"Huh?" Li Hongji stopped his movements.
Ulan Sobud thought for a while and said to Li Hongji: "The grassland is no better than the place where you Han people live. There are often wolves on the grassland. I am a woman. What if I encounter wolves at night?"
"This..." Li Hongji hesitated.
"Like them, move your tent here." Ulan Sobud pointed to Lanlan and the others' tent, then retracted his head back to his tent, and added a sentence at last: "In case it comes. Wolves, let them eat you first."
Li Hongji smirked for a while, but moved the tent closer.
"You bastard, if you are so far away, the wolves will still enter my tent." Ulan Sobud almost stomped his feet, as if there must be wolves coming at night.
Li Hongji gritted his teeth and moved the tent to the nearest place. Like Lanlan and the others, it was almost close to Ulan Sobud's tent.
Li Hongji's attendants all pitched their tents in front and back. If there are wolves at night, they really can't reach Ulan Sobud's tent.
At night in the north, the cold came quickly. After eating roast beef and lamb, everyone felt dry and cold. One by one, he shrank his neck and quietly returned to the tent.
Firewood was lit in the tent, and Ulan Sobud still felt a little cold. She summoned Lanlan and Meimei to her tent, and the three of them made a bed before repelling the cold a little.
Li Hongji also felt cold. The Mongolian tents were far worse in resisting the cold wind than the Han earthen walls. He moved the brazier to the bed, and then covered all the clothes he took off on the quilt, so that his body was slightly warmer.
After a day of running, I was really tired. Li Hongji wanted to go to sleep long ago, but the sound outside made him toss and turn, but he couldn't sleep. This sound was not the wolves calling, but the whistling northwest wind. , There are women whispering.
As the cold became more and more intense, Li Hongji wrapped his quilt tightly, and did not know when he fell asleep in a daze.
A ray of sunshine finally repelled the midnight chill, and Li Hongji slept soundly.
"Hongji, get up!" Ulan Sobud's voice came in from outside the tent.
"Oh." Li Hongji was just asleep, turned over and fell asleep again, ignoring Ulan Sobud and blowing cold wind outside the tent.
Ulan Sobud listened carefully. There was no sound in the tent again. Knowing that Li Hongji was asleep again, she slapped the tent with her small hand: "Li Hongji, get up."
"What are you doing? It's still dark, so let people not sleep?" Li Hongji's eyelids were particularly heavy, and he still didn't open his eyes.
"It's not bright yet?" Ulan Sobud opened the tent and walked in. "Li Hongji, open your eyes and see, the sun is hanging above your head."
Li Hongji opened his eyes, and the sun really rose high. "The sun has come out, what's the matter? Anyway, just wandering around on the prairie."
Ulan Sobud's tone softened: "Don't you like the prairie?"
"What's on the prairie? Isn't it just the green grass roots, and the endless cold, other than that, I really haven't seen any scenery."
"Huh!" Ulan Sobud was furious, but she thought about it, and Li Hongji was right. It's winter, endless grass waves, endless flocks, and horse-horses galloping on the prairie. , I can’t see it now, "Get up! Everyone is waiting for you!"
"The happiest thing now is to get a good night's sleep." Li Hongji said as he sat up from the bed, he stretched his waist, took the quilt from the quilt, and put it on his body.
"You dress first, I'll wait for you outside." Ulan Sobud opened the tent and went out alone.
Li Hongji got dressed and got out of the tent. Ulan Sobud was still waiting for him in the cold wind outside, "Hongji, where are we going today?"
"Where to go? I don't know the way, it's up to you to decide!" Li Hongji yawned.
"How was your sleep last night?" Ulan Sobud asked knowingly.
"Sleep... Ordinary, the empty grassland, the night is too cold, I was frozen all night." Li Hongji rubbed his eyes.
Ulan Sobud pursed his lips and looked elsewhere, "Hongji, today we are going to see the waterfall, okay?"
"Waterfall? Isn't this a grassland? Where did the waterfall come from?" Li Hongji had the impression that the waterfall must be in the deep mountains, and there is a huge drop in the terrain to form a waterfall.
"Cross the Jimulun River, and then to the southwest, is the Sihamulun River. That is the largest river in our Horqin grassland. On the upper reaches of the Sihamulun River is the Daxing'an Mountains. There is a large drop in terrain and a lot of waterfalls.
"Oh, then go to see the waterfall!" Li Hongji's gaze fell on Ulan Sobud's red face, "Ulan Gege, your name is so strange, what does it mean?"
Ulan Sobud raised his small face: "In the words of your Han people, it is a red pearl."
"No wonder Ulangege likes to wear red clothes."
"How? Does my red robe look good?"
"It looks good, with a little white horse. If you run on the grassland, it will be amazing." Li Hongji stretched out a thumb.
"Hahaha..." Ulan Sobud's silver bell-like laughter floated along the Jimulun River.
"Gege, the lamb is hot." Meimei came over and called Ulan Sobud for dinner.
"Come over together, they will definitely prepare a copy for you." Ulan Sobud and Memei led the way.
