Chapter 40: Xianbei Spring Festival

Yiliang and Xiao Nian first went to a horse training field, where they caught a horse trainer who had been up at night, forced him to take out a horse, knocked it unconscious, tied it to the horse, and carried it back to the tiger and leopard cavalry camp. After dawn, the father and daughter returned to the barracks, inspected the horse that was about to be sold to the Jin army, and found the same problem.

The Hun horse trainer was woken up by cold water, and after a while, he was recruited from the truth. This is the rule set by Liu Bao, the king of the Southern Xiongnu, when he was still alive, the Hun war horses were divided into three classes, the superior horses were specially supplied to the cavalry, the middle horses were used by the nomads, and the inferior horses were raised with wooden needles and sold to the Han people.

As a horse trainer, the most painful part of the year is autumn. The inferior young horses concentrate on poking wooden needles in the autumn, watching the young horses be poked into the soft flesh under the front hooves by a sharp, thin, hard wooden needle under their feet, and then breaking the wooden needles, leaving more than an inch long wooden needles in the horse's flesh, and then medicating the horses...... A soft-hearted horse trainer can't do this job.

As Zhang Yiliang expected. In doing so, the Huns weakened the war horses of the Jin army, so that even the Huns could not catch up. Prevent the Central Plains people from driving straight into the territory of the Xiongnu like Wei Qinghuo went to illness.

In the era of cold weapons, the importance of war horses to war is self-evident. The cruel weak horse policy of the Huns was undoubtedly effective. If you look at the northern frontier of the Jin Dynasty, the chickens are so weak that even the nomads can't beat them. This Huns, won't their conscience hurt?

Yiliang and Xiao Jianli passed the Xiongnu's weak horse policy to Langyazong, who built momentum in the Central Plains and denounced the Huns. It also made the court understand that its army had already fallen into the way of others, and if it didn't wake up, it would be over.

The matter soon reached the imperial court, and the straight man Wei Qian was the first to attack and reported to the emperor, asking for a diplomatic condemnation of the Xiongnu king. When necessary, send troops to teach the bearded Liu Yuan a lesson. But it's not your eggs.

The horses ridden by the tiger and leopard had to find another way. Yiliang decided to go to Xianbei to wander around to see whose horses were good, and when the tiger and leopard cavalry female soldiers were trained, he would go and get his own horses. This time, he brought Xiao Nian, Song Yi's mother and daughter, and found a girl who could speak Xianbei from the tiger and leopard ride, and decided that the family would disguise themselves as Xianbei Kahu nomads and infiltrate Xianbei territory.

It was relatively safe to disguise themselves as Kahus, and the other tribes did not understand the situation and did not dare to stop them. Even if he is recognized by the Kahu, he has a little friendship with Ah Shu, so it will not be too dangerous.

Besides, Ah Shu is in danger now, so stop by and inform him. This leader of the Xianbei tribe is a rare leader with a sense of justice among the Xianbei, and he can't die.

The accompanying female tiger and leopard cavalry soldier is called Chun Yujiu, a sixteen-year-old girl. She is also a rare rural rich lady in the tiger and leopard ride. Because her family had bought a Xianbei maid, it was very interesting to listen to the Xianbei maid when she was a child, so she asked her to teach herself to learn Xianbei dialect. Chun Yujiu has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his face is elegant and loves to smile.

A line of two horses. Chun Yujiu and Xiao Nian have a horse, Yiliang and Song Yi have a horse. Disguised himself, he headed east.

Since it was rumored that a unicorn hero had robbed Shi Chong of part of his wealth, and he heard that it was the unicorn hero who led the martial arts people to attack and harass tens of thousands of Xianbei troops and rescue three thousand Han women, the rivers and lakes began to be restless. There have been many sects in Chu since ancient times, and more than 1,000 rescued women came to Changsha, and they went around to promote the heroic deeds of the Qilin heroes, this wave of advertisements 666.

