Chapter 3 The Valley of the Lamp
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Guo Fen was so angry that he lost control for a while, and actually hit Zhang Mai, then turned around and left. Xiao Shi was dumbfounded, there were still people who dared to beat Envoy Zhang, and Envoy Zhang didn't dare to fight back after being beaten!
Yang Yi saw it on the side, lowered his head and said to Guo Luo: "Your Fen'er is really fierce...... Guo Luo coughed twice, looked away, and pretended not to see it.
"Fen'er, Fen'er, you listen to my explanation, it's not what you think! I didn't say it! I really didn't say it! ”
Zhang Mai chased after him, and only An Liu and Xiao Shi were left in the valley, and Xiao Shi was stunned: "This sister, so powerful, Brother Mai is such a hero, it seems that he is also afraid of her." ”
An Liu laughed: "Boy, you don't understand, there are cowards who are not afraid of their wives in the world, and heroes who are afraid of their wives have also existed since ancient times." ”
Xiaoshi asked, "Is my wife more powerful than a hero?" ”
An Liu said with a smile: "The hero is a majestic one, sweeping thousands of miles, accumulating corpses and bleeding rivers, drawing a sword to destroy the country of people, collecting the sword and enjoying the world, and then disarming and returning home, seeing his wife, his wife is a ......."
"How?" Little Stone hurriedly asked.
An Liu smiled: "The hero can only kneel outside the door to hold the urinal......"
Yang Yi, Xiaoshi and the others couldn't help but laugh when they heard it.
Even Yang Dingguo, Guo Shiyong and others couldn't help but laugh, Guo Luo couldn't help laughing, waved to the captains of the battalions, and led the military horses into the valley under the lamp, still after An Shoujing Palace, sweeping all traces outside the valley.
When they walked in, the Tang soldiers who had not been here knew that this Dengxia Valley was a small valley in the Gobi, which was covered by yellow sand after desertification, and the entrance was very small, just a small gap between two sand dunes. After entering, there is another section of the road that is also winding, and even if the traveler enters by mistake, he will have to guard against turning back halfway through.
But after walking out of two miles, the eyes suddenly opened up, but it was a lowland several miles in a radius of several miles, there were hundreds of houses built in it, all of which were made of earth and stone, and there were many ruins and broken walls, I don't know if it was the relics left by hundreds of thousands of years, and then many camp tents were settled, the outer valley mouth was all natural, but the inner valley mouth had added some fortifications, it seemed like a castle in the desert.
"There's such a place!" Yang Yi exclaimed, squinted his eyes and saw that Guo Luo's face was not surprised at all, and suddenly thought of something, his temper gushed out of his stomach, and shouted: "Ah Luo, you know this place!" ”
"Well, I was thirteen years old."
Yang Yi was shocked and angry: "You ...... You really know! But he actually hid it from me, it's too much! We grew up wearing a pair of crotch, I told you everything, and you actually hid it from me! ”
A hint of apology flashed on Guo Luo's face: "I didn't mean to hide it from you, it's my father, and your father can't say it." ”
Yang Yi said angrily: "My old man also knows here? ”
"Of course, if your father hadn't told me, why wouldn't I have told you?"
Yang Yi snorted and shouted: "It turns out that everyone knows about this matter, so they hide it from me alone!" ”
In fact, he said that "everyone knows" is also a bit exaggerated, in the entire New Broken Leaf City, there are actually very few people who know about this matter, and Yang Dingguo doesn't intend to sue him, but he just feels that "the time has not come".
Seeing that he was angry, Guo Luo hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "I came here when I was thirteen years old. According to my father, the Talas River used to flow here to form an oasis, but then the Talas River broke off dozens of miles to the southeast, so the oasis city-state was abandoned. ”
"So there's no water here?" Yang Yi asked with some concern when he heard this.
After these days of marching, the officers and men of the Tang Army all realized the key role of water ten times more deeply than before, and they brought a lot of dry food, but if there was no water in a place, no matter how good the geographical location was, they could not stay.
"No, there's water!"
At this time, I saw that Liu Heihu and the others had already run to a well, punched out a large bucket of clear and cold well water, poured it on their heads, and followed Liu Heihu to shout happily: "Straight thief!" It's so exciting! ”
Yang Yi also sighed, after entering the Broken Leaf Desert, although the troops brought enough water, but they also tried to save when drinking, at this time they walked to the well, and also picked up a bucket of water to drink wildly, licking their tongues, slightly salty, but basically still light, drank a full time, and then said: "I didn't expect there to be such a large amount of water here?" ”
At this time, the Dadu Protector Guo Shidao had already led the generals to greet him, and ordered the captains of the battalions to find houses to live in according to the queue, and to make fires and make meals, and even the livestock could drink the sweet springs.
Seeing Zhang Mai retreating, Yang Yi laughed at him and said, "Why, Fen'er didn't let you hold the urinal?" Zhang Meine couldn't answer, and snorted: "What are you talking about! Hum! If it weren't for Arlo's face, I would have pampered her so much! ”
Guo Luo whistled and said, "I see, well, I will warn Fen'er when I go back, tell her what you said, and let her not be so angry." This sentence sounds like helping Zhang Mai, but the meaning inside is very playful, but Guo Luo's face is still serious. Since he took charge of the military affairs of the Wolf Tooth Battalion, it was the first time Yang Yi saw him say such teasing words, and secretly snickered: "Ah Luo is also a hypocrisy. During the march, he kept a straight face for so long, and he was all pretended. ”
Even Guo Luo relaxed, perhaps because after coming here, everyone felt "home".
