Chapter Eighty-Seven: Girl, That's Not How Business Works
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Li Chongjiu ordered Wang Mahan to lead the displaced people to stay in place in case of accidents, and he and Tanzong quietly approached this nomadic tribe separately.
Tan Zong was sent to the White Birch Forest to reconnoitre, while Li Chongjiu came in the direction of the lake in Angu Linao that Li Hu had told him.
Li Chongjiu slowly approached under the cover of the bushes.
I saw that on the top of the mountain, a large area of white sheep covered the mountain like white clouds, and they were all buried in grazing.
The bleating of the lamb came again and again, bright and crisp.
At the foot of the mountain, the tribal herdsmen set up a felt house and surrounded it by a high cart.
While many of the men were catching fish at the lake, the women threw the fish they caught by the men into the wading and boiled them on the pile of sheep dung without scraping the scales (Note 1).
Li Chongjiu was secretly taken aback when he saw this, this tribe looked not small, at least a thousand people.
Almost everyone in the steppe tribes is a soldier, not to mention young and strong men, even women and old people, and even children as old as six or seven years old. This is why the historical records say that the population of the Xiongnu is only a few hundred thousand, but there are more than 300,000 people who control the strings.
Therefore, in a tribe of 1,000 people, there are at least a few hundred people who can ride horses and shoot arrows.
Such an opponent, unless it is a sneak attack, is not something that Li Chongjiu's thousands of exile legions can deal with.
Li Chongjiu thought about it and decided to get closer, find out the details of this tribe, whether it was a sneak attack or not, at least understand which tribe they were, Turkic? Mockery? Or is it the Sulpriot?
It should not be a man, but his skin is white and blue, and his hair is white or golden, so people call him Bai Haze. And the skin color of the people here is obviously yellow.
Turks, possibly, but this is not a Turkic sphere of influence, and Turks generally do not travel thousands of miles to nomadize here.
Therefore, it is the most likely to be a Xi person, you must know that there are five tribes of the Xi people, which are the Lord of Humiliation, Mo Hefu, Qi Li, Mu Kun, and Murod.
Li Chongjiu hid by the lake, continued to move forward, the hilt of the knife on his body was tightly hidden, and continued to approach the tribe, unconsciously close to the lake.
At present, the ice cap on the great lake of Angu Li Nao has long since melted, the water on the lake is murmuring, and the jackdaws are flapping their wings.
Other than that, there was silence all around.
Li Chongjiu held his breath, and at this moment, he suddenly saw a circle of ripples in the lake on the side, coming in his direction.
Could it be a water monster?
Li Chongjiu held the handle of the knife at the moment, but saw a girl actually get out of the lake, flick her long hair back, and thousands of water droplets scattered.
At this moment, Li Chongjiu was walking against the birch forest by the lake, and the girl came out of the lake, and the two were only a foot apart, looking at each other.
In an instant, the girl saw Li Chongjiu at first glance, but her whole expression was stunned.
Boom!
But Li Chongjiu did not hesitate, pulled out a short knife from his waist and pointed it at the girl's throat. The girl's panicked look passed, her eyes stared straight at Li Chongjiu, and she asked softly after half a sound: "Are you Han?" "The other party speaks very non-standard Chinese, but his voice is excellent. Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Don't make a sound, otherwise I will be ruthless." β
The girl nodded, and Li Chongjiu saw that under his sharp blade, although the other party was afraid, he still replied stiffly, obviously a woman with courage.
Li Chongjiu immediately took off his leather jacket, threw it to the other party, and said, "Put it on." β
When the girl saw Li Chongjiu like this, she showed a hint of surprise, but she did not refuse.
The Hu woman was really very open-minded, and regardless of being exposed to Li Chongjiu's gaze, she generously walked out of the lake and put on her leather jacket.
The girl had white and round thighs, and the Hu woman should ride a horse often, so the curve of each leg was good.
