Strange Records of Xijing

Perhaps because he was frightened by Pei Jingxing's action of drawing his sword without saying a word, Zhao Shimin was obedient along the way, following Gao Zekai closely, staying far away from Pei Jingxing and Su Yan.

Huang Shi, who was driving the car, was a saw-mouthed gourd. I don’t know if it’s because of his nature, or because he became so depressed after being frustrated. Apart from a few sporadic words such as "arrived", "stay here", and "departure", , I have never seen him make a sound.

Gao Zekai looked like an old god, like a national teacher.He had seen through the entanglement between Pei Jingxing and Zhao Shimin, and adhering to the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less, he rarely spoke when Pei Jingxing and Zhao Shimin were present at the same time, and would rather say a sentence twice in private.

As for Pei Jingxing and Su Yan, the former was enlightened once in 20 years, but the young boy Huaichun didn't know what to do, while the latter was temporarily blind. Of course he was alert to the disturbances in the outside world, but Pei Jingxing's careful thinking was invisible to Su Yan.

The carriage approached the Northwest Pass in more than ten days of silence. Gao Zekai opened the curtain and took a look outside. He smiled and said to the other three people in the carriage: "After passing this mountain, you will be at the Provincial Pass. General Zhang's army will We are stationed [-] miles away from Shengyong Pass, if today goes well, we will leave today and go to the barracks.”

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan didn't speak, but Zhao Shimin knew that Gao Zekai was his amulet. When Gao Zekai spoke, he naturally wanted to follow him: "What Gao Daoist said is true, after we leave Shengyong Pass, let's go to the military camp and wait for tomorrow. Let’s go to the ancient city early in the morning.”

The ancient city was erratic, if it wasn't for the prince and guards who encountered a storm when they were chasing the fugitive bandits, they ran into the ancient city by mistake, no one would know the existence of this ancient city.

Gao Zekai just smiled and said nothing, not pointing out the mistakes in Zhao Shimin's words.The latter only thought that he succeeded in flattering this time, and was about to seize the opportunity to make persistent efforts, but unexpectedly at this time the carriage stopped suddenly, and all the four people in the carriage fell forward involuntarily. Became "Ah!".

"What's going on?" Zhao Shimin felt ashamed in front of Pei Jingxing, so he vented his anger on the taciturn Yellow Stone outside.

"The wheel is stuck." Huang Shi had jumped out of the carriage at this time, walked to the side to observe, he raised his head, and said to the four people inside through the small window on the carriage, "Get out of the carriage."

Zhao Shimin still wanted to say something ugly, but Gao Zekai had already got up first, he couldn't sit still, so he could only follow closely behind Gao Zekai, and was the second to jump off the carriage.

Pei Jingxing followed closely behind, then turned around and handed his hands to Su Yan who was on the carriage: "There are too many gravels on the ground here, be careful when you get down."

Su Yan nodded, not politely, grabbed Pei Jingxing's hands, and jumped down. As expected, he just stepped on a few small gravels and staggered.

Pei Jingxing hurriedly grabbed Su Yan's waist with one hand, and when the latter stood still, he immediately withdrew his hand.

Su Yan carefully stepped on the ground with his foot. Although his eyes were dull and he couldn't see any emotion, his depressed mood could already be seen from his face——

Although he repeatedly promised that he would not cause trouble before leaving, he needed help just to get off the carriage. Once he entered the ancient city, what should he do?

Pei Jingxing put his hands behind his back, but he couldn't help the little itchy thoughts in his heart, and rubbed his fingers uncontrollably twice, feeling the residual warmth left by Su Yan.

The two people on this side had their own thoughts, while Gao Zekai on the other side had already leaned over, observed the condition of the wheels for a while, and said to Huang Shi: "We can only lift the carriage together."

Huang Shi nodded, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "Please stay away, so as not to hurt you."

Zhao Shimin raised his eyebrows, and was about to say something sarcasm, but he thought of what Niu Chunhui and Zhu Zhiwen did and what happened, and thought that the Northwest Camp was coming, so he finally shut up.

