Chapter 3 The horses were settled in the wilderness (Part 1). The hospitable host had already brought water from the well in a copper basin and asked everyone to wash their hands and wash their faces. This coincided with the Chinese word for "washing dust", so Xu Dayan understood it without asking.
The reason is that everyone put their hands into the copper basin in front of them one after another, and then also picked up the well water.
It was cold on the grassland, and the cold water from the well was rubbed on the face, which immediately made everyone sober for a while. After everyone had washed their faces and put on clean clothes, the tribal leader warmly invited the traders to the big tent to serve tea to the master.
Sun Jiu did not dare to refuse the family's kindness. He said thanks and followed the leader. At this moment, Zhang San, the deputy leader of the caravan who was supposed to be following Sun Jiu, suddenly lost the strength in his feet and his steps became smaller and smaller.
Seeing Zhang San like this, Wang Mazi, Du Scaru and others winked at each other, slowed down their pace one after another, and everyone "let" Xu Dayan behind Sun Jiu.
Xu Dayan knew that there were several old traders with ulterior motives, so he was careful in everything and changed his attitude of loyalty along the way. He was afraid that he would accidentally take a wrong step or say the wrong thing and become the laughing stock of everyone in the future. However, despite all the precautions, he did not
Expecting that there are tricks in the order of entering the account, he followed Sun Jiu and walked slowly, and soon he came to the big account. Li Xu said something bad in his heart, took two quick steps, and directly inserted himself between Sun Jiu and Xu Dayan.
"Little bastard! I'll make you look good later!" Zhang San secretly cursed while drinking the "dismount" wine. He, Du Scaran and others had already made up their minds to make Xu Dayan look ugly. If Li Xu hadn't forced him to
, Xu Dayan will definitely become the most unwelcome evil guest in the Xiren tribe today. Now that he sees Li Xu once again inserting himself into everyone's trap, his resentment towards him becomes even deeper.
The host didn't know about these dirty things among the guests. Seeing that the people following Sun Jiu were not the elders in the caravan but two relatively well-dressed teenagers, and then thinking that one of the teenagers was actually accompanied by a wolf, he immediately
Thinking that these two handsome young men were wealthy people among the traders, he smiled, pointed to the northwest corner of the tent and said: "The distinguished guests have come from far away, and the cattle, sheep and pastures of Su Chuo have been blessed, but please
Your Majesty, please take a seat and drink a bowl of milk tea made by my little girl!" (Note 1) Sun Jiu stepped forward with a smile, bowed three times to the northwest corner of the felt tent, then took the host's hand and said, "I'm waiting for you.
Come here and cause trouble to the master. Dear Aijin, please take a seat and let us receive the elder's blessing!"
There were a few polite words between the guests and the host, and then the tribal leader himself sat on the sheepskin bed in the north. As the copper bell rang, two old men from the Xi tribe with beards as long as their hair slowly entered and sat down next to the leader to wait.
It was Uncle Jiu's turn, but he chose the seat due east, and then he called all the vendors to take their seats one by one.
The felt tent used by the tribe to entertain guests is five times the size of an ordinary felt tent. It is surrounded by wooden strips and wrapped with a snow-white felt dome. There are large windows in all directions of the felt wall. The windows are made of the fine details of Central Plains people.
In the wooden lattice style, it is not covered with thick paper, but with a thin and translucent film, so it looks extra bright.
According to Li Xu's speculation, the membrane should be something like an animal bladder, but he didn't dare to ask questions. His father Li Mao once warned him that Hu people are wild and can change from a hot face to a cold face in an instant.
Therefore, if possible, try not to offend other people's taboos, and don't ask questions when you encounter strange things, lest they become tribal secrets of barbarians.
The vendors gathered around and formed a large half circle. Only the northwest corner of the felt tent and the door for people to enter and exit that the clan leader had previously instructed were left vacant.
Xu quietly reached out his hand and wrote the word "ancestor" on his back.
