Originally, after Qiao Hua called out the word "little sister", he was going to jump off the city wall to help. But before he was about to move, he was stopped by Shi Zhen. He stared at the fourth brother with a pair of eyes, waiting to ask, "What are you doing?" Shi Zhen had already said: "Do you like your little sister?" "
Qiao Hua might blush for a long time in normal times, but at this critical juncture, he couldn't help but blurt out: "Yes." "
Shi Zhen didn't mean to laugh at him, he then asked, "Then do you want your little sister to like you?" "
Qiao Hua was stunned, and Shi Zhen had already smiled: "Then don't jump down now." "
Qiao Hua scratched his head for a long time and didn't understand what the fourth brother meant. Until Shi Zhen pushed the two of them to howl together, disturbing the morale of the Jiuquan soldiers and stopping the arrows that might bring trouble to the woman, Qiao Hua's mind was still confused. After the two called out, they immediately slipped away, and their horses were tied nearby. They are people from the racecourse, and they naturally use good horses, how can those soldiers catch up? Besides, what happened to those soldiers tonight was so strange that no one was hurt—
—In hindsight, it may not be a legend, and I forgot to chase it for a while. The two of them followed the traces of the woman's mount running wildly on horseback, and after a while, Qiao Hua had time to ask: "Fourth brother, why don't you let me help my little sister?" "
Shi Zhen smiled and said, "You stupid boy, my little sister is not in danger, is she?" You know how proud my sister is, and she doesn't want others to interfere in what she does! It's not that she's not careful, she must have already planned this job tonight, you have to mess up her situation, make her do it badly, she doesn't bother you. Alas, it's hard for you to chase your little sister for so many years, and I haven't understood the thoughts of a proud girl like her. If you want to make her happy, just listen to the fourth brother: intervene less, just remember to slap when you can! "
Qiao Hua didn't know if he understood, anyway, he nodded first, and seemed to understand a little, but he still didn't understand that he wanted to help his little sister, was it wrong? Shi Zhen also knew that it would be difficult to explain it to him clearly, so he didn't say it anymore. The two rode straight for more than 20 miles, all the way to the ancient twist pass in the northwest of Jiuquan, only to see that the hoof tracks in front of them slowed down. They also knew that the little girl was not far ahead.
Sure enough, I turned out of a red willow forest and walked straight to a mountain along a trail in front of me, the mountain was not short, and the slope was steep, but fortunately, both of them were good horses, and it was not difficult to climb up. The mountain road was entangled, the rocks obscured the eyes, and after walking for a while, it suddenly opened up in front of me, and it turned out that I had reached the top of the mountain. This mountain is located at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, which should not be high, but compared with the flat land around, it is a very high slope. When the two raised their eyes, they saw the little sister. Her horse was resting aside, and her men were untying the man she had just rescued. The man had chains on both hands and feet, and several hemp ropes tied to his body. The woman who was called Qiao Hua's little sister first used a dagger to cut off the ropes on his body one by one, and then pried the chain open according to the seam of the iron chain.
This is a high slope, on the top of the mountain, unobstructed, and the moonlight shining on her face is naturally much clearer. Although the moon is still dark tonight, her face is shining. Qiao Hua had dismounted and was looking at the girl foolishly. I saw that under the moonlight, her age seemed to be really small, and her eyes were more separated, which may be a shortcoming to others, but for her, it added a heroic and sassy sparseness. She uses a skirt knife, so although she rides a horse, her dark flower skirt still hangs down to the top of her feet, but her long skirt is different from other women, divided into eight pieces, although it can't be seen from the outside, in fact, there are eight dark forks, so that she can pull out her legs and knives at will when people are defenseless. The skirt was tied around her girl's waist, making it even more slender. Qiao Hua didn't know whether this skirt was good-looking, or the person wearing it was good-looking. The girl's cheeks have always been rosy, but now her cheeks are a little pale. She had a small and warped nose, but in that warp it was not only aura and good looks, but also a kind of arrogance of hers hiding inside. The tiger's mouth on her good-looking hand was quite rough, and there were one or two scabs on it, which she was used to holding the reins. The girl had already untied all the shackles of the person she had rescued, but she lowered her head and did not speak for a long time.
