201. Traveling into the Western Regions
After relieving the siege of Ningxia, Du Buyi returned to Xi'an and began to prepare for a few days of recuperation.
After coming back, I happened to meet Wu Chengen with his luggage and was about to leave the yamen, so he asked:
"Brother Wu, where are you going?"
Wu Chengen replied:
"I see that Brother Du has not come back for so long, and the younger brother is very bored here, so I plan to go to Longyou for a walk!"
Du Cheng said:
"Brother Wu doesn't need to be in such a hurry, right?"
Wu Chengen replied:
"But I'm ready to go!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"I just came back, let's have a drink with me first!"
Then he pulled Wu Chengen back into the yamen, and then prepared wine and food to eat.
When he was drinking, he heard a report from the guards that someone was looking for him.
Du Bu Bu put down the dishes and chopsticks, and then walked outside the yamen, only to see a woman covered in a black scarf and wearing a hat was standing outside.
This woman is naturally the Feng Niang who Du does not forget to think of.
I only heard Feng Niang take off the hat and say to Du Yiyi:
"Don't forget, I'm here to help you!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"What could be more important than me reuniting with you!"
Du didn't forget and wanted to hug Feng Niang, but was pushed away by Feng Niang, and Feng Niang said:
"I have something big to say, you should be serious!"
Du did not forget to ask:
"What's the matter with the wind?"
Feng Niang looked at Du Bu Bu and didn't speak, so she pulled Du Bu Bu and headed towards the west of the city.
Du Buyi was very puzzled, but seeing Feng'er's expression seemed to be very serious, he had to go with him.
After a while, the two of them arrived in a dilapidated courtyard, and at this time they actually saw more than a dozen women sitting in a haystack in the courtyard, including Xi Siqi, Huizi and Tang Yan, and nine other women who had slept with themselves.
Du was surprised and a little happy, so he asked Feng Niang and Xi Siqi:
"What's going on? Aren't you in the capital?"
Xi Siqi said to Du Yi:
"It's all Sister Feng'er who rescued us!"
So he told the story.
It turned out that after Xi Siqi, Huizi, Tang Yan and Xiaoyi came to the capital, they knew that Du Buyi had arrived in this northwest place, so they wanted to come to the northwest to find Du Bucheng, but after entering the mansion, they were guarded by officers and soldiers and did not let them out of the mansion together with the other fourteen women.
Later, when I talked with these fourteen women, I learned that Emperor Zhu Houxi was afraid that Du would not forget that he would not forget that he would not be obedient at the border, so he deliberately let the four people come here, and then detained them in Du Wang's mansion together.
Everyone tried to escape, and after thinking for a few days to no avail, they happened to meet a woman in a black scarf who came to the house, and it was naturally Feng Niang.
Feng Niang used to do things for her father-in-law Yang Yanhe in the capital, so she had a good relationship with many people, so she found someone to help people, and rescued the nine women who had a relationship with Du Bucheng and Xi Siqi, Huizi and Tang Yan, and Xiao Yi took the initiative to take care of the follow-up for everyone in the palace.
Du did not forget to think about it and said:
"Since you're all here, I'm afraid we won't be able to be at peace in this northwest, so let's find a place to live in seclusion!"
Feng Niang asked:
"Where do you want to go into seclusion?"
Du did not forget to think about it and said:
"Why don't you go to Shudi or Yungui?"
Feng Niang hurriedly replied:
"No!"
Du did not forget to ask:
"Why?"
Feng Niang said again:
"You are now the prince, the general of the northwest, and suddenly disappeared, the court will definitely search for your whereabouts, and now that Shu and the southwest are under the control of the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult for you to be peaceful even if you live in seclusion!"
Du Buyi asked:
"Feng Niang, where do you think we should go?"
Feng Niang replied:
"I don't know, think for yourself!"
Then get ready to go out.
Du did not forget to ask:
"Feng Niang, where are you going?"
Feng Niang replied:
"Now that I've helped you, I have to go, and I want to go back to take care of my stepfather!"
Du did not forget to run over and directly grabbed Feng Niang, hugged her again, and then said:
"Feng Niang, I won't let you leave me this time!"
At this time, Xi Siqi and other women also came over and said to Feng Niang:
"Sister Feng'er, you can stay and accompany us and Brother Du!"
Feng Niang hesitated when she saw this, and nodded on Du Zhi's shoulder.
Then he pushed Du away and said:
"Hurry up and go back and prepare, think about where to go in the future, we are waiting for you here!"
Du Bu was also moved at this time, after all, so many women were willing to accompany their seclusion at once, so they said to everyone:
"You wait for me, I'll figure it out before tonight!"
After speaking, he ran back to the governor's yamen excitedly.
At this time, Wu Chengen saw that Du did not forget to come back, so he came out and asked:
"Brother Du, where have you been, we are all worried about you!"
Du did not forget to whisper to Wu Chengen and replied:
"Brother Wu, I have something to tell you!"
Then he pulled Wu Chengen to his residence and said:
"Brother Wu, I may have to leave here too!"
Wu Chengen asked:
"Why, you are a great general, the current king of the northwest, how can you leave?"
Du did not forget to tell Wu Chengen about the arrival of all the women and the fact that the emperor was not worried about himself.
