As we got farther and farther away from the city, the horses galloped wildly, and felt tents appeared suddenly, like small boats, looming in the waves of grass.
The two men reined in their horses and looked at each other, but neither of them knew the way and accidentally broke into a barbarian settlement.
"Continue or go back?" Gai Jun thought for a moment and decided to move on.
No matter in his previous life or this life, he had never visited the life of nomadic people, but he enjoyed watching it.
After walking for about three-quarters of an hour, we saw thousands of disheveled Hu men and women gathered together at the foot of a large mountain. From time to time, cheers and low and distant horn sounds could be heard.
"I said that after walking around for so long, I didn't see many barbarians. It turned out that they all came here to hold a sports meeting."
Gai Jun stopped his horse and looked inside curiously. The foreigners outside also turned around and looked at the two uninvited guests quietly.
Gai Jun couldn't help being surprised. He hadn't paid attention along the way, but now he realized that most of these Hu people had fair skin and were not like Chinese people.
A Hu boy with a flower crown on his head and a bronze medal on his chest squeezed out from the depths of the crowd amidst the cheers. He was about fifteen or sixteen years old, nearly seven feet tall, with fair skin and a pair of sharp eyes like an eagle covering his slightly covered face.
The mediocre appearance. When I saw Gai Jun and Gai Yin, who were dressed as Han people but riding good horses and carrying bows and arrows on their backs, they couldn't help but be startled. Then they joked in blunt Chinese: "Hey, those two Han people,
Can you also shoot arrows?"
What are these words? Do you look down on us Han people? Have you forgotten who beat you wolves into dogs and tied them to Chaimen? Gai Jun was furious and said: "My shooting skills can't be compared to those of the entire Han Dynasty.
I can’t even rank high in my hometown, but it’s enough to beat you.”
"Beat me? Hahahaha..." The foreign boy raised his head and laughed, as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world. He pointed his fingers and chest and said with an arrogant expression: "Han family, you saw the flower crown on my head.
And the bronze medal on your chest? Only the person who wins the first place in the archery competition among my clan can enjoy it. So, do you still dare to compete with me in archery?"
"Why don't you dare?" Gai Jun was extremely confident in his shooting skills, so how could he be afraid.
The foreign boy looked at him doubtfully, "Are you an idiot? Did you understand what I said?"
"You are the idiot, and your whole family is an idiot." It is still unknown whether Bi will win or lose in archery, but when it comes to talking skills, even if ten barbarians are tied together, they are no match for him.
Sure enough, the foreign boy was so angry that he shouted: "Han family, you have angered me. I want to fight you."
Most of the Hu people around them couldn't understand what the two people were talking about. The situation seemed unfriendly and they all stared at each other angrily.
Gai Jun felt nervous because he was being stared at, fearing that the other party would be unjust and swarm him.
The barbarian boy held his head high and said, "I'll bully you if you compete with archery. Let's compete with each other."
Gai Jun secretly complained in his heart, if he still has a chance of winning in archery, how about the horns...
He rolled his eyes, pointed at the horns on his head and said, "Hu'er, you are so shameless, can't you see the horns on my head? I'm only thirteen years old, and I can't match your strength." He pointed at Gai Yin again.
He said: "He is sixteen and about the same age as you. If you are capable, you can compete with him."
After hearing this, Gai Yin, who had been silent all this time, jumped off his horse and walked up to the Hu boy, who was half a head shorter than himself. He said in a low voice: "Let's compete in archery. You can choose the horns."
The barbarian boy snorted and said, "I keep my word, so I'll keep my promise." After saying that, he spat on his palms and began to move sideways.
Gai Yin stood still, only tracking the swimming figure of his opponent with his eyes.
"This Han family is really a big deal. Don't feel resentful if you are thrown to death." The Hu boy suddenly walked around behind him in two big steps, and stepped hard on the ground with his feet one after another, like a yak.
Generally pounce.
Gai Yin suddenly turned around.
"It's too late!" The foreign boy grabbed Gai Yin's skirt with both hands and tried to lift him up, but he couldn't lift him up. He slid down and hugged his waist and tried to lift him up again, but it still didn't work. He was so frightened that he wanted to retreat and try to find another way.
How could Gai Yin let him escape? He pressed his shoulders with one hand and grabbed his hips with the other. He suddenly lifted him above his head and threw him hard. The foreign boy flew two or three feet away and fell into the crowd of people who were screaming in surprise.
After a while, the people fell on their backs, and the barbarians helped up the dizzy young man of the same race, and looked at Gai Yin in shock. The fact that this young man of the same race won the first place in archery does not mean that his fighting skills are low. In fact, among young people under the age of twenty,
He could easily be ranked in the top five, or even the top three.
After easily defeating his opponent, Gai Yin turned around and was about to get back on his horse when he suddenly saw Gai Jun looking behind him in stunned silence. Looking back along his fingers, he saw an eight-foot-tall Hu who was in his twenties and had a beard like a halberd.
The big man walked towards him. The crisscross scars on his face showed that he had experienced hundreds of battles.
"You are half a head taller than him..." Although this Hu giant's Chinese language is stiff, he is much more fluent than the young man just now.
Gai Yin had no expression on his face, waiting for the follow-up.
"How do I compare with you?" the Hu man grinned.
The foreign boy shook his head, came to his senses, and shouted anxiously when he saw what was happening: "Luohou, come back! It's not shameful to lose. Just find a chance to win back in the future. You will only make me embarrassed if you stand up for me."
