After the rain, the night sky is extraordinarily quiet, and the starlight seems to have been washed by the rain. The Maharaja looked up at the starry sky with the curtain of the golden tent and nodded: "After working for so many days, it finally rained." Fortunately, the horse grass has been harvested, and now it is raining, which is a good time. In the Golden Tent, Dahesa, who was sitting on the bed, took his words: "It may be the last rain of the year, the north wind has already risen, and it is about to snow." ”

"It's been a good year."

"Good year."

"Azule has recovered very quickly these days." The Maharaja returned to the bed and sat down cross-legged and raised the silver cup.

"The scabs of the wound have all receded, and it is estimated that the scar will disappear in a few days, but the body is still weak, and I can only be raised with meat porridge these days, I went to see him yesterday and talked to me for a while." Dahesa raised his glass and took a sip of wine, and smoked a cigarette pot.

"I hope everything will be fine," the Maharaja stared into Dahesa's eyes,

"Azul is fine, Shahan, you should be relieved. You have never answered me about the matter of the envoy to the Eastern Continent, when will you give me an answer? Dahesa turned the cup, was silent for a while, and drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp: "When I think about it tonight, when I come to the Golden Horde tomorrow morning, tell the Maharaja." The Maharaja nodded: "Shahan, I know you're worried. You are the Dahesa of our Qingyang, the messenger of the Pantar gods, and you should have lived a leisurely life in the world. But as soon as you step into it, you can't get out again, and you may even lose your life. I won't force you, I'll prepare all the honor guards for you, I'll wait for your reply. The old man got up and patted his buttocks, and snorted heavily in his nose: "Aren't you pushing me?" He didn't say goodbye, and went out of the account with his shoulders down.

The Maharaja picked up the cup, saluted the back of Dahesa from afar, and drank the Gurqin spirits in the cup himself.

The night was so quiet that you could hear the wind blowing through the grass. There was no one around, only a brazier was lit, shining on the child's pale face.

He was still bandaged, but he was able to move. He held a small grasshopper in his hand, a common thing on the grassland, woven from green blades of grass, and from a distance it looked like it was really indistinguishable.

The one in the child's hand was dry, crumpled together, and unremarkable. But the child looked at it for a long time, and the flames danced in his eyes.

He gently lowered the grasshopper into the fire and whispered, "Fly away." ”

"Azul." The child looked back in surprise. He saw a balding old man dressed in a white linen robe standing quietly in the moonlight.

Dahasa touched his head and joined him to see the burning grasshopper in the fire. The light of the fire reflected its withered wings almost transparently, as if they were about to fly with the dancing flames.

The flames suddenly rolled and engulfed it.

"What a good grasshopper, why did it burn?" The child lowered his head: "It was Zhegan's youngest son who made up the ...... for me." It's the last thing I've left......"

"Why did you burn it again?"

"Dahesa, am I very weak and useless?"

"No, who told you that?"

"I thought of it myself. I want to forget all those things in the True Face Department, but I can't do it, when I see this grasshopper, I think of Zhegan, I think of Mother Halun Timu. I think about this all day long, during the day and at night, and when I practice knives. Dahesa, I don't want to think about it anymore, I want to practice the knife well, I'm going to burn the grasshopper, Abba said, I'm the son of the Pasul family, I want to be strong. ”

"Knife practice...... Alas, what kind of knife are you still practicing? Dahesa complained,

"It's just to practice that broken knife, and train your body to get sick. In the future, we won't practice any more knives, drink well, listen to those little slaves tell you interesting things, eat the otter meat roasted by Mrs., and live a leisurely life. He scratched his bare head: "By the way, Shizi, Dahesa will teach you the science of astrology!" You're smarter than that silly boy from Amour, and you must be a fast learner. The child smiled, it was the kind of smile that he inherently rejected others: "Thank you, Dahesa, I still have to practice the knife, Abba said, I want to become a man." ”

"Your Abba is teasing you......" Dahesa felt that he had leaked his mouth,

"O Azul, thou art the son of the world, the youngest son of the family of Lü Pasul, and you will inherit the bravery and glory of your ancestors, and thousands of warriors will follow you in the future. Help you fight the war. Don't listen to those people's nonsense, what's the use of knowing how to swordsmanship? No matter how good your swordsmanship is, how many enemies have you killed? What's more, your body is just right, rest and rest, if you feel bored, Dahesa will give you a fool to play with for a few days, but you have to feed it on time, don't starve it and lose weight. The child lowered his head and turned away.