Everything about the Qilin hero is like a wave of advertisements, and soon, he became the upstart of martial arts in the hearts of the people of the rivers and lakes, and they all wanted to fight for this hero to join the club.

The head of the Xiaoxiang faction, Miao Mi, and the eldest disciple Guo Xiang, returned to Yuelu Mountain, the base camp of the Xiaoxiang faction, from Langya Mountain, and personally went to find out the news of the woman who moved south. From the descriptions of these women, I learned some sporadic situations of the Qilin heroes, and I felt as if I had seen them somewhere, but I couldn't remember them.

The righteous act of the unicorn hero, like a boulder smashed into the water, stirred up the originally silent rivers and lakes. The Xiaoxiang faction has always been regarded as a model of retreat to the mountains and forests, and the head of the sect has been cultivating the way of inaction for ten years, and has abandoned his own Nanshen Shengong and the Ox Knife Method. Ethereal gradually realized that the old Zhuang Wuwei he learned was suitable for retreating bravely in the prosperous times, and in this troubled world, he should be like the unicorn hero, doing something for the country and the people.

With a unique skill, you can save the people from fire and water, but you are cowering on this mountain, won't your conscience hurt?

At this time, the Xiaoxiang faction was established for less than 50 years, and it was only inherited for three generations. Since he was a child, he has learned the Southern Spiritual Skill with his master, and also combined the internal kung fu of the Southern Spiritual Skill to create and understand the Ox Knife Method. However, these two sets of kung fu never killed anyone. The head of the previous generation knew that he had a good understanding, so he made him the successor of the head of the family, let him practice according to the secret instructions, and devoted himself to alchemy, and finally died of poisoning.

At the age of fifteen, he began to take over as the head of the Xiaoxiang faction, and was forced to study Taoism at a young age. Twenty-five-year-old Ethereal, dressed in a flowing white satin brocade robe and wearing a hat, took his eldest disciple Guo Xiang to leave Yuelu Mountain, leave Orange Island, and rode north.

They want to go to Luoyang, they want to go to Chang'an, to see what the chaotic and dark imperial emperors are like.

Xiaoxiang's master and apprentice's trip to the imperial capital was not mentioned.

After a day of traveling, Yiliang's family finally saw a group of Xianbei nomads with more than a dozen tents, and the group of four decided to buy them a sheep and roast it. Although Chun Yujiu's Xianbei is not fluent in words, the appearance of several people convinced Xianbei people, not only sold a sheep, but also helped Yiliang slaughter them and roast them with charcoal.

The man who roasted the lamb for this family was a bearded man who spoke very quickly and had a big tongue, and he had a hard time listening. A conscience snickered, see how Chun Yujiu, a half-Xianbei words, should be dealt with?

Just when Zhang Yiliang was secretly happy in his heart, he wanted to see how Chun Yujiu had an awkward chat with that Xianbei person. I saw Chun Yujiu grunting and even saying a few words, and the Xianbei man immediately treated Zhang Yiliang respectfully, never spoke again, and left the tent after roasting the sheep.

Why did he suddenly stop talking? Yiliang asked Chun Yujiu in a low voice.

I said that you were the secret envoy of Ashu, the leader of the Kahu tribe, and that the king had ordered that no one should open his mouth to speak on the way out, and that no outsiders should be allowed to ask more questions. Chun Yu Jiudao.

You're very smart, what else did you hear?" asked Kazura again.

Now is the sacrificial season of the Xianbei people, and the leaders of the Xianbei tribes gather in the grassland east of Yinshan Mountain to worship the gods and chase the grassland. Chun Yujiu said.

It's a new thing, how can there be deer in the Monan grassland?" Zhang Yiliang asked.

