Chapter 5 Deer Hunting (Mikami) The lingering fragrance on the pillow is still there, but the girl is missing again like the first time. Li Xu is not sure whether Tao Kuo's silk bag really got into his felt bag again last night, but it's just that
I feel a little guilty that I may have messed up things again. If what happened in the dream really happened in the felt bag, within half a month, this incident will once again become the laughing stock of all the men in the tribe.
It wasn't until the spring sun heated up the entire felt bag that Li Xu got up bravely. The battle was over, and there was no need for him to take Gan Luo to boost morale. If I guessed correctly, the elders of the various tribes who participated in the war should have gathered together today.
On the big day to discuss how to distribute the captives, Li Xu couldn't bring himself to pay attention to a group of Xi tribe slaves whose family members he had killed. Sooner or later, he and Xu Dayan would have to return to the Central Plains. Apart from Tao Kuo taking off his silk and having sex with her.
Regarding the relevant memories, Li Xu didn’t want anything here to accompany him when he left.
The strong have everything, and can even trample on the life and dignity of the weak at will. This is the rule of the grassland. Since it is incompatible with this rule, it is better for me to return to my hometown earlier and think of my home thousands of miles away, and the tranquility that is a bit boring.
When he was young, Li Xu was fascinated by it. At that time, he never realized how beautiful those days were. Now that he recalled it, he realized that all the memories were full of warmth.
"If the conscription is over, maybe we can manage the government..." Li Xu suddenly believed with some wishful thinking that Uncle Jiu had said that the officials in the Sui Dynasty were not that bad.
"My brother once died for the Sui Dynasty, his parents are old, and with a few pieces of exquisite jade, the local officials should be able to show some kindness." Li Xu thought silently, and picked up the linen parcels piled in the corner of the felt bag.
The package had obviously been turned over, and the treasures inside had been rearranged and wiped clean. Judging from the size of the pile, all the treasures should be there. Li Xu carefully rummaged through it and found the one he had promised to take off Tao Kuo's silk.
The tortoiseshell hair chisel is gone
"This savage girl!" Li Xu gave a bitter laugh. Knowing that the drunken dream last night was a fact, he looked at his hands in a daze for a while, tied the package, and carried it out of the felt tent.
The spring sunshine makes people feel warm and comfortable. The entire Suchu tribe is bathed in the mid-spring sunshine, looking extremely peaceful. The traces left by the harmonious celebration have been cleaned up by the slaves, and the ground is stained red with blood.
The fragrance of the newly dug black soil grass roots and the smell of burnt wool completely replaced the smell of blood that had been in the air, and made yesterday's madness disappear. Su Chuobu is still the same warm and hospitable Su Chuobu, a kind shepherd.
The smile on his face is still so kind, but in the eyes of the young man, everything under the sun has changed.
Several herdsmen, with their wives and children, were happily marking the newly allocated animals. They were either sewing a piece of cloth on the sheep's ears, or burning a flower on the horse's buttocks. There were many herdsmen who had been living in pursuit of water and grass for a long time.
Ways to separate their own property from other people's property. The songs sung by their ancestors taught them all the survival skills and rules.
Two strong shepherds held down a little girl, put an iron collar around her neck, put a felt soaked in water on the girl's chest, lifted up the melted lead water, and welded the seal of the collar to the girl.
The heat of the lead water splashing on the felt made her burst into tears, but she did not dare to cry loudly, nor did she dare to struggle to dodge. This collar was the mark of a slave, unless a kind-hearted master let her go, or coveted her beauty and married her.
Wife, otherwise, she will never be able to take off the iron collar
Li Xu was heartbroken when he saw it, and he quickened his pace. Fortunately, Duer's home was not far from his felt bag, and in a blink of an eye, Duer, who was missing an arm, failed to participate in the last war, so there was no one in front of his house.
Not as lively as other people’s homes
After Du Er lost an arm, he was in a coma for four days and four nights due to excessive bleeding. The elders in the tribe thought that he had no hope of survival. However, Li Xu and Gan Luo came to call him every day and blessed him with the legend of the Holy Wolf.
