Xiao Baoer listened carefully to the big man's words, and then translated it to Yao Xitong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"He told us to give his prey back, that's the rule of the steppe. ”

Yao Xitong hugged the basket tightly in his arms, "No, he didn't shoot." ”

Xiao Baoer picked up the arrow on the ground and threw it back, shaking her hand to signal that she would not give it.

The curly-haired and bearded man was babbling a lot of words.

Xiao Bao'er listened and translated, "He said that the master's archery is very good, because he saw someone who deliberately missed it." The prey can be given to us, but let his master see what this wolf looks like. ”

Yao Xitong asked vigilantly, "Is there a white wolf on the grassland?" Can they tell that Yin Yao is the legendary ice wolf?"

Xiao Bao'er whispered, "Get on the horse, let's go." If they force themselves to look at Yinyao, show them the jade pendant I lent you. ”

Yao Xitong nodded, the two of them were about to leave when they got on the horse, and the men surrounding them naturally refused to let them. At this moment, a young man with a lot of braids coughed twice, and the men suddenly made way of a passage, Yao Xitong rode away in confusion, but the wind sounded behind his ears, and an arrow shot towards Xiao Bao'er.

"Be careful," he reminded Xiao Bao'er loudly. The latter threw his head back to avoid the arrows, but the veil that fluttered in the wind was carried away by the arrows.

Xiao Bao'er looked back viciously at the man with a lot of braids, and the man smiled at her, his white teeth shining in the sun.

The two ran out for a long time, and Yao Xitong asked, "You know, you wear a veil and don't speak, so you're worried about being recognized?"

Xiao Baoer coldly threw out three words, "I don't know!"

Once deep into the grassland, Yao Xitong suddenly found that what he had learned in the past was basically useless. Over the years, he has spent too much time on the internal affairs of the imperial court and the four tyrants, and he has very little understanding of Northern Liao and Xisu. He knew that he would marry the princess of Northern Liao, and he knew that the Empress Dowager would die, and he would definitely put everything in Northern Liao in the first place to study.

If you have money, you can hardly buy it, and now you can only learn while walking, and grasp everything about Beiliao as soon as possible, anyway, there are magpies and bun shops here.

The closer they got to Da Liao, the more hunters they encountered. Seeing the two women riding together, these men who were still in the grassland forgot their prey and saluted them.

Yao Xitong enjoyed this feeling. The Central Plains man expressed his emotions more reservedly, and even if he knew that there was a beauty in front of him, he didn't dare to look at it more. The man in Beiliao is very direct, and when he sees a woman, he looks straight at it.

"Xiaoxiao, when they see Shuangshu riding together, will they want to marry us all back? Do you say that there are more people who like you, or more people who like me?"

Xiao Baoer thinks that Yao Xitong is very boring, a big man is watched by a group of big men, what is there to be happy about?

She said: "One red and one yellow and a white horse, I feel like scrambled eggs with tomatoes, except for feeling hungry, I have no ideas." Hearing her words, Yao Xitong was surprised, "You actually know about tomatoes." ”

Xiao Bao'er said a little embarrassed, "I also know that this thing was first called wolf peach, Fanbang tribute, and the empress dowager has been kept in Shouning Palace, and every year the result will be called to see it." I didn't know the rules when I first came to Daxia, but look at this fruit is colorful and delicious......"

Yao Xitong interjected and asked, "Don't say that the first person to eat wolf peaches was you." ”

"Anyway, I ate it, and I was called to Shouning Palace by the Empress Dowager later. She asked me where the fruit had gone, and I said yes. She asked again if it was delicious, and I said that the taste was a little sour, and it was quite fresh. She asked the maid to carry another plant out, and the two of us ate all the fruit on that one......

Later, she learned that the small particles in the fruit could be planted, and the Queen Mother asked the craftsmen to plant a full garden. She said that the wolf peach is not good, this fruit looks like a persimmon, and it comes from Fanbang, so it is better to call it a tomato. ”

Yao Xitong always felt that the Empress Dowager was a middle-aged wicked woman with a hateful face, and after listening to Xiao Baoer's description, it was really hard to imagine the appearance of the two eating wolf peaches together. He knew about the wolf peach, because the Empress Dowager gave this thing to people everywhere, and the nobles who got the reward didn't know how to feed it, so they could only ask for help from the bun shop.

He has planted a few plants with his own hands, and found that the fruit is sweet and sour, and he can't help but cook many kinds of dishes. The sweet one has been mixed with sugar and made candied fruit. The salty fried chili peppers and stewed egg custard, but the best thing is the scrambled eggs. Thinking that the first person to eat wolf peaches might be Xiao Bao'er, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, feeling that many things have their own certainty.

