8. Yuan girl
85_85279The weather in September, although the desert is not as vigorous as the grass and trees in midsummer, but it is also the season when the grass is fat and the horses are strong. I had already changed out of the Central Plains costume and put on a Hu costume, and even my hair was braided into small braids. A caravan selling tea from China heard my Central Plains accent and was very enthusiastic to let me go with them all the way, and I only had to play music for them from time to time. I told them that my brother was doing business in the Turkic city, and my sister-in-law had given birth to a nephew, and asked me to come and deliver the good news.
An older uncle said, "Since ancient times, there have been constant wars at the border gates, but no matter how the country fights, one does not fight the envoys, not the merchants, and the third does not beat the old and weak, women and children, these are the rules, so we caravans dare to shuttle like this." But having said that, it was still difficult after all, and sometimes the fleeing troops would come and steal our food when they had nothing to eat, and sometimes there would be even more savage barbarians who would come and snatch women back to be wives. To be honest, we are also licking life on the knife edge. It's really good that a girl of yours dares to go all the way to find her brother like this. ”
I found a bronze mirror from his van, took a picture of my face, and said with a smile, "Uncle, look at me like a piece of black carbon, and I am wearing men's clothes, who would dare to come and rob me of being my wife?" ”
After saying that, the men in the team all laughed. There were only two women in this team, one was the wife of the leading uncle, whom I called "Aunt Liu", and the other was a wife named Hanako who was married by a little follower on the road. Listening to Aunt Liu, this woman was originally begging for food on the road, and she didn't want to meet a few Huns molesting, and the little follower Huzi happened to be good at fists and feet, so she couldn't stand it anymore and saved this Huazi. Unexpectedly, this woman didn't want to eat, and only followed Huzi all the way. At first, Huzi always drove her away, and after a long time, Hanako took care of almost the life of the whole team, washing clothes, cooking on a wildfire, and on the shore of Kanas Lake, Hanako took advantage of the night when no one jumped into the lake to take a bath, although she was still wearing tattered clothes, but her face and hands were very white.
Aunt Liu saw that Huazi liked Huzi, Huzi was an orphan, and he was picked up by Uncle Liu since he was a child, and he was also a hard-working person, so she made the decision to make the young man a parent. And gave Hanako a name called Cuicui.
It can be seen that Huzi is very good to Cuicui, not to mention Cuicui, who takes care of Huzi meticulously. Cuicui has probably been doing it for a long time, and she doesn't like to talk, and she never speaks until she has to. I see her eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but I like it so much.
On this day, we crossed the steppe and pitched our tents on the edge of the desert. At night, I was lying alone on the sand, looking at the twinkling stars in the sky, when I suddenly heard the sound of rustling in the distance, and got up and quietly looked, and several figures bowed down to us under the moonlight, all of them seemed to have swords in their hands.
My heart hangs in the air, all of my side are serious businessmen, at most they will do the kung fu of a three-legged cat, if they really fight, none of them have the power to fight back. Thinking of this, I took the big knife that Uncle Liu usually uses for self-defense in my hand, jumped in front of those people, and shouted, "Who are you?" ”
At this time, I saw that there were a total of five people, each fierce and vicious, full of meat, at a glance it was here specializing in green forest trading, one of them muttered a few words, I didn't understand a word, the other leader said in broken Chinese, "Central Plains people, this road is opened by me, this grass is planted by me, if you want to pass from here, leave to buy road wealth!" ”
Hearing these words, I almost didn't laugh, but finally held back, "Do you mean robbery?" ”
"Yes, yes! That's it, it's robbery! "The bandit who spoke Chinese probably just practiced the passage just now, and he couldn't say anything else at all.
I pointed at him and smiled, "You haven't even learned how to speak, and you still want to rob?" ”
The man snorted, so angry that his nose was bubbling, "Where did you come from, girl, blocking the way for the old lady to get rich!" ”
I laughed more and more, this man can't even tell whether he is a man or a woman, it's really ridiculous, he rushed at me with a machete, full of strength, but more than clumsy, I jumped from his armpit to his back, kicked him in the back, he fell to the ground with a, his mouth was full of mud and sand, he gritted his teeth with hatred, turned around and threw the machete at me with his own strength, I caught the machete with my own steel knife, after two knives turned around twice, I shook it lightly, and threw his knife out at will, not a moment, The other four men let out a scream, and the one who had begun to grunt covered his ears and covered his hands with blood, and slashed at me with his other hand holding a knife in grief and anger. When the rest of the people saw that I had cut off one of the man's ears in an instant, they were so frightened that they hesitated, and they all rushed to my side, and I jumped out of the ground with both feet, and before they could all gather together, I was behind them, and kicked them all over one by one with my shadowless feet. Either they fell into their mouths full of sand, or your knife slashed me in the foot, and they all howled.
