After hearing what Gao Ju said, Luo Tao's face remained calm, but his heart was filled with emotions. Recalling the years when he was the young master of Baiyun Villa, he couldn't help but sigh. He had been naughty since he was a child and put food in the pigs' food in the village.
He crossed iron nails, poured boiling water over Luo Ao's beloved camellias, and threw firecrackers into the latrine while his senior brothers were using the toilet. However, he was never punished for these things, and Luo Ao never said a word to him.
.Unexpectedly, now, time has passed and things have changed.
Thinking like this, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Looking at Luo Tao's expression, he timidly said: "Young Master, are you thinking of the Lord?"
Luo Ao looked at Gao Ju and slowly said: "I am no longer the young master of Baiyun Villa, and Luo Ao is not my father. We have severed all ties with him. Don't mention this matter again in the future."
He raised his head and said "Oh", but secretly said in his heart: "Oh, don't mention it now. I don't know who mentioned it just now."
"You can follow me from now on. Is there anyone else in your family?" Luo Ao asked.
"Du Miao, my parents died young, and I was sold into your Baiyun Villa when I was eight years old. They are just like you and the king." Gao Ju said with a smile, without any resentment at all.
Luo Tao nodded, no longer looking at him, and walked towards the outside of the tent. As soon as he opened the curtain, he saw A Chu waiting outside the tent.
Achu lowered his head and fiddled with the wool on his cuffs. When he saw Luo Tao coming out, as soon as he raised his little face, red clouds had already climbed onto her cheeks. She showed her white teeth and said with a smile: "Luo Tao, you're out."
Seeing that smile, Luo Tao was stunned for a moment, thinking that this little girl had fallen in love with him. He touched the back of his hand. Since he knew that there was no hope with Yan Xiaoyu, he made up his mind to seal his heart.
Love, and even if you fall in love with another woman again, there will be no result and it will only increase your worries.
"Ah, I'm out, what do you want from me?"
Achu lowered his head but said nothing. She was a straightforward girl. The wide grassland gave her an open heart and a mouth that dared to speak and act. But today when she saw Luo Tao, she didn't know why. The words came out.
But she couldn't open her mouth. She pulled a silver bell from her waist, put it into Luo Tao's hand, turned around and ran away.
Luo Tao only felt his palms getting cold, and the little girl disappeared in a flash. He looked at the bell in his palms, and a bitter smile appeared on his lips. Luo Ao had said before when he was unrequitedly in love with Yan Xiaoyu, "
This woman, especially the woman who can laugh, is the incarnation of the evil tiger in the mountains. The more evil she is, the sweeter her smile will be." At that time, he still didn't believe it. Only when he was hurt by Yan Xiaoyu did he realize that what Luo Ao said was true.
He shook the silver bell, sighed, and said: "Luo Tao, Luo Tao, it's better not to get too close to beautiful girls in the future, or you'll be in trouble!"
Just as he was saying this, the old Qiang man strode towards him. He immediately saw the silver bell in Luo Tao's hand, and a warm smile appeared on his old face: "Good boy, come with me."
Seeing that he saw Yin Ling, Luo Tao felt embarrassed and had no choice but to follow him.
The old Qiang man brought Luo Tao into a white-roofed tent. The tent was huge. More than thirty Qiang warriors wearing white cloud armor were lined up on both sides. They were all in high spirits. The old man asked Luo Tao to sit at the top.
He sat in the middle of the crowd and said, "Bring us the best wine and meat to entertain our benefactor."
Outside the tent, Qiang girls came into the tent with wine and meat. The leader, A Chu, was as bright as a red flower and walked up to Luo Tao. A group of Qiang men saw that A Chu's face was a little more charming than usual.
They also guessed what she was thinking, and they all shouted: "Ah Chu, the red flowers on the grassland are blooming, attracting butterflies to collect honey."
A Chugang was about to glare at the man with bared teeth, but when he thought that Luo Tao was right in front of him, he quickly put away his naivete and carefully placed the meat and wine in front of Luo Tao.
Her change made all the Qiang men burst into laughter: "Elder, you have to make the decision on this flower."
Seeing that these people were laughing at him so much, Anikezi couldn't pretend anymore and said harshly: "If you laugh again, I will tear your mouth off!"
Seeing Anikezi showing his true face, all the big men burst into laughter and said, "Friend Luo Tao, you have to be careful. Although the flowers on this grassland are beautiful, they are also thorny."
