Chapter 1391 White sparrow


    Finally passed through the damned land of Tuhuluo, and in front of him was the land of the extreme west that Zhang Zoukong mentioned back then, the Lanshi City...


    The white sparrow let out a long breath and smiled.


    Lan''s City.


    In the desert area of ??Central Asia, whoever controls the oasis is the winner. And Lan''s City just happened to be on the west side of the Tocharo Basin, the northern foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and happened to be at the dividing point between the middle and lower reaches of the Amu Darya River Basin. If a straight line is connected between Lanshi City and Tiemenguan, the passage from the Tocharo Basin to Persia and Central Asia can be blocked.


    Of course, none of the regimes that occupy Lanshi City have the intention to build spears on this key passage like Huaxia, because it is enough to occupy the dotted oases in the desert.


    Zhang Qian once arrived here when he was on a mission to the Western Regions. Originally, this was the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom, but now it has belonged to the Guishuang Empire.


    Guishuang, originally one of the branches of the Da Yuezhi, the rest of the Da Yuezhi people are divided into four Xihou, Xiumi, Shuangmi, Jidun, and Gaofu. At first, they also drank Guishuang, maintaining a certain However, in the 1st century A.D., the Marquis of Guishuang attacked and destroyed the other four Marquises of Guishuang and established the huge Kingdom of Guishuang.


    After the Guishuang Empire ruled Sogdiana, Bactria, Kabul, Yuchashira, Gandhara, Kubin and other Western Regions, the Guishuang Empire naturally became more courageous and continued to expand to Hebei. Rat controlled the entire Hezhong area, and imprisoned Kangju and Dawan, and then came into contact with the Han Dynasty in the east.


    At first, the Guishuang Empire tried to make peace, but was rejected by the Han Dynasty, and immediately sent 70,000 troops to prepare to attack the Han Dynasty, but was defeated by the Han Army in the Western Regions led by Ban Chao. . At that time, Ban Chao didn''t know what the Guishuang Empire was like, but he knew that it was originally a branch of the Da Yuezhi, so he was a little jealous, so he agreed to the Guishuang Empire''s peace.


    Now the Guishuang Empire is ruled by Hupisaka II, but it is very interesting that when the Han Dynasty fell into civil strife, the Guishuang Empire, which had been staring at the Han Dynasty, also fell into chaos and decline. …


    The white sparrow sat under a tree, licked the brush in its mouth, moistened the somewhat dry tip, and wrote a few words on the wooden tablet it carried with it.


    The white sparrow was originally born as a black mountain bandit, but the Bai family came from the surname Ying. After the death of Qin Wugong, the son Bai failed to succeed him. It was sealed to Prince Bai. After the son Bai died, his descendants took Bai as their surname.


    Therefore, Baique is also a person who was reduced to Montenegro due to fate, and became the close guard of the great commander Zhang Yan. After Zhang Yan''s death, Bai Que followed the instructions of General Zhengxi, followed the blurred marks left by Zhang Qian and Ban Chao, and carried a map with a scale that was random, and headed west with several Heishan people and Qiang people. , all the way west...


    After arriving in Dawan, the Qiang people are not ready to move forward, because the Qiang people also know that to the west is the Guishuang Empire, and the attitude of the Guishuang Empire towards the Han Dynasty is not very friendly, so the Qiang people would rather sell their goods in Dawan. Wan sold it domestically, and then turned around.


    But Baique felt that he had to go west, because Baique didn''t find what General Zhengxi said...


    So Bai Que persuaded all the people and told them that if they go back empty-handed, they are still wearing a sinful body.


    After all, General Fei Qian of Zhengxi said almost convincingly that as long as they find what they need and bring it back, not only will they be exonerated, but they will also be appointed officials and nobles immediately!


    Under the interests, although everyone had some disagreements, they finally agreed to continue westward with the white sparrow.


    To the west of Dawan is the area of ??the Tuhuluo people, and in the area of ??Tuhuluo, the white bird has changed from a black mountain leader to an envoy of the Han Dynasty.


    Ordinary businessmen will only make these poor and crazy guys look green. Only by using the prestige of the big man can these people from abroad be somewhat afraid.


    In front of the Tuhuluo people who call themselves "akni", although Bai Que and others look dusty and embarrassed, the prestige of the Han Dynasty is still very important. It''s not as good as the spirit of doing less, and I didn''t delve into the identities of people like Baique.


