When Ren Hong and the others went to pursue the Sogdian merchants, Fu Jiezi arranged for ten people, including the deputy envoys Wu Zongnian and Lu Jiuyu, to take care of the livestock outside the city, but he himself only took Han Dang as a few people and entered Yixun City.As the lord of the city, the courtyard of Yi Xianghan's family occupies the highest position in the city, with two floors high, with timber beams, adobe walls, tree branches braided into bones, and mud inside and outside to form walls.In the square courtyard surrounded by grape trellises, there is a large fire pond in the center, and the Loulan people sit cross-legged around the fire pond for dinner.There was already a woman busy working by the firepit, but it was Yi Xianghan's wife, a Han girl.This woman is Yi Xianghan more than ten years ago, when he went to the Han Dynasty with Prince Loulan, he hooked up in Chang'an, Yi Xianghan spoke Chinese, which was learned from her, and when Fu Jiezi arrived, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately bowed down.Although the Western Regions are barren, as the wife of the city lord, she has a good life and is a little plump, but unlike the last time she talked and laughed, this time she met with little smile on her face, and when she looked at Fu Jiezi, she wanted to say something."
Is the bread cooked?"
Yi Xianghan came back and shouted, and asked the slave to take out the wine from Dawan, and a whole roasted whole sheep had been roasted, and the aroma was fragrant, and only the staple food was missing.Yi Xianghan's wife then remembered, and hurriedly used tongs to dig out the ashes of the fire pit, which was buried the food that the Loulan people had to eat every day: Hu cakes.Fu Jiezi has seen the process of making Hu cakes: first put minced lamb and green onions on a sheet of dough cake, then take a dough cake of the same size and cover it with the minced meat, and close the seam of the two dough cakes.Then a fire is lit in the fire pit with poplar or red willow branches, when the fire is extinguished, the meatloaf is buried directly in the hot ashes, and after about an hour, the meatloaf is taken out, the dust is patted, and a baked hucake is born.The more noble the guests, the bigger the cake will be, and when eating, it should be cut into small pieces evenly with a knife and eaten separately.It is said that if you sleep in the desert without a quilt after eating this kind of fire pit cake, you will not get sick the next day.Ren Hong's baked naan is just a strengthened version of the Hu cake, but it is indeed a lot more advanced, and there is a dusty smell in the Hu cake noodles, and it is easy to master the heat and bake.On weekdays, Yi Xianghan's wife would not have messed up, but today, for some reason, she took out the Hu Cake, and it was already pitch black, and her appearance was completely confused. ”Yi Xianghan was a little unhappy, and after confessing to Fu Jiezi, he scolded his wife in Loulan dialect, and his wife returned a few words aggrievedly, but the two became more and more fierce, and finally his wife was anxious and threw out a Chinese sentence: "If the lover thinks I don't bake well, then let your Hun wife come out to bake!"
”The atmosphere was awkward all of a sudden.At this time, Lu Jiuyu, who was out to inquire about the news, came in, and after whispering a few words in Fu Jiezi's ear, Fu Jiezi bowed his head and patted the sword on his waist and said: "Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated the newly married Yan'er of the City Lord Yicheng!"
”Yi Xianghan couldn't hide it anymore, and reluctantly smiled: "Fu Gong, I did marry a Hun girl not long ago, but" "But she is only your left lady, under this right lady?"
”Fu Jiezi sneered: "The Han is on the right, and the Huns are on the left, so you can explain it to the Huns or the Han, right?"
”Wusun Guo played a similar trick many years ago, first hired a thousand horses, and married Princess Xijun, the daughter of Liu Jian, the king of Jiangdu in the Han Dynasty, and Wusun Kunmo took it as his right wife.After the Xiongnu Shan Yu heard about it, he also sent someone to send his daughter, and Wusun Kunmo took her as his wife and began to curry favor with each other.This Yixun City Lord, who said that his heart was for the big man, was afraid that he would like to follow suit.Yi apologized to Han Lianlian: "The foreign minister is forced to do so!"
Fu Gong didn't know anything, just a few months ago, not long after Fu Gong went to Yumen Pass, after hearing about the incident of Qiuzi, Du Wei, a servant under the king of Rizhu, took more than 100 horsemen and came to Loulan in person!
In order to intercept Fu Gong. ”But he came late and pounced, so the servant Du Wei, in addition to supervising the payment of taxes and asking for livestock and gold, as in previous years, also brought a group of Xiongnu women, and asked the king of Loulan to marry a few people, and the rest were placed in each city in turn.I was in Loulan City at the time, and if I didn't obey, I am afraid that I would have been killed by the king of Loulan and his servants!
”The king of Rizhu is the little king of the Xiongnu who settled in the hinterland of the Western Regions, and the tooth tent is set up on the side of Bosten Lake between Yanqi, Weisu and Yuli, and his main responsibility is to govern the countries of the Western Regions for the Xiongnu alone, and he also set up a special institution called "Servant Duwei".In the eyes of the Huns, the states of the Western Regions are dozens of slaves who create wealth for themselves in the oases between the yellow sand and snow-capped mountains, and the Huns like to use marriage to control the subject states, and are not ashamed of giving away daughters."
