After the young man came out, everyone was obviously relieved.
But they still held on a little and were wary. Astena strode forward, grabbed the young man by the collar and lifted him up. He came to Li Lin and said, "Li Tangsheng, what do you want to do with him?" , has been hiding secretly somewhere, maybe there is some ulterior purpose, in my opinion, it’s better to kill him!”
When he heard that he was going to be killed, the young man immediately panicked and hurriedly explained:
"I'm not sneaking! I was just afraid that you would kill me, so I hid somewhere, but...but the smell just now was so fragrant, and I haven't eaten for many days, so I made a noise. I really I didn’t mean to harm you! It was really just an accident! Don’t kill me!”
The young man begged hard, but Astna and the other Tatars still looked unmoved. There were too many cases of using young men as spies in the Tatar tribe. If people from other tribes were discovered in one tribe, If he hadn't invited him here, he would be killed immediately, lest he were a spy sent by another tribe to inquire about the situation and look for an opportunity to attack.
Li Lin looked the young man up and down, then smiled and said, "Ast Nadu, let him go, he's just a hungry child."
"Li Tangsheng?"
Astena couldn't help but say something again, but Li Lin's eyes suddenly looked over coldly: "This is not a grassland."
With a plop, the boy was let down, and he rolled and crawled to hide behind Li Lin, looking at Aste and the others in horror.
Astena nodded and walked aside silently.
Li Lin handed the contents of his bowl to the boy and said with a smile: "Eat when you are hungry!"
Perhaps it was his face from the Song Dynasty that made the young man put his guard down. Maybe he was just hungry. After hesitating for a moment, the young man immediately took the bowl and started eating in big mouthfuls.
After he finished eating, Li Lin asked: "Looking at you, you must not be the original member of the garrison mansion, right? Why are you here?"
The young man nodded and said:
"When the Huns broke into the city, all the garrison masters died on the city wall. The garrison wife dispersed the servants in the mansion, and the whole family burned themselves to death. There was no one left in the garrison mansion for a long time.
My home is nearby, and I have no food at home. I also have a younger sister to support. I thought that this is also a garrison house after all, and there should be some food left, so I came here to look for it. Who knew that when I saw you guys coming over suddenly, I was Frightened, he buried himself in rubble. "
After listening to the previous words, Li Lin was stunned, took off the water belt from his waist and handed it to him. While the boy was drinking water, he asked: "How is the defense at Xifengkou usually?"
The young man took a sip of water, wiped his mouth and said, "Master Shouwei is a very kind person. He often helps the villagers around him. Mrs. Shouwei even helps the women around to find work, which allows them to supplement their livelihood. Last year during the New Year, At that time, my mother was seriously ill, and Mrs. Guard sent someone to send a hundred kilograms of grain and three bowls of dumplings to our family. Unfortunately, my mother couldn't eat it at all, so that night... just..."
As he spoke, the boy's tears were like broken beads, falling continuously.
Li Lin raised his hand and rubbed the boy's hair. Perhaps feeling the same, he said slowly: "Everything will be fine."
Then he asked the guard next to him for some dry food and handed it to the young man: "Your sister is still at home. She must be starving. Take it back to her quickly!"
The young man was stunned for a moment, took the food, then turned around, kowtowed heavily to Li Lin and said, "Thank you, noble man! Thank you, noble man!"
…
After the boy left, Li Lin slowly threw wood into the firewood pile. The flames were crackling and the fire was jumping, and Li Lin's face flickered.
The surroundings were extremely quiet, no one spoke.
Li Lin suddenly asked: "Is your tribe an old naturalized tribe or a newly naturalized tribe from the southern grasslands?"
Astena, who had been silent all this time, was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect him to ask this question, but after hesitating for a moment, he still answered.
"We are from the southern grasslands. All the familiar Tatars in Yunzhou County have gone to join the army. Although we are only joining the army, they are also regular cavalry. We in the south have just been naturalized not long ago and can only serve as auxiliary soldiers."
