Chapter 1: The Great Thief (Part 5)

"Am I alive?" Li Xu moved his little finger slightly, not sure of this answer. The soft cushion under the body is like a grass, and the warmth on the face may also come from the sun. He secretly opened his eyes a slit, and the blue sky that had been washed with water squeezed in through the gap in his eyelids.

The peculiar clear sunlight of the prairie told him that this place was still human. "I'm alive!" Li Xu let out a silent cheer in his heart. Quickly tense the skin of the whole body to test the limbs, and found that there was no feeling of restraint on the body, only a sore and soft after exertion, which made people have no strength to do more movements. It was an exciting sourness, and at this point it at least proved the fact that it did not fall into the hands of Ashina Choyu.

Slightly closed his eyes and kept in a state of fake sleep, Li Xu desperately remembered what happened to him last night. Memories flooded back, piercing his heart with a throbbing pain. He remembered that Xu Dayan jumped into the grass after stabbing Hei Feng in order not to drag himself down and flee for his life. He also remembered that he set the lake blue robe on fire, trying to attract the attention of his pursuers. He also remembered the song he had improvised last night, which challenged the taboo of the Turks at every turn. He remembered that the Turks had chased him into a dark valley and vowed to catch him by the light of the lantern, and he smiled, tears rolling down the grass from the corners of his eyes......

"Manly man, wake up, wake up, cry what to cry!" A rough voice came from overhead, making Li Xu tremble. As fast as he could, he saw a young man about his age biting on a straw stick, his black and yellow face full of contempt.

"Dry in the morning, drip out by yourself!" Li Xu's face was slightly red, and he quibbled in a low voice.

"To cry is to cry, to laugh is to laugh, what is there that you dare not admit. Look at how you looked like a good man when you fought against the Turks last night, how did you wake up so seedless! The young man spat the ground, but he couldn't spit out the grass residue, and the green liquid on the corner of his mouth was stretched into a shiny .......

Li Xu looked a little disgusted, holding the hilt of the knife and trying to sit up. The feeling of soreness in the back of his neck instantly drained all the strength of his body, and he had to fall down again.

"Slow down, Brother Niu started a little heavier yesterday. But don't worry, let Lao Zhang help you massage twice, and you will be more energetic than before you fainted! When the young man saw Li Xu making a fool of himself, his tone softened. stepped forward to help him and comforted him in a low voice.

"Brother Niu, Lao Zhang?" Li Xu took the young man's arm and slowly sat up straight. This time, he finally sat up, and some of the lost memories slowly returned to his body with the smooth flow of blood.

The last memory of last night was that I was chased by the Turks into a canyon, and then I heard someone order me to stop my horse quickly. Just when he thought he had been ambushed and wanted to draw his knife desperately, a sudden wind came from behind. Then, Li Xu knew that he had fallen off his horse, and before he fainted, he vaguely heard the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air......

Li Xu turned his dizzy head and looked around, last night's valley was not far away, it was an east-west valley sandwiched between two hills. At the junction of Yanshan and grassland, such valleys can be seen everywhere. The only difference is that all the rocks in this valley in front of me are dark black, and there is a faint light smoke rising from the cracks of the ugly stones. Apparently, someone had set a fire in the valley last night.

"Don't look at it, the people chasing us are dead. Liu Zhai and his subordinates do business, and never leave each other alive. The black-faced young man shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Shall we?" Li Xu was even more puzzled in his heart. The guy next to him, who likes to chew straw sticks, is self-acquainted, and he takes himself as his accomplice so quickly. He is the owner of the village in his mouth, and he is buying and selling, I am afraid that his background is not a good kind.

"Of course it's us, you set fire to Ashina Choyu's stockade, stole other people's horses, and killed people. Don't you want to admit any of these things? "The black face spat out a cloud of grass residue again, and 'Yin' said with a smile.

Li Xu never expected that the black face would know all the things he had done, and he was even more shocked in his heart. His eyes widened and he looked around for Black Wind, but found a huge herd of horses not far away.

A herd of horses, no less than three hundred, were leisurely looking for food in the grassland. By the side of the horses, there were more than 100 dirty-clad men lying on the ground, sleeping soundly one by one. Black Wind was tied to the outside of the horses, and there was a man with a very ordinary figure who looked like a man in the rivers and lakes who was applying medicine to the horse's buttocks. A tall, burly man, a merchant, and a hunter wrapped in a beast's skin were walking towards him.

"You set the fire!" Li Xu screamed in surprise, and a somersault jumped up from the ground. I have always wondered why the torches on the tails of a dozen war horses could cause such a big fire, and it turned out that someone secretly poured a bucket of oil on the fire. There is no need to ask, the hundreds of war horses in front of him were all stolen by this group of people from Ashina Choyu's camp, and he and Xu Dayan killed people and seized the door, which was equivalent to opening the way for this group of horse thieves in front of their heads.

"It's not us, it's us. We couldn't find a chance to get off the phone, but you, your honored guest, set the first fire in the host's house. So, we'll help you get the fire bigger. As for these horses, stealing one is stealing anyway, and stealing a group is stealing .......," said the black-faced young man with a smile, shrugging his shoulders.

