Chapter 65: Crossing the Prairie
As the four of them slowly approached, the smoke on the horizon was getting closer and closer, and gradually Tang Mo and they heard the voice coming from there, it was the Xiongnu language, although Tang Mo couldn't understand it, but the catkins could understand it, the catkins had been erudite since he was a child, and he had studied the languages of the Huns, Persians and Dayue people. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Liu Fu walked in front, four people came to the Hun tent, here is just an ordinary Hun herdsman, a Hun girl is playing in front of the tent, see the four, the girl turned around and ran back to the account.
"Abba, you're here. The girl shouted in Hun language.
Out of the tent came a bearded Hun man, who said, "What guest? Han Chinese or Huns?"
"Look at the clothes are Huns, Abba. The girl said.
"Since it's a Huns, there's no need to make a fuss, let's go out with Abba. The man said.
"Oh, Abba. The girl nodded, and walked out with her father.
The girl and the man walked out of the tent and came to the four catkins.
"I don't know what you need, guests from afar?" said the girl's father.
"Hello uncle, we want to buy a good horse. Liu Wu said.
"Ma, we have it, but I just don't know if you have enough money for the guests. The girl's father burst open and laughed, and he could tell that he was in a good mood.
"We have the money, but we don't know if your horse is good enough." ”
The girl's father smiled even more, "The horses of the grassland are all good horses, so don't worry, guests." ”
"Well, take us to see the horses. Liu Wu said.
"Okay, okay. The girl's father continued.
Then he took the four catkins around the tent and went to the back, behind the tent was a path in the grassland, and where the path led, was the horse farm of the Hun man's house.
Before arriving at the horse farm, Tang Mo Liuwu and the four were very curious about what kind of horses the Huns had in their home, and when they really came to the horse farm, they couldn't help but be a little disappointed, because although there were many horses in the horse farm, they were all ordinary horses, not good horses at the level of war horses.
Think about it, if it was a good horse, it would have been taken away by the people of the Xiongnu royal court, and it would not remain in the hands of the herdsmen.
These horses are ordinary horses, one is worth no more than ten taels of silver, catkins talked about the price, thirty taels directly bought four mares, the reason why the mare was chosen instead of the stallion, because relatively speaking, the mare character is more docile, than the stallion, it is easier to control.
After buying horses, the Hun men sold mutton and goat's milk.
"Guests from afar, this goat's milk is a good thing, not only to fill the stomach, quench thirst, but also to cure diseases, there is a headache, brain fever, cold or something, drink some hot goat milk, quasi. He paused, and then said, "And mutton is also a good thing, in the grassland, the most important thing you need is caloric food, mutton is very high in calories, eat half a catty of mutton, you can manage a day without hunger." ”
Although the Hun man said it very well, but it was somewhat touted, Liu Wu is not an uninformed person, he knows no less about the grassland than the Huns, at this time Liu Wu smiled and shook his head, "Brother, we only buy horses, don't want goat milk and mutton, we have our own food." ”
"Oh, that's it, then I won't say more, you go well, guest, have a safe journey, may the gods bless. ”
"Farewell" Tang Mo Liuwu and the four finally left, riding the bought horses, they moved a lot faster, according to the map far away from the Xiongnu royal court, along the way from time to time to see some Xiongnu herdsmen, but because they already had horses, so they did not contact again.
A month later, Tang Mo and the four finally left the territory of the Huns and began to enter other kingdoms in the Western Regions.
The first thing they entered was a country called Loulan.
The country is long dead after hundreds of years, but it is thriving today.
Stepping into the territory of Loulan, you can see the Loulan people walking back and forth from time to time in the clothes between the Xiongnu and the Han people.
They are very polite, and when they see Tang Mo riding a horse, they will take the initiative to be polite.
The capital of the Loulan people is Loulan City, and there is only one city in their country, which is a typical small country in the Western Regions.
After entering Loulan City, Tang Mo and Liu Fu began to inquire about the news of the Western Regions poison ivy, but even in Loulan, the Western Regions poison ivy still only belongs to legends.
If you want to know the news of the Western Regions poison ivy, it is obviously not feasible to only float on the surface, so after thinking about it, Tang Mo decided to buy a medicinal herb shop in Loulan, and then inquire about the news of the Western Regions poison ivy.
Loulan is a small country between the Western Regions and the Xiongnu, and there are obvious elements of the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures.
Tang Mo and Li Lingyue went to the street together, looking for a medicinal herb shop that they could buy while shopping.
I walked three medicinal herb shops in a row, all of which were reluctant to sell, but I saw a medicinal herb shop ready to sell in the bustling center of Loulan City.
The scale of this medicinal herb shop is not small, and the asking price is 1,000 taels of gold, which is equivalent to 100,000 taels of silver, which is ten times higher than the value of ordinary medicinal herb shops, this is because it has enough fame and accumulation, and the location is prosperous enough.
However, although the asking price was 1,000 taels of gold, it did not make Tang Mo feel afraid, Tang Mo directly bid 1,200 taels of gold, asking the store to keep the existing men and doctors, and even the inventory.
In Loulan, ancient Chinese, Xiongnu and Persian are official languages, and there are no barriers to communication.
The shopkeeper agreed to Tang Mo's request, and exchanged the shop and the remaining medicinal materials for Tang Mo's 1,200 taels of gold, and even the guy and the doctor stayed in the shop.
The owner of the shop has changed, so it needs to be temporarily closed for rectification.
Tang Mo checked the inventory of the store and found that less than two-thirds of the medicinal materials he knew, and the remaining one-third were all medicinal herbs from the Western Regions.
There are also some poisonous things in these Western Regions medicinal herbs, but none of them are Western Regions poison ivy.
Tang Mo asked Liu Wu to run the medicine shop, and at the same time began to inquire about the news of poison ivy in the Western Regions from the medicinal herb market and the medicinal herb wholesaler in Loulan, and this time with the identity of the shopkeeper of the medicinal herb shop, it was much easier to inquire about the news.
It took half a month for Tang Mo to finally get the news about the poison ivy in the Western Regions.
That's a legend.
"It is said that under the majestic Sun Mountain, there is a highly poisonous poison ivy, it is the most poisonous thing in the Western Regions, it only takes a little bit to kill the human beings in the entire city, he is the poison of the devil, once the human beings see it, they will inevitably lose their lives. ”
Sun Mountain, which refers to the mountain located in the center of the Great Moon Country, is now called "Aragonese Mountain".
Since the Western Regions poison ivy is said to be under the Sun Mountain, Tang Mo is ready to go to the Sun Mountain to have a look, after all, the Western Regions poison ivy is something she is determined to obtain.