Chapter 4 General Rong
In the spring of the first year of Liang Fengxiang, Shenmu Plateau.
Su Huihui sat on the hillock and looked at the charred sky. The sky on the grassland is very low, and every time the sun sets, the flames lit in the clouds dance on the farthest grass tips, rolling and relaxing, and in an instant the whole west is dyed a brilliant golden red.
When the sun was only halfway left, the sky turned into a dark ash, and only the dark golden light shone far on the water surface of the depression, and the white light pierced the darkness and reached straight in front of the eyes. Lights were lit up in one of the yurts, and melodious singing spread from inside.
Su Huihui was still sitting there, watching three or four goats with long beards under the mound of dirt circling around her, and decided to wait for someone to come and call her for dinner.
The smell of milk tea filled the air, and she became even more dizzy.
"Azgul, Ana told you to eat!" a tanned, β‘β‘-year-old boy suddenly emerged from under her feet. As soon as the goat saw him, he obediently gave way to the sides, Su Huihui hurriedly jumped down and walked in front of him, coughed and said, "Are you better?"
Batur nodded vigorously, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "Azgul, Ayimu said that she was going to come to you after you finished eating, and she had already eaten. Azgul means Flower of Hope, Batur called her that from the beginning, Su Huihui resisted a little, and later she found that there were countless flowers of hope on the grassland, so she was at ease.
"Azgul, are you afraid of these sheep and cows? They are docile and don't bite. Batur laughed.
Su Hui warmed up and said: "Why do you always call Ayimu, she is your sister." β
"I'm used to it. You must be afraid of them," Batur suddenly stepped aside, and a goat bleated to her right hand with a "bleating" voice, and Su warmed up and jumped three paces away, and when he heard Batur laughing, he walked into the spacious yurt without looking back.
The milk tea in the cauldron was boiling, and Gulzar, who was in her early thirties, was sitting on a blanket to serve food, and when she saw her coming, he warmly beckoned her to sit down.
Su Hui paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Guli Acha, I'll go to the back and come back immediately." "She really can't stand it without water to wash her hands. Some steppe tribes already have the habit of pouring water and washing their hands before meals, but this is a plateau, and a lot of water can't change the tradition.
Gulzar waved his hand, "Hurry up." "Her Chinese is very non-standard, but she can basically understand it.
Not far behind the yurt is a clear lake, and this year's rain came early, although many livestock were sick, and there were many more streams and waterholes, and some herders lived in places with water temporarily.
The lake was already large, and there were no fish in it, only a long and narrow circle of tall grass, from which a narrow stream flowed into the distance. The sun had completely set, and the moon in the west began to lay a soft layer of silvery frost on the surface of the lake.
By the lake stood a fair girl in an embroidered hat, with long braids hanging down to her waist, wearing a red dress, and a long collared tunic embroidered with intricate flowers and plants, decorated with small sparkling silver flakes, which glittered in the moonlight. Her face was turned, and her brown eyes were extremely bright, and she was a very pretty fifteen-year-old girl.
Su Huihui nodded at her, squatted down and washed his hands repeatedly in the water, stood up and said, "Ayimu, do you need my help with anything?"
Ayimu ran up and took her hand and said, "Warm up, look-" She turned her face to the side, and a pair of golden rose earrings reflected a fairer complexion, "It's Ana's, I secretly took it out and put it on!
Su Huihui and her walked back and said, "Which Balang are you going to see?"
Ayimu smiled embarrassedly and didn't answer, and Su Huihui didn't ask, just laughed with her. "Pick up, go to the valley to find me after eating, I'll wait for you by the river!" After speaking, he rode a red pony and galloped away.
Su Huihui reluctantly finished the food on his plate under the bright light of the sheep intestine lamp, and said to Uncle Alekun: "Ata, Ayimu wants me to go to the valley, I don't know what to do?"
Alekun's blue eyes showed a hint of helplessness, and he shrugged and said, "The girl is big, what can happen." After speaking, he took out a small lantern for her, "Come back early...... Look at Ayimu for Atta, don't let her get into trouble again. This is what I bought in Daliang when I was selling things a few years ago, just for the festival, the city is very lively, and there are all kinds of lights. Azgul, you need to learn to ride a horse as soon as possible!"
Su warmed up and thanked him, and walked out of the yurt with the lantern. It was already dark outside, a bright moon was bright, and the lantern in her hand was dispensable, but the uncle's enthusiasm made her feel very comfortable.