He took a deep breath, looked at the sky, and his voice became extremely distant: "Dahesa, do you remember, the first day I came back, I refused to call Mrs. Mom." ”

"I remember."

"It's not that I don't want to, I'm afraid to hear the word Mom." The child suddenly turned around,

"Dahesa, I'm scared."

"I'm afraid ......" Dahesa couldn't help but stand up straight.

"When I was in the True Face Department, my mother's name was Halon Ti, and when the Nine Kings brought soldiers into the True Face Department, my mother died. I practiced the knife that day, and I was very tired and tired, but I was so scared that I didn't dare to stop. When I think of my mother's death, I'm afraid that if I stop, I can't help but think about it...... So I just tried my best, and then I didn't know anything......"

"Dahesa, I'm scared, I'm afraid to see that scene again. Seeing such a big fire, the people I knew were killed one by one, and no one could save them, I really wanted to save them, but I didn't have the ability. I am the son of the house of Pasul, and I can count on our warriors, but ...... Who can they count on? If none of them can be counted on, I'll go, I know I'm stupid, but ...... I really don't want to see anything like that again! He wanted to hold the child in his arms, and felt that the look on that immature little face should not be taken lightly.

"Dahesa, am I stupid?"

"Azul is not stupid." Dahesa gently touched his hair,

"Don't listen to those stupid people, our Azul will be a hero, a great hero of the steppe! At that time, Dahesa rode a horse and waved a flag to clear the way for you. The child lowered his head, smiled embarrassedly, and shook his head again.

"Is Dahesa here to find General Muli? At such a late hour, the general probably slept. ”

"Oh, I'm not looking for him. I'm here to pick something, I fell in the grass here a few days ago, and I haven't had time to look for it, but I found it so easily. The old man was silent for a moment, took the child's hand and patted it,

"Azule, Dahesa is going a long way away, and he won't be able to come back to see you for a long time. But seeing you like this, Dahesa was relieved. He took out a short knife with a cyan sheath from behind his waist and placed it in the child's hand: "This is the sword that your Abba gave you, the Lion King, and Dahesa has brought it back to you." Come, hold it tight, and when Dahesa returns, you will be as strong as your brothers. He got up and walked away, as if determined not to look back.

The child looked at his white-clothed back and disappeared in the darkness, and looked down at the cyan knife in his hand, the oily leather on the handle was replaced with cyan silk, and there was a verdant jade on the cyan silk rope.

The night breeze passed through the pores on the delicate dragon, and it was like a sigh. Amor was awakened by a terrible noise outside the tent.

He thought he was dreaming, who would dare to make such a noise near the tent in Dahesa? But the sound was so real, as if mixed with the sound of weapons clashing, roaring, and neighing horses, he thought that the white wolf regiment in the north of Shuo had entered the northern capital.

He shivered in the tent for a while, not knowing whether to rush out with his dagger or to immediately burrow under the covers and cover his ears.

"Amour, Amour, get up, get up!" It turned out to be an old man's broken gong-like voice shouting his name.

He gritted his teeth, grabbed his pants and got out, staring at the old man dumbfounded. The old man rode a tall green horse, dressed in a luxurious dress for sacrifices and ceremonies, with a sacred bear knife on his chest, and held an iron stirrup in one hand, and a thick torch in the other hand to strike on the stirrup, and the sparks splashed down, and the sound was deafening, like a sharp knife, which viciously split the silence of the night.

"Amour, let's go!" The old man strangled the green horse and shouted,

"Lazy little ghost, do you want to sleep until you die?"

