Chapter 128 Thrilling

Takemi had already traveled to the depths of the grassland, and there was no one in the vast wilderness, so he simply stopped the carriage, got out of the car, lifted the tarpaulin, took out a cotton robe, checked it in his hand, and handed it to Duan Qingyan.

Qingyan took the cotton robe with a puzzled face, her eyes widened, she looked through the cotton robe in her hand carefully, and asked, "What did you fill in this cotton robe?" If it were cotton, it would never be this weight. ”

Without waiting for Zhu to answer, Duan Qingyan said very confidently: "I have led the army for many years, and I hate to withhold military supplies the most, how much cotton should be in this cotton robe, whether it is new cotton or sinking cotton, I will know as soon as I check it." ”

Zhu cocked his thumb in admiration, took out a knife from his arms, and gently picked a line on the back of the cotton robe, and countless white pink crystals fell inside, Duan Qingyan dipped his index finger a little, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and said with great certainty: "It's salt." ”

Bamboo nodded and replied, "It's salt." ”

She put away the cotton robe and took off another one, but this time she didn't pick the clothes, only put the clothes under Duan Qingyan's nose, let her sniff it, and Qingyan suddenly realized: "Tea fragrance." ”

Zhu Han smiled: "Yes, it's salt and tea." Tartars are self-sufficient, but they do not produce salt, and their diet is greasy and heavy, and they need to make milk tea to get rid of the fishy smell. These two huge profits were monopolized by officials and businessmen in Northern Chu. ”

Zhu proudly pointed to the two carts of goods and said: "Don't look at the only two carts of salt tea, it may only be worth ten taels of silver in Daning, but here, it is a priceless treasure and priceless." ”

Duan Qingyan touched the cart full of cotton robes, and saw that the stitches were delicate and even, and there was absolutely no abnormality from the outside, so he sincerely admired: "You can also think of such a wonderful method, Qingyan is ashamed of himself." ”

Zhu looked at the white clouds in the sky, and said with a gloomy expression: "Where is this my idea, it's all my father's wonderful pen, the predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade." ”

October is the golden autumn in this northern grassland is already the end of autumn, on the grassland crisscrossing several rivers, this piece of turquoise gem is naturally divided into several pieces, and there are countless lakes dotted with dots.

The nomads lived by water, and Zhu and others searched for the Tatar tribe among the lakes. It took three days to find the first small tribe, and when they saw the colorful tents by the lake in the distance, Zhu and the others couldn't help but cheer loudly.

Duan Qingyan and Yang Huaju both speak fluent Tatar, but there is no communication barrier, the two of them stepped forward to negotiate, in the past two years, the wind and rain have been smooth, the grass is long, and the cattle and sheep in the herdsmen's homes have grown in herds.

After a short exchange, Yang Hua whispered to Zhu: "The salt here mainly depends on a limited number of salt lakes on the grassland, all of which are occupied by a few large tribes, and a small tribe like this needs to pay a very high price for salt, and thirty sheep can exchange for a pound of salt." ”

Compared with the cutting of the big tribes, the price of bamboo and others was very fair, and it didn't take long for the tea and salt on the cart to go to one-fifth, in exchange for horses and animal skins.

After the transaction was completed, the hospitable herdsmen warmly kept them to stay, and the four of them discussed it and decided to stay for a few days to find out about the situation in the grassland.

Two days later, taking advantage of the darkness, Zhu pulled the green smoke, tied up Yang Hua and Wei Liao and fled, walked for half the night, and finally took a breath, Zhu kicked Yang Hua and Wei Liao twice, and said angrily: "You two rotten peach blossoms, you can pick flowers and grass anywhere." ”

"Forget Yang Hua, there is no loss in a group of aunts and aunts; Wei Liao, you say, you can't even understand the words, why do you ask two flower girls to duel for you?! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Xin was indignant and kicked Wei Liao twice.

Wei Liao rolled around on the ground, dodging the bamboo's feet, and still defended himself: "How do I know, isn't it just that the horse race won them, and they gave me food, can I not eat it?" ”

Zhu snorted, led a horse, and walked the horse beside Wei Liao, seeing that the hooves stepped straight to Wei Liao's crotch, Yang Hua on the side was in a cold sweat.

Seeing this, Duan Qingyan stepped forward to untie Yang Hua and persuaded: "I have also inquired about a lot of news in the past few days, and it is almost time to leave, so let Wei Liao go." ”

Zhu gave Duan Qing a cigarette face, and still kicked Wei Liao twice in anger before untying him.

Yang Hua rubbed her wrist, looked at Wei Liao sympathetically, and saw that Zhu hated iron but not steel, coughed, and said, "What should I do now?" ”

Qingyan stroked his chin with one hand, looked at the grass waves blown by the wind, and said in a low voice: "Make a fire, there are wolves." ”

Bamboo shuddered and took a step back, she was the only one in the house, and suddenly found that she was so powerless in the face of the beast.

Two warm hands touched at the same time, Yang Hua and Wei Liao held one of her hands, silently, and the bamboo heart was warm.

