Chapter 13 Brother, I'm Sorry

"No, it will take more than an hour to have a place to rest!" replied Hu Tuli.

Su Wu looked at the slowly advancing procession, listened to the sound of people's feet on the sand, puffing and puffing, and encouraged everyone: "Everyone lift their spirits, help each other, work hard, and in more than half an hour, we will have a place to rest!"

The soldiers in the ranks shouted, "Come on, come on!" and the shouts were especially loud in the silence and empty desert. Everyone supported each other, and although they were also trekking in the sand, their pace quickened.

Ranger and Chang would lead the horses and run from behind Su Wu and Hu Tuli to the front of the group. Rangel asked Chang Hui without saying anything: "Brother Chang, why did you come back so quickly when you went to the clouds to send people away?"

"Why, you don't want me back?" he smiled at her.

Rangel stabbed him: "I don't know what to do! People ask you if they care about the mother-in-law and the child!"

"I'm kidding you!" Chang Hui also gently bumped his elbow against him, hitting her in the chest.

"Oh!" said Rrangel, thrust the reins into his hand in pain, and squatted down beside the road. The team mechanically walked past her.

It is common to see him leave the team, hurriedly chain the reins of the two horses together, and pat them on the buttocks. The horse led the way forward, and he ran over and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

Rangel got up and said, "It's all right, it's all right!"

Hu Tuli passed by his daughter, dragged her daughter and left. He was afraid that they would see through Rangel's daughter.

I often catch up and apologize: "Brother, I'm sorry!"

"I'm fine!" said Rangel.

Hu Tuli rebuked his daughter: "Don't go quickly, you have a headache! Mount, mount your horse and go!" He pulled his daughter to catch up with the horse in front of him, and Wrangel turned over and got on the horse. He led the other horse, and the two guides led the group.

Su Wula walked forward briskly, walking between the guide and the team. He would often look before and after, and when he couldn't hear their conversation, he would whisper to him, "My lord, the child I sent back is a boy." ”

Su Wu laughed and whispered, "I know." ”

"How do you know?" he said, surprised.

"I touched his head that day. ”

"You're a god!" He continued, "Actually, it was discussed between the daughter-in-law and the mother-in-law. In order to leave offspring for her husband, she has been hiding it from the outside since she was a child, saying that she is a girl. In this way, one day, it will be easy for the mother-in-law to return to the Han Dynasty with the child. Their home is in Henan. ”

"According to the situation, has the register been made?"

"Not only did I make a detailed record, but I also told the old mother that you saved them. He also left them silver, and asked the battalion supervisor to give them preferential care!"

"You're doing the right thing!" he admonished, "you just know it, you can't tell anyone else!"

"I know!"

After five days of guidance, in the afternoon, they finally saw some places along the way, with some shrubs and green grass. Su Wu asked excitedly, "Mr. Hu, it looks like the desert is over?"

"That's right. However, we must beware of the danger of sandstorms!" Hutuli said, "There are two families in front, so we can relax tonight!"

At sunset, the team walked to a sand ditch with a poplar forest with green leaves singing in the wind in the golden sunset. There is also a small river flowing with water, and on either side of the river is a pasture on the slope of the ditch, in which a flock of sheep grazes leisurely, and they baat at each other from time to time.

In the nearby pasture, a few sturdy horses and a few cows were grazing. Next to the road, there are two imposing igloos with smoke billowing from the cooking. A middle-aged man in front of the house is packing up the saddle horse tools for livestock. Hu Tuli shouted happily from afar: "The host's house!

In fact, it was the first post station out of the desert into Hala Horin. When the war between the Hu and Han sides was relatively large, it was more lively. In recent years, there has been no major friction between the two sides, and it is a place to pass on news and receive messengers and passing businessmen.

As soon as they arrived, the master slaughtered the sheep, and the firehead of the army buried the pot and cooked food. After more than half a month in the desert, I haven't had a good meal, and tonight everyone treated me beautifully. In the middle of the night, Wei Or, who slept next to a soldier, shouted that his stomach hurt.

The soldiers who took care of him helped him up to go outside, but they couldn't pull him down. He sat on the ground with his stomach in his arms and groaned in pain. The soldier hurriedly ran to the door of Su Wu's tent and shouted, "Lord Su, Lord Su!"

Su Wu, who was in a daze, heard someone calling him, and got up and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Wei or sick!"

As soon as he heard that someone was sick, he immediately got up and opened the tent door and came out. Awakened by the regular meeting, Hutuli and Rrangel also got up and went out together.

Su Wu said to Rangel: "Little guide, you show us the house!" Although there were sentries standing guard in front of the door at night, Su Wu was still not at ease,

Su Wu asked Chang Hui to immediately call the doctor who accompanied the team, and he and Hu Tuli hurriedly followed the soldiers to see the patient. The doctor soon arrived, and when he asked the patient, he realized that they had eaten dry food all the way, and they drank little water, so they couldn't pull it off. I ate another good meal in the evening, and I got entangled with the things that accumulated in my stomach, and I held it so that my stomach hurt unbearably.

Yes, Su Wu felt that he had this situation along the way. At this time, many people were awakened and gathered around. Su Wu asked, "Is there anything that anyone has appeared and can't pull down?"

Most people have this feeling, but they can still bear it! This is not a trivial problem! Su Wu asked the doctor to prepare a few herbs, stayed up for everyone to drink overnight, and discussed with the guide and decided to rest here tomorrow and continue to hurry the day after tomorrow.

Although the team said that they had walked out of the desert, the road along the way was still mostly in the desert, but a few sparse sand grasses appeared on both sides of the road from time to time.

In the middle of the afternoon, they finally saw a desert with a few shrubs growing in sparse grass. The team continued to move forward for more than an hour, and unexpectedly saw a small arm-thick poplar forest growing on the side of the road not far away.

Seeing that there was a forest, everyone quickened their pace and came to him, and Su Wu ordered everyone to sit in the shade of the tree and rest and drink saliva.

Several Hu envoys have lived in Han for many years, and have entered old age, and their health is not very good, and they are supported by the desire to go home at first, and there are soldiers to take care of them on the way. Later, after many days of walking in the desert, two of them could no longer walk.

Su Wu looked at the surroundings and discussed with the guide: "Mr. Hu, can we spend the night here?"

"No, I can't. It's a marginal area of the grassland, so it's not very safe. Let's drive for more than a day, and we will arrive at Yuwushui (now the Tula River in Mongolia). There are people there, there are shamans, there are post stations, let's rest for two days!"

Hu Tuli looked at the sunset that was about to set and said, "Now that we have reached the polar day circle, it is not too dark on summer nights, let's let everyone eat something and walk a little while it is cool!"

"That's—listen to you!" Su Wu hesitated.