Chapter 38: Shura wields a knife and is pitiful II
My mother was still relatively young at that time, and her appearance was quite outstanding, and she was rewarded with a ten-master who was a hui.
When the disheveled mother knelt in the snow in front of the slave traders' convoy and begged them to spare her Tong Luo Puli, the ten-captain, who had long been unable to bear it anymore, directly drew his scimitar and slashed at the chattering mother.
The moment before the butcher's knife fell, the mother shouted: "Pu Li, I hope you can find your father, who is the ...... of the Fugu clan, under the leadership of the free grassland breeze."
Before the mother could finish her words, she was taken away by a knife light.
After the commander of the ten divisions had neatly slaughtered his own booty, he wiped the blood on his knife on his mother's clothes, and his cold and indifferent expression was as if he had just slaughtered a lamb.
Bright red blood slowly flowed onto the muddy snow, staining the dirty earth red.
Across the fence of the carriage cage with Luo Puli, looking at the dark red blood stains on the ground, tears could not stop pouring like heavy rain.
It was only then that she understood why her mother named her "Pu Li". In the language of the Tongluo people, "Puli" means the wind of freedom.
My mother has lived in the Tongluo tribe all her life, and the only time I have crossed the constraints of the tribe at the spiritual and ** level like the wind is to meet my father.
But she probably never expected that an unfettered freedom would bring such a heavy burden that she would have to pay for it with her life.
But her mother still stubbornly misses the breeze that broke into her life and named herself after the wind! The persistence and unrepentance in the mother's heart shook the young heart of Tong Luo Puli!
After the shock, Tong Luo Puli's heart was full of anger and doubts. Why did his father never come back to visit his mother and himself? Why is the vast steppe full of violence and killing!
The doubts in her heart have not been figured out until now, and her anger has been vented through other channels.
The slave traders, who were trading in the same Luo Puli, were attacked by a group of horse bandits on their way to Lingzhou. The weather was freezing and the white plague was raging, and the horse bandits on the grassland had to attack frequently to survive the harsh winter.
When he saw the slave trader being dragged behind the horse's tail by the horse bandits, hitting his head and bleeding from the head, he felt extremely happy in his heart.
Somehow she got the courage to pick up a dagger from the ground, walk up to the slave trader, whose flesh and blood were already blurred to the point of inhuman appearance, and coldly stab the dagger into his throat.
At that time, Tong Luo Puli had very little strength and no experience in killing, and it took a long time to stab the dagger into it.
When the dagger cut through her skin, she seemed to hear a pleasant fairy music, and she was so intoxicated that she didn't care that the blood sprayed out of her hair stained her face and hair red.
At first, the horse bandits regarded the strange behavior with Luo Puli as an antidote after the fight, but when the little girl with a bloody face looked at the corpse of the slave trader with excited eyes, the murderous horse bandits were also surprised.
The bald bearded leader of the bandits walked up to Tong Luo Puli, crouched down, carefully grasped her small hand holding the dagger, and threw the dagger dripping with blood to the ground.
Then, he picked up the thin Tong Luo Puli and announced to the horse bandits that this little girl would be his righteous daughter from now on! As long as he still has a mouthful of meat to eat, he can't starve this little lady to death!
In this way, Tong Luo Puli survived among the horse bandits. The leader of this gang of horse bandits is called Xifengye, and he is a member of the Xifeng Department of the Lingzhou Dangxiang clan.
The Dangxiang people are the descendants of the ancient Qiang people, who have lived for a long time in the source of the river and the meandering land in the south of the West Sea.
After the rise of Tibet, the land of the river was all for it, and the party members did not want to become the slaves of the Tubo Empire, so the various ministries attached the Tang Dynasty in the Zhenguan period.
Emperor Taizong gladly accepted the party's dependence and settled it in Xizhou and Lingzhou.
The fine seal is also a nobleman of the fine seal department, one of the eight departments of the party, but for some reason, he became a horse bandit.
The personnel of this horse bandit are very mixed, including party members, Tiele people, and Han people, most of whom are outlaws who cannot live in the local area or their own tribe.
More than ten years have passed, and the little girl who was supposed to be a slave and a maid back then has become a bewitching figure. Wife.
Under the cover of Jiaodidi's appearance, many people who saw Tong Luo Puli for the first time couldn't believe that she was the famous female horse bandit "Shura Knife" in Lingzhou.
The reason why it is called "Shura Knife" is because Tong Luo Puli is ruthless and will see blood when he comes out of the knife, but he is extremely beautiful, just like the female Asura in the Buddhist scriptures Tianlong Babu.
The weakness of the post-Turkic Khanate and the turmoil in Mobei gave the horse bandits plenty of room to survive.
Xi Fengye is very shrewd, he never goes deep into the defense area of the Tang Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy, but only operates in the mountainous areas of Mobei and Lingzhou.
When plundering the merchants, all the people of the Tang Dynasty only robbed money, did not kill people, and some of the wealth was left for the caravan to avoid them from losing all their money.
Therefore, the garrison of Lingzhou also turned a blind eye to this restrained horse bandit, and was happy to enjoy the filial piety sent by the horse bandits on time. Unless strictly ordered by their superiors, they generally do not take the initiative to attack the bandits, and sometimes they will report to the bandits.
