Chapter 112: Who said there were no reinforcements?

Four camels were lost, the length of the caravan was reduced considerably, and the dead were left to be exposed to the wind and sun.

The wind here is so strong that it can scrape away the ground layer by layer, and Ibrasin's grave is dug very shallowly, according to Xu Dongsheng, when he returns home next year, he will be able to use Ibrasin's bones as a road sign.

"Life is so fragile, like autumn dew, like a cicada, like a mayfly, like a meteor, like a firefly ......"

Sitting high on a camel, Musin celebrates the shortness of life in poetic language.

Tie Xinyuan always felt that Mu Xin seemed to have an almost perverted fondness for death.

This can be felt from the sound of his chanting, there is no sadness in the scriptures, and after letting Mu Xin interpret it in a nasal voice, he even has an inexplicable sense of joy.

When a person dies, he should grieve.

Although there are many inexplicable people in Chinese history who beat the table and beat drums at their parents' funerals to celebrate, and even regard the death of their companions as a relief.

Tie Xinyuan still couldn't get used to it, so he found a piece of wood and wrote his name and inserted it in Ibrasin's grave.

The stakes are very sturdy, and from a distance they look like a huge road sign.

Tie Xinyuan decided that he would do this for every person who died in the team in the future, but he didn't know if the number of people in the caravan would allow him to nail the stake all the way to distant Persia.

The air was filled with the smell of dust, and Tie Xinyuan had to wrap himself tightly again.

At this time, what he wanted most was to be able to take a hot bath.

Musin was a wise man with great perseverance, and even the presence of lice in his beard did not affect his majesty in the slightest.

People are sleepy and tired......

Musin carried a lot of books with him, including two camels.

There are not only a lot of Great Song books, but also a lot of Arabic books.

Ever since he was able to get to know some simple Arwen, Tie Xinyuan had been reading these books, and he never thought of the contents of these books. The most are books on mathematics and medicine, one of which is called "Geometric Originals", for which Tie Xinyuan knows very well.

Using the geometry of later generations to confirm this ancient classic, this made Tie Xinyuan's Arwen progress very quickly.

When Tie Xinyuan and Mu Sing began to discuss the problem of conic curves in the book.

Mu Xin took a serious look at Tie Xinyuan for the first time, and discussed this issue with Tie Xinyuan for three whole days, and finally Elder Mu Xin found that after this discussion, he had made a new discovery in his cognition of the cone.

Tie Xinyuan didn't want to say that he couldn't stand Mu Sin's lengthy and cumbersome way of solving, a way of solving the surface area of a cone. In any case, it didn't take three days to understand, so he ended the conversation with a simple formula. "Elder, why don't we enter Zhangye City?"

Mu Xin looked at Tie Xinyuan dotingly and smiled: "If we don't enter the city, it means that we don't want to cause trouble."

The Gansu military division of the Tangut people was too powerful, so if they could not contact it, they should not contact it. ”

"We are so strong, why can't we have a better reception? I really want to take a shower. ”

Mu Xin looked at Tie Xinyuan's innocent eyes and smiled: "My child, bear with me a little longer, and after we leave Zhangye, we will find a place with a hot spring and have a good rest." Setting up a strong enemy at will is not the choice of a wise man. ”

Tie Xinyuan's face was a little broken, but he still thanked Mu Xin obediently and returned to his tent.

Mu Xin looked at Tie Xinyuan who was leaving, and the smile on his face became more and more intense.

When Xia Zhu told him. When Tie Xinyuan was a prodigy, he scoffed.

In his opinion, knowledge needs to be accumulated and precipitated, and there is no one in this world who is born to know.

Even if there is a teenager who is very good at a certain aspect, it is just the product of a flash of inspiration.

He prefers to be a boy who becomes a knowledgeable person after studying hard rather than a prodigy.

From the first glance of seeing the source of iron. He found that this young man was really very different from other teenagers, whether it was change or courage, he was almost the best choice.

After leaving Tokyo. He gave Tie Xinyuan almost the most demanding education.

As a result, he found that this young man, both in memory and comprehension, was completely beyond his expectations.

Especially when this kid stumbled with himself debating "Geometric Original", it gave him a great shock.

If it weren't for the fact that the position of the old man in the mountain was too important, he even wanted to take this young man to the Kaaba and concentrate on teaching him all kinds of knowledge, so that he could become a new generation of wise elders.

In his opinion, no matter how cunning Tie Xinyuan is, after being far away from his own clan and family, the immaturity he shows now is the true face of this child.

Xu Dongsheng was frying sand in an iron pot, and after a while, there was a pile of hot sand in the tent.

Tie Xinyuan stripped naked, holding the hot sand and rubbing it back and forth on his body quickly.

It was very comfortable to do this, the hot sand washed with water, ironing the skin, and after a while, Tie Xinyuan's whole body was red and steaming.

