Chapter 2 Tricks in the Valley
Since you have decided, then the remaining question is your own identity, and you must give yourself a reasonable identity and reason. Coming down from the ridge, Ouyang Xuan has been thinking about this question, how he and outsiders tell where he came from, what is his identity, he can speak both standard Mandarin and the Jiangsu dialect of his adoptive parents, and now these accents are the dialects there, everything needs to be solved, return to Guan Yang's cave, take out his tablet, and check the origin of Ouyang's surname and the dialect of ancient Chinese in the encyclopedia. After repeated deliberation and encyclopedia comparison, I made up an identity and experience and reason for coming here. After thinking about these, it seems that I feel a lot taller, and it seems that Yii* is very useful for psychological adjustment.
When I came to the stream flowing from the cave, I washed my face, got a little smell of sheep's flesh, and looked at my own reflection, I was still handsome at the age of sixteen, and I was intoxicated with the muscles cultivated by perennial training and later exercise. He took off his fleece pants and changed into a gray-black outdoor jacket, and his shoes were smeared with mud to hide some of the high-end signs. All the electronic devices are hidden in the backpack, and these things can only be used by yourself when no one is around, and it will be very troublesome for others to see them. I suddenly remembered that I had brought a military telescope, although it was not as advantageous as a single-lens reflex lens, but in this era, I could still make this myself, rummaged through the bag to find the telescope, hung it on the side, rearranged the bag, and disassembled the trekking poles and put them in the backpack, leaving only the trekking pickaxe and binoculars hanging on the side of the backpack. I got two hard branches that fit together, shaved off the skin, sharpened one end to the ground, and made two wristbands out of hay to make a simple trekking pole. After getting these, see that the sun is still hanging high in the western sky, go to the cave and lead two argali, since you want to visit, you have to bring gifts, this is the best gift, argali, in the nomads is the embodiment of the mountain elves, they are light and flexible, high vigilance, it is difficult to catch live, even if you fall into the trap the moment, you can jump out (this is what the author has seen with my own eyes), but they also have weaknesses, through which it is easy to catch (because the argali, which is an endangered national first-class protected animal, I will not say, so as not to trouble).
Put on his backpack and walk along the stream towards the valley, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the exit side is on the north side, there is a forest, and the southeast side is the waterway between the two mountains, Ouyang Xuan wants to enter the valley from here, which is not far from the yurt. When he reached the vicinity of the stream entering the river, he could observe that there was a person on the opposite hill, and there were more than a dozen people lurking there at the river channel that entered the valley, looking at the sun that it didn't seem to have the intention of setting the mountain, Ouyang Xuan drank some water on the edge of the river, and wiped the crooked horns of the argali. Leaning on his backpack to rest and rest and wait for time, he felt two people coming towards him, and he didn't move.
Obviously, they were the guards responsible for guarding this entrance, and there should also be a sentry post on the mountain, but the location where Ouyang Xuan observed the yurt just now was too hidden, and they didn't see that the place where they locked the sheep was upstream of the tributary of the river. It's even harder to detect. In less than twenty minutes, two people stood twenty or thirty meters away, pulled the bow and wound it, and shouted: "What person, stand up, don't move", speaking a language similar to Kazakh, Ouyang Xuan can understand, of course, he will also say, if he has not said it for more than 10 years, it may be a little blunt. Ouyang Xuan opened his eyes, stood up, faced the two people, and replied in Kazakh: "My brother, I am a passing pedestrian, it is getting dark, I plan to rest here and continue to rush tomorrow", said neither humbly nor arrogantly. One of the two men said with a long face, "Do you know what this place is?" Dare to sleep here? Ouyang Xuan didn't fully understand, but he also understood what he meant, "My brother, I really don't know where this is, what kind of place it is." The same tone, but this time he said it slowly, for fear that the two of them would misunderstand, otherwise he would have to kill at this end of time and space, and on the other side of time and space, there were at least more than 20 people who died at his hands. Another round-faced one said to the long face, "His accent is from the northern tribe", the long face looked at Ouyang Xuan, and then looked at the round face, and was surprised to see two argali, so with a wave of his hand, the person who was ambushed at the mouth of the valley sacrificed himself, don't take a bow and arrow, and walked over with a saber to surround Ouyang Xuan. Ouyang Xuan looked at these people, they were all burly, their faces were all the same black, looking at their positions, Ouyang Xuan pursed his lips, feeling that they were too amateurish. I saw the long face and said: "Come with us, for the sake of what you will say about us, wait for you to see our master and let him interrogate you", Ouyang Xuan arched his hand at the long face, "Thank you, my brother, is it okay for your people to take my sheep with you?" In fact, Ouyang Xuan didn't need to say this, because everyone here showed greedy eyes at the two argali, and waved his hand with a long face, "Humalken, you lead his sheep, Han people, you follow us", the round face came to Ouyang Xuan and took the rope of the sheep, stood behind Ouyang Xuan, turned around with a long face and left, and the others surrounded Ouyang Xuan and followed behind. Soon we arrived at the mouth of the valley, where two high wooden platforms were erected on both sides of the river, reaching the height of the ridge, and between the two wooden towers there were two wooden fences more than three meters high to prevent wolves. Along the road, Ouyang Xuan was brought to the luxury tent.
