Chapter 4 Drunk Countryside (Part 2) "There's wild donkey dung here, and it's still hot?" A loud shout interrupted everyone's sweet dreams. Everyone heard the news and saw Duer carrying a man with two wooden sticks.
A black and green dung mass the size of an egg happily ran towards everyone.
"Greedy Duer, you are not allowed to eat meat unless you wash your hands three times tonight!" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and shouted loudly. In the cold wind, the dirty thing on Duer's hand was still emitting white smoke. Apart from this greedy
Except for ghosts, no one can smell the stench of donkey manure
"I'm going to look at the hoof prints!" Aslan happily ran to the location where Du'er was picking up manure, and carefully inspected the nearby river beach. The water of Crescent Lake has a constant temperature all year round. The snow near the river beach has already melted. Where Du'er ran, there were several pools of snow water.
, the mud was mixed with the excrement of wild beasts, and it was so filthy. But Aslan didn't care at all, lying next to the donkey dung pile and observing carefully for a long time before straightening up and shouting to everyone: "It's very big."
A group of wild donkeys drank water by the lake about half an hour ago. We drove around the lake to the west, and we will catch up with them soon!"
Everyone cheered and immediately got on their horses. Li Xu released Gan Luo from the harness on the horse's back and let him chase the mount. Although Gan Luo's body was small, he refused to follow behind the horse's butt. His four small legs were spread wide.
, and rushed out in a swish.
"We've got it this time!" Duer dropped the ball of donkey dung in his hand, and while unhooking the bow and arrow from the saddle, he shouted: The wild donkey is a very large creature. An adult male donkey can grow up to ten feet.
Long, seven feet wide, and weighing more than 500 kilograms. From a distance, it looks bigger than a domestic mule. The beast lives in water and grass, and likes to eat wild onions and strange willows. Therefore, the meat is tender but has no smell. At this point, any
Domestic livestock, whether it is an ox that has not been worked or a lamb less than three months old, cannot compare with the wild ass
"Be careful, don't touch their fronts!" Asilan did not forget to remind everyone during the gallop that wild donkeys are inferior herbivores, but they are much more violent than horses. If they startle the herd, they will charge towards you.
Come here, no matter how strong your body is, it can't withstand the collision of a herd of donkeys.
"I know, everyone, work harder and shoot the strongest one to replenish Pada's body!" Calyx's excited reply spread far away along the wind.
A quarter of an hour later, the donkey group appeared directly in front of everyone. It was a small family of wild donkeys composed of more than fifty members. The backs of all wild donkeys were khaki, and their tails had a bunch of green-black hair.
The sound of the hunter's hoofbeats was heard, and the male wild donkey in charge immediately neighed to warn the donkeys who were eating grass roots. Hearing the warning, he immediately spread out his four long white legs under the leadership of the first donkey.
"Speed up, follow and chase, drive the donkeys away!" Aslan ordered loudly and rushed towards the donkeys at the lead. Duer was not willing to have his head pulled off by his companion, and clamped the horse's belly severely, howling loudly.
Chasing after Aslan
"Gan Luo, chase the one who reported the news!" Li Xu ordered the little wolf Gan Luo while bending his bow, but ignored his call. He doubled his running speed in an instant, and pounced diagonally towards the center of the donkeys like lightning.
Hunting is its innate instinct, and it is much better than any experienced hunter. When a wild donkey flees for his life, the adult male is in the front, and the adult female is in the back. The one in the middle of the team is often less than a year old and has not yet been born.
Completely weaned young donkeys are less experienced and courageous in escaping than adult donkeys. As long as they are attacked by an enemy, they will definitely leave the group.
Although the wild ass was big, it was naturally afraid of wolves. Gan Luo rushed in, and immediately the young donkey, which was the size of two foals and had a brown dividing line from the base of its front legs to the tip of its tail, escaped from the group.
Gan Luo jumped lightly from the donkeys, and jumped away from the donkeys the moment before the female donkey stepped on him. Then he turned sideways in a half arc, forcing the two young donkeys towards Li Xu's mount.
