Chapter 5 Deer Hunting (Part 2) On the way back, Li Xu had been in a daze. Xu Dayan was still a little excited after his small trial, but seeing his good friend's lack of interest, he also felt a little uninterested. But Aslan and Su
Chu Fuli and the others were extremely happy. Along the way, they discussed without scruple who was the first to rush into the camp and who killed the first enemy warrior, as if they were afraid that something would be omitted from the long notes compiled by the elders to record the war.
It’s as if he takes his own share of the credit
There was still a full day's journey before approaching the tribe, and the warriors in the coalition army had already begun to tidy up their clothes and armor. Regardless of the coldness of the spring river, they took turns jumping in when setting up camp to wash away the smell of blood and sweat on their bodies, as well as the splashes.
The armor with the woman's blood, the scimitar that had just killed the old man, and the horse hooves that had stepped on the bones of children were all cleaned up to spotless quality. Many warriors from wealthy families also hung copper and silver bells hanging between the corners of their armor and their braids.
It was brought down and polished with river sand until it was shiny enough to be seen, and then it was hung back up in the distance meticulously.
Li Xu and Xu Da looked at it interestingly, and somewhat forgot about some of their worries. As the team gradually approached Su Chuobu's camp, the scene in front of them immediately became brighter. Old Su Chuobu, who had already received the good news of his son's victory, and the women arranged the camp.
It is as beautiful as a garden. Compared with the black smoke-emitting Xi tribe camp in Li Xu’s memory, this place is simply a fairyland on earth.
The green grass that had just sprouted up was carefully tidied by the women, and the mugwort, spiny dog and other tall-stemmed plants were pulled out by hand. Looking from a distance, the grass near the camp looked like a large green carpet. From the left
The clouds spread far away to the sky on the right
Whether they were the elders of the tribe or the shepherd slaves who had just gained freedom due to their meritorious service, everyone welcomed the camp. The rich aroma of mare's milk wine and milk tea made people twitch, but the laughter of girls from all tribes made them laugh.
More attractive than wine and tea. Under the leadership of Eru and Tao Kuo Tuosi, hundreds of flowery girls holding wine bowls greeted the horses returning home.
The dressed-up girl was the focus of attention from all the men in the room. Li Xu clearly heard the throats of the guards around him twitching. The men had just experienced a killing and urgently needed to find a gentle harbor to rest. Each girl was more beautiful than the last.
, then generously raised his red lips to the hero
Eru walked at the front of the team. She wore an imitation Han qujing made from the yellow Sichuan brocade she bought from Li Xu and Xu Dayan at the end of last autumn. The qiu was reshaped and combined the advantages of Hu clothing.
, the deliberately tightened waist and the skirt falling from top to bottom in an arc perfectly set off her feminine figure. Under the April sunshine in the world, the girl in yellow shirt blooms like spring flowers in the green fields.
The girl walked up in a graceful manner, picked up a bowl of wine, held it high in front of her father's horse, opened her red lips, and sang in a low voice: "Ejinsir of the Suchu tribe led the wolves to drive away the wild dogs, and the flowers on the grassland are for you.
And open, the sunshine in the sky becomes brighter because of you..."
"The flowers on the grassland bloom for you, and the sunshine in the sky is bright because of you..." All the girls sang together and sang repeatedly in Turkic language. For them, it was Su Chuoxil who took the timely offensive action to save the life.
Su Chuixil can definitely bear the long-term responsibility of deciding the destiny of the tribe.
A faint smile appeared on Li Xu's face. If he were purely looking at Lin Ren's point of view, this was indeed a memorable victory. Although he had been feeling sad about the killings these days, deep down in his heart, he had already forgotten Su.
Chubu regarded half of his family as his own. When other people in the family were happy, he couldn't spoil everyone's happiness by himself.
"The flowers on the grassland bloom for the warriors, and the sunshine in the sky is bright because of the blood of the warriors!" Su Chuixil took the wine bowl on the horse and turned around to shout to all the victorious soldiers behind him.
