A wolf howl came from deep in the grass. Lao Zheng dragged a gray wolf out of the grass by its legs. He licked his lips and said, "You're lucky, we have meat again today."
When Tang Ning ate wolf meat for the first time, she thought it tasted okay, but after eating it for several days, she felt like vomiting when she saw it.
After they entered the grassland, their luck was not very good. On the first day they camped, they encountered a pack of wolves.
Ordinary wolf packs usually only have a few, or at most a dozen, but God knows how those dozens of wolves got together. Lao Zheng's knife was blunt, and only three people could kill that pack of wolves.
Then the blood on the ground attracted more wolves. They retreated and killed the wolves. They waited until dawn to get rid of the wolves, but sadly found that they had deviated from the original route. Even Aina was looking for them.
There is no way to go.
The dry food was lost and the horses ran away. Fortunately, there was still wolf meat to eat, but after eating it for several days, I was already tired of it.
Thinking that they were eating sour wolf meat in the wilderness while Xiao Jue was eating roasted leg of lamb in the Wanyan tribe's tent, Tang Ning decided in her heart that when she saw him, she would kick her feet more often to satisfy her hatred.
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Lao Zheng threw the wolf corpse on the ground. Ayina knelt down, touched the ground under his feet, and said, "We found the way."
Tang Ning knelt down and took a look, but didn't see anything interesting. She asked, "Where is the road?"
Aina said: "Follow the sheep plate and you will find the tribe."
Tangning asked in surprise: "What is a sheep plate?"
Along the way, Aina and Tang Ning have lived and died together, and they have long lost their previous hostility towards him. She explained: "The winter on the grassland is very cold. The sheep sleep directly on the grass. If they cannot warm the land, they will die of illness."
, or be crushed to death by other sheep, so in winter, herdsmen will pile sheep dung together, which is the sheep plate. The sheep lie on it, and the body will be covered with heat quickly, and they will not die of illness.
He won’t be crushed to death…”
Tangning leaned over and took a look. After careful examination, she found that the land under the grass was dark brown, which was different from other places.
He understood what Aina meant and asked: "So, if you find the sheep plate, you can find your tribe?"
Aina nodded and said: "Yes, in winter, herdsmen will stay where there are sheep plates. Each tribe has its own sheep plate. If you find the sheep plate, you can find the road..."
Tangning thought for a while and asked, "Did you also use this method to find enemies when fighting against the black barbarians?"
Aina did not deny it, but Tangning said in surprise: "Then why didn't they burn their sheep plates? Without the sheep and horses, wouldn't their tribe starve to death? Wouldn't it mean that they wouldn't even need to use weapons?"
Aina glanced at him and said: "The sheep plate means to the grassland tribes what the ancestral graves mean to you Han people. Burning people's sheep plates is tantamount to digging up people's ancestral graves. No grassland people would do that..."
Every nation has its own culture, but Tangning was still a little ignorant. Ayina searched around the grassland and soon found a few sheep bones buried in the ground in a certain direction.
She pointed in the direction of the tip of the sheep bone and said, "Let's go, we should be there in a few days..."
Thinking of eating wolf meat for several more days, Tang Ning's stomach began to churn again.
It’s no wonder that little Manniu is obsessed with Han people’s food. Living in such an environment, Chen Country is simply a paradise for them.
It's no wonder that they have always wanted to occupy Chen Chu. In comparison, the environment in the Central Plains and Jiangnan is in the sky and below.
Three days later.
Ayina looked at the fertile pasture ahead, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "The tribe led by the princess is ahead."
The three of them walked towards the tent on the grassland, and not long after, a group of people came galloping towards them.
Tang Ning glanced at Lao Zheng. Lao Zheng clapped his hands and drew the butcher's knife on his lower back.
Seeing the person coming in front of him clearly, Ayina's expression changed slightly and asked: "Butai, why are you here?"
The man on the horse glanced at her and said in surprise: "Didn't you go to Chen State as an undercover agent? Why are you back again?"
