Chapter 33: The Legend of Pegasus

"There is a princess of the Otsuki clan named Meria, who is very beautiful.

Legend has it that when Meria was born, the glow covered the snowy mountains, and the tips of the mountains were golden.

All the cattle and sheep bowed down to the snowy mountains, even the rivers on the steppe began to flow backwards, and all the birds in the sky gathered around Meria's mother's tent, quietly waiting for Meria's birth.

When Meria's father walked out of the tent with Meria in his arms, there was a roar in the snowy mountains, and the backward river resumed its original flow, and the cattle and sheep on the grassland began to graze again, and the birds, after circling around Meria three times, scattered in all directions.

The king of the Otsuki clan believed that the child was a supreme treasure bestowed on him by the god of the Great Snow Mountain, so he named Meria after her.

Merial lived up to expectations, and as the child grew older, she became more beautiful and beautiful, her body scented, her hair was silky, her skin was fairer than milk, and her voice was more graceful than a lark.

Countless kings sent their most loyal courtiers to the Otsuki clan in place of their best princes, carrying the most precious gifts.

Each of the emissaries wanted to exchange the most precious treasure of their country for the most beloved treasure of the Otsuki Clan.

Neither a jewel like the sun, nor a gold that could fill fifteen treasuryes, nor a horse that could catch up, nor a sword that cut stones as easily as sheepskins, could make the noble Otsuki King agree to marry his beloved Meria, to any of their princes......

Let me drink my saliva......" Sima Qian took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, shook the parchment scroll in his hand, and prepared to continue reading this magical story.

"You mean that the female corpse inside that bronze coffin is this beautiful Meria?"

Yun Lang asked in some surprise.

Sima Qian said dissatisfiedly: "Do you still want to hear the story?" ”

Su Zhi, who was holding a pot of mash and drinking, also glared at Yun Lang, she was listening attentively.

Yun Lang smiled and raised his hand to signal Sima Qian to continue.

"Meria is the daughter of the god of the Great Snow Mountain, and only a hero as strong as an eagle and a king as heroic as a white wolf can be worthy of her.

The King of the Otsuki clan will always say this to all suitors.

The name of Meria's beauty spread throughout the Gobi......

The mighty king from the east, when he heard the name of Meria, sent his most loyal and intelligent courtiers to the Otsuki clan, with ninety-nine white camels, ninety-nine red camels, ninety-nine black mares, and ninety-nine white stallions, to ask the great king of the Otsuki clan.

The king of the Otsuki clan still told the wise messenger that only a hero as strong as an eagle and a king as heroic as a white wolf could match the beautiful Meria. ”

Cao Xiang couldn't help it when he heard this, and opened his mouth and said: "The king of the Great Moon Clan just wants to marry Meria to Mao Dun, but he hypocritically refuses to admit it, looking at the Western Regions of Nuoda, only Mao Dun can afford the two conditions that the King of the Great Moon Clan said." ”

Sima Qian glared at Cao Xiang, he finally sorted out this story, this group of people has so many mouths!

"The wise messenger told the king of the Great Moon clan that the king of the east had an army of a million men and a thousand cattle and sheep, and that the land he ruled ran from east to west, and even the most vigorous horses ran for half a year.

If any king dared to be more powerful than the great Xiongnu king, the soldiers of the Xiongnu with a hundred thousand people would like to see it.

The great king of the Great Moon clan reluctantly told the envoy of the king of the Huns that back then, Meria had sworn that only the warriors who captured the Pegasus were qualified to marry her, and if there was no hero in the world who could capture the Pegasus, Meria would rather return the beauty given by the god of the snow-capped mountains to the great god of the snow-capped mountains! ”

When Yun Lang heard this, his face was as cold as water...... The second division general took Tianma for Liu Che, which was the most money-losing deal made by the Great Han Kingdom......

Yun Lang snatched the parchment scroll from Sima Qian's hand and threw it into the fire, and in Sima Qian's exclamation, the parchment scroll was swallowed up by the fire.

"What are you going to do?" Sima Qian jumped to his feet and asked.

The rest of the people also looked at Yun Lang puzzled, everyone was obviously listening to the story well, and they didn't understand why he was crazy.

Yun Lang opened his mouth, but still said helplessly: "The people of the Dayue clan do not have Tianma, and Tianma belongs to the Wusun Kingdom and the Dawan Kingdom.

