"A certain Yuyang Zhang Yitai is ...... I've seen Elder Mida! Zhang Yitai stood up and saluted Elder Yuda. When he turned around and saw that Zhuang Yi was still sitting there and didn't move, he couldn't help beckoning with some annoyance, Zhuang Yi reacted, and hurriedly got up to follow, but it attracted a kind laugh from everyone in the tent.

"According to your Central Plains marriage procedures, it must be ordered by your parents, and you can only go through three media and six ceremonies. We are not so cumbersome, usually the male family sets up an ice feast to invite the matchmaker and the female patriarch to exchange Geng stickers, even if the marriage is decided. But the status of the king of my family is noble, and I have always cared about red tape, but Geng stickers still have to be changed, has Zhang Langzhong ever prepared? Elder Yuda asked with a smile.

"Elder Xie Yuda reminds that so-and-so has been prepared, but please take a look at it and think about it!"

Zhuang Yi was surprised to find that Zhang Yitai really took out a small red book from his arms and handed it over, Elder Yu Da took it, and also handed over the same small red book, the two of them looked at it carefully for a while, muttered a few words, and smiled heartily.

"The eight characters of the birthday are compatible, Daji!" Zhang Yitai said he.

Elder Yuda also nodded repeatedly, turned around and presented the two copies of Geng stickers to the case of Turus, and said with a smile: "So...... These marriages can be decided, please consider the king! ”

"Yes!" Turus laughed, and turned to tell the maid to go and invite Princess Alan.

Zhang Yitai also glanced at Zhuang Yi, Zhuang Yi understood, stepped forward to hold Princess Alan's hand, and saluted the Turles couple and the matchmaker together, which can be regarded as a courtesy. Everyone in the tent stepped forward one by one to raise a glass to congratulate, and Zhuang Yi had to thank him one by one.

Zhuang Yi and Princess Ailan's engagement gift is obviously not a regular program. Usually at this time, Zhuang Yi wants to offer a big gift, and a big gift is a gift, which of course depends on his identity. But Zhuang Yi is shabby and poor, he is also very stingy and cold, even if there is anything precious, he may not be willing to take it out, and he is still counting on Turus to post something to him.

According to the custom of ordinary herdsmen of the Xi people, after a man and a woman are engaged, the man should send horses, cows, sheep and wine to the woman's house, which is called a "big gift", and at this time, the girl should hide and not see her fiancé. It is not until the wedding is approaching that the man gives another small gift, and then the unmarried couple can meet.

In fact, the concept of marriage of the Xi people is also relatively conservative, generally not intermarrying with foreigners, and also paying great attention to factors such as the right family, which is completely handled by parents or elders in the clan, although it is also monogamous, but it is also regarded as normal for men to take concubines.

Obviously, Tules doesn't pay much attention to this, he thinks about the major events of the survival of the entire Xi people, and Ailan and Zhuang Yi's engagement this time is done according to the model of formal marrying, anyway, Ailan will be a wife in the future.

As for Princess Ailan, her heart is all on Zhuang Yi, and she is also very filial to her parents, as long as Zhuang Yi really has the ability to help her father get through this difficulty, these etiquette or something, in her opinion, are also trivial, and Zhuang Yi does not have the luxury of economic strength now, which she fully knows. For the future wedding wedding, that's what she is looking forward to.

At this point, the big tent began to be lively, Turus was hospitable, everyone pushed their glasses in return, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached a climax until late in the night.

Zhuang Yi's head was dizzy, and he felt a little top-heavy, and when he was on the verge of drunkenness, he was helped by Bian Wu and Sha Gu, one left and one right, and returned to the camp with Zhang Yitai. I saw a bright moon hanging high in the sky, the light of a grand bonfire in the distance reflected the night sky, the sound of drums and pianos was heard, and the reveling shepherds seemed to be tireless.

Suddenly, I saw two Xi soldiers standing at the camp gate, and when I got closer, I realized that it was not, it was actually a black car room Wei people.

The soldier said in a Youzhou dialect: "Why is Zhuang Langjun only coming back now, our Patriarch Pala and Lord Bao'en have come to visit, but we have been waiting for you in the middle of the night!" ”

"What? Your chief of Euphrates, when did he come to the tent and what is waiting for me? Zhuang Yi was surprised, and after a little thought, he understood, and couldn't help laughing.

Since the Khitan envoy also came, it was of course inconvenient for the Bola patriarch of Murwei to show up, but it was probably not a good thing for him to come to him. The Murwei people wanted to secretly form an alliance with the Xi people to attack the Khitan, so they first got involved with Shuli, Hegu Nu and others, and saw that Shuli and Hegu Nu had lost power, and it was hard to win the trust of King Xi, so they came to find themselves, nothing more than for the upcoming war. Thinking that the patriarch of Pala might be sitting and waiting in his big tent, Zhuang Yi didn't want to see him immediately, so he simply went to Zhang Yitai's tent. Zhang Yitai called the soldiers outside to bring in a basin of cold water, Zhuang Yi washed his face, suddenly the fatigue subsided, his mind cleared up a lot, sat down behind the case, and gently rubbed his temples.

Zhang Yitai brewed the tea with his own hands, sat down on the other side of the case and said with a smile: "The Patriarch of Bola has come here, it can be seen that their situation is not optimistic, and they are already impatient. ”

Zhuang Yi said with a smile: "That's for sure, it's almost the harvest season of the grassland people, and every day that the people of Heichezi Murowei surrender to the Khitan, they have to pay a large number of cattle, sheep, war horses and other property, but now is not the time to break with the Khitans, can he not be in a hurry?" ”

"Haha...... Is that! If I were Bola, I would definitely try my best to let the Xi people fight the Khitans early, so that I could judge the situation and give the Khitan a hard blow at the right time, so as to get out of its control, escape to the depths of the grassland for the winter, and hide until the summer and autumn of the next year, and find a way to recapture the grassland. Zhang Yitai said with a grin.

"Hey! Not bad...... In fact, I also hope to fight the Khitans as soon as possible, so that I can have enough space to lay out. But this is impossible, just these scattered Xi herdsmen, as cavalry, are still good, but the equipment is too poor, it is absolutely difficult to match the Khitans. But to train them into infantry, it will take at least two months to develop combat effectiveness. Therefore, this Phala's careful thoughts, thoughts, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve his wish. Zhuang Yi took a sip of the teacup and said with a chuckle.

"I'm afraid it won't work if you don't see it, everyone is here with you, go and see! There might be some unexpected gains. ”

"That's it! Let's go see you! Zhuang Yi smiled bitterly.

The two sat down for a while, and Zhuang Yi took Zhang Yitai back to his camp. Zhuang Yi stepped forward and opened the curtain of the tent, and saw a light like a bean in the big tent, behind the case he commonly used to use inside, at this time sat a middle-aged man in his thirties, he was wearing a black curly brim fur hat, his hair was scattered, his dark face was thin and narrow, and under the slender eyebrows, there was a pair of equally slender eyes, and the bridge of the nose was high and hooked, which looked very yin.

The man beside him was none other than Bonn, and the two were drinking boredly.