Li Lin nodded after hearing this, and then said: "The ancestors of the Song Dynasty once said that if the barbarians and Di come to China, they will come to China; if the Chinese barbarians come to barbarians, they will come to barbarians.
This means that when we Song people regard others as Song people or Hu people, apart from blood, the most important thing is whether they understand the etiquette of our Song people.
If a Hu person respects the etiquette of the Song people, then he is a Song person.
After you become naturalized in Yunzhou County, if you want to truly integrate into Yunzhou County, the most important thing you should do is to slowly let go of some of your previous behavioral habits, change them to the habits of Song people, and adapt to the behavior and style of Song people. This is the only way. Only by naturalizing yourself wholeheartedly can you be recognized by the people of Song Dynasty.
Otherwise, even if you become a Song Dynasty citizen, in the eyes of others, you are still just a barbarian.
do you understand? "
Aste Na was not a fool. She quickly understood the intention of Li Lin's words. She nodded heavily, straightened up, put her hands on her chest and bowed deeply to Li Lin: "Aste Na thanks Li Tangsheng for his advice. !”
After hesitating for a moment, the other Tatars also stood up straight, put their hands on their chests and bowed deeply to Li Lin!
Li Lin smiled, stood up and came to Astena, took his hands from his chest, folded his hands into fists, and then put all the Tatars' movements into this posture one by one and responded with a smile. He cupped his fists and bent down and said, "How polite you are!"
Everyone immediately laughed!
The silent atmosphere just now disappeared immediately.
Early the next morning, Aste and his party went out to find ten tree trunks as thick as one person could surround them, and stood them in front of the gate of the garrison.
Then Li Lin whispered a few instructions to Astena, who nodded. He immediately led his men on horseback and started shouting back and forth in the city!
"There are ten pieces of wood at the gate of the garrison. Whoever can get any of these ten pieces of wood to the gate of the city will be given 100 kilograms of grain! On the spot!
Only ten pieces of wood, first come first served! First come first served!
…”
Throughout the day, the members of the escort shouted this sentence back and forth in the city, trying to make everyone hear it clearly, but no one left the house.
Li Lin is not disappointed with this result, because he knows that most people are still waiting to see, but someone will soon make the first move.
100 kilograms of grain is enough to take risks in this season.
Time passed little by little, and it was night in the blink of an eye.
At night, the young man who appeared at the garrison the night before came to a gathering place. There were young and strong men here. More importantly, these were people who had run out of food and had been running out to find food all day long.
They were very familiar with the boy, because the boy had been one of them, but he had not been here in the past two days.
Seeing him coming, everyone immediately greeted him:
"Second baby is here! Why haven't I seen you these days? How is your sister? Why haven't you gone out with us these days?
…”
A group of people who did not have enough to eat expressed their concern for the young man.
Erwa slowly walked up to everyone, took out a cold steamed bun, and said to everyone: "Uncles, there are really ten logs erected at the garrison mansion. It should be true what they said about providing food. I went to the garrison mansion a few days ago, and the people in charge of the team were us Hans, not Hu people. I heard those Hu people call him Li Tangsheng, and he couldn't be an official of the imperial court.
Do you want to try it? "
Looking at the steamed buns in the young man's hands, everyone swallowed them all. Some people asked, "Where did you get this steamed buns?"
Erwa replied truthfully: "The official gave it to me!"
"really?"
Some people don't believe it.
Erwa nodded heavily!
"real!"
"Then the person in charge is really not a Hu person, but a Song person?"
Someone asked again?
"Hmm, he is indeed a Song Dynasty man, and a young Song Dynasty man! I saw with my own eyes that just one word from him scared those barbarians so much that they dared not move!"
After hearing this, everyone's eyes began to twinkle. With the deepening of winter these days, it is getting harder and harder to find food outside. If this continues, they may really starve to death.
If this is true, why not take a gamble?
…
(End of chapter)