"It turns out that is the place where they worship their ancestors. I don't know what teachings it comes from!" Xu Dayan thought in surprise. Before heading north, he had read many articles describing various tribes in the grassland. Many classics described that the name Turkic originated from Jinshan, because
The shape of this mountain resembles Doumun, and Doumun in its language is pronounced as Tujue, so Tujue is used as the name of the entire tribe. During the Han Dynasty, this tribe was killed by the Xiongnu, and the entire tribe was slaughtered. Only one child among them was young, and the Huns soldiers could not bear to kill him.
, abandoned in the wilderness and left to fend for itself, a pack of wolves surrounded and nurtured the child. The child took the wolf girl as his wife, and gave birth to ten children. The eldest son later became the Turkic king, with the surname Ajna (churu).
, so the Turks also call themselves descendants of wolves
Although the Pei tribe in front of me is attached to the Turks, and its name is similar to that of a large tribe in the Turks, its battle flags, felt tents, and chief's seats are all embroidered with swans.
"These two young men should not be traders!" Two tribal elders who had seen countless people murmured in their hearts. The Turks regard the wolf as a totem and regard it as a sacred object of the entire clan. The wolf on the grassland has an extremely strong temper. If it were not for chance,
Coincidentally, few people can raise wolf pups, so a young man who has a wolf as a companion will definitely be regarded as an outstanding person in the clan.
Gazing across Li Xu's face, one could not ignore Xu Dayan sitting next to him. Compared with Li Xu, who had a thick frame, rough skin, and was as calm as a stone, Xu Dayan gave people a completely different feeling. In the eyes of the elder,
He is like an unruly white horse. No matter how big the herd is, you cannot ignore his presence. This kind of character, no matter in prosperous or troubled times, is destined to live a colorful life.
The host and guest were polite about the weather, the journey, and the fatness of the cattle and sheep, but they weighed each other's details with their eyes. After a few gossips, the patriarch clapped his hands gently, and with the clear and melodious ringing of the bell, a group of girls carried copper coins.
When the pot came inside, the clan leader of the Suchu tribe picked up the first bowl of tea, slowly left his seat, placed his hands in front of Sun Jiu, and chanted like a song: "Brother from afar, please drink a bowl of coarse milk tea. Although it is not as fine as the tea from the Central Plains,
But it is also a treasure in my tribe!”
"Brothers from Su Chuanbu gave me the whitest milk. It's not the best in the grassland, but it's the first milk of a cow. They gave me the most fragrant tea. It's not the finest in the world, but it's the purest in the world!" Sun Jiuyi stood up and used
Turkic sang and took the milk tea, but refused to drink it first and turned around and handed it to his companion.
At this time, Sun Jiu noticed that the person closest to him was actually Li Xu. He was slightly startled and then looked at Xu Dayan, who was next to Li Xu. He immediately understood that someone was causing trouble. He was open-minded by nature and felt a little confused.
Angry, but unwilling to say anything, he just encouraged Li Xu and Xu Dayan with his eyes to fight off this tone.
Li Xu nodded to Sun Jiu knowingly, and passed the copper bowl filled with milk tea to Xu Dayan. Xu Dayan was such a clear figure. Seeing that Sun Jiu didn't drink, and Li Xu didn't drink, he immediately understood the key and gave Li Xu a slight smile.
Nodding, he turned around and passed the milk tea to the vendors one after another. He didn't stop until he passed it to the last companion.
When the patriarch saw that all the vendors followed his own etiquette meticulously, he felt extremely happy and handed out bowl after bowl of milk tea to Sun Jiu. Sun Jiu passed out bowl after bowl of milk tea until everyone had one in their hands.
He picked up the copper bowl, picked up the last bowl of tea, and nodded to the clan leader to thank him.
The patriarch of the Suchu tribe and several elders smiled at each other, picked up the tea bowl, and took the lead in tasting the tea before the other vendors began to drink. The thought of seeing Xu Dayan make a fool of himself was once again in vain.
The milk tea is made from fresh milk, coarse tea and salt. It is an indispensable treasure on the grassland for digestion and smoothing the Qi. The merchants were tired from the journey and just used it to nourish the body. The owner had good intentions, but it was not
All the guests were blessed to enjoy it, especially Li Xu and Xu Dayan, who had only heard of the name of milk tea. When they saw it, they were holding a big bowl of thick, oily milk mixed with the fragrance of tea and milk.
