In Luo Kaixian's eyes, Olki is a sullen conservative character, although it is difficult to stand alone in silence, he is the most suitable candidate for personal guards, and the biggest advantage of this person is that he definitely has a saying by his side, never ambiguous, and his execution is also first-class, so this Bulgarian is his number one supporter, and even Cui Shiba, who followed the earliest, is difficult to compare.

"Alki, what's on your mind? This is not like your usual ......" To the people around him who follow him all the year round, Luo Kaixian spoke with a rare ease.

"The lord ......" Olki hesitated for a moment, and then said in an almost word-for-word tone: "General, there are many visitors who have come to congratulate the lord of the general's wedding recently, all of them are Zheng Langjun and Du Lao, who are entertaining, yesterday evening, the subordinates also walked around the camp when they were free, and saw some guests who claimed to be from Khotan......"

According to the customs of this season, as a groom, he also has to entertain guests at the wedding banquet, but Luo Kaixian's identity is special, so he has a lot less entertainment tasks. But there should be something that still can't be escaped, it's just that it was arranged on the second night of the wedding night, and that was when Luo Kaixian, the groom, came forward to entertain the guests.

"Khotan?" Luo Kaixian was very puzzled, according to what he had learned on the road before, the power of Khotan had been almost wiped out by the Qarakhanids, that is, the Qarluqs, how could anyone run to him in their name.

"If I'm not mistaken, those people are saying that they are from Khotan, the Lord!" Faced with the general's question, Olki replied respectfully, "There are sixteen of them, and more than half of them have no hair, just like the ones I met in Shazhou...... Monk. ”

Luo Kaixian shook his head, even if it is a Khotanese person, there is nothing strange about it, just a Khotanese person, how can it not be the reason for his own captain to lose his temper, he did not speak, just stared at the Bulgarian in silence.

In just a few seconds, Olki couldn't hold it anymore, lowered his head slightly, and said in a muffled voice: "...... The generals, they took with them more than thirty slave girls, more than half of whom were blonde or brown-haired, two of whom were very sick and one ...... Much like my sister ......."

"Your sister?" Luo Kai first felt that things were a bit of a coincidence, but he suddenly understood Alki's previous hesitation. For a camp of more than 100,000 people, a medical battalion of more than 300 people is not enough, but there is no way, good doctors and even patient medical soldiers cannot be trained overnight, so there is an unwritten rule in the camp - no outsiders will be accepted unless the Lord is specially approved.

Although he was sure that Alki would not be wrong, Luo Kaixian also sighed a little helplessly, and asked: "I remember Olki, you said that your family died in the war, are you sure that the sick woman is your sister?" ”

"I'm ......," Olki fell to his knees, "Lord, I was only sixteen years old when I was drafted, I was captured at the age of eighteen, and then sold as a gladiator, and I heard from my people that my hometown had been breached by Basil II, and most of them had been killed...... The woman was still unconscious, and she had a mole under the outer corner of her eye......"

"Stand up, don't rush yet!" As he spoke, Luo Kaixian stretched out his hand and pulled the Bulgarian up, "Khotanese people...... Well, even if they were Khotanese people, what would they do with as many female slaves? It's nothing more than giving gifts or trading, you go to Stan's, withdraw a thousand gold coins, give them to Li Zheng, pass on my general order, let him buy all the female slaves, and then you come forward to send the sick woman to Qin Langzhong for healing, understand? ”

"Understood, just...... General, why did you buy all the slave girls? Alki didn't understand Luo Kaixian's intentions, and after the sadness passed, curiosity immediately rose.

"Wooden head!" Luo Kai patted the Bulgarian on the head first, "There are too many single men and too few women in the camp, and it will be a big problem to marry a wife in the future, and you are the same, you can't take the Lord to take you around to rob women, right?" Moreover, since the Khotanese people you mentioned brought female slaves over, they must have come to give congratulatory gifts, and there is a proverb in the East that if you give a courtesy, you must ask for something. I don't want this unknown person to give a gift, it is better to exchange it for gold and silver, but it is simple and clear! ”

"Understood, Lord!" Alki rubbed his head in a mess and agreed, "I'll go find Stan!" ”

After sending away the ignorant Olki, Luo Kaixian sat there alone and sighed in his heart, many things in his heart could not be told to others, for example, he was now doubting the true origin of the so-called Khotanese people - now it is also a big business, and there are more coveters, and they dare not resist hard, and they have never stopped secretly sending spies and other means.

Olki is still too honest, so honest that he will never cut off people's necks when he is ordered to cut off people's heads, and he will never chop his feet when he is ordered to cut off his thighs!

At the flow of thoughts, Luo Kaixian was also a little helpless, when he first picked people in the manor of the fat guy in Soratinok, he only wanted honest and brave people, but he didn't expect that his vision was really good, except for Helton Alke, who was slightly different from each other, and the others, including Gonzas, were basically straight guys.

……

In the afternoon, the tired bride and maid Ge Rina were sent to continue to take a nap, and Luo Kai, who couldn't stay idle, ordered someone to invite the old Dune who had just been free.

"Old Du, you've been bothering about the wedding...... carrying a very rough purple clay pot, pouring a cup of black tea for the old Du Ne sitting opposite, Luo Kaixian said very solemnly. The clay pot in his hand is a newly made thing in the recent workshop kiln, as for the tea leaves, it is black tea, but in fact, it is a semi-fermented tea exchanged from the hands of passing merchants, and the price is as expensive as death.

