Chapter 146 The red face is thin
In fact, compared with the grassland and Da Chu, the grassland is actually a lot smaller, but there are very few trees on the grassland, and almost all of them are flat rivers, so this will make people feel that they are vast and boundless at a glance.
However, if you really want to measure the area of the grassland, it is estimated that it is only the size of the five prefectures of Dachu at most, but it is in this small grassland that it relies on the abundance of water and grass to raise hundreds of millions of herdsmen who raise cattle and sheep for a living.
Don't look at the cold this winter, it makes people shiver, but as long as you survive the next year's water and grass will be particularly abundant, although the elegant sentences like Ruixue Zhaofeng Nian are spit out from the mouths of those literati in Da Chu, but for the whole world, it is actually the truth!
Now in this grassland, all the tribes have to rely on the Twelve Wolf Kings and the Grassland King Court to survive, those large tribes with tens of thousands of people are better, generally speaking, the Twelve Wolf Kings will not provoke them for no reason.
The leaders or chiefs of these big tribes usually have thousands of cavalry in their hands, and although the twelve wolf kings are not afraid of them, they will not do the kind of stupid thing that pushes them to other wolf kings, so these big tribes only need to pay some cattle, sheep and horses as annual offerings to be stable.
But this kind of tribe with tens of thousands of people is a minority after all, and some small tribes are actually having a very difficult time, in addition to the heavy annual offerings, they also have to send not many young and middle-aged people in the tribe to serve as soldiers under the twelve wolf kings, although the military salary is very generous, but many people are gone forever.
Those wolf kings are not fools, they are reluctant to send their own soldiers to fight for some small frictions between them and Da Chu, and most of them send those little people with no background to the battlefield to fend for themselves.
However, this has led to more and more small tribes abandoning the areas with abundant water and grass and starting to go to some remote places and gradually move away from the center of the grassland.
After all, you can't afford to hide! The grassland is so big, so it's not easy to find a tribe with only a few hundred or thousands of people, especially when a tribe wants to avoid you.
Jiang Ergou has been running north on the grassland for a long time, he just thinks that the further north he goes, the more he reaches the depths of the grassland, but he doesn't know that in fact, the grassland also pays attention to the depth of east and west.
If someone is determined to go north, they will slowly reach the edge of the grassland, and the weather will become colder and colder, and then they will enter the unknowable place of the extreme north.
Fortunately, he met Momoliang here, otherwise, with Jiang Ergou's dead nature, he would definitely not give up as he said, and he would definitely run to the north with a dead head.
And the reason why Taoliang's tribe appeared here is probably because it can't stand the oppression of other grassland lords. If it weren't for the fact that there was really no way to live, who would want to come to a place where these birds don't to make a living.
Their tribe is not big, and when Jiang Ergou followed Taoliang back, he could see their tribe at a glance, and it was estimated that there were only a thousand people at most.
When she was on the road, Jiang Ergou knew that everyone in their tribe was surnamed Mu, and she herself was called Mu Taoliang, and Jiang Ergou also told her her her name.
The name Jiang Ergou is unspeakable, but fortunately he still has the name Jiang Fuyu now.
According to Mu Taoliang, their tribe has been passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors, and her father Mu Danyang is the leader of this tribe, so it is no wonder why she can still have a lamb as a pet.
And when her clansmen saw that Mu Taoliang, who went out to look for sheep, actually brought back a strange man, they all looked at Jiang Ergou with some curiosity, although many people surrounded them, but they were all driven away by Mu Taoliang, but before taking them away, they looked at Mu Taoliang with a little wrong eyes.
"Abba!"
When he walked to a tent in the center, Taoliang happily ran in, the grassland herdsmen live in the grass, so they have always lived in a fixed place, this kind of tent like a big bag is the most suitable for them.
Jiang Ergou followed her and walked into the tent, but no one jumped out to stop her, and it seemed that there were no guards around this leader.
When Jiang Ergou walked in, the eyes of a man with broad shoulders and broad breasts and dark skin immediately fell on him, looking at him from head to toe, and Tao Liang was still leaning over his ear and saying something.
After his daughter finished speaking and stood up, Mu Danyang spoke.
