50. Holy Snow Lotus in full bloom on the grassland
PS: If you want to hear more of your voices and receive more of your opinions, search for the WeChat public account "qdread" now and pay attention to it, and give more support to "The Legend of Little People"!
It's a world of snow.
The mountains are white, the trees are white, and the ground is naturally covered with a layer of shimmering bright white.
Even the invisible borders, which are far away and are not visible at all because they are blocked by the mountains, must be white.
In such a world, there is always a feeling of loneliness, as if the world is silently mourning someone. It is also as if the earth is wearing linen and filial piety for this era of devastation, although in the eyes of most people, heaven and earth are unkind and all things are dogs.
Of course, if someone does come here, the only thing that will happen is ......
"Wow, it's so dazzling white snow, I always feel like I'm going to be completely blind if I look at it two more times."
Just a mournful sound that sounded more coquettish completely broke this deep loneliness, and the snow surface, which was originally as smooth as a mirror, also had strings like black pearls, stretching here from afar.
"So, my eldest lady, why did you suddenly go crazy and run to such a place where there are no people!"
"Because I don't know why I suddenly feel that the mood is super ~ level ~ is not good, so I came out to relax~"
Saying such words is indeed very much like that of a wayward lady, and the silver-white space echoes with laughter like silver bells.
It doesn't look like it's a bad mood, but it's a good feeling.
"But Miss, there is a dojo in the Klo Department tonight, after this period of publicity and brewing, some small tribes around should also come, this is a very important opportunity for us."
"What's the hurry? Why should we be in a hurry, it is they who should be anxious and not us, and we are not begging them to invite us. Besides, we have Yarkand and Subiqiang, and there is no need to take the initiative to continue to expand for the time being, and consolidating the existing foundation is the most important thing at the moment, as for tribes like Klo. Just go with the flow. ”
"That's why the eldest lady will use this way to show your attitude?"
"No, I really felt very uncomfortable today, so I came out to relax."
"I always feel that your approach reminds us of an acquaintance of ours."
"Did you think of your former father? Actually, I have always wanted to be a good preacher like my father, but I also know that I am still too young and inexperienced, so you should help me if I don't do well......
"No, no, no, Miss, your tone is definitely not the slightest resemblance to the Sect Master."
"Then who do you think I look like!" A young girl said she was angry, and the consequences could be very severe.
"Probably...... Probably more like the state pastor. ”
Although it was not clearly stated who it was, the eldest lady, who was about to lose her temper, suddenly fell silent and raised her head unconsciously. Although the sun in the sky is slightly dazzling, it makes people feel as if they can feel the precious warmth of winter from the direct sunlight, and people can't help but stare for a long time and don't want to take their eyes off.
Naturally......
"Woooooooooo......oo My Chogokin Eagle Eye is blind, completely blind! ”
"So, Miss, your words and deeds now have the feeling of that adult."
So, a certain eldest lady made a difficult orz pose directly on horseback.
It belongs to the young and beautiful body of the girl, and with the incomparably reverie posture, there is a bit of a feeling of femininity, not to mention the girl's actually quite outstanding appearance. It can definitely make those who don't know give birth to a feeling of "wanting to do it".
However, the subordinates who followed the eldest lady seemed to be completely unmoved, and there was not much lust in their eyes. Instead, he looked at their eldest lady who was funny in front of him like a naughty bear child.
Even if these guys are the kind of daughters who dote on their daughters, no one should object!
Probably tired of running, the girl suddenly pulled the reins, and the war horse under her crotch was in pain, and subconsciously raised her front hooves, but this could not cause any trouble to the girl on the horse, but brought her full of excitement and ...... Happy.
Pacify the war horse under the crotch. The girl kicked off the horse, a set of movements to do chic and free, whether it was the previous longitudinal horse, the horse control or the beautiful dismounting action just now, all showed the girl's outstanding riding skills. And the girl also carried a rather delicate riding bow on her back, although it does not indicate how outstanding her riding and archery skills are, but she should still be somewhat confident.
"Clean up here, I'd like to do a meditation here."
Meditate in such a snowy environment?! This eldest lady can really toss.
Although the more than ten subordinates around him glanced at each other and read such information from the other party's eyes, none of them gave a word of admonition, but immediately carried out the girl's order like the eldest lady, and they also seemed extremely well-trained.
