Xiao's generous help, was recognized by the old man, when everyone was talking happily, the sound of the sheep bleating suddenly sounded outside the yurt, and the unique howl of the grassland boy like a wolf, resounded throughout the four fields, several little milk babies immediately rushed out with joy, and the old man also stood up happily and said: "Thank you Kunlun God, my children have come back safe and sound......

The children the old man spoke of were indeed a group of children, and as far as the eye could see, about a hundred sheep were driven by a dozen children, and the children had only a few old horses to ride, and the rest were running on the ground like wild wolves, each with a weapon in his hand, a horse club, a wooden fork, and a whip, and only the eldest child had a scimitar in his hand, and he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the rest were little radish heads in their early tens, but they had already taken on the heavy responsibility of herding horses and sheep, and these jobsIt should be the strongest men in the tribe who should bear it.

Seeing the stranger come to their yurt, the children were a little nervous, and they all picked up the weapons in their hands, obviously they lived in fear all the year round, but fortunately, the old man came forward to resolve these, and the car suddenly obtained goods, made them even more ecstatic!

"Old man, are these all your people?" Looking at these ragged children grazing, Xiao Yi didn't have to think about it to know that the middle-aged men in the tribe must have gone to the battlefield, and then turned into piles of dry bones, using their own flesh and blood to nourish this grassland.

"No, that's just part of it, and there are some girls who go to the river to dig wild vegetables!" With a long sigh, the old man's eyes were full of grievances, these children were his last concern, the sky was ruthless, but people were affectionate!

"Fat Liu, set up a pot and boil porridge!" With Xiao Yi's brief order, the firehead soldier Fat Liu immediately took down his treasure of the town army--- big black pot from the car, the five-foot-wide big iron pot can boil dozens of people's meals at a time, and the polished rice brought from the Central Plains is a rare delicacy on the grassland.

When more than a dozen little girls with the same yellow muscles and thin muscles returned with mud and some wild vegetables, the rice porridge was almost boiled, and with the old man greeting, the children who had been hungry for a long time pounced like little wolf cubs, you have a bowl, I eat a bowl of non-stop, it seems that they have not eaten a full meal for a long time.

The herdsmen seem to have a lot of cattle and sheep, but they can really use very little to eat, because they must maintain a certain base for the sheep to reproduce, plus the grassland is constantly plagued, 'black plague, white plague, drought, wolf plague, and other tribes' looting', any one of them may leave them with nothing overnight!

Therefore, ordinary herders usually feed on wild vegetables and milk, and only occasionally hunt prey can they eat a little meat; Just like the farmers in the Central Plains, they worked hard for a year to farm and collect grain, but in the end, their family had to eat bran vegetables, and they often couldn't eat, and the grain and rice they grew were to be looted away by the upper nobles!

'Salt sellers drink light soup, and weave mats to sleep in a bare bed!' 'This is true both inside and outside the Great Wall!

"Ahh Today, when we were grazing outside, we found unfamiliar hoof prints, just around our pasture, it is likely that people from other tribes are peeking at our flock! The eldest boy approached and reported today's findings like an old man, with a worried look in his eyes.

The tribes on the grassland often rob and steal from each other, people are not ashamed of this, they are just for the needs of survival, many herdsmen are honest herds during the day, and they are very kind, and at night they become robbers, killing people everywhere and setting fires, and they can transform freely between the two occupations, which is already their habit of life.

"Young man, thank you for your generosity, it's a pity that something is going to happen tonight, the old man won't leave you behind, it's better to leave here early while it's not too late, and find a safe place to camp!" The old man stepped forward on crutches and persuaded Xiao Yi and the others to leave early, for fear that the disputes on the grassland would affect them.

"Where is the vast grassland? Please stay with us for one night! Xiao Yi didn't seem to understand the old man's advice, insisted on staying here, and picked up a youngest baby to tease him, he has always liked the children, not to mention that he also found that although these children are also dressed on the grassland, they don't look like the Huns, the Huns are generally shorter, stout, although they are also yellow, but the face is flat, the eyes are small, and the Central Plains Han people are very different.

But he has carefully checked these little milk babies, all of them have wide skeletons, they will not be too short when they grow up, and the bridge of the nose is high, the eyes are big, although there are also some characteristics on the grassland, but they are still more like the Central Plains, Xiao Yi can be sure that these children have Han blood, and he must protect the same people.