Although the carriage was low-key, it was big enough, and there was a lot of luggage in the back, even Pei Jingxing's dragon-headed tiger-tooth gun was also in the carriage.After Huang Shi tried several times, the muscles on his arms bulged, and the veins on his neck burst out. Although the carriage was lifted by him, it was only more than an inch, not enough to get out of the crack of the stuck stone.

Seeing this, Pei Jingxing told Su Yan to wait for him in a low voice, and then walked to Huang Shi's side: "Huang Shi, I'll help you."

Pei Jingxing was Zhang Feiran's apprentice, and Zhang Feiran was the object of worship of many soldiers in the Zhou Dynasty. Huangshi Aiwu and Wu had a good impression of Pei Jingxing, and he was not as indifferent to other people as usual.Hearing what Pei Jingxing said, Huang Shi nodded: "Thank you."

"One, one!" Huang Shi yelled slogans, and he and Pei Jingxing worked hard together. After repeating this three times, the carriage finally came out from the crack of the stuck stone.

But today's bad luck is not over yet, Huang Shi squatted down to check the wheels, got up and said, "No, we need to change the wheels."

"Is there any spare?"

"There is one." Huang Shi walked to the back of the carriage, intending to take out the spare wheel, but he searched for a while, but found nothing.

"Disappeared?" Gao Zekai realized that something was wrong, "It's fine, how could it disappear?"

"I just changed the wheel at the post station two days ago, so I didn't check the spare one." Huang Shi was already sweating profusely, half of it was because of his effort just now, and the other half was because of his anxiety.

Whether this matter is big or small.This journey has been smooth and smooth, but the vigilance in Huang Shi's heart has not let up.Before departure, the national teacher repeatedly explained that the search for the ancient city of the Western Regions this time must not be leaked. If this matter is really planned by someone with a heart, it means that their whereabouts have been exposed.

He Huangshi asked himself that he was not a careless person, the wheels had long been placed in the back of the carriage with the luggage, and now they disappeared, there must be something strange in it.

In fact, not only Huangshi, but also Gao Zekai began to be on guard.

Huangshi is only a fringe person in this matter, and he knows a lot more than Huangshi.Since the prince came back from the Western Regions four years ago, he has lived in the East Palace and never showed up for a whole year.Although the prince is backed by the emperor, many old officials have already criticized the prince, and even some princes have thoughts that they shouldn't have.

Although Gao Zekai didn't understand why the emperor wanted to protect the prince so much, but since his master had instructed him, he couldn't mess things up.The prince is now in a coma for a longer and longer time. If other people find out, it is not impossible to expose this matter and force the emperor to change the prince. Neither the ministers nor the common people will agree to the heir who can't wake up again.

"Don't worry." Gao Zekai, as the leader of the team, knew that he must not mess up at this time, he comforted Huang Shi and said, "Maybe when the wheels were changed two days ago, the people at the post station just took them for use. , We didn’t check afterwards, so we didn’t find out.”

In fact, Gao Zekai's words were purely self-consolation, Huang Shi knew it, and Pei Jingxing knew it too.But everyone tacitly did not mention this point, and the right is to give themselves psychological comfort.

Zhao Shimin also came over at this time: "What's the matter? The carriages are out, it's time to go."

"The wheel is broken." Gao Zekai glanced at Zhao Shimin, then turned his gaze to Su Yan behind him.

After thinking about it for a while, he already had an idea: "There are not many people going to Shengyongguan on weekdays, even if it's a caravan, it doesn't happen every day. Well, Su Yan is inconvenient, so don't count him, the four of us Divide into two groups, one group stays and guards the carriage, and the other group walks down the mountain to go to Shengyongguan to call another carriage."

Zhao Shimin rolled his eyes, and immediately moved to Gao Zekai's side, and said first, "I'll be in the same group as Daoist Gao."

Pei Jingxing was too happy to go with Zhao Shimin: "Then I will go with Huangshi."