    The Tuhuluo people seem to be quite afraid of the Great Moon Kingdom in the west, and when they arrived here, they pointed out the direction of Lan''s City, and they were desperately unwilling to be the guides of Baique and others, so they turned back, seemed a little scared, and It''s like he doesn''t want to mess with right and wrong.


    Bai Que can understand, because from the place he passed by the Tuhuluo people, these Tuhuluo people are even more impoverished than the Huns and Wuhuan people, and they don''t have much ability to protect themselves, weapons and so on It''s also extremely simple, so as a weak nomadic tribe, naturally they don''t want to have any conflicts with the powerful country around them...


    Although Baique believes that the big man is still the strongest, the Guishuang Dayue Kingdom may not be able to compare with the big man...


    The Guishuang people had dealt with the big man before, but now Guishuang himself is in a mess, like a mud-covered house, with cracks and air leaks everywhere, so when he learned that the big man actually dispatched When the messenger came, he showed great interest.


    Bai Que was here in Lan''s City, and unexpectedly met a man who claimed to be from the Great Qin Royal Family...


    Marcus Julius.


    This guy with a bad name claims to be a member of Caesar''s family. It''s just that this guy can''t tell the white sparrow that since an indescribable group incident happened to Caesar in public by sixty strong men in the square, the Julius family has been in a slump.


    Just as Liu Bei never forgets that he is the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, Marcus also only remembers the scenery of Julius in the past, so he found a volume in the old house at home, which is said to be Caesar''s sojourn in the East. The parchment scrolls left by time say that there are countless treasures in the east...


    Marcus handed over the parchment to the Council of Elders, but was sneered at by the Presbyterian Council, saying that Marcus had bad intentions and made fake parchments in an attempt to deceive the elders of the empire. Not only did Marcus confiscate the parchment, but he also Sentenced Marcus to exile.


    However, Marcus was not a person who was willing to submit, so he found an opportunity to escape from Rome, and followed the guidance of the sheepskin scroll in his memory all the way to the Lanshi City of the Guishuang Empire.


    Here, Marcus met a real oriental man, White Sparrow.


    For Bai Que, this man with a difficult-to-pronounce name seems to be more interested in the big man than the Guishuang people. He even said that he can speak multiple languages, and has a very deep understanding of the western countries, and is willing to provide some help for Bai Que , in exchange for following the white sparrow, you can visit the Han Dynasty in the future...


    So Bai Que kept this man. The yellow-haired monster seemed to be carefully observing every move of Bai Que and others, and whenever he had time, he worked hard to learn Chinese with several other Han people. Of course, this tall-nosed white-skinned man Huangmao, a guy who is ugly as hell, stubbornly believes that he should take a Chinese name with connotations.


    Ma Belly, this is the Chinese name Bai Que gave Marcus, because he disliked his name for being too talkative. Marcus feels very happy, because the horse is an important partner of human beings, and the stomach is an important organ, so it represents the importance that the white bird attaches to him...


    "The women here are good..." Ma Tong lowered his voice and said to Bai Que, licked his lips, and there was a kind of light in his eyes that can only be experienced by men, "I know there is a place in the city..."


    The eyes of the Black Mountain people who followed the white sparrow also began to glow, green light, and then cast the green light on the white sparrow.


    It’s hard to imagine the hardships of the journey. In the face of the harshness of nature, sometimes people are really fragile, so it is necessary to relax properly...


    The white sparrow reached out and touched his bosom, then took out a few gold leaves, threw them to a Black Mountain crowd beside him, and said, "You guys have agreed, let''s go in two waves... If you want to buy some food and drink, just buy food and drink." If you want to find a woman, you can find a woman..."


    "Where are you, Commander?" The Montenegrin people took the gold leaf and asked happily, "Do you want to bring one back to Commander?"


    Baique kicked the guard, "Get lost."


    The Montenegrin crowd laughed and laughed together, and then roughly divided into two groups. After an appointment was made, some left first.


    The white sparrow was still sitting under the tree, holding a pen, thinking about something.


    As long as he has free time, it seems to be his habit for Bai Que to eat more or less. Perhaps only in this way, the white sparrow will not inadvertently forget the words belonging to the Han people that I remembered when I was young...


    "In the seventh year of Chuping..." Bai Que wrote a few words, scratching his head in distress, "How long is it in January? Let him go, to Lan''s City, see Guishuang City Guard..."


    Bai Que wrote roughly, then looked at the side again, put away the pen and ink, and looked up to the east.


    Now in Han, it should be spring and flowers are blooming. Are you ready for spring plowing?


    Bai Que pursed her lips and remained silent for a long time.


