After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

[Save people? Save whom?]

[Since the young lady knows about my romantic affairs, besides Fan Su, there is another person who must be mentioned, and that is Xiao Man. ]

[Oh, I know this, the cherry-like mouth and the willow-like waist. ]

[I remember you wrote a lot of articles for the two beauties, especially Sister Fan Su. There was a prostitute named Fan Su who was over 20 years old, had a graceful singing and dancing style, and was good at singing "Yangzhi". Many people named her after the song, and she became famous in Luoxia.]

[Hahaha, oh my, I didn't expect that Miss Shen actually knew this. Yes, this is the preface I wrote in "Cannot Forget Love Poem". Of course, you and I have already concluded the matter of Fan Su. Today's protagonist is the one called Xiao Man.]

[More than ten years ago, I was seriously ill and thought I didn’t have much time left, so I sent my beloved horse and Fan Su, Xiao Man and others away. But Fan Su was stubborn and kept coming back. I had no choice but to keep her in the mansion.]

[Xiao Man and the others followed my wishes and went to make their own living, but not long ago, Xiao Man suddenly sent a message from the Western Regions.]

[She said that she was abducted by the Huihe people from the border to the Western Regions several years ago. Although she managed to escape later, she was trapped in the Western Regions and could not return. She hoped that I would send someone to rescue her from the Western Regions for the sake of our master-servant relationship.]

[If Hexi was still in the hands of the imperial court, asking someone to bring her back would only require a letter to me, but the imperial court has lost the Hexi area for some time.]

[Although our army has won victory after victory on the western front recently, it will take some time to completely recapture the Hexi area, but Xiaoman can't wait. ]

[If possible, I would like to personally perform a heroic rescue scene, but you have all seen that with my current physical condition, it is unlikely that I can accomplish this feat.]

So you thought of us?

[Yes, I think you have such ability. The current Tang Dynasty is called a country, but there are countless warlords and countries within countries.]

[Without an official position, it would be impossible to travel from Guanzhong to Jiangnan and then from Jiangnan to Henan and Hedong in such a short time without some skills.]

[Oh? Old sir, you have a good eye. Yes, it is not difficult for us to go to the Western Regions. But, what do you plan to use to drive us? You know, even for us, it will cost a lot to go to the Western Regions.]

[Yes, indeed, I have neglected this aspect. What does the young lady want? Gold, silver, and jewelry?]

【unnecessary. 】

[Status?]

【Not useful.】

[Is that a beautiful singing girl? Or a Kunlun slave?]

[Hahaha, do you think I am someone who likes this? ]

[Uh, hahaha, that's right, then what do you want? I'll put this down here, as long as I can give it to you, you can have whatever you want.]

[Hahaha, everyone says that you only favor Sister Fan Su. Now it seems that Xiao Man is no less favored. Sister Fan Su, Sister Fan Su, you won't be jealous, right?]

[Haha, Miss Shen is joking. Fan Su and Xiao Man are childhood sweethearts and have grown up together. Naturally, she hopes that she is safe and sound. As the master said, if it is something we have, you can just ask for it.]

[Hmm, that's it. Let me think about it. How about this, Mr. Bai find me a Kaiyuan Tongbao coin newly minted in the fifth year of Huichang? It must be the first coin from the first furnace in that batch of coins.]

[But…but it’s not even the fifth year of Huichang yet? Where do you want me to find it for you now? ]

[It's okay. We'll come back to get it after we complete the mission. It will take a year or two to go back and forth, which is enough time for you to prepare the reward.]

[Oh, that's no problem. Miss, you only need one, right? I can also scrape together hundreds of thousands of strings of cash.]

[No need. There are three thousand rivers, but I only take one scoop. There are ten thousand strings of silver, but I only take one coin.]

【Good! 】

[Okay, now that we have finished discussing this, it is a rare opportunity for you to come here, so why don’t you have a drink with me before leaving? Huanyan! Go get some wine, I want to drink with Mr. Bai today, and I won’t leave until I am drunk!]

[By the way, Sister Fan Su, please sing Mr. Bai’s “Cannot Forget Love” to let us hear how sentimental Mr. Bai was back then.]

