Rongyi and Rongjie's father and son returned to the tent, and the crowd in front of the camp of the Kuaidao tribe gradually dispersed, and Zhang Zhao continued to play with Hahebao and others casually, and did not return to the camp of the Baitou tribe until evening.

The three of them all saw that Rong Jie's methods were much stronger than Zhang Zhao's, but after all, the Kuaidao tribe was a powerhouse that had occupied the top five in the competition for hundreds of years, and they didn't think too much after the shock, and after coming back, Zhang Zhao said goodbye to them and calmly entered his tent.

Sitting down cross-legged, Zhang Zhao closed his eyes and recalled Rong Jie's knife technique just now, and sure enough, as the enthusiastic shepherd said, the peeling technique of the fast knife tribe is really ingenious, and ordinary people have to pull out with one hand when peeling off the skin of the herd. The other hand uses a knife to cut the fascia between the fur and the flesh. Rong Jie didn't pull at all when he peeled off the skin of the cow deer, and the whole skin was peeled off with only a few strokes of the knife in his hand.

Just like learning knife techniques with Elder Gu in Lingxiao, the golden light in Zhang Zhao's mind turned into the scene just now, constantly experiencing Rong Jie's unique knife skills and gestures. After countless drills, Zhang Zhao felt that he might be able to do similar to other actions, but he still couldn't find any tricks in the skinning knives, so he had to lie down and sleep helplessly.

On the second day when the team arrived at the Danhe tribe, almost all the people from the tribes of the Baimu League arrived, and the tribal leaders who had been friends for many years began to visit each other, and the young people were idle and continued to play together.

Zhang Zhao woke up in the morning, sat down cross-legged and continued to think about what he saw yesterday. Ha Hebao and the others came to see him a few times, and when they saw that he was engrossed, they didn't dare to disturb, and a group of people went out on their own.

Zhang Zhao sat for an hour without making any progress, but his stomach was growling with hunger. When he stepped out of his tent, he found that except for a few shepherds who were guarding the camp, none of the young men he knew were gone, and they all seemed to have gone out to play.

Zhang Zhao, who is alone, can't be idle. Go south along yesterday's road, picking up the food provided by the Danhe tribes on both sides as you go, and eat it at will.

After walking for a while, Zhang Zhao arrived at the camp of the Kuaidao tribe yesterday, this time it was empty without wooden frames, only a few shepherds in silver robes and wearing scimitars at their waists patrolling back and forth.

Zhang Zhao's hope of seeing the sword technique again was also disappointed, and he casually walked down the road to the south. He looked around and thought that he could meet Ha Hebao and the others, but he didn't know that today's group of people had all gone north early in the morning.

After walking for a long time, I didn't see an acquaintance, but the things that the Danhe shepherd put on the table were not small, and there were people laughing everywhere, Zhang Zhao didn't feel bored, and he was also shopping with great interest.

At this time, there was a tent in front of the Danhe herdsman to provide food, and Zhang Zhao walked forward habitually, but in front of him was a plate of red balls, which looked like the eggs of some kind of bird.

Zhang Zhao stared at these plates of things, and was about to ask what they were. Next to him, a shepherd in bright yellow robes turned around, looked him up and down, and then approached him.

"This thing is delicious, you can try it. The voice was crisp and pleasant, and there was a gentle taste contained in it, Zhang Zhao turned his head and realized that the person next to him was actually a young shepherd girl with bright eyes and bright teeth.

Zhang Zhao was dangling from Hahena in front of him all the way, and when he arrived at the Danhe tribe, he didn't pay too much attention to the girls of the tribes, he was only two steps away from the shepherd girl, and his spirit was suddenly lifted when he raised his eyes to look closely.

The shepherd girl looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, her long black hair hanging lightly on the shoulders of the shepherd's robe embroidered with all kinds of flowers, and the white cuffs of the robe set off her elegant and dignified temperament. Under a pair of eyebrows with just the right curvature, the eyes are black and smart, and the face of the round melon seeds is a small nose carved from white jade. There was a smile on her face, slightly revealing jade-like teeth, and there was a small pear vortex on each side of her pink lips.

