Xia Xun watched very carefully, he carried the lantern and wandered repeatedly between several tents, focusing on the inside and outside near the kitchen for a long time.
In the distance, Lao Fei was inspecting the defense, and saw Grandpa Guo coming out with a lantern, walking around the tents around the handsome tent, and was about to rush over, Xia Xun immediately raised his voice to stop him: "Don't move, don't come over" There are not too many footprints in the core guard circle centered on the Shuai tent, and the traces left by clearing the snow when we first set up camp have been covered by a thin layer of snow blown by the wind, so the footprints below are not obvious.
Since then, the people who come in and out mainly enter the handsome tent, and no matter how many traces there are on this road, there is no need to care, Xia Xun walked around a few military tents for a while, and gradually found some strangeness.
He found that there were really some shallow traces on the thin floating snow, like footprints, but the footprints were too small, his slap didn't need to be opened, it could be easily covered, how could there be such small footprints in this barracks, whose feet would be so small, could there really be something like a spirit As soon as this idea came to mind, he rejected it, and he stopped and carefully scanned everything in the guard circle of the Shuai Tent: a big tent of the Chinese army, which was the place where he discussed matters, raised the account, and handled military affairs.
Not far behind the tent was his bedchamber, to the left of which was the tent of Celine and Jeanne, and to the right was a simple tent against the wind and cold, and in it was a good horse.
This horse is a thousand miles of good horses presented to the Ming Emperor two years ago by the Prime Minister of the Timurid Empire Al Basha and the general Gaisuyaddin, and it is said that the horse ridden by the father of the Timurid Emperor, and was dedicated to His Majesty the Ming Emperor to show his respect.
The lifespan of horses is generally twenty or thirty years, and if they are well taken care of, there are also those who live for sixty or seventy years, but how old is Timur the Great himself Timur is sixty-nine this year, if this horse is really ridden by his father back then, they can pull this old horse to the Ming Empire, it is a great ability, anyway, it is a face effort, Zhu Di did not take it seriously.
After the horse was sent to the Imperial Horse Prison, a horse mouth was inspected, and it was really just a five-year-old horse, only seven years old this year, and it still belonged to the prime of life.
Xia Xun's eyes were staring at this place at the moment, there was a carriage outside the tent, and there were various horse materials such as forage and bean feed on the car, Xia Xun looked around the entire Shuai tent area, and the only suspicious place was here.
Xia Xun walked over, he entered the tent first, came out again, circled the tent twice, and soon found some small footprints that did not attract much attention.
If it was daytime, everyone would be busy, and no one would pay attention to these small footprints at all, in fact, when the wind blew overnight, even if there were any traces, they would have been blown out earlier, and at this moment, some traces could be faintly seen on the snow.
Xia Xun tiptoed those traces and gradually walked to the carriage.
He circled the hay cart twice more, stood still, looked up at the starry sky, and suddenly took a long breath, cleared his eyes, and began to settle down, his consciousness expanding to the maximum in this quiet night, perceiving everything around him.
Tang Sai'er was frightened, she hid in the hay pile, looked at the light outside in horror, and did not dare to move, for fear that the slightest movement would make the hay rustle.
When Tang Sai'er fled from Yang's Mansion, he was just in time for Xia Xun to say goodbye to his family, the front yard was full of people, Tang Sai'er was weak-hearted, how dare he go out in a grand manner.
She was dodging behind those little girl rings, and overheard those little girl rings making fun of Celine and Jeanne, saying that they were going to go to the Western Regions with the master or something, Don Se'er didn't know what the Western Regions was, but felt that it was a place far away.
In a hurry, he hid on the roof of the car and hidden, wanting to leave Nanjing with Xia Xun's car.
Although the little one is small, she also knows that the most dangerous place is the safest, but who knows that she has no chance to escape next.
In full view of everyone on the march during the day, Tang Sai'er could dodge the eyes of one person, or even ten people, but it was impossible to dodge thousands of pairs of eyes in a place where there was no evidence, not to mention that she didn't have many props on her body at that time, and she only had some body skills and local ingenuity.
And at night it is even more hard, this way Xia Xun is in full swing to engage in military exercises, at night, in order to prevent people from attacking the camp, the Ming army is deployed layer by layer, and the bright and dark sentinels emerge in endlessly, how can Tang Sai'er, who lacks the props in hand, quietly escape out of the camp tent is far more lax inside than the outside, especially around the tent, the soldiers are only deployed on the outside line, and there are only a few soldiers and two women in the activity area around the tent, but it is the easiest to hide.
So, Tang Sai'er had to hide in this place, marching during the day, as long as she hid in the hay pile, she would not be discovered, when camping in the evening, she relied on her skills to steal some food, for safety, she only stole once in the evening every time, no matter how much she stole, enough to eat three meals to eat the scraps of cold and hot three meals, not enough to starve, and followed all the way down.