It gave him the motivation to live. Li Xu had never believed in strange powers and chaotic gods, adhering to the teachings of the saints, but when he could use them to save people's lives, he never tired of it.
Therefore, the Duer family was very grateful to Li Xu. When they saw him walking in with a big package, they immediately brought out milk tea and snacks. Li Xu did not know how to cook with the methods on the grassland, so most of the lunches in the past few months were
I ate it at Duer and Aslan's house and smelled the fragrance of milk tea. He was not polite, sat cross-legged opposite Duer, and started eating with big mouthfuls.
"Did Tao Kuo get into your felt bag yesterday?" Duer's first question almost made Li Xu choke to death on his milk tea.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Li Xu coughed desperately, his face as red as a rotten persimmon in early winter. Seeing his embarrassed face, Duer chuckled and said with a hint of ridicule: "You are indeed blessed, Tao
Kuotosi is the most beautiful girl in the tribe, and since last summer, so many men within hundreds of miles have been dreaming about her!"
"I didn't do anything!" Li Xu yelled in his heart, the expression on his face was even weirder, but Duer thought he was young and tender, stretched out his only left hand, patted his shoulder, smiled and encouraged, "
Don't be shy, there is nothing for a man to be shy about. Come on, when I was only fourteen years old..."
"Ding!" The silver spoon in the hand of Duer's wife hit the copper bowl and made a crisp sound. The one-armed Duer was so frightened that he stuck out his tongue and swallowed the second half of the sentence.
This kind of thing became increasingly unclear the more he described it. Li Xu shook his head and reluctantly accepted the facts before him. After using cheese, dried meat and milk tea to prop up his stomach, he picked up his parcel, took out a few jade carvings from it, and placed them on Du
in front of you
"Fu Li, what are you doing, bullying me for having only one arm?" The enthusiastic Duer immediately turned his face, stood up side by side with his wife, holding the handle of the knife at his waist and said
"According to the rules of the grassland, you fought side by side with me. As the Holy Wolf Guard, I can transfer my trophies to you!" Li Xu smiled, not being threatened by the Duer couple at all. There are many unwritten laws on the grassland.
Everyone must abide by the customs. For example, when entering a friend's felt bag, you can bring him wine and live sheep, but you cannot give him dry food or meat. Otherwise, it will be equivalent to scolding your friend for being too poor to open the pot.
Li Xu has lived in Su Chuobu for half a year and knows a little bit about the customs here. If he gives the stolen treasure to Du Er as a friend, the two are not blood relatives. It will indeed insult Du Er's dignity, but in the end
As a comrade and superior, Duer could not refuse as a gift of property.
On weekdays, Li Xu's identity is a holy wolf guard, and his status is equivalent to that of a tribal elder. During war, Li Xu can command a hundred warriors, while Duer is just a small arrow (group leader), so Li Xu puts out the words "fight side by side".
, the Duer couple immediately had nothing to say.
The couple understood Li Xu's good intentions and had to sit down. However, they refused to accept the jade sculpture in front of them. From being unable to continue to protect Master Fu Li to the fact that Li Xu and Duer did not belong to each other, they found countless reasons to refuse until Li Xu
Putting on the air of being a guard again, Duer reluctantly ordered his wife to put away the jade sculpture.
Duer was a rich man in the Su Chuan tribe and was well-informed. He knew that the price of any one of the two jade carvings was enough to exchange for a hundred live sheep. He also understood that the reason why Li Xu did this was because he was worried that he would have no life after losing an arm.
Feeling moved, he proposed to give his own horse to Li Xu. Li Xu couldn't bear to push it further and hurt Duer's heart. He thought about it and said: "Forget the horse, I guess the elders will still share the spoils."
Give me a few good horses and I’ll be alone. I don’t usually need that many horses. My family doesn’t have too many sheep. Give me five of them and we’ll go to my house for a drink in the evening!”
