Five hundred and five lonely graves of the Great Wall
"Huh? So suddenly?" Li Kui was really surprised: "Who are you fighting?"
"Who else? It's not the old fox of Jin Wudu!" Zhi Yu hated the pottery cup with horse *** wine in his hand: "As soon as the fox girl died, this old boy immediately turned his face, and united with Lin Hu and Lou Fu to take away the two best pastures of my Wuzhong, and five or six thousand herdsmen. If I don't take it back, I will not be a man!"
"Lin Hu and Lou Fu? How is that possible?" Rao has a lot of experience, and Li Kui didn't expect that these two close clans would backhand and stab in the back.
"Humph! How could it be?" A teasing smile appeared on Zhi Yu's slightly chubby face: "Do you think that old fox has been idle for the past few months? When his daughter was gone, he gave his two favorite concubines to King Linhu and King Loufu, with hundreds of slaves, and promised him not a penny from the pasture herdsmen who I had taken from him, and gave them to the two kings for nothing. And just like that, these two treacherous things followed him!"
The more Zhi Yu spoke, the more angry he became, and he smashed his fist on the desk, shaking the cup on his head and jumping. Turning his face, he saw Li Kui looking at the top of the tent motionless, with a thoughtful look, and suddenly asked angrily, "What are you thinking?" Why are you stunned?"
Li Kui came back to her senses: "I was thinking, this is the place where all the Rong meet, and there are many disputes. Now that there are clouds and rain in the East Lynx, our department will definitely not be able to live in peace. It's better to ......."
Before she finished speaking, Zhi Yu became impatient and waved his hand: "Okay, okay, you have to mention that old topic again." Moved to your mother's hometown of Kuirong Grassland, didn't you? Don't forget that it's now the realm of the Patriotic Nation, and we just wiped out your cousin's 50,000 border troops! What do you think about going to the Kuirong grassland? Do you want to treat yourself as fat and give it to Wei Guo to swallow in one bite?"
Li Kui still wanted to open her mouth to persuade, but Zhi Yu had already gotten up and walked towards the curtain, and her deep voice was quite excited: "What do you know about men? You only need to take care of the old and weak women and children in the clan, and you don't have to worry about the rest. Tomorrow's expedition, you take a good look at the fox protrusion, and you won't have to see it off. Now, he's the only one with you."
"Yes." Li Kui had no choice but to bow her head and say yes.
The curtain was lifted, and the cold wind blew in her face, and Li Kui only felt a cold swish on her body, not knowing whether it was cold in her body or in her heart. The maid followed the curtain and came in, and when she saw that she was holding her arms cold, she quickly brought a fox fur and put it on her.
"Say, what do you mean by the king's last words? He...... Are you suspicious?"
"Oh, Princess, don't be cranky. As the saying goes, suspicion gives rise to dark ghosts, so don't scare yourself."
It was almost noon, and the camp of the Endless Dead, with more than 100,000 troops stationed, must have been very noisy by this time, and the smoke of cooking would rise from the countless yellow and gray tents, and groups of children would wave long whips and ride ponies on the field outside the tents...... But today, the smoke of the old camp is still as usual, but it adds a bit of silence and melancholy.
Wang Zhiyu of Wuzhong set out with all the tens of thousands of elites of his tribe, vowing to recapture the two fertile pastures that had been robbed. This is the law of survival of the grassland peoples. Whether it is a person or a tribe, as long as they show a little cowardice in the competition for the grassland where the strong are like forests, they will be torn to pieces in an instant. Sometimes, the rise and fall of one tribe, or even the engulfment of the rest of the tribes, is only a matter of moments.
In the royal tent, the princess Li Kui was inquiring in detail about the diet of the nurse prince Hutu. The nurse has a kind face, has an answer and an answer, and compliments from time to time:
"Yes, Princess. My brother only got up twice last night, and he swallowed and swallowed when he was feeding, and it was good that children who were not full moon could eat and sleep! I haven't congratulated the princess yet. My brother is really good-looking, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his arms and legs are also strong and strong. It's still the princess who brought it well!"
Li Kui smiled when she heard this, and was about to announce the reward, when a maid in front of the tent hurriedly opened the curtain and entered, whispered to her for a while, and handed over a thing. Li Kui only glanced at it, and suddenly her face changed greatly, and she told the nurse to take the child to retreat, and only said to the maid: "Call Tie Mu'er into the account!"
The maid in front of the tent went away, and Li Kui looked at the things in her hand, her brows tightened, and her thoughts fluttered. In her hand was a hairpin. It is about half a foot long, made of white jade, with a fish head carved at one end, and two turquoise stones embedded in the fish's eyes, the hairpin body is almost transparent, and there is a wisp of red halo across the middle, which is like dripping into water
The blood is like this, and the color is beautiful and chilling. The hairpin is delicate and luxurious, but it faintly reveals a distant antiquity and a cold murderous atmosphere.
Li Kui silently twitched from the back of her bun and pulled out a similar white hosta. It's just shorter and thicker, and the fish's eyes are not inlaid with turquoise, but with two blood-like red agate. Her father had told her that it was a grandmother's dowry, one for her aunt Yukui and the other for him. Now, the hairpin is in front, which is obviously a gift from cousin Kui Duoyou to his friend Zhao Gonghu before his death. She had to face her cousin's death again.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh deeply. The lonely tomb of the Great Wall of Earth is also time to be solved......
