Chapter 33: Trip to Khiva (7) Night on the Grassland
That night, an unspeakable cheerful voice came from the white house.
The next day, Qitad couldn't wait to ask Arslan to take Sangkun away. He originally thought Arslan could not make the decision, but he didn't expect that he agreed immediately, with an ambiguous smile on his face.
Everyone quickly returned to Kungler City. On that day, Su Wenyu asked Rasim for Turando again. Rasim naturally knew about Qitade asking for Sangkun. Although he was a little unhappy, he saw that Su Wenyu was also a handsome talent, most likely a Taiji, and he hesitated for a while and agreed.
Although the two slaves knew their identities, they were not enough to see them compared to the ruby of Turgut.
Ruby is his foundation in the oasis.
With the endless stream of rubies, he was able to become a guest of honor for the Manjits.
A few days later, the caravan from Bukhara finally arrived. Compared with the first batch, their camels were obviously much more, with hundreds of them.
Although the profit is far less than that of ruby, if you don’t make money, you will have someone else to do it. For businessmen at this time, it is important to connect. Once you lose your connections, it will not be easy to manage them.
What's more, the profits of fur and honey are actually not small.
This time, neither the old housekeeper nor Arslan followed. The shopkeeper who led the team was a young Bukhara native who walked around Xiaoyuzi for many years. Although he was not as familiar with the desert environment as Arslan, he was almost the same.
Most caravans walk on the established road, and at most take care of the situations of several miles around the road. Therefore, it does not matter whether there is Arslan or not.
The reason why Rasim took the old housekeeper, Arslan, to take a trip in person was because he had to face the most powerful nomadic tribe near the Caspian Sea.
After leaving Kungler and entering the desert, Qitad put down Sangkun in a deserted place. According to his agreement with Ubash in Kungler City, he should be close to him at this time.
The next thing was no longer under his control. For him, whether Sang Kun succeeded or not, it had nothing to do with him next time he brought his army to attack Kungler.
Of course, it is a good thing if he succeeds. There is no place where there is no acquaintance except Rasim. It is a good idea to have an extra arm to help.
As for Kungler, he had surveyed the terrain around the desert mine and understood it clearly. He had also secretly surveyed and mapped the roads he came, and there was no chance of getting lost.
Because Rasim's second batch of camels had more camels, and the number of guards increased to thirty. In addition, one hundred servants who were guarding camels, they all had muskets. Ordinary horse thieves were more than a dozen, and the most were dozens. It was difficult to pay attention to them.
Moreover, according to his estimate, Rasim was mostly a businessman who secretly accepted the stolen goods of horse thieves, and must have contacted all kinds of horse thieves. When will his camel caravan set out, most of them would have informed them in advance.
Of course, no matter how powerful Rasim is, he cannot make friends with all the hidden horse thieves of tens of thousands of square kilometers, which are uninhabited. He just wants to win over horse thieves near the business road.
Therefore, including Qitade, the journey was not only affected by the scorching heat during the day, the cold at night, and the strong wind and sand were blew from time to time, but also the pain of the journey was no different from that of ordinary travelers.
However, the road they took this time was different from when they came. This time the caravan was going to the Khitan tribe near the Ural Mountains of Xiaoyuzi. They had a lot of precious fur, honey and medicinal materials in their hands. When they came, they mainly walked along the Caspian coast, and at this time they could only walk north along the western coast of the Aral Sea.
The so-called desert area is actually a large desert grassland on the west coast of the Aral Sea. Once you pass the northern end of the Aral Sea, you are the pasture area where Kazakhstan Xiaoyuzi and Zhongyuzi intersect each other.
Because they belonged to a Khanate, although they were divided into two Yuz, the herdsmen on both sides were peaceful, unlike the Turkuts and Kazakhs who fought on the west bank of the Ural River for hundreds of years.
However, at this time, Xiao Yuzi had an irreconcilable grudge with Zhong Yuzi. Qitade had already understood something before, and he also knew it more clearly from the shopkeeper of the caravan this time.
