When Zanzhuo embraced the sun in his mind in a pool of blood, Lin Yiyi was walking by a dry river channel.
Not far behind her was the towering snow-capped mountains. The huge momentum of the snow-capped mountains and the shadows of the peaks were like substances, which could crush any creature below at will.
This river has been dry for more than a year or two.
The soil on the pebbles on the riverbed has been pulverized. When the stones shake slightly, the powder will rise, like a storm brewing at the bottom of the riverbed.
There is also gravel near the riverbed. Even if a powerful practitioner grabs a handful of such gravel, no matter how hard he uses his true energy, he will not be able to squeeze out a drop of water.
But just a few miles away, a river formed by snow-covered mountains is rushing endlessly.
Even though the cold is so cold, the sides of the river are still a little unafraid of the cold. Even the wild grasses and wild flowers that emerge from the frost are blooming in colorful colors, forming a strong contrast with the gray and black of the surrounding desert.
It is obviously amazing vitality, but in this cold desert area, it is like a wound cut out from the ground covered with black iron armor.
At the end of Lin Yi's eyes, there was no silt above the river channel. It lost its water source only because the melting water of the snow-capped mountains changed its direction of flowing in the carving of nature, and opened up that new river channel.
She looked very withdrawn, talked little and didn't like to walk among the crowd, she even looked a little thinner, her hair seemed a little dry and lost.
But she seemed to have grown taller, felt more powerful, and her eyes became very sharp.
She was also completely adapted to the environment of this place. At first, she would feel that she could not breathe and felt like her headache was about to crack if she had been walking for a long time or was tired of riding a horse.
However, although her face was covered with thick cloth for dust protection, only a pair of eyes and forehead were exposed, the cloth on her face seemed to have no strong ups and downs.
Her hand holding the sword also seemed extremely stable. She was staring at the end of this dry river a moment ago. The next moment when the sun shone on the sand beside her, the moment the sand bulged slightly, she had already drawn her sword.
The long sword flashing with cold light was unsheathed, and the tip of the sword was extremely flexible and one by one. Before she could get out of the sand to feel the warmth of the sun, she had already picked it up with her sword.
There was no unnecessary emotion in her eyes, and she seemed to have become accustomed to this kind of thing.
Her left hand took off a yellow bamboo tube on the side of her waist, touched the sword body, and opened the plug of the bamboo tube, and scraped the scorpion on the tip of the sword with flowing water and landed it inside the bamboo tube.
Then she put away her sword and covered it with the plug of the bamboo tube.
At this time, she frowned slightly and looked up at the open space on the left behind her.
There were more than ten camp tents on the open space. At this time, there were many people sitting next to the bonfire outside the more than ten camp tents, who seemed to be fierce and evil in the eyes of the people of Youzhou.
But her eyes fell on those people, but on a man who had just picked up some wild vegetables.
This man was also a Turkic person in the camp.
He is particularly burly and tall, and both his face and clothes are as rough as Turkish people.
But when this Turkic man looked at Lin Yiyi, he was not only a little curious, but also a little shy.
Lin Yiyi ignored the Turkic man staring at him, but the Turkic man walked straight over.
Lin Yiyi had no extra reaction, but a few people in the camp laughed loudly, "Ashin Wenfu, don't annoy her, she is even more powerful than the poisonous scorpion under the snow mountain. She slept in the tent, but there was no poisonous scorpion who dared to approach her tent."
This tall Turkic man is Asuna Wenfu, the only son of Turkic white eyebrows.
Hearing this laughter, he turned his head and scolded, but Lin Yiyi couldn't understand it.
"My name is Asuna Wenfu."
But what surprised her was that Asan Wenfu walked up to her and spoke in Tang Dynasty dialect. Although the tone seemed a little weird, fortunately, every word could be heard clearly.
Lin Yiyi didn't say nonsense. She didn't care whose son this person was. She just nodded and said, "My name is Lin Yiyi."
Ashina Wenfu is not a person who is easily nervous. Even if it is dangerous in the battle formation, he always yells to want to be the first to rush forward. But now, for some reason, he looks a little nervous when looking at Lin Yiyi's eyes that are exposed outside.
So although he usually speaks the Tang Dynasty, he stutters a little at this time, "This...this...this...this is not many young women like you outside the barrier of your Tang Dynasty."
Lin Yiyi's brow frowned slightly again.
But Ashina Wenfu continued, "I've seen you for a while. You look so good at holding a sword, but what's wrong with you stabbing the scorpion with a sword and putting it on?"
Seeing Ashina Wenfu's eyes falling on his bamboo tube, Lin Yi's frown slightly let go, and she said slowly, "There are a lot of scorpion meat here. They have fried them in lard and they are delicious. If there is no lard, it will be delicious if roasted on fire."
"We Turks do not eat insects." Asuna Wenfu said, his tone was naturally proud, but just as Lin Yiyi's loose brows frowned again, Asuna Wenfu continued sincerely, "But you Tang people know more about things than us. If you say it tastes good, it will definitely be delicious. I wonder if I can try one later."
