An Tong, who was riding a camel and had been following Liu Yu, laughed: "If it hadn't been for the war in the Central Plains, I'm afraid your brother Canglang and my beloved sister wouldn't have come to our grassland. It's just that I'm a little strange.
, why are you unwilling to go directly to see Tuoba Gui?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "Because I want to stay aside first and use my own eyes to observe what kind of person Tuoba Gui is, and then decide whether to help him and how to help him."
An Tong was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "Can I still not help him?"
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "If this person is an uncontrollable evil wolf, maybe I will get rid of him myself!"
As he spoke, he galloped away, and Murong Lan followed with a smile. An Tong was left standing there expressionlessly, looking at their retreating figures with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
A guard from the business group came over and whispered: "Commander, do you want to go to Danghu's place now to settle down for the two of them?"
An Tong shook his head: "Let him see for himself first and then make a decision. Our friend doesn't like to follow the path arranged by others, can't you see?"
Liu Yu and Murong Lan rode horses and walked to a circle of tents. They had long discovered that although many herdsmen here wore sheepskin jackets, they did not wear braids or braided hair like ordinary herdsmen, but left their hair open.
Bun, who still seemed to be from the Central Plains, had a natural sense of intimacy, which made Liu Yu ride over to him directly. At least, he wanted to see for himself what the Dugu tribe was like before he was officially incorporated into the tribe.
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Beside a sheep pen, a young man and woman were busy driving more than a hundred sheep into the pen. They were both about 25 or 26 years old. The man was eight feet tall, five big and three thick, and was covered in tendons.
There was a black mole as big as a mung bean at the corner of his mouth, and a steel beard like a thorn under his chin. He looked like a true man, while the woman had an average appearance, a strong body, and a simple face. When they saw Liu Yu and two men approaching on horseback, they stopped
After finishing the work in his hands, the man wiped the sweat from his face and said with a smile: "Are you new from the Central Plains?"
Liu Yu jumped off his horse and saluted with his hands raised: "I am Canglang, a native of Yizhou. What do you call me?"
The man smiled and waved his hand: "This is in the grassland, not the Central Plains. There is no need to do that. My name is Kuai En. I am from Lanling, Qingzhou. I have been here in this grassland for more than three years. Just call me Da Zhuang. You see
You look a lot older than me, can I call you Brother Sheng?"
Liu Yu laughed: "She really lives up to her name, brother Da Zhuang, is this your wife?"
Kuai En nodded: "Yes, more than three years ago, the Qin army was going to attack the Jin Dynasty. I thought that we are Han people, and there is no reason in the world for Han people to fight Han people. But King Fu Tian was not bad to us, and he couldn't bear to go.
The State of Jin in turn beat him up, so he simply gritted his teeth and moved his family to this grassland. I, a mother-in-law, came here when I was in my hometown, and I am also a Han Chinese."
Having said this, he looked at Murong Lan and said with a smile: "You must be marrying a Han too."
Liu Yu smiled and pointed at Murong Lan: "Yes, her name is Aiqin. We just got married a few months ago. Her family used to do business. The caravan was attacked by horse thieves. She was the only one left. I saved her.
So she became my wife. Dear dear, why don’t you come and meet Brother Da Zhuang soon?”
Murong Lan smiled slightly, jumped off the horse, and gave a fist-cup salute to Kuai En: "I have seen brother Da Zhuang."
Kuai En had a look of admiration on his face and nodded in return: "Brother Canglang, your wife is really amazing. My wife has been in the grassland for more than three years and she still doesn't know how to ride a horse. I think she can ride better than you."
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Murong Lan smiled slightly: "I grew up in my father's caravan. I have been traveling around since I was a child. I had to ride a horse when I was a child. The time I was attacked by rebels and horse thieves, if I hadn't escaped on horseback, I wouldn't have met my family.
The boss."
Kuai En laughed: "Awesome, too awesome, Taohua, hurry up and clean up the tents. Brother Canglang and I hit it off right away, so I want to entertain them well."
Murong Lan glanced at Liu Yu. The two looked at each other, and their minds were connected. Liu Yu nodded: "Since brother Da Zhuang is so enthusiastic, we can't be disrespectful. If you love me, why don't you go help tidy up the peach blossom?"
Murong Lan smiled and went up to meet Taohua, and took her hand: "Then please bother Taohua more."
Taohua grinned, showing her white teeth: "You are so polite, can you please teach me how to ride a horse later? I don't like to have men teach me how to ride a horse..." The two of them talked and laughed all the way to the destination.
The tent in the distance.
Liu Yu helped Quin close the door of the fence, and then watched him use a dry fork to pick up the grass from the haystack on one side, and put it into the trough on the side of the fence. Liu Yu said with a smile: "I have been in the grassland for so long.
, are you getting used to life here?" As he said this, he also picked up a pitchfork and helped Quin to pitch the grass.
Quin sighed: "How could it be so easy to get used to leaving your hometown and living a life completely different from that of your ancestors? Besides, I thought I would find freedom when I came to the grassland and no longer suffer from taxes and servitude. But in the future,
Only then did I realize that it is no different from the Central Plains. It still has to be managed by the tribal leader, and every year he has to hand over thirty sheep, five cows, and two horses."
Liu Yu's eyes widened: "One household has to pay so much?"
He looked at the sheep in Quin's sheepfold and said, "Your flock of sheep only adds up to a hundred. Where are the cows and horses?"
Kuai En smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Cowboys and horsemen are very expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary people. When we came to the grassland, we didn't have much savings. The Dugu Ministry can give tax exemption for newly attached Central Plains Han people for two years, and for the third year
We had to pay taxes from the beginning. If we hadn't met a kind-hearted old couple when we came here and gave us some lambs, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to accumulate even these hundred or so sheep now."
Liu Yu frowned: "Isn't this the fault of the tribal leaders? Even in the Central Plains, the government requires us to pay grain taxes and gives us seeds every year. If we don't give you cowboys or horses, you have to pay cows."
Ma, how is this possible?"
Quin's eyes sparkled: "This is the difference between the grassland and the Central Plains. If you don't have these at home, there is another way, which is to go out and grab them."
Liu Yu was surprised and said: "Who are you robbing? How?"
Quin smiled and said: "Of course we have to rob those small tribes. The Dugu tribe is a big tribe, but there are often small tribes that don't listen to orders. In order to teach these tribes that don't listen to orders, the big leader sends troops to conquer some of them every year. This
It’s the rule of the grassland.”
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