"Alright! Xiao Langjun has a heart, since you insist on this, then you will keep vigil with the old man tonight! There's so much I can talk to you about! The old man looked at Xiao Yi, glanced at Da Niu and Xiao Bin again, and finally nodded, obviously he also saw that these people were not ordinary people, with them, they would be more sure of dealing with robbers!

Autumn days are very short on the grassland, and when the last rays of the sun roll down the horizon, the night envelops the place, and the grassland at night is different from the day, the day is a sea of joy for the herdsmen, and the night is a paradise for the robbers!

Xiao Yi and the others did not set up another tent, but stayed in three yurts, Xiao Yi, Da Niu, and Xiao Bin each held one, and Fat Liu was preparing supper for the children, and the children who had never eaten at night were happily waiting by the pot, food was always the most attractive thing to them, and some of the older ones were clinging to the four corners of the yurt, and the weapons in their hands were never put down for a moment.

The long night was long, and it was the time to chat about the wine and talk about the world, a pot of wine, a little bit of game smoked yesterday, Xiao Yat and the lame old man began their exchange.

"Young man, are you curious about the origin of our people, why do these children not look like Huns, but like you Han?" The old man's eyes were very wise, and he directly asked Xiao Yi's doubts.

"That's right, in this place deep into the grassland, I can see the bloodline of my Han family, which really makes Zai Xia very surprised! Could it be that all these people of yours came here from the Han land? But ...... "Xiao Yi is really puzzled, these people are too strange, they have the blood of the Han family, but they are authentic grassland people in terms of living habits, this is not something that can be cultivated in a day or two, obviously they have lived here for a long time, even several generations, they are like some seeds of the Han family, but they were accidentally sprinkled on the grassland, and as a result, they took root and sprouted, and these strange flowers bloomed.

"Huh! That young man is the grandson of the old man, named Li Hu! The old man pointed to the eldest child and said, indeed, the child named Li Hu has some similarities with the old man between his eyebrows and eyes, "The old man is also surnamed Li, there are many children here whose surname is Li, and the rest are also descendants of the Han family......

"Surname Li? Han Chinese, but living in the Xiongnu? With a movement of his eyebrows, Xiao Yi seemed to think of something.

"Have you ever heard of the old story of Han and Li Ling?"

"Shhh …… Li Ling's old things! Naturally, Xiao Yat knew this story, not because of how knowledgeable he was, but because it was so famous that people still talked about it hundreds of years later.

Li Ling, Han nationality, is the grandson of Li Guang, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, who is good at riding and shooting, loves soldiers, and is quite famous. In the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, he was ordered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to go out to conquer the Xiongnu, led 5,000 infantry deep into the grassland, and fought with 80,000 elite cavalry of the Xiongnu in Junji Mountain.

After Li Ling was forced to surrender, he originally planned to wait for the opportunity to return to Han, but because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty misheard the false rumor that Li Ling was training for the Xiongnu, he was angry and wiped out the three tribes of Li Ling; Completely cut off Li Ling's dream of returning to Hande, had to stay on the grassland, the Xiongnu Shan Yu admired Li Ling's courage very much, and married his daughter to him as his wife, and also canonized him as the 'right school king', and was endlessly favored, this is the famous Li Ling's old thing!

Some people sympathized with Li Ling's experience, thinking that he had done his best in that situation, but it was a pity that providence made people and finally became a tragic figure; Some people also scolded Li Ling for having no integrity, treason and defection to the enemy, is it so difficult to die as soon as he dies? …… Such a controversy began from the moment Li Ling surrendered to the Xiongnu, and it has never been broken for hundreds of years, and it is estimated that it will be debated for thousands more years......

"That's right, the old man and the others are the descendants of General Li Ling left on the grassland!" The old man sighed, and finally said his life experience, when Li Ling surrendered with 3,000 remnants, he married Hu Nu on the grassland, took root, and formed a special group, they are the descendants of the Han people, and have always retained the surname of the Han people, but they have the blood of the Huns, and live a nomadic life of the grassland people.

It can be said that they are a group of poor people, and the Han people regard them as traitors, traitors, and they have never forgiven them in the history books; The Huns regarded them as captives, outsiders, bullying **** everywhere, they were struggling to survive in the gap between the two groups, and they were struggling to survive, and they were boiling for hundreds of years!