Under the sky, there is a vast expanse of undulating hills, winding rivers, and a few clumps of small trees, making the grassland not empty. The sheep climbed up the hills for a while, and then walked to the river again, like a ball of dandelions.
The seeds rise and fall with the breeze.
The undulations of the hills here are not abrupt, and the extremely soft lines are like the body of a plump and round woman, undulating and extending far away.
There are several small felt tents scattered among the green grass and wild flowers. This is a temporary place for the shepherds to rest when they go out to graze their cattle. In the distance, a vigorous herdsman rides a soaring horse, waving a horse pole in his hand.
Show your boldness and bravery.
Lutemur was riding on a majestic bay-red horse. This horse had a large nasal cavity, a broad chest, and huge hooves under its powerful long legs. This kind of horse can run the fastest and has long-lasting endurance. If you let it
Spreading all four hooves and galloping with abandon, the horse's belly can almost touch the top of the grass.
She rode the bay-red horse to a group of horses, turned over and jumped down. The bay-red horse immediately stuck out its tongue affectionately, licked the back of her palm, stroked the horse's mane, and threw the reins onto the saddle.
She walked forward, and the bay-red horse followed docilely behind her.
"Ruan Xiaojiu, come down!"
A wrangler jumped off his horse, ran to her, and said politely: "I'm done, girl!"
This Ruan Xiaojiu is a Han Chinese. There are more and more members of the Temur tribe doing business, farming, working, and transporting. The benefits obtained in these areas have far exceeded those of horse herding, so that all the young and strong people have gone to engage in more promising fields.
After the occupation, the clan's current cattle, sheep and horses do not have enough manpower to graze.
Ruan Xiaojiu is a Han from Kaiyuan City. He was originally a day laborer, but now he is hired by the Temur tribe to herd horses for them. This is a kind of integration in the transitional stage, and the shepherds go to work on their own.
In other industries, there are fewer and fewer people in the clan responsible for herding, and the number of existing cattle, sheep, and horses is unlikely to decrease suddenly, so in turn, some Han people who have no property and no jobs are hired to help them herd.
However, these Han people were not qualified shepherds in terms of riding skills or herding knowledge. As the daughter of the clan leader, Lutemur had to take on the responsibility of teaching them herding knowledge.
"Ruan Xiaojiu, how many horses are you sending?"
"Gang Four!"
Ruan Xiaojiu chuckled: "Well, look, girl, this group is thirty-nine horses, that group is twenty-eight horses, the group on the slope in front is sixteen horses, and the group by the river in the distance is
Yes, there are eleven horses."
He smiled and praised: "It's not bad. It's only been about twenty days, and I can watch four gangs of horses by myself. It's great."
She walked a few steps forward, looked at the four groups of horses, and said, "Did you see that this group by the river only has one horse (male)? Although this group of horses seems to be the smallest, you have to
Pay extra attention. If there are two or three horses in a group of horses, you don’t have to worry about it. They will take care of the entire group of horses on the periphery and prevent them from running around.
But there is only one horse in this herd. He is not watching the horses, but leading the horses. If you are not careful, and he starts having fun, he may not lead his horses anywhere.
Gone."
"Oh, that's it. I also felt that the group with the smallest number of horses didn't need to worry too much, so I paid special attention to the group with the largest number of horses. Thanks for your advice, girl, I understand!"
Ruan Xiaojiu nodded with a smile, and secretly looked at the girl's red diamond-like mouth from the side, moving seductively.
In the distance, a herdsman who was responsible for looking after another group of horses shook his head and laughed: "Xiaojiu, this kid, deliberately made a mistake again and seduced someone. The girl said something."
This herdsman is also Han, named Zheng Sian. Ever since a herdsman family began to hire Han people who were living in Kaiyuan to herd cattle for him, many herdsmen families who had no spare men in their families followed suit and hired many Han people to help.
These Han people were all ordinary prisoners who were exiled to Liaodong for various crimes. They had no property and no jobs. They worked as part-time workers for others, and they were just hired to work. Of course, the character and character of these criminals who were exiled for various crimes could not be mentioned.
Noble, but when faced with a nomadic tribe that has a strong personality and likes to be brave and aggressive, they don't dare to cheat and cheat, let alone bully their master.
However, we looked at grazing very poetically, but just dealing with livestock all day long is actually very boring. It is rare for such a beautiful woman to come here to guide them in grazing, so they will naturally find ways to do it.
We struck up a conversation with someone and chatted a little more. Regarding the rules of the first horse, Lao Zheng had already told Ruan Xiaojiu. How could he not understand and deliberately make some mistakes to provoke the older girl to talk to him.
