Chapter 5: Be a free and easy person

Musin was very fond of the tea ceremony with Tetsu Xingen.

He himself is very fond of tea, although he only likes the rough Poria tea bricks produced in Chang'an, which does not prevent him from drinking the fried green tea that Tie Xinyuan brought from home.

When I was a teacher with Mu Sin, I had this gift, including a tea set and a stove, but I didn't expect Mu Xin to bring these things here from thousands of miles away.

Tie Xinyuan tried to focus his attention on the tea ceremony and not listen to the conversation between Mu Xin and Meng Yuanzhi, which is a necessary quality for a good tea master.

Meng Yuanzhi also spoke a little Persian, but he didn't speak it well, he stumbled a lot of the time, and their conversation was only about the harshness of the desert and the remoteness of Persia, and they didn't mention a word about the previous topic.

The time to enjoy the tea ceremony was short, because Mu Xin wanted Tie Xinyuan to make him a pot of brick tea, the only way to make him addicted to tea.

After breaking off a piece of Poria brick tea, boiling it in a small tea jar, soon, the tea soup will become red and shiny.

Taking advantage of the time to make tea, Tie Xinyuan took out a delicate silver jar from a lacquer box next to him, in which was placed a sugar cube made of frosting.

Mu Xin took a piece of candy, closed his eyes with satisfaction, felt the sweetness brought by the sugar cube, the tea was ready, he sipped it slowly, the tea was drunk, and the sugar cube in his mouth melted away.

Then, he waved his hand, and Tie Xinyuan gave a salute and retired.

He believed that the next conversation between Mu Xin and Meng Yuanzhi must be very important, so that Mu Xin needed to drink enough tea and raise all his energy to deal with this conversation, maybe it was a negotiation!

"Who is that Song man? Do you know each other? Xu Dongsheng saw that Tie Xinyuan was back, so he couldn't wait to ask.

"Yes, but, in front of Mousin, I pretend not to know."

Xu Dongsheng immediately closed his mouth and didn't ask. Instead, he asked, "How about I arm your six retinues for you?" ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "Okay, how much?" ”

"No money!"

Tie Xinyuan looked at Xu Dongsheng seriously and said with a smile: "It costs a lot of money to arm six knights, and I am very surprised that you are doing this." ”

"Not surprisingly, you have already passed the most difficult time, you have become an apostle of the Persians, and sooner or later you will bring me greater profits."

This is why Tie Xinyuan likes to be friends with Xu Dongsheng.

A person is not afraid of being used by others, and the human relationship in this world is built by mutual use, and this use is mutual, if a person does not even have the value of use. That's a tragedy.

In addition to your parents, who can pay for you for free, Tie Xinyuan can't think of anyone else who can do this.

So when Xu Dongsheng said that he would definitely reap profits from himself in the future, he was not only not disgusted, but very relieved.

There is no way to explain Meng Yuanzhi's matter clearly to Xu Dongsheng.

Tell him it's a royal weapon?

Or tell him that this guy slept with the emperor's woman, and the Great Song Dynasty couldn't wait until he came here? It is estimated that either of these two things is a fact that Xu Dongsheng can't accept.

Of course, if Xu Dongsheng had to ask, Tie Xinyuan would tell him that he and Meng Yuanzhi had no relatives and no reason. There is no obligation to keep it a secret for him.

Now a water tower-like fountain provided enough water for the caravans, who poured out the bitter water collected from the desert springs and washed their parchment bags. Refilling with clean water to ensure that the caravan has enough water is the first element for the caravan to get out of the desert alive.

There is a dense poplar forest on the edge of the spring, and it is still winter. The leaves of those poplar forests had been stripped away, and only the strange branches were left thorning into the clear sky.

Iron one, iron two, iron three, they are collecting the dead branches of Populus euphratica. But they won't touch a single living poplar branch that still has water. Even when dead grass is collected, it is cut from the ground, not uprooted.

This way of protecting trees seems to have seeped into their blood.

The desert at sunset is magnificent, but no one hopes that the desert will one day spread across the land.

Tie Xinyuan lay in a huge cowhide pocket, moaning comfortably, and he felt that his countless pores seemed to be drinking the warm water in the cowhide pocket.

"Don't bathe in the water, don't use bath beans in your pocket."

Xu Dongsheng looked at Tie Xin, who was lying in the water, and kept yelling.

Tie Xinyuan is struggling with his long hair, and the bath beans are applied to his hair, making the hair astringent and sticky, and it is a pipe dream to want to part refreshingly.

Out of fear of lice, Tie Xin kept shouting at Tie Yi and they continued to pour hot water into their cowhide pockets until they couldn't bear it anymore.

"Lao Xu, if you have time to wait for me to take a bath, you might as well go and boil water by yourself, I don't plan to come out of here tonight."

Xu Dongsheng smiled bitterly: "It's okay, brother, I can afford to wait, I don't dare to use those cowhide pockets that the Persians have used up."