【promise.】

[Humph, all you guys do is dig up the old man's dark history. What goes around, the heavens won't spare anyone. Sooner or later, you will have this day too.]

[Yes, yes, we will be punished, but you don't have to worry about it. Sister Fan Su, don't worry about it. Just sing your song.]

[Luoluo, please don't neigh, Susu, please don't cry; Luo returns to the stable, Su returns to the boudoir. Although I am ill and old, I am fortunately not as old as Xiang Ji, so why should I abandon Zhui Xi and leave Yu Ji in one day! Look at Su Xi and Su Xi! Sing for me the willow branches. Let me drink that golden wine.

, I will go back to the land of drunkenness with you. 】

Translation: Horse, please stop bleating, Susu, please stop crying, the horse wants to return to the circle, Susu wants to go home. Although I am old and sick and have to leave you, it is still better than when Xiang Yu said goodbye to Yu Ji in front of the black horse. Susu, please sing me another song of Yangliuzhi, I want to get drunk.

Although they wanted to get drunk, but considering the old man's health, in the end everyone just listened to some songs and drank two glasses of fruit wine. As it was still early, Bai Juyi had no plans to stay overnight in the mountains.

So after seeing off Bai Juyi and Fan Su, everyone began to plan their journey to the Western Regions.

Although Shen Yuelan agreed very readily at the time, when it came to putting it into practice, this trip was not so easy to accomplish. The first problem they had to solve when going to the Western Regions was how to cross the war-torn areas, uninhabited areas and the pastures of the Uighur tribe.

[If you ask me, there's nothing to discuss. We can just hide in a corner during the day and fly over there at night. We can't really walk over there step by step.]

[If that were to happen, not to mention whether Xiao Man would be able to survive, even Mr. Bai in Luoyang would not be able to endure it. He would only be able to live until the sixth year of Huichang, right?]

[Indeed, Zhiwei is right. Special cases require special treatment. After we rescue Xiaoman, she will most likely be taken away together with Fansu.]

【We may be able to take a more positive attitude towards our future companions to complete this rescue mission. 】

Chapter 322: Late Tang Anxi

[Then, the route starts from Fengxiang Prefecture, the actual border of the Tang Dynasty, and after entering the Tubo territory, go north along Lanzhou and Liangzhou, then go west along Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, Yizhou, and Xizhou to enter Anxi (Western Regions). ]

[Yes, although the question of how to go has been decided, but my lord, the one called Xiao Man did not mention in the letter that she was trapped in that city. Anxi (Western Region) is so big, where should we go to find her? ]

[Well, it doesn't matter. Although the Anxi (Western Region) area is large, there are only a few places that can be inhabited now, such as Qiuci, Yanqi, Shule, and Yutian. At worst, we can just visit them all.]

[Well, Master, although there are not many places, the distances between them are far and wide. For example, Khotan is isolated in the south of the desert, with no village in front and no shop behind. We have to go around a lot to get there.]

[Yeah, that's right. Then what do you think is the possibility that Xiao Man was abducted to a certain place? ]

[It shouldn't be possible, right? If she had the ability to send a letter to the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't she have just come back by herself? ]

[That's true. Well, since we can't be sure, we can only go through them one by one. We should leave as soon as possible. ]

【No】×3

Although she already knew that this trip would not be smooth, Shen Yuelan did not expect it to be so bad.

Although they successfully passed through the border of Fengxiang Prefecture and entered the Longyou area under the control of Tubo, they were forced to be involved in the melee among the Tubo commanders in northeastern China.

The war began in 843 AD, the third year of Huichang, when the Tibetan border general Lun Kongre led an army of to attack Shanzhou (Ledu, Qinghai), which was also under the jurisdiction of Tibetans.

Afterwards, all the Tibetan border generals in Hexi and Longyou were involved in this melee, which lasted for more than 866 years. The war gradually subsided until AD, when Lun Kongre was killed by Tuoba Huaiguang.

Shen Yuelan and others took great pains to escape from the main battlefield in Longyou area, but they encountered a riot launched by Tibetan slaves in Hexi area. This riot was one of the two major uprisings that overthrew the Tibetan Dynasty.