I couldn't care so much, so I quickly packed up after eating and galloped towards Yinshan. At dawn the next day, they arrived at the grassland at the eastern foot of Yinshan Mountain, where the Xianbei people sacrificed to the gods. This meadow has been surrounded by Xianbei soldiers, and today is the day when they sacrifice to the gods of heaven and the Xianbei kings to hunt and chase deer.

I saw that there was a wooden fence on the periphery of the meadow, and more than a dozen flags made of sheepskin were planted outside the wooden fence, and various patterns and words were planted on the flags, and I felt like I had arrived at the United Nations building. They entered the arena early as the Karma nomads, and found a secret place to dominate the position.

The grasslands are most lush in April and May, and the wind is a little cool. Today's weather is very good, the sky is clear, and it is as clear as blue. Xianbei's wizard team entered early. A high priest dressed in strips of colorful rags, seven or eight witches wearing only a pair of trousers and smeared with various colors, and four or five aco-priests began their devout flickering on a stage made of wood.

Four wrestlers started a fire on the edge of the stage, with the high priest and the witch kneeling on the stage with their butts facing out of the stage.

Like the entrance ceremony of the sports meeting, the various departments of Xianbei entered the field one after another. There are more than 20 wooden chairs placed in front of the altar, and eighty percent of them are prepared for the kings of the Xianbei tribes. Xianbei vagrants, soldiers, entered in twos and threes, standing behind that row of chairs. The four of them traveled all night and decided to take a nap on the grass while the entrance ceremony was held.

At about eight or nine o'clock, the open space of one or two hundred meters in front of the altar was full. Yiliang entered at six o'clock, slept for more than an hour, and was awakened by a cannon shot, and the Xianbei Festival officially began. The high priest lived with a stick, but he could jump, and the witches held the sheepskin drum in their hands and followed the high priest in unison, and after taking two steps, they raised the sheepskin drum to the sky and clapped it with their other hand.

After performing for half an hour, he went to the fire by the stage to repeat the dance. The high priest and the witches knelt motionless around the fire, and gradually, a strange voice came to mind, like a dubbing in a ghost movie, and everyone looked at the priests and wizards intently. Suddenly, the group of ghosts let out a burst of wild laughter, and the terrifying sound could be heard throughout the grassland, and then, Zhang Yiliang smelled some pungent smell.

Suddenly, someone said something in a panic, and everyone looked into the air. But he saw a thick cloud rolling in the sky, and the thick cloud floated overhead, and the black cloud became thicker and thicker, obscuring the sun. The witches began to cry loudly, infecting the Xianbei people, and many people cried along, and the scene instantly resembled a funeral.

The high priest invited more than 20 Xianbei leaders to the stage to perform together, and the movements were a different set, relatively simple. Everyone was fascinated by the performance on stage. Zhang Yiliang secretly sneered in his heart: Please continue your performance, I just want to know how to conjure up a black cloud This magic.

Just when everyone was performing in the stands, Zhang Yiliang saw that the dark clouds above his head gradually dispersed, and a point appeared faintly in the air, very high, and he couldn't see what it was.

Hold the grass, it is a kite. What a big kite.

It turns out that this trick of black clouds and the sun is played like this. Seeing that the kite had disappeared, the high priest immediately led the witches and the Xianbei kings to kneel on the stage and bowed to the sun nine times. The performance took ten or twenty minutes. At this time, the southeast wind was in full swing, and the artificial black cloud in the sky was completely blown away.

After the sacrifice to the gods, the high priest chattered on the stage for a while. Chun Yujiu translated: The sacrifice of the gods has ended, and the heavens will protect my Xianbei people. Next is the drinking festival, if there is a girl who wants to get the blessing of the sun god, please take off your clothes and bathe in the river half a mile behind, I will bless everyone on behalf of the yang god.

Zhang Yiliang is a researcher of history and has done folklore topics, and he knows that Xianbei is prevalent in girls' sexual freedom. Every year during the Spring Festival, girls over the age of 16 can participate. After the sorcerers finished their drinking rituals, the girls in the river were left to the Xianbei people to eat......

