Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

In the desert, the sun shines directly during the day and the temperature is very high. The cold wind blows at night, making people's hands and feet cold.Liu Yunxiang and the others were fine, but Aunt Bai was old after all, so she had to stop and rest after walking for two hours.

In the afternoon of the next day, the sun was scorching the desert like a raging fire. At this time, the wind and sand blew up again. The heat wave swept the sand and hit people's faces, which was as painful as skin.

Liu Yunxiang carefully covered her face with a scarf. Her only thought now was to get out of the desert and take a shower.This feeling was so uncomfortable, the sweat washed away over and over again, the sand and soil stuck to my body layer by layer, and my clothes all smelled.

She glanced at the endless desert again, and was about to find a place that could block the sun and take a rest. Aunt Bai, who was in front of her, suddenly fell off the camel and rolled down the sand dune.

The three of them were startled, jumped off the camel, and slid down the sand dune.

It slid all the way to the bottom, but Aunt Bai lay motionless underneath. The three of them rushed over to help her up.Seeing that she was unconscious and her lips were chapped, she was obviously dehydrated.

"I'll go up and get the water bag!" Feng Zheng said.

Just as he was about to climb up, he saw a group of camels coming towards him in the distance. If he looked carefully, he saw that those people were wearing official uniforms and were clearly Yunhou Liangshi and his party.Feng Zheng hurriedly called Liu Yunxiang, and now he could only hide under the sand dunes.

Liu Yunxiang frowned. They had set off early, but due to delays on the road, they were caught up so quickly.

Liang Shi and his party walked over. Some officers and soldiers saw them below, but they didn't ask any questions.When they walked over, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"Feng Zheng, go get the water bag quickly." Liu Yunxiang ordered Feng Zheng.

Feng Zheng nodded and climbed up the sand dune on all fours. At this time, an officer and soldier came back, glanced at Feng Zheng, and then cut off the water bladder hanging on the camel and took away two bags. water.

"Master, no!" Feng Zheng said urgently.

The officer patted the knife on his waist and said, "When I go to Xiyue with Marquis Yun on official business, I will lend you two bags of water and pay them back later. Don't be ignorant, or I will take the remaining two bags from you!"

After that, the officer and soldier took two bags of water and left.

Feng Zheng gritted his teeth. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't expose his master's whereabouts, he would have beaten this bitch until his teeth were all over the floor.

Liu Yunxiang also saw it. Fortunately, Feng Zheng was not impulsive and brought a bag of water down.

Aunt Bai was really short of water and drank half the bag in one breath.

After she calmed down for a while, the three of them took her up.

"I originally wanted to save some water, but I persisted even though I was thirsty, but I didn't want to cause trouble." Aunt Bai felt guilty and apologized repeatedly.

Liu Yunxiang comforted her and said, "It's okay. Let's find a way."

Zi Jin frowned, "But there are still two days and two nights to go. We only have this little water left. Should we turn back?"

Feng Zheng shook his head, "It will take two days to go back, and I can't hold on even with this little water."

"Let's walk a little further and find a place where we can avoid the wind and sand before dark. Let's rest for a night and then think of a solution." Liu Yunxiang said.

There is an oasis in this desert. She went there when she sent the eighth girl to get married, but it would take a day to get there, and it was difficult to tell the direction in the desert. If she got lost...

Liu Yunxiang shook his head and thought about it tonight.

They walked forward for a long distance, until it got dark, and they stopped to rest in a gully.

Aunt Bai was weak and fell asleep quickly after lying down.Liu Yunxiang and Feng Zheng discussed whether to go to the oasis. This decision was somewhat risky.

While the three of them were entangled, a group of escorts passed by and saw that it was a good place to rest, so they also stopped.The leader should be the escort, a man in his 40s, with a beard on the lower half of his face, but a very kind smile.He came over and greeted Liu Yunxiang and the others, saying that they were setting off from Yangzhou to West Vietnam, and that this time the escort was delivering Yun Jin.

Liu Yunxiang's eyes lit up, "Which Yun brocade is it from?"

"He's from Lingyun Brocade Shop in Yangzhou." The escort chief chuckled, "Have you heard of the brand name Lingyun? Oh, this is amazing. The head of Lingyun is..."

At this point, the escort realized that he had said too much, so he raised his finger and pointed at it, "After all, he is a powerful person."

Liu Yunxiang smiled and took out their customs clearance documents and gave them to the escort.

The escort took a closer look and said happily: "It turns out you are Lingyun's buddies!"

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "We are from Shengjing Jade Shop. This time we go to West Vietnam to discuss a big business."

"Lingyun's jade shop is also world-famous."

Seeing that the escort leader was an open-minded and enthusiastic person, Liu Yunxiang told him what happened just now.

After hearing this, the head guard was very angry: "It's no wonder that they are court officials. Instead of protecting the people, they are so shameless that they steal the people's water. Water is life in the desert. They want to harm people!"

Liu Yunxiang sighed, "In this case, we don't dare to say anything."

The head guard saw that there were three women, one man, and an old woman who was very sick. He turned back to the caravan and came over a short while later with two large water bags.

"Thank you big brother, we only need one bag." Liu Yunxiang said hurriedly.

The head escort passed it on to her without saying a word, "We often travel in this desert and have experience. It doesn't matter whether we bring anything else with us or not. There must be enough water. If we encounter people from Da Rong and they don't have enough water, we will Give them some peace."

After Liu Yunxiang heard this, he caught the two water bags.She wanted to pay, but the escort pushed her back.

"When we go out, our own people help our own people. That is still necessary and should be done accordingly!"

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Brother, that's right. We Darong people have always been united."

"Yes, there are some troublemakers in the court, but fortunately, now that the new king has ascended the throne, Princess Zhenbei is the Queen Mother, and she will listen to the affairs behind the curtain. Our Da Rong will definitely get better and better."

The escort chief chatted for a while and then left. With these two bags of water, Liu Yunxiang and the others felt at ease.

After a good rest that night, they headed west with the escort team early the next morning.

After walking for another two days, we finally entered the East Pass of West Vietnam before nightfall.Guan Nei is a border town. It was originally a place where the families of soldiers lived. Due to the frequent exchanges between merchants from the two places, it has formed a prosperous trade town.

With a large number of caravans, they could fill up an inn, so Liu Yunxiang and the others planned to go to another inn.

Continue walking into the city and passing the crossroads. There is a large open space here with a platform set up on it. There are more than a dozen wooden frames erected on the platform, and a woman is helping on each wooden frame.

Some of these women were older and some were younger. They had been tied up for who knows how long. They all had their heads drooped, as if they had been drained of moisture.

At this time, an old woman passed by with a basket in her hand. She took out a handful of rotten vegetable leaves and threw them at one of the tied women.

"Bah! Four-legged bug!" (End of this chapter)