When Duer heard this, he was very happy and quickly asked his father to help him go to the wild to catch five of his sheep and bring them back with the thickest fat. Spring is a good season for fattening and conception. Herdsmen rarely slaughter their own animals during this time. But Li Xu
The gift was too expensive, so Duer's miserly father Gable happily jumped on the horse even though his heart ached.
"This time, there are two hundred warriors following Brother Xu and I on the expedition!" Li Xu took a sip of milk tea and continued, "The two of us want to share some treasures with them, but we are afraid that the thickness will be uneven. We want to hear Du
What should you pay attention to!"
"What, you are sharing the treasures with your subordinates!" Duer was so surprised that he almost choked on his milk tea. There is no such thing as military pay on the grassland. In the past, when wars broke out between tribes, soldiers would always offer the plundered loot to their superiors. Although reasonable superiors would eventually
Use some property to reward those who have meritorious service in battle, but you will never share all the spoils that belong to you equally to your subordinates. People who dare to do this are either out of their mind and crazy, or they are trying to buy people's hearts and have evil intentions.
After Duer's repeated explanations, Li Xu finally understood that his and Xu Dayan's ideas were indeed very naive. What Chief Xier said that day was just to give them a reason to accept the spoils.
"Brothers have worked hard, I want to share these things with the brothers!" Every elder would say this when dividing the spoils of war, and they would even argue that a certain warrior under his command did not receive the reward he deserved. In fact, they never
Will they really divide the spoils of war equally among their subordinates? This is a rule that has been established for hundreds of years. Just like executing the most respected among the defeated, no one will care whether it is reasonable or not.
Looking at a large pile of property, Li Xu was in a daze again. Deep in his heart, he had always regarded these properties as the filth robbed on the road and forgot about it when he was happy. Later, when he thought of the wailing that the ridicule made that day, he still felt bad.
A young man from a small family who has not seen much of the world, his experience and nature prevent him from treating other people as human beings, even if they are aliens or enemies.
Duer is quite good at financial management. When he saw a friend worrying about a ridiculous reason, he smiled and gave him advice: "Most people don't understand the value of jade and jewelry, and the things in the package have different values. Unless you put them all
Smash it, otherwise it will be impossible to share it equally with everyone. Instead, take out a few pieces and exchange them with the elders for sheep, but not too many. Two sheep will be enough for you and each warrior under Xu Xianzhe's command. Too many, but it will cause trouble.
Cause unnecessary trouble!"
Li Xu couldn't think of a better way, so he had to implement the plan designed by Duer. Duer also suggested that he and Xu Dayan should not do this kind of thing themselves. It would be better to find a warrior from the Su Chuan tribe.
He brought the treasure to Aslan again and entrusted him with the gift-giving. Aslan was also a cheerful person. Seeing Li Xu's sincerity, he picked out two soapstones of decent quality and an jadeite bracelet from the package.
, happily went to help change the sheep
Li Xu and Du Er picked some more fine jade carvings and sent them to the homes of Erditai and Bathimi. The elders of the two families were secretly weeping because of the death of their sons. Seeing that Fuli treated each other so sincerely, they felt a little better.
As the subordinate's parent, he accepted the gift with great gratitude.
After making an appointment with Duer for a night of drinking, and leaving the matter of slaughtering the sheep and cooking the meat to the couple, Li Xu took the package and went to visit the coppersmith master, Aunt Qing and several other people who had taken care of him.
I passed my herdsman friend in a big circle and came down. The sky was getting dark.
Several young people set up a fire in the open space in front of Li Xu's felt bag, drank wine, ate meat, and sang joyfully. In the recent battle, Su Chuo's tribe suffered little loss but gained a lot, so everyone was in a happy mood. Li Xu felt that yesterday was
Although the shock I suffered has not dissipated, the smile on my face is no longer so forced when facing a large group of friends of similar age and cheerful and optimistic character.