The closer you get to the capital city of Daliao, the more you can feel the festive atmosphere. The men are all hunting, and when they return, the entire Northern Liao will be happy with their achievements.

When it was dark, the two went outside the city of Daliao and stayed at the herdsman's house. Yao Xitong changed back into men's clothes, and Xiao Baoer called him a veterinarian.

The armistice between Bactria and Northern Liao for many years, the border trade between the two countries was very prosperous, and the herdsmen were accustomed to the existence of the Central Plains, but they were very curious about the hidden light contained in the basket.

The little guy also knows that he looks cute, and his fur looks suitable for making clothes. Whenever a stranger approached, it curled up in a ball and pretended to be a grandson, not showing its face and tail at all. Yao Xitong praised its behavior, and most often said: Sooner or later, you will become a human being.

On the second day, Yao Xitong wanted to enter the city, but Xiao Baoer said no. The coming-of-age celebrations are held outside the city, and there are no people in the city, so it's not interesting to go. It's better to wait for the celebration to end, she invited Yao Xitong to have a good meal of the eight treasures of water and land in Northern Liao.

As long as there are no natural disasters, the coming-of-age festival in Northern Liao is very lively. This year is very good, the wind and rain are smooth, the venue has already been arranged outside the city, the yurt room has been erected, and every day is in a carnival.

When the two arrived, the celebration had just begun, and the endless grassland was divided into countless places for people to play and play according to their tribes. The girls were giggling as they watched a group of shirtless men fighting, trying to find their ideal husband from this group of heroic young people.

Yao Xitong was making up for the Northern Liao culture, and he asked: "I heard that during the coming-of-age festival, unmarried men and women meet to walk together, if the woman is favored by other men, her boyfriend will have a duel with that man?"

Xiao Bao'er nodded, "There is this rule." ”

"Xiaoxiao, I'd better change back into women's clothes, I don't want to duel with a Northern Liao man. ”

"Then you don't have to fight, just give me to someone else!"

Yao Xitong frowned in embarrassment and said, "Either you are still wearing a veil! Or like this, there must be more than one man who looks at you, I will make a venue for them to compete, how about you bet on the outcome outside?"

Xiao Bao'er didn't say anything, pointed to the venue and introduced to him: "The periphery of each tribe's field is full of hunting results of the young men of the tribe, to see the strength of a tribe, just look at the hunting results they hang outside." The palace also has a venue, and half of the prey on its periphery comes from the royal magnates and half from the warriors who defend the imperial city. ”

Yao Xitong pointed to a field full of wolf corpses and said, "What kind of tribe is this, it has a grudge against wolves, why only wolf corpses are hung?"

Xiao Bao'er glanced at and hurriedly walked away, pointed to the venue set up by the palace and said, "This place is open to the common people, and many women who want to ascend to the sky will come here dressed up beautifully, hoping to be favored by a nobleman who is drinking and having fun......"

If he didn't go deep into Northern Liao, Yao Xitong wouldn't know what it meant to be happy with the people in his life.

Here, young men who consider themselves brave can challenge nobles of the same age and win the favor of the upper class or the hearts of girls by defeating the nobles. The girls can flatter the nobles they like, and the nobles can take the girls away if they want...... He can understand the former, Northern Liao is a race where all the people are soldiers, from the nobles to the common people, and no one is a bad race. He couldn't accept the latter, and couldn't help asking: "Are the girls of Beiliao so arrogant?

"Yes, it's just not as cumbersome as the Central Plains. Don't look at the girls who leave with the guy so easily, they just know the person they want to marry in the future through their own eyes, if they marry the wrong person, they will automatically ask for it without waiting for a letter of divorce. ”

"Automatically begging, and this kind of thing?"

Speaking of this, Xiao Bao'er sighed, "Since the armistice between the two countries, Northern Liao has been deeply influenced by the culture of Great Xia, and there are very few cases of this situation that I am talking about. Most people's daughters are still the same as those in the Central Plains, talking about matchmaking, proposing, and hiring...... Only a few herdsmen's daughters dare to find their lovers. ”

"You don't have to worry about the problem before, the guy from Beiliao is looking for a partner not only to see the appearance, but also to see if it is suitable. I'm not the woman they'll like, and you'll be disappointed that no one challenged you. ”

Yao Xitong was a little puzzled, "Why don't you say that you are not a woman that the Northern Liao Youth Association likes?"

"A woman of my appearance asks for a lot of dowry, at least 500 cattle and sheep, how can ordinary people have so many livestock. ”

"Five hundred cows and sheep can marry you, and I didn't spend a penny, didn't I earn it?"