"Warrior Sir! Fearless Sir" the soldiers shouted loudly. This is their tradition. When they are happy, everyone knows what they should do to make all the tribesmen happy.
Su Chuixil raised the wine bowl, dipped a few drops in his fingers and sprinkled it into the sky three times, then dipped a few more drops into it three times and sprinkled it onto the earth. Finally, he drank the kumiss in the bowl.
Two unknown and beautiful girls held a long white hada and raised it high above their heads. Su Chuixil bent her body as hard as she could on the horse, lowered her head, and asked the girl to raise her feet to hang the hada.
on his thick neck
"Warrior Syl! Fearless Syl" the soldiers cheered again, Su Chuixil pulled out his scimitar, saluted everywhere, then jumped off the horse, pulled up the reins and walked into the welcoming crowd. Qing Aunt and Su Chuixil
Several other wives immediately gathered around, hurriedly wrapping their arms around their husbands and hugging the whole family, and slowly stepped onto the red carpet that was spread from the entrance of the camp to the central tent.
"The wise elder Etuo, his vision is deeper than the sea..." Eru picked up the second bowl of wine, chanted softly and held it up to the elder Etuo of the Suchu tribe. Etuo laughed and picked up the wine bowl.
Thank you to the sky, the earth and the warriors, then drink wine, accept the hada offered by the girls, jump off the horse, and stagger towards your family
The third bowl of wine was given to the Shetuo Minister Lao Sha Ge who was accompanying the army. The girl's red lips had just opened, but Shetuo Sha Ge gently took the war horse away and said modestly: "The Shetuo Department completely borrowed Su Chui this time."
With all the majesty of the ministry, Brother Sha dare not drink this bowl of wine. The real heroes are not old people like us..."
"The hero is the original boy!" Na Miye, the elder who participated in the last battle and reaped many benefits from following the group, was the smartest. Seeing that Brother Shetosa refused to take credit, he naturally did not want other tribal elders either.
He was in front of him, pointed at Xu Dayan and Li Xu, and asked loudly to the warriors of the Xi tribe around him: "Who has customized the trap for us to hunt beasts, and who has brought us the confidence to win.
Who killed the enemy's leader when he cut down Suotou Xiren's great banner?"
"Sage Xu, whose wisdom is as deep as the crescent moon lake! Xu Xian, whose courage is greater than that of a leopard!" The warriors responded to Xu with a roar. Everyone saw the merits of Li and Li with their own eyes, and no one was not convinced.
Eru's eyes suddenly became brighter than the spring sunshine. She held the wine bowl in both hands and came to Xu Shiji tremblingly. She raised her head, stared at the other person's handsome face, and sang in a low voice: "The wind of wisdom blows from the south.
Come, open the eyes of the warriors. The brave Xu Xian comes from the Central Plains to help the Xi people defend their homeland..."
Listening to this melodious song and looking at the bright eyes in front of him, Xu Shiji's big eyes burst out with dazzling brilliance. He laughed and took the wine bowl, paying tribute to heaven, earth and his companions according to the etiquette of the people of Xi. Black armor, red
Horse, silver cloak, in an instant, in the eyes of the girl, all the brilliance was covered by him alone
Xu Dayan had no family in the grassland. Eru walked into the tribe side by side with him. Looking at his good friend's high-spirited look, Li Xu smiled knowingly. Suddenly, a clear spring water slid across the grass and floated in front of him.
Tao Kuo took off her silk and wore the same sky-blue silk shirt that Li Xu wore when they first met her. The spring breeze that suddenly turned warm and turned cold made her cheeks burn, but the girl would rather endure the cold wind to show off her most touching moment.
Her figure was like an orchid in the green field, and her voice was like Shi Kuang's drum and harp. Li Xu was intoxicated again, and he was so groggy that he forgot all the worries outside his body.
After completing a set of etiquette, Tao Kuo took off his silk clothes and took Li Xu's hand and walked into the camp. Today is a common festival for all the nearby Xi tribes. It has been nearly twenty years, and no similar festival has been held on the grasslands around Yueya Lake.
Every pore in the girl's body feels proud that her sweetheart can sit in the front row to watch the ceremony.