The soup, my stomach and intestines immediately started to churn. I peeked around and saw Uncle Jiu and others drinking sweetly. I frowned, closed my eyes, raised my neck and drank it down.
"Just think of it as drinking medicine! It's so painful for your mind!" Xu Dayan closed his eyes tightly and thought about a bowl of milk tea "Gudong, Gudong" and drank it all, but he had no idea what it tasted like in his mouth.
When the patriarch saw the two teenagers drinking a large bowl of milk tea in one go, he frowned slightly and his throat rolled, thinking that they were appreciating the taste of his own strong tea. He clapped his hands with joy and ordered the girls to come forward and refill the tea for them.
Xu and Li were complaining in their hearts. If they had known that the host was so enthusiastic, they would not have drank the first bowl of milk tea so quickly. They were thinking sadly about how to stop swallowing the salty and tangy herbal soup.
, a string of silver bell-like chuckles suddenly rang in my ears
The two of them looked up when they heard the sound, only to see two pairs of eyes as clear as lake water and as blue as the sky, smiling at them. Their scalps suddenly exploded, and their bodies were numb on the spot as if they had been struck by lightning.
The owner of the eyes has a straight nose and fair skin. One of them is wearing goose yellow, and the other is wearing light blue. Although like the other people of the Shang tribe, they have brown leather skirts inlaid on the edges of their clothes, they are obviously cut into the shape of a kurta commonly worn by women in the Central Plains.
In addition to the suede silk skirt, the two girls also wore a yellow sheepskin shoulder-piece on their upper bodies. The entire shoulder-shoulder was divided into four large pieces, with golden silk threads between each piece.
The long curly train makes the whole person look slender and tall (Note 2) Xu Dayan was born into a wealthy family. He is used to seeing all kinds of young beauties, but he has never seen anything like the girl from the Xi tribe in front of him.
The foreign girl, who was full of vitality and bloomed like a flower, felt so bright in front of her eyes that the entire tent was dyed golden with the girl's laughter. Compared with him, Li Xu had seen fewer women, and he was the one who had the most profound impression on him.
It was his own Jin Jin, who looked like a hero holding a knife in one hand and twisting the neck of a chicken with the other. Although this image was kind, it could not match the beauty described in the Book of Songs. As a young man, he also agreed with the old masters in the county school.
The view, that is, the so-called beautiful herbs, are all based on objects by ancient scholars. If you read those ancient styles in the Book of Songs as "bad lyrics", you will not only misunderstand the original intention of the ancients, but also criticize the sages.
Very disrespectful
At this moment, the girl in the felt tent reminded him of the poems he had learned. The impression was brighter and more vivid than the poems. He heard his heart beating and wanted to stop it, but he found that the concentration he had practiced on his body
The power has long since disappeared, but I feel that the evening sun is very bright, very bright, shining through the film on the window, making people dazzled.
Seeing the two young men holding tea bowls in a daze, the girl found it even more interesting. After her eyes wandered several times, the woman wearing a light blue suede skirt grinned and urged in a low voice: "Drink quickly, can it be that I personally
Does the brewed milk tea taste bad?"
These two sentences were spoken in an authentic Central Plains accent. Li and Li were so frightened that their hands trembled and they almost threw the whole bowl of milk tea to the ground. Realizing that they had lost their composure, their faces became even redder, as if they had just passed through a flame.
Like a mountain, even the neck was roasted into blood.
"Tao Kuo took off his silk, don't deliberately tease the guests!" Seeing the embarrassed faces of the two teenagers, the patriarch scolded in a low voice.
The girl named Tao Kuo Tuosi twisted her body, and the silver bell at the end of her braid swayed with her body, making a random ringing among the ringing. The girl coquettishly said in Turkic: "Father, look at this.
Two Zhongyuan bastards, a grown man can actually blush!"
The vendors who could understand a few words in Turkic language roared with laughter. They had set up a trap for a long time to make Xu and Li look embarrassed, but they didn't want to pay attention to the girl's family so that the girls who were serving tea heard this and really came closer to take a closer look.
Observing, Xu Dayan and Li Xu looked like cooked prawns, turning bright red from head to toe.
