Two-one-four: Gardenia

On the day when the plover returned to Xiongqu, all the herdsmen in the whole Xiongqu tribe ran out of their tents as if it were a festival, and spontaneously welcomed the return of their lord

And the Xiongqu Department is located, the largest city of the Eastern Xiongnu - Murdo City will also celebrate the third day, to congratulate the return of King Li, and in this Xiongnu war against the Han Dynasty, they brought back rich materials for this winter

In the midst of such a city-wide celebration, Zhang Yan was placed in a house not far from the residence of the King of Qu Plover in the west of the Murdowinter City

The Huns live by animal husbandry, live in pursuit of water and grass, for thousands of years, have been living in no fixed place, not to mention the construction of the city until Timi Roona crossed, this bone is Luo Mi's male canal second, even if it is very yearning for the Xiongnu born on horseback heroic, but after all, it is also in the life of the Han people in later generations for 20 years of edification, inevitably some of the bias in the soul of the Han people's taste of life Later, Princess Xuping married the Xiongnu from the Han Dynasty to the year of the Xiongnu, Bringing the Han people's custom of living in houses and meticulous daily necessities, the Xiongqu Department mobilized 5,000 Xiongnu men, according to the occasional guidance of Princess Suping and Artijuci, and spent a whole year to build this winter city

Unfortunately, as soon as the city was built, Timirona married into the royal court for four years and never returned to the Xiongqu grassland

Zhang Yan looked at the city and the house she lived in with a scrutinizing gaze, the city of Murdo Winter said that it was the city of the Xiongqu Department of the Zuogu Liwang Xiongqu, in fact, its so-called city wall was built of mud, and the streets in the city were only sprinkled with a simple layer of loess, plus except for a few main buildings, the houses in the city looked dusty...... The whole Murdo Winter City is not even comparable to a common town on the side of the big Han, but the house where she lives, although it is just an earthen house, but because it is quite clean, it is not far from the "royal residence" of the canal in the middle of the city, but the environment is quite quiet, and it looks good

"Mr. Meng," Tana said with a smile as she entered the door with her dinner plate for the evening, "the city will be very lively tomorrow, do you want to go out for a walk?" ”

"No," Zhang Yan said, "I'm afraid of the cold, I don't want to go out of the room, if you and Tana are willing, it's not too early to go by yourself, you can also go to eat your meal."

Because she had known her for a few days, Tana was not polite to her, and responded happily, and when she turned to leave, she felt the wind behind her turbulence, and then there was a sharp pain in the back of her head, and she was dizzy for a while, and fell to the ground

At the same time, Meng Guan, who had solved the problem of Gesang outside the tent, also jumped into the tent, threw a set of prepared Hun boys' clothes on Zhang Yan, and urged, "Hurry up, we don't have a lot of time"

Zhang Yan nodded, and instructed Meng Guan to pick up Tana and put her on the bed, while she hid behind the curtain to change her clothes

……

In the evening, under the sparsely populated northern city, Meng Guan showed his skills, easily climbed over the city wall, and asked outside the wall, "You don't have a relationship?" ”

Zhang Yan tied the rope in a firm knot between her wrists, clenched it again, nodded and said, "I'm fine"

"Then you're ready for two, three," he pulled the rope hard

Inertia took the woman's light body, and when she crossed the low earthen city wall in the twilight, Zhang Yan looked back and saw a big house closest to the royal residence in the Winter City, and a flaming red lantern hung on the beam in front of the door

Granny Ashoto had told her that the tallest house in the city of Murowinter was inhabited by the current king of Sakuya and his future princess, and that the five houses that surrounded the royal house were a little lower, and that some of the most favored princesses of the Sakuya were inhabited if they went to spend the night in the house of the princess, and that the attendants would hang a red lantern on the lintel of the house

"Finally out of this ghost place," Meng Guan said with a suppressed excitement in his low voice, "Shall we go south to Dahan?" ”

"No" Zhang Yan shook her head and said calmly, "To the west"

Qu Plover is now trapped in the gentle township, and he is afraid that he will not be able to get out in a short time;

Mother-in-law Ashoto went back to the Eastern Branch today to visit relatives; Both Tana and Gesang were put to sleep by Meng and would not wake up until tomorrow morning......

