Back in Jincheng, Li Wenyuan strolled down the street and walked slowly towards his home, naturally being watched by others along the way. Thinking about it, the slush, blood scale, and beard grown from the deep mountain life for more than a month, how can it not be noticeable.

He came to the door of his mansion and reached out and knocked on the door. In the past few years, he has taken on an idle errand in the Jincheng County Government, with a little savings, plus Xue Rengao's archery skills and Xue Renyue's studies have been improving day by day, Xue Ju was overjoyed to help Li Wenyuan buy this mansion next to the merchant shop behind Xue's house in Jincheng. The house is not big, but it is enough for Li Wenyuan. I still remember when I just bought a house, I secretly sighed, from later generations he has always felt that buying a house is an unattainable thing, but he didn't expect to have his own property in Jincheng in just three years.

In the future, if you talk about the land area, Huaxia can rank among the top three in the world, or it will not escape the fate of more people and less land, but what if it doubles? What about double? What else will happen? For the first time, Li Wenyuan, who came to the Great Sui, began to try to seriously think about his fate and future for the first time. Before she had time to think about it, Liu's mother opened the door of the house. Liu's mother was one of the refugees who fled last year, but because she brought her two daughters to live in poverty, she was forced to sell her eldest daughter on the street so that she could use the money to support her younger daughter.

Li Wenyuan has always been unconcerned about himself, and the kind of deception in later generations has been rotten on the street, and his habitual thinking made him directly ignore the mother and daughter. But Qiu Niang couldn't bear it, she knew in her heart that the little girl who was bought would end miserably, if it was like herself, the master mother was kind-hearted, and it would be fine, if she met the mother who was mean, the old man was lewd, and it was really better to live than to die. With a soft heart, he grabbed Li Wenyuan's sleeve and said: "Master, this mother and daughter are really pitiful, it is better to buy them back and be a servant, it just so happens that the house has become bigger, and I have to work hard to clean it up alone." ”

No one is perfect, and Li Wenyuan is no exception, for example, his favorite from later generations is the cat-eared maid, but it's a pity that it is too difficult for people in this era to accept cat-ears, but it's not a problem for Qiu Niang, who has always been a slave, but it's just a change from the title of the master to the master, not to mention that in addition to this title, Li Wenyuan has given her all the rights of a free person.

Li Wenyuan was not a ruthless person, not to mention that what Qiu Niang said was indeed reasonable, so he stopped, turned around and came to the mother and daughter, and asked, "Where are you?" ”

Liu's mother said that she was originally from Wuwei County, Liangzhou, her nature was Liu, and her husband served in the army, just because she died on the battlefield in the process of the southern invasion of the Turks last year, she sold her property and went south to Jincheng to find relatives, but she didn't find it for more than ten days, and she didn't have much money left, and she wanted to help but no one wanted it, so she had to sell her eldest daughter to raise some money to go to Beijing to find her sister.

Li Wenyuan frowned when he heard this, the Turks still dare to go south? He remembered that Yang Guang was a very ambitious person, how could he let the Turks go south to destroy his reputation as an emperor through the ages?

Qiu Niang on the side hurriedly explained: "The master doesn't know, although the Turks are friendly and vassals with the Great Sui on the surface, they will invade the south every autumn and winter and plunder the materials needed for the winter. The imperial court didn't have a good way, and every time the Sui envoy sent back, he brought back the Khan's letters and cowhide and sheepskin as compensation, which has been the case since Emperor Wen founded the country. ”

Li Wenyuan shook his head, the habits of the Turks said that the people of the Sui Dynasty were just two-legged sheep, and it was not a matter to kill 1,800 of them, so there would be scouts to patrol the important towns on the border on a regular basis, and once they found signs of the Turks moving south, they would ignite the Drill Sky Swallow they brought with them to warn the towns behind.

This Drill Sky Swallow is actually a kind of ignition of the fuse and then flying into the air under the impetus of gunpowder, and then exploding. This Li Wenyuan knows very well that although firecrackers were only available in the Song Dynasty, they were actually used for military purposes at the border in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but in the Song Dynasty, they were transferred from military to civilian.

Li Wenyuan asked Liu's mother: "In this way, you don't need to sell your sons and daughters, my family happens to lack a maid to help, you bring your two daughters to my house, and you can pay for food and accommodation a month." ”

Liu's mother immediately agreed, and followed Li Wenyuan back to her house with her two daughters. Liu's mother and her daughter were arranged to live in the west room, Qiu Niang happily helped clean up together, and the arrival of Liu's mother and the three of them made Nuo's big yard have some popularity, and it is no longer empty. On weekdays, Mother Liu has great respect for Li Wenyuan, calling one old man after another, no matter how much Li Wenyuan dissuades her, in her own words, she has been used to it for so many years.

