Zhang Wuzhu was in charge of transporting the military rations, and Liu Yu set off with a scout team heading north earlier.

Liu Yu and Timur each had two horses, and brought enough dry food and water, as well as fire-making and cooking tools. With these, Liu Yu doesn't have to eat cold rice on the grassland. Liu Yu also specially prepared two small marching tents, so that there was a place to shelter from the wind and rain at night.

Timur didn't know Liu Yu's identity, she was vigilant enough against the soldiers of the Shun Dynasty, and when she got on the road, she began to urge Liu Yue to leave these people earlier and go on the road alone.

Liu Yu explained to her: "Be careful. Wait for us to reach the vast grassland, and then set off alone. ”

Timur felt that Liu Yue was willing to send her home, so he didn't think Liu Yue was a bad person, and obeyed Liu Yue's words. After walking all the way north for about nine days, the group finally arrived at the grassland of Monan, and at this time, Liu Yu calculated that the road back to Chang'an City through the Hexi Corridor was also the closest. On the one hand, there is the warmth of his family, and on the other hand, Liu Yu, who continues to fight, is very painful to make a choice.

"That's it, we are different from the way they are going, they are going to turn around and go to the Central Plains." Liu Yu lied to Timur, so that she did not doubt the intentions of those scouts, in fact, in addition to the dozen or so scouts who traveled with Liu Yu, there were nearly three hundred scouts who were in charge of assisting behind.

When I arrived at the open grassland, the main color in front of me was only green. Timur finally let go of his embrace, and kept cheering and jumping while galloping on the grassland. Liu Yu could even hear her high-pitched and loud singing, but unfortunately Liu Yue couldn't understand Turkic and didn't know what she was singing.

Mountains and mountains, water and water. Prairie to prairie. Liu Yu only knew that the direction of Lu Dao's line was to the north. Because he was worried about the impact of bad weather on road signs, Liu Yu didn't dare to go too fast, and he had to get off the horse to make signs at any time. These things have to be kept hidden from Timur as much as possible, so that she can't find out the clues.

During the day, the two of them traveled together, and at dusk they cooked on a fire, cooking a pot of soup with dried meat and weeds from the grassland, and they would camp in a place where there was water as much as possible. If there are small hills around, they will also hide under the hills to avoid the wind. The night in the steppe is very windy. Especially in the second half of the night.

The biggest threat at night on the grassland is the wolf, originally the two discussed taking turns to keep vigil, but Timur stayed all night and became drowsy, and her wind and cold still did not recover, so Liu Yu had to be ready to deal with the attack of the wolves every night. As long as the bonfire was not extinguished, the wolf did not dare to approach, and Liu Yu had a short gun and enough bullets in his hand, so he was not particularly worried in his heart.

When he couldn't sleep, Timur looked at Liu Yu who reflected the firelight and begged Liu Yu to tell a story.

"I don't know how to tell stories." Liu Yu always said that. But Timur begged for a while, and Liu Yu would always mention two words. Although what he said was like coaxing a child.

"Have you heard of the story of the wolf?" Liu Yu asked.

Timur stood up smartly, holding a burning branch in his hand: "The wolf is coming? Where is it? ”

Liu Yu glanced at her, and said in his heart that this little girl was quite alert. Fortunately, after walking on the grassland for a few days, she didn't realize that she was being followed. For the safety of the night, Liu Yu specially asked the scouts to get as close as possible at night, so that they could take care of each other when they were really in danger. After all, the threat to the steppe was not only wolves, but also other remnants of the Turkic tribal forces.

"I'm telling the story, not really the wolf."

Timur realized that she had misunderstood what Liu Yu meant, threw the fire stick, sat down and hugged her knees to listen to the story.

Liu Yu finished the complete story, and Timur's head hung on his knees, as if thinking about a problem.

"Therefore, a person must not lie, otherwise it is easy to lose the trust of others." Liu Yu concluded.

Timur suddenly asked, "Why didn't the wolves come the first two times, but the third time?" ”

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and he didn't quite understand Timur's logic.

"The first two times the wolf himself didn't come, and he lied, and the third time the wolf came, no one believed him." Liu Yudao.

"What if the wolves came the first two times?" Timur continued to ask with his head sideways.

"There is no such assumption......"

"Those people are too stupid, the wolf is coming, how can they not believe such a dangerous thing in a hurry? Believe in them one more time, and they won't have to die. ”

Liu Yu thought about it, this should be the logic of the grassland people. In the face of danger, there is no need to talk about any principle, as long as there is the slightest danger, they must be 100% prepared. In other words, the story of the wolf takes place in the Central Plains, where people can withstand being deceived twice, while in the grassland, people would rather be deceived every time.

"Forget it, let's not discuss whether the wolf is here or not." Liu Yu said, "I'll tell you a story about the little white rabbit and the big bad wolf, this time the wolf is really here." ”

Timur: "Wow! Di stood up again, looked around for a while, and then sat down again, and glanced at Liu Yu angrily. But soon she was attracted by the story told by Liu Yu.

