Xinghe, tonight is not very quiet. There was no rain for more than ten days, and the weather was hot, and some soldiers couldn't help but complain quietly, and walked around under the shade of the trees to enjoy the coolness.

The wind is very strong, the sky is full of stars, and the moon is like water. The scenery is very pleasant, but no one is in this mood, and in the past half a month, Arutai has launched more than ten attacks on the Ming army, and they have all been repulsed. Without exception, the Ming army did not pursue, which made him angry.

Seeing that the food was getting scarce, several tribes also began to complain.

The soldiers were faintly in turmoil, complaining about the leader, and confused about the future. The barracks were a mess, and the occasional cries of cattle and sheep and the neighing of horses could be heard.

In the camp tent in Arutai, a dinner party is being held. Every time you lose a battle, you can only paralyze yourself and the tribal leader in this way.

Musical instruments such as the horse-head qin and the kokur play cheerful tunes with distinct rhythms and vivid music.

Twelve young girls, dressed in bright Mongolian robes, are performing a chopstick dance in the center of the big tent, each girl holds a pair of chopsticks in each hand, dancing to the music, sometimes crossing her chest to hit the chopsticks, sometimes playfully hitting the shoulders, and crossing her hands in front of the abdomen to hit the chopsticks, in the cheerful especially for the man a pleasant sense of sight.

They danced fast, with long pigtails flying and fluttering. When the rhythm of the music becomes both relaxed and abrupt, a pair of chopsticks fly up and down, striking bright nodes all over the body, pushing the performance to the top, and the leaders applaud, holding large bowls to drink, or using a knife to cut off large pieces of beef and mutton, blood sausage, or something and stuff it into their mouths and chew.

Master Arutai sat at the top, completely different from the cheerful and happy expressions of the leaders, even if he was smiling, his eyes were clear and cold.

Whether it was the successive defeats in the battle against Zhu Di, or the news from Wuhai that his son was under house arrest, and the alliance reached between Tuhuan and the Ming army, it made him want to go crazy and wanted to slaughter these shameless people.

He defeated Mahamu, leaving his son Tuhuan, confident that he would not dare to betray himself, internally, there are still voices against him, but in view of his excellent leadership ability, under the combination of soft and hard, there are fewer and fewer tribal leaders who dare to oppose him, even if some tribal leaders are not convinced of him, they will not go against him and fight against him. He recuperated and made all the tribes prepare sufficient pasture, robes, and sleeping tents in advance, and also purchased a batch of rice grain from the Ming Kingdom for emergencies. Then gather troops and fight Zhu Di to the death. As a result, in just over a month, he was intercepted by the Ming army in Xinghe, and he couldn't advance or retreat. Tuhuan, this bastard, knew that he should have killed him back then, and now he began to betray himself, and Jacob of the Horqin Department did not come to the banquet tonight.

Refusing to listen to my orders, Arutai looked very cold.

"Everyone, drink this cup to ......," Arutai held up.

The leaders of the tribes, look at me, I look at you, there are not many cups.

Tuo Mu said sarcastically: "Taishi, we are all drinking at this banquet, is it to celebrate that we can kill Zhu Di tomorrow?" ”

As soon as he said this, the audience was in an uproar, and they exchanged heads and ears.

Arutai stared, took a sip of the spirit, squinted, and clapped his hands. Then a person came in from outside the account.

This man was stripped of his upper body, hard, a dead man, and there was no good piece of flesh on his body, and he was obviously beaten to death.

Everyone was shocked, and one of the leaders fell to the ground with a snap of the cup in his hand, and some almost fell to their knees. It's not that I'm afraid of the tragic appearance of this person's death, but the identity of the person who died, it's actually Jacocha.

Just now they wondered why Jacocha didn't come to the banquet.

A tribal leader was actually beaten to death by Arutai, which couldn't help but make them tremble.

Arutai said lightly: "When Xinghe fought against Zhu Di, Jacocha took the lead in escaping, messing with our army's heart, and causing us a big defeat, these days, and refusing to send troops to fight with the Ming army for various reasons, I sent someone to investigate, it turned out that this person had already colluded with the Ming army, so I corrected the law, do you have any opinions." ”

Everyone knows Jacocha's character, although he is arrogant, he will never surrender to the Ming army. The other person is dead, what crime is not Arutai has the final say? Over the years, it is not the first time that Arutai has used such means in order to exclude dissidents.

