Han Changle Palace, Greenhouse Palace, in the evening, Liu Qi dragged his tired body from the Hall of Immortals back to the warm foot to rest, although there is no omnivorous on the case, and this year's festival is also indispensable for the occasion of fruits and vegetables and bottles, next to a red silk cloth wrapped in the book, too tired, and the Queen Mother for a day, the pressure doubled, the world does not know whether it is the surname Dou, or the surname Liu, even if it is his own biological mother, the weak Liu Qi now has the intention of killing the killer, but all the sons of the court are led by it, there is a will, but subject to the queen mother of the palace. At this time, a yellow door hurriedly entered the palace gate, bent down and held the talisman, and said softly: "Your Majesty, Taishi Ling Sima is strict, there is something important to see Your Majesty", "Xuan", after speaking, he got up and sat up, and pressed the corners of his clothes. The book wrapped in red silk on the desk is tucked behind the back.

Sima Zheng bowed solemnly and entered the hall, "Taishi Ling, what important things need to be performed in this Yuan day and night?" Liu Qi said a little resentful, "Back to Your Majesty, today did not receive an urgent report from the Tianshui County Stargazing Platform, today is ugly, and the northwest is a colorful light, born in the northwest, fell in the southeast at three o'clock, and there is also a quick report in Beidi County, and it will be reported in detail in front of the court in a few days." When the minister asked his uncle to divinate, he said, a few days ago, the people of the strange world with the holy blade of heaven and earth will return from the land of the queen mother in the future. I hereby ask for a ruling", "If there is really such a strange person, I will be able to solve the confusion and I will come", and the Huangmen should enter the hall in response to the sound of the Fu "The Zhifu passed on my message: The counties in the west of Tianshui, Beidi, and Yanmen are too guarded to closely observe the people who return to the east with sharp weapons, and they will be placed in good places, and reported to the court", "No", "All retreat" Liu Qi waved his hand weakly. He really hoped that this man had a clever plan to solve the current dilemma.

At this time, in the deep valley of the Tianshan Mountains, a sumptuous dinner was being prepared, six sheep and a cow were slaughtered, two iron pots were erected, one was boiled, one was fried, and one was roasted on a fire. Mulan Bek brought a total of fourteen people, Wei Meng was sent by Wei Zheng, and Qinglar was the envoy of Kunmo. The old man brought eight people, all of whom were Han Chinese, with different dialects, as well as two Mo clansmen and old monks from Qiuzi. Ouyang Xuan pulled Wei Meng to ask about the specific situation after they left, and Wei Meng, who was silent, also told the truth. "Where did that old man come from?" Ouyang Xuan finally asked his own question, "The old man was originally a Han Chinese, and he came to Hanhai for some years, first in Loulan to cast swords for a living, and then went to Qiuci to teach the art of casting, and then after the war, he was exiled from the Wusun King City, and the king of the south knew him, and he was cast under the account of the king of the south, and he used the meteorite obtained by the golden mountain to cast the sword of the war meteorite, which was originally called by the king of the south, and built a furnace by the Hutu River and recast the meteorite weapon with the son, and the son cast the artifact by himself at the Qiuzi people, and was on standby until now, until Wang Cheng remembered this matter, and then sent it back to the royal city, The craftsman heard that Gongzi had cast four unparalleled sharp weapons, and he had to come to take a look, so he asked Gongzi to show him and come to talk to Gongzi", "There is Brother Lao Wei running thousands of miles, and Brother Wei will continue a few more cups in a while, and it is very good for King Nan to stay this ale wine, and the grace of King Nan's treatment."

Patting Webon's shoulder, he went back to the wooden house to serve the two dying-dead little wolf cubs, it seemed that he was addicted to drinking the water, if he didn't drink it, he was screaming and running, this was not calling again, he took a big pottery bowl, and carried the nest to the hot spring, the pottery bowl took some clear and tasteless spring water, and put it into the nest, the two little guys grabbed the bowl with their front paws in an almost robbing motion, stretched out their tongues and licked wildly, the water in the bowl was glowing with a faint blue fluorescence in the night, and there was more contact, Ouyang Xuan himself felt that he seemed to have changed a little, and his strength was much stronger, When I killed the cow just now, I usually didn't grasp the move to a cow, but today it is very easy, more than 500 catties of cattle, can be carried and left, and it used to be dragged away. The two little ones drank two bowls of water before coming back to have a bonfire dinner with everyone.

