There is no doubt that it will be a long story that I have worked so hard to tell nine-year-old Babur (grandson of Timur VI, founder of the Mughal Empire). No matter how brilliant it was at the beginning, when the light of the empire gradually dimmed and eventually disappeared, I was sitting under the silver fruit tree by the Holy Maiden Spring, recalling how the ancestors of Babur reunited the Eastern and Western Chagatai Khanates , How to incorporate parts of the Ilkhanate and the Golden Horde—or, in other words, the vast territories of Central Asia, West Asia, and Asia Minor—into the empire’s territory within a few decades.Those distant memories are as clear as yesterday, but in the depths of my soul, the eternally shining light like a constellation always belongs to Timur and Shahru. Of course, it also belongs to the love between a man and a woman, the unforgettable love It once bloomed sadly like a snow lotus.

Besides, in order to make my narrative sound more coherent, I said to Babur that before I personally participate in this long story, I will choose another participant in the story, Aya, as the young The testimony of Timur's hard work.Therefore, as I said, the following story will start with Aya... Aya is from Chagatai. Back then, after Genghis Khan founded the country, he galloped across Europe and Asia, and established a huge khanate after 22 years.When he was dying, he entrusted the khanate to his four sons, and also entrusted the army under his command to them.Among them, the eldest son Shuchi got 9,000 households, the second son Chagatai and the third son Okuotai each got 4,000 households, and the youngest son Tuolei got most of the inheritance: 101,000 households.Among the 4,000 households assigned to Chagatai, the head of the 1,000th household was Yilianji from the Balulasi tribe, whose father was Genghis Khan's cousin.The head of the 2000th household is the elder brother Shu of the Hongji assassination department.The Hongji tribe has always been famous in the grasslands for its rich beauties, and many concubines in the Mongolian court came from this tribe.

Yilianji is the great-grandfather of Timur, and Shuge is the great-grandfather of Aya. Not long after Genghis Khan's third son, Okuotai, became the second Great Khan, Chagatai moved the capital from the Qihe River Basin to the Hezhong area.The 4,000 households he brought to Central Asia and their descendants are collectively called Chagatai people. These people have certain privileges. They can migrate and graze in any flat and wide land, and they don’t need to pay taxes to the court.In addition, there is another honorable thing, only Chagatai people are qualified to serve as the pro-army guards of the Khan Palace.

This kind of glory has not changed in the slightest even after the Chagatai Khanate was split into two Khanates, the East and the West.It should be said that Chagatai, the second son of Genghis Khan, was the most majestic Khan in the Chagatai Khanate. When he was alive, the people of the Khanate were determined and prosperous, but after his death, his ambitious descendants Then he began to fight for power and profit. This continuous internal strife eventually led to the split of the Khanate, and gradually formed two equally powerful separatist camps within the Khanate.Among them, the Chagatai Khanate that ruled the Hezhong area is traditionally called the West Chagatai Khanate, and the current Great Khan is named Sarazi.In contrast, the Chagatai Khanate that ruled the Ili area is called the East Chagatai Khanate, and the reigning Tughru Khan is in his prime and very powerful.

Aya and her family moved from Tiemen Village to the outskirts of Jieshi City (now Shahrishabz) last spring.Aya's father, Shihai, has been an official in the court, and his family has a yurt and a pasture.But that alone is not enough to feed the whole family.In order to make sure that the dozens of people in his family have no worries about food and clothing, in addition to letting his family graze, he also planted a large area of ​​fruit trees near his residence.There are many kinds of fruit trees, such as apple trees, vines, pear trees, peach trees, etc., and you can plant whatever is good for you. After planting, all the fruit trees are surrounded by wooden piles and become an orchard.Aya's daily task is to guard the orchard to prevent the fruits from being picked or spoiled by naughty children nearby before they are ripe.

Aya herself raised a large shepherd dog, which she named "Tuolie" (Mongolian, meaning rabbit).Tollie is a bitch, only two years old this year. Its task is to play with Aya and take care of the orchard. Aya regards it as his sister, and Tollie eats everything she eats. Torre's temperament is very docile, but as long as Aya gives an order, it will bravely rush forward, throw the person Aya wants to scare to the ground, and then accurately hold the person's neck with its mouth, doing Make a gesture of biting.At this time, most of the people who were threatened by Torre would turn pale with fright and turn to Aya for mercy.Aya was proud of her heart, but she pretended to be unhappy and thought about it for a while before waving her hand to ask Torre to let go of the people on the ground.Over time, everyone in the neighborhood knew how powerful Tollet was, and no one dared to intentionally make trouble in Aya's orchard.

Compared with ordinary girls of fifteen or sixteen years old, Aya was tall enough, almost catching up with a boy of medium build.Moreover, she has long arms and long legs, and her figure is not graceful at all. No matter how you look at it, she belongs to the type that is both thick and strong.With a round face, big eyes, a little sparse eyebrows, and a little big mouth, no one would classify her as a beauty.But her skin is very good, pink and tender, and her teeth are also very good. When she smiles, her white teeth will shine like pearls in the sun. In the Hongji assassination department, there are many young men who like Aya. It is unbelievable to say that they are involuntarily fascinated by her violent temper.

