The sun was not as hot as it was in the hot summer, not as dark purple as it was before the storm, but it was bright and gave a lovely glow, quietly emerging from under the slender black clouds, shining refreshingly, immersed in its lilac mist. The thin edges of the stretched clouds shone like small snakes, and their brilliance resembled that of refined silver.

On the cold morning of autumn, Gao Fei temporarily said goodbye to his grandmother, and took Zhao Yun, Xiahoulan, and Pei Yuanshao to ride horses to the west gate of Xiangwu City. Li Wenhou and more than a hundred of his subordinates have gathered there, and after the big guy saw Gao Fei coming, he looked respectful, and yesterday Gao Fei caused a sensation in the entire Xiangwu City, and they naturally knew it.

Li Wenhou looked up at the orange-yellow sun in the sky, and said with a smile: "At the end of the hour, Lord Hou came really early!" ”

Gao Fei smiled and said to Li Wenhou: "You came earlier, have all your people arrived?" ”

"It's been here a quarter of an hour ago, Master Hou, let's go!" Li Wenhou said.

Gao Fei nodded, snorted lightly, and then took the lead with Li Wenhou to ride their horses to the front of the team and drive towards Huangzhong.

Huangzhong is not a city, but a general name for a region, just like Guanzhong, Hetao and the like. Huangzhong is in the territory of Jincheng County, Liangzhou, where there is a Huangshui, and the area along both sides of the Huangshui is called Huangzhong, where Huangzhong mainly refers to the three counties of Yunwu, Poqiang and Anyi of Jincheng County, rather than Huangzhong County in Qinghai now.

The group gradually drove towards the destination under the leadership of Li Wenhou along the way, in order not to be lonely on the road, Gao Fei and Li Wenhou talked to each other, mainly chatting about some things about Huangzhong, of course, it was indispensable to ask Li Wenhou about the situation of Beigong Boyu.

Beigong Boyu is not a Han person, but a Hu person, who belongs to the Yueshi Hu, and his ancestors are the Dayue people of the Western Regions. Yue's original in Zhangye, Jiuquan two places, Yue's king for the Huns Dadan Yu Maodun killed, the descendants are also relatively scattered, most of them fled to the west, across the green ridge development, only a few part of the stay in Zhangye, called Yi Conghu. In the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Qu broke the Xiongnu, took the land of the West River, and developed the Huangzhong region, so these Yueshi people who stayed behind came to take refuge in the Han Dynasty, and since then they have stayed in Huangzhong, and have lived together with the Han people and Qiang people for a long time, and gradually been sinicized, and the name is also called Huangzhong Yicong, no longer calling themselves Hu, but in fact, the Han people still call them Hu people.

This time, at the invitation of Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou wanted to join him to join the army of the captain of the Qiang Guard, and the two met in Luodu Valley in the middle of Poqiang and Anyi counties, where Beigong Boyu lived.

Along the way, Gao Fei gradually got used to it, but there was a slight difference in eating, the people in the northwest liked to eat mutton, and they carried some prepared cheese with them, which was much more convenient and trouble-free than burying the pot to cook. But Gao Fei, Zhao Yun, Xia Houlan, and Pei Yuanshao are all Han Chinese, and they will feel fresh and delicious when they eat one or two meals occasionally, but they can't bear to eat these things all day long, and they also feel greasy, so every time they eat, Gao Fei and others have to bury the pot to make rice, make some game, and hand it over to Pei Yuanshao to make delicious.

Most of the people in Liangzhou are skilled in bows and horses, carrying bows and arrows and sabers, and hunting is also very casual, which is a piece of cake for Li Wenhou and others. Pei Yuanshao's craftsmanship was okay, and Li Wenhou and the others were full of praise after eating a meal, so the prey they caught was handed over to him for cooking.

After Gao Fei got along with these Northwest Men for a few days, he gradually became impressed by the fierce folk customs of Liangzhou, which reminded him of why Ma Chao's Xiliang Legion was so powerful later.

The more you go west, the more Gao Fei feels different from the Central Plains, not to mention the geology and landform, even the living habits of the people you see along the way are not the same, occasionally you will hear the sound of the Qiang flute on the road, and occasionally you will encounter groups of Qiang people. Those Qiang people are also strong and strong, and when they see them, they will look very polite.

When the Qiang people passed by them, Gao Fei said to himself: "It is said that the Qiang people are fierce, and it is really difficult to feel it when I see them so polite." ”

Li Wenhou sneered and said: "Don't look at these people so politely, they really work hard, it's not easy to mess with, if it weren't for the fact that there are more than 100 people in our group, it is estimated that they would have been put down by them a long time ago." In normal times, a dozen or twenty people walking alone will encounter trouble, these Qiang people are poor, as long as they see money, they will rob it, and if they have no money, they just pull it back to be slaves. The government can't control it, and if you send someone to take care of things, the Qiang people over there will pour out four or five thousand people to surround you, just to scare you, scare you out of your guts, and see who will dare to take care of it in the future. ”

When Gao Fei heard this, he gradually fell in love with Liangzhou, but suddenly disappeared, and said slowly: "If Lao Tzu has an army of 10,000 or 20,000, see that I don't obey these dog-day Qiang people, let them all kneel down and sing about conquest!" ”

After hearing this, Li Wenhou felt a little interesting, so he laughed and said to Gao Fei: "Master Hou's idea is good, kneeling and singing conquest is really fucking interesting." ”

"Brother Li, we've been walking for so many days, how long will it take to arrive?" Goofy was a little impatient and asked.