Who knows, this way down, the more you go, the colder it gets, her winter clothes are only worn in Jinling, the winter in the south of the Yangtze River and in this Shaanxi place is only equivalent to the clothes worn in late autumn, such thin clothes plus a cart of firewood and grass is difficult to keep out the cold, she had no choice but to steal a cotton jacket from the old spray, the cotton jacket is too small, but it becomes a coat for her, and she shrinks it as a bedding in it at night.
Because of the cold tonight, Sai'er couldn't sleep for a long time, and was suffering in the car, not to mention that someone came with a lantern, Sai'er left a gap in the firewood and grass pile, one is for the convenience of breathing, and the other is also convenient to observe the movement outside, and see that the person carrying the lantern is Xia Xun who she is most afraid of, Tang Sai'er held her breath, and didn't even dare to breathe, but that heart beat like a drum.
She was afraid, really scared.
Xia Xun looked up at the sky, as if he was staring at the bright stars in the sky, but the divine consciousness and will had already dispersed, expanding his hearing and biological instincts as much as possible.
He heard the sound of a heartbeat, a very rapid heartbeat, and then he heard breathing, which was held for a long time, and then suddenly took a long breath, and then slowly released the breath, and he also heard the faint sound of fine wood and grass grinding.
Tang Sai'er was scared and cold, although she tried her best to stay still, but her body trembled imperceptibly, it was the very subtle sound of firewood and grass grinding brought out by this trembling, which was not easy to be noticed by ordinary people at all, but it clearly entered Xia Xun's ears.
"When I was a child, I grew up in Qingzhou" Xia Xun suddenly spoke, he still looked up at the sky, as if talking to himself: "In the summer, there are a lot of knowing, knowing that it is not easy to catch, using spider webs to stick, you need good eyesight, the bamboo pole moves, arousing the alertness of knowing, it flies away."
It is entirely up to luck to walk around each tree and find the cicadas that have not yet completed the process of moulting.
However, there is a good way, and that is to make a fire in the woods at night, and then kick it tree by tree, and those who are perched on the trees will be awakened, and they will pounce on the fire, and they will fall around the flames, and they will fall to the ground, and you take the bag, although you pick it up one by one, it will not struggle at all, is this a moth to the fire, or is it a net."
The sound of breathing in the grass suddenly stopped, and it seemed that even his heartbeat had stopped, and Tang Sai'er, who was already extremely nervous, knew that he had been discovered when he heard him say this, and he was so shocked that even the natural functions of his body stopped for a while.
Although she is young, she is actually very bold, and she will not be so afraid if she is allowed to die.
But for Xia Xun, she never had a trace of confrontation at all, she just thought about escaping, naturally nervous and scared, this nervousness and fear in turn affected her, making her more nervous and more afraid, she was already a little scared of herself, Xingzang was suddenly recognized, Tang Sai'er was naturally scared to the extreme.
Xia Xun spoke again, he said that it happened in Qingzhou, but in fact, it was just his life experience when he lived in a relative's house in the countryside when he was a child before he traveled through time and space: "It's easy to catch when you know it, but in fact, for children, the most difficult thing to catch is the sparrow.
But if you climb a ladder under the thatched eaves with a very bright lamp at night, and shine a lamp on the nest of the sparrow, and reach out to catch it, the sparrow seems to be blind, and cannot escape, but will obediently fall into your hands. ” Xia Xun slowly turned around, raised the lantern in his hand high against the firewood and grass in front of him, and held the knife on his waist tightly under the cloak with his other hand, which could be slashed like lightning at any time.
With his skill and speed, he was sure that as long as the man hiding in the haystack intended to make a surprise attack, he could split the man and the cart in half the moment he heard the sound of the firewood and grass grinding violently "Are you a cicada or a sparrow?"
Xia Xun looked at the pile of firewood and grass in front of him and said slowly.
Tang Sai'er closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, stretched out her little hand full of chilblains, and swayed away the firewood and grass.
The firewood and grass were opened, and the two little hands parted again, and then the gap was widened, and the light shone in, shining on her body.
She was wearing a bloated big cotton jacket, unkempt, her messy hair was full of withered grass leaves, a thin little face was pale from the cold, and there was no trace of blood, so she looked at Xia Xun with a pair of lacquer-like eyes, like an innocent sparrow, looking at Xia Xun timidly, as if she was about to be caught by him, cruelly plucking off her feathers and putting on a branch, and roasting it with fire to eat.
Xia Xun knew that there was someone inside, but he didn't expect it to be Tang Sai'er, his eyes widened, he looked at Tang Sai'er in astonishment, and after looking at it for a long time, he exclaimed in surprise: "Sai'er, why are you here?"
Tang Sai'er opened her mouth, and two lines of hot tears flowed down her face To be continued: