[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

To the west of Longxi, outside the Jincheng Fortress, there are mountains piercing the clouds, which are called accumulated stones.

"It is said that when Dayu was sent to control the water, Dayu first arrived at the Jishi Mountain near the source of the Yellow River. Seeing that the Jishi Mountain was towering and stretching, blocking the river, he ordered the mountain to be dug out from the middle to let the Yellow River flow out from the gap. This is "Yu "Gong" said: "Guiding the river to accumulate stones, as for the dragon's gate"..."

"Cut out this mountain?" Looking at the towering mountains in the distance, the Qiang people around the green-shirted man showed suspicion, "The Han people like to talk big! This mountain is so high and this rock is so hard, how can it be possible to cut it open?" !"

"Indeed, in the ancient world there were many affiliations, but everyone likes oneself has a powerful ancestor." The heroic Qiang language was spoken from the mouth of Qingshan, with the unique elegance of the Central Plains, without losing the clarity of the mountains, "But here, it shouldn't be a fake." After speaking, he raised his whip and drove forward first.These Qiang people's chief Hao Yuan fans shouted quickly to let the tribe follow.The horses bred by the wild sky are thin and bony, vigorous as flying, and the horseshoes clack loudly, stepping on the yellowing Caoye, bypassing the clusters of rocks, and the sound of rushing water from far to near, A tumbling river burst into the eyes impressively.

The Qiang people and the chieftains all exclaimed in amazement.The mountains on both sides of the valley are extremely steep, as if they were cut down from the sky by a sharp knife to clear the way for the Yellow River.

"The river is turbulent, and it has been hitting the mountain for many years. This seemingly indestructible mountain range has been riddled with holes. By making good use of the situation, it does not require much manpower to cut the mountain and guide the river."

Listening to the gentle explanation of the man in green shirt, the chief fan is more and more grateful for the decision to keep this Han man.As early as more than fifty years ago, he heard that there was great chaos in the land of Edong, and that many Han people either fled north to the Xiongnu or Xianbei, or fled to the land of Western Qiang in order to escape the disaster.But those were just rumors. In truth, it was probably because the tribe was too small and lived in the west for a long time. This man in green shirt named Yu Huai was the first Han he had ever met.

"I speak the Qiang language, and I eat very little, and I can live on wine." Outside the Mu tent that day, Yu Huai smiled at the sharp knives in their hands, "How about it, do you think about keeping me?"

Are all Central Plains people so good-looking?Yuan Fan was a little dazed.Different from the dark and rough Qiang people who have been exposed to wind and rain, the skin of the Han people is extraordinarily white, like white jade dug out of the mountains, exuding a radiant luster under the sunlight.When he smiled, his eyes were bent down like crescent moons, and when he was not smiling, they looked like peach petals. His pupils were extremely clear, like streams of water, and even the sharp knives in their hands, reflected in such eyes, turned into a trickle. , Gentle breeze, gently blowing to the endless grass.

For the Qiang people living in the western wilds, killing people is like cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle.But this time, Yuan Mi hardly hesitated, and left behind this Han who claimed to have fled from the Central Plains and wanted to make a name for himself with the Qiang people.

"Then why don't you go directly to Great Chief Hao?" They are now in the prairie beside the Shizhi River.Chief Hao brought his tribe here from the farther west and joined other Qiang tribes.The great chief Hao, who claims to be the most wise man before the Qiang people, Dianchang, who is better than the blood embedded in copper, slaughters cattle with blood, and swears to all the Qiang tribes that he will lead them through the steep mountains, along the turbulent river, to even more Life in the East.There are richer grasslands, more fertile land, and a warmer climate. The people there are as weak as cattle and sheep. When they see their strong horses and sharp knives, they will flee to the east and bring the beautiful The land was given up.

The tribe led by Yuan Mi is the smallest and weakest of all, with a total of less than a hundred people.If this Han wants to be a great hero and get more land, cattle and sheep in the future, he should go to the great chief.

"Maybe it's because the wine here tastes better?" Yu Huai didn't know whether it was true or not, but Yuan Fan felt that since the biggest loss was a few jars of wine, there was nothing worth hesitating.

Thus, the Han named "Yu Huai" followed the Qiang people's eastward march.Chief Hao and the leaders of other tribes often called him over after seeing him at Yuanmi's place, and listened to him tell stories about the east in Qiang and Chinese.At first, Yuanmi was worried that Yu Huai would be snatched away by other tribes, so he didn't want him to leave, but soon, he found that Yuanmi only seemed to love the spirits made by their tribe, and didn't care about other tribes, even the great chieftains. How eager, and later, the chieftain gave him a lot of horses because he recruited this Han man, he immediately dispelled the previous unhappiness, even if Yu Huai went out more frequently later, he didn't ask again.

