"Important things?" Liu Ziqiu frowned. Now, the war between the Sui Dynasty and Tuyuhun had just ended, so he couldn't help but be more vigilant.
Xiang Li Qingtian didn't notice the change in Liu Ziqiu's expression at all. As he rode his horse forward, he said, "I will tell you slowly when we enter the village."
Although he took advantage of the little girl's innocence, the information Liu Ziqiu got was extremely important. It turned out that after Tuoba Mumi returned, he immediately sent people to contact the various tribes in the party and invited their leaders to join their alliance in his village.
Tuoba Mumi's title of King of Dangxiang has been recognized by Yang Guang, and there is nothing wrong with doing this. In Yang Guang's eyes, Dangxiang is just an insignificant small nation, but Liu Ziqiu knows how powerful this nation is. In history, they
The Xixia Dynasty was established and fought with the Song Dynasty for nearly two hundred years.
Now that Tuoba Mumi has been granted the title of King of the Party, he is likely to unite the eight parts of the Party that were originally scattered, and will become a decisive force, which naturally attracted Liu Ziqiu's great attention.
Xiangli Qingtian couldn't think so much. Xiangli Duoyun was away, so she took the initiative to take on the role of host and invited Liu Ziqiu to live in the village. Liu Ziqiu wanted to find out the outcome of the Tuoba Mumi Alliance, and was waiting for Xiangli Qingtian to know the outcome of the alliance.
Li Duoyun came back, so he happily agreed. Besides, Zhang Shou allowed him a month's leave, so he had plenty of time.
The Qiang people are martial and revere brave men. That day when Liu Ziqiu came to control the clouds in Liduo, many young men in the village saw it with their own eyes, so they also remembered this tall Han man. When Liu Ziqiu appeared in the village, those who had seen Liu Ziqiu
People quickly recognized him and greeted him one after another, very warm and friendly.
However, the houses of the Xiangli tribe brought some troubles to Liu Ziqiu. Most of these houses were made of wood, and the most important thing was that they were generally not high. Liu Ziqiu had to bow his head and bend down when entering the house. The house was built like this mainly to prevent the raging
The wind and sand. Similarly, the choice of building the village in a mountain depression was also based on this consideration.
Xiang Liduoyun's father was originally the leader of this tribe, but was later killed in a conflict with other tribes. Xiangli Duoyun inherited his father's position at a young age and became the leader of the tribe. Over the years, he has been oppressed by the Xianbei people and other
Due to the invasion of tribes, life was very difficult.
Xiangli Qingtian is the only sister of Xiangli Duoyun, and she is the most favored. But the children of poor people have long been the masters of the family, and the same is true for the sister of a poor tribal leader. Xiangli Qingtian is not only good at riding, she can herd horses and sheep, and she is also good at cooking.
meal.
After a while, a large plate of roast mutton, a bowl of goat's milk wine, and even a bowl of corn rice were placed in front of Liu Ziqiu, which surprised Liu Ziqiu.
Xiang Liqingtian smiled and said: "It's strange, isn't it? We also farm."
Liu Ziqiu then remembered that the Qiang people were half-cultivators and half-grazers. When he looked up, he saw the grains in Li Qingtian's bowl, which were clearly cooked wheat. He couldn't help but wonder: "Why did you eat that?"
Different from mine?"
Xiang Li Qingtian said sheepishly: "Eating wheat rice will make your stomach bloated, so you can't serve it to guests. You can only eat it by yourself."
Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but think of the poisonous wheat recorded in Sun Simiao's Thousand Gold Prescriptions, and suddenly understood. It wasn't that wheat was really poisonous, but that the way of eating it in this era was wrong. They cooked wheat directly like corn and ate it, so naturally it was not poisonous.
It is easy to digest and often causes bloating.
Wang Li Qingtian saw Liu Ziqiu staring blankly at the bowl in her hand, and said hurriedly: "Big man, I'm not lying to you, this wheat rice is really not delicious."
Liu Ziqiu smiled and said, "I also have a name."
Xiang Li Qingtian blushed for no reason and called softly: "Brother Ziqiu."
Liu Ziqiu laughed and asked, "Do you have a lot of wheat at home?"
Xiang Li Qingtian thought for a while and said: "The harvest of wheat is higher than that of corn. Because it is not delicious, so we plant less, just to cope with the shortage. At this time, we basically eat wheat rice."
Liu Ziqiu nodded and said: "Tomorrow I will teach you a new way to eat wheat. It tastes better than corn when kept. You call me brother in vain."
There were no ready-made stone mills and rollers in the village, but Liu Ziqiu was too strong to hold on. In the middle of the night, he just ground a handful of wheat into powder, which made Li Qingtian feel distressed. Of course, she was not feeling sorry for Liu Ziqiu's tiredness.
Instead, she felt sorry for the wheat, which was good, but Liu Ziqiu had ruined it. Until midnight, the little girl finally started to feel sleepy, stretched herself, and went to sleep by herself, leaving Liu Ziqiu to mess around.
When it was almost dawn, a scent of fragrance penetrated into Xiang Li Qingtian's nose. She woke up suddenly and saw the steam outside the house. When she opened the door, she saw that Liu Ziqiu was busy outside. Xiang Li Qingtian
He rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked drowsily: "Brother Ziqiu, have you been awake all night?"
