Third Prime Minister Zuo arranged the five carriages belonging to Ju Wenli and his family behind his own car, and sent his own soldiers to protect them.

Ju Wenli talked to Zuo Sanxiang every day and asked many questions about the Central Plains. Zuo Sanxiang patiently answered and explained everything.

For Zuo Sanxiang, there is no longer any military affairs involved in leading troops to fight along the way. It is also a good thing to have a little girl pestering him all day long, otherwise Zuo Sanxiang would really be bored to death.

After Liu Jingchuan sobered up, the first thing he did was to count everyone's kettles, dry food, and supplies in the car.

"Commander Zuo is also too arrogant. He didn't wait for me to wake up and take stock of the supplies before setting out on the road. If we ran out of water or food along the way, it would be troublesome! It's my fault for being greedy!"

"Lao Liu, don't worry, we have enough supplies this time. By the way, we can pick as many wild vegetables as we can along the way. Anyway, save on eating and drinking. When we get to Yumen Pass, we won't be afraid anymore!"

"Commander Zuo, please be careful. There are still thousands of miles to go on this journey! Most of them are in uninhabited places. You can't be careful!"

"Haha, they say I'm cautious, but in fact it's me who's cautious, it's Lao Liu who's cautious! If it weren't for you, the food and grass thing in the past two years would have been enough for me to drink a pot!"

Liu Jingchuan waved his hand, "I'm ashamed. If I were really cautious, I wouldn't have gotten drunk every day! If there was a war, something would definitely go wrong!"

"It is precisely because we are no longer fighting. It is rare to indulge once in a while. Humanity has a certain degree of relaxation. If you tighten your heart and face every day to do things, you will collapse!"

"I've never seen you drunk, but why are you so tense all the time? Then you have to find a way to relax!"

Zuo Sanxiang smiled and shook his head, "I'm actually relaxing too, but it's just different from yours. Haven't I been working as a teacher these days? This is how I relax!"

"That's right, Tong Yanwuji, chatting with a teenage girl, teaching her how to read and recognize flowers and stargazing, it's more relaxing than when we drink. At least you don't have to worry about others getting you drunk first!"

"You defended yourself over and over again, but in the end you were all knocked down. You might as well not defend yourself. Just drink as much as you want when I asked you to drink. Why bother arguing? You pushed me around and spilled half of the glass of wine, but you said nothing.

He said thousands of words, and then drank them down like he was trying to persuade people to take medicine. I was so frightened just looking at him!"

"To put it bluntly, you are a naughty drunk. After three drinks, you made an excuse to go to the toilet to hide! Zuo Shuai is a first-class man in battle, but when he drinks, he is like a little wife, and he behaves like a wife! It's really boring to drink with you.

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"Uncle Zuo, Uncle Liu, do you still want to drink?"

Ju Wenli came out of nowhere and asked the two grown men with a confused look on her face.

"Haha, you little elf, why are you eavesdropping on our conversation?"

"I'm not eavesdropping. It's broad daylight. You're talking here. The sun in the sky and the sand on the ground are witnessing you. How can you be eavesdropping?" Ju Wenli said very seriously.

Liu Jingchuan couldn't help but squat down, "Ju Wenli, you are really smart. No wonder Zuo Shuai wants to chat with you. It seems that chatting with you is much more interesting than drinking!"

"Uncle Liu, drinking is not good. If you drink again in the future, I won't talk to you!"

"Haha, you are taking care of me now, okay, uncle, I won't drink until I get to Yumen Pass!"

"I don't believe it. There are still thousands of miles to go, so I don't believe you can bear to stop drinking. Wenli, Uncle Zuo will supervise your Uncle Liu every night from now on. I'm afraid he will get up in the middle of the night and drink secretly!"

"At night, the stars and the moon will bear witness. Those who lie will have their ears cut off! If Uncle Liu drinks secretly and keeps his words, the moon will come and cut off his ears!"

Zuo Sanxiang and Liu Jingchuan burst out laughing, "Okay, okay, then we'll wait for the moon to cut off his ears!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Liu, I will definitely keep my word! I won't let the moon cut off my ears!"

During the half-year journey from Gaochang to Yumen Pass, Liu Jing falsified that he had not touched a single drop of wine. In fact, it was not just for this promise. The main reason was that Liu Jing had to rely on Liu Jing to take care of all matters such as meals and medical treatment during the march.

