Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Two Ann Brothers
Shuo Fang!
With the sound of the bowstring, the sharp arrow immediately turned into a black shadow and burrowed into the sparse grove and disappeared without a trace.
An Sishun urged him to search carefully, and found his prey in a thorn bush, a dying fox.
An Sishun slashed the thorns with a knife, mended the fox, and took its life.
An Sishun is a Turkic with the habit of being a Turkic hunter.
I also know the habits of the prey very well, don't look at the prey injury, the life is on the line. The power of the battle of the trapped beasts is enough to kill people.
Even if it was a fox, An Sishun didn't want it to die and bite himself.
"Brother, good archery!"
The sound of heavy horses' hooves was heard, and a huge object approached quickly.
The giant is a man and a horse.
Man is a rare fat man, different from ordinary fat people, his bones are huge, and the fat all over his body makes him look like Roshan, any of the three words tall and fat can be used on his body.
A mount that can carry such a body is naturally not ordinary.
Sitting down was a huge black horse, with long, muscular limbs with strip-like muscles like steel, and smooth, vibrant skin that shone silver in the sun. The black mane swaying in the wind is like a thousand black snakes flying, arrogant and domineering.
With a huge body and a huge war horse, this fat man is not the slightest bit funny and ugly because of the fat man, but is full of a domineering majesty.
An Sishun glanced at the visitor and said with a smile: "After so many years, the archery skills that my hand passed down to my father have not been pulled down at all." What about you, my brother, how good you are in archery you were back then? I remember when I was younger, your archery skills were even better than mine...... Right now? ”
An Sishun looked at the fat body of the visitor with a bit of amusement.
This meeting in a foreign country is a great joy in life, not to mention meeting a brother who has been separated for more than ten years, An Sishun's joy is heartfelt.
An Sishun vaguely remembered that back then, his uncle An Yanyan married a Turkic witch, who brought a baby named Zha Jushan.
An Sishun remembered that he had a very good time with Zha Jushan, and the two wrestled together, riding horses and archery, and had a deep relationship.
Later, the tribe was ruined, and An Sishun fled south with his uncle An Yanyan and Zha Zangshan, and defected to An Zhenjie, a relative with the same surname.
Along the way, they depended on each other, and they accumulated a deep relationship.
Later, he enlisted in the army and came to the Longyou frontier front line where the Tang Dynasty had a long-standing confrontation with Tibet: he heard that Zha Jushan was ashamed of living with his brother and stepfather, An Yanyan, and left Shuofang to go on his own, and he was never heard from since.
But he didn't want to be able to meet this brother with a deep friendship again after many years, and the other party was also the son of the famous Northeast Major General Zhang Kang and the border marshal Zhang Shouqi.
Zhang Kang raised his head and said: "Naturally, as an eagle of the grassland, how can the housekeeping ability fall?" ”
He smiled slightly, bent his bow, took an iron arrow, moved his fat body, looked left and right, and saw a group of geese flying in the air.
The geese lost their leader and dispersed.
An Sishun gave a thumbs up and said, "Good archery, Zhang Shaoshuai's name is not false at all." ”
Zhang Kang shook his head and said, "Don't call it Zhang Shaoshuai, I don't like this name." It was my stepfather who forced me to change it, and after so many years, I still miss the days when we were in the Turkic steppe. I gave myself a name, An Lushan. We are brothers, just like lambs of fellow milkmen, naturally with the same surname. ”
An Sishun heard the three words "An Lushan", and suddenly felt familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it, but when he saw Zhang Kang change his name so easily, a wave of disgust welled up in his heart, and he began to realize that things are wrong, more than ten years of vicissitudes, and the pure friendship of his youth in the past has long ceased to exist.
An Lushan has been under the fence since he was a child, and his talent is extraordinary, not only proficient in the six Chinese, but also his talent for observing words and colors is the best in the world, seeing An Sishun's strange look, he sighed and said: "Even at this moment, brother, I still remember the scene of my uncle's current death!" ”
An Sishun's eyes blurred for a while:
The cold wind is howling, the blue sky is clean and translucent, and the land is vast and boundless.
It was their homeland, the Western Grasslands.
It is also the place that his father longed for the most in his life......
When he was young, he once asked his father: "Daddy, the Western Regions are our home, why don't we go back and live in Monan." ”
My father's words are still in my ears: "An Sishun, you remember." The last thing the emperor of the Celestial Empire wants is for another great hero in our clan to stand up to the heavens and the earth like Mao Dun and Jieli Khan in the past......"
An Sishun remembered his father's voice was low and melancholy, his forehead was full of wrinkles, as if carved out of a knife, and his eyes revealed a man who was forever wild and untamable.
An Sishun put away his thoughts and said with a smile: "I also remember, but I don't think my father is wrong, and I don't think he is right." Where is the heart longing, where is not home? A hundred years ago, the clansmen lived in the Western Regions, and a hundred years later, the clansmen settled in the Shuofang grassland. A hundred years ago, I don't know how it was, but now the people are living well. Food and clothing are worry-free, and they can learn martial arts and literature. Why should you bury all this good for the sake of that ethereal homeland? Brother, although the grassland is big, it may not be suitable for us. ”
An Lushan laughed and said: "What my brother said is that no matter how high the eagle flies, there will be a day when the wings will be broken. It's not too early, I went back, and I was really happy to be able to meet my brother today. ”
With a wave of his hand, the guards in the distance rushed in, and a group of cavalry rode away, walking cleanly.
Ann Sishun clenched the strong bow in his hand, suppressed the urge to shoot an arrow at the broad waistcoat, and with a flick of the reins, the horse joined his guard.
"Yuan Rail, you prepare, I want to enter the capital to face the saint, Zhang Kang is resentful, and he must tell the court!"
An Sishun blushed and said a shocking word to his henchman Zhang Yuanliang.
Zhang Yuanliang almost fell off the horse when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Jiedu, this is not a small matter? ”
An Sishun said: "I started to think that Zhang Kang came to save Zhang Shouqi, but he never mentioned Zhang Shouqi who was under house arrest in Chang'an, but changed his name in order to call me a brother." As a righteous son, at a critical time, he is so cold and thin, and his jackal heart can be seen in general. When he failed to try, he left immediately, obviously fearing that I would forcibly leave him behind and be a thief. Now Pei Xiangyuan is far away in the Western Regions, and once Liaodong is in chaos, my dynasty is worried. The imperial court must be made aware of this and prepared. ”
At the moment, he only hated the guards he brought were far inferior to Zhang Kang's personal guards, otherwise he would have detained him at the risk of death.