Han Yue gave hope to the people with his promise, but his old acquaintance Wang Lingyun had already stepped into the north. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tang Dynasty is different from the Turks, human nature breeds brilliance, and although it has suffered tragedy, it has hidden vitality. The people of the Central Plains helped each other under the leadership of Han Yue, but the Turkic steppe was a completely different scene.

There is a song that says: Ele River, under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a dome, covering the four fields, the sky is firm, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

This is the grassland in the eyes of the poet, full of beautiful northland style, but literature is only illusory after all, and reality is different after all.

It was as if a yin wind was blowing from hell, and the vast grassland changed overnight. The grass and trees were scorched by frost, and the cold wind was like a steel knife scraping bones.

Heavy snow is coming!

This snow came so quickly that it formed a white-haired wind that was rare in a century, covering the sky and the sun, raging and crazy. The pervasive cold wind seemed to come from Jiuyou, and it blew directly through the leather jackets of the herdsmen, and many of them were blue from the cold.

The same goes for the Shepherdess Parade!

Her sheepskin jacket was very shabby, covered with patches of various sizes, and although the stitches were fine, there were too many sewings to prevent the cold wind from entering in many places.

She is wearing a pair of straw sandals, which are hand-woven by You You, she is very handmade, the straw shoes are very beautiful, but unfortunately no matter how beautiful the straw shoes are, they can't keep warm, there are no sheepskin boots to block the cold, and You You's toes have been frozen and stiff.

Although his clothes are so thin, he still stays in the wind and snow. She stamped her little feet vigorously, kept picking away the snow with both hands, and then used a sickle-like instrument to cut the grass vigorously.

She had been doing this work for three whole days, and every day she got up before dawn, until it was dark at night, and she could no longer see clearly. Behind her were hundreds of haystacks, one almost every twenty paces, each of which weighed about a hundred pounds of pasture, neatly stacked there.

You You is not alone, there are many women and herdsmen who work with her, but because You You is a girl and she is very beautiful, it looks a little abrupt in the wind and snow.

Her delicate body was small, not as strong as that of ordinary Turkic women, but she did not cut any less grass than theirs. If she makes a ranking, she can even get the first place.

A middle-aged woman next to her admired Youyou's ability, she looked back at the haystack behind her from time to time, compared the Youyou and her own labor results, and said enviously: "Youyou, you are really good, you have only been mowing the grass for three days, you have already harvested so many haystacks, no wonder everyone says that You You is the most capable." ”

You You listened to her praise, barely raised his head and smiled, but his hands did not stop at all.

In fact, she was already tired and hungry, but she was persevering with perseverance. Everyone else sweats when they work, but she feels like she is about to freeze, and even the mowing of the grass is very mechanical. I couldn't help it, I was so hungry that I only ate half a piece of jerky all day, and I had no strength in my body at all.

She grabbed a puff of snow in her hand, gritted her teeth and stuffed it into her mouth, the cold snow water trickled down her throat and into her stomach, she shivered, bent down and continued to mow the grass.

"Youyou, you can take a break!" The middle-aged woman was a little worried, she grabbed You You's hand and persuaded her: "You have already cut so much grass and eaten so little, if you continue like this, you will die." Good You You is obedient, hurry back to your felt room to rest, we adults are not as desperate as you, go, I will send you back......" said the force in his hand, and he was going to pull You You home.

"No, A-Yao!" You You shook her head desperately, her little face was blue from the cold wind, but she stubbornly bit her lip, and said with tears in her eyes: "This year's snowstorm is too early, the white-haired wind is blowing, the cattle and sheep can't graze, and we are extremely poor people who live by grazing for the noble lord, and if we don't work for a day, we will have no food for a day." My old father secretly walked to the snowstorm and froze to death the night before yesterday in order to save food, and last night I found out that Eminem also had this plan, she wanted to save the food for her brother. When You You said this, the tears in her eyes were even more turbulent, the cold wind whistled, the hot tears became cold in an instant, and there seemed to be many crystal pearls hanging on her long eyelashes.

The middle-aged woman Ah Yao sighed gloomily, she saw You You's sadness crying, for fear that the tears would hang on her face and be frozen by the cold wind, so she wiped it with her sleeve, and at the same time gently persuaded: "You You, don't be sad, this is the life of our destitute people." Whenever winter comes, there are always many old people who voluntarily go into the wind and snow for the sake of their children, and your old father just returns to the arms of the wolf god. ”

"No!" You You shook her head painfully, she shrunk into Ah Yao's arms and cried: "He was frozen and starved to death, You You heard you tell the story, the destitute people who froze to death and starved to death are not qualified to see the wolf god, woo woo, Ah Yao, my old father must suffer underground." ”

A-Yao sighed again, she gently wiped Youyou's tears, but she didn't notice that her tears were quietly flowing out. You You is very pitiful, why is she not like this? Just last night, her lame husband had snuck into the snowstorm and, before leaving, had shoved the only piece of meat in the house into her arms, while carefully covering her with an old sheepskin.