The oil lamp burning in the house, before she left, poured out most of the lamp oil, leaving only a thin layer, which was enough to support Youzheng left and right to extinguish the period from Yanmen to the Xiongnu, she deliberately adjusted her routine to fall asleep every day, Mao Chu got up and arranged it like this, if there were no accidents, it would not be until tomorrow morning that someone would find out that they were gone

The sun set from the western sky, the sky slowly darkened, groups of Xiongnu herdsmen came out of the winter city, returned to their tents, Meng Guan and Zhang Yan mixed among these people, slowly walked to the west, the Xiongnu guards under the command of Qian Chang'an Shi rode horses around the city, looked at it, and there was nothing unusual, and then turned around and left

The vigorous freedom was already in sight, Zhang Yan's heart was full of joy, but she controlled that it would not appear on the surface, she lowered her head slightly, and didn't even dare to say hello to Meng Guan beside her

Her figure is extremely thin, even if she made a little modification before leaving, there is a gap with the previous image of "Meng Ying", but after all, the general size will not change between a group of tall and strong adult Huns, the back is full of like an eleven or twelve-year-old child is walking, suddenly felt that the shoulder was slapped with a big hand like a fan, suppressed exclaim, raised his head, and saw a strong Hun herdsman standing in front of him, with a smile on his face, "Child, which tribe are you?" ”

Beside him, Meng Guan's back tightened, and he didn't care about looking at the movement here, and made plans in his heart, if something was wrong, he knocked out the Hun herdsman and took Zhang Yan to escape for his life, but Zhang Yan was already smiling and asked, "Uncle, are you calling me?" The voice was crisp, and it was a pure East Xiongnu accent

The herdsman also smiled and said, "It's you."

"Oh" Zhang Yan continued to smile, and suppressed her voice into a low hoarse voice that an eleven or twelve-year-old boy should have, "I am Ah Zhe of the East Branch, I am twelve years old this year, my Abba is Tun and this is the day when the King of Zuogu Li comes back, I beg my Father to bring me over, look at the appearance of King Zuogu Li, when I grow up, I will also be a big hero like King Zuogu Li."

The younger generation of boys in the Xiongqu Department admired the Qu Plover, and the herdsmen didn't find anything wrong, so they laughed loudly and said, "I said, why don't you seem to have seen the kid who has been sick in the Tunhe family, and now your illness is cured?" It's impossible to work hard, it's impossible to be a hero like King Zuoguli, it's still okay to be a man like your Abba."

"Hey" Zhang Yan responded crisply, turned her head and walked away

"You ......" Meng Guan's mind was a little complicated

Zhang Yan pulled his sleeve, "Let's go away first, and I'll explain to you later."

In the vicinity of the Winter City, the herdsmen of the Xiongqu Department set up tents in groups to graze, Meng Guan guarded in the dark for a while, stole two horses, rode separately with Zhang Yan, galloped westward, and drove for two hours

"Tired? Take a break," Meng Guan also reined in the horses and said thoughtfully

"I finally escaped" Zhang Yan sat on the grass, looking at the quiet night sky on the grassland, her tone was relaxed, and the night containing joy was very good, the moonlight was very bright, so that the stars in the sky lost their luster

"Yes" Meng Guan looked at her with a smile, "It's just that we are still in the hinterland of the Huns, so we should be very careful."

"That's what I'm saying" Zhang Yan put away her quiet face, got up and said, "I'm not very tired yet, let's continue to travel for a while."

"It's okay," Meng Guan said, his smiling face had not yet receded, and a solemn expression appeared on his face

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yan asked

She didn't hear an answer

The sound of horses' hooves on the ground came from a distance, and the sound was complicated, and there were at least a dozen people

Meng Guan looked around, the Xiongqu grassland under the night was vast and vast, within a radius of 100 miles, there was hardly even a mound at a glance, and there was no place to hide people

The sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, and looking at the past, through the bright moonlight, you can even see a few small black dots in the distance

