Thousand Miles of Bright Moonlight

After being out of danger, the Hu merchants left with the goods, and before leaving, offered thanks and asked the Buddha to accept it.

Several monks came forward to decline the offerings of the Hushang merchants, soothed them with gentle words, and performed rituals for the dead merchants in the name of Tamaraga.

The businessmen were grateful.

Yaoying and the soldiers were temporarily placed in the ranks of the army of the king's court.

The Beirong people and other tribes she saw in the Western Regions all wore Zuoqi, and most of the royal cavalry also wore shawls and braided hair, but the dressing system was different from that of the Beirong people.

The Chinese cavalry wears blue shirts, light armor, white robes, long swords, and curved bows. The white robes are embroidered with complicated patterns, and everyone has a servant who runs errands for them.

They were different from the brave and combative Bei Rong soldiers. They seemed to be quite courteous. Although they hated Yaoying's public desecration of their Buddha, they glared at her, but did not insult in person.

However, the attitude of the two soldiers of Tamaraga towards Yaoying was much worse. They were taken away by her horse and ordered her to go with the most inferior slave.

The most important point: she is not allowed to mention the name of Tamaraga, and she is not allowed to look at Tamaraga.

The chubby round-faced knight pointed at Yaoying and shouted: "You brazen Chinese girl, if you look at our king more, you are blaspheming our king!"

Yaoying looked at the front of the team. The huge snow-white flag was hunting and flying in the wind. Tamaraga rode in the front, she could only see a thin back.

Among the army, he was the only one wearing a crimson robes, and his figure was cold and lonely.

It looks like a divine residence.

The Chinese knights crowded behind him, looking at his back feverishly and piously.

The knight followed Yaoying's gaze, flushed with anger, and yelled to block her in front of her: "Han girl, don't look at our king! You can't see at a glance! I'll goug your eyes again!"

Yaoying twitched the corner of her mouth, retracting her gaze.

The knight glared at her dissatisfiedly and called the soldiers: "Let them follow the back of the line! Don't allow this Chinese girl to get closer to the king!"

Yaoying followed the Chinese army with her soldiers, and looked back at the valley.

The dust was rolling in the sky, Haidu Aling left with Beijun soldiers.

Yaoying and the soldiers walked at the end of the Chinese army. The knight's slaves were all men. Seeing that she was a beautiful and beautiful Han lady, she looked at her curiously, and treated her well.

From their mouths, Yaoying learned that this place is very close to Shacheng. Tamara Gha and Wakhan Khan had just sworn in Shacheng that the army went out of Shacheng. The scout reported that Haidu Aling intercepted the royal caravan. He immediately led troops to deter the Beirong people.

Yaoying was scared.

When Haidu Aling went to Shacheng, they had a chance to escape, but they escaped from the camp and got lost, and they ran all the way towards Shacheng!

It's just self-investing in the net.

Fortunately, Tamara Gha scared away Haidu Aling.

The royal army marched quickly, and it was not until night fell that they took a rest under a barren cliff.

The Chinese army is stationed around the tent of Tamoroka, and several armies with obviously different uniforms from the Chinese army are on guard at the periphery.

Yaoying distributed the dry bread that was too hard to kill people to other slaves.

The slave ate the bread while telling her that most of the Chinese knights came from the children of the nobles in the holy city. They were loyal to the royal family, valued honor, and only obeyed the orders of the monarch. They were the guards of the palace and Buddhist temples. Several other armies were loyal to several great nobles. There was a regent in the royal court who acted for the Buddha in the affairs of the dynasty, and the officials in the dynasty were all aristocrats. Although Tamaragarh was a monarch, he was sometimes ruled by nobles.

Speaking of the last sentence, the slave was very angry: "The Buddha is the incarnation of Ananda, with compassion in his heart, and is a real great man. He wants to release us captured slaves and let us be civilians, but the nobles disagree. ."

Yaoying gave the slave a silver coin.

People in the Central Plains traded money and silk, while gold coins, silver coins and silk were popular in the Western Regions.

The slave looked surprised, took the silver coin, thought about it, and told Yaoying: "You are a Han, you'd better stay here in the Chinese army, don't go out alone. Chinese knights obey the king's orders and will not insult Han women. "

He raised his eyes and looked at her face.