Don't dare to let yourself drink and cause trouble.

The wind, snow, sandstorms and wild wolf snakes along the way were not able to stop Zuo Sanxiang's troops returning to court. Compared with when they came, the Loulan people, Huolong people, and Di people who used to come out to rob this road from time to time were all.

Gone.

We encountered several caravans on the road, but they were all funded by aristocratic families. Third Prime Minister Zuo asked about them one by one, but he never saw Hu Xiya's caravan.

When there were still five hundred miles away from Yumen Pass, Zuo Sanxiang was surprised to find that a post station was also being built here.

Seeing Zuo Sanxiang's team, the leading supervisor immediately stopped to greet them. Seeing that the team was also carrying the banner of Daliang, the supervisor probably knew what was going on, so he smiled and said, "I dare you to ask if you are from Liu Dadu Protector."

Are you from the army?"

"Exactly, I am Zuo Sanxiang, and this is Liu Jingchuan. We have been ordered to return to the court. Are you building a post station here?"

"Yo yo yo, it turns out to be the famous Marshal Zuo. I'm so disrespectful! The younger one is Hong Da, the supervisor who built the inn. I want to pay my respects to Marshal Zuo! Brothers, come and greet Marshal Zuo!"

"Please get up quickly, please get up. You are all serving the country. Thank you for your hard work. Was the construction of the post station arranged by Yumen Pass, or was it an imperial edict?"

"This is an order from the imperial court. It is said that in order to connect the Western Regions, a post station must be built every five hundred miles, and horses and food must be prepared for the movement of the army, caravans and messengers! We are the first group to set off. After we build this

After Changheyi, the second and third groups of people will arrive

It's over! If Commander Zuo arrives a few days late, he can rest at our Changhe Station! It's not finished yet, so please forgive your laziness!"

Third Prime Minister Zuo looked at the inn under construction and nodded, "Very good, the imperial court made a wise decision, and you have done a great job! We will camp and rest near your tent!"

"Please also ask Mr. Zuo and Mr. Liu to point out the little ones and see if there is anything wrong!" Hongda bent over and made a gesture of invitation with a smile.

Hong Da originally meant the words in a polite way, but he didn't expect that Zuo Sanxiang and Liu Jingchuan had personally supervised the construction of the inn. This revealed the problem.

"Honda, why are there no aquatic plants in that puddle?"

Hongda looked in the direction pointed by the left third phase. It was a puddle he had led people to clean up in the past few days, and several wells were drilled next to it.

"Commander Zuo, it's like this. There are too many aquatic plants in the puddle and it looks dirty, so I took someone to clean it up for a few days before removing all the aquatic plants!"

Liu Jingchuan was a little anxious, "Where do you put the water plants that you picked up?"

Hongda looked at Liu Jingchuan in surprise, "Back to Mr. Liu, we have piled these water plants in the camp to be dried and used as fodder. The little ones don't dare to waste them! I don't know what's wrong with the little ones doing this? Please also ask Liu

Sir, show me!"

"What a big mistake! Hurry up and take people to get the aquatic plants back into the puddles. If you are late, it will be too late!"

"Mr. Liu, why is this? Finally, the water is a little cleaner. Is this?"

Zuo Sanxiang patted Hong Da on the shoulder, "Hurry up and do what Mr. Liu said. If it's too late, this post station will be useless. There will be no water here in the future, and a post station will be useless!"

Hongda still doesn’t understand, “How can there be no water when there are no water plants? I really don’t understand!”

"You, do you know that this water plant blocks the sun and protects the water hidden under the water plant? Every night, the dew condensed on the leaf tips of the water plant will drip into the puddle, which is why this puddle is inside

Water. If you remove the aquatic plants now, the puddle will dry up in less than a month. Where do you think this water will come from in the future?"

Zuo Sanxiang pointed to the puddle again: "Hongda, go and see if the water in the puddle is less than the previous few days! You go and see first! We always convince people with reason!"

Hongda immediately ran to the puddle with three people, and then came back dejectedly, "Commander Zuo, Mr. Liu, I was wrong. Brothers, hurry up and take the water plants back and put them into the water! Be quick! Don't take any water plants."

Stay in the camp and send them all back to the puddle!"

