What is happiness, the old man Li Tan rarely thinks about this question, and what his homeland is like can only be guessed from the descriptions of his fathers when he was young. He just knew that at least for now, this land was not suitable for the Tang people to live, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that everyone still remembered that their fathers were descendants of the Tang Anxi army who fought against the Abbasid kingdom, and remembered the battle two hundred years ago, I am afraid that they would have become loyal believers of Hu Da (1) by now.

Unlike ordinary warriors, Li Tan knew a lot of secrets of various ethnic groups, the Sogdians, Samanids, and Turks were all once Abbasid Mawari (2), since the Abbasids began to decline, the fighting between various ethnic groups has never stopped, including the constant fighting within each ethnic group, tens of thousands of people in a small Tang battalion are too easy to get involved, and once involved, no matter which ethnic group, tens of thousands of Tang people can only become stepping stones.

If the Tang people didn't want to get involved in this quagmire, they had to find a way to jump out of the circle, so there was the matter of Li Zhan and a few people going west to Rome, and then they were lucky to return and brought back such a powerful warrior as Luo Kaixian.

That's right, at first, Li Tan just regarded Luo Kaixian as a powerful warrior, and some bizarre places in Li Zhan's description were regarded as rare and strange by the old man, until later Luo Kaixian couldn't bear to recruit local Tang people as Donggui soldiers, and then found Du Ne, a civilian elder, and took out a half-screenshot paper of the floating car, and the old man Li Tan began to face up to this clansman who said that he had returned from afar.

Thinking about what has happened continuously during this period of time, Li Tan, who is in his recent years, can't help but show some smug smiles, "You embryo-killers, you only know how to be brave and ruthless, when Na Luo Saburo stepped on Pei Donghai's back in the council hall to speak, why didn't you talk and stretch out your hand?" ”

Li Tan's words were naturally said to a few elderly and dissatisfied guys who were also on the floating car, but the content of his words was a bit provocative.

"Uncle Tan, don't tease us, that Luo Sanlang who eats raw meat? Who dares to mess with him? The crowd was silent for a long time, and the person who talked was Wang Laosi, who liked to talk and laugh, "You said it, Pei Donghai, who claimed to be able to fight against twelve Turkic warriors, failed to defend the family, so don't come forward to join in the fun." ”

"Pei Jia Donghai is actually a big talker, that kid from the Cheng family didn't give it in vain, but when he tried it, he was not taken off the horse by Luo Sanlang in a few clicks? It is estimated that it is because of the mercy of Luo Sanlang's subordinates. Although the second brother Ma with a deflated mouth has lost many teeth, his tongue is more clever, and this is what he means when he speaks unforgivingly.

"Alas, there have been a lot of things going on in the last few months, and the journey has not stopped since I came out of Sylvain. At the time of Ardabil, I was really worried that Uncle Tan would go out, Luo Saburo would not give face, and the people of the Pei Wei family would really die by themselves. "Fan Wu is much better than others, at least this kind of compassionate attitude is by no means what Wang Laosi and Second Brother Ma have.

"This Luo Jiazaburo is a big dealer, it's not the first time I've interceded with Pei Wei's two families, the arson case outside the joint workshop in the days before departure has something to do with them, if it weren't for me pressing Xuan'er to intercede, the bones of Pei Wei's two families would be rotten. It was the last time in Ardabil, and everyone had their own ambitions, and they couldn't help it. The old man Li Tan also sighed when he talked about this matter.

"Uncle Tan's matter is a bit wishful thinking, it is said that many of Pei Wei's two families have begun to believe in Hu Da, they and we are not all the way, you plead for them? That's thankless. Fan Wu thought about it and understood, and he had nothing to scruple about facing the elder Li Tan who had opened.

"Didn't I think about the love of the ancestor of the Pei family in Wuhushui back then, it was not a simple matter to help the clansmen escape from the Abbasids together, and in that battle, we died a lot!" Li Tan said and went back to the old things.

When people are old, they always inevitably recall the past, it's not that Li Tan is conservative, it's really that people are getting older, and the past things always jump in front of him one by one, and in the face of his brother's family, he really can't help but plead. If it hadn't been for the refuge of the Sil mortals, maybe the old brothers who had passed away over the years would have been reunited in their homeland long ago, right?

Of course, it is more likely that everyone is sleeping under the harsh snow-capped mountains of the Green Mountains.

"Uncle Tan doesn't have to think about it anymore, no one can say that their decision is right when it comes to the end, at the beginning in Wuhushui, if it weren't for the power of the Sil mortals, maybe half of us would have lived to see the East." Fan Wu's grandfather is Li Tan's brother, he grew up with the old man Li Tan, and naturally understands what this old man who has worked for the group all his life is thinking, "Although the population is not prosperous now, at least tens of thousands of people can be regarded as able to eat and clothe, after that Luo family kid came, why did he want to take us back to Dongtu, didn't he still fancy that we are all descendants of the Anxi Army?" At least in our homeland, our tens of thousands of people can still be the foundation of the Luo family's boys! ”

"Don't, don't be so philistine, Xiao Wu" Li Tan waved his hand and stopped Fan Wu's words, "Luo Jia Saburo may have such thoughts, but don't forget, if there is no Luo Jia Saburo, our tens of thousands of descendants of the Anxi Army will be the result of eating and waiting for death in Xierfan!" And people like Luo Jia Saburo don't look young, but they are amazing guys wherever they are placed, not to mention the young man's mind, just that combat power, plus more than 100 people under him, what are they called? ”

"Gladiator...... The Romans, that is, the slave warriors of the Western Qin people......" Fan Wu Gui added in a proper manner.