Li Hongji followed them, and Lan Lan was still warming the mutton.
Seeing the three people coming, Lan Lan handed a piece of hot mutton to Li Hongji. When she gave it to Li Hongji, she bowed her head, as if she owed the horse whip yesterday.
"Hongji, do you drink horse milk tea?" Ulan Sobud was sitting on Li Hongji's right hand. While she was eating lamb, her eyes were on Li Hongji.
"I have never drunk horse milk tea. I don't know what it tastes like."
"Then do you want to try?" Ulan Sobud handed over his horse milk tea.
Li Hongji took the horse milk tea and took a sip from the teapot. He stopped the milk tea in his mouth and carefully commented on the taste. Except for a bit of salty taste, there was a taste of horse milk, nothing special.
He took a sip and swallowed all the horse milk tea. His dry throat immediately became moisturized. "Yes, the taste of horse milk tea is very special."
Ulan Sobud had been observing Li Hongji's face until Li Hongji swallowed all the horse milk tea.
"I said, our Mongolian horse milk tea is the best in the world."
"Haha, the world is unique, the world is unique." Li Hongji laughed, wiped his chin, and wiped away the scattered horse milk tea.
"Give it to me." Ulan Sobud grabbed the horse milk tea from Li Hongji and sipped it.
After breakfast, everyone packed up their tents and put them back in their packages on horsebacks.
Li Hongji and Ulan Sobud walked in front, because there was only a narrow stone arch bridge on the Jimulun River, and everyone led horses across the bridge.
"Hongji, you Han people are all knowledgeable, do you know this bridge?" Ulan Sobud almost walked on the bridge side by side with Li Hongji.
Li Hongji looked down at the bridge. The bluestone on the bridge had been blackened and worn quite badly. Obviously it was some years old, but there was no text prompt on the bridge.
Here was the birthplace of many ethnic groups, and many ethnic groups once ruled the roost. Who knows the allusions to this bridge? Li Hongji shook his head, "This bridge was built a long time ago. I really don't see any clues."
Ulan Sobud smiled without saying a word.
"Does Wulangege know this bridge?"
"I heard that this is a building of the Liao Dynasty." Ulan Sobudd put his hands behind his back, with a chuckle on his face, but he looked like a wealthy young man from Jiangnan who was talented and proud.
"Liao Dynasty? It has been hundreds of years since now, and there is no written record. Why is Ge Ge so sure?"
"Hongji is a Han Chinese. I don't know much about things on the grassland." Ulan Sobud looked at the bridge piers. "Hongji, look, are there eight piers on both sides?"
Li Hong base station to the middle of Shiqiao, count left and right, and sure enough there are eight each, "What can this explain?"
"This is the characteristic of buildings and bridges in the Liao Dynasty. All materials used must be four, so there are only eight piers on both sides. If eight are not enough, it will be added to twelve. It is impossible to use ten."
"This..." Li Hongji still didn't believe it when talking about bridges in the Liao Dynasty just by relying on the eight piers.
"Hongji will look at this bridge again, looking horizontally, how many big rocks are there?"
Li Hongji counted the past one by one, and he was a little surprised: "It's all four yuan?"
"If Hongji doesn't believe it, you can count them vertically, from north to south, how many big rocks are there?"
Li Hongji walked along the bridge deck, and then came back, and found that in every vertical line, the stones were multiples of four, "Huh! Really!"
"This is the characteristic of the stone bridge in the Liao Dynasty. I also listened to the old man." Ulan Sobud laughed: "However, knowing this is of no use. Since the rise of the Jurchens, they have been the Khitan people who founded the Liao Dynasty. I don’t know where the annihilation is... I don’t know what my destiny will be in Horqin Mongolia in the future?"
"Ulangege," Li Hongji's gaze stayed on her face for a long time, "Isn't Gege saying that if you want to talk about important tasks, don't you call your uncle?"
"Hehe, of course, I just saw the ancient bridge of the Liao Dynasty, and it was a bit sentimental. Let's go, let's watch the waterfall!"
Li Hongji's buttocks were only hit by Lan Lan's riding whip. It is winter. He is wearing cotton trousers and his scars are not heavy. After another night, it is basically no problem.
The Horqin grassland in winter is really nothing to see. Li Hongji felt that in the depths of the grassland, it was purely freezing, but if he stayed in Tangharik, he would have nothing to do.
They ran southwest for most of the day, and finally came to the left side of Daxinganling, and they began to see living creatures on the ground.
Pheasants and hares began to scurry around them.
"It's a pity that we didn't bring bows and arrows. How about some pheasant hares and let you taste these fresh delicacies!" Ulan Sobud looked at the little animals on the ground, looking a little disappointed.
"Hare? Pheasant?" Li Hongji looked at these lively little animals, his heart also itchy.
"By the way, Hongji, aren't your flintlocks very powerful? Can you hit hares?" Ulan Sobud swept around on Li Hongji's attendants. She wanted to see the flintlocks even more. How powerful are they