The day after the caravan left, Xu Dayan returned to the tribe. He drank in a daze with Li Xu, Tao Kuo Tuosi, Eru, Duer and others, and then hurried to Xinjiang in the southeast.
Open the riverside.
"The Khitans want to avenge Suotou Xi!" Xu Dayan hurriedly dropped this sentence before leaving. As for the relationship between the Khitans and the Xi people, Li Xu, Aslan and others did not know.
In addition to the Lin tribe, there are also five major tribes living on this grassland: Xi, Khitan, Shiwei, Mohe, and Turks, as well as more than a dozen small tribes that Li Xu cannot name and do not belong to. They all regard wolves as their own.
Their ancestors can all be considered relatives. They have been fighting against each other for thousands of years, and they can also be considered enemies. When the Suotouxi people were driven out of their homes by the Turks, the Khitans refused to allow them to move into their pastures.
Now that the Suotouxi tribe was destroyed, the Khitan people remembered their love for incense and 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. Therefore, they could only send envoys to bargain with the Khitans. Xu Xian, whose wisdom was deeper than Yueya Lake, believed that the Khitans gave
Suotou Xi's revenge is false, but taking the opportunity to attack Qiu Feng is true. As long as the Zhulin coalition forces take precautions on the border, the battle will not break out for a while.
In the days without war, the wind blew away the bloody memories. Li Xu's inn grew rapidly, and the business was booming beyond everyone's expectations. Zhang Ji and Wang Kewang were both businessmen, and bargaining was their specialty. In addition,
Ah Yun, the last person who could read Chinese characters, was assisting. The combined efforts of the three of them were more than enough to run 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 the Sui army suddenly became brighter after the coppersmith explained them. The master and the apprentice sometimes argued so much that they stayed up all day and night over a record of Master Yang, until the coppersmith's wife was angered, and the conversation ended. Chapter 1
The next day, the coppersmith couldn't help but order 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 400,000 soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty. But the more this happened, the more he admired the wisdom and courage of the generals of the Northern Sui Dynasty. "
Da Chen did not die at the hands of Shu Bao alone! If there had been Gao Ying or Yang Su in the south that day, the situation would not have been so corrupt!" Countless times, the master coppersmith exclaimed with a hint of drunkenness. The love, hatred and resentment of those years
It has become a thing of the past, and now he only has admiration and respect for his former opponent.
"They all said that it was Empress Zhang who confused Chen Shubao, and that's why Chen lost his country!" Li Xu argued with his master with a smile.
"Rise and fall are all men's business. Men are stupid, so they put the blame on women!" The coppersmith took a sip of wine, used an anvil to make a drum, and beat out a sound of gold and iron. "Country and country."
Beauty, it's just a good dream! Remember this sentence, open your eyes to everything, and then you will have a brighter future!"
"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 boy, and it was Luo Yi and Yang who pointed the country.
It's about those great heroes. As for beauty, 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 occasionally went on horseback trips, wandering from dawn to sunset, and the places where the horses' hooves walked were indescribable.
Totally poetic and picturesque.
"Fu Li, do we and our parents really not think that I am a foreigner?" Tao Kuo asked quietly, pulling on the reins of his horse. Eru's sad and sad look every day made the little barbarian girl very worried.
, lest something go wrong in his marriage and repeat the tragedy of his sister and Xu Dayan.
"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 from 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, the matter entrusted to Xu Fu and Wang Mazi to rescue Sun Jiu has not been found. When he was alone, Li Xu often worried about these things.
Worry. 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 am afraid that Wang Mazi will be timid and cause trouble, making Sun Jiu unable to escape from the hands of corrupt officials. As for whether I am more worried about Uncle Jiu or He.
Tao Kuo had many more marriages, and the young man himself could not figure them out.
"Why haven't Uncle Zhang and the others come back with the letter?" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and lowered his head, kicking up a piece of gravel with his boots. The stone drew a slight mark on the grass tip in early autumn, and was submerged in the dark green waves in an instant.
between.
"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 sullen look, and stretched out his arms to gently hold her shoulders.
Tao Kuo's silky shoulders leaned back and rested comfortably on Li Xu's chest. In the past six months or so, Li Xu's body has grown a lot. The abundant beef and mutton in the tribe means that his body is growing.
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 other side's chest.
Those tendons seemed to have magic power. Whenever she leaned on them, the girl was unwilling to raise her head again.
Autumn has arrived, and the tops of the grass have already been dyed with some sunshine. When the wind blows, golden scales dance between the layers of green waves, as if a bay is rippling under the sky. Horses are like fish, and sheep are like shells.
Human beings are gods at ease among mirages.
"Ayawn!" A few strands of silver hair rolled into Li Xu's nostrils as he breathed, tickling him so much that he sneezed. The tenderness coming from his chest and the girl's body fragrance brought by the autumn wind made him feel very comfortable.
