Chapter 13: There is no home after the journey to the west

Yun Chu's heart was very quiet, and there were hardly any waves.

The jujube red horse is a very good war horse, riding on its back is very stable, the old sheepskin sits on the back of a tall camel, and looks back at Yun Chu from time to time, and can't help but laugh once when he sees it.

The women walking in the procession are very lively, which is related to the fact that they are about to have a new start in life.

As for the men, they were mostly silent, and there were no extra words except for drinking water and eating along the way.

Yun Chu didn't want to talk much, so after silently following the old sheepskin's team through seven or eight tribes, there were no more women in the team, but there were five or six more men.

When passing by the eagle's beak cliff, a strong man riding a horse appeared in the middle of the road, this strong man was really majestic as a mountain, and the tall Western Regions horse under his crotch looked as short as a donkey against his background.

A swarthy cowhide bag was thrown by a strong man, and the old sheepskin reached out to catch it, weighed it, nodded, and drove the camel on.

Of course, Yun Chu knew what the old sheepskin was doing, and silently followed the camel to continue walking, and the war horse under the strong man's crotch moved a few steps to block Yun Chu's way.

The old sheepskin, who had been closing his eyes, said lazily: "This is not!" ”

The strong man smiled: "You always hide the best." ”

Yun Chu was very strange, with a figure like the old sheepskin, he could easily kill him, and the strong man in front of him seemed to be very jealous of him.

There must be a reason for this, and Yun Chu decided to keep this in mind.

The strong man got out of the way, Yun Chu passed by him, and just when the two passed by, Yun Chu saw that the tattoo on the strong man's neck was a green wolf roaring in the sky.

The green wolf is still very famous in the Tianshan Mountains, and he is the leader of a group of horse thieves himself.

The Khan had sent troops to hunt him down two years earlier, but not a single wolf hair had been caught.

Everyone said that the green wolf was beaten away by the guards of the Porun Khan, and the Porun Khan even said that the green wolf's head had become an ornament in his tent.

Now it is alive and well here to recruit troops, and it seems that after the death of Porun Khan, the green wolf is also ready to return to his old business.

"How did you get rid of these people cheaply? It doesn't seem to fit your usual behavior. ”

Yun Chu drove his horse to catch up with the old sheepskin and couldn't help but ask.

"We have more important things to do," said the old sheepskin, "and we don't have time to sell these pretty lads for a better price." ”

"Where is the goal?"

"Turtles!"

"What is the purpose?"

"There is a restaurant opened by the Sui people five hundred steps outside the gate of the Chongfu Barracks in the ninth fold of Qiuzi Town, and the name is Chang'an Restaurant.

Give you two days to be a guy at this restaurant. ”

Yun Chu nodded, indicating that he understood, but at the moment when he was about to bow his head, he asked again, "Do you hate Monk Xuanzang?" ”

After all, the old sheepskin did not answer the question raised by Yun Chu, but because of this question, his mood began to become bad again.

A whip shadow suddenly appeared in Yun Chu's perspective, and he slid off the horse's back with an upside-down onion, and the whip swept over the horse's back with a sharp sound of breaking wind and quietly returned to the sleeve of the old sheepskin's wide sheepskin jacket.

Yun Chu grabbed the saddle's lower abdomen from under the horse's belly and forced, and sat on the horse's back again.

Ever since he could walk, Yun Chu began to learn how not to fall off the back of a sheep, and since he could ride a horse, Yun Chu has been studying how not to fall off a horse, and today, this skill finally has a place to use.

The old sheepskin withdrew his whip and stopped moving, and sat between the two humps and stared at the blue sky, his thoughts looking long.

"My name is Shi Panda!"

The old sheepskin said his name without a head or tail, Yun Chu didn't understand, but he didn't ask, at this time, he needed the old sheepskin to say it himself, once he interrupted his thoughts, he might not be willing to say it.

It's a pity that after the old sheepskin said his name, he never said a word again.

Qiuzi was only one hundred and eighty miles away from where Yun Chu was.

The two of them walked for two days before they saw Qiuzi City on the horizon, and as for the Tianshan Snow Mountain behind them, there seemed to be no change, and the distance of one hundred and eighty miles was not enough for it to change anything.

The environment has not changed much, but there are more people, and the roads are full of camel caravans and herds of cattle and sheep.

At the beginning of June, outside the city of Qiuzi, wheat sprouts had grown, stretching from the bottom of the city to the end of the earth.

This is perhaps the largest man-made landscape on this land, and the dilapidated Qiuzi City is almost negligible in front of such a large wheat field.

When he arrived at the city of Guizi, the moody old sheepskin finally showed a little pleasantness.

"These wheat fields all belong to Qiuzi Town, you be careful not to let the horses spoil the grain, they will be pulled by the army to cut off their heads."

Yun Chu didn't know why the wise old sheepskin would say such a headless thing again, and when he was racking his brains to think about how to answer, he heard the old sheepskin say again.

"The degree of cherishing of food by the Tang people is beyond the reach of our people in the Western Regions, and the food that everyone asks for but can't get is actually a sacrificial thing in the eyes of those large and small khans, and it was burned in vain with a fire."