"It's not far, we'll be there about ten miles."

After going on for a while, Gao Fei saw a low-lying valley, flanked by mountains, and there was a mountain road in the middle of the mountain, the mountain road was not long, and the rock wall could be clearly seen, but it was a dead end. On the mountains on both sides, a few floating figures could be vaguely seen, followed by a sound of horns, and two or three hundred people appeared on both sides of the mountain in an instant, all of them were ready to shoot with bows, so that everyone sat down and the horses let out an anxious neigh.

A man shouted in this direction: "The road is facing the sky......

Li Wenhou hurriedly responded: "Go aside!" ”

A voice immediately came from the other side: "May I ask who your Excellency is?" Is there a noble cadre in the Luodu Valley? ”

Li Wenhou said: "Under Li Wenhou, at the invitation of Beigong Boyu, bring Brother No. 120 to come for a while!" ”

The people on the opposite hill immediately waved their hands and signaled for release, and those people also went down the hill one after another, and suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving only the person on the hill standing there alone, arching his hand and saying: "It turned out to be Brother Li, there is a long way to go, the valley owner has been waiting for Brother Li for a long time, please Brother Li quickly enter the valley!" ”

Li Wenhou arched his hand and said: "There is Brother Lao!" ”

When Gao Fei heard Li Wenhou's conversation, he thought it was very interesting, it was like entering a thief's village, and when he saw the different roads and the valley where he came from, he looked around curiously.

I saw the man standing on the hill turn around and shout: "It's a guest invited by the valley master, please open the valley gate!" ”

The voice was finished, but I saw a rumbling sound from the rock wall in the mountain road in front of me, and a regular round opening opened in the rock wall, and the door of a cave opened, revealing a deep opening.

"It's unbelievable to have such a hiding place!" Goofy cried out in amazement.

Li Wenhou smiled and said, "Master Hou, when the villain came for the first time, he was also amazed. The door of the cave has been opened, let's go into the valley! ”

The words fell, and without waiting for Gao Fei to react, Li Wenhou rode away with a light shout, and Gao Fei and the others followed. Everyone soon came to the entrance of the cave, and saw that the entrance of the cave seemed to be artificially carved, and the cave was not deep, standing at the entrance of the cave, you could see another cave on the opposite side, it was actually a tunnel, and the entrance of the cave was blocked by a round boulder, if you did not go in and look carefully, there was absolutely reason to believe from a distance that this was part of the rock wall, and the so-called valley was also a dead end.

Goofy had to admire the people who built this valley, it was so ingenious, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't imagine such a hidden place. The group quickly passed through the cave, and when they came out of another cave, they found that there was a cave inside.

The so-called Luodu Valley is actually a small basin, surrounded by cliffs and cliffs, and in the middle is a low-lying flat valley, the area is not too large, but it can be compared with Xiangwu City, the valley is also very smooth. The cliffs are all hand-carved stone houses, spiraling up the stairs, four stories high, and each stone house is inhabited, and all the horses are placed in the middle of the valley, almost more than 2,000 fat and strong horses.

"I didn't expect there to be such a chic place in the world." After Zhao Yun looked around, he was also amazed.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a rush of footsteps from the left-hand side, and a middle-aged man walked over happily, the man was dressed in a bearded man's clothes, with a burly figure, and his muscles were tense all over his body, full of explosive power, which made people feel that this person was definitely a heavyweight at a glance.

"Haha, Brother Li, you're finally here, but you want to kill me!" As soon as you exit it, it has an authentic northwest accent, and the rich voice also makes people sound very comfortable.

Li Wenhou smiled and arched his hand towards the man: "Brother Beigong, I haven't missed the appointment, right?" ”

This person is Beigong Boyu, he shook his head, glanced at Gao Fei beside Li Wenhou, and then glanced at Zhao Yun, Pei Yuanshao, and Xiahou Lan behind Gao Fei one by one, and asked: "Brother Li, these people are so good-looking, but your newly recruited brothers?" ”

Li Wenhou hurriedly pulled Gao Fei and said: "Brother Beigong, this is Gao Fei Gao Ziyu, who pacified the Yellow Turban in Hebei and killed the Zhang brothers, and the others are Hou Ye's entourage. ”

Beigong Boyu looked at Gao Fei in surprise, looked at the young man in front of him with almost disbelieving eyes, and then bowed rudely: "It turned out to be the newly sealed Duxiang Marquis of the imperial court, I thought it was a half-old person, but I didn't expect it to be such a young person, it is really disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Gao Fei hurriedly replied: "The valley master is polite, I just contributed a little bit for the big man." ”

Beigong Boyu said: "Hey! It's a pity that Liangzhou didn't make a yellow scarf, otherwise, I would have been able to make meritorious contributions to the imperial court. ”

Li Wenhou saw that Beigong Boyu was sad, so he hurriedly interrupted: "Brother Beigong, you don't know yet, I and Hou Ye are fellow villagers, and Hou Ye is also from Xiangwu." ”

Beigong Boyu said with a smile: "No wonder, it turns out that Master Hou is also from Liangzhou, no wonder he was able to pacify the yellow scarves in Hebei in one fell swoop." This is not a place to talk, Master Hou is here, please follow me to the Humble House! ”

Gao Fei arched his hand and said, "There is the Lord of the Lao Valley." ”