In the big tent, Zhang Xuan told Li Shentong and Chai Shao about his plan, Li Shentong didn't have any abnormal reaction, but Chai Shao was in a hurry, Zhang Xuan actually wanted to go to Beihai, and it would take at least twenty days to go back and forth, so what should they do?

If Zhang Xuan goes north alone, it doesn't matter, as soon as he leaves, Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong will definitely go north with him, their strength will be greatly weakened, how can the task assigned by the master and father-in-law be completed?

"Zhang Gongzi, can you think about it again, or wait a few more days, we have completed the task, and we will simply accompany you to the north." Chai Shao looked at Zhang Xuan expectantly.

Zhang Xuan smiled, but did not answer Chai Shao's earnest suggestion, to put it simply, accompany him after completing the task, but he didn't see the shadow of the task, where is the batch of armor?

Besides, even if they found the armor, would they still have to escort a huge number of armor to accompany them to the north for more than a thousand miles? Obviously unrealistic promises.

For Zhang Xuan personally, finding the purple insect jade chrysalis is much more important than hundreds of thousands of pieces of armor, he thought for a while and said, "That's it! I'll go north alone and leave Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong behind to help you, how about it? ”

At this time, Li Shentong, who had not been silent, said slowly: "I can fully understand Zhang Gongzi's eagerness to go north, and I fully support it, Zhang Gongzi is still more dangerous to go north alone, I think it will be safer to bring Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong." ”

Chai Shao was about to speak, Li Shentong stopped him with a wave of his hand, and said with a smile: "It's not so easy to find out the whereabouts of the armor, if it is secretly hidden by the Baye Ancient Department, it is impossible for them to hand it over to us, I don't think it's a matter of a day or two, it is very likely that after Zhang Gongzi comes back, we still won't find anything." ”

Li Shentong said these words are well-founded, Zhang Zhongjian had two life-saving graces to Tulle, but Tulle refused to reveal the whereabouts of the armor, either Tulle did not know the situation of the armor at all, or the armor was more important than his life, and even Zhang Zhongjian could not help, how easy was it for them to find the armor?

Zhang Xuan nodded silently, along the way he was not impressed by Li Shentong, Li Shentong remained silent most of the time and would not easily express his opinions, so that they often ignored Li Shentong, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, Li Shentong's mind was so sober, a leaf can know the autumn, Li Shentong is a person who can make decisions at important moments.

Chai Shao was helpless, so he had to sigh secretly, the second uncle had already said nothing, and there was no point in him fighting for it.

At this moment, as soon as the curtain was lifted, I saw Asu rushing in drunk, holding a sharp dagger in his hand, pointing at Zhang Xuan and scolding: "I can't compare to Xin Yu at any point, but you have a crush on her, you conscienceless bastard, you Han people don't have a good thing." ”

She rushed up like crazy and stabbed Jang Hyun with a dagger, "Kill you conscienceless bastard!" ”

Li Shentong and Chai Shao looked at each other, I don't know what happened? Zhang Xuan stood up, pushed her away, glared at her angrily, and said, "What do I have to do with you?" I don't like you at all, but you come here to mess around, is this how you Baye ancients were hospitable? ”

"Zhang Gongzi said it well!"

Outside, a burly man strode in, but it was Aso's father, the Great Chief Tulle, who stepped forward and grabbed his daughter's hair and said angrily: "You are like a ewe in heat, running to harass my distinguished guest, disgrace my face, get out of here!" ”

He threw Aso out of the tent with a strong flick, and Aso lay on the ground and cried loudly, but Thule did not pity her, pulling her hair and dragging her towards the tent.

Li Shentong shook his head, "Although the grassland woman is generous and bold, she is also quite scary when she is drunk, and she kills people at every turn." ”

Chai Shao groaned and asked, "When is Childe going to leave?" ”

"I'll leave early tomorrow morning, and I'll pack my bags tonight."

Li Shentong and Chai Shao said goodbye and left, Zhang Xuan walked out of the big tent with his hands in his hands, he faintly heard the cry from afar, and couldn't help but be upset, he took into account all difficulties, but he didn't think of the entanglement of women

Early the next morning, Zhang Xuan, Yu Chigong, and Cheng Yanjin packed up their bags, and each took two horses to the north, which would be faster, and their goods had been bought by Tulle at double the price, and they were sold for two thousand taels of gold together with fifteen camels, which was obviously an element of repaying gratitude.

However, even if the element of repaying the favor is removed, the profits in it are also very scary, if they bring another batch of goods back to the Central Plains, the profits will be even more lucrative, no wonder so many merchants would rather risk their lives to go north to the Turks to do business.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Xin Yu also came to join them with a few horses, and she asked Zhang Xuan with a grin.

"Your second sister, how is she?" Jang Hyun asked in a low voice, even though Aso's pestering annoyed him, he didn't want anything to happen to her either.

"She's fine, she's always like this, she likes to drink, she will make trouble when she gets drunk, and she'll get better when she wakes up."

Xin Yu smiled mischievously: "Maybe she will apologize to you." ”

Zhang Xuan didn't care if she came to apologize to herself, the key was that she didn't bother herself anymore, but he felt that Xin Yu's Chinese level recovered quickly, and she spoke a lot more fluently in just two days.

"We're leaving!"

Zhang Xuan whipped the horse's buttocks, and the horse headed northwest, while the other three followed him, and the four men and ten horses galloped towards the north like a gust of wind

In the big tent, Asu sat in front of the mirror and slowly combed her hair, her eyes flashed a trace of gloom from time to time, and her pretty face was a little distorted, last night was the first time she participated in the bonfire banquet after being widowed, but she couldn't control herself and got drunk.

