I didn't intend to be a Fairy

Song You passed Yuanzhi City again. There are not many guards in the city now, and he didn't intend to enter the city. He just passed by from a distance, turned his head to look at it, and then walked towards Liaoxin Pass.

In the middle, I found a place to spend the night.

It's just that when he woke up, the Sanhuamao was no longer by his side.

"..."

Song You straightened up and looked around.

The grass not far away was rustling, and the withered grass sometimes fell down and sometimes trembled, presumably it was the cat's commotion.

Song You ignored her, poured water to wipe his face, washed his face, and then started to pack his things.

As soon as I put the wool felt and blanket into the quilt bag, I only heard a movement in the grass behind me. I turned around and saw a three-coloured cat came out of the lush grass, followed by a small stone figure. What caught people's attention was that the cat walked straight over with a thin yellow bamboo tube in its mouth, and put the bamboo tube on the ground beside his feet.

"What's this?"

"It's bamboo."

"..."

Song You bent down and picked up the bamboo tube.

The bamboo tube is thin, about the thickness of a Sanhua cat's calf. It is covered with a hemp rope wrapped around it, and the cat is biting the hemp rope to bring it over.

As soon as he got started, Song You knew it was a mailbox.

People these days like to send letters in bamboo tubes. When I left Yizhou, I sent letters to Lingbo for the old man at the roadside tea shop, so I put them in bamboo tubes. Some literati are very particular, and they will carefully select different varieties of bamboo and choose the bamboo joints near the root, so that they can carve exquisite patterns on them, making them as exquisite as works of art.

The mailbox in his hand was very simple, with almost no decorations, only the address was carved on the surface with a knife.

"Chen Si, Longlance Gate, Huangsha Mountain, Wu County, Yuezhou."

Song You muttered a sentence, then looked at Mistress Sanhua, "Where did you get this?"

Sanhuamao didn't speak, but turned to look back.

It was the direction she walked out of the grassland.

"Is there any more?"

"..."

The cat thought for a while, and it seemed that this question was not easy to answer with eye expressions, so he said:

"A lot!"

"That's it."

Song You held the bamboo tube in his hand: "Please ask Empress Sanhua to take me to have a look."

The cat turned around immediately upon hearing this, and ran back.

The humble stone figure followed her closely.

It's just that the grassland is not flat, and there are often small pits, large and small, which can't embarrass Sanhuamao and people, but it is a catastrophe for the little mountain god she summoned.

I saw that the little stone man accidentally stepped on a pit about the size of an egg, lost his balance accidentally, fell to the ground with a thud, and immediately scattered from the little stone man into a pile of gravel.

The three-flowered cat heard the sound, and immediately turned its head, but it only took a look, and then continued to run forward.

Soon he took Song You to a place in the grassland.

Sure enough, there were quite a few bamboo tubes scattered on the ground, all of which were thin, and the thickest ones were no bigger than a baby's arm. Some were scattered randomly on the ground, and some were half buried in the mud. Some are still in good condition, while others have already been opened. If you are lucky, you can still find the rotten paper inside. If you are not lucky, it has long disappeared.

Song You glanced around, unhurriedly, picked up a few to check, and they all had different addresses engraved on them.

It looks like a letter home from the northern frontier army.

After searching around, I found a scattered oil-paper bag, and it was randomly thrown on the grassland, and half of it was sunk in the mud.

But no bones were seen.

"..."

Song You picked them up next to each other, and looked at them one by one.

Just look at the address engraved on the surface of the bamboo tube.

Everywhere in every state.

Some were sent to Yizhou, some were sent to Changjing, and some were in Yanzhou. There are even sent to the Western Regions. However, most of them were sent to the Changqiang Gate of Huangsha Mountain in Yuezhou.

Strangely, Song You actually found a familiar address on it——

Send it to Lin Chang of Yanzhou Dada.

Song You knew that it came from Liaoxin Pass.

Perhaps it was because the Great Northern Serbs army was about to overwhelm the border, or preparing for a decisive battle, the defenders of Liaoxin Pass sent another letter home. Or the city has been infected with the disease, so the last letter from home was sent out. However, the postman was intercepted and killed by Saibei's waiting cavalry or a small group of troops after he had only walked halfway. Afterwards, the Saibei people took these things away and found that they were just a pile of useless family letters, so they threw them on the side of the road.

Come to think of it, it must have been a long time ago...

Liaoxin Pass was lost at the beginning of this year, and it is now late autumn, and this pile of letters was sent at the beginning of the year at the latest. In summer, there were several torrential rains in succession on the grassland. Even if this side was not flooded by the Saibei monster, the grassland was still flooded with water, and many bamboo tubes were washed away.

Some were even buried in the soil.

It was discovered by Empress Sanhua until today.

Song You turned his head and said to Empress Sanhua who was staring at him suspiciously, "Empress Sanhua has made great achievements again..."

"What's this?"

"It's a letter."

"Is it worth it?"

"Very precious."

"!"