There are really any lights. This looks like an umbrella lamp, which is generally hung upright in a place that can be seen at a glance at home, with a surname on one side and an official position on the other, but this one in her hand is an ordinary small lantern, and it is very pitiful to be carried around. Today's hawkers are becoming more and more diverse.
Su warmed up and blew the wind all the way, the spring wind was very strong, and in the wind you could hear the sound of the ice and snow gradually melting into a stream bubbling through the earth.
The mountains in front of them are like a sickle across the grassland, and the rocks are bare, showing dark blue under the light of the stars and moon. There are lights flickering at the bottom of the mountain, and people are faintly talking.
She walked slowly to the stream with a lantern, and saw a row of soldiers wearing armor and weapons in front of her, and she couldn't help but be surprised, and stopped a few feet away.
When the soldier saw someone coming, one of them turned to the back of the tree for a moment, then came out again and walked up to her, and said, "This girl, the general invites you to come." β
After Su Huihui listened, the cold sweat on her forehead came down, she hadn't heard the wind at all before. After hesitating for a long time, he nodded to the soldier and moved over step by step.
There is also a pond behind the tree, but it is smaller, and the two figures facing each other are reflected in the light of the torches and the moonlight.
There were stars in the sky, and the man with his back to her was also wearing armor, tall and tall, without a helmet, and his black hair was simply tied up in the night breeze, dyed with a clear moonlight.
Ayimu ran over like a savior, dragged her with red eyes and whispered "Warm up", the man turned around, and her head hurt even more. She really didn't take a good look at what he looked like when she treated him, after all, people are lying on their stomachs.
The grandfathers and uncles surnamed Rong came to Yuxiao Mountain as guests, and most of them had exceptionally good facial features, but the general could grow like this, and it was no wonder that Ayimu disappeared as soon as he rode a horse. But why did she look like she had eaten Coptis chinensis? And ...... The general didn't look like he was willing to sell his skin.
Su Huihui first saluted, and said, "The folk girl has seen the general." The general, don't come unharmed? The general's surname? Didn't the general come to Ayimu? Is there anything important about the general?"
The good-looking general smiled slightly, glanced at the words on her lantern, and said in a clear voice: "Doctor Wu's blessing is no longer a big problem, so you don't have a surname Rong, you have already made a marriage in the capital, and things are not too tight." "He's really the legendary good-natured man who is known for his good temper. She naturally knew who his surname was, and when she asked like this, he actually accompanied him.
Su Huihui sent the lantern in his hand behind his back, thinking about how to let him continue to have such a good temper, and listened to him again: "It turns out that the young master's family style is not only strict, but also compassionate. β
Su warmed up and coughed a little before he could speak, General Rong frowned as if he was thinking about it: "Forgive Rong for his shallow knowledge, but has there ever been a young master surnamed Wu in my country?
Su Huihui was completely speechless.
Ayimu looked at the two of them, "I'll be waiting for you outside." After saying that, the person disappeared in a flash.
"Doctor Su, Rong has not thanked you for saving your life. He gave a long stroke, and Su Huihui almost jumped back.
"The general doesn't have to be like this, the people are just passing by. β
General Rong said: "Please ask Dr. Su to return to Beijing with Rong, my country has had too much rain this year, the rivers are overflowing, and there is a faint trend of cholera around Gyeonggi." β
Su Hui warmed up and said: "The people's girls have filial piety. I have heard a lot about Gyeonggi doctors. β
General Rong said: "Mr. Qin's spirit in the sky must be pleased. In addition, there are few top-notch doctors in Gyeonggi, and there are many profit-loving doctors, and there is little help in the time of cholera, so people like Dr. Su who are good at pharmacology are needed. β
Seeing that she was silent for a long time, he said softly: "When Mr. Qin came to Rongfu, he said that the doctor should be like him. I can't remember what Mr. Qin looks like, it's probably just to save lives and help the wounded, so that he doesn't have an uncomfortable place in his eyes. β
Su Huihui pressed his index finger against his forehead, and said without hearing any emotion: "If his old man hears your words, he will definitely be more relieved than me going to your country with you." β
The general still smiled slightly. "If Doctor Su is interested, come back here tomorrow at this hour," he pointed to the moon that had just jumped out of the top of the mountain, "Rong will have people wait by the lake behind your yurt." In fact, Rong's military tent is near here, but the people on the march are speechless and behaved, for fear of shocking Dr. Su. β
His tone was extremely polite and gentle, and Su Huihui had never been very good at speaking, and he had nowhere to refute.