Among the two groups, Gao Zekai has never been to the Northwest, let alone Shengyong Pass, while Huang Shi and Pei Jingxing have served as soldiers in the Northwest, especially Huang Shi, who is a real veteran who has actually been on the battlefield. There are still several comrades in arms in Guanli.With this comparison, the candidates for Shengyongguan came out.

It's not that Pei Jingxing didn't want to go, it's just that he was worried about Su Yan. Firstly, Su Yan was blind and inconvenient to move around; Qiu, what if Su Yan was bullied if he wasn't around?

Ever since he realized that he likes Su Yan, Pei Jingxing has become inattentive, but he still plays tricks of "avoiding suspicion" from time to time, and has a tendency to develop into an old woman.

Before leaving, he specially brought Su Yan to Gao Zekai: "Master Gao, please take care of Su Yan more."

"Naturally." Gao Zekai nodded and said, "Anyway, we also caught the 'half-faced ghost' together, fellow Daoist Su, the wind is strong in the mountains, and it is dangerous for the carriage to go up at this moment. Let's go behind the rocks to avoid the wind."

Not to mention the passage of Pei Jingxing and Huangshi going down the mountain to Shengyongguan to find a carriage, perhaps the waiting made the time pass extraordinarily long, and the darkness extended the length three times, Su Yan only felt that he had passed behind the stone For a long time, so long that I couldn't even hear the breathing of Gao Zekai and Zhao Shimin beside me.

Su Yan felt vigilant, and slowly stretched one hand behind his back, intending to get the mahogany sword for self-defense.But he didn't want his hand to reach behind his back, and a hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.

"Don't move." Gao Zekai's voice sounded in Su Yan's ear, and his breathing also entered Su Yan's ear.

"We seem to be trapped." Gao Zekai's voice continued, "This is a formation. We are standing somewhere in the formation right now, and if we act rashly, this formation will be activated."

"Let go." Su Yan frowned and shouted in a low voice.

As soon as Gao Zekai's hand was attached to his wrist, it was so cold that Su Yan shivered, but then the touch turned into warm and dry, very similar to Pei Jingxing.Su Yan didn't like the national teacher, and was tricked by Gao Zekai, so he was naturally not happy that Gao Zekai was so close to him.

Sure enough, he let go of that hand, and Su Yan drew out the mahogany sword on his back, feeling a little relieved.

But Su Yan always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, Su Yan heard Zhao Shimin's trembling voice: "Master Gao, what kind of formation is this? Is there a way to break it?"

Gao Zekai comforted: "There is always a way, but we have to be careful and see what kind of formation it is."

"It makes sense, it makes sense," Zhao Shimin said again and again, "Then, what do we think?"

"Follow me, walk carefully," Gao Zekai said again, "Daozhang Su, you have trouble seeing your eyes, so stay where you are. Don't worry, we won't go too far. If there is anything unusual, you will immediately sound a warning, and we will Will definitely come back soon.”

It seems that these two people are planning to temporarily abandon themselves.

Although Su Yan was worried, he didn't want to show weakness. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll stand here. If you need help, call me immediately."

Gao Zekai's words came with a smile: "Thank you very much."

The footsteps gradually faded away, Su Yan couldn't see the changes around him clearly, but he always felt that it was getting colder and colder.

Is it dark?Why is it so cold when you can't feel the mountain wind blowing?

Many questions flashed through Su Yan's mind. He faintly felt that he seemed to have overlooked something, but he couldn't grasp the flashing thought for a while.

"Su Daochang, run!" At this moment, Zhao Shimin's voice suddenly came.There was a bit of subdued crying in his shouts, Su Yan didn't know what happened, but it must be something bad.

He subconsciously wanted to escape, but he took it back just as he took a step.

wrong!

At the critical moment, Su Yan finally grasped the thought of slipping away again.

Counted!

With a loud roar, Su Yan slashed forward with the mahogany sword in his hand!

A blue pattern flashed across the body of the peach wood sword, and it flew out from the tip of the sword. The air in front of Su Yan began to twist and shrink. Only a slight beeping sound was heard, and the world before Su Yan's eyes suddenly opened up.