As she spoke, Yelujue began to skin the wolf with her knife.

Lu Jinping squatted beside her to help her and asked, "Are there people in this area?" ”

"If it was before, I would have told you with great certainty that there is, and it is not far away, so that the two of us will not lose hope, but now, with this wolf as food, which can provide us with food for several days, I will tell you the truth, there is no one in this area."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Because I have been to the Turks many times, the Turkic inhabitants almost all live in places where there are rivers, for example, we went from Lingzhou City in the Tang Dynasty to Heisha City before, and we also walked along the river, which is the main passage of the Turks, but now we have lost our way in the blizzard, far away from the avenue, and from our current approximate position to the east, the road to the southwest, north and south is very far away, and there is no road in the middle, because the middle piece used to be a desert, there is no river, and there is no lake. So there is no home. ”

"What then?"

"Don't worry, as long as we can hunt the prey, we will definitely be able to get out of this desert and snowfield, as long as we don't get lost in a good direction, and there are no more snowstorms like before, I believe that we can reach a populated place in about a month." That's when we can buy horses. ”

Yelujue's movements were very quick, although she was the wife of the Khan, but it seemed to be the nature of the steppe, and she did these things that she did not often do, but she quickly peeled off the wolf's skin, and then cleaned the wolf's stomach and intestines. Even if it was the wolf's belly, she didn't abandon it, but wrapped it in wolf skin, and tied it to the sleigh, if they really couldn't find the prey after eating the meat in the future, they might be able to delay them for a while. Find the prey.

After packing up, they continued on their way.

By the end of the afternoon, no new prey had been seen. However, they came across a few small trees, which were mostly covered in snow, and only their bare branches swayed in the cold wind.

They found that two of the trees had dried up for a long, long time. It means that these two trees have long since died. And that's exactly what they need, because it means that the branches are dry, and they are just right to barbecue wolf meat.

The two men immediately cut off all the wilted branches of the two trees with their knives, and laid them on the sleigh, looking for a leeward place to set up camp.

The sun has set below the horizon, and although there is wind, it is not very windy, but it is still necessary to find one, a place where the wind is blowing. They soon discovered a huge rock. It was just leeward behind the rocks, so they pitched their tents behind the rocks.

They put a piece of iron sheet on the snow that was used to make a fire underneath it, and then started to make a fire on it. They had already found a few flints from the clothes of the remains of the Khitan warriors who had been eaten by the wolves, so they didn't have to worry about setting them on fire.

After lighting the fire. The hearts of the two also brightened.

Yelujue began to cut off the wolf's legs with his hands and feet, put on the condiments, and roasted them over and over the fire. Of course, these condiments were found by them from the sacrificial bags that had been eaten by wolves, and they had brought them from Datang before.

With the ingredients, the grill tastes much more fragrant. Yelujue's barbecue skills are also serious, and soon the fragrance is fragrant. It makes people hungry and swallow saliva.

Yelujue giggled, asked him to wait patiently, and after it was roasted, it was delicious, and finally, the wolf meat was roasted. Lu Jinping took a bite and felt that his mouth was full of fragrance. I can't wait to swallow my tongue, and I am full of praise while eating: "Your craftsmanship is really good, whoever marries you can enjoy happiness for the rest of his life." ”

"Then you, won't you be able to enjoy happiness for a lifetime? You'll be my man from now on! ”

Speaking of this topic, Lu Jinping stopped chewing. looked at her with half a piece of meat in his mouth, thought about it, and finally asked: "You have a child with him, do you really bear to let the Turkic Khan kill him?" ”

Sister Ye Lu held a piece of mutton wolf meat in her hand: "If I don't have any feelings for him, or hate him, that's a lie, although our marriage was just a transaction before, a transaction between two families, you know, I didn't see him for the first time until the night of the candle in the cave room." He hasn't been good to me all these years, but he's not bad either. It's just that there are so many women around him, so he doesn't care about me. It is also common to not see each other for ten days and half a month. ”

Speaking of this, Yelujue took the wolf meat in his hand to the cold and roasted it slowly, saying: "I don't want him to die, and I don't want the Turkic Khan to kill him, but now for me, I am determined to win the position of Khan, because I have found that I can only do what I want if I become a Khan." to get what I want, and for this, I can give up everything, including years of conjugal love. ”

When Lu Jinping heard him say so decisively, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and said: "So, one day in the future, if I hinder you, you will kill me without hesitation?" ”