Before it got dark, a blazing bonfire was lit in the square, and the servants of the palace spread red felt in the noon fighting field. Countless tables are placed on both sides of the red felt, and vegetables and fruits are placed on the table like water, and you can see that the dinner will be grand.

Yao Xitong had never seen such a dinner party, and asked, "What is the dinner party for?"

"Drinking, fighting, looking at women. Xiao Baoer summed it up very incisively, and Yao Xitong asked again: "Isn't it boring to be like this for half a month?"

"Why is it boring when you are drunk and dreaming of death every day, and you have no worries?"

"Great Xia ......" Yao Xitong wanted to say that the people of Great Xia were not as open as Northern Liao, and they were worried about the country and the people all day long. Xiao Bao'er thought that he wanted to highlight that Great Xia was a state of civilized etiquette, so he couldn't help but interrupt: "The Great Summer dinner is not much better, drinking, quarreling, and watching the dead." ”

"Look at the dead?"

Yao Xitong was a little frightened when he listened, and Xiao Baoer explained, "Someone dies after every dinner, whether it counts as a dead person." ”

As the two were talking, a big knife fell from the sky in front of Yao Xitong, frightening him to take a step back. Looking up, it was the man who threw the knife yesterday with a lot of braids. He asked, "What does this mean, it can't be what I think, right?"

Xiao Bao'er nodded, "It's the kind you think, he wants to challenge you." ”

"He has five hundred head of cattle and sheep?"

"Yes, it was his who passed by the tribe with a lot of wolf corpses hanging from it. "The tribal master of the pigtail is really incredible, fortunately, Yao Xitong is quite clear about the division of forces in Northern Liao, he asked: "Can I know his name?"

"Nantuotuo. ”

"I don't know which tribe is named Nantuotuo. ”

"Yesun Tu Ti Zam Nan, whose tribe is called the Tuotuo Department, I call him Nan Tutuo. ”

Yao Xitong opened his mouth in surprise, "He is the number one marksman in Northern Liao, or the tribal master, why is he so young?"

"His father drank too much and fell off the horse and died, and his brother was killed in a duel with someone for a woman, so he ......" Xiao Baoer spread his hands, Nan Tuotuo is such an extremely unlucky lucky person.

Yao Xitong asked again: "Yesterday, you could be seen through by him with just one pair of eyes, I don't think it's that simple between you." ”

"Dead turtle, can you solve the problem at hand and be curious about other people's gossip?"

Yao Xitong sighed, this battle will definitely not be escaped, what should I do? He asked: "According to the rules, you must compete in martial arts?" I will definitely export you. Can you try the others?"

"Yes, what will you do?"

"Except for martial arts, everything else will be. Why don't you ask him what he will do? ”

Xiao Bao'er asked, Nan Tuotuo didn't speak, and his subordinates replied, "Except for martial arts, I can't do anything else." ”

It's embarrassing now, one can do anything except martial arts. One knows nothing but martial arts. The scene was silent for a moment, and Yao Xitong said, "Then let's compare!"

Xiao Bao'er was a little moved, but there was a voice in her heart that reminded her that Yao Xitong would never compete head-on with Nantuotuo. Still thinking about it, Yao Xitong had already walked to the opposite side of Nantuotuo, and suddenly put on a posture, seeing that Nantuotuo was about to meet the enemy, he twisted his waist and danced!

"Doesn't it mean that the people of Northern Liao can sing and dance well?

Xiao Baoer told Nan Tuotuo what she meant, and when she heard that the competition had risen to the level that Northern Liao people could sing and dance, Nan Tuotuo naturally would not admit defeat, and took off her coat and began to dance.

Yao Xitong saw him dancing well, and couldn't help asking, "How do you win or lose?"

Xiao Bao'er was already laughing and trembling, and said loudly, "Whoever has the most spectators wins." ”

Nantuotuo danced well, not only dancing out of the lively waves of the Northern Liao dance, but also with a unique vigorous and vigorous body. In addition, his subordinates have been helping to shout and cheer, and the audience is all standing there with him, and there is only Xiao Baoer in front of Yao Xitong.

After a stick of incense, Nan Tuotuo felt that it was almost over, and turned his head to look, Yao Xitong was dancing happily. Nan Tuotuo was helpless, so he had to grit his teeth and continue, there was no way, the opponent was still jumping, wouldn't he admit defeat if he rested?

Half an hour passed, and Nan Tuotuo repeated all the dancing postures seventy or eighty times, even the posture of drawing the bow and shooting hunting. Yao Xitong is still jumping, and the posture is not the same.

The audience has moved from Nantuotuo's side to Yao Xitong's side. It's not that I like his dance, everyone is just curious, and they are all thinking in their hearts, this guy is as thin as a grass, but he can sway for a long time without stopping, how long can he dance like this?