After saying this, he seemed afraid that Lin Yiyi would refuse, and then added seriously, "We Turkic rice dumplings are usually very cold and chew and chew on teeth, but they are very delicious when roasting them on fire. If you want to eat them later, I can also invite you to eat one."
Lin Yiyi looked at the somewhat shy Turkic man quietly, and she couldn't help thinking in her heart, are Turkic people so simple and unpretentious when they approach girls?
But after a breathing incident, she nodded and said, "Is there any meat in your rice dumpling?"
"No."
Asan Wenfu smiled and said, "If you put meat in it, it will be easy to get bad. Moreover, our meat is dried and dried. We usually carry it on our body to grind our teeth when we march. We can eat one for a long time, and it is too hungry. If it is placed in a rice ball, then eating the rice ball when we are so hungry that we can kill ourselves."
Seeing Lin Yiyi listening seriously, Asuna Wenfu was not so nervous, he said sincerely: "Our jerky meat is delicious even if it is roasted."
Lin Yi nodded, left the riverbed, walked towards the camp. Seeing Ah Shin-Wen Fu still stood there, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Then why are you still standing there? Are you not here?"
Ashi's Wenfu was stunned for a moment, and scratched his head in embarrassment, and then followed obediently.
After Lin Yiyi sat down by a bonfire, he watched Asuna Wenfu sitting on the side rush to untidy the cloth bag he carried with him and took out the jerky meat from it, she asked again, "What kind of meat do you Turkic people make of jerky meat?"
Ashina Wenfu said proudly: "There are all kinds of meat, and you can hunt whatever you want, including wild goats, antelope, bison, rabbits, field mice, and of course horse meat. The most unpalatable thing is wolf meat. Let's see what meat is in my cloth bag."
Lin Yiyi looked at his bag of meat strips of similar colors, and was a little curious and said, "Can you tell me what kind of meat you have?"
Asuna Wenfu was even more proud and said, "The color is still a little different, and the strips of silk in the meat are different. I have antelope, rat meat, and horse meat. What meat do you want to eat?"
Lin Yiyi thought for a while and said, "Which type do you think is delicious?"
Ashina Wenfu grabbed his head embarrassedly and said, "Actually, I think rat meat is delicious, but I heard from the military advisor that you Tangren despise this thing very much."
"I don't like it," Lin Yiyi said, "I just eat rat meat."
Ashina Wenfu immediately pulled out a strip of meat that looked purple-black, but Lin Yiyi didn't pick it up. He just poured out the scorpions in the bamboo tube with him, and then started to prick these scorpions with an iron stick. "You said it's delicious, you bake it for me to eat, I bake these scorpions."
"Okay, I'll bake."
Ashina Wenfu suddenly became happy for some reason. These days have not been smooth for them, such as the Turks. Even though he has joined the Loulan ghost riders and has obtained the salt and medicine they are short of. Thinking of the Uighur army that has been chasing them, a shadow is always shrouded in his heart, but now the shadow in his heart seems to have been suddenly dispelled by the sun.
While carefully baking the meat strips with fire, he stopped Lin Yiyi from roasting the scorpion directly and said, "Our people bring ghee. If you say it is more fragrant in frying, just fry it."
Lin Yi nodded, and she used an iron tag to tug the scorpions. Many of them were very fat, and the scorpions even had a blue luster on their tails, which looked chilling.
But Asan Wenfu looked at it without any fear.
He couldn't help laughing as he watched the girl fiddled with these scorpions.
"Why, are you interested in us?" Several Loulan Ghost Riders immediately started to joke, "Ashin Wenfu, we think you can't stop at all."
Lin Yiyi ignored the jokes of these subordinates. She keenly heard an empty sound from Ashina Wenfu's laughter. The sound was like talking in a cave, mixed with echoes and the sound of the wind.
She couldn't help but frown and said, "Are you internally injured?"
The internal injuries in the lungs are very serious, especially the feeling of perforation. In this area, if this injury worsens, the gods cannot save it.
But Ashina Wenfu disagreed and just smiled and said, "I fought with the Uighurs. I was ambushed on the way to pick up the food and grass. There were two masters among the Uighurs. If Shurhan and the others had not come quickly, I would have died there, but I saved the food and grass. My father told me that as long as I can complete the transaction with you Loulan Ghost Rider this time, when I go back, I will be qualified to wear black armor and become one of the Black Riders."
When it comes to Black Armor and Black Rider, Lin Yiyi seemed to have a dazzling brilliance on his face when he saw it.
"I'm not afraid of dying when I'm suffering such a serious injury?" Lin Yiyi felt that it was too hot next to the fire. She said while frowned, unbuttoning the thick cloth covering her face.
Asan Wenfu saw her face at first sight, his eyes were a little straight. Until the oil dripped from the barbecue fell into the bonfire and made a squeak, he realized and said sincerely, "You are so beautiful."
After saying this, he suddenly felt that he had not answered Lin Yiyi's previous sentence, which was very rude, so he immediately replied anxiously, "I know my body myself. It's okay, I'm going to get better, I can't die."
