"Am I still alive?" Li Xu moved his little finger lightly, not sure of the answer. The soft cushions under his body were like grass, and the warmth on his face might also come from the sun. He secretly opened his eyes a crack.
, the washed blue sky suddenly squeezed in through the gap between the eyelids.
The unique clear sunshine on the grassland told him that this place was still the world. "I'm still alive!" Li Xu let out a silent cheer in his heart. He quickly tightened his skin to test his limbs, and found that there was no feeling of restraint on his body, only a feeling of restraint.
The soreness of the buttocks after exertion makes one unable to do more movements. This is an exciting burst of soreness. At this time, it at least proves the fact that it has not fallen into the hands of Ashina Choyu.
With his eyes slightly closed and still in a state of slumber, Li Xu tried his best to recall what happened to him last night. Memories rushed back like a tide, making his heart ache. He remembered that Xu Dayan wanted not to be a drag.
He fled for his life, stabbed Heifeng and jumped into the grass. He still remembered that he lit the lake blue gown on fire in an attempt to attract the attention of the pursuers. He also remembered the song he improvised last night,
Provoking the taboos of the Turks everywhere. He remembered that the Turks chased him into a dark valley and vowed to catch him and light a sky lantern. He smiled, and a line of tears slowly rolled down the corners of his eyes and fell on the grass...
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"Man, wake up when you wake up. Why are you crying!" A rough voice came from above his head, making Li Xu tremble. Opening his eyes as quickly as possible, he saw a young man about the same age as himself biting
Holding a straw stick, his black and yellow face was full of contempt.
"Do it in the morning, it will drip out on your own!" Li Xu's face turned red and he quibbled in a low voice.
"Crying means crying, laughing means laughing. There is nothing you dare to admit. You looked like a good man when you went against the Turks last night. Why did you become so shameless when you woke up?" The young man spat on the ground with all his strength.
He took a sip, but failed to spit out the dregs. The green liquid formed a bright streak on the corner of his mouth...
Li Xu felt a little nauseous, holding the handle of the knife and trying to sit up. The soreness on the back of his neck instantly took away all the strength from his body, forcing him to collapse again.
"Start slowly. Brother Niu was a bit heavy-handed yesterday. But it doesn't matter. Let Lao Zhang give you a few massages and I'll make sure you're more energetic than before you fainted!" The young man's tone softened when he saw Li Xu making a fool of himself. Part 1
He gave him a hand and comforted him in a low voice.
"Brother Niu, Lao Zhang?" Li Xu took the young man's arm and slowly sat upright. This time, he finally sat up, and part of the lost memory slowly returned to his body as his blood flowed smoothly.
The last memory I remember last night was that I was chased by Turks into a canyon, and then I heard someone ordering me to stop my horse quickly. Just when I thought I was ambushed and was about to draw my sword, there was a sudden sound of wind behind me.
.Then, Li Xu knew that he had fallen from his horse. Before he fainted, he vaguely heard the sound of arrows piercing the air...
Li Xu turned his dizzy head and looked around. The valley last night was not far away. It was an east-west valley formed by two hills. At the junction of Yanshan Mountain and the grassland, such valleys can be seen everywhere.
The only difference is that all the rocks in the valley in front of you are dark black, and there is a faint smoke coming from the gaps between the ugly stones. Obviously, someone set a fire in the valley last night.
"Don't look at it. The people who are chasing us are all dead. Leader Liu and his men do business and never leave the other side alive." The dark-faced young man shrugged and said.
"Us?" Li Xu felt even more puzzled. The guy next to him who liked chewing straw sticks was familiar with him, and he quickly regarded himself as his accomplice. He said he was the leader of the village, and he was involved in buying and selling. I'm afraid he was born
Not a kind person.
"Of course it's us. You set fire to Ashina Queyu's village, stole other people's horses, and killed people to seize the house. Don't you want to admit to these things?" The black face spat out another ball of grass residue,
'Yin' said with a smile.
Li Xu never expected that Hei Lian knew everything he had done, and was even more shocked. He widened his eyes and looked around for Hei Feng, but found a huge herd of horses not far away.
A group of horses, apparently no less than three hundred, were leisurely looking for food on the grassland with their heads lowered. Beside the horses, there were more than a hundred men in dirty clothes lying on the ground, each one sleeping soundly. Black Wind was tied to the horse.
Outside the group, there was a man with a very ordinary build, who looked like a charlatan, applying medicine to the horse's butt. There was also a tall and burly man, a salesman, and a hunter wrapped in an animal skin walking towards him.
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"You set the fire!" Li Xu yelled in surprise and jumped up from the ground with a somersault. He had always wondered why the torches on the tails of more than a dozen war horses caused such a huge fire. It turned out that someone was secretly setting fire to the fire.
A bucket of oil was poured on it. Needless to say, the hundreds of war horses in front of me were stolen by this group of people from the camp in Ashinachoyu. If I and Xu Dayan killed people and captured the house, it would be equivalent to being in front of this group of thieves.
The horse thief opened the way.
"It's not us, it's us. We couldn't find a chance to do it, but you, the distinguished guest, set the first fire in the master's house. So, we helped you make the fire bigger. As for these horses, they can steal a horse anyway.