Looking at Hong Da who was covered in dirt and waiting for a group of people, Liu Jingchuan took out the four bottles of wine he had saved and said, "Hong Da, this is the wine we brought from Gaochang. Take it and share it with the brothers!"

Hongda didn't dare to come over, so Sanxiang Zuo waved to him, "Don't you dare to drink the wine given by Master Liu? We all see that you and your brothers have worked so hard, and these four bottles of wine are just to comfort you! Hurry up!

Go get it and share it with your brothers!"

After Zuo Sanxiang spoke, Hongda wiped his hands on himself before going to get the wine back.

After leaving Changheyi, we walked for more than twenty days and arrived at Yumen Pass. Du Cun, the guard of Yumen Pass, led his people out of the city to greet him.

This Du Cun was a descendant of the Jingzhao Du family and a member of a well-known family. However, he was already a commoner when he was born. He relied on fighting in the army to eventually become a general. The Third Prime Minister Zuo also valued him particularly.

"Brother Du is so polite, Zuo deserves it!"

"Brother Zuo has made great achievements in the Western Regions. Why can't he still let me, Du, come out of the city to greet me? Do you look down on Du? Hahahahaha."

"You and I don't have to be so polite. Brother Du, is there corn porridge in Guancheng? Zuo has been eating dried meat cakes for more than half a year, and he really doesn't want to eat it anymore!"

Du Cun looked at the dark-skinned Zuo Sanxiang and said, "Oh, there is meat and big cakes to eat here. I am envious of it. There are many merchants coming and going in Guan City. Corn is indispensable. There is rice! You want to drink porridge?"

, Lao Du will take care of you! Share some of your dried meat and flatbreads with me!"

"I heard that people who eat rice porridge grow as white as snow! I want to eat rice porridge too!"

Ju Wenli also got out of the car and ran to Zuo Sanxiang.

When Du Cun saw Ju Wenli, he immediately laughed evilly, "You are a Zuo Sanxiang. Your daughter is so old. No wonder you fought with all your life to fight in the Western Regions. It turns out that you have a love story in the Western Regions! You are indeed a romantic and talented man!"

"Brother Du, be careful, this is Ju Wenli, a member of the Gaochang royal family, not the daughter of someone from Zuo. This time she came with us to go to Hajj to see the emperor!"

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, I, Old Du, said the wrong thing. Okay, okay, I will drink three drinks as a penalty tonight!"

"Lao Du, I won't be fooled by you. I have Mr. Liu to accompany you when it comes to drinking! It's fine as long as I mean it!"

After only staying at Yumen Pass for three days, Zuo Sanxiang and others set off again. This time they no longer needed to worry about supplies along the way.

But there is something else to worry about. If the remaining members of Yu Wanli return to the Central Plains, someone will definitely come to seek revenge on Zuo Sanxiang along the way. Moreover, the Yu family will most likely hire assassins in private to come for revenge.

However, Zuo Sanxiang only expressed this concern to Liu Jingchuan and thirty of his own soldiers. Zuo Sanxiang suggested that he and his soldiers should go ahead with great fanfare under a banner, leaving Liu Jingchuan and Ju Wenli three days away from Zuo Sanxiang.

distance to prevent Liu Jingchuan and Ju Wenli's family from being accidentally injured.

"I, Lao Liu, know what you mean, but when have we been separated? It's true that you are thinking about us, but why can't we share and face it together? And have you ever thought about it, what if the assassin takes us as hostages?

Stayed, arrived

What will you do? Since there is a big fanfare, we will use the banner of the Gaochang envoy who is returning to Hajj to see the Gaochang envoy. I hope they will not dare to attack the Gaochang envoy's motorcade! Since there is a big fanfare, we will first send people to report to the counties along the way.

Make it known to everyone, and there will be crowds of people on the road. Even if they want to take action, they will have to be careful!"

Zuo Sanxiang looked around Liu Jingchuan for a while, "Old Liu, it is really an honor for me to work with a hero like you, but we can't let Ju Wenli's family take this risk with me!"

"Since they have chosen this path, they must go on. If you choose to take them back to the Central Plains, you should think of everything that may happen, instead of facing it alone when danger comes!"

Zuo Sanxiang was pacing back and forth, and Liu Jingchuan was anxious: "Old Zuo, this is not your style! It seems that you really regard Ju Wenli as your daughter. I have never seen you act so messy like today!"
To be continued...