Legend has it that there is a wild horse under the Tianshan Mountain, no one can catch up with it when it runs, no matter how the people of Wusun and Dawan trap it are always unsuccessful.

So later, the Dawan people came up with a way to drive the herds of estrus mares to the places where the Pegasi often appear, and then find the mares back after the Pegasus estrus period is over, so that they get the Pegasus foal.

The king of the Otsuki clan coveted the Pegasus, so he made up a story about his beautiful daughter, hoping to use the might of the Huns to force the Dawan Kingdom to sacrifice the Pegasus to them.

Later, the king of the Otsuki clan really achieved his goal, so there was a Yanyu horse and a Wusun horse.

The bronze coffin contained nothing more than a Mao Dun's Yan clan, a woman that Mao Dun exchanged for a heavenly horse, whether it was a martyrdom is unknown, anyway, what was said on that parchment scroll was all nonsense! ”

"Then you don't have to burn my parchment, it's been a long time for me to figure out the Persian script on it.

Well, now you've burned it to the ground. ”

Sima Qian was indignant.

Yun Lang looked at Sima Qian in surprise and said, "You can actually know Persian characters?" ”

Sima Qian scoffed: "I only know that there is Persian in January, I can read it in April, and I can write it in July, why is it difficult?" ”

Yun Lang wanted to scold people very much, but he didn't expect that there was such a thing as a scholar in the Han Dynasty.

"Are there Persians in Chang'an?"

Sima Qian let out a sneer in his mouth, and then looked at Yun Lang with disdain and said: "Persia is 14,600 miles away from my Han Dynasty, how can there be a possibility that Persians will come to my Han Dynasty."

It's just that Da Yue, Wusun, and Dawan paid tribute to my Han four years ago, and there happened to be scholars who knew Persian writing among the envoys, and I happened to be in Chang'an with my father at that time, so I lived next door to the envoys, and I felt that the Persian script was quite interesting, and I learned this kind of writing in a few months.

I want to ask you, how do you know these secrets of Wusun and Dawan? ”

"I'm from the mountain gate!"

Whenever Yun Lang couldn't justify himself, he would use the mountain gate to talk about things.

"So, the Tenma thing is true?"

"Yes! It is said that that kind of horse is called sweat and blood horse, and it is common to travel thousands of miles in a day and 800 at night. ”

Cao Xiang jumped up violently and said, "Can we get such a war horse?" ”

Yun Lang looked at Cao Xiang excitedly and smiled bitterly: "Levy 300,000 soldiers, and then carry 200,000 people, prepare more than 5 million loads of military rations, and bring no less than 300,000 head of livestock, maybe you can go to Dawan Country and retrieve Tianma." ”

Cao Xiang was speechless: "Isn't this sick?" Who would do that? ”

Yun Lang really wanted to say that His Majesty the Emperor did this, and it was when the people of the Han Dynasty were poor and barren that he sent the Second Division General to do this, and he did it twice before he got Tianma.

It is very immoral to blame others with things that they haven't done yet, and hearing Cao Xiang say this, Yun Lang has no other way than to sigh.

Sima Qian looked at Yunlang strangely, and no longer made a sound, but Su Zhi urged Sima Qian to finish this beautiful story.

Sima Qian said with a smile: "The later things are logical, the Hun King Mao Dun married Meria, the heroes and beauties complement each other, and it is said that the life is very happy." ”

Su Zhi pouted and said, "There are more than two hundred clans in Maodun, where can Meria be happy!" ”

Cao Xiang echoed: "The story of deceiving fools! ”

Sima Qian stood up, looked at Huo Quzhi, who was standing on Diao Dou and looking at Baishan Mountain from afar, with his hands behind his back, and sighed: "After coming to Baishanshan, I like this story more and more, even if it sounds untrue, it can warm people's hearts. ”

Yun Lang also stood up, looked at the bonfire of the Huns outside the bridgehead, and sighed: "We can't deceive ourselves, with the existence of these people outside, we don't dare to deceive ourselves, and we can't deceive, after all, it can't be fake, and it can't be fake."

After the story is told, the dream will wake up, or hold the sword and prepare for battle, only one of the Han and the Huns can stand under this sky! ”