Li Xu, Xu Dayan, Tao Kuo took off his silk, and Eru immediately gathered around. The four of them formed a small circle and trapped the two young donkeys in the middle. After a few feather arrows fell, the seriously injured young wild donkey let out a cry and fell down.
After Gan Luo cast a disdainful glance at his prey in the mud beside the lake, he jumped into pursuit of the donkeys again.
"Ah, he thinks the donkey is too small to fit between his teeth!" Xu Dayan laughed and jumped off the horse. Each young donkey was hit by three or four arrows, so it was impossible to tell who the prey belonged to. It was just some
The man was opportunistic, and every arrow was inserted into the donkey's belly without any bias.
"Brother Maogong collected the prey, I will help Asilan and the others!" Li Xu felt guilty and secretly stuck out his tongue, then drew his horse and left. He had already seen clearly that without his two arrows, he would have cut off his neck.
After parting, the four people can harvest two intact donkey skins. With the two arrows, there are two more big holes in the donkey skin, which is no longer valuable.
Before he could catch up with the donkeys again, Aslan and the others had already turned around and Duer and Basimi, who were walking in front, were struggling to carry a wild donkey, which looked almost as big as a calf.
Silan and Ediotai shared the same horse, and the other horse was completely given up to the prey. The wild donkey on the horse looked like the size of the blue and white mule that Li Xu rode when he was studying.
nose protest
"Ouch——" The little wolf Ganluo let out a long howl in the wind. A few drops of donkey blood dripped from his mouth and fell on the snow, blooming into two dazzling red balls.
"The holy wolf is the holy wolf. Cai Ertai and I forced this beast out of the team. Before we could shoot it with arrows, the holy wolf pounced on it and bit its throat!" Aslan praised Gan Luo repeatedly.
There is an old legend on the Brave Prairie that wherever the silver wolf appears, it will bring harvest and good luck. Today, he witnessed with his own eyes that this statement is true. Without Ganluo, the wild donkeys would not have been scattered so quickly, although the lives of the prey were ultimately lost.
It still ended with one arrow, but the wolf cub that had just sprouted teeth already dared to attack a wild donkey that was ten times its size. This was a courage that no shepherd dog could possess.
"Isn't it because of the superb hunting skills of the Asilan brothers?" Li Xu glanced at Gan Luo with a smile, and wanted to use the sentence "dog vs. man" to comment. Suddenly he remembered that the little thing is a sacred object in the eyes of the tribe.
I forced myself to swallow the second half of the sentence.
The smart Gan Luo seemed to have guessed what Li Xu wanted to say from his eyes. He whimpered a few times and reluctantly nuzzled Li Xu's mount. The mount saw the little wolf's bloody mouth and jumped in fright.
He jumped with the lead and almost threw Li Xu off the horse.
"Okay, okay, Gan Luo, let's stop making trouble." Li Xu was afraid that the mount would be frightened and kick the wolf cub, so he quickly begged for mercy. Gan Luo glanced at it proudly, shook his head, and turned to look for Tao Kuotosi to ask for food.
Li Xu shook his head, with a wry smile on his face. Ever since he came to Suchuo tribe, his and Gan Luo's master-slave status had been completely changed. In the eyes of Lin Ren, the silver wolf was a sacred object sent by Changshengtian, and he was just a sacred object sent by Changshengtian.
The bodyguard secretly arranged for Yin Lang has a much lower status than Gan Luo. In the eyes of the barbarian girl Tao Kuo Tuosi, his and Gan Luo's status cannot be compared.
Eight people hunted four wild donkeys. Today's harvest was beyond expectations, so everyone was not greedy for more. They first found a few large rocks by the lake to shelter from the wind and temporarily settled down, and then cut a piece of meat from the young donkey.
To satisfy Ganluo's hunger, people couldn't eat raw meat, and couldn't find dry firewood, so they had to eat a few mouthfuls of cold and hard milk tofu in the snow to trick their stomachs.