"I want to marry a young hero!" At the coming-of-age ceremony last summer, a thirteen-year-old girl prayed to the full moon in the sky. The moonlight heard the girl's prayer and sent a heroic boy to her from thousands of miles away.
around
He never flinched in the face of danger, cut off the opponent's royal flag in the midst of thousands of troops, and killed the old enemy from his horse in front of the two armies. Such a young hero has never appeared in Su Chuanbu in a hundred years. The second one is more intoxicating to the girl.
Yes, he once sacrificed his life to save people in times of crisis. Although he cursed very fiercely that day, every time the girl thought of the word "go", she felt it was a hundred times more beautiful than the love songs of any boy of the same age.
Aslan, the magical hunter of the Suchu tribe, Gesana, the warrior of the Shetu tribe who killed five opponents in a battle, Hou Quli, who was the first to rush into the enemy's camp, and Ashubi, who blocked the enemy's escape route.
The red-faced warriors and the intoxicated elders were supported by the girl onto the white felt used for the ceremony. The grassland nation respects the warriors. Today's seating order is not based on their status in the clan, but based on their military exploits.
The higher the position, the greater the credit, and naturally it becomes the focus of the girls' attention.
Girls in costumes shuttled between the seats like butterflies, holding large bowls of wine for the heroes in their hearts. The more they sat in the front row, the more wine bowls were delivered. Unlike the girls from the Central Plains who were shy, the girls from the Sing tribe looked at people.
Their eyes were always unscrupulous. Their smiles were like flowers, and they frequently cast glances at the young people in the front row. In contrast, in the center of the camp, the tribal elders wore masks and jumped with all their strength to worship the heaven and earth and the souls of the war dead.
But not many girls went to see the dance.
The celebration scene carefully prepared by the people was very grand. The hero from ancient legends, the white swan transformed into a boy to save the people from suffering and impregnated the girls of the people. The story was completely narrated in the long song and music, wearing various masks, clothes and hair.
The elders hung with bells jumped and danced hard, as if they were using their lives to welcome the sacred moment of the rejuvenation of the Lin tribe.
Ninety-nine shirtless underage men came up with swords. They were the future warriors of the tribe and important objects who came to receive the blessings of their ancestors and the blessings of the sacrificial heroes. In the midst of the chanting, an eight or nine-year-old man with delicate skin appeared.
The little boy bravely raised the knife and cut his thumb first
Ninety-eight scimitars were high up, waving by arms not much longer than the scimitars, pointing to the blue sky and the grassland. Then, the teenagers cut their thumbs at the same time and dripped the blood from their fingertips in turn into a wooden basin.
The blood steamed in the sun, and was lifted up, put down, put down, lifted up, and finally enshrined in front of the portraits of the ancestors by the masked elders.
The teenagers ran down and brought in nine horses, nineteen strong bulls, and ninety-nine snow-white lambs. The trumpets sounded continuously. In the murderous atmosphere, the teenagers helped each other and divided the horses, bulls and lambs into batches.
Slaughter, offer the blood to the sky, offer the pieces of meat to the ancestors, take out the internal organs and place them in a wooden basin, hold them in both hands and offer them to the soul of the holy wolf who protects the tribe in the dark.
Li Xu was shocked by the grand and bloody scene and was a little dizzy. He quietly retracted his gaze from a distance and fell on the girls who were passing by to toast. Suddenly, he saw Eru with a red face surrounded by a group of girls, and several of them
The girl pointed, her hot eyes scanning towards Xu Dayan next to her
"Brother Xu is in trouble now!" Li Xu quickly looked away from Eru. According to his understanding of the tradition of the Lin tribe, Eru, who has a fiancé, has lost the right to choose a tent. After today's carnival,
There must be countless girls from various tribes looking forward to getting into Xu Dayan's felt tent, and the reason why Eru was surrounded by them must be to find out where Xu Dayan lives.
Just as he was about to remind Xu Dayan to retaliate for being laughed at by this person, he was suddenly bitten on his earlobe. At the same time, a faint fragrance came from his nostrils.