This kind of meditation in the wild doesn't actually need to do any preparation, if it's in the hot summer, you even need to prepare, you can start by sitting on the ground in your favorite posture, anyway, the effect of this kind of thing is mainly based on personal comprehension rather than posture.
It's just that it's a cold winter day, so a simple marching tent and a thick cashmere blanket are still needed.
Although the genuine meditation strategy is the patent of strategists and horseback strategists, since Li Shushi, who went on an expedition to the Western Regions, introduced the Buddhists of the Kushan Empire and the Zoroastrian religion of the Sabbath Empire to the Central Plains, many amazing civil officials have developed their own meditation strategies with their own and their professional characteristics with these secret methods, and the girl who has obtained some kind of true transmission is a master in this way.
In this way, the wayward eldest lady didn't know whether to sleep or enter a special state in the tent, anyway, for the group of uncles outside, the orders given by such a wayward eldest lady really made them suffer a lot.
It's just that it seems that these uncles who are suspected of being controlled by their daughters don't seem to feel that they are suffering.
Or more accurately, they see this suffering as part of their practice.
Just like the ascetics or ascetics of the various religions who keep the precepts, they practice in a similar way.
After a long time. Maybe it's an hour or two, maybe it's two or three hours, anyway, the sun has gradually slanted westward from the peak that was about to go overhead, and there are already large red clouds that have begun to appear around the sun, which looks very gorgeous.
"Let's go, it's time to go back." From the simple tent came the voice of the eldest lady who was a little tired.
"Yes. Miss Zhang. ”
"How many times have you said it, don't call me Miss Zhang, my name is Ren Yingying!"
"It's not in the Central Plains now, you don't need to be incognito, why do you have to take such a name, Miss."
"Because the name has a very special meaning."
"Is that the name that 'that person' gave to the eldest lady in the first place?"
"No, you've thought too much, there's no way he knows my real name. I am, and I'm just the eldest lady of the Zhang family! ”
"Then why are you ......?"
"It's nothing, it's just that I don't want to be found. Although if she wants to, she probably can't find me. ”
Well, for such an answer, the more than ten subordinates could only be speechless again.
It's just that looking at their eldest lady's melancholy face, she will always make up a lot of exciting and bloody plots.
It's a pity that the girl who was falling into some kind of strange love didn't notice, or even if she did, she probably would just laugh casually, after all, some things are too difficult to explain in a few words.
Wouldn't it be too bad to get darker and darker, especially for those who don't know the inside story. Some concepts have long been ingrained, no matter how willful this eldest lady is. But he also knows that he does not have the strength to confront the common sense of the whole society.
Being able to get the life she has now may be enough to make her happy.
Although in a certain way, she still has to thank the man who always makes her feel extremely complicated.
As the sun was about to sink into the ground, when the fiery red of the sky was gradually replaced by a gloomy black, the eldest lady and her party finally arrived at a typical steppe tribe - dotted with felt tents scattered around, and long hairy animals covered in the pen to help them survive the winter. Obviously, this cold winter has made these animals unable to withstand the ubiquitous cold even with their thick hair, and they may not know the taste of death, but they have already smelled it.
In addition to the retinue of more than a dozen people, there were more than a hundred young men and women in similar clothes to those of the previous entourage waiting there in the outlying areas of this tribe. They had their own tent colony, and there was a clear separation from the tent colony of that tribe - obviously not a single communion, but there was a relatively close relationship.
"Oh~ Isn't this Konada, looking at your appearance, today's harvest should be good?"
"Thanks to the eldest lady, I got a few litters of rabbits today, and I also caught a total of four foxes of all sizes, what does the eldest lady want to do."
"Those foxes weren't killed by you."
"How is it possible, I know that the eldest lady you like the live fox the most, how can it be possible to make the eldest lady sad."
"Very well, then let the fox go, I don't have time to have a pet right now. As for the rabbits, stew, the weather has been exceptionally cold for the past two days, and I feel like I'm afraid there will be one or two heavy snowfalls. I hope those merchants don't get too greedy, otherwise this time it will only take a big action to get us through this troubled winter and the next one, which may be even more troublesome. ”
"The eldest lady is right, but I don't think the merchants will have a chance to show their greed."
"Hmph~ If I were you, I would definitely think that my idea just now was very stupid."