After everyone had regained some strength, Aslan and Duer immediately began to divide the prey. This place was far away from the tribe. The idea of bringing the whole wild donkey back to show off would definitely not work before the prey was frozen by the cold wind.
Cutting off the donkey skin and donkey meat and taking them away on horseback is the only option for everyone. The endless heads, bones and internal organs can only be taken away from the nearby ferocious beasts.
"Let's drink in my felt bag tonight, and no one is allowed to refuse!" Duer wiped the sweat from his forehead with his bloody hands and announced loudly.
"Dirty Duer, have you washed your hands before going to cut the meat?" Tao Kuo frowned and asked.
"Definitely - I didn't wash it. I marked the first piece of meat I grabbed with my hands today and asked my wife to cook it and put it directly in your bowl!" Duer stretched out his red fingers, deliberately teasing Tao Kuo to take off his hair.
angry
The girl made a disgusted expression, turned around and walked away. Duer finally defeated the little devil. He was so happy that he cut the flesh with his hands and feet and hummed a song.
"I shot a wild ass, a wild ass, and used its entrails to honor the wolf. I shot a leopard, a leopard, and used its fur to sew a war suit. I didn't hunt the deer next to the felt bag. It was on my hunt.
When cooking for me, I did not shoot the eagle in the sky. It guided me in the direction of my prey..."
After a while, Asilan, Li Xu and others also joined in the chorus. Xu Dayan is smart. He has communicated with the elders every day in the past two months. His Turkic language has improved rapidly, and he soon started humming along with the tune.
"I killed a wild ass, a wild ass, and used its internal organs to honor the wolf..." Everyone was singing happily. Suddenly, the little wolf Ganluo, who was curled up on Li Xu's lap for warmth, pricked up his ears.
Jumped gently onto the snow
"There's someone!" Aslan put away the dagger as quickly as possible and grabbed the bow and arrow beside him. Everyone followed Gan Luo's gaze and looked into the distance, seeing two black figures appearing more than 400 steps away, two bodies.
A very strong shepherd, without a mount, walking towards the lake with his hands raised high
"Kind brother, is this Crescent Lake?" The black figure walking in front saw that everyone was very wary, stopped and shouted loudly
The other person following him also stopped, his body slightly staggered from his companion, and his palms opened forward to show that he was not carrying a weapon and was not likely to be hostile.
"It's Crescent Lake. Who are you and why are you here at the grassland of our Min tribe?" Seeing that the visitor was speaking Turkic, Aslan took a few steps forward to block Gan Luo and replied in Turkic.
"We are the Xi people who live by the Suotou River. Your good friends, we went hunting after losing our home, but unexpectedly we got lost!" The black shadow replied with a smile, the words were full of bitterness and the sun was dark behind the clouds, so
Li Xu couldn't tell what he looked like. He just noticed that he and another companion were wearing black leather jackets and black boots, which were as eye-catching as two pieces of charcoal in the snow.
"This is Crescent Lake. We will reach our camp in a quarter of an hour by riding north. If you get lost, you can go to my felt bag and have a bowl of milk tea!" Aslan lowered the tip of the arrow downwards and stopped pointing at the other party.
The words he answered were full of vigilance
In fact, running north from here for two hours may not make it to the tribe. He said this just to prevent the ridicule from having any evil intentions. But after hearing his words, the other party seemed very moved and sighed and said: "
The Xi people who have lost their home can still drink milk tea from their friends. Little brother, I thank you, but I have to hurry up and return to the tribe, otherwise the elderly at home will worry about their sons!"
After saying that, he slowly turned around and walked through the snow in the direction he came from.
"Walk more carefully, the road is slippery in the snow!" Xu Dayan shouted enthusiastically in Turkic language at Xi Ren's back. Before the other party's figure disappeared, he turned around in a hurry and whispered to everyone: "Take the rest."
Throw away the donkey meat, and let’s get on our horses and go home!”
"Throw it away, why? There are only two of them, and they haven't even ridden a horse yet!" Duer raised a face full of surprise and asked in a low voice.