    He misses his hometown, the hometown of the great man, and even more the happy days when he was a child in Bingbei, those days when he was with his family at home, playing and studying with his brothers and sisters, although these days It was quickly destroyed because of Xianbei''s southward travel, but this memory seemed to be engraved in the bones, and the farther away from the big man, the clearer it felt.


    When I was in Dahan, I didn''t seem to feel this at all. It seems that the farther you are from your homeland, the more you miss you. The road to the west is endless, and the thoughts are increasing all the time.


    This road is not easy.


    At every moment, Baique not only encourages the Black Mountain people to walk together, but also pays attention to the changes in morale, and takes care of all kinds of weird problems that these people have due to the long journey...


    Once when climbing a mountain, the kid with black **** suddenly burst into tears halfway up the mountain, and then jumped off the cliff just like that, the white bird didn''t even know what happened!


    And when camping in the middle of the night, it is still there when it gets dark, and disappears when it is dawn. I don’t know if it went out by itself in the middle of the night, or escaped. Wolves will never let go of a single prey.


    There are also those who are injured, have a fever and talk nonsense, and finally call their mother and die in the arms of the white bird...


    If it weren''t for the fact that the white bird has always been fair and just, it treats every Montenegrin people like this, and always comforts them time and time again, telling them that after returning, it will be a great contribution, and the only thing they can do is move forward. If you have more information, even if you can''t find the items needed by General Zhengxi, as long as you can reach the extreme west where Zhang Zongkong arrived at the beginning, it can be said to be a great achievement!


    That’s why these Black Mountain people persevered. Otherwise, even if the white sparrows read more books than them, they may not be able to resist the knife that was chopped down in the middle of the night...


    With this kind of persistence that was almost obsessive, Bai Que barely controlled the situation, and brought the Black Mountain people here step by step, to the Lan''s City, which Zhang Zhekong called the city of the extreme west.


    Further west?


    The white bird is not sure.


    After all, during this period of time, what everyone insisted on was to come here. So when I got here, the breath in my heart was relieved. Even Baique himself, the waves of longing for his homeland surged in his heart, like a huge wave, until it was overwhelmed!


    Leaning against the tree trunk, the white sparrow smirked towards the sky in a trance, as if seeing some relatives, but the smirk disappeared in a blink of an eye, and tears welled up from the corners of its eyes, flowing down the rough and dark face eroded by wind and frost And down.


    After an unknown amount of time, familiar laughter and voices came from outside the small courtyard.


    The white sparrow sniffed its nose, then wiped the corners of its eyes with its hands, and put on a smiling face again.


    The loneliness of being far away from homeland is a sadness that people in their hometown can''t imagine, but Bai Que''s sadness can only be hidden by himself, because Bai Que knows that if he shows a little weakness and unsteadiness, then Soon the entire team will collapse and eventually turn into bones and yellow sand in the desert.


    "Commander! Hahaha...It''s a pity that you didn''t go..." A Montenegrin crowd winked and said, "The women in this place...hahaha..."


    The eyes of the Montenegrin crowd were straight, as if they were still immersed in the previous scene, their hands were bluffed, they grabbed a few times in mid-air, and swallowed, "The big girl...twisted...it''s so flirty...lead you Really not going?"


    "Get out!" Bai Que raised his foot and kicked. His current identity is at least the envoy of the Han Dynasty. Although it is a fake, he still has to put on a show, so as not to lose the face of the Han Dynasty. It''s fine to find a woman under his command, and everyone can understand, but as a big man''s envoy, he would be too embarrassing to go to the kiln in a lustful way, so even Bai Que can only hold back and endure it.


    This Black Mountain member also knew it, so seeing the white sparrow pretending to be angry, he quickly turned around and jumped away with a smile...


    "..." Bai Que''s face suddenly changed, pointing at the Black Mountain crowd and shouting, "Huang Er Gouzi, come back to me!"


    The Montenegro was taken aback.


    "You... what kind of flower is that in your ear?!" Bai Que pointed to Huang Ergou and said. Just now when Huang Ergou turned around to avoid it, the white sparrow saw that there seemed to be a flower in Huang Ergou''s ear, and his heart skipped a beat!


    Hairpin, in the Han Dynasty, was not just a patent for women.


    Huang Ergou hesitated, touched a yellow and fluffy dried flower from his ear, and said, "This is a gift from that woman... It is said that this kind of dried flower will not wither and rot in winter... I think this yellow flower is really It''s also novel, so I brought it back..."


    (end of this chapter)