This is the area where the Xiongnu border with the Great Qianguo, and not far from the border with the Yuan State, which should be regarded as the place where the three countries meet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This village belongs to the Xiongnu geographically, but Chen Guang saw that the style of the houses here was seven or eight points similar to the thatched adobe houses inhabited by the people in the Qianguo, and each adobe house had a half-person-high bamboo fence, which was also a typical Qianmin residential style.

It is precisely because this place belongs to the Xiongnu that Chen Guang and the others have to be more low-key. After all, the Xiongnu are already famous, even if they have not been in contact, Chen Guang has to cheer up.

The village was not very large, and there were no walls - Chen Guang was not sure if it was a village, but in his concept, a place where people lived should be considered a village - because it could not be called a city.

Chen Guang and his party are no matter how low-key they are, but after all, there are hundreds of people, and it is absolutely impossible not to attract people's attention if they suddenly appear here. As they approached the nearest rough house, they met several young men, dressed in coarse undershirts, straw sandals, and carrying hoes and poles on their shoulders. They seem to be coming out of the village to work in the fields outside the village. Judging from this, this village is mainly agricultural, which is very different from the nomadic style of the Xiongnu.

"Stop, who are you? Where did it come from? Where are you going? Seeing Chen Guang and them coming, the eldest of these young people seemed to be the eldest, and threw the world's top three philosophical problems to Chen Guang.

Chen Guang's mind suddenly came to mind the passage in "Journey to the West" that was asked about the time, the poor monk came from the Tang Dynasty in the East and was sent to the West to send the Buddha to ask for relatives.

Of course, if you say this, you will definitely be arrested and hanged, he said in a proper manner: "I am from Qianguo, and I plan to go to Yuanguo to visit relatives, passing through here, if there is a disturbance to the place, I will compensate you." ”

When he heard that these people were also talking about the Chinese of the Eight Classics, not the Huns, he was strange and happy in his heart, could it be that in the territory of the Huns, the group of people he met were not Huns?

Hearing that they were from Qianguo, the hostility in the eyes of these young people dissipated a little, and the young man who asked the question said, "I see. Our ancestors also came from over there, hiding in this corner and stealing their lives, if we count it, we are also Qianguo people. ”

Chen Guang was immediately relieved, and I said, there is no Xiongnu characteristic here at all, it turns out that they are the common people of Qianguo. In fact, this kind of people have existed in all dynasties, most of them in order to avoid wars, migrated to various secluded and far-reaching places to live, here is at the foot of the snowy mountain, inaccessible, it is estimated that the Huns themselves do not know that there is such a Han village here. This is like what is described in Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

"Ah, we're fellow countrymen. As the saying goes, when a fellow sees a fellow, his eyes are full of tears, and when I see you, I want to cry a little. Chen Guang said. Then he said: "A few years ago, Qianguo accepted the Zen concession and established the country, if the country is stable and peaceful, why don't you consider going back?" The conditions here are so difficult, and I have never returned to China to live comfortably. ”

The young man smiled bitterly: "It's easy to say, if we go back, what about the land?" What about household registration? These are all troublesome things, although the conditions here are more difficult, but it is rare to see outsiders all year round, and our life is also quite comfortable, and I think it is good to be quiet. ”

Chen Guang thought about it for a while, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard an old man's voice in the distance, "What are you guys still rubbing?" Why don't you hurry up and cut the grass back for me, do you want our cattle and sheep to go hungry tonight? ”

When the young man heard this, he responded, "Got it." Then he said to Chen Guang: "That is our village chief, you might as well talk to him." ”

"Okay, thank you." Chen Guang said.

Originally, Chen Guang and the others could bypass this village, and directly enter the territory of the Yuan Kingdom from a mountain road two miles away that still had snow. Not allergic to say that the road is not very safe, the slightest carelessness will fall off the cliff, usually fine, the turn of spring and winter is the most likely to have trouble, so Chen Guang decisively decided to take the mainland road, even if it is through the territory of the Huns, he does not hesitate to - and do not enter the city of the Huns, pass by the side, it should not be a big problem. At the beginning, Motuo took Min'er to Qianguo, which was the main road. Although nominally the land of the Xiongnu, it is still located at the junction of three countries, as if it were the Golden Triangle. However, there are more bandits and bandits, and caravans generally prefer to take the cliffs rather than this road.

A few young people went to work, and Chen Guang said, "You guys are waiting for me here." He ran to the old man who spoke alone and introduced himself as a businessman. The old man saw that he was from Qianguo, and he didn't embarrass him, but after telling him that merchants were easy to be robbed, he asked Chen Guang to arrange their residence, but Chen Guang politely declined, only saying that it would be good if he could exchange some fresh vegetables and the like, and that he could set up a tent in the open space outside the village. The old village chief naturally asked Chen Guang to exchange vegetables and rice for the like, and Chen Guang also generously gave him dozens of taels of silver - this far exceeded the value of these vegetables.

After resting for a night, Chen Guang and his party packed their bags, faced the rising sun, identified the direction, and went to the Yuan Kingdom. After two days of walking, we came to a desert.

This is an inland area, and the water of the ocean and rivers does not pass through here, and the melting snow water of the snow-capped mountains cannot flow so far, so although the grassland is lush under the snow-capped mountains, it is a desert after coming down the mountain.

The climate in the desert is very strange, the sun is shining during the day, so hot that Chen Guang wants to peel off a layer of his skin, and at night, he feels cold when he wears a cotton jacket, and he is changing clothes for most of the day, which makes people depressed. However, this reminded Chen Guang of the sentence "Wear a cotton jacket in the morning, wear yarn in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the stove." ”

On the afternoon of the second day after entering the desert, Wu Xin and his brothers sent a strangely dressed person, tied up with flowers, to Chen Guang.

Wu Xin hugged his fist at Chen Guang and said, "Second Master, since yesterday, I noticed that someone seemed to be moving around us, probing our reality and reality, and today I finally found an opportunity to arrest this guy." This is a Huns, please ask the second master to show me, what to do? (To be continued.) )