After listening to this, Wu Chengen smiled and said:
"That's good, Brother Du, why don't you take these wives and concubines to accompany me to the Western Regions to have fun, I heard that those places are very good!"
Du did not forget and said:
"There are too many women, and the desolate land in the northwest is dangerous, I'm afraid it's uncomfortable!"
Wu Chengen said again:
"Don't be afraid, I have already prepared a topographic map of the Western Regions, as long as everyone doesn't walk around, there shouldn't be any danger!"
After speaking, he took out a topographic map of the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty from his arms and showed it to Du Yi.
Du did not forget to smile and said:
"Your map of the Tang Dynasty is seven or eight hundred years old, how can you still use it!"
Wu Chengen said solemnly:
"This is a detailed map of Monk Xuanzang's westward journey, even if hundreds of years have passed, the direction and location will not change!"
Du didn't forget to think about it, even if he didn't go to the Western Regions at this time, there was really nowhere else to go, so he replied:
"Then I'll go and prepare, this time our group of people's lives are all on you, Brother Wu!"
Wu Chengen:
"Trust me!"
Then Du Buyi ordered people to prepare a few carriages and food, and under the pretext that he naturally wanted to go to the northwest, he ordered people to buy some women's clothes and put them directly on the carriage.
At night, he ordered a few trustworthy guards, and together with Wu Chengen, he drove the carriage with more than a dozen pairs of armor to the courtyard where the women were.
Let all these women put on their armor and sit in a carriage, and call the defenders of the city to open the gates of the city at night, and go out of the city to the northwest.
After more than a month, it arrived at the Jiayu Pass in Suzhou, the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty, because Du did not forget that there was a general's order, and all the women were dressed as men, and the people guarding the pass saw the general coming, and they did not dare to stop it, so they let everyone go out of the customs.
After Du Buyi and his party left the customs, he ordered a few of his cronies and guards to set up the carriage and go back, and then everyone took off their armor, resumed their clothes, and went to the neighborhood to find a few camels and ride forward.
A day later, several people crossed the Hulu River and arrived at the city of Yumen.
At this time, the Jade Gate City was full of joyful scenes of men and women dressed in strange clothes, singing and dancing, these men and women were mostly blonde and blue-eyed tall people, and the women were all dressed more revealingly, compared with the Central Plains, it was completely like a paradise pure land.
Everyone was also excited, so they planned to rest in Yumen City for a day, and then go in the direction of Shazhou.
After finding an inn in the city to settle down, everyone freshened up, and then came out to hang out, because a group of people were all Central Plains costumes, and many beautiful women, there were many locals around, throwing strange eyes at everyone.
Du did not forget that he was helpless, and Wu Chengen on the side was a little unhappy when he saw this, waved his hand at everyone, and said:
"What are you looking at, haven't you seen the people of the Central Plains?"
These people dodged away.
On the side, Feng Niang said:
"Should we also learn from them to change into this kind of clothes, I think they look good in it!"
The other women echoed themselves, and then everyone went to change their clothes together, and there were so many strange eyes when they walked out into the street.
Everyone then walked back to the place where they had just entered the city and met the song and dance, only to find that Yumen was a mixed gathering place for Hui people and Mongolians, and the people of the two ethnic groups were dancing and singing together, and they were choosing their favorite objects.
Everyone was about to leave after knowing it, but they didn't expect more than a dozen dancing men to stop them, and they said to Du Yiyi and Wu Chengen with some anger:
"Don't you understand our rules? Our rule here is that a man can only take one woman away, why do you two take so many women away?"
Du didn't forget to smile and replied:
"These are my friends, we're just here for fun and to see, and now we're going to go somewhere else!"
A man led by a Hui came over, pushed Du Forget, and said with an angry face:
"I'm in charge here, since I'm here, you have to follow the rules, you can only take two women to leave, and the other women have to choose each other with our other brothers here!"
Du Bu didn't know what to do for a while, he actually met this kind of person when he first came here, and he didn't know what they meant, after all, he couldn't offend the people here at will.
On the side, Wu Chengen said to the person in charge:
"What's your name and what's your business?"
The man in charge replied:
"My name is Kukumaimaiti, and I am the one who manages the injustices in the city of Yumen, and you are now infringing on the interests of others!"
Wu Chengen asked again:
"Then why are we infringing on other people's interests?"
At this time, the dozen or so men said fiercely:
"You took away so many of our women, you are violating our interests!"
Du Buyi only understood what these people meant, so he said to the women behind him:
"It seems that these people have taken a fancy to you, have you taken a fancy to them?"
At this time, all the women also understood, and then they came over and said to the dozen or so alien men:
"We don't like you, I hope the big brothers won't stop us!"
At this time, all the men of different races were very embarrassed all of a sudden, and when they saw that these women were all willing to follow Du and Wu Chengen, they apologized:
"I'm sorry two friends!"
Then he said:
"In that case, can a few friends from afar enjoy their faces, and let us invite everyone to drink a bowl of apologic wine?"
Seeing this, Du did not forget to see this, looked at the eyes of the women and Wu Chengen behind him, and replied:
"Since you big brothers are so hospitable, of course it's good!"