometimes he trembled intermittently.Xiao Xu had to start a fire.

"Water..." Yan Junyu shouted in a coma.

He seemed to have changed back to the Yan Junyu when he entered the palace. He loved food so much that he often went to the kitchen to steal steamed buns.Xiao Xu leaned on the sand and reached out to touch his face. His lips were all dry and cracked, a layer of white skin appeared, and his face was also chapped.

He seemed to have been baked dry from the inside, exuding a desperately high heat.

If there is still a bag of water, even half a bag is fine.

Even if there is another greedy wolf...

Xiao Xu sat on the ground in despair, staring at the wolves behind the sand dunes in the distance. They were afraid of him. He knew that wolves were suspicious and there was a fire. It would take at least a long time for them to have the courage to approach.

In the next half day, maybe Yan Junyu will be able to wake up.

It's all like this, the young general in the novel, who escaped death and survived all kinds of desperate situations alone, will experience many things and have his own legend.

I only want him to live.

The strategy is handed over to others, and the world is handed over to others. Xiao Xu wanted him to live, the dumb boy under the crabapple tree.Everyone said that he was like a concubine mother, and he was a little crazy in his bones, so let's be crazy to the end.

When the decision was really made, it turned out that the person was unusually calm.So what about gold and jade, in front of love words, they are always the same, maybe a little lower.It took him many years to understand this truth.

When Yan Junyu woke up, the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Xiao Xu's horse.

The horse was afraid of his appearance, but it didn't dare to get too far away from the fire. It was already daytime and the sun was so bright that Yan Junyu managed to see the wolves that were still eyeing tigers in the distance.

"Come here, fool, what are you afraid of?" He summoned the horse while checking Xiao Xu beside him.

I don't know how many days have passed, and he feels so weak that he doesn't even have the strength to stand up.After finally turning Xiao Xu over, he found that there were no serious wounds on his body, but he was much weaker than himself, and he must have been tortured by the desert.

"what happened……"

His voice stopped abruptly, because he saw Xiao Xu's most serious wound, which was on his wrist.

No words could describe Yan Junyu's shock at that moment, he was completely unable to react from this incident, he just touched his lips blankly.

His mouth was sticky and smelled of blood, not water.

It was Xiao Xu's blood.

Yun Lan never thought that the young emperor would recover so quickly.

That night's gaffe in the Mingzheng Palace seemed to be his own illusion. He turned back into a wise and mighty king. The war situation in Jingbei was so horrific, but he quickly regained his composure and directly summoned the officials of the Privy Council. Ye Hong was also summoned, and after half a day of discussion, the palpitating haze above the entire court was swept away.

So what?Yun Lan heard King Guangping say this: "The ancestors created such a huge family business, didn't they just come out of it? How often have I been afraid of Da Zhou!"

Even he, who has always been wise and safe, is so excited, the rest of the people can imagine.Even Mu Fengju was eager to try, and the news spread the next day that many of his group who were born in the same year asked for orders to go to the border for training. He even went to Leyouyuan to see him off, and wrote a bunch of heroic farewell poems.

Only Yun Lan is still worried.

When Rong Hao and the others were here, she was the most ruthless one, but now, she has become the person who knows the situation best.

She knew the person on the dragon chair too well, and knew that it would not end so easily.The deeper you hide, the heavier your heart will be.

But she would never have guessed it was this way.

Before the end of the year, the Ministry of Rites suddenly asked for a decree to offer sacrifices to heaven, and she was also stunned. She didn't think about other things, but thought that someone in the Ministry of Rites had lost her head and made up her own mind.It was Suzaku who broke her.

It was Emperor Tianheng who wanted to sacrifice to the sky, and the Ministry of Rites was just catering to his wishes.

It's not a year or a festival, and the Heavenly Superintendent didn't say anything. No one could guess the reason for suddenly offering sacrifices to the sky, but no one dared to ask.The majesty of the Son of Heaven, even if he has always been wise, no one would dare to disobey him.

So it really started to worship the heavens, and even used the ancestral temple to welcome the gods and enter the zu. Otherwise, there is no reason to use the grand specifications of the six animals. Such a wish can be heard by heaven.

On the night of offering sacrifices to heaven, Yun Lan also went to the Taimiao. As the former female official in charge of the Eastern Palace, she hadn't served the Holy Majesty's daily life for a long time. Even the maid was a little surprised to see her come in, but she obediently retreated.

The glazed lamps in the side hall were as bright as a sea of ​​silver, and Yun Lan knew that she had made a mistake.

She only remembered that he was like Empress Ming Yi, a god of heartbreak.I don't know that like Emperor Qingde, he also has the dogmatic side of Sheng Gang. They all say that the emperor is the reincarnation of a god, and his emotions are like thunder and rain to the people of the world, and they have to dance with it.

