POV4 Twilight Rain
"Sister, take it easy! Our big black horse is already faster than the other horses when it goes uphill, so don't try to pinch it on the stomach now! β
His nagging rang in her ears again, but she paid no attention to it and continued to gallop forward.
"If your name is translated into Chinese, it really has a special style! Yamu Qiga - the rain at night...... 'The concubine is in the sun of Wushan, the obstruction of the high hills, Dan is the morning clouds, and the twilight is the rain. Morning and twilight, ...... under the balcony', all these years, in my heart, I have been quietly calling you 'twilight rain'......"
That night, for the first time, he took her into his arms, whispering to himself in her ear, his rough lips brushing over her ears from time to time......
Remembering the whispers of that night, her earlobes began to heat again......
It was still cold in February, and the wind crept through the cracks in the mink, eroding the rider's cheeks like a gossamer. But the weather had begun to warm, and the big black horse struggled forward in the belly-length snow, and the strong horse's chest ploughed open the hard snow shell, and the snow under the snow shell had gradually melted, and the sticky snow foam scattered and flew in all directions, causing a ripple of snow waves.
The snow waves of the black horse stretched to the ridge and then plunged into a gentle open field, and at this time the sable black horse's Zhanghuta Yamuziga, or to put it another way, Zhanghuta Duyu, had surpassed the other riders and became the arrow that protruded from the loose riding line.
"Master, you are really tough! Get..... Hurry up and pick up the bow! Don't use Que Yue arrows, use sharp arrows! Don't be afraid of anything else, be careful not to let the wild boar return to your top and fall off your horse! He continued to whisper in her ear.
This time, Twilight Yu did not hesitate, and pulled the riding bow out of his bag according to his words, and mounted a three-edged armor-piercing arrow. The three fingers pinch the tail of the arrow, and the tiger bone wrench on the thumb sets up the bowstring.
Sure enough, as soon as his words fell, two male wild boars with vicious fangs sprang out of the snow bills, snorting white gas from their mouths, and attacked her one after the other.
"Shoot the first! Aim for the left shoulder blade! β
Twilight leaned forward slightly, let the head of the horse pull the bow, the sharp arrow burst through the air, the sharp arrow pierced through the thick skin of the wild boar's pine resin, separated the muscles, grazed the shoulder blades, and finally nailed into the beating heart of the giant beast, three iron edges cut through the dense veins, and the wild boar snorted and fell crookedly in front of the hunter's horse.
At this point, it was too late to draw her bow again and shoot the remaining boar that was close to her. Twilight threw her bow and gripped the reins tightly with both hands.
There was a loud bang, and the fangs of the wild boar collided with the chest armor worn by the black horse. The black horse was not ambiguous, raising the hooves of the horse as big as a small pot and kicking forward, and the menacing wild boar kicked three or five meters away.
The wild boar rolled in the snow a few times, and was about to struggle to get up, when it was hit by three feathered arrows at the same time, and the four hooves kicked a few times and then did not move.
"Twilight rain! It's been so long! Can you not 'do' anymore! β
Amma galloped from behind, reattaching arrows to her riding bow as she struck her daughter on the top of the head with her whip.
"Get out of the back of here!|" Amma yelled.
Without saying a word, Twilight leaned down from his horse, picked up his bow, and watched the line of loose riders gallop past him.
"You, you've made Niu Lu really angry again! Listen to the words of adults, let's honestly hang around the back, this time it is okay to shoot an arrow through a wild boar in Chunwei! His voice was full of pampering.
"Does this sound familiar? Less than a mile to the east is where I painted for you for the first time! Remember? It's been 5 years! β
"It's been five years...... Twilight muttered.
The wind blew from the foothills on the eastern side, and fine snow foam fell on her long eyelashes, and she stretched out her fingers curled in the sleeves of the horseshoe to brush away the snow foam in front of her, but her vision was still blurry, oh, it was a tear......
The spring cold was steep, and before the teardrops could slip off her eyelashes, they instantly condensed into frost and snow in front of her eyes......
"Damn snow foam!" She cursed angrily, and then tried to melt the tears that had gathered on her eyelids with more hot tears......
"The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but Zhu Yan has changed."
Unconsciously, she silently recited this peaceful sentence.
Lately, she has been staring silently at the painting made of charcoal strips on a film of birch trees. It was the second painting he had painted for her.