Faced with such simple and unpretentious praise and the courage to not take danger seriously, Lin Yiyi smiled rare and said, "You Turkic dynasty were so powerful before, even Li would ask you to borrow troops, why are there few beautiful beauties in your Turkic dynasty?"
"In the past, there were many beautiful beauties in our Turks." Asan Wenfu shook his head. He restrained his smile and said seriously: "But when our Turkic dynasty was powerful, my father said that those delicate beauties were used to see and use to hurt. They were like the exquisite porcelain of your Tang Dynasty, and they could not withstand the bumps. When a group of people were going to migrate and avoid hunting, those beauties were always the fastest death because they had never suffered such hardship before. My elder brother's mother was also a famous beauties in our Turks. Even the years seemed to be unable to leave traces on her face, but when we started to escape, she died of illness in the first year of the escape. My father said that the better the flowers, the more delicate they were."
Lin Yiyi fell silent.
She didn't think Ashina Wenfu's words were unpleasant. She just thought of those poor people who died on the run, and her former self.
A small iron pot was brought over.
This small iron pot looks very exquisite and was used as a utensil for the Turkic royal family in the past.
A large piece of ghee has been placed inside. After the iron pan is mounted on the fire, the ghee quickly melts, emitting a sweet fragrance.
Lin Yiyi threw the scorpions in one by one, and still fiddled with iron sticks.
Soon the jerky meat in Ashina Wenfu's hand was roasted, and the scorpions gradually became golden and began to exude an attractive aroma.
Han Shan came over.
The terrifying leader of the Loulan Ghost Rider had been taking a break in the tent before, but when he smelled the scorpion, he walked out of the tent.
Seeing Ashina Wenfu and Lin Yiyi sitting together and talking, an unconcealed look of astonishment appeared on his face, but when he came to sit down, he was already calm.
After picking up a fried scorpion with a pair of chopsticks taken out of the sleeve and chewed it slowly. He looked at Lin Yiyi and said calmly, "You can follow him later."
Lin Yiyi was stunned.
Asuna Wenfu was even more surprised and couldn't stop talking.
Han Shan picked up another scorpion, and after eating it slowly, he looked at Lin Yiyi and said, "Let them come here, I was going to take you away."
At this time, Ashina Wenfu completely reacted, "I said before that we wanted to take someone to Guixuling Ridge, but I wanted us to take her there?"
Han Shan nodded and said, "That was the territory of your Turks before. Only you are familiar with the way there, and the lamas there only owe your father's favor. Only if you send it over, they will take her in."
Lin Yiyi didn't say anything, she just stared at Han Shan.
"What you want to do here is done." Han Shan looked at her calmly and said, "I know you have suffered a lot in my hands, and I didn't teach you anything, but it's not that I don't want to teach you, but Gu Shiwu thinks my things are not good enough and are not suitable for you. He thinks that with your personality, either you don't do it, and if you want to do it, you won't just do it."
Lin Yiyi still didn't say anything, but just stabbed a scorpion with a tin stick.
Han Shan picked up the chopsticks and finished eating, and then said, "In the past, her mother must have touched the entire Buddhist sect. She knew where the Tantric Buddhism was unknown, but the circulating methods were much more powerful than the many practice areas in the Tang Dynasty. Gu Shiwu first thought about it and asked you to go to the Turkic place to learn the Tantric method, but he was afraid that you were not that piece of material. He asked me to see if you can succeed. Today, I have finished reading it. You are better than I imagined."
Looking at Lin Yiyi who had not spoken, Han Shan thought for a while and said, "Gu Shiwu also gave me a special explanation, saying that unless you practice better than me, you should stay in the Turkic land and not come out."
"I see."
Lin Yiyi picked up the roasted meat strips of Asuna Wenfu and ate them slowly. She handed the iron stick to Asuna Wenfu, meaning that the two of them could eat them themselves.
After eating a few bites of the meat strips, she slowly raised her head, took a deep breath, and looked at Han Shan and said, "What about you, I'm leaving now. Have you ever said anything to me?"
"I?"
Han Shan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, saying, "I, a half-old man, have anything to say to you, a young girl, and I'm just helping someone take care of you."
Lin Yi nodded, but said stubbornly, "But I have something to say to you."
Han Shan was also used to her temper, and smiled and said, "You said."
Lin Yiyi looked at him and said, "You treat me better than my family. From now on, you will be my uncle. If you have enemies, I will help you deal with it. When you die of old age, I will send you my life."
Han Shan was so angry that he laughed at this sentence, "Are you cursing me? Why don't I give it to you? And what's the matter? I'm just a little more modest and say that I'm old. Do you think I'm so old?"
Lin Yiyi said, "Then you are my brother."
"Okay."
Han Shan waved his hand and looked at Ashina Wenfu, who was eating the fried scorpion so that his tongue was almost swallowed, and said seriously, "Did you hear that? This is my sister? You have to send her to the field well. She can't die if you die."
Asan Wenfu patted his chest hard, making the sound of holes in his lungs, making Lin Yiyi worry that he would slap himself to death.
Chapter completed!