Chapter 5 Deer Hunting (Part 7) The day after the caravan left, Xu Dayan went back to the tribe and had a drink in a daze with Li Xu, Tao Kuo Tuosi, Eru, Duer and others, and then
Then he hurried to the Xinkai River in the southeast.
"The Khitans want to avenge Suotou Xi!" Before leaving, Xu Dayan hurriedly dropped this sentence. As for the relationship between the Khitans and the Xi people, no one except Li Xu, Aslan and others knew.
In addition to the Lin tribe, there are also five major tribes living on this grassland: the Xi, Khitan, Shiwei, Mohe, and Turkic tribes. There are more than a dozen small tribes that Li Xu cannot name and do not belong to. They all regard wolves as their ancestors.
They can be considered relatives. They have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and they can also be considered enemies. When the Suotouxi people were driven out by the Turks and became homeless, the Khitans refused to move them into their own pastures. Now the Suotouxi tribe has perished.
Now, the Khitan people recalled their love for incense and aggressively demanded that the Zhuxin coalition forces release the prisoners of war from the Suotouxi tribe and "return" the property, cattle and sheep of their relatives.
Before integrating the various tribes of the Xi tribe into one, the Suchu tribe did not have the strength to fight with the Khitans, so they could only send envoys to bargain with the Khitans. Xu Xian, whose wisdom is deeper than Yueya Lake, believes that the Khitans will give up
Xi's revenge is false, but taking the opportunity to fight against the autumn wind is true. As long as the Zhulin coalition forces take precautions on the border, the battle will not start for a while.
In the days without war, the wind blew away the bloody memories. Li Xu's inn developed rapidly, and the business was booming beyond everyone's expectations. Zhang Ji and Wang Kewang were both businessmen, and bargaining was their specialty.
Ah Yun, who has learned Chinese characters, is assisting her. It is more than enough for the three of them to manage a small warehouse.
After he no longer had to worry about business matters, Li Xu turned all his energy to practicing martial arts and reviewing his lessons. The coppersmith master was a good teacher. Not only could Li Xu learn the skills of sword and horse from him, but he also wanted to please Old Master Yang.
The words that were memorized by rote and recorded the achievements of Yue Gong were suddenly cheerful when explained by the coppersmith. The master and the apprentice sometimes argued so much that they forgot to eat and sleep over a record of Master Yang. It was not until the coppersmith's wife was made angry that the conversation ended the next day.
But the coppersmith couldn't help but ordered Li Xu to recite Master Yang's notes and figure out the mysteries himself.
The coppersmith never forgets Nan Chen, and always laments that if someone had sent a surprise attack from somewhere, it would have been enough to defeat the Sui Dynasty's 400,000 soldiers and horses. But the more this happened, the more he admired the wisdom and courage of the Northern Sui general "Da Chen"
He did not die at the hands of Shu Bao alone! If Gao Ying or Yang Su had been in the south that day, the situation would not have been so corrupt!" Countless times, the coppersmith master drunkenly admired that the love, hatred and resentment of the year had long since become a thing of the past.
, now he only has admiration and respect for his former opponents.
"They all said that it was Empress Zhang who confused Chen Shubao, and that's why Chen was destroyed!" Li Xu argued with his master with a smile.
"Rise and fall are all men's business. Men are stupid, so they put all the blame on women!" The coppersmith took a sip of wine, used an anvil to make a drum, and beat out the sound of "The Beauty of the Country"
, it’s just a good dream! Remember this sentence, only by broadening your horizons in everything can you broaden your horizons!"
"Beauty of the country?" Li Xu knew that his master had regarded Master Yang's notes as appetizers, so he drank too much without knowing it. He was just an ignorant and stupid boy, and it was Luo Yi and Yang Su who pointed the country.
What about the great heroes? As for beauties, a graceful figure floated before his eyes.
Tao Kuo Tuosi had already made a marriage agreement with him, and she was no longer in a hurry to go into his tent according to the tradition of the Xi people. The two of them would occasionally go on horseback trips, wandering from dawn to sunset. There are countless places where the horses' hooves have trampled.
of poetic and picturesque
"Fu Li, do we, our parents really not think that I am a barbarian?" Pulling the reins of his horse, Tao Kuo took off his clothes and asked Eru quietly. The sad and sad look on her face every day made the little barbarian girl very worried.