When he put on his clean clothes again, he felt as if his whole body had lost half a pound.

Except that the sand in the hair is not easy to remove, it is an extremely pleasant sand bath.

Xu Dongsheng reheated the sand, and covered Tie Xinyuan's clothes in the hot sand, and after the sand cooled down, these clothes could be worn as clean clothes.

Xu Dongsheng did the same thing himself, when two refreshed people were sitting on the edge of the fire in old leather jackets and eating naan pit meat, Tie Xinyuan asked Xu Dongsheng in a low voice: "Is there any wine?" ”

Xu Dongsheng said expressionlessly: "We are not allowed to drink alcohol in the teachings, so let's drink some water." ”

As he spoke, he handed Tie Xinyuan a delicate flat copper kettle, Tie Xinyuan took it, took a sip, his eyes lit up suddenly, and then he began to pour it violently.

Xu Dongsheng took back the copper kettle and put it in his arms, and continued to lower his head to eat the roasted naan pit meat that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

"The water, it's delicious, it's just a little little."

Xu Dongsheng said with emotion: "It's time to relax now, when the last old man in the mountains was there, there were no less than three hundred people who died for this kind of water. ”

Tie Xinyuan pointed to Mu Xin, who was sitting alone in front of a fire and eating, and said, "Why does he always like to be alone?" ”

"That's what a wise man looks like."

"Lao Xu, since you have such a convenient trade route, why do you want to be a thief?"

Xu Dongsheng shook his head and said: "The profit is not as big as you think, maybe there was such a profit in the past, but now, there is no more."

Since the emergence of the city ship division in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, it is much more convenient for boats to travel by sea than camels.

Moreover, the carrying capacity of a ship far exceeds that of the camel caravan, and we can't compare to the sea with the same cargo. ”

Tie Xinyuan patted the heavy cargo box on the camel's back and said, "So the bulk of your profits now is not to transport goods from Persia to the Great Song Dynasty, but to transport goods from the Great Song Dynasty to Persia?" ”

Xu Dongsheng nodded and said: "That's it, this time thirty percent of the goods are actually your family's dirty clothes." ”

Tie Xinyuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "How much do you have to pay tribute to the old man in the mountains every year?" ”

Xu Dongsheng made a figure-eight gesture, and then continued to lower his head and nibble on the naan cake with meat.

"It's too ruthless."

Xu Dongsheng looked up at Tie Xinyuan and said, "Don't provoke, I don't dare to resist them, even if they take them all, I won't say anything." ”

"Why? You're a hero, too. ”

Xu Dongsheng shook his head gloomily and said: "The heroes in this world have seen a lot, and they think they are the number one person, but when they fall into the hands of the old man in the mountains, the hero immediately becomes a bear."

Iron-beaten men can't stand the torture of purgatory.

To tell you one thing, if you really offend the old man in the mountains, don't hesitate to commit suicide at the first opportunity. ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded, which means that he listened to Xu Dongsheng's words.

"I heard that there are still our Han remnants in the desert?"

Xu Dongsheng pointed to the northwest and said: "Yes, the Weichi family, they later changed their surname to Li, and the lord of the country is called Li Shengtian. ”

Tie Xinyuan said in surprise: "You actually know? How are they doing now? ”

Xu Dongsheng laughed sneeringly, then slammed his fist on the ground and said, "What else?" A group of aliens surround you, always trying to kill you.

Li Shengtian and his son Li De could only fight, even if they defeated the surrounding small states, even if they defeated the Chinese governor of Karakhan, killed four imams, and beheaded 40,000 of Karakhan's soldiers.

So what? One family is defeated, and the other family comes to beat you, and every year you fight, even an iron man will be smashed into pieces of iron by the hammer of others.

Li De did not look forward to the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty until he died in the war, and now, the country of Khotan is gone, and a cadre of Li De's subordinates is now scattered in the barren mountains and mountains struggling to survive.

It is estimated that in a few years, it will be dead. ”

Tie Xinyuan spread out the map and asked Xu Dongsheng to point out the current location of the group.

Xu Dongsheng casually pressed a mimeograph on the south side of the Tarim Basin with his grease-stained thumb and said: "It should be here, and when it comes to the beginning of spring next year, Karakhani will launch a new attack, and this time even the yellow-headed Uighurs will not be spared." ”

Tie Xinyuan put away the map and said to Xu Dongsheng: "Their reinforcements have actually come.

Xu Dongsheng smiled: "Sows will go to the tree? ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "Pigs really go up to trees, my mother saw it with her own eyes when there was a big flood." ”

"Where?" Xu Dongsheng put away his smile and asked seriously.

"Here!" Tie Xinyuan cocked his thumb and pointed at his chest. (To be continued.) )

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