Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

You should laugh at me when you visit my homeland again

Qi Yan sat in the carriage, opened the curtains and looked at the scenery outside.

The team marched for a month and finally crossed the Luoshui River.Since Wei State took over the north, several piers were built on both sides of Luoshui, and the people around Luochuan also built large and small boats for ferrying.

In Qi Yan's memory, the north and south of Luoshui are two completely different worlds. In the north there is an endless grassland, where cattle and sheep are everywhere. Different tribes live by the water and grass, and migrate along with the grassland.The tents with cone-topped columns are a scenery that will never be seen in the south.

but……

After getting off the boat, Qi Yan was greeted by a majestic city with two characters engraved on the gate - Beiguan City.

The city gate guard was even more nondescript, with a majestic body wrapped in the coarse cloth of the Wei country, a prairie man with slightly yellowed hair and amber eyes, wearing a hat of a Wei country official on his head.

They pinned the scimitars commonly used by grassland people to their waists, held the spears used by soldiers of the Wei State, blocked Qi Yan's convoy, and shouted in blunt Wei State official dialect: "Beiguan City is important, stop and search. "

Qi Yan pushed open the door of the carriage upon hearing the sound, and this was what he saw.

She was startled, with mixed feelings in her heart.

Although most of the remaining prairie people in Luobei are from the Tuba tribe, in Qi Yan's memory: these warriors have loose hair and animal skins, galloping on horseback.

Qi Yan stood on the shaft of the car, looked up at the plaque on the city wall, people could be vaguely seen patrolling on the city wall, the high city wall stretched to both sides, and there was no end in sight.

This wall seems to want to enclose the whole Luobei, and it also weighs heavily on Qi Yan's heart, making those memories of the grassland that have been faded by time shattered and blurred.

Bu Xiao Qiyan opened his mouth, and the accompanying scouts walked forward with the imperial documents, and read out the contents in a blunt prairie dialect.

Qi Yan calmly watched the few prairie people wrapped in Wei country clothes at the door, and saw that they put away their weapons one after another, and knelt on the ground on one knee without even verifying the authenticity of the documents.

The scouts saw the strange etiquette of these people, and felt that their appearance was weird, and a trace of contempt flashed in their eyes.

Qi Yan fixed her eyes on those prairie people who were kneeling on the ground with their heads bowed, and returned to the carriage without saying a word.

The captain of the guard on horseback waved his hand, and the convoy moved again.

The city wall of Beiguan City is very thick, and the carriage walked for a long time before passing through the city wall. Qi Yan opened a corner of the car window, and what he saw was a street that was almost the same as the city of Wei State. There were few shops inside, and the streets were scattered I can see a few pedestrians, most of whom are prairie people.

Some of them were still wearing the old clothes of the grassland, and some of them had changed into the costumes of the Wei country. The plaques of all shops were written in two languages.

Qi Yan lowered the car curtain, the sun was shining in the sky, it was noon, but the car was a bit dark.

Although the Tuba tribe was driven here by the plow army led by the grassland tigers more than ten years ago, but now, the base camp of the Tuba tribe has moved to the hinterland of the grassland, where the water and grass are the most fertile Yanran Mansion.

According to the current pace, at least two more days to go.

The team stopped at the post house in Beiguan City and rested overnight.

At night, Qi Yan couldn't fall asleep. Hearing the watchman on the street knock on the clapper for the third watch, she put on her clothes and went down to the ground in the dark, and opened the window.

The full moon hangs alone, without stars.

Black clouds drift, breeze.

The last time Qi Yan appeared in this area, she was Qiyan Agula, the prince of the grassland.

She was forced by Ding Yi's men to the bank of Luoshui River, and she jumped off the cliff on a flowing fire.

After 17 years, everything has changed.

The grassland has changed, and so has itself.

……

That night, Qi Yan was sleepless all night, she stood by the bed and watched the full moon disappear, Dongfang Lubai...

At dawn, the team set off again, and after leaving Beiguan City, they finally had some grassland appearance.

Qi Yan rolled up the car window again and let out a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, Nan Gongrang didn't want to invest too much money in Luobei, but only built the city, and the outside of the city still maintained the grassland landscape.

This season is the time when the green grass sprouts new sprouts. There are large expanses of tender green stretching as far as the eye can see, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance of earth.

Wei people are very uncomfortable with this kind of road. There is no so-called official road here. It is green everywhere, and there are no mountains and forests. It is easy to get lost after walking for a long time.

The scout took out a triangular flag from his arms, held it high, and rushed to the front of the team with a horse belly.

The guard of honor followed the scouts to the depths of the grassland, and within a long time they could see some shadows of the city walls. The distance between the vast grasslands and the cities is very long.

Stopping and stopping along the way, the scouts would ask the team to stop and run forward alone from time to time, standing on the horseback to check the traces of the shafts, so as to ensure that they were walking in a straight line.

Seeing this scene, Qi Yan laughed inwardly: such ability is worthy of being a scout?Most children in the prairie get on horseback at the age of three and can recognize the way at the age of five.It seems that they are born with the ability to distinguish grasslands, and they can judge the location from the growth of grasslands with a casual glance.

