Chapter 383: The Value of Spying

The endless prairie is very beautiful, especially at the turn of spring and summer, the green grass is decorated with all kinds of flowers to turn the whole prairie into a gorgeous carpet, the blanket is also scattered with large and small seas, if you can flow in the warm sunshine by the sea, listen to the shepherd girl's song is a pleasant thing, if you can come to a pot of wine and start to grasp the delicious taste of mutton, it is even more intoxicating to let people revel in the beauty of heaven and earth. Yes, it's all beautiful, if it weren't for the shitty bag by the sea, the grassland would have been intoxicatingly beautiful, at least in Ada's opinion.

Ada is a herdsman, of course he is also a warrior, a fearless warrior, as a descendant of the wolf god, he is not afraid of death, his brothers are not afraid of death, as long as it is a battle, they will not think of retreating, unless it is the elders who blow the horn of retreat. However, despite their large numbers, and despite their fear of bloodshed and sacrifice, they were defeated, and they were defeated incomparably completely, and they were defeated in the hands of the old hairy people in the pile of shit bags by the sea.

Looking at the morning glow on the horizon, Ada remembered the battle of that day again, Ada's eyes couldn't help but close again, how spectacular the scene of ten thousand horses sprinting, but as a result, before rushing to the enemy, the sudden "sound of fried beans", the warriors fell, fell forever, blood was flowing, horses were neighing, and the howl of dying filled the heavens and the earth. Defeated, just like that, more than 10,000 cavalry scattered after just one charge, Ada thought of those fallen brothers, his heart was full of sadness, and he wanted to look up to the sky and roar, so as to eliminate the depression in his heart.

"Brother Ada, how far is it from the Brento Sea? Can it be there today? Just as Ada was immersed in his memories, a gentle voice sounded, and he spoke fluent Mongolian language, which made people feel comfortable listening to it.

"Lord Liu Yan, it's almost here, and you can reach it when the sun is in the middle." Ada replied politely and with a hint of awe.

Liu Yan is a sturdy man, with a dark complexion, and at first glance he is a weathered figure, like a fierce warrior on the prairie, but he is an envoy sent by the Qing Emperor, specially escorting the Russian envoys to negotiate with the group of fierce old Maozi, the elders of the Ada tribe have to kneel when they see Liu Yan, Ada is just a small guide, naturally he does not dare to snub this Lord Liu Yan.

"Oh, that's good, there is Brother Laoada, when you get to the ground, this official will give you enough to marry a daughter-in-law." Liu Yan said very politely, and no longer paid attention to Ada, returned to the queue from his horse, and said to an old man in a leather jacket: "Golden envoy, we will go to your army camp today, I'd better go faster, if the misunderstanding deepens, it will not be good for you and me." ”

"That's, that's." Kim liked to reply weakly, looking drowsy. Poor Jin likes to be sent out of Beijing by Yinzuo, all the way to change horses, the long journey of more than ten days in a row has already dragged down his body that is no longer hard-working, the original round face has long since disappeared, revealing two high cheekbones, if it weren't for Liu Yan's forced tightness along the way, Jin likes would have wanted to just lie down and not do it, but unfortunately he didn't dare, facing Liu Yan's black face, Jin liked not to say a "no" word.

"Brento", Turkic meaning "bush",

Uyghur called Galzarbash Lake, also known as Brento Sea, Dahaizi, is the destination of the Ulungu River, is the second largest lake in the Junggar Basin, it also has a nice name called "Fuhai", is the place where the gods live in the legend of Junggar, beauty is a matter of course, a large area of blue water is dotted on the grassland, the white clouds in the sky are reflected in it, it can really make people unable to distinguish which is the sky, which is the sea.

As a herdsman, Ada had been to Brento Haizi many times, and was familiar with the area, even though he would not get lost in the vast savannah, which was one of the reasons why the elders sent him as a guide. Seeing a bare hill in the distance, the war horse under Ada's seat suddenly snorted loudly, and his hooves landed on the ground, looking excited. Ada sighed, reined in the horse's reins, looked back at Liu Yan and said, "Lord Liu Yan, not far ahead is the Brento Sea, and at the foot of that stone mountain." ”

"Oh?" Liu Yan raised his hand to his forehead, blocked the sun, looked at the hill, then took out a small cloth bag from his waist, threw it into Ada's arms with a clanging sound, and said with a smile: "Thank you Brother Ada, there is some silver here, you can put it away and go back to marry the mother-in-law." As soon as the words fell, he no longer paid attention to Ada, and faced everyone: "There is the Brento Sea in front, give the official some energy, don't lose my face." Walk! ”

Ada pinched the money bag in his hand, didn't count it, and looked stunned as everyone in the Qing Dynasty was about to raise his whip and accelerate, and suddenly asked, "Lord Liu Yan, can we still meet?" ”

"Maybe." Liu Yan's swarthy face showed a hint of a smile and said, "Young man, go back quickly, if the official doesn't die, we will meet again." As soon as the words fell, the people of the Qing Dynasty took Jin like to whip their horses and left.

