Chapter 414: The Picked Up Child
These flavorful wine and meat are too strong for Li Siye, and he can't bear it. He could still pinch his nose and pour the mare's milk wine, only the lamb with green onions and salt, and a smell of mutton gas came to his face.
He decided to leave the banquet and walk around, so he whispered to Gao Xianzhi beside him: "I'll go put some water."
Gao Xianzhi squinted his eyes and nodded, regardless of whether he really wanted to release the water or if he wanted to put something else.
Li Siye stood up and stretched out of his seat, away from the circle of the campfires, and in the distance he could see round spired felt tents lined up. There was the sound of men's laughter and women's cries.
He remembered that in the afternoon, the Turgi Shi people held a wives meeting, and all the widows surnamed Huang who died on the battlefield were driven together. The people of the Dumo tribe sat around them and picked and chosen, with those with high ranks, those with high military achievements, and those who did not have wives, and they were now enjoying the fruits of their victories.
There is no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing, not to mention these women, even if it is the Khan's Kedun, or even the proud princess, after marrying the Khan, the Khan will become the Khan's brother or son's woman as soon as he dies. Nomads are really not wasted in their reproduction.
He walked farther away, and two drunken black soldiers staggered towards him, and they chattered and cursed: "Some people are really brutes! took possession of other people's wives and threw away other people's children alive! Beasts are not as good as beasts!"
"Don't scold, or you go and bring it back, so you don't have to be so angry."
"No, I can't raise it, I have three children in my family, and I can't accommodate one anymore."
"You let me raise it, why don't you bring it back yourself?"
"No, no, no, I can't do it, I will never have a family in my life."
When the two saw the oncoming Tang Army generals, they hurriedly hugged their chests sideways and saluted, and then quickly supported each other and ran away.
Li Siye stepped in the direction they were coming, and sure enough, he heard a baby crying. He took two quick steps and lowered his head, and when he saw three swaddling clothes lined up in the grass, he squatted down. The babies were clutching their little fists, opening their small mouths and holding back their strength and crying loudly, one by one.
He untied the straps of the swaddling clothes, the bodies of the three babies were white and tender, without any deformities and defects, two baby boys and one baby girl, should not be from the same mother.
There seemed to be a cry approaching in the distance, and he looked up to see that a woman ran out of the felt tent and was running in this direction, but was stopped by the man who chased him by the waist, carried it on his shoulder, and caught it back.
Li Siye was about to pick up their swaddling clothes, three pairs of green eyes followed the baby's cry against the grass, they lay down in the grass and lowered their heads, their brown and gray hair trembled, first staring at the three crying dim sum, and then raised their heads to stare at the people standing beside dim sum.
Li Siye straddled the baby's swaddling clothes and pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist, he had heard that lactating she-wolves would breastfeed their babies, and it was clear that these three were not. They have fierce eyes, shriveled stomachs, and are very eating**.
He clutched the hilt of his sword in both hands and held it in his hand at an angle, and shouted at them, "Come and see if your teeth are fast or my knife is fast."
The three wolves were scattered in three directions, bowed and slowly retreating, and Li Siye knew that they were not retreating, but preparing to attack.
The wind and grass were blowing, they quickly pounced from three directions at the same time, Li Siye's back was left or right, he suddenly turned around and cut out, the wolf who pounced first fell to the ground with a wail, hot wolf blood splattered all over his body, and the other wolf claw was already on his back, but he raised his knife and stabbed down, nailing the guy who tried to take the baby from under his feet to the ground.
He lay backwards, the wolf behind him rolled out from behind, the stinky mouth bit his arm, the bite force hurt him crazy, simply used his arm to press the wolf's mouth to the grass, raised his left fist on the wolf's belly and smashed three punches, until the beast spit out pungent stomach acid vomit.
He pulled out his arm from the wolf's mouth, with two clear tooth holes on it, and he didn't know if they had rabies virus, and the incubation period of more than ten years was really terrible.
He pulled the blade out of the wolf's corpse, took out a towel from his bosom to wipe the blood from it, and returned it to its scabbard.
"Frightened, babies, Grandma Wolf has been wiped out."
He picked up the swaddling clothes of the three children, two in his left hand and one in his right hand, which seemed very difficult, and at the same time he had to take care of the comfort of the babies, and it was not easy to hold three children by one person.
Li Siye strode to the camp of the Marquis of Yu on the left and right, Yan Xiaosi was sitting in front of the fire with his own army, and when he saw the baby in the general's arms, he quickly got up and asked, "General, where is the child from at this time?"
"Abandoned babies."
Yan Xiaosi and his own soldier Ruo Luo took the baby from him, held it in his arms and teased it, and handed the other baby, Li Siye, to Kubani.
"The three of you will take care of the children for me for the time being, and go get some goat's milk or human milk to feed them."
Yan Xiaosi looked embarrassed: "We won't raise children."
"No one is born with it, you adapt to it first, and when you have a lady in the future, it will be useful."
He settled the baby to the three pro-soldiers, and he was not very relieved, so he turned around and said: "I didn't let you raise it for a lifetime, and when you return to Shule, you will be raised by my town embassy, and I will give you a captured horse each, which is a reward!"
When Li Siye returned to the meeting venue, most of the generals of the Tang Army drank crookedly, and the mare's milk or goat's milk wine brewed by the Tuqi Shi people was not very good, but the degree should not be low.
Gao Xianzhi squinted his eyes and asked him, "Why did you let the water go for so long?"
He turned his head sideways and whispered in his ear, "I went out and picked up three children and came back."
Gao Xianzhi showed a look of admiration, obviously in disbelief.
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The young Khan Silu took on the job he hated the most, and was the least good at, communicating with people he didn't know, being introduced to and fro, and forcibly confronting these strange, smiling, and suspicious faces.
He, the empty Khan who did not spare an arrow and killed a single person in this battle, was placed on the side of the top, and his status was second only to Fumeng Zhongcheng, but higher than that of Dumozhi and Prince Bahanna. He knew that these people were respectful on the surface, but in fact they ignored and even despised them in their hearts.
What these people want to say is: There is no place for the Ashina family to stand on the Tianshan Grassland, and the Ashina clan has also become extinct, so where did this one come from.
"I really can't imagine that the Khan of Silu is the grandson of the Khan of Huaidao, this is Ashina's bloodline and should not be killed."
Sipping mechanically laughing and drinking, he felt no different from those barefoot dancing Trangshi girls.
Fu Meng Lingcha nodded quietly, turned his head to Du Mozhi and asked, "Da Xuguan, it seems that you still have a daughter to be married under your knees."
Du Mozhi piled up a vain smirk from his face: "It seems that I can't hide anything from Zhongcheng, a certain does have a daughter, and now she is also seventeen, and I want to choose a Langjun for him."
"Oh," Fumeng Lingcha pointed to Silu: "The ten surnamed Khans are not yet married, and they will take advantage of the wine to draw a red line today." Is the Great Governor willing to marry his daughter to the Khan as the Right Kedun?"
Du Mozhi hurriedly hugged his chest and thanked: "Thank you Zhongcheng for the marriage, Du Mozhi can't ask for it."
Si Lu glanced at Du Mozhi, this man's dry and wrinkled face was full of cunning and hypocrisy, he was clearly very reluctant to marry his daughter to himself, but his face was very excited.
He himself is even more unwilling, he hides a pure land in his heart, free from the sinister and ugly of these people, as long as he can guard this pure land, he would rather not marry in this life.