The person she rescued was a man with a yellow face and a reasonable appearance. Qiao Hua looked at her untied him, and somehow, he blocked it for no reason. The girl didn't speak first, the man was still waiting to thank him, and the girl had already spoken: "Do you remember what place this is?" "
The man was stunned.
The girl said, "Don't you remember, three years ago, there was a girl who watched the moon here with you?" "
Qiao Hua in the distance was stunned. Before he got closer, Shi Zhen on the side couldn't help but pull his sleeve when he heard this, telling him not to step forward. The girl's eyes suddenly sparkled, like the light of the moonlight on the thin water, but how could there be water on her face? There is no night dew. The girl said: "Do you know how that girl has lived in the past three years? "
The man seemed to show some remorse on his face. The girl looked at him with a gentle face and said softly: "I told you everything, you should have understood the cause and effect, you have wronged her." At that time, you called her September, but do you know how deeply you hurt her? I told you everything..." Her face suddenly showed anger: "You can't blame me for killing you without explaining it to you!" "
Then, she suddenly came out of the knife, and the knife came out of her skirt again. That man clearly also has martial arts, but even if he is as sharp as him, he didn't expect that his savior would suddenly knife at himself after riding a lone blade and taking risks to make troubles, rescuing himself outside the court, and removing all the torture instruments for himself!
The blade was very bright. The man hid, but how could he hide from this girl's thin and bright knife light? The knife light was like a wash, and the knife light didn't seem to kill or poke anything, but to wash something under this moonlight, and it was so gently washed into the man's chest and abdomen like a kiss from another world. The man screamed, he had to stand with his back to the mountain, and after being stabbed, he fell down the mountain. The girl put away the knife and glanced down the cliff, the blade was too bright, and the blood seemed to be unstoppable on the blade, and the girl muttered: "Don't blame me for letting you die and shatter at the bottom of the mountain, I really don't want to see you again." You are the villain who took me two years to easily trap all your horse thieves in the quicksand valley, but I didn't want to be picked up by the official army and caught you who were so hungry that there was no power to resist. You are too ruthless to September, rape first and then kill, deceive her trust, and kill her family, and you should never let her be subordinate... Traitor. Do you know that a woman's experience will make her worse than death?
The first time I heard what happened to September, I vowed to kill you on her behalf, who said that women are easy to bully?
Therefore, I will also rob you out of the Dharma field and kill you. ——September, I avenged you today. "
There was no excitement in her words, only a trace of relief. Qiao Hua in the distance looked at her from a distance, only to feel that he loved her very much, and it was heartbreaking to love to the depths. Shi Zhen's gaze at this girl contained a kind of admiration - admiring her responsibility and courage, courage and chivalry, in this world, there are not many people who can really get his "leopard eyes" admiration, and there are not many women like this.
The girl stroked her hair with both hands and said softly: "Fourth brother, fifth brother, did you have anything to do with Jiuquan?" "
Li Bo's younger sister, styled graceful, pulled up her skirt and mounted her horse like a fluffy ponytail.
Shooting left and right must be stacked, and women are already like this.
How can a man meet?
The singing sounded in Shuangshuzi Town, near the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert. Shuangshuzi is located at the junction of Gan and Meng, and the nearest town is Jiuquan, but it is also about 300 miles away. The water in these trees is salty, but for the people of the Lijia Racecourse Detachment who have been grazing outside for many years, it is an excellent thing to have such a saltwater well for people and animals to drink. At this time, it was sunset, and a warm red egg-like sun was about to fall into the end of the sky at the junction of grass and sand, but the afterglow was not finished, and all the warmth that had not yet been exerted in the day was scattered on the grass on the grass that was short by hooves. At this time, the people of the Li family racecourse had driven the horses back into the pen, and several rough men sang these words loudly to the sunset in the popular tune of Gansu and Shaanxi. Although the water and salty grass are short, in this rough and hard world, it also sings a warm tune to their thick and hard throats.
