Wuwei, Liangzhou also! The meaning of martial arts and military might.

In the past, the Huns slaughtered the king and the hometown of the evil king.

In order to commend the immortal achievements of the "Champion Hou" Huo Quai, the general Huo Quai, he set up a county in this royal court of the Huns in Monan, and renamed Guzang City as Wuwei County.

My understanding of this place comes from my grandmother Murong Qionglin, whose father and great-grandfather Murong Qiu, the original owner of "Chang'an Fang", is a native of Wuwei County.

His ancestors fled from Wuwei County to Khotan because they were fleeing the disaster of war at the end of the Han Dynasty.

After crossing the remnants of the Heavenly Mountain, the caravan traveled eastward along the intermittent flat oasis of the Hexi Corridor, and came to this important place of soldiers, known as "a line leading through the vast desert and controlling the throat of the five counties".

And I am more interested in my grandfather's hometown, Jincheng County in Longxi.

It is said to be very close to Wuwei, and you can reach it by crossing a canyon and climbing a mountain range to the south.

But listening to Uncle Suder, this time we will cross the big river at the Hetao in Wuwei, and then go south from there along the Qin-Han Chi Road connecting Mobei and Chang'an.

I was very disappointed with this kind of itinerary.

I finally came to my hometown, so I have to go to recognize the road and worship the ancestors who live here!

But now that I'm so missed, I really don't know what Grandpa thinks.

"Grandpa, don't you often teach your grandchildren not to forget their homeland, and don't forget where the roots of our Yi family come from! Now that the hometown of Longxi is in front of you, you can take me over to see, wouldn't it be better to cross the river from the ferry of Jincheng? ”

The caravan crossed the last mountain beam in the west of the river, and suddenly opened up in front of it, and the thousands of miles of fertile fields of the Pingchuan River were opened.

The fields are crisscrossed, the smoke of chatting is everywhere, and the sound of chickens and dogs barking can be heard in the scattered villages.

More distant between heaven and earth, a towering ancient city is faintly visible, the former Wuwei, Guzang, and now Liangzhou has arrived.

In front of us, two gray-white ancient roads appeared, one to the north leading to the ancient city of Liangzhou, and the one to the south leading to the Gulang Canyon in the south, which is the only place for Liangzhou to go to Jincheng County.

If you go to Liangzhou City, you can only wait until next time to go to Jincheng's hometown, and you don't know that there will be such an opportunity in the Year of the Monkey.

So I hurriedly hit my horse and followed my grandfather, and pleaded with him bitterly.

"Jincheng, the country of the country, the country no longer exists, there is a home, the Han family Jincheng soup pond of the Xiongguan land, now it has long become the place of governance of the Qiang Hu people. Returning to such a homeland now will only add to the sadness, so don't go! ”

Grandpa Lerma looked at the south side, stunned.

The young man of the family who grew up on the bank of this big river and invited friends to gallop across the country is now a gray-haired old man in the rivers and lakes.

The sorrow of passing by my homeland countless times and not being able to bear to go to find it is incomprehensible to me, who has not experienced the destruction of the country and the separation of my relatives.

"Well, there will be a chance in the future, but I can only wait for next time." Seeing my grandfather's insistence, I smiled helplessly.

"Hey! I hope that in my lifetime, I can still see the day when our Great Jin Dynasty's royal division will go on the Northern Expedition and recover Jincheng County! Ha ha! ”

Grandpa smiled heroically and patted my arm lovingly across the horse.

Looking at the mountains and running dead horses on the high plateau, Liangzhou City seems to be only a stone's throw away, Qin Chong told me that it will take at least a day to get there when you really walk, and this is still the speed of horseback riding.

So soon after coming down from the ridge, we set up camp in a pasture next to a village, and prepared dinner and the night's sleep.

Not far away, there is an official post house and a country farm shop on the side of the trade road, but the visual scale is too small to accommodate our horse team of 100 people, and there is no pleasure of camping in the wilderness.

After setting up tents, laying carpets, and burying pots, the men who went to the nearby villages to buy meat, coarse noodles, forage and sorghum have returned with a full load.

When the meat was fragrant, the men who were grazing the horses in the nearby pastures also returned, and the horses with round bellies were scattered and tied to makeshift stakes or in the bushes around the camp.

The long-term running-in of weal and woe with each other and the meticulous and strict internal division of labor make every time the caravan arrives at a camping location, there is no need for grandpa and housekeeper Uncle Su to arrange it, and all matters will be carried out in an orderly and efficient manner.

Qin Chong, for example, when camping along the way, his main tasks were to unload goods, set up tents, and herd camels and horses.

I am a supernumerary member of this trip, there is no specific task assignment, and I basically follow Qin Chong wherever he goes.

Therefore, Qin Chong and I mixed together for the temporary grazing in the wild of Liangzhou at night, and the two of us took care of a total of more than 20 horses of various colors.

Fortunately, these good horses of Dawan and Wusun had just carried people and goods, climbed mountains and waded more than 200 miles, and they were already exhausted and hungry.

When encountering a place with abundant water and grass, there is no need for us to control it, and we just bury our heads in eating it.

In the southwest of the grassland, the mountains of Wusheling are like daisies, and they appear majestic and majestic in the sunset.

"Young master, the locals in front of you call this mountain the Wolf Goddess Mountain, do you know the origin?" Qin Chong pointed to a lush mountain in the distance and asked me with a smile.