Entering the desert, Zhao Bohu looked around, but felt that the sky was high and the earth was far away, and the wilderness was vast. As far as the eye can see, there are no birds or beasts, and there are no traces. The sand dunes in the distance are shaped like ocean waves, and they rise and fall. A gust of autumn wind passed by the ground, rolling up tiny grains of sand, fluttering like light smoke, circling in the vast wilderness. The blow made Zhao Bohu unable to open his eyes, and a mouth of sand drilled into his throat again.
Although Zhao Bohu has had the experience of patrolling the border, this is the first time he has experienced this kind of desert. While leading a group of more than 3,000 people on a difficult trek, he also thought in his heart: The strange grassland Rongdi is a predator, with such a harsh living environment, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive if I don't go south to loot! It seems that the antagonistic war between the Zhou people and the Northern Rong people will continue from generation to generation and will be difficult to dissolve.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw two black dots moving from a distance, looking at the sand dunes in the distance. Qiang Xing was quite vigilant, and waved his hand: "Stop!"
The team of horses stopped, and they rode forward to investigate. After a while, he led two people back. One was the uncle who had been sent to contact the Endless Princess two days ago, and the other was a strange and thin boy under the age of fifteen.
Seeing Uncle Mi, Zhao Bohu was very happy, and he didn't care about greetings, so he asked, "How? Have you found the Princess of the Endless?"
"Hui Xiangye, I found it."
"How?" Zhao Bohu can't wait.
Uncle Mi had a look of forced sadness on his face, and turned his gaze for help to the young man beside him: "Xiangye, this is someone sent by the princess of the end, if there is anything, Xiangye can ask him directly."
"You...... What is your name? What is your role in the Endless Division?" Zhao Bohu asked, but he secretly wondered why the princess sent such a young man to greet him?
The thin young man raised his head, and his eyes were full of tears: "The villain's name is Tie Mu'er, and he is the private slave of the princess of the end. Before...... I used to be a military servant in the border army, and I dedicated myself to raising horses for General Kui and waiting for daily life."
Zhao Bohu's heart shook suddenly, his body shook involuntarily, he barely held on to the wheel, and asked in a deep voice, "Ziliang...... Where?"
"Summon—" Tie Mu'er knelt on the ground, only to see her shoulders trembling continuously: "General Kui, he...... He has already sacrificed his life for the country on the Great Wall of Earth......
Zhao Bohu's eyes were dark, and he stumbled and fell off the car, and his body fell to the ground like leaves, soft and silent.
"Xiangye......" Qiang Xing and Uncle Mi exclaimed in unison, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhao Bohu.
He fell with his back up, and when he turned him over, both of them felt a chill in their hearts. I saw that Zhao Bohu's face was like gold paper, there seemed to be blood flowing out of his mouth, and the placket was also mottled with blood, like red plums.
Tie Mu'er seemed to be stunned by this change, but Zhao Bohu stared at him and asked, "Corpse...... Where are the corpses?"
"It's buried on the Great Wall of Earth, the princess's funeral. The princess specially instructed the little leader to go to the prime minister, and she waited for the prime minister in front of the grave."
"Lead the way."
Zhao Bohu suddenly pushed countless pairs of hands that wanted to step forward to stop and support him, and staggered himself into the car.
"Kai-" Qiang Xing let out a long exclamation, and the horse team rumbled west......
The Great Wall of Earth is in the season of autumn wind, it is already bare, and there is no green in sight, only a few clumps of withered yellow weeds along the edge of the earthen wall nod slightly in the autumn wind. It's desolate!
The battlefield has been briefly cleaned, and from time to time you can tripped over the wheels buried under the wind and sand while walking inadvertently, reminding latecomers of this
There was such a thrilling battle.
It was such a desolate abandoned battlefield, and the lonely grave piled up against the earthen wall was even more desolate. In front of the grave stands a long wooden plaque, on which are engraved crookedly and obliquely "The Tomb of General Kui Duoyou of the Great Zhou", which is still engraved in its true color and is not dyed with cinnabar. But if it weren't for such a shabby wooden sign, it would have looked like a small sand dune uplifted by the wind and sand.
Li Kui came to the Great Wall of Earth a few hours in advance, and when she saw Zhao Bohu walking towards her in the noon sun, she secretly determined the identity of the other party in her heart without being introduced by others. This is the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the best friend who often hangs on his cousin's mouth - Zhaogonghu.
The white clothes are fluttering, and the temperament is like a fairy...... That's right. It's just that Li Kui can't connect the middle-aged man in front of her, who has a little white and slightly frosty, and is haggard and fragmented, with the image of Pian Pian who is named "the most beautiful man in Ho Jing" in her imagination.
Thinking about it, I can't help it, counting it, Zhao Bohu should be in his early forties, and he should be an out-and-out middle-aged man in the Western Zhou Dynasty. How can you still be a young man? Li Kui couldn't help but laugh at her own pedantry in her heart.