Sitting around the bonfire, there is still roasted beef on the fire, and everyone in the pottery bowl is freshly cooked beef and mutton, holding a knife to cut and eat by themselves, the original hand-handled meat style. Today's Mo is very happy, the beef and mutton are all boiled and roasted by her, and she also uses the method taught by Ouyang Xuan, boiling butter and shallots to fry the meat, as if she has become the hostess here, Ouyang Xuan just wrote two parchment books, and found his relatives, one is his own brother, the other is a cousin, the old monk also thanked Ouyang Xuan many times on behalf of the monk, and also brought a thank you gift, ten pieces of tough iron and iron meteorites weighing 100 catties, and some jade as white as mutton fat, and the rest is okay, but this tough iron itself has no furnace that can be processed, and the decoration is almost the same, casually put it behind him, and learned about the general situation of Dawan and Qiuzi and other countries with the old monk. In order to trade with the west, Qiuci specially sent high-ranking monks to envoy Dawan and Yueshi and other countries in the Western Regions to discuss trade and trade issues, and the other purpose was to preach Qiuci Buddhism. It seems that he wants to use the identity of the religious pope to rule the countries of the Western Regions, this method is really high (in history, Qiuzi did this, the monk was the Dharma at that time and was famous in the Western Regions, but Zhang Qian did sneer at him, and once said wildly in front of the palace of the Dawan King Zalando, "Buddhism confuses the public and has no intention of curing, only Confucianism is good", and the literature is now preserved in the National Museum of Tajikistan, which is also the reason why Qiuci is the neutral country of the Western Regions for the longest time).

Wine over three rounds of dishes over five flavors, here is the three flavors of boiling, stir-frying, grilling all kinds of meat, except for the old man, everyone else was arranged by the master father Hong to each room, because the old man has been asking Wei Meng to see the meteorite weapon, must give Wei Zheng face, it is very likely that this old man is the Ren He mentioned by the master father Hong, so there are five people left in the bonfire banquet in the end, the old man, the master father Hong, Ouyang Xuan, and the two strong men behind the old man. Looking at the bonfire, the old man slowly spoke: "How about the son's weapon for the old decay?" "At this time, the light is dim, and the gentleman can take a look at the short blade under it, and wait for the long ruler to look at the sharp weapon tomorrow", he said and took out the short knife and handed it to the old man. By the light of the fire, the old man took the short knife and looked at it carefully, and kept admiring, "Looking at this vessel, it is really the sum of heaven and earth, the meteorite iron casting, the water and the wood are the lining, and the five elements are complete." If it is cast by meteoric iron, why is it colorless, the old decay can not be melted and carved a hundred times of forged meteoric iron, the fire temperature is huge, the old man can't reach it", after speaking, he handed it back, "Mr. tomorrow is full of light and fashion to watch, the ground is moving in the early hours of this morning, I am afraid that there will be residual pulses, please Mr. sleep peacefully, if there is a ground movement again, then go to the door", "So old and decayed thanks to Gongzi for arranging", Ouyang Xuan motioned to the master father Hong to quickly get them back to the house, but today this guy seems to have something to say, twisted for a long time, and then opened his mouth and said: "Childe, please forgive me for not having faith in the next place, Cheap today and in the next words, want to go south with the clan to meet their parents and clansmen, in the next also want to escort the cheap and the little girl to go", "haha, brother Tai is too worried, but please go, now it is also a free body, how to break the righteousness, there is righteousness in the heart, for it is a heroic hero, do not care whether to follow or not, but also on behalf of the next to worship the monks and clansmen, and in the next has been happy to go alone, no concern is what you want, this trip do not have to go the original way, this time the movement of heaven and earth, will change, You can go back with the Cheshi Valley through the Tianshan Mountains (the Cheshi Valley is where today's Urumqi is located)", "Gongzi Gaojian, quite Mojia ancient style, faith in the heart, outside, do not care about the time and shadow, silent and non-attacking, hidden in the world, silent and the sons, born in righteousness, travel in small righteousness, knot in the market, specializing in skill, practicing in fighting, learning from the sons, reaching the world, showing in danger, righteousness in China, small righteousness and the world. Haha, the old man who is about to enter the earth, can still see the ancient style of the Mo family, and there is no need in this life", after speaking, he got up and bowed to Ouyang Xuan with his hands hanging down (the courtesy of the Mo family is to bow), and then walked back with the support of the strong man, and Ouyang Xuan motioned to the master to follow him. (The ancient precepts of the Mo family here are taken from a wild historical record, and there is a saying that the Mo family fell to Dongying with Xu Fu, and bushido is a branch of the Mo family)