In desperation, Li Wenyuan could only let it go, but this time it was different, Liu Ma was startled when she opened the door, and saw that the person in front of the door was covered in mud and carrying a bag, and thought it was a refugee, so she said: "You wait, I'll go get you some food." "Then the door will be closed.

Li Wenyuan stretched out his hand and grabbed Liu's mother and said, "Liu's mother, Liu's mother, don't close the door, it's me." ”

Mother Liu was pulled by this person, and instinctively wanted to push it away, but she heard the voice of Li Wenyuan, and hurriedly looked carefully, only to see that it was indeed her own master, and hurriedly let Li Wenyuan enter the door, and said: "Oh, my lord, how can you get yourself a car like this, come into the house and I will prepare hot water for you." ”

Li Wenyuan wiped the sludge off his body and asked Liu's mother: "Liu's mother, why didn't you see Qiu Niang and the two little girls today?" ”

Mother Liu had just brought Li Wenyuan's clean clothes and was cleaning up the dirty clothes that Li Wenyuan had been wearing these days, when she heard Li Wenyuan ask, she said with a smile: "Ah, the housewife took the two girls to the merchant shop to hang out." ”

Li Wenyuan carefully cleaned the wound on his arm that was bitten by the white-haired wolf, selected ten relatively intact wolf skins and went to a tailor shop familiar to the merchants, paid a deposit to order a women's cloak, and a general's cloak, and agreed to pick up the goods the next day. Then he turned around and left, wanting to go to the Xue Mansion to see the two brothers Xue Rengao and Xue Renyue, these two little brothers still have a very good taste for him.

As soon as he arrived at the door of Xue's mansion, he saw Xue Renyue running back out of breath, and he was so discouraged. Li Wenyuan frowned, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart, so he stopped him and asked, "My little military master, what happened?" How did you get so downcast? ”

Xue Renyue was stopped, his legs and feet were weak and he collapsed directly in Li Wenyuan's arms, and he was about to struggle to get up, when he saw that it was Li Wenyuan and said: "Sir, my eldest brother had an argument with a group of unreasonable Hu people in the mall, and I saw that the situation was not good, so I came back first to move the rescuers." ”

Li Wenyuan frowned when he heard this, why is this plot so bloody, the only thing I have in common with the traverser is this? Hurriedly called the family and helped Xue Renyue into the inner house, and asked him to find a way to inform his father Xue Ju. He went home and fetched his bow and lance, and rushed to the merchant shop to check the situation.

As soon as I arrived at the mall, I saw a store surrounded by people on the third floor and the outer three floors, and my heart should be here, so I separated the crowd and walked in, and saw Xue Rengao holding a long stick and confronting the three Hu people.

"Young man, don't ask for hardship, what I want from Hulu must be mine." One of the bearded men with a saber at his waist said.

"Fart, robbing the people's daughters is also the first to come? Didn't you hear people say they didn't want to go with you? Xue Rengao said unyieldingly.

"Young man, she is just a folk girl in your Great Sui, but with me Ashina Hulu back to the Turks, she will be expensive in the future." Kulu had obviously lost his patience, and his identity made him embarrassed to do things in front of him, so he began to try to use his surname to scare off the young man in front of him.

Ashina is the surname of the ruling family of the ancient Turks, meaning "noble wolf" or "noble wolf". Later, they were defeated by the Hui people, and the whole clan moved south, and was split and placed in various parts of the Central Plains by Li Tang following the example of the former Sui, and later gradually changed the Han surname and dissolved into the Han nationality. Among them, the most famous surnames An and Shi are the homophonic surnames split from Ashina, and this group of Turks in the late Tang Dynasty also gave the Tang Dynasty a backlash that kindly took them in, completely defeating the most powerful empire in ancient China.

But no one knows that much yet, and at present, everyone knows that the Ashina clan is the absolute ruler of the grassland and the most threatening neighbor of the Great Sui. It's just that at present, the Great Sui is still the main peace with the Turks, and the folk customs are even more afraid of the Turks, and they no longer have the glory of the Han Wu Emperor Qianli Ji chieftain.

Xue Rengao was also stunned, Xue Ju said more than once not to provoke the Turks easily, this time he was reckless, but it was already a difficult situation to ride a tiger, and he could only hope that Xue Renyue could move to the rescue as soon as possible and give himself a step.