I laughed, it seems that these bandits are all straw bales.
Uncle Liu in the tent heard the sound, and they all rushed over with weapons, and they were all stunned when they saw that these bandits all fell to the ground.
I shrugged my shoulders and laughed, "These bandits have probably lost their minds and gone crazy and fought on their own. ”
Uncle Liu was the first to react, and ordered someone to tie up the five bandits and hand them over to the government when they passed through the government.
After everyone settled down again, Uncle Liu and his wife pulled me behind a boulder and arched my hand, "Girl, the old man has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and he doesn't know that the woman is hidden. ”
I hurriedly held him up, "Uncle, what are you talking about......"
After all, he has been in business for many years, and Uncle Liu's eyesight is not bad, "Originally, I thought that it was really unsafe for the girl to pass the customs alone, so I brought the girl with me, but now it seems that the old man is ...... Ahem. ”
I blushed, but fortunately, it was dark now, and my face was tanned, and they couldn't see it, "Uncle, don't say such things, I'm not a bad person, I'm really here to find my brother, my family is in the dart business, so our brother and sister have been dancing knives and guns since childhood." ”
When Uncle Liu and his wife heard this, the suspicion and fear on their faces finally faded a little, "That's ...... That ......"
"I'll leave alone in a while, and you and the rest of the brothers will say that I met my brother and left first."
Uncle Liu was also a little embarrassed, "I'm not driving you away......"
"I've been out for some time, and I should speed up the process, or I won't be able to catch up with my nephew's first birthday when my brother comes home." I understand the psychology of these businessmen who just want to do some business honestly and make some money, and they would rather be robbed by bandits and return empty-handed than get involved in the dirty things of the Central Plains - such as bandits, fugitives and so on. I'd better leave as soon as possible, lest they be scared all the way.
Uncle Liu laughed dryly, "Don't be in such a hurry......"
I laughed at him too, and said no more, just went back to pack my luggage, and was about to leave, when I suddenly heard someone shouting, "Where's Cuicui?!" Where's Cuicui?! ”
That person was Huzi, he got out of the couple's tent, his eyes were so anxious that he was about to breathe fire, Uncle Liu hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was going on. Huzi said anxiously, "Fang is still there, I came out of the tent to see the bandits, after seeing the bandits come back Cuicui disappeared, I thought she was going out to relieve herself, but I haven't seen a shadow for so long, so I looked everywhere, or no!" ”
Uncle Liu was taken aback and counted the horses, and sure enough, there was one less horse. Huzi sat down on the ground, shook his head and said, "Impossible, impossible." ”
I can't help but be curious, that Cuicui looks like an angry little daughter-in-law all the way, how can I not see the evil intentions, let alone any skills, otherwise I will not be bullied, how can I still ride a horse?
Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu were just distressed about the horse that disappeared with Cuicui there, and it was a good thing to count the belongings. couldn't help gritting his teeth and hating, "I really saved a white-eyed wolf!" ”
I stepped forward and said, "I still have some broken silver here, give it to you, give me another horse, I'll chase after it to see if I can find Cuicui, maybe it's not what you want to fight." ”
Uncle Liu exclaimed angrily, "If it weren't for you tonight, I would have all these things, not to mention broken silver, you can just pick a strong horse and ride away." ”
Before leaving, I looked at Huzi and didn't seem to come back to his senses, my wife ran away, and my heart flew. I shook my head and led the horse away.
I still don't dare to ride a horse, but if there is no horse here, I am afraid that I will break these legs, I can only recall the skills that Zhu Di taught me to ride a horse in the past, and it seems that it is indeed not so difficult to get on the horse.
After riding for a long time, I faintly saw another team of people and horses in front of me, but this time there were many people and horses, unlike those bandits who were unorganized and undisciplined.
I quietly chased after them, and they rested in a leeward place. I wanted to rub the fire on the fire, but suddenly I saw a familiar figure in the distance.
The figure was surrounded by the stars and the moon in the crowd, and a few people dismounted and knelt down.
I covered my mouth and was shocked, that person was clearly a woman, it was called Huazi Cuicui, the wife of the little follower Huzi! And those who surrounded her were obviously dressed as Yuan people, all dressed in armor, they were soldiers!
Cuicui is not from the Central Plains! She's a meta-person! And a woman in the army, a woman with supreme rights!
I quietly bypassed them and hid in a corner they couldn't see