Under the sky, there is a vast expanse of blue, undulating hills, winding rivers, and a few small trees, so that the grassland does not seem empty, and the sheep go up the hill for a while, and then go to the river, like a ball of dandelion seeds, rising and falling with the breeze.
The undulations of the hill here are not abrupt, and the extremely soft lines are like the body of a plump and round woman, undulating and extending far away.
Among the green grass and wildflowers are scattered a few small felt tents, which are temporary places for herdsmen to go out to graze their cattle and set up temporary shelters.
In the distance, a sturdy wrangler rode a soaring horse, waving a set pole in his hand, showing his bold and fierce spirit.
Temur rode on a sturdy red horse, with a fat nose, broad chest, and huge hooves beneath its long legs, which was the fastest and enduring, and whose belly could almost stick to the tip of the grass if it was allowed to spread its hooves and gallop indulgently.
She rode to the front of a group of horses, turned over and jumped down, and the red horse immediately stretched out her tongue affectionately, licked the back of her palm, brushed the mane of the horse, threw the reins to the saddle, and walked forward quickly, and the red horse followed her meekly.
"Ruan Xiaojiu, you come down" A wrangler rolled over and jumped off his horse, ran up to her, and said, "Girl" This Ruan Xiaojiu is a Han Chinese, and the Temur tribe now has more and more people engaged in business, farming, work, and transportation, and the benefits obtained in these aspects have far exceeded that of horse herding, so that all the young Zhuang people have gone to engage in more promising occupations, and the current cattle, sheep and horses in the tribe do not have enough manpower to graze.
And Ruan Xiaojiu is a Han man in Kaiyuan City, who originally worked for people on a short basis, but now he was hired by the people of the Temur tribe to herd horses for them.
This is a kind of integration in the transitional stage, the herdsmen themselves go to other trades, the people in the tribe are less and less responsible for grazing, and the existing cattle, sheep and horses are unlikely to be reduced suddenly, so in turn some unemployed Han people are hired to help them herd.
However, these Han Chinese were not qualified shepherds in terms of riding skills or herding knowledge, and as the daughters of the patriarch, Temur had to take on the responsibility of teaching them the knowledge of herding.
"Ruan Xiaojiu, how many horses can you put in it?"
"Four Gangs" Ruan Xiaojiu smiled: "Oh, girl, look, this gang of thirty-nine horses, that gang of twenty-eight, the gang of sixteen horses on the front slope, and the gang on the river in the distance are eleven horses." ” He smiled and praised: "It's not bad, it's only been about twenty days, and you can watch four gangs of horses by yourself, it's good." ” She took a few steps forward, looked at the four gangs of horses, and said, "Do you see, there is only one stallion in the gang by the river, although this gang has the smallest herd, but you have to pay special attention."
If there are two or three horses, you don't have to worry about it, they will take care of the whole herd on the periphery and don't let them run around.
But this group is just a horse, and it is not that it looks at the horses, but that it leads the horses, and if you are not careful, it will not necessarily lead its horses to anywhere. ” "Oh, in this way, I still think that the group of horses is the least, don't be too careful, so I take special care of this group of the most, thank you for the girl's advice, I understand" Ruan Xiaojiu smiled and nodded, and a pair of eyes secretly looked at the girl's red rhombic little mouth from the side, moving seductively.
In the distance, a wrangler who was in charge of taking care of the other groups of horses shook his head and smiled: "Xiao Jiu, this kid, deliberately found a way to hook up with someone else, and the girl spoke." ” This Wrangler is also Han and is called Zheng Si'an.
Since one herdsman's family began to hire Han Chinese from the Plains to herd cattle for him, many herdsmen who were suffering from the lack of surplus strong men in their families followed suit and hired many Han people to help.
These Han people are all ordinary prisoners who have been exiled to Liaodong for various crimes, have no property and no job, and they are hired to do things by helping people do short-term work.
These criminals who have been exiled for various criminal acts are naturally not noble, but when it comes to the nomadic tribes with strong surnames and like to fight bravely, they do not dare to steal and play tricks, let alone evil customers.
But we look at the grazing very poetic, but all day long just dealing with the livestock, in fact it is very boring, it is rare for such a handsome woman to come here to guide them to graze, they naturally want to try to talk to people, talk a few more words.
