The night wind is blowing gently, and the crescent moon is like a hook.
In this peaceful and peaceful night, a sudden cry broke the silence on the grassland!
"It's on fire! Someone come and put out the fire!"
"No, the horse is frightened, get away!"
"Woooo... Eminem..."
Accompanied by various shouts, the silent tribe instantly became excited!
For a time, the entire tribe was shouting horses, sheep were barking, and dogs were barking!
Among the people rushing to put out the fire, no one noticed that Jieli had already taken advantage of the chaos and quickly rode away in the darkness.
The horse's hooves flew, and the noise behind him gradually faded away. Until no sound could be heard anymore, Jieli, who was carrying the baggage, slowly stopped on a hillside, then turned the horse's head and looked behind him.
In the darkness, a piece of red light in the distance was particularly dazzling! It was even more dazzling than when he just left, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the sky in a fiery red.
This is the fire he lit!
Originally, he could leave quietly!
But after seeing the grass in the stable, Jieli gave up the idea of leaving quietly.
Since Suni is unkind, don't blame him for being unjust! I'm not living well, and you can't even think about it!
So Jieli, who had taken out the horse, opened the stable and lit the grass piled in the corner. In an instant, the fire broke out!
The frightened horses, carrying flames, ran wildly through the tribe. Wherever they touched, thick smoke would soon fill the area.
Except for the frightened horses, when those pastures are burning, they will be swirled by the rising heat and taken to other places, eventually igniting the entire tribe!
Prairie fires are difficult to extinguish.
This is not only because the Turks’ tents and grass are extremely flammable, but also because they don’t have any handy fire-fighting tools!
The most common fire-extinguishing vat among the Han people is definitely a rare luxury for the Turks!
That thing is too big, they can't bake it, and it's even harder to transport!
Even if someone spends a lot of money to buy it, it can easily turn into a pile of worthless tiles after being moved again and again.
Therefore, whenever a fire breaks out, apart from panicking and packing up their belongings, they can only shed tears and watch from a distance as the tribe is swallowed up by the fire bit by bit. In the end, they have to kneel on the ground and beg the God of Fire for forgiveness.
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The news that Jieli's tribe was devoured by fire quickly reached Ayeke's ears!
After hearing the news, the first reaction of Ayeke, who was already asleep, was to jump out of bed, rush outside with his upper body naked, mount his horse and rush away.
"Hey, what's going on with your leader this late at night?"
Zhang Baoxiang, who was under house arrest in a tent and "enjoyed" a feast of fists and kicks, saw Ayeke's retreating figure through the gap and couldn't help humming and asking the Turks guarding him.
"Oh, I heard there was a fire at the Great Khan's place..."
At the door, the Turkic guard was playing with a glass bead found on Zhang Baoxiang's body, and he answered casually.
"What? There's a fire in the Great Khan's place?"
Zhang Baoxiang did not expect to hear the words "Great Khan", and was immediately startled. In an instant, countless thoughts came to his mind.
He didn't think that the fire was an accident! Otherwise, why would it have started so early or so late, but now?
"Hey, brother! Do you like these beads? I will give you ten more later, no! Twenty!"
Zhang Bao, who endured the pain all over his body and urgently needed more information, showed an extremely sincere smile to the Turkic guard who was playing with beads.
"Twenty beads? Give them to me?" The Turkic guard at the door was still playing with the beads carelessly, but when he heard this, his eyes immediately became a little straight, and even his breathing became a little heavier!
You know, ever since the Xiao family caravan brought the glazed beads to the grassland, this shiny little thing immediately became a status symbol for the wealthy families on the grassland!
Whoever has more and better colored glaze beads will be the richest family on the grassland!
Guards like them can't even save enough money to buy a glass bead in a year, and now this man wants to give him twenty! Isn't he dreaming?
"Yes! Twenty beads! All for you!" Zhang Baoxiang saw the Turkic guards looking in disbelief on their faces, and nodded quickly: "We Tang people have a saying, we don't know each other without fighting! We have fought before, so now we are
Brother! Isn’t it normal to give something to a brother?”
"We don't know each other without fighting? How can we become brothers after a beating?" The Turkic guard looked at Zhang Baoxiang with a serious face, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Are all people in the Tang Dynasty cheap? Like that donkey, they have to be whipped to feel comfortable?
"Yes, brother!" Zhang Baoxiang tried his best to squeeze out a smile, but maybe he smiled so hard that he touched a painful spot, and his smile was distorted by the pain at that time.
"Ahem, brother! Did you just say that there was a fire in the Great Khan? Is it easy to catch fire here?" Holding back the pain, Zhang Baoxiang did not dare to delay, and quickly took advantage of the confusion of the Turkic guard to ask him what he wanted to know.
"Bah, bah, bah! It's easy to catch fire in your house if you can't speak!" When the Turkic guard heard this, his face turned dark. If it weren't for the sake of twenty beads, he would have wanted to come up and give Zhang Baoxiang a meal again.
I'm fine with my punches.
"Uh..." Zhang Baoxiang was choked and rolled his eyes, and quickly changed his words: "I didn't mean that, I meant, where the Great Khan lives, there has been a fire before?"
"No!" At this time, the expression on the Turkic guard's face gradually softened: "We pay close attention to fire, and it is rare to hear that there can be a fire there!"
"It's not easy to catch fire? That's weird!" Zhang Baoxiang murmured to himself when he heard this answer. Then, as if he thought of something, his eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly asked: "Hey, brother!
Does anyone know the news about my coming here?"
"Who knows?" The guard glanced at Zhang Baoxiang in confusion: "This matter is not hidden from others. Who in the whole clan doesn't know?"
"Even the Great Khan knows?"
"It's hard to say, but when you met the big leader, the place where the Great Khan was, it seems that someone really came here..."
"Snapped!"
Before the guard finished speaking, Zhang Baoxiang slapped himself hard on the forehead, and then he was spinning around in circles in the tent like a grinder!
By now, he has guessed everything very accurately! If he was right, this cunning Jie Li must have run away again!
"No, I managed to drive him here. We can't let him run away like this!"
After a long time, Zhang Baoxiang finally stopped and looked at the confused Turkic guards with bright eyes.
"Brother! Do you want to make meritorious deeds? The kind of meritorious deeds that will reward you with countless rewards, get promoted, and make you rich?"