"Hey, are you stupid?" the shepherd girl stretched out her hand and spread her five fingers in front of Zhang Zhao, and her delicate jade fingers, which were as pale as her complexion, were as transparent as the sun.

Zhang Zhao came back to his senses and hurriedly took a step back: "What did you say?"

The shepherd girl shook her head helplessly: "I said this thing is delicious, let you taste it." She held out her good-looking finger and tapped the red ball on the plate in front of them.

Zhang Zhaoleng agreed, reached out and picked up a red ball, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it. The red ball felt tough and salty in the mouth, with a faint fishy smell.

The shepherd girl stared at him with wide and beautiful eyes: "How is it? Is it delicious?" Zhang Zhao frowned: "I don't think it's delicious." ”

"You taste another one. The shepherd girl reached out and grabbed another red ball from the plate and handed it over, Zhang Zhao took it and ate it. Then he shook his head: "I don't think it's delicious, it smells salty." ”

The shepherd girl nodded, "Oh, I see. ”

At this time, a Danhe shepherd who was busy in front of them looked at this place and shouted: "Two little ones, those are sheep eggs, you two can only use them when you grow up, go eat something else." ”

Zhang Zhao suddenly felt a little disgusted, he slaughtered livestock all the year round of course he knew what sheep eggs were, looking at the shepherd girl next to him, Zhang Zhao thought that this beautiful girl's taste was really special.

I only heard the yellow shepherd girl ask suspiciously: "Sheep eggs?

Only then did Zhang Zhao realize that she had fallen for this beautiful shepherd girl, she had never even heard of sheep eggs, how could she know that this thing was delicious. But she was deceived by her and ate two in a row.

"So you're lying to me? You still say this thing is delicious. Zhang Zhao turned around angrily and left.

The yellow-clothed shepherd girl followed him and shouted, "Hey, why are you so careful? You are still angry at letting you eat? ”

Zhang Zhao was even more angry when he heard her reverse black and white, and suddenly stood up and turned around: "You don't know what it is at all, and you still let me eat it?"

The shepherd girl smiled sweetly: "Then tell me, what are sheep eggs, why are you so angry after eating them?" ”

Zhang Zhao was speechless, facing such an innocent and beautiful girl, he really couldn't explain the origin of the sheep eggs. Looking at the sweet smile of the shepherd girl in front of him, his heart softened inexplicably.

"Forget it, I don't blame you, but just now the uncle of the Danhe tribe said that that thing can't be eaten until it grows up. ”

The yellow-clothed shepherd girl smiled: "They always say that you can only do this thing when you grow up, and you can only do that thing when you grow up." ”

She looked at Zhang Zhao: "What's your name, how old are you?"

Zhang Zhao straightened up, only to find that this beautiful shepherd girl was almost at the end of her nose, and she was really not short: "My name is Zhang Zhangzhao, and I am almost seventeen." ”

The shepherd girl pouted: "Sixteen is sixteen, what does it mean to be almost seventeen?"

After saying that, the shepherd girl walked forward: "Go and see what else is delicious." ”

Zhang Zhao then followed: "Hey, you asked my name, why didn't you tell me what your name was?"

The shepherd girl giggled in front, Zhang Zhao felt that her laughter was full of cunning, and she faintly felt deceived, and sure enough, she heard the girl say: "My mother said that the name of the girl's family cannot be easily revealed, but I am seventeen years old this year, one year older than you." ”

Zhang Zhao was indignant when he heard this: "Then you didn't say it when you asked me my name? ”

The shepherd girl ignored Zhang Zhao's complaints, and turned her eyes around: "Zhang Zhangzhao, there are a lot of delicious things here, why don't we go and taste them together." ”

Zhang Zhao thought about it before and after understanding her intentions: "You think I'm stupid? You make it clear that you just want me to eat it first and see if it tastes good." ”

The shepherd girl's face turned red, adding a little coquettishness, and she feigned anger and said, "Don't forget it, let's go our own way." With that, he turned around and left.

Although Zhang Zhao was young, he was also confused by the glamorous light of the shepherd girl just now, and he took a few steps to catch up with the slender back in front of him: "I'm idle, I'm just going to eat something." ”

The shepherd girl looked back at him and smiled proudly, Zhang Zhao sped up a few steps and walked in front, and the two of them walked down the tents of the Danhe tribe on the side of the road.