Yun Chu looked at the old sheepskin with puzzled eyes, a long, long time ago, Yun Chu met someone who admired foreign people, but he didn't expect that he would meet the same person under Qiuzi City.

Who said that the Hu people waste food at will? At least he hadn't seen it, the dogs didn't eat the bones that Selema had gnawed, and when Naha ate marmots, he didn't even let go of the scraps of meat that fell on the sheepskin, and even went down to lick the remaining marmot grease on the sheepskin.

"Yun Chu, you can change this shirt!"

As he spoke, the old sheepskin threw him a sheepskin baggage.

"Remember to take a shower by the canal first...... Wash well and wash your black and oily neck!

Otherwise, even if you put on the clothes of the Tang people, people will smell the fishy smell on your body. ”

Yun Chu was stunned again with his burden, and he swore that among all the Hu people, there would never be a person who loved cleanliness more than him.

Not only is his neck black, but his face is also black, and his hands are also black, which is something that cannot be helped, no matter who works at high altitudes with ultraviolet rays all day long, it is impossible to become fair.

He really couldn't figure out how with the wisdom of the old sheepskin, he would worship everything in the Tang people to such an extent.

The snowy mountains and rivers here in Qiuzi are cold and biting......

When Yun Chu came out of the poplar forest again, the old sheepskin's eyes didn't seem to move.

Yun Chu looked down at what he was wearing, there seemed to be nothing outstanding, the upper body was a cotton short gown, the lower body was a pair of fat cotton crotch pants, and he was wearing a pair of black hemp shoes on his feet, plus the half-length hair combed into a horse's tail, except for making Yun Chu look a little sharper, he was weaker, and there was not much change.

"Tang people should look good in Tang people's clothes, you don't look strong at all when you wear leather clothes, it's not good-looking."

Yun Chu smiled: "I am a Tang man myself. ”

The old sheepskin also laughed, pointed at Yun Chu and said: "It should be like this, only if you yourself think you are a Tang person, can you deceive those real Tang people." ”

"Is it possible that I am a Tang myself?"

"The cubs of the Tang people will not fall in the kennel of the Saiman, just as the cubs of a tiger will not be in the kennel."

"The fact that tiger cubs can also grow up on dog milk is too biased."

Old Sheepskin laughed and said, "Only dogs grow up in kennels, even if they wear a tiger skin, they are still dogs."

As for you, you're just a wolf that looks like a Tang man. ”

Yun Chu pouted and said, "Could it be that the Tang people are good?" ”

The old sheepskin nodded naturally and said, "You are right, even if the Tang people do not have the best at the moment, they will do everything possible to find the best from other places and ultimately use it for their own use."

In order to make up for the shortcomings of Tang Buddhism, Xuanzang traveled thousands of miles to obtain the Western Scriptures, which is the proof. ”

Yun Chu felt that what the old sheepskin said was wrong, because when he was studying history, the professor once said that Li Shimin, who was still the general of Tiance Mansion, did not like Buddhism, and was ready to use Confucianism as the body and Taoism as the table, invade the Buddhist classics, expound the concept of safflower, white lotus root and green lotus leaves, and the three religions were originally one family, and solve the problem of localization of Buddhism from the root.

The people of Buddhism were unwilling to accept this set of concepts, so in the second year of Zhenguan, in order to find foreign aid, Xuanzang left Chang'an and went west to seek scriptures.

Yun Chu believed more in what his own professor said, rather than the old sheepskin, who had experienced it firsthand.

It's not that the old sheepskin's words are inaccurate, but that the old sheepskin itself is in Li Shimin's hands, and of course he can't see the truth of the incident.

Walking into the unguarded city of Qiuzi, there are many noisy sounds, the clearest being shouts and cheers, interspersed with cursing, crying, and pleading.

Even the language is haphazard, with Turks, Uighurs, Cypriots, Sogdians, and even the Tang who speak in a strange tone.

Fortunately, understanding these languages is not a problem for Yun Chu.

He enjoyed the noise from the market, led the horse, closed his eyes and enjoyed for a moment, the Cypriot tribe at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains was too quiet.

It wasn't until a strong camel stench stubbornly crept into his nose that he opened his eyes, and when he looked back, he realized that he was blocking the path of a group of camels.

The bearded man with a large turban sitting on the back of a camel did not urge him, but waited quietly.

Yun Chu was surprised by the politeness of the Hu people, and soon discovered that it was not him who these camel caravans who often played the role of robbers in the Gobi Desert respected, but the set of Tang clothes he had just changed.

Thinking about this clearly, Yun Chu gracefully moved out of the way and motioned for the camel team to go first, and the Hu man on the camel's back also stroked his chest and saluted, showing that the people on both sides were very polite.

I don't know why there are so many camels here, one team after another.

Camels are one of the most smelly livestock Yun has ever seen, and the smell is hard to describe, if you sprinkle cumin with cumin, add some rosin and expose it to the sun, you may be able to reconcile the smell of the camel.