As soon as the Qing people arrived at the foot of the small stone mountain, a gun rang out, and the bullet hit the front of the horse team, kicking up a large cloud of dirt.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm the envoy to the Qing Dynasty. Khlevsky, go and report. These people are Qing envoys, and we want to see your generals. When Kim heard the noise, he was so frightened that he shouted in Russian.

Four or five Russian soldiers wearing top hats came out of the stone mountain, looked at them with their guns in their hands for a while, and discussed in a low voice, and a Russian soldier who looked like a small leader said in a loud voice: "You wait, we will go to inform General Seryov, whether the general sees you or not, I don't care." ”

"Okay, okay, please hurry up, delay His Majesty's major event, and when the time comes, you will look good, don't blame me for not reminding you." Kim likes to look like an imposing look.

Nicholas. Seryov, commander of the Russian Far East, with the rank of lieutenant general, participated in the battles against Turkey and Sweden, and was considered a militant, tall and burly, with a height of nearly two meters and a strong body, almost like a big stupid bear. At this time, Seryov looked down at Jin Xi, who was standing in front of him, with a look of disdain on his face, and greeted him simply: "Insist to His Majesty the Emperor's envoys, Your Excellency Khlevsky, what is the important thing for you to come to my barracks, and what do you need to do with yourself?" ”

Jin liked to be irritated by the look on Serov's face, and puffed out his chest and said: "I am a special envoy of His Majesty the Emperor, and I should be respected, I will lead the envoys of the Great Qing Dynasty to Moscow to submit the credentials, and before His Majesty the Emperor ruling, the general must not advance further, otherwise all the consequences will be borne by the general." ”

"Uh-huh." Seryov snorted disdainfully, shrugged his shoulders, and ignored Kim's favorite threat.

"General Seryov, I am the special envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, and I am hereby to negotiate with your army on the orders of His Majesty the Great Qing Dynasty, and I will accompany His Excellency Khlevsky to Moscow to present his credentials." Liu Yan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, and his fluent Russian suddenly made Seryov dizzy, and he was stunned for a while before saying, "Since this is the case, then please come to the tent to talk." ”

"Oh, no, no, no, my army will never stop advancing, unless it is personally ordered by the emperor of our country himself." As soon as he heard the advice of the Qing Emperor conveyed by Liu Yan, Seryov's head immediately shook and he refused with a mouthful of refusal.

"General Seryov, you are declaring war on our Qing Dynasty by doing this, I'm afraid that the emperor of your country will not agree to the general's move, right?" Liu Yan said with a dark face.

"This ......" Seryov squinted his eyes with some hesitation, staring at Liu Yan silently, and the fierce light in his two eyes flashed straight out.

"General Seryov, I want you to send troops to escort me back to China as soon as possible to meet His Majesty the Emperor, and what to do will be decided by His Majesty the Emperor." Kim liked very much not to like Seryov's arrogant attitude and shouted loudly.

"Well, this is no problem, Your Excellency Khlevsky can leave now, and General Ben will send someone to escort you home. As for the envoys of the Qing Dynasty, General Ben has not received the relevant orders, as long as you leave the general's barracks, the general cannot guarantee your safety, so please stay in the general's camp for the first time, and wait for the emperor of our country to give the order, how to talk about it. Seryov said in a stiff tone, ignoring Liu Yan and Jin Li's protests, called the guards in, and sent someone to forcibly send Jin Yi out of the barracks, but detained Liu Yan and his party.

The life of the men on the grassland is very simple, as long as there is money, marrying a daughter-in-law should naturally be put on the agenda as soon as possible, Ada sent back the Qing Dynasty envoys, and made a fortune, the news soon spread in the tribe, and within a few days, the people who came to propose relatives to the grass outside his tent were flattened, Ada's parents were very happy, busy picking a daughter-in-law, Ada was naturally very happy, but he always felt a little lost in his heart, always thinking of Liu Yan's dark face and gentle smile, there seemed to be a premonition, I will still have some contact with the other party, as for why, Ada himself can't say clearly.

Things are always so evil, a flash has been more than half a month, in a few days Ada is going to marry the woman of the Linta tribe, and he has to hurry to give the other party a dowry, just as Ada led a group of little brothers in the tribe to drive the sheep to the Linta tribe on the way, suddenly saw a fast horse rushing over in the distance, the speed was very fast, but a moment of work came to the front, the knight on horseback was very low, and he did not see him slow down, rushed straight into the flock, and the flock of sheep ran around in fright.

"This bastard drank too much, didn't he?" Ada, in a fit of rage, rushed over, stretched out his hand and grabbed the galloping horse's halter, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand, when suddenly the knight on horseback let go of his hand and rolled off the horse, with a large blood stain on his chest.

"Is that you?" Ada recognized the knight, this person was one of the subordinates of the Qing envoy Liu Yan, and Ada had chatted with this person a few times when he was a guide.