"Don't be ridiculous and scare the guests. Go out and see if the mutton prepared by Aslan and the others is ready! They are tired from the journey and have walked thousands of miles." The patriarch obviously had nothing to do with his daughter. He waved his hand and smiled.
Then he drove the girls out of the big tent (Note 3). After all this fun, the distance between the guests and the host suddenly narrowed a lot. The elders of the two tribes were also amused by the shyness of the boy and the naughty girl.
Da Wei, laughed with the guests for a while, said a few polite words, and then asked about the purpose of Sun Jiu and others.
Although Sun Jiu was straightforward, he did not dare to say that he had to come to the Xiren settlement area because he had gone to Xiren's tribe and all was lost. He just made an excuse and said that he was leading the caravan north and met Hao Laodao on the way.
The other party said that the people in Lin were warm and hospitable, so they came all the way to make friends.
The two clan leaders also knew that what Sun Jiu said was not necessarily true, but the settlement area of the Lin tribe was too far away from the Great Sui Dynasty, and there were various tribes of the Xi tribe in the middle, so few caravans from the Central Plains usually came here and passed by the Xi tribe, Turks,
The goods resold by the Khitan and other tribes to the Xi people were not only high in price, but the quality was also much lower than the goods in the hands of traders in the Central Plains. So since the last time the caravan escorted by Hao Laodao accidentally broke into this grassland
After that, the nobles in the tribe were looking forward to Han traders coming again every day. Sun Jiu and others came unexpectedly at this moment, but it happened to be the wish of Lin Ren.
Therefore, the elders did not delve into the truth of what Sun Jiu said. They first sighed a few words about the hard work of the journey, and then suggested to the clan leader: "Sir, why don't you send someone to send a message to the neighboring tribes, so that
They will come to our tribe in three days to trade with the brothers from the Central Plains. This way, the distinguished guests from the Central Plains can get rid of their goods as soon as possible and return south before the heavy snow blocks the road!"
After hearing this, Sun Wen quickly stood up and thanked you, "Thank you two elders. The Immortal God will remember your good deeds!"
"Thank you, elder, for your kindness!" All the vendors stood up and saluted. Everyone had been delayed on land for too long, and they were worried about whether one tribe could eat all the goods. If they reluctantly lowered the price in order to sell the goods, everyone would be a little uncomfortable after all the hard work.
However, the advice of the elders just solved the dilemma they were facing. Several tribes came to trade at the same time. Not only could the goods be sold quickly, but the traders could also get a lot of benefits in terms of price.
The leader of the tribe, Su Chuixil, was very smart. He immediately understood the long-term plan in the elder's suggestion and waved his hand, magnanimously saying: "Brothers, why should you be so polite? It is the responsibility of my Su Chuo tribe to provide convenience to the guests!"
"I'm afraid that in a few years, the swans in the Su Chuan tribe will have a golden crown on their heads!" Amidst the chaos of thanks, Xu Dayan whispered to Li Xu quietly in a very low voice that before entering the tribe, he
I found that the swan head painted on the opponent's battle flag did not have the mountain-like golden crown specially made by the Hu people. This shows that the Su Chui tribe is just a small tribal branch among the Pei people, and the big leader recognized by the Pei tribe is not from the
Several felt tents nearby
The merchants risked their lives and headed north regardless of the dangers of the journey. What they wanted was a fortune. Once the reputation of Su Chuanbu's kindness to caravans spread, within two years, under the temptation of huge profits, no matter how far the journey, caravans from all over the country would swarm.
The surrounding tribes will definitely form a small and tight trading circle with the Su Chuan tribe as the core. If things go on like this, the strength of the Su Chuan tribe will expand at the fastest speed. The tribes on the grassland have always regarded strength as king, and there are not many tribes.
orthodox scruples
Li Xu nodded lightly, as if he agreed with Xu Dayan's opinion. In fact, he didn't hear a word of what the elders of the clan were saying or what Xu Dayan was saying. Deep in his heart, he was thinking about the decision at the moment.
Not how to get rid of goods, but how to observe Elder Su Chui’s business style
Just in front of half a stick of incense, the girl in blue shirt burned his eyes like the sun