Li Chongjiu glanced at the other party's thigh and asked, "Since you can speak Chinese, you should have a high status in the clan?" β
The girl shook her head, her eyes showing a hint of determination, and said, "You don't want anything from my mouth, the woman in my room would rather die than give in to the enemy." β
"Very good, the room is Xi, it turns out that you are the Xi clan's room."
Li Chongjiu effortlessly got the answer he wanted from the other party's mouth.
The girl's eyes widened, pointed at Li Chongjiu, and said, "Okay, sure enough, Eminem is right, the Han people are very treacherous!" β
"You sued me yourself!" Li Chongjiu said angrily, and the girl suddenly turned pale with anger.
But Li Chongjiu thought in his heart: I heard that the Murde Department of the Xi people has always been located in the easternmost position of the Xi people, nomadic near Wuhou Qinshui (Note 2), bordering the territory of the Khitan people, why did it appear here.
At that moment, Li Chongjiu said: "Now you must go back with me first." β
The girl hurriedly said, "Since you are not our enemy, why do you need to take me away, if you return it, I will give a hundred sheep in exchange!" β
"One hundred sheep!" Li Chongjiu was taken aback, this amount is not small, and he can take out this net worth a lot in the grassland.
Li Chongjiu wanted to know the details of this woman, so he bargained at the moment and said: "No, at least a thousand sheep and a hundred good horses!" β
"A thousand heads is a thousand heads! Horses are also given to you. The girl said dryly.
Li Chongjiu had a feeling of being defeated by the other party, and he was going to open his mouth with a lion, but he didn't expect this innocent girl to agree to it.
Doesn't she know that such a thief Li Chongjiu will feel that the other party is a strange thing to live in, girl, business is not like this.
At this moment, the two of them suddenly heard a rapid horn sound in the distance.
The girl and Li Chongjiu were both pale to the side, and then they saw the wolf smoke on the south side of the hillside rising to the sky for a while.
The girl looked at the wolf smoke, her teeth bit her lip tightly, her eyes showed a touch of grief and indignation, and a pair of small fists clenched tightly.
Li Chongjiu asked, "What's wrong?" β
The girl said hatefully: "Those damn Khitan dogs, I didn't expect to keep biting and chasing here." β
"It turns out that the Xi Department in your room was defeated by the Khitans from Wuhou Qinshui, so they went all the way to exile here."
The girl listened to Li Chongjiu's words, her eyes widened, and she asked, "How do you know?" β
"Guess."
The girl nodded and said, "Sure enough, Eminem is right, the Han people are both treacherous and intelligent. β
"Okay, then apart from you Eminem, did your Abba sue you, in addition to the treacherous and clever Han people, there are also kind and clever people?"
Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, the girl buried her head low, and said softly: "Abba didn't tell me about this, and I won't sue sΓΉ in the future?" β
Listening to the innocent girl's tone, revealing a completely different sadness from her innocent and romantic temperament, Li Chongjiu couldn't make fun of it anymore, and asked at the moment: "Why?" β
The girl's sparkling eyes suddenly cut down a few tears. She said: "The Khitan people fell in love with the Xi Department in our room, and sent troops to defeat us in the pasture by the Wuhou Qin water, I ...... Abba died in battle, and then the clan had no one to lead them, and they were torn apart, and Eminem and I were left here. β
"It turned out to be the princess of the Fallen Tribe!"
Although Li Chongjiu got what he needed from the mouth of this tribe girl, he did not have the slightest sense of accomplishment, but felt a trace of sympathy for the girl and the current situation of his tribe. At this time, the sound of the horn on the grassland sounded like a move to the heavens and the earth.
Thundered!
The whole hillside seemed to shake, and when it reached the top of the hill, the sheep scattered in all directions, and a large group of cavalry wearing white wool felt furs appeared on the top of the mountain.
"It's the Khitan White Horse!" The girl suddenly exclaimed.
Note 1: According to the records of the New Tang Dynasty, Xi Bu chased water and grass for animal husbandry, lived in the war house, and surrounded the car as the camp. β¦β¦γ The broken wood is a mortar, and the tile is a bream, and it is eaten by mixed cold water.
Note 2: That is, the old Ha River today.;