Back in the house, Mo Shi had already burned the stove, added some wood, and the two wolf cubs poked their heads at the mouth of the sleeping bag, staring at Ouyang Xuan with big eyes and watery eyes, that pitiful, as if asking Ouyang Xuan for something, took the milk bag, fed some milk, and quickly moved them to the ground, this is going to pee. As soon as I got to the ground, I immediately soaked to the door, skimmed my calves and came to a soak, and began to pick up the door to go out. Yes, this is a sign that you want to soak in the hot springs, and you just have to wash yourself, bring a headlamp, insert a short knife, put a sword on your back, hang up your nu, take a military shovel and use a clay pot to carry two little wolves out of the door, and go straight to the hot spring. Now it's a little dark, the stars are unusually bright, there is a colorful cloud next to the Milky Way, and the temperature is a little low, about minus five or six degrees.

Dig a 1-meter-deep pool by the side of the hot spring stream on the stone slope, lay a large stone at the bottom, build a wall with stones on both sides, a simple hot spring pool is finished, flow out of a stone crack and a clear stream to lead water into the pool, fill it for more than an hour, the water in the pool is glowing with dark blue fluorescence in the night light, it seems that the whole pool is a big dark blue gem, and when the water temperature is about the same, take off your clothes and enter the pool, put the short knife, sword and crossbow with good strings in your hand, and then throw the two little guys who are struggling to climb out in the clay pot into the pool. Small animals may be born to swim, swim freely in pools that are 10 times the height of their bodies, and from time to time they will take a dive, take off their headlamps, twist them to the high beam, and shine the light directly on Taniguchi, which is the best place to be warned, not cold, and hot springs to soak, Taniguchi is still within the maximum attack range of crossbow arrows. A small channel was dug with an ordnance shovel to guide it to the main stream, and the amount of water was adjusted to reach a balance, so that the water temperature would not drop, and there was a steady stream of new water injected, which was really a good place to sleep, and drank the water that flowed out, some of it was sweet, and it was very delicious, no wonder the little wolf cub loved to drink so much, and poured a full water, so that the little wolf cub who was tired of swimming was put into a clay pot with water suitable for their height, and put a long stone to let them put their heads. Soaking in this blue water, Ouyang Xuan remembered that in Inner Mongolia, Chifeng Daqing Mountain, Keshiketeng Banner Jingpeng Town, the town called Hot Water, where the hot springs contain radon, and it is very comfortable to soak it, but I didn't expect it to be there now, the radon content is still so high, and it may also disappear after a thousand years of geological movement (the judgment of radon here is because groundwater is emitted, and the biggest possibility is radon, an inert radioactive gas that is widely present in nature).

It is very easy to get sleepy when surrounded by warmth, and Ouyang Xuan is no exception, so he quickly drank spring water and enjoyed this wonderful time with his eyes closed. It's not quiet at night, it's not a safe time, no, another snow leopard was killed by a crossbow arrow, and there were already two bears and a tiger with him on the Yin Yang Road, and it was strange why the wolves didn't come? Could it be related to the two little ones? Looking at the white wolf cub sleeping in the water, it is very cute, the more it looks like a husky, and it seems to look a bit like an Alaskan sled dog just by looking at the ears and eyes. A small aftershock did not disturb Ouyang Xuan in the pool, and when the sky was white, Ouyang Xuan gradually fell asleep after shooting several crazy tigers, leopards and bears. It wasn't until the sun rose that the little wolf cub had knocked over the pot and was playing happily in the pool, chasing the game in the blue water. Looking at the figure poking and poking on the other side of the wooden house, he quickly got dressed and hung up his equipment on his back. Use a short knife to buckle the crossbow arrow on the prey, this thing really can't afford to lose, it's all made of meteorite and sunken wood, there is no way to replenish it, one is missing, Ouyang Xuan is distressed.