As soon as the high priest finished speaking, a large number of Xianbei women followed the witches in the direction of the river, and the Xianbei men also followed, thousands of people. Even the Xianbei kings on the wooden chairs followed.

Fortunately, Ah Shu didn't, and sat quietly in his seat alone. Zhang Yiliang looked at him from a distance, feeling a little happier in his heart. Suddenly, he saw that the two people from the Western Regions were also dressed as Xianbei people, and they were in the crowd on the right side of Ah Shu. Kazura wanted to take a closer look, but the two were overwhelmed by the surging crowd.

Looking in the direction of the crowd, I saw that the two men were already scrambling to the river. Eighty percent can't resist the temptation, and wants to go to the river to enjoy a few Xianbei girls, tasks or something, to hell with it!

When everyone went to the river, Ichira took his wife and daughter and walked towards Ashu. Na Ah Shu sat on a wooden chair, with the hair next to his ears behind him, a thick braid tied at the back of his head, and a thin brocade robe made of Central Plains silk and a single horse coat on his head. I saw that he naturally placed one hand on the handle of the chair and pinched his forehead with the other.

Did Brother Ashu have any headaches?, Ichira asked from behind him.

Ah Shu was stunned for a while, stopped pinching his hand, and turned around after a while, and saw Zhang Yiliang and his gang, with a big mouth, and only after a long time did he look around and find that there was no one, so he said: Are you ...... Zhang Yiliang, the commander of the Jin Army? No, no, I heard that you were promoted to the captain of the Jin Army. How did you end up here?

Hey, don't mention it, I'm not a member of the Jin Army anymore, let those who are officials give it off. I brought my family to visit Monan. It just so happened to be your spring festival. Zhang Yiliang said.

Brother Zhang's speech is very unfathomable, and King Shu Ben can't understand it. Ah Shu said that Chinese is a second-rate person, and where can he understand Zhang Yiliang's Internet hot words.

Hahaha, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, I'll follow you these days. You can take our family and pretend to be forced, and take us to fly!

I can't ask for it, if Brother Zhang can afford me and stay under my account, we will gallop on the grassland together and compete for hegemony, how about it? Ah Shu stood up as he spoke, walked to Zhang Yiliang's side, and looked at the two beauties, Song Yi and Chun Yujiu.

Let me introduce, this is my wife, called Song Yi, this is my cousin, called Chun Yujiu, and this is my daughter Zhang Xiaonian. Yiliang introduced a few people around him one by one.

Ah Shu has seen his sister-in-law! Ah Shu saluted Song Yi, looked at Xiao Nian again, and said: Brother Zhang has already married a wife and had children, I really can't see it.

Xiao Nian smiled on his face, wanting to grab the saber that Ah Shu hung on his waist. This Ah Shu didn't mind, untied the saber, and handed it to Xiao Nian to play with. He said to Chun Yujiu next to him: Brother Zhang said that she is your cousin, what does your cousin mean?

Chun Yujiu said: It's my uncle's daughter.

The spring breeze blew, and the hair on Chun Yujiu's forehead was blown away, and she habitually brushed it with her hands to comb her bangs. Unexpectedly, this action fascinated Ah Shu, and stared straight at Chun Yujiu.

After a long time, Ah Shu asked, his voice was very soft, it really didn't look like the voice of a twenty-year-old young Xianbei King.

I am not married, but my sister is shy by nature, and she is really not worthy of the heroic spirit of King Ashu. A good way.

The group followed Ah Shu to his barracks, and this time he came to the spring festival, and Ah Shu brought 10,000 Kahu Xianbei cavalry. The other Xianbei kings' troops slaughtered cattle and sheep everywhere, eating and drinking, but Ashu's cavalry was still training normally. Ah Shu also took a few people to inspect his team. There is no doubt that this is a brave cavalry.