Dugu Xiang asked Kong Kong'er, "Is it okay to let him go like this?" Kong Kong'er was staring at the long grass. At this moment, there were no traces of people walking in it. It was blowing in the west wind. He made a loud noise and said leisurely: "Li Guiren has been frightened out of his wits and will not dare to come back for a while." He turned to Dugu Xiang and said: "Let's cross the river quickly." Dugu Xiang looked towards the other side. The river water here is not as turbid and roaring as the river water in the middle and lower reaches, but the river surface is wide and the current is rapid, it is still a big river.
She was thinking about Kong Kong'er's magical way to cross the river, but suddenly she heard Tuoba Chaoguang suddenly let out a scream.
Dugu Xiang turned his head to look and was surprised! I saw Tuoba Chaoguang squatting on the ground, Kong Kong'er leaning diagonally on Tuoba Chaoguang's shoulder, blood hanging from the corner of his mouth. Looking up to the ground, he saw a pool of black and purple on the yellow sandstone. I think it was the blood that Kong Kong'er vomited. Dip dyed.
Dugu Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to support Kong Kong'er and said, "Kong Kong'er, what's wrong with you? Were you stabbed by Li Guiren?" As she spoke, she looked through Kong Kong'er's clothes, but she couldn't find where the wound was. Er shook his head and said in a weak voice: "No need to look for it, I'm not injured..." Dugu Xiang became more and more surprised and said: "I'm not injured, how could I vomit so much blood? Is it because of internal injuries?" Kong Kong'er said: " First... let's cross the river first." After a while, Kong Kong'er had his eyes closed tightly and seemed a little confused. Dugu Xiang said anxiously: "Kong Kong'er, Kong Kong'er, don't sleep! How are you going to cross the river? ? I don’t know how to float on water..." Kong Konger pointed at the long grass and said: "Sheep...sheep..." Dugu Xiang was so anxious that he almost cried, tears welling up in his eyes, and said: " Kong Kong'er, are you confused? Are you trying to catch sheep now?" Look at Kong Kong'er who has passed out. Although Dugu Xiang is weird, she is still a girl after all. Seeing the sudden change in front of her, she was confused for a moment. , shouted: "What can we do? What can we do? Kong Kong'er, wake up quickly..." Tuoba Chaoguang, despite his lack of martial arts skills, was much calmer and more experienced, and said to Dugu Xiang: "Ms. Dugu, I'll go take a look." He pointed to the long grass over there, and Dugu Xiang said nervously: "But Li Guiren..." The long grass that Kong Kong'er pointed to was the grass that Li Guiren passed through when he left just now. Ba Chaoguang comforted him softly: "He should have left long ago. If he is still around, how can we still be alive now?" Dugu Xiang knew that what he said was right, and there was no other way to think of at this moment. He said to Tuoba Chaoguang: "Brother Tuoba, please be more careful." Tuoba Chaoguang nodded, handed Kongkong'er to Duguxiang's hand, got up and walked towards the long grass.
Dugu Xiang sat on the ground, holding Kong Kong'er in his arms, and stretched his neck to look over there. He saw Tuoba Chaoguang stirring the long grass outside the grass and exploring inside. Finally, he ducked into the grass. Dugu Xiang looked at the long grass. Trembling wildly, her heart couldn't help but rise to her throat.
The long grass swayed for a long time and then calmed down. There was no sound around. There was only the sound of the river washing the beach and the west wind blowing through the long grass. Dugu Xiang's heart was tightening, and his eyes and ears seemed to have become more sensitive.
As time passed, the chirping of unknown insects in the grass and the sound of fish swimming in the river came to her ears faintly. The low hum of all things poured into her ears, except for the human voice.
Jiang Shuo swallowed the Erlong inner elixir, and his ears and eyes became extremely smart. Dugu Xiang did not have this ability. She was just nervous and became agitated by the wind, cranes, and grass and trees.
She stretched her neck like this and remained motionless, staring at the movement in the long grass. In fact, not long time passed, but it seemed to her that most of the day had passed. The longer she waited, the colder she felt in her heart, fearing that Li Guiren had been killed. Looking at Tuoba Chaoguang, he was moving carefully through the long grass like a wild animal, as if he was about to jump out at any moment.
