Chapter 1: The Great Thief (Part 3)

Maybe it's because the journey is too tiring, maybe it's because you drink too much. The two teenagers were helped into their respective felt bags and immediately began to snore. The slave girls lowered the curtains in front of the couch, pressed the charcoal on the fire, and walked backwards out of the tent door.

"You go and wait in the tent next to you, if you need it, I will summon you at any time!" Hebu Yan, who was walking at the end of the line, swallowed saliva and ordered the fox to pretend to be a tiger. The four slave girls are very charming, but unfortunately he can only watch them and is not qualified to eat. The two teenagers in the felt bag were qualified to eat, but they were as drunk as two pigs.

"Yes, sir!" The slave girls crouched down and bowed, and retreated in turn into a low linen tent next to the guest's felt bag. Such a thin tent must not be able to withstand the cold wind of the autumn night, but they are all prisoners of war, and they are not qualified to choose a place to live.

"It's not fair!" Hebu spat at the ground, thinking angrily. Ashina Choyu handed over the errand of greeting the distinguished guests to him, and Hebu Yan clearly knew the inner meaning of the so-called greeting. He needed to do everything in his power to persuade, tempt, coerce, and even beg the two teenagers who were several years younger than him to stay before the little patience of Lord Choyu was exhausted. Only in this way can Lord Yu be satisfied. Only in this way can he be promoted to a higher level and get rid of the identity of a servant.

When I was in the Central Plains, we also read poetry and books. Although he failed to make a name for himself, he was also a rising star in the nearby township. He has always been served, and he has ever done the job of serving people. The more he thought about it, the more he held his breath, and his footsteps moved quickly at the door of the felt bag.

"If it weren't for that damn county order, wouldn't he have written a poem and laughed at your daughter's ugliness? You won't be lacking in virtue to this point! Thinking of his life in the Central Plains, he couldn't help but regret it. To be honest, the daughter of the prefectural magistrate is not too ugly. I'm just young and frivolous, and I'm just trying to be a crow. As a result, a conscription order was received within a few days. From childhood to adulthood, people who can't even kill chickens go to the battlefield to play with big knives, isn't that just looking for death? In desperation, he had no choice but to become a deserter and ran out of the Great Wall with a few young people from his fellow villagers. As a result, they are now in the hands of a group of rough people who don't read poetry and books, and are unreasonable.

While I was in trouble, there was a sudden movement in the guest tent on the left. "Anyone?" , the drunken guest shouted rudely.

"My lord, what do you command?" He Bu Yan rushed in as fast as he could, nodded and asked.

"It's okay, me, I just don't know if my horse is taken care of? Horses, horses have to eat night grass, plus, add night water! Li Xu struggled to sit up from the felt, and the smell of wine on his body was so disgusting that he was nauseous.

"Rest assured, you and Lord Xu's mounts have been placed in the adults' exclusive stable, where three grooms take turns to serve. Lord Yu has instructed that they should be fed with the best wheat, beans and forage! He replied in a low voice, and began to murmur in his stomach again. His grandmother's, what kind of world, horses eat more delicately than people! ”

"Hmm!" Li Xu nodded with satisfaction, sat up staggeringly, and put his arm on Hebu Yan's shoulder: "Why are you here alone?" What about the others? ”

"There are still a few female slaves in the low tent next to them, do you want to ask them to sleep?" He Bu Yan accompanied the smiling face and looked into Li Xu's eyes. , he saw a pair of meaningful eyes, and immediately goosebumps appeared on his body. "This adult won't have Longyangzhi!" He thought in horror, not daring to make eye contact with Li Xu again.

"Brother is Han, right?" Li Xu put his arm around Hebu Yan's shoulders and slowly stood up. Because he had drunk too much wine, his body was so heavy that he almost pressed Hebu to the ground.

He Bu Yan was even more panicked in his heart, he used to always be conceited about his appearance, but now he wished that he was as ugly as possible. Twisting his body, he stammered and replied, "Don't dare, the little one's surname is Pan." The Han Chinese name is Pan Zhanyang. Adults are also Han Chinese, I don't know where your hometown is? ”

"Li Zhongjian in the upper valley!" Li Xu replied briefly, his body turned, and his arm stuck in Hebu Yan's neck from behind, "Are there any soldiers, except for you?" ”

He Bu Yan's face turned purple with suffocation, and he wanted to shout for help, but he saw Li Xu's other hand touching the strange scimitar hanging on the felt wall. He didn't have the courage to test the sharpness of the scimitar with his neck, so he gasped desperately and stammered: "Adult, adult, don't, don't, the little one is suffocating, suffocating!" ”

"Say it quickly, or I'll kill you with one sword, and then frame you for stealing my jewelry!" Li Xu lowered his voice and threatened. For the first time, he used force to treat a person who was weaker than himself, and he pretended not to be fierce at all. Fortunately, he was taller than Hebu and stood behind the other party, so he didn't show his feet.

