The bald man led the crowd to gallop outside the city and reported the names of the Xianbei generals who were guarding the city gates.

Xianbei put his head on his head, hanging a small braid at the back of his head, long over his shoulders, armor on his body, two weapons on his waist, a knife on the left, and a short iron mallet hanging on the right. Hearing that the bald Boye claimed to be the son of the eldest son of the Xianbei Bald Department of Longxi and a close minister of the general Xin Er of the Dingxi Auxiliary State, this Xianbei general was quite respectful to him, and asked him to wait outside the city and report in person in the city.

The bald and wild people waited for a long time.

There was a person from the city, also with a small pigtail, the weather was too hot, and he did not wear a crown and hat, but from his round-necked brocade robe and the four gold medals embedded horizontally on Guo Luo's belt around his waist, the golden light flashed, very rich and gorgeous, and the dozens of Xianbei armorers who hugged him and obeyed him, it can be seen that this person should be an important minister of the Tuoba Department.

This man was about forty years old, his eyes were bright, his beard was raised, he looked at Bo Ye and the others for a moment, and said in Xianbei language: "You are the son of the bald department?" ”

The bald man said, "Yes." ”

"On the orders of the King of the West, come to meet the Khan?"

The chieftains of the Tuoba Department had the title of "Khan" very early, and even in the last years of the Western Tang Dynasty, they had been worshiped as "Acting King", but after the Wei State attached to the Murong Clan, they no longer mentioned "Acting King", but only called "Khan".

"Yes."

"Do you have a certificate?"

The bald Boye took out the national letter of Dingxi Kingdom, shook it in front of this person, and said: "This is the national letter of our king ordering me to present the Khan. ”

The man reached out to take it.

The bald Boye took back the national letter and said with a smile: "The person who wrote the national book, when it is in the palace, I will personally present it to the Khan, and it will be in accordance with the etiquette." Please inform me. ”

"Your Excellency", an honorific title given to a tribal chief. The man said, "I am not an adult, I am just an auxiliary minister by the khan's side. He groaned and said, "Since you don't want to forward the credentials to me, just wait outside the city for the time being." Tell the Xianbei general who reported the news, "Give them a place to live." He didn't carry the bald hair on his back, and bluntly ordered, "Assign a team of warriors to guard." ”

When Hu Yan Panni and Song Jin heard this, Huo Ran changed color.

Huyan Panni was impatient, turned his face and said angrily: "What guard? I waited thousands of miles away, and I didn't invite us into the city to meet the Khan, but still guard us? Do you think we're thieves? We are the ...... of Dingxi's auxiliary country"

The bald man interrupted him, smiled unchanged, saluted, and said, "I am a guest, and we will follow the arrangement." ”

The man nodded, and without staying long, he went back to the city with the pawn.

The Xianbei general led the bald people to a camp on the outskirts of the city and said, "This is my garrison. Stay here first. When he reached the two or three tents on the side, he motioned for Boye and them to go in, and called two officers to choose a group of soldiers to guard the perimeter.

These tents are all garrisoned, the facilities are simple, there are no beds, the ground is covered with felt mats, piled with felt quilts, dirty, smelly.

An Chong covered his nose and looked out, seeing that the general had already walked away, a group of Xianbei soldiers in armor and blades, led by the officer, approached and stood near several tents, he retracted his head and said, "Ouch, it's not right!" ”

Huyan Panni scolded: "Let's not say that we are the king's envoys, old bald, you are the son-in-law of the bald department!" Wasn't your bald department and its Tuoba one before? How can I do this to you! Fuck it! What kind of stuff is this, messy, dirty, and not pulling, so we live here? He drew his knife and picked up the felt quilt, and fleas and bed bugs swarmed out, which startled him.

The bald Boye lost his smile, his face was thoughtful, and he said, "Old Nun, don't call blindly. ”

An Chong was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "'Old Nun'? This Huyan Panni has a thick beard and a hideous appearance, so she doesn't look like a woman, let alone a female monk who is a monk. Seeing that Huyan Panni accepted this title as if nothing had happened, he admired it very much, and thought, "What a warrior!" ”

The bald Boye motioned for the two Naozhen Lang to guard the door of the tent, so as not to prevent the soldiers of Xianbei Tuoba from suddenly breaking in, and summoned the rest of the people to gather around him, and said in a low voice: "What An Sima said is good, this Tuoba Department is indeed a little wrong. ”

Huyanpani asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Did you notice? The security at the head of Shengle City was very strict, and anyone who entered the city was searched and checked; You see the same is true of the camp where they have brought us, and the soldiers in the camp are armed with their staffs, and they can go to battle at any time at the slightest order. The Tuoba Department is now at war with Rouran, Wei and Qin, but why is Shengle's defense so strong? Nine times out of ten, I thought something was wrong in the city! ”

Huyan Panni, Song Jin and others thought about it.

Song Jin said: "When the general said this, it really seems like this. ”

"General" and "Sima" were all bald Boye and An Chong before they set off from Guyin, and they were temporarily granted official positions by Xin Er with the permission of the imperial court. This is out of consideration that if they are lowly officials, they may be underestimated by the Tuoba Department.

An Chong had already seen that something was wrong, and he said: "We are the envoys of a country, even if we can't see Tuoba Khan for the time being, we shouldn't be settled in the barracks outside the city." The minister who came out of the city to see us, his expression was uncertain, his appearance was in a hurry, and he asked for the voucher when he opened his mouth, but the general did not give him a letter of state, and he did not force it, so he returned to the city. In Shengle City, something must have happened! ”

Bald Bo Ye and An Chong are both meticulous and alert people, and the slightest clue can make them see the abnormality of the situation.

