The Taoist held his bamboo stick and walked from west to east.

The bay-red horse carried the luggage and followed silently.

The little girl next to him also held a bamboo stick, which was much thinner than the one in the Taoist's hand.

The little girl held up a bamboo stick and trotted forward. There was a thin straw rope tied to the bamboo stick, and a small piece of white cloth tied to the straw rope, about the size of a cat's paw. As she ran, the wind blew

The white piece of cloth on the rope blew up, shaking and spinning, as if it was not a piece of cloth but a butterfly.

The butterflies on the grassland were stupid, as if they really thought they were butterflies, so they followed the white cloth and quickly formed a long row behind the white cloth.

The little girl ran with a stick, causing pieces of cloth to fly.

Followed by a long series of butterflies, arranged neatly.

When she has run far away, she will circle around the grassland, run back, then go around behind the Taoist and the bay red horse, and continue forward.

As if tireless.

"Taoist, look!"

"Um."

"More and more!"

"sharp."

"..."

Not only was she tireless, but she also seemed unable to smile. All she could see was that her eyes were extremely bright, full of novelty, and her voice was crisper.

Holding the bamboo stick like this, he ran back and forth.

The Taoist glanced at her from time to time.

The picture seems very beautiful.

Others would never imagine that this is the border between Dayan and Saibei Grassland, which are often contested today. Both parties often travel frequently on this grassland, spying on each other, and sometimes encountering each other is unavoidable.

A fight.

After a long time, the little girl seemed to be tired from running, so she slowed down her steps and waved her bamboo stick around her body to ensure that the cloth pieces flew so that the butterflies continued to follow.

But I saw her quickly reaching out and grabbing it.

"brush!"

Catch a small butterfly easily.

Before the Taoist could look away, he saw her put her hand to her mouth.

"..."

Only then did the Taoist look away and look into the distance.

"Well?"

Just as Sanhua Empress was about to reach out and choose another lucky little butterfly as her self-service snack, she stopped and turned her head to look into the distance.

There is the faint sound of horse hooves behind the hill.

Not long after, several figures appeared on the hilltop in the distance.

They are all big men from the prairie. Their clothing styles are very different from Dayan's. They have no armor and only carry scimitars and bows and arrows. They go into battle lightly. I also saw two people and one horse here.

They looked at each other and headed this way.

"thorough!"

A few shouts.

Song You only took one look and knew that they were the waiting knights from Saibei. They had the same configuration as Dayan, and they were in a group of ten.

As expected, before the group of waiting riders approached, there was a shout.

It's an incomprehensible language.

Perhaps they saw that Song You was handsome, wearing Taoist robes, carrying no weapons, and bringing a little girl with him. They did not seem to be a threat, and they did not immediately show strong hostility and murderous intent. However, according to Song You's walking on the border these days,

Judging from his experience, most of the opponents will not let him go easily. Even if they don't kill him on the spot, they will take him back or let him go with them.

So the Taoist turned his head to face them, unhurriedly, and waited for them to come closer before saying calmly:

"Everyone, please come back."

"Xilulu..."

The horses under Saibei Hou's saddle suddenly raised their heads and neighed, stopped one after another, and refused to listen to the people on the horses no matter how hard they beat them. Then they all turned around and ran back and forth.

The cavalrymen were so frightened and angry that they bent their horses' necks, and the horses under them did not stop.

In the end, this group of people came from a distant hilltop and disappeared again.

"That's awesome, Taoist priest~"

Empress Sanhua's voice was soft and thin, but she imitated the tone of Wu Nuxia from Changjing, holding up her bamboo stick and turning her head to stare at the Taoist.

"Want to learn?"

"Will our horses listen to me after learning how to do it?"

"Now that Sanhua Empress is talking to it, won't it listen to Sanhua Empress?"

"Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don't."

"Then it is just like Sanhua Empress, it has its own ideas."

"What if I learn this spell?"

"Sanhua Empress cannot use magic to make her friends obey."

"Then I won't learn anymore."

The little girl then retracted her gaze and continued to look at the piece of white cloth attached to her little bamboo stick. However, it was only then that she realized that she had been looking too seriously at the group of people just now and forgot to move the bamboo stick. The butterfly that had been tricked came over

After discovering that the butterflies tied to the bamboo stick were dead, they all flew away.

"..."

The little girl was not discouraged and continued running with her bamboo stick.

The Taoist also took steps and continued walking eastward.

There seems to be a military fortress of Dayan here called Zhaoye City.

It's quite famous.

When Song You was in Yidu, he heard its name from the storyteller. It was one of the five towns in the north of Dayan Town, and it was also the farthest military town in the north from Changjing. There were quite a few legends that attracted Dayan.

The literati and common people talked about it. However, the storyteller did not know its specific location. He only knew that it was in the north. However, he heard about its general location after arriving at the Doda Grassland.

However, the grassland is so large that Song You had neither a map nor a guide, so it seemed not easy to find it.

It's possible that we missed it because we were separated by a hill.

Slowly passed from afternoon to night.

The sky is full of stars and the sea is as vast as a grassland.

Sanhua Empress still went to collect firewood and lit a bonfire in the mountains.

The Taoist boiled a pot of water, took out the beef jerky, and added the hare caught by Empress Sanhua to make tonight's dinner.

It's just that the long night doesn't stop.

I don't know which party was wandering on the grassland at night. Maybe they saw a fire here, so they came quietly to investigate. Before they got close, they were spotted by the alert calico cat. When they saw the fire, they were spotted by the vigilant calico cat.

The person sitting there was a Taoist priest, so he sent one person over on horseback, and the rest held bows and crossbows to keep vigil at night.

"who?"

What came from the darkness was a familiar language.

One person and one rider, they approached slowly, facing the starry sky, and gradually walked into the light of the fire from the dark night.

He is a strong man with a spear and a bow and arrow.

The Taoist still sat facing the fire, holding a piece of air-dried beef in his right hand and a bowl of boiling water in his left hand. He turned to look at the visitor.

After they understood the language, the Taoist did not use magic to invite them back, but said: "My surname is Song, and I am a native of Lingquan County, Yizhou. I traveled down the mountain and traveled to the north. Please don't embarrass me, the captain."

"..."

The cavalryman approached and took a closer look. His eyes swept over the Taoist, the calico cat next to the fire, and the bay-red horse lying nearby.

"Mr. Song You Song?"

"Um?"

Song You turned to look at him: "The captain also knows, do you?"

"Nature knows!"

The cavalryman immediately turned around and shouted behind him:
To be continued...