A few words, but Li Xu's face turned pale, it was true that he set fire to himself, and it was true that he stole the horse and seized the door, but it was all to get rid of Ashina Yu's forced stay. And after the horse thieves made such a fuss, he completely became a "villain" who set fire to and steal horses, and Ashina Choyu mobilized the forces of half of the grassland to chase and kill him, not only did not bully others, but also had the moral upper hand.

"Whew!" The black-faced young man was very sensitive to see through Li Xu's true thoughts from Li Xu's expression, the smile on his face immediately turned cold, he sneered, and scolded mockingly: "Why, looking down on the uncle is a horse thief, isn't it?" Lao Tzu is a thief, but at least he does his part. Some people are not thieves, but they are not as good as thieves! ”

"You!" Li Xu was so angry that he couldn't speak, his hands trembled and he wanted to pull out the knife from his waist, but the other party's accomplice got closer and closer.

"Why, you want to fight with me. Yes, that's it, if you can't talk about it, you will cut off the guy who talks to others, and there will be no noise in your ears from now on. His grandmother's, I just said that there is no good thing in the reader, but Brother Liu wants to save you! The black-faced young man spat out the last mouthful of green spit, jumped back, picked up an iron fork for picking cow dung, and aimed the tip of the fork with the smell of stinking at Li Xu's throat.

"Kuroko, don't deliberately play tricks on people!" In the distance, someone whispered. The tone is not heavy, but it faintly reveals a majesty that cannot be refused.

"He's trying to kill me!" The black-faced young man took two steps back and stumbled as he lowered the fork to the ground.

Li Xu pressed the handle of the knife to the side of his head, and saw that several accomplices of the horse thieves had come to his side. It was the strong man who ordered the sunspot to stop, with a square face, thick eyebrows, and a calm and unhurried walk, like Xu Dayan in ordinary times. It's just that this person's smile has a kind of calmness and calmness after experiencing a lot of wind and frost, which is completely different from Xu Dayan's friendly and enthusiastic smile.

"This little brother is the wolf guard of the famous grassland, Zhang Liang in Xia Yongzhou, I am fortunate to meet the young hero!" The man dressed as a businessman who walked to the left of the strong man greeted with a smile. This person is not tall and has a natural and amiable appearance. Looking at the dress, it should be a perennial walking peddler, but there is an extra cowhide belt around his waist, and on the left and right of the belt, each with a short knife with a sheath is pinned.

"My name is Li Xu, thank you for saving your life!" Li Xu instinctively leaned to the side, and then returned the salute with a fist. He was deceived so much that he was sensitive to strangers' smiles. The more enthusiastic the other person laughs, the more wary he often becomes.

"Haha, Lao Zhang, people don't want to deal with you at all!" The young man known as Kuroko laughed defiantly. It seems that he is not only unable to get along with Li Xu, but he naturally has a stinky mouth that he wants to provoke whoever he sees. Zhang Liang, who looked like a peddler, was not annoyed when he heard this, smiled, and asked Li Xu one after another, "How is it, does the back of your neck still hurt?" Do you want me to give you two massages? Lao You, that guy doesn't know how heavy it is. But don't blame him, the situation was urgent, and if he didn't knock you out, the whole valley had to be arranged for the Turks to see! ”

"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, thank you, Brother Zhang!" Li Xu dodged and said, a little unaccustomed to the other party's enthusiasm. When listening to the introduction of the black-faced young man, he originally thought that the person who gave the medicine to the war horse was Lang Zhong, but he didn't expect that it was the businessman in front of him who was good at massage. In any case, people saved their lives, and they couldn't stretch out their slaps to slap the smiling face, thinking of this, he turned around with a smile and made a gesture, and asked the other two men: "Under Li Xu, may I ask the names of the two strong men?" ”

"What about me, Liu Jizhen! This is my friend Liu Hong, what is the word Hongji or something. You Han people are really troublesome, you have two names! Orion, with a fur on his chest, shouted at the top of his voice, as if he was afraid that others would not remember his name.

"In Xia Yongzhou Liu Hong, the word Hongji. The little brother bit dozens of people to death, and the blade was attached to the Lifu Khan? Can there be a table word? The strong man who had been smiling and listening to everyone arched his hand and asked politely.

"Li Xu of Shanggu has seen two heroes. When I was studying in my hometown of Shanggu, my teacher once gave me a table word to be Zhongjian! Li Xu smiled and returned the salute. Liu Hongji's way of speaking is the way Li Xu is used to communicating, which makes people feel very comfortable. With the intuition he has developed after dating Xu Dayan for nearly a year, Li Xu believes that this person should be from a big family. And the guy who spoke extremely loudly and wore animal skins was clearly a Turk, and it was not clear from a distance, but when he approached, his turquoise eyes and full beard revealed his true identity at once.

Horse thieves, children of wealthy families, Turks colluding together? What the hell do they do? Li Xu smiled and greeted everyone, but a cloud of doubt in his heart slowly covered his eyes.

Drinker's note: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.