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Occasionally, I met a few shepherds driving cattle and sheep, and watched this group vigilantly.

"The leader of this piece asked us to come and invite us, should we go and meet us?" Xiao Jinyu asked Yi Chenzi.

"Let's take a look, I've been sitting flat in the carriage lately, so everyone can rest."

Yi Chenzi came to the Western Regions at will, there was no purpose and no plan, and wherever he went, it counted.

Xiao Jinyu didn't need to speak, and the people next to her went down to make arrangements.

Although it is said to be the leader, it is probably equivalent to a lieutenant chief, with dozens of warriors, hundreds of sheep, 100 cows, and dozens of families.

The big tent looks a little shabby, but the area is not small, Wei Yuan and his party followed a female doll into the big tent, and sitting on the top was a middle-aged man with vigorous hair.

"Pour tea for your nobles!"

Wei Yuan and the others had just entered, and the man shouted anxiously, looking at the gestures, he should have learned from the people of the Great Zhou, but he didn't learn them thoroughly.

Xiao Jinyu arched her hand.

Yi Chenzi looked at the furnishings in the tent, there were tables, chairs and furniture, some shadows of the Great Zhou, but there were sheep skulls and cow skulls, which were obviously the style of the Western Regions.

"Please be seated, please be seated......"

The man seemed to realize at this time that he had to let the distinguished guest sit first, and he smiled a little silly, rubbing his hands and not knowing what to say.

Next to Wei Yuan was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, who poured tea into the bowl in front of Wei Yuan with a teapot.

Wei Yuan looked at the tea poured out by the maid, this was not what Da Zhou said, but more like butter tea, smelling a milky fragrance.

The maid was probably dragged out of the peasant family at random, her hair was knotted, and her face was still stained with some grass left over from herding sheep, and she was secretly looking at Wei Yuan's clothes and headdress.

"A few of you are from Da Zhou, right?"

The man's eyes fell on Wei Yuan, and he asked with a smirk.

"Yes."

Xiao Jinyu nodded, he wouldn't say too many superfluous words when he wasn't sure what the man wanted to do.

"Good week! There is as much food as the stars in the Great Zhou, and the god of water favors ......"

The man shook his head and said something incoherently, and after listening to it for a while, Wei Yuan reacted, this is saying that Da Zhou is not easy to drought, and there is everything.

Xiao Jinyu nodded with a smile and didn't answer the man's words.

"My name is Bayatu, what are your names?"

After sitting for so long, the man remembered to ask the names of the three people, but it was because he wanted to call Xiao Jinyu, but suddenly found that he didn't know what they were called.

"My name is Xue Jing, and this is Yi Lao."

Xiao Jinyu naturally couldn't say his real name, Xiao was the surname of the Great Zhou Emperor, which could not be taken lightly even in the Western Regions, so he used a pseudonym that was often used.

"Oh."

Bayatu waited for a while, and when he saw that Xiao Jinyu did not introduce Wei Yuan, he was a little disappointed, and at the same time a little elated.

This woman should not be taken very seriously, otherwise how could there be no introduction.

Bayatu glanced at Wei Yuan, and estimated in his heart how many cattle and sheep would have to be used to exchange for this Han woman.

Ten sheep, right?

Ba Yatu secretly glanced at Wei Yuan again, saw the colorful silk on her clothes, and knew that this should be the kind of silk that Da Zhou said, but only Da Zhou women can wear silk with such a beautiful appearance.

Bayatu glanced at the dark complexion of several maids next to him, and sighed silently in his heart, he is thirty-two years old this year, and there are several dolls of his age in other tribes.

It's not that he doesn't have the money to marry a daughter-in-law, it's just that he has always wanted to marry a Han daughter-in-law, and raise his son to look like a Great Zhou person in the future, what is that word called? What a polite article.

It's just that Da Zhou didn't sell people to him, and those little girls were so scared that they cried when they saw him, this is good today, and I haven't been scared to cry after coming in for so long.

He was ready, he had all the bracelets and hairpins that Han women liked to wear, and he had changed two pieces of silk and put them in the warehouse......

"I, Ngawang, went to roast the lamb, and today I invite you to taste our roast lamb!"

Yi Chenzi's eyes lit up as soon as he heard the food, and his leaning body was also straight.

Xiao Jinyu frowned slightly, and glanced at Wei Yuan, who was holding milk tea and tasting it slowly.

Wei Yuan was talking to the girl in a low voice.

"How old are you?" Wei Yuan asked.