I only heard a girl smile and say to those big men: "Uncle Guo, Uncle Li, if you sing like this again, the young lady may be back today, aren't you afraid that she will hear it and annoy you?" ——What is 'women are already like this, how can men meet'? The young lady wants to ask again, are you men more capable than her? "
The singing man smiled and said, "How can it be so fast!" Besides, I didn't write this lyric, the whole grassland is singing like this, and I can't blame myself. "
Saying that, he pushed a big man beside him: "Lao Li, you can't sing like this anymore." Last time my little sister got angry when she heard such a song and drank with you, but I saw her get you drunk with my own eyes. "
Then Lao Li smiled naïvely, it seemed that there was really such a thing. This horse herding team has a total of thirty or fifty people, and this winter, the grass is particularly short, so they followed the young lady to "Ma Haier" to graze. The "Ma Haier" aquatic grass is extremely abundant, and they rushed to the end of autumn and accumulated a lot of forage first, so this winter, their horses did not lose weight, but became stronger. In the spring, in order to train the horses, he reluctantly resigned from the oasis and brought eight or nine hundred horses to Shuangshuzi.
Speaking of young ladies, they seem to be admired by everyone. Their young lady is none other than Li Yongrong, the sister of Li Bo, the owner of the Li family branch of "Grass on the Sand", and Li Yongrong, who has the nickname Yongrong. The song just sung is to praise this girl. Originally, not everyone agreed that they were going to "Ma Haier" to graze this winter, but Li Yongrong insisted repeatedly and went. For nothing else, just because although the "Ma Haier" is an oasis, it is hidden in the deepest part of the Badain Jaran Desert, according to the perennial herders, the oasis is a fairy pasture, but it will "float", and no one can be sure where it is. Those who have been there have not been able to find it according to the map the following year. But their young lady didn't accept that anger, because she was a woman, but she was more competitive. According to her knowledge of wandering the grassland in the past ten years, although they finally ate some twists and turns, they still found "Ma Haier" and had a good winter. After coming out of the desert, they learned that the pastures elsewhere this year suffered a lot of losses due to heavy snowfall and snow disasters. Many people lost more than three-quarters of their livestock, so they couldn't help but admire their lady's foresight. The Li family branch was originally divided into two parts, and since the young lady was sixteen years old, she brought a group of people to graze and find a place. Then Uncle Li said naïvely: "In September, the young lady has been gone for five or six days, don't you know where she went?" "
That September had a graceful figure and a soft face, and shook his head and said, "I don't know." She is Li Xiaomei's closest and most caring person, and this is the case since Li Xiaomei rescued her from the desert that day, but this time she didn't know what the young lady was doing. At this time, her soft face looked to the southwest, and suddenly cheered: "Miss is back!" "
Several wranglers looked over there together, and sure enough, a fast horse ran over, looking at the speed of the horse and the heroic posture of the rider, they knew that it was the little sister of the Li family. Li Xiaomei's horse rode very well, flying like a cloud on the tip of the grass. She had taken off the long skirt she wore when she robbed the Dharma field,—— her skirt was generally only worn when she went out to hide a knife, at this time I saw her wearing a short dress, open-minded, both cuffs and both ankles were tightly tied with a long red cloth strap to the cuffs and trouser legs, the horse galloped, the four red ribbons flew and flew on the grass dyed with golden light, and the proud woman on the grassland had her own kind of charm and strength. Several people herding horses here were happy, and someone took out a horn from their arms and blew it "woo". Rough men also have their own expressions to welcome their fairies and legends. I saw that Li Xiaomei had rushed closer in the blink of an eye, with a smile on her face, as if she was sincerely happy to be back home.
