How can the husband grow up poor and lowly, and fight to the death on the border of the prancing horse;

However, it is said that Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, led the team out of Longxi, with the vast and boundless prairie in front of him and the rolling mountains in the distance, which made people feel refreshed.

It was early autumn at this time, the sky was high, the clouds were light and the wind was light. Zhang Qian and the others didn't do anything, but the group of reborn death row inmates were overjoyed, galloping on horseback, singing loudly, and indulging in a long howl. After all, it is the nature of a teenager, Zhang Qian's passion was also ignited, and he also shouted loudly, riding his horse to join the crowd of indulgent carnivals. The Four Guards and the Four Great Swordsmen just sat on their horses and walked slowly, watching them cheer and unleash their pent-up feelings. Gan's father followed Zuihou silently, and among these people, his mood was the most complicated. The desire to return to his hometown burned in his heart, a scene he had dreamed of countless times, and now it had become a reality, but he was afraid to return to his hometown, which was a place full of pain in his heart, a place where his relatives, lovers, and enemies were buried, and his love and hatred were all there, and they were all lost there. When he thought of the tall Qilian Mountain and the green grassland, his heart ached, and he felt that his whole heart was empty. He could not comprehend the joy of those people, just as those people could not comprehend his pain.

Suddenly, someone cheered, and a man shot down a goshawk with an arrow!

A team of more than 100 people suddenly appeared on the prairie, as well as two or three hundred cattle, horses, donkeys and other livestock, which startled countless hares, pheasants, foxes, roe deer and other small beasts, and also attracted eagles and other birds of prey. A hare ran in the grass without a fateful price, and several men chased after him on horseback, and the hare turned a few corners, hid in a bush, and after the men and horses left, they got out of the bushes. Not beware of a goshawk staring at it, in the midst of lightning and fire, one swooped, grabbed the harre's back skin with both paws, and captured the hare alive. When the so-called praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches behind, and people are marveling at the goshawk's skill, an arrow flies from nearby and shoots down the goshawk and the hare together! Some of the others praised his superb archery skills, some thought that his riding skills were better, and some people just thought that he was blind and lucky; Zhang Qian approached the horse and took the eagle, only to see that the arrow was just pierced on the eagle's head, and it was definitely not a blind collision, and he could not help but be secretly surprised. Zhang Qian is now basically familiar with the names of these people, this shooter's real name is Wang Zhong, the Son of Heaven gave the name Tinghan, this person is twenty-eight or nineteen years old, not tall, not strong, wooden and speechless, when others indulge in laughter and galloping, he just follows behind others, not that is, he does not expect his archery skills to be so clever. Wang Zhong saw Zhang Qian's solemn expression, Wang Zhong secretly regretted that he shouldn't have itched for a while, revealing his archery skills. He was a little embarrassed and said, "The villain is lucky, blind." ”

Zhang Qian said: "Blind, if everyone can shoot down the eagle blindly, it will be amazing!"

Gan's father and others were also amazed by Wang Zhong's archery skills, and everyone thought to themselves, and they might not be able to do it themselves.

Someone shouted again in the distance, and it turned out that they were cheering and shouting all the way, and galloping their horses, and they had already frightened the little beasts, wild sheep, hares, foxes, and so on, and they were all around, so these knights showed their abilities, and caught sheep and rabbits, and gained a lot. But I didn't want to, I startled a leopard!

The leopard was lying in the grass trying to catch a prey, and did not want such an uninvited group of guests to annoy the leopard. The leopard lunged down on the man closest to it, biting him by the thigh and dragging him off the horse. Ma screamed, and the other people were shocked when they saw it, and they didn't know what to do, they just screamed in surprise. Someone shouted the person's name: "Pockmark?!" and someone shouted "Leopard!?"

No one knows his real name, but when they see the size of his face, they all call him pockmark, and the court thinks his name is crude, and he is also given the name Mazi Ling, and everyone still likes to call him pockmark. When Mazi was attacked by a leopard, he was chasing a wild sheep, trying to catch a live one and show it off in front of everyone, but he didn't expect a leopard to catch him.