As long as there is any novel food, Zhang Zhao will come forward to eat it first, if the taste is good, the shepherd girl will come forward to taste it, no matter how fresh and delicious, she will taste a few bites, and the appearance of eating is also subtle.

The two ate very tacitly one after the other, Zhang Zhao walked beside this beautiful girl, smelling the aromatic smell wafting from her body or around her, and only hoped that this road would be as long as possible.

At this time, there were countless large wooden barrels piled up in front of a Danhe tent that appeared in front, Zhang Zhao and the shepherd girl just arrived and smelled the sweet fragrance, those Danhe herdsmen lifted the wooden barrels one by one, mixed the red and green liquid in the barrel in a huge wooden basin, mixed into a yellow and clear transparent liquid, several sturdy Danhe women scooped out the wooden spoon with a long hand, poured it into a cup, and arranged it in a row.

Zhang Zhao smelled the tempting fragrance, stepped forward to pick up a cup and was about to drink it, when a Danhe woman who was walking with a wooden spoon shouted: "Shepherd boy, are you married?"

Zhang Zhao was asked: "No, I just want to try this." The Danhe woman smiled and said: "That's not good, the rules passed down from generation to generation by our Danhe tribe are that the good Danhe wine is only for those who have become married, and those who are not married can only drink that." ”

As she spoke, the Danhe woman pointed to the side with her hand, and Zhang Zhao and the shepherd girl stepped forward curiously to see that there were two different colors of wine in the two rows of cups, one was bright red and the other was turquoise.

Zhang Zhao was not picky, he stretched out his hand and wanted to pick up a cup to drink, and the Danhe woman shouted again: "We also have rules for those two things, only men can drink Heqing wine, women can drink Danhong wine, one person drinks a glass and two people drink together, not alone." ”

Although there were many rules, Zhang Zhao and the shepherd girl were both aroused by their curiosity, and the two of them each reached out to take a glass of wine of different colors, looked at each other, and raised their glasses to drink at the same time.

"It's really delicious. The shepherd girl nodded and praised after drinking the red wine, but Zhang Zhao next to her puffed out his mouth and his eyes bulged, this cup of Heqing wine was not much, but it was a mixed taste, extremely bitter with various tastes of astringency, sour, salty and spicy, none of which was good.

Zhang Zhao felt that this wine was more bitter than the bile added to the old butcher's decoction, and when he was about to spit it out, the shepherd girl looked at him and asked, "Isn't this cup of yours delicious?"

Zhang Zhao grunted and swallowed the unpleasant thing in his mouth. Feeling that the taste was simply bitter to the heart, he frowned and replied: "It's not just that it's not delicious, it's simply that there is nothing more unpleasant than this." ”

He put down the cup in his hand to leave. But the shepherd maiden was still unsatisfied: "Wait, I'll have another drink." She wanted to get another drink.

The Danhe woman was looking at Zhang Zhao's appearance and laughing, and when she saw the shepherd girl stretching out her hand, she hurriedly stopped: "Little girl, you can't drink Danhong wine alone, the rule of our tribe is that two people must drink together." ”

Zhang Zhao turned around: "Let's go and taste something else, my mouth hasn't eased up yet." ”

After taking a few steps and looking back, the shepherd girl had not moved, and looked at him with a smile and begged, "But I still want to have a drink, this is really delicious, you can have another drink with me." ”

Zhang Zhao was about to shake his head, but when he saw the shepherd girl's touching smile, his neck suddenly seemed to freeze. The shepherd maiden stood there slim, her delicate face reflected in his eyes, and at this moment he could not refuse any of her requests.

Looking at the turquoise Heqing wine in the cup, Zhang Zhao felt the heroism of dying in his heart, he grabbed a glass of Heqing wine and raised his head to dry it. After drinking it this time, the bitter taste became even stronger, and I only felt that there was nothing more bitter in the world than this.

The shepherd girl still had an aftertaste after drinking Dan red wine, and she looked at Zhang Zhao with a very restrained diet on what she ate along the way: "Would you like another glass?"