He knew that the bastard behind him would definitely do what he said. If he killed himself with a knife, Lord Yu would never blame the noble guest in his heart for being a slave. After a few turns of his eyes, he couldn't think of a way to get out, so he had to answer honestly: "No, Lord Yu didn't arrange it." Only, only night watch. The gates are closed at night, you, you can't escape! ”

"Take me to Sage Xu's room!" Li Xu put down the hebu and commanded with a knife against his vest.

"How could I be so unlucky!" He Bu Yan secretly complained in his stomach, today is really to hand over the canopy, if the two young masters run away, their bodies will definitely have to be hung outside the wooden city tomorrow morning.

was thinking about a plan to get out, and suddenly the tent door was lifted, and the sage Xu, who had been drunk in the mud before, flashed in like a tanuki.

"Brother Mao Gong!" Li Xu let out a low cry of surprise. He knew that Xu Dayan was not drunk, except for the time when he talked about Eru's marriage, no one had ever seen Xu Dayan really drunk. But he didn't expect Xu Dayan to cooperate so well with him, and as soon as he made a move on his side, Xu Dayan immediately slipped over.

"Make such a big noise, and the dead pig has also been woken up by you. Let him call the women in, and say you need to pick one of them!" Xu Maogong glanced at Li Xu and complained in a low voice. He untied a bow from behind his back, shook it at Hebu Yan, and said, "If you want to run, just run, see if our two brothers shoot accurately, or you can run fast!" ”

"Don't run, don't run!" Hebu Yan's face was covered with sweat, and he nodded like a chicken pecking rice. He did have the idea of escaping while calling a few women into the account just now, but he didn't expect that as soon as his eyes turned, he was seen by Xu Xian. Lord Attached to the Black Eagle that had shot down Lord Qiyu, he had heard the news a long time ago. If the two of them joined forces to shoot themselves, Hebu knew that he would have to lay on the ground even if he had nine lives.

"Go quickly, let them come in the tent for the Attached-Lady to choose!" Xu Dayan pushed on Hebu Yan's shoulder and commanded in a low voice.

He Bu Yan couldn't be forced, so he had to go trembling. Xu Maogong stared at his back, and told Li Xu without looking back, "I counted just now, the interval between the two patrols is a small half-pillar of incense. Hurry up and pack your things, let's find a way to rush out as soon as we steal the horse! ”

Several female slaves had already heard the sound of Li Xu's felt bag, but the walls of the felt bag were too thick, and Li Xu and Hebu Yan spoke all in Chinese, so they couldn't figure out what the two said, and they didn't dare to guess what the distinguished guest meant. Hearing Hebu calling everyone into the tent for the distinguished guests to choose, they looked at each other silently, and got up in a trembling manner.

The master invited guests and let the female slaves sleep with the guests, which was common in the Turks. Since their tribe was wiped out by the Turks, the slave girls could not complain about the injustice of fate, so they could only pray silently every day that a kind guest valued them and asked them back as a side room. Although the status of the side room is low, it is better than serving countless strange men every month.

Today this boy looks like a compassionate man! The slave girls prayed in their hearts, and followed him into the guest's tent.

"Quick, give a salute to the master!" Hebu commanded hurriedly.

"May the Immortal Heaven bless the master's health!" The slave girls crouched down and tried to show off their good figures.

"Uh, don't look up!" An apologetic answer came from the front. The female slaves felt a pain in the back of their heads, and they fell on the carpet one after another.

"Tie their hands and feet, and put their mouths in cloth!" Xu Dayan shook the scimitar in his hand towards Hebu and ordered.

"What kind of guest is this, more skilled than a robber!" He Bu Yan muttered in his heart, squatted down, and helped Li Xu tie up several female slaves one by one. Then he tore strips of cloth from the quilt and gagged them.

Xu Dayan looked at the outside of the felt bag through the crack in the door, waited until another group of patrolling Turkic soldiers walked away, turned around and ordered: "Take us to the stable in Qiyu, we need good horses!" ”

Li Xu packed his bags beside him, put the horn bow given by his uncle behind his back, and lifted the scimitar to put it on Hebu's waist. Feeling the coldness coming from the tip of the knife piercing his clothes, he shrank forward and shuddered out of the tent.

Xu Dayan chose the timing so well that almost no one noticed them. The Turks are invincible in the steppe, so the soldiers are really not vigilant at night. After tiptoeing for a while, the three of them came to the stable dedicated to high-ranking officials and nobles, Xu Dayan flashed sideways, and after a while, the restless sound of war horses came from the stable.

"There are two grooms, both knocked out by me! One person, two rides, pick a horse! Xu's big-eyed figure flashed out of the crack in the door and ordered in a low voice.

"Uncle?" Hebu exclaimed quietly. Xu Dayan's order obviously included himself, but he was an innocent scholar and had never done such an obscene deed.

"Do you want to be killed by me, or will you be tied to the back of a horse and dragged to death?" Xu asked with a murderous anger with wide eyes.

"I'm forced to be helpless!" He lamented his innocence and put his hand on the reins of his horse. Xu Dayan asked reasonably, if he didn't leave, the two distinguished guests could only kill people. Even if the two distinguished guests showed mercy, but Yu asked for the crime of leading the way and stealing horses, what was waiting for him was still a dead word.