"Let's go?" Amour was stupid,

"Where to go? I've just fallen asleep, and tomorrow morning I'm not going to go into the Golden Horde to meet the Great Monarch?" ”

"Maharaja? We don't care about him! The old man pointed behind him,

"Let's set off now, I've brought the guard of honor and the procession. I've just heard someone say that it's true. Who can they count on? If none of them can be counted on, I'll go! Qingyang is still indispensable for this place, Amo, let you see the teacher's ability. When the northern part of Shuo hit our Qingyang City, the teacher also took a ghost bow to shoot in the city! Behind him were really fifty elite ghost bow warriors, elite horsemen who belonged to the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, dressed in armor, straddling their neighing horses and waving large white banners with saber-toothed leopard motifs.

This banner was the honor guard of the Maharaja's travel, and for a moment Amory almost thought that the old man was drunk and transgressed the etiquette of the Maharaja.

But even if the old man was drunk, it was impossible for the elite tiger and leopard warriors to be drunk, and each of them had two spare horses tied to their horses, as if they were going to travel far away.

He went up and grabbed the old man's horse, "But...... But where are you going? ”

"To the south, all the way to the south! On the south side of Hainan, there is a kingdom called Dayin, do you know? ”

"Big Yin?" Amour's mouth opened wide in a daze,

"Isn't that the country of the Great Emperor of the Eastern Continent?"

"That's right! We're going to Dayin! There is gold and jade everywhere, and during the harvest season, cotton and wheat are piled higher than the mountains, and they are grazed, and the horses cannot run to the sea for a year! It was the land of gold, a land that we barbarians had not been able to obtain for thousands of years. But now it's different, we're going. They wouldn't have been able to do it without me! Let me personally open the door to the Golden Land for Qingyang! He looked south, his eyes shining with a light that Amore had never seen before.

Kiki turned his head to look at his brother. The torch shone sideways on Xu Dahan's sharp face, light and dark staggered, and the bridge of his tall nose cast a shadow, one eye hidden in the shadow, and the other cold and expressionless.

A hundred paces apart, the two teams of men and horses confronted each other, the horses jumped restlessly, the cavalry tried to restrain their mounts, and hundreds of torches lit up the night.

Under the red dragon's tooth, Xu Dahan stood across the horse. All eyes were on him, but he only quietly touched the horse's mane, and the unsheathed sword lay silently across the saddle.

Guimu held the knife in his hand and followed closely behind his brother. He hadn't been in battle before, and his face was so white with nervousness that the blue tendons on his forehead were exposed, and he was jumping suddenly.

"Brother, don't ...... Don't tell your father about this...... This is no small matter. Kiki strangled his dark horse and lowered his voice.

"It's all here, can you still walk away?"

"But I'm ...... I still think ......" Kiki lowered his head. A slap landed on Guiki's face, cleanly

"Smack". Guimu covered his face and was about to get angry, but he met his brother's eyes.

"Rubbish!" Xu Dahan grabbed him by the collar,

"What have I taught you? Have you forgotten about it? What do you think? What do you think? You're a bald antelope who doesn't know anything, you've been bitten to death by someone, and you don't know how to escape! Guimu felt a chill in his heart, and he didn't know if it was because of the cold inhalation or because of his brother's eyes.

"You're right, I already knew that the Great Khans would fight with my father for the sake of our two brothers? No! We're just a saddle, and people want to ride us, and if the ride is broken, it's useless, and we get another one. If it were us who went to the Eastern Continent, no one in the northern capital would remember us, so we would have waited to die in the Eastern Continent! Xu Dahan threw him away,

"Do you see the faces of the Great Khans today? They're ready to change the saddle! If you want to rely on others, it is better to rely on yourself, they treat us as outsiders in the Qingyang Department, and we can only rely on ourselves to win back face! In this northern capital, how many people are waiting to see our brother's jokes, but our brothers have no jokes to see, and no one in the world can see my Xu Dahan's jokes! I will make those who laugh at me bow their heads under my whip! ”

"Yes!" Kiki nodded vigorously.