Aya lived comfortably until one day, when the fruit was ripe, a group of uninvited guests broke into her orchard. There were only five of these uninvited guests, and all five of them were young.They came into her orchard by chance, saw that the fruits were ripe, and planned to pick some to eat.They looked around and asked if anyone was there?Aya didn't say a word, so they didn't see Aya who was sitting on the tree above them, and Torre who was sleeping peacefully in the tree hole. One of the young people said to himself: "Why is there no one?" He picked a ripe apple from the tree, wiped it on his sleeve, and handed it to another young man beside him.

The other three people each found a place and sat under a tree to enjoy the cool air.They called to the young man who picked the fruit: "Shanai, pick some ripe fruits for us to pick." "Okay." The young man named Shana readily agreed, obviously he was used to being ordered by others. Aya stared at Shana.Shanai started to pick the fruit very diligently, and he pocketed all the picked fruits in his lapel.Picking and picking, he saw a "King of Fruit" on a slightly higher branch. "Look, what's this?" he exclaimed in surprise. Regarding his discoveries, no one was willing to take a look at his discovery. The unanimous expression of everyone was to ask him lazily: "What?"

"What a big apple! I've never seen it before. Why, there's writing on it!" Everyone still asked lazily: "What word?" Shanai looked at it for a long time, then replied, "I don't know." Everyone said "Hi" together. "Which one of you came to recognize?" Shana asked. No one is coming.In fact, there is a Persian word "King" printed on the apple. Shanai said it was the "King of Fruit" and Aya planned to give it to his father. Seeing that Shanai stretched out her hand to the "King of Fruit", she kicked the tree trunk with her foot. Upon hearing her order, Tollie shot out of the tree hole like an arrow from the string, and threw Shanai to the ground in a blink of an eye.

