Chapter 39 fourth quarter

Before sunset, the cavalry team advancing all the way north reached the Iron Line River.It was a cavalry team composed of more than a hundred barbarian warriors, each with two dragon blood horses, one carrying people and the other carrying luggage, advancing extremely fast.After crossing the Tiantuo Strait and landing, they had penetrated more than 600 miles into the grassland within seven days. The leading Qingyang General Ba Bang stopped by the river, panting horses drank the river water, and a huge sunset gradually sank into the horizon. Ba Bang looked across the river: "My son, in ten days, we can reach the northern capital, twelve days at most."

"I know the way. This is the Tenhea Grassland, where I grew up." Asule said in a low voice.He was dressed in barbarian costumes from head to toe, with moon-white sleeves and a cowhide armor with iron plates. His jet-black hair was tied into a big braid on the top of his head, wrapped around the top and center of his head with black gold silk. Shadow Moon rolled it up with sackcloth and hung it on the side of the saddle. Except for the face that was a little too handsome for a barbarian, he already looked like an authentic barbarian boy. They have been separated from Buhuala's team of ghost bows for nearly half a year. Buhuala led the team back to the northern capital first, and the hundred iron pagoda cavalry led by Asu Le and Ba Bang were too conspicuous. Only those who could carry iron The dragon blood horse in the Futu armor is a head taller than the tallest war horse in the Eastern Land.They hid in the Eastern Continent for three full months, until the first search and arrest of the Tingwei Mansion was exhausted, and then with the help of some merchants, they boarded a boat named "Black Mackerel" and traveled along the Zhongzhou The western coastline sails quietly north. "Black mackerel" is called a merchant ship, but it is actually a ship for smuggling people. Some of the barbarian herdsmen who can't survive will turn all their cattle and sheep into money and hand them over to the merchants in the Eastern Land. "Give him a place in the cabin enclosed under the cargo warehouse, and take him to Wanzhou for thousands of miles. It is this special design that allows them to avoid boarding and searching by Dayin's "maritime supervisor" several times.

Asule looked down at the silently flowing Tiexian River, the setting sun dyed the river red.He couldn't help but think of that night many years ago, when the river here was really red.Half water, half blood, the fire burned those tents in the dark night, and the flames burned the sky. He restrained himself from thinking about these sad things, and turned to look at Ba Bang: "Camp here tonight?" "Camp here," Ba Bang nodded, still looking at the other side of the river, "After crossing the Iron Line River, it will be considered the territory of the Pasur family, and it will be your home."

He was silent for a while: "My son, I can't call you your son since I crossed this river." Asule was taken aback, and looked at Ba Bang in puzzlement. "I've been wanting to say something on the way, but I don't know how to say it. I'm not good at saying this kind of thing." Ba Bang scratched his head, "Although the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven has not yet been officially held, the old majesty held your brother's hand before he died. The Maharaja's position was passed on to him. Now the new Maharaja in the northern capital is your elder brother Bimogan, and the eldest son should be his youngest son, and your title will be changed to Asule Danayan. Your other older brothers all call it Nayan, and you were Qingyang's eldest son, called Da Nayan."

The so-called "Nayan" of the barbarians is a noble title with a special status, and Da Nayan is a noble title second only to the Khan. Asule lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and smiled: "Ba Bang, I know, I am not a person who can be a maharaja. My brother became a maharaja, and I am very happy for him. Da Nayan is very good , People used to call me the son of the world, and I never thought that I would really be a maharaja." He said this, but there was a strange emotion in his heart, not because he felt that he had lost something, but because he felt that ten years later when he returned to the grassland where he was born and raised, many things had been lost. It's different.

Ba Bang nodded slightly, and took a deep breath: "There is one more thing, not from the Maharaja, but from Da Yan who asked me to tell you." "Brother is married?" Asule was taken aback.When Bi Mogan was still the eldest prince, he sang night after night with young women under the moon.Different women came and went in and out of the tent, and he was gentle and considerate to each woman. Many women wanted to marry the eldest prince, but Bi Mogan refused to marry them.Bimogan is a warm and loose person towards women, and he doesn't want to be tied down by any woman, but now he actually has Da Yan.

"Yes, the newlyweds last autumn, the Maharaja dotes on Da Yan very much, and regards her as his most precious jewel." Ba Bang said. "Da Yanshi...what did you say?" Involuntarily, Asule felt awed towards this sister-in-law.He thought that this noble sister-in-law asked Ba Bang to send him a sentence thousands of miles away, it must be something very important, maybe it was to teach him not to have any delusions about the position of the maharaja. "She asked me to tell you her name." "Her name?" Asule was stunned. "Her name is Suma." For a moment, Asule could no longer hear any sound, and only felt a throbbing pain in his chest.That's right, when he returned to the grassland where he was born and raised after ten years, many things were different.

In the dead of night, the grassland was vast and the wind was blowing faintly. The Tiefutu warriors lit a bonfire and roasted the few wild animals that had been shot.While waiting for the meat to be cooked, they hummed Qingyang's ditty under the moonlight. Asule sat by the river alone, watching the bonfire from a distance, and listening to the rushing sound of the river.He once played on this river beach with Suma and Suma's sister Uyangma, and suddenly he remembered many things related to Suma, some of which he had forgotten for a long time.At that time, Suma was small, could not speak, walked clumsily, and fell easily.Compared with her stunning sister Uyangma, Suma is so inconspicuous. Wuyangma is a peacock with colorful feathers, and Suma is just a gray duck under the peacock's tail feathers.The three of them were friends and ran together on the river beach. Suma followed behind Wuyangma's fluttering red dress, reaching out to catch the straw grasshopper in Wuyangma's hand, but she couldn't catch up.Suma squatted on the ground and whimpered, and Zhe Gan, who made grasshoppers, laughed and hugged her up, coaxing her that he would make another one for her, so Suma wiped her tears and laughed again.