I am afraid that something will go wrong in my marriage and the tragedy of my sister and Xu Dayan will be repeated.
"My parents don't care so much. They are eager to have their grandson as soon as possible!" Li Xu raised his hand, gently picked off a blade of grass on Tao Kuo's head, and comforted him with a smile.
The caravan has been gone for some time, but no reply from his parents has been sent. Not only that, there is no trace of the matter entrusted to Xu Fu and Wang Mazi to rescue Sun Jiu. When alone, Li Xu often worries about these things.
Sometimes I worry that my parents are not as open-minded as I imagined and can accept a foreigner as my daughter-in-law. Sometimes I worry that Wang Mazi will be timid and cause trouble, making it impossible for Sun Jiu to escape from the hands of corrupt officials. As for whether I am more worried about Uncle Jiu or about having an affair with Tao Kuo.
There are more marriages, and young people themselves can’t figure it out
"Why haven't Uncle Zhang and the others come back with the letter?" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and lowered his head. He kicked up a piece of gravel with his boots and drew a slight mark on the grass tip in early autumn. In an instant, he was submerged in the dark green waves.
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"That third uncle is greedy. He probably has to form a caravan before he is willing to come!" Li Xu was deeply distressed by Tao Kuo's gloomy look as he took off his silk stockings. He stretched out his arms and gently held her shoulders.
Tao Kuo's silky shoulders were tilted back, and he leaned comfortably on Li Xu's chest. In the past six months or so, Li Xu's body has grown a lot. The rich beef and mutton in the tribe have grown in size.
The young man provided sufficient nutrients, coupled with daily martial arts training, horse riding and other factors, which made Li Xu's shoulders and back very broad. Even through his clothes, the girl could feel the hard muscles on the opponent's chest.
The tendon seemed to have magic power. Whenever she leaned on it, the girl was unwilling to raise her head again.
Autumn has come, and the tops of the grass have already been dyed with the color of the sun. When the wind blows, the layers of green waves are dancing with golden scales, like a bay rippling under the sky. Horses are like fish, sheep are like shells, and as for people
, is the god who is at ease among the mirages
"Ayawn!" A few strands of silver hair rolled into Li Xu's nostrils with his breathing, which made him sneeze. The tenderness coming from his chest and the girl's body fragrance brought by the autumn wind made him feel intoxicated, boundless.
In the endless sea of grass, under the sunshine without any dust, he really wanted to stay drunk like this.
"Fu Li, when one day I get old and no longer beautiful, will you get tired of me?" The girl's sweet voice crawled from her chest, followed her ears and penetrated into her heart.
"No, I definitely won't!" Li Xu lowered his head and swore in the girl's ear. Tao Kuo's silky and crystal clear earlobes were like grapes. He was so tempted that he couldn't help but take a bite.
Tao Kuo took off the silk and made a sound, and it seemed to have melted and stuck to his body. Li Xu held a ball of beating flame and sat down slowly. The two horses chirped a few times and ran away impatiently between heaven and earth.
Suddenly it became empty. Under the setting sun, only a pair of shadows leaning against each other were left on the top of the grass.
"You are a hero like my father, but I am not as scheming as Aunt Qing..."
"I'm not a hero, I'm just a small businessman from the Central Plains..."
"You are my hero and always will be..."
The delicate Yin Hong slowly came in, and when she met the hard lips, invisible lightning suddenly surged, triggering a small thunderstorm like flowing clouds, and two trembling eyelashes gently brushed the grassland.
The wind blew a little bit out of the man's rough cheeks. The wind stopped, the grass was quiet, and a blushing sunset slowly hid towards the west, hid away.
"Yes, yes!" A burst of rapid horse hoofbeats shattered the silence on the grassland. Immediately afterwards, another woman's exclamation came from the distance. Sheep panicked and screamed. Sheepdogs roared wildly, thundering from a distance.
All rolled over at the same time
"It's Pa Dai!" Li Xu and Tao Kuo took off their silk clothes and danced at the same time. Aslan's wife Pa Dai is already more than eight months pregnant, but she is unwilling to hide in a felt bag to wait for delivery. She insists on walking to the grassland every day to arrange
The family members and herdsmen took the time to harvest autumn grass. Autumn is very short on the firewood grassland, and the first snow may fall not long after summer. Last year's expedition added a dozen slaves and a large number of slaves to Aslan's family.