The other uprising mentioned here was a slave civilian riot that occurred directly in the Tubo headquarters twenty years later. This great uprising broke out in the eastern part of Tubo, and then quickly spread to the entire territory of Tubo, directly destroying the once powerful Tubo Dynasty.

[Tsk, what bad luck! No wonder that old man didn't send someone over himself. It's so chaotic here, how could he possibly rescue anyone?]

[Master, think positively. The chaos in Tibet means that life in the Tang Dynasty will be better. The Tibetan war was also the fuse for the Shazhou uprising a few years later.]

[That's true. Sigh, we should try not to come into contact with people in the wild. Last time in Shanzhou, just because we had fair skin, the local rioting slaves mistook us for Tibetan nobles. I was almost chopped by that guy.]

[That slave is ignorant. Which Tibetan has skin color like ours? Even the most prominent Tibetan noble girls have to have a healthy wheat color.]

[That's right, that's right. It's just a dynasty that rose briefly after the Little Ice Age ended. What's so great about it?]

[Hahaha, Zhiwei, are you still fighting with that slave girl? ]

[Of course, that guy was obviously a low-level slave, an object of exploitation by the feudal aristocracy. We said that Tubo was wrong, so why did she defend him? She was obviously a member of the rebel army. ]

[This shows that she was against the ruling class that exploited her, not the country of Tubo, although from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, we somewhat look down on Tubo.]

[But it is undeniable that it also created a relatively brilliant culture, even if this splendor was built on the corpses of countless serfs. ]

[Tsk, that girl is a rational person, but the reason why I failed to win the debate with her is that I lack knowledge of Tang Dynasty history.]

[I never thought that such a powerful dynasty would lose a large area like Longxi in the middle and late stages. It's no wonder that a slave can be so arrogant and look down on us.]

[Yes, so it can be said that Zhang Yichao made great contributions. He controlled Yiwu in the west and Lingwu in the east. He gained a land of more than 4,000 miles, a population of one million, and six counties and mountains and rivers. He returned with all his might. He was truly a hero.]

[You probably don't have any accurate concept of the Guasha Eleven Prefectures, which almost covers the entire Gansu, Ningxia, northeastern Qinghai, northwestern Xinjiang, and eastern Inner Mongolia.]

[There is a poem that goes like this: Hexi has been in decline for more than a hundred years, the road to Xiaoguan is blocked and the news of wild geese is rare. Thanks to the general, he opened the way back and made his heroic name known to the world.]

[Hey, now that I think about it, I really want to meet this great hero. ]

[It's not impossible. This person is from a wealthy family in Shazhou and has spent most of his life in Shazhou City. We are now in Suzhou, and the next stop is Guazhou. Guazhou and Shazhou are quite close, so we can take some time to go meet him.]

[Great, let’s go meet Zhang Yichao! ]

However, having said that, Zhang Yichao, as the leader of the Shazhou nobles, is not someone that common people like Shen Yuelan can meet just by asking. Local tyrants can sometimes be much more imposing than real emperors.

The journey from Suzhou to Guasha Prefectures is actually to move westward along the Qilian Mountains-Daxue Mountains. The mountains block the sunlight, so Shen Yuelan and others didn't feel it was very hot.

[Hehe, enjoy your last good days. After passing Shazhou, continue westward. There is nothing but Gobi Desert. Just go ahead and walk without making a sound.]

[Eh? Why is this happening? No, I want to continue being your leg pendant! 】

[Uh, Master, don't scare them. Even if we leave the Qilian Mountains, the Yizhou-Xizhou route we chose can still continue westward along the Tianshan Mountains until we reach Yanqi. It won't be difficult to travel.]

[But then, we will be walking on the south slope, so it will still be very sunny, right? ]

【Then you can climb higher. The higher the altitude, the cooler it will be. 】

【whispering sound! 】

[Stop complaining, we are about to reach Guazhou City, let's hurry into the city, if we are late, we will have to spend the night in the wild.]

[Just live through it, it's not like you haven't lived here before. 】

[Master, you still have the nerve to say that! Last time in Ganzhou, if you hadn't been disobedient and insisted on catching that sand cat, would we have been frozen in the desert all night? ]

[But, that cat is very special. It is a sand cat, but it appeared in the Western Regions. Don’t you think this is amazing? In later times, its population was only distributed in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Iran and other places.]