In the past, Nur Ali Khan's father, Abu Haier Khan, married an extremely beautiful wife, and his reputation spread throughout the Kazakh Khanate, which made the nearby Sultan Balah of the Zhongyuziqincha tribe envious. At that time, Abu Haier Khan was already sixty years old, while Balah Sultan was only twenty years old.
The Balah Sultan is known as the famous warrior of the Zhongyuzi tribe. He is handsome and envious of Abu Haier Khan to marry the most famous beauty in the Khanate.
So he took advantage of the opportunity of Abu Haierkhan's family to Russia to have an affair with his wife who stayed at home to pretend to be sick. The two were about the same age and had known each other since childhood. They had been in love with each other for a long time. After this affair, they became out of control. His wife often ran to Orks to continue having an affair with Bala on the grounds of visiting her best friend.
Finally, he was discovered by Abu Haier Khan. He led his army to attack Orks, but he was defeated by Bala. Abu Haier Khan was also killed by Balah Sultan. From then on, the wife completely returned to Balah, but the two tribes also formed a deep hatred.
Among the three Kazakhstans, Yuzha is the largest and has the largest number of people. In addition to the Khan in power, there are several sultans. The number of herders under the jurisdiction of the Sultan of Balah is actually similar to that of Xiaozha, and they all accept the jurisdiction of the Russians. With the mediation of the Russians, both sides have been in peace recently.
Although the upper aristocrats were extremely hostile, the lower aristocrats did not care so much, and it was common for them to enter each other's pastures.
However, although this is true internally, once foreign enemies invade, both sides will join forces to fight the enemy together.
Later, when Wobaxi led his tribe back east, he was intercepted by Xiaoyuzi and Zhongyuzi, causing heavy losses.
Along the way, Tolando pretended to be a man and rode in the team of Qitade. According to her wish, staying near Lake Sarekamesh, waiting for her brother to complete the great cause of re-assembling the Khan throne was the first priority, but she also understood that without Qitade, there would be no such thing.
So, she finally chose to follow them.
For the caravan and his group, because when walking, the caravan was at the front and Qitade and the others walked behind. When camping, they were two groups. Suddenly, one person was missing. If they were not careful, they would still not be able to find it.
For Qitad, when he arrived at Truchen, he was going to let her enter the school to study, and then he would talk about how it would develop in the future.
There was nothing going on all the way. More than ten days later, the team finally arrived at Sharkar north of the Aral Sea. This place was originally the gathering place of the Sharkar tribe, one of the nine Ugus tribes at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and later evolved into a place name.
This place is where the former Xiaoyuzhan wife who was born in Zhongyuz and famous broadcaster, and later became the wife of Zhongyuzbara Sultan. In a battle to vent anger, the newly appointed Xiaoyuzhan Nur Ali attacked the place and burned down the original Zhongyuz tribe camp with a fire.
In addition, the Sultan of Bara was the one who was in the wrong, and after the Battle of Orks, he was despised by almost all the Kazakhs, so he was no longer prepared to restore Sharkar's ranch.
This place became a deserted land.
After seeing the landform near Sharkar, Qitad immediately became alert.
Although the Kazakh prairie is mostly lowland, there are rolling hills near Sharkar. It turns out that the tribe Biguan is located in a mountainous area. Once an enemy ambushed here in advance, it will be extremely dangerous when they rest and launch an attack suddenly.
However, this is already the intersection of Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi. Compared with the desert grasslands to the south, there are naturally many horse thieves here, but obviously there are much fewer ones.
Nothing else, the Kazakhstan population is much larger than that of the Shiva Khanate, and it is not easy for horse thieves to find a hidden place to hide.
What's more, since this place was the former Biguan stationed, it was naturally rich in water and grass. After a long journey to the desert grassland, everyone was sincerely afraid of the lack of water.
So, although Qitade also raised his concerns to the shopkeeper, he was not willing to force it because everyone disagreed, so he had to set up camp here.