As they moved eastward, more Han Chinese who had fled also joined the ranks.But most of them have sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, narrowed eyes with the greed of a philistine, and they keep flattering the chief in poor Qiang language, which is completely different from Yu Huaiyi.For this reason, no matter how many other chieftains proposed to exchange Yu Huai with more Han people, no matter how many cattle and sheep, he did not agree. , prepared enough finely chopped meat and warm wine.

Yuan Mi and his tribe had originally marched together with these ten thousand Qiang people, but seven or eight days ago, his youngest son Mi Dang fell ill and could not keep up with such a fast march.Since they were only a few hundred people, Great Chief Hao didn't care too much, and waved his hand to allow them to stay for a few days, and catch up with the army after Midang recovered from his illness.But before leaving, I heard that all the chieftains, including the great chieftain, called Yu Huai to have a secret conversation, so that Yu Huai returned to the tent when the sky was dark.

When the sound of the water weakened, Yuan Mi came back from the memory, Yu Huai had led them to a relatively gentle area in the valley, and it should not be too far from the meeting place that Great Chief Hao said.Looking at the figure of Yu Huai leading the horse, Yuan Mi secretly decided that in the future, he must give Yu Huai the best horse and fine wine in his tribe to express his praise.He does not have a majestic body like the Qiang people, but he does not lack valuable bravery.

"There seems to be a voice in front." At this time, the Qiang in his tribe said.

Soon, he also heard the sound of the river valley ahead.

But it didn't look like the laughter in the camp before, it was more like the crisp and dying screams of the knife and halberd.

"Wait--"

Before he finished speaking, Yu Huai raised his whip again and sped up the horse.Out of habitual trust and sincere concern, Yuan Mi also led the tribe to follow.

a mess.

There were corpses of Qiang people everywhere in front of my eyes, some fell on the ground, and some fell into the water, dyeing the river water for more than ten miles into blood red.Chief Chief Hao, Chief Chief Hao, and the strongest warriors of each tribe all died here.And in the place where the corpses are densest, Han people in military uniforms are riding on horses, overlooking the red ground.

Yuan Mi endured the fear and counted, these Han people were only 100 at most, while the Qiang people led by Great Chief Hao numbered as many as [-].Even if the swords made by the Han people were sharper, how could they be so terrifying?

The leading Han man was not as tall as the Qiang people, but he was more majestic than the most heroic warrior of the Qiang people, and even more majestic than the great chieftain.His iron armor was glowing coldly, his sharp sword was still dripping with blood, and his eyes were full of murderous intent, just taking a glance to this side made Yuan Mi terrified.Didn't Dajihao say that the Han people are weaker than cattle and sheep?But this general of the Han people is like Shura in hell, and like a god from the sky, making people fear, awe, and submit.

But when he and his clansmen were too shocked by this sudden change to speak, Yu Huai rode his horse towards the Han general.The horse's hoof that stepped over the blood pool of the corpse was very brisk, and Yuan Fan felt that Yu Huai's smile at this time was much brighter than the first time he saw the shocked man.

Then, Yuan Mi saw the sharp eyebrows and eyes of the Han general softened instantly.The general shook off the blood on the sword, retracted it into the sheath, and called out a name in a deep voice, which was completely different from "Yu Huai".

"Follow filial piety."

Yu Huai, or Guo Jia greeted him with a smile: "How about it, Jia won the bet."

"When I arrived with my troops, there were only a thousand of these Qiang people who were killing each other. If it weren't for the foreign enemy, maybe they would have waited and wiped out their entire army first." Cao Cao said, "How did you do it?"

"It's nothing." Guo Jia prolonged his voice on purpose, and he was willing to continue after he had sold enough. "The Qiang people have no ruler, and they rely on strength as their hero. They compete with each other for cattle, sheep, water and grass. There is no shortage of grudges. Jia is just going to the various chiefs. Howe walked around, listened to some complaints, echoed a few words, did not do anything special."

Just a few words of agreement, can you turn the pure grievances into a life-and-death fratricide?

"It's a good thing that Gu Zao accepted you back then, otherwise I wouldn't know how you, a monster, could do harm to the world."

"The evil spirits are harming the world, just to clear the way for the great hero." Guo Jia blinked and moved closer, "But I don't know how the general will punish Jia for this evil afterward?"

