Close to the ground, Man Bao listened for a while and heard the sound of rattling from the ground, which seemed to come from a distant place, but when he listened carefully, it seemed to be right in front of him.
Her eyes were bright, and she raised her eyes to look at Bai Shan opposite.
Bai Shan also heard it, and he was also very pleasantly surprised. He lay down on the ground, pressed his head against the ground, closed his eyes and listened carefully. These clicking sounds were also different, some were louder, and some were shallower. , many sounds are mixed together, but quite a few of them overlap.
Bai Shan's fingers couldn't help tapping up and down following the sounds...
After listening for a while, Man Bao sat up and asked Daji, "How do you know whether these voices are from horses, cows or sheep?"
Daji paused for a moment and said, "You'll know it once you hear it."
After thinking for a while, he said: "The sound of a horse's hoof should be heavier and thicker. The size of the hoof is different, and the sound of landing is also different. Miss Man can tell the difference after listening to it."
Man Bao pondered, "So we still need to listen more."
It was the first time for Bai Shan to lie down on the ground and listen to such a sound. It was quite strange, so he discussed with Man Bao, "When we get back to the motorcade, we will also lie down and listen to it, so that we can still hear the sound of the carriage."
Man Bao nodded.
Daji: …
The two of them were already looking in the same direction, and asked Daji excitedly, "Daji, is the voice coming from there?"
Daji took a look and nodded, "Yes, there should be someone behind that hill."
He said: "Now that the snow has melted and the grasslands are sprouting, the herdsmen should migrate to find better grasslands. We should have encountered tribes migrating."
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, eager to try, "Shall we go and see?"
Daji looked back at the way he came from, "Master, we are too far away from the convoy, why not go back to the official road first, I heard that they are going east, we should meet when we go north."
"Then let's go and have a look first. It's good to inquire about the news first." Seeing that Daji was not very relieved, Man Bao said, "I'll just take a look from a distance and never run out."
She asked Keke in her heart, "Keke, is there someone on the other side of the hill?"
"Yes," Keke is now stared at by the main system from time to time, unless it finds a species that needs to be included, it never takes the initiative to speak, but since Manbao asked, it will not just answer, but will be friendly Providing more information, it said: "A lot of people, a lot of horses, cows and sheep."
It's a pity that all varieties have been included.
When Man Bao heard this, he felt more relieved, and said to Daji: "Since it's a migration, we can probably be friends."
This kind of tribe where the whole family migrated would generally be kind to others and would not intentionally be hostile to others.
Daji naturally knew this too, so the three of them put away the medicinal materials they had dug up, got on their horses and ran towards the hillside.
The hill looked very close, but it took them a quarter of an hour to get there. They slowed down and let the horses go around the hill from the side. The three of them came down before they reached the top of the hill. After appeasing their horses, they bent over In front of them, the three of them lay on the top of the slope and looked down.
I saw a dense herd of cattle and sheep below. Many herdsmen on horseback were driving them forward, and behind them were gathered herdsmen. The elderly and children surrounded by the middle car...
"Is this the whole family? There aren't many people."
Bai Shan looked at it carefully and said: "It should be a small tribe, but they have a lot of cattle and sheep."
"Yes, there are so many."
Man Bao drooled a little, "It looks so small."
Daji: "Miss Man, it's only spring now."
The sheep are not sold until autumn, so they are naturally smaller, but...
Daji took a closer look, and found that there were actually quite a few old sheep in the flock, but they were scattered around the flock and kept the lambs in the middle, so they were invisible.
Bai Shan also discovered this, he pondered: "There are still so many adult sheep, it seems that their business was not very good last year, and he didn't slaughter many.
Man Bao still glanced at the old and young herdsmen with a lot of luggage behind him, and said: "Brother Yang said that many people died of smallpox at the beginning of the year."
Bai Shan and Daji didn't speak.
People die, but their cattle and sheep stay.
The two of them lay side by side and watched the large herd of horses, cattle and sheep pass by from the bottom of the hillside, and the herdsman's convoy also came up to them, passing slowly, and Manbao could see the distress on the faces of the adults and the faces of the children. on the smile.
Bai Shan turned his head following their progress, and a flower that was pressed under his chin popped out. Bai Shan raised his hand to press it down, and when he was half pressed, he looked carefully, and then pulled Man Bao, " Is this medicine?"
Man Bao glanced at it and said, "It's safflower, it can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, so I'll dig it up later."
The two were talking, when Daji suddenly said, "They found us."
Man Bao and Bai Shan immediately turned their heads to look down, and saw a child on the cart that had just walked past, pointing in their direction and saying something to the people around them.
The herdsmen who were driving the carts and the herdsmen who were walking beside them on horseback all looked over. Immediately, a dozen people came out of the team and were running towards them on horseback.
Man Bao even saw the scimitar in his hand with sharp eyes.
Bai Shan also saw it, and without thinking, he pulled up Manbao and stood up from the hillside, then raised a big smile and waved to them happily.
The herdsman who drew the scimitar halfway gave a meal, put the scimitar back, and jumped up the hillside on his horse.
Standing on the top of the hill, you can have a clear view of the surrounding situation. The herdsman in charge only saw a convoy on the road in the distance.
He looked in the direction of the convoy, looked down at the three people standing on the top of the hill, and hung the machete back on his waist.
He spoke to them in unproficient Chinese, "You guys, what are you doing?"
Bai Shan led Man Bao forward, bowed first, and greeted them in the Hu language they had learned, "Hello, we are a caravan passing by here, and we came to pick some herbs because we saw medicinal materials. My name is Bai Shan , This is my fiancée, this is the first time I have seen so many cattle and sheep migrating together, so I watched for a while curiously, I hope I did not offend you."
Hearing what he said, and looking him up and down, the herdsmen thought he was very good-looking, and he didn't have the evil spirit of those horse thieves, so he shouldn't be a horse thief.
So relieved, they dismounted from the horse, glanced at the medicine basket behind Zhou Man, believed it a little more, and smiled, "We are grazing, and you are a caravan? Then what products are you bringing? Salt and tea?"