Although he had set up a camp, Qitade was also more careful. He asked someone to use the straw bag he carried with him to fill the soil and pile it into a simple low wall. The low wall was about one meter and five meters high, forming a ring-shaped fortress with an area of about thirty square meters.
There are female relatives in the team, and it is midsummer. Although the temperature will drop to more than ten degrees at night, when a large number of bonfires are lit, everyone can sleep around the fire in their coats prepared before pushing.
Although Su Wenyu came forward to ask Tolando, everyone knew that this was Qitade's woman, and Turando also thought so. Therefore, once settled down, Turando would be inseparable from Qitade, which made him laugh and cry.
On the side of the caravan, the shopkeeper asked the camel to surround a large circle, and everyone was resting in the large circle. The two camps were about two hundred meters apart. Qitade specially chose a high ground to station on the river. If they suddenly encountered an enemy, they could draw water nearby and defend from a high place.
Of course, the so-called high ground is just one or two meters higher than the flat ground.
The caravan's camp was set up in a sheltered valley, about three hundred meters away from Qitade and the others.
At midnight, I saw that I was safe and I guess I was thinking too much, so I asked Techina to take the man on duty and prepare to cover myself with her coat and lie down on the spot.
At this moment, Tolando pushed him.
Qitad was already a little sleepy and asked impatiently, "What's the matter?"
At this time, except for him and the two of them on duty, everyone was asleep. When they heard the movements here, Techina also cast malicious eyes.
Turando's face turned red and hesitated and stopped talking.
After Techina turned around, she said softly: "Qitade, I want to go outside."
"Outside?" Qitade was stunned, "Is she still a literary young woman who saw the beautiful moonlight tonight and was ready to go out to enjoy the moon? It's okay here too."
However, he was a person who had experienced it and immediately understood.
"Okay, I'll go with you"
It turns out that Turando wanted to be convenient.
Although she is a Mongolian woman and is generous by nature, she is shy to tell her this kind of thing, which is also the most uncomfortable thing she has along the way.
Along the way, unless during the day, she was accompanied by Qitad.
In the past, it was mostly solved in the first half of the night, but she didn't expect that she wanted to go out after midnight today.
Qitad helped her over the low wall, then looked around, and found a small bale of soil about a hundred meters downstream of the stream, surrounded by bushes and weeds, so he led her towards it.
After arriving at the destination, when Turando was finished, his sleepiness suddenly disappeared, so he took Turando to the rustle bag.
The Kazakh prairie in midsummer is quiet, and a bright full moon is quietly hanging in the sky, and the stars in the sky are shining.
The stream on one side was gurgling. Under the moonlight, the weeds on the grassland that were half a person deep swayed with the shadows of the westerly winds all year round. Due to the low temperature at night, the grass leaves that were filled with heat during the day were already full of dewdrops.
The moon spread its light on the earth without hesitation, making dewdrops turn into pearls.
The evening breeze brings the fragrance of grass and flowers from time to time.
Such a beautiful scenery made both of them intoxicated.
"It's late at night"
After a while, Qitad said lightly, but Tolando held his sleeves and refused to put it down. He had no choice but to continue to watch the audience and experience it.
Since Turando followed him away from Kungler, she became cheerful. Although she still had concerns about her only relative and her close relatives, she was very happy that she could get a Mongolian talent like Qitade as her husband with her humble body.
She had also enjoyed and experienced such nights when she was on the shore of Sarekamesh Lake. Due to the existence of Sarekamesh Lake, the night scenery there was even more spectacular. However, due to the lack of obstruction on the west side of the lake, in midsummer, due to the Caspian Sea effect and the influence of the westerly wind belt, strong winds continued all year round, so naturally there was no beautiful scene like the moon reflecting dewdrops.
Gradually, the mixed smell of Tulando's body that was both elegant and strong with mature women made Qitad unable to control it. He hugged her and kissed her passionately here.
Chapter completed!