Qing Chuan's Treasures of Delegacy

Chapter 022

After the first ray of light in the morning broke through the silence of the prairie night, the sound of wheels came from not far from the depression.

The wolves who went to spread the message at night had returned long ago. Last night, it was a gluttonous feast for the wolves.Almost half of the wolves on the prairie were invited to come and enjoy the food.Last night, to Huang Taiji, it was simply an incomparably magnificent dream full of fantasy.In that dream, he saw scenes that he had never seen in his life, and heard ancient stories and legends that he had never heard in his life.In his dream, he saw a wild little wolf cub, and the appearance of baring its teeth and dancing its claws was burned into his heart, and he could never forget it.

The sound of the wheels interrupted Huang Taiji who was in deep thought.

The wolves have dispersed, and they also want to take a good nap.Only the group of wolves that filled their stomachs last night remained here, and Huang Taiji learned from Baoyin that they were waiting to send the two of them away.Because half of the wolves on the grassland knew that there was delicious food last night, and worried that the wolves who didn't know the two of them would not recognize them and cause trouble, the wolf king ordered them to stay and escort them back.

It was the chief priest who drove up, and when he saw the gazelle piled up like a small hill, he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.

With the help of Huang Taiji, he packed a cart full of hunted yellow sheep, and then returned ahead of schedule.Leave Huang Taiji and Baoyin to follow later.After the chief priest left, Baoyin pulled all the arrows from the gazelle, and let the wolves guarding here grab the gazelle that she and Huang Taiji shot but couldn't take away. Go to the pool.Huang Taiji was a little puzzled why she did this, but Baoyin just laughed and said that it was a gift for the wolves.

The horses of the two were still left on the leeward hillside not far away, and they were also guarded by wolves.

When he returned to the horse again, the horse was still calmly digging through the shallow snow to graze, Huang Taiji finally understood why Baoyin didn't like his mount anymore.These horses, which grew up with the wolves, are so calm and fierce. How can they compare with the big gold horses?

On the way home, the sky was already bright, and the entire grassland was covered with white snow.

Huang Taiji deliberately slowed down the horse's walking speed. He knew that when he returned to Baoyin's yurt, it was time for him to leave.He really wanted to go back to prepare the dowry, and he wanted to bring back the little she-wolf he found in his dream.However, Baoyin walked ahead dully without saying a word, he chased after her, rode alongside her, and asked, "Baoyin, what's the matter, you seem unhappy?"

Baoyin raised his head, a calm light appeared in his brown eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Having spent the night with the wolves, have you found anything?"

Her question made Huang Taiji very surprised. After thinking for a while, he replied: "They are the best soldiers in the grassland."

"anything else?"

"The discipline is very strong, very organized, very remarkable. They are indeed too powerful. If my Dajin also has the discipline and organization of wolves, then the dream of father Khan, my dream, is just around the corner." His first half sentence It is said in Mongolian, but the second half of the sentence is said in Manchu.He seems to have forgotten that Baoyin knows Manchu.After a pause, he said with emotion, "Bao Yin, thank you for taking me to watch such a wonderful hunting."

After Baoyin hummed lightly, he stopped talking and his face was calm and unwavering.

However, Huang Taiji thought that she was tired and sleepy after running around with the wolves last night, so she cared: "Go back earlier and have a good rest. I will go back earlier, Baoyin, next month I will take the My dowry is here, okay?" He raised it brazenly.However, Baoyin just glanced at him, whipped his horse and rode to the front.

Huang Taiji didn't understand that her attitude towards him suddenly changed again, looking at the back, he just regarded it as a girl's willful temper.

But he didn't know that he didn't even approach Baoyin's heart.

He didn't even answer Baoyin's question correctly.Last night he only saw the battles and strategies of the wolves, but he never saw the wolves taking care of his partner, and he didn't realize that there was only one wolf partner.Baoyin was suddenly amused by her own thoughts, what was she thinking?She couldn't appreciate the man who was busy marrying other women when his wife was pregnant.The man she wants should be the same as a wolf, but Huang Taiji is not.

She knew that he needed a marriage to consolidate the regime, and everything he did was for his ambition.He's a hero, and he does need ambition.Of course, he married her and fulfilled his ambition, but he owed her happiness.A bitter smile appeared on the corners of Baoyin's lips. How can there be any happiness for women in this era?

That is a raised sheep, but she wants to be a wolf that runs freely between the world and the earth.

