Qiuci is the largest country in the Northern Province of the Western Regions, with a population of 80,000, a land area of 800 miles from east to west, and more than 10 cities.Therefore, as early as a few days ago, the Wusun delegation entered the territory of Qiuzi and knew about it.Qiuci was even more clear about the whereabouts of the Han envoys, and they even invited Ren Hong to wait slowly in the capital listening to Qiuzi's music and dancing and drinking wine, so that he didn't have to sleep outside the wind, but Ren Hong refused.So early the next morning, there was a team of three or four hundred people to greet Princess Wusun and the prince on behalf of King Qiuzi.The system of the Qiuzi Kingdom obviously copied the Xiongnu who had ruled the Western Regions for more than 100 years.Under the king, there are left and right auxiliary kings, left and right generals, left and right captains, left and right cavalry kings, east and west, north and south.Among the Qiuzi people who came to greet today, the first one was Baili, the left commander of Qiuzi.Bai Lihui's broken Chinese dialect was not matched with Ren Hong's words, at least on the surface, this person was very friendly to the Han envoy, but Ren Hong did not find out any useful information from his mouth.Ren Hong simply glanced to the southeast, there were three fewer people in his team, after Yaoguang insisted on going to Qiuci, and the Qiuci people came here to greet him, Ren Hong dissuaded him to no avail, so he let the three horsemen leave quietly and went to Luntai City to report the news."
Captain Laidan, please beware of Qiuzi, and be ready to meet us."
And Ren Hong, as the messenger, is tasked with escorting the envoy of Wusun, and where Yaoguang goes, he has to go.Right now, the Han army officials, Wusun people, and Qiuzi people are standing in a zigzag outside the beacon, bored, yawning, looking at the sky.They are all waiting for Princess Wusun to change her clothes, which is a real change.It's a familiar scene.After getting along last night, Liu Wannian and Ren Hong are already quite familiar, and they are sharing the secret of Princess Yaoguang with him in a low voice at this time.My sister usually wears Chinese-style men's clothes, and she says it's more comfortable.And today I want to visit King Qiuzi on behalf of Kunmi, so I have to change into the costume of Princess Wusun, don't worry, it is estimated that there is still half a moment. ”As he was talking, the beacon door opened, and several black granddaughters came out, and then a deerskin boot stepped on the morning sun, and Princess Yaoguang finally came out!
Seeing Yaoguang's dress, Ren Hong understood why it took so long for her to change her clothes.But I saw that Yaoguang was completely different from yesterday, and he was wearing an extremely exaggerated pointed fur hat on his head, which was three feet long.There is also a golden crow with wings spread on the tip of the hat, which is one of the two life-saving beasts of the founding king of Wusun.Looking at his clothes, he wore a bright red leather robe, a belt set with gems around his waist, fastened with a hook on a golden wolf's headband, a gold necklace inlaid with turquoise around his neck, and a gold bracelet with antlers on his wrist.This body is almost as heavy as Ren Hong's fish scale armor, Wusun, like the Huns, has a paranoid love for gold, and all artistic cells are smashed on it.What's even more difficult is that Yaoguang has to step on the tall West Pole horse by himself, and the gold ornaments on the horses are no less than Yaoguang.She placed her horned bow and inserted the ivory-handled dagger into the quiver sheath that was standard for the Ugsunite warriors, and manipulated the bridle.Ren Hong's eyes moved with Yaoguang's figure, if she was a heroine yesterday, then today, she is simply Kalixi on the grassland!
No matter what, as long as you look beautiful enough, you really look good no matter what clothes you wear.At first, he only walked slowly, but soon, Yaoguang picked up his speed, and took the lead, galloping towards the east with the Wugranddaughter warriors, and the high pointed hat on his head was still steady!"