Suddenly it was dark in front of the bamboo eyes, and a figure blocked all the moonlight, green smoke! Zhu broke away from Yang Hua and Wei Liao's hands, stepped forward, and stood side by side with her, but he heard Qingyan say calmly: "Go and cut some grass separately, the more the better." ”

After picking up some firewood before, several people quickly lit a fire, Qingyan told Zhu Haosheng to stay, Duan Qingyan and Yang Hua, and Wei Liao each chose a direction and rushed away.

Zhu was alone by the fire, there was a wolf howling in the distance, there was darkness outside the three zhang, and there seemed to be countless green lights flickering, faintly understanding what those green lights represented, she buried her head between her knees, not daring to look, not daring to think.

The time was so long, every moment was stretched into hundreds of millions of light years, the wolf howl seemed to be closer, and the bamboo kept adding firewood to the fire, and the blazing fire lit up half of the sky.

There was silence, only the wind whistled, accompanied by the crackling sound of firewood, the sense of hearing became extremely sensitive, there seemed to be footsteps in the distance, bamboo turned around suddenly, and saw two black shadows rushing towards them, and the weeds parted to both sides like waves.

It's two Tatars! Their leather robes were covered with blood, and their faces could not see their true faces, and when they saw that there was only one person by the fire, they waved the scimitar in their hands, shouted two words, and strode forward, and the bamboo panicked for a while, stood up, trembling his legs, waving the burning branches in his hands, and let out a string of screams.

There was a piercing whistling, and a spear fell from the sky and slammed into the ground in front of the Tartars, the barrel of which shook incessantly.

As soon as Zhu turned around, he saw Wei Liao striding sideways, like a god of war, and his heart was relieved. There was a warm touch on his hand, and the heart that had just been put down suddenly hung up again, Zhu looked to the side in horror, but saw Yang Hua's warm smiling face, he broke off the hand of Zhu Zhu who was clenching the dead branch very seriously, and said calmly: "I'm still alive, how can you have something?" ”

Zhu was completely relieved, her legs and feet were weak, she fell to the ground, looked up at the two Tatars, was stunned, and then couldn't cry or laugh, but saw Duan Qingyan stacking them together and sitting on them majestically.

Wei Liao ran to the front, and Yang Hua protected the bamboo left and right, Duan Qingyan said in a deep voice: "I was halfway through the run, and I found that something was wrong, this group of wolves was panicked and ran disorderly, they should have been driven out." ”

With that, he kicked the captive at his feet, leaned closer and asked, "You should be the real prey, right?" Say, Who are you, and by whom are they pursued? ”

The two Tatars looked at each other and suddenly said in Chinese: "We are Ah Lai and Ah Hu of the Yelu tribe, and we are being chased by the people of the Thorn Mur tribe. ”

Thornwood!

After a few days of investigation, Zhu and others have learned that now the two major tribes on the grassland each occupy half of the country, the most powerful of which is the Thorn Muer tribe, and the other is the ancient tribe of Ergu.

Zhu was silent for a long time, and ordered: "Let them go, give them four horses." ”

Wei Liao stared at Zhu in disbelief, Yang Hua on the side smiled silently, Duan Qingyan raised his foot indifferently, and Ah Lai and Ah Hu got up from the ground in embarrassment.

They took the reins from Yang Hua's hand, bent down at the bamboo, and said gratefully: "We will always remember Your Excellency's life-saving grace, and you will always be the most honored guest of the Yelu tribe." ”

Seeing the two figures gradually moving away, Wei Liao finally couldn't help it, he slammed his fist on the carriage, and asked, "Why let them go?" ”

Zhu methodically arranged the robes on his body, and said slowly: "Our patron is coming." ”

She turned around to look at Wei Liao and said softly: "We businessmen, we will never have a real enemy, as long as we have enough interests, we can ignore life and death." ”

Not long after, the sound of people barking and dogs barking was heard in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, a group of knights from the grassland rolled in, holding countless torches, coiling and shuttling, and surrounded them.

At first, a stout Tatar looked at the four people carefully, and finally froze on Wei Liao's face, he asked a few questions, Wei Liao didn't understand at all, and looked at Duan Qingyan suspiciously, Duan Qingyan rolled his eyes, and said in a low voice: "He asked you if you saw the two escaped slaves, probably because he saw that you were tall and thought you were the leader." ”

Zhu quietly grabbed Duan Qingyan's hand and said in a low voice, "Tell him that we are merchants from the south and want to meet their leader." ”

Zhu and the others were locked in a small tent, and she was peaceful, while Qingyan and Yang Hua also sat quietly. Wei Liao took off his boots, a peculiar smell came, the three of them looked sideways together, Wei Liao smiled awkwardly, picked at the front of the boot for a long time, dug out an extremely thin blade, carefully clamped it with his index finger and finger, and put the boots back on.

When he came to the tent, he measured it for a long time, and made a very small opening in the tent with the blade in his hand, and a beam of sunlight came in, and countless dust flew inside.

Wei Liao leaned closer and looked out, there was silence behind him, he observed for a long time, and asked dissatisfiedly, "Don't you all care what I see?" ”。