Gai Yin looked up at the giant named Luo Hou in front of him, and asked, "Do you want to compete with me?" Luo Hou nodded, and Gai Yin strode forward, hugged his waist, and lifted him up.
This scene shocked everyone.
Luo Hou reacted as soon as his body was lifted, but he soon discovered that the opponent's arms were as hard as iron pincers, and he couldn't break free.
Gai Yin hugged him and bent over, slamming him backwards.
Seeing that Luo Hou's head was about to hit the ground and his brains were shattered into pieces, all the barbarians screamed in despair.
There was a "bang" and dust flew everywhere.
"Am I dead?" Luo Hou's mind was buzzing.
"How can a dead man speak?" Gai Yin patted the weeds on his body and replied. It turned out that at the moment of the tragedy, Gai Yin suddenly turned his body and made Luo Hou fall on his back. Although the fall caused his head to split and his body to collapse,
It's better than breaking your head.
Gai Jun stepped forward on his horse and thought to himself: "This guy is so evil. He is good at riding, riding and shooting with swords and spears. He is even so strong in close combat. He is only sixteen. How can he be good when he grows up? He may be a warrior of the Three Kingdoms."
You are not his opponent, how can you compare with Lu Bu?"
"You are so awesome!" After praising his opponent, Luo Hou said unwillingly: "I was too careless, otherwise the outcome would be unknown."
Gai Yin was noncommittal, while Gai Jun sneered from the side: "Looking at you, you must have fought many battles. It can be said that you have experienced hundreds of battles. Will you have the same idea when you go to the battlefield?"
Luo Hou was stunned when he heard this. He sat up and laughed. He said, "Well said" and extended an invitation to the two of them: "Let's go to my house and I'll treat you to a drink."
The other party invited him to drink. Gai Jun, an alcoholic, would not refuse. As for Gai Yin, he had no right to speak in front of his uncle.
The Hu boy broke away from the crowd, ran up and said, "I'll go too."
The four of them rode their horses separately and introduced themselves as they walked. Luo Hou was the young man’s brother-in-law. Both of them were Lu Shui Hu people. Lu Shui Hu refers to the Hu people living in Wuwei, Zhangye and Lu Shui areas, and later gradually spread.
Kailai. They were originally from the Xiongnu tribe. We can know from the young man's surname Juqu. Juqu was originally the official name of the Xiongnu, and later generations took it as the surname. Another Lu Shuihu massacred various ethnic groups, and the Huangzhong Qiang have always been the coolest people in the Han Dynasty.
Luo Hou was a very important source of troops for the state. Luohou once served as the "Hundred Leaders of the Hanlu River" to follow Duan Jiong, one of the Three Ming Dynasties in Liangzhou, to suppress the Qiang rebellion that spread to half of Liangzhou a few years ago.
In the eyes of Juqu Yuan'an, his brother-in-law Luo Hou is one of the most powerful warriors in the clan, and he has always been the object of his worship. Now his target has naturally changed to Gai Yin, whom he admires very much, but does not like Gai Jun very much.
Gai Jun was nonchalant on the surface, but in fact he was so angry that he went to the wine table to fight with him fiercely. Juqu Yuan'an was born in Hudi, and he was an aristocrat. Not to mention growing up in a wine barrel, it was almost the same.
After all, Gai Junbi was a little worse. After a hard fight, he drank so much that he staggered and burst into tears. He yelled in surrender and then lay down on the ground and fell asleep.
As the saying goes, he killed three thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses. After defeating Juqu Yuan'an in a fight, Gai Jun didn't feel very good. With his huge capacity for drinking, his legs and feet were sore from vomiting.
Luo Hou took a look at the sky and prepared to let the two of them stay here for the night. Gai Jun refused without thinking. If he was caught drinking too much, he would be scolded by his father. If he didn't come back all night, his father would kill him.
The two of them staggered back to the county seat on horseback. As expected, Gai Xun was waiting for him in the courtyard. Gai Xun scolded him and asked him why he had been out for a whole day and drank, and whether his eyes were still there.
There was an uncle who was sick, and he didn't stop until he heard him tell the whole story.
In the next three days, Gai Jun and Gai Yin often went to Hu Di to play. After drinking once, Juqu Yuanan stopped talking sarcastically to Gai Jun and saw his shooting skills again. He knew that his skills were not inferior to his own, so he put them away.
He was proud and sincerely made friends with him. At the same time, after three days of recuperation, uncle Gaichong's condition improved, but he had to wait another ten days or half a month before he could travel far.
The two brothers discussed it and finally decided that the two servants should stay with Gai Chong, while Gai Xun led Gai Jun and Gai Yin to Anding County.
This time Gai Xun stopped taking the car and looked like he was rushing on the road with all his strength. The situation couldn't help but calm him down. Dunhuang County is located in the northwest and there is little news. The news of Huangfu Gui's death was received later than other places.
My brother Gaichong was ill and was delayed for several days. If he didn't hurry up, he might not be able to catch up.
Gai Jun and his two Hu friends hurriedly said goodbye and promised to visit when they returned. They left Zhangye with their father and rode across Wuwei County at high speed for several days. They saw a golden dragon lying faintly in the distance.
Yellow River!
That's the Yellow River!
The mother river that nurtures the Chinese nation!
After going through all kinds of hardships, the three finally arrived at Manyin County, the last stop among the four counties in Hexi.
After crossing the Yellow River and walking a little further, you will enter Anding County.