"That's right, gladiator, they're all people crawling out of the pile of dead people!" Although Li Tan's memory has declined, he is not confused at all, "Do you believe it or not?" Without the burden of more than 10,000 of us, the more than 100 people of others can stir up the Turkic people's place into a pot of porridge? ”

"Can't you?" How can more than 100 people still turn the sky upside down? Fan Wu was the first to disbelieve.

"Fifth brother, you are now a scholar, you haven't seen other people's skills!" Wang Laosi next to him couldn't bear it, he was the best physical strength among these older people, even if he started to hurry, he didn't stay honestly in the floating car, naturally he saw a lot of things that others didn't notice, "That Luo Sanlang himself not only has a good knife technique, that long knife has a hundred and ten catties, that thing is much heavier than the Mo knife, and he also has a good archery skill, with an iron bow, it is said that there is no missing arrow within three hundred steps...... More than 100 of his subordinates have said, what is the name of the big man you often see... Stan... That's right, the big guy named Stan has a knack for throwing an axe with one hand, and within fifty or sixty steps, he won't hit you on the shoulder if he says he will split your head......"

"Wang Laosi, this is not a storytelling in a women's store (3), what you said is really fake?" Although they are all old brothers, Fan Wu can't get used to seeing Wang Laosi's babbling appearance, and he can't get used to seeing his hair and beard white.

"Fifth brother, I call you fifth brother, you can't look down on people like this, right?" Wang Laosi was reluctant, "People are patrolling not far away, why don't you go over and verify and ask in person?" ”

"Yes, yes, brother, I said it wrong, is it okay? I don't even know which one to believe when you guy's mouth doesn't have time to go all day! Seeing that Wang Laosi was really unhappy, Fan Wu didn't want to have a stiff relationship with these old brothers, so he had to make a haha to cover up the matter. However, apparently he remembered what Wang Laosi said, "So, or am I underestimating this Luo Jiasanlang?" ”

"I don't know if you're too young, a bad old man of my age can't see many things, and everything is told to me by the people next to me. I only said that Damgan sent people to clean up the battlefield that time, and when Xuan'er came back to talk to me, he frightened me, an old man. Li Tan is not a person who has never seen a battle, but now that he thinks about it, he still feels shocked, "You haven't been to that battlefield, Xuan'er told me, just one night of fire, the mountain is full of dead bodies, half-cooked corpses, how much do you know?" More than 6,000 people, not counting the people killed by Luo Jiazaburo in the valley in the early morning, and the people intercepted by the cavalry school outside the valley, the total must have exceeded 10,000 people...... It's only one night! How many casualties did you have? Did you know? There were only thirty or so dead, and no more than a hundred were injured, and they were only insignificant......

The old man Li Tan said that his eyebrows fluttered a little, and he looked at the shocked expressions of the guys next to him who were also the eldest and not a small man, as if he commanded the battle by himself, not to mention how refreshing this feeling was in his heart.

"Look at Uncle Tan, you are so happy, what is the joy? Tell us about it? "Wang Laosi is poor, and he is also a good hand when he looks at his eyes.

"Actually, it's nothing, you all know that the Luo family Saburo and the fourth mother of the Tulongzi family are going to get married when they return to Dongtu." Li Tan said that he didn't care, but the smile on his face betrayed him, and the wrinkles on his face were about to laugh.

"Uncle Tan, I've heard about this, and I've officially proposed marriage?" Second Brother Ma couldn't stay idle next to him, and asked with a pout.

"That's right, what is the old butler in his camp called the guy from Maxood, and he came to the door and said it directly to Tulongzi." Li Ji is a granddaughter of the old man Li Tan, and she is worried about this little child who is about to get married, but now it is good, this little woman has taken a fancy to an amazing young man, and she really has a good life.

"Well, this is a big happy event, the fourth lady is a hot-tempered little woman, it's really ...... to be able to marry" Wang Laosi sighed a little next to him before he could finish it, and was slapped away by Second Brother Ma.

"Of course, it's a good thing for the fourth lady to get married, no wonder she can't look down on the boys in the clan for so many years, dare to love this marriage until this time......" Second Brother Ma finally brought this back, and if Wang Laosi said nonsense, he would definitely make the old man angry, "But the Luo family kid also did a good thing, getting thousands of Sogdians and Turks and Samanid little girls to come, and the young boys in the clan jumped up and down like taking a big tonic."

"Hehe, it's good to jump, young people don't jump, how can we do it like us, marrying a lady is also a robbery......" Wang Laosi, who didn't cultivate, smiled slyly and bared his white teeth again.

"Haha......" Several old guys with similar expressions to him also laughed.

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(1) Huda, the transliteration of the Persian word Khudai, which means "the one who is at ease", is the name of the Persian word for the Islamic Allah, and the Uyghur language in Xinjiang, China and the religious title of the main god in ** are derived from this word.

(2) Mawari, a word derived from Old Arabic meaning freed slaves, during the Umayyad period, referred to all non-Arab Muslims, such as Syrians, Iranians, Turks, Kurds, Sogdians, and so on.

(3) Women's shops refer to places like brothels, and Sogdians, Iranians, and Jews are experts in this type of business. Storytelling, storytelling, troubadours and the like, you can understand it as a storyteller in later generations, or a singing artist, and by the way, Homer in the Homeric epic of ancient legends is a troubadour.