At this time, Li Wenju already had a way in his heart, the world thought that the Turks were barbarians, they only knew how to burn, kill and loot, and they had not fought and their hearts were a little weaker, but in fact, this nation admired the strong, as long as you showed stronger strength than him, he would surrender to you, and never give up before you showed your decline.

So Li Wenju separated the crowd, protected Xue Rengao behind him, and said with a smile: "I heard that the Ashina clan is the king of the grassland designated by Tengger, and it is the eagle soaring high in the sky. But I've only heard that eagles have to be sharpened by their parents to hunt and fly on their own since they were young, but I've never heard of eagles hunting by their parents' names. ”

Ashina Hulu's face turned red after choking on his words, and he pointed to Li Wenyuan and said, "What do you mean by saying that I, like you Han people, only know how to rely on the family's blessings?" I've just been hanging out with you Han people for a long time, and recently... It's almost black. ”

"I heard that the warriors of the grassland never have a black hand behind their backs, and there are grievances to settle in person, right?" Li Wenyuan said with his hands folded.

This sentence reminded Hu Lu, and he said with a red face: "Yes, the warriors of the grassland will settle their grievances with duels, do you dare as a Han man?" ”

"Then what kind of duel method does His Highness Ashina want?" Li Wenyuan pointed out the identity of Ashina Hulu in a timely manner, reminding him that his identity was not equal to his own, and if he duel with himself in person, he would surrender his identity.

Sure enough, Ashina also thought that he was the son of the Khan, but it was a little inappropriate to make a move with a Han man on the street, so he pointed to the guard Hu Ren next to him and said: "This is my guard Ba Duk, you duel with him, if he loses, I will recognize your victory, and compensate this family with a piece of gold as my unreasonable compensation, if you lose, His Royal Highness will take her back to the Turks, who will stop and kill whom." ”

When Li Wenyuan saw that the goal had been achieved, he stopped being verbose, and walked to the long street with the horse lance first.

If he would never have dared to do this before, but a fight with the wolf made him suddenly realize that his strength seemed to have doubled compared to three years ago, at first he thought it was the result of exercising every day, and then he thought carefully that if he exercised, there would definitely be an upper limit, and he didn't seem to have encountered any upper limit in the past three years, and he was slowly increasing his strength every day. Now I am absolutely confident that I will be able to defeat the Turks in front of me in strength.

The martial arts of the Turks are only based on force, and they do not have as many skills and moves as the Central Plains. In terms of skills, Li Wenyuan, who has learned the method of Xue Ju's family, is not afraid.

Batu also came to the top of the long street, holding a spear, Batu said in Chinese that was not very fluent: "This gun, the gun, died under me, under the arrow, human, I use it, very, easy." ”

"That's your spoils, and you deserve him." After Li Wenyuan finished speaking, he directly put on a non-starter. This is a major feature of the Xue family's lance method, there is no fancy starting style, just a summary of the experience of killing in the sea of corpses and blood.

Seeing that Li Wenyuan was ready, Ba Du waved his spear and attacked Li Wenyuan. Li Wenyuan did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he waved the horse lance to push the spear away, and then took advantage of the situation to stab the spear. He did not panic when the spear was broken, and he held the gun with both hands to block the horse lance upward. Unexpectedly, Li Wenyuan saw that Batu was holding the gun horizontally and blocking the lance upwards, so he immediately retracted the horse lance and turned the stab into pressure, and pressed it towards Batuk.

Seeing that the stabbing momentum of the horse lance had been resolved, Ba Du had just breathed a sigh of relief, and before he could put away the gun and make another move, he suddenly felt that the spear in his hand seemed to be under the force of a thousand jun, and pressed it down, and hurriedly used his strength to resist, only to see that the gun in his hand had begun to bend.

Li Wenyuan saw the green tendons on his forehead, knowing that this Hu man had already used all his strength, he had a plan in his heart, and he shouted at the moment, adding a little more strength in his hand, and pressing the gun barrel downward even more.

Hu Lu, who was watching from the sidelines, was also shocked in his heart, Ba Du was also his henchman, he could tie the ox with his bare hands at the age of ten, which can be regarded as a natural divine power, but it was rare for him to end up in such an embarrassing situation in the hands of the Han people. What's more, seeing that the face of this Han man does not change, I am afraid that there is still a bit of strength that has not been used, Batu is considered to have lost, and he can't stop this challenge he launched, and he is anxious, when he suddenly hears Li Wenyuan's fierce shout, the spear in Batu's hand is broken in response, Batu can no longer support and sits on the ground, Li Wenyuan's spear stops at the position of an inch in front of Batu's throat.