Ninefold above

The next day when the day was slightly bright, the caravan continued on its way. Xie Jiuxiao sat at the end of the car, and the horses pulling the cart walked slowly. Xie Jiuxiao gnawed slowly on a small piece of cake handed over by others.

Although he was dusty and dirty, his back was straight and he seemed to be in good spirits. The driver of the same team climbed up to the back of the car and handed him a bag of water: "Come out to make a living when the family is in trouble?"

Xie Jiuxiao took it, nodded vaguely, and said, "Thank you, Brother Li."

Brother Li bit the cake and chatted with him: "Young man, seeing you are young, I didn't expect you to be in the car-following business. This business is not easy to do. You walk on the border all year round. If you go well, you can spend your life with your wife and son. If you don't go well Otherwise, we will never have the chance to meet again.”

Seeing him, Xie Jiuxiao was quite moved, and asked, "Brother Li is married?"

Li Hui said: "It's done. The doll is already one year old and has just learned to walk. I think I can call him Daddy when I get back this trip."

Xie Jiuxiao is not good at chatting with ordinary people, and when he heard this, he smiled and nodded in agreement, Li Hui asked, "Seeing that you are not very old, are you engaged?"

Xie Jiuxiao said: "It's settled, I will be able to kiss soon."

Li Hui heard the expectation in this sentence, laughed twice, and patted him on the shoulder: "A man is a man, after getting married, he has to protect his wife and baby, this is a happy thing, you are lucky. "

Xie Jiuxiao unconsciously caressed the wooden beads on his left wrist, and slowly rubbed them one by one, then suddenly said to himself: "She should be angry—"

"Angry? Who is angry? Is it your wife? The girl is coaxing her, her heart is very soft, just give her up and apologize..."

Xie Jiuxiao smiled, and when he raised his eyes again, there was no hesitation: "It's time to admit my mistake, otherwise she might send me away if she gets angry."

The words were muddled, Li Hui seemed to understand, and said: "Little brother, I can't see that your wife has such a temper!"

Xie Jiuxiao started biting the cake again: "There are a lot of things at home, so she should be more tempered if she manages more."

Li Hui became curious about him at this moment, thinking that it might be because of his family's fortunes, so he didn't ask any further questions, and nodded his head subtly: "Is that so—"

It was getting hotter and hotter. After noon, Li Hui climbed up the sand dunes and looked into the distance. When he came back, he said, "It looks like we should be able to make it to the Crescent Crescent before dark, and the next road will be easy when we reach the Crescent Crescent."

Crescent Half Bend is located in the western part of the desert, and it is the only market on the border. The flow of people here is not controlled by anyone, but it has formed its own unique rules over the years.

As soon as it was dusk, the convoy saw the flag flying in the half-bend of the crescent moon, hanging above the setting sun, and the groom waved excitedly: "It's half-bend in the crescent moon!"

Arriving here means that the team can take a good rest and replenish food and water.

After turning over the hill, everyone saw a small landform in the distance, bustling with fire and people's voices.

Xie Jiuxiao's heart tightened slightly.

If you don't come again, you won't be able to keep up after parting ways!

Li Hui came up from behind and grabbed his shoulders, and said with a smile: "Seeing that you don't know anyone, go have dinner with us later, take a good rest, and you can go home tomorrow."

Xie Jiuxiao nodded, followed the people forward, and soon arrived at the place.

The convoy found a stall with good friends on weekdays, sat down in twos and threes, and the night fell quickly.

The boss eagerly brought up several plates of cooked meat and pancakes. There was enough wine and water, and everyone drank happily from the bowls.

Xie Jiuxiao kept his eyes on the three people at the first table. They ate slowly. After a while, one of them got up to pay the bill, and the three of them were about to leave.

Xie Jiuxiao knew that they had no chance of catching up after they left, and was anxious to get up when there was a commotion in front of him: "Wait!"

Xie Jiuxiao was stunned for a moment when he heard the voice, and at the same time, he pressed his shoulders up with a hand and sat him down again. Xie Jiuxiao couldn't help but raised his head, and met a pair of slightly cold eyes, and he immediately became honest.

"You - stole something from me!"

The three men were puzzled, seeing the bearded man pointing at the man in the middle, one of them shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm talking nonsense?" The bearded man put his hips on his hips and stared: "It's reasonable to steal something, right? My jade pendant was passed down from my grandmother's grandmother's grandmother. Things are still not recognized!"

