Shuzi stayed with Li Xiuyuan at the pass outside the village for a long time, but she still didn't understand how her elder brother dug the hole.

Back at the house, Huiming had already made a pot of tea and was waiting for the two of them to come back and ask about what happened during the day.

Li Xiuyuan didn't want him to be involved in killing, but just speculated that there were some quarrels among the villagers when he was dreaming.

Li Xiuyuan was responsible for the consequences that should not have been caused to him.

Even Shuzi, he didn't let her take action as long as he was still here.

That night, the frightened Shuzi went back to her room to rest early, while Li Xiuyuan sat for most of the night with a pot of tea and a volume of Da Qin's "Poetry" in his hands.

It was not until the moment when the expected sound of horse hooves came from the pass that Li Xiuyuan put down the book in his hand and returned to his room to rest.

Based on his past experience, as long as he stayed still, the bandits would basically not come.

Tomorrow's wind and rain will be faced tomorrow.

After an uneventful night, Li Xiuyuan came to the pass outside the village alone again before dawn.

This time he walked two miles in the direction of the Great Wall. In his opinion, if the bandits from outside the desert didn't come, it would be fine. If they did come, they would probably come out in force.

That's fine, it saves him from having to knock on the door again.

After leaving Prince Village, he would go all the way to the grottoes outside Yuezhi City to see if the fat monk from back then was still practicing there.

A gust of mountain wind blew up the long yellow sand, which was floating on the mountain road like a ghost. Looking at the pass from a distance, there was an inexplicable murderous aura.

Li Xiuyuan, who was walking in the mountains, did not stop, but felt a little melancholy, and his thoughts continued to stretch like a thread.

Going all the way forward from the front, I unknowingly traveled to the time of Great Qin.

It was like falling into the deepest part of my memory, all my thoughts were focused on the Great Wall where Prince Dan led the Qin army to defeat the Xiongnu army.

The whole person seemed to be flying in the air, quietly looking down at the world.

Those people in the past will never come back again. The Yan family, who did not hesitate to leave the royal city and wander in the desert for the sake of his son, has gone to who knows where.

And what about his beloved disciple Xiaohu? Could it be that he has also disappeared in the long river of time?

Suddenly, a few dark clouds floated in the sky, and two thunders fell from the sky. It seemed that a summer rainstorm was about to hit.

Li Xiuyuan looked back at the pass and suddenly felt a strange feeling.

Is it possible that the magic circle he temporarily set up will wipe out hundreds of bandits deep in the desert?

I walked quickly and finally stepped into the gate of the small courtyard before the heavy rain fell.

Hearing Li Xiuyuan's voice, Shuzi filled a bowl of porridge and brought it into the living room. She looked at him and smiled and said, "Brother, early in the morning, did you go to see the old courtyard again?"

Listening to the heavy rain falling in the sky, Li Xiuyuan replied calmly: "I'm afraid those guys are still evil and want to cause trouble for the villagers."

"Then we can't stay here forever, right?"

Seeing the desert right in front of her, Shuzi couldn't wait to run out of the Great Wall and go wild.

"Three days, at most three more days, and we will leave here."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the white porridge in the bowl and smiled bitterly: "The most I can do is make it more troublesome. If I go to their lair, I will have to kill the bandits here."

When Shuzi heard this, she couldn't help shouting: "Brother, Zhang Liang told me back then that bandits are inexhaustible, just like wild wolves in the wilderness."

Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard Fang smiled and said lightly: "Unexpectedly, that guy actually learned what I said."

At this moment, Huiming walked in, looked at the two of them and asked, "Sir, when will we set off to the desert?"

While Li Xiuyuan asked Shuzi to boil water and make tea, he replied to Huiming: "Three days."

After finishing a bowl of porridge, he washed the dishes and returned to the living room. Li Xiuyuan looked at Huiming and asked, "As for the principles in the Buddhist scriptures, if you encounter something you don't understand clearly, you can ask me."

"You can also wait until you become a monk and ask your master. This matter is just like practicing, you can't rush it."

He turned back to look at Shuzi and said, "I'm going to rest for two hours later. Sister, pay attention to the pass outside the village... If there is any movement, wake me up."

Huiming looked at him, nodded, and replied with a smile: "The days are long, I will ask sir for advice another day."

With Shuzi's current cultivation level, she can clearly see not only the pass outside the village, but also the Great Wall further away.

After thinking about it, he looked at Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile: "Don't worry, brother, Shuzi is guarding the door."

…

Summer rainstorms come and go quickly.

Li Xiuyuan slept until he got up at 1 o'clock. The horizon was already covered with a golden sunset. Meng Jiang had also cooked dinner and was about to wake his brother up.

