Langru Mountain has a 90-degree bend in the northwest, from north-south to east-west. Such a magnificent mountain peak makes a sudden second turn, which makes people have to admire the magic of nature's creations. This section of Langru Mountain that runs from east to west is also called Tiange Mountain, because in the eyes of the locals, the north and south of Tiange Mountain are basically two worlds.
After crossing Tiange Mountain, there is a long and narrow grassland. There are thousands of miles from east to west, but only two hundred miles from north to south. This grassland is where the Northern Liao people first lived. At that time, the Northern Liao people were still a pure grassland people, living in the mountains and herding horses in the grasslands.
After the rise of the Mongolian Yuan Empire, it took only a dozen years to complete the control of the grassland, and then the powerful wolf cavalry marched here. At the beginning, the brave Beiliao tribe did not give in, but beat out the invading wolf cavalry time and time again. A team of 10,000 wolf riders who came here for the first time in the Eastern Expedition was neatly chopped down by the Beiliao people.
Naturally, the Golden Family, which was in full swing at the time, would not allow such a thing to happen, and immediately dispatched a hundred thousand wolf riders to march eastward. The general Wang Ting who commanded at that time actually did not pay attention to the people of the Northern Liao Dynasty. It took almost four months for the army to arrive here from Wang Ting. lost.
The brave Beiliao people didn't know what it meant to back down at that time. If an enemy invaded, they would naturally resist to the end. It was a bloody and tragic history. For half a year, the wolf cavalry launched attacks against the Beiliao people again and again. From the beginning to the end, the Beiliao people never suffered a loss on the frontal battlefield, even though they faced at least three times as many enemies as themselves. enemy.
Later, the reason why the Northern Liao people were defeated.
It was because the furious Meng Yuan Khan personally raised 300,000 soldiers from the royal court, and the warriors of the Northern Liao Dynasty died in battle one after another. people. It was only at this time that the Beiliao Khan discovered painfully that if he did not submit, the tribe would still be doomed in the end.
Therefore, he decided to surrender to Meng Yuan.
In fact, this is really not a lush pasture, and it is only enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of people of the Beiliao tribe. But what Meng Yuan wanted was not this pasture, but submission.
As long as it is a tribe on the grassland, the Beiliao people are the last to be conquered. The reason why Meng Yuan Khan didn't exterminate the Beiliao clan at that time was because he took a fancy to the two most attractive treasures of the Beiliao tribe. One is a beautiful woman from the Northern Liao nationality, who is almost not as beautiful as a human woman. The other is a war horse raised by the Beiliao tribe. Although it was not a cold horse at that time, because of the cold climate, the Beiliao tribe's war horse at that time was already exciting enough.
In order to obtain these two treasures for a long time in the future, Meng Yuan Khan decided to accept the surrender of the Northern Liao people. And it is stipulated that two thousand good horses and fifty beauties should be provided to Meng Yuan every year. With the size of the Beiliao tribe at that time, the annual dedication of 2,000 good horses was already the limit, and basically there was no hope of expanding the army. Fifty beauties are even more unacceptable to the Beiliao tribe. Who wants to send their own daughters to other tribes as slaves
However, the Great Khan of Beiliao agreed at that time.
And it was decided that the first batch of beauties sent to the Mongolian court would be selected from the Great Khan tribe, and her two daughters were among them.
Perhaps it was because the unification of the grassland was finally completed, so Meng Yuan Khan was very happy, and left the Beiliao tribe with the spoils, and then left a team of 30,000 people six hundred miles away from the Beiliao tribe. The team's wolf cavalry has been stationed for a long time. From this day on, almost every year the wolf cavalry will go to the Beiliao tribe to wreak havoc.
The Mongolian people remembered the bravery of the Beiliao people, and they would never allow the Beiliao people's cavalry to recover. Therefore, every year they would find all kinds of excuses to recruit men from the Beiliao nationality, but none of them returned. In order to protect themselves, the Beiliao tribe began to migrate northward continuously, and finally entered the depths of Shiwanda Mountain.
Unexpectedly, it was a blessing in disguise. After the Northern Liao people gradually recovered their vitality, they also cultivated the world-famous Hanqi.
Wanyan Yunshu once told Fang Xie about this past, so Fang Xie naturally remembered it after arriving here. This piece of grassland is indeed not comparable to the lush pastures in the west. The pasture here only grows above the ankle every year, so it is impossible to graze horses on a large scale.
"Just cross this grassland."
When he got here, the cook seemed to recall a lot: "I remember that when I came here, I was still a... old man in his prime, and when he passed through here with a few children, he once killed a team in a fit of rage. The Mongolian wolf cavalry who oppressed the common people. I didn't take action at the time, and those children didn't have much cultivation, but killing people seems to be something they are born with. Except for the honest boy in Shiwan , everyone else did it."
"Everyone hides a monster in their hearts."
The cook sighed: "That killing was the last time they saw so many people before they were cut off from the world. I didn't expect them to live in such a bitter cold place. Actually, I forgot about it after I sent them here." One thing, after all, my master just passed away when I went back, and then I only thought about how to cook comfortably all day long."
"Perhaps it was this killing that changed the hearts of some of them."
The cook did feel a little guilty: "Thinking about it now, it's really too much to leave them here and ignore them."
"Master Wan never asked you?"
Fang asked.
The cook thought for a while, then shook his head: "The old man hasn't mentioned this matter since that day. It seems that he forgot more thoroughly than I did."