"A beauty like you, the nobles of the royal court will love you when they meet them. In order to get rewards, their subordinates will pillage the beauties of various tribes for the nobles during battle. You have to be careful."

Yaoying looked surprised, and asked in a low voice, "Wang Ting hates the Han Chinese?"

To the south of the Tianshan Mountains, to the north of the Kunlun Mountains, and to the east of Congling Mountains, there are vast expanse of deserts and wastelands. The climate is hot and arid, almost no man’s land. Only large and small rivers originating in the Tianshan form a place where they flow through. An oasis.

In this long and narrow oasis area appeared a small country with small rivers, large and small city-states and tribes scattered among them, the small number was only one or two thousand, and the largest number was hundreds of thousands.

Yaoying knows a little bit about the Northern Rong royal family, but she is completely unfamiliar with these tribes of the Western Regions. She only knows that the royal court is a Buddhist kingdom that worships Buddhism and will be destroyed under the iron hoof of the Northern Rong within a few years. If she didn't know the approximate life of Tamaraga, she wouldn't remember the name Wang Ting.

After being taken captive by Haidu Aling to the Western Regions, she has been imprisoned in the camp, surrounded by soldiers from the North Rong, unable to detect the situation of the Western Regions.

She knew that the Bei Rong people regarded all the other tribes they conquered as untouchables, but she didn't know the same was true in the royal court, and listening to the slave's suggestion, the Wang court people were extremely hostile to the Han people.

The slave lowered his head and wiped the silver coins and said: "The nobles and people of the royal court hated the Han. Once, we were also subjects of the Central Plains dynasty. Later, the Central Plains dynasty, regardless of our life or death, other tribes ruled the Western Regions. In the Western Regions, the Han people became the most inferior. Untouchables."

Yaoying frowned lightly.

Unexpectedly, after the fall of the Western Regions, the status of the Han people in the Western Regions was so low.

Speaking of it, Tamara Gha is also a royal nobleman. He is the prince of the royal family, so he can serve as the secular and religious leader of the royal family at the same time. If Wang Ting hated the Han from nobles to common people, the words she shouted out in public would not only be of no use to him, on the contrary, it might be a taboo of the Wang Ting.

Why would he help her?

There are only two explanations:

One, Tamaragarh wants to form an alliance with the Wei Dynasty.

Second, the monk is compassionate. As a monk, Tamara Gha can't bear to see her being taken away by Haidu Aling.

Yaoying weighed it up, no matter what, as long as she could temporarily escape from the claws of Haidu Aling, she might return to the Central Plains.

From Helong to the Western Regions, no matter where she flees, Haidu Aling can catch her back. Only when she flees to the royal court can she have a chance to breathe.

Take one step at a time.

Tamara Gha seemed anxious to return to the holy city, and the team set out before it was lighted the next day. It was also until the night was completely dark that they stopped and camped.

On the fourth day, the Chinese cavalry directly separated from the other teams, dropped their luggage, and continued to march.

After driving for a few days in succession, I only passed a small oasis on the way. The other places are endless Gobi gravel. The towering mountains in the sky are always so far away, and the snowy peaks of the mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist all day long.

As we go north, the weather gets hotter and hotter. Yaoying and the soldiers have no clothes to change, so they can only continue to wear thick felt robes.

The medicine she exchanged for silver coins from the Wang Court cavalry was gone. Xie Qing's injury did not get better. The day was hot and the night was cold, and her wounds gradually showed signs of ulceration.

Yaoying was a little worried.

Tamaraga seemed to have forgotten her since he rescued her that day, and neither sent anyone to confirm her identity nor said how to deal with her.

The Chinese cavalry brought her food every day, and she asked to see Tamaraga. The cavalry immediately sneered and scolded her wishful thinking: "How did the Buddha meet you, a Chinese girl?"

Yaoying thinks of other ways.

The silver coins on her body had been used up, and Tamaragarh didn't care about her intentions.

It seems that the monk has no plans to form an alliance with Wei Chao, only a sympathetic attack will save her.