Princess" The girl didn't say hello when she left, Ren Hong, Liu Wannian, and Bai Li didn't react, and they hurriedly followed with the team after looking at each other.The majestic Tianshan Mountains are on the left, the vast desert is on the right, and in front of you is an endless oasis farmland.Compared with other places in the Western Regions, there are unique geographical conditions here, a funnel-shaped basin gathers the snow and water of the Tianshan Mountains within hundreds of miles nearby, making this place surprisingly humid and livable, which is why Qiuci can feed so many people.After a short walk, you can see the figure of a city.Compared with Loulan, skewer mud and other famous cities, it is actually a small place in the village.In the Western Regions, Qiuzi is a real "big city".The city wall has three layers, the circumference is seven or eight Han li, the population is nearly 10,000, and the degree of prosperity is about the same as that of Dunhuang City.Ren Hong knew that there were two most famous things in later generations, one was Buddha, and the other was music.At present, the Buddhists are still busy fooling the Otsuki clan, and they have not yet been introduced to Qiuzi.So what can be done is only the Qiuzi dance music that Liu Wannian wants to see.It is said that when Zhang Qian made his second mission to the Western Regions, in addition to the strange plant seeds, he also brought back a kind of music from Qiuci that made him unforgettable: Mokotole.Li Yannian, a great musician of the Han Dynasty, made 28 new tunes based on this kind of turtle music, which was used as military music for honor guards.When Ren Hong was in Fu Jiezi's army, he had heard the song of entering and exiting the customs, and there was indeed a majestic voice.I just don't know what the real Guizile looks like?
The people of Qiuzi did not disappoint their guests, and before they reached the west gate of Qiuzi, they heard the sound of music.When you get closer, you can see that there are many people gathered outside the city of Qiuci, and the music comes from dozens of musicians standing or sitting on the left and right of the gate, holding vertical gonghou, curved neck pipa, five strings, sheng, flute, flute, flute, copper cymbals, shells, playing kites, blowing, playing and singing.There are also various tambourine waist drums, large and small, and the drummers are beating their hands rapidly, and their neck-length hair is shaking desperately.It's an ancient rock band, but it's still early in the summer.Yaoguang had stopped in front of him, listening intently.According to Liu Wannian, she is proficient in music, and she learns the pipa with the daughter of Princess Xijun, whether she plays it immediately or sitting, and her skills are unique, and she can probably call out the name of each instrument and the mystery of those tunes.Ren Hong couldn't do it, he only showed a knowing smile.Even if it spans two thousand years, although the instruments are different and the tunes are different, this style is familiar and cheerful.And those Qiuzi girls wearing green peacock shirts, red boots, fur hats, thin veils, and two short braids danced the turtle dance.Or bend your elbows and shrug your shoulders, or twist your waist with your chest, high-five and clapp, forehead, spin and jump?"
This is the Turtle Dance."
Liu Wannian on the side looked at the dancing turtle woman, a little excited, although he was the prince of Wusun, he had no chance to go out.When Princess Xie Wei married Wusun, the number of dancers and musicians brought from the Central Plains was small, and they were old and couldn't dance.Now I see the unique turtle dance music in the Western Regions, and I am shocked.Ren Hong laughed secretly on the side, although he couldn't tell the mystery of the dance, he could see that there was the essence of the Western Regions dance inheritance for thousands of years, that is, twisting the neck!
An authentic Xinjiang guy girl, can you twist your neck?
However, the necks of the Guizi dancers are really long and thin, and it seems that Yaoguang is the same, like the neck of a white swan, I wonder if she can twist it?
When the song ended, and the warm and hospitable dance music of the Qiuzi people came to an end, the musicians stopped, and the dancers also retreated one after another, and several shirtless slaves carried a chariot to separate the crowd and slowly arrived.An old man sat on it, dressed in a long, narrow-sleeved robe dyed blue, with folded lapels, a belt around his waist, and long boots on his feet, crowned with brocade, and his head tied with colored ribbons, which hung down with his long hair."
That's King Guizi."
Lu Jiuyu said to Ren Hong, and Princess Yaoguang and Liu Wannian had also dismounted and performed Wusun etiquette towards King Qiuzi.Ren Hong couldn't understand the question and answer between her and King Qiuci, but when Bu Yuan was put down and King Qiuci stood up, Ren Hong knew that he was wrong, very wrong!
He originally thought that according to the custom of the Qiuci people who cut their hair and necks regardless of gender, but the king did not cut it, the king of Qiuci had at most long hair and waist.But now I found out that the old King of Guizi, his pale hair grew directly to his heels, and he had to be held by two people behind him so that he couldn't touch the ground!
And the one who grew long hair to his waist was the one who saw Princess Yaoguang, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to come forward to salute, and he was full of smiles when he talked to the princess, and he just had to lie down and kiss the tip of her boots!
Ren Hong's face sank, and he called his subordinates: "Lu Jiuyu, you have been to Qiuzi, let me ask you, who is that Qiuci man with blue eyes and yellow beard, who looks like a macaque and has an abominable face?"