When Ouyang Xuan came back, the old man and the master father Hong were already waiting, so he hurriedly asked the master father Hong and the people brought by the old man to go to the valley mouth to drag the prey back, and they couldn't stop on the road, especially the pool. He handed the sword to the old man, and when he went back to the house, he quickly put down the little wolf cub, dried it with a sackcloth, and put it in the nest. After drying his hair, he carried a knife before walking out of the cabin.

The old man sat on the wooden pier in front of the door with a sword in one hand and a sheath in the other, and was amazed again and again. Ouyang Xuan handed over the knife again, the old man returned the sword into the sheath, handed back the sword, took the knife, and also drew the knife and looked at it at the same time for a while, "This sword caster forging is all natural, but it's a pity that it is still lacking", "Oh? "This sharp weapon will not be rusted because of the years, it is also extremely sharp, the inscription into the body of the carving, can be sharpened iron like mud, broken wood such as broken water, hair and blades, blowing can be broken, but there is still a lack of glaze, the protector is free from the evil of drinking blood, can turn blood light and invisible", "violent gas, are all due to bloodthirsty greed, and now the utensils in the hands of the eyes are also the same, I don't know if Mr. is late with the glaze?" "It was at that time, before the sharp blade was glazed, there was still more than a month to put aside the qi", "Please give it to Mr., I will be grateful", "For this sharp weapon to employ, I dare to say thank you, Rong Shang is still too late to do it, and wait for the apprentice to support the stove to refine the medicine", "There are still some turtles and red meteorites to give to Mr., all of them should be grateful", hurriedly returned to the wooden house, took out the tough iron and iron meteorite given by the old monk, and followed the water, and said that these two things, it was really useless to keep them, and there was no such high temperature to smelt them.

The old man took the tough iron and looked at it, "This is the black stone refining outside the sky, the old man participated in it back then, see you again now, like the next day." The Red Fall has also been practiced, the fire temperature is insufficient, and there are still many sundries. Listening to what the master father and nephew said, the old father cast the meteorite iron sword for the son of the gift, the old man thanked the son and the Momen for the righteousness, and then for the son on the old decay for many years of development of the glaze and this handle, so that the hands and feet are not stained "It seems that it is really Ren He, the master father Hong with a few people quickly dragged back the prey, Ren He got up, and instructed the apprentice to refine the medicine. Ouyang Xuan gave Ren He short knives, swords, knives, crossbows, crossbow arrows and spare crossbow arrows, and went to Mulan Buick himself, asking them to deal with their prey better than the Han people. Looking at the more than a dozen bears, tigers and leopards, Mulan Buick was a little confused, one of the bears was not much smaller than that monster, and it needed manpower, this was the request made by Mulan Buick, what he didn't say, agreed, if this thing is not disposed of, it will be easy to attract more fierce beasts, and the giant bear has not been dealt with, so let's get rid of it together. This place is also ruined now, and I'm not afraid that outsiders will know, just tell them not to go near the hot springs, otherwise they will get a strange disease, okay, this guy didn't ask back.

After arranging the prey, he went to find Wei Meng and wrote a sheepskin letter to Wei Zheng, asking him to go to Qiuzi first if he wanted to return to Dongtu, where he would gather some caravans with strong protection and return to Dongtu together, after all, there were few caravans at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the months that could pass here were only 4 months, unlike the southern foothills that could pass all year round. I decided how to contact him after returning to Dongtu. He also wrote a parchment letter to the monk, that is, to praise his superb Buddhism, and asked him to pay special attention to a plant with white flocculent flowers brought by merchants from the surrounding countries of Bactria and take its seeds to keep or cultivate, and then come back to collect seeds from him when he has stabilized in the eastern soil. After writing, he lit a fire and burned pine resin, and handed it to Wei Meng and the old monk who lived in the same room.