"Cough." Cao Cao coughed lightly, "Feng Xiao, after dealing with the military affairs, we will talk about it when we return to Jincheng."

"I don't see you in one day, but it's like three autumns. If you calculate Jia, you haven't seen Meng De for decades." Although the words were wronged, there was only a smile in Guo Jia's crooked peach eyes.He relied on the fact that the soldiers were far away, and the Qiang people did not understand Chinese, so he dared to tease him with confidence.However, we have to stop. After all, as usual, he has a wicked heart but not a boldness, while Cao Cao has both a wicked heart and a boldness.

"But it's a pity that no one was left alive." Guo Jia turned around, looked at the mess around, and sighed.Although Xiqiang has been in constant conflict with the Central Plains since the former Han Dynasty, there must be special reasons for traveling thousands of miles with such a big fanfare this time.In addition, when he and Cao Cao found out that the Qiang people outside the Great Wall were different, no matter how much the local city guards lobbied, they were only willing to send a hundred cavalry to accompany Cao Cao out of the Great Wall.If it weren't for the fact that there were too few troops, Guo Jia wouldn't have had to take the risk alone, and cooperated with Cao Cao inside and outside to put an end to the Qiang rebellion.

But what still needs to be worried about is whether besides this large group of Qiang people, whether the Qiang people in other areas will also initiate changes.The Shaodang Qiang near the Sai, the Baima Qiang in the Guanghan area, the Yak Qiang in Yizhou, and the Qiang people in the Sai Nei who have settled in Liangzhou for many years.During Ma Chao's rebellion two years ago, many problems that have been accumulated for many years have been dealt with both kindly and powerfully, but they still cannot cure the root cause.In the past, when the Qiang rebellion was raging, even Chang'an was in danger. Therefore, even if the chaos has been nipped in the bud, it still cannot be taken lightly.

"Gu thought that it was the life you brought."

Thinking that he could be completely forgotten, Yuan Mi, who was planning to lead his tribe to flee, was shocked when he saw Cao Cao suddenly stretching his finger over, but before he even took out his knife, he was surrounded by Han soldiers.

"This is General Xiahou, and I would like to invite you all to visit Liangzhou." Guo Jia explained to Yuan fans in Qiang language, his tone was still so gentle, "I still hope that Chieftain, please don't refuse."

When he laughed, his eyes were still bent down like crescent moons, shining like clear springs.But this time, Yuan Mi felt the same fear as when he saw the Han general.

The words of Great Chief Hao are indeed a lie!

The area around Jishi Mountain is thousands of miles away from Jincheng County, and when everyone returned to Senei, it was already early winter.All the Qiang tribes were imprisoned, while Chief Hao Yuanmi was taken to a cell alone and tied to a torture rack.

"As long as you tell the truth, not only will you and your clansmen be released, but you will also get everything promised by the chieftain. You should think about it carefully." As the country of crowns and belts, Cao Cao felt that it is better to show courtesy first and then fight.

The translator translated the words to Yuan Mi, and Yuan Mi was silent for a while, then uttered a passage, and the translator translated it to Cao Cao.

"He said that he only knew that he had to go east with the Great Chieftain, and he didn't know anything else. This was his first time in the Central Plains. The Han people were more cunning than foxes and more terrifying than jackals, but the climate was worse than outside the Great Wall. Much warmer, and a prosperous city, he..."

Cao Cao listened suspiciously to the translator's speech.He doesn't understand Qiang language, but the original words and the translated words have a big difference in light length.

After the translator finished speaking, before Cao Cao could speak, Yuan Mi murmured again.The translator looked a little embarrassed, and hadn't translated for a long time.

"What did he say?" Cao Cao could only ask proactively.

"He said... Han girls are very... um, beautiful." The translator tried hard to find a word that conforms to the etiquette of the Central Plains to summarize the entire indescribable sentence.

"So short?"

"Yeah." The translator nodded vigorously.

"After a while, everything he said will be translated."

"Yes."

"I think he really doesn't know." At this time, Guo Jia's voice came from outside, and he walked into the prison, "At that time, I chose him because I thought he was stupid and easy to fool. , I know the possibility is greater than him."

"Didn't I not let you come?" Cao Cao frowned suddenly.Ever since he came back from beyond the Great Wall, no matter how Guo Jia refuted it, he firmly believed that he had lost a lot of weight.It's cold in the middle of the night, people should go back to sleep well, why did they disobediently run into this dank prison?