The long face came in for less than five minutes, and at the same time came out with the observed Han people, seeing that they were dressed in black and red Hanfu, wearing hair, one of them was older, about 30 years old, and the others were in their 20s, and the old man was in the middle, and the long-faced man pointed at Ouyang Xuan at the elder, and then turned around and bowed and said: "Respectful master, he is the Han man we met who can speak Northland", the elder didn't look at him, he came directly to Ouyang Xuan, and waved back those soldiers, As soon as he arched his hand, he said in a dialect similar to Jinnan: "Under the surname Wei, the name Zheng, is the chief of the palace of the king of Wusunan, I don't know how to call it, why is it so?" Ouyang Xuan looked at this Wei Zheng, his facial features were quite Zhouzheng, his square face, a long strand of hair floating under his chin, his eyes were big, his cheekbones may have been on this plateau for a long time, there was obvious plateau red, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Under the cheap name Ouyang Xuan, the ancestor is the king of Yue Wujiang, I am the sixth grandson of the king of Yue, the ancestor moved to Shuzhong during the Qin chaos, and the family was separated after the war in Shu, and my grandfather's family moved to Shu into Long, ploughing and farming, my family was plundered during the Hun war when I was young, and I was saved by the Venerable Immortal Master, In this Tianshan Tianchi Zhou Yuan and the Venerable Master's disciple Pu Hong Immortal Master for 16 years, the family teacher Nian Chunxian went, let me return to the Central Plains, assist the monarch to establish a career, in order to revitalize the ancestors on the Weide, passing through this place, there is a disturbance, please forgive me", Ouyang Xuan made up his own words, said again, in standard Mandarin, because of the pronunciation is similar, the other party can fully understand. After listening to this, Wei Zheng made a gesture of please sideways, and then said: "Your Excellency, please come in and talk in detail, the prince is just here", Ouyang Xuan, arched his hand, stretched out his left hand, and also made a gesture of please go first.
As soon as Wei Zheng saw this standard etiquette, there was a light in his eyes, he turned around and leaned forward to lead the way, and came to the yurt, the rules of entering the yurt Ouyang Xuan learned it from the Kazakhs, after entering the yurt, he walked along the left side around the blanket in the middle, stood behind the desk of the second person on the left, put down his backpack, bowed down, and then sat down cross-legged and straightened up to look at the prince sitting on the main seat, wearing a sheepskin cone hat, white sheep's tail balls hanging on both sides, and a strong body, compared with Ouyang Xuan, with big eyebrows, beard, blue eyes, His eyes are a little dull, his face is calm, and his cheekbones are also plateau red. At this time, Wei Zheng got up and bowed down and said in Kazakh: "Honorable prince, this son is the king of the Yue Kingdom in my Han land, after the former king of the Yue Kingdom, he apprenticed at the periphery of Tianchi to learn art, and now he is returning to Shandong, passing through here, and was met by Talati", after speaking, he bowed down and sat down, at this time the prince said: "Honorable guests, since they have met, they are all a family, my Wusun people welcome brothers from afar, and the road back to the east is now blocked by the Huns, and my Wusun warriors are also fighting with the incoming robbers on the northern border, and please ask the distinguished guests to come here for a few more days, I thought that my subordinates would prepare a thin wine and invite the guests to enjoy it", I rely on, he actually spoke the standard Guanzhong dialect, and the rhetoric was so good, it was really doubtful, Ouyang Xuan hurriedly got up and said: "Honorable prince, I am deeply guilty for bothering you for doing nothing, I thank the prince for the banquet here", after speaking, it was another bow, this time in Mandarin. Wei Zheng sat next to Ouyang Xuan, bowed slightly, turned around and said to Ouyang Xuan: "Brother Ouyang Xian, don't be uneasy, the King of the South has always been kind to our Han people. "The younger brother is in the deep mountains, I don't know the years, I don't know what year and month the Han land is now, which monarch", before Wei Zheng could speak, the king of the south said: "Now the king