When he went out, Ren He was already placing something in a container that looked like an iron pot, and hurriedly went over to look, but was stopped by two big men. Gotcha, you guys, called the master Father Hong, told him how to use the crossbow, and then simply asked him to bring the crossbow over, dismantle the various parts, and tell again, some parts that can't be disassembled, the moving parts can't be adhered to, who knows what method they use, if it really doesn't work, it will be troublesome. If you don't let you see, you will hide, take the little wolf cub to the hot spring again, put it in the basin, play by yourself, soak for a while, drink some hot spring water, and then come up, go to the stable, ride a horse and inspect again, and help Mo feed the cattle and sheep by the way, which are their own work after they leave. This is a high-altitude area, and according to the habits of nomads, they must live at low altitudes in winter, so as to alleviate the blood oxygen problems caused by high-altitude life in summer. The morning meal was very simple, with black naan and goat's milk. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the main father Hongcai came to call Ouyang Xuan, who was soaking in the hot spring. After getting dressed, he returned to his wooden house, and the things he handed over to Ren He were sorted and placed on the wool blanket. Picked up the sword and looked at it, and the same as the meteorite iron sword for the lord father Hong, the whole inscription has a layer of glaze, which looks very thick, in fact, it is very thin from the side to the light, the illusion caused by the reflection is very thick, you can see it by looking at the blade, the glaze has also formed a sharp blade, wrapping the original blade, very thin, the same blowing sharp blade, cut the iron ring that had been buckled on the ankle of the master father Hong and tried it, the iron ring broke in response, the blade is still the same, the glaze on the blade is not damaged at all, the glaze on the hilt of the sword is hemp, there are fine particle protrusions, which is comfortable to hold. The same is true for both short knives and knives, and the crossbow bolts were assembled again, and the test shots were fired, and there were no problems. At dinner, when Ren He asked Ouyang Xuan about how to refine tough iron, Ouyang Xuan also shook his head, and just told him that Qiuzi had a way, but he could go and find it, and he spoke it in Chinese, of course the old monk couldn't understand it, but about the stove, he really couldn't tell Ren He, this was a promise to the monk.

Early the next morning, Qinglar first came to say goodbye and gave Ouyang Xuan a cyan wolf skin, there was a painting on it, I didn't understand it, but that meant that this valley was now Ouyang Xuan's, and it was managed by the Hutu people in Ouyang Xuan's absence. Then Wei Meng came to say goodbye, which was nothing to say, naturally he asked for a route back to Dongtu. The old monk came to say goodbye very simply, without saying anything, Ouyang Xuan gave a bag of tiger bones to the old monk, and wrote a strong bone recipe on the sheepskin inside, and asked him to bring it to the senior monk. Finally, it was the main father Hong's family and Ren He, one night the main father Hong packed up his things, hit a big cowhide bag, the whole family once again knelt down to thank Ouyang Xuan for the grace of rebirth, Ouyang Xuan was a little sad, their family and themselves lived in this valley for three whole months, they came to this era to live together for the longest time, did not say, recognized the cute little girl as a righteous daughter, and gave the white wolf carved with a piece of mutton fat jade last night to the child. He didn't have anything to say to Ren He, just some polite words, and gave him a piece of 1-meter-square sunken wood scraps by the way. At noon, Mulan Buick led him out of the valley, and at this time there were more than 600 cattle and sheep, three horses and two camels left in the whole valley. Oh, by the way, and the two little ones who poked their heads in their arms, watching the crowd disappear into the distance of the road, "It's better for you two to accompany me to the end, your mother really found a good person, okay, just follow me to wander in this vast sky, your footprints will go farther than your mother." ”

