Xia Xun looked very carefully. He held a lantern and walked around several tents, focusing on the kitchen area and looking inside and outside for a long time.
In the distance, Lao Fan was inspecting the defense. He saw the Duke of Guo coming out with a lantern and walking among the tents around the commander's tent. He was about to rush over, but Xia Xun immediately raised his voice to stop him: "Don't move.
, don’t even come here!”
There are not too many footprints in the core security circle centered on the commander's tent. The traces left by clearing the snow when setting up camp have been covered up by a thin layer of wind and drifting snow, so the footprints below are not obvious.
After that, people who came in and out mainly entered the military tents, and no matter how many traces there were on this road, there was no need to pay attention. Xia Xun walked around several military tents for a while, and gradually discovered something strange.
He found that there were indeed some shallow marks on the thin floating snow, like footprints, but the footprints were too small. He could easily cover them without opening his palms. Why in this military camp?
There may be such small footprints. Who has such small feet? Is there really something like a spirit?
As soon as this idea came to his mind, he rejected it. He stopped and carefully scanned everything in the guard circle of the commander's tent: a large Chinese military tent. This was the place where he discussed matters, raised accounts, and handled military affairs. There was no room behind the commander's tent.
In the distance is his sleeping tent. On the left side of the sleeping tent are the sleeping tents of Siren and Jeanne. On the right side is just a simple tent to keep out the wind and cold. Inside is a good horse given by the emperor.
This horse was a horse that was presented to the Ming Emperor by the Prime Minister of the Timur Empire Albasha and General Gesuyedin two years ago. It is said to be the horse that the father of Timur the Great rode on and was presented to His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
To show respect.
The lifespan of a horse is generally twenty or thirty years. If you take good care of it, some may live for sixty or seventy years. But how old was Tamburlaine himself? This year Tamburlaine is sixty-nine. If this horse is really his father
Those who had ridden it back then, it was a great skill for them to be able to bring this old horse to the Ming Empire. Anyway, it was just a matter of face, and Zhu Di didn't take it seriously in the first place.
After the horse was sent to the Royal Horse Prison, the horse's mouth was examined and it turned out that it was only a five-year-old horse in its prime. It was only seven years old this year and was still in its prime. When Xia Xun went to the west, Zhu Di specially sent this horse from the Western Regions to him.
As a gift to him, the BMW must be taken good care of, so it enjoyed special treatment.
Xia Xun's eyes were fixed on this place at the moment. There was a carriage outside the tent, which was pulling fodder, beans and other horse feed. Xia Xun looked around the entire handsome tent area, and the only suspicious place was here.
Xia Xun walked over. He entered the tent first, then came out. He walked around the tent twice and soon found some small footprints that did not attract much attention.
If it were daytime, everyone would be busy, and no one would pay attention to these small footprints. In fact, by the time dawn comes and the wind blows all night, any traces would have been blown away, and at this moment, they can still be seen faintly on the snow.
He saw some traces. Xia Xun followed the traces and gradually walked to the carriage. He circled the forage cart twice more, stood still, looked up at the stars, suddenly took a long breath, closed his eyes and cleared his mind.
As he began to fall into concentration, his spiritual consciousness expanded to the maximum extent in this quiet night, and he sensed everything around him.
Tang Saier was frightened. She hid in the hay pile and looked at the lights outside in fear. She didn't dare to move, for fear that the slightest movement would make the hay rustle.
When Tang Sai'er fled the Yang Mansion that day, she happened to catch up with Xia Xun saying goodbye to her family. The front yard was full of people. Tang Sai'er felt so guilty that she dared to go out openly. She was dodging behind those little maids, unintentionally I heard those little maids making fun of Siren and Jeanne, saying that they were going to the Western Regions with the master. Tang Saier didn't know where the Western Regions was, but she felt that it was a very far away place.
In desperation, she hid on the roof of the car and wanted to leave Nanjing with Xia Xun's car. Although the little guy was young, he knew that the most dangerous place was the safest. Who knew that she would have no chance to escape? . During the daytime march, in full view of everyone, Tang Saier could hide from one person's eyes, or even ten people's eyes, but it was impossible to hide from thousands of pairs of eyes in a place where she had nothing to rely on, not to mention the props she was carrying at the time. There are many, and all they rely on are some physical skills and the ingenuity of using local materials.
It was even more difficult at night. Xia Xun was engaged in military exercises in full swing along the way. At night, in order to prevent someone from attacking the camp, the Ming army deployed defenses at all levels. There were many overt and dark sentries. How could Tang Saier, who lacked the props, be able to Escape quietly? However, the inside of the camp is much more relaxed than the outside, especially around the commander's tent. The soldiers only set up defenses on the outside. There are only a few soldiers and two women, Siren Jeanne, in the activity area around the commander's tent. It is the easiest to escape. Hiding.