of the Han land is enlightened, and it has been two years since he ascended the throne, and the hateful Huns have cut off the trade road between Wusun and the Han land, so that my people are short of materials." It turned out to be the second year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and the year after that, there would be the famous Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in history. Thinking of this, Ouyang Xuan strengthened his heart to return to the east even more, making meritorious contributions and leaving a name in history, it is every man's dream, and he is no exception, if it weren't for the suppression of the gentleman at the beginning, he would have been a colonel now. Lost in the east, harvested mulberry elm, fate is really hard to say, if there is no gentleman, I will not travel through time and space to come here today. Since you have come to this time and space, you have to do a career, 48 years of life experience and more than 2,000 years of knowledge precipitation, you can't believe in yourself, and wait until 2027 to go back and open the door of that time and space. It's how many years B.C. it is, I don't know yet, I have to check it before I go to bed. After thinking about this, I was relaxed again, and my spirit was also lifted, which means that I* is really a good thing. Seeing Ouyang Xuan's dull gaze, Nanwang seemed to be contemplative, and said, "I don't know what Ouyang Gongzi learned from his teacher?" In this Tianshan Mountain, no one has ever been able to go up to Tianchi, because of the dense forest, tigers and wolves are the majority, and there are many casualties." When Ou Yaxuan heard this, he immediately said: "The classics of history that I learned from my teacher since I was a child, military strategy and attack, fighting and competing, medical divination and saving people, and the magic of ingenuity", Ouyang Xuan replied, glanced at Nanwang, and obviously saw the light flashing in his eyes. "Childe has a wide range of knowledge, which makes us admire, when it comes to fighting and competing, I wonder if Childe can try his skills?" , It seems that this king of the south wants to test himself, it doesn't matter, what he is best at is fighting and medical skills, at this time, the long-faced Talati came to report, "Your Majesty, the chief of the Cheshi Duoke tribe brought three thousand remnants of soldiers to attack, and there are five horses from here (the method of measuring mileage in the Western Regions is about the distance of a horse running an hourglass, about the land of one horse is equivalent to about 12 kilometers, and there are smaller units of measurement mileage, the specific name of the measurement used in ancient Central Asia has been said by the old Kazakh, I also forgot, and it was replaced in the book, Use less. Plundering my Sotken Department, is galloping towards my Hutu Department", Ouyang Xuan was stunned, he didn't know how far this land of five horses was, Wei Zheng saw Ouyang Xuan's expression, and also knew about it, and hurriedly explained: "The land of one horse in Wusun is equivalent to 20 miles in the Han land, and the land of the five horses is also a hundred miles in the land of the Han land. This time the Huns invaded the northern line, the remnants of the southern line made a rebellion, the king of the south hereby led the troops to suppress", "oh, so it is", at this time the king of the south ordered "Tarati listen to the order, order you to send orders to the teams, quickly assemble here, after three leaks of time to meet the remnants of the doke", "command", Tarati received the order and turned out of the yurt, a few minutes later came the sound of the galloping horses, the king of the south turned his head to Ouyang Xuan after the order and said, "The son of the Han family sits for a while, and after I meet the enemy, Yu Gongzi drinks", after speaking, he got up and hurried out of the yurt. Leaving Wei Zheng and Ouyang Xuan in a daze.
Seeing King Nan come out of the yurt, Ouyang Xuan turned his head and asked Wei Zhengdao, "Can the chief tell me how many soldiers and horses does King Nan have under his command now?" Can you repel the remnants of the enemy? Wei Zheng looked at Ouyang Xuan, and said thoughtfully: "Don't hide it from the virtuous brother, for the sake of your identity as a Han Chinese, I won't hide it from you, now there are less than a thousand people under the command of the Southern King, and the rest are transferred to the northern line a few days ago."
