In addition to Basang, the other two riders, one named Yoshimura and the other called Jiangqu, I don't know much about Tibetan, but I generally know that Jiangqu seems to mean Bodhi.

The three riders were all stout and tall, and from a distance, they looked like horse thieves wandering on the plateau in the old days.

I have to say that Jiang Qu's Chinese is very good, and his pronunciation is much more standard than mine, and he has to act as a translator on this trip.

Since the riders had arrived, I didn't delay any longer, and waved my hand at Ke Zongbi, thanked him, and said goodbye to him.

Before leaving, Ke Zongbi suddenly jumped off the horse, stepped forward and took my hand and said, "This is a difficult and dangerous way to Xiaoxifeng, you must be careful." ”

I have a feeling that the "hardship" he said does not seem to be as simple as saying that the road is difficult to walk.

However, there were some words that Ke Zongbi didn't seem to be able to say too clearly, so I didn't ask any more, just thanked me twice, and went down the hill with the riders.

Jiang Qu's face is fierce, on the surface people feel difficult to approach, but in fact he is a very funny person, after going down the hill, he led the horse to walk beside me, and from time to time to talk to me, most of the content of the talk is outside the plateau.

It can be seen that he is a person with a heart in the four seas, and often asks me what the development of the outside is now, and I was happy for a while, so I invited him to live in Bohai Bay, but I didn't expect him to agree in one bite.

Later, we talked about the road conditions in the mountains and talked about Xiaoxi Peak.

For me, the name Xiaoxifeng is really a bit weird, so I asked more: "What kind of place is Xiaoxifeng?" ”

Jiang Qu led the horse with one hand and said with a smile: "In our ethnic group, there is a ballad that sings about Xiaoxi Peak, and there is a lyric that translates into your words that is, 'Flying snow even the Tianshan Mountains are heavy, and a peak is alone in a hundred miles of pass', on the north side of Xiaoxi Peak, is a continuous snow-capped mountain, it stands there alone, although the peak is very high and strong, but compared with the mountains in the distance, it seems very small. ”

That's how that little print came about.

Jiang Qu's words were not finished: "There is a big difference between the north and south sides of Xiaoxi Peak, it is a dangerous slope and a gentle slope, the dangerous side is extremely steep, and the snow is slippery, even the most agile warriors can't climb it." But on the other side of the mountain, it is very gentle, and a ten-year-old child can walk through it. ”

I said, "The mountains behind Xiaoxi Peak are the inner mountains of Kunlun Mountain, right?" ”

Jiang Qu said: "You have to climb over the small west peak first, and then climb over the mountains before you can enter the Kunlun Inner Mountain." In particular, Konishi Peak is a necessary place to enter the inner mountain from this direction, and it cannot be avoided. But you don't have to worry, although the southern slope of Xiaoxi Peak is very steep, there is a secret passage at the foot of the mountain, as long as you are proficient in the Eight Gate Dunjia, you will definitely be able to find it. Follow the secret passage all the way to the top, and then you can descend the gentle northern slope. ”

I smiled helplessly: "I haven't studied much of the Eight Gate Dunjia, but the sixty-four hexagrams are almost exhausted." ”

In fact, such worries are superfluous, since Zhang Dayou has chosen this path, he must know how to find that secret path.

I heard Jiang Qu say: "I know the location of the secret passage, and I can point it to you when the time comes." By the way, I heard Basang say that you can catch up with a horse with your feet, is that true? ”

I suppressed the smugness in my heart and smiled as calmly as I could: "I guess I can, I haven't tried it before." ”

Jiang Qu couldn't help but sigh: "There are still people like you, if everyone has such foot strength, the horses don't have to suffer." ”

In fact, from the moment I saw Ke Zongbi, I found that the brown horse under Ke Zongbi's seat was not equipped with a saddle, and there were no stirrups on the horse, and Jiangqu was the same, all the horses were not equipped with a saddle, only a soft blanket was put on the horse's back.

The people here really love horses.

I used to hear the second master say that the reason why Genghis Khan was able to cross thousands of miles was because the people on the grassland loved horses, loved fighting, and loved their own women.

Passing through the large yurt house, Li Huaishan and I converged together, and to my surprise, Huang Yuzhong could ride a horse, and his equestrian skills were quite high.

Pasang probably gave him a fiery horse in the mood of watching the excitement, and the horse seemed to be able to understand human speech, and after Basang leaned into his ear and said a few words of Tibetan, he screamed "Herod".

Jiang Qu said that just now Basang told the horse that a stranger wanted to get on its back, and the horse was anxious when he heard it.

Facing such a strong horse, Huang Yuzhong did not have the slightest nervousness, taking advantage of the moment when the horse leaned his back towards him, he immediately reached out and grabbed the reins, raised his legs and straddled, turned over on the horse, and did a set of actions without the slightest hesitation.

As soon as Huang Yuzhong got on his body, the horse began to kick his hind hooves, and his back spine was also thrown off one by one, wanting to throw Huang Yuzhong off, but Huang Yuzhong seemed to be one with the horse, no matter how the horse tossed, he could easily sit on the horse's back.