But the wolf is the one who knows the unity and dedication of the group best. Horqin raised her, and the grandpa priest is also here.She wanted to escape, but she couldn't. If she went to Daming, she would become Horqin's sinner if she was discovered, no matter if she was blatantly or hiding in the dark to help the Han people.The position in this life is no longer able to stand on the side of the Han people, and it is destined to only follow a curved line.If she wants to do what she most wants to do, the only way is to go to Dajin, to go to Huang Taiji's side. This is the best way.

When they returned to the yurt, the maids Narentoya and Nasen Buhe had already piled up the yellow sheep brought back with the head priest and placed them in the back of the yurt.Even if Grandpa Zhang Morigen stayed here, he was waiting for Huang Taiji to return and go back with him.

But the first thing he saw was not Huang Taiji, but Baoyin who rode back alone.After a long interval, I saw Huang Taiji rushing from behind.After Baoyin handed the horse to Nasenbuhe, she said to the chief priest, "Grandpa Mo Zhigen, he is back. You can take him out now." After a pause, she continued, " I think you may have talked about this matter with the patriarch, presumably in a short time, Da Jin will send the dowry gift, let's start preparing as well."

Hearing this, the chief priest sighed softly, "Don't worry, I will discuss this matter with Mangus, so you don't have to worry."

Baoyin nodded, and went back to the felt tent to take a shower, change clothes and rest.She is in a very bad mood now, just like the gloomy sky at the moment.

The heavy snow in early winter has fallen, and the cold winter is coming.

When Huang Taiji rushed over, Baoyin and his maid had already returned to their felt tent.She neither came out to see them off, nor did she say a word to Huang Taiji.After the head priest Mo Zhigen conveyed a sentence on behalf of Baoyin, Huang Taiji looked at the thick curtain of the yurt, and a smile could not help but appear on the corners of his lips.He kept in mind what the chief priest mentioned.

With a cart full of yellow mutton, the chief priest took Huang Taiji out of a place again.

This time, no pack of wolves saw each other off, and no pack of wolves followed.Accompanied by them, there are only the sounds of the wheels squeaking and crushing on the thick snow, and the sound of horses stepping on the snow.

Huang Taiji still couldn't figure out why Baoyin stopped talking to him all of a sudden, so he asked the chief priest who was traveling with him, "Elder, did Baoyin have such a seldom-spoken temperament since she was a child?"

Mo Zhigen was driving the carriage, shaking his head with a smile on his face, "She is not quiet, after getting to know her, she will talk a lot." After speaking, he took out from his pocket the time when he left the Baoyin felt tent. , Narentoya started chewing on a pack of cheese sticks that Narentoya gave him.The sweet and mellow milky scent filled his mouth, and the sweet taste reminded him of Bao Yin's childhood. He squinted his eyes and sighed softly, "But sometimes, the more familiar people are, the less she speaks." Yes. She has grown up, not like when she was a child. After living with wolves, she seldom returns to the tribe." After speaking, he touched another stick of cheese and stuffed it into his mouth.

Huang Taiji saw that the food he ate was particularly delicious, and he was also curious about what was so delicious about the cheese sticks.But what made him even more curious was that when Mo Zhigen talked about Baoyin's childhood, he even inexplicably wanted to know about Baoyin's childhood.Because he had read the records about Baoyin compiled by De Changan for him, he even asked, "Did Baoyin know wolf language when he was a child?"

"I can't explain it clearly. She was very good when she was a child. When other children were crying and fussing, she didn't cry." The chief priest couldn't help laughing when he recalled the past more than ten years ago. "I still remember when she was born, there was heavy snow that year, and many cattle, horses and sheep froze to death on the grassland. We were all worried whether the child would survive, after all, the weather was too cold, and adults couldn't bear it Yes." The chief priest said, his tone also quietly becoming heavy, "I still remember that day, the blizzard was terrible, and the Longevity Heaven was roaring, and it was in that weather that Baoyin was born." Said Speaking of Baoyin, the cloudy eyes of the chief priest released a light of love and peace, and his voice softened, "When she was born, she only cried twice, and she never cried again. Don't cry It wasn't noisy, and it was so quiet that the adults were surprised, there was a vision in the sky at that time..." Suddenly, the head priest seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly stopped talking.

Huang Taiji was listening to the excitement, but was interrupted so suddenly, Lao Gao, whose curiosity was suspended, felt extremely uncomfortable, "Chief Priest, why didn't you say anything?" He really wanted to know what to say next. If you come down.

Because there is a paragraph in De Chang'an's investigation records, which records the prophecy made by the chief priest at the time, asserting that Baoyin is an empty fate.But after getting in touch with Baoyin and getting along with Mang Gusi and others, Huang Taiji discovered that the matter behind it was not so simple.