The leopard first bit his leg and dragged him off the horse, dragging him away. Mazi's first reaction was: I don't expect a good hero to die in the mouth of a beast! Immediately, the strong painful stimulation and strong survival instinct made him quickly make a second reaction: his hand grabbed a bush of grass, the leopard had no strength, dragging a person of more than 100 catties, it was already hard, only because of the freshness, he was not willing to put down, and now Mazi grabbed the grass, it was blocked by resistance, and had to loosen his mouth and make adjustments. The moment it let go, the pockmarked hand pressed the ground, and a carp jumped up, and then a huge pain hit, and the leg was weak, and it almost fell. The leopard immediately pounced on him like a whirlwind, and the blood of pockmarks was still flowing from its mouth, and a disgusting sour smell erupted from its mouth. Mazi gritted his teeth and held his breath, and made the first counterattack against the leopard, his iron fist struck out fiercely towards the leopard's nose, the liliang of the two sides met, and a tooth-sour sound came, Mazi knew that this punch worked, and the leopard's nose and upper teeth were finished. The leopard was hurt by this blow, let out a long howl, and fell five feet away. The leopard rolled and pounced again, and the pockmark also jumped in fit, grabbed the leopard's two front legs with both hands, put the leopard's chin on his head, and pounced the leopard on the spot, pressed it under his body, and then kept hitting the leopard's chest and abdomen with his head.

Everyone watched stunned, dancing with swords one by one, but they didn't dare to step forward, first, for fear of hurting pockmarks, and secondly, they didn't expect this man-beast war to be such a result. After the leopard did not move, a few people stepped forward with knives and sticks, and the two of them quickly pulled up the pockmarks, and the other people beat the sticks indiscriminately, but the leopard did not move, and everyone looked at it, the leopard was already dead! Everyone couldn't help cheering, and regarded the pockmarks as heavenly beings.

Zhang Qian ordered to set up camp in the local area, and Chef Han took Chef Cao and Chef Tian to bury the pot and make rice. Everyone went about their work.

A hunchbacked man with a stiff waist staggered out of the crowd, and treated Mazi's wounds with his hands and feet. Everyone knows that Dou Ying sent a drummer to spread the word, and his name is medicine Shangfeng, which means that medicine is eliminated from the disease, and medicine always prevails. Someone laughed secretly, and his image was absolutely matched, with the waist on the peak, or a hunchback. Mazi's calf was bitten off by the leopard A large piece of flesh, and the white bones leaked out, the camel took out a cloth bag, opened it, and it was a cluster of silver needles, and the camel was neatly on the pockmarked leg. The hunchback carefully cut open the hemp of the pockmarked seeds, opened the black gourd hanging under the waist, and a strong smell of wine rushed out, and the hunchback asked someone to take out a copper bowl, and the hunchback poured the wine into the bowl, lit the wine in the bowl, took out a short knife from his calf, roasted it in the fire for a while, handed the pockmarked a bunch of flexible linen cloth, and let him hold it in his mouth; beckoned several people to hold down the upper body and two legs of the pockmarked son, and then used the knife to clean up the rotten meat around the wound of the pockmark, poured the wine in the bowl on the wound, and took out a purple-red gourd from behind him, opened the gourd and poured out a handful of white medicinal powder, and sprinkled it on the woundHe opened a burlap parcel that he had carried with him, and there were many small parcels in it, and he opened one of them, which had a scorpion sign on it, and inside was a mass of things of different thicknesses, like twine, and like a horse's tail, and he took it and thought about it, and parted it in half, and poured wine and lit it, and overheated the ball, and then put it into the wound of the pockmarked seed, and tied the wound with the sackcloth soaked in wine, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. "Your leg is saved. ”

Several people let go of their hands, Ma Ziling was sweating profusely, and his whole body was washed similarly. At this time, he spit out the sackcloth in his mouth and said with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Camel." I don't want to thank you, after completing Angel Zhang's mission, my life is yours. ”

The hunchback medicine upper hand still retreated expressionlessly. Someone carried the pockmarked into the tent that had just been set up haode, and the pockmarked person went unconscious.

During this time, someone had already weighed the leopard, which was seven feet long and weighed about 200 pounds. Jin Tu, who had his own Handan dog killing, disemboweled, and saw that the leopard's internal organs were all sparse, apparently pockmarked with the top of the head, and everyone was convinced again. Sorted out, the meat was boiled, the skin and tendons were put away, and the bones were given to the camels for medicine.

The cook stewed all kinds of game, had his own dry food, wine, the sky as a house, the ground as a bed, everyone sat on the ground, ate meat, drank wine, and talked about the courage of pockmarks to fight leopards, and when it came to Wang Zhong's archery skills, he would say that he would paint the sound and color, and the wooden ones applauded. Some people praised the cook's craftsmanship and shouted: "Chef Han, the food you cook is very delicious! I have traveled through more than 100 counties, and the Wang family and the Hou family have eaten no food, and they are not as good as yours!