”Lu Jiuyu searched for a long time, until Ren Hong reminded him, and the man stood on the left side of King Qiuzi, with long hair reaching to his waist, and then smiled."
Ren Jun, that young and handsome Hu man, is the prince of Qiuzi, Jiangbin!"
As the largest city in the Western Regions, the earthen wall of Qiuzi is divided into three areas: inside, middle, and outside.The inner city is the palace of the royal family of Qiuzi, the middle city is the aristocratic district, and the outer city is the bazaar and residential area.The pavilion for entertaining foreign envoys was also located in the outer city, and King Qiuzi greeted Ren Hong and Princess Yaoguang, and let the left and right forces assist the monarch respectively, so that the delegation could settle down first, and in the evening in the palace to entertain Ren Hong, Princess Yaoguang, and Prince Wannian."
Why do you want to separate us from the Usun Emissary?"
When Zuo Lifu Jungu Yi came to lead them to live in the southeast corner of the city, Ren Hong became suspicious, because the Wusun people were led to the northwest corner of the city, and the two sides were separated by several miles.What's even more annoying is that Ren Hong saw that the prince of Qiuzi Jiangbin also followed the Wusun delegation in a hurry, and the sneer on his face was really like a yellow-haired licking dog, but fortunately, Princess Yaoguang didn't pay much attention to him."
The angels don't know anything."
Gu Yi was still as humble as he was when he dealt with Lai Dan in Luntai City, and patiently explained: "Qiuzi City is small, not as small as the big Han, and there are only two large mansions.Wusun and other countries are in the west of the city, the place is wide, it is easy to tie felt tents, and the envoys of the Han Dynasty are in the east of the city, and they are built according to the style of the Han station. ”"Is that so?"
Ren Hong looked at Lu Jiuyu, he had been to Qiuzi twice with Fu Jiezi, and he was very familiar with every street and alley here."
That's right, the last time I lived in the west of the city, it was the Hun envoy, and I was waited" Lu Jiuyu made a decapitation gesture.Speaking of which, Fu Jiezi led a delegation to attack the Xiongnu envoy's station, beheaded him and performed miraculous feats, successfully offsetting the death of Tianma, which was in Qiuzi City.No wonder the soldiers of Qiuzi were a little timid when they saw the equipment of the Han soldiers, it has only been more than a year, and the old Fu Yu Wei is especially here, which makes people feel a lot more relieved.Perhaps, as Lai Dan said, the Qiuzi people have always been cowardly, because they worry too much?
With this in mind, they walked to the southern part of the city, which was bustling with several parallel alleys, a market for trade.All kinds of people trade here, like the Grand Bazaar of later generations, whether it is the fine felt, burnt copper, iron, lead, deerskin, salt green, orpiment, hu powder, cattle and horses, or foreign benzoin, silk, everything is there.And the most special goods, or from the west of the green ridge lapis lazuli, is the necessary material to make blue dye, but also the most favorite color of the Qiuzi people, I heard that the gate of the palace, is dyed blue with lapis lazuli, like the mouth of the sky.And this precious dye was mainly sold by the Sogdians.As he passed by the Sogdian stalls, Ren Hong's gaze kept wandering over their faces.Damn, in the eyes of the Han people, these Hu people really look too similar.Fortunately, just when he was about to arrive at the building, Ren Hong finally saw that acquaintance!
It was the Sogdian Shi Bodao, who was standing at the door of the heavily guarded building, a stall selling orpiments by the street, slowly begging for advice.When the Han soldiers passed by, Shi Bodao, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately raised his head.He saw Ren Hong, but he was not surprised at all, but shook his head slightly at Ren Hong!
Then, as if inadvertently, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of a street and made a knocking gesture!
Then he turned and left.Ren Hong had asked Lu Jiuyu before he came, and it was a street where Sogdian Hu merchants and local prostitutes frequented.So when the team stopped in front of the building, Ren Hong suddenly said loudly: "Zhao Jiuyu, Lu Han'er!"
”Zhao Han'er and Lu Jiuyu couldn't help but be stunned, Lao Zhao was the first to react and immediately promised loudly."
No!"
But I saw Ren Hong turn around, touch his chin in front of the Qiuzi people, and ask with a smile: "Are there prostitutes in this city?"
PS: The third shift is in the afternoon, asking for a monthly ticket, asking for a recommendation ticket.