"What's so hard about this? Hunting, sheep shooting, horse leading, and captivity can all be drawn, and armistices and alliances can also be drawn.

The Great Wall is painted in the middle, and the residents living and working in peace and contentment are painted on both sides, indicating that they are resting and recuperating. ”

Old Nie laughed, feeling that although Liu Jing was very smart most of the time, he occasionally looked like an elm head.

The two of them stepped on the white meadow, galloped towards the foot of the mountain, and met several middle-aged herdsmen with thick beards along the way, all of whom greeted Lao Nie warmly, stopped him, and asked him to dismount and drink.

Lao Nie didn't stop, only pointed to the direction of the foot of the mountain with a horsewhip, and pointed at Liu Jing with his mouth, and the herdsmen saw the Han clothes and ornaments on Liu Jing's body, and they all nodded away.

Lao Nie said to Liu Jing,

"Don't look at those people who are alone, they look no different from ordinary Huns, but to be able to come to the Gulin Conference, the minimum must be a thousand chiefs, who are in charge of a thousand felt tents in his pastoral area."

Liu Jing looked back at those people, and calculated in his heart that the small group of Hun cavalry that harassed and plundered the border counties of the Han Dynasty was far from reaching the scale of a thousand tents, at most a dozen tents, and a small team of thirty or forty cavalry elite soldiers.

It seems that the oath between the two countries must be deeply rooted in the hearts of every thousand, hundred, or even long, and if it is only based on moral constraints, the difficulty is self-evident.

"You still have to rely on force to subdue you.

Talk while fighting, talk while fighting, and if you don't accept it, you will continue to fight. ”

He remembered the queen's early conclusion before departure, and he didn't think so at the time, but now he agrees from the bottom of his heart.

***

"It's time to get off the horse."

Lao Nie raised his chin and looked straight ahead.

Liu Jing followed his gaze, and saw that on the hillside not far away, a large group of people were vaguely gathered, densely packed and counted, and there was an altar made of flat stones, which was already filled with all kinds of offerings.

Behind the altar, a very thick pillar stands tall, which is vaguely carved with ornaments, and is also wrapped in layers of red, blue, and yellow satin, and the satin tail flutters in the wind.

Red symbolizes the sun, blue represents the sky, and yellow represents the earth, which is a sacrifice to the gods and the earth.

Lao Nie dismounted with him, passed through layers of crowds, and came to the bottom of the wooden pillar.

Liu Jing raised his eyes to look closely at the carvings on the pillars, and couldn't see what kind of animal it was, it seemed to be a pack of wolves hunting, and it seemed that an eagle was spreading its wings and was hunting sheep.

The great shaman stood in front of the altar and was talking to Maudun Shan Yu.

Compared with the majestic Mao Dun, who is as strong as a mountain, the big shaman's slender figure is almost only to Shan Yu's waist.

Liu Jing tightened his grip on the Han Festival and approached the altar, the great shaman turned his face, and his gray messy hair was not combed, but flew in the wind at will, like a god and a demon.

Liu Jing bowed deeply to her, she nodded arrogantly and returned the salute, when she looked closely, she had a high nose and deep eyes, her nose was particularly exaggerated, her face was wrinkled like a knife, but her eyes were still as sharp as an eagle falcon.

The most striking thing is that she has three fine red lines from her forehead to her nose, which are the characteristic tattoos of shamans.

At the signal of the great shaman, Liu Jing and Mao Dun stood side by side, facing the main altar. Several young men brought up a freshly slaughtered black yak hide, with only the cow's head, hooves and cowhide joined together.

Everyone put the cowhide in a position with their heads facing northwest and their hair facing down, and laid them out on the altar neatly. The entrails of the yak have been hollowed out and placed separately in a large offering tray as a sacrifice for the oath.

The weather was cold, and there was no smell of blood.

Three Guala torch lamps were lit, and the flames soared upward, and the ceremony officially began.