Yaoying and the soldiers exchanged felt robes with other slaves for some medicine, changed into the clothes of the slaves, and lasted for another two days.

That evening, a round of red sun burned half of the sky to a brilliant red, and the marching team suddenly burst into cheers.

The slave pointed to the towering cliff in the distance and said to Yaoying: "Han girl, this is our holy city!"

Yaoying looked up. She thought she would see a majestic capital, but there was only a large black earth cliff in front of her. There was a river tens of meters wide under the cliff. The river diverged to the north, winding around the earth cliff. A week, forming a natural barrier.

Before she could take a closer look, a knight rode all the way from the front of the team to the end, announcing that the team would stop and rest.

Yaoying was stunned: Judging from the speed of the team in the past few days, Tamara Gha is obviously rushing back to the Holy City. Why did the team stop and rest at the foot of the Holy City?

Isn't he afraid that he won't be able to return to the capital when it gets dark?

The Chinese army deserves to be the team most loyal to the royal family. No one complained about Tamaraga's orders. Even if the holy city was close in front of them, the team that was eager to return immediately stopped.

The setting sun put away the last golden afterglow, the night breeze was blowing, and it suddenly became cold. Yaoying and her soldiers trembled with the cold.

Just when she thought she was going to sleep in the Gobi tonight, the team suddenly moved again.

Yaoying and others drove in the dark under the guidance of the knights, and said to her heart: It turns out that Tamaragara has to wait until dark before entering the city. Doesn't he want to disturb the people in the capital?

She had never been to the holy city and could not identify the way. She felt that she had walked for a long time, and then she seemed to have passed a long trestle bridge, and then a series of steep stone ladders. After climbing for a long time, she reached the top of the cliff. It is a downhill sand road.

It seems that the holy city is located in a river valley, surrounded by rivers and cliffs...

It happens to be a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No wonder Bei Rong has been unable to conquer this city.

In the darkness, only the torches in the hands of the cavalry gave off dim dim light.

Yaoying didn't see anything clearly, feeling that after walking on the ramp for a long time, the front seemed to open up suddenly, the wind was blowing, and the sound of the wind was whining.

The cavalry took her and her soldiers away from the slaves and sent them to a stone prison to guard them.

The stone prison was dry and cold. Yaoying and the soldiers spent a long time in the dark with big eyes and small eyes, and said: "It's better than sleeping in the Gobi Desert. Let's sleep first."

The round-faced cavalry came out of the stone prison and hurried back to the palace.

Tamaraga had quietly returned to the palace, and the main hall of the palace was lit up. Several monks hurried over, talked to Tamaraga for a while, and then quit.

The cavalry saluted the monks respectfully.

One of the brown-eyed monks said: "Prajna, the Buddha said, did you bring a princess from the Wei Dynasty back this time?"

Round-faced Qibing suddenly turned black and red, snorted a few times, and said, "Yes, that brazen Han woman said she was the seventh princess of the Wei Dynasty, and the title was Wen Zhao."

The monk changed his color slightly and asked, "Where are the seventh princesses now?"

Prajna replied: "In the stone prison, she blasphemed the Buddha, and the crime is very heinous. Tomorrow I will ask the regent to punish her!"

The monk frowned, folded his hands together, and said: "The Seventh Princess is a predestined person, so you can't be so slow."

Prajna opened his mouth in surprise.

Yaoying just fell asleep on the spot, when there were rapid footsteps outside.

Several royal soldiers opened the prison door and said respectfully: "Seven princesses, please come with us, the mage wants to see you."

Yaoying was taken out of the cell and went to a side hall of the palace.

An old man wearing a full-shoulder robes stood in front of the stone steps and saw her, his hands clasped together: "Princess Seven."

Yaoying's gaze fell on the old man's old face, and she was startled for a long time before she finally recognized the brown eyes.

Her heart was surging and she could not speak for a long time. She slowly recovered, folded her hands and smiled. Although she was disheveled and described as embarrassed, dressed in the clothes of a slave, she was still graceful: "Master, goodbye to Chang'an, don't come here without any problems? "

Devi Munda looked at the girl who was still calm in front of her, and smiled slightly: "Thanks to the princess, my long-cherished wish is fulfilled."

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