Stealing a horse is stealing, stealing a group is stealing..." The dark-faced young man shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile.
After a few words, Li Xu was so angry that he turned pale. It was true that he set the fire, and it was true that he stole the horse and seized the door, but it was all to get rid of Ashina Queyu's forced stay. After the horse thieves made such a fuss, he himself
He completely became a "villain" who set fires and stole horses. Ashina Queyu mobilized half of the grassland forces to chase him. Not only was he not bullying others, but he also had the moral upper hand.
"Tsk!" The dark-faced young man was very sensitive to see through Li Xu's true thoughts from his expression. The smile on his face immediately turned cold, he curled his lips and laughed, mockingly scolding: "Why, you are looking down on the uncle.
Aren't you a horse thief? I am a thief, but at least I did what I was expected to do. Some people are not thieves, but they are worse than thieves when they do what they do!"
"You!" Li Xu was so angry that he couldn't speak. His hands were trembling and he wanted to pull out the knife from his waist, but the other party's accomplices were getting closer and closer.
"Why, you want to have a fight with me. Yes, that's it. If you can't talk to someone else, I'll cut off the guy who talks to him. From now on, there will be no more noise in his ears. His grandma, I said that no scholar is a good person, Liu
But the big brother wants to save you!" The dark-faced young man spat out the last mouthful of green spit, jumped back, picked up an iron fork for picking cow dung, and pointed the fork tip with a stinking smell at it.
It hit Li Xu's throat.
"Heizi, don't deliberately tease people!" Someone in the distance shouted in a low voice. The tone was not serious, but there was a faint sense of majesty that could not be rejected.
"He wanted to kill me and silence me!" The black-faced young man took two steps back and put the fork on the ground angrily.
Li Xu put his hand on the handle of the knife and turned his head, just in time to see several horse thieves' accomplices approaching him. The one who ordered Heizi to stop was one of the strong men, with a square face, thick eyebrows, and a calm and normal walking style.
Xu Dayan during that period. It’s just that this person’s smile carries a calmness and calmness after experiencing many hardships, which is completely different from Xu Dayan’s friendly and enthusiastic smile.
"This little brother is the famous Wolf Guard Fu Li in the grassland. I am lucky enough to meet the young hero Zhang Liang in Xia Yongzhou!" The man dressed as a businessman walking to the left of the strong man greeted him with a smile. This man was not tall and had a natural
He has a kind appearance. Judging from his clothing, he should be a hawker who travels all year round. But he has an extra cowhide belt around his waist. On the left and right sides of the belt, there are two sheathed short knives.
"Li Xu, thank you all for saving my life!" Li Xu instinctively turned to the side, and then clasped his fists in return. After leaving the fortress, he suffered too many deceptions, which made him very sensitive to the smiles of strangers. The more the other party smiled, the more he smiled.
Enthusiasm often makes him more wary.
"Haha, Lao Zhang, I don't want to talk to you at all!" The young man known as Heizi laughed and challenged. It seems that he is not only having trouble with Li Xu, but also has a natural trait of wanting to provoke everyone he meets.
Zhang Liang, who looked like a hawker, was not annoyed after hearing this. He smiled and asked Li Xu, "How is it? Does the back of your neck still hurt? Do you want me to give you a massage? I don't know where that guy Lao You will start.
It doesn’t matter how serious it is. But don’t blame him. The situation was urgent at that time. If I didn’t knock you unconscious, the entire layout of the valley must be visible to the Turks!”
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, thank you, Brother Zhang!" Li Xu said evasively, a little uncomfortable with the other party's enthusiasm. When he listened to the black-faced young man's introduction, he originally thought that the man who applied medicine to the war horse was the doctor.
Unexpectedly, the businessman in front of him was the one who was good at massage. In any case, he saved his life, so he couldn't slap his smiling face. Thinking of this, he turned around with a smile and made a bow, and asked the other two men: "
My Excellency Li Xu, may I ask the names of these two brave men?"
"Um, Liu Jizhen! This is my friend Liu Hong, whose nickname is Hongji. You Han people are so troublesome. You have two names!" The hunter with a piece of animal skin around his chest shouted at the top of his voice, as if he was afraid that others would remember him.
Not allowed to have his own name.
"Liu Hong, nicknamed Hongji, lives in Xia Yongzhou. He killed dozens of people, and was killed by Lifu Khan. Do you have a cousin?" The strong man who had been listening to everyone with a smile arched his hands.
, asked politely.
"Li Xu met two heroes in Shanggu. When he was studying in his hometown, his teacher once gave him a nickname, Zu Zhongjian!" Li Xu returned the favor with a smile. Liu Hongji's way of speaking was the communication method Li Xu was accustomed to, which was surprising.
It felt very comfortable. Based on the intuition he had developed after dating Xu Dayan for nearly a year, Li Xu believed that this person should come from a wealthy family. And the guy with an extremely loud voice and wearing animal skins was clearly a Turk. From a distance, he looked like a Turk.
I don't know, but when he got closer, his true identity was immediately revealed by his green eyes and full beard.
Horse thieves, children of rich families, and Turks collude together? What on earth do they do? Li Xu smiled and greeted everyone, but a cloud of doubt slowly covered his eyes in his heart. (To be continued)
