These delicious wines and meats were too strong for Li Siye to tolerate. He could hold his nose and drink the mare kumiss, but the mutton with only green onions and salt gave him a smell of mutton.
He decided to leave the banquet and walk around, and whispered to Gao Xianzhi beside him: "I'll put some water in it."
Gao Xianzhi squinted his eyes and nodded, regardless of whether he really wanted to release water or if he wanted to release something else.
Li Siye stood up, stretched and left his seat, staying away from the circle of light of the bonfire. In the distance, circular pointed tents could be seen dotted around. Men's laughter and women's cries could be heard.
He remembered that in the afternoon, the Tuqishi people held a wives separation meeting, and all the widows of the Huang family who died on the battlefield were rushed together. The black tribesmen of Dumozhi gathered around them to pick and choose.
Those with higher official ranks are given priority, those with higher military exploits are given priority, those without wives are given priority, and women are selected in order. Now these people are enjoying the fruits of their victory.
There is no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing. Let alone these women, even if they are Khan's khatuns or even proud princesses, after marrying the Khan far away, the woman will become the Khan's brother or son's woman as soon as the Khan dies. Nomadic people
In terms of reproduction, nothing is wasted.
He walked further away, and two drunken black soldiers staggered over. They cursed incessantly: "Some people are really beasts who take possession of other people's wives, and even throw away other people's wives alive."
Children are worse than animals”
"Stop scolding me. Why don't you go and raise me so that you don't get so angry?"
"No, I can't raise them. I have three children at home, and I can't accommodate one more."
"You let me raise it, why don't you take it back yourself?"
"No, no, no, not even me. I will never have a family in my life."
When the two men saw the Tang army general coming towards them, they quickly turned sideways and saluted, then quickly helped each other and ran away.
Li Siye stepped in the direction they came from, and sure enough he heard a baby crying. He took two steps quickly and lowered his head, and saw three swaddles lined up in the grass. He squatted down. The babies were holding their little fists, opening their mouths to hold back their fullness.
Jin cried loudly, one race after another.
He untied the swaddling clothes and saw that the bodies of the three babies were white and tender, without any deformities or defects. The two boys and one girl must not have been born from the same mother.
There seemed to be cries approaching in the distance. He looked up and saw a woman with hair running out of the felt tent and running in this direction. However, she was stopped by the man who was chasing her, hugged her waist, put her on his shoulders and caught her again.
Li Siye was about to tie their swaddling clothes tightly and hug them when three pairs of green eyes followed the baby's cries on the grass. They lay down in the grass and lowered their heads, their brown-gray hair fluttering. First they stared at
He took three crying snacks, then raised his head and stared at the person standing next to the snacks.
Li Siye stood astride the baby's swaddling clothes and pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist. He had heard that lactating female wolves would feed human babies. Obviously these three were not. They had fierce eyes, shriveled stomachs, and strong
Desire to eat.
He held the handle of the knife tilted in his hands and shouted at them: "Come on, let's see who is faster, your teeth or my knife."
The three wolves were scattered in three directions, hunched over and slowly retreating. Li Siye knew that they were not retreating, but preparing to attack.
At the slightest sign of trouble, they quickly pounced from three directions at the same time. Whether it was the left or right side of Li Siye's back, he suddenly turned around and slashed out. The first wolf that pounced fell to the ground with a cry, and hot wolf blood sprayed all over his body.
, the other wolf claw was already on his back, but he picked up the knife and stabbed down, pinning the guy who was trying to take the baby away from his feet to the ground.
He lay back, and the wolf behind him rolled out from behind, biting his arm with its smelly mouth. The bite force made him frantic, so he simply used his arm to press the wolf's mouth to the grass, raised his left fist and hit it
Three punches were punched on the wolf's belly, until the beast vomited pungent stomach acid vomit.
He took his arm out of the wolf's mouth, and there were two clear tooth holes on it. He didn't know if they contained rabies virus. The incubation period of more than ten years was really disturbing.
He pulled out the blade of the knife from the wolf corpse, took out the towel from his arms, wiped the blood on it, and put it back into the scabbard.
"Be frightened, babies, Grandma Wolf has been eliminated."
He picked up the swaddling clothes of the three children, two with his left hand and one with his right hand. It seemed very difficult. At the same time, he had to take care of the comfort of the babies. It was really not easy for one person to hold three children.
Li Siye strode to the campsite of Yuhou's army. Yan Xiaosi and his troops were sitting in front of the fire. When he saw the baby in the general's arms, he quickly got up and asked: "General, where did the child come from at this time?"
"Abandoned baby."
Yan Xiaosi and his soldier Ruosuluo took the baby from his hands respectively, held it in their arms and played with it. The other baby, Li Siye, was handed to Kubani.
"You three will take care of the children for me for the time being and go get some goat milk or human milk to feed them."
Yan Xiaosi looked troubled: "We don't know how to raise children either."
"No one is born with this skill. You should adapt to it first, and you will be able to use it when you have a wife in the future."
He placed the baby with these three soldiers, but he was not at ease. He turned around and said, "I won't let you raise him for the rest of his life. When he returns to Shule, he will be raised by my town ambassador. In addition, I will give you a baby each."
The captured horse is considered a reward."
When Li Siye returned to the gathering place, most of the generals of the Tang army were drunk and staggering. They suddenly made horse milk or goat's milk wine brewed by others. Although the taste was not very good, the alcohol content should not be low.
Gao Xianzhi squinted his eyes and asked him: "Why did you let the water sit for so long?"
He turned his head and whispered in his ear: "I went out and picked up three children and came back."
Gao Xianzhi showed admiration, obviously in disbelief.
…
The young Khan Chulu, surnamed Ten, took on the job he hated the most and was least good at, communicating with these people he didn't know, being introduced here and there, and forcibly facing these strangers with fake smiles and ulterior motives.
s face.
He, the short-headed Khan who never missed a single kill in this battle, was placed in a high-ranking position. His status was second only to Fumeng Zhongcheng, but higher than Prince Dumozhi and Bahanna. He
He knew that on the surface he was respectful to these people, but in fact he ignored or even despised them in his heart.
What these people want to say is: There is no longer any place for the Ashina family to stand on the Tianshan grassland, and the Ashina family has died out, so where did this person come from?
"It's really unexpected that Chuulu Khan is actually the husband of Huaidao Khan. This is Ashina's bloodline that should not be cut off."
Chuulu laughed and drank with him mechanically. He felt that he was no different from those tutti girls who danced barefoot.
Fumeng Lingzha nodded calmly, turned to Dumozhi and asked: "Official official, you seem to have a daughter to be married."
Dumozhi put on a false smile on his face: "It seems that nothing can be hidden from Zhongcheng. I do have a daughter, she is seventeen now, and I want to choose a husband for him."
"Oh," Fumeng Lingcha pointed to Chulu: "The Ten Khans are not yet married. Today, I took advantage of my drunkenness to lead a red line. Is the official willing to betroth his daughter to the Khan?
"Dunna"
Dumozhi quickly hugged his chest and thanked him: "Thank you Zhongcheng for proposing the marriage. Dumozhi is very happy."
Chuulu glanced at Dumozhi. This man's wrinkled face was full of cunning and hypocrisy. He was clearly reluctant to marry his daughter to him, but he pretended to be very excited.
He himself is even less willing to do so. There is a pure land hidden in his heart, free from the evil and ugliness of these people. As long as he can keep this pure land, he would rather remain unmarried in this life.