Anikezi knew that his ugly appearance was seen by Luo Tao, and he was angry and ashamed, so he hurriedly ran out of the tent.
The elder laughed when he saw his granddaughter acting like this: "Good boy, don't be offended. Although the people on the grassland are a little rude, they are still kind at heart. Achu is usually very gentle..."
He couldn't help but blush at the word "gentleness", and he paused before continuing: "Let's not talk about this today. Let's thank our friend Luo Tao. Without him, we, Bortala, would have suffered a disaster.
Already."
All the Qiang men raised their glasses and toasted: "To our good friend."
The wine of the Qiang people is strong and thick, and the wine bowl is even bigger and deeper. After drinking a bowl, the cheeks of all the men will glow red. The men on the grassland are naturally straightforward, and under the influence of strong wine
The belly liberated the nature, and the crowd was noisy and noisy. When they got excited, they even asked Luo Tao to dance for a while.
Luo Tao was still a little resistant at first, but he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the men, so he released the long-repressed emotions in his heart, which was very pleasant. In a daze, he seemed to see A Chu's face again. He grinned and said to himself:
This little girl is quite good-looking, but it's a pity that she has such a bad temper and is always ready to tear people apart, which is terrible. She is deeply affectionate to me now, and she can still pretend for a while until she gets tired of me.
I don’t know how to nag me yet.
Although Luo Tao thinks this way, it is somewhat cold, but love between men and women is not like this, and many people who are in love end up getting bored.
If I had known that I would endure such a long life, it would be better if I didn't know each other at the beginning.
Luo Tao drank to his heart's content and saw the carpet getting closer and closer to him. Suddenly, someone picked him up, helped him to the table, and fed him a large bowl of warm butter tea.
After a bowl of butter tea, his drunkenness subsided by three points. He opened his eyes and saw Anikezi standing in front of him.
"Why did you convince him to do this?" Anike said angrily.
The elder smiled: "Anikezi, please go out quickly. Girls, don't come in while the men are drinking. You go and play with your friends."
Anikezi's cheeks bulged, but he was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger, so he could only stomp out of the tent.
The elder smiled and saw Anikezi leaving and Luo Tao sitting up, so he said, "Good boy, where do you plan to go?"
Luo Tao was stunned for a moment, thinking about where he was going in a drunken state. Where could he go? Where else could he go? Baiyun Country? Jiangzuo? How could there be no place for him in the huge Jiuzhou? His thoughts surged and formed
Wry smile: "I don't know where I'm going, maybe I'll just travel around at first."
The elder nodded and said: "Yeah, good boy, this grassland is very big. Do you want to take a walk on the grassland first?"
"Is this grassland very big?" Luo Tao asked.
The elder responded: "Big, big. We in Bortala graze along this river. It takes three days to walk from our tribe to another tribe, and another three days to the next tribe. According to our ancestors,
It is said that this grassland is big enough to walk for a whole year, and at the end of this grassland is a sea that is not salty."
Luo Tao was stunned. Is there a sea that is not salty? Is there a sea that is not salty in this world? Thinking like this, another doubt arose in his mind: How do these grassland tribes know the sea?
"Elder, do you know the sea? Have you ever seen the sea?"
The elder laughed: "We are here on the grassland. How have we ever seen the sea? These are all left by our ancestors and passed down orally by the old people."
"Did your ancestors come from the sea?"
The elder replied: "I don't know about this. It's just that it is said that the starting point and the end point of this grassland are the sea, one is salty and the other is not salty. The oracle said that life is like this sea, and some people are born to be miserable.
, when the bitterness is gone, it becomes sweet, and some people are born sweet, and when the sweetness is gone, life becomes bitter.”
As Luo Tao listened to what the elder said, he thought to himself: Could it be that he was born too sweet and would feel bitter if he wanted a little bit?
The elder asked again: "How about it, good boy, do you want to take a walk on the grassland?"
Luo Tao thought for a moment and replied: "Okay, I want to go see the sea that is not salty."
The elder was stunned and said hurriedly: "My child, that is just a legend of our ancestors, and I don't know about it without the salty sea."
Luo Tao smiled. He knew that the elder did not want to leave by himself, so he replied: "You have to go and see if this is possible, but before I leave, I will unite the tribes on the entire grassland to prevent you from leaving."
No more oppression by those dynasties."
