Rune

Chapter 22 Out of the Fortress and △
On the second day, it was almost noon, the sun was shining brightly, and there was no wind and sand.

The most taboo of business people is not eating well and not getting enough sleep. Accumulated fatigue is more terrifying than disease, so they slept until the sun was shining, and finally got out of the tent and started to pack things. Ready to hit the road.

And outside the mouth of Yuxia, a young man had been waiting for a long time.

Xu Baiyan drank a lot of wine yesterday, but he still could only relax for a while. Ever since he came to this world, the biggest city he has ever seen is Yucheng, and the people he has known the most are the students in this school and Jun Saili. These dozen soldiers.

Although he has a natural yearning for talismans, when he thinks of going to the imperial capital, he is not familiar with the place of life, and he is in the most prosperous and magnificent city in the empire. There is no way of business to keep, and there is no horse thief to kill. Everything seems strange. up.

This caravan is a military caravan. It is said to be a merchant, but in fact it is more like a march. The route and the rhythm of the journey are very organized. Naturally, the packing is extremely fast. After a while, the tents all over the place disappeared. All the large pots and small stoves that were set up were also put into the carriage, and even the embers of the campfires were cleaned up.The carriages and horses entered the road, and the crowd that spread out temporarily last night gathered into a huge long queue of carriages and horses. Standing nearby, Xu Baiyan couldn't help sighing that this was really the biggest caravan he had seen in so many years.

"I'm talking about Lao Xu, this is the daughter Hong I brought back when I came home four years ago. I kept it hidden and didn't dare to tell you. Just now I filled you with half a pot. I drink it when I am bored on the road."

"Only half a jug?"

"Damn, do you want it?!"

"Yes." Xu Baiyan smiled and took the jug from the other party's hand, and weighed it. It's more than half a jug.

One of them held a Qin Jun's standard long knife in his hand, with a worried expression on his face: "The guy who eats doesn't bring it anymore?"

"I can't bring it. Daqin has a ban on knives, so how could it be possible for Chaodu to let me bring knives."

"What about the bow?"

"Probably not."

More than a dozen frontier soldiers, none of them said last night that they wanted to keep Xu Baiyan, but at this moment, they all gathered around Xu Baiyan, seemingly stubbornly starting to compare each other, to see who talked to this young man more and gave him gifts. good.

Suddenly, one of them cleared his throat, and said very solemnly: "I said, Lao Xu, you went to the imperial capital this time. Do you want to. Er, do you want to go and see that brothel?"

"Brothel?" Hearing this word, a gleam of light flashed in the eyes of a group of rough men around, which directly overshadowed the reluctance to say goodbye.

"That's right, our city of Yu doesn't even have a decent opera teahouse. As the saying goes, the world is full of prosperity, so you must go and see this brothel."

Xu Baiyan scratched his head: "But, it costs a lot of money to go to the brothel."

"Stupid! It's not that I want you to sleep with the oiran, so you go in and say you're looking for someone, and then ask for a bowl of tea, listen to the music, and take a turn around in it, which can be regarded as gaining insight for the brothers."

"Yes, yes, then write a letter and write it in detail. It is said that all the women in the imperial capital are as white as steamed buns, and their breasts are as soft as if stuffed with cotton."

This group of veterans who have stayed in Yuxiakou for half their life didn't know what to do, they seemed to have an inexplicable obsession with the brothel in the imperial capital, and they originally wanted to bid farewell to Xu Baiyan, but gradually, the topic seemed to go off track.

Xu Baiyan heard this group of people talking more and more wickedly, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became wider and wider.

"Okay, I went to the imperial capital, and I will definitely go to the best brothel for everyone!"

"Men!" Several people patted Xu Baiyan on the shoulder and exclaimed.

The wooden wheel crushed the wet mud, and the army horse snorted lightly. The wheels were engraved with talismans, so the thick wood at the mouth of the well and the boxes of wrought iron were not so heavy. With a few whistles from the military department, The huge caravan finally set off slowly.

Xu Baiyan sat behind the grain cart, looked at the military camp at Yuxiakou, and waved goodbye to the veterans.After bypassing Yucheng, the familiar world became farther and farther away from him, and the towering city wall gradually turned into a small black spot in his sight, and then disappeared, never to be seen again.

The sound of the wheels rolling over the sand is 'creaking', with a strong sense of friction; when rolling over the grass, it will be very astringent; and when walking on the mud, there is almost no sound, thanks to the runes on the wheels, Carrying these heavy loads won't bog the car down in mud.So just keep walking, walking.

Xu Baiyan looked around at the scenery that would never change, and at the looming mountains in the distance. When the entire caravan moved forward, people were extremely silent. It should be that the topics that can be talked have long been exhausted, or these people have long since I got used to this silent atmosphere, anyway Xu Baiyan found that going to business is really boring.

For the next day and a half, I was immersed in this kind of boredom. Xu Baiyan could only sleep, eat the dry food in the bag, and then write too lazy to take out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the luggage, just stained with spittle. Written on the car wall.

Finally, at nightfall on the second day, the caravan stopped, and the wind had not yet left the Gobi area, so everyone started camping and will rest here tonight.

Xu Baiyan's buttocks hurt from sitting in the car, and when he got out of the car, he even felt a little unsteady.He doesn't need to deal with the surrounding tents, and this kind of merchant's camp has no fixed location. After setting up the camp, you can just get into a tent and sleep.

So he took this time to walk around, politely greeted those who were traveling with him, and helped a few people move some things.But the people in the caravan were obviously not as enthusiastic as the people of Yucheng. After walking around for a few times, people just nodded their heads in thanks, but they were not interested in saying a word.

And in this boring time.
"Ok?"

Xu Baiyan seemed to have seen something, a very inconspicuous thing on the ground.

Walking over, he picked up the thing.

It is a small pendant, which should feel like iron. It is a triangular shape with a red string tied to it. He fiddled with it for a while, and couldn't help but feel that this thing seemed to be a very common thing in the world before he traveled— --key chain.

Of course, there is no such thing as a key chain in this world, because the keys here are all as long as the palm of your hand, so there is no need for a key chain.

so what is it?
He looked around and found a few people, and then went over to ask, but in the end no one claimed it. .

In desperation, Xu Baiyan had no choice but to sit where he was, waiting for the owner to come and find him, which lasted for more than half an hour.

The surrounding tents have already been set up, and the people have gone to sleep. The small camp in the dark is quieter than when they are doing business during the day.

After waiting for a while, still no one came, he couldn't help but smiled, wondering if he was a little too bored.

Because this thing is probably not something important, maybe it is just an ornament on a certain piece of clothing, if it is lost, it will be lost, and no one will come looking for it.

So Xu Baiyan shook his head mockingly, got up, and walked towards the nearest barracks.Holding the triangular piece of iron in his hand, he gently slid his fingertips along the edge
one lap, two laps
In this way, before I knew it, I drew quite a few triangles.

(End of this chapter)