The sheepskin was compensation for the husband's injuries in the war with the Great Khan, and he was supposed to give two of them, but one was deducted by the nobles of the tribe.

You You suddenly broke free from Ah Yao's embrace and said to her, "Ah Yao, let's hold on for one more night." In order to store enough pasture, the nobles of the tribe specially set a reward for us with one hundred catties of pasture grass and two pieces of jerky, which has never happened before. As long as we work hard, we can get enough food so that my Eminem and my brother don't starve to death, and your children survive this winter. ”

Ah Yao nodded, she looked back at the haystacks behind her, and found that there were a lot of them on Youyou's side, but there were few on her side, she said a little gloomily: "It's a pity that my left hand was broken by the nobles of the tribe, otherwise I can cut more than a hundred haystacks like you, and I can exchange it for more than two hundred jerky, alas, after I hand in the grass, I should also secretly leave the yurt......

You You was startled, and hurriedly said: "A-Yao, don't be stupid, your child is so young, if you also go into the wind and snow and freeze to death like my father, your child will still die if no one takes care of him." She seemed to feel that this persuasion was not strong enough, and solemnly added: "Even if you exchange the grass for food for him, he will die if there is no one to take care of him, he is too young." ”

"Alas!" Ah Yao sighed sadly, she looked back at the gathering place of the tribe in the wind and snow, tears welled up in her eyes, as if she saw her own A'er.

You You bit her lip, she was kind-hearted, and she couldn't see A-Yao's pity the most. She had a tangled expression on her little face, and it took a long time to make up her mind, and she reluctantly smiled: "A-Yao, don't worry, I will help you." Just cut my share and I'll help you......"

As she spoke, in order to prove her strength, she pulled A-Yao and pointed to the haystack behind her, and said, "Look, I have already cut hundreds of haystacks, and I am about to make up my share for the winter." I'll be able to help you soon! ”

Ah Yao was stunned, she looked at You You's frozen blue face, she felt very moved in her heart, and couldn't help but hold You You in her arms and murmured: "Good Youyou, you are really the kindest person on the grassland." Thank you, we worked together to cut enough grass ......"

"Hmm!" You You nodded heavily and smiled sweetly at her.

The two destitute women cheered each other on, and were about to get to work, when they suddenly felt the ground tremble under their feet, and then they heard the sound of hooves in the wind and snow.

The sound of hooves was very hurried, dense like raindrops, rumbling in the cold wind and snowy night, from far and near, as if it was in front of you in the blink of an eye.

Like a torrent, there would be no turns, and countless cavalry galloped wildly, galloping straight ahead.

The iron hooves went wild, crushing the ground in an instant, kicking countless haystacks away.

"No......" You You shouted, almost subconsciously wanting to stop the cavalry, and kept crying: "My grass, my grass, don't kick my grass away." ”

Her little face turned pale, and she only felt a pain in her chest, and tears welled up in her eyes.

However, the cavalry ignored the cries of a shepherdess, and thousands of horses kept trodding past, and the grass that You had painstakingly cut was soon trampled into the snow.

You You's tears blurred, and she vaguely saw a Turkic man wearing a big hat passing by her, and suddenly took out a piece of jerky with his hand, and said with a rebellious smile: "Little shepherd girl, Jieli Khan wants to conquer the Central Plains in the south, and the athletes can only trample on your grass in order to march quickly, so you can cut it again!" ”

The man said this, threw the piece of jerky at Youyou's feet, and then rode his horse without looking back, leaving Youyou dementia to sit in the snow, and his mouth was still stupid and shouted: "My pasture, my pasture......"

In the midst of the wind and snow, the man's laughter was faintly heard, as if he was talking to Youyou, and seemed to be explaining to other destitute people: "You should be grateful to Jieli Khan, and when the Great Khan returns from his southern expedition, he will rob you of countless riches and distribute them to you destitute people, and everyone will have a better life." ”

The hoofs rumbled, and his voice was fleeting, as if it had never sounded.

"The Great Khan's southern crusade? Looting property and distributing it to the destitute? You You muttered to herself, just sitting in a demented state, not caring about the cold of the snow, and after a long time, she suddenly shouted frantically: "You are lying, you are deceiving people, you are trampling my pasture, you are all deceiving people......"

She screamed madly, and her eyes suddenly shot out like a hungry wolf, and in the night, the cold was shining, as if she wanted to bite people.

"Jieli, you are not worthy of being the Great Khan of the grassland, I will kill you, I will kill you!"

The wind and snow were rolling and the hooves were rumbling, but they could not suppress the mournful cry of a little shepherdess.

Who has been in power since ancient times, who has really thought about the feelings of the common people?