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The two teenagers immediately cheered, no matter what nationality, wine is the best communication tool for men. Before the caravan returned south, Xu Dayan had already asked someone to bring a letter, asking his family to transport a batch of fine paper to Su Si Department after the spring next year. At present, Aunt Qing is willing to borrow on credit with the sand date wine that has been stored for many years, which is a good deal that the pen can't ask for.

Immediately, Li Xu took the livestock and followed Tao Kuo to the patriarch's house to carry wine. When the herdsmen heard that there was a sand date wine brewed by Aunt Qing herself, they were even more happy. Some people immediately rode horses to the field to drag their fat sheep, while others quickly went home to get dried mushrooms, yellow flowers and other things collected in the summer. Dur and his wife, who were well-off, contributed a small jar of spices and refined salt, and everyone packed up the felt bags and immediately set up a fire in front of Li Xu and Xu Dayan's house and began to sing.

This meal gnawed off two sheep, and drank up five jars of sand date wine and more than a dozen skin pockets of sour mare's milk to be considered enjoyable. Since then, the young heroes of the Su Si Department, such as Ah Silan, Duer, Cao Qiutai, and Ba Ximi, have made friends with Xu and Li. Everyone competes in riding together during the day, and drinks a few bowls of mare's milk wine in each felt bag at night, and the days are extraordinarily happy.

Three days later, young shepherds from the neighboring tribes drove their cattle and dragged blankets to camp on the outskirts of the Susi tribe. Su Sisier and the others declared to their subordinates that the young people of all tribes had come to participate in the hunt, so please don't panic. Secretly, however, they began to organize the herdsmen into hunting teams, and each team of 100 people went to the designated area to shoot yellow sheep, so as to train the herdsmen to cooperate with each other.

Xu Dayan immediately showed his skills. How the various teams passed on messages to each other, how they looked after each other, and how they identified officers who did not belong to their own clan but whose positions were above them, were all sorted out by his hands. In terms of individual military applications, the people of Xu originally had their own habits, and Xu Dayan debated and deduced with the core figures of Su Sixier, and referred to the army of the Central Plains as the standard, and took the more reasonable part of it to be promoted to the hunting team.

Compared with Xu Dayan's busyness in training the army, the work handed over to Li Xu by the tribe was much simpler. All he had to do was walk around the front of the group every morning with the little wolf Ganro when the shepherds began training, and he would have done a great job for the tribe. Gan Luo seems to have been born to be a god stick, and whenever he appears side by side with Li Xu in front of the shepherds, he can always put on a down-to-earth and generous posture. Therefore, every morning, when a man and a wolf walk out of the camp, there is always a cheer like a mountain crack in the four fields: "Attached, attached!" ”

Detachment, in the language of the Xia people, is not only a wolf, but also represents a guard. Since Li Xu was introduced by the patriarchs as the guard of the silver wolf, it didn't take a few days for him to have the same name of the Xia clan, and he was attached. As for Xu Dayan, from the patriarch Xi'er to the ordinary shepherds, they all learned from Aunt Qing and called him Mr. very respectfully.

In order to thank the two boys for their contribution to the tribe, Susisir continued to give them the game captured by the shepherds. And through the collegial deliberation of the elders, more than a dozen horses, five cows and more than seventy sheep were transferred from the common supplies of the tribe to belong to the two of them. According to the rules of the Xia tribe, these livestock do not need to be managed by two teenagers themselves, and naturally every day there are young people in the tribe who lead the herdsmen to take turns to serve, driving the livestock of the entire tribe to the wild to graze. As for the milk and lambs to be harvested in the future, they were counted by the elder Bo Ge, who was in charge of the management of the baggage, and accumulated into the property of the two men.

In this way, the two teenagers leapt into the wealthy class of the tribe. When drinking with others, he is more open-minded, and from time to time he can give back some gifts to show his gratitude to the host. However, Ah Silan and the others seem to have reached a tacit understanding a long time ago, no matter what the two give, everyone will definitely return the double gift the next day. came and went, but it scared Li Xu to be more generous.

"Attached, in a few days, the whole team will go out hunting, will you participate?" One day after drinking, Ah Silan asked with a little drunkenness.

"Go, but my riding and archery skills are too bad, and I will definitely disappoint you!" Li Xu replied briskly, after more than ten days of communication, his Turkic language has made great progress. Influenced by the youth of the surrounding Xia people, his personality has gradually become a bit of the arrogance of the grassland people.

Poor archery skills, this is a fact that Li Xu cannot deny. After Uncle Nine left, he tried to quickly improve his archery skills with the help of the mantras taught by Uncle Nine. As a result, when I got on horseback, I realized that the mantra sounded simple, but it was very difficult to do.

Riding on a horse and releasing arrows is not as good as standing on the ground and bending a bow, and the first thing to pass is to sit firmly on horseback. Pulling the reins with his hands and galloping with stirrups between his legs, Li Xu could do it when he was in the Central Plains. However, he lost contact with his mount at the same time, and he had never tried to communicate with the horse on his knees and heels. So every time the bow was drawn, the mount would no longer listen to the command. either ran to the opposite side of the target, or threw Li Xu off the horse. In short, against a fixed target, it is difficult for him to catch an arrow in a hundred shots. Not to mention, like Uncle Jiu, he will be able to hit every shot. Even after the bow and arrow are off the string, they are missing, and they cannot be found if they want to be recovered.