"The woman from the Shetou Department is asking you where is your felt bag?" Ekuotosi said, baring her beautiful fangs like a little wolf, with three parts of jealousy and seven parts of pride in her words.
Li Xu's face suddenly turned red to the root of his neck. He saw a girl smiling at him in the distance. He knew that the way he and Tao Kuo were taking off their clothes would definitely cause misunderstandings among countless people, so he wanted to push her away gently.
The girl's body pressed closer, her nose twisted slightly, and she said sweetly and gently: "I will let Gan Luo guard your felt bag tonight. If they want to come, they can come. I'll see Gan Luo knock them down first."
You’d better welcome them first!”
"Oh my God!" Li Xu innocently spread his hands. The girl's sour look looked very interesting. He suddenly remembered that among the trophies Su Chuixil gave him, there was a pair of light red translucent tortoiseshell hairpins.
It’s worthy of the girl’s long white and golden hair
At this time, he completely forgot about the bloody smell of these treasures. He reached out and touched the girl's hair, and was about to ask her to go get the hairpin with him. However, he saw the girl's eyes widening and asked, "What kind of trophy did you get? Prepare it for me."
Got a gift?"
There was such a tacit understanding that Li Xu was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to reveal the gift. He hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice: "There are a lot of them. I'll save them for you to pick later. You can take whatever you want. You're welcome!"
"Silly Fu Li, won't you bring it to me yourself?" The girl pouted her pretty lips and asked angrily.
"Is there any difference?" Li Xu asked blankly, trying to pull Tao Kuo out of his clothes to explain, but the girl stepped on him hard and jumped away like a deer.
"Only women and villains are difficult to raise!" Li Xu tried to find a balance for himself in his stomach. The pain on his toes was a little warm, making people feel warm in their hearts, as if they were holding Gan Luo in their arms again.
At noon, the celebration reached its climax. Led by Su Chuoxil's younger brother Su Chuofuli, more than a hundred sword-wielding warriors used cowhide ropes to pull the surviving dozen elders of the Xi tribe to the center of the tribe.
"Kneel down!" The warriors kicked and beat them roughly, pushing the elders who were once gorgeously dressed but now covered in mud and horse dung to the ground.
"What are they going to do?" Li Xu couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked in a low voice.
There was a caring pressure on his shoulders, and the drunk Xu Dayan put his right arm on his shoulders intentionally or unintentionally.
Amidst the sound of desolate horns, the warriors jumped around the dejected elders of the Xi tribe, and after singing a few war songs, Su Chuofu Li picked up a scimitar and walked slowly to the front of the elders. The elders immediately shrank, and everyone
They tried their best to move their bodies as far away as possible, fearing that Su Chu would be the first one to pull him out.
Su Chuofuli looked around, grabbed Wu Yiler by the collar, and the crowd immediately burst into cheers. The warriors of the Allied Army were all familiar with Wu Yiler for more than four months. Su Chuoxil and
Xu Dayan teamed up to tease this unfortunate old man countless times, and each time he left enough laughter for everyone.
"Elder Wu Yile, are you willing to use your own blood to wash away the sins of your tribe?" Amid the cheers, Su Chufuli put a scimitar on Wu Yile's neck and asked loudly
"I, I, forgive..." Wu Yile wanted to beg for his life, but the dignity of the elder did not allow him to do so. He muttered and hesitated repeatedly. The old man's spirit finally collapsed and he cried and begged: "Spare your life, for the sake of it."
For the sake of immortality, please spare my life. I, the masters of the Su Chuo tribe, and Wu Yile, the elder of the Xi tribe who has lived by the Suotou River for generations, are willing to work as cows and horses for the rest of my life to repay your kindness of not killing!"
"Coax!" The surrounding Xi tribes burst into laughter again. Wu Yile's embarrassed look made them very happy. Since last autumn, the large number of Xi tribes who came from afar were like a dark cloud, pressing down on several nearby tribes.
The dark clouds above our heads finally cleared today
"I will not forgive you, I only ask if you are willing to use my own blood to give you
