Chapter 4 Zuixiang (Part 1) As soon as the patriarch Su Chuixil left, the young herdsmen immediately became active. Some began to talk to Li Xu, shyly inviting him to take the time to take the Holy Wolf with him for the sake of his efforts today.
They went to drink a bowl of milk tea in their felt bags to add some blessings to their felt bags. Some people made friends with Xu Dayan and asked him if he could teach him some Han people's wisdom. As for what kind of wisdom Xu Dayan had, the shepherds didn't know yet.
They knew clearly that when almost all tribal elders mentioned Xu Dayan, they would add a prefix before his name, "The wisdom is deeper than the Crescent Lake..." In the memory of the young man from the Su Chuan tribe, nearly two years ago,
No one has received such praise in ten years
Although nine out of ten sentences between each other require hand gestures to communicate, the smiles have no ethnic boundaries. Soon, the young people became familiar with each other, and while happily humming pastoral songs, they completed the interior decoration of the felt bag.
Duer's family was rich, so he gave Li Xu a set of wooden boxes with paint that had not peeled off to make furniture. Aslan's wife was very handy and brought a few wool carpets with patterns on the surface. Several other young people
Depending on their family situation, they would give either carpets or pots. Li Xu and Xu Dayan refused repeatedly, but the shepherds suddenly "could not understand" their sign language, pushed them aside, and placed the gifts directly on the carpets.
The right place in the bag
"For the new heroes who join the tribe, the people of Pei must let them live as comfortably as themselves!" Eru explained to Xu Dayan in a low voice the tradition of the Pei tribe. Whether the two young men meet the standards of heroes, the elders have already come to the conclusion.
If they insist on not accepting the shepherd's gift, it will appear that they look down on the other person and think that the other person's gift is not worthy of being placed in their own felt bag.
"But, we don't have anything to repay them!" Li Xu blushed and said that he had a small nest of his own. He was very happy, but receiving so many benefits for nothing made him feel very uneasy.
"You can thank them with fine wine. The people of Lin will not refuse the host's invitation!" Tao Kuo Tuosi whispered a few words quietly, "As for the wine, Aunt Qing said she still has several jars of Elaeagnus angustifolia fine wine. If you
In exchange for good white paper, she doesn't mind giving it on credit first!"
The two teenagers immediately cheered. No matter what nationality, wine is the best communication tool for men. Before the caravan returned south, Xu Dayan had already asked someone to bring a letter, asking his family to bring a fortune after the spring of next year.
The first batch of paper came to Su Chuanbu Qing, and she was willing to borrow it on credit with the Elaeagnus angustifolia wine that had been stored for many years. It was a very good deal.
Immediately, Li Xu took the animals and followed Tao Kuo to the patriarch's house to carry wine. The shepherds heard that there was Aunt Qing's hand-made Elaeagnus jujube wine to drink, and they were even more happy. Some people immediately rode horses to the wild to drag their own wine.
Some people quickly went home to get the dried mushrooms, yellow flowers and other things collected in the summer. Duer and his wife, who were wealthy, contributed a small jar of spices and refined salt. Everyone packed up their felt bags and immediately went to Li Xuhe
A fire was set up in front of Xu Dayan's house and he started singing.
In this meal, two sheep were eaten, and five jars of Sha Zao wine and more than a dozen skin bags of mare's milk were consumed before they were satisfied. From then on, Aslan, Du'er, Cai Ditai, Bashimi and other young people from Su Chuang's tribe
Junjie made friends with Xu and Li. They competed in riding skills during the day, and at night they took turns drinking bowls of kumiss in various yurts. They lived a very happy life.
Three days later, young herdsmen from nearby tribes drove their animals and dragged felts and camped outside the Suchu tribe. Su Chuoxier and others announced to their tribes that the young people from each tribe were here to participate in the hunt, and asked the tribesmen not to panic.
Secretly, they began to organize the herdsmen into hunting teams according to the structure of marching and fighting. Each team of 100 people divided into designated areas to shoot yellow sheep, thereby training the shepherds to cooperate with each other.