Everyone pondered carefully, agreed with their analysis, and speculated about what would happen in the city?

Unknown.

After the bald Boye finished the analysis, An Zhi Rusu said with a smile: "If it comes, it will be safe." Tuoba Khan knew that we were coming, and no matter what was going on in his city, sooner or later he would meet us. Let's just wait here! ”

He stepped up to the mat and quilt, lifted it up, shook it, let the fleeing bugs and fleas go, sat down on his buttocks, lay down half-lying, put his untied saber and bow at his side, yawned, and said, "I am very tired of hurrying in a hurry." "Chase those straight mans," you go to your tent! Don't squeeze here, the smell of sweat makes me dizzy. Get some sleep and refresh your spirits! ”

Those Naozhen Lang were ordered to withdraw and go to rest in the other tent.

Hu Yan Panni stared, looked bald and wild, and said, "What happened in Shengle City, I can't guess!" Our horses were also taken away by them. Just a dozen of us, in their barracks, guarded by the armor outside, old bald, can you sleep? ”

The bald man asked, "Can you fly?" ”

Huyanpani said, "No! ”

"Do you know how to make holes?"

"Lao Tzu is not a rat!"

"That's it. You can't fly, you can't make holes, you're already in the Tuoba camp, just stay honest! ”

Song Jin was not as restless as Huyan Panni, but he was also worried.

He learned to be bald, sat down on the felt mat, immediately jumped up, pinched a flea from the skin, caught it and threw it away, frowned and looked at the felt mat, and then looked at the bald man, and saw that there were fleas on his clothes, and hurriedly stepped forward, intending to catch it, but the bald man knocked his hand off.

Song Jin said: "General, there are fleas! ”

The bald man was lying still, and asked with a smile, "What do you want?" ”

"I'll strangle it!"

"Loss!"

"What?"

The bald man sat up, knocked the flea off, and said with a grin: "Old Ni, sit down, don't turn around." I'll tell you a joke, I heard it from Ming Gong. ”

Huyan Panni reluctantly pressed the anxiety and sat down with An Chong and Song Jin.

Bald Boye said: "But there is a person who is called a great good man, and he never kills or harms his life, even if it is fleas or rats." What should I do if I have fleas? Not only is it harmless, but it is not thrown to the ground. If they are thrown to the ground, will the fleas not starve to death? Find a fat man, take this flea, and put it on his neck......"

When everyone heard this, they all burst into laughter.

The anxious Hu Yan Panni, the worried Song Jin, and the faintly worried An Chong slowly calmed down in the slow unfolding of this joke.

This kind of wait is more than ten days.

The place to live is terrible, but the food is good.

It must be the care of the important minister of the Tuoba Department, and someone will bring them food.

Mare's milk wine and buttermilk are enough, and dishes such as Hu cake, roasted meat, Hu soup, and Ge Luo He are changed every day.

This soup is very similar to the roast lamb ribs that Xin Er had eaten in his previous life. The method is to take six or seven catties of lamb's pork ribs, mix four or five catties of mutton, cook them with water, cut the lamb ribs into sections, add shallots, coriander, pomegranate juice and other things to reconcile the taste.

Reluohe, also known as sheep pan intestine hen Hu, is to take five liters of sheep blood, cut two liters of mutton fat, and then stir with ginger, pepper, soy sauce and other seasonings with noodles and rice to form grits; Then, mix all the above ingredients together and pour three liters of water upwards; Wash the large intestine of the sheep, cut off the intestinal membrane, pour the adjusted blood, lipids and grits into the intestines, bend and fold them into a five-inch length, and boil. Cook until there is no blood oozing out and it is cooked. Cut into one-inch pieces, dip in bitter wine, i.e. vinegar, and sauce.

Both of these dishes are delicious in Hu cuisine. Of course, the current practice is no longer completely Hu Feng, but a combination of absorbing some Tang people's cooking skills.

Good wine and food, every day.

Bald Boye and An Chong discussed privately, and both strengthened their previous judgments, believing that the seemingly "cold" attitude of the Tuoba Department must have nothing to do with their identity as "Dingxi Envoys", and it could only be that there was a major event in Shengle City, and only because it was not good for them to enter the city now, they were placed in the camp outside the city, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to live in the camp, but they were well fed.

It was soon July, and one day at the end of June, there was a commotion inside and outside Shengle City, and the sound came into the camp.

Bald Bo Ye and others followed the sound out of the account.

Their tent was on the edge of the camp, and they could see the crowd of people at the gate of the city, as if there was some activity.

Bald and bright and cheerful, he has no shelf, witty and interesting, in the past ten days, he has been familiar with the Tuoba officers and soldiers who guard them, so he asked them with a smile: "The city and the city gate are so lively, is there something good about your department?" ”

One of the Tuoba officers hesitated and said, "It's not a good thing, it's a funeral." ”

When the bald Boye and the others suddenly heard this, they were all surprised.

Bald Bo ambition was in a flash, thinking: "I have been waiting for these days, and I can't be summoned by Tuoba Khan, I have expected that something big should happen in the city." Isn't it? Tuoba double pound? Xu Xu asked, "What's going on?" Whose funeral? ”

"It was my Khan's eldest son who was killed."