The sky is getting higher and higher, and the jade dragon is roaming and charming. The boundless green is verdant and the sheep is shepherded, and the horse is flying and singing intoxicated by the blue night. Only by personally visiting the northern desert can you deeply feel the vastness of the grassland. The snow-capped mountains in the sky seem to be right in front of you. The charcoal has been running west for two days, and the mountains are still far away in the sky.

After leaving Helao Mountain, Jiang Anyi did not go south directly, but went west all the way to find what Tizhu mentioned. Yuyan tribe is a large tribe, with no less than 40,000 string control warriors. There should be a caravan doing business in the tribe. Jiang Anyi planned to find a caravan going south and return to Dazheng quietly.

There are few people along the way. Jiang Anyi met a desert man who was grazing once, and changed some food to continue on the road. Faced with the enthusiasm of the shepherd, Jiang Anyi could not kill anyway, and he still had to stick to some principles of being a human being.

Xiong Fu's death letter was sent back to the royal court two days ago, and went to chase Jiang Anyi's venerable, one dead and one injured. Wu Shi, who learned the bad news, sat alone in the tent for a long time, summoned Sub Naying in the evening and ordered two things. One was to double the offerings given to Zhazhao Temple this year; the other was to order Jiang Anyi to capture Jiang Anyi, and those who captured alive were 10,000 taels of gold, 10,000 tans of food, and 10,000 cattle and sheep; 70% were killed; those who reported the news were rewarded with silver. This order was also effective for horse thieves. If any horse thief could kill Jiang Anyi, they would immediately become a hero with the leader of tens of horses and 10,000 cattle and sheep.

Horse thieves, bandits riding horses on the grassland, flourished like flowers on the grassland. The battles between the Beimo tribes never stopped. Some tribes were destroyed, and the defeated soldiers became horse thieves on the grassland, and some herders were forced to become horse thieves. These people were in groups of ten and hundreds of people. They were elusive on the grassland, walking like the wind, attacking small tribes, kidnapped cattle, sheep and women, and robbing merchant groups. Sometimes these horse thieves would form a group, and the raids of thousands of horse thieves were enough to make a medium-sized tribe fall.

As Zuo Dajuqu, Xubnaying was in charge of the government affairs of the Wang Ting. He was very puzzled by the Khan's orders. It was really not worth spending such a lot of material and financial resources for a mere Deputy Envoy of Da Zheng. Especially when the Khan actually wanted to recruit horse thieves to contribute to him, what was the horse thief? Strictly speaking, it was Wang Ting's death revenge. Even if these desperate people were tempted to obey the Wang Ting for a while, they would eventually become Wang Ting's trouble.

After walking hundreds of miles westward, Jiang Anyi still couldn't find the Yuyan tribe. The distance had been more than a thousand miles. Jiang Anyi began to doubt whether the direction Tizhu said was correct. He had already exceeded eight hundred miles by the distance. This little girl was just a fool and could not believe her.

Jiang Anyi decided to stop and ask someone for directions, and don’t walk around without hesitation. Looking around at the high slope, I saw a small spot in the southwest direction, which should be a tent. Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Anyi decided to stay at the shepherd’s tent for one night.

As he waited closer, Jiang Anyi found that it was not a tent, but an abandoned earthen castle. It could be several miles in a radius. The earthen castle was mostly intact, but the four watchtowers were broken and burned. Jiang Anyi knew that such earthen castles were specially used by the tribe for caravans. Although the conditions were simple, they could block the wind on the grassland. With the earth walls, they could also resist horse thieves and wolves, making horse thieves unable to play their advantage in speed.

Riding a horse into the earthen castle, there are simple shacks built in many places in the fort, which can be used to block the rain and snow. There is a well in the open space in the middle, and the water is raised with a bucket and it is clear and sweet. There is no dry cow and horse manure left on the ground. There should have been a caravan here a few days ago.

When he was out, there was not much attention. Jiang Anyi found a leeward-looking land, put down his bags, untied the charcoal, and let it eat grass on its own. He found some firewood in the fort, raised a bonfire, and hunted a hare on the road, peeled and removed the dirty, and hung it on the fire to bake.

While busy, a caravan came from the west. When more than ten fast horses rushed into the fort and checked around, they passed by Jiang Anyi, they deliberately slowed down their horse stance and looked at him carefully. Then the group of people turned their horses' heads and headed towards the caravan. The kung fu was not very good, the horse's hooves were chaotic and the people were noisy, and the caravan poured into the fort.

This caravan is not small in size, with nearly 100 vehicles of all sizes. Jiang Anyi glanced casually, and there were no less than 100 guards with a knife and a bow. This caravan is obviously used to walking in the desert. Although he is busy, he is in order. After a while, the vehicles and cargo were piled up in a circle and tied tightly with cowhide ropes outside.

Someone was taking care of the horses, some were alerting everyone. There was a woman in the caravan who started to make a fire and cook. When passing by Jiang Anyi, he looked at him with curious eyes, but no one stopped to talk. Jiang Anyi was embarrassed and naturally he would not talk to others on his own initiative. However, Jiang Anyi found that these people were not Zheng people and Beimo people, and they looked like merchants from Xifan in their clothes. One of the most prominent features was that the woman had a tulle on her face.