Zhang Zhao looked at her pleading eyes without saying a word, turned around and took a glass of Heqing wine from the table and drank it dry, and the feeling of unspeakable pain immediately permeated Zhang Zhao's whole body. This time, even the Danhe woman stopped laughing, and her eyes were already full of surprise when she looked at Zhang Zhao.

After the shepherd girl drank this cup, she was really embarrassed to beg Zhang Zhao again, she stretched out the tip of her pink tongue and licked the light wine on her lips, seeing her action, Zhang Zhao only felt that the blood in her whole body rushed to the top of her head: "Do you want to drink another glass?"

"Really?" the shepherd girl immediately smiled, "Are you really okay?"

Zhang Zhao nodded affirmatively, took a glass of Heqing wine and drank it again, this time even the Danhe herdsmen who mixed the wine stopped what they were doing and looked over. The shepherd girl ignored this, and happily took a glass of red wine and drank it.

"How is it, have you drunk enough?" Zhang Zhao looked at the happy appearance of the shepherd girl, and felt that even the bitterness in his mouth was much lighter: "If you want to drink, come again." ”

The shepherd girl looked at the eyes of the Danhe herdsmen with some retreat: "Forget it, your wine must be very difficult to drink, and they are all looking at you?"

Listening to her soft words, Zhang Zhaohao suddenly became emotional: "No matter what they do, I will accompany you as much as you want to drink." Anyway, it's a bitter one. After speaking, without waiting for the shepherd girl to agree, she reached out and picked up a glass of Heqing wine and drank it.

After the shepherd girl drank this cup, Zhang Zhao didn't ask anymore, and took another cup and drank it dry, the two of you and I drank a cup, and drank all the green and red wine in the two rows of cups in front of her.

"Well done. The Danhe herdsmen all nodded at Zhang Zhao again and again, and the Danhe women shouted at the shepherd girl: "Little girl, you have a good eye, this young man is really amazing." ”

When Zhang Zhao stretched out his hand to take it again, there was no cup of wine in front of him, and the Danhe woman smiled and said: "Young man, although this Heqing wine is not intoxicating, it is indeed too bitter, you have drunk more than a dozen glasses, how can it be regarded as a test." ”

The shepherd girl also felt that it was almost over, and shouted happily: "Zhang Zhangzhao, I have drunk enough, let's go elsewhere." After speaking, he walked ahead first.

Zhang Zhao felt that even the tips of his toes were bitter at this time, but looking at the satisfied expression of the shepherd girl, he felt that this suffering was not in vain, and the two of them moved forward again. With what happened just now, the shepherd girl's impression of Zhang Zhao was much better, and the two chatted casually while walking.

"Zhang Zhangzhao, which tribe are you from, what are you doing here?"

"It's not a tribe, I'm a disciple of the Lingxiao Sect, and I'm here to compete for Uncle Sha's white-headed tribe. ”

"What kind of competition can you compete in?" the shepherd girl looked at him, "Do you wrestle in horse racing?"

Zhang Zhao shook his head: "No, I'm here to slaughter livestock." ”

The shepherd girl frowned: "That one is bloody when you hear it, I don't like it, I'm here to see those who ride horses and shoot arrows." ”

Zhang Zhao asked casually: "Which tribe are you from?"

The shepherd girl tilted her head to look at him, "I am from the Golden Tribe." ”

Zhang Zhao sighed, and then remembered that the Golden Tribe was also one of the five major tribes: "You are from the Golden Tribe, aren't those people in your tribe very powerful?"

"Don't you think so?" the shepherd girl shook her head, "But I heard that Uncle Kim was the first place in your slaughtering competition." ”

"First place?" Zhang Zhao was a little puzzled: "Isn't the first place from the Danhe tribe?"

The shepherd girl turned her head to look at him: "It's bragging to see you, since you are participating in that competition, why don't you know who the first place is?"

Zhang Zhao really didn't know what was going on with these five tribes, he asked: "It's not that you can choose a good grassland if you are the first in the competition, then why don't you Golden Tribe choose this Danhe grassland?"

