Li Xu couldn't get away, so he had to sit down next to Uncle Jiu. Xu Da saw his face full of embarrassment, but he became embarrassed, suppressed the laughter in his stomach, and turned his head away. Hao Laodao, however, refused to give up.
, his eyes scanned Li Xu up and down, trying to see the similarities and differences between the muscles and bones of people who practice "Tongzi Kung" and others.
"Lao Dao, don't bully the child. He is a scholar and has a tender face!" Uncle Jiu stretched out his hand and pushed Hao Lao Dao, scolding him with a smile.
"Scholar, have you ever seen a scholar like no other? Confucius said, food, sex, and sex are what I want, and bear's paws are what I want too!" Hao Laodao was full of nonsense. He failed to study when he was young, so he spent his whole life
In addition to wielding swords and sticks, the most enjoyable thing is to distort the words of the ancients.
"Then Uncle Lao Dao, why don't you choose a tent to have fun? Do you also practice boy's skills?" Xu Da couldn't see that Hao Lao Dao was making fun of the saint, and jumped up to avenge the injustice of the ancestor.
"You think I don't want to? People think I'm ugly and won't go into my tent!" Hao Laodao pretended to be angry and said.
Everyone was amused by Hao Laodao's words, and the awkward feeling gradually faded. Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief, secretly looked at Hao Laodao, and saw that the other party was no longer making things difficult for him. He raised his head and asked Sun Jiu: "
Uncle Jiu, when will the banquet be served, and why will you personally keep watch?"
"It has only been less than half an hour. Everyone is thinking about having fun and having fun, so they have no choice but to let me, an old man, and a gentleman like Big Eyes come to watch the night. But you, kid, have emptied three leather bags. Everyone bets that you will get drunk.
Tomorrow at noon, I didn't expect to wake up so soon!" Sun Jiu shook his head and answered with a smile.
I drank so much, Li Xu himself was a little surprised. In the second half of the banquet, besides singing and dancing, he didn't remember anything else. As for how many bowls of wine he drank casually, he never counted them carefully. In his impression,
, I just felt that I was very drunk and comfortable, almost forgetting all the unhappy things in Lin Ren's singing.
"I think he was probably so frightened that he woke up from the wine. Alas! Will the offspring enjoy the blessing? No matter what! No matter what!" Hao Laodao let out a series of long sighs sourly.
"He is calm and has the style of the ancients!" Xu Dayan loudly defended his friend. After he finished speaking, he felt regretful. Talking about Liu Xiahui to a rough guy like Hao Laodao was a waste of knowledge.
"You have learned to be a hypocrite at such a young age!" Hao Laodao and Xu Dayan compared whose eyeballs were whiter and said with a sneer. Seeing that the other party refused to answer his question, he continued: "Look at Du Scaran,
Wang Mazi and the others haven't even touched the wine, so they've been waiting for this moment!"
Thinking of Wang Mazi showing his big yellow teeth and hugging a flower-like girl, Li Xu felt his stomach churn a little. He frowned and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Lao Dao, every, everyone in the tent..."
"What's in each tent?" Hao Laodao was waiting for Li Xu's words and deliberately lengthened his voice to tease him.
After thinking for a long time, Li Xu couldn't think of a suitable word, so he changed his words: "Does everyone have a share?"
"Do you think that the robbers share the spoils, and everyone who sees it gets a share!" Hao Laodao laughed, shaking his head and showing off: "It is a custom in the Ministry of Finance that women over the age of thirteen without a husband can choose a man's tent and crawl into it at night.
This is the power given to them by the Immortal God, and even the clan leaders and elders cannot interfere. Hey, some people have great ideas today, and they will probably be happy all night long!"
"Immoral!" Xu Dayan cursed with a straight face. The education he received since childhood was that women should behave in a dignified and dignified manner. Even if they grow up and start a family, it is "the orders of their parents and the words of the matchmaker" who make the decision. Never take the initiative.
Entering a man's tent, even taking the initiative to talk to the man, is an act of treason. Although he also knows that what is going on in a wealthy family is completely different from what is said in the book. But it is all behind the scenes.
No one dares to publicly announce these "dirty deeds".
"This is other people's customs, how can it be called immoral?" Hao Laodao deliberately argued with Xu Dayan.
Even though Xu Dayan was very articulate, he couldn't even say a word when he asked him about it. The Hu people have had very different customs from the Han people since ancient times. This is the territory of the Hu people. You really shouldn't criticize others based on your own Han people's point of view.
Behavior.
"So, what about after tonight?" Li Xu didn't have as many principles in his heart as Xu Dayan. After thinking for a while, he asked Nainai. The reason why he ran away just now was partly because he didn't understand the affairs between men and women.
Yes, the other half of the reason is that he doesn't know what kind of price someone will pay if he can't control himself.
"After tonight, the sun will still rise from the east!" Hao Laodao's answer was like a charlatan's divination, full of mysteries.
"What if we have a child?" Li Xu continued to ask. If a man and a woman live together, they will have children. This is the only definite answer he can give about the relationship between men and women.
"Raise it up. The tribe will celebrate the increase in population. If the child's father has a conscience and leaves some wealth for the child when he goes back and forth, the women will be very happy. If the child's father has no conscience and disappears, they will also
I won't pester you!" Hao Laodao's eyes gradually deepened, and he said quietly: "If you are willing to stay, the woman will be happier. There are only five months of green here a year, and it is covered with ice and snow. Life without a man is not easy!"