"Brother Wang Shun, what's wrong with you? What about Lord Liu Yan? Ada turned over and dismounted, untied the water bag from the saddle, unscrewed the knot, put the water bag to Wang Shun's mouth, fed a few mouthfuls of water, and saw that Wang Shun opened his eyes, and immediately asked a little anxiously.

"Yes, it's Brother Ada, Lord Liu, Lord Liu has been detained, detained, detained, I, I'm sending, sending information, Brother Ada, help me, help me hand it over to the Holy Lord, immediately, immediately." Wang Shun said intermittently, his eyes were a little sluggish, and he took out a blood-stained white juanzi from his arms with great difficulty and put it in Ada's hand.

"Brother Wang Shun, I, I haven't seen the emperor." Ada held the blood-stained white juan, and was so flustered that she almost cried.

"Beijing, Beijing, Shishikou Hu, Hutong, find, look for Sun, Lord Sun, give, give you a waist card." Wang Shun fumbled and took out a small iron card from his waist and handed it to Ada's hand, his body trembled violently, his eyes were round, and he was already out of breath.

"Brother Wang Shun, Brother Wang Shun, I haven't been to Jingshi, alas!" Ada sighed, stretched out his hand to wipe Wang Shun's eyelids, got up, looked at the group of little brothers around him, gritted his teeth and said: "We grassland men promise again, since I, Ada have accepted the commission, I have to do it, please ask the brothers to help clean up the bones of Wang Shun's brothers, and then help me go to explain to the people of the Linta tribe, I will go first." ”

"Brother Ada, you don't know where the Jingshi is, how to go, it's better to go back and ask the elders first." A little offspring said timidly.

"Don't be afraid, the road is on the lips, I'm leaving." Without hesitation, Ada rolled over his horse and galloped off into the distance, leaving only a group of dumbfounded steppe boys standing in place at a loss......

On the second day of April in the second year of Yuanzhuo, Changchun Garden, in the Smoke and Waves Pavilion, Yinzuo's hands trembled slightly and held the white juan stained with black bloodstains, and looked at it carefully, although his face was calm, but his heart was turbulent, although Yinzuo was used to killing, and had experienced countless storms and waves, but in the face of the information sent out by the children of "Honghu", Yinzuo still couldn't help but have an urge to cry, and after a long time, he calmed down, silently looking at Ada who knelt down in front of him, and didn't even dare to raise his head. He said in Mongolian: "Ada, I want to thank you, the information you sent has done me a great favor, I want to reward you well, let's say, what do you want?" ”

Ada fell to the ground, Wu Zi didn't dare to raise his head, but said in a low voice: "I, I just want to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Marry a daughter-in-law? Yinzuo was suddenly amused and laughed out of tears, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and said with a smile: "This wish is easy to do, and I will help you say that you are a good family affair when I go back, well, I heard that you have suffered a lot of hardships in sending this information, just a daughter-in-law?" ”

"Your Majesty, I didn't do anything, I just took my waist card to Xining to ask for directions, and then I was taken to the barracks, and I also saw a big official, he gave me a knife, and sent someone to send me into Beijing, it's as simple as that, and I didn't have much strength." Ada raised his head and said very honestly.

"Oh? I've heard that you've been testing your riding skills with others along the way, and you've choked a bunch of sub-officers, but is there such a thing? Yinzuo looked at Ada with admiration and asked.

"Your Majesty, that's because they can't ride, they can't ride such a good horse, stupid." Ada said with some disdain.

"Hahaha......" Yinzuo was amused by Ada's straightforwardness, and almost couldn't even breathe, and the big and small eunuchs standing in the gang couldn't hold back their laughter, laughing so much that Ada's face turned red, and he said in a low voice: "It's supposed to be, such a good horse, they all let them spoil it, it's a pity." ”

"That's it, that's it, it's been a long time since I've been so happy, well, that's good, I need an equestrian instructor in my army, so you can make me an officer." Yinzuo said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I won't be an official, and I'm an official, what should I do with my family? They're still waiting for me to go back and marry my daughter-in-law. Ada said a little anxiously.

"Don't get in the way, I'll just have your family bring in. Li Dequan, pass on my will, let the ministers of military aircraft come here, I have something to discuss, well, by the way, send this little guy to Wang Changtai, just say what I ordered, let him make up for a riding instructor, and hang the title of a thousand generals first. Yinzuo smiled and gave an order.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Dequan responded to the promise, looked at Ada and said, "Don't thank you yet?" ”

"Thank you for your great kindness, thank you, thank you." Ada kowtowed his head indiscriminately, his mouth was full of thanks, there were no rules at all, and he suddenly made Yinzuo laugh again and bent over, finally held back his laughter, waved his hand and said: "Go, go, I've laughed enough today, and I can't stand it anymore." ”

"yes, then I'm leaving." Ada, who retreated to the door, suddenly said a stupid word again, this time Yinzuo really couldn't stand it, stroked his forehead, and showed a wry smile on his face......

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