After walking like this for another three days, a city as magnificent as Beiguan City appeared in sight: Yanran Mansion.

During the process of entering the city, Qi Yan saw a bulge on the west side of the carriage.

This is the only high mountain on the entire grassland, Momo Mountain.

The Pili people used to live at the foot of Mount Momo, which is the home of Qiyan Agula.

Qi Yan took a deep look at Momo Mountain, and the mountain in his memory shrank a lot.She put down the car curtain, her face was calm and no abnormal emotion could be seen, but the fists hidden under the wide sleeves were already clenched white and trembling slightly.

The gate of the city was opened, and Anujin, the Jiedu envoy of Kitakyushu, led his tribe out of the city ten miles to meet him.

The scout delivered the document to Anukin's followers, and Pegasus returned.

Scout: "Report! Report to your lord, Kitakyushu Jiedu envoy personally leads the tribe out of the city ten miles to meet you."

Qi Yan: "Understood, tell the guard of honor to slow down."

Scout: "Yes!"

……

The carriage stopped, Qian Tong jumped off the shaft, took the pedals and put them away, knocked on the door of the carriage: "My lord, we're here."

Qi Yan pushed open the door, got out of the carriage, and with Qian Tong's support, slowly stepped off the carriage.

Anukin was riding a pure black horse, wearing soft armor with half a wolf's skin hanging around his waist, and cowhide boots on his feet. He looked contemptuous when he saw this scene.

Anujin was the eldest son of Erihe, and he was already a young man when the grassland fell.He is different from his father Erihe, Anujin still harbors some inexplicable sense of superiority in his bones.Even though he wears the official uniform of the Wei country and pays tribute every year, he looks down on the weak Wei people in his bones.

And Qi Yan's image perfectly fits Anujin's stereotype of Wei country literati - thin, weak, and what's even more ridiculous is that there is no hair on his lips.

Qi Yan was also looking at Anujin, with yellow pupils, yellow hair and curly beard, his hair was turned into several small braids and twisted on the top of his head to form the bun of a man from the Wei country, his explosive muscles revealed soft armor Outlined, his facial features are as tough as a knife, he is sitting astride a tall horse holding the rein with one hand, his chin is slightly raised, and he looks arrogant.

It stands to reason that Qi Yan is an imperial envoy, and Anukin should dismount and salute.But the other party was still waiting for Qi Yan to take the initiative to step forward.

All the accompanying Wei people were very dissatisfied with Anujin's disrespect, but Anukin and his entourage lined up in a row were all hulking and fierce, which was really too shocking.

Qian Tong pressed the saber on his waist and took half a step towards Qi Yan, and said in a low voice: "My lord, do you want to invite them here?"

Without squinting, Qi Yan curled the corners of her mouth and said flatly: "No need."

Qian Tong: "Yes."

Qi Yan's right forearm is perpendicular to his forearm, his fingers are slightly bent into a fist and clasped on his abdomen, his left hand hangs naturally by his side, his feet are spread out, and his waist is straight: the most standard standing posture of Wei state literati.

He looked at the dozens of burly men in front of him as nothing, his eyes were as calm as water, and there was a polite arc on his lips, and he looked at Anukin from a distance.

The atmosphere was extremely quiet, and neither of the two parties was willing to take a step forward, and no one knew how long this stalemate would last.

On Qi Yan's side, many of the entourage secretly looked at Qi Yan. Seeing that the imperial envoy was like this, they all gave thumbs up in their hearts.

This is the integrity that imperial envoys in a country of etiquette should have. Many people also straightened their waists, imitating Qi Yan's appearance and fixing their eyes on Anujin.

Anukin never expected that this weak Wei native would do something like this, and his expression was a bit ugly.

It was not pleasant to be stared at by hundreds of pairs of eyes. Anukin broke the deadlock first, and shouted in a blunt Wei dialect: "Welcome the envoy."

Qi Yan's hatred for the Tuba tribe is no less than that of the Nangong royal family. The collapse of the Support Li tribe is directly related to the Tuba tribe. It is absolutely impossible for her to show weakness to E Rihe's descendants.

She originally wanted to ask the imperial decree to be read out on the spot to make the other party bow down to her, but she also understood the reason why a strong dragon does not suppress a snake in the head, so she suppressed the anger in her heart and boarded the carriage again.

However, in the eyes of the rest of the Wei people, Qi Yan's handling was already very decent.

After entering the city, Anukin became uncharacteristically enthusiastic, his Wei country language was not very good, so he asked the scouts to translate to Qi Yan: He has prepared a banquet, please Qi Yan to come over.

Qi Yan readily agreed, and went to the post house to change into a clean official uniform and went to the banquet with only Qian Tong as an entourage.

There were two roasted whole sheep in the banquet hall, and when Qi Yan was seated, Anukin ordered someone to carry one of the whole sheep to Qi Yan's table. out.

Qian Tong wanted to pull out his sword, but Qi Yan pressed Qian Tong's arm first, like a prophet.

Qian Tong: "Master?!"

Qi Yan stood up and took the knife from Anukin: "Thank you."

Anujin laughed loudly, raised his big palm-like hand and patted Qi Yan's shoulder, and went back to the main seat.