"This young man came all the way from Dachu, naturally he is a guest of our tribe, I will have people prepare a banquet later, and invite the young man to rest here for a while. ”
Jiang Ergou was not so casual when he faced Mu Danyang, not that he didn't dare, but the two of them now represent Dachu and the grassland in a sense, so some necessary etiquette and rules are also essential.
"Leader Mu is too polite, to be precise, the kid is bothering. ”
Jiang Ergou held the sword in his left hand, and then covered his right hand on his left hand and bowed with a fist.
After Jiang Ergou sat down next to him, Tao Liang ran out with a smile, seeing her weird appearance when she ran out, I really don't know what kind of moth she is going to make again, is it to invite the most beautiful fairy in their tribe?
With such an idea, Jiang Ergou sat in his position and looked forward to it, although he had not yet met his daughter-in-law in his life, he had seen a lot of beautiful women, especially Lin Xuanqing and Mu Xian'er, which were unforgettable.
There is no man in the world who does not like beautiful women, this sentence can be adapted to children from three or five years old to old men in seventy or eighty years old, even those Taoist monks who live in the temple and boast of seeing through the red dust are not exempt from vulgarity.
If it weren't for this reason, how could there be a distinction between a female benefactor and a female bodhisattva? When they saw a beautiful woman, they would call them a female bodhisattva, and if that woman was the best choice in terms of appearance and temperament, they would call her a female benefactor.
This is not to say that they have disobeyed their own ways, but everyone has a love for beauty, and even if those indescribable thoughts do not arise in their minds, there is still no problem in seeing that the girl is pleasing to the eye.
Mu Danyang sat on it and didn't speak, Jiang Ergou was thinking about the fairy and naturally didn't have time to take care of him, so the two of them sat in their positions without saying a word, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
It's just that in the process, Mu Danyang didn't know that he called a waiter from there and arranged for him to go down to prepare dinner.
This awkward atmosphere did not end until Mu Taoliang brought a girl into the tent.
"The surname is Jiang, you can see for yourself, my sister Hongling is not beautiful, today I have to blind your dog eyes!"
Tao Liang had already arrived before he walked in, but her last two words scared Jiang Ergou, and he thought that he had inadvertently exposed the name of his second dog.
As Mu Taoliang opened the curtain and walked in, a girl behind her who was holding her hand also walked in.
When he saw the girl who was called a fairy by Mu Taoliang, Jiang Ergou was indeed surprised, although there was indeed a beautiful element in this surprise, but more than that, he was surprised by her Shengxue's skin.
There has always been no spring and autumn on the grassland, only summer and winter, so the grassland is indeed not a place to raise people, most men have dark skin, while women's skin is a healthy wheat color.
But the woman in front of her is different, in addition to her fair skin like mutton fat and white jade, she also gave birth to a pair of peach blossom eyes and danfeng eyebrows that only the beauty embryos of Da Chu have on the other side.
I have to say that this woman is not much worse than Lin Xuanqing and Mu Xian'er, and even brought her to Dachu to raise her for a while, and she will win a few points in the future!
But most of these women don't get any good endings on the grassland, and beautiful women are a godsend, not only beautiful and delicious, but also pleasing to the eye.
And such a woman is even more precious on the grassland, if you think about it, you want to raise a girl like water in the south of the Yangtze River with the rough and heroic temperament of the grassland, and the degree of difficulty in this is not comparable to bringing a woman from the south of the Yangtze River to the grassland.
It is precisely because of the rarity that this kind of woman often can't find a good home, and the leaders of the big tribes and the twelve wolf kings on the grassland are not good at stubble, and it is not once or twice that they send elite cavalry to kill the tribe for the sake of a beautiful woman.
Therefore, Mu Taoliang and his department hid here, and there may not be no reason for this woman in it.
If she was born into a rich family, the girl naturally thought that the more beautiful she was, the better, but for the children of poor families, being beautiful became a sin, a sin that would bring ruin to the family and the tribe.
Since ancient times, there has been a thin life, leaving the green mound alone to the dusk!
