after rebirth

Afterwards, the two men talked about other things. It was useless to chatter, but in just a few words, the red-faced man still couldn't forget what happened on the grassland, and the corpses everywhere would become a nightmare for his life.Zhao Hengxu gave Zhao Yi a wink, Zhao nodded a little, and whispered a few times into Lao Qi's ear, Lao Qi's expression changed from confusion at the beginning to surprise later, and finally nodded and looked at Dong's family with a little anxiety , the host was giving Xiao Er a bowl full of torn pancakes, and asked Xiao Er to pour mutton soup.

Lao Qi swallowed his saliva and calmed down. He didn't understand why the boss was so curious about the killing on the grassland, but he always did what the boss ordered.Pretending to go to the shopkeeper to ask for a jug of rice wine, he sprained his ankle while passing by the two men, and the jug was dumped on their table in an instant, Lao Qi quickly apologized, the red-faced man was a good wine drinker, Seeing a jug of wine spilled so much, I wished I could stick my tongue out and lick it so as not to waste it.

"Hey, brother, the rice wine in the restaurant is very good, so it's a pity to pour it like this." The red-faced man stared at the wine, licked his dry lips with his tongue, and said with a regretful face.

"Oh, that's not right, old man, old man, his legs and feet are bad, and it's like this with a pot of wine, alas..." He sighed several times, and there was a pity for pouring wine in the sigh.

With a pot of spilled wine, the two began to chat. They are both people who love wine, and the common topic started from wine. The more they talked, the more speculative they became. appetite, chatting with the red-faced man, the two have the feeling of seeing each other late.At first, the dark-faced man just lowered his head to eat his own food, and ignored Lao Qi, but Lao Qi inadvertently said that the current business is difficult, and the man also sighed and joined the conversation.As the topic deepened, the three of them became more and more speculative, and they felt like they had forgotten their friendship. The seventh child liked the true temperament of the two men even more, and he almost forgot the real things while talking.

"The grassland is not peaceful now. This is the last time I will be in business, but my two useless sons still have to hang out on this road. If there is something good or bad, alas—" These words come from the bottom of my heart, the grassland is not peaceful It is not uncommon to die on the grasslands. If you die, you will not see the dead or the dead.It's fine if you die, but if you don't die, you might be sent to the Huns as a slave, eating less than chickens, but doing more than anything else, with no hope of returning home for the rest of your life, what a miserable experience.

Huzhou is actually not the last stop on the Northwest Commercial Road, it is just the last stop in Daqi. The commercial road actually goes deep into the hinterland of the grassland, doing business with the major tribes of the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi Kingdom outside the grassland, etc., in exchange for gems, pearls, and jade. Even sharper weapons.Five or six years ago, Lao Qi would bring goods there. Now that he is old, he stops at Huzhou at most, but the business of the owner involves all aspects of the Northwest trade road, and the farthest caravan goes to the end of the grassland. , Through the Yuezhi Kingdom, it takes three or four years to come back, such a long distance, ordinary people can't even think about it.

"Yes." The red-faced man sighed deeply, "I'll tell you the truth, brother, I saw with my own eyes the massacre of the Taichiwu tribe by the Gulunyer tribe. If I hadn't been lucky enough to hide in the In the tall haystacks, there are already dead souls from Gulunyeer's sword."

"Ah, there is such a thing!" Lao Qi was really surprised. He sat far away from the two men. He didn't hear the conversation between the two men before. He just listened to Zhao Yi's order and said that the two knew something about the grassland The affairs of the various ministries, I didn't expect it to be a killing between the tribes, this is really terrible.

"Yeah." The red-faced man sighed, and told the general story of the matter, "Oh my god, I almost peed my pants in fright at the time, but I heard that they have a dog with a particularly good nose. Isn’t the smell of urine exposed, so we have to bear it. It took a long time for us to get up. It took only an hour, and it felt like 100 years had passed. The bones had grown on the ground. We were so big If you have the courage to go to Taichi Wubu, you will find that they were grazing there with the grass, men and women killed all over the place, blood..."

What the man said later had no meaning to Zhao Hengxu and Du Jinrong.After all, the man is just a businessman, and what he understands is superficial things. As for why the Gulunyeer tribe sent troops to slaughter the Taichiwu tribe, what is special about the Taichiwu tribe, etc., in the words of the man None of it was involved, but it became more foggy because of the man's meticulous memory.

Zhao Hengxu and Du Jinrong looked at each other, Zhao Hengxu nodded, the two put the matter aside for the time being, and concentrated on eating. After all, Zhao Ningzhang and Zhao Ningyu are older, and as a prince, there are imperial power tricks in the enlightenment books, especially the calm Zhao Ningzhang, he is Zhao Hengxu's appointed heir has more contact with him, and he understands more what the man's words mean.It's just that the children can't fully understand what this incident means, but it doesn't prevent them from paying attention to this incident. Zhao Ningzhang rolled his eyes, lowered his head and quietly gnawed on the lamb ribs, which were sprinkled with cumin and roasted. Yes, it still tastes like sesame seeds, and I was very happy just now, but now it seems that there is something wrong with it, and I have something on my mind.Zhao Ningyu gnawed on the leg of lamb, his eyes eager to try, compared to his elder brother, he liked martial arts more, and he aspired to be a general like his father, killing all directions, and anyone who violated my territory would be punished no matter how far away, This is the sentence he remembers most firmly.