God knows why they are so fishy, and if the cowhide pockets after bathing are scalded with hot water, my God, they will smoke me to death. ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Why don't you prepare this thing?" You're not short of those two dollars. ”

Xu Dongsheng smiled bitterly: "Of course, my brother has his own bathtub, but my bathtub was given to that Song man by Elder Mu Xin. ”

"Your man......"

"They won't shower!"

Seeing that Xu Dongsheng was so pitiful, Tie Xinyuan was embarrassed to continue to enjoy it, and after barely washing it off, he jumped out of the bathtub.

Xu Dongsheng looked at the black and greasy bath water in the bathtub, poured out all the dirty water in it with a bang, and instructed his servants to quickly wash the leather bags and continue to fill the water......

Bathing is a top priority after getting out of the desert.

Tie Yi their way of bathing is very spectacular, or very tragic, they never take a hot bath, after drilling a hole with a drill on the edge of the icicle, a white and bright water column gushes out, splashing out at least ten meters away, Tie Yi put a sheepskin bag filled with water not far from the outlet, **** After the water flow through the sheepskin bag unloading, a ready-made shower head appeared.

They paid great attention to their privacy, and fenced off the bathing area with a few cowhides, and stood naked in the water below freezing, bathing happily.

Even without tongues, their screams alone are enough to scare away wolves in the Gobi Desert.

Although it was painful to take a bath like this, they seemed to enjoy it......

Xu Dongsheng covered his vital parts with a piece of hemp cloth, lay in his leather pocket and chatted with Tie Xinyuan, who had just taken a bath.

There is an iron pot hanging from the fire beside him, and the fat mutton rises and falls in the iron pot, which is a rare leisure time in the camel caravan.

Meng Yuanzhi had already inadvertently passed by Tie Xinyuan's side twice......

Xu Dongsheng took a sip of wine, and when he saw that Meng Yuanzhi was already passing by for the third time, he said to Tie Xinyuan Nunu in the direction where Meng Yuanzhi was: "Here it is again." ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "I've had enough trouble, I don't want to cause trouble anymore." ”

Xu Dongsheng said with a smile: "There are some troubles that you can't avoid, it's better to know as soon as possible, and think about how to protect yourself is the best policy." ”

Tie Xinyuan felt that what Xu Dongsheng said was reasonable, so he took half a jar of grape wine and came to Meng Yuanzhi, who was sitting on a dead tree looking at the desert in the distance.

"You seem reluctant to ignore me because I slept with the emperor's woman?"

"As long as you don't sleep with Yanguo's mother, it has nothing to do with me which one you sleep with."

Meng Yuan smiled and said, "If I want, it's not that I can't sleep with Concubine Shu." How? Are you interested in Yanguo? ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Yanguo is my woman. ”

Meng Yuan picked his thumb and said: "Good vision, there is such a good girl in the palace, you are not in Tokyo now, what should the emperor do if he marries her to someone else?" ”

"The man who wants to be a colt will die."

"You left it behind?"

"You think I'm miserable and miserable, and there is no quid pro quo?"

"You just want Yanguo?"

"I'm not Longyang, what do you want the emperor to do."

"Hahaha......" Meng Yuan laughed hysterically, and even fell from the dead tree with his stomach in his arms, falling so hard, but ignored it and continued to roll on the ground.

Tie Xinyuan wondered, was what he said so ridiculous?

"Wine!" Meng Yuanzhi, who was out of breath, lay down in the pile of rocks and asked Tie Xinyuan for wine.

Half a jar of grape wine was thrown over, Meng Yuanzhi grabbed the wine jar with two fingers like tongs, took a mouthful of grape wine, frowned, and didn't seem to like this kind of blandly wine.

"Why don't you come to the Western Regions to drink Sanle pulp?"

"Glow-in-the-dark glass ......"

"Shut up, Lao Tzu is fed up with the bird's breath of you big turbans in Tokyo, let Lao Tzu's ears be quieter now."

Inspector Tie Xinyuan craned his neck and looked at Meng Yuan, who was drinking, and said straightly: "You really regard the emperor's harem as your own?" ”

Meng Yuanzhi looked at Tie Xinyuan above his head and shook his head a little sadly: "No, I just met a good woman."

I was impulsive, hurt me, and ruined her. ”

Looking at the painful Meng Yuan, Tie Xinyuan snorted and laughed.

Meng Yuanzhi was furious, his lying body suddenly stood upside down, and with a heavy kick, he kicked the dead wood that was thousands of catties in the air, along with Tie Xinyuan.

Without waiting for Tie Xinyuan to scream, he was caught by Meng Yuanzhi, who flew up, from mid-air, and carried it aside by the collar, and the thick dead tree smashed into two pieces in the rocks with a bang.

"If you can't tell Lao Tzu anything ridiculous today, Lao Tzu will break your neck."

Tie Xinyuan's face turned white with fright, and he looked at the dead wood that was broken in two and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "If it was for other women, I would definitely not be able to laugh, and I would praise you for being a good man, if it was for the woman Dolma, I still want to laugh now." ”

"Have you seen Dolma?"

"He's my brother's woman, how could I not know him?"

"Nonsense!"

"What nonsense am I talking about, count the days, it's time for her to give birth to my brother!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 1