"Okay, okay, you're the eldest lady, you have the final say. Anyway, as long as I listened to the merchants, I would have found in a few days that I would have been eager to cut them into a dozen pieces with my beloved sword, but by that time they had already run away without a trace. So I thought it would be better to have a good time than to regret it later. ”
"Of course, if the eldest lady can make me not regret it, I also want to be an honest and trustworthy good man." The sturdy young man finally fell into this sentence again, but from the look in his eyes. Apparently something else.
"Feel free, I've seen a lot of men who are much better than you anyway, but alas, they're all dead now."
"Of course I know that the state pastor is a very powerful person, but after all, this is Xiqiang, not the Central Plains."
"I think you should probably be like your father said. Get out and about instead of staying on the prairie. ”
"The old fellow? Only in this matter I absolutely can't agree with your statement, Miss, that guy is already old, and he no longer has the body to continue to lead the tribe forward. Maybe he still has a little bit of wisdom, but I think he used all the wealth he had gained because of his age on how to marry young women. If it were me, even if I didn't reach his wisdom for the time being, I would have the power he didn't have now, and I also believed that I could find the wisdom that matched my strength. ”
"Maybe in some way, you're smarter than your father. Even if it doesn't seem like much. ”
"It is my pleasure to receive your compliment, then I take my leave for the time being, noble lady."
"It's still so annoying." Looking at the distant back of the young man named Konada, one of the girl's subordinates was full of disdain.
"He's really annoying, and looking at this man reminds me of the guy I don't remember much about being called Karen."
"The former Xianbei co-master?"
"That's right, I heard that the man is the same, his personal strength is very strong, and he seems to have some kind of 'ambitious' ideals."
"Didn't I get my head cut off by the state shepherd's subordinates?"
That's why I always say it. There are too many such self-righteous fools on the steppe. ”
"That being said, but seriously speaking, they have always been the most troublesome group of people in the big man."
"Perhaps. But what does this have to do with us, all I need to do now is to spread my father's lineage, at least we can have more freedom here than in a disgusting place like the Central Plains. ”
"So don't worry, Miss, we will all help you realize such a dream."
"Well, I'm sure you guys can do that. Just like you did when you followed your father. ”
Hearing this, the eldest lady with the name of "Ren Yingying" showed a big gentle smile.
Of course, hearing this, perhaps everyone should also guess who this "Ren Yingying" is.
Well, she is the daughter of Zhang Jiao who left the Qiao family. The eternal eldest lady in the hearts of Taiping Dao diehard believers - Zhang Ning. Although we are more familiar with the name "Diao Chan" than this one.
At the beginning, with mixed feelings, Diao Chan chose to leave Jinyang and leave the place where she was always entangled.
In fact, she would never believe that she could get to that point anyway, because if it weren't for that series of events, Diao Chan felt that she might stay in Jinyang for the rest of her life, even if her heart would always be tormented by the interweaving of various emotions.
However, her fate did not go the way she had envisioned.
The reason for the resurgence of the Yellow Turban, which swept the Central Plains and the land of Hebei before, was that Diao Chan was ordered by Li Shushi to ascertain the name "Zhang Baiqi", to contact the old Zhangjiao troops scattered among the people, and then to guò These old Zhangjiao departments, and to contact the old departments and remnants of the Yellow Turban Army that were not in a very good state of survival in various places, setting off such a huge wave.
Li Shushi asked Diao Chan to carry out such a plan, obviously it could not have been guessed out of thin air.
In fact, Zhang Jiao's entrustment of Diao Chan or his righteous daughter Zhang Ning to Li Shushi was naturally very secretive. However, for some of Zhang Jiao's die-hard cronies, it is not difficult to know about this matter. Second, Zhang Jiao was somewhat worried about whether his daughter could really wait by Li Shushi's side for a long time, if she couldn't understand her original thoughts and ran away angrily, as a father, Zhang Jiao did not intend to dare his daughter's decision, but continued to protect her in another way, and it was for this reason that Zhang Jiao secretly prepared a guard of his cronies for his daughter that he confidently selected.
Li Shushi is not completely clear about the situation of this army, but he also understands it. And it is precisely because of his understanding of the existence of this army that Li Shushi dared to let Jia Xu use his strategy and let Diao Chan incarnate as Zhang Jiao's personal disciple "Zhang Baiqi" to act-even if Diao Chan did not have the ability to lead the crowd, the guards left by Zhang Jiao at least had some control over those guys in the Yellow Turban Army.
Anyway, Li Shushi just needed some "things" to happen in the Central Plains at that time to divert the attention of those princes. What the result will be was actually not in Li Shushi's consideration from the beginning.