A child without a father! Some sympathy surged in Li Xu's heart. In the countryside, any family without a father is often the target of bullying by hooligans and scoundrels. However, how many of the vendors who come and go will stay? How many of them will stay?
Who can be expected to have a conscience? Each of them has a large family to support in the Central Plains. To them, having a romantic night is just a way to relieve the fatigue of the journey.
"There's nothing we can do about it!" Uncle Jiu grabbed the leather bag, drank a mouthful of sour horse*, and explained with a sigh.
Accidentally, a few drops of wine fell into the charcoal basin, and a faint puff of smoke came out. It slowly floated in the air, making everyone's face look hazy and very unreal.
"Yes, there is no other way!" Hao Laodao picked up the charcoal with his eating tool, stared at the blue flames and said: "Every time there is a famine in the tribe, wars continue. For a good pasture, a Wuding River (season)
River), I don’t know how many men are going to die. Without men, how can women give birth to babies? They can only rely on a few passers-by to leave a seed for the tribe!"
Li Xulu was stunned. He never expected that the last resort mentioned by Uncle Jiu was such a cruel reality. Xu Dayan, who was sitting opposite him, put away his disdain and replaced it with respect.
It is a last resort, just for the continuation of the tribe. This is the whole answer behind the seemingly absurd and ignorant behavior. The weak Xi tribe can survive in this ice and snow until now, relying on this innate tenacity.
Li Xu suddenly understood why Lin Ren's singing sounded so cheerful in the sunshine.
"Uncle Jiu!" After a moment of silence, Li Xu shouted in a low voice.
"Say!" Sun Jiu fiddled with the charcoal fire and agreed word by word. The topic just now was too heavy, which made everyone feel heavy in their hearts. The women of the Xi tribe did not hesitate to pay any price for the survival of the tribe. And the men of the Central Plains
They are also walking hard for the continuation of their family. There are snowstorms, wars, and vendettas in the Mobei grassland. The villages in the Central Plains are burdened with emperors, corrupt officials, and evil officials. Under the sun, the growth of every living thing has to go through hardships. But every life
A living thing, every family, will still survive tenaciously.
"I, I plan to stay in this tribe for a while, no, I won't follow the caravan back south!" Li Xu made a decision and decided to tell Sun Jiu the truth. This decision was too difficult, so that his voice
It sounds a bit stuttering.
"Do you want to stay here and be your son-in-law? Ha! That's a good idea. I heard that the coppersmith Wang in the tribe is from the Central Plains. He married his wife more than ten years ago and has been here ever since!" Hao Laodao joked with a smile.
The story of the coppersmith Wang in the tribe was told to him by the tribal elders at the wine table in the afternoon. The people in Xi admired this man's skill in making patterns on the handles of his swords.
Li Xu shook his head and ignored Hao Laodao's ridicule. He raised his voice slightly and confessed to Sun Jiu: "My father, my father, he asked me to go out for him to avoid military service. According to the second brother Zhao in the Yamen
He said that next year the emperor will personally conquer Korea, and all men of suitable age from the frontier counties must be drafted into the army regardless of their origins!"
"Your father has told me about this matter a long time ago. Alas, in fact, the government will not be so unreasonable. You are the only son in the family, and you may not have to apply for the army if you have a few dollars!" Sun Jiu raised his head from the firelight,
He said in a low voice, "Okay, you stay here, just think that we have a land dealer in the tribe. Everyone can sell the goods that are not clean at the moment, and there will be someone to help store them!"
Sun Jiu's old face, which had gone through many vicissitudes of life, reflected a faint red light under the firelight, and looked very kind. This made Li Xu feel warm in his heart, and the rhythm of his speech became smoother. "I, I should have spoken earlier.
Let me tell you, it’s just that people on the street are too talkative. They don’t like me to begin with…”
"They bully you because you look easy to bully!" Sun Jiu suddenly interrupted Li Xu, looked at the young man's aggrieved eyes, reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Stay, you stay.
Big Eye will definitely not follow us back south. The two of you also have to take care of each other here. In fact, Lao Zhang and Lao Du are not as bad as you think. They live a hard life, so they naturally value money!"
"Yeah!" Li Xu nodded lightly. He couldn't completely agree with Sun Jiu's views, but the old man was kind-hearted and couldn't contradict him.
"If you stay in Fengbu, you might as well find a coppersmith to learn his craft. Anyway, he won't go back to the Central Plains, and he won't be afraid of teaching his disciples to starve to death!" Hao Laodao suddenly interjected. He often rolled on the tip of the knife to see the problem more easily.
Everyone was optimistic. When they heard that Li Xu was going to stay, they immediately thought of ways to make a living for him.
"Be more careful. People from Lin also have knowledge from people like Lin. You will never suffer a loss if you learn from it!" Sun Jiu warned with a smile. He had not been dating Li Xu for a long time, but the old man sincerely regarded the young man in front of him as his junior.
The separation is imminent, and it is inevitable that life experiences will be instilled in him. "If you have many talents, you are not as big as the eyes. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was born to do great things. As for you, no one has accumulated more blessings in your previous life. This
Just work harder in your life, and you will eventually find a good future..." (To be continued)