Gegentana said: "That's great, put some in the barbecue tomorrow, it will definitely surprise my brother." ”

Zhao Yan ate half a roast goose and was full, while Wang Lin was a big-bellied man, and he wiped his mouth and burped after eating five in a row.

Looking at the remaining roast goose for a while, Zhao Yan suddenly approached Gegentana and said, "Beautiful girl, I want to ask you for something. ”

Gegentana covered her mouth and burped, her face was a little red, she looked at Zhao Yan who was close at hand, and asked in a somewhat flustered tone, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhao Yan smiled secretly in his heart, it seems that the aesthetics of women should be about the same, although my brother's appearance is not top-notch, but there is no problem with beating everyone in Wara.

"I would like to ask you to teach me Mongolian, and in return, I can use my body...... Ahem, I can tell you how to make spices. You've already tasted it, isn't the roast goose meat with spices much better than the roast goose meat you've eaten before? ”

Gegentana readily agreed: "It's no problem teaching you Mongolian, but I already know this spice, which is the juice of this small purple flower under our feet, so you need to change the quid pro quo." ”

Zhao Yan glanced at Temur depressedly, then lowered his head and thought about it, then looked into Gegentana's crooked eyes and said tentatively: "How about I also teach you the official language of the Ming Dynasty in exchange?" ”

Gegentana smiled slyly: "I can speak the language of your Ming Kingdom, why do I need you to teach it?" ”

Zhao Yan spread his hands and said helplessly: "Then I don't have anything to exchange for the time being." ”

"So be it, I hope you'll still have enough food to hunt tomorrow, I'm going to sleep." Gegentana stood up and patted the dust behind her, before leaving.

Zhao Yan frowned and thought about it, but still stopped Gegentana, and asked uncertainly, "Do you know how to shear sheep?" ”

Glancing at Zhao Yan in surprise, Gegentana replied, "Why do you want to shear sheep?" After the wool is sheared, the sheep will not survive the cold winter and will freeze to death. ”

Zhao Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's easy, since you don't want to teach me your language, can you do me a small favor?" ”

Gegentana asked curiously, "What's the busy?" ”

"I'd like to trade the rest of this roast goose for a pair of scissors, uh...... You should have scissors, right? If you don't have scissors, you can use the dagger, you can help me ask the others who would like to change it. Zhao Yan said.

Gegentana shook her head and said, "You may not understand the importance of iron tools to us steppe people, I have scissors, but one roast goose can't be exchanged for a pair of scissors, at least five can't, and why should I change it for you?" ”

Zhao Yan found that this Wara girl was really a little difficult, so he said, "Then forget it, you go to sleep." ”

After Gegentana left, Zhao Yan came to Temur's side and gestured for a long time, and Temur suddenly took out a knife from his waist and handed it to Zhao Yan, and then happily took the remaining roast goose and left.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Zhao Yan and Wang Lin sneaked to the place of the sheepfold in the camp, and took advantage of the fact that no one noticed the speed and quickly cut a lot of wool back, and then Temur in the tent next door found that the two Ming people next to him had a fire again, but this time they were not roasting, but boiling water, and there were still a lot of fluffy wool on the ground on the side.

The sheep on the grassland are still relatively clean, but only relatively speaking. When the water was hot, Zhao Yan put the wool into hot water and steamed it three or four times, and then poured out the turbid water and began to spread the steamed wool in front of the tent to dry.

At noon, Wang Lin borrowed Temur's bow and arrows to shoot a few passing birds, and the wool had dried after the two of them had eaten enough.

Zhao Yan couldn't find the comb, so he could only comb all the wool twice by hand, and the wool was almost fluffy to the maximum.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he said in his heart that life is not easy, Zhao Yan found a stick of moderate thickness and began to spin the thread, and after spinning, it was a merger.

Zhao Yan was born by hand, and the final wool was unevenly thick, and the appearance was really poor, but there was no way, as long as it could be used.

Now that the preparation is complete, it's time to start weaving.

Zhao Yan knows how to knit sweaters, but he has never knitted them himself, and now life is forced to do so, so he can only try to explore.

Fortunately, practice makes perfect, the jerky at the beginning gradually became rounded, and the speed gradually increased, and by noon the next day, Zhao Yan finally completed his first work - an unbearable sweater.

Although the appearance is not good, and the two sleeves are not the same length, Zhao Yan is still very happy that he finally has a commodity in his hand that can be exchanged.

Happily finding Gegentana, Zhao Yan handed her the sweater in his hand and gestured: "I heard that the winter on the grassland is unusually cold, and people often freeze to death. It's a sweater, it's very good at keeping out the cold, you can wear it and try it, and if you approve of it, I'd like to trade it for something. ”

Gergentana didn't think the sweater was ugly, as most of the Warats wore clothes that were much uglier than this one.