After tossing for a while, the horse became honest and obediently let Huang Yuzhong ride.

Looking at Huang Yuzhong's posture on a horse, I suddenly remembered that the old Huang family in the Northeast had been a ringing horse in Shandong in his early years, and the Huang family not only had excellent equestrian skills, but also had a great archery kung fu.

Although Huang Yuzhong could ride a horse independently, I decided to follow it on foot.

There is no other reason, I just want to see if my own footsteps can compare to these fierce horses.

Basang and Zhang Dayou rode together, Jiang Qu asked Li Huaishan to sit behind him, and since Huang Yuzhong could ride a horse himself, the man named Yoshimura left alone.

Li Huaishan seemed to be a little afraid of riding a horse, and since he got on horseback, he looked nervous.

From the pasture to the entrance of the mountain road, there were fifty miles of flat land, and I told Jiangqu that if I was too slow, they would wait for me a little when they reached the junction, and I would arrive soon.

Jiang Qu nodded, patted the horse's buttocks, and the horse under him immediately spread its hooves and ran forward.

The horse ran too fast, Li Huaishan was frightened on the spot, and he stretched his neck and howled loudly: "I'll drop a mother!" Slow down, slow down, slow down! ”

Jiang Qu ignored him, urging the horse to run quickly, Li Huaishan's shouts quickly moved away, and finally they were almost covered by the wind.

Basang laughed as he chased after Zhang Dayou, who was also nervous.

Huang Yuzhong didn't leave immediately, he had been muffled and didn't speak these days, and now he seemed to be a little unable to hold back, so he rode up to me and asked, "Do you really want to run over on foot?" ”

I glanced at him, "Why don't you continue to be bored?" Can't hold it back, right? ”

Huang Yuzhong smiled awkwardly, embarrassed.

When such a guy was still shy, the way he looked now and the way I looked when I first met him was completely different, as if he was a different person.

I really wanted to ask him why he had to follow me, but seeing that Basang and Jiang Qu had gone far away, I didn't have time to say these things now, so I said to Huang Yuzhong: "You go first, and I will follow soon." ”

As I spoke, I made a pre-action to prepare for the run.

Huang Yuzhong patted the horse's buttocks, and the horse immediately spread its four hooves, and I also spread Tengyunbu, and rushed out as fast as I could.

In the first ten meters, the horse's speed was indeed not as fast as mine, and under the gallop, I even opened a large distance with Huang Yuzhong.

When Huang Yuzhong came to my side, he asked with a look of surprise: "Why are you faster than a horse, this is the best horse!" ”

It seems that this guy's word box is completely opened.

As he spoke, his horse began to rush ahead of me.

I sighed bitterly in my heart and shouted behind the horse's belly: "I can only maintain this speed for ten meters, you go first." ”

Huang Yuzhong waved his hand without looking back, and drove the horse farther and farther.

Alas, on flat ground, I still can't outrun the horse.

It didn't take long for me to see the shadow of the horse, and I couldn't help but sigh a little in my heart.

When I first started training under the second master, I had to run more than 10 kilometers almost every day, and now this 50 kilometers is nothing to me, but I don't have a strong recovery force, I have to constantly change my pace and adjust my breathing during the run, so as to leave a little spare energy, and find an opportunity to gradually recover the lost physical strength.

Although the injury cannot heal quickly, the upper limit of physical strength has been increased, and the recovery speed of physical fitness has also been retained in the past three or four percent.

Three or four achievements are enough, and you can't be too greedy.

When I ran to the entrance of the mountain road, Jiang Qu seemed very excited, and he shouted at me from afar: "You are really fast, we only arrived here fifteen minutes ago." ”

As he spoke, I glanced at it, and saw that the horses under everyone had changed, and I guess they would have been faster if they hadn't changed horses.

I walked up to Huang Yuzhong, took two breaths, held my knees and said, "Let's rest first, eat something, and let the horses rest too." ”

Huang Yuzhong still had something to say when he was alone with me, but in front of so many people, he was suffocated again, just silently dismounted without saying a word, and took out water and food from his backpack.

Because they had to travel a long way, Jiangqu and they also had enough food, and when I opened my backpack to prepare the things, he came over and handed me a bag of brown-red things.

I asked him what was in the bag, and he said to me with a sunny face, "This is dried meat, and I also brought a pot of butter tea, let's eat it together." ”

I was very interested in the food of the herdsmen, so I did not refuse Jiangqu's kindness, and when Zhang Dayou passed by me, I said to him, "You can also taste it." ”

Who knew that Zhang Dayou ignored my love and said sullenly: "No." He stepped aside.

Li Huaishan leaned over to get the dried meat, I pointed at Zhang Dayou with my chin, and asked him, "What's wrong with this guy?" ”

"What else could it be? Well...... I'm stimulated. Li Huaishan stuffed a large piece of dried meat into his mouth and said inarticulately.

"Who irritated him again?"

Li Huaishan's mouth was bulging, but he still had to deliberately smile: "Who else can there be besides you?" Jiang Qu said just now that you ran fast, his face was wrong. I guess he's jealous that your feet are stronger than his. ”

(End of chapter)