The man said with a cold face, "What evidence do you have for saying he stole something?"

The bearded man said: "It's simple, won't the truth be revealed after he asked me to search it?"

The expression of the man on the side changed slightly when he heard the words, and the three of them looked at each other without speaking.

The bearded man snorted coldly: "Aren't you guilty of being a thief? Don't you dare let me search you?"

The man sneered and said nothing.

The bearded man immediately refused to let go: "Everyone, quickly recognize these three people and be careful with your money. These three people are thieves. Be careful that you will be deceived into leaving nothing behind!"

He yelled so much that he was watching the excitement, but no one stepped forward to intervene. The three of them wanted to leave when they saw this, but were stopped by the bearded man. Anti-beating people! Is there no one in charge here! Where are the people in charge!"

Someone beside him laughed: "Consider yourself as unlucky, there is no one in charge of this half-moon crescent!"

"That can't be done! I have to pass on to my son what my grandmother's grandmother's grandmother passed down!"

Xie Jiuxiao couldn't help laughing, and restrained himself when he thought of the person standing beside him. Lu Chengfeng was wrapped in a long black cloth, revealing a pair of eyes. She was holding a sword and didn't say a word. explain.

I don't know what they were worried about, but the three of them looked annoyed, but they had to say: "What do you want? We didn't take your jade pendant at all!"

"You said you didn't take it, so you didn't take it? How can you prove it? Unless you let me search it!"

This is actually a very rogue approach.

"You—" One of them was about to get angry, but was stopped by others, shook his head at him, and said to the bearded man: "If you can't find it, let it go?"

"If you can't find it, let it go."

The man took out a piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to the person beside him, and said, "Okay, let you search."

The bearded man glanced briefly from the paper, and then fell on the man: "That's naturally good."

This rhetoric was fabricated out of thin air, Zhuo San naturally couldn't find any grandmother's jade pendant on him, after a symbolic search, he backed away dissatisfied, and raised his hand politely: "I'm sorry for my mistake." Sorry, big brother!"

The other two snorted dissatisfiedly and left angrily.

As soon as they left, the spectators also dispersed. After Zhuo San made sure that they had gone far away, he walked over in a few strides: "Master, the thing is indeed on them."

Lu Chengfeng raised his eyes slightly, and took the lead: "Not one will be left behind."

The moon in the desert seems to be close in front of you, but it is far away in the sky.

The three of them entered a secluded place after making seven turns on the street.

Zhuo San whispered: "Master, judging by their appearance, it seems that they intend to go out of the crescent moon overnight, but there are only three of them, aren't they afraid of encountering wolves?"

Lu Chengfeng looked at it for a while and said, "There is only one possibility, someone will come to meet you."

Zhuo San paused, and said: "Then we have to rush to meet—"

"It's too late!" Lu Chengfeng said.

Zhuo San was puzzled, and Lu Chengfeng motioned him to look into the distance.

The black spot on the hill is rapidly approaching here.

Lu Chengfeng said indifferently: "The respondent is here."

The three of them changed their outfits and came out.

Lu Chengfeng stepped back and took a look, Zhuo San said: "Master, this is really difficult—"

Lu Chengfeng said kindly, thought for a moment, and said, "It's not difficult, anyway, they have to go out of the crescent moon, and it will take two days to get out of the desert, so they can make it in time."

Zhuo San thought that the enemy had more people and they were few, so he might suffer a loss if he confronted head-on, but it seemed that Lu Chengfeng meant to fight head-on, so he kept silent.

Lu Chengfeng turned around and said, "Come on, let's wait for them in front, besides the half-bend of the crescent moon, they still have a place they must pass through."

She got on the horse, and several guards who followed got on the horse one after another. Dong Jiu led the horse to Xie Jiuxiao: "My lord—"

Lu Chengfeng looked down at Xie Jiuxiao.

Zhuo San coughed lightly, and said, "Old Ninth, what are you doing, get on your horse!"

Dong Jiu didn't quite understand, so he glanced at Xie Jiuxiao, and seeing that he hadn't moved, he nodded and got on his horse knowingly.

Xie Jiuxiao climbed up slowly.

Lu Chengfeng didn't say a word, he flicked the rein, and the horse ran forward immediately.