"In order to expel the Suotou Xi people this time, the Bakoruo clan chief of the Chunyi tribe did not keep his promise to send troops, but made many excuses to shirk the situation. I heard that the Xier clan chief was very angry about this!" While the wine was in full swing, A Si
Lan pretended to be mysterious and revealed to everyone
"The boy Bakorona was originally a cow dung with a smooth surface. Eru married him. He was like a flower stuck in the cow dung!" Gosana, a warrior from the Shetou tribe who killed five opponents in the first battle, secretly watched.
Looking at Xu's big eyes, he muttered in a low voice
Eru looked at Xu Dayan with a fiery gaze. Even a fool could see that it meant Su Chuixir united with the nearby tribes to attack the enemy. If Ba Ke of the Chunyu tribe did not keep his promise and send troops to help, it would mean that if Su Chuixir would do anything in the future,
Chu Xier and Zhi Sheba compete for the throne, and he will not stand on the side of his future father-in-law.
Therefore, from the perspective of Eru herself and her family, this marriage contract is worthy of reconsideration. Hou Quli, Ashibi and other young heroes all raised their wine bowls to touch each other, but their eyes secretly glanced at Xu Dayan.
I'm afraid there is another mystery behind what Silan said today. The key to the whole matter now does not depend on Eru, but on the Xu Xian in front of him, whose wisdom is deeper than the Crescent Lake.
"It's not a good idea to fall out with the Chunyu tribe right now!" Xu Dayan seemed not to see the expectation in everyone's eyes. He took a sip of wine and calmly analyzed, "Tribes far away from us who don't know the truth will think that Chief Xier
If you gain momentum and become ruthless, in the future there will be a conflict between the Su Chuan tribe and the Zhi Shi Ba tribe, and people’s hearts will turn to the side of the Zhi Shi Ba tribe!”
Everyone was silent. What Xu Dayan said was indeed a marriage between tribes. It had a strong color of exchange of interests. Moreover, Eru was the apple of the eye of the leader of Xier, one of the beauties within a few hundred miles.
The matter of regretting the marriage is very simple, but the series of chain reactions caused by it may need to be carefully considered by Su Chuobu.
"Hey!" Duer picked up the wine bowl and sighed quietly.
"Hey!" Aslan shook his head.
The fat of the mutton roasted on the fire dripped down, and the flames rose, illuminating everyone's eyes.
The young man's heart was filled with distractions. After a few sips of wine, the topic turned to other places, from the spring fattening of cattle and sheep to Xu Dayan's dreamlike formation of troops.
burst out into laughter
Drinking on the grassland is always drunk because he is in a happy mood. Xu Dayan, who has always drank very restrainedly, made an exception today. He was telling jokes to everyone and drinking bowl after bowl with everyone. Soon, he was the first
One fell down and Aslan and the others laughed and continued to raise their bowls to each other. It wasn't until everyone's bodies began to sway that they dispersed laughing.
Li Xu once again defeated the crowd with his drinking capacity. He closed the stall and put out the fire. He still felt clear-headed and looked at Xu Dayan, who was drunk into a pile of mud. He shook his head and put his good friend on his shoulders. Xu Dayan was not because
He was happy and looking for someone to drink with him. The rough-tempered Lin Ren couldn't tell, but Li Xu knew that his friend was sad.
"Actually, if you marry Eru, what else can others say? The big deal is that we will also have a fight with the Chunyu Department!" Li Xu put Xu Dayan on the blanket, and while preparing the brazier for his friend, Li Xu persuaded him in a low voice.
With the current strength of the Suchu tribe, no tribe within hundreds of miles dares to provoke the leader of the Xier tribe to break off the engagement. The Chunyu tribe, which is already at a disadvantage, may not really dare to raise any objections.
"Zhongjian, you don't understand!" Xu Shiji opened his sleepy drunken eyes and murmured
"Don't you like Eru, my fair lady? What's wrong with a gentleman?" Li Xu asked while blowing on the fire and adding charcoal to the brazier.
"The Xu family is marrying a wife, hehe, the Xu family!" Xu Dayan sneered and turned over.
