An Yuanxi and I temporarily stayed at Aunt Yixia's house to recuperate, and at first I was worried that our whereabouts would be revealed, but An Yuanxi had already observed the environment during my coma. Aunt Yixia's family is in a small nomadic tribe that migrates from water to grass, and there are very few people in this tribe, only about a dozen households, a total of dozens of people, and each family is relatively scattered and not gathered together. Most of the tribesmen were simple and kind, and they all believed An Yuanxi's lies, thinking that our caravan had been robbed of its goods, and that on the way back to the country of Tianxiao, it was attacked and injured by two old wolves. There was no news in the imperial capital that An Yuanxi and I were punished, perhaps it was deliberately concealed by the royal family of Yaoyue Kingdom, but it gave me and An Yuanxi a chance to breathe.

Because of the lack of herbs, the wound on my back healed very slowly, and a few days ago An Yuanxi went to the Wolf's Tooth Spring with Brother Erlun, and it is said that there are a lot of wolf's poisonous weeds growing by the stream. Wolf Tooth Spring is a four-day journey back and forth from the tribe of Aunt Yixia, before An Yuanxi saw that I had been in a fever and coma, and did not dare to leave, but just looked for medicinal herbs nearby, and now that I was awake, he asked Brother Tollun to take him over. I didn't say anything about An Shud's decision, I felt hypocritical if I talked too much, and I felt that An Yuanxi had done all this for me.

I have been lying on my stomach in bed, unable to turn over, and I feel very difficult after a long time, but fortunately, I have a pair of children from Brother Erlun, eight-year-old Danny and six-year-old Jinsha accompany me. The two little ones were very curious about me, a woman from the kingdom of heaven, and at first they just hid outside the door and secretly looked at me, and when they saw me smiling at them, they dared to run in and "disturb" me, the patient. Over the course of a few days, I told them a lot of the stories I had told them and succeeded in winning their friendship. The two children exchanged courtesies and told me where the pasture was the most abundant, the sea was the purest, the girls of the tribe were the most beautiful, and the horses of the tribe were the best .......

"Sister Ah Hua, what else is there to do in Tiancao Kingdom?" Jin Sha squatted under the kang, lying on the edge of the kang with both hands, tilting her head and asking curiously and enviously. I just told her and Danny about the shadow puppet show of the Celestial Dawn Kingdom, about the monkey trickster on the bus, and about the little puppet with the string, which made the two little ones scream incessantly. I smiled and touched Jinsha's hair, Tiancao ......, I don't know much more about it than the two children in front of me. Danny also asked excitedly, "Sister Hua, is there a horse racing conference in Tiancao?" ”

Horse racing conventions? I couldn't help but think of the oolong drama a few days ago, I smiled and sighed slightly: "There is no horse racing conference in Tiancao country, and the men there do not use horse racing as a way to show bravery, they ...... "They are different from the simple grassland people, they like to intrigue and fight, and they like to calculate, and they are also called strategy."

The door was gently pushed open, and Liz, the mother of two children, walked in and smiled, "You two little ones, you are really ignorant, and you came to disturb Nataro's rest. ”

"Mom, we're listening to Sister Ah Hua's story." Jin Sha threw herself into her mother's arms and said coquettishly. Lisi hugged her dotingly: "Nataro has an injury, you always come to quarrel with her, she will not sleep well." ”

"Sister Lis, they didn't bother me, and I want to thank them for accompanying me." I laughed.

"Yes, yes, we're accompanying Sister Ah Hua!" Danny answered smartly, and Liz laughed and scolded, "I don't know about you yet, come on, don't stay here, your Abba is back, and you've brought back your favorite baby." ”

"Really?" Danny's eyes lit up and he immediately rushed out of the house. Jin Sha quickly broke out of her mother's arms and ran out with her brother: "I'm going to ...... too"

"They're back?" I laughed as the two children scrambled out and looked up at Liz. Lisi smiled: "Yes, I just came back, Ah Niu Puba took medicine to find her mother, Erlun landed on a wild horse on the road this time, and he was very happy, and now he is still placing that guy outside." ”

