"Since spring, there has been a legend on the grassland that one of the two original young men helped the Xi tribe to eat a large tribe with a population of nearly ten thousand. Unexpectedly, I saved one of them today. Aren't you calling the wind and rain in the Xi tribe? Why?
Have you become a guest of Ashina's family 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. The impression of the horse thieves around him was not bad. Apart from their bad reputation, the behavior of these people was nothing like the legends.
He was as vicious as the thieves in the movie. Even Liu Jizhen, who opened his mouth to get to the bottom of things, didn'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 the Xier family was forced to marry the Ashina family.
He recounted the whole story. He only concealed the affair between himself and Tao Kuo Tuosi. At the end, he added sadly: "Since the Su Chuo tribe already has a great backer from the Turks, Brother Maogong and I are naturally no longer important.
Instead of waiting to be chased away, why not take the initiative to go home!"
"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 person.
The provocative guy, but Heizi followed up without hesitation, "Bah, the elders of the Su Chuan tribe are all blind, and they didn't even see such a simple conspiracy. Without you and the guy named Xu, there would be thousands of people
What value does our small tribe have left in the eyes of the Ashina family? When the engagement is broken, won’t they be left in a state of despair?”
"That's not necessarily the case. Zhongjian 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. He didn't know that Gan Luo was Su Chuobu.
They thought it was 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, feeling sorry for him in his heart.
The rating is a bit 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 reached Wulie River!" Heizi raised his eyelids and revealed the fact mercilessly.
"Yes, those beauties admire the silver wolf very 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 watched for a while
I'm so jealous that I, Old Liu, will be the first one to rush in and grab it!" Liu Jizhen added angrily. He didn't care that he was also a Turk. He opened his mouth with a beard but kept his mouth shut and cursed the bastard.
"The Khan hired a silver wolf to decorate his appearance. Why do 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 bandits, and I will show you a big hat one day!"
"Okay, I'll keep my eyes open and watch!" Heizi responded with a smile. Liu Ji is really a jerk, and it's hard to win an argument with him.
"This group of people seem to be joking around on the surface, but they are very harmonious among themselves!" Li Xu nodded secretly, feeling a little more favorable towards the horse thieves. At this moment, he heard the guy who looked like a vendor asking again.
, "So, you went to Ashina Choyu's camp and gave him a big gift while he was unprepared?"
"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 explain the grudge with Ashina Queyu. As for setting fire to seize the door, he skipped it. Judging from today's situation, even if he and Xu Dayan did not do anything,
If he sets fire to it, Ashinachoyu's camp will still be burned to the ground.
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 cavalry's horses, and Xu Dayan was tired and tired.
Next, is there any chance to escape the pursuit of these people?
Thinking of this, he hugged Liu Hongji's fists and asked in a low voice: "Zhai Leader Liu, I wonder if you saw a Han with a similar build to me last night when you were blocking the Turks?"
"Are you asking Xu Xianzhe? He must not be 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,
It was cooked by brother Jizhen. He is the village owner 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. Seeing his glance, the other man immediately shook his head like a rattle, "No, definitely not. Brothers do things neatly, including people and dogs.
None of them have been let go. Among them is definitely not the Xu Xian you mentioned. He is now so famous on the grassland. If I see him, I will definitely invite him back to the village to be 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 and make you Jiang Wei. I will make you exhausted in front of the battle, and I will be demoted as Xiaoyao Gong!" Although Liu Jizhen is a bandit, he can recite the deeds of the hero with the same surname. Two sentences.
As soon as he finished speaking, Heizi was choked to the point of losing his words.
"Brother Heita's parents were forced to death by the government, so he doesn't like anyone. Don't mind, he is just like this, he is still a good person!" Zhang Liang saw Li Xu's surprised look and explained to him with a smile.
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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 or inner temperament, Liu Hongji looked more like a hand-held person.
A green forest tycoon with a heavy army. Although Liu Jizhen looks fierce, he does not have the heroic spirit that makes people respect him.
"We have fewer people, but Yu has more people, so we either don't take action, or we take action and kill the entire pursuing army. Only in this way can the other party not know our true identity and dare not catch up again. Wait for him to mobilize
If we had enough manpower, we would have crossed the Great Wall long ago!" 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! Leader Zhang is really a thoughtful person!" Li Xu said perfunctorily. He always had an instinctive wariness against Zhang Liang's enthusiasm. Ashina Queyu was also very enthusiastic towards others, laughing and laughing.
He ruined everything he had. Village leader Zhang called himself brother and sister as soon as they met. Could it be that he wanted to get him to join the gang?
"I'm just a horse dealer, not the owner of the village!" Zhang Liang smiled and shook his head, "At present, horses are expensive in the Central Plains, but Ashina Queyu does not allow the nearby herdsmen to sell horses to us. Everyone is forced to have no choice.
We worked together to kill him. It’s also thanks to you setting his stable on fire first, otherwise we wouldn’t have had a 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 alert mind and the ruthlessness in his eyes are definitely not those of an ordinary hawker. To borrow Xu Dayan's words, people with this kind of eyes have at least killed people or commanded soldiers.
People who have passed the blood will not have murderous intent.
