Chapter 11: The Guide of the Young Man—The Old Sheepskin

If the pretty little girls of the tribe always belong to the Khan, then the best lads of the tribe belong to the guide of the young people, the old sheepskin.

Whenever the singer plucked the gong with her snow-white slender fingers, and whenever the troubadour sang "The Legend of Oghuz" in praise of the ancestors of the Uighurs, a diminutive old man would appear beside the bravest young man of the tribe.

"You are an eagle, it's time to leave the nest and fly, a small tribe can't accommodate a hero like you."

"You are the wisest of all the young men I have ever met, get out of this quagmire that will defile your life by taking the initiative, and I will follow and help you to accomplish the great deeds of King Oghuz."

"You are a real samurai, and a real samurai should not sleep with a big-tailed sheep, leave here, I will take you to find the most beautiful women on the grassland, guide your hands to caress those slippery warm and snow-white bodies, only when you gallop on them, you will feel that you are a real samurai."

"Ah, young Uighur, how can you endure the life of herding sheep day after day, night after night?

You should mount your horse and lead countless warriors to the battlefield in search of your glory, and you should be the one who is in the limelight, not to be yelled at, beaten, tortured, and humiliated by the marmots-like incompetence of the tribe all day long. ”

"Come with me, there are no lice in your tribe except for lice who drink blood and eat flesh, go outside, the sun shines everywhere is gold, you just get there, pick up your shovel, shovel hard, yes, shovel hard, the gold belongs to you......"

The above is the old sheepskin's special words for all the young people he looks up to in the Hui tribe.

When some of the young men heard this, they hurriedly packed up their things and followed the old sheepskin.

Such a young man will generally be sent to the war cage by the old sheepskin to try his luck, and if he dies in battle, the people of Shiguo will give the old sheepskin a bag of golden sand, and if he is lucky to win, the old sheepskin can get more.

Some of the young men followed the old sheepskin after listening to two passages, and after a long time it was possible to see him in the harem of a certain king, who was dressed in splendid clothes and wearing sparkling jewels, snuggled up in the king's arms, and sang a long passage of "The Legend of Oghuz" to the guests with a sharp voice.

Others have become horse thieves...... The reason why there are so many horse thieves and robbers in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains is that there is the power of the old sheepskin's dedication.

Yun Chu is like the moonlight in the dark night, the lightning in the dark clouds, and the old sheepskin will naturally not let him go.

When Yun Chu was eight years old, he was taken by the old sheepskin at a glance, and he wanted Yun Chu to go with him, turning over and over the words he had prepared a long time ago, and said it twice, but it couldn't move Yun Chu's firm heart.

If it was an ordinary Uighur, the old sheepskin would have given up, after all, it was not strange for one or two smart people to appear in such a large group.

However, the old sheepskin did not give up on Yun Chu, and would come to the Aries Department every other month to continue to trick Yun Chu into going with him, for this reason, he did not hesitate to go down in person and taught Yun Chu a lot of things.

Old Sheepskin is a wise man, and he knows that as long as he continues to invest, he will one day gain more things from Yun Chu.

Yun Chu also thinks so...... He felt that what he had learned from the old sheepskin was very important to him, especially speaking Chang'an official dialect, writing Tang characters with a brush, and learning Tang etiquette......

By following the old sheepskin, Yun Chu found that the old sheepskin's understanding of the Tang Dynasty was really not comparable to him, a person who knew the Tang Dynasty from the history books.

He likes to learn from the old sheepskin.

In the past five years, Yun Chu's learning speed has been very fast, and even far beyond the expectations of the old sheepskin.

Recently, the old sheepskin should be impatient, in fact, three years ago, the old sheepskin wanted Yun Chu to go with him.

Now, Yun Chu can't be sure whether the old sheepskin is going to send him into the war cage or to be a horse thief, but judging from the old sheepskin's investment in him, the target should be - Datang.

Even so, Yun Chu's body couldn't help but tremble when he heard Kaska mention the selection of the battle cage, and Naha cried loudly.

The reputation of the selection of the war cage of the stone country is extremely famous in the entire Western Regions, and on the bank of the Yaozhishui River outside the Zhezhi City of the Stone King's Court, there is always a huge iron cage five meters long, five meters wide, and three meters high, and the iron cage is covered with murderous iron thorns.

Whenever a warrior from other places rings the iron bell next to the iron cage, the Stone King Court will send a brave armorer into the battle cage.

The warrior from other places needs to enter the iron cage and kill the warrior sent by the stone country with his bare hands, if he defeats this warrior, he can replace this warrior of the stone country and become the new warrior of the stone country!

Once you become a Shiguo Armor, you can get a lot of treasures, beautiful women, and a beautiful garden.

If you fail, there is only one end - death!