He kicked his feet forward vigorously, wishing he could grow up overnight and become a majestic general, as mighty as his father, who would beat the Huns to pieces, Oye.When kicking too hard, he kicked the calf of the father who was sitting next to him.

Zhao Hengxu frowned and glared at him, "Eat well, why are you so excited?"

Zhao Ningyu grinned, and said flatteringly to Zhao Hengxu, "Father, are we going to the grassland?"

"Go, but don't take you with me." The two father and son moved their heads together when they were talking, as if doing something bad.

"Ah?!" Zhao Ningyu opened his mouth in disappointment, his face full of disbelief.

"Eat well, and my father and I just went to ride horses on the grassland." Zhao Hengxu touched his son's head, and his hair, which was tied up in a small knot, was roughly loosened by him.

Zhao Ningyu pouted, protecting his little boy. He was so tired of his little girl, always messed up by his father and little uncle, looking for help, he looked at Du Jinrong, and called out pitifully, "Daddy."

Sitting in Du Jinrong's arms, Zhao Ningxin broke off pancakes and dipped them in the soup. Seeing his second brother's messy hair, he giggled and said, "Daddy, Daddy." This is for daddy to watch his brother, how fun it is for him!

At night, in the best inn in Qixia Town, Zhao Hengxu and Du Jinrong carefully looked at the map, Zhao Hengxu said: "The Taichiwu tribe was the largest tribe on the grassland more than ten years ago. Convinced, but he died in an epidemic, and the incident happened suddenly, and his sons had their own ambitions, and the Taichiwu tribe fell apart from then on, and they no longer had the glory of the heroes of the grassland."

When the old leader died, he was not yet forty, which was the most powerful time for a man. Let him develop. The Techiwu tribe is today's Gulunyeer tribe. It is a pity that he died, and died in the epidemic. Well, the epidemic was just accidental. More than ten years ago, Emperor Xuan was in power, and the Central Plains was in chaos. If you can't manage it yourself, how can you manage others.

No one thought that the Taichi Wubu would be wiped out. Although they knew about it, they didn't go that deep. Zhao Hengxu told what he knew, and Du Jinrong added something.Zhao Hengxu asked Mu Bao to bring the lamp over, but Yuan Bao's identity was too conspicuous, so he was left in the capital.Holding the lamp, Zhao Hengxu gestured on the map and gradually fell into deep thought.Du Jinrong beckoned for Mu Bao to bring another lamp, and held up a bright lamp so that Zhao Hengxu could see more clearly. He also thought quickly in his mind that in this massacre, the slaughtered Taichi Wubu had already died. Said, and Grunnyell Department they did more understanding.Gulunyer tribe, the largest tribe on the grassland at present, most of the tribes look forward to it. The great Khan Hadan Battel of the Gulunyer tribe is a wolf. It is said that he will not cry when he was born, and he has bright black eyes. The man who saw it was cold and horrified, and was considered unknown. He was thrown into the pack of wolves by his father and grew up with the wolves until he was ten years old.One time while hunting, his father happened to see that the lost child was not dead and still had a high status among the wolves. He was shocked and thought it was God's will, so he took the child back.

Although he was brought back to the tribe, he didn't wait to see him. His pair of bright black eyes were bottomless, which made people frightened.Hadanbaatar himself is also taciturn and prefers to stay with wolves. Who knows that such a person killed the Great Khan and became the new generation leader of the Gulunyer Department, leading the Gulunyer Department to thrive.

The night was getting deeper, and the surroundings were quiet. The sound of Zhao Hengxu rubbing the map with his fingertips was particularly obvious. There was a "bang", and there was a sound of a stool hitting the ground from somewhere. It was unusually loud in the silent night, and Zhao Hengxu was startled. After a while, "What time is it?" He didn't speak for a long time, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"It's the first quarter of the hour, is your majesty going to rest?" Du Jinrong knew the time just after the beeping sound.

"It's so late?" Zhao Hengxu pinched the bridge of his nose, and stared at the map for a long time, his eyes were inevitably sore. "Why hasn't Jin Rong rested yet?"

"I'm fine, I'm not tired." Du Jinrong put down the lamp and held it for so long, his hands were a little sore. After shaking it to relax, he brought a cup of tea to Zhao Hengxu, "Your Majesty, moisten your throat."

"Let's rest." Zhao Hengxu drank the tea in one gulp, took Du Jinrong's hand and walked into the inner room. After walking more than ten steps, Zhao Hengxu suddenly stopped and looked back at the dimly lit map, "We will leave tomorrow. Go to 'The Geese Don't Return', they're all here."

"Du Sichen and the others sent a letter, and it's already time for 'the geese don't return'." Du Jinrong nodded, Zhao Hengxu said to go there, and he followed there, but... "Three children?"

"Take it."