Xu Dayan immediately showed off his skills. How to pass messages between each team, how to look after each other, and how to identify officers who did not belong to the tribe but whose positions were above him were all organized by his hands. In terms of individual military applications, Lin Ren
It turned out that he had his own habits. After debating and deducing with the core figures of Su Chuixil, Xu Dayan took the Central Plains army as a standard and adopted the more reasonable ones to the hunting team.
Compared with Xu Dayan's busy training of the army, the work assigned to Li Xu by the tribe is much simpler. He only needs to accompany the little wolf Ganluo in front of the team every morning when the herdsmen start training, and he is considered a member of the tribe.
Dagong Ganluo seemed to be born to be a magic stick. Whenever he appeared side by side with Li Xu in front of the herdsmen, he could always put on a dignified and generous posture. Therefore, every morning, when one man and one wolf walked out of the camp, everyone around him
There are always cheers in the wild: "Fu Li, Fu Li!"
Fu Li means wolf in the language of the Xi clan, and it also represents the bodyguard. Since Li Xu was introduced by the clan leaders as the bodyguard of Silver Wolf, within a few days, he had the same name as Fu Li.
Xu Dayan, from the patriarch Xier to the ordinary shepherds, all imitated Aunt Qing and called him sir with great respect.
In order to thank the two young men for their contribution to the tribe, Suchuoxil continued to donate the prey captured by the herdsmen to the two. Through the discussion of the elders, he transferred a dozen horses and five cows from the tribe's common supplies.
and more than 70 sheep belong to the two people's names. According to the rules of the Xi tribe, these livestock do not need to be managed by two young men. Naturally, the youths of the tribe take turns to serve every day, driving the entire tribe's livestock to the wild to graze for future harvest.
The milk, lambs, etc. were counted by the elder Burke who was responsible for the baggage management and were added to their property.
As a result, the two teenagers immediately jumped into the wealthy class of the tribe and became more relaxed when drinking with others. From time to time, they could also give some gifts in return to express their gratitude to their masters. However, Aslan and others seemed to have reached a tacit understanding long ago.
, no matter what the two of them gave as gifts, everyone would definitely give back double the gifts the next day, which frightened Li Xu so much that he didn’t dare to be generous anymore.
"Fu Li, in a few days we will go out hunting as a team, will you join?" One day after drinking, Aslan asked with a bit of drunkenness.
"Go, but my riding and shooting skills are too poor, I will definitely let you down!" Li Xu replied readily. After more than ten days of interaction, his Turkic language has made great progress. Influenced by the young people of the surrounding Sino people, personally
His character gradually became bold and bold.
His archery skills are poor. This is a fact that Li Xu cannot deny. After Uncle Jiu left, he tried to quickly improve his archery skills with the help of the formulas taught by Uncle Jiu. As a result, he found out after getting on horseback that the formulas sounded simple.
It’s extremely difficult to get up
Shooting an arrow while riding a horse is no better than bending a bow while standing on the ground. The first step is to sit firmly on the horse, pull the reins with your hands, and gallop with the stirrups between your legs. Li Xu could do it when he was in the Central Plains, but
Both hands lost contact with the mount at the same time. He had never tried to communicate with the horse by relying only on his knees and heels. So every time he drew the bow, the mount would not obey the command and would either run towards the opposite side of the target or throw Li Xu off the horse.
In short, facing a fixed target, he could hardly miss even one arrow out of hundreds of shots, let alone shoot it casually like Uncle Jiu. Every shot would hit, and often the bow and arrow would disappear after leaving the string, and even if he wanted to recover them, he would not be able to find them.
trace of it
Fortunately, Mingbu's feather arrows are sufficient, and they are all made for riding and shooting. Seeing that he gets up early every day to boost morale, Elder Burke, who controls the baggage, sent a message, asking him to learn archery, and use as many as he wants.
There are only as many arrows as there are arrows, so Li Xu took a hundred arrows out in the morning and only returned fifty in the evening, and no one cared about him.