"Pity my Pan family's innocence for generations!" Hebu Yan, no, the scholar Pan Zhanyang trembled, panting and climbing on the back of the war horse.

There were about twenty horses in the stable, and the black wind that Li Xu had won from Qiyu was tied to the upstream. Seeing the master touch in the middle of the night, Hei Feng snorted in a low voice, and rubbed his neck on Li Xu's face.

"Take us to the gate, someone asked, and said that Lord Yu gave the order!" Xu Dayan jumped on a horse that looked good, took another one in his hand, and ordered.

"Well, I'm afraid that's not right!" Pan Zhanyang suddenly became brave and replied on horseback.

Xu Da's eyes flashed, and he reached out to touch the knife on his waist. Pan Zhanyang grabbed him and shouted in a low voice: "I, I mean, put it, put it on fire." ”

"Set fire?" Xu asked approvingly. He didn't expect such a vicious method, the Turkic camp was made of wood, and if a fire was set up, the entire camp could be destroyed.

"First, find a few secluded places and set fires, and then let's run around in the chaos. Arrive, at the door, I, I give a false order, you kill people and take the door! Pan Zhanyang stammered when he spoke, but his meaning was clearly expressed.

"It's the most secluded!" Xu Dayan jumped off the horse, grabbed a few handfuls of straw, and tied them to the tail of the nearest war horse.

Li Xu saw that Xu Dayan decided to do it, and immediately got off the horse to help. He was accustomed to rough work from an early age, tying up bales of straw to speed up to three, and in a matter of moments, he tied the tails of all the horses except the three-man mounts.

"This, they forced me, no, nothing to do with me!" Pan Zhanyang pulled out the dagger from the middle of his boots, jumped forward and cut off the reins of his horse one by one. Li Xu and Xu Dayan each picked up a pine wood for the lighting of the stable, first lit the straw on the ground, and then swept it along the buttocks of the war horses one by one.

"Sigh!" The frightened horse let out a mournful neigh, and rushed out of the stable. One, two, three, fifteen, or six Turkic horses of great horses dragged their tails around the camp.

"Enemy attack!" Xu Dayan shouted in Turkic, grabbed a torch and jumped on horseback, and easily lit the nearby firewood and straw stack.

"Enemy attack!" Li Xu painted a scoop according to the gourd, rode on the back of the black wind, and quickly ignited a fire.

"It's amazing, Bao, protect Lord Yu!" Pan Zhanyang knew that even if he didn't participate in the arson today, he lit a sky lantern after being caught. He stammered and screamed, and rubbed the torch in his hand against the shepherd's barn.

"It's on fire, it's on fire!" Someone shouted loudly in the distance. Several fires burned in different places, startling the soldiers on the night patrol into a hurry, taking care of this side and not the other.

Xu Dayan, Li Xu, and Hebu Yan galloped and rushed straight to the gate of the camp. There was not much firewood and grass tied to the tail of the startled horse, and it looked scary in the dark, and unless it happened to light the haystacks prepared by the Turks for the wintering of their livestock, the flames simply did not last long.

They must flee before the Turks can regain their composure from the chaos. Deliberate arson is the most hated crime in the steppe, and even if the Khan's son set fire, there is only one way to die if he is caught.

As if a god was blessing, the fire grew bigger and bigger, not only near the stables of Qiyu, but also in the depths of the camp, and there were several places where red light appeared, and billowing smoke mixed with sparks soared upward, almost illuminating half of the night sky.

"Looks like someone is helping to set the fire?" Pan Zhanyang thought in surprise. Shaking his head vigorously, he threw the ridiculous thought out. Except for the two bold teenagers, who dares to touch the tiger whiskers of Lord Yu these years. This time, the basket is bigger, and if it is caught by Qiyu, I am afraid that it will have to be cut alive with a knife. However, his grandmother's seems to be quite exciting. He whipped his mount a few times hard, and followed Xu Dayan closely.

There was chaos in the camp, with the sound of horns, cries, orders from commanders, and the footsteps of soldiers. In the chaos and darkness, no one noticed that Li Xu, Xu Dayan and Hebu Yan were fishing in troubled waters.

"You, go and protect Lord Qiyu's stable!" Xu Dayan pointed at a group of herdsmen with a horsewhip and ordered in Turkic. Without waiting for the shepherds to react, the three men and six horsemen rushed over and quickly melted into the shadows.

"Who is he, and how did he order us?" Someone asked his companion in a low voice.

"Don't you see that Teller Horse? Who else could be riding a Thorler? Someone smart explained out loud. Pick up buckets and sticks and run to the brightest place of the flames.

"Ashina Choyu, this is my reward for you!" Li Xu looked back at the flames for a long time, and his heart was full of pleasure of revenge. Whether he escaped tonight or not, Ashina Choyu paid the price for his conspiracy.

In the sudden burst of firelight, he seemed to see Tao Kuo's holy body again.

"Dew couple, this word is so beautiful, you Han people are smart, you can create such an interesting word!" The girl smiled, and the expression on her face was fascinated.