"If I promise that I won't, that would be lying to you, but I believe, first, that you won't hinder me because you have no reason to hinder me, and second, I won't let you have the desire to hinder me. Because I'm your woman, I'll do whatever you want, and you don't have to. Are you right? ”

Lu Jinping smiled and said: "Since you are telling the truth, then I will tell you the truth, I will definitely help you win the position of Khan, help you get rid of political enemies and consolidate your power, because this is good for you and us Datang, but I can't wait by your side for a long time or even a lifetime, I still have to go back to Datang sooner or later, as long as you need to, I will come to you at any time, I can guarantee this." ”

A touch of tenderness appeared on Yelujue's face, looked at him, and suddenly leaned over and kissed him lightly on the mouth: "I am very happy that you can tell me what is in your heart, in fact, I know that you will do this if you don't say it." You have too many concerns to give up these for me, but with the promise you just made I am content, and I will not keep you by my side for the rest of my life. Of course, if you want, you can be my first auxiliary minister, if you want to return to the Tang Dynasty, I will not stop you, the position of first auxiliary minister will always be vacant for you. ”

Lu Jinping said: "Okay, but we haven't eliminated our political enemies and helped you win the position of Khan, isn't it a little funny to say how to share the fruits of victory?" Let's think about how to deal with you first. Do you have a plan? ”

Yelujue nodded: "I've been thinking about this matter these days, turning it over and over, but I won't tell you now, because it's time to eat, and I haven't fully thought about it, before entering the Khitan territory, I will tell you the whole plan in detail, and then we will act according to the plan." ”

Lu Jinping wanted to say something, you tell the plan now and we will discuss it together, but when the words came to his mouth, he stopped again, because this was a battle between political enemies within the Khitan, and he didn't know anything about the internal situation in the Khitan, even if he paid attention, it was probably a bad idea. And since Yelujue didn't tell Lu Jinping about this action plan now, it means that she didn't want to ask Lu Jinping for permission on this, and only needed him to implement this plan.

After the two of them finished the barbecue, they immediately extinguished the fire, because firewood cannot be wasted, in this vast snowfield, firewood is very precious, without this thing, it means that they can only eat raw.

For the first time in these days, they were very happy to eat hot cooked meat, and to drink hot water.

They trekked all the way to the east, and did not see a single family along the way, but they hunted a lot of wild animals, probably because there were almost no snowstorms along the way, although the temperature was extremely cold, of course, the animals living on the snow fields were not afraid of the cold, as long as there were no snowstorms, they would come out to forage for food or activities. So they fell prey to them.

Yelujue's archery was very accurate, as long as it never missed within the range, so they were not worried about the prey they didn't have to eat, and later, because they couldn't finish eating, they chose animals with relatively delicious meat to hunt.

After walking for almost a month, finally, they met the first wave of people. This wave of people caught up with them from behind. After catching up, two or three hundred people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Yelujue.

Yelujue did not look surprised, but was unusually stern, and reprimanded these people severely. And these people all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and did not dare to say a word, and after Yelujue's anger calmed down slightly, Lu Jinping asked her to know that these two or three hundred warriors were brought to the Turks by Yelujue before, and then let them leave first after attacking the barracks.

At that time, it was said that this wave of warriors was waiting for them to meet somewhere, but then there were successive accidents, especially the blizzard, so that these warriors did not dare to leave, and they were afraid of getting lost in the wind and snow, and they could not find Yelujue and them, and after the wind and snow passed, they could no longer find their traces of Yelujue, so the soldiers divided into several ways to look around.

Later, after finally finding the remains of the fifty Khitan warriors buried on the ice field, they found that there were traces of sled walking on the ice, and since there was no snowstorm, the traces left on the ice were not submerged.

So they chased along the line, and finally caught up with Lu Jinping and them.

These people brought war horses, and when walking on the ice, the war horses needed to wrap non-slip cotton cloth under the iron hooves, and they could not run fast, but this was already quite labor-saving.

When introducing Lu Jinping to these Khitan warriors, Yelujue only said that he was a friend of the Tang Dynasty, and did not elaborate on his identity.

These Khitan warriors have not seen Lu Jinping, because on the night they attacked the barracks, Lu Jinping was hiding in the ice cave, and when he came out, because of the cold, he covered most of his face with a scarf, and he was wearing a white cloak outside. And fifty of Yelujue's henchmen and personal guards have been eaten by wolves, so these Khitan warriors have not seen him. (To be continued.) )