Where's your bearded wife?"
Fu Jiezi walked up to Yi Xianghan and seemed to be smiling.Yi bowed his head to Han: "I expected that Fu Gong would come at the beginning of the year, so I sent someone to take her to the west of the lake to hunt" Fu Jiezi patted him on the shoulder: "The servant Duwei has not instructed you except to send you a Xiongnu wife, if the city lord cuts off my Fu Jiezi's head, how much reward can I get from the Xiongnu?"
”Yi Guihan could feel that Fu Jiezi used strength in his hands, as if the next moment, this pair of hands that had personally killed the Hun envoy in Qiuzi would be able to break Yi Guihan's neck!
Fu Jiezi knew that he was still secretly connected to the Huns while his heart was on the Han Dynasty, why was he not afraid of him and gladly went to the meeting?
Not only did he rely on himself to be the envoy of the Han Dynasty, but no one in the Western Regions dared to make a move except for the Huns.is also because this Fu Jiezi himself is a warrior who can fight tigers and bears!
Yi Guihan trembled a little, gritted his teeth and said: "Don't hide it from Fu Gong, the servant Duwei did ask me to inform the Xiongnu of the situation of the Han envoys, if I can learn from the King of Loulan to return safely, it would be better to send someone to pretend to be a bandit and directly rob and kill the Han envoy, and he promised me a lot of benefits." ”Yi Xianghan knelt down, looked up and said, "Last year, the servant Du Wei asked for a total of fifty oxen, two hundred sheep, ten tiger skins, three hundred bundles of reed poles, fifty baskets of goose feathers, plus ten camels, and the grain they carried. ”"During the Huns' travel to and from Loulan, they also bullied the wives and daughters of two herdsmen outside the city and killed three people!""
And the benefits he promised me" Yi Xianghan sneered: "It is to halve the taxes to be paid in the coming year, and send one more Hun girl to me as a wife!"
”On the other hand, after getting the information of the Sogdian merchant Shakun, Ren Hong couldn't help but worry about Fu Jiezi in the city.However, Xi Chongguo and the others laughed when they heard this, and they were not afraid, and said: "Ten dares to borrow Nayi to Han Xianghan, and they don't dare to make a move on Fu Gong openly. ”Having said that, they still left Sun Shiwan and the others to watch over the Sogdians, and the rest immediately went to Yixun City to pick up Fu Jiezi.Yixun City is the ancient city found in the northwest of Lop Nur in later generations, numbered "LE".It is said to be a city, but in fact it is a large dock yard, which is only twice as large as the hanging spring.It is located on the platform north of the Peacock River, more than 100 meters square, the main gate is near the middle of the south wall, and the other gate is on the north wall.The city wall is made up of stacks of firewood and mud at alternate intervals, and is about two zhang high.There are steps leading to the top of the city wall in the four corners of the city, and there are several people guarding each wall, and the city gate is closed on weekdays, and when the envoys and officials return, they immediately shout for people to open the door.Although the officials still talk and laugh, in fact, they are ready to fight.Zhao Han'er carried the bow on his back, and seemed to lean towards the door inadvertently, chatting with Naga, a Guiyi Qiang person, but his eyes locked on a few people on the wall of the north gate, and he and Najia were sure that they would shoot them all within five breaths.Ren Hong and Xi Chongguo continued to walk inside, Xi Chongguo is good at crossbows, and at the moment with his back behind his back, all Ren Hong has to do is to use a shield to cover him and give Xi Chongguo time to wind up.Like the castles of the Western lords, there were no civilians in the city, only the tribesmen and servants of the Yiguihan, as well as the soldiers who raised them.These people did not show hostility, but respected and feared the envoys and officials, respected the identity of the Han envoys, and feared that after they chased and killed the Sogdians, they were still stained with blood, and no one came to stop them with the murderous aura in their eyes.He didn't eat the Hu cakes handed over by the Loulan people, and only looked at the inside and out vigilantly, thinking that he had been instructed by Fu Jiezi.As long as Yi Xianghan inside dares to make the slightest move, these more than 30 heavily armed Han envoys and soldiers can turn this small city of only more than 200 men and soldiers upside down!
But Ren Hong obviously thought too much, and the next script was not Wolf Warrior 2.It's a family ethics drama.The people went into the courtyard under the grape trellis and saw a strange scene.Yi Xianghan and his Han wife were kneeling at Fu Jiezi's feet, howling and crying.Crying about the extortion of Loulan by the king of the day, and crying about the greed that the Huns can never satisfy.and the intervention of a third party to destroy the relationship between their husband and wife!
PS: The appearance of the original Hu cake should be similar to the "Kumaki" that is still often eaten in the Western Regions Province today.