***

The great shaman trembled and took out a large pot full of mare's milk wine, poured most of it on the altar, then took a sip of his own, and handed the clay pot to Maudun.

Mao Dun also raised his head and drank a few sips, and handed it to Liu Jing, Liu Jing did the same, only to feel that the wine was unusually spicy in the mouth, as if there was a line of fire, burning straight from the throat to the abdomen, and the body suddenly warmed up.

After the gods and the oath-bearers had drunk the wine, the great shaman turned around and walked around the altar three times, reciting the words in his mouth.

"This is a request to Tengri Khan, who lives on the Seventeenth Heaven, to ask if the alliance between the two countries will go well."

Lao Nie quietly squeezed behind Liu Jing and explained to him in a low voice.

The great shaman's speech became faster and faster, and his eyes rolled up involuntarily, revealing only the whites of Sensen's eyes. After a while, her voice to herself became louder, no longer in the tone of an old woman, but more like an empty echo—

"Everything has a beginning and an end.

I don't know who provoked our feud with the Great Emperor, but Tengger ordered that Da Danyu would put an end to this feud.

From now on, the old people of the Xiongnu and Han dynasties will be supported, the young children will grow up smoothly, and the poor will get wealth, which is Tengger's wish. ”

Tengger and Changshengtian have similar meanings, they are both supreme gods in the grassland, and they are all-powerful and invincible forces. Mao Dun was alone in the world, and he had to obey the wishes of the immortal heaven.

After saying these words, the great shaman's face returned to normal, and the light in his eyes returned, as if the soul had returned to his body.

She stretched out her wizened hand, wiped it into a plate full of yak entrails, dipped it in blood, and smeared it on the mouths of Mao Dun and Liu Jing.

Then, with a few sharp eagle roars, several huge Haidongqing spread their brown wings and swirled down from the sky, like dark clouds covering the sky.

They stretched out their claws, grabbed the yak's internal organs, and disappeared into the white sky.

"The oath between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty, Tengger already knows."

The Great Shaman bowed deeply in the direction of the eagle's disappearance.

Blood is an alliance, and if there is a recurrence, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed.

***

"Isn't this the providence of the Han people? Sounds like the same thing.

It seems that it is also a blessing to be able to make a contract smoothly. ”

Liu Jing was stunned to think back to the scene where the great shaman was possessed, and he didn't dare to imagine the ever-changing coincidence, could it be that there are really ghosts and gods in this world who dominate all cause and effect?

"I heard that King Chen Sheng, who raised his arms back then, relied on the strips of cloth cut out of the belly of the fish to gather the anti-Qin soldiers and horses.

According to you, is that rag also called providence? ”

After listening to Liu Jing's emotion, Lao Nie's eyes stared directly at the torch, and he said a sentence coldly.

"What do you mean?"

Liu Jing turned his head and looked at Lao Nie's side face in the firelight, and was a little disappointed in his heart.

Lao Nie still didn't look at him, only muttered,

"The Great Shaman has an inexplicable relationship with the Huyan Clan, the mother of the Great Clan.

You also know that from the beginning to the end, the Huyan clan was happy to negotiate peace with the emperor of the Han Dynasty. ”

It turns out that this is the case, how can there be any power of ghosts and gods, it is still just the common people and public opinion.

Liu Jing sighed and said quietly,

"I wanted to ask you, if you make a covenant now, can you really be at peace forever?

Now it seems that there is no need to ask more questions. ”

"If you ask, you can't ask, in this grassland, which month and year is no one swearing and voting?

If people could really keep their word forever, there would not be so much strife in the world. ”

That's right, Liu Jing thought, anyway, his task this time is to try to buy time for my Han, let's take one step at a time.

After all kinds of tedious procedures are completed, the ground is trampled around by a group of horses.

Mao Dun also turned on his horse and said to Liu Jing from afar,

"These trivial matters in the city, you can discuss them with the prince.

Once you've negotiated with him, you're ready to go home.

If you want to come to your Great Emperor, you are probably in a hurry. ”