"Duh, duh, go!" Suddenly he saw a stallion from someone else's gang approaching his own group of horses, and Zheng Sian immediately waved his whip to drive it away.
There are many rules for raising horses, such as pasture, drinking water, feeding salt... Also, the horses do not allow any stallions from other gangs to come close to their own gang. Once they get close, the stallions will jump out and bite each other;
If any mare in his own caravan goes to someone else's caravan, it will be difficult for her to return to the team, because the foal will never forgive such a mare who betrays her. If she comes back, the foal will expel her.
left.
What's more, when the young horse grows up, it will compete with the old horse for territory. The wrangler has to watch it. When one of them loses, he has to take it away and then go to pull the cart after gelding. If he keeps it again,
There is no peace among the horses. There are so many rules and regulations, so the horse herders seem to be leisurely, but in fact they have to deal with a lot of things every day.
She was a careless girl, and she didn't notice that Ruan Xiaojiu's evil eyes were lingering on her bulging breasts. She explained it seriously, and when she turned her head and caught Ruan Xiaojiu's somewhat obscene look, she realized that he had ulterior motives, and couldn't help but
Feeling angry and funny, You raised his whip and shouted: "Are you looking for a whip?"
As soon as Ruan Xiaojiu saw her raising her whip, her neck suddenly shrank and she quickly said: "No way, no way, I really don't understand, hehe, thank you girl for your advice!"
He snorted and took back the whip. Either really whip it or don't whip it. Prairie people have many theories about whipping. If you whip him lightly, it is not a punishment, but a sign of love for the man you love.
Unable to get the whip to fall on his shoulders, she walked away angrily, without stepping on the stirrups. She stretched out her hand and pressed the horse's back, jumped on it, and bent and straightened her body, making her look beautiful.
He stood on the horse's back, whistled, and the bay-red horse ran away.
Ruan Xiaojiu touched his shoulder and smiled mischievously. Of course he didn't think that the girl could fall in love with him, but if he was whipped by her, he would at least be able to have wild thoughts. It's a pity that this whip is stingy after all.
Yu Luoxia, you bitch...
She stepped on the horse and ran like lightning on the grassland for a while. Just when she reached a high grassy slope, she suddenly stopped the horse with a loud bang. She put her hand on the awning and looked into the distance.
, and immediately held down the saber at his waist.
In the distance, more than a hundred people on fast horses were galloping towards us. Her first reaction was that there was an enemy attack, but she then realized that there were no Tatar men and horses in this area. A small group of Tatars
How dare people come to invade? But..., what if it is a gangster?
The horse under her lap was very impressive, and she was not worried about being caught by the opponent. However, she was worried that if the bandit came to plunder, the group of herdsmen in the pasture behind would suffer, so she hesitated for a moment, and then
He sat firmly on the horse and rode up to meet him.
The two sides were still a stone's throw away, so they stopped their horses, grabbed the bow with their backhand, fired an arrow, and shot a sharp arrow with a whoosh, landing right in front of the group of people and horses running from the opposite side.
He put a second arrow on his bow and looked at each other coldly.
The person running at the front on the opposite side immediately raised his hands to stop his men and horses from moving again, then opened his hands and drove his horse to meet them alone.
"Beautiful girl, hello! My name is Amul, and I and my tribe came from a very far away place and traveled a long way to get here. May I ask, girl, if we go further, we will reach Kaiyuan City, right?"
The person who came was an old man over fifty years old, with dark red skin and wrinkles on his face. He put his hand on his chest and spoke in a very respectful manner.
The bow and arrow in Temuer's hand pointed to the ground, but he still remained vigilant: "Yes, go east from here, and after passing the Eight Tigers Road, you will reach Kaiyuan City. Where are you coming from, where are you going, and what do you want to see?
Human?"
Amul said joyfully: "With the blessing of the Immortal God, we finally arrived at Kaiyuan safely. Beautiful girl, we are here to join the Ming Dynasty. Can you show us the way?"
There was a sad expression on his face and he said in a low voice: "We have been nomadic in this area before, but we have never been near the Eight Tigers Road, so we don't recognize the road ahead."
He said with some suspicion: "Was your tribe in this area before? What tribe are you?"
Amul's expression became even sadder, and the white beard under his chin trembled slightly: "We are a small tribe, maybe... the girl has heard of the name of our tribe, we are the Huaguna tribe!"
"Huaguna?"
