Chapter 236: The Grassland King's Tent
Early the next morning, Agoura gave the sheep to a few companions who had herded with him yesterday to take care of him, and released the two hounds to hunt for themselves.
Agula took his wife and children, and together with Xiao Ziyang, rode in the direction of the Usud king's tent.
Agoura prepared eight horses for four people, one man and two horses.
Of the four, Agoura was the best rider. Horseback riding, for him, is no longer a skill, it has become an instinct like eating and sleeping.
Agudam, who started riding horses before he was four years old. When he grows so big, he probably spends more time riding a horse than he does walking. Riding is also needless to say.
Agoura's wife, the beautiful steppe woman, was no worse than her husband's.
Xiao Ziyang is naturally the worst riding skill among the four. Thankfully, he controlled the horses with a spell. The riding posture looks a little stiff, but considering his status as a hunter in the mountains, it is not suspicious.
Under the gallop of the horse, it ran more than 100 miles by noon. Gradually, there were more pedestrians on the road. The four slowed down.
The city of the steppe people is naturally very different from Xiliang, and the tent of the king of Wusud does not have a city wall, and naturally there is no gate official who collects taxes.
The first thing that appeared in Xiao Ziyang's eyes was the line of the sky, the white of the sheepskin tent.
In the center of this white tent flock, a tall and majestic tent stands out from the crowd. This was the royal tent of the Great Usud Khan.
In the northeast corner of the tent complex, a stone building more majestic than the king's tent, sits on the shore of Lake Angehur, and looks very unique in a snow-white tent.
This vast building, tall and solemn, shows a very rugged style.
The walls of the boulders were unadorned, and even the edges and corners of the stones were removed, and the boulders of different shapes and sizes were built together in a tightly knit frame.
There was a faint fluctuation of spiritual power in the building, which made Xiao Ziyang know that this was the Great Snow Mountain Temple. But Xiao Ziyang really couldn't connect this rough, wild stone building with the temple.
The structure of this building, which resembles a military fortress, is very simple. Four round stone towers with a height of 10 zhang stand at the four corners of the building. The city wall is five or six zhang high on all sides, connecting four stone towers, forming a rectangular courtyard with a side length of about 100 zhang and a width of 60 zhang.
On the central axis of the courtyard, two majestic and rough stone buildings more than 20 zhang high suddenly stood up.
The building in front is more than 20 zhang high, but nearly 40 zhang wide, and the whole body is made of huge ashlar stones, rough and solemn feeling paved. Apparently the temple.
Behind the temple is a slightly slimmer stone building, a three-story stone building.
Outside the tall walls of the temple, there is also a low stone house. According to Agoura, this complex is the most prosperous bazaar of the Usud tribe.
The safe environment provided by the temple allowed some steppe people to abandon their nomadic life and settle down as professional merchants.
Xiao Ziyang had the same destination as the Agoura family, and they bypassed the tents and headed straight for the temple.
Entering this complex of buildings with a blue-gray color of stone, the streets lined with water from time to time are rough and simple, but sturdy like fortresses. None of these shops have signboards. The chess pieces erected in front of the store depict the business of the store.
A double-edged axe is depicted on the chess piece in a shop selling iron and weapons, a whole roast sheep is painted on the chess piece in front of a shop selling food and drink, and a leopard skin ...... flutters on the flagpole of a shop selling furs.
In front of a slightly refined stone building, a roast sheep flag fluttered. The smell of mutton smell wafting from the stone building, Xiao Ziyang's throat was tight, but Agudamu looked at the food shop and swallowed his saliva.
Agoura turned back to Xiao Ziyang and said, "See, that's the best restaurant in Wusud." There's the most delicious roasted whole lamb, soufflé, the strongest mare's milk wine, and I invite you to have a drink!"
Hearing this, Xiao Ziyang hurriedly refused, "Thank you for Agoura's kindness, but my head was already very sick when I left, since I have arrived at the temple, I can't delay any longer, if I delay the head man's treatment, I will be punished by the gods." ”
When Agoura heard this, he stopped keeping him, "You are a loyal man, and I hope that the gods will bless your leader." ”
Xiao Ziyang took out a folding bow from the sheepskin package on his shoulder, handed it to Agoura, and said, "You two high-quality horses are worth a hundred gold, and I can't afford them." But the journey of thousands of miles from the Usud to the foot of the Alatashan Mountains is absolutely impossible if there are no horses. This folding bow is the trophy of my father's expedition to Xiliang, and I will exchange it for these two horses with him. ”
The folding bow that Xiao Ziyang took out was when he was a mortal, after fleeing to Chuzhou, he passed through Shangyuan City and bought it for seven hundred silver treasures in the Famous Sword Pavilion. He took it out of the storage bag last night and put it in the package.
If it is in Xiliang, these two horses are worth at least a thousand silver treasures, and Xiao Ziyang wants to exchange this bow for it, which is naturally a joke, but in this grassland, the value of the two things is just reversed. This rare Xiliang folding bow immediately made Agoura's eyes light up.
He took the bow, according to Xiao Ziyang's guidance, unfolded the bow, hung up the strings, and tried to pull it, feeling that it was very convenient and deeply worth the money. Agoura immediately agreed to Xiao Ziyang's proposal.
After changing to a horse and saying goodbye to Agoura's family, Xiao Ziyang walked towards the temple. At the same time, the purple light in his eyes flickered slightly.
Just as Xiao Ziyang was secretly investigating the specific location of the guardian monk in the temple, he suddenly heard a shout full of surprise from behind him, "Agoura!"
Xiao Ziyang looked behind him when he heard this. The Agoura family, who had just walked to the door of the restaurant, also stopped.
In the distance, I saw a group of steppe cavalry riding tall horses, wearing sturdy leather armor, scimitars hanging from their waists, and feathers on their heads, patrolling from the tent area.
At the head of this group of cavalry, a knight wearing a red cloak and even more elaborate armor was shouting excitedly to Agoura.
Agoura was also very excited to see this man, and he strode up to the knight. The knight broke away from the group, galloped in front of Agoura, jumped off his horse, and hugged Agoura.
Xiao Ziyang watched from afar, although he also had a slight curiosity in his heart, but he came here for a very important purpose, so naturally he didn't have time to spy on a mortal. He turned his head and walked on.
Xiao Ziyang stayed at an inn closest to the temple.