It sounded like a pleasant trip, and I curled the corners of my lips. An Yuanxi pushed the door in, his expression was excited, and when he saw Liz in the room, he owed a debt and walked straight over. Lisi smiled and exited the room, An Yuanxi squatted on the side of the bed, and said happily, "How is your injury?" We picked a lot of wolf poison weeds and came back, and Aunt Yixia said that it was enough to cure your injuries, and now she is giving you medicine. ”

"I'm fine." I looked at him with a smile, probably because he was in a good mood, his face was not tired, and I said softly, "Thank you for your hard work, how are you doing along the way?" ”

"It's going well, Brother Erlun is really powerful, and he surrendered a wild horse on the way back." An Yuanxi's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Do you know what I saw?" I saw a herd of wild horses, a large herd of wild horses, too many to count, galloping across the grassland like a sea of mountains, and the scene was spectacular and shocking......"

I smiled at his excited expression, and I could imagine what kind of shock the scene of thousands of horses galloping brought to him. The magnificence of nature is not the same thing that can be opened by reading a few books, so there is a proverb that "it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles" has been passed down to this day.

An Yuanxi happily described it for a long time, and when he saw me looking at him with a smile, he accepted the joy, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I'm a little forgetful." ”

This moment of forgetfulness is also his true surname, but it is much cuter than usual. I smiled and said, "The wild horses that Brother Erlun came back from this group of wild horses?" ”

"Well, it's a mare, and the horse is white, no worse than the white horse that Prince Ouray rides." He nodded, with a look of admiration, "I heard that Brother Erlun said that the horse is a good horse, and their tribe is lacking this kind of good horse that can be bred, and the coke is bad." Speaking of which, the horse is really too good to say, and Brother Erlun rides it, and in a moment it will be able to throw the horse I am riding a long way away......"

"That's because you're a bad rider, right?" I'm embarrassed about him. An Yuanxi didn't know how to ride a horse before, but after he arrived in this tribe, in order to help me find medicine, he fought a horse, I don't know how Brother Erlun taught him, but now he can ride a horse and let go slowly.

"No matter how bad it is, it's better than someone, you can't ride." An Yuanxi brought a playful expression and hooked the corners of his lips, I was stunned, how did this nerd learn to talk back recently? I glared at him: "An Yuanxi!" Accidentally pulled his back, and suddenly frowned and gasped in pain, An Yuanxi was startled: "Don't move, I'll go and see if Aunt Yixia's medicine is good." With that, he ran out in a panic.

After waiting for a while, Aunt Yixia came in with a medicine bowl and gauze. She walked over with a smile on her face, carefully pulled the quilt covering me, and said happily, "I'll give Nataro medicine, with these herbs, Nataro's injuries will soon heal." ”

"Thank you, auntie." I am grateful, this family is a good person who is pure and kind, if I hadn't met them, I'm afraid that An Yuanxi and I would have died in the belly of the wolf. "You're kind to me." Aunt Yixia rolled the quilt aside, and my **'s upper body was suddenly exposed to some cool air from the warm quilt, and I suddenly got goosebumps. The aunt carefully applied the medicine to my wound, first felt that the wound was a little cold, and then there was a ** spicy feeling, I took a breath, Aunt Yixia smiled: "It's a little burning, right?" This medicine is applied like this, and it feels hot. ”

She put the clean gauze over the medicine, and I let her tinker with it, but I was hurt on my back anyway, and I couldn't see what she was doing. After a while, she stopped, put the quilt that had been rolled up to the side again, and said with a smile: "This medicine can be applied for three or four days, and it will scab over, and I will change the medicine for you tomorrow." You still have to lie on your stomach these days, and you can't turn over at will. ”

I nodded, and it would be able to scab over in three or four days, and it seemed that An Yuanxi and I would be able to return to Cangdu soon. I don't know how the shop is now, did you receive the letter that An Yuanxi brought back? Jade Die'er can't wait for us to go back in the border city, I don't know if she will come to the grassland to find us? Now An Yuanxi and I are hiding in this small tribe, I'm afraid it won't be easy to find Yudie'er, we haven't heard from us, Yudie'er is only afraid that she will go crazy, but we can't help it.