In fact, Dugu Xiang also knew that these were all his random thoughts. If Li Guiren really left and came back, why would he need to act in secret?
With Li Guiren's ability, even if he and Tuoba Chaoguang were tied together, he would not be his opponent. Finally, the grass began to tremble violently, and Dugu Xiang's heart couldn't help but rise to his throat. Suddenly, the grass grew, and Tuoba Chaoguang returned safely.
He walked out of the long grass, still holding a long rope in his hand. At this moment, Dugu Xiang saw Tuoba Chaoguang. The fear that had frightened him before had completely subsided. Regardless of the tears still hanging on his face, he smiled awkwardly and said: "Tuoba Chaoguang" Ba Lang, what are you holding? Is there really a sheep?" Tuoba said to Guangguang: "Hey... Madam Dugu, it's really a sheep..." At this time, a big object pressed through the grass and appeared in front of Dugu Xiang. before.
This is a seven-foot-square wooden frame. This frame is made of ash wood. Dozens of arms-thick wooden strips are tied into the four longitudinal bowl-shaped logs. But if it is a raft, these pieces of wood can be It's too thin and the pricks are too thin.
Even if he lay on this wooden frame, it was obviously impossible to swim across such a fast river. Dugu Xiang said confusedly: "Tuoba Lang, where did you find this scaffolding? What is it for?" Tuoba Chaoguang said: "This is a sheep." Dugu Xiang became even more confused and said: " Kong Kong'er was talking nonsense before he fainted. Why are you confused too, Tuoba Lang? How could this be a sheep?" Tuoba Chaoguang continued to move forward while reading, and the wooden frame was completely revealed from the grass. It turned out that there were still ties behind it. There were several leather bags on his body, which were stacked together limply. It was unclear what they were used for.
Tuoba Chaoguang dragged the wooden frame to the river, picked up a leather bag, and said, "This is the 'sheep.'" He picked it up and blew air against the opening of the leather bag.
Although Tuoba Chaoguang has no internal strength, he has practiced martial arts all year round and his breath is long. After blowing for a while, the leather bag swelled up and turned out to be a real head.
"sheep"! This was the skin of a whole sheep. After Tuoba blew into the light to inflate the whole skin, it turned out to look like a fat little lamb, except that it had no head.
Dugu Xiang said: "It's really a sheep! What is this?" Tuoba Chaoguang said: "The name of this thing is 'Huntuo', Hun means 'Quan', and Tuo means 'Peel', which means to peel it from the sheep." It is easy to say that it is easy to remove a complete skin, but it requires extremely high skills in slaughtering and skinning. From the opening of the sheep's neck, slowly peel off the entire skin without scratching any fur." Dugu Xiang was curious. He was so worried that he couldn't get closer to take a look because he was holding up Kong Kong'er's body. He said, "Tuoba Lang, why is this sheepskin amber? I think it's a little transparent, like a lantern." It was still early in the day, The sunlight shines on the bulging leather bag, and it looks like a bulging amber lantern.
Tuoba Chaoguang said: "After depilating the sheepskin, blowing air to expand the skin, then pouring in oil and salt, then tying the head, tail and limbs of the skin tightly, and after drying for a month, it looked like this. "Dugu Xiang said: "It's true that Kong Kong'er is vomiting blood. Remember to play with the sheep." Tuoba Chaoguang said: "This is not for fun. Wait until I blow all the nine sheep." You will know." After a while, Tuoba Chaoguang brought the nine sheep
The "Huntuo" was blown up so much that it was tied tightly with a rope. The nine Huntuo just filled the wooden frame. Tuoba Chaoguang turned the entire wooden frame over and threw it into the river. The nine Huntuo Tuo were filled with air. The wooden frame floated on the river.