In the boundless 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, so tempting that he couldn't help but take a bite.
Tao Kuo took off the silk and made a sound, melting and sticking to his body. Li Xu hugged a ball of beating flame and sat down slowly. The two horses chirped a few times and ran away impatiently.
.The space between heaven and earth suddenly 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, two trembling eyelashes gently brushed the grassland.
The wind blew a bit of the roughness on the man's cheeks. The wind stopped, the grass was quiet, and a blushing sunset slowly hid to the west, hid.
"Yes, yes!" A burst of rapid horse hoofbeats shattered the silence on the grassland. Then, another woman's exclamation came from the distance. The sheep screamed in panic, and the shepherd dog roared wildly, like thunder.
Rolling past at the same time from a distance.
"It's Pa Dai!" Li Xu and Tao Kuo jumped up at the same time. Aslan's wife Pa Dai has been pregnant for more than eight months, but she is unwilling to hide in the felt bag to wait for delivery. She insists on walking to the grassland every day
, and arranged for the household members and herder slaves to seize the time to harvest autumn grass and firewood. Autumn is very short on the grassland, and the first snow may fall not long after summer. Last year's expedition added a dozen slaves and slaves to Aslan's family.
There are a lot of livestock. If you don't store enough firewood and fodder before the snow falls, people or animals may freeze to death when the cold winter comes.
Tao Kuo Tuosi whistled and called the two mounts closer. The two flew onto their horses and took off their horned bows from behind the saddles. Anyone who dared to run wild near Su Chuobu's camp could only be a lone wolf or a desperate person.
The people of Lin 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 Pade and escape safely.
"We should bring Ganluo out!" Li Xu thought regretfully while driving his mount desperately. Ganluo has grown bigger than any other shepherd dog, and it is majestic when it howls. With it, even if there are hundreds of them,
Even the wild wolves did not dare to take a step closer to the sheep.
"It's the eagle! It's the eagle that stole Aslan's sheep!" Tao Kuotosi pointed at the sky and shouted, his voice relieved. The eagle is the overlord in the sky, from swans, lambs to hares, all activities with bodies smaller than it are
All living things are the targets of its attacks. At the turn of summer and autumn, lambs have just escaped the protection of their ewes and are ignorant of external dangers. With their small bones and tender flesh, 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 flew only more than thirty steps high.
Behind the cloud-like silhouette of the eagle, dozens of horses galloped quickly. The knights on the horses waved their reins and yelled at the big eagle.
The eagle seemed to be deliberately vindictive, refusing to put the lamb down or speeding up its flight. It flapped its wings leisurely, dismissing all threats in the sky as nothing.
"That's great, Sister Pade is fine!" Tao Kuo took off the horse's reins and said, slapping her chest. The excessive fright and high-speed galloping made her heart almost jump out of her throat, and her face became as red as blooming.
As delicate as a peach blossom.
Li Xu smiled and looked at the beautiful women beside him, and gently put the arrow on the bowstring. He once promised to shoot one with his own hands and show it to Tao Kuo Tuosi. Tao Kuo Tuosi may have forgotten the promise at that time.
, but he himself has not forgotten it.
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. Suddenly, its wings paused, and its entire body and claws
The prey fell at the same time.
The black eagle fell into the grass, shook off the lamb from its paws, jumped up unsteadily, flew high, staggered down, fell. It flew up again like a drunk, and fell again. Finally,
It had no strength to lift its wings anymore, so it raised its head and let out a sad cry that filled the wilderness.
"Creak!" The eagle chirped endlessly. I couldn't believe that this overlord of the sky was dying. Someone shot it after it spread its wings.
"Attachment!" Tao Kuo Tuosi shouted excitedly, riding his horse after Li Xu in the direction where the black eagle landed. She saw everything her sweetheart had done for her, riding the horse, bending the bow, and shooting from behind.
, in the eyes of the girl, there has never been a man on the entire grassland who has done such a smooth and singing-like movement of drawing his bow and galloping away.
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 in a smooth motion. He unplugged his bow and arrow while galloping, turned the horse's head around, and faced Tao Kuo's silk-shocked body.
Running back with a smile.
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 what politeness meant, was suddenly shy, lowered his head, and played with the horse's reins, his voice 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 had a flash of inspiration in front of his eyes. He held up the black sculpture and answered loudly: "Because I want to marry you!"
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"What did you say?" Tao Kuo asked instinctively as his face was flushed.
"I want to marry you!" Li Xu took off his clothes and repeated loudly to Tao Kuo, ignoring the crowd that was gradually approaching around him.
"I want to marry you as my wife!" Under the dreamy sunshine, the oath floated away on the grass with the evening wind. (To be continued)