Several people talked about it, and soon gave a rough outline of each other's 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 had died. He was currently
He followed Zhang Liang as a waiter and swordsman. The man named Liu Hongji was indeed a child of an aristocratic family, but his family had already been ruined. This time the emperor increased his military strength and gave him a chance to serve the country, but he did not because he had no money to buy a horse.
He was able to rush to the prefecture in time to report. However, with a stroke of his pen, the government officials treated him as a deserter and was thrown into prison. Thanks to a few friends from the Jianghu community who provided money, he had the opportunity to "escape" and escape to the grassland.
The Turkic man named Liu Jizhen was the young master of the horse thieves. The name "Gust of Wind" was the nickname given to his brothers by the herdsmen. This group of men and horses walked on the border fortress, and when the Sui officers and soldiers came, they stayed outside the fortress. The Turkic officers and soldiers came to suppress it.
Then he fled to the Sui Dynasty and lived a happy and happy life. The doctor who was treating Black Wind's injuries in the distance was an ordinary doctor whose surname was Niu Xiu and whose surname was Jinda. He was also a horse dealer. Previously, because of Zhang Liang's heavy accent, Li Xu only took his last name.
Became "You".
"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,
But the family tradition is very strict. If parents far away in the Central Plains find out that they are hanging out with thieves, even if the other party is a green forest hero, their 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 and see that in order to let me escape last night, he jumped off the horse alone!" Li Xu answered calmly. Xu Dayan could sacrifice his life to save himself, and he should do the same in return for him. Regardless of the Turks
Whether you will come or not, you have to do it.
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, everyone will not care.
No matter what, we should find a way to rescue him.
"Do you really believe that he jumped off the horse to save you?" Wu Heitai'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 and asked with wide eyes. No matter how this black-faced guy mocked himself, he could bear it for the sake of saving his life last night. If
He insulted brother Mao Gong, and he could only compete with him on a bow and horse.
"Hei Zi!" 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'm laughing at you for being stupid. Is it the horse's goal that's bigger or the man's goal that's bigger?" Wu Heitai ignored Brother Liu's scolding this time and kept his tongue: "Give you the horse."
, obviously he suffered a loss, but secretly 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
Wu Heitai was so angry that he trembled. 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 Hei
Ta, however, gained the upper hand and refused to forgive others, and continued to run around with his tongue.
"Draw your sword, I will decide the outcome with you today!" Li Xu shook his shoulders, threw away Zhang Liang and Liu Jizhen, and rushed towards Wu Heitai. Anger had completely burned his eyes, and he was going to chop down the man in front of him.
The guy who talks nonsense comes to defend his friend's honor.
"Come on, 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.
in the middle.
"If you don't chew your tongue, I won't be able to choke you to death!" He swung his knife and knocked Wu Heita's iron fork away first. Then he 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 thin and broke into two pieces. Seeing that Li Xuhan's angrily slashing knife was about to cause trouble, an iron rod,
Two daggers were 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 area was swept up, like green snow.
Flying away in a flurry of sounds.
"You are so strong, little brother!" Liu Hongji, who was almost hit by Li Xu, laughed, grabbed a short knife from Zhang Liang's hand, and stood between Li and Wu again.
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, each with a knife.
It was enough to chop him into pieces. Besides, if it weren't for the cheapness of 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 forgive him and shouted loudly: "You
Is there any point in cutting me down? 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 let out a loud shout. Seeing that he was really angry, Wu Heitai stuck out his tongue and stopped talking. Liu Hongji was frightened.
After seeing him, he immediately turned around and shouted at Li Xu: "Friends are worth a word of trust. If you believe in him, what's the use of others gossiping? If you have doubts in your own heart, just put all your trust in him."
Even if people’s mouths are sealed, your own suspicions can’t be sealed either!”
This sentence was like an enlightenment, making Li Xu's whole body go cold. Xu Dayan gave up Su Chuobu and walked in the snow to see him off. In order to save himself a breath and not enter Su Chuobu camp, he gave up the temptation of Queyu's wealth to seize the horse.
The past events such as running away, one by one, passed through his mind one by one. If such a friend would betray him at the critical moment of life and death, then who in the world could he trust?
Since leaving the fort, Li Xu has been betrayed and deceived one after another, which has made Li Xu 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
It just broke through the demonic barrier in his heart and made him instantly understand 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 Pittele's injury? Is it useless?"
"Fortunately, no muscles or bones were injured." You Jinda replied, wiping the sweat from his forehead. He was indifferent to the fight that had just occurred here, as if he was more concerned about the animals than people.
Hearing this, Liu Jizhen and Zhang Liang both 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, it will be a bit worthless to go out.
"The sweat horse has a big frame and thick flesh. If it were an ordinary horse, it would have been destroyed long ago!" Wu Heitai glanced at Li Xu and murmured in a low voice.
Li Xu heard it and smiled slightly, as if he heard the autumn wind blowing through his ears. No matter what others say, what Xu Dayan once did for him cannot be erased. Liu Hongji said it well, "Friends are more valuable than a letter."
Although today's fight was a bit reckless, in the midst of the recklessness, people realized a crucial truth in life. (To be continued)
