When Mu Hongyi heard him ask, he immediately smiled secretly, revealing white jade-like teeth, and said, "This is the custom of our White Horse Clan, all women must stick feathers in their hats until they die."

"Oh......" Li Qianmo nodded, thought about it, and frowned again, "But why do some people have three feathers on their hats, some people have two, and some have one." ”

Mu Hongyi's face was slightly red when she heard this, she lowered her head and didn't answer him, as soon as she lowered her head, the long feather on the hat stretched out in front of Li Qianmo, Li Qianmo had never seen such a snow-white and beautiful feather, she was curious, and reached out to touch it, wanting to see what kind of feather this was.

But before he grabbed the feather, Mu Hongyi suddenly raised her head and wanted to speak, but as soon as she looked up, a feather left her hat and stopped in Li Qianmo's hand.

"Ah!" Mu Hongyi screamed in surprise when she saw this, and looked at the feather in Li Qianmo's hand in a daze, speechless.

Li Qianmo hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I just wanted to...... This can be plugged in, I'll help you plug it in. As he spoke, he was about to insert the feather back into Mu Hongyi's hat.

Mu Hongyi hurriedly turned his head away, got up and said, "No need, I'll give it to you." His cheeks were flushed as he spoke, but fortunately, the sun had just risen at this moment, and it was not easy to detect it in the fiery red sun.

"I ...... It's time for me to go back. Mu Hongyi suddenly became cramped, hurriedly said a word and hurriedly slipped away.

Li Qianmo got up in a daze, looked at her distant back, was very puzzled, looked at the snow-white feather in his hand again, and muttered: "Didn't you just pluck a feather, why did it suddenly become so strange." ”

Mu Hongyi returned to her tent, got on the bed, and covered herself tightly with the quilt, and it didn't take long for her happy laughter to come from the quilt.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside: "Red, Red, are you there?"

Mu Hongyi lifted the quilt, frowned dishappily and said: "It's this annoying Tatam again, if you don't come sooner or later, you won't come sooner or later, but now it's bad for me." ”

"Hongyi, are you there?" the man outside kept calling, dozens of times.

Mu Hongyi was annoyed by his quarrel, and shouted in displeasure: "What is it called, the dead have been called alive by you!"

The man outside said happily: "Ah, you are really here, can I come in?"

"No, you can't come in!" Mu Hongyi refused in one breath.

"Oh, can you come out then?" the man asked again.

Mu Hongyi knew that he couldn't send him away if he didn't give him an explanation, so he could only reluctantly jump out of bed, lift the curtain and walk out.

I saw a sturdy young man with dark skin standing outside, wearing oblique leather felt and leather clothes, revealing tower-like flesh, he was immediately happy when he saw Mu Hongyi come out, grinned, showed two rows of white teeth, and said, "Hongyi, you are out." ”

Mu Hongyi rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Nonsense, can't you see with your eyes, is it a ghost standing in front of you?"

"How could it be, the red coat is the moon of our White Horse Clan, how can it be a ghost. The swarthy young man said with a grin.

Mu Hongyi suddenly felt a lot more comfortable when she heard this, and said impatiently: "Okay, Tatam, what is the matter with me?"

Tatam stretched out his hand and patted the strong bow on his back, and said happily, "Call you to go falcon." ”

"Falcon?" Mu Hongyi's heart moved when he heard this, the most envious of the children of the grassland was the goshawk that fought for nine days, but they couldn't swim in the sky like an eagle, so they began to be keen on falconry, as long as the eagle was shot down, in a sense, they could be regarded as conquering the sky.

But the falcon flies too high, without a strong bow and accurate archery is unable to shoot the eagle down, its difficulty is very high, the vast grassland can falcon only ten fingers, and Tatam is one of them, because he is good at archery, and wrestling and fighting are very powerful, so he was personally awarded the title of the first warrior of the White Horse clan by the head of Hairuo.

"Let's go, I'm ready for the horses. Tatam said and pointed not far away, where a middle-aged man led two horses and was looking this way.

I don't know why, Mu Hongyi really wanted to go to Falcon, but she just didn't want to go with Tatam, she shook her head after a moment of silence and said, "I'm not going, you can go by yourself." ”

"Ah, for what?" Tatam said unexpectedly, and said hurriedly, "Didn't you always say that you wanted to go falconry with me, why don't you go now?"

Mu Hongyi's eyes rolled, and he found a reason, and said, "I don't know how to falcon, why did I go and pick up prey for you?"

"How so!" Tatam said hurriedly, "how could I let you pick up the prey for me, you won't, I can teach you." ”

"I don't want you to teach. Mu Hongyi stuck out his tongue at him, turned around and got into the tent, no matter how Tatam called, Tatam was helpless, and walked back to the side of the horse leader.

At this moment, a young man dressed up suddenly rushed over, and shouted urgently from afar: "Tatam, it's not good, the messenger of the Kusan tribe is here!"

"What!" Tatam was stunned when he heard this, and immediately said with an angry face, "We have made an appointment with the Kusan tribe to pay tribute once every three years, they only came last year, why did they come again!"

"I don't know what to do. The messenger panted, "I don't know what the purpose of their visit this time is, just don't come to ask for tribute." ”

"Hmph, he dares!" Tatam glared at him with a fierce gaze and strode towards the camp of the Hairuo Patriarch.