She looked at it over and over again, and then put the sweater on her body according to Zhao Yan's prompt.

"It's strange, after wearing this dress, I feel hot on my body, maybe I can really keep out the cold in winter." Gegentana took off her sweater, wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, and asked, "What do you want to trade it for?" ”

"Two pairs of scissors, and the wool of all the sheep that will be slaughtered that day from now on." Zhao Yan finished speaking in one breath, and then stared at Gegentana tightly, he knew that Gegentana was qualified to make this decision.

Gegentana shook her head violently and said, "I can give you half of the wool, although it is not very useful for us, but it is still of some use, so I can only give you half, but scissors are not good, we need to use it to cut fur and make winter clothes, it is much more convenient than cutting fur with a dagger." ”

Gegentana's attitude looks very resolute, Zhao Yan can only emphasize the sweater's ability to keep out the cold, although the sweater cannot replace the leather coat in winter, but it can be matched with the leather coat, the two complement each other, and can make many people die less on the grassland in winter, so the value of the sweater is huge, and its value will not be much inferior to scissors.

After talking for a long time, Zhao Yan's mouth was about to wear out, and Gegentana finally turned around and took out a pair of rough scissors from her tent, and said: "I can only promise you to exchange this sweater for a pair of scissors, and half of all the wool to be slaughtered in the future will be given to you, will you change it?" ”

The reason why Zhao Yan strongly asked for scissors was that it was too inconvenient to cut the wool with a knife yesterday, and he almost cut the sheepskin directly several times, and even the cut wool was uneven, which seriously affected the smoothness of the follow-up process.

That's it, just a handful, it's better than nothing. Zhao Yan took the scissors and turned to leave, while Gegentana took the sweater back to her tent and looked left and right, but in the end she didn't understand how the sweater was knitted.

Time blink of an eye to the middle of September, the temperature on the grassland is getting lower and lower, especially at night, the north wind is bleak, the cold is pressing, if it is not for the knitting sweater from other Warat people in exchange for a lot of fur, Zhao Yan believes that he will definitely not sleep so sweetly at night.

"We Ming people pay attention to reciprocating the peach, thank Your Highness for giving us relative freedom, this is a sweater, the effect of cold protection and warmth is very good, specially given to His Royal Highness to protect against the cold." Zhao Yan handed the sweater in his hand to the king of the magazine, and then crackled and said a lot of advantages of the sweater.

Under Zhao Yan's guidance, the king of the competition put the sweater into the jacket, and then walked outside the tent to feel it, and then nodded and said: "The effect of cold protection is really good, but not only you know how to repay the peach." In return for the sweater you gave me, you can take this carved bow with you when you go. ”

Wang Lin's eyes lit up, he had been very uncomfortable with Temur's Mongolian riding bow, since the last time he used this carved bow of the king of Sai Magazine, he had never forgotten it, and now he had the opportunity to obtain the permanent right to use this carved bow, Wang Lin was naturally very happy.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your generosity, but I have another thing to do this time." Zhao Yan pondered for a moment and continued: "I want to go and see our Majesty the Ming Emperor. ”

King Saikan stared at Zhao Yan twice, and suddenly smiled: "I have news to tell you, your Ming Emperor has been replaced, and the original emperor has become Emperor Taishang, do you still want to see him?" ”

Zhao Yan had expected this, although he was trapped in the camp of the King of Saikan and couldn't get out, he still saw the frequent movements of the Warat army in the past month, and then compared it with the history he knew, he roughly guessed the general situation now.

With Xining as an accomplice, he first had a clear understanding of the situation in the Ming Court. He first hijacked Zhu Qizhen to extort money from the imperial court, and the treacherous and cunning ministers naturally would not fall for him, but Queen Qian of the harem was worried about her husband's safety, and sent the property of the harem, including all her jewelry, to the camp of Yexian, but she also accepted the property first, but no one let it go.

Then, at the suggestion of Xining, he also began to take Zhu Qizhen to Xuanfu and Datong respectively, trying to deceive the city gate with the help of Zhu Qizhen's identity. It's just that the guards of these two border towns are not ordinary people, how can they be easily fooled, even if the emperor is standing under the city gate? I'm sorry, it's getting late, I want to come back another day.

also took Zhu Qizhen to the Xuanfu first, and the guard of the Xuanfu was Yang Hong, known as the wise general.

When he also sent someone to call the door first, Yang Hong stood behind the city gate and shouted: "The court has a law, and it is not allowed to open the door after dark." ”