Dugu Xiang touched his palm and said: "It turns out to be a raft!" Tuoba Chaoguang said: "Using sheep Hunduo to make a boat. This is a unique method of crossing the rivers in Suzhou, Huizhou and Lingzhou. It is called a leather boat. Don't look at this. The raft is small, but according to the "Shui Jing Zhu" records, in the 23rd year of Jianwu of the Han Dynasty, five hundred sheepskin bags were tied together to make a giant ship, and an entire army was transported across the river." Dugu Xiang He said: "There are only three of us, but we don't need a raft as big as five hundred sheep." Tuoba Chaoguang nodded in agreement, and the two moved Kong Kong'er onto the raft. Tuoba Chaoguang first let Dugu Xiang sit on the raft. After sitting down, take a short piece of wood pulp to support the raft. These nine sheepskin bags hold up
The "leather boat" immediately rushed into the fast, yellow and turbid river. Tuoba Chaoguang immediately jumped onto the raft, hit the water with wood pulp, and struggled to control the leather boat towards the other bank.
When the leather boat entered the water, I realized that the river was much stronger than what was seen on the shore, and there were many turbulent currents in the river. If it were a wooden boat, it would have been torn to pieces by the turbulent currents. However, the leather boat floated on the river through the skin bag, although the turbulent river water passed through the gaps in the raft. It suddenly surged up, soaking everyone's shoes, socks, and sleeves. It looked very dangerous, but in fact it floated across the river with no risk.
Even so, Dugu Xiang was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word on the raft, but Tuoba Chaoguang seemed to be very good at maneuvering the boat. He controlled the leather boat with only a short oar. Although it could not be said to be stable, it was still safe. Arrived on the other side.
Not long after, the raft crossed the river from east to west and reached the other bank. The west bank was very different from the east bank. It was no longer a barren and desolate river beach, but an inlet full of reeds. Tuoba Chao was riding the raft through the inlet, Head towards the mountains to the west.
Dugu Xiang, the talented priest Ning, asked Tuoba Chaoguang: "Tuoba Lang, how do you know how to operate a leather boat? Also, where are we going now?" Tuoba Chaoguang said: "Ms. Dugu, You may not know that the name of the big mountain in front of you is "Helan Mountain". This mountain was called "Beiyi" in the Han Dynasty, and was renamed "Helan" only during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the mountains are vigorous and green and white, and they look like mottled mountains from a distance. Sema, the barge horse is called 'Helan' in Turkic language, hence the name of Helan Mountain. Although Dangxiang Qiang comes from Hexi, our ancestors came from Helan Mountain." Tuoba Chaoguang said as he carefully drove the boat across the river At this time, the water surface gradually became wider, but unlike the river, the water surface was quite calm. It seemed that we had reached a large lake. The lake was dotted with sandbars and small islands. It seemed that the scenery was beautiful, and the scenery was directly following the south of the Yangtze River. Tuoba Chaoguang continued: "There is a holy place for the Xiang Qiang people of our party in Helan Mountain. I have followed my grandfather across the river in a leather boat to worship the holy place since I was a child. Therefore, I know how to operate this leather boat. Before I fainted, He asked us to cross the river. He must have hidden the leather boat. He probably asked us to take refuge in the Qiang people's holy land. Dugu Xiang nodded and said: "Since it is a holy land, it must be hidden secretly. Let's take Kong Kong'er there and try to heal his injuries. When he wakes up, we will naturally know what happened." "She felt very strange that Kong Kong'er suddenly vomited blood and fainted. All these mysteries can only be solved when Kong Kong'er wakes up.
Dugu Xiang asked Tuoba Chaoguang again: "Tuoba Lang, since the Dangxiang Qiang people come from Helan Mountain, why didn't the saint settle you in Lingzhou and instead established a Jingbian army in Qingzhou?" Tuoba Chaoguang said with a smile. : "This is the Holy Emperor's art of controlling people...Lingzhou Lingwu is the military headquarters of Shuofang. The party members are arranged on the side of Lingzhou for easy monitoring without being too far away from the land of their ancestors." Before Dugu Xiang had time to speak, he suddenly saw the leaves swaying on all sides, and dozens of leather boats sailed out. There were archers in white standing on the boats. These archers aimed at them with their bows and swords. The two of them were not careful when talking, and they were unknowingly being captured. Surrounded.
