Star Curtain Millennium

Chapter 1 - Origin, Sea of ​​Sands

Datang Tianbao for two years
In this sea of ​​death known as the "sand of sand", Li Heng has been walking with a Sogdian camel caravan for three days. His actions: At that time, he was in a marginal nomadic tribe under the moonlight, and asked an old man with a wrinkled face and rosy nose about the legendary Damascus flower-edged knife processing technology. When a caravan called Azrai appeared and prepared to cross the desert At that time, he was moved by their silent momentum, quickly got into a tent, bought two robes and a big leather pot with a few coins, and set off with the camel team. Of course, part of the reason was because With bright white teeth, the dark-skinned guide spoke Sogdi, and then switched to the half-baked Chang'an dialect, patting his chest and saying, "Ten days, I will allow you to cross the desert...".

At the same time that Li Heng passed on the two taels of silver to the guide, his thoughts happily focused on one point: ten days, less than one-ninth of his vacation, and he could still go to Anxi in Dunhuang.

In fact, Li Heng didn't even know why he wanted to go through it, probably for the sake of going through it.This kind of thing has been done a lot.Of course, there is another factor that he is absolutely embarrassed to ignore: a woman wrapped in a black veil and with a curved header, sitting very gracefully on a camel, with a small sword with a fish-gut pattern protruding from her armpit .She glanced over Li Heng's face inadvertently, showing a slightly surprised look, but also a swift and haughty forward look.

(An instant is eternity).

In the past few days, the handsome and melancholy waiter in Weicheng has a line of Khotan characters tattooed on his cheek like a beard, lingering in Li Han's heart like a poisonous snake.

She must be going to Dunhuang.Then I am too, Li regret secretly smiled.

The money obviously played a role. The guide led a camel very attentively, and generously gave Li Zhen a large leather bag filled with water. It's just that the mottled and blackened hole made Li Zhen have some thoughts, but after a few hours, He happily drank it.

The lone star, the cold moon, and the people riding away are all beautiful scenery, but Li Yu got a little sleepy and passed the three camels.The figure of the woman in black was slender, but she remained motionless above the waist.

People with secrets.Or maybe she was born to belong here.

Li Zhen was woken up by the ancient Wusun language. As soon as he stretched his head out of the felt beside the camel, he saw the guards of the Wusun Kingdom screaming nervously.A distant voice came over.

It seems to be a mosquito, oh no, a large group of mosquitoes, Li Heng guessed, but you can't even see a jerboa in this kind of place
To be precise, it should be the sound of horseshoes.

Horse thief? !Li Zhen woke up instantly, and gently pulled Tang Dao beside the pillow.But soon, he didn't have to guess anymore. Under the bright moonlight, several black horses stopped beside the campfire not far from the camel team.

Weicheng black cavalry?Weicheng Mengtian releases the iron-blooded black cavalry of the great general of hussars!Li Zhen raised the hilt of the knife in a relaxed state.

The camel stood up from half-kneeling, roaring in a low voice, the people in the caravan watched curiously, and most of them turned their attention to Li Heng.

A middle-aged samurai half-covered his face with a scarf looked around the outer edge, jumped off his horse and walked straight towards Li Zhen.While walking, he untied the scarf used to cover his face, spit a few mouthfuls, and took a deep breath, "Master Li", Li Yu also saw his meticulous bright light armor and two large discs by the way. Armed in a stable manner, I secretly thought that these people really deserved to be the extreme force of the Meng family, with a well-equipped military appearance, and even the few black horses stood there calmly in an instant, without even a single extra kick.Li Yu couldn't help applauding secretly in his heart, the large amount of military expenditure that the Helan Racecourse spends on the cultivation of Datang military horses every year is really unreasonable, and the Turkic horses that were smuggled in as female parents accounted for more of the military expenditure Bulk, now it seems that it is definitely worth it!

"Lord Li!" The visitor saluted with both hands, and smiled brightly. The etiquette of a person from the military camp is warm and without losing distance.

Of course Li Zhen knew this low-level military officer, Hu Yangxiu, the distant nephew of General Meng, and he was also a close relative.

"We sent all the mobile troops from Weicheng to find you, my lord! My lord!" Another follower who followed quickly added.

"Why? I'm on vacation." Li Heng responded mildly. In fact, he already knew that there must be something important in Chang'an, otherwise he would never have contacted this important army at the eastern salient of Longyou Road. After all, the traditional intelligence system was not followed as usual, so I don't know what excuse must be used.Hu Yangxiu's answer quickly confirmed Li Heng's guess, "I don't know, I just followed orders."

Must be something very, very important.

Li Heng sighed inwardly, recalling the embarrassing scene a few days ago.In Weicheng, a rare and magnificent place in the isolated city in the northwest, at a large round bathing pool in Liuqingfang, undressing and undressing, making several orchid maidservants with white breasts trembling and flamboyantly giggling and laughing, Mr. Cen Yushi The sealed letter fell into the pool without prejudice.When I retrieved this secret letter that was supposed to be handed over to General Meng, it was already a paper pulp.The water flowed down between the fingers, and the ball of paper in the palm was really top secret now, Li Heng almost wanted to cry but had no tears.But it happened to be possible to completely erase Yushitai's order from this holiday...but...it's over, criticism is inevitable, but Li regret is not too worried.It's just a secret letter with a simple pressed flower, how important can it be.It can't be for this matter.Just when I thought of this, a soldier at the back of the horse team brought over an empty horse.Li Zhen sighed, got on the horse, pulled it sideways with one hand, flicked the horse's tail towards the camel team, turned around and ran back.

No one noticed that the woman in black had stood up in the middle of the camel team at this moment. The camel dung fire that the camel team used to keep warm reflected her eyes as dark as the night. A faint trace of hatred.Soon the bonfire left only a fading bright spot behind the horse team, and the distant sky showed a gleam of light.
"I don't know if I should say it properly, Mr. Li, I heard rumors that you came to Longyou to avoid the forced marriage of Miss Bai's family?" Looking from a distance, Weicheng bathed in the gentle morning light seemed to have been sprayed with a layer of spray. Warm golden color, on the not-so-tall but solid khaki-colored city wall, the black Mongolian army flag fluttered impressively. In everyone's field of vision, it looked like a black and sturdy whirlwind.Hu Yangxiu, who has been silent and focused on clearing the way, couldn't bear it anymore, and turned around to ask Li Zhen a somewhat embarrassing question...

I don't know if it's because of the dust or other reasons, but Li Yu couldn't help sneezing.He glared at the front angrily, and instantly shielded himself from that difficult topic.The group of people did not dismount under the city, and galloped into the city with loud laughter all the way.

(End of this chapter)