The rabbit meat was cooked, and Jiang Anyi ate rabbit meat with milk tea. At this moment, he saw an old man walking towards him with several people. The old man was in his sixties, wearing a hooded robe, with a kind smile on his thin face, and a gentle expression, like a teacher, making people feel close at first sight.

The old man smiled and greeted in a disgusting voice: "Old Tu Lebu is the leader of the caravan. He is destined to meet, so he came to disturb him." As he said that, he signaled the maid behind him to give him a gift, which seemed to be a jar of fine wine.

Jiang Anyi stood up to greet him. His Mo language was very loose. He learned for three days when he was holding Tizhu Juji hostage. The old man could roughly guess what the meaning of the words. He smiled and replied in Mo language: "Thank you, please sit down."

The old man was not concerned and sat down on the ground opposite Jiang Anyi. Two guards with knives stood behind him. The maid with a veil on her face looked at Jiang Anyi curiously. The silver tableware in her bag was not thrown away. Jiang Anyi took out the silver cup and poured milk tea, and presented it to the old man with both hands, and broke out in a disgrace: "Drink."

The old man looked at the silver cup in his hand and praised with a smile: "This silver cup is so exquisite."

Jiang Anyi looked confused and didn't know what the old man said. The old man found out that Jiang Anyi was not familiar with Mo Yu, so he changed several words in a row, and finally asked in Zheng Yu: "Is the Master Zheng?"

It was related to life and death, and Jiang Anyi did not dare to admit it. He still pretended to be confused and said in a disgrace: "Please have tea."

The old man smiled and drank the tea in his hand, thanked him in Moyu, and left with his guard and maid. Jiang Anyi was sweating profusely. Sometimes he was too lazy to learn foreign languages.

Back at the residence, the guard had already set up a tent, which had already prepared tea, beds, tables, and short stools in the tent. The maid followed the old man into the tent and obediently poured tea for the old man. It turned out to be the green dew of the famous tea in Dazheng, and the whole tent was filled with the fragrance of tea.

Smoothly savoring the tea, the old man suddenly spoke and asked, "Rona, do you think that person is suspicious?"

"Grandpa, this person clearly doesn't understand Moyu very much. His habit of eating is not like Moyu. When I saw that grandpa said Zhengyu, the man's eyes flashed. He should have understood grandpa's words." Rona's clear eyes flashed with a bright light, and she said, "But this person does not look like a horse thief. I have never seen a horse thief eat with silverware. Moreover, this person is gentle in eating and should be a well-educated and polite person."

Jiang Anyi didn't know that his pretending was full of loopholes in the eyes of this woman named Rona.

Rona squatted down, knelt beside Tulebu, poured tea for her grandfather again, and continued, "I just saw the saddle that the man placed on the ground, and looked like Da Zheng's. This man seemed weak, but his eyebrows were injured. He walked on the grassland, without a bow or seeing any weapons, which was really suspicious."

Seeing his granddaughter's brows frowned and formed a small bump, Tu Lebu patted his granddaughter's head lovingly and said with a smile: "Rona, you can't change your habit of thinking too much when encountering things. As long as that man is not a horse thief, no matter whether he is a Mo or a Zheng person, he will be ordered by Langluo to send someone to watch. He will soon arrive at Yuyan's tribe, so don't have any trouble."

Rona stood up, came behind her grandfather, gently rubbed her shoulders for her, and said softly: "It's all bad for Rona. It's better to keep her grandfather running around at such an old age..."

"Rona, don't say it." Tulebu patted Rona's hand and sneered: "Heteng is vacancies. I want to force you to marry him a stupid son like a pig. A mere garrison officer has not been put in the eyes of my grandfather. Don't worry, as long as this trip can be exchanged for good Gastrodia Ma Xian and my king. When my king is healthy, I want Heteng to take care of it."

A trace of worry flashed in Rona's eyes. The Tule family was originally a wealthy merchant in Sha Su country and had a strong relationship with the second prince. King Sha Su suddenly became dizzy. The eldest prince temporarily took charge of the government and suppressed the second prince's connections. Heteng forced himself to marry his son, but behind it was the command of the eldest prince.

The second prince asked the Tule family to go to the Northern Mo to find the best Yuntianma to treat the old emperor's illness. After the eldest prince learned the news, he detained the Tule family's person in the name of tax evasion. The only grandfather who had retired from the forest and ignorant children were left in the family. The grandfather was forced to go to the Northern Mo to find Yuyan's troops to buy Yuntianma. He went through wind and sand along the way, but was attacked by horse thieves many times. Fortunately, the guard Langluo was well-informed, and the losses were not too great along the way.

Seeing his grandfather resting on the bed, Rona quietly left the account. He was approaching Yuyan tribe. Don’t have any trouble at the last moment. Find Lang Luo and ask him to send someone to pay attention to the homeless man. Rona personally took the people around to check it around. When everything was right, she returned to the account to rest.

Langluo is an orphan. He was adopted by the Tule family since childhood and is loyal to the Tule family. This time, the host family suffered a lot. Langluo knew that this was a serious matter. Whether the host family could escape depends on whether he could buy Yuntianma during this trip. The horse thief they met along the way made Langluo a little worried. There were several times when the horse thief organization was clearly organized and advanced and retreated properly, and it was clearly played by the army. Could it be that the eldest prince sent someone to pretend to be a horse thief and chased him?
Chapter completed!