Chapter 63 On the way(1/2)
Chu Kuo opened his mouth as he looked at Jingyao's back as he left, as if he wanted to say something, but he still didn't say a word. He turned around and walked to the place where Jingyao stood before, remembering and remembering his ancestors, imitating him, spreading his arms, and looking into the distance, wanting to gain some emotions like him.
There was no difference between the grass under his feet. The tender buds had been cut off by the sword energy that had shaken before, but an unyielding force came from the soles of his feet. The broken grass still had an endless momentum, trying to break through the obstacles of Chu Kuo's feet and grow upwards.
The sun on the grassland always sets very late. At this moment, it was already the lights on Dingxi Royal City, but it was still bright here. Chu Kuo recalled what Jingyao had just said again, then withdrew his arms and walked towards the gate of Yinghuo tribe.
Before he got close, he saw a horse tied at the door. He was strong in body, clear in color, and the hair on the four hooves showed extremely uniform snow-whiteness, which was really a rare BMW. The exquisite carved saddle carried two leather pockets on the left and right, which should be the wine and meat prepared by Jingyao for him.
Chu Kuo loved this horse very much. He walked to it, reached out and stroked its mane several times from beginning to end, and then untied the reins wrapped around the stake of the horse. Just as Chu Kuo's foot had already stepped on the stirrup and was about to turn over the horse, his aftertaste suddenly saw another person walking in the diagonal behind him.
I thought it was Jingyao who wanted to come and see her, but when I looked back, I realized that it was a female friend. Chu Kuo was just now all his thoughts were on this BMW, but he forgot that the female friend was still staying in Jingyao's tent.
"You're leaving, too?"
Jingyao asked.
The female nodded.
“Where to go?”
Jingyao continued to ask.
"Go with you and go to the Homura."
The female friend said.
Although he thought that the female friend would leave sooner or later, even so, the place she was going to should be Dingxi Royal City. Why would he think about going to the Moon-Swallowing Division with him?
"Before leaving, the prince only explained two things. The first one was done, and there was no more mistakes in the second one."
The female friend said.
The first thing this refers to assassinating Jingyao, who had just returned from his return in the wine shop and had not yet returned to the tribe. The second thing that says is that if he meets Chu Kuo, the king of Dingxi Huo Wangrang, the dead soldiers of the royal family headed by this female partner, would take care of him more.
Of course, these reasons are not important to Chu Kuo.
What kind of care or not? As long as he has a sword in his hand and does not get lost in the grassland, he can take good care of himself. But he still feels a little happy when he sees the female friend who is so intentional about going with him. It’s not because of anything else, but he doesn’t know the distance to the Moon-Swallowing Division. If it takes several days, wouldn’t it be boring to rush alone?
If possible, Chu Kuo never drank alone. When he drank alone, he usually had something to understand. Although the more he drank, the more confused he was, Chu Kuo felt that today was a little confused, and the more he could be more open-minded and transparent. I guess, he still liked to walk and drink with the people he could chat with.
They didn't say much to the female friend, but Chu Kuo just felt that she could definitely talk to her and her companions. Not for anything else, just because they were both lonely. They were both lonely and had to know each other. Why do you have to know each other when they met? The general experience and the environment were similar. When the two of them stood together, they could feel a harmonious aura, which was much more comfortable than the hypocritical politeness of others.
Thinking that the journey would not be boring, Chu Kuo was even more vigorous. He jumped up, but he didn't even step on the stirrups, so he sat steadily on the saddle and smiled at the female friend. Then he raised the whip in his hand and ran forward. After walking for a long time, he felt that there was nothing else in his ears except the sound of the wind, so he stopped and looked around to find the female friend's figure.
Looking back, the female friend was still staying in place without moving at all. He was secretly surprised, and suddenly saw the female friend pointing in her hand towards the sun, but she remembered Jingyao's words again. The joy just now must have been a little too far... and she didn't even see the direction clearly, so she jumped on the horse and whipped it, but she left the opposite.
After returning to the female friend, Chu Kuo scratched his head embarrassedly. After so many days of getting along, the female friend had already touched his temper thoroughly. However, she didn't care and just started to go on the road.
Both of them were in a flash of energy, and the horse under their crotch was no longer a problem to travel thousands of miles a day, so they ran until the moon was shining and then stopped to rest.
Chu Kuo searched for a depression that sheltered from the wind. The female partner picked up some dry grass and branches from around, trying to build a bonfire and drive away the beasts. But after searching for a long time, she found that there was no flint on both of them. She had no choice but to use two swords to hit each other and try to make some sparks. As a result, after working hard for a long time, it was just in vain.
Fortunately, the weather is not cold, and both of them are martial arts practitioners. Even if a beast is really attacking, the sword in his hand is more useful than a bonfire. But after staying in Yinghuo Department for so many days, I can see the bonfire that has not been extinguished in the department every day. I suddenly lost it and I was a little uncomfortable.
Chu Kuo took out the wine and meat from the belt behind the saddle, but found a stone slab from somewhere, and put it on the ground as a table, and wanted to eat and drink with the female friend here. As for the two BMWs, they naturally bowed their heads to eat grass leisurely. They had to adapt much to the grassland.
The moonlight tonight is not very bright, and fortunately, no one can really eat all the wine and meat into their noses. The female friend did not drink alcohol, but took a piece of jerky and started eating.
Chu Kuo held the wine glass and looked at the female friend's food with relish. He was embarrassed to disturb her and had to drink a glass by himself. He felt that no one seemed to be the same, and he was still drunk by himself? But after