Chapter 20: The Turkic Mastiff (II)
Yang Shouwen hurriedly sat up and followed the sound, but saw an orchid cleaning the mat at the door of the tent. That orchid, Yang Shouwen also knows, is the orchid named Luzhu who brought him and Yang Chenglie to the tent yesterday.
He hurriedly turned his head to look, but found that the couch on the other side was empty, and Yang Chenglie was nowhere to be seen.
"The big official went out early in the morning, and when he left, he told the slave to tell the little official that he didn't have to wait for him, just go and walk around."
The big official is Yang Chenglie.
Yang Shouwen rubbed his face, sat on the couch to recover his mood, and then stood up.
"The toiletries are outside, ready to go." Luzhu sat on the couch barefoot and began to tidy up Yang Chenglie's couch, while saying: "The big officials let people prepare breakfast, and the little officials go to the hall, just give orders." ”
"Thank you!"
The official words of this green bead are also good, much stronger than last night's orchid.
Yang Shouwen walked out of the tent, rinsed his mouth and brushed his teeth, and asked, "Listen to my sister's accent...... Phew, it seems that you have been to the Central Plains? Bah! ”
The toothbrush was as difficult to use as a regular toothbrush, and it kept shedding.
Lu Zhu said with a smile: "The slave has lived in Chang'an for some time, presumably the petty officials speculated on this?" ”
"Hehe, I just think that in this bitter cold place, there are no characters like my sister."
"Petty officials are really good at talking."
Lu Zhu couldn't help but chuckle, and the laughter was very pleasant.
Since entering the Tang Dynasty, 100,000 orchids have entered Chang'an. In the eyes of those Hu people, Chang'an is as attractive as foreign countries in later generations. A large number of orchids left their hometowns and went to Chang'an to earn a living. When they are old and decrepit, they leave their hometowns, or return to their homeland, or marry far away, and come to live in this bitter cold place outside the Cyprus.
Green beads must be one of them.
Yang Shouwen chatted with her for a while, and then came to the big tent with a gun.
At this time, quite a few people had gathered in the tent. Yang Shouwen saw that he couldn't find a seat, so he simply asked people to cut and wrap the finished giant hu cake. He carried the big gun behind his back, held the oil-paper bag in one hand, and walked out of the tent as he ate.
Outside, the sun is shining.
The bazaar is very lively and lively.
In the distance, you can see herds of cattle and sheep walking leisurely on the grassland, and shepherds riding horses and singing, which makes people feel more open-minded.
Yang Shouwen walked around the market for a while, but found nothing interesting.
So, he squatted on the side of the street, watching the passers-by, leisurely eating cakes.
At this moment, the voice of Si Si Suo came from behind him.
He turned his head and saw a dog not far away. The dog, which was more than a meter long, looked skinny. The most interesting thing is that there is a blanket around the dog's neck, and there are four puppies in the blanket, who are holding the edge of the blanket, revealing their little heads, and looking at Yang Shouwen curiously. The big dog squatted not far from Yang Shouwen, sticking out his tongue and licking his mouth from time to time, and his eyes were staring at the cake in Yang Shouwen's hand, quite expectant.
Stray dogs with puppies?
Yang Shouwen could recognize that the dog seemed to be a Turkic dog.
In later generations, this breed of dog was called the Mongolian mastiff, a type of mastiff that lived in the steppe. It is said that the Tibetan mastiff of later generations evolved from this mastiff. However, at this time, Mongolia had not yet appeared, so it was called the Turkic mastiff.
The Mongolian mastiff is a very quiet creature, and at the same time has a very keen sense of observation, quick movement, brave and good at fighting, and is used by steppe herders to watch over their homes. It's just that the mastiff in front of him seems to have no owner and is a stray dog.
In Yang Shouwen's previous life, he liked dogs very much.
He once had a Labrador, and when he was paralyzed, he never left it, as if he were a member of the family.
It's a pity that later, the Labrador still died, and Yang Shouwen was sad for a long time.
Now seeing this Mongolian mastiff, Yang Shouwen didn't know why, and suddenly had an inexplicable affection in his heart.
He took out a piece of bread from the oiled paper bag and held out his hand to hand it to the Mongolian mastiff.
The Mongolian mastiff hurriedly took two steps back, and his eyes showed even more vigilance.
"Don't be afraid, I have no ill intentions, come and eat."
Yang Shouwen smiled, took a step forward, and was still squatting.
The Mongolian mastiff was very hungry, and Yang Shouwen could clearly see that from its mouth flowed out of its mouth and fell to the ground. However, it is very vigilant and seems to be fiercely wary. It took two steps forward, then stopped, crouching on the ground.