Chef Han said angrily: "I am a cook, I have to give me a name, and what else do I need to have water and fire! Who is impatient to remember him? I will be called Chef Han!" This Han chef was given the name Yanji, this person did not know where to learn a good cooking skill, opened a small restaurant in Luoyang City, dignitaries and dignitaries went, but also had to wait in line, provoking a lot of people to rise, a month his small restaurant was smashed more than 30 times. Several princes heard about his craft and wanted to invite him, but he refused all of them and made his own small restaurant. Later, when he smashed the hall, he fought with someone, killed a slave, and was imprisoned.

Zhang Qian saw everyone talking and laughing, recalled Mazi's urgency and wisdom, and saved himself from the mouth of the leopard, and he also sighed in his heart, I don't know how many heroes are hidden in this group of people.

Zhou Bo, one of the four great swordsmen, approached Wang Zhong with a bowl of wine, and said with a smile: "Brother Wang's archery skills are clever, and my brother really admires them." A bowl of wine for the king brothers. Wang Zhong drank, "I don't know who Brother Wang studied with?"

Wang Zhongmu said sneeringly: "I don't know what you are talking about. ”

Uncle Zhou held back his anger, he Uncle Zhou could say in Chang'an that Gongqing Ling, the prince of Ao, this kid who didn't know where to come from, he didn't say a word about the wine he toasted, he dared to drink it;

Zhou Bo didn't laugh angrily: "Hehe! Three years ago, on the official road of Shangcai, the envoys of the king of Chu who paid tribute were shot with an arrow, and all the treasures of the tribute were robbed. Have you heard of it?"

Wang Zhong still said: "I don't know what you are talking about. ”

Xuanyuan Tongti, the second of the four swordsmen, came over and took Zhou Bo away, and the two came in a place where no one was. Xuanyuan said: "What are the identities of these people, let us find out slowly." Now is not the time to pick up their old bottoms. ”

Zhou Bo said hatefully: "Shang Cai's vote was definitely made by that kid! I found evidence and wanted him to look good!"

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan. Let's think about it in the long run. Let's go, we continue to drink. ”

Father Gan whispered to Zhang Qian: "Master, what can you see?"

Zhang Qian asked strangely: "What do you see?"

Father Gan smiled: "These people under the master's command do not have a fuel-efficient lamp. I am afraid that you and I must keep an eye on you, and let no one be calculated. ”

Zhang Qian said: "I rescued these people from death row prisoners, and they are very grateful to me. And all swore heavy oaths. What will happen to them?"

Father Gan said, "That's the best." I'm just reminding the master that the master is a decent man and a gentleman, and these people are all ghosts. "Father Gan went to discuss the protection of the camp with the four guards, and this is already a place where the Huns often graze horses.

Zhang Qian went to the tent and looked at Mazi again, and saw that he slept soundly, and instructed the two people who took care of him here, one was the red nose of the east gate, and the other was the yellow hair in front of the mountain, don't sleep too hard at night, and call him if there is anything wrong with Mazi. Then he withdrew from the tent, but saw that the hunchback was about to open the curtain and enter, and when he saw Zhang Qian, he bowed and saluted. Zhang Qian waved his hand and said, "Let's not be formal outside." Confucius said: All the four seas are brothers, and now we live and die together, and we are even more brothers. You're older than me, so I'll call you brother. It's just that what should I call you? Brother Yao? Or Brother Camel? Brother Camel, it's a little disrespectful. ”

The hunchback said, "I have long forgotten my real name and surname." What is the commendable name of the poor, who has been called a camel and a hunchback since childhood. Just call me a camel. How dare the villain call the angel a brother. ”

Zhang Qian knew that their restraints could not be lifted for a while, and he was not insisting, and he knew that he would not say anything about his past experience, so he asked about Mazi's situation, and knew that Mazi was fine, so he was relieved.

"What is the medicine that Brother Camel gave to Brother Ma?"

The camel said: "Those are all the golden medicines I have secretly made for many years. I've got some for Lord Angel in case I need them. Of course, with the reverence of the angels, it will not be used. ”

Zhang Qian returned to his tent, there were only two of the four guards, one was Mei Buping, who claimed to be able to dance on the plum tree when the plum blossoms were in full bloom, and the plum blossoms did not fall, and the other was called Zhu Buzhi, which was said to be able to shuttle between the bamboos like the wind. The other two, one is Lan Bukai, and the other is Ju Budo, who knows Hu people's tricks. In fact, the so-called four guards are all internal servants in the palace, and they are usually responsible for protecting the inside of the palace, while Zhang Qian and others are protecting the outside of the palace. Although these inner servants are eunuchs, they don't look down on the outside of the martial arts, this time there are four guards, in fact, the four of them rely on the emperor's favor, and the palace maids in the palace to play, resentful of the queen mother, to be given to death, the emperor saw that they usually serve carefully, and had the heart to save them, so they were given to Zhang Qian, called guilty meritorious service.