"I don't know, I have to count my sheep wrist bones, I was born in autumn, every autumn my father will kill sheep for us to eat, and I have saved the sheep wrist bones every time......"

The girl pulled out a string of round, polished bones from her neck and showed it to Wei Yuan, who remembered that it seemed to be a bone at the ankle of a sheep's foot, and the old man had also made it for her to play with stones in the past.

Wei Yuan looked at it at a glance, about twelve or thirteen.

"Sister, how old am I?"

The girl looked at Wei Yuan with blank eyes, and Wei Yuan realized that her eyes were particularly beautiful at this time.

"Twelve."

Wei Yuan took a closer look at the bone and said with a smile.

"That's good, I've eaten sheep twelve times."

The girl happily stuffed the bones back into her clothes, and asked curiously, "Sister, are your clothes all made of colorful clouds in the sky?" I've only seen clouds in the sky so beautiful. ”

Wei Yuan looked down and saw that his skirt was made of ordinary Hangzhou silk, but it was embroidered with butterfly flowers.

"No, this one is made of silk thread. There is an animal called silkworm, which spins silk, and then clever people take the silk thread and dye it and make clothes. ”

Wei Yuan's knowledge of silk is limited to this, and she can't say anything more.

"What does a silkworm look like? Why don't we have silkworms here? ”

The girl couldn't figure out what a silkworm was after thinking about it for a long time.

"Fleshy, soft, white, kind of like ...... Bugger. ”

Wei Yuan originally wanted to talk about cabbage worms, but when he remembered it, there didn't seem to be cabbage worms here.

"It's too cold here, and there are no silkworms to eat."

The girl was a little sad when she heard this: "Sister, I heard that you people in Zhou do not worship the gods, but why do the gods care for you so much?" ”

Wei Yuan didn't know how to answer this kind of religious question, so he had to laugh and say nothing.

"How many people are in your family?" Wei Yuan chatted casually.

"I have four Ada and two Aji."

Wei Yuan barely knew that Ada meant a boy and Aji meant a girl.

"But this year, Aji married the next tribe, and only changed five sheep, and that day Aji washed his head with snowy mountains and water, and wore flowers picked from the snowy mountains......"

As she spoke, the girl's expression was a little sad: "It's just that Eminem said that Aggie won't come back for a long, long time." ”

Although the two tribes are not far apart, where do the shepherds have a rest, they are busy raising cattle and sheep every day, and the women who marry here have nothing to do with their mothers, because the other party has cattle and sheep.

"Someone came to my house yesterday to see Eminem, as if they were going to take me back with eight sheep."

Wei Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard her words, and there was a little surprise in his eyes, this girl is only twelve years old, how can she ......

"But I don't want to go, I want to be with Eminem."

The girl lowered her head, she didn't realize what it meant to be married, she just thought that she would not be able to see her parents in the future.

"You're only twelve years old, why did you ...... so early?"

The girl glanced at Wei Yuan strangely, as if she didn't know how Wei Yuan could ask such a thing.

"Ah Da in the family is old, but our cattle and sheep are not enough, so we can only take other people's sheep and find a daughter-in-law for Ada......"

Wei Yuan looked at the milk tea blankly, her nose was a little sour, she was indeed much luckier than them, at least now she would not marry herself off for a few sheep.

Wei Yuan was in a trance, stretched out his hand to pick up the milk tea, and drank it slowly.

"My sister's bracelet is so beautiful."

The girl saw the skein gold bracelet that was revealed when Wei Yuan stretched out her hand, and said with envy on her face.

Wei Yuan was stunned for a moment, and glanced down at his wrist, he didn't have the habit of wearing bracelets before, but later he was talked about by Ah Xun all day long, but he was used to wearing things.

She also forgot where she bought this bracelet, looking at the girl's timid eyes, Wei Yuan wiped the bracelet on her hand and handed it to the girl: "Give it to you." ”

The girl was stunned in place, the last time I heard that the chief had changed this golden bracelet, and it cost a full fifteen sheep and five cows!

The others also saw Wei Yuan's movements, they didn't hide their emotions, they all looked at Wei Yuan with their mouths open, especially Bayatu, a pair of eyes as wide as copper bells.

The bracelet he used to change didn't look as good as this!

Ba Yatu reestimated Wei Yuan's worth in his heart, and his eyes paused on Wei Yuan's head, he didn't expect that those jewelry were this woman's own, Ba Yatu felt a little bitter in his heart, he was afraid that he couldn't marry this Han woman even if he tried his best.