At this moment, in the tent of the Hairuo patriarch, a middle-aged man in strange clothes stood proudly, with two whiskers on his lips and curled up, a high and pointed nose, and a little blue eyes.

At this moment, in the tent, the Hairuo patriarch and several elders with status in the clan all knelt on the ground and saluted this messenger, but Li Qianmo sat on the guest seat and drank barley wine, feeling comfortable.

The envoy naturally also discovered Li Qianmo, his thick eyebrows suddenly twisted, and he said unhappily: "Patriarch Hairuo, why doesn't this person salute me?"

Hairuo turned his head and glanced at Li Qianmo, and hurriedly said: "Zarlun envoy, please calm your anger, this person can't hear with his ears, he is a foreigner, and he is a guest here, so I don't know your identity as a messenger of the Dao, please forgive me." ”

"Oh, I turned out to be deaf. The Zarren envoy nodded abruptly, no longer caring about this, and waved them all up.

After the patriarch Hai Ruo got up, he immediately showed Zarren the seat, and the two sides took their seats separately, Hai Ruo smiled and asked: "Envoy of Zarlun, may I ask you what is the matter with your visit to our White Horse Clan this time?"

Zarren glanced at him and said arrogantly: "Naturally, it is for the tribute. ”

"What!" all the elders present exclaimed in surprise when they heard this, Hai Ruo was also shocked when he heard it, but he held back his shock and forced a smile, "Envoy Zalun, we have already sent all the tributes over last year, and the contract states that the tribute will be paid once every three years, which is still two years away. ”

Zarlun snorted coldly and said: "King Zamu Khan passed away last winter, King Ural Khan took over the throne, and the tribute collected last year was collected by King Zamu Khan, but King Ural Khan has not confiscated it, so it must be collected this year, you can rest assured, it will be collected once every three years in the future, and this time it is only a special case." ”

"I see. Hai Ruo frowned and groaned for a moment when he heard this, then suddenly raised his head and said, "It's just that the envoy of Zalun, since our clan only paid tribute last year, and now it has only been more than eight months, and the time is too short, we can't prepare enough tribute at all, can you intercede with the King of Ural Khan for us." ”

"Ah, Ha Lu Ha ......" When the envoy of Zarren heard this, he immediately laughed, and Hai Ruo and the elders were surprised when they saw him suddenly laughing, and their hearts were worried.

Zarren said with a smile on his face: "Patriarch Hairuo, how wise our great King of Ural Khan is, he has long expected this to be the case for you, so let me give you a good advice. ”

"Oh, really?" Hai Ruo said happily when he heard this, "Envoy, please speak." ”

Zarlun touched his crooked beard and said with a smile: "The great King of Ural Khan said, Patriarch Hairuo, your daughter Zha Kemu Hongyi is the most beautiful woman in the steppe, known as the bright moon on the steppe, the great King of Ural Khan said that he would like to see this little moon, as long as you give your daughter to the Khan King, any future tribute will be exempted." ”

"What!" Hai Ruo exclaimed in surprise when he heard this, then his eyes widened, and he suddenly slapped the table and scolded, "How can this be true!"

Zarren was startled by his scolding, and also glared and shouted: "Za Ke Hairuo, you actually yelled at me!"

"Why can't you do anything!" A thick shout suddenly came from outside the tent, and as soon as the words fell, I saw a strong young man break in, and it was Tatam.

As soon as Tatam came in, he rushed to Zarren, reached out and grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up, and shouted with anger on his face: "The despicable Kusan lackey, you actually want to fight the idea of the red clothes, you are looking for death!"

"It's not me who wants him, it's our Khan who wants her!" Zarren kicked his feet wildly, his hands and feet fluttered, and his mouth shouted in defense.

"Tatam, put him down!" Patriarch Hairuo suddenly shouted coldly, his eyebrows full of majesty.

"But......" Tatam looked at the Hairuo patriarch unwillingly.

"I order you to let him go!" Patriarch Hairuo shouted loudly, his eyes shining with a fierce light.

Tatam was helpless, snorted coldly and put down the Zarlun envoy, and after putting it down, he glared at him fiercely, and then retreated to the side without anger.

Seeing that Hairuo didn't dare to offend himself, Zalun guessed that he must have compromised, and suddenly became angry again, and said arrogantly: "What's the matter, Patriarch Hairuo, are you afraid? Forget it, fortunately, I have a lot of people, as long as you let me take away your daughter, I will never tell King Khan about today's incident, and you can still form a marriage with our Kusan clan, which is a good thing that other clans can't ask for." ”

Patriarch Hairuo snorted coldly, and said with a gloomy face: "Zarlun, you go back and tell you that the Khan King wants my daughter, it is impossible, and there will be no more tribute in the future, we will keep the gold and silver for our own use, and we will keep the cattle and sheep for our own food, if we can't finish eating, we will take them to feed the dogs, and we will never pay a single cow hair to the Kusan tribe!"

The patriarch of Hairuo's words was so fierce and loud that everyone present was stunned, and the envoy of Zarren came back to his senses after a while, glaring and shouting: "Hairuo, you are going to rebel!"

"I'm just the opposite!" Hai Ruo suddenly slapped the table and stood up, shouting loudly, as if there was a burst of thunder and lightning in his eyes, which frightened Zarren three steps back.