In the morning, before Rou Yue ran out of the tent, she said: "You are a big bad guy!"
Ji Jie was stunned and began to think about what happened last night.
Although it was already spring, it was still very cold in the desert at night. This small tent was very thin and the cold air could penetrate easily, so after the two fell asleep, they hugged each other unconsciously.
During this period, Ji Jie woke up once. When he found Rou Yue hugging each other, not only did he not separate, he even kissed her a few times and then continued to sleep beautifully.
In fact, Rou Yue was also awake at that time, but she was too embarrassed to open her eyes. However, she was already mentally prepared. As long as Ji Jie dared to do something outrageous, she would immediately fall out.
It's a pity that after Ji Jie kissed her a few times, there was no follow-up action.
This made Rou Yue grit her teeth angrily. Seeing that she was about to reach the critical point of an attack, the guy stopped. If he got angry, it wouldn't be worth it. If he didn't, he would obviously suffer a loss.
To be honest, it was quite warm when the two of them hugged each other while sleeping. As for who hugged the other first, it is impossible to verify.
Rou Yue felt that she had suffered the loss of being mute. When she woke up in the morning, she kicked Ji Jie away who was still sleeping, dropped the words and ran out.
Ji Jie curled his lips, rubbed the place where he was kicked, and said angrily: "Why are you so crazy so early in the morning? Is it easy for me to do Liu Xiahui? If I had known, I should have stripped you naked last night and done it. It would have saved a lot of money. It disturbed my sweet dreams this morning!"
After saying that, he continued to sleep and didn't get up until someone outside called him to have breakfast.
Today, Rou Yue looked at Ji Jie with erratic eyes, rarely daring to look directly into his eyes. A group of shamans and wizards laughed very ungrately. They all thought that the two of them eloped yesterday and slept together for the first time last night. Woolen cloth!
After dinner, the tents were packed and everyone set out on the road.
As they approached the Shanyu King's City, there were more patrols on the road. The two of them were fortunate to join the shaman's team. Those soldiers inspected pedestrians very strictly, and all weapons had to be turned in, and the owners of the weapons were strictly interrogated. He ignored the shaman who rushed to the royal city alone.
"The sacrificial ceremony will be held the day after tomorrow!" The leading shaman smiled and said to Ji Jie: "The whole royal city will be very lively by then. Little brothers may wish to come to watch the ceremony. You will definitely see the true face of King Shan Yu!"
Ji Jie nodded quickly, showing a look of admiration. In fact, he was very dismissive of the White Mountain King. That old boy was my defeated general and was his prisoner. There is no such treacherous villain like him. Whatever.
The so-called Chanyu King's City appeared in front of us. It was surrounded by low earth walls. The earth walls were never more than four feet and less than three feet thick. Even a child could climb over it. The Huns lived in pursuit of water and grass. They have little interest in it, so this low wall is already a huge project in their eyes.
There are three-foot-wide openings in the front and rear of the earthen wall for carriages, horses, people and animals to move through. The streets are muddy and dirty. It is estimated that no one has swept the streets since the day this became a royal city.
Before entering the city, the shaman hung bells all over his body, held a strange-looking thing in his hand, and muttered words. Many people jumped and walked towards the opening with strange steps.
Upon seeing this, the Hun soldiers responsible for guarding stood up straight one by one and respectfully invited them to enter the city. Ji Jie and Rou Yue followed them and walked in smoothly, both of them also ringing bells in their hands.
Felt tents are scattered in the city in an orderly manner. Various commodities are displayed in the tents on both sides of the main street, many of which are produced in the Central Plains. Nomads are not good at planting and manufacturing, including grain, salt, tea, pig iron and other things. To transport it from the Central Plains, the price will of course increase several times.
Most of the products produced locally are precious medicinal materials such as cattle, sheep, horses, furs and ginseng, and the prices are very cheap.
"No wonder there are so many smugglers. If you transport things from the Central Plains here, the price will be at least ten times higher!" Ji Jie looked at the products on the street and said, "Then take the things here back and the price will be ten times higher!"
Most of the countries in the Central Plains that bordered the nomads prohibited merchants from doing business with the Huns. Driven by profit, they could not stop the smuggling merchants from beginning to end.
"If you're not busy, you can buy some things!" Ji Jie picked up a half-kilogram ginseng and weighed it in his hands. Such top-quality ginseng costs at least a hundred taels of gold in the Central Plains, but here, it only costs five taels. .
Looking at it from the other side, five taels of gold can buy a pile of salt as big as a hill in the Central Plains, which can be loaded on hundreds of carts, but you can't even buy a cart here.
Rou Yue rolled her eyes at Ji Jie and whispered, "Don't forget the purpose of our trip!"
Of course, they couldn't forget it. The two of them went straight to Chemayi, which was a place specially designed for outsiders to live, which was equivalent to an inn in the Central Plains.
Renting two adjacent tents, Rou Yue stayed here. After all, there were too many people who knew her here, and even if she disguised herself, she would be recognized by some familiar people. Ji Jie went to the tavern, where people from all walks of life were from all walks of life. The gathering place is also a good place to get information.
In the noisy tavern, after Ji Jie entered, he sat carelessly at the table closest to the counter and shouted in a rough voice: "A jar of wine and a big plate of beef!"
Xiongnu wine was bitter and astringent in the mouth, and its alcohol content was very low. It could not be compared with the fine wine brewed in the Central Plains through hundreds of processes. When he took the first sip, he almost spit out the wine.
Damn, can this thing be called wine?
Looking back at the people around me, everyone was drinking vigorously. These guys who were herding sheep and selling wine were really not pursuing anything.
Forget it, brother, bear with it! The taste of beef is not satisfactory, so just eat it. Something that can always fill your stomach is better than nothing.
After a few bowls of wine, Ji Jie started chatting with the bartender under the influence of wine. From time to time, he mentioned the matter of King Baishan usurping the throne. The bartender was born and raised and knew the situation very well, so he began to tell him endlessly about this "foreign country". People" listen.
After a while, many people who were drinking here also joined in. Ji Jie invited everyone to drink at the right time. Everyone became more and more excited as they chatted, and some people even found out what the eighth generation of the ancestor of the White Mountain King did.
The Huns were generous, and the restrictions on speech were not as strict as those in the Central Plains countries. People who were drunk and dizzy spoke freely.
After chatting for a long time, Ji Jie calmly brought these people to another topic: After the King of the Huns was killed, what did his followers do?
The simple-minded Huns were indeed fooled, and lined up to tell them exactly what they knew.
Half an hour later, he threw down a small piece of gold and walked out of the tavern pretending to be drunk. With unconcealable joy in his eyes, he found out where King Nanyuan was imprisoned.