In a few moments, the strong men had already brought up the roast sheep, cut them into pieces with knives, and placed them on the plates in front of each of them.

Yichenzi took a knife and cut a piece and chewed it slowly, rarely showing a disgusted expression, but enjoying his face.

"It's really good, fragrant and tender, there is no mutton smell, the meat quality is very good, very good."

Yi Chenzi said two in a row Very good, Wei Yuan knew that he was not the kind of person who would deliberately pretend to be delicious, and cut a small piece, which was indeed good.

"This is to use lamb, and then don't use wood to roast, use sheep grass to roast it out of a different flavor."

Bayatu said proudly, this is their roast sheep...... What's that called? Secret recipe! That's right, the secret ingredient! The Han people don't know.

"I've never heard of this before, and I'm sure I'll try it when I have a chance in the future!"

Yichenzi is really ...... about eating Wei Yuan was only surprised for a second at most when he heard that it was roasted with sheep feces grass, but Yi Chenzi thought that he would write it down and experiment it in the future.

"Let's dance well tonight, the Adas of our tribe are dancing very well!"

Xiao Jinyu was in the big tent, and they couldn't see the sky, but it shouldn't be too late to calculate.

"Let's ......" Xiao Jinyu just wanted to refuse, but she didn't expect Yichenzi to accept it first.

"Okay, it's okay if we're idle!"

After Ba Yatu looked at Yi Chenzi and finished speaking, no one refuted, and his mind became a little more active.

"Yi Lao, our wine here is very mellow, do you want to taste it?"

Bayatu was polite to Yichenzi in an instant, smiling, Yichenzi took a drink and nodded, everything here has their own unique flavor, which is very different from the fineness of Da Zhou.

"The beef and mutton you have here are really delicious!"

Yichenzi cut a small piece of mutton and slowly tore it to eat, and he could eat a small piece for a while with bad teeth.

Bayatu had already sat next to Yichenzi, drinking wine with Yichenzi, beating his leather drums, and singing.

"Yi Lao, how many cattle and sheep do I need to pay if I want to marry that girl?"

Bayatu asked quietly in a low voice.

Yi Chenzi was drinking milk tea, and when he heard this, he almost didn't spit out the milk tea, he looked at Bayatu fixedly, and then secretly looked at Wei Yuan, I don't know how these two people got together.

"This is...... I can't estimate it. ”

Yi Chenzi thought about it carefully for a moment and shook his head.

"What is incalculable, you say a real price!"

Bayatu leaned closer, his face full of sincerity.

"She herself has an inheritance more valuable than tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, how many cattle and sheep do you think it will take to marry her?"

Yi Chenzi didn't say it directly, but roughly estimated Wei Yuan's industry, looked at Bayatu with a smile and asked.

"Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep?! She's the leader of the tribe?! ”

Bayatu was so shocked that he couldn't speak, in their grassland, there were tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, it was a big tribe!

As for Wei Yuan being a woman, this is not very particular in the grassland, and there are many tribal leaders who are women, but those people eat more than men and grow stronger than men, and they have never seen such a weak and small one.

Yi Chenzi thought about the Lingxiang Sect, it can indeed be regarded as a force, but all forces in this grassland belong to the tribe, so Yi Chenzi nodded without hesitation.

"Oh."

Bayatu sighed in disappointment, the big tribes are generally related to the big tribes, so as to ensure the better and better development of the tribes.

"Then Brother Xue Jing is also the leader of a big tribe?"

Bayatu asked quietly again, only this time Yi Chenzi saw the light of gossip in his eyes.

"He's the leader of a super tribe."

Bayatu thought about it carefully, and didn't know what could be considered a super tribe in Da Zhou: "Are there those people who drive a long camel carath?" ”

Yi Chenzi smiled: "If he speaks, those people are willing to give him all their property." ”

Hiss......

Bayatu gasped, he couldn't imagine what the identity of the person who would voluntarily let people give him money be, if the largest tribe on the grassland, the Snow Wolf Department asked him to hand over all the cattle and sheep, he would also take the warriors to fight, so that it would not be so simple to hand it over.

Thinking like this, Bayatu didn't have any thoughts about Wei Yuan, and simply told Yichenzi about his wishes.

"Yi Lao, if your Han woman is willing to come, I am willing to come out...... Ten...... Fifteen sheep! ”

Bayatu stretched out two slaps, thought about it and closed one of them.