So, Tang Saier had no choice but to hide in this place. During the daytime march, she only needed to hide in the hay pile without being discovered. When camping in the evening, she relied on her skills to steal some food. For safety, she would only hide in the haystack every time. He stole once in the evening. No matter how much he stole, he ate the leftovers for three meals. If it was not enough, he starved and slept in the open.
Who would have known that as we walked down the road, the weather got colder and colder. Her winter clothes were only worn in Jinling. The winter in Jiangnan and here in Shaanxi is only equivalent to the clothes worn in late autumn. Such thin clothes plus a car Firewood was hard to keep out the cold, so she had no choice but to steal a cotton-padded jacket from Lao Pen. The padded jacket was too small for Lao Pen, so it turned into a coat for her, and she curled up in it at night and used it as a bedding. Even so, she ate all of it. suffering.
Because of the cold tonight, Sai'er couldn't fall asleep for a long time. She was suffering in the car. Someone might as well have brought a lantern and came over. Sai'er left a gap in the pile of firewood, firstly for the convenience of breathing, and secondly for the convenience of looking outside. When there was movement, she saw clearly that the person holding the lantern was Xia Xun, whom she was most afraid of. Tang Saier held her breath, not even daring to breathe, but her heart was beating as hard as a drum.
She was scared, really scared.
Xia Xun looked up at the sky, as if he was staring at the bright stars in the sky, but his consciousness and will had already dispersed, and he tried his best to expand his hearing and biological instincts. He heard the heartbeat, a very rapid heartbeat, Then he heard breathing again, which was the sound of a long breath that he had held for a long time, and then slowly released. He also heard the faint sound of small pieces of firewood rubbing against each other.
Tang Sai'er was scared and cold. Although she tried her best to keep still, her body was shaking unnoticeably. This trembling brought out the very subtle sound of friction of firewood, a sound that was not easily noticed by ordinary people, but came through clearly. In 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 cicadas. It's hard to catch cicadas. It takes good eyesight to stick them with spider webs. Bamboo poles."
As soon as it moved, it alerted the cicada, and it flew away. It was completely up to luck to walk around each tree and find those that had not yet completed the process of molting.
However, there is a good way, that is to light a fire in the woods at night, and then kick the trees one by one. When the cicadas living in the trees are awakened, they will rush to them.
It falls towards the fire, around the flames, and falls on the ground. You hold the bag and pick it up one by one, but it won't struggle at all. Is this a moth flying into the flame, or is it falling into a trap?"
The breathing in the grass suddenly stopped, and it seemed that even the heartbeat had stopped. Tang Sai'er, who was already extremely nervous, knew that she had been discovered when he heard what he said. She was so horrified that even her body's natural functions stopped.
.
Although she is young, she is actually very courageous. If she risked her life, she would not be so scared. But towards Xia Xun, she never had any thoughts of confrontation at all. She only wanted to escape, so she was naturally nervous and scared.
, this kind of nervousness and fear in turn affected her, making her even more nervous and frightened. She was already trying to scare herself. Xingzang was suddenly discovered, and Tang Saier was naturally extremely frightened.
Xia Xun spoke again. He said that what happened in Qingzhou was actually just his life experience when he lived with relatives in the countryside when he was a child before traveling through time and space: "Cicadas are relatively easy to catch, but for children, actually
, the most difficult thing to catch is the sparrow. It is very difficult to catch the sparrow with a small stick tied with a rope to hold a basket. But if you use a very bright light at night and climb the ladder to the thatched eaves
Next, use a lamp to illuminate the sparrow's nest, and just reach out and catch it. The sparrow seems to be blind and cannot escape at all, so it can only fall into your hands."
Xia Xun slowly turned around and faced the firewood on the cart in front of him. He raised the lantern in his hand high and held the knife at his waist tightly with his other hand under his cloak. He could make a lightning-like strike at any time.
With his current skill and his current speed, he is sure that as long as the person hiding in the haystack intends to break out for a surprise attack, he can kill that person at the moment he hears the violent friction of firewood.
The man and the car were split in half!
"Are you a cicada or a sparrow?"
Xia Xun stared at the pile of firewood in front of him and said slowly.
Tang Sai'er closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, stretched out his little hands covered with frostbite, and moved away the firewood.
The firewood was pushed aside, and the two small hands were opened again, and the gap was widened. The light shone in, and it was shining on her body.
She was wearing a big, bloated cotton-padded jacket, her hair was unkempt, her messy hair was covered with withered grass leaves, her thin little face was pale from the cold, without a trace of blood, she just looked at Xia Xun with a shuddering look, her pair of dots looked like paint
His eyes were like those of an innocent sparrow, looking at Xia Xun timidly, as if he was about to catch him, ruthlessly pluck out his feathers, put them on a branch, roast them over the fire and eat them.
Xia Xun knew there was someone inside, but he didn't expect it to be Tang Sai'er at all. He stared at Tang Sai'er in astonishment with his eyes wide open. After looking at Tang Sai'er for a long time, he shouted in surprise: "Sail, why are you here?
"
Tang Saier opened his mouth, and two lines of hot tears flowed down...
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