He heard Zhang Yan's soft voice beside him, "There are a lot of people in this line, it should be the nobles of the Huns, we lead the horses and retreat to the side, waiting for them to pass" was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: they were pretending to be Huns at this time, riding horses on the grassland in the middle of the night, although it is not a common thing, in the end, it is not uncommon to see abnormal This line of people is from the west to the Xiongqu Department, it should not be the people in the Winter City who saw them on the side, and called them over to ask a few words, since Zhang Yan can speak a Hun dialect, and his brain is good, deal with the past, It's not difficult, and I calm down

The group of people came, urging the horses to get closer and closer

Zhang Yan raised her head slightly, glanced at the other party, her face changed suddenly, and she only felt that the blood all over her body was cold

The group of thirteen or fourteen Hun guards, surrounded by the man led by them, was none other than the one she least wanted to see at this time

Canals

How can it be?

At this time, shouldn't Qu Plover be in the Murrowinter City, in the gentle country of a beautiful princess? How could it be, in the middle of the night like this, instead appeared in the grassland west of Murdowinter

In the midst of the lightning and fire, her mind was in a state of chaos, and she didn't have time to think at all, so she just lowered her head slightly, hoping that Qu Yuan would rush back to Murro in a hurry, and she didn't have time to pay attention to the two passers-by she met at random in the grassland at night; I hope that tonight's night is dark enough that the canal plover can't recognize itself

……

She and Meng Guan led the horse and retreated to the side, and when Qu Yu passed by with a group of Hun guards, he buried his head deeply, feeling that Qu Ou on the top of the first black high-headed horse cast a gaze, and then went away, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the man grabbed the reins of the horse and commanded, "Wait" pacing the horse over, "You guys come here"

The Hun guards who followed Qu Yu also stopped their horses, and one of them shouted, "Two boys over there, King Zuogu Li ordered you to come over."

Zhang Yan sighed, the governor couldn't do anything, hurried over with a trotting pace, and bowed with the etiquette of a Hun man to see a powerful person, "Ah Zhe has seen the king of Zuogu Li" The voice was joyful and with a kind of unbelievable surprise

On the side, Meng Guan also followed, learned to worship him, and said a few words vaguely

Qu Yu sat on the horse and looked down - Zhang Yan's position was extremely coincidental, with her back to the moon in the sky, but she left a little horn, and the moonlight that was not so bright was spread behind her, hiding her face in the shadows, and even her eyelashes were hanging down, and she couldn't see a trace

"What tribe are you from?"

"Back to the words of King Liwang of Zuogu," Zhang Yan replied in a suppressed male voice, "I am Ah Zhe of the Eastern Branch, and this is my brother Montatun and our Abba."

"How do you ride a horse at this time?"

Zhang Yan's voice lowered slightly, "It's not what we thought, yesterday, someone from the Hash Department came to the news, saying that our grandfather was sick and Grandma fainted in a hurry, and Abba wanted to take care of Grandma at home, and our brother thought that we were all old enough, so we stole horses from home and ran out secretly, wanting to rush to the Hash Department to visit our grandfather's illness."

In the bright moonlight, Qu Yuan was silent for a while, then dismounted and walked close in front of Zhang Yan, where she could even see the patterns on the boots on his feet

He looked at her with a strange gaze for a long time

Then she heard the Plover ask, "Have you ever seen a gardenia?" "The voice is very soft

Note: The following does not count as a word count:

Zhang Yan's Xiongnu language was learned when he was in the Han Dynasty, as for the accent of the Eastern Xiongnu, it is these days to get along with Ashoto's mother-in-law, and I learned from Ashoto's mother-in-law and secretly corrected the cough, setting up Ayan's language talent is good, and Artie also said that her English in her previous life was very, very good, but Artie didn't expect Ayan's language talent to be so good, but she has always pretended not to speak Xiongnu, and successfully concealed Qu Yu and Arti, as well as all the people, this is also a big trump card weapon that she was able to escape from the Huns later

As for the people's sentiments in the Eastern Branch and the life experience of Tunhe's family fabricated by Ah Yan, it was also from Ah Shuoto's mother-in-law

Ming'er was dragged by classmates to travel to Chongqing, went out on Monday, and came back on Wednesday or Thursday, but I will set up a manuscript to save at about 6:20 every night