Liu Yue was talking listlessly, Timur was listening with wide eyes, and after hearing the most slurgy, Liu Yue saw that she seemed to be asleep, so he stopped talking. Only then did Timur rub his eyes and ask, "What happened to those little white rabbits?" ”

"Later?" Liu Yu thought for a while, "They lived happily with the big bad wolf. ”

"Hmph, it's boring. You are lying to me at all, the little white rabbit was eaten by the big bad wolf, is it happy to be eaten? ”

Timur turned around and wanted to sleep in the tent, while Liu Yu wanted to go out and find some firewood to come back, and just as he was about to leave, he found that the wind was gusting, and Timur had already shouted: "Wolf...... It's really coming! ”

Fortunately, it was only two wolves, not a pack of wolves, Timur came out of the tent again, and Liu Yu had already eliminated all the two wolves. Liu Yuzheng panted and looked at the two wolves in a daze.

"How can you kill them? It's a cruel thing. Timur came up and accused Liu Yu.

"Aren't you cruel to be eaten by them?" Liu Yue frowned, he became more and more unable to understand Timur's logic.

"Wolves are the most sacred animals in our steppe, forget it...... I don't understand what I can explain to you. The next time you encounter wolves, you should find a way to drive them away instead of brutally killing them. ”

Originally, Liu Yue thought that Timur should be very afraid of wolves, but Timur's spirit was exceptionally good that night, and she was actually using a knife and a stone to pry the wolf teeth of two wolves.

Liu Yue's accomplices who were afraid of wolves smelled blood and came to seek revenge, and they didn't close their eyes all night, just watching Timur do things in a serious way.

"Do you know the truth? At this time, a male wolf and a female wolf, if you kill them, their wolf cubs will not survive. After Timur finished speaking, he had already pried off two wolf fangs, and happily held the wolf teeth in his hand, cherishing them.

"The horse is not surprised, how did you know that the wolf was coming when you entered the tent?" Liu Yu asked.

"Every time a wolf approaches, you can smell the fishy smell on them, haven't you noticed?"

Liu Yuxin said that he really didn't pay attention, maybe the grassland people have a more sensitive nose. It is said that the sense of smell is in a state of degeneration with the progress of human beings, and Liu Yu's sense of smell is very average.

As she spoke, Timur took out a wolf tooth strung with a string from her neck, her one was much larger, it should be the tooth of the wolf king. The two freshly pried wolf teeth were not drilled, and she tied them with rope and hung them around her neck with the original.

"Wolf fangs are the talismans of our prairie girls, and I brought them back to my two sisters, who used to envy me for having wolf teeth." Timur said with a smile, and suddenly found that Liu Yu was looking at her, pouted and said, "Don't expect me to give it to you, wolf teeth are worn by girls, you men just hang the wolf crutch on your waist, dig it yourself!" Saying that, he threw the knife over with confidence, and Liu Yu returned it to her.

If it was a good wolf hip stone, Liu Yue didn't mind wearing it, but he wasn't that interested in letting him dig it himself. And he didn't plan to taste wolf meat.

The next day, the two continued on their way.

Further north, the road began to become flat, the mountains gradually became invisible, and Liu Yu did not know how to discern the direction of Timur. That's how she goes, like a little wolf, who can find her way home thousands of miles away. What Liu is more afraid of is that she has actually lost her way and really abducted herself to Siberia.

As a result, after a heavy rain, Timur looked at the empty field all around, looking a little sluggish and trance-like, and said with a sad face: "Lost." ”

Liu Yu almost collapsed when he heard this. It's better to get lost early, it's been 20 days since I entered the grassland, and it's almost September. It is said that the cold winter of the northern grasslands is still a month away at most.

"How do you know the way this way?" Liu Yu asked the questions he was most concerned about along the way.

"I just judged the direction and went north!"

Liu Yuxin said that it was terrible now, and he really couldn't do it but turn south, if he went back like this, not only would he not be able to help him in the war at all, but he might also delay time and lead to a resurgence of the Turks. What's worse is that he still has to be a wild man for a month, and if he goes south, he may not go to the Black Sea in Afghanistan.

Liu Yu was very depressed, and was about to find a way to contact the scout team following him first, when Timur suddenly cheered and pointed to a small stream in the distance: "There is a river, it should be towards the Qiumu River, let's go along the river, maybe ...... We can find the Dardo tribe. ”

Hearing the word "maybe", Liu Yu's originally rekindled hope also felt shattered again. This little beggar is so unreliable.

Along the river, there was no "Qiumu River" as Timur said, but it was just a very ordinary stream, and the last stream did not merge into a river, but emptied into a small lake.

At dusk that day, the two wanted to sleep on the lake, and suddenly saw a cavalry team in the distance. The horse's hooves roared, and Timur immediately stood up and looked at it from afar.

"Is it your Dardo tribe?" Liu Yu asked.

Timur's head shook a few times in a row like a rattle, and he said with a sad face: "The hunting formation of our Dardo tribe is different from theirs, and I don't know which tribe they belong to. (To be continued......)