"It doesn't matter. As long as you go with Gan Luo, the prey we bring back will definitely be the most among each team!" Aslan said with great confidence. This is Li Xu's tenth day in the tribe, plus he previously worked as a merchant.
Those five days were half a month in total. Twelve days ago, after accompanying Li Xu to the banquet for the elders, Aslan hugged his wife. However, his wife did not see red this month. This shows that another little life
It has taken root in my wife’s belly
Aslan didn't dare to guess whether the luck bestowed by the Immortal God was related to the fact that he spoke for Gan Luo that day. But he believed that as long as he stayed with Gan Luo, good luck would continue to fall into his felt bag.
"Before setting off, I will try my best to improve my archery skills! At least I will recover all the arrows I shot!" Li Xu promised with a smile.
Promises are promises, and the distance between ideals and reality is always too far. The day of Li Xu's first hunting trip soon came. He teamed up with Aslan, Duer, Xu Dayan, and Gan Luo, and they followed each other like a tail.
Unable to get rid of Tao Kuo, he ran around all day and captured seven yellow sheep, three foxes, and a whole bag of fat sand grouse. Except for himself, almost all the men and women in the team
Everyone had something to gain, but not only did he gain nothing, he also fell off the horse many times while galloping. One time, his left leg was hung in the stirrup, and he was dragged by the horse for more than twenty paces, almost frightening everyone to death.
on the spot
"Fu Li, you better not ride on a horse and shoot arrows in the future!" In the evening, Tao Kuo, who wiped Li Xu's wounds with salt water according to the method taught by Aunt Qing, prayed with some distress. Hearing Aunt Qing say, Han men learn to read.
He was more proud of it, rather than being more proficient with bows and horses like Xi Ren, so Tao Kuo Tuosi no longer cared whether his good friend could catch the prey.
"I once promised to shoot you a eagle?" Li Xu smiled and stretched out his hand, touching Tao Kuo's silky white hair with gold in it. In the Central Plains, he had never seen any woman with such beautiful silver hair.
This hair is not the haggard white on the old woman's head, but the luster of life is shining from the tip to the root of the hair.
"Go, go, you deserve to be thrown to death!" Tao Kuo's face suddenly turned cold, and he fiercely pressed the clean cloth soaked in salt water onto Li Xu's calf, which had been scratched with countless scars by the war horse stone.
"Ouch!" Li Xu screamed in pain and jumped up, thinking about it, but looking at the angry look on the other side's face, he finally decided to settle the matter.
"Only women and villains are difficult to raise. I cannot deceive the words of a sage!" Li Xu, who had suffered a big loss, shook his head and said.
"The saint has been dead for a thousand years!" Tao Kuo Tuosi knew that what Li Xu was mumbling must not be good words, so he responded with the sharpest words he could think of.
Li Xu shook his head repeatedly, unlike this barbarian woman. When he went to bed at night, he was tossing and turning due to the pain in his calf, but in front of him he couldn't help but think of Tao Kuo's appearance when he took off his silk and was angry.
"Why is she so angry?" Li Xu thought strangely and suddenly another comment came to his mind, "However, she looks pretty good when she is angry..."
No matter how painful the injury on his leg was, Li Xu decided to perfect his shooting skills first. Uncle Jiu said that he could not always let others protect him. At the moment, Xu Dayan and Chief Xier would take care of him in the future.
After returning to the Central Plains, Brother Mao Gong wants to gain fame. He can't follow him and be a burden. Besides, Uncle Jiu said that there is no secret to archery, it's just a matter of familiarity.
He worked hard on mounted archery, and Aslan and Duer also generously shared with him some of their insights from when they were learning archery, teaching him how to coordinate the body and the mount, how to coordinate the ups and downs of the horse's back when aiming the bow and arrow at the target, etc.
It is a truth that needs to be understood through practice. Everyone's understanding is different, and the experience gained is also different. Therefore, it cannot be summarized in the formulas in books, nor can it be mastered by rote memorization.