Sometimes, she felt that the girl in the portrait was the same as her own mirror image in the bronze sword snatched from the high freshness of the home. Sometimes, she felt that the faces of the people in the paintings were so unfamiliar......
As the years go by, the lines and dots left by the charcoal pen become lighter and fainter, and one day, these paintings will be completely obliterated by time. At that time, will you still be able to remember the once young twilight?
"I didn't expect you, a little minion, to have this ability! And forgive you for the big sin of stealing Miss Picture Book last time! Today, if you paint a good picture of the master, you also know that Miss Ben has a poor memory, and with your painting, when I am old, I will not forget what I looked like when I was young! β
That bright spring day, just like the bright smile of the twilight rain in the past. As soon as the fiery Jindalee fell from the branches, the pink apricot blossoms leaped into the blue sky. A light smile bloomed in the corners of the eyes of the twilight rain, decorating the spring color of the northland......
At some point, the charcoal bar in his hand began to tremble slowly, and his breathing gradually became a little short......
"It's been so long...... Come, sister, see if the painting is good, and if the painting is done, the owner will be rewarded......" Twilight slowly walked to his side, looked sideways at the birch skin membrane in his hand, and a strand of hair slid down her sideburns, and the strands of hair gently swept across his face and fell down his neck.
With just a strand of hair, Twilight still felt the tremors coming from him.
"Am I really that pretty?" She tilted her head slightly to stare into his eyes.
"As you can see......" he replied softly......
"Next time you go to Gaoxian, you can find a bronze jian for the master! I also want to try the Han family style of 'when the window is cloudy sideburns and the mirror decal yellow'! β
"Okay, I'll do my best to ......"
A high-pitched shout washed away the memories, and the northern twilight spring of the four fields disappeared like a cloud of smoke, and the twilight rain returned to the cold wind outside the Guanwai winter in front of us.
The hunting party had already closed the herd in a small col at the end of the flatland.
Twilight took a deep breath, and the cold chill instantly dispelled the tears from the corners of her eyes...... His voice faded away......
"Whew!" Zhanghuta Twilight Rain roared, the black horse under his crotch was refreshed, and spread his hooves and ran forward, at this time, the snow field was obviously full of other riders' good slopes, but the black horse just bypassed these paths, and continued to use his chest to break through layers of weathered snow shells......
"This horse is the same as his master!" A tall young hunter dressed in a wolf's skin muttered as he spread his bowstring.
"Veheda, I miss the bear too...... Let's give him a bowl when I go back to drink tonight!" A thin young hunter sighed when he heard his companion's muttering.
"Another bowl of roe deer hoof tendons, I already knew...... I won't grab the last bowl of roe hoof tendons with the big bear that time......" Another short man also hooked up.
"Yes, you must eat and drink well when you go back tonight! I heard that the Ning people are sending troops to rush to the outside of the pass, and Ning Gong Tebeile is going to take our Ning Gong Special Lianggu Mountain army south to help in the battle this time, and Da Xiong is the first of us...... In the future...... We can't tell when we can ......
Drink! Open up tonight to drink! I, Weheda, will die if I die on the battlefield, anyway, my family has the care of you who didn't die! If you don't die, you will continue to earn your future! The tall man in a wolf's skin said loudly.
"Whew!" Everyone shouted in response, and a rain of swords shot into the herd.
Driven by the crowd to the herd of beasts in the mountain col, the genus of roe deer fell to their knees in the snow nest with arrows in their wailing; The wolves and wild boars formed a beast formation and tried to break through several times, but they were all shot back by the millet hunters on the mountain, and soon they were completely reduced to trapped beasts in the cage, and then they were shot down one by one like roe deer and deer. In the end, all that remained in the encirclement was a roaring colorful tiger.
"God bless!" The leading Niu Lu Erzhen, that is, Ama of the twilight rain, groaned. More than 30 men who had been approved for heavy armor lined up in a half-moon-shaped straggler line and slowly stepped forward. Among them, half of them were armed with "tiger spears" more than a foot long, half of them were holding large shields nearly one person high, and behind them were more than 20 archers on horses.
On weekdays, the Suya people respect the Tazhou tiger who dominates the snow field, and they are not even allowed to say the word "tiger" directly when they enter the mountain. Instead, he is called "Grandpa the Mountain God", but this respect does not conflict with daily hunting.