Li Xiuyuan opened a jar of wine and poured it for Huiming and Shuzi.

He murmured: "This is the wine that my sister Meng Jiang left for me when she was buried in the collapsed yard."

Shuzi nodded and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my eldest brother even made wine when he came to Prince's Village."

For Shuzi, she has not yet touched the wine buried underground in the Imperial City. All she has sold and drank these years has been brewing by herself.

Even when I got lazy later, I hired a waiter to help me with the physical work. I was busy only a few times a year.

When Hui Ming heard this, he held the wine in the glass in silence for a long time. He sniffed it gently, then took a shallow taste, and then sighed.

He said in a daze, "I'm afraid it's hard to buy a glass of wine with a thousand gold coins."

Li Xiuyuan laughed: "In my opinion, wine and water are not worth much money. But if you really use time to calculate it, even if it is ten thousand gold, you can't see the bright moon of Qin Shi?"

Huiming sighed again after hearing this, and drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp.

He sighed and said: "This glass of wine condensed with endless years is worth hiding in the desert."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, drank half a glass of wine, looked at Shuzi and said seriously: "Zhang Liang's mysterious master finally went to the Tianshan Mountains deep in the desert to realize Taoism."

"Oh my god! Senior actually went to the legendary Tianshan Mountains, and Shuzi also wants to go and see it."

Shuzi put down the wine glass in her hand and asked in a daze: "I don't know if he is still there? Or has he turned into a god and left this world like the Master?"

Li Xiuyuan didn't take it seriously, because he thought of that tough-headed little disciple, the boy who followed Shuzi all day long.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh and murmured softly: "Actually, I want to find that guy Xiaohu deep in the desert."

Back then, Xiaohuling drank a lot of wine. In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, if that guy knew how to advance and retreat, he could understand the rules of this heavenly way.

Maybe I can't be like Shuzi and spend hundreds of years cultivating myself.

Upon hearing this, Shuzi couldn't help but giggled and said, "If I really find Xiaohu, it will be really fun for me. I wonder if he has turned into what the Master looked like back then?"

Huiming listened to the conversation between the two people, feeling confused and speechless for a long time. He had no choice but to pick up the wine jar in front of him and pour a glass silently.

This cup is worth ten thousand gold?

Even when he was in the palace, he had never enjoyed such treatment.

…

That night, Shuzi kept vigil with Li Xiuyuan and did not take an early rest because she had a premonition that something unexpected might happen tonight.

Huiming, on the other hand, rests early before Hai hour. This is his daily routine. Even if he becomes a monk in the future, he may still abide by this rule.

A lantern danced out of the oil lamp in the living room. Shuzi smiled faintly: "When the lantern dances, I'm afraid someone will send money to my brother again."

Li Xiuyuan replied thoughtfully: "If we give it away again, let's distribute it to the people in Prince Village. They may have suffered from bandits for decades."

After saying that, he waved his hand and put out the oil lamp on the table, and said: "While the moonlight is just right, let's go to the pass outside the village to have a look."

Shuzi clapped her hands and replied, "Okay!"

The two of them walked all the way to the pass at the village. Li Xiuyuan took out two iron bows and took out iron arrows and placed them on the ground.

He handed one to Shuzi and said quietly: "They are here."

Upon hearing this, Shuzi pressed the bow and arrow and held her breath. The ink skirt on her body had merged with the night, and the spiritual power in her body was condensed to ensure that it would explode when danger came.

The consciousness released by the two people had already seen dense black shadows not far from the pass.

The bandits who went out in the middle of the night actually wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth, fearing to scare the dreamers in the Prince's Village.

This is to prepare an unexpected surprise for Li Xiuyuan.

But they never dreamed that Li Xiuyuan, who had been waiting for two days, was already waiting at the pass with a bow and arrow in hand.

"Whoosh!" There was a sound, and an iron arrow flew over in the darkness!

The sound of the arrow's clatter was so small that if Shuzi hadn't concentrated her attention, she could hardly hear it.

Such an arrow, which seemed to have no power, was ignored by Li Xiuyuan, and he stretched out his hand to pull the iron bow extended by Shuzi.

Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan motioned to her to let them in.

An arrow in the night was just used by bandits to find their way, and Li Xiuyuan didn't care at all.

No matter whether he is fighting bandits or killers, he always strikes first. As long as the enemy is still motionless, he will not move. He will show no mercy until the moment the enemy takes action.

Whoosh! Then two more arrows flew from under the pass, flew past the two of them, and flew away into the dark night.

This time the bandits actually released three iron arrows to explore the path.

Gradually, the bandits got closer and closer to the pass.

Li Xiuyuan and Shuzi could even see the horses stepping uneasily on the yellow sand towards the pass.
To be continued...