The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 517 There are traces to follow
Qin Wan sat by the window of Luling's room all night, taking care of Luling who was still unconscious, while waiting for news from Anyousi.

Because of the lack of sleep, her eyes were bloodshot, and she was extremely irritable.She kept thinking about where Ning Xizhao took Dongxia Yuping and Xun Che.

Qin Wan bit her lip and thought about it. She really couldn't think of anything, so she went to the bookshelf in the deer house, found one after another geographical annals and read it by the candlelight.

But another night passed, and she still had no clue.

At this time, Lie Xie came to Qin Wan with a wooden box: "Madam, His Highness Qingchi has completely mastered the military affairs of Longzhou. He sent someone to send this, saying that it is the local monks who carved the caves to thank Madam, for your kindness to them." A gift made in return for alms."

"Giving?" Qin Wan was stunned for a moment, she didn't remember any giving to the monks in Longzhou, she thought for a moment, "They should be thanking Shuying.

Qin Wan opened the wooden box, and inside was a pair of folded cloths. She took it out, put the wooden box beside her, spread the cloths with both hands, and there was shock in her eyes.

This is a canvas painting.

The painting is a picture of a goddess on Mount Sumeru.The Goddess is peaceful, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, with compassion for the world and tolerance for the world in the eyes, dignified manner, simple and elegant clothes, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, flowers, rivers and waves, and deserts and Gobi in the background. Passes and the sun and the moon starry.

Lie Xie walked to Qin Wan's side and looked at the cloth silk, and was also attracted by the richly colored and exquisitely painted picture.

Lie Xiao said: "According to the news from Longzhou, on the first day of October, which is the day of the empress's birthday, King Zhao once brought Shuying to a cliff in the yellow sand of the Gobi. He saw the monks digging a Buddhist cave there, so he offered funding."

"It seems that Shuying has done something good for me in Longzhou." Qin Wan looked at the face of the goddess in the painting and sighed.Suddenly she seemed to think of something, "You said that Ning Xizhao took Shuying to see the excavation of the Buddhist cave?"

Lie Xie nodded: "King Zhao knows that his mother has Buddhism in his heart, so he took Shuying to visit."

Qin Wan frowned, pondered for a while, then looked up at Lie Xian: "Lie Xian! I suddenly guessed where Ning Xizhao might have gone!"

Lie Xian looked at Qin Wan in surprise.

"Southwest Plateau!" Qin Wan stood up suddenly, "I told him before that I'm going to the Southwest Plateau to go to the Holy Land of Snowy Spirit Mountain! Send someone to investigate quickly!"

"Yes, empress!" Lie Xie accepted the order, turned around and left the door in a hurry.

Qin Wan turned to look at the piece of cloth beside him, clenched his fists tightly.

……

According to Qin Wan's guess, after investigation by various people in the southwest of Anyou Division, they finally found a group of soldiers dressed as tea horse traders heading from Dianchi Lake in the southwest to the snowy area of ​​the plateau.

Upon hearing the news, after repeatedly confirming with Baili Ling that Luling was alive and well, Qin Wan left half of the imperial hospital in Yingcheng, and rode to Jincheng of the Kingdom of Shu with delicacies, intending to travel from the Kingdom of Shu to Jincheng. Go west along the ancient road and enter the snowy area.

When Qin Wan arrived in Jincheng, Ji Yan and Master Deadwood greeted her personally in front of the city gate.

I haven't seen him for many years, Ji Yan's face is still handsome, but his eyes have accumulated years, and he will never be the boy he used to be.

Qin Wan and his party still chose to live in the Chuankong Temple. She only stayed here for two days, and she will leave after buying enough equipment for entering the plateau.Knowing that she was in a hurry, Ji Yan helped her prepare a medicine to deal with altitude sickness, and personally dispatched fifty elite soldiers from the plateau to escort her there.

Qin Wan did not refuse.Because she knew that once they entered the plateau, no matter how skilled the guards of the Bei Rong Army or the Dark You Division were, no matter how skilled they were, their high defense could make them lose their fighting power in minutes.Only the plateau elite soldiers under Ji Yan of the Shu Kingdom can adapt to the harsh environment there.

"Thank you, Ji Yan," Qin Wan said gratefully to Ji Yan, "I haven't had time to thank you for the next battle in the south, and now I'm asking you to help me enter the plateau."

"The plateau's climate and terrain are very dangerous, do you have to go?" Ji Yan frowned and asked Qin Wan.