Since entering the Hexi Corridor under the Heavenly Mountain, he has eaten and drunk without worry, and has enough water along the way, and this kid Qin Chong has become more and more refreshed and handsome.

On the back of the horse in front of him, dressed in black short clothes, carrying a long sword, and his eyes were like electricity, he didn't look like a caravan guy at all, but the appearance of a great Qin swordsman who was ready to go out of the Hangu Horse Riding World.

"I haven't heard of it, but as you can see from the name of the mountain, it must be related to the blue wolf and the woman, let's hear it!" I smiled curiously.

"Listening to the local old people, when the world was in turmoil at the end of the Jin Dynasty, a wife of the Han family came here with two young daughters fleeing with the displaced people, and behind him was the Hu Shan horse team that chased and killed all the way. Seeing that there was no hope of life, the mother threw her young daughters into a rocky pit by the side of the road, and then she struck herself with a rock, and her dead bodies covered her two poor daughters! ”

Speaking of this, Qin Chong couldn't help but sigh at Tianchang.

"I generally understand the meaning, these two little girls of hers did not die, but became the daughters of the blue wolf later, is that the case?"

Grandpa has said countless times that he would rather be a peace dog than a troubled world.

In the troubled times, there are thousands of people in the world like the fate of the mother and daughter! It was as if I had seen the miserable scene of those homeless people crying and screaming in front of my eyes, right on the grassland around me.

"You guessed it right, it was a full moon night, and the blue wolf in the southern hills came here smelling the bloody smell all over the field, and took the two baby girls who were waiting for the milk."

Qin Chong said quietly, and I felt a chill rising in my back.

"And then?"

"More than ten years later, on the same full moon night, there was a caravan from the country of Qiuzi stationed here. The men who were sleeping in the middle of the night suddenly heard the long howl of the blue wolf, and when they got up to look, they saw two naked young wild girls with long hair reaching up to their waists coming out of the mountainous area. They were followed by dozens of tall and fierce Northland wolves, and even though the moonlight was like daylight, the eyes of these wolves were still like flickering ghost fire, glowing a little bit of terrifying green light in the wilderness. ”

Qin Chong himself seemed to be frightened, and his voice became smaller and smaller.

"In front of the two wild maidens, these blue wolves are like docile domestic dogs. Moreover, the wild girl obviously came to the camp of the Qiuzi people, and scared these guys and leaders so much that their souls were gone, where had they seen such a formation, they all thought that they had encountered some mountain ghosts! ”

I couldn't help but look a few more times in the direction of Mount Kinabalu, the sun had already set, and a round of gray-white silver plates hung on the dome early.

Today is the night of the full moon! I got goosebumps all over my body at once.

But it was clearly not a ghost from the underworld, and everyone had already smelled the peculiar fishy smell and heavy wheezing sound of the blue wolf. Unable to sit back any longer, these seasoned merchants drew their swords and prepared to fight. Strangely enough, a mile from the camp, the wolves stopped. The two naked wild girls began to speak to the caravan in a strange voice of a wolf's howl. ”

The blue wolf is not scary, the wild girl in this wolf pack is really weird and terrifying, I can't listen to it anymore.

After a stalemate with each other for a while, the head of the caravan tentatively asked the butler to throw a few horses of silk cloth from Middle-earth to the outside of the camp. Strangely enough, a few of the wolves left the pack as if they knew human nature, stepped forward and took the cloth back in their mouths, and placed it in front of the wild girl. ”

Qin Chong continued, and Sha Mihan, Guo Helmet Liu, and others, who were herding horses together between the words, also came forward, diluting the murderous aura just now.

Seeing that this method had worked, the Guzitou man hurriedly asked the men to offer cloth, jerky, sake and other things to eat, drink and wear. Unexpectedly, this wolf girl took all the orders, and then floated into the mountains and forests with the wolves like ghosts, as if nothing had happened! With more listeners, Qin Chong brought up his spirit again.

Later, the matter of this wolf goddess mountain was spread through the mouth of the merchants of Qiuzi Kingdom, and all the passing caravans and local officials and people who passed through Liangzhou knew such a legend. Therefore, every full moon night, people will offer food and drink to the sacred mountain. Shamihan took Qin Chong's words.

"I heard from the old people in the Taoist that for decades, on full moon nights, people often saw two wolf girls wearing colorful long clothes, leading the group of wolf guards, cruising in the field in front of the sacred mountain. The world is slowly aging, and these two wolf girls have become goddesses who will never grow old, just like they did at the beginning of the year, and the wolf goddess mountain is from this! ”

It seems that this legend has not been told in the caravan for a year or two, and every guy can tell a paragraph.

"Has anyone in our caravan seen these two wolf goddesses over the years?" I asked curiously.

"It is said that the old man and Uncle Su met a few times when they were young, but we never saw them!"

"It's better not to see it, if you really run into it, you will be scared to pee!" Everyone gossiped.

"Young master, tonight is the night of the full moon, why don't we bring some tribute and see the true face of the Wolf Goddess Mountain!"

Qin Conflict suddenly came up with such a terrifying idea, and his eyes lit up as he spoke, as if he was fascinated by a wolf girl.

"Yes, young master! We'll go with you! The blue wolf on the Wolf Goddess Mountain never hurts anyone! Sha Mihan and Pot Helmet Liu followed.

There are so many strange things in the world, and it would be a pity not to go through this place and not find out.

So I gladly accepted the advice of the people, and hurried back to the camp to prepare for parting ways.