Tuo Muhua was dripping in cold sweat and was unconvinced, but the Arutai people were overwhelming, and he obviously didn't want to die.

The elder who still had white hair Tu An said: "The master is wise, Jacob is to blame himself, and he should be killed." ”

Others also echoed it, and the dewooded flowers did not go against their will.

Arutai looked smug in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "We are the whole of Tatar, and we have to work together. We have enough cattle, sheep, horses, and wealth, and we can deal with the Ming army for a long time! Didn't you see that every time we took the initiative to attack, the Ming army did not pursue, and Xing and Zhu Di never appeared again, what does this mean? ”

The leaders looked at him in shock, and the catalogue said: "This shows that Zhu Di is afraid that time is short, as long as we consume it, as soon as Zhu Di dies, his sons will fight for the throne, that will be our opportunity." ”

Arutai squinted at everyone: "What do you think?" ”

"The master is wise."

Everyone was lit with a flame of hope, regained some fighting spirit, held a large wooden bowl, and drank a cup of wine together.

Arutai shook his hand secretly, thinking in his heart, you group of wall grass, I have to clean you up one by one when I find time. At that moment, there was a lot of crying outside.

Arutai frowned and snorted, "Who is making a fuss? ”

Before he could finish speaking, he stumbled in and cried on the ground.

Arutai had a bad premonition, stood up, and said tremblingly: "Why did you come back?" What about my first Polo? ”

"The eldest prince he-the eldest prince, he was killed by Dehuan to sacrifice the flag, just-I am left alone to come back - Dehuan has declared war on us, saying that the father's hatred is not the same as the sky."

"Ahh

"Taishi, Taishi—"

Arutai broke free from their support, pulled out his knife from the wall, and roared angrily to the sky: "Dehuan, I must light a sky lantern with you!" ”

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Wuhai, jubilant all night, half a month, the whole people celebrated, Chen Yuan and Tuya held a wedding in accordance with Mongolian customs. Chen Yuan was difficult to ride a tiger, he was almost led away, and he was very reluctant to get married, but this formal alliance must be formed.

After that, Tuohuan ordered that he would also kill the sacrificial banner of Polo in revenge, and officially declared war against the Tatars.

But the good food and drink offered Chen Yuan up, but he didn't let Chen Yuan leave Wuhai for a single step.

Chen Yuan is still under house arrest.

At night, he and Tuya sat opposite each other in the room. These days, everyone is celebrating, but they are one of the people who are not celebrating, and they have hardly spoken for more than ten days, and they are all arranged to go.

Although Tuya treats Chen Yuan differently, she has not yet reached the point of liking it, and she has always been accompanied by Dolo, so she is very unaccustomed to suddenly being in the same room with Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan was also preoccupied, so the two held a wedding, but there was no fact that they were husband and wife.

The two men are like tools, victims of this political alliance.

"Is your wife beautiful at home?" After sitting for a long time, Tuya played with her whip and suddenly asked.

Chen Yuan was stunned and nodded subconsciously.

"You don't touch me because of your wife at home?" Tuya asked very bluntly, and after asking, she lowered her head slightly, and then raised her head to look at him.

Chen Yuan sighed and said, "Princess Tuya—"

"Just call me by name."

"Tuya, you know, we haven't known each other for less than a month, how to get emotional. This marriage, you and I don't know what the future will be, I am a Ming person, there is a wife and an old mother at home, and a child who has been born and I have never met, it is impossible to stay with you for a lifetime, and you, your relatives are all in Mongolia, even if our two countries do not fight, you will not be able to leave your hometown and go to our Ming country. You're an independent girl, I can't ruin you. ”

Tuya said angrily: "How not to ruin me? ”

"You are more open-minded, as long as we don't have a relationship, if you marry again in the future, others will treat you well, ah-you beat me again."

"It's just beating you up for being smart." Tuya threw the whip, bit her red lip, and leaned in front of Chen Yuan, breathing heavily.

Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows, it was the other way around, this Tuya always does it at every turn, Lao Tzu is still your nominal husband, of course he didn't show weakness, and he was whipped according to Tuya's buttocks.

Tuya was in a bad mood today, she had been unforgiving, and the more she fought, the closer she got to Chen Yuan, and finally got entangled together.

In the end, the two of them fought and hit the bed.

Then, lonely men and widows, dry wood and fires—

Afterwards, Chen Yuan knew that he had fallen for her, and he was really trying his best to keep himself. Think about it, I am not a eunuch, and in the face of a sexy and hot beauty, my nominal wife, I have to hold back every day. It's just that he is more than Yanagi Megumi, don't you just want the alliance to be completed, and Polo will die first, and there is no turning back, as long as the relationship between the two is not compatible, Tuya will not throw herself out of Warat in the end.

Unexpectedly, this time she didn't play according to the routine, and deliberately tempted herself.

"Yo, the fighting power of the Ming people is good, you can't see your small body." Tuya said quietly.

If it weren't for Tuya's unfamiliar behavior just now, Chen Yuan would have thought that she was an old driver, she was really a goblin, and he said, "Tuya, you will regret it." ”

Tuya touched his shoulder and grinned: "It's you who regret it, now it's up to you to leave Wuhai." Since you want me to remarry, let me be such an unexplained widow? When I get married in the future, I won't even be a woman, and my husband's family will laugh at me to death, who did I choose? ”

Yes, I can't refute this reason, this Tuya's character is simply invincible, is there something perverted in his heart, Chen Yuan smiled bitterly and helplessly. Of course, there is also the feeling of being cheap and well-behaved.

"You say, is your wife at home good-looking, or am I good-looking?"

"Well, it's all good-"

"Perfunctory, don't make me happy, you don't want to leave." Tuya pursed her cherry lips.

"Ha, it's the truth, one of my two wives is virtuous, filial piety, one is peerless, knowledgeable, and has a red face who dares to do it-"

"Ah, there are several women—" Tuya said sourly, angrily smacking him in the chest.

Chen Yuan sneered: "Tuya, you are beautiful and beautiful, the most beautiful girl in the grassland, enthusiastic and unrestrained, resourceful, those few problems, eternal problems, not ordinary people can't answer, you are a foreigner, your understanding of knowledge and culture is not weaker than my wife." ”

"Really?" Tuya was skeptical.

"Really, more than real money."

"Hmph, even if you say it, it's not in vain that I found a way to get you out-"

"Ah, Tuya, you, what did you say? You let me leave—" Chen Yuan said with joy and doubt.

"If you think about the beauty, you have to make me happy first."

"Ah, how do you want to be happy?"

"What you said, I can remarry, I don't want to learn from you Mingren, you're right, the grassland is my home, I don't want to go back to the Ming Kingdom with you, and I don't want to be a man with a group of women stupidly with you, what about in the future? I'll marry the grassland, marry ten or eight men, and you can't stop me. ”

Although Chen Yuan wanted her to remarry, but when she said this, she seemed to be smiling rather than smiling, her behavior was not in accordance with the rules, and she really did it, and she couldn't help but feel a little sour: "Don't marry so much, I will-your brother will not like it." ”

Seeing his jealous appearance, Tuya couldn't help but laugh.

"You're going to be jealous, too—"

"Who's jealous—" Chen Yuan's dead duck had a hard mouth.

"Hmph, you don't want to think about it, if I want to find a few men, you will be uncomfortable, you don't know how many women there are in Mingguo, can I be comfortable."

"Okay, you're right."

"Hmph, when I slept a little, my arms were numb." Tuya changed her position and lay down, closing her eyes, tired just now, and began to breathe heavily.

Chen Yuan kept letting her lean on and didn't dare to move, first, because he felt the absurdity of this marriage, and second, he didn't know what happened to Tuya in the future. After all, he didn't have the strength to take her back and make her happy. She is a unique person, some people may think she is nervous, in fact, in this cannibalistic society, growing up in a repressive environment, she has some problems in her heart, but it is in the grassland that she is happy. Thinking about it, I finally found that I seemed to be under house arrest, but I was worried about others, and I was really full of food and support.