Only God is left

Thirty years ago, the foot of the Yin Mountain was full of desperadoes from all over the place, and the Tatar tribe firmly controlled this barren land, which was dismissed by the imperial court. However, the Shatuo people who were expelled by the Tang court flocked It became unclear when they came in. Seeing these sturdy riders rushing in, almost all the Tatar heads were thinking about one thing: They won't just stay here, right?

What if the Shatuo people really stay here and don't leave?Although Tang Ting's days are declining, the lean camels are bigger than horses and have been dealing with the scattered Shatuo people for several years. If this group of people really intends to seize this land and take it for themselves, they can only stare blankly.In fact, when the Shatuo people first arrived, there were people who came up with the idea of ​​being the first to strike first, but when the young Shatuo leader appeared in front of everyone, people became a little scrupulous.

Li Keyong was 22 years old that year, and the handsome and personable Zhenwu Jiedushi San Shaozhu who was passed on by word of mouth in the past can hardly be seen in him now.However, in the past three years, this young man has experienced unimaginable ups and downs: being betrayed, expelled and living in exile made him look much older than his actual age, and his skin was polished like sandpaper by wind and frost, cloudy The gray and nearly transparent left eye is almost completely invisible. Only the always straight back and capable demeanor can tell that this is still just a young man in his early twenties.

He is always worried and frowning at ordinary times - he should be worried after experiencing all this. As the leader of the Shatuo people, he has completely become a landless king. People's territory is ultimately dependent on others.Moreover, although Shatuo and Tatar have the same origin, in the concept of northerners, they are like brothers and brothers, even if brothers compete and kill each other, people don't care about them because they are not of the same clan.

Li Ke used his intuition trained in the war for many years to tell him that this was a place full of dangers, but now he had to continue to lurk here and wait for the opportunity.In the face of danger, his style has always been to go head-on, so he summoned the powerful tribesmen to go hunting all day long, showing off his horsemanship in every possible way.This trick is very useful, "The eagle looks at the high flight, and the man looks at the behavior." These people on horseback have always only trusted things that can be seen and touched, such as property and knives.

During a hunt he saw a new face.It was a particularly eye-catching person, in his twenties, with a handsome and tall figure, so dazzlingly beautiful, his white clothes and white horse seemed to be shining brightly.His facial features were neither like Han nor Tatar, but from time to time he chatted and laughed with the Tatar chiefs next to him in fluent Hu language.When he laughed, he also laughed wildly, but unlike the roughness of the people around him, his gestures exuded a charming demeanor.

Li Keyong asked the people next to him and found out that the man was Gao Siji, the second son of the Gaofu of Guizhou, who often traveled to the north to do tea and horse trading in the private market.

The outside of the Great Wall has always been a place of lawlessness, and now the imperial court, which has been battered by the Central Plains Uprising, is getting weaker and weaker in its control over the border villages, but those who dare to do big business here for a long time are obviously not good.Of course Li Keyong has heard of the Gao family in Guizhou. This family has been entrenched in Youyan for generations. It is said that it has been inherited from the Xianbei nobles for a hundred years; I don't know why the members of the Gao clan would rather stay in the bitter cold and restless Beiting than go to the Central Plains.

By the time of Gao Siji's generation, the imperial court could no longer stop the rangers who came down from time to time to hunt the grass valley, and it was all up to the people around them to fend for themselves.When Gao Siji first came to this area for activities, a tribal leader once bullied him as a young man, made a downpayment of horse money with him, and then ambush him on the way back to rob him.Who would have thought that when he returned to Guizhou, he would come back with the remaining tents, summoned all the chiefs to count them up in front of the face, and set them on fire—"There must be a rein when riding a horse, and there must be rules in doing things," he said: " Our Gao family has always followed the rules."——So you better behave yourself, everyone will benefit, otherwise the example will be right in front of you.

At that time, Li Keyong didn't want to get too involved with the personnel in the north, so he decided not to provoke this person.But his gaze couldn't move away from Gao Siji's body, Gao Siji seemed to notice his gaze across the crowd, and he nodded and smiled generously at him.

Li Ke found that his eyes seemed to be golden.

At this time, someone came over and pointed to the sky and asked Li Keyong if he could kill two arrows with one arrow. Li Keyong was afraid that if he missed his target, he would lose his reputation. Looking at him with a playful smile.

So he immediately twisted his strings and set his arrows, took advantage of the two big withers circling and crisscrossing each other, and saw that the arrow flew past, and two sharp cries pierced the sky, and when everyone rushed to the horses, they saw the two big withers were pierced and fell to the ground together. Plopping, so they all applauded in unison.