When she was not married, she was the princess of the ancient tribe of Baye, the most beautiful swan on the shore of Lake Kulun, and I don't know how many warriors were obsessed with her, and she also developed her proud and conceited character.

After the death of her husband, she endured a year of loneliness and loneliness, and it was not until the night before that she was finally liberated.

Deep down in her heart, she also longs for a man she likes to accompany her through the first ** after the end of widowhood, she fell in love with Zhang Xuan, young and heroic, tall and tall, but not as huge as a bear, full of vitality, which made her heart pound.

It's a pity that Jao Hyun not only didn't accept her show of love, but also got involved with her sister Xin Yu, and the ugly girl like a black duck actually snatched the man she liked, and Asu's self-esteem was greatly hurt.

At this time, she had already sobered up, but she did not apologize to Jang Hyun in her heart, on the contrary, when she heard that Jang Hyun followed her sister north to the Great Lake, she hated it even more in her heart, and she would never let go of this man who hurt her self-esteem.

At this time, as soon as the curtain was lifted, a dark and thin middle-aged woman walked into the big tent, and Asu hurriedly knelt down and saluted, "Asu meets Xianluo." ”

Xianluo means priestess, this black and thin middle-aged woman is the priestess of the Kulun tribe, who enjoys great prestige among the herdsmen, Xianluo sat down, gently stroked her hair, and looked at her with pity, "You are the most beautiful swan in Bayegu, how can the chief treat you so roughly?" ”

The grievances in Asu's heart came to her heart again, she fell into Xianluo's arms and cried bitterly, Xianluo stroked her shoulder, and said softly: "The most important thing for a woman is to have her own property, especially for a woman without a husband, after Baining's death, his property was taken away by his brother and father, but you have nothing, you can only count on the mercy of another man, this is not good." ”

"My father refuses to give me a dowry, what should I do?"

Xianluo smiled: "There is a man who came to me, and he was willing to give 10,000 sheep. ”

"Does he want my body?"

Aso's only capital is her moving body.

"It's not! He only wants to know a secret, which is in your father's account, and you can get it. ”

Xianluo whispered a few words in her ear, and Asu was startled, "But my father will beat me to death." ”

"The eight chiefs of Baye Gu all know this secret, who can say that the secret is from the Kulun Department? I wouldn't have thought that it was you who said it, and the 10,000 sheep were given to you by me, and I gave them to you with the will of the Immortal Heaven, and your father would not doubt it, Asu, your mother and son have no property, and they will always be bullied. ”

Thinking of the humiliation she had suffered last night, everything stemmed from her lack of property and dignity, she finally gritted her teeth and nodded slightly

The Great Lake mentioned by the ancient people is the Beihai recorded in the Han classics, today's Lake Baikal, about 1,500 miles away from Lake Kulun, they not only have to cross the mountains and valleys infested with wild beasts, but also pass through the vast steppes and endless primeval forests, running day and night for ten days before they can arrive.

During the strong period of the Sui Dynasty, the nobles of all the tribes of the steppe attached great importance to the education of their children in Han culture, and Tulle was no exception, he specially invited Han Confucian students to teach more than a dozen of his children to learn Chinese, so that each of his children could speak some Chinese.

Xin Yu learned Chinese very well, but because she didn't speak for a long time, she was a little rusty, but with Zhang Xuan and they went all the way north, she gradually recovered the Chinese she had learned, and ten days later, she was able to communicate with the three of them at a normal speaking speed.

In the afternoon, they passed through a forest area of hundreds of miles, the reckless primeval forest is dominated by coniferous forests, and the pine trees are huge, each of which is more than ten feet high, and they do not know how many thousands of years they have grown, and they cannot see the tops of the trees when they look up.

The forest was very dark, with glades from time to time, and they could only make their way by the stars that occasionally appeared, but if they were not careful, they would lose their way.

Or relying on the experience of his predecessors to walk through the dense primeval forest, the herders who live in this area will leave marks on the big trees, Xin Yu has followed several brothers twice, and vaguely remembers these marks.

"Miss Xin Yu, don't always teach that kid archery, teach me a little bit of old Cheng!"

With Xin Yu, a little girl, the long journey has become no longer boring, especially Cheng Yanjin is very enthusiastic about Xin Yu, and if there is nothing to do, he will find an excuse to talk to her, Xin Yu is very annoyed with him, just try to be polite, on the contrary, she likes Wei Chigong, who is silent all the way.

"I said the day before yesterday that you should practice drawing the bow 300 times first, but you didn't even pull 30 times, and you didn't have the perseverance, so I won't teach you."

"Then you can teach me to ride a horse! Lao Cheng wants to practice equestrianism. ”

Xin Yu ignored him and chased after Zhang Xuan, Cheng Biting Jin scolded in a low voice: "Don't you think my old Cheng is ugly?" ”

"I said you should stop!"

Next to him, Wei Chigong couldn't help but say: "The little girl likes Zhang Gongzi, can't you see it?" I still want to disturb people. ”

Cheng Yanjin glared at him fiercely, and said angrily: "Isn't it just because it's boring all the way?" What does it matter if you talk to her, who is like you, a black bear, except to sleep is to eat! ”

Wei Chigong rolled his eyelids and ignored him anymore, although Cheng Biting Jin was thick-skinned, he was a little afraid of Zhang Xuan, so he didn't dare to really catch up and harass them, so he had to slow down his horse in frustration and walk slowly with Wei Chigong.

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