"What did San Lang say, tens of thousands of miles all the way before, you worked hard to lead everyone back to this eastern land, and now there is a big wedding, what hard work is there? However, the old man can take this opportunity to meet the people of his homeland, but it is a fulfillment of what the elders in the family said in the past, and the heart is full of joy, which is not enough for outsiders to ......" Lao Dune covered his beard, pinched up the stoneware tea bowl and drank it slowly, sniffed the tea fragrance at the mouth of the cup, changed the topic and said: "San Lang, you also like to drink tea?" It's just that...... Why is it brewed this way? When the old man was young, the elders of the family liked to boil tea in boiling water, and it is said that green onions, ginger, orange peel, mint, dates, and salt should be added...... Or even the likes of mutton fat and all sorts of things......"

Luo Kaixian was not surprised, because he had learned a little about the tea customs of the Tang Dynasty from the history books, and then imagined the taste of the mixed spices according to Du Ne's description...... He couldn't help but shudder, "Old Du, according to what you said, the green onions, ginger, orange peel and salt are boiled together with the tea leaves, does the soup still taste like tea?" ”

"Hah!" Dune smiled a little embarrassedly, "San Lang said this...... Remark...... It is very reasonable, and now that I think about it, it is just that the vassals of the nobles of the gate valve are arrogant and arrogant. ”

Luo Kaixian instantly understood the mystery, and used the words of later generations to describe it simply, it was nothing more than pretentiousness, the purpose of the Tang people to make tea with various materials was to show that they were knowledgeable, and the so-called wealthy dignitaries of later generations must drink the dry red wine of the Gauls in the same way, they don't necessarily understand much, as long as they can be different from the others.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with pretending, in fact, he himself sometimes pretended, and he could be called pretending to be a ghost, and what made him sigh in his heart was that the so-called dignitaries were pretending to be too low-level.

After a change of thought, Luo Kaixian said: "Old Du, are there a lot of guests who have come to visit in the past two days?" Have you seen it all? ”

"The old man was about to talk to you...... the embarrassment on Lao Dune's face disappeared in an instant, "San Lang, your wedding seems to have spread far and wide, and the guests who came to congratulate were not only the heads of small tribes within a radius of 100 miles, but also the party and the people who came to congratulate them, and the Tubo people from Qingtang, a high-ranking official from Zhao Song and Qinfeng Road, and a high-ranking official from Zhao Song and Qinfeng Road came to visit......"

"Tibetans? The transport envoy of the Song people? Luo Kai came to the spirit first, "Du Lao is slow, what is the matter of the Tubo people's visit?" The Song people's transfer envoy is a high-ranking local official, how could he come to my Lingzhou land? ”

"San Lang, don't worry! Let's listen to the old man slowly. Dunne twisted his beard and said calmly.

"Well, it's Luo San who is impatient...... Please also ask Du Lao to elaborate. Luo Kai first listened to the words, Du Ne reminded him a little, and he woke up to the fact that he had been too bored in the past few days, and he was a little less calm in the past, in order to regulate his emotions, he grabbed the teapot again, and slowly and steadily filled the tea bowls of the two people, and the water waves in the tea bowl gently rippled, and quickly returned to calm.

There are some broken leaves floating in the tea bowl, and it is clear that the tea obtained from the merchant is not a top-quality product, but it is a rare natural product, and the smell of tea in the air and the smell of pine and cypress in the wooden house are blended together.

Du Ne held the tea bowl, took a deep breath, and said in a flat tone: "Back then, in Silvan, when there was a happy event in the city, there were only three or five people who went to congratulate you. The old man is also well-informed, but it is the first time he has seen so many greeting guests! ”

"It's just...... Most of the people who come to congratulate are not pure-minded, and the congratulations for your wedding are just the beginning, and it is their original intention to use the congratulatory things to test the reality inside my camp! Battlefield killing is Saburo's strength, but people's hearts are secretive, but they can't be guarded against! "People are old spirits, ghosts and old spirits, an old guy like Dune can say that his eyelashes are hollow, how can he not see the world clearly? So after casually introducing some information, he directly drew conclusions about the thoughts of the so-called greeting guests.

Luo Kaixian naturally knew this, he was not really as young as he was now. Waving his hand at Lao Dune and said: "Thank you Du Lao for reminding me, Luo San is not a blind believer, we waited for us to return from a journey thousands of miles away, swept all the way to the enemy, and we are hated by others!" Now that he is settled in this Lingzhou land, it is not a short time to get the support of the people in peace! There is no good intention in this world for no reason, the congratulations of the various ministries on my big wedding are fake, it is only right to come to the temptation because of the fear of attacking, Du Lao does not have to worry about Luo San's words and deception......"

"Haha, it's the old man who is too worried...... San Lang is a man of great talent, how can he coax San Lang's mind if he covets sneaky people! A little worry in Dune's heart turned into nothingness, seeing that the first foreign descendants who came into contact with Sylvan had become the backbone of hundreds of thousands of people, because he was optimistic about the future development, his heart was happy when he reverie, and he smiled so much that he could not see his teeth.

The two talked about the happy place, and they were harmonious, compared to the high-rise house, although the wooden house was simple, but close to the hearts of the people, although the coarse tea master said that it was ugly, but it had its own fragrance.