"Compared to watching the solitary lantern and the waning moon, of course it's more interesting here." While talking, Guo Jia walked to the shelf to pick up a whip, and then walked to Yuan Mi, saying with great momentum.

"Tell me! How is your wine made?"

"..."

The translator looked at Cao Cao inquiringly, Cao Cao shook his head and refused to let him translate.

"you've been drinking?"

"No."

"I'm already drunk like this." Cao Cao frowned even more. With Guo Jia's capacity for alcohol, he didn't know how much he had drunk. "If you're drunk, you have to go back to rest. I'll take you back first."

"Come on, Fang Zi hasn't asked yet! Besides, it's too early to make a play."

On the way back to Jincheng, Cao Cao confirmed to Guo Jia that this fan really knew nothing about the rest.But then, he had a plan.If there were really people in Jincheng County who were cooperating with Xiqiang, and they heard that they had kidnapped a Qiang chieftain and returned, they would definitely be worried that their plot would be exposed, and they would take action.They pretended to interrogate Yuanmi, and they might be able to lure the snake out of the hole, and let the evildoers in the government office show their feet.

However, Cao Cao still felt that it was more important to send Guo Jia back sooner than this strategy, which might not work.With a hangover and the night breeze blowing, he had a deep understanding of the feeling of having a headache the next day, and he didn't want Guo Jia to follow in his footsteps.

In this case, reasoning does not make sense.So he simply hugged Guo Jia neatly, relying on his absolute superior force to cut off all the crap from the drunk.

Sure enough, Guo Jia couldn't escape Cao Cao's powerful arms no matter how hard he struggled.But obviously, Cao Cao underestimated Guo Jia, especially Guo Jia's lower limit when he was drunk. Seeing that force was useless, he simply used cleverness to break force.

He directly embraced Cao Cao's neck and kissed him on the lips.

Translator: "???!"

Fan: "Yo hoo!"

Cao Cao: "..."

After the dragonfly touched the water, Guo Jia protested: "If you dare to hug me, I will dare to kiss you! Let's see who is more stubborn."

That Xiangyuan fan opened his mouth again, remembering that the translator ordered by General Xiahou from Luoyang hurriedly translated: "He said, he never thought that the Han people would be as unrestrained as the Qiang people. It's the same."

"..."

"But he didn't expect that there would be such a relationship between Han men and men." Neither did I.The translator said silently, "I don't know what kind of scene it will be between the man and the man between the beds."

"You want to know?" At this time, Guo Jia remembered to speak the Qiang language, "You tell me the wine recipe, and I will tell you."

Yuan fans nodded repeatedly.The translator endured the complexity and translated Guo Jia's words to Cao Cao.Cao Cao's face darkened even more.

The country of crowns, the country of etiquette, if this continues, the face of the big man will be lost!

"Knowledge, current affairs person, for, hero." Yuan Mi stuttered in the only Chinese sentence he had learned.Although he was actually defending his promise to speak to the wine party, Cao Cao felt that the Qiang people were mocking him when he said it in this situation.

"He said that the wine recipe uses sheepskin leaves..."

Cao Cao waited for Guo Jia to finish listening to the wine with a sullen face, and then immediately covered the person's mouth before Guo Jia was about to speak.

"He said he had finished talking about the wine prescription, this gentleman should fulfill his promise, and he can't just say nothing—"

"he can."

Perhaps this tossing was enough time, this time Cao Cao pulled Guo Jia out, and Guo Jia didn't resist anymore.When Cao Cao carried him into the carriage and the two returned to the house, the moon was thin and the night was just right.

"really."

"what?"

"Sure enough, after the victory at Guandu, it was captured from Yuan Shaona, and this is a kind of wine." Guo Jia stood up on the side of the collapse, and the crumbling hair crown completely fell aside, "Marchwort leaves... De, what do you think this thing is for?"

Cao Cao really couldn't figure out why the drunk-eyed Guo Jia felt that he would be interested in these leaves when the night was quiet and the bed was full of brilliance.

"Well, but you'll find out soon. After all, Jia drank this kind of wine today."

Early the next morning, the governor of Jincheng County respectfully invited Cao Cao, who was refreshed, to sit in the mansion.When the sun was high and Guo Jia lazily got up from the couch, Cao Cao just came back from the outside.

"It seems that at least in the Liangzhou generation, you can't use the name 'Yu Huai'." Cao Cao said, "The county guard probably got the news from somewhere, and already knows that Yu Huai and Guo Jia are the same person. .”