The three-flowered cat stared at him without blinking.

The Taoist patiently explained to her: "It's like I haven't seen Sanhua Empress for a long time. At this time, Sanhua Empress wants to tell me something, tell me how Sanhua Empress is doing, and also tell Sanhua Empress. The empress told me all the things that she often said to me on weekdays, so she wrote them on paper and put them in a bamboo tube. When I see the letter, I can hear it, and if I don’t see it, I don’t know everything..."

"!"

The three-flowered cat blinked its eyes, and there was a process from thinking to enlightenment in its eyes.

Empress Sanhua is used to getting along with Taoist priests. Empress Sanhua has a lot to say to Taoist priests and ask questions to Taoist priests every day, so she has to meet and talk with Taoist priests. If one day it's really been a long time since I met and talked with the Taoist priest, and I put the words on paper and entrust someone to bring it to the Taoist priest, it must be very precious and must not be lost.

"Now what?"

"Since we met, it must be destined." Song You said, "We should find them back for those people."

"Are we going to deliver again?"

"That's too far."

"Then what to do?"

"It doesn't matter. The imperial court has a special post office, which is dedicated to delivering letters to sergeant officers and candidates. We can deliver it to the nearest military town."

"Liaoxin Pass!"

"Mistress Sanhua is too smart."

"Miss Sanhua, let's go find her now!"

As soon as the three-flowered cat turned its head, it took a bamboo tube in its mouth, dragged it out of the mud, and put it aside.

The Taoist smiled and began to search.

Like this military post box, although its shape is simple, its function is not bad. In addition to the cover and hemp rope to ensure privacy, the bamboo tube also has a certain waterproof ability. However, the bamboo tube itself is hollow, and if it is scattered on the ground, it is likely to be scattered everywhere when it is washed by heavy rain. Moreover, there are weeds with a similar color to the bamboo tube blocking it, so it is not easy to find.

Fortunately, the Taoist and the cat are not short of time.

So I searched around with the oiled paper bag as the center, and found more than a dozen feet away at the farthest. I found more than a hundred complete bamboo tubes in total, and put them back next to the horse.

Empress Sanhua was very active in this process.

It's not about how noble the character is, nor is it because of any great principles, it's just that when the Taoist said it, she always felt that this thing was great. I always feel that if one is missed, the one that was missed is a Sanhua Empress who told the Taoist priest.

That must not be missed.

She didn't find it again after searching for a long time, and the Taoist told her that she didn't need to look for it anymore, so she went back reluctantly and guarded the Taoist and the bamboo tube.

Song You thought for a while and read it again.

This time, I picked out those with long guns. Anyway, I wanted to go there, so I personally delivered them. It was faster and safer, and the rest were stuffed into the quilt bag in various ways, and then I continued to set off.

It should be only twenty or thirty miles away from Liaoxin Pass. It usually takes more than an hour to walk, but it took half a day to find the bamboo tube, and it was already dusk when we arrived at Liaoxin Pass.

Liaoxin Pass now has only a few thousand guards, and most of Dayan's troops are outside the northern border.

Song You brought General Chen's handwriting, and the guards saw that Song You was the Taoist who they had heard had killed countless monsters in Yuanzhi City, and then went out with the army to kill monsters. Like the Fuyang real person who killed demons and demons in the Taizu army and killed the gods of the lower world, he naturally respected him.

Although he knew what had happened to Liaoxin Pass before, Song You still asked Zheng Linyou, the cavalry unit under the general's command. He only heard that no one survived Liaoxin Pass at that time, and all the death news of the defenders had been reported home. sighed.

Immediately, he left most of the family letters and asked him to hand them over to the post office for further delivery. After staying for one night, he added some dry food and supplies, and then continued to leave the city.

But this time it was going west and back.

In a few days, they entered the Dada Grassland again, and met the rangers from Zhaoye City, but they were not in the same team as before.

Walking into the famous Zhaoye City, I don't think there is anything strange about it, it's just a loess army town full of scars. Now that the defensive battle has been won, just like Liaoxin Pass, there are not many troops left behind in Zhaoye City. In the eyes of Taoists, it is like an old man sitting on the threshold in a summer evening with his chest exposed and his stomach exposed, calm and vicissitudes, full of vicissitudes. The wrinkles on the body even cover the scars, so that it is difficult for an outsider who visits for the first time to imagine what magnificent years he experienced when he was young.

Song You still stayed in the city for one night before leaving.

But when he was leaving the city, the Taoist suddenly stopped and raised his head to look up to the sky.

Sanhua Mao was puzzled and looked up to the sky.

There is a bird flying in the sky.

Although it is late autumn, it is not uncommon to have birds in the sky on the grassland, but this bird is unusual.

This is a swallow...

I don't know if there are swallows on the grasslands, but this season, the grasslands in the north are already very cold, so there should never be swallows.

I saw this swallow flapping its wings and circling in the sky, sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes up and down, just like when we first met in Anqingchu, but I don't know if his heart is as entangled as before.