"Even if you want to pray, yours may not be useful." The emperor with a good-looking profile told her.

So he came in person.

The king of a country wields power alone, and for the life and death of a mortal, he does not hesitate to use the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens. Only natural disasters affecting millions of people can make emperors sacrifice to the heavens, but he used it.Even if it is used, the world will still obey him.

The sky is sacrificed, how can people in the world not obey his wish?

All officials in the capital are sleepless tonight. Those who know the inside story will do everything possible to confirm Yan Junyu's news. Those who don't know will be like ants in a boiling pot, running around in a hurry, just want to understand this sacrifice to heaven. What means.

King Yanbei should know that Yu Yanran is with them, Ao Zhong should also be able to guess, he has been with Emperor Qingde before, so why can't he guess the temperament of the father and son.They should very much hope that Yan Junyu is with them now.

But it happened to be Jingbei.

Xiao Xu won't leave for others, Prince Gong, whom the Holy Majesty personally appointed, even if Jingbei falls, it's not worth his risk of death, Xiao Xu must have found the person he was looking for.And it was precisely because he guessed this that he was so anxious to vomit blood in Mingzheng Palace.

His Xiaoyan is in Jingbei.

What is the use of Yun Lan's prayer?

He wants his little words to live.

Yun Lan then stopped talking, just lowered her eyes, and straightened the collar of his uniform for him. It was strange, but at this time, she would not cry, and only heard pieces of broken voices.

Her gods were not broken, her heart was.

"You have always been afraid of me, Yun Lan." Xiao Jingyan said calmly.

He pointed out her biggest worry, the source of all the jokes about the prison, and the reason why she didn't like Xiaoyan again and again.She was terribly afraid, afraid of death, she was afraid all the time, afraid that he would be like Emperor Qingde.Only a person with true affection and nature will become that kind of king, that kind of hopeless king. The real faint king is not scary, what is afraid of is that he is arbitrarily determined, and he has been in power for 30 years, playing with the world In applause.

"I am very grateful that it was Rong Heng that His Majesty sent to the frontier." Yun Lan replied softly.

If it was Suzaku that was sent, it would be unimaginable.

The emperor's home world and the private world are often only in one thought.Because of that little selfishness, people in the world no longer trust them. There are only servants who have no past and future. They are more pure ministers than pure ministers. So they began to appoint Jingwei. At first, they were to check and balance the court, and gradually they became surveillance groups. Minister, and then began to give the power of trial, the power of execution...

She is grateful to him for keeping this last bottom line.

She didn't know the torment in his heart every moment.

The voice that belonged to his father roared in his heart day and night.Find Xiaoyan immediately, bring him back immediately, hide him in the safest place, and lock him several times to protect him from all dangers in the world, including Xiaoyan himself.

The only thing that can stop him is that sentence:

The emperor father must have been like this back then, so he locked the queen mother by his side.

Yun Lan hated his father so much that he didn't notice this.They are close relatives, father and son, so the young emperor has to be vigilant all the time according to the mistakes he made, so that he can overcome the love that burns in his heart day and night.

"Your good intentions will probably go to waste..." Yan Junyu said softly, and arranged the unconscious Xiao Xu, and tightened the bandaged wound.

Then he lay down himself, beside Xiao Xu.His legs were too weak, and he had exhausted all his strength just to crawl to pick up Xiao Xu's sword. The horse didn't dare to get close to it, and he couldn't catch it himself. It is estimated that he would be buried in the belly of a wolf with a high probability.

How silly, if he didn't bring himself, he would definitely be able to get out of the desert.

But if it was me, I would definitely bring him with me.So don't get too entangled in this, lest you disappoint Xiao Xu's heart.

Maybe it was because I missed that person so much that I could recognize some shadow of him from Xiao Xu's face.Will he treat his grandma well?It's a pity that I didn't keep my promise and couldn't go back from the frontier.

Grandma will be very sad, so he will hide it for himself, maybe find someone who looks like it, and it may not be possible to lie to grandma.

But who will lie to him...

Yan Junyu could only feel that his eyes were getting blurred. He was so tired, his eyes were blackened by the high fever, no wonder people would grab in the air before they died, because they could no longer see...

He gradually slid down along the sand, and his consciousness gradually sank, like sinking into a black and sticky swamp, only gradually sinking, sinking...

Until a cold touch woke him up.

At first, he thought it was his own illusion, until the cold thing fell on his lips, and then melted instantly, he could almost hear the sound of extreme desire from his throat.

He managed to open his eyes, and in the dim sky, countless white feather-like things were slowly falling, reflecting the yellow sand dunes and the golden Gobi, like a dream.

That's snow.

In the desert where no water was seen, such a life-saving heavy snow fell.