"No wonder they were so noisy in the prison last night, and they didn't go to play the official power." Guo Jia wanted to sit up, but the pain instantly dispelled him. A hundred soldiers traveled thousands of miles to defeat the Qiang captives, General Xiahou, is His Royal Highness the King of Wei." Seeing Cao Cao shaking his head, he said again, "That's right, if you know this, then I definitely don't invite you to sit in the mansion. , I have to flock here to kowtow and plead guilty."

"So, today I used the name of Mr. Guo to play tricks on the tiger." Sensing Guo Jia's discomfort, Cao Cao rubbed his waist for others, "They explained the whole thing clearly. We fought two years ago When Xiliang was in Xiliang, there was a chief official who guarded himself and fled to the outside of the Great Wall after he was discovered. The news of the turmoil in the Central Plains was probably spread by him. But the news outside the Great Wall is inconvenient, and the Qiang Hao will gather eastward after two years."

"Is this rhetoric......Meng Dexin?"

"If it makes sense, you can believe it." Cao Cao said, "It's hard to be a frontier chief. He has to settle down both the Qiang people and the Han people. Catch the big and let go of the small. The first is the first. Make sure they have no evil intentions and Qiang thieves Collusion, and the rest are too harsh to be beautiful."

"It's that Qiang Haoyuan fans, there are other uses." Cao Cao continued, "Feng Xiao guess, what is it?"

"When the Huns in the north were making troubles, the imperial court took advantage of the split of the Huns and supported the Huhanxie Chanyu of the Southern Huns to fight against the Northern Huns. Today, the Qiang people have migrated inland for many years. Instead of enmity and hostility, it is better to use the Qiang to control the Qiang. When he saw the smile in Cao Cao's eyes, Guo Jia knew that he had guessed right, "But is it okay to be lost? Jia really thinks that he has no brains."

"Maybe he can't do it, but he has a good son." Thinking of the words that Yuan Mi's son Mi Dang entrusted to the translator on the way back, Cao Cao made up his mind. It is their best choice, and there are less than 100 people, and it will not have much impact on the county."

Right.Plant a few more seeds when you have spare capacity, who knows that these unintentionally planted seeds will not be able to continue to form shade in the future and fill the sea into fields.

"Bong Xiao," Cao Cao seemed to suddenly recall what happened last night when the servant brought the hot water into the house, and asked Guo Jia about a sentence he didn't understand on the bed last night.Exotic vocabulary is accompanied by the voice of people crying between the curtains, and the depression and throbbing also bring the strange and mysterious style of the land of west.

"That's an old saying passed down by the Qiang people, and Jia just learned it outside the Great Wall." Having said that, Guo Jia refused to say the specific meaning.

And because this is an ancient language, even the translators in the county, including most Qiang people, do not know the specific meaning.

Until later, Cao Cao had a whim and planned to follow the Yellow River all the way east.This not only helps to inspect the dangerous terrain and supplement the military books, but also can eat, drink and have fun along the way, and visit the great rivers and rivers.But because it was already winter at that time, Guo Jia was greedy for Ziyu from Pixian County, so he decided to go to Yizhou first, and then go to Yinma Yellow River when spring came next year.

"If Liu Bei catches him, Jia will tell him that we are looking for the Iron Devourer, and he will definitely believe it."

Cao Cao couldn't bear to let Guo Jia face the fact that his credit with most of the people he knew was bankrupt.So he prepared it himself.He and Guo Jia pretended to be businessmen who came to Yizhou to do business. Anyway, Shu brocade was famous all over the world, and there were at least tens of thousands of businessmen who came to Yizhou, so they must not be found.

At that time, during the Lantern Festival, they ate ziyu sauce in a restaurant, drank a few cups of Yizhou specialty rice wine, and followed the locals to the riverside to set off lanterns.Yizhou has a unique kind of paper lantern, which can fly to the sky after being lit. It is said that it was researched by Zhuge military division to convey military information. On the day of the Yuan Dynasty, pray to the sky, or entrust something of your heart.

Under the sky full of lights, amidst the noise, Cao Cao heard Guo Jia whispering that strange yet familiar tone again.Just like what I heard at Yuanmi, in this foreign language that only has sounds, secular affairs are always extremely short, but the words that touch the soul are translated into the language of the Han people, like the water of the Zhizhi River, in the Chinese language. It is extraordinarily long and beautiful to bring the herdsmen to the clear Maisi Lake:

The storms and clouds of the past have come with bitter cold,

The dead moon, silent over the tent,

The shepherd and the cattle and sheep cover each other's eyes,

Even Kusano decided to pretend to sleep,

In the endless night,

Eternal, only you,

"You are the sun."