After changing the medicine for a few days, the scratches on my back really began to scab over, I don't have to sleep on my stomach all day, I can put on my clothes, get out of bed and walk around, except that I can't lie flat, there is no problem to sleep on my side. I originally wanted to say goodbye to Aunt Yixia's family with An Yuanxi and set off back to Cangdu, but Aunt Yixia blocked: "The injury on your back has just scabbed, and it will crack if you don't pay attention to it, how can you rush on the road now, and you have to raise a few opens, and wait for the scab to start falling off before you can leave." ”

An Yuanxi was worried that I would have problems with my wounds on the road, and I also agreed with Aunt Yixia's opinion, I knew that Aunt Yixia was telling the truth, although I was worried about the things in the shop, I had to put it aside for the time being, it seems that we have to stay in this tribe for a few days. A strange thing happened in the tribe these days, since the eldest brother of Erlun sent the white mare back, the next night, there was a black male wild horse ran to the stable, affectionately and the white mare grinding together, dead or alive, but angry when he saw people, a look of desire to kill and then fast expression, someone approached a little, the horse began to go crazy, as soon as the day dawned the black horse flashed, it was dark and came again, this matter has spread throughout the tribe, I heard that the black horse is the king of wild horses, compared to the white horse is a rare horse in a hundred years. I listened to An Yuanxi, Danny and Jinsha talk about this matter, and I couldn't wait to get up immediately to see the two legendary couple horses, but An Yuanxi refused to let me get up on the grounds that the injury on my back had not yet scabbed over and I couldn't move, so angry that I wanted to bite him a few times.

Finally, when the wound scabbed over, I heard that Brother Erlun had made a lot of preparations these days and wanted to subdue this black horse tonight, I was so excited that I got dressed and ran out, but I didn't see the legendary white horse in the stable. An Yuanxi said that Brother Erlun rode out the white horse, and he couldn't drop the horse in the tribe, for fear of hurting people, and I was disappointed.

I didn't want to go back, I lay in bed for too long, Suo was walking around the neighborhood, Danny and Jinsha, two little guys, enthusiastically took me to visit their tribe, and when I got out of the house, I found that the "house" I lived in for a long time was not a house at all, but a sturdy gray-brown tent like a yurt, but this tent was not round, it was square, and the tarpaulin did not know what kind of animal leather it was, and from the inside, I couldn't tell that it was a tent. The small tribe's scattered dwellings were full of tents. Don't the people of Yaoyue worship white? Why not use a white tent? I was suspicious, and suddenly I saw a few people dressed in the costumes of the Tiancao Kingdom outside a house, like a merchant traveling to the grassland to buy goods, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed up to inquire if they were returning to the caravan of the Tiancao Kingdom, but they were disappointed, they were the caravan that had just arrived in the Yaoyue Kingdom, and they had to buy leather goods everywhere on the grassland, and they would not go back until a month later, and they might not be able to pass through this tribe when they returned.

It seems that I can't count on them, I am a little frustrated, but I still can't help but inquire about the situation in Cangdu, the leading merchant smiled: "Girl, we are not merchants from Cangdu, we are from the capital." ”

"Beijing?" I was stunned, and my thoughts were like a tide in an instant, the eldest brother of the Wei family has been back in Beijing for a few months, although he has written a few letters to report his safety, but I don't know what his specific situation is, as well as Feng Ge and Red Leaves, I don't know if it's okay? I said tentatively: "This big brother, is there anything new in the capital recently?" ”

The adult that the eldest brother of the Wei family wants to help, I don't know if it's okay, if it's okay, the eldest brother should be safe, right? The merchant smiled and said: "There is really a big event in the capital recently, the concubine in the palace is pregnant with a dragon vein, and the emperor has named the concubine De, this is the first lady in the palace to have good news, Wei Chengxiang is overjoyed, and he has been giving to the poor in the capital for three days in a row, and accumulating blessings for the concubine De......"

Concubine De ......, are you happy? I lost my mind for a moment, and I never listened to what the merchant had said.

——2006、11、13

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