In the following days, Ouyang Xuan was not lonely, but more fulfilling. When Mulan Buick came back with a few people to deal with the prey, Ouyang Xuan promised that the cattle and sheep would be given to them when he left, and he couldn't give them now, the cow and goat's milk had to be fed to the wolf cubs, and he had to rely on the beef and mutton to replenish his strength, and he had to make some air-dried meat to eat on the way back. That's about 500 sheep left, not counting the 50 sheep and 2 cows that Kunmo promised to send every month. These guys have exerted great enthusiasm, they live in the tribal village under the mountain, they are all hard-working herdsmen, a family has more than a dozen sheep, it is already very good, now there is a pie in the sky good thing will naturally be very happy, very enthusiastic, very action, quickly asked the head of the tribe, the head of the people is naturally happy, the people are happy, the more stable their position, otherwise these guys unite to overthrow themselves, it is very easy, it seems that this errand is good, not only agreed, but also according to Kunmo's promise, The valley was designated as a summer pasture for those men. This tribe later developed into a powerful Naiban tribe, crisscrossing the eastern part of the Junggar Basin, and later because of the strong combat effectiveness of the tribe, it was moved out of the mountains by Kunmo and moved to the eastern side of Altai Mountain to defend against the Huns.

The motivation of the strong advance made them move faster, the next day all the family members moved, counting the baby in the arms of the baby there were about 60 people, the cattle and sheep also caught up, the south slope is very high, now under the snow, there is still some grass, enough for these cattle and sheep in the valley, the herdsmen have found out, the east side of the rocky slope is not far from a huge grassland surrounded by mountains, in the north side of the grassland found some black carbon. Ouyang Xuan taught them to use stone charcoal to make a fire for warmth in later days, and the mud and stone stove also taught them, that is, they were not allowed to drink the water in the river, and the water they drank was the snow melt water that flowed down the slopes on both sides, because after an aftershock, the radiant blue fluorescence emitted by the river could be clearly seen in the distance at night, and even from the side during the day, the little wolf cub seemed to prefer it, and had to soak in it for a long time every day, and built a big wooden house on the pool dug by Ouyang Xuan, and put all the equipment here, Soak in the pool every day to sleep, and at night there are young people who take turns to be on duty at the mouth of the valley. The daily task has also increased one, that is, to let these young and middle-aged sparring partners, in order to improve the level of sparring training, whether it is right away, or step down, it is intensive training, the hanging wood array stood up again, expanded a lot, and they practiced in the hanging wood array, at the beginning, Ouyang Xuan alone knocked down the battle formation composed of 25 people in a few minutes, and then the time gradually increased, and taught them the change of the battle formation and the use of the battle formation, and the level of sparring was also improved linearly, and Ouyang Xuan also began to be beaten often, The most serious one was actually knocked off the horse by a guy named Hural with a wooden saber, and then he was simply made the leader, leading these people to train according to their own requirements every morning, and competing with themselves in the afternoon.

After a month, there was another small aftershock, and the emitting blue light of the hot springs was much weaker, and through this period of observation, I didn't find that the guys who often came into contact with or even drank these water had any adverse symptoms, but their physical strength and strength increased a lot, and finally they let go, and they moved out of the hot spring cabin and returned to the original one. With the help of the clansmen, the pool was expanded, and now it is a day when men are soaked, and women are soaking at night, provided that the white wolf cubs must be brought with them, and the two of them must be fed, and now these two guys are too edible, larger than adult Jingba, and have become the favorite pets of men, women and children in this small tribe.

The effect of hot springs is still obvious, some elderly people, after soaking for a month, some old problems are gradually improved, some rheumatism is obviously improved, there is a tendency to heal. These people are extremely strict about this secrecy, outsiders have come many times, and the wooden houses of the hot springs are forbidden places, and they are not even allowed to drink the water they drink, and they are given snowmelt water, which is necessary for every family.

When the snow on the mountain gradually melted, it was already March, Ouyang Xuan sat in front of the door and watched Hural and more than 20 people ride horses in the hanging wooden array, sit on various difficult movements, slash and slash, and in the afternoon it was a good fight. The white clouds in the sky floated by, gathering and scattering, just like this person, three months ago he was still a group of people, three months later he was a group of people, and in a month he should also leave.

Note: The original name of Hural here is a common Mongolian name, so I won't talk about it, the first half of the next chapter is about him and the wolf. There is still one chapter left in the foreshadowing, and the later chapters of this volume are through the Gobi desert and the territory of the Xiongnu and Qiang.