The wranglers couldn't say anything when they saw her, but they smiled so much that their faces wrinkled more, and they only said hello lightly. Li Xiaomei stopped the horse next to Jiu'er and turned over and dismounted, wanting to say anything but still didn't say anything, just took out a jade pendant from her sleeve and put it in Jiu'er's hand. The jade pendant was originally taken off by her from the man she robbed from the Dharma field, and Jiu'er seemed to recognize it, and her body shook when she held it in her hand, and Li Xiaomei said softly: "It's him, right?" "
September nodded.
Li Xiaomei patted her on the shoulder, "I killed him." - Everything is over, and the nightmare of this sister who made her pity is finally over. Tomorrow should be a new beginning for her. September slowly lowered her head, Li Xiaomei didn't know how to comfort her, she led the horse to the circle and tied it, she didn't want to see September's tears.
When she tied up her horse, she saw Uncle Li who started singing. Uncle Li seemed to be her right-hand man, only to hear him ask in a low voice: "Little sister, is there anything bigger?" "
Li Yongrong sighed and said softly: "My eldest brother is gone." "
Uncle Li was shocked and said "oh", and for a while he still couldn't understand the specific meaning of this sentence. ——If Li Bo is gone, then, that, the thousands of people on the grass and sand, and even the entire grassland, are like scattered eggs, what is the meaning? Li Xiaomei patted him on the shoulder understandingly, he had watched his brother and sister grow up, she wanted to get even a little comfort from him, but it seemed that ... In Uncle Li's astonishment and helplessness, she staggered back to her tent, and for the first time felt that she was - so lonely.
Butter candles were lit in the tent. The yellow light of the candle shone on the top of the tent, and in turn shone on Li Xiaomei's somewhat thin face, she had lost a whole circle in the past two days, and she was thinking about the meaning of her eldest brother's disappearance. The brother-sister friendship between Li Xiaomei and her eldest brother Li Bo can be said to be surprisingly good. The eldest brother is thirteen years older than her, although he took her out when he was young, rode around the world, and let horses make a living, but it can really be said that she has not been alone in the wind and rain of the world. She is sometimes so proud and stubborn, thinking that although she is a daughter, she is not inferior to those men at all, and she does not need the care of her eldest brother at all, and she really almost did it, from releasing horses, finding water, leading the team, leading the way, setting up camp, watching the weather, dialing knives, and bending bows, she has nothing that is not the best, but she now understands: this eldest brother, who has been hiding in the shadows and silently watching her eldest brother, is very important to herself and this grassland.
But he was gone. When she heard Shi Zhen and Qiao Hua talking for the first time that day, there was only one word in her heart: I don't believe it!
But it's true, the fourth and fifth brothers won't lie to themselves. Even if the fifth brother is hairy and hears the wind as rain, the fourth brother can't be like this. Now, the emissary of the King of Qin has come to the "grass on sand" pasture, bringing the most important choice to the grassland of five or six thousand old and young, but the eldest brother is gone!
Who is playing the flute outside the tent? It was still such a cool and sympathetic sound of the flute, when Li Xiaomei noticed the sound of the flute, she realized that the sound of the flute had actually been ringing for a long time. The flute is not a musical instrument on this grassland, its sound is too feminine, such as low sighs, like sighs, twists and turns, it is not suitable for this short grass and yellow sand, the boundary of the wind and scorching sun, this is the world of Qiang flute, rhinoceros horn and millet, such a sound is penetrating and tearing, who will play the flute outside such a cold night in the desert? And the sound of the flute twists and turns with the wind, and it is difficult to break?
There seems to be a kind of homesickness in the sound of the flute. Li Xiaomei listened quietly, she was originally a herding person for a living, and she had no hometown. When she heard about homesickness before, she only thought it was an emotion created by a sour and rotten scholar, but this night, this flute, made her hear a feeling of homesickness for the first time. Why do you feel this way? She couldn't even think of what she was thinking? Is it a wandering and a return, a kind of original concern, or the big brother's firm and warm smile?
The sound of the flute was still rippling, stirring the thoughts of a woman in the tent in the distance. The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the woman's feelings are up and down, but does the person who plays the flute know?