Regarding the rules of the head horse, Lao Zheng had already told Ruan Xiaojiu, how could he not understand, deliberately made some mistakes, and provoked the eldest girl to talk to him.
"Duh, duh, go" Suddenly, one of the stallions in the other gang's gang approached his herd, and Zheng Si'an immediately waved his whip to drive it away.
There are many rules for raising horses, such as pasture, drinking water, feeding salt, and the horses do not allow any other gang of stallions to get close to their own horses, and once they get close, the horses will jump out and fight with each other; If any mare in his own gang runs away to someone else's cara, it will be difficult for him to return to the group, because the horse will never forgive the mare who betrayed him, and if he returns, the horse will expel him.
Also, when the little horse grows up, it will compete with the old horse for territory, and the wrangler has to watch, and when one side loses, he has to take it away, and after the gelding goes to pull the cart, if he leaves it in the herd, it will be unpleasant.
There are so many rules, so the Wrangler seems to be laid-back, and there are a lot of things to deal with every day.
She explained very seriously, and turned her head to catch Ruan Xiaojiu's somewhat obscene gaze, only then did she realize that he had ulterior motives, and couldn't help but be angry and funny, and raised his whip and shouted: "Looking for a cigarette is not" As soon as Ruan Xiaojiu saw her raise the whip, her neck suddenly shrank, and she hurriedly said: "Where is it, where is it, I really don't understand, hehe, thank you for the girl's advice" He snorted and withdrew his whip.
Either really smoke, or don't smoke, the whip of the prairie people, there are many, if you whip him gently, it is not a punishment, but to show love to his beloved man, how can you let the whip fall on his shoulder, she walked away angrily, did not step on the stirrup, directly reached out and pressed the horse's back, jumped up, bent and longitudinal, and stood on the horse's back beautifully, whistled, and the red horse ran away.
Ruan Xiaojiu touched his shoulder and smiled breathlessly.
Of course, he didn't think that the girl could take a fancy to him, but if he was whipped by her, at least he could think about it, but unfortunately, the whip of the people, after all, was stingy to fall, and the cheap skin stepped on the horse's back, and ran like a gallop on the grassland for a while, just ran to a grassy slope, suddenly with a loud sound, suddenly stopped the horse, she put her hand on the canopy to look into the distance, and immediately pressed the saber on her waist.
In the distance, there were more than 100 fast horses galloping towards this side, and her first reaction was that there was an enemy attack, but she immediately realized that there were no Tatars in this area, how could a small group of Tatars dare to come and invade, and what if it was a bandit The horse under her crotch was very powerful, she was not worried that she would be caught by the other party, but she was worried that if the bandits came to rob, the herdsmen in the pasture behind would suffer, so she hesitated for a moment, sat down on the horse, and rode the horse to meet it.
The two sides were still a stone's throw away, so he stopped his horse, grabbed the bow with his backhand, opened his bow with an arrow, and shot a sharp arrow with a whoosh, and landed in front of the group of men and horses running on the opposite side, and a second arrow was put on the bow, and he was cold.
The person running in front on the opposite side immediately raised his hands to stop his men and horses from moving again, and then with open hands, he drove his crotch horse to meet him alone.
"Hello, beautiful girl, my name is Amur, and my people have come from a long way to get here.
Excuse me, girl, if you go further, it will be Kaiyuan Castle."
The person who came was an old man over half a hundred years old, with dark and red skin and folds on his face, and he touched his chest with his hand and said with a very respectful attitude.
The bow and arrow in Temur's hand pointed to the ground, but he was still vigilant: "Yes, go east from here, and after crossing the Eight Tigers Road, you will be Kaiyuan City."
Where did you come from, where are you going, and who do you want to meet?"
Amur said happily: "Eternal Heaven bless, we finally arrived at Kaiyuan safely."
Beautiful girl, we are here to join the Ming, can the girl show us the way?"
With a sad expression on his face, he said in a low voice, "In the past, we used to be nomadic herders in this area, but we have never been near the Eight Tigers Road, so we don't recognize the way forward. ” He said a little suspiciously: "Did your tribe use to be in this area, what kind of tribe are you?"
Amur's expression was even more sad, and the white beard under his chin trembled slightly: "We are a small tribe, maybe the girl has heard the name of our tribe, we are the Huaguna tribe" "Birch Guna" exclaimed: "Oh my God, weren't you ordered to slaughter the tribe by the Tatar Taishi Arutai?"
