While everyone in the team was happy to be back to rest, the road back to Kuzak was not so easy.

It took just over a day to march from Kuzak to Osh, but it took more than three days to return to Kuzak from the eastern cols and hills through the Namangan plain. Without him, there were many of them, and they were all frail women and children, and the situation was constant along the way, and some live trophies—cattle, sheep, and horses—inevitably wasted too much energy.

Fortunately, the grassland people in this era, both boys and girls, are very familiar with horses, which finally saves Lao Luo from another worry. As for the trophies such as cattle and sheep, Lao Luo selected a lot of weak ones that were not suitable for running and slaughtered them, and then put them into the carry-on space, at least he didn't have to drive a large herd of livestock to run long distances.

By the time we reached Kuzak, it was already the middle of November, according to the phases of the moon.

When he returned, it happened to be the afternoon when Kuzak's daily training had just ended, and the people who had been busy for most of the day received the report of the soldiers who had returned early, and Gonzas, Li Xuan, and a group of old people who were idle led the crowd to welcome them.

"Daozu is above, Luo Sanlang, are you fleeing with someone?" Li Xuan grabbed the reins of the duke, tilted his head and asked Lao Luo, who had just come off the horse.

It can be seen that he is in a good mood.

"No way, there are too many enemies, and there are many people who need help, most of them are women and children......" Lao Luo looked back at the crowd behind him, and it was indeed as Li Xuan asked - like a fleeing refugee, but there were too many women and children in the team, which made him suddenly think of another question, "By the way, Brother Xuan, there seem to be vacant wooden houses in the city, right?" ”

"You mean to house the new women and children?"

"That's right!"

"How many new arrivals are there?"

"I want to think about it...... There were six hundred and forty-six women, two hundred and ninety-three children, most of whom were only three or four years old, except for a few children of seven or eight years old, and one hundred and twenty-seven men, but they were all weak and needed to be recuperated......"

"Well, that's enough. Some time ago, when we built more than 60 houses, we built more than 60 more houses, and now there are more than a dozen houses piled up with debris, and as long as they are cleared out, each house can accommodate at least 20 people......"

"Well, that's good! Brother Lao Xuan also asked someone to sort it out, most of these newcomers can't speak Chinese, it is best to have a woman who knows Turkic to help take care of it, and there are also women who have some physical illnesses and also need to take care of them. ”

"It's okay, the lady in Dou's family is a good hand who can manage people, so I can leave this aspect to her." Li Xuan's face was relaxed, now everything in the city is gradually on the right track, although there are many miscellaneous things, but the people's hearts are useful, it is much better than a stagnant water in the time of Sylvan. Taking care of the new thousands of people really shouldn't be too simple.

"Oh, the parents of those little ones......"

"Some are the descendants of the assassination department, you know ......" Most of the adults in the assassination department were killed by Lao Luo's men, and no one poisoned the young and ignorant children after all, although the soldiers under his command were vengeful, they did not become beasts who killed everything. This is also what Lao Luo is more pleased with, although killing is a kind of inertia in this era, he doesn't want his race to have no bottom line like this world.

“…… Well, got it. Li Xuan was a little stunned, and then suddenly realized: "In this way, some families lack heirs and want to adopt some children, I will arrange it." ”

"Cheng, Brother Xuan, you have to bother!" Someone took over this kind of trivial matter, and Lao Luo couldn't ask for it. The boy camp he set up used his surname, but it could not take care of dozens of children of three or four years old, and although those children of seven or eight years old could join, it was inevitable that there would be some chaos because of the blood relationship - although most of the children in the camp were mixed, they were more or less Han Chinese, and most of them remembered their grudges with the Turks and the Qarluqs.

The two of them led the horses as they talked, and a big face next to them came over.

"General, did you get any good treasures this time?" But it's Stan, a big guy, who hasn't seen him for more than half a month, and Lao Luo feels that this guy is becoming more and more like a horizontal development.

"How can there be so many treasures? The Qarluqs were not Romans! Lao Luo replied angrily, this guy is greedy for too many treasures, isn't it the nature of the Viking in this era? He is not greedy, but he always likes to stay aside and look at strange things carefully, and his expression is like some famous collectors in later generations.

"Don't blame him, San Lang has been very busy in the city lately, and Stan has helped me a lot." Worried that Lao Luo had a misunderstanding, Li Xuan comforted him on the side.

"Busy? How? What's going on in the city lately? Lao Luo swept left and right, and the faces of the people around him who came out to greet him were very normal, not like something big had happened.

"Have you forgotten? It's already November now, and it's the Winter Solstice Festival in a blink of an eye! When Li Xuan said this, his expression was a little unbelievable, and he deliberately pretended to be confused.

Lao Luo really didn't think about it, what was the Winter Solstice Festival in the future, the soldier he was was not a young master soldier in the garrison, and he didn't care about the solar terms when he was on a mission, and no one took it seriously during the Spring Festival. In addition to the Spring Festival, there are still some people remember some of the festivals in later generations, and no one takes the Winter Solstice Festival, the Cold Food Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival seriously.

Seeing that Lao Luo's expression did not seem to be fake, Li Xuan further explained: "Presumably, San Lang has been in the distance for too long, and many customs have been forgotten. The ancestors said that every winter solstice, all families gather, children bow to their parents, everything is done, and the beginning of the first year is celebrated. It's the winter solstice! ”

Lao Luo suddenly realized that the difference between later generations and this era is very different. In this era, there is the Great Yan Calendar (1) inherited from the Tang Dynasty, which follows the customs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and regards the winter solstice as the beginning of a regeneration within a year.

Complete later.

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(1) The Great Yan Calendar, also known as the "Kaiyuan Great Yan Calendar", was compiled by Zhang Sui (monk and monk), and was a monk. Although the calendar that began to be implemented in the seventeenth year of Tang Kaiyuan (729 AD) was only used for 29 years, all subsequent calendar changes were derived from this basis, which is also the root of the modern lunar calendar. The calendar had a very far-reaching impact on the entire East Asian region, and when it was promulgated, it was when Ji Bei Zhenbei, a student sent by the Oriental Island Countries to the Tang Dynasty, took away one volume of the "Great Yan Calendar" and twelve volumes of the "Great Yan Calendar" when he returned to China. Since then, it has spread throughout the island nation.