Chapter 1 Big Thief (five blows) "Since spring, there has been a legend on the grassland that two young men from the original helped the Lin tribe to eat up a large tribe with a population of nearly 10,000. I didn't expect that I saved one of you today.
Aren't you calling the shots in the Ministry of Finance? How come you're a guest of Ah Shi's house again?" Before Li Xu could figure out the mystery in his mind, Liu Jizhen, a Turkic man wearing animal skins, asked first.
"It's a long story..." Li Xu's eyes dimmed and he replied in a low voice that the impression given by the horse thieves around him was not bad. Apart from their bad reputation, these people's behavior was not at all like the legend.
Even Liu Jizhen, who is as vicious as a thief and wants to get to the bottom of things, doesn't look as annoying as Ashina Queyu.
He briefly described how Ashina Choyu came to Su Chuo tribe; how he used alcohol to facilitate the marriage contract of the Aslan family and used the opportunity to force the leader of the Xier family into a dead end; how he facilitated the marriage between the Xier family and the Ashina family.
He only concealed the affair between himself and Tao Kuo Tuosi. At the end, he added sadly: "Since the Su Chuan tribe already has the Turks as a big backer, naturally Brother Maogong and I are no longer important. Rather than waiting to be betrayed by others,
If you have to rush, you might as well go home on your own initiative!"
"I'm afraid that the Ashina family stole your heart, so you left in anger!" The young man, whom everyone called Heizi, "exposed" unceremoniously. Li Xu frowned, unwilling to pay attention to this provocative person.
Dude, Heizi followed without hesitation, "Bah, the elders of the Su Chuan tribe are all blind. They didn't even notice such a simple conspiracy. You and the guy surnamed Xu, a small tribe with tens of thousands of people, are gone."
What value does it have in the eyes of the Ashina family? If the engagement is broken, won't they be left in a state of despair?"
"That's not necessarily true. Zhong Jian left Silver Wolf with Su Chuobu, which is equivalent to leaving a big bargaining chip in Su Chuobu's hands." The big man Liu Hongji shook his head and commented in a low voice that he didn't know that Gan Luo was used by Su Chuobu.
The one that was forcibly seized was thought to be a living chess piece left by Li Xu in the tribe in order to destroy Ashina Queyu's plot. After saying this, he looked at the young man in front of him with a smile, and he had a lot of evaluation of him in his heart.
A few points higher
"If he had taken the wolf away with him, he would have been hacked to death on the grassland by those barbarians before he even reached Wulie River!" Heizi raised his eyelids and revealed the fact mercilessly.
"That's right, those bastards admire the silver wolf so much. The two and a half young men carrying the silver wolf are equivalent to holding thousands of taels of gold and swaggering around. Not to mention the Xibu, the Khitan and Turkic bastards will be jealous after seeing this.
, I, Old Liu, have to rush to grab it first!" Liu Jizhen added angrily that he didn't care about his identity as a Turk. He opened his mouth with a beard and kept his mouth shut, and cursed the bastard.
"The Khan hired a silver wolf to show off, why would you, a thieves, want a wolf?" Heizi seemed unhappy if he didn't fight. After finishing his taunt, Li Xu started to trouble Liu Jizhen again.
"You're a cow herder and you know nothing!" Liu Jizhen, a Turkic man, was not as polite as others to Heizi. He opened his mouth with a curse word: "My surname is Liu, who is the real owner of this grassland. At that time, my ancestor Ogus Khan (
When Mao Dun (Liu Yuan) ruled the desert, the Ashina family didn't know how to lie down in the grass? Today I am the leader of the bandit, and I will show you a big hat one day!"
"Okay, I'll watch with my eyes wide open!" Heizi responded with a smile. Liu Ji is really a jerk. It's hard to win a fight with him.
"This group of people are fighting on the surface, but they are very harmonious among themselves!" Li Xu nodded secretly, and he had a better impression of the horse thieves. At this moment, he heard the vendor ask again, "So,
You arrived at Ashinachoyu's camp and gave him a big lesson before he was prepared?"
"Why are we willing to provoke such a person?" Li Xu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "He forced us to work as errands in the Turks, so Brother Maogong and I had to steal horses and escape!"
Seeing the confusion on the other party's face, Li Xu had to briefly talk about the grudge with Ashina Queyu and skipped the matter of setting fire to seize the door. Judging from today's situation, even if he and Xu Dayan did not set fire to
, Ashina Choyu’s camp cannot be saved either.
Mentioning Xu Dayan, his heart began to sink again. Although he had set fire to his clothes last night, he didn't know if he had attracted all the pursuers. There were hunting dogs in front of the Turkic troops. Xu Dayan was tired and exhausted.
No chance to escape the hunting dogs?
Thinking of this, he clasped his fists at Liu Hongji and asked in a low voice: "Zhai Leader Liu, I wonder if you saw a Han with a similar build to me when you were blocking the Turks last night?"
"Are you asking Xu Xianzhe? There must not be him in the valley." Liu Hongji shook his head and replied, "We have killed the dozens of people who chased you into the valley. The twenty or so people outside the valley are Ji Zhen."
He who cooks it is the owner of the village here, I just made a business along the way!"
Li Xu was stunned, and turned his eyes full of surprise and doubt to the Turkic man. When the other party saw his eyes sweeping over, he immediately shook his head like a rattle, "No, there must be no brothers who do things neatly, including people and dogs."
If you haven’t let go of one of them, I’m sure you won’t talk about Xian Xu. He is now so famous on the grassland. If I see him, I will definitely invite him back to the village to serve as a military advisor!”
"I'm afraid people think you are Liu Adou!" Heizi couldn't help but interrupt again.
"If I were Liu Adou, I would capture you as Jiang Wei and make you die of exhaustion in front of the battle, while I myself will be demoted as Xiaoyao Gong!" Although Liu Jizhen is a bandit, he can recite two sentences of the deeds of the hero with the same surname.
Heizi was choked to the point of being speechless again.
"Brother Heita's parents were forced to death by the government, so don't mind if you don't like anyone. That's just the way he is, and he is still a good person!" Zhang Liang saw Li Xu's surprised look and explained to him with a smile.
Li Xu smiled and remained silent. What surprised him in his heart was not the sharp teeth of Heimao, but the surprise that Liu Jizhen was actually the leader of this group of people. Regardless of his external appearance and inner temperament, Liu Hongji was more like a man with heavy weapons in his hands.
Although Liu Jizhen, a green forest tycoon, looks fierce, he does not have the heroic spirit that makes people respect him.
"We have few people, but there are many in Yu, so we either don't take action, or we take action and kill the entire chasing army. Only in this way can the other party not understand our reality and dare not catch up again until he has mobilized enough."
Manpower, we have already passed the Great Wall!" Zhang Liang continued to explain to Li Xu the reason why the horse thieves were so evil and ruthless, as if he was afraid of leaving a bad impression on the other party.
"It should be so! Master Zhang is really a thoughtful person!" Li Xu was perfunctory about Zhang Liang's enthusiasm. He always had an instinctive wariness.
Everything was ruined for me. The leader of Zhang Village called him brother-in-law as soon as they met. Could it be that he wanted to get me to join the gang?
"I'm just a horse dealer, not a village owner!" Zhang Liang smiled and shook his head, "Right now, horses are expensive in the Central Plains, but Ashina Queyu doesn't allow the nearby herdsmen to sell horses to us. We were all forced to do nothing, so we just
We worked together to kill him, and it was thanks to you that you set his stable on fire first, otherwise, we would have had no chance to do it!"
Horse dealer? Li Xu's eyes widened again. He couldn't believe that Zhang Liang was really a hawker. Although this man's dress was no different from his father, Sun Jiu and others, and his smile also contained the same philistine spirit as Wang Mazi and others, but that
The alert mind and the ruthlessness in the flashing eyes are definitely not that of an ordinary hawker. To borrow Xu Dayan's words, people with such eyes have at least killed people or commanded soldiers, and have never seen blood.
People don’t carry murderous intent
Several people talked about it and told each other their known origins and names. The young man who was looking for people to fight against was called Wu Heitai. He was an orphan whose parents both died. He was currently following Zhang Liang.
The clerk and swordsman named Liu Hongji was indeed a child of an aristocratic family, but his family had already been in ruins. This time the emperor mobilized troops and gave him a chance to serve the country, but he was unable to rush to the state in time because he had no money to buy a horse.
When he checked in, the official with a stroke of his pen dismissed him as a deserter and was thrown into prison. Thanks to the money provided by a few friends in the world, he had the opportunity to "escape" and escape to the grassland.
The Turkic man named Liu Jizhen was the young master of the horse thief. The name "Gust of Wind" was the nickname given to his brothers by the herdsmen. This man and horse walked on the border fortress. When the Sui officers and soldiers came, they took refuge outside the fortress and when the Turkic officers and soldiers came to suppress them, they fled.
Entering the Sui Dynasty, they lived a happy and happy life, but the doctor who was treating Black Wind's wounds in the distance was an ordinary doctor whose surname was Niu Xiu, who was also a horse dealer. Because of Zhang Liang's heavy accent, Li Xu had heard his last name as "Jinda".
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"May I ask all the heroes, is the road in the valley still open?" Li Xu asked tentatively after getting acquainted with everyone. He didn't want to hang out with the horse thieves for too long. Although the Li family was not a wealthy family,
The family tradition is very strict. If his parents in the Central Plains find out that he is hanging out with a thief, even if the other person is a green forest hero, his parents will not be able to hold their heads up in front of others. If the valley is not blocked by stones and wooden sticks,
, he planned to say goodbye to everyone and go around alone to find Xu Dayan. No matter whether the other party had left or not, Li Xu could rest assured only by getting accurate information.
"What, are you going to go back and find your brother Maogong?" Wu Heita curled his lips and asked with a sneer.
"I want to look back. In order to let me escape last night, he jumped off the horse alone!" Li Xu answered calmly that Xu Dayan could sacrifice his life to save himself, and he should do the same for him in return, regardless of whether the Turks would
Come here, you have to do this
Liu Hongji, Zhang Liang and others all nodded approvingly. After listening to Li Xu's introduction, they also admired Xu Dayan's courage and chivalrous heart. If such a young hero is captured by Ashina Queyu, no matter what, everyone will
We should also find a way to rescue him
"Do you really believe that he jumped off the horse to save you?" Wu Heita's thoughts are always different. It seems that if he doesn't cause trouble for others, he will feel uncomfortable all over.
"What do you mean by that?" Li Xu felt a little angry in his heart. He opened his eyes wide and asked, no matter how this black-faced guy mocked him, he could bear it for the sake of saving his life last night.
Insulting Brother Maogong, I can only compete with him on bow and horse
"Heizi!" Liu Hongji shouted in a low voice. As soon as they met, Wu Heitai talked nonsense without knowing the meaning. Even if it were him, he would still feel uncomfortable.
"What do you mean? I am laughing at you for being stupid and making a fuss. Is the goal of the horse or the goal of the human being greater?" Wu Heitai ignored Brother Liu's scolding this time and kept his tongue: "Give the horse to you,
Obviously he is at a disadvantage, but secretly he asked you to attract all the pursuers. Anyway, the horse has no strength, and it can't run very far!"
"Shut up!" Li Xu was furious and pressed his hand on the handle of the knife. "Brother Xu is definitely not that kind of person. Brother Xu will give up all the wealth he has for me!" He defended loudly, his body being crushed.
Wu Heitai was so angry that he was trembling. Zhang Liang and Liu Jizhen saw this and quickly stepped forward to hold his arm.
"It's not a matter of life and death. Good brothers are those who don't share the same fate. Moreover, the horse was stabbed in the butt and injured its muscles and bones. Although it can run faster in a short period of time, the horse will be disabled if it can't run very far!" Wu Heitai!
But he won't let others go when he has the advantage, and continues to run around with his mouth full of tongues
"Draw your sword, I will decide the outcome with you today!" Li Xu shook his shoulders, threw away Zhang Liang and Liu Jizhen, and strode towards Wu Heitai. His eyes were completely burning with anger. He wanted to kill the bully in front of him.
guy to defend his friend's honor
"Come here, who is afraid of you!" Wu Heitai jumped out of the way and picked up his iron fork again. Seeing that the two were about to fight, Liu Hongji reached out and drew his knife, blocking the two young men's arms.
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"If you don't chew your tongue, I won't be able to choke you to death!" He swung his knife, first knocked Wu Heitai's iron fork away, then twisted his body, and placed the steel knife in his hand on the scimitar that Li Xu had struck.
"Bang!" The two weapons collided with sparks. The scimitar in Liu Hongji's hand was so thin that it suddenly broke into two pieces. Seeing that Li Xuhan's angrily slashing knife was about to cause trouble, an iron rod, two
The dagger was placed in front of Liu Hongji at the same time
"Hey!" At the critical moment, Li Xu shook his body continuously, slashed the scimitar diagonally, and hit it heavily on the grass beside him. The long autumn grass was immediately swept up by the wind of the knife, and a large amount of green snow was scattered.
Fly away to the distance
"You have so much strength, little brother!" Liu Hongji, who was almost hit by Li Xu, laughed, grabbed a short knife from Zhang Liang's hand, and once again stood between Li and Wu.
Seeing that he had almost harmed an innocent person, Li Xu had to suppress his anger. Although he hated Wu's mouth, he did not dare to really fall out with everyone. There were more than a hundred horse thieves in the distance, and one person could be killed with one knife.
Chop him into pieces. Besides, if it weren't for the cheap weapons, he might not be Liu Hongji's opponent.
"Brother Liu, please forgive me for offending me!" Li Xu glared at Wu Heitai and inserted the scimitar back into his waist. Wu Heitai, who was holding a steel fork, refused to let go and shouted: "You cut it."
I have a purpose. When Lao Niu comes over later, you can ask him about the injury of his horse and you will know whether what I said makes sense!"
"Shut up, believe it or not, I will sell you to the Turks as a slave!" Liu Hongji raised his eyebrows and shouted loudly. When Wu Heitai saw him, he got really angry, stuck out his tongue, and stopped talking. Liu Hongji frightened him.
, immediately turned around and shouted at Li Xu: "The most important thing in making friends is a word of faith. If you believe in him, what's the use of others gossiping? If you have doubts in your own heart, you will tell everyone else's words."
Even if they are sealed, your own suspicions cannot be sealed!"
This sentence was like an enlightenment, making Li Xu's whole body go cold. Xu Dayan abandoned Su Chuobu and walked in the snow to see him off. In order to save himself a breath, he did not enter the Suchuobu camp, and gave up the temptation of Queyu's wealth and wealth and fled on horseback.
All the past events passed through his mind one by one. If such a friend would betray him at the critical moment of life and death, then who else in the world could he be friends with?
Since coming out of the Great Wall, Li Xu has been betrayed and deceived one after another, which has caused Li Xu to lose the most basic trust in people. If he hadn't met Liu Hongji today, he might never trust anyone again in his life, and Liu Hongji's words just broke his heart.
He suddenly understood the subtle difference between suspicion and vigilance.
He smiled, bowed to Liu Hongji and saluted, "You guys have learned a lesson, thank you Brother Liu for your advice!"
"Observe people for a long time, not for a while!" Liu Hongji smiled and accepted Li Xu's long bow, and added in a low voice
At this moment, Niu Jinda, who had been treating Heifeng's wounds, came over. When Wu Heita saw it, he immediately rushed to ask for help: "How is Peter's injury? Is it useless?"
"Fortunately, no muscles or bones were injured," You Jinda replied, wiping the sweat from his forehead and paying no attention to the fight that just happened here, as if he was more concerned about the animals than the people.
Hearing this, Liu Jizhen and Zhang Liang breathed a sigh of relief. We all have a common friendship to fight against the enemy. If they start fighting with themselves before leaving the grassland, this trip will be a bit worthless.
"If the sweat horse had a big frame and thick flesh, it would have been destroyed long ago!" Wu Heitai glanced at Li Xu and muttered in a low voice.
Li Xu heard it and smiled slightly, as if he heard the autumn wind passing by.