"Yes" Amur burst into tears, and a pair of old hands clenched tightly: "We are a small tribe of less than a thousand tents, and we have always had no quarrel with others.
The Ming army attacked the Wugu tribe, and we were worried that Arutai and the Ming army would fight for this and harm us, so the whole tribe moved north and nomadically reached the Yeliguna River, but Arutai actually condemned the crime for no reason and sent people to slaughter our whole clan, our relatives, and our people."
Amr burst into tears and sighed: "But we didn't die, some of our clansmen were grazing outside at the time, and they were able to escape the butcher's knife of Arutai, and we fled everywhere in the eastern hiding province, until we heard that Yang Xu, the governor of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, defeated Arutai's army, and the entire Horqin grassland went east and south, and there were no more lackeys of Arutai, so we ventured to escape." ” Temur didn't feel a little empty-hearted, others didn't know, but she knew very well that in order to let Möngke Timur gain the trust of Arutai, she needed a substitute for the dead, and it was her father who came up with the idea to blame this Huaguna tribe and let the soldiers talk about it, saying that it was the shepherds of the Huaguna tribe who led the way for the Ming army, so they easily attacked the Wugu tribe. and deliberately let Wuyun Fujin hear all this, and then deliberately create an opportunity for her to escape.
As a result, when Arutai heard the news, he sent troops to chase him to the Yeliguna River and punish the Huaguna tribe for slaughtering the tribe.
I can't imagine that there are still survivors of the Huaguna tribe.
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"Okay, tell your people to always keep a stone's throw away, and I'll take you to the Eight Tigers" With some apology and compensation, Temur said to Amur.
"Yes, thank you, beautiful girl," Amr agreed, and immediately drove his horse back to run.
Sitting on the horse and watching their movements, the corner of his eye suddenly brought some other scenes, and when he looked around, he saw that on the grassland in the northwest direction, there was also a team of 100 people, galloping towards this side.
Taken aback, and just as they didn't know what to do with the situation, a horse in the team had already galloped alone.
There were still more than ten zhang away, and he was hesitating to warn him not to approach, when the man said loudly: "Hey, is it Temur?"
Stunned for a moment, look at this person, with a sturdy figure, sharp eyes, wearing an earthy yellow Mongolian leather robe with a right side, a diagonal placket, a high neck, long sleeves, trimmed, and an unslit hem, a pair of riding boots with a clumsy toe and an upturned boot on his feet, a cow belt tied tightly around his waist, and a saber firmly inserted into the belt, which 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, and at this moment of hesitation, he had already run in front of him and grinned: "Haha, it's really you, girl."
Suspicious: "Who are you?"
The man tugged at his clumped beard and said curiously, "I just didn't trim my beard and didn't wear a military uniform, don't you recognize me?"
pressed the knife and said angrily: "Who the hell are you?"
This time, the man replied quickly: "Da Ming Ding Liao Zhongwei is the commander, and Lord Ding Yu is also."
Speaking of this, he grinned again and smiled happily: "The Lord of the Ministry has asked me for merit, and the court has given me any reward."
The girl exclaimed: "You are Ding Yu, you are not dead" Ding Yu said: "Bah, bah, this general is blessed with a great life, and his life is better than Nanshan, how could he die, not only did I not die, but I also rescued your sister back, your sister is called Min Min Temur."
When I heard this, I was surprised and delighted, and said in a trembling voice: "My sister is still alive."
Ding Yu turned his head and said, "Oh, over there, your sister and her" Before Ding Yu finished speaking, he had already galloped away, and Ding Yu shouted: "Hey, did the Lord of the Ministry reward me?"
Seeing that among the centaurs brought by Ding Yu, there was a soft burden between two horses, and there was a person lying on it, and his heart had already been pinched, how could he still pay attention to him, Ding Yu shook his head and said: "Why is this girl so impatient?"
He turned his head, and saw that another group of people had walked in front of him because no one was taking care of them, most of these shepherds were men, and there were few women, so one of the women stood out from the crowd, particularly prominent, the woman had black hair, blue eyes, milky white skin, slender figure, bright facial features, Ding Yu's eyes were straight: "Hey, this two-rotor half-breed looks really fucking charming."
To be continued: