Xiahou Yun uncovered the heavy curtain of the car sedan and looked back at Xu Du's towering city wall from a corner of the car curtain. He couldn't help but two lines of clear tears fell from his decorated flawless pretty face.

Outside Xudu City, the team who sent off the marriage had returned to the city. For this time, whether it was the emperor or the prominent magistrate in the court, they did not bother to care about this matter. The Cao family and the Xiahou family were just an insignificant distant relative, so they just rushed to take the car out of the city.

These are nothing to Xiahou Yun.

After so many years in Xiahou's mansion, she has become accustomed to those indifferent eyes. Now, even if there are too many dowry goods, it is just a bunch of unconscious things for her. Even if they are all added up, it is not as important as the maid Xiu'er who has been by her side.

The day before departure was on the 16th day of the first lunar month after the Lantern Festival. The Heavenly Officer chose the auspicious day five days ago. However, the sky on this auspicious day was covered by thick clouds, and there was almost no trace of sunshine.

Last night, Xiahou Yun stared at the lights at the bedside and couldn't sleep all night.

The car was rumbling, and in addition to the consort of Wang Xun, who was escorting himself to the south, he also had his cousin, Xiahou Heng. Now, they were leading this team of more than 100 people to send off their brides toward Xuzhou.

Regarding this southward route, Cao Cao decided long before deciding who was going to marry a bride. In order to preserve the true intentions of Nan and Yuzhang, the sending party will go east after leaving Xudu. First pass through Xiaopei and Xiapi in Xuzhou, where Liu Bei and Lu Bu's territory, and then turn south to Guangling, north of the Yangtze River. After a little rest, cross the river to Moling and Qua under Sun Ce's rule, and then head west to Yuzhang.

In general, the journey was relatively safe. After Lu Bu and Liu Bei fought with Cao Cao to fight against Yuan Shu, their relationship was quite acceptable. I believe that they would not do much. The prefect of Guangling Chen Dengsu and Cao Cao were kind to each other. It was he who tried his best to promote this alliance, so Guangling was undoubtedly very suitable as a place for rest and recuperation.

The only thing that is worrying is Sun Ce's attitude. With the wisdom of Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao and others, the interests hidden between Cao Cao and Gao Chong will not be seen. If he stops it, it is not impossible.

Fortunately, Cao Cao had a plan, and the consul Wang Zhijie followed the team south. When he arrived in Moling, the queen of Qu'a went straight to Wujun and conveyed to Sun Ce the new appointment of the court - the general who fought against rebellion and the Marquis of Wu.

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Xiahou Yun sighed. In the crowd that was just seeing Badi, who was only ten years old, his young body was squeezed among a group of adults. Although he struggled to move forward, he was always ruthlessly thrown behind. Through the gaps in the crowd, Xiahou Yun saw his shoulders trembling constantly.

Brother Ba——, although not his own brother, in Xiahou Yun’s heart, Xiahou Ba was the only relative he cared about in Xudu City.

"Brother Heng, I want to take a look at Xu Du again-." Xiahou Yun sighed lightly, passing through the curtain of the car.

"Stop!" Xiahou Heng, who was so arrogant, looked joyful. He felt indescribable happiness for this southbound trip. It was always a good thing to have the opportunity to go out for a walk, not to mention that this trip was much safer than going to war. If the journey went smoothly, after turning around Xu Du, his official position would no longer be a small captain.

Last night, Cao Tai, Cao Chun and other friends who usually shouted together to practice it for themselves. In their eyes, Xiahou Heng saw congratulations, envy, jealousy and sighs, and he actually got a different kind of satisfaction in his heart.

Humph, there is nothing we can do about this!

Xiahou Yun is his cousin, and this is something that others are jealous of, but they can’t take it away.

The car stopped, Xiahou Yun moved out of the car. Facing Xu Du's direction, she knelt on the ground, grabbed a handful of soil in her hand, and cried in confusion. This time she stayed away from her hometown, and for her, the chance to come back was almost impossible.

Silently, a loud and sad singing came from the farewell team:

Every move is repeated, and the wanderer never cares about returning;

Floating clouds cover the sky, and the sun fades across the west mountains.

I miss you and make you old, but the years suddenly become too late;

More than ten thousand miles apart, each one is at the end of the sky.

Just as the song was singing, the car was rumbling, carrying a woman's hope toward an unknown place. Xiahou Yun listened silently, for a moment, the loneliness, helplessness, rejection, and homesickness in the foreign land were like a cold current that was immersed in the body, invading her fragile heart at all times, horrifying her.