The selection of war cages is the fastest way to make a fortune for warriors in the Western Regions, and at the same time, it is also the closest road to death.

Over the years, countless samurai have died in the war cage.

Ten years ago, 60 percent of those who died were challengers, five years ago, 80 percent were challengers, and now it is said that more than 90 percent of those who died were challengers.

This is an inevitable result, and it is estimated that it is also a strategy for the king of Shiguo to recruit warriors, the strength of his own armor is getting higher and higher, and the strength of the warriors who can defeat his own armor is also bound to be higher and higher, and finally, reaching a critical point, such as now, it has been a long time since anyone can challenge successfully.

Therefore, the Shiguo armor is the most powerful group of warriors in the Western Regions.

A person who is unwilling to stay in his original tribe, especially a samurai, has not many options to choose to survive.

If you leave your original tribe and want to go to another tribe to survive, you will not be trusted at all.

One of the most reliable ways to survive is to become a horse thief, relying on raiding ordinary herdsmen, caravans, and camel caravans to survive.

Under normal circumstances, in the Western Regions, where there are many thieves, becoming a horse thief requires being prepared to fight every day, and a young man of Yun Chu's age will not live for a few days before he dies in battle, or is killed by his companions.

The other is to go to Shiguo to participate in the selection of the war cage, being a horse thief is of course a matter of nine deaths, and participating in the selection of the war cage is a choice of ten deaths.

Yun Chu didn't have the slightest idea of challenging the battle cage!!

The sophisticated education he had received told him that challenging the cage was the most inappropriate way for him to make a fortune.

The brain is a good thing, a person more than 1,300 years later ran to the second year of Yonghui in the Tang Dynasty, in order to make a fortune and live a good life, he abandoned his brain and didn't use it, but he wanted to compare brute force with others, what a stupid behavior.

"I'm not going to Zhezhi City, my goal is Qiuzi City!"

He looked at Yun Chu with an incomprehensible expression and said in a low voice, "You really want to find the Tang people." ”

Yun Chu smiled: "Is it possible that I am a Tang person myself?" ”

Kaska shook his head and said, "You can't speak the words of the Tang people, they won't recognize you as the Tang people." ”

Yun Chu immediately said in standard Tang official dialect: "Of course I can speak the words of the Tang people, not only can I speak, but I can also recite the articles of the Tang people." ”

Although he didn't know what Yun Chu said, he could hear it clearly, this was the standard Tang man's words, he had heard them when he followed the Tang army to fight against the Xue Yantuo people as a servant army.

Shocked to shocked, he remembered the Tang people's battle flag fluttering, majestic, and murderous army, but he still shook his head and said: "It's useless for you to speak the words of the Tang people, at most you are a Hui person who can speak the words of the Tang people!" ”

Yun Chu smiled: "Wait until I see the old sheepskin." ”

Kaska didn't seem to want to say too much to Yun Chu, so he picked up Naha and pointed to a jujube red horse tied to the water tank and said, "This is a two-year-old war horse, I found it for you from the royal court, scimitars, bows and arrows are ready for you, if you want to go, go at any time." ”

Yun Chu bent down and thanked him, "Karma, thank you for these things you prepared for me. ”

Kaska shook his head and pointed at the overwhelmed Selema, saying, "You should be glad that you are Selema's son." ”

Yun Chu thought for a while, and felt that what he said didn't seem to be wrong, so he nodded again and thanked him: "Take care of Selema and Naha." ”

Kaska said proudly, "From now on they will be the women of my big Awa tent, who would dare to hurt them?"

If you can't survive outside, you can come back, and I'll arrange something for you to do as a samurai. ”

"Cloud ......"

Selema wanted to speak, but before she could say more, Kaska dragged Selema away to his tent with Naha, who was wailing.

Seeing them go away, Yun Chu came to the edge of the renovated fire pit, boiled a pot of dandelion tea, threw a few black plums into it, and quietly waited for the water to boil.

Regarding the attitude of Karma, who had just been promoted and made a fortune, Yun Chu still accepted it.

As a big oil bottle, to be treated like this by his mother's new love, Kaska can be said to have done everything he can.

The water was boiled, the dandelion tea was boiled, Yun Chu took a sip of the bitter tea from the wooden bowl, and only felt that he was full of Thai and had an indescribable sense of pleasure.

In the Western Regions for thirteen years, the most unbearable thing for him is Selema and Naha, now, Selema has a new man, and Naha has also returned to the arms of his biological father, Yun Chu sincerely thanked Kaska.

Squinting his eyes at the jujube red horse tied to the pillar, Yun Chu couldn't help but laugh.

At this moment, he even felt that God's arrangement was sometimes really very, very caring.

From this moment on, I can finally return to my hometown, and I can go to the Tang Dynasty, which is like heaven in the herdsman's mouth.