"What else does Doctor Su need to be effective?"
Su Huihui grinded his teeth secretly, and said softly: "Your country has won this big victory, but the Yan family has sent someone here?" She felt that if she hadn't saved this life, he would really have to leave now, businessmen have been cheap since ancient times, but she counted a large share of military merit on the businessman's head.
General Rong bowed his head without hesitation.
Su Huihui felt that he was indeed very sincere, thought for a moment and said, "That's okay." But ......"
General Rong suddenly laughed: "Xuan Ze is really right. Doctor Su can rest assured that the Yan family is trying to reorganize the Huimin Pharmacy in the capital, if Dr. Su is interested, just go. β
Su Hui warmed up and said, "The general asked me to think about it again." β
General Rong was kind enough to let her go back and rest earlier.
Ayimu, who didn't have a little flower hat, held a lantern surnamed Wu, his face was full of unhappiness, and he could hang an oil bottle with his mouth. She hatefully took off her golden rose-shaped earrings, bit her lip and said, "He said he would come to me...... He's a ......."
Su Hui Hui continued: "...... Swindler. And he added, "Bastard." "The front foot earns the little girl's craft money, and the back foot lets her follow her to Nanqi to work hard.
Last month, the Qi reinforcements defeated the β‘β‘ Turks, returned to the Shenmu Plateau, the people of the Western Turks celebrated warmly, sang and danced in the mountains, and set up a bazaar, Yalikun and Ayimu went to the nearest county to buy goods, Ayimu met a young man surnamed Yan in the best restaurant in the county, and after a few conversations, the little girl gave up her family and the plate, fortunately Yalikun came early, otherwise she could sell herself.
Thinking that this is also the will of heaven, in February, Su Huihui was ordered to enter the grassland to save people, and was just about to return to the city from the Qi camp with a group of doctors, when he heard the head of the gang whispering that the general wanted to treat his benefactor well, and Yan Gongzi Jianyì The doctor stayed behind and returned to Qi with the army to help his country. Previously, the Yan family transported a few truckloads of herbs from southern Xinjiang into the country, and no one dared to use the Turkic witch doctors, Su Hui Hui used a little bit of it, and as soon as she came out of the tent, the sky of the entire grassland changed, and a steady stream of herbs was sent to the plateau, and her eyes turned green. She remembered that her master said that she couldn't charge for it, and she didn't think it was very comfortable for people to play like this. No one told her a word, and she was not very big-eyed, but when she found that the soldiers who were trying to avoid being arrested could only live in herdsmen's houses to drink milk tea, lay on the floor, and could not return to the city, or could not wash and clean every day, her eyes were even smaller.
Yan Gongzi and Ayimu made an appointment to meet in the valley, and Ayimu would hand over the best hat he had embroidered to him, which was the embroidery method handed down by his ancestors, and the hat was also introduced from the west more than ten years ago, and the Central Plains people did not. When she spoke in the restaurant, her tone was proud and lost, because she was the best embroiderer in a radius of hundreds of miles, but the girl's hat had to be embroidered by herself, and no one came to her.
The kind-hearted Han son contributed some money, so Ayimu rode a beautiful red horse and wore a beautiful skirt, and gave his beautiful hat to the stranger. She was reluctant in her heart, but when she saw the soldiers who had been on the battlefield in the two rows around her, she sighed three times, and the hat was quickly sent away.
Later, the general asked her to speak, but she couldn't speak, and when she saw Su warmed up, her heart fell.
Su Huihui thought about things and listened to her, and in the end she was already whimpering, so she took the lantern to comfort her. Gulzar and Alekun were waiting for them at the door of the felt tent, and the moon had reached mid-heaven.
Su Huihui did not fall asleep that night. She walked out lightly and looked at the Milky Way in the sky. Although her master always told her to do whatever she wanted, as long as she didn't hurt the heavens and reason, he didn't have many difficulties in his heart when he was young. But she knew that even if she stared at what she was doing at one moment, it was impossible to completely guess how she would evaluate it in the next moment.
The stars are getting fainter and fainter, Su Huihui remembered that on the Stacked Cloud Peak, the fragrance of Xinyi flowers in the evening breeze made her poke her head out from under the tree, and as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw the clear and shallow river Han hanging on the clear sky, at that time, it was almost instantaneous, her mood was open, and the three thousand worlds were like day.