Qin Wan nodded: "Well, I planned to go to the plateau to visit the Buddha at Lingshan after finishing all the matters in the Central Plains. Since Ning Xizhao has snatched my Dongxia jade bottle and came here, why don't I go Reasonable. Although I don't know what he's going to do, I know I have to."

Ji Yan sighed deeply, and took out a black iron token and put it in Qin Wan's hand: "This is the diplomatic token of our Shu Kingdom, you take it, and when you meet the leaders of the plateau tribes, they see it I know that there is my country of Shu behind you. Even if they can't help you, they will look at this and not make it too difficult for you."

Qin Wan looked at the token in his palm, and was a little moved, "Thank you, Ji Yan."

Then Ji Yan took out another bottle of potion and gave it to Qin Wan: "This is a life-saving medicine. You take it. I hope you won't be in danger and won't need it, but I'm still worried."

Qin Wan knew the great value of each bottle of Ji Yan's medicine, she nodded to Ji Yan, feeling that any words would be useless to repay his help.

At this time, Master Kumu found an old map from the Jialan Hall and handed it to Qin Wan: "This is the map of the ancient plateau road drawn by Huixing, the founding director of Chuankong Temple. Please take it away."

Qin Wan took the map from Master Deadwood with both hands, and saluted with palms together.

Master Deadwood asked Qin Wan: "Mother, why did you go to the plateau this time?"

"Go save people." Qin Wan said truthfully.

"Who are you saving?" Master Deadwood asked again.

Qin Wan knew that Master Deadwood's question was definitely not simply asking for a person's name, so she thought for a while and replied, "Save me."

After listening to Qin Wan's answer, Master Deadwood nodded comfortingly: "Since your mother has realized it, why is she still obsessed with it?"

Qin Wan: "Master's words are wrong. I save myself from the misery in the world, not because I see through it."

Master Deadwood said helplessly: "Since this is the case, the poor monk will not stop the empress, but will chant scriptures for the empress, praying for your safety."

"Thank you, master." Qin Wan smiled and said nothing more.

Two days later, Ji Yan personally led the soldiers and horses to send Qin Wan to Bailang Land, which is the gate to enter the plateau.Going forward, it is no longer the territory under the jurisdiction of Rong State, and Qin Wan must bid farewell to Ji Yan here.

"Go this way when you come back, I will still welcome you here." Ji Yan said.

Qin Wan got on the horse, nodded to Ji Yan, took out the anti-high-resistance medicine from his sleeve, swallowed it in one gulp, turned the horse's head, and walked resolutely to the ancient mountain forest road in the majestic southwest mountains.

Lie Xie led fifty Xishu elites to follow Qin Wan and rode on horseback.

The southwest mountain forest covered with dense pine forests is like a trap, and the distant mountains are looming in the clouds and mist, with occasional light rain and occasional sun.The scenery was extremely beautiful, but Qin Wan didn't pay attention, she just wanted to hurry up.

When the horses could no longer move, Qin Wan had to dismount and start walking on the rugged mountain road.

Sleeping in the high slope tent at night, drinking mountain springs thirsty, and starving army rations, it is no different from generals and soldiers.

Occasionally they would encounter merchants carrying goods on the ancient road. Qin Wan could not understand their language, but the accompanying Qiang soldiers would chat with these merchants about the weather and road conditions.

Qin Wan asked the Qiang soldier to ask the businessman if he had seen a group of Central Plains people entering the plateau. After the Qiang soldier acted as an interpreter, Qin Wan anxiously waited for the answer from the old man carrying tea bags.

"Ma'am, he said that a group of people from the Central Plains met them more than ten days ago." The Qiang soldier said to Qin Wan in the Central Plains dialect, which was not very smooth.

Qin Wan's eyes widened when he heard that, and he hurriedly said to the Qiang soldier, "Quickly ask me, can he see a boy about seventeen or eighteen years old in that team?"

The Qiang soldiers continued to translate.

Apparently the old man couldn't remember, but the middle-aged men in his party nodded and said something to the Qiang soldiers.

The Qiang soldiers quickly told Qin Wan, "This man saw a young man in that group. His hands were tied and he walked with a limp. He may have been injured."

Hearing this, Qin Wan's whole heart arose.

Looking at such a rugged and steep mountain road, ordinary people would risk half their lives walking on it. If Xun Che was still injured, how would he walk over these stone roads and these precipitous cliffs.

Qin Wan didn't understand what Ning Xizhao was going to do.

She bit her lower lip, stood up, looked at the snow peak in the distance, trembling with hatred, but there was nothing she could do.

(End of this chapter)