The fruit in Shanai's pocket rolled all over the floor, and everyone was stunned by the sudden change. Tolie bit Shana's neck lightly with his own teeth, and Shanai's eyes were facing Torie, so frightened that he couldn't even scream, his face was pale. The boy who was the first to eat the apple was the first to react, and he drew out his waist knife and pointed it at Tuo Lie. The blade drew a shining arc under the mottled sunlight. "Don't move!" Aya shouted. The knife stopped not far from the top of Tollie's head.Everyone followed the reputation, and Aya jumped down from the tree, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, aiming at the young man's back heart. "Who are you?" The young man stared at Aya and asked briefly. "Owner." "what?" "I said I was the owner of the orchard." "Please don't omit it." "Please don't steal fruit forever." "I can pay you silver coins." "Forget it, as long as you don't pick the fruit king, it doesn't matter if I give you some fruits to eat." "In that case, let Shana go." "You mean the man on the ground?" "right." "You put away the knife first, and I'll ask Tori to let him go." "it is good." The young man who was talking to Aya really put away his waist knife, and Aya shouted: "Tori, come here." As soon as the words fell, Tolie let go of Shanai's neck, and ran back to Aya wagging his tail. Shana managed to get up from the ground, the bluish white on his face hadn't faded away. Aya looked up and down the young man in front of her.The young man had long arms and long legs like herself, and of course he was half a head taller than her.In addition, he has a square face with Chinese characters, a big head, a pair of bright eyes under thick black sword eyebrows, a big nose, a big mouth, and sharp eyes that seem to be able to penetrate other people's internal organs.He wore a Mongolian fur hat, pierced earlobes, and a pair of silver earrings dangled around his neck like two thrown harnesses. Needless to say, this attire has already told Aya that the young man is from Chagatai. "Can you tell me, what's your name?" "Of course. My name is Timur." "Really?" Aya called. "Of course it's true." Before Timur could speak, Shanai, who had just recovered his life from the dog's mouth and still had lingering fears, rushed to answer. Aya had already remembered his name. Aya glanced at Shana.This glance made the tip of Shana's nose turn red, and then her face also turned red. Unlike Timur's heroism, Shanai's appearance is very delicate.Shanai is of medium stature with a well-proportioned body, the lines of his face are soft, his nose, helix, and lip line are even slender, and he blush easily like a girl.When he blushed, the fundus of his eyes would turn pink, which made people think that he must have been cast in the wrong fetus, otherwise, there would be an extra beautiful girl in this world.Timur and Shanai seem to represent two types of men, but neither of them makes Aya hate them. "I've heard of you, you are the bandit leader." Aya said to Timur. Timur grinned, without any sense of shame, on the contrary he was quite proud. Although Timur's father was a well-known nobleman in the Barulas tribe, his behavior was different from ordinary noblemen. He liked to accumulate wealth in a happy way, so he became a robber.He gathered a group of people and took other people's wealth as his own. Later, he married a wife and had children, and settled down in Jieshi City. As the son grew up day by day, he became more and more obsessed with wine, sex and pleasure, which made him lose his old profession of robbing and robbing houses, and of course he lost his life within a few years.Although he earned enough family business for his son during his lifetime, he also earned a lot of enemies. Therefore, when he died young, his son had no choice but to leave home, follow in his footsteps, and become a green forest worker. hero. Compared with his father's career as a robber, Timur is indeed a green forest hero.His father was not as generous as Timur to his subordinates and tribesmen. He had never been like Timur in his life. Every time he robbed a fortune, no matter how much, he would share it among his partners. Feast the people of the clan, and then distribute the remaining meat to some relatives and friends from poor families.His natural boldness and fairness made Timur only have four companions when he was a green forest hero at the age of thirteen. After just one year, he had grown to more than five hundred people, which was enough for him to dominate. At the age of sixteen, Timur returned to Jieshi City with his people.Because he heard that his uncle Haji had been elected by the tribe to be the governor of Jieshi, he wanted to serve under his uncle.Unexpectedly, Haji, who also worked as a robber with his elder brother for several years, did not feel that it was his and his elder brother's honor for Timur to "inherit his father's business". .In order to defend his innocent reputation, he did not hesitate to accept the gold, silver and jewels that Timur filially gave him, and then drove Shanai, the envoy sent by Timur to deliver gifts, out of Jieshi City. Timur remained calm. He pulled the team back to the Tiemen Village area, and spread his troops all over the passes around the Tiemen Gate to rob government supplies, or in the name of providing protection, forcibly extract tax stamps from the caravan passing through the Tiemen Gate. Timur's bold and reckless behavior continued to spread to the Khan court. Hazhan, a dignitary in the court and a descendant of Genghis Khan, received no less than a hundred reports with similar contents.At the same time, the encirclement and suppression campaigns against Timur by various governments failed repeatedly.As the news spread, there was a lot of discussion in the court, and Hazhan couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment.At that time, Hazhan took control of the real power of the Khan court because he deposed Haishan Khan and Likhuri Khan. Now, the newly established monarch Sraz Khan is timid and faint, and the power is even more in the hands of Hazhan. Zhan calls the shots. Hazhan could not allow Timur to challenge his majesty, and ordered Haji, the governor of Jieshi City, to send troops to suppress it.Haji didn't want to get rid of Timur's confidant, but no matter how carefully he planned, the final result was always nothing because someone tipped Timur in advance. In a blink of an eye, Timur grew into a twenty-year-old youth, as Aya saw, with a burly figure, a big head, and deep eyes that seemed to be able to penetrate everything. Long before meeting Timur, Aya had heard this legendary name more than once from his father, clan members, and business travelers who temporarily stopped in the camp of the Chagatai people. Moreover, whenever people mentioned him, No matter whether he praises or curses, it is inevitable to greatly exaggerate his behavior.The effect of this kind of word of mouth is so great that it turns a young man into a rogue who looks like a god and demon, and this kind of rogue is the one who can most fall in love with a girl in Chagatai who is as addicted to fantasy as Aya. However, Shana was somewhat unwilling to be called a bandit by Aya. He asked Aya: "Are you also like those people in the government, do you think we are all bandits who rob houses?" Aya replied carelessly: "You are originally bandits. However, you are the green forest heroes among the bandits, who specialize in robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Your stories have been spread all over the world. It is very enjoyable for everyone to listen to." Only then did Shana become happy: "You really think so?" "That's still fake. By the way, I'm going to pick fruit for you to eat. Who can help me? By the way, my name is Aya." "Let me help you, Aya." Shanai volunteered. Timur gave Shana a funny look, and Shana's face flushed red again. Aya brought two big baskets and asked Shana to follow her, picking only big and sweet fruits.She wanted Timur and a few of his companions to enjoy it. She asked Shana curiously: "Why did you come to my orchard?" Shanai answered her happily: "We're passing by." "Aren't you all in Tiemen Village these days?" Shanai glanced at Timur secretly, and said to Aya in a low voice: "We have a big move, and Timur took us out to scout the terrain. You must not tell others." "I can't tell, why did you tell me?" Shana's face turned hot: "You are a straightforward girl, I trust you." "Well, I will live up to your trust." Shanai and Aya looked at each other and smiled, and they had a tacit understanding because they shared secrets. Aya picked two big baskets full of various fruits. Her intention was obvious. She wanted Timur and the others to eat whatever they wanted. If they had eaten enough, they could take the rest back home.Timur accepted her kindness heartily.A group of young people sat together, eating fruit, drinking wine, talking and laughing loudly.When parting, Timur told Aya that at this time tomorrow, he would drive cattle and sheep to entertain Aya's people. Shanai gestured to Aya behind Timur, and Aya blinked at him knowingly. Timur looked back at Shanai, who blushed and coughed in embarrassment.Timur smiled unconsciously. Aya kept sending Timur and others out of the garden.The setting sun cast a long shadow behind Timur, and Aya climbed to the tallest tree outside the garden, watching Timur and his party leave. This afternoon was really wonderful and interesting for Aya, because the legendary green forest heroes actually walked in front of her by themselves. The wild girl Aya is looking forward to tomorrow coming early. Tomorrow, she will let everyone know that Timur came to the Chagatai camp because of her.