"Little trick," Li Ke said without much complacency on his face, "A real man has ambitions all over the world, so shooting these beasts is nothing."

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Gao Siti, only to see Gao Siti standing on a horse not far or near, with a faint and clear smile on his face.

And those eyes, such a cold and stunning golden color, he had never seen before.

The woman Li Keyong married was a woman surnamed Liu who was born in Daibei. There is a tradition in Shatuo that everyone is a soldier and there is no distinction between men and women. Participating in Li Keyong also listened to what she had to say.Mrs. Liu is shrewd in everything but she doesn't care who Li Keyong hangs out with outside, let him hang out with different women in a different tent every night.

The fact is that Li Keyong never had a regular relationship back then—for fear of being plotted by someone with malicious intentions—usually he would go there when a bonfire was lit at night, drinking and dancing, and there were never many women who threw themselves into their arms enthusiastically. ——These men on horseback are good at dancing, and every time the women gather for singing and dancing, the women will come out, and the one who dances best will be surrounded immediately.They believe that a man's ability in bed can be seen from his movements, and that such a man can produce the best offspring. Under the harsh natural environment, only strong offspring can guarantee the continuation of the tribe.

That night Li Keyong saw Gao Sji by the fire he lit as usual when he came back from hunting that night, and there were a few young Tatar men beside him who were trying to conceal their ambiguous behavior—it is not uncommon for men to get along with each other here. The Qi brothers will even be passed on as a good story, "real men have sex with men", there is often such a saying-compared with women Li Keyong is not very interested in men, but there are always exceptions, just like he found My eyes seemed to be attracted by this person.

When the lively music sounded, the crowd also erupted in joy, and when the dancers in front of him changed three times, he didn't know whether it was a coincidence or on purpose, but he passed Gao Siji.They all turned their heads when they missed their shoulders. At this moment, the tune was turning fast. Gao Siji stopped and looked at him with a smile. He raised his arm and hit three palms in the air. Invite him to dance in public.

Li Keyong didn't refuse, he returned the gift and turned to face Gao Siji.The dance of the Tatars is a bit weird, their music is not fast, the men almost always move their feet, their hands may be flat or akimbo, but the upper body must be straight, so that it is particularly coordinated with the soft and stretched female dance .But the dance between these two people did not show the slightest peacekeeping. They were two equally outstanding men. Every movement of them was full of strength and dexterity, passionate and cautious, and they cooperated tacitly but refused to give in to each other.

When the song stopped, Li Ke grabbed his wrist. He must have been drunk, but he pulled it to his lips and bowed his head to kiss. Looking into Gao Siji's eyes, he said something that was not very clever, and it could barely be regarded as a compliment. Words: "You are charming."

Faced with such frivolous words, Gao Siji not only was not annoyed but smiled, he looked at Li Ke for a long time and said: "He Lianduo asked the clan uncle of Shuozhou to look for me, and wanted to exchange five hundred Hetao horses. your head."

Quickly realized that the clan uncle he was talking about was the man who kidnapped him years ago and surrendered to Datong Jiedushi Li Zhuo's Shuozhou Inspector Gao Wenji. Li Keyong didn't let go of his hand, stared into his eyes and his tone didn't change: "The Tuhun gang don't know people, they look down on me, and they also look down on you."

Gao Siji also had a slight smile on his face: "Yes," he said, and the flickering firelight made his golden eyes even more enchanting: "—you must be worth more than this."

There was no rain of swords, guns and arrows that night, and everything was calm as usual.

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Erer Huangchao crossed the river and Huaibei, and the Emperor Wu sipped wine from the cattle and served it to the head of the chieftain.When he was drunk, he ordered him to say: "Yu father and son are slanderers and thieves, there is no reason to serve the country. Now I heard that Huang Chao's invasion of the Jiang and Huai Rivers in the north must be the trouble of the Central Plains. One day the emperor pardoned, and there was an edict to conscript soldiers, and the servants and the public waited It is my heart to determine the world in the south. In the world, there are many situations, and I can die in the sand! Please encourage me." Datar knew whether he paid attention to it or not, and he was relieved.

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The two were then seen getting closer, and it didn't take long for their relationship to surface.In fact, the two have been flirting with each other in front of everyone, and no one dares to speak harshly—these two people are not easy to mess with—only occasionally someone will whisper about Gao Sichi's taste in men It's really weird: there are many young and handsome men here, but he seems to think that this young man covered in scars and blinded in one eye is the most charming lover in the world.And no matter what, no one is trying to get Li Keyong's idea anymore, not only because of what he said not long ago-in fact, even the Tuhun people who have a feud with Sha Tuo can only stare blankly now: except King Sha Tuo , he is still Gao Siji's good friend.