He exclaimed: "Oh my god, weren't you ordered to massacre your clan by the Tartar Grand Master Arutai?"
"Yes!"
Old Amul burst into tears and clenched his big old hands tightly: "We are a small tribe with less than a thousand tents, and we have always had no disputes with others. The Ming army attacked the Wugu tribe, and we were worried that Arutai and the Ming army would do something for them.
This big fight affected us, so the whole clan moved north and nomadically reached the Yeliguna River. However, Arutai actually punished us for no reason and sent people to massacre our entire clan, young and old! Our relatives, our clansmen..."
Amul burst into tears and lamented: "But we did not die. Some of our tribesmen were grazing outside at the time and were able to escape Arutai's butcher's knife. We hid here and there and ran for our lives until we heard that the Ming Dynasty's
The Governor of Liaodong, Yang Xu, defeated Arutai's army, and there were no more Arutai's lackeys and minions in the entire Horqin Grassland from east to south, so we took the risk and escaped."
After seeing this, Temuer felt a little guilty. Others didn't know it, but she knew very well that in order for Mengge Timur to gain the trust of Arutai, a scapegoat was needed. It was her father who came up with the idea to put the blame on
The Huaguna tribe asked the soldiers to discuss the matter, saying that it was the herdsmen of the Huaguna tribe who led the way for the Ming army, and they easily attacked the Ugu tribe.
And he deliberately let Wuyun Fujin hear all this, and then deliberately created an opportunity for her to escape. As a result, Arutai sent troops to chase the Yeliguna River after hearing the news, and punished the Huaguna tribe with massacre. Unexpectedly, the Huaguna tribe
There are actually survivors.
"Okay, tell your tribe to always stay within a stone's throw, and I will take you to the Eight Tigers Road!"
With some guilt and compensation, Lutemul said to Amul.
"Okay, thank you, beautiful girl!" Amul agreed, and immediately drove his horse back and ran away.
After noticing their movements while sitting on the horse, he suddenly saw some other scenes from the corner of his eyes. Looking around, he saw a team of a hundred or ten people on the grassland in the northwest, galloping towards this direction.
I was startled, not knowing how to deal with this situation, when a horse in the team came running alone.
There were still about ten feet away, and Liao was hesitating whether to warn him not to approach, when the man shouted loudly: "Hey! Is it Liao Temuer?"
I was startled for a moment and looked at this man. He has a strong and strong figure and fierce and sharp eyes. He is wearing an khaki yellow leather robe with a right gusset, slanted lapel, high collar, long sleeves, trim, and no slit at the hem.
On his feet was a pair of riding boots with thick toes and upturned tips. A cowhide was tied tightly around his waist. The saber was firmly inserted into the belt and did not sway with his running movements.
Although a messy beard covered most of his face, judging from his eyes and skin, he was a very young man. After this moment of hesitation, he had already ran in front of him, grinning widely.
He laughed: "Haha, it was you who killed the girl!"
He was doubtful and asked: "Who are you?"
The man tugged at his long, knotted beard and asked curiously: "I just haven't trimmed my beard and I'm not wearing a military uniform. Don't you recognize me?"
He pressed the knife and said angrily: "Who are you?"
This time the man answered quickly: "Ding Yu, the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Guards of Dingliao in the Ming Dynasty!"
Having said this, he opened his mouth again and said with a happy smile: "Did you ask for credit from me, sir? Did the imperial court give me any reward?"
The girl was shocked and said: "Are you Ding Yu? Are you not dead yet?"
Ding Yu said: "Bah, bah, bah! My general is blessed with good fortune and a long life, so how could he die? Not only did I not die, I also rescued your sister. Your sister's name is Minmintemuir, right?"
After hearing this, he was surprised and happy, and said in a trembling voice: "My sister is still alive? Where is she?"
Ding Yu turned his head and pointed, saying: "Well, over there, your sister..."
Before Ding Yu could finish speaking, he had already galloped away on his horse. Ding Yu shouted, "Hey, has your lord given me a reward?"
When he saw that among the horses and men brought by Ding Yu, there was a soft burden set up between two horses, and a man was lying on it. His heart was already in knots, and there was no time to pay attention to him. Ding Yu shook his head and said: "This
Why is the girl so impatient!"
He turned his head and saw another group of people approaching him because no one was watching them. Most of these shepherds were men and few were women, so one of the women stood out from the crowd. The woman had black hair and blue eyes.
, with creamy white skin, a slender figure, and bright facial features, Ding Yu’s eyes immediately turned straight: "Hey! This second-rotor (mixed race) looks so damn charming!"