The operation was a success, an unexpected success, and the might of the regrouped Yellow Turban Army was not much inferior to the Yellow Turban Uprising that broke out in the first place. Even if there was no Zhang Jiao, the absolute core guide, the orders of this operation were inconsistent, and even later, the Yellow Turban Army in various places became a gun in the hands of those local princes, but this still greatly exceeded Li Shushi's initial expectations.
And Diao Chan also gained a lot from this operation - whether it is the experience of controlling such a large scene. Or the loyal retinue of her father's cronies, who were the most valuable treasures to her.
It is precisely because of this that Diao Chan has the courage and confidence to leave Jinyang, a city that makes her feel entangled and confused, and away from Li Shushi and Su Xiaololi, a pair that makes her love and hate.
It's just that now it seems that it is not so easy for her to completely get rid of this pair of "ghosts".
Even unconsciously, she used the name of the beautiful woman who came to this world in advance through the mouth of Li Shushi, does this mean that there are other feelings in her heart that she subconsciously wants to ignore?
Or maybe it was because she learned about this subtle change in her feelings that she was more determined to escape from Jinyang.
The answer to this question may gradually emerge later, and perhaps no one will ever know it in the future.
Who can say now?
Diao Chan who left Jinyang. Choose to go west instead of north.
In fact, the girl originally wanted to go to the northern steppe, because she liked the vast place very much. However, her subordinates told her that the north was too deeply involved with Li Shushi and Li Shushi's state army, and if she didn't pay attention to it, she might encounter it.
So, the girl decided to turn around. The Qiang people in the West may be a little unfamiliar with everyone in this team, but Xiliang is also not a barren area of Taiping Dao, as a religious group that once had the support of the state, it is obviously impossible for Taiping Dao to completely disappear because it was suppressed because of a few rebellions.
They just make their way of doing things more secretive.
Of course. If it weren't for this connection, maybe this local organization of Taiping Dao would have been independent. It will gradually become the past in the local county history under the magic of time, and then gradually dissipate with the passing of a generation. In the future, with the introduction of new religions, perhaps the locals will forever forget what they once believed in and what they did for their beliefs.
But now it's different, although the number of contacts is extremely limited, but with the help of the entourage. Diao Chan still contacted many old departments scattered among the people of Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army, and gradually incorporated and integrated these people.
By the way, in this process, Diao Chan really wants to thank her distant relative, that is, Zhang Niujiao, the former high-ranking official of the Yellow Turban Army who was hidden behind Zhang Yan, the Taishou of Jincheng, for his selfless help.
Selfless help indeed. After all, when Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Yan defected to Lu Zhi under the mediation of Li Shushi, Diao Chan played a great role in promoting Zhang Jiao's theoretical political inheritance, although this promotion was more in name, in essence, it was Li Shushi's guarantee that Lu Zhi finally made up his mind, but if there was no Diao Chan's survival, I am afraid that the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Montenegro would be difficult to really believe in those former opponents and traitors.
After all, even if he is a Confucian general like Lu Zhi, many of his methods are quite cruel when suppressing the Yellow Turban Army.
Now, seeing that Diao Chan ran out by herself, Zhang Niujiao didn't have any other feelings except for surprise, just like Zhang Jiao, just like Zhang Jiao, just as his little niece planned to go out for a walk, anyway, the little girl would naturally go back when she was tired of playing.
Maybe Su Xiaololi also had similar thoughts in her heart, so she would treat this matter so lightly.
Besides, Diao Chan's idea of spreading the teachings of Taiping Dao among the Qiang people coincided with Zhang Niujiao, and with the help of this group of right-hand men around Zhang Jiao, Zhang Niujiao felt that the combat effectiveness of Taiping Dao in the western border fortress had really doubled.
So, in this disdainful place, Zhang Jiao's dream may be difficult to realize, but his reputation is getting louder and louder.
Perhaps, such a result is a great consolation to those who are still living in the past in some way.
Of course, from another point of view, this is not an attempt to start a new life.
At least Zhang Niujiao can see clearly, there was always a gloomy girl in the corners of her eyes, but now she has grown into a young eagle flying freely in the sky, although she is still a little immature, but she is thinking about the whole sky and the earth, showing her delicate posture and brave physique.
At least this result should be the result that Zhang Jiao, who has been dead for many years, is willing to see. (My novel "The Legend of Little People" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)