When he was in the Baoyin felt tent before, he quietly looked at the furnishings and objects in the felt tent. Although it looked simple and simple, everything was finely crafted.Mahogany tables, carpets made of camel hair, silver tableware, Ming porcelain, exquisite silks and satins, and piles of jewelry.All this said, she was doing very well.He still remembered that at noon yesterday, she urged the maid to change her clothes. The few huge pink pearls tied to the braids were all expensive, but they were taken off by her casually and were still there. on the dresser.

Empty fate, he has heard similar sayings.But judging from Baoyin's living conditions and status in the tribe, Huang Taiji was extremely suspicious, and the chief priest must be hiding something.If it is the fate of Kongming, why would she be named Baoyin Delegeri? What a good name that is.If it were someone else, without that blessing and destiny, I really wouldn't dare to take this name.

So, just now when he brought up the topic, listening to the head priest speak slowly, he could have heard the topic he wanted to hear, but the head priest kept his mouth shut and didn't mention a word.Sitting on the horse's back, Huang Taiji inexplicably thought of the war horse named Ild.The unruly and savage temperament, who will occasionally tease his virtue on the road, is exactly the same as its master.

Therefore, Huang Taiji took the initiative to bring up this topic, "Chief Priest, I know something about Baoyin. Back then, you predicted that she would have an empty life." He was talking about trivial things in daily life, but the content of the words was shocking, "But if it is really a person with no life, it must be sent to far away when it is born. place, or directly sent back to Changshengtian. There is no need for the chief priest to bother you to educate yourself, and you even hesitate to spread rumors."

The chief priest is the chief priest. After all, he is an old man who has experienced many great scenes and great vicissitudes. After hearing what Huang Taiji said, he smiled and asked, "Lord Belle, there are many beauties in Horqin, not just Baoyin. But you Why does it have to be Baoyin?"

Huang Taiji didn't expect that the question was asked instead.Besides, Baoyin also asked him this question.He couldn't answer it then, and now, he still can't answer it.He couldn't explain why, he laughed heartily and said, "When I first saw her, I remembered her." While he was talking, Baoyin's amber eyes appeared in his mind, And the clear and pure light in those eyes. "Her eyes remain in my mind, and I can't get them out." After a short pause, he continued, "You gave her a good name, chief priest, and you protected her so well."

After hearing this, Mo Zhigen just smiled slightly, flicked his whip lightly and drove the two horses pulling the cart, and said, "Master Belle, what do you want to know, wouldn't it be better to ask her in person? Ask me, an old man, I'm getting old and confused, and I can't remember some things clearly." As he spoke, he deliberately laughed out loud.

Seeing that the chief priest's jaw was so tight, Huang Taiji felt a little discouraged.Forget it, anyway, he had a premonition, he knew that Baoyin was not the one with no life.He knew that she must be a very good girl, otherwise she would not be protected so well.

While chatting and laughing, the two crossed the boundary line of Obo, and walked out of the territory of wolves and Baoyin.

On the prairie, the sky and the earth are all white.

The red sun in the sky seemed to have lost its warm radiance due to the threatening cold, hanging in the sky dismally.The clouds are thick and have floated in the sky, blocking the blue sky.

When the heavy snow comes, Mongolians who have long loved to move out of their yurts and go out for a stroll.

Seeing the head priest Mo Zhigen from a distance driving a horse and returning with a cart of pointed gazelles, they all gathered around one after another, clamoring for a share of the pie in surprise and excitement.There was too much commotion, and soon, Huang Taiji saw his subordinates coming to greet him.After everyone returned to Manggus' yurt together, they sat down to have dinner again.

During the dinner, Manggus asked about Huang Taiji and Baoyin's hunting together.After all, apart from Baoyin, Huang Taiji was the only one who acted with the wolves in the whole tribe.Thinking of the tactics of the wolves seen last night, Huang Taiji's heart sank, but his face was filled with joy, and he described the thing of staying with the wolves in a few words.Because, it was a military strategist's marching battle, and Huang Taiji would not express these insights.

Manggus didn't bother to ask this question, but just asked Huang Taiji whether Baoyin agreed to his marriage proposal.

Having said that, Huang Taiji immediately returned to his senses.He made a promise to Manggus that after the big gold this time, he would order someone to deliver the dowry, and then agree on a date for the wedding.Seeing that Huang Taiji had understood what he meant, Manggus stroked his white beard and nodded, expressing his understanding.Now that the agreed upon matter has taken shape, Huang Taiji will not stay for a long time. After the dinner that day, he rests in the tribe to recharge his energy in the afternoon, and leaves Horqin with his troops early the next morning.