[What's so strange about this? It's a common phenomenon for a special individual to appear in a habitat that doesn't belong to it. If it survives, then its group can reproduce here, otherwise it won't. This is the law of survival of the fittest.]

[If an entire tribe suddenly appeared in a place where they shouldn't be, that would be weird. Something must have happened.]

【For example, the parallel imports we see in front of us? 】

[Yes, just like the parallel imports we see in front of us, huh? What parallel imports? ]

Shen Huanyan turned around and was suddenly surprised to find that the originally golden desert in front of them was suddenly swallowed up by an endless torrent, and was attacking them with an increasingly fierce momentum.

[What a bullshit! That's meltwater from the mountains! We've walked into someone else's river, run!]

【Eh! !】×3

The people who had been chased by the flood all the way entered Guazhou City in a rather embarrassing state. They were laughed at several times on the way to find an inn.

The reason why they were ridiculed was very simple. The kind of flood they had just encountered was often seen in Guazhou during the spring and summer, but Shen Yuelan and her friends were the first to survive the first time they were hit.

[Oh, what bad luck! How did we end up on the riverbed? ]

[Well, maybe it's because the water leveled the place so we mistook it for an official road repaired by the imperial court.]

[Ah, that's a bit stupid. How could the Tibetans build roads?]

[By the way, Huanyan, are there any fun places in Guazhou? ]

[Well, there is nothing too interesting. We have just experienced the most interesting ones. As for the others, I think the Water Moon Guanyin mural that the host will be interested in will not be available until after the Western Xia Dynasty. It has not been painted yet.]

[So, I suggest that we take a night's rest and then set off for Shazhou early tomorrow morning. At least we won't be laughed at there.]

[Well, since there is nothing, forget it. There is no problem leaving tomorrow, but woman, you have successfully aroused my interest. Please tell me more about this mural of Water Moon Guanyin.]

[Uh, stop joking. I'll tell you what I'm saying. Go to bed early after that.]

【Uh-huh. 】

[The Water Moon Guanyin is located in the second of the East Thousand Buddha Caves in Guazhou. It was excavated during the Western Xia Dynasty. It is said that at the back of the cave, on the north and south walls of the central tower column, there is a Guanyin under a tree in ancient Indian costume.]

[The two Guanyin statues under the tree have beautiful figures and are wearing miniskirts that expose the belly. There are traces of stockings on their legs, which is almost unique in later generations.]

[Facing south in the cave is the Bodhi Tree Guanyin, who has a slender and tall figure, twisted in an S shape; her eyebrows are curved, her lips are thin and she has a slight smile on her face. She wears a polo crown on her head, a blue short-sleeved tight top, a white tight skirt, her lower abdomen is exposed, and fine diamond patterns can be vaguely seen on her long legs, which are thought to be stockings.

To the north is the Sala tree Guanyin, with her legs crossed as if walking, wearing a green short coat and a white short skirt, with diamond-shaped patterns on her legs, and her buttocks leaning against the Sala tree that is leaning against her. The Sala tree is in full bloom and has lush branches and leaves. Her right arm is raised, bent towards her head, lightly holding a Sala branch, and her left arm is hanging down, holding a pure bottle with the mouth facing down, pouring nectar.

[Oh my god, that sounds really good. They must be drawn really nicely, right?]

[Well, it's not pretty, at least not in line with my aesthetics, because the painting style has an Indian style, so Guanyin's skin color is also the South Asian style of black and brown, which doesn't look very comfortable. I can only say that the dressing style is unique. ]

[Tsk, this is so boring. Okay, okay, let’s go to bed early after washing up. We still have to travel tomorrow.]

【Hello!】

Chapter 323: Shazhou Dunhuang

Although it was summer, the huge temperature difference between day and night in the desert made the early morning of the next day particularly chilly. Shen Huanyan breathed out and struggled to get up from the warm and comfortable bed, preparing to pack up and fulfill yesterday's promise.

But Shen Yuelan next to her didn't seem to think so. No matter how Shen Huanyan teased her, she looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, and she stayed in the quilt and refused to come out.