Liu Ziqiu did not sleep all night. It was not an easy task to steam a pot of steamed buns because there were so many missing things. Even the steamer was made by him. However, looking at the yellow steamed buns, Liu Ziqiu was still
He looked very mature and waved repeatedly: "Sunny day, come and try the whole wheat steamed buns I made."
"Whole-wheat steamed bun?" Xiang Li Qingtian took a big warm steamed bun and greedily smelled the aroma, but didn't dare to eat it.
Liu Ziqiu encouraged: "Eat it quickly. Don't think this steamed bun doesn't look good. When I was at home, I couldn't eat it even if I wanted to."
"Brother Ziqiu, is your family very poor?" Xiang Li Qingtian felt a sore nose and handed the steamed bun in his hand to Liu Ziqiu, saying, "You can eat this first."
The black lines in Liu Ziqiu's mind were not a matter of poverty. At that time, he wanted to eat whole-wheat steamed buns, but he couldn't buy whole-wheat flour. The flour that could be bought had whitening agents added.
However, seeing the seriousness on the little girl's face, Liu Ziqiu was very moved. He patted her head and said, "Eat it, there is still more in the pot."
Not knowing whether he was hungry or because the steamed buns were really delicious, Xiang Li Qingtian swallowed a steamed bun in three gulps. He looked longingly at the steaming earthen steamer and asked cautiously: "Really?"
It’s delicious, brother Ziqiu, can I have another one?”
Liu Ziqiu himself had just taken two bites. To be honest, his cooking skills were not very good, but he didn't expect it to be so popular at Li Qingtian's place. He couldn't help but feel proud and said: "As long as you can eat it, it doesn't matter if you eat a few."
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After eating the second steamed bun, she was probably frightened by the past experience of eating multi-wheat rice to bloat her stomach, so she finally did not dare to eat the third one, even though she wanted to eat it.
Another day passed, and Xiang Li Duoyun still didn't come back. Although Liu Ziqiu was familiar with the village and helped them design the stone mill, he was a little bored after all. Although Xiang Li Qingtian was young, he was quite considerate.
Renyi took the initiative and said: "Brother Ziqiu, my brother went to a place a bit far away. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back in three to five days. How about I take you around tomorrow?"
Although Zhang Shou didn't say it clearly when he appointed him as brigade commander, he asked him to report back in a month, indicating that the troops would most likely be stationed in the West Sea permanently. This is also normal. Yang Guang had just defeated Tuyuhun, so he would definitely leave behind a large number of troops.
Guarding, but the guards of the Beijing army could not move lightly, so this burden naturally fell on them, the temporary recruits and government soldiers. Since they were going to be stationed here permanently, it was best to familiarize themselves with the situation first, so Liu Ziqiu readily agreed.
However, Xiang Li Qingtian's heart was as sweet as eating honey, her face was filled with joy, and she jumped out of the house.
For several days in a row, Xiangli Qingtian accompanied Liu Ziqiu around, visiting Nanshan Mountain and Datong Mountain, going to Chaka Salt Lake, and even going as far as Hala Lake. At this time, in Xihai County, there were many oases in the desert.
, you can still see caravans going west from time to time. Further north are the two counties of Dunhuang and Zhangye, and to the west are the newly established Qiemo and Shanshan. The geographical location is indeed extremely important. No wonder Yang Guang wants to take it.
He even didn't hesitate to take charge of the army himself.
After wandering around for a few days, they unknowingly came to the shore of Xihai Lake again, but this time they came to the west bank of Xihai Lake. Sitting by the lake, they could see Fuqi City not far away. This former royal city of Tuyuhun has already
It was renamed Weiding City, and the new governor of Xihai, Yu Wenjing, should have taken office. Hua Yun should also be a general. I wonder if Li Jing and his wife accepted his suggestion and fled to the south of the Yangtze River. When it came to Jiangnan, Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but think
He thought of Changshan Village and Gao Xiuer. Suddenly, he found that he felt homesick.
Liu Ziqiu was lying on the beach by the lake, thinking wildly with his eyes closed, when he suddenly heard a pleasant singing voice. When Liu Ziqiu opened his eyes, it was Li Qingtian who was sitting next to him singing. She was singing in Qiang language, and I couldn't understand the singing.
Something, but it sounded very good. They say music has no borders, and Liu Ziqiu was fascinated by it for a while.
Halfway through singing to Li Qingtian, he suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "Brother Ziqiu, do I sing well?"
Liu Ziqiu nodded very seriously and said: "It sounds good, it sounds really good."
Li Qingtian moved towards Liu Ziqiu, raised her red face, and asked: "Then do you like to hear it?"
Liu Ziqiu chuckled and said, "You sing so beautifully, of course I like to listen to it."
But Qingli Qingtian asked again: "Then do you like me?"
Liu Ziqiu replied without thinking: "You are a smart, capable and sensible little guy. Who wouldn't like you?"
"Humph, I'm not a little brat." Xiang Li Qingtian was silent for a while and then suddenly said, "From now on, I will call you brother and you will call me amei, okay?"
"You are my sister to begin with, what's the point..." Liu Ziqiu was about to agree, but was suddenly stunned. In his impression, for many ethnic minorities, elder brother and younger sister have specific meanings. Could it be that this little girl has fallen in love with her?