Everyone was intoxicated by Yang Yaozong's melodious songs, but Ayi's expression was more excited than the others. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Her beautiful eyes widened, and she pulled Yang Yaozong's arm and said, "Have you been to Crescent Spring?" ”

Yang Yaozong smiled embarrassedly: "I haven't been there, I heard the elders talk about it." But I really want to see this mysterious and beautiful place. ”

Ayi nodded and said, "You must go and see, it's the first spring in the desert!" It is a sacred place blessed and protected by the god of the grassland. ”

Without waiting for Yang Yaozong to reply, Mu Qinghan said excitedly: "I also want to go and see, I heard that there is a grass called Seven Star Grass, which can make people immortal, and there is a fish called ironback fish, which can cure all kinds of diseases if eaten, and there is beautiful five-color sand." ”

Although Liao Qiniang had never heard of those magical things, she really wanted to see the oasis spring water in the desert, and she was also fascinated.

Ayi smiled: "These things are really available in the Crescent Spring, but the Seven Star Grass and the Ironback Fish are not as effective as the legend says. If Miss Mu has the opportunity to go, she will naturally understand. However, the taste of the ironback fish is really good, and the five-colored sand is also very beautiful. ”

"We have a chance to go to Crescent Spring, but now I want to take a good look at Jiayu Town, after all, when I get to my territory, I always have to know something." Yang Yaozong looked helplessly at Liao Qiniang and Mu Qinghan who had been attracted by the Crescent Spring and smiled. Then he said to Sewu: "Sewu, you go and tell Jie Zhiluo, let him camp here, and strictly enforce military discipline, and order that from today onwards, if anyone dares to harass the people at will, he will be beheaded immediately if he finds it!" ”

Yang Yaozong had a great headache for these Turkic soldiers who had no military discipline, so he had to use some extreme methods to restrain and manage them.

Ayi frowned and wanted to say something, but he only opened his mouth and didn't say anything.

Yang Yaozong gave proper instructions, took Ayi, Liao Qiniang and Mu Qinghan back to the town again, followed the dilapidated and depressed road, found a simple tea house, and stopped in front of this tea house to dismount.

There were only four dilapidated tables and chairs in this tea house, Yang Yaozong randomly selected a table to sit down, smiled and said kindly to the timid old man standing next to a large pot stove: "Dad! Trouble for four bowls of hot tea. ”

The old man hurriedly nodded and began to get busy, and after a while, he brought four bowls of steaming hot tea and bowed and said: "Four guest officers, please use tea, there is no good tea in the poor countryside, and please take care of a few guest officers." ”

Yang Yaozong looked at the pale yellow tea with some tea leaves and a small piece of ginger floating in it, took a sip and said with a smile: "Dad, don't be so nervous, we are also passing by here, and when we see some people, we want to rest here and drink tea." Will leave in a moment. ”

The old man saw that although Yang Yaozong and the others were all wearing Turkic clothes, they spoke the language of the Great Zhou, and the attitude of a man and three women was very modest, so he was a little more bold and said: "Uncle should be from the Great Zhou!" “

Yang Yaozong said: "Hmm! Dad doesn't have to be so formal, the kid can't be called an uncle. Just call me a brat. “

The old man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "That's not okay, if the uncle doesn't like the little old man to call him so, then the little old man still calls you son." “

Yang Yaozong nodded and smiled: "Dad, I see that there are still some people here, why can't I see people in this broad daylight?" ”

The old man sighed and said, "Childe doesn't think he has encountered it, a group of Turkic centaurs who have just passed from here, and now the people in the town are probably still hiding at home and dare not come out." ”

Yang Yaozong frowned but asked knowingly, "Why are the people in this town so afraid of those Turks?" ”

The old man said pitifully: "Although this is now a Turkic territory, the Turks do not regard this place as their territory, and they will be attacked and disturbed every once in a while, even if there is nothing to grab, they will be smashed, and now we are a little frightened when we see these Turks." “

"Then why do you want to live here? Wouldn't it be better to move elsewhere or return to Da Zhou? Mu Qinghan asked puzzled.

The old man sighed and said helplessly: "The little lady doesn't know, this is the only way for trade between the Great Zhou and the Western Regions, and there are still a lot of merchants and people who come and go. Originally, there were hundreds of households in Jiayu Town, but now there are less than 100 households. The younger ones were overwhelmed by the Turks, and they all moved to other places with their families and children to earn a living, and we were the only old bones left in the town. It's hard to leave your homeland! Anyway, it is also a person who is buried in the loess to the neck, and where he lives is life. I'm afraid that if our old bones are gone, this town will really be gone. “

Yang Yaozong saw that Ayi had been hanging his head and didn't drink tea, just staring at the tea in the bowl, knowing that although this girl was arrogant, she was kind-hearted, and she must not feel good at this time.

Yang Yaozong sighed softly and said, "Dad, what if you say that you would build a pass at the west entrance to this town?" “

The old man smiled and said: "Gongzi should know that this place is now a Turkic territory, and the Turkic people's favorite thing is the grassland of Yima Pingchuan, so how can they build a pass here?" Besides, is the construction of the pass here to block their own Turks? But if the pass can really be built here, the little old man is looking forward to it, even if the little old man can't do any labor, but he is still willing to serve tea and pour water for the craftsmen. “

Yang Yaozong said: "I see that the east and west sides of this place are the Gobi Desert, north of Montenegro, south of the Qilian Mountains, and the west road into this town narrow valley through the mountains, dangerous slopes forced road, it is even more dangerous. If a pass can be built here, and the natural mountain range Gobi can be used as a barrier, and there is a garrison with tight controls, this place should be stable and prosperous again. “

The old man looked into the distance, as if he saw the majestic pass that Yang Yaozong said, and seemed to see the prosperity of Jiayu Town, smiled, and then shook his head and said: "If it is really as the son said, the little old man hopes that there will be a day, but the little old man is afraid that he will not see it!" ”

Facing the old man's smile, Yang Yaozong was silent, now he only has this idea, after all, now he has neither money nor people, and he can't build such a huge fortification in a short time. As the old man said, this place is a Turkic territory, and the Turks naturally do not build passes here. Although this place has been classified as his fiefdom, the Great Zhou will not regard this place as the territory of the Great Zhou because he is a Great Zhou person, and spend money to send people to build a pass here. If he wanted to build this fortification, he had to rely on himself.

Yang Yaozong and a few people were chatting casually with the old man while drinking tea, and suddenly heard the sound of shouting and crying not far away. (To be continued.) )