With Luo Puli, under the careful training of the fine sealing field, it has become a sharp killing weapon. Especially when plundering the Hui caravan, this beautiful and bloodthirsty Shura knife has always been a big killing, ignoring the pleas of the Hui people.
"Since you didn't care about my mother's pleas back then, I will never pay attention to your pleas today!" At the time of the killing, such a surging hatred and pleasure surged in Luo Puli's heart!
What made Tong Luo Puli feel helpless was that after a long time of changes in the grassland, the Later Turkic Khanate became weaker and weaker under the attack of Wang Zhonghe, a famous general of the Tang Army; His enemy, the Hui Ministry, took the opportunity to expand and become stronger and stronger, and there were already signs of dominating Mobei.
The rise of the Hui made Tong Luo Puli very angry, and she increased her raids on the Hui caravans. But such an innocuous slight blow from her could not stop the pace of the Hui Ministry's efforts to open her teeth and build the country.
In the third year of Tianbao (744), the Hui leader Guli Peiluo established himself as a khan and established the Hui Khanate. Mobei, which has been in strife for decades, has finally reunited.
Tong Luo Puli received news from the caravan that her mother clan had split with Luo. Some remained in Mobei and became vassal tribes of the Uighur Khanate; There are also some of them, under the leadership of the leader Absi, who avoided the Hui soldiers and migrated to live in the Tang Dynasty.
It is said that Tian Khan valued the people who moved inward, and settled them in the Hetao area under the jurisdiction of the Shuofang Jiedu Envoy, only a few hundred miles away from Lingzhou. The leader of the Tongluo tribe, Absi, was even named the king of Fengxin by the Heavenly Khan, and was given the name Li Xianzhong.
From childhood to adulthood, whether in Mobei or Lingzhou, Tongluo Puli heard people praise the wisdom of the Heavenly Khan, his wisdom, and his wisdom.
Tong Luo Puli privately felt that Tian Khan was very stupid. He spent so much money and food, sacrificed the lives of so many warriors, and spent a lot of effort to defeat the Later Turkic Khanate, but let the Hui build a cheap one.
This feels like a stupid bear struggling to kill a wild boar, but shaking its head and leaving, in vain to cheapen the hungry wolf who has been waiting on the side for a long time.
And what is even more stupid is that he actually abolished his martial arts and replaced the famous general Wang Zhonghe. After living in the Lingzhou area with Luo Puli for a long time, he heard a lot of stories about this general, and gradually knew that the reason why the horse bandits were so restrained was not because of their good nature, but because they were afraid of the prestige of this famous general in the northwest of the empire.
Such a famous general, but he was belittled by Tian Khan in a daze, it is really strange!
However, with Luo Puli's emotion is only here, Tian Khan is stupid or not, it is too far away from her. For her, what is even more troublesome is that after the establishment of the Uighur Khanate, the existential crisis of the horse bandits appeared.
On the Mobei grassland, the most scarce and scarce thing is order, but the easiest thing to establish is also order.
Due to its congenital deficiencies and frequent sieges, the post-Turkic khanate was never able to establish a strong political order in Mobei.
The emerging Hui Khanate, relying on the strong force of its own people, co-opted the Fugu, Tongluo, Bayegu and other tribes, and rebuilt the political order of Mobei by bowing to the Tang Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Uighur Khanate, it began to send heavy troops to sweep away all kinds of resistance to the royal court in Mobei. They, the horse bandits who are active in the Lingzhou area, are naturally within the scope of the crackdown.
For the repeated expeditions of the Hui cavalry, Xi Fengye had to lead the team to infiltrate the area under the jurisdiction of the Shuofang Jiedu envoy to avoid the Hui soldiers.
Relying on the "good relationship" established with the Lingzhou garrison before, the horse bandits were not attacked by the Tang army within the Tang realm. However, the previous business without capital can not be done.
The horse bandits were in trouble, and suddenly someone found them through the connections in the garrison, saying that they wanted to escort the caravan to Tingzhou.
From plundering caravans to escorting caravans, the bends in Luo Puli's mind really couldn't be turned around for a while.
It wasn't until Xi Fengye took Luo Puli to meet her employer that she realized that things were not so simple.
The employer looks young and ordinary, and there is always a bit of meanness on his face. With only one glance at Luo Puli, she knew that this so-called employer must be just a puppet who was pushed to the front of the stage.
The contempt of the other party made Tong Luo Puli feel insulted, and she immediately wanted the leader to refuse to negotiate.
The other party also sensed Tong Luo Puli's dissatisfaction, and didn't say anything, just clapped his hands and let people carry a small box in.
Tong Luo Puli cautiously opened the wooden box with a scimitar, and the dazzling golden light suddenly poured out, spilling all over the room.
"Two thousand ......pieces of gold," the other party said lightly, "It's just a deposit." When I arrived in Tingzhou, after the matter was completed, there were still 8,000 runs. ”
"Just escorting the caravan?" After licking blood at the head of the knife for so many years, of course he understands that such a heavy reward is by no means easy to obtain.
The employer smiled slightly on his face and nodded slightly: "Naturally, it's not just about escorting the caravan. It's a little troublesome in Tingzhou, and I need to bother you to take care of it. ”
"Dare to ask your number?" Hosophono asked tentatively.
"Chang'an Ruyi Ju." The employer didn't care, and the name was reported aggressively.