Xiang Qingniu snorted and said, "My master is not so forgetful."
The cook said, "Maybe he forgot on purpose."
"Why?"
Xiang Qingniu asked.
"Who knows?"
The cook spread his hands, expressing that he was just talking nonsense.
After Fang Jie heard this sentence, he frowned, and muttered to himself: "Forgot on purpose?"
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The process from Chang'an City to Shiwan Dashan was nothing but long, no excitement, no accidents, nothing.
When Fang Jie saw the Shiwan Dashan for the first time, he was also shocked by it. This is only the outermost mountain that I can see, and it already makes people feel that this place is absolutely impossible to survive. The original Beiliao people had no choice but to enter a farther place in order to survive.
It can be seen that the resilience of people is really immeasurable.
"It hasn't changed at all."
The cook said with emotion: "I remember that there was a sect called Yipin Villa who lived in seclusion. It is said that there were many geniuses in the sect. There were a few disciples from a villa who went south to the Central Plains. Almost all fight for a piece of world in the rivers and lakes."
"Aren't you so obsessed with cooking that you don't care about anything?"
Xiang Qingniu said.
The cook smiled: "Even if I don't ask about world affairs, I'm still a cook. Do you know which two kinds of people are the most well-informed in this world?"
Without waiting for Xiang Qingniu to answer, the cook continued: "The waiter in the restaurant, the number of customers they meet every day is very scary to say the number of people in a year. On the wine table, people exchange information. Good place, so Xiao Er can know a lot of strange things. However, the first type I want to talk about is not the Xiao Er in the restaurant, but the cook. Every restaurant has many waiter Xiao Er, and their All the information will eventually be gathered to the cook. Because the waiters all need to curry favor with the cook, because the cook can give them benefits."
"There are also women in the brothel. Those who come to the brothel for entertainment are mostly quacks, and most of them are the kind of wanderers who travel all over the world. These people, in order to show their extensive knowledge, always pour out what they know. Women in brothels. Of course, there is another reason. If you spend money and come out of a woman's room in a short time, wouldn't it appear incompetent? So chatting is also a must do when visiting a brothel. Of course, I want to say The second type of person is not a brothel girl, but a tortoise..."
The cook said: "The news from those brothel women will be gathered to Mr. Gui. Because they need to please Mr. Gui, the county magistrate should take care of it now. If these brothel women want to live better, eat better, dress better , the price for picking up guests is higher, and Mr. Gui needs to speak well in front of the owner of the brothel."
Xiang Qingniu sneered: "So, the cook and Mr. Gui are the same way?"
"spit."
The cook couldn't help but spat: "You young man really can't chat."
"I'm a younger generation?"
Xiang Qingniu couldn't help being slightly angry and said: "Everyone is an honest person, so you can figure out everything with your heart and soul. Your master defected to my master back then, isn't that right? At that time, in terms of seniority, was your master At least one generation lower than my master? If so, then you are at least two generations lower than my master, then you should call me uncle. My master took you in as a master. Although you do not have the status of master and apprentice, you Master must also call my master respectful as master, right nephew?"
The cook opened his mouth, there was no argument.
Xiang Qingniu said with a smile: "You youngster, you are not well-behaved!"
Fang Xie couldn't help laughing, the cook was really powerless against Xiang Qingniu in this regard.
Xiang Qingniu approached Fang Jie and asked in a low voice, "This cook really doesn't know how to fight, right?"
Fang Jie nodded: "Really not."
Xiang Qingniu hummed and said he was relieved, then turned to the cook and said, "Nephew, do you know that you have to obey the rules when you see me? You can't be big or small."
Cook: "You know what, this is the first time in my life that I really want to fight."
Xiang Qingniu shook his head quickly: "This is wrong!"
"Someone."
At this time, Mu Xiaoyao, who was on the side, suddenly said: "Come out from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and the speed is extremely fast. The breath is very strange, it seems... very stiff, like a person who has just entered the practice, and runs The use of breath is not smooth at all. However, this person's cultivation base is ridiculously high."
"It should be the person we are looking for."
Fang explained.
At this moment, a huge shadow suddenly flew over from a distance. When it came from a distance, it was just a small black spot, but it soon reached the top of everyone's heads, and it turned out to be a mountain rock with a diameter of about two meters, flying towards it with the sound of howling wind.
Xiang Qingniu jumped up from the horse's back, flung the boulder with both hands, landed firmly on the ground, turned around and shouted into the mountain: "Which bastard is so ignorant? I don't know how to be civilized!" Be polite? Is that how you welcome your grandpa?!"
Standing there alone holding a big rock, he actually had a very domineering aura. But after this sentence was finished, everyone laughed, and the momentum disappeared.
"The bastard came to meet his grandpa...you?"
The cook asked.
Xiang Qingniu blushed, and threw the stone aside casually: "I'm your uncle! It's a little bastard who came, and you are..."
The cook rolled up his cuffs and walked forward, but was pulled by Fang Xie: "Don't worry... don't worry..."
While they were talking, someone jumped over from a distance. That's right, it's not the kind of rush that normal practitioners run when running, but jumping. That person can jump at least 100 meters in one jump, then take off and fall, and then take off again. Every time I take off, I have to swing my arms back, and every time I land, I step on the snow into two deep pits. So it looks a little funny.
But, how can it be just funny when jumping 100 meters