"Then can I go and take a look, I have never been in the battle formation since I left the division, the opportunity is rare, forget Brother Wei's help", "It's okay, I happen to go with me, you can go with me, please move and choose a horse with me", after speaking, he got up and walked towards the door of the yurt, Ouyang Xuan lifted his backpack on his back, and then also walked out of the yurt and came to the stable. Said to be a horse selection, people have already finished choosing, a horse that looks pretty good, led by the groom and handed it to Ouyang Xuan, looking at this horse, gray-red, four hooves are not fixed, the horse's back is covered with thick layers of sheepskin, fixed under the horse's belly, there is no saddle, you can imagine how difficult it is to ride. At this time, Wei Zheng asked, "Can the virtuous brother ride a horse?" By being underestimated, horses have ridden a lot, and they have also participated in horse races on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, but that is a horse with a saddle and stirrups, a naked horse, and I have never ridden it, so I said: "I can ride it under it, but this kind of saddleless stirrup horse has not been tried", Wei Zheng was confused after hearing it, and hurriedly asked: "What is a stirrup?" Ouyang Xuan replied: "I wonder if Brother Wei has some wood?" I also have to bother Brother Wei to prepare some ropes", Wei Zheng was speechless, and hurriedly said: "These are all there, please come with me", after speaking, he led the way in front of him, and came to the wooden house on the left, there are a lot of wood in it, Ouyang Xuan, picked a boxwood suitable for horseback thickness, about 60 cm long, it may be the leftover scraps when doing other carpentry, Ouyang Xuan took the wood out, put down the backpack, took a mountaineering pickaxe from the side of the backpack, came to the wood, compared the size and shape of the saddle with his hand on the wood, and then carved traces with the pickaxe, After that, the planing process began with the wide blade of the pickaxe, and soon a protruding forward and backward warped, the rough saddle dug inside was completed, and he came to the horse with the saddle, removed the sheepskin on his back, carefully inspected the shape of the horse's back, and touched the bones of the horses with his hands, sketched the specific bone shape of the horse's back in his mind, and then said to Wei Zheng: "Is there a stone for sharpening the knife", "Yes, I will bring it to you immediately". Looking at Ouyang Xuan's equipment, Wei Zheng was a little dazed, and immediately turned around and went to get the whetstone.
Ouyang Xuan took out the short knife from the leg sheath and began fine processing, Kong Wu's powerful arms, cutting sawdust flying, Ouyang Xuan is now very grateful to his adoptive mother for cultivating his own artistic cells, when he was a child, he forced himself to learn to paint, after learning to paint, and learning sculpture, when he was in high school, he did not paint portraits on the street to make money, and he also took mud to pinch a clay sculpture to sell for money, and also worked as a wood grain carving worker on the construction site, today it is all used, only less than half an hour, the fine carving has been completed, and it is almost polished, looking at the wooden saddle, It feels good, it's a little interesting, at this time Wei Zheng was already stunned, really stunned, his eyes were straight. Ouyang Xuan finished admiring himself, turned his head to Wei Zheng and asked: "Have you ever got the whetstone", oh, got it", after saying that, he handed the stone over, Ouyang Xuan didn't say much, and then used the whetstone side to rub it on the saddle repeatedly, 10 minutes, a pair of bright saddles were completed, and a wooden stirrup was made with scraps, in order to ensure that it would not be broken, it was specially reinforced with copper strips underneath, and the four-point force was used instead of the ordinary two-point force. He hung the stirrup on the saddle, carried the saddle and came to the horse under the watchful eyes of the soldiers and Wei Zheng, and first put several layers of linen on the horse's back, then spread a layer of soft sheepskin on it, put the saddle on it, and fastened the saddle with ropes. Tighten it repeatedly, and then move the saddle stirrup, and get on the horse, it may be the first time that this horse has put on the saddle, and he is a little restless, Ouyang Xuan tightened the reins, and stepped on the stirrups with both feet, or it may be that the saddle fits more comfortably, and soon the horse quieted down. Ouyang Xuan knocked his feet, the horse ran slowly, ran around the valley, and also made a few difficult movements on the horse, seeing that the soldiers were dumbfounded, the action of hiding in the stirrup was too useful, and it couldn't be done without the saddle stirrup. Nanwang also saw everything clearly at the door of the yurt, and when Ouyang Xuan came back from a circle, he came forward, looked at