No matter how loud Naha shouted, Big Fatty the marmot did not appear. Ten years later, Big Fatty might have died.
When we entered Qiuci again, the city had already changed its appearance. The huge crack in the city wall where Guo Xiaoke and his son died in battle was finally blocked by the Anxi army.
The large mulberry forest outside the city wall also disappeared. It seemed to have been cut down by the Tang army stationed in Qiuci. After all, that forest was not good for the defenders, but very good for the attackers.
The ditch that Yun Chu used to relieve the heat and float dead pigs has dried up, and it seems that the water channel has been changed into a karez.
Judging from the shape, the farmland area in Qiuci has expanded a lot. Even in winter, the fields are still full of wheat straw.
When Yunchu left Qiuci, there was still a strong smell of corpses here, but now it is gone, and the whole city is filled with a strong smell of mutton.
When entering the city, Yunchu couldn't help but compare the current Qiuci with the Qiuci in his mind. After comparing a few more places, he couldn't help but feel that things are different and people are different.
After the large group of troops were stationed, Yunchu and Naha packed their things silently, neither of them willing to speak.
When she first entered the city, Naha asked about the Sai tribe. As a result, the Tang army here said that they were on the other side of the snow mountain. When she asked about Jiesga's name, they said they had never heard of him, let alone knew him.
When Yun Chu took Naha away from the Snowy Mountains, Selema was already an old woman who was almost thirty years old. Neither Naha nor Yun Chu were sure whether she could continue to live for another ten years.
No female from the Sai people can live beyond the age of forty. Yun Chu has never seen a woman over forty years old in the Sai people tribe, and there are not even many women around thirty-five years old.
The reason why Selema can still make a warrior like Jiesga fascinated by her at such an advanced age of twenty-six or seven is entirely due to Yunchu's raising.
Her nutritional intake level far exceeds that of the Cypriot women who can only eat the saliva of the warriors. Even the nutritional intake level of the warriors cannot be compared with Selema.
When Yun Chu was here, their family of three must eat a meal of meat every ten days, and most of this meat was carefully processed and easily absorbed by the human body.
Coupled with Yun Chu's persistent hygiene requirements, this caused Selema to regain her true physical fitness, causing her to still look like a woman of her age when she was twenty-six or seventeen years old.
Naha and Yunchu brought a lot of things, all of which were given to Jiesika and Selema.
Under the escort of five hundred people led by Liang Ying, Yunchu and Naha left Qiuci with fifty camels and headed straight for the Snowy Mountains.
I don’t know when the snow started to fall again on the Gobi. The snow here is very small and heavy. It will make a rustling sound when it falls on the body. If it accumulates a little more, it will slip off the clothes.
In the Western Region, the environment basically does not change much, but people change very quickly.
In ten years, the wild pine forest beside the small river has not changed much, but the water in the small river has increased. This can be seen from the large white ice fields created by the frozen river water flowing up to the Gobi Desert.
One hundred and sixty miles away, Yunchu and Naha walked for two full days, and encountered several Uighur cavalry along the way. However, when they discovered that this team was flying the black flying tiger flag of the Tang Dynasty, They all stopped and looked at each other from a distance for a while before disappearing.
Finally arriving at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, Yunchu also saw the Cypriot tribe under the cliff. However, judging from the size of the houses and tents, in the past ten years, the Cypriot population has not expanded, but has become much smaller.
Seeing a cavalry coming, the Sailors blew the horns, and the men came out of the tents one after another. Those with horses began to ride, and those without horses followed the cavalry with wooden forks.
As for the women and children, they quickly packed up their things and drove their cattle and sheep into the snowy mountains.
Yun Chuduan sat on the back of a bay-red horse and said to Naha who was riding a black horse, "Look, the warriors of the Cypriots can't even gather their war horses now."
Naha sighed and said, "I still just want to see Se
Laima and Kasika"
Yunchu smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know how long Selema can stay in Jiesga's tent. Judging from the virtue of the Selema people, once a woman cannot give birth to a child, she will be kicked out of the tent."
It is taboo for the army to enter tribal settlements. They were resisted by tribal warriors for a while. Fortunately, the Cypriots here were accustomed to surrender. When they saw a total of 500 black-armored Tang cavalry on the opposite side, they immediately gave up. resistance.
Yunchu urged his horse down the high slope, and the horse's hooves passed through the kneeling Sai people and came to the place where he had placed his tent before.
There is no sign of the tent here, and even the keel of the tent is gone. Only a few black stones where he used to set up the pots for cooking are still there. However, after ten years of wind and rain erosion, those stones are not that black. .
Yunchu looked at the location of Jiesiga's tent again. Similarly, there was no sign of a tent there, only an old fox tail tied to a tall wooden pole floating in the wind.
There was a bearded man who vaguely understood something. He wanted to open his mouth several times, but finally kept his mouth shut in front of the superior Tang cavalry.
Naha also came down. Her bright appearance and the unique chestnut hair of the Serbian people attracted the attention of all the Serbian people.