The Hongling girl, who was called her sister by Taoliang, seemed embarrassed, standing there a little cramped and uneasy, and her fingers pinched the corners of her white clothes, and she was probably sweating.
"Pretty pretty!"
Jiang Ergou has always been relatively gentle towards such a gentle woman, unlike when facing Taoliang, if you play a scoundrel with me, I will climb the mountain!
"That's it! I don't know how many young men in our tribe and the surrounding tribes are secretly in love with my sister Hongling! What do you say I introduced to you! According to your Da Chu, are you staying in our tribe as a son-in-law!"
Jiang Ergou was happy to see this happen, and laughed happily.
"Hehehe, this deal is not a loss for me! It even makes a lot of money, I have no opinion. ”
Hongling, who was grabbed by Mu Taoliang's little hand, pulled out his hand embarrassedly, and then pulled Taoliang's sleeve, and his little face was red until the base of his neck.
slapped Mu Hongling's hand away, Mu Taoliang looked at Jiang Ergou and continued.
"Okay! But if you want to marry my sister Hongling, you have to accept the challenge of those warriors in our tribe, you can only win the favor of my sister Hongling if you defeat them all, otherwise, I advise you to give up!"
At this point, Jiang Ergou finally knew what Mu Taoliang's idea was, didn't he just want to make him the object of hatred of all men, and then someone would teach him a lesson.
This kind of stinky idea is generally left over from the spicy ladies in Da Chu's big families, but I didn't expect to encounter this kind of trick in Da Chu, but I encountered it on the grassland.
Jiang Ergou was very smart and didn't answer, although he was strong in martial arts, he could still do these things that made the public angry, not to mention that he wanted to mix a few meals with others.
If he beats people up this time, what kind of thing is this? Mu Danyang had no choice but to let people throw him out directly.
Mu Taoliang saw that he didn't respond for a long time, so he naturally thought that Jiang Ergou was afraid, so he took Mu Hongling to his side with great energy.
"What? Jiang Shaoxia also knows that he is afraid? Don't be afraid! The beauty is in front of you, if you win, you will be able to hold the beauty, even if you lose, it doesn't matter, maybe you can still move the beauty, and then you can also hold the beauty, right?"
It is estimated that in the past, Hongling was often teased by Taoliang like this, so although she was shy at this time, she still let Taoliang lead her in front of Jiang Ergou.
Ergou looked at this girl and remembered the scene when she first saw Chen Xici's girl, she was as pure and lovely as her, but now it's been five or six years, and I don't know if that girl can still remember him now!
Although he fell into the memory, Jiang Ergou quickly returned to his thoughts, and he still looked smiling.
"I said, Miss Taoliang, let's not talk about whether Miss Hongling can take a fancy to me, a crooked melon and cracked date, even if Miss Hongling's eyes are not good, and she is lucky enough to look at me, I have to think about it myself, right? Besides, even if I really want to compete with them, you have to let me eat enough first, and then compare with me! Otherwise, even if they win, it will be disgraceful!"
Mu Danyang, who had been sitting on the main seat and watching all this with a smile, spoke.
"Girl! Jiang Shaoxia is right, how can you have the strength to compete if you are not full, what you said has to be pushed back. ”
Seeing that his father didn't help him speak, Mu Taoliang put his hands on his little waist and said angrily.
"Hmph! I said if you are my father after all! Why do you always turn your elbows out! If this kid really wins, I want to see if you are reluctant to marry Sister Hongling!"
Until the end, no matter how soft and hard Mu Taoliang was, Mu Danyang just didn't agree to the competition, which made her angry, took Mu Hongling's hand and walked outside.
In the end, only Jiang Ergou and Mu Danyang were left to eat, fortunately, Jiang Ergou had been hungry for a long time, and tonight the whole roasted whole sheep was not wasted, and there was nothing left in his stomach.
There was also the barley wine unique to the grassland, which tasted so good with mutton, that it was not until his head had begun to be awake that he was helped to rest in a tent, and as soon as he entered the door, he fell asleep on the bed.
Jiang Ergou didn't know how long it had been since he had slept well, since he had fought with Helian Zejun's men, he had never been stable, and it was not until today that he finally let his tense expression relax.