Yang Shouwen thought for a while, put the cake on the ground, got up and took a few steps back.
"This dog, doesn't anyone want it?"
He pretended not to care, and asked a Hu merchant on the stall next to him.
The Hu Shang glanced at the Mongolian mastiff, "Do you mean Mauihan?" He's a good dog...... Her previous owner's name was Hutaga, a very powerful fellow. But last year, Hutaga's business collapsed, and now he has to make a living by working as a handyman. Mauihan followed him at first, but the guy didn't cherish it and kicked him out of the house.
Mauihan had just given birth to a litter of puppies and was very vigilant. ”
Mauihan, in Turkic language, means 'ugly girl'.
When Yang Shouwen was chatting with Hu Shang, Mao Yihan rushed over and swallowed the cake in one gulp.
"Isn't there anyone going to adopt it?"
"No, but it doesn't want to leave its child, and takes it with him all day.
This kind of dog eats a lot of food, and it is okay for ordinary people to raise one, but it is somewhat unbearable to raise four...... Unless it's those who have the money. ”
Yang Shouwen listened, and his eyes fell on Mao Yihan again.
The ugly girl didn't retreat this time, squatted in place, and looked at Yang Shouwen quietly.
Yang Shouwen squatted down and took out another piece of cake.
The ugly girl tried to take a step forward, looked at Yang Shouwen, and opened her mouth to bite the cake in her mouth.
Its movements were as fast as lightning, but it didn't hurt Yang Shouwen in the slightest.
"What a great ugly girl."
Yang Shouwen said, opened the oiled paper bag, and held it with both hands.
"Do you want to adopt it?"
Hu Shang smiled: "Then you have to be prepared, when those four little guys grow up, it will cost a lot of money." ”
Money?
Yang Shouwen smiled!
When the business in his hand is promoted, let alone four dogs, even if it is forty, he can afford to raise them.
The ugly girl came over and gobbled up the cake. Yang Shouwen reached out and touched its head, but it did not resist.
"Ugly girl, will you come with me?"
After the ugly girl finished eating the cake, Yang Shouwen stood up and asked softly.
Unexpectedly, the ugly girl ignored him, just circled around him twice, then rubbed his leg with her head, and then turned away.
What do you mean?
Yang Shouwen was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a noise in the distance, followed by a scream, and someone shouted: "Kill, kill!" ”
Yang Shouwen was stunned at first, and hurriedly ran over.
He ran out of the bazaar and saw a stream not far away, and a crowd of people gathered around it.
Yang Shouwen squeezed into the crowd and saw a corpse lying next to the stream. The corpse lay on its back with a dagger stuck in its chest.
"Green beads?"
Yang Shouwen recognized at a glance that the deceased was the orchid who cleaned his room in the morning.
It's just that at this moment, there is no blood on Lu Zhu's face. Her eyes widened, clutching a piece of her shirt in her hand, and there was even more despair on her face.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, I saw her arguing with a person here just now, and that person suddenly killed her and ran away over there."
Someone pointed to the other side of the creek with his hand, and Yang Shouwen rushed out without saying a word. As he ran, he took off his big gun. After chasing about two miles, I saw a man in a bearded suit in front of me, running to the side of a horse.
And he untied the reins, and turned on his horse.
Yang Shouwen was a few hundred meters away from the other party at this time, he was in a hurry, his feet suddenly accelerated, and after rushing out a few hundred meters, he suddenly raised his arms and threw the tiger swallowing gun in his hand. The spear swirled in the air, whizzing and arcing.
Burst!
The spear was stuck in front of the horse, and he saw the horse neigh, and his front hooves raised, and he threw the man on the horse to the ground.
The man was not bad, and after landing on the ground, he rolled a few times, then turned over and stood up, and pulled his knife out of the sheath.
Yang Shouwen rushed forward, raised his hand to pull out the big gun, and was just about to pounce on the man, when he saw a Mongolian mastiff rushing out from the side, quietly came to the man's side, jumped up, opened his mouth and bit the man's wrist fiercely.
This bite is really not light.
The Mongolian mastiff's bite force was so amazing that it snapped off the man's wrist in one fell swoop.
With a loud bang, the knife in the man's hand fell to the ground, and then he hugged his wrist and let out a terrible scream.
Yang Shouwen didn't expect this kind of change, and when he looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but smile.
"Ugly girl, well done!"
The ugly girl didn't know where it came from, and when she heard Yang Shouwen's scream, she turned around and yelled at Yang Shouwen twice, as if she was asking Yang Shouwen for credit. Yang Shouwen didn't say anything more, stepped forward and kicked the man to the ground, the big gun reached forward, and hit the man's chest, and then said in a deep voice: "If you move again, I will kill you!" ”