Father Gan discussed with the four guards how to be vigilant, and the four guards were divided into two shifts on duty, and each squad found its own people. Lan Budo and Ju Bufu were on duty and scattered around the camp with eight people, mainly afraid of another sneak attack by wild beasts. That's what the four guards did in the palace, so they were familiar with it and arranged it properly.

The next day, after breakfast, someone chopped a few wooden sticks, tied a stretcher, covered the leopard skin, lay on the pockmark, and walked slowly between the two horses. Along the way, the big guys were still hunting and archery, snoring and drinking, and all kinds of small beasts were startled.

For several days, all the way, there was no one to see. Father Gan faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, this was the place where the Huns were grazing horses, and at this time it was a good season for the grass to be fertile and the horses to graze horses, but why couldn't he see the wranglers for a few days? Seeing that everyone was elated, he suspected that he was too worried.

On the fifth day, they crossed the river on sheepskin rafts, and more than 100 people, hundreds of horses and livestock, crossed the river for a day, and only then did they all cross the river, and several of the cattle with their belongings were washed away, but fortunately the people were fine. On the same day, they set up camp on the west bank of the river. At night, I heard the sound of Hu Ji on the mountain in the south and the sound of the Qiang flute on the mountain in the north. The four swordsmen quietly went around and found no one, only some horse manure. A few people came back and whispered to Zhang Qian, but a few people didn't figure out who the other party was. But now it's impossible to turn back, only take one step at a time.

In the morning, the team was walking in a row, and Mazi's legs were already able to move under the careful care of the camel. Everyone was very happy, and they admired the camel's medical skills, and at the same time admired the strength of Mazi's body.

In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in front of them, and several horses appeared on the southern slopes, and the clothes of the people on the horses were not like Chinese, and Gan's father said: "These people are Qiang!" A few people wanted to rush up and catch those Qiang, but they saw the Qiang people bending their bows and arrows, "whooshing" and "whooshing" shots, although they did not hurt people, but several people did not dare to go up again. The Qiang people then turned the hillside and disappeared. The Qiang have already made up their minds.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in front, and after approaching, it was a man and a horse, and when everyone looked at it, it turned out to be a Hou horse sent by Mei Buping, named Horseshoe, and the emperor gave the name of the horse to leave the smoke. It turned out that when the man was first born, his mother happened to pass by the master's stable, and she gave birth to him under a manger, and when he was found, the horse's hooves were trampling on the child's head. The master, Ma Wangsun, was surprised by the child's life, and did not know who his father was, and found it by the horse's hoof, so he named him Horse's hoof. As the horse's hooves grew, they raised horses for their masters. Although he is a horse breeder, he has a delicate face, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and he is a beautiful man who presses Song Yu and Saizidu, and he also follows the master's martial artist to practice martial arts, and his body is even. People are like that, and everything can't be good. The horseshoe was taken by the master's concubine, and this girl was full of satisfaction with the horse's hoof, but the horse's hooves were young and sincere, and they didn't understand the meaning of men and women. Although it was unintentional, it aroused the jealousy of other child servants. This time the master knew, and the master was furious, but the little concubine was affectionate and righteous, and she did her best, saying that there was no such thing as a horse's hooves, and the concubine was humiliated by others, and in a fit of anger, she hanged herself to death! The horse's hooves were young and vigorous, and they did not know the height of the sky, so they quarreled with their master. So the master ordered the servants to beat him, and the boy servants rejoiced, and at last they seized the opportunity to take revenge on him, and dragged him sideways, and took him over, and beat him violently, and the horse's hooves were struck to death. Thanks to his mother's begging grandfather to tell his grandmother, Wang Sun's wife was happy about the death of the concubine, and her false advice left a small life for the horse's hoof. Who knew that a few days later, the owner, Ma Wangsun, was stabbed to death on the way home to ask for the account and robbed him of his money. The family unanimously said that it was the horseshoe to take revenge on the master, and the government couldn't help but say that he was now in prison. The mother of the horse's hoof, a brother of her mother's family, but a friend of the bushman, saved the horse's hoof through the bushman.

The horses' hooves approached, and the men and horses were all wet, apparently after a rapid run. The horse's hooves didn't have time to dismount, and they hurriedly reported to Zhang Qian: "Lord Angel: A large group of Huns are coming!"

Everyone chuckled in their hearts, they were afraid of something!, "Are these Huns shepherds or soldiers?" someone asked.