Naha got off the Wuzui horse and came to the place where she and Yun Chu had been dependent on each other for six years. She slowly squatted down, touched the light black stones with her hands, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
Yun Chu used his horse to lift up the bearded man and put it under his chin, so that his face faced him, and then said indifferently in Huihe, "Mi Man?"
Mi Man was excited at first and wanted to stand up, but in the end he knelt on the ground and whispered, "Yun Chu!"
Yun Chu said, "It's me. I'm back. Where are Jiesika and Selema?"
Mi Man pointed to the pole holding the fox's tail and said, "Jesika is dead, and Selema has been kicked out of the tribe." ./文\./学\./网\./头\./发
Miman's answer was almost the same as what Yunchu expected. As a warrior, Jasika died, and the elderly Selema had no choice but to be kicked out of the tribe. After all, the Sai tribe did not support them. An idler.
Liang Ying felt that this kind of thing was unacceptable. After a tribe killed a warrior, his wife and children were expelled from the tribe. This was not what people should do. Therefore, he looked at Yun Chu with his eyes fixed on him. As long as he gave an order, The five hundred cavalry under his command can kill everyone here immediately.
Xiao Yuhua and Afanti had no reaction. In their opinion, this kind of thing was a normal thing.
Yun Chu didn't feel anything was wrong. Ten years ago, when he was still in the Sai tribe, he had seen too many such things.
If the warrior is alive, he and the people in his tent can enjoy a superior life. If the warrior dies in battle, the people in his tent will be assigned to other tents by the clan leader. Of course, they are all young women and children. If the woman When they get older, they will be expelled from the tribe to fend for themselves.
This rule applies to everyone, even the Uighur Khan. After the Khan dies, the women and children in his tent will also be divided, and no one can be exempted.
"Where did Selema go?" Yun Chu pulled Ma Shu away and asked.
Miman is no longer the young boy who likes to herd ewes. Like Yun Chu, he has also grown up. Like the adult Cypriots whom Yun Chu once met, his beard has grown all over his face, so that only the towering The hooked nose is the most conspicuous.
When he was young, Mi Man was often bullied by Yun Chu. Now that he has grown up, he is even more afraid when facing Yun Chu.
"Selema went to the Snowy Mountains. That happened three years ago. She should have been eaten by wolves long ago."
The direction Mi Man pointed was Grasshopper Lake, and a smile appeared on Yunchu's face. That's right. Selema, who was expelled from the tribe by the Sai people, where else could she go except to Grasshopper Lake.
He threw a bag full of gold coins to Mi, then urged the horse to come to Naha who was crying uncontrollably. He grabbed her cloak and put her back on the back of the black horse. He patted Naha on the head and said, "Come here." Ma went to Grasshopper Lake"
Naha opened her hood, looked at Yun Chu and said sadly, "I heard what Mi Man said. She can't survive alone in Grasshopper Lake without us."
Yunchu said, "There are a lot of fish in Grasshopper Lake. I taught Selema how to fish and how to grill fish."
Naha grabbed Yunchu's hand and said, "Let's go to Grasshopper Lake now."
Mi Man watched this group of Tang cavalry leave the fixed camp of the tribe. Throwing the bag of gold coins in his hand, he came to a sturdy Sai man and said with a smile, "The Tang Dynasty master said, from now on, I will be the Great Apo here." "
The stout Saiman did not refute. He had just seen that Mi Man knew that noble Tang man.
"I will move into your tent tonight. Everything in your tent belongs to me, and I deserve everything. I saved your life and didn't tell Yun Chu that you were the one who killed him. His mother was kicked out of the tribe. This secret can't be kept for long. Look at those people. They are all eager to go to the Tang Dynasty master Gao Mi in order to get rewards. Run away, run far away, forever. Don’t come back”
The thick-bodied Sai Ren was furious. Without a moment's hesitation, he jumped on his horse and ran away. He accidentally saw Naha's beautiful face just now, so he was very sure that Yun Chu must be a Chinese girl in the Tang Dynasty. The king, and only the king in the Tang Dynasty, could have such a beautiful woman.
Grasshopper Lake is still so quiet, but because of the cold winter, the lake is covered with a thick layer of ice.
However, Yunchu still saw a small ice cave in a very familiar place, with black water waves rippling in the ice cave.
Suddenly there was an eagle cry in the clear sky, and then a giant black eagle swooped down from the sky. At this moment, a fat marmot with a yellow body all over its body emerged from the grass. This guy The body is so fat that even while running, its oily fur moves back and forth like a running bucket.
Seeing that the eagle was about to capture the marmot, Yun Chu took action, raised his hand to draw the bow and fired an arrow, and an eagle-feather arrow flew toward the eagle with a roar.
The eagle-feather arrow shot through the eagle's neck, and the dying eagle spread its wings and spun around and fell to the grass.
The running marmot took the opportunity to dive into a dark stone cave. Immediately, it poked out its fat head and stared at the sky with evil eyes.
Naha shouted "Big fat!"
The marmot made a swishing sound and got back into the cave again.