When the wind and sand in Daibei gradually eased, the waves in the Central Plains got bigger. Soon after the north crossing, Huangchao broke through Tongguan and went straight to Chang'an, and the Tang Emperor fled south in a hurry.Li Keyong's uncle Li Youjin and Chen Jingsi, who raised Shuowei to vote for the imperial court, recruited more than ten thousand troops at Yanmen Pass to serve the king in the south, but they hesitated because the army was full of heroes from the five tribes of the Northern Dynasties.At this time, they had to turn to Li Keyong, who had been in exile. Li Keyong had 1 reasons why he was not stable and dare not use it, but the fact now is also very simple: this team is likely to reverse the situation in the Central Plains and save Li Tang Only Li Ke used his support to move the dynasty's army.

"When we are beasts, come and go when we are called, throw a few bones and be grateful to Dade, wagging our tail and shouting long live," Li Youjin wrote a letter before the edict, and Li Ke gritted his teeth after reading it once. Said: "Bah! It's not that simple!"

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In AD 1980, [-], (Emperor Tang) ordered Baike to use Daizhou governor and Xin Dai to stay behind, urging the army to hunt down thieves.Ke used to recruit tens of thousands of Tatars, went to Daizhou, and led the South Road to Taiyuan.The Jiedu envoy Zheng Congxuan blocked Shiling Pass, but he could not go forward. He used the road to Taiyuan, camped for five days, and invited food.

In [-] A.D., Su Youhui, the governor of Weizhou, and Helianduo's soldiers would attack Daizhou, and they would attack Weizhou first with a rate of [-] cavalry.Youtun Beauty Valley, Duo and Li Ke of Youzhou attacked Weizhou with [-] people, and Qiaozha belonged to each other.Keyong went straight to camp, entered Weizhou, burnt the government treasury, abandoned it, and settled Yanmen.

Guochang led his troops back to Daizhou from Datar.Chaofen, Bing, and Loufan don't let go of their armor.The emperor ordered Ke Yong to return the army to Shuozhou.

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Zheng Congyu, the governor of Hedong in Taiyuan City, refused to open the city to give way, Li Ke was always surprised.But the Tuhun people from Tongzhou immediately entangled him, so he had to put aside this question for a while. Not long after, when he went to Daizhou to meet Li Guochang, he met Gao Siji who was going back to Guizhou for the last time.

"There's something I haven't told you all this time," Gao Siji said with a smile after drinking for three rounds, "I told you about the thing that your clan uncle asked me to do, but I actually took the things."

Li Keyong was startled, and Gao Siji continued calmly: "But they only counted [-] horses, and I can't do this for [-] horses. So I told them that I can only put people in Under their noses, those who have the ability can do it by themselves, and I can’t take care of it and won’t take care of it if I don’t.”

Li Ke stood up abruptly, reaching out to his waist to draw the knife.Gao Siji didn't move, he looked up at him with a bright and relaxed smile: "—after all, he is also my elder, I can't refute the elder's face, and besides, you can't be so bad .”

Li Ke gritted his teeth again and again, and the knuckles of the hand holding the knife handle made a loud noise, but in the end, he could only say a word from between his teeth: "—Twist a Japanese knife to buy it!"

Hearing his last words, Gao Siji laughed very happily: "Yes, that's right, you have fucked me many times, and you really like it, don't you?"

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When Li Keyong just returned to Daizhou, someone sent a letter from Gao Siji. In the letter, he first politely asked him if he was safe, and then said that time was hard to stay, but in a blink of an eye, it was time to part. I have a glazed dagger, and if I meet again in the future, I should pay him back.

Finally, Zheng Xianggong in Taiyuan City lost his confidant not long ago and bought food, grass and horses from Guizhou at a high price for military use. Go south to the river and take the road in the mountains.

Li Ke tore up the letter with two fists, pointed at Northeast and yelled, but he didn't follow his usual temper and smashed the glazed dagger.

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...Zheng Congxuan refused to lie, so he used his army to support Taiyuan and camped. He left Congxuan the horse with the coins.饔饩.Keyong is from Yin to Jin, meeting the river.

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It has been more than ten years since he left Yinshan Mountain in the blink of an eye, and Li Keyong has been carrying that dagger close to his body, and the glazed handle carved into the shape of a horse's head is still bright and clear without any wear marks.Later, when he thought about that matter again, he was no longer as angry as before. After all, the two of them were just using each other.Sometimes in the middle of the night, he took out the dagger and looked at the candlelight. The changing brilliance on the exquisite and transparent handle could clearly see the color of those eyes. He seemed to defend in many ways.

Very occasionally, Li Keyong would have a flash of the thought of seeing him again.

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