"They have never walked into our bow and arrow range and walked here from the Xibu camp in such a cold weather. They haven't ridden horses yet, and the wild donkeys don't have the endurance." Aslan explained eagerly while checking the girdle of the war horses.
"Is it a coincidence that both of them are wearing black clothes, even the styles are exactly the same?" Li Xu added next to him, picked up Gan Luo, and jumped on the mount with the most agile movements.
After hearing what Aslan said, several other herdsmen did not dare to neglect. They threw down the uncut donkey meat together with the skin and the head. After tightening the girth of the horse, they jumped on the horse's back.
Duer and Basimi were in front, and Asilan and E were stunned, sandwiching Li Xu, Xu Dayan and the two girls, and slowly began to speed up. The group had just run five or six miles, when suddenly there was a sound coming from behind.
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves
"Little brother, wait a minute, I'll go to your tent to ask for a bowl of tea!" The voice asking for directions just now shouted loudly in the distance.
This person was so strong that Li Xu was surprised to know that the person coming was definitely not an ordinary herdsman. Without looking back, he slapped his mount and galloped away.
The mounts of the eight people were not very good horses. They were tired from running before. Even if they threw away all the donkey meat, their running speed still slowed down quickly. The "guest" behind them was getting closer and closer.
Not only can you hear the hoofbeats and shouts of horses while running, but sometimes the wind is strong, and you can even hear their shouts and curses clearly.
"After the man broke up, the woman carried Gan Luo back to the camp to report to the clan leader that a large group of troops was coming!" Xu Da ordered with a sullen face as he saw the pursuers getting closer and closer.
His words have always had prestige among the people. When the six men heard this, they took the horse heads and bows in their hands, turned their bodies sideways, and pointed the arrow points behind them.
In the distance, a black cloud passed over. It was the color of the pursuers' leather coats illuminated by the snowy light. There were only about twenty people coming, but they brought nearly seventy horses with them. They could change their mounts at any time along the way.
No wonder they are getting closer and closer
"It's all my fault for suggesting coming to Crescent Lake!" Duer's teeth were chattering, regretting that they were friends of Li Xu and Xu Dayan, and they also shouldered the mission of protecting the two teenagers. Elder Zeng Duo
I secretly told you that no matter what, don't let your distinguished guests encounter danger. Everyone was extremely careful, but they didn't expect that they would encounter a group of ridiculing people while hunting.
"If we don't come to Crescent Lake, they will trample our camp tonight!" Li Xu mustered up all his courage and tried not to sound like he was trembling. "More than twenty people, more than a hundred horses, this
It’s clear that a large group of people sent out scouts!”
"Ah!" Two screams rang out from the direction of the horse's head at the same time. Li Xu turned around and saw Eru and Tao Kuo Tuosi holding bows and arrows. They didn't listen to Xu Dayan's arrangement and took the lead to escape.
"Why don't you leave?" Xu Dayan saw the two girls turning their horses' heads around, and fire immediately burst out from his eyes.
"People will not abandon their friends and run away alone!" Eru and Tao Kuo Tuosi replied loudly. Bengong's hands were trembling all the time, but their tone of voice was extremely firm.
"Go away, don't stop us from going back to the tribe, otherwise all the men in the tribe will die because of you two!" Li Xu, who had always been mild-tempered, suddenly raised his eyes and shouted. He suddenly realized that Gan Luo was still with him.
On horseback, he picked up the robe and threw the little wolf and the robe fiercely into Tao Kuo's chest, "Go back and inform Chief Xier that there is a large group of people coming to attack!"
Neither Tao Kuotosi nor Gan Luo had ever seen Li Xu look so fierce. He was unprepared and was so shocked that he couldn't make a sound. Eru's mind was spinning fast. She looked at the black clouds flying quickly in the distance and understood immediately.
After realizing that Xu Dayan and Li Xu's words were not alarmist, he turned the horse's head, pulled up the reins of his sister's horse, and fled towards the camp as quickly as possible.
"Six people, shoot in three waves! Fuli and Duer shot Bashimi in the first round, Caitiaotai shot in the second round, and Aslan and I shot in the third round