Tangning couldn't understand what they were saying, but looking at Aina's expression, she knew that things might have changed, so she stood behind her and watched the changes.
"My identity was discovered by them, my mission failed, and I managed to escape with great difficulty." Ayina looked at the man and asked: "Where's the princess, why are you in the Uta tribe?"
The man named Butai smiled and said: "You don't know, Wutabu already belongs to the eldest prince. If you want to find the fourth princess, go another hundred miles to Wuyanbu to find her..."
Aina glanced at him, turned around and said, "Let's go."
"Wait a minute." Butai said loudly, drove his horse forward, looked at Tang Ning and Lao Zheng, and asked Ayi, "Who are they?"
Ayina said: "They are Han undercovers placed by the Fourth Princess in the Chen Kingdom. It was with their help this time that I was able to escape from the Chen Kingdom, but their identities were also exposed. This time they came back with me and defected to the Fourth Princess.
of."
Butai showed a smile on his face and said: "What's the future of defecting to the fourth princess? Ayina might as well bring them to join the eldest prince. It's much better to follow the eldest prince than to follow the fourth princess..."
Aina glanced at him and said, "Let's wait until the eldest prince becomes Khan to discuss this matter."
Watching Aina and Tangning leave, Butai sneered and said, "At that time, will the eldest prince still take you in his eyes?"
A man stepped forward and asked: "Chief, do you want to stop Aina?"
"Why are you stopping her?" Butai glared at him and said, "Have you forgotten who her master is? If you piss off that old guy, even the eldest prince can't protect us..."
Hearing this, the man couldn't help but shudder and never mentioned the matter again.
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When Aina left Utabe, she asked them for three horses. Tangning's legs were finally free and she followed her all the way west.
After getting the horse, the distance of a hundred miles was only more than an hour. The three of them rode on the horse and saw a meadow in the distance.
Several knights came up to meet Ayina. They looked at Ayina with excitement on their faces. They got off their horses and kept saying something.
Aina jumped off the horse, smiled and said a few words to them, then turned her head, looked at Tangning, and said, "The fourth princess went hunting and will be back soon. You guys can come in first."
Tang Ning and Lao Zheng entered the pasture. After walking a few steps, a man rushed out from a tent somewhere.
Xiao Jue looked at him with wet eyes and said with a trembling voice: "You are finally here..."
Tangning looked at him with a smile on her face and said, "Thank you for your hard work these days..."
"It's hard work..." Xiao Jue said with an aggrieved expression on his face, "You don't know, that barbarian woman feeds me mutton every day and whips me..."
"We'll talk about this later." Tang Ning looked at him and said, "General Xiao and Lu Ya have a few words for me to bring to you. Let's go in and talk..."
Xiao Jue said quickly: "Let's go, let's go, I have a lot to say to you..."
Inside the camp, Xiao Jue looked at Tang Ning and asked, "What message did my father and Ya'er send me?"
Tangning looked at him and said, "They asked me to beat you up hard, the harder the better!"
After Tang Ning finished speaking, Xiao Jue's screams could be heard inside the tent.
"This punch was delivered by Mr. Ti Xiao!"
"This kick was requested by Lu Ya!"
"This kick is for myself!"
…
In the camp, Xiao Jue screamed in a shrill voice: "Don't kick your ass, don't kick your ass, don't kick your ass!"
A quarter of an hour later, Tang Ning walked out of the tent and breathed a long sigh of relief. She felt that the depression in her heart for many days had been swept away, and she felt refreshed from the inside out...
call out!
There was a sound of breaking wind in her ears. Tang Ning turned her body slightly, reached out to grab a whip shadow coming from the front, and with a strong tug, a figure was pulled off the horse by him.
He looked at the whip-wielding woman in front of him and said unexpectedly: "I haven't seen you for two years. I am very good at martial arts..."
Wan Yanyan tugged hard several times, but failed to pull the whip out of Tang Ning's hand. She simply dropped the whip, rushed forward, gritted her teeth and said, "You little thief, look at the palm!"
