Chapter 15 The Dark Tide of Donghu
Although they treat us like guests, the purpose of our trip is to be friendly, and it is the best policy to return to Southern Wei as soon as possible.
We are weak women, and the road is full of dangers, and we must think twice before leaving this place.
Her Royal Highness made up her mind to ask someone from the Wei tribe to help us deliver a letter to Donghu, and then to the Southern Wei, although she was not worried about the people here, but a few of our helpless women were really not enough to ride to Liangzhou, the capital of Donghu.
The next day, something happened that made Princess Jinglu very angry, and the people of Lost Wei refused to help us deliver a letter to Donghu, even if we gave them 100 gold, Mo Heduo was resolutely unwilling.
They say that the Lost people will only leave the tribe under two circumstances, one is war, and the other is to migrate to other grasslands, and ordinary Lost people will not be able to leave the Lost tribe in this life if they do not encounter war or tribal migration.
Our group was in big trouble. They allowed us to leave the Lost Wave, but they did not allow any Lost Guard to accompany us on our way, nor did they allow the Lost Guard to leave the place to help us deliver the letter.
In this way, we can only rely on our own strength to go to Donghu.
His Royal Highness was sullen all day, the people of Weiwei did not have a sedan chair, and they relied entirely on cattle and horses to travel, although she learned to ride a horse and shoot arrows when she was young, but that was only a ritual, and she had to ride a horse to the distant Donghu capital, and she had more than enough strength to do so.
Although I know a little about the art of horses, I am not very proficient in it after all, if you want to gallop seven or eight hundred miles on a horse, it will be difficult, as for Zhu Dong, I don't want to mention it, Miss Jiao, she has never touched a horsewhip since she was a child, she said, she has always traveled with a groom maid as a companion, where to use her to do such things.
Boduange came and broke our predicament.
He offered to teach us horsemanship in a short time, and they were a tribe on horseback, and children as young as seven or eight years old could ride horses on the grassland. Also, he and Yushi Chengge are going to Donghu, and they can go with us, which is a great opportunity for us.
"Aren't you a loser?" I asked him.
"Yes."
"Then how can you leave Lost?"
I stared into his eyes, trying to find the answer in his pupils, his amber eyes were lighter than his brothers', I had seen his eyes on the day he danced, and I saw that the color seemed to be darker.
I found out that he did not look the same as those who lost Wei, because he was mixed in, I thought he was a lost person, and I guessed that he might be an illegitimate child, not Mo Heduo's own son.
He asked me, "Why do you keep looking me in the eye?" ”
I looked up and said, "Boduang, are you a loser?" ”
He affirmed, "Of course." ”
Jimo stopped me and shook his head at me slightly.
I was a little embarrassed to doubt his pedigree, "I just don't think you're like them." ”
He explained, "I'm still a Karasuma person. ”
Several of us were shocked, Yushi Chengge seemed to have known about this for a long time, they were friends since childhood, and he must know everything about Bo Duange. I have doubted the identity of Bo Duange, but I have never thought about the details of Yushi Chengge, he is a prince of Donghu, and he can gallop on a horse on the grassland where he has lost his vein.
Zhu Dong said: "The surname of the Karasuma people is Yuwen, but you ......"
Yushi sang for him, as if the two of them were one person, "He also has a name of Yuwen Zhonghong." ”
I covered my mouth, but the laughter was still not covered, "Really? ”
Boduang asked me, "Is Yuwen Nakahiro weird?" ”
I said no, "It's just that this name is not like you, but Boduange is still good-sounding, and Yuwen Zhonghong is like a noble child with a thin body and a thin body." ”
"What do you mean by Boduange?" Princess Jinglu asked.
"The left eye of the head wolf." The rain master sang and said.
Later, Boduang told me that in the legend of the Lost People, the left eye of the head wolf hides the world, from which the deceased can see themselves in the afterlife.
I've never heard such a magical story, and the Lost Man always amazes me.
At that time, I didn't think about it, Boduange's life experience was full of mystery and sadness, Karasuma was the former ruler of Donghu, and was slaughtered by more than half of the Donghu people in just twenty years, Yushi Chengge and he have known him since childhood, so little Karasuma child grew up in the royal family of Donghu, and when he became an adult, he was banished from Donghu and banished to the Weiwei grassland, his childhood and youth were not luckier than mine, but he never told me about his past, and I didn't care about the emotions in his eyes every time he lowered his head in front of me.
"How about learning to ride a horse together starting tomorrow?" Boduan Ge told us.
If you want to leave the grassland as soon as possible, there is only one way.
They found us a few stable horses, the grassland is very large, each looking for a place to practice horses, Princess Jinglu was about to talk to Boduange, but was hurriedly interrupted by the rain master Chengge, and gently asked her if she would like to join him, she smiled decently, and quickly disappeared from our eyes.
I turned my head to find Zhu Dong and Ji Moyi, and it happened that Zhu Dong was also looking for me, "Arrogant, with me?" ”
"Okay!" I waved at her.
Boduange helped me lead the horse and held out his red and green hat to me, "Put this on." ”
I didn't answer, "Why are you wearing this, they don't wear it?" ”
"You may get hurt the first time you get on the horse, but with this Tengger will bless you." He said.
"I don't need to, I can ride a horse, I just can't ride well." I didn't want to wear anything at all, but Mo Yi helped me tie a dozen pigtails in the morning, and pinned Xiao Dongzhu to me, and I didn't want to mess up my hair.
Suddenly, he took the saddle with one hand and jumped behind me, and the horse under my crotch did not move a single step, and he put it on me, and put the braid behind me on either side of my shoulder, "That's it." ”
After saying that, he turned over and dismounted, and I was about to pull off my hat in anger, and he said, "I'll go find one and run with you, and you wait for me here." ”
I held back my anger and wanted to wait for him to come back and send it out to scare him.
Zhu Dong slowly rode to my side, "The hat is good, put it on for me." ”
Her vision is high, if she fancy something it means that it is indeed very good, I held the hat on my head, only to find that there was a round pearl the size of a bean on the back, "No, it's mine." ”
She pouted, "It's good to fight, didn't you want to drop the horse just now?" ”
"Why!" I said it with a hard mouth.
"Where's Sister Yi?" I looked around and didn't see her.
Zhu Dong said: "Some night ago, didn't someone confess to her? ”
"Hmm."
"Just now the man said he was going to ride with her."
"Sister Yi agrees?" I can't believe it.
"What's this, I heard that person can get the top three every year."
"What?"
"It's the lost horse racing festival." Boduange is back.
"I'm going to run a horse with Paibatu." Zhu Dong said to me.
"Hey, you're not with me?" I stopped her.
She turned around and rolled her eyes at me, clamping her horse's belly and riding away.
We ran to the back of the grassland, where there was still grass all over the hills, I liked the crisp sound of horses stepping on the grass, and the smell of grass juice in the wind, and some little girls not far away leaned over to work, but I remember that they didn't farm.