The snow began to fall again, and the large snowflakes covered a thick layer on the high bright moon tower of Tingxue Hall, especially on the wide terrace that stretched out, so that the young man who had been standing in place this morning and couldn't help but look into the distance also had his hair in a gray bun, showing a little pale.
I saw that his lips were bruised, and from time to time he shook the thin white veil on the crimson cloak that had not yet completely melted, and his face was full of sadness.
The man's approaching footsteps didn't seem to interrupt his deep thoughts, and he continued to stare at the white mountains in the distance, and sighed a cloud of white mist from his mouth. opened his mouth and said: "If you are comforting, you will be excused, your swordsmanship and marksmanship are excellent, so I worship you as a teacher, but today I am leaving, and I may not come back." ” "Zhuo'er, I know what you're thinking, but now it's not as good as in the past, you are a general, a tiger ben lieutenant general of the Great Qi Kingdom, do you know how much hardship and honor such a name carries?
You are a young man, so you see it too lightly, I understand, but that is thousands of soldiers who have shed their blood for it, and they have struggled all their lives and are out of reach, you hope you can cherish these honors, just like cherishing your sister Xi'er, a man can't give up easily!
"The wilderness said.
"Haha, you also underestimate me Huang Zhuo, you still think I'm a child, I have no parents since I was a child, Sister Xi is my relative, I don't have any other thoughts, it's just that the world is difficult now, I can't rest assured of her."
Huang Zhuodao.
"With me here, you can just guard your Jindui City, Xi'er, she is smart and scheming, who wants to harm her is asking for trouble!"
Wilderness Road.
"Hahaha, what I'm afraid of is actually your fifth brother!
Don't you forget that you once betrayed this woman, when she was homeless, hungry and cold, and most pitiful, do you still need me to remind you of these things!
Xiao Zhuo turned to look at Ma Yuanye's slightly surprised face, and said angrily.
I know she still has a hint of fantasy about you, but I warn you, if Sister Xi has any mistakes in the court, I will not let you go first!
Then he walked downstairs quickly.
The group was already ready, and the young man in the red robe stepped on the horseback, only to see him shout in that slightly immature voice, and the team of thousands of people moved, crawling towards the white expanse in the distance.
The snow is falling heavier, and your eyes seem to be completely covered with a layer of white fog on this white shrouded expanse, and you can't tell exactly where the mountains are, where the rivers are, and where the road to continue traveling, in such an extreme environment, even if it is a team of thousands of people, only the constant squeaking sound of the snow more than a foot deep under your feet and the white mist exhaled from the mouths of the horses are comforting.
Farther away, there was even more despair, and just a sip of the extremely cold and ethereal smell would send chills down your heart, and the horse's feet trembled and their minds blurred, and no amount of liquor could rise in their hearts, so except for the scouts who were whipping and exploring the way at the front of the line, everyone couldn't bear to look straight ahead, just lowered their heads slightly, held the reins of their horses, and walked the road in front of them.
Jindui City is in the northeast of Qingyun City, it is a city built with gold ore piled up on the top of a bare mountain, just because an unknown Hu people from the Western Regions discovered gold mines here a hundred years ago, it provoked a large number of gold miners and merchants to flock to it, everyone mined hundreds of millions of gold mines in this unknown desert, and built a small city with the abandoned ore, named Jindui.
It is no exaggeration to say that many of the various gold coins minted by the countries of the Western Regions have been excavated from Jindui City, and the name of Jindui City was also spread in the Western Regions at that time, and became the object of the Western Regions countries competing to plunder and even using force to rob at that time.
He ordered his men to drive away thousands of miners and begin to enjoy the feast for himself, but the good times did not last long, and in the next year or two, the gold in the city of Jindui was completely emptied, and only empty mines and small stone cities remained.
After a short time, his notoriety spread throughout the Western Regions, and since then, the merchants who traveled to and from various countries no longer dared to carry gold on their bodies, and most of their transactions were bartered rather than gold.
And when he scavenged 10 million taels of gold, he left here angrily, led 20,000 cavalry back to Wusun, and began to cross the endless desert, who knew that halfway to the journey, suddenly hit a blizzard, it is said that the snow fell for more than a month, the temperature dropped suddenly, the sky and the earth froze, turning the originally hot desert into an extremely cold hell, since then Da Kunmo and his 20,000 cavalry, as well as 10 million taels of gold, all disappeared and disappeared in the snowstorm, no one knows what happened at that time, So all kinds of speculations followed, some people said that it was his evil deeds that angered the gods, so the gods issued a decree to freeze him and his treasure in the cracked ice canyon under the Kutun Snow Mountain, which was more than 1,000 meters deep underground, so that they could endure the biting cold and endless darkness all year round, and never get out, and even later, the troubadours of good deeds had seen the wailing roar of the Great Kunmo day and night and the little golden light emitted by the gold from the depths of the canyon, and that area became a forbidden area here.
Until now, people still abide by the rules left by their ancestors, avoiding the sheep intestine trail under the Kutun Snow Mountain, and turning around at the expense of their feet to detour a hundred miles away.
It takes five days to go from Qingyun City to Jindui if it is smooth sailing, and it is more like this weather, the snow cellar is like a big action, and it is luck to be able to get it within half a month, because there is no post station to recuperate on the way, and it is inevitable to sleep in the open.
As he spoke, he rode over in a black cloak, saw the commander's banner, hurriedly reined in the horse's head, and hugged his fist at Huang Zhuo and said: "General, the front is clear, fifteen miles ahead is Jingyue Lake, see that the lake has been frozen firmly, about three feet of ice, how to march please the general decide." ” "How much distance can I save by walking on the lake?"
Huang Zhuo asked.
"From the lake to the ice, you can save half a day's journey, you can rush to the foot of Fengshan at night to set up a village, if you go around the lake, I am afraid it will be difficult to reach Fengshan tonight."
The scout replied.
Huang Zhuo thought about it and said: "After Fengshan is the vast Gobi, tonight if you want to reach Fengshan so that the soldiers will rest for the night, pass my general order, the army will go through the ice in batches, and set up camp at the foot of Fengshan, there must be no mistake." ”