The shepherd girl glanced at him like an idiot: "I don't understand this, every tribe has lived on its own pasture for hundreds of years, and even if it chooses, it chooses its own place." ”

Zhang Zhao suddenly realized: "Oh, in this way, as long as it is guaranteed to be within the top five, these five tribes will choose the place where they have lived for generations." ”

The shepherd girl nodded, "Of course." I heard that among the original ten tribes were defeated by those tribes, they would rather pay a huge price and stay in their original place, just to divide a lot of the annual income to those victorious tribes.

"I see. Zhang Zhao then understood, and then he asked curiously: "Did you say that Uncle Jin is very powerful?"

The shepherd girl nodded: "The three grandfathers all said that he was very good, even if he was blindfolded, he could still win the first place." ”

"How is it possible?" Zhang Zhao shook his head in disbelief, and then remembered the girl's words: "How do you have three grandfathers?"

The shepherd girl sighed, looked around, and pointed with her hand: "It's right there, and it's been following me since I was a child, and I'm annoyed to death." ”

Zhang Zhao looked carefully in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, among the crowd of people wearing shepherd's robes around him, he found three old men in white robes, all of whom looked white from a distance, and they were not young.

He remembered the words of the shepherd maiden just now: "Your Uncle Kim can really slaughter livestock blindfolded?"

The girl nodded: "It's true, but I haven't seen it, I heard the grandfathers say that although Uncle Jin is not a cultivator, he can comprehend the true Dao realm, as long as he touches the livestock, he will have the number of ways to get off the knife in his heart." ”

The shepherd girl stopped and looked at Zhang Zhao when she said this: "You don't want to steal the master to learn the arts, do you?"

Zhang Zhao scratched his hair embarrassedly: "I just want to hear how to be the number one technique." ”

The shepherd girl tilted her head and stared at him and smiled: "You have just behaved well, this girl will tell you, I heard Uncle Jin say that when you put down the knife, you must know that there is nothing in your eyes, and as soon as you touch the livestock, you will have a detailed direction in your heart." Hold the knife like an arm and finger, and use the knife with ease. ”

Zhang Zhao carefully experienced it and asked, "What does it mean to be at ease?"

The shepherd girl explained: "What he means is that in his heart, every part of the animal is spacious, and no matter how the knife moves, there is room for it, and there is no brute force at all. ”

She stared at the confused Zhang Zhao with beautiful eyes: "I never touch these things, and I can almost understand them, you won't be so stupid." ”

Zhang Zhao shook his head: "It's the first time I've heard that there are so many ways to slaughter livestock, and it seems that I was really short-sighted before." ”

The shepherd girl comforted: "The three grandfathers said that a person like Uncle Jin who is focused on doing things will succeed in anything, if you think about it, maybe you can figure it out." ”

Zhang Zhao nodded: "You told me this, won't your uncle blame you?"

The shepherd girl smiled, and her voice was like a silver bell: "Why blame me? These are ordinary truths, everyone can understand, but it is not easy to really do it, if you listen to it, you can learn, maybe Uncle Jin will like you." ”

From Zhang Zhao eating the sheep egg, the two have been walking for a long time, seeing that it is getting late, the shepherd girl stands with her hands behind her back: "Zhang Zhangzhao, I'm leaving, you go back and think about it." Let's break up here. ”

After saying that, she waved her hand, turned around slightly, and the bottom of her drooping robe spread out like a large yellow flower in full bloom, and walked quickly forward.

Zhang Zhaomulan stood up and waved his hand, wanting to say a few words of farewell, only to realize that he didn't know the girl's name. Looking at the back of the yellow-robed shepherd girl in front of him who left lightly, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of disappointment in his heart, the figures around him shook, and the three white-robed old men followed the shepherd girl closely, without looking at Zhang Zhao.

When the shepherd girl disappeared far away from sight, Zhang Zhao sighed and walked back to the camp of the Baitou tribe. Entering his tent, he had only a short contact with the shepherd girl for half a day, and he didn't even know her name, but Zhang Zhao didn't understand why he had such an inseparable emotion.

Closing his eyes, Zhang Zhao's mind was full of the girl's flower-like blooming figure and pure and beautiful smiling face when she left. Until all the voices outside the tent had fallen silent, the words and smiles of the shepherd girl in his ears still echoed. Although Zhang Zhao kept his eyes closed that night, he was sleepless all night.