The horse's hooves could not answer. He saw a great crowd coming from afar, and he hurried back to tell the news.

Father Gan said, "How can he know who it is? If it is a shepherd, it will not be a large crowd of men, and if it is a large number of people, it will be most likely an army." Everyone knew he was right, but they couldn't believe it. For more than ten years, the Huns have not entered the fortress in large numbers, could it be that this year, Shan Yu wants to ask the border again?

Everyone eagerly discussed countermeasures. Now if they want to retreat, I am afraid it will be difficult to outrun the iron cavalry of the Huns; send people back to report the news, the Longxi side is well prepared, and before the messenger arrives, the beacon fire has already been raised, and besides, this is not their duty; it is certainly not possible to fight; and it is not a way to run. To the south, there is the place of the Qiang people, and the Qiang people have also appeared today, and they may not be at ease;

Zhang Qian stiffened his head and urged the horse forward. "I am the envoy of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty to the Yue Clan. The two countries exchanged troops, and they did not cut them off. The Xiongnu and our Han Dynasty have been in contact for many years, and the two sides are still friendly and mutually friendly, which can be regarded as a fraternal state; although there are many times when there are many enemies, they are not too embarrassed by the envoys. Although I am not an envoy to the Xiongnu, I am always an envoy of the Son of Heaven. He can't stop me from leaving. ”

The deafening sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, and everyone looks at each other, these people are all bold, daring to go up the mountain to fight tigers, and go down to the sea to catch Jiao, but now they are faintly afraid, they usually fight in groups of dozens of people at most, when have they seen hundreds or thousands of people, and they are all riding horses to fight?

The Huns surrounded them from all sides. Most of these people wore white robes, and legend has it that the Western Huns were still white, and that was indeed the case. There were about one or two thousand Hun knights, shouting and approaching closer and closer. About a hundred paces, the Hun knight stopped, several horses came out of the crowd, led by a man in his thirties, dressed in a white robe, his face was like a full moon, his eyes were slender, his nose was straight and square, his beard under his chin was about a foot long, black as ink, he wore a white mink hat on his head, and dragged a long mink tail behind his head, and he was tied with a palm-wide jade belt at his waist. He turned around and said something to a person beside him, who rode forward and came to Zhang Qian and the others. This is a Chinese dressed as a Huns, in his twenties, thin and weak, with a pale face and deep-set eye sockets. He held his head high and said softly: "Where did you come from? Tell me the truth! Otherwise, my Great Hun Right King Qi will discipline you to die and feed the wolf!"

Ju Budo whispered to Zhang Qian, and even if he stepped forward, he also said sharply: "What kind of person are you? Hurry up! Otherwise, my envoy of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty will teach you to wait for the death of the dog!" Everyone was secretly funny, Zhang Qian was also a teenager with a young heart, and he had Ju Budo nonsense.

The man was furious, pointed at Ju Budo and said angrily: "You, you, learn to speak, what is the reason?"

Ju Budo said: "You, you, you, why don't you answer?"

The man said angrily: "We are the Xiongnu right Yanqi prince hunting here." You have committed the wolf power of the prince, and it is not enough to die ten thousand times!"

Ju Budo said: "On behalf of my Excellency the Angel of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, I tell you that the angel is going to send an envoy to the Yueshi and pass by you Huns." If you Huns don't hurry up to greet the angels, wash the dust for the angels, and entertain them well, or just that, if you block the angels, it will be a river of blood!"

The translator listened to Ju Budo's words, turned around and left. He returned to his right, King Qi, and spoke for a while. turned around and ran over again, and said: "Our prince said: Shan Yu is going to inspect my Western Xiongnu, and hold a forest conference in my Western Xiongnu. Your envoys of the Han Dynasty should have met with my Xiongnu Shan Yu before they could go to Yueshi. King Yanqi invited the envoy of the Han Dynasty to meet. Please come with me, the envoy of the Han Dynasty. Looking at Zhang Qian. Zhang Qian knew that since King Yanqi said so, it was impossible to sneak away, because now the whole of King Yanqi's territory was full of Hun knights, and if he ran at risk, he was afraid that he would lose more, so it was better to improvise and see if there was a chance.

Then he said, "Lead the way in front of the head!"

The translator turned back to his horse and ran back to his own formation, and Zhang Qian followed behind, holding his horse and walking slowly.

The crowd had no choice but to follow. The other Huns didn't care about them, they just indulged in hunting, and beat foxes, rabbits, sheep and deer and other hills.

Exactly: there are many mountains and tigers, and you will get your shoes wet when you walk by the river;

The heroes went out to defend the side court, and the heroes smoked in the desert.