Zhang Mai was even more embarrassed, and shouted: "Brother-in-law, don't play with me, I was so miserable by a small stone for no reason, I'm annoyed to death!" ”
Guo Luo smiled lightly and said, "Actually, you don't have to worry too much, girls, it's easy to get angry, and it's okay if you get angry." Now it's still a big deal, 'the Huns have not been destroyed, how can they be home' - right? ”
Zhang Mai was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that most of the words he and Ma Xiaochun were discussing "Yalier" in his ears, and he glared at Guo Luo, thinking: "How could he hear this sentence when it was so far away?" Could it be that my brother-in-law is a good ear. Not embarrassed or embarrassed, he changed the topic before asking about the situation in the valley under the lamp, "There is such a drought around here, why is there such a large amount of water in the valley?" ”
Guo Luo pointed to the southeast direction and said: "The Talas River has been cut off dozens of miles away, but according to the observation of Grandpa An Liu in the middle reaches, the riverbed of the Talas River has not shrunk, and the amount of water has not decreased a lot, it has been flowing for hundreds of years, how can it suddenly stop flowing there?" Later, after careful speculation, he guessed that the river did not really stop flowing, but because of the change in the terrain, it turned underground and still flowed here, so that there was no water on the surface of the valley under the lamp, but when the well was drilled, an endless stream of sweet springs could gush out. ”
Zhang Mai nodded when he heard this: "This kind of thing sounds very strange, but considering the terrain here, it should be very possible, but how did you find out about this place in the first place?" ”
Guo Luo couldn't answer this question, it seemed that he had known about this place since An Liu's father.
What is certain, however, is that it is close to the southern edge of the Broken Leaf Desert, from where it is a day's and a night's walk to the upper reaches of the Talas River, down which you can find.
And further north into the desert, "there is a ruin over there, and I don't know what it was called before, because this place is called Dengxia Valley, so we will call it Dengshang City." According to the estimation of the older generation, the Talas River flowed there earlier, so that it formed a settlement earlier than here in the Valley of the Lamp, but now it is completely arid, and no water can be dug up from the wells. Guo Luo said.
The soldiers of the battalions were stationed in each house in batches under the deployment of Yang Dingguo, and after the house was allocated, they set up tents in the open space, and all the money and grain were returned to the warehouse, and the military deployment was unified by the Cangcao Shen, this time Zhang Mai went east, and made a big fuss in Yibohai, not only brought back a large amount of grain and grass, but also brought back a large number of soldiers and civilians, so the Hu Cao Shen military and the soldiers Cao Shen military were also busy, and stepped up the matter of making a book and compiling a household and compiling the army. The merits of the meritorious soldiers also need to be entered into the merit book for future promotions, and the personnel transfers of Guo Shiyong, Yang Yi, Tang Renxiao, Xi Sheng, etc., must also be formally appointed by the Dadu Protector, and these meritorious Cao Shen military personnel will be handled.
When the Anxi capital was in the new Broken Leaf City, it was a sparrow although it was small, and it was full of five organs, including gong, warehouse, household, soldier, and law, which was the establishment left by the Datang Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and at this time, the number of soldiers and civilians increased, but all affairs could not be separated from the five Cao, so although Zhu Cao was busy, he was busy in an orderly manner.
At dusk, all the battalions and the soldiers of the two departments have already moved into their respective stone houses and tents, the largest tent in the valley is where Guo Shidao lives, called "Dadu Protector Tent", and the largest set of stone houses is left to Zhang Mai, called "Qinchafu".
Zhang Mai walked into this "Qincha Mansion", in fact, it is a very old stone house, but it can be seen that it has been recently renovated, divided into two before and after, the front is large, can be used for deliberations, and the back is small, which can be used for living, before Zhang Mai came back, Guo Shidao had already ordered someone to arrange some simple tables and chairs, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs sent Guo Luo's wife Yang Qing and Yang Yi's wife An Yingying to take care of Zhang Mai's daily life.
Coming here, Zhang Mai knew that there may be a few months to live and work here, went to the room, found that there was a stone bed inside, the bedding on the bed was laid very neatly, a washed and cleaned pottery pot was placed under the bed, and a kettle was placed at the head of the bed, two pottery cups, the kettle was surrounded by cloth strips, and then framed with a rattan frame outside, which had the effect of heat preservation, if you poured hot water before going to bed, in case you got up at night to find water to drink, the water was also warm, and a cactus was placed on the windowsill - although there was no shortage of water in the valley under the lamp, But it's still too much of a luxury to grow flowers, but with a cactus to decorate, the house looks full of life.
In such a room, although it is limited by conditions, there is no need to care about everything.
Yang Qinghan said with a smile: "This house was arranged by Fen'er, and she was originally responsible for your living and eating, but just now she suddenly ran and said that she wanted to take care of her father-in-law instead, so she replaced me, what's the matter, you quarreled?" ”
"Quarrel? How dare I? Zhang Mai said: "I was scolded by her and beaten by her." But looking at the bedding, the basin, and the cactus, I felt a warmth in my heart.
That night, Guo Shidao set up a simple banquet, not only for the battalion soldiers to wash the dust, but also as a welcome to the new Tang people and the black head Wuhu of the North Marsh, Guo, Yang, An and other clan elders and Wuhu clan elders in front of the generals, the clan elders of the Wuhu greeted each other with courtesy, Yang Dingguo and Hesheli talked very happily, and Zhang Mai testified by Qincha Zhang Mai, and became brothers on the spot.
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