the saddle stirrup carefully, nodded, and sighed, it was so simple, why didn't he expect it, Ouyang Xuan saw it in his eyes, handed over the reins, Nanwang was not polite, got on the horse in the same way, and then galloped around the horse, feeling extremely smooth, took a soldier's scimitar, and made another gesture on the horse. came back and dismounted, and went straight to Ouyang Xuan, "I wonder if Gongzi can teach this harness to my people?" "What the King of the South wants, torture and kill, these are just small skills, and I will definitely teach Yu His Majesty in his spare time", it turned out that Ouyang Xuan had also considered whether he should teach these people how to make saddle stirrups, and now he also wanted to open it, and the cold weapon war would not change because of this saddle stirrup." It's just that I also ask the king of the south to keep this secret, once it is leaked to the Huns, it will definitely increase the combat power of the Huns, and it will be unfavorable to me. "This is nature, please rest assured." After speaking, he put his hand on his chest and owed a debt, which was a return gift. Ouyang Xuan didn't care, turned around and saw that his two argalis were still tied to the stump in front of the wooden house on the right, remembered that he still had a group of sheep locked in the cave, and immediately said, "His Royal Highness King Nan, on the way I came, I captured some goats and argali, and they were still locked in the cave by the stream, no one took care of them, so I asked King Nan to send someone to fetch them and present them to His Royal Highness to show my gratitude", King Nan, who was looking into the distance, looked at Ouyang Xuan in surprise when he heard this, and said: "How did the prince catch the argali?" ""I remember when I was in Chang'an, the Han capital, my teacher once said: People are short, skills are long, a skill is added, the degree of use is worry-free, the son can catch the argali, which shows that the son's swift body is more than the snow leopard. Since Gongzi is unwilling to tell him, there must be a reason, and he will no longer inquire, so I will send someone to take it from Gongzi, and Gongzi can be convenient in this valley, and no one will stop him", "In this way, thank Your Highness". After speaking, he saw Nanwang look at the saddle, then at the two argali, turned around and entered the tent, and Wei Zheng also followed. Ouyang Xuan looked at the saddle, he always felt that it was a little worse, and he couldn't remember where it was for a while, and after a while, an older Wusun man came out, asked where Guan Yang was, and then rode away on horseback. Wei Zheng stepped forward at this time, "Brother Xian has this magic skill, and Brother Fool is deeply impressed", "Brother Tai has won the award, I still have a question, I don't know if to talk about it?" "Isn't Brother Xian asking me why I am here?" "Brother Tai Gaojian, that's exactly what it means", "It's a long story, when this battle is over, I'm telling it carefully, Brother Xian has been watching this harness, isn't there something wrong?" "Well, it's a little bit bad, I just don't know the crux of it" "Oh, between foolish brothers, if this rope is exchanged for a leash, will the horse reduce the sense of restraint?" "Damn, it's him, it seems that there are some things, or bystanders, and there are many people who are easy to do." Well, what Brother Tai said was very true, which made me suddenly enlightened, but the time was pressing, and it was too late to make it. It's not too late to do it when you come back."
Ouyang Xuan rode on the horse again, picked up the trekking poles made of the two branches, galloped wildly, waved the stick with both hands on the horse, chopped and picked thorns, and did it smoothly, after riding back, he took off the wristband on the simple trekking pole, and the flying horse ran away from a pine tree, when he was 60 meters away from the pine tree, he raised his waist and abdomen, and made a standard javelin throwing action, and in an instant, the cane was deeply rooted in the trunk of the tree, and when the horse galloped to the tree, he waved the other staff and smashed it into the pine tree, and heard a loud snap, The bark at the site of the blow shattered and fell off, and the staff broke with it. This hand happened to be seen by the Wusun soldiers who were assembling, and when they came back, there was a thunderous cheer. Ouyang Xuan also felt refreshed, and the suppressed mood in the later life was completely released.
Dismount and lift the backpack on its back, the habit of years of outdoor experience will never forget the backpack no matter where it is, and the backpack can play a life-saving role at critical times. A healthy horse galloped into the valley, galloped to the front of the tent, jumped down, and went straight to the tent, Wei Zheng saw this and hurriedly ran into the felt tent, and after a while, Nanwang and Wei Zheng and his party in addition to the yurt, but also remembered the sound of the horn.