With the guidance of these masters, Li Xu gradually became aware of the bow, arrows, horses and the wind around him. Every arrow he shot no longer flew aimlessly, but landed in the same direction as the target. Occasionally, he was lucky.
By the way, he can also pierce a red heart with one arrow. This is his unique skill. If others want to pierce a heavy target, even with his great physical strength, they cannot have the riding bow in his hand that was made by the Sui Dynasty at the peak of its national power.
He was a young man, and when he saw that he could hit a fixed target, he couldn't help but want to go out hunting again, to wash away the shame of being thrown off the horse last time, and let the little girl Tao Kuo take off her silk to see what he was doing
Not just relying on Gan Luo's reputation to eat and drink for free in her tribe, a few young and strong men were gnawing on the dried meat left over from the autumn and their mouths were dull. As soon as Li Xu mentioned it, they immediately responded.
In order to harvest more prey, Aslan deliberately chose a morning after the snow cleared. There was a layer of snow on the ground, which was like setting countless natural traps for wild animals, especially creatures with smaller hooves such as hares and yellow sheep.
His feet can't stand in the snow, and his running speed is less than 30% of his usual speed. For a mediocre player like Li Xu who has just mastered shooting fixed targets, the probability of hunting after snow increases greatly.
After everyone asked Chief Xier for instructions, they happily left the camp and looked around. They saw the hills in the distance and the nearby grasslands were all covered with snow. The whole world seemed to be covered with a thick layer of white.
It is as neat as a felt and the light gray sky above just forms a huge dome, holding the snow-white felt and the tribes on it upside down underneath it.
It is precisely because there are some thin clouds above the head that the sunlight reflected from the snow is not so dazzling. The sky and the earth are clean, and human eyesight can see farther on the snow. Little Wolf Ganluo has long been unable to hold back, and has long been
With a howl, Li Xu took the lead and rushed out. Xu Dayan and others followed up on horseback, and swept through the snowy field like the wind.
The air that has been cleansed by the heavy snow has a sweet smell when you breathe it. Although it is cold, it is very refreshing. The scenery around you is beautiful, with the wolf cubs that have just grown silver fur, and a group of young hunters.
The colorful girl, the scenery is ready for painting. The only flaw is that the young people don't have any prey in their hands. This is not because of their poor shooting skills. From the moment they leave the camp gate to the moment they run until Ganluo starts to stick out his tongue and gasp,
No prey appeared in their sights
"It may be that I have been hunting recently and scared away all the wild beasts around the tribe!" Eru gently twisted her nose, and the smile on her face was as bright as the sunshine after the first snow.
"Thousands of people take turns hunting, and no matter how courageous the beast is, it will move quickly!" Xu Dayan made a joke that was not very clever. When Eru was around, his wisdom always declined rapidly, which sometimes showed.
"Stupid" level can even be compared with Li Xu
"Why don't we all go further and try our luck at Crescent Lake? The lake doesn't freeze in winter. When it's cold, there are always wild beasts going to the lake to eat grass roots!" Su Chudu'er loudly suggested that so many people returned empty-handed.
, you will definitely be secretly laughed at by the tribesmen. Besides, there is not much dried meat left at home. If you kill sheep indiscriminately, you will be scolded by the elders in the family as a waste.
"That place is already far away from our camp. Once we encounter someone who is making fun of us, it will be a bit troublesome!" Among the group of people, A'Silan is the oldest and his opinions are the most prudent.
Tao Kuo took off his clothes, Duer and others stopped talking and focused their attention on Xu Dayan's face. This man was recognized as a wise man in the tribe, and his suggestions were the most influential in the team.
Xu Dayan saw the expectations in everyone's eyes, especially Li Xu. This good brother must have been holding it in for a long time to wash away the shame of his last fall. When he looked back at the gentle and considerate Eru, his heart gradually softened, thinking
After thinking for a while, he said hesitantly: "There shouldn't be any trouble. The distance between their camp and Crescent Lake is several times that of ours. Even if we meet Xi Ren who comes out to hunt in the snow by the lake,