"Go!" After finally waiting for Xiahou Yun to turn around the car, Xiahou Heng shouted impatiently. The solemn atmosphere suddenly shook Xiahou Heng's good mood.

The marriage team traveled eastward, the women waiting to marry, the princes and ministers who were eager for merit, and the soldiers who were traveling far away, these scenes were beating frequently in Xiahou Yun's mind sitting in the car...

Xiahou Yun shook his head lightly, then slowly closed his eyes. Since he could not control his own destiny, please accept it calmly! In this complicated and troubled times, everyone is doing their best to survive, and everyone has to play a role that belongs to him.

"The Xuzhou border is ahead!" I don't know how long it took, but the accompanying guards whispered outside the car.

"I heard that the one who occupied Xuzhou now was the one who killed Dong Zhuo!" asked a young soldier.

"Scared---, not far ahead is Xiaopei City, and the one occupying the Yuzhou Governor Liu Bei, and Lu Bu is in Xia Pi, and is still far away?" said an old soldier who participated in Tao Qian's second expedition to the Eastern Expedition.

"No matter who he is, anyway, we are under the banner of the emperor. Except for the rebellious Yuan Dafei Pig in Huainan, what else do not dare to do to us?" The young soldier looked careless.

——.

The congressman Wang Wei stroked his hand with a graceful face, and his face was solemn. This was his second time to travel south. Compared with Xiahou Heng, who was traveling for the first time, he was familiar with the road. Wang Wei had some plans for how to deal with the various forces occupying the city along the way.

"Bo Quan, a few days ago, I heard from Liu Bei that there are Yugang in Xiliang here, so it is not advisable to stay for a long time. We should speed up and strive to reach Xiaopei before dark." Wang Huo owed and urged his horse to catch up with Xiahou Heng who was walking in front.

Xiahou Heng looked around, but saw that the weeds on both sides were half a person tall. The cold wind in early spring was bleak. Looking around, the grass and trees withered and the graves were winding, highlighting the infinite desolation.

"Go away quickly-." Xiahou Heng felt a stern, and he shouted loudly while urging him to get off the horse.

As if responding to his words, behind the hill not far away, a rapid sound of horse hooves sounded, mixed with the sound of killing in Xiliang accent.

Xiahou Heng's face suddenly changed and he shouted: "There are bandits - protect the car!"

Although Xiahou Heng came from a famous family, his ability to fight was limited compared to his father. When we met on a narrow road, the most urgent task was to occupy the favorable terrain as soon as possible. In this way, even if we were alone and unable to annihilate the enemy, the enemy would be unable to understand the details. In the current situation, Xiahou Heng should order to seize the mountain hills and face the enemy condescendingly.

If the enemy only protects the car and lets the enemy rush down from the hills, failure will inevitably be inevitable.

Most of the more than 100 soldiers were under the imperial guards, and most of them had not passed through the battle formation. After a long panic, they picked up weapons to protect the carriage in groups of three or three.

In a moment, under the horror of Xiahou Heng and others, countless black dots appeared at the end of the hill, and then the black dots became bigger and bigger. Finally, it was obvious that it was a large group of thieves wearing simple cowhide armored clothes with swords and guns. They shouted and rushed over like a ferocious god.

"Xiliang Guard--." Wang Wei saw clearly the banner of the bandits.

The people in front of him were the Yu Kou of Yang Feng, Han Xian. Yang Feng was originally the cavalry commander under Li Jue. In the winter of the second year of Xingping, when Guo Si turned against him, he took the emperor to the east to Luoyang. In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao led his army to welcome the emperor and defeated Yang Feng, Han Xian, and Yang Han then led the defeated army to Huainan and depended on Yuan Shu. Last year, they betrayed Yuan Shu and turned to Lu Bu. Lu Bu ordered the two to live in Yidu and Langya counties. Before Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shu, Yang Feng and Han Xian were killed by Liu Bei.

In a panic, the bandits were approaching. Before Xiahou Heng stepped forward, the soldiers who were the first to take the battle in front of the car were screaming. Although the military discipline of the Western Liang army was unbearable, they were used to fighting formations and their combat power was not comparable to those of the imperial guards under Xiahou Heng.

Xiahou Yun heard it in real life, shouting and killing, the sound of weapons and swords connected, the sound of running, and the sound of bandits gradually approaching, all heard her ears. Xiu'er, the little girl beside her, was so scared that her face turned pale, and she kept pulling her clothes, her hands trembling constantly.