"You're my brother," Xu Dahan straightened his collar for him and patted him on the shoulder,

"In the entire Northern Capital, you are the only person I can trust! I can trust you, can't I? ”

"Brother, I ......"

"Don't say anything, I know it all." Xu Dahan turned his head, and his voice was as cold as ice and as hard as a stone,

"Whatever I say in a moment, you can do it. We are brothers, grandma's milk feeds the two of us, and we have to fight for grandma. ”

"Hmm!" Guimu nodded vigorously, as if there was a fire in his heart. From childhood to adulthood, in Guimu's heart, Xu Dahan is a person who no one can replace.

Because Grandma is from the north of Shuo, both of them are discriminated against in blood. When I was a child, I was weak, I had to be punished if I didn't practice my sword well, I had to be punished for getting angry for no reason, I still had to be punished if I didn't eat on time, and I had to go up to the heads of various families, and down to the female slaves with status in the Golden Horde, I could throw cold eyes on the top of Guimu's head.

But he is the smallest and the most vigorous, and when he can't bear it, he will break everything in a rage and yell at everyone around him.

At this time, the guards and warriors of the Golden Horde rushed up and seized him, denied him food, and punished him to kneel in the sun.

Guimu bit his lip and didn't kneel, even though his stomach hurt like a knife, and his lips were chapped. He just doesn't understand why they are all father's sons, some are noble blood, some are cheap blood, some people drink sheep soup and scold others, and some people are hungry and scolded by others.

The feeling of severe pain and heart-wrenching pain, he still remembers it clearly. At this time, it was Xu Dahan who came over and knelt down beside him first, Xu Dahan was a good prince, not picky, not angry, never angry with people, but Xu Dahan knelt beside him and silently pulled his sleeve.

Finally Guimu knelt down with him, and the people of the Golden Horde looked at the two of them coldly, and it was so dark, Xu Dahan knelt there silently and looked ahead, and the stars rose above his head.

Xu Dahan finally took out a naan that was already cold from his sleeve and handed it to Guimu, who grabbed it and gnawed it, and tears suddenly fell.

And Xu Dahan still looked ahead silently and didn't say a word.

"Why are you being nice to me?" Kiki asked him with tears in his eyes.

"We're on our knees now, and we'll stand up one day," Xudahan whispered,

"And ...... I'm your brother! From that night, Kiki had always believed that this brother would eventually take him to his feet, as he said when he was a child.

A gap was opened in the opposite formation, and Bi Mogan stepped out with his sword and jumped on the back of the snowy horse, several fierce house slaves holding leather shields to cover him on his left and right, and the rest also wore helmets and armor, holding torches high, restraining the restless war horses under their crotches.

"Xu Dahan, you have a bloody mouth and white teeth, do you want to frame your brother?" Bimogan pointed to Xudahan under the Dragon's Tooth from afar.

Like a knife confrontation, the front of the battle is a touch-and-go pattern. There were only three or four hundred companions under Bimogan's tent, including domestic slaves, and Xu Dahan brought him to train them single-handedly

"Dragon's teeth and light hooves", the light cavalry of more than 100 people was not enough to threaten Bi Mogan, and Bi Mogan was not very concerned.

But at this particular time, the well-trained light cavalry took the opportunity to launch it, and it was not comparable to his house slaves.

"Why did Big Brother say that?" Xu Dahan's voice was cold and did not fluctuate,

"Azule is missing, and in the northern capital, everyone is suspicious. The Nine Kings have already led troops to search my tent, and as a prince, I am responsible for the safety of the Northern Capital, I just want to see your tent, and your cavalry is blocking me, is there something unspeakable in the tent? ”

"Xudahan, you want to humiliate me? If you want to search, you can! You let the Nine Kings come, let Mu Haiyang come, but you brothers can't! ”

"Since you didn't do it, what can't you search? I can't find it, at most I apologize in front of my father. If my eldest brother wants to search my tent, I will also open the door of the stockade.