The elder was stunned and asked: "United? The whole grassland? Good boy, you don't know that there are eagles, wolves, foxes and other tribes in our grassland alone. After this grassland, there are many tribes on the other river.
Moreover, some tribes are not of the same race as us, so uniting the entire tribe may be more difficult than finding the salty sea?"
Luo Tao smiled. Although he was smiling, there was a trace of desolation in his expression: "Take your time. Elder, we also have a myth in Kyushu, which tells that an old man wants to move two mountains as big as the Kunlun Mountains."
Before Luo Tao could finish speaking, all the Qiang men laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that there are such stupid people among the people of Kyushu. How can people move mountains?"
Luo Tao also smiled and continued: "The old man knew that he was being laughed at. He only said that even though I die, there will still be sons and grandsons; sons will beget grandsons, and grandsons will beget sons; sons will have sons, and sons will have grandsons; sons will have grandsons.
The sun is infinitely short, but if the mountain does not increase, why bother and not level it?"
——Children and grandchildren have infinite deprivation.
When all the Qiang men heard this, they all stopped smiling, but the elder said: "The mountains are dead, but the people are alive, and the tribes on the grassland will also thrive." He said this, suddenly speaking in a new direction.
Redirected: "However, if you want to do this, we Bortala can support you. Tell me, what do you need us to do?"
Luo Tao smiled brilliantly and said: "Is there a black market on this grassland? Baiyun Country has plundered so much food, gold and silver, we can exchange for a lot of things."
The elder nodded and said: "Yes, and there are quite a few, but whatever you want to exchange for, the price of these different things is different."
Luo Tao replied: "It's best to hire some craftsmen for armor, weapons, wrought iron, and fine steel."
The elder's eyes widened, and he waved his hand and said: "These things are rare things on the grassland, and once the Kyushu Dynasty finds out about the accumulation of these things, they are afraid that they will send troops to encircle and suppress them."
"Elder, you don't have to worry about this, just tell me if there is any way." Luo Tao said frankly, "The only way to avoid being bullied by the Kyushu dynasty is to let them bleed and let them know that provoking you will not bring good results."
A Qiang man suddenly said: "Elder, weren't there some Jiuzhou soldiers who were entrenched in Xiaoyanling before? They are called Hou Han, aren't they planning to trade their weapons for our cattle and sheep?"
The elder nodded and said: "Oh, oh, yes, there is indeed such a group of people, but are they still in Xiaoyanling now?"
Luo Tao asked: "How many people are there?"
The elder replied: "There seem to be two or three thousand people."
Luo Tao nodded and said: "Two to three thousand people, yes, if their armor and weapons can be bought, they can arm the entire Bortala. In this way, Bortala can dominate the grasslands in the city.
"
"Elder, how many adult men are there in the tribe? Luo Tao asked.
The elder responded: "About less than four hundred people."
Luo Tao nodded and calculated: "If these four hundred people are armed, we should be able to defeat some tribes with a small number of people, right?"
The elder said: "Okay, there are four hundred armored warriors, let alone a small tribe. Even if the eagle comes, it still has to leave a few feathers."
Luo Tao nodded and said: "Okay, elder, please take me to Xiaoyanling."
The elder nodded and replied: "Yes, no problem. As long as you want to go, kid, I will take you there."
Luo Tao and the elder were talking when suddenly a man from outside the door ran in in a panic and shouted: "The elder is not good, the people from the Eagle Tribe are here. They are very aggressive. I am afraid they are coming with bad intentions."
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The elder was stunned: "Male tribe? We have always been on the same page with them, so why do they suddenly come to trouble us?" Although he was thinking in his heart, he did not hesitate in his actions. He waved his big hand and took those people with him.
Warriors wearing white cloud armor rode their horses to meet the Eagle Tribe.
On the grassland, a pair of cavalrymen galloped towards them, raising waves of yellow sand.
Seeing this, the Qiang elders grasped the sword they had just surrendered. They were not afraid at all and looked directly at the people of the Eagle Tribe in front of them.
"The tribesmen of Bortala? Why are you wearing the weapons and armor of the soldiers of the Baiyun Kingdom?" The people of the Eagle Tribe looked at the men and horses of Bortala in surprise.
The elder said: "We killed the soldiers of Baiyun Kingdom, we don't want to be oppressed anymore, proud eagle, do you still want to be oppressed by Baiyun Kingdom?"