"Miss, what should I do?" Xiu'er was so scared that her teeth were already fighting.

"Get out!" As the matter came, Xiahou Yun calmed down. Hearing the sound of fighting outside the curtain, most of the people who screamed were Xu Du accent. It was estimated that Xiahou Heng was not good at getting on the fight, and he couldn't last long. If he stayed in the car and didn't leave, he would inevitably fall into the hands of the bandits.

Xiahou Yun took out two clothes he usually wore from his luggage, then took off his eye-catching big infrared coat, and quietly got out of the car with Xiu'er, and fled into the weeds. At this moment, both sides were fighting tightly. In a panic, everyone was only concerned about saving their lives, and they were not even concerned about whether Xiahou Yun was still in the car sedan.

For a moment of disdain, the bandits gained the upper hand. They slashed around and turned over more than a dozen imperial guards guarding the car and sedan. In the chaos, Xiahou Heng saw that the momentum was not good, and he also lost his ambition to go forward to fight. He quickly ordered the soldiers to protect himself and Wang Jue to retreat.

The soldiers who were already frightened heard the order to retreat, spread their legs and fled backwards, and they didn't care about anything else. However, when they escaped, they left Xiahou Yun's carriage alone on the road.

"Wow, there are so many things, we're going to get rich now." The thief who opened the box outside the curtain exclaimed.

"What's this? I heard that the little lady in the car sedan is beautiful. Let's go and have a look!" A thief said in a lewd manner while using a knife to open the car curtain.

The curtain of the brocade car was cut off by a knife, but it was empty inside and there was no one there.

"Damn it, the little girl ran away and chased—." The bandit cut off the wooden beam of the car sedan chair with a knife and shouted.

Time passed so slowly, Xiahou Yun ran with his knees.

With my ears, the whistling sound of the wind passes by.

The sharp grass tip whipped on the face, whipping blood marks.

The carefully woven black hair is messy and scattered.

The clothes on his body were cut through the holes.

The slender soles of the feet have been ground into blisters.

"Miss, I won't run away----let the bandits catch me!" Xiu'er's knees softened and she sat down in the weeds and cried.

"What are you saying? Get up quickly-." Xiahou Yun held Xiu'er's hand hard.

In front, there are endless wild grasslands; behind, the weeds they have fallen down are slanted, guiding the pursuers.

In a vague manner, the Western Liang soldiers' shouts were getting closer and closer.

"Go away quickly-." Xiahou Yun's voice was already hoarse.

"Haha, the little lady is right in front, brothers, who will get on first!" The footsteps were already very close, and the despicable words were heard clearly.

Xiahou Yun held a sharp hairpin in his hand, and what would happen if she fell into the hands of the bandit? She could know without thinking about it. Instead of living, she would be better off before she could break it.

More than a dozen Xiliang bandits surrounded him. Xiahou Yun felt that their eyes were taking off their clothes one by one, but he could only face all the humiliation as if he was naked. Compared to the maid Xiu'er, she was lucky. She was so scared that she fainted.

"The great Han will be bright and bright in the world. If you are willing to be a bandit, you will not die well?" Xiahou Yun mustered up the courage and said proudly.

"Haha--. If you can die in the little lady's belly, you are a wind ghost, brothers?" a leading thief laughed wildly.

"You guys——, don't come here!" Xiahou Yun's face was pale, and his right hand tightly pressed his hairpin on his mind. As long as these bandits took another step forward, Xiahou Yun decided to defend his innocence by dying for his own mortality.

At this critical moment, I suddenly heard a shout like a thunderbolt: "Don't be crazy, your grandfather Zhang Fei is here!"

As the shouts came, a black shadow swept through the enemy surrounding him and suddenly came, and the iron spear was shining with cold light. The bandits who were fighting had already lay down. The bandits led to greet him with a knife stand, but in just one round, they were hit by the iron spear. Before he could come back to his senses, the iron spear had already followed the force of the touch and rushed into his throat in a flash.

"The pustules dare to be rampant!" said the man holding the spear contemptuously.

The remaining bandits died when they saw that the leader was not connected. They all lost their fighting spirit and quickly got into the grass and fled.

Xiahou Yun calmed down and looked at the man who saved him, but saw that he was about eight feet long, with a leopard head, a ringed eyes, a swallow chin and a tiger beard, and a black robe, holding a blood-dropped spear in his hand.

"Girl, with me, Zhang Jide here, no one can touch you!" The man grinned and said loudly when he saw Xiahou Yun looking at him.
Chapter completed!