The tiger walks alone in the wilderness, it is difficult to find its trace, and it is not hunted every time it hunts, so the tiger skin and tiger bones are very precious. In the past, a good tiger skin could be exchanged for 300 catties of wrought iron with the trade edict issued by the Daning government. Therefore, in order not to hurt the tiger's fur during hunting, the way the Su people hunted tigers was different from when they hunted wolf deer.
The hunters walked down the mountain col through the snow, slowly approaching the stone wall where the tiger was retreating, and every step the hunters took forward, there would be a sonorous sound on their bodies - each of them was wearing a double layer of heavy armor at this time, and a layer of close to the body was a very densely woven chain mail, and outside the chain mail, there was also a piece of iron cotton armor - more than a dozen layers of cotton were superimposed on each other, wrapped in pieces of iron armor, and the outermost layer was embedded with rows of copper nails.
The armor worn by the people was different from the old and new, but it was no different in form from the armor worn by the Daning border armyβthe origin of the armor was self-explanatory, and it is not known whether it was the proceeds of trade or captured from the battle formation.
The sticky snow of early spring moistened everyone's armor, and when the cold wind blew, a layer of "ice armor" formed on the outside of the armor. With the heavy footsteps of the hunters, the ice armor continued to break, peel, and re-condense, and in the crackling and sonorous sound, the tiger roared angrily and wanted to pounce on the crowd several times, but was shot back with a condescending rain of swords by the horse archers behind the march. After a few futile attempts, the tiger was imprisoned within a semicircle with a radius of seven or eight feet, with a dense spear tip in front of him and a towering stone wall like a knife behind him.
The tiger roared and roared, sometimes waving its claws, sometimes opening its mouth, or prostrating to fight men, or leaping up and making a pounce, but under the threat of the shield wall and the guns, several attempts were in vain.
At this time, the tiger must have fallen into a deep remorse, regretting why he did not rise up and jump out in one go before the encirclement was completed, but with the beasts, the courage and momentum were squeezed out little by little by this noose that gradually formed......
The tiger roared as it swept the eyes of the hunter behind the shield wall with its sharp eyes, hoping to find the weakest gaze and use it as a breakthrough to fight to the death, but it found that every pair of eyes it faced was generally determined and cold......
Suddenly, a feathered arrow silently pierced through the cluster of guns, and the tiger's gaze penetrated its bronze bell-like eyes, and the sharp arrow sank into the tiger's brain. The tiger howled and fell into the dust......
Amid the cheers of the crowd, Twilight Amma flicked the horse's hoof sleeves and neatly put the stiff bow of the bowstring into her bow sac.
The frozen peony (bending) Ula (river) meanders forward in the snowfield, after passing through the majestic sea of Kuhan, the river channel is more and more stretched, and the only straight section of the river is like a dagger straight into the basin between the twin peaks of Lao Ye Ling and Shagen Cailing, at this moment, the warm sunset caresses the silent mountain top of Shagen Cailing, shines into the ice ridge that protrudes on the river surface, and reflects the people who gallop on it brilliantly and brightly.
The laden hunting party trotted across the ice in a column, and several climbing plows dragged by two horses carried the hunt were carried in the middle of the procession.
A narrow glacier flows into Peony Ula not far ahead, and at the bend of the river, a few wisps of cooking smoke rise. Under the smoke, it is where the Ninggong Tesu Zhanghu Pagoda is located.
"Toad Hezi, it's too ugly, in my opinion, if it's called 'Toad Mingshui', it will be more meaningful!"
In Twilight Yu's ears, his voice sounded again, ridiculing with three points of solemnity, and uninhibited with a hint of perseverance.
Here, located in the hinterland of Ninggong Tesu Mountain, in the early days of the founding of the Daning Dynasty, a guard called "Kuhan Haiwei" was set up to govern this vast land. Like Xianzhouwei, the governor of Khuhan Haiwei was also concurrently served by the Suya Tuguan.
From "Zhanghu Tatun" to the south of the Shuojiang River up 180 miles is the first holy water of Ninggongte Khuhan Sea, from the Khuhan Sea to the south for 400 miles, people can look at the main peak of Gaima Mountain covered with snow all year round.
In that year, the Zhenjin Department of the six departments of Su Ta Ning Gong Te crossed the mountains and seas along this route to Liaodong, and founded Xianzhou Su Ta in the cracks, and created the current Su Ta Alliance - Tazhou.