Fortunately, the feather arrows in the Katabu are well stocked, and they are all made for riding and shooting. For the sake of his morale-boosting face by getting up early every day, Elder Bogo, who controlled the baggage, passed down the word and left to learn to shoot, and he could use as many arrows as he wanted. So even if Li Xu led a hundred arrows out in the morning and only returned fifty in the evening, no one cared about him.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you go with Ganluo, the prey we bring back will definitely be the most in each team!" Ah Silan said very trustingly. This was the tenth day that Li Xu stayed in the tribe, plus the five days he had previously been a merchant, a total of half a month. Twelve days ago, after accompanying Li Xu to a banquet to entertain the elders, Ah Silan hugged his wife. And this month, the wife did not see red, which means that another little life has taken root in the womb of the wife.

Whether the luck bestowed by the Immortal Heaven was related to the fact that he spoke for Gan Luo that day, Ah Silan didn't dare to guess. But he believes that as long as he follows Ganluo, good luck will continue to fall in his felt bag.

"Before I go, I'll try my best to improve my archery! At least get all the arrows back! Li Xu promised with a smile.

Promises are promises, and the distance between ideals and reality is always too far apart. Li Xu's first hunting day soon came, and he and a team of Asilan, Duer, Xu Dayan, and Ganluo, with Tao Kuodesi, who couldn't shake off his tail, ran outside all day, capturing two yellow sheep, three foxes, and a whole bag of fat sand chickens. Aside from himself, almost everyone in the team, both men and women, had a win. And not only did he gain nothing, but he also fell off his horse several times during the gallop. On one occasion, his left leg hung between the stirrups and was dragged out by his mount more than twenty paces away, almost scaring everyone to death on the spot.

"Attached, you still don't want to ride on a horse and shoot arrows in the future!" In the evening, according to the method taught by Aunt Qing, Tao Kuo, who wiped Li Xu's wounds with salt water, prayed with some distress. I heard Aunt Qing say that Han men are proud of reading more, not being more skilled than bow horses like the Xi people, so Tao Kuo Tuosi no longer cares whether his good friend can hit the prey.

"I promised to shoot you a eagle?" Li Xu smiled and stretched out his hand and touched Tao Kuo's white and golden hair. In the Central Plains, he had never seen a woman with such a beautiful silver hair. This is not the haggard white on the old woman's head, but the luster of life bursts from the ends to the roots.

"Go, go, you deserve to die!" Tao Kuo's face suddenly turned cold, and viciously pressed the clean cloth stained with salt water on Li Xu's calf that had been rubbed with countless scars by the war horse stone.

"Oops!" Li Xu screamed in pain and jumped up, wanting to do something, looking at the other party's angry appearance, he finally decided to settle the matter.

"Only women and villains are difficult to raise, the words of the saints, I am not deceiving!" Li Xu, who suffered a big loss, shook his head and said.

"The saint has been dead for a thousand years!" Tao Kuo knew that Li Xu must not be thinking a good word in his mouth, and replied in the sharpest language he could come up with.

Li Xu shook his head again and again, not as knowledgeable as this barbarian woman. When I slept at night, I was tossed and turned by the pain in my calves, but I couldn't help but think of Tao Kuo's appearance when he was angry.

"Why is she so angry?" Li Xu thought strangely. In a blink of an eye, such a comment surged in my heart, "However, she looks good when she is angry......"

No matter how painful the injury on his leg was, Li Xu still decided to refine his archery skills first. Uncle Nine said that he can't always let others protect him. Right now, in the Xue Division, Xu Dayan and Patriarch Xi'er will take care of themselves. When he returns to the Central Plains in the future, Big Eyes will definitely go to gain fame, and he can't be a burden behind him. Besides, Uncle Nine said that there is no secret to archery, just familiarity.

He was willing to work riding and archery, and Aslan and Dur did not hesitate to pass on some of their insights when they learned to shoot. How to coordinate the body and mount, how to match the undulation of the horse's back when the bow and arrow are aimed at the target, etc. These are all truths that need to be perceived with practice, and everyone's understanding is different, and the experience obtained is also different. It is not summarized at all in the mantra in the book, and it cannot be mastered by rote memorization.

With the guidance of these masters, Li Xu slowly had a feeling for bows and arrows, war horses, and the wind around him. Each arrow no longer flies aimlessly, but lands in the same direction as the target. Occasionally, if you are lucky, you can also pierce the red heart with one arrow. This is his unique skill, others want to shoot through the target, even if he has so much strength, he does not have the riding bow in his hand that the Great Sui built at the peak of his national power.

He was a young man, and when he saw that he could already shoot a fixed target, he couldn't help but want to go out hunting again and wash away the shame of being left on horseback. By the way, let the little woman Tao Kuotuosi see that she is not eating and drinking in her tribe for nothing just by virtue of Ganluo's face. Several young men were gnawing on the dried meat left over from the autumn to a dull mouth, and as soon as Li Xu mentioned it, they immediately responded.

In order to harvest more prey, Ah Silan deliberately chose a morning after the snow cleared. The presence of a layer of snow on the ground is equivalent to laying countless natural traps for the beasts. In particular, creatures with small hooves, such as hares and yellow sheep, cannot step on the snow with their feet, and their running speed is less than 30% of the usual speed. For a mediocre hand like Li Xu, who has just mastered shooting a fixed target, hunting after the snow, the probability of winning has increased greatly.

After asking the patriarch of Sil for instructions, they happily left the camp. As far as the eye can see, you can only see the hills in the distance, and the grasslands near are all covered with snow, and the whole world seems to be covered with a thick layer of white felt. The light gray sky above just formed a huge dome, and the snow-white felt and the tribes on the felt were upside down under it.