Livestock, if you don’t stockpile enough firewood and fodder before the snow falls, people or animals may freeze to death when winter comes.
Tao Kuo Tuosi whistled and called the two mounts closer. The two flew up and took off their horned bows from behind the saddles. Anyone who dared to go wild near the Su Chuobu camp could only be a lone wolf or a desperate horse thief.
The Lin people have a tradition of protecting women and children. No matter how many beasts and horse thieves come, Li Xu and Tao Kuo Tuosi have the obligation to protect Pada and escape safely.
"You should bring Ganluo out!" Li Xu drove the mount with all his strength, while thinking regretfully that Ganluo had grown bigger than any other shepherd dog, and it was so majestic when it howled. With it around, even if there are hundreds of them,
Wild wolves don’t even dare to get even half a step closer to the sheep.
"It's an eagle! It's an eagle that stole Aslan's sheep!" Tao Kuotosi pointed at the sky and shouted, his voice relieved. Eagles are the overlords in the sky, from swans, lambs to hares, all living creatures smaller than it are.
They are all targets of attack. At the turn of summer and autumn, the lambs have just escaped from the protection of the ewes. They are ignorant of external dangers and have small bones and tender meat. They are the best hunting targets for large eagles.
Following Tao Kuo's direction, Li Xu also saw clearly the low-flying figure. It was an adult black eagle, holding a plump lamb in its claws, so it could only fly more than thirty steps high like a flowing cloud.
Behind the scenes, dozens of horses are galloping quickly. The knight on the horse is waving the reins and yelling at the big eagle.
The eagle seemed to be deliberately vindictive. It refused to put down the lamb, nor did it speed up its flight. It flapped its wings leisurely, dismissing all threats in the sky as nothing.
"Great, Sister Pade is fine!" Tao Kuo took off the horse's reins and slapped her chest. The excessive fright and high-speed galloping made her heart almost jump out of her throat, and her face turned red, like a flower in bloom.
As pretty as peach blossoms
Li Xu smiled and looked at the beautiful women beside him, and gently put the arrow on the bowstring. He had promised to shoot one with his own hands and show it to Tao Kuo Tuosi. Tao Kuo Tuosi might have forgotten the promise at that time.
But he himself has not forgotten
The low-flying eagle instinctively felt the threat from below, neighed, and sped up its wings. In the astonished eyes of everyone, it flew higher and higher, and flew higher and higher. Suddenly, its wings paused, and its entire body, together with the claws between its claws,
The prey fell down at the same time
The black eagle fell into the grass, shook off the lamb from its paws, jumped up unsteadily, flew high, fell unsteadily, fell down, flew up again like a drunken drink, and fell again. Finally, it had no strength.
He raised his wings again, raised his head, and let out a sad cry that filled the wilderness.
"Chi!" The chirping sound of the eagle continued endlessly. I couldn't believe that this overlord of the sky was so deadly that someone shot it after it spread its wings.
"Attachment!" Tao Kuo Tuosi shouted excitedly, riding his horse after Li Xu and running towards the direction where the black eagle landed. She saw everything her sweetheart had done for her, riding the horse, bending the bow, and shooting upward.
In the eyes of the girl, there has never been a man on the entire grassland who drew his bow and galloped as smoothly as Fu Li.
Li Xu drew back his bow and mounted his horse. The moment the horse's hooves passed by the black eagle, he suddenly leaned over and picked up the body of the eagle. He unplugged his bow and arrow while galloping, turned the horse's head around, and faced Tao Kuo's silken body.
Smiley running back
The two horses crossed their necks and stopped knowingly.
"Send it to you!" The young man, as majestic as an iron tower, held a black eagle with drooping wings, full of pride.
"Why?" Tao Kuo, who had never known politeness, suddenly became shy, lowered his head, played with the horse's reins, and his voice was as thin as a gnat.
Why? Li Xu didn't know why he remembered the promise he made that day. Looking at Tao Kuo's shy appearance, he suddenly seemed to have a flash of inspiration in front of his eyes. He held up the black sculpture and answered loudly: "Because I want to marry you as my wife!"
"What did you say?" Tao Kuo's face was instantly flushed, and he asked instinctively.
"I want to marry you!" Li Xu took off his clothes in front of Tao Kuo and repeated loudly, regardless of the crowd gradually approaching around him.
"I want to marry you as my wife!" Under the dreamy sunshine, the oath floated away on the grass tips with the evening wind.