Asule thought of the belt that Suma helped him cut, the flute that Suma taught him to play, Suma drying his boots on the stove, Suma sitting beside him silently touching his forehead when he couldn't sleep ... "Da Nayan, if the Da Yan family has not married the maharaja, would you marry the Da Yan family?" A voice suddenly appeared behind him. Asule stood up in shock, and found that it was Ba Bang who had quietly walked behind him.Ba Bang patted Asule on the shoulder, motioning him to sit down with him.Asule felt uneasy, feeling as if someone had seen through his thoughts. He lowered his head and thought for a long time, then shook his head: "It's not like that, Suma is my good friend."

"Actually, I also think that Da Nayan will not marry the Yan clan. I have been hiding in Nanhuai City for two months, and I have also heard about the woman from the Yu clan. Compared with the women of the Yu clan, the Yan clan is not as good. It’s a lot.” Ba Bang picked up a piece of dry grass and chewed it slowly in his mouth. A Sule was startled, and then thought that even Ba Bang, a stupid and careless guy, knew about his relationship with Yu Ran, and everyone knew this secret. "But Yuran just doesn't understand," he said with a soft sigh, "Maybe she doesn't want to understand."

"Women, you will never understand what they are thinking. I told a joke to Da Nayan, saying that a wizard saw the Pantar God during the sacrifice. The Pantar God said that you have such great mana and I When we meet, I will promise you to do one thing for you. You can make a request. The wizard said, I want to unify Kyushu! Pantar God said, don’t mess around, unifying Kyushu is the achievement of God’s envoy King Tieqin. Come to you, let me mention something else. The wizard was thinking hard, and said that he should ask for something small. I want to know what my wife is thinking. These days, she always complains about me through the tent. Pantar God was silent for a long time," said here , Ba Bang himself couldn't help laughing, "After a while, Pantar God said, my dear wizard, let's talk about the unification of Kyushu. Do you want to become King Tieqin yourself? Or let your son become King Tieqin?" Ba Bang laughed so much that he put his hands on the ground and covered his stomach.Asule remained silent.His expression made Ba Bang feel a little sad, and he smiled, but Ba Bang couldn't laugh anymore, and sat there scratching his head with his hands. "I'm fine, I just feel childish, I think Suma married the eldest brother, and she won't care about me anymore... Actually, I also know that it's better to marry the eldest brother, the eldest brother is not like the second brother, who messes around with many women It's not like the third brother is always cold towards women, the eldest brother takes good care of women..." Asul said this, his heart felt a little bit bitter, "But I still feel that Dad is gone, and Su Ma Once I get married, no one will care about me anymore..." Ba Bang thought for a long time, took a deep breath, and patted Asule's shoulder hard: "Da Nayan, people say that I am a very rough person, and I don't know much about these things. But I know In fact, people who like you still like you. Ten years have passed, and many things will change, but I don't think Da Yan's treatment of Da Nayan will change, do you believe Da Nayan?" Asule's body shook, and Suma's smile, Suma's eyes, and the temperature of Suma's hands all became vivid again for a moment.He suddenly gained confidence, and felt a slight warmth in his body, just like Suma found a piece of sheepskin in the dark on a snowy night many years ago to press on him, and wrapped his arms around his shoulders and the sheepskin , so that he won't shiver from the cold... He turned his head and saw that Ba Bang was still scratching his head and trying to think of words to comfort himself, his face full of embarrassment. "Don't call me Da Nayan, call me Asule." Asule said suddenly. "Okay!" Ba Bang was stunned for a moment, and said simply, "Asule!" Ba Bang stretched out a slap the size of a cattail fan in front of Asule. "What are you doing?" Asule looked at him curiously. "I learned it in Donglu," Ba Bang clapped his hands loudly and forcefully, "clap" and "clap", "clap is a promise between men in Donglu. Once you slap, the matter is settled. The one who regrets is the tortoise." Egg. Didn’t you slap that little guy from Donglu when you were in the execution ground? Once you slap him, he has to be the emperor of Donglu, and you have to form an alliance with him. Once we slap, I won’t call you anymore It's so beautiful." Ba Bang stretched out his hand in front of Asule again, staring at a pair of big eyes: "Come! Come!" Asule looked at the palm stretched out in front of him, it was generous, powerful and warm. So under the cold moonlight in Hanzhou, in the bleak wind of early winter, by the Iron Line River, the young man jumped up and slapped the middle-aged warrior's palm with all his strength.Then the two people withdrew their hands and changed their angle to clap again, clean and beautiful, the applause startled a fish on the river surface to jump out of the water, and when it fell back, there was a "boom", leaving a series of ripples. "But if you want to be the emperor of Donglu, this slap is too big..." Ba Bang scratched his head. Asule was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud with his stomach in his hands, the laughter passed through the clouds, and the moonlight between the clouds sprinkled like water waves, sprinkled on the lonely wilderness.