"Huh?" Li Hongji stopped what he was doing.

Ulan Sobud thought for a while and said to Li Hongji: "The grassland is not as good as where you Han people live, wolves are often encountered on the grassland, I am a woman, what if I encounter wolves at night?" ”

"This ......," Li Hongji hesitated.

"Move your tent this way, as they did," Ulan Sobud said, gesturing his head back into his tent, adding, "If the wolves come, let them eat you first." ”

Li Hongji smirked for a moment, but moved the tent closer.

"You bastard, the wolves will still enter my tent if you're so far away." Ulan Sobud almost stamped his little feet, as if a pack of wolves must be coming at night.

Li Hongji gritted his teeth and moved the tent to the nearest place, just like Lan Lan and the others, almost sticking to the tent of Ulan Sobud.

Li Hongji's attendants all set up tents in front and behind, and if wolves came at night, they really couldn't reach Ulan Sobud's tent.

In the night in the north, the cold came quickly, and after eating roast beef and mutton, everyone felt dry and cold, and one by one they shrank their necks and quietly returned to the tent.

The tent was lit with firewood, but Ulan Sobud still felt a little cold, so she summoned Lan Lan and Mei Mei to her tent, and the three of them made a bed to force the cold back a little.

Li Hongji also felt cold, the Mongolian tents were far worse than the Han people's earthen walls in terms of resisting the cold wind. He moved the brazier to the bed, and put all the coat he had taken off on the quilt, so that his body warmed up a little.

After running for a day, he was really a little tired, Li Hongji had long wanted to sleep, but the sound outside made him toss and turn, but he couldn't sleep, this sound was not the wolves calling at all, but the whistling northwest wind was blowing, listening carefully, there were women murmuring.

The cold became more and more intense, Li Hongji wrapped the quilt tightly, and I don't know when, he fell asleep in a daze.

A ray of sunshine finally repelled the midnight cold, and Li Hongji slept soundly.

"Hongji, get up!" Ulan Sobud's voice came from outside the tent.

"Oh." Li Hongji happened to be asleep, turned over and fell asleep again, ignoring the cold wind blowing outside the tent in Ulan Sobud.

Ulan Sobud listened attentively, there was no sound in the tent, and knowing that Li Hongji was sleeping again, she slapped the tent with her little hand: "Li Hongji, get up." ”

"What are you doing? It's not dawn yet, so don't let people sleep? Li Hongji's eyelids were particularly heavy, and he still didn't open them.

"It's not dawn yet?" Ulan Sobud lifted the tent and simply walked in, "Li Hongji, when you open your eyes, the sun is hanging overhead." ”

Li Hongji opened his eyes, and the sun really rose high, "The sun is out, what's there?" Anyway, it's just wandering around the savannah. ”

Ulan Sobud's tone softened: "Don't you like the prairie? ”

"What's on the prairie? It's just the blue-gray grass roots, and the endless cold, but other than that, I really haven't seen any scenery. ”

"Humph!" Ulan Sobud was furious, but she thought about it, Li Hongji was right, it was winter, and the endless waves of grass, the endless flocks of sheep, and the wranglers galloping on the prairie could not be seen now, "Get up!" Everyone is waiting for you! ”

"The happiest thing right now is to get a good night's sleep." Li Hongji sat up from the bed as he spoke, he stretched his waist, took the padded jacket from the quilt, and put it on his body.

"You get dressed first, I'll wait for you outside." Ulan Sobud lifted his tent and went out alone.

Li Hongji got dressed and got out of the tent, and Ulan Sobud was still waiting for him in the cold wind outside, "Hongji, where are we going today?" ”

"Where to go? I don't know the way, so it's up to you to decide! Li Hongji yawned.

"How did you sleep last night?" Ulan Sobud asked knowingly.

"Sleep well...... Normally, the open grassland, it was too cold at night, and I was frozen all night. Li Hongji rubbed his astringent eyeballs.

Ulan Sobud pursed his lips and smiled, and his eyes moved to other places, "Hongji, let's go see the waterfall today, okay?" ”

"Waterfalls? Isn't this a steppe? Where did the waterfall come from? Li Hongji has the impression that the waterfall must be in the deep mountains, and there is a huge drop in the terrain to form the waterfall.

"Across the Jimulun River, and then to the southwest, is the West Hamulun River, which is the largest river in our Horqin grassland, in the upper reaches of the West Hamulun River, is the Great Khing'an Mountains, where the terrain is very different, there are a large number of waterfalls."

"Oh, let's go see the waterfall!" Li Hongji's gaze fell on Ulan Sobud's little face that was frozen red, "Ulan Gege, your name is so strange, what does it mean?" ”

Ulan Sobud raised his little face: "In the words of you Han people, it is a red pearl." ”

"No wonder Ulan Gege likes to wear red."

"How? Does my red robe look good? ”

"It's good-looking, with a little white horse, if it's galloping in the grassland, it's really amazing." Li Hongji held out a thumbs up.

"Hahaha......" Ulan Sobud's silver bell-like laughter floated on the banks of the Jimulun River.

"Gege, the mutton is hot." Mei Mei came over and called Ulan Sobud for dinner.

"Let's go over together, they'll have one for you." Ulan Sobud and Mei Mei lead the way in front of the head.

Li Hongji followed behind them, and Lan Lan was still warming the mutton.

Seeing the three of them coming, Lan Lan handed each of them a piece of hot mutton, and when she gave it to Li Hongji, she lowered her head, as if she owed it for the whip yesterday.

"Hongji, do you drink mare's milk tea?" Ulan Sobud sat on Li Hongji's right hand, and while she was nibbling on mutton, her eyes were on Li Hongji.

"I've never drunk mare's milk tea, so I don't know what it tastes like."

"Would you like to try it?" Ulan Sobud handed over his mare's milk tea.

Li Hongji took the mare's milk tea, took a sip of the teapot, he stopped the milk tea in his mouth, and carefully evaluated the taste, except for a little salty, some mare's milk taste, there is nothing special.

He took a sip of "grunt" and swallowed all the mare's milk tea, and his dry throat immediately moistened, "Yes, the taste of mare's milk tea is very special." ”

Ulan Sobud kept observing Li Hongji's face until Li Hongji swallowed all the mare's milk tea.

"I'll just say that our Mongolian mare's milk tea is the best in the world."

"Haha, the world's first, the world's first." Li Hongji laughed, wiped his chin, and wiped off the scattered mare's milk tea.

"Give it to me." Ulan Sobud snatched the mare's milk tea from Li Hongji's hand and took a sip.

When breakfast was over, everyone packed up their tents and put them back in the packages on their horses.

Li Hongji and Ulan Sobud were at the forefront, because there was only a narrow stone arch bridge over the Jimulun River, and everyone was leading their horses across the bridge.

"Hongji, you Han people are all knowledgeable, do you know this bridge?" Ulan Sobud walked almost side by side with Li Hongji on the bridge.

Li Hongji looked down at the bridge, the bluestone on the bridge deck had turned black, and the wear was quite severe, obviously some years, but there was no text on the bridge deck.

This place was once the birthplace of many ethnic groups, and many ethnic groups once dominated, who knows what allusions this bridge has? Li Hongji shook his head, "The age of the construction of this bridge is a long time ago, and I really don't see any clues." ”

Ulan Sobud laughed but didn't say a word.

"Does Ulan Gege know about this bridge?"

"I heard that this is the building of the Liao Dynasty." Ulan Sobud put his hands behind his back and chuckled lightly, like a rich son from Jiangnan who was arrogant and arrogant.

"Liao Dynasty? It's been hundreds of years now, and there is no written record, how can Gege be so sure? ”

"Hongji is a Han Chinese, and he doesn't know much about things on the grassland," Ulan Sobud's gaze turned to the bridge piers, "Hongji, take a look, are the bridge piers on both sides eight?" ”

Li Hongji stood in the middle of the stone bridge, counted left and right, and sure enough, there were eight each, "What does this mean?" ”

"This is the characteristics of Liao Dynasty buildings, bridges, where the materials, must be four, so the piers on both sides, is eight, if eight is not enough, it will be added to twelve, it is impossible to use ten materials."

"This ......" only relies on eight piers to say that the bridge of the Liao Dynasty, Li Hongji still doesn't believe it.

"Hongji looks at this bridge deck again, and looks sideways, how many big stones are there?"

Li Hongji counted them in turn, and he was a little surprised: "It's all four?" ”

"If Hongji doesn't believe it, you can count it vertically, from north to south, how many big stones are there?"

Li Hongji walked along the bridge deck, and then walked back, and found that in each vertical row, the stones were multiples of four, "Huh! Really! ”

"This is the characteristic of the stone bridge of the Liao Dynasty, and I also listened to the old man." Ulan Sobud smiled: "However, it is useless to know this, since the rise of the Jurchens, it is the Khitan people who established the Liao Dynasty, and they have long not known where they are annihilated - I don't know what my Horqin Mongols will be in the future?" ”

"Ulan Gege," Li Hongji's gaze stopped on her face for a long time, "Didn't Gege say that he wanted to talk about important matters and find your uncle?" ”

"Hehe, of course, I just saw the ancient bridge of the Liao Dynasty, and I was a little sentimental, let's go, let's go to the waterfall!"

Li Hongji's buttocks were just whipped by Lan Lan, it was winter, he was wearing cotton pants, the scars were not serious, and after another night, it was basically fine, and he stepped on the back of the horse again.

In the Horqin grassland in winter, there is really nothing to see, Li Hongji feels that in the depths of the grassland, it is purely freezing, but if he stays in Tang Harik, he has nothing to do.

They ran southwest for most of the day, and finally came to the remnants of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and began to see living creatures on the ground.

Pheasants and hares began to scurry around them.

"It's a pity we don't have bows and arrows, so why don't we shoot some pheasants and hares, so that you can taste these fresh delicacies!" Ulan Sobud looked at the small animals on the ground, looking a little disappointed.

"Hare? Pheasant? Li Hongji looked at these lively little animals, and his heart was also itchy.

"By the way, Hongji, aren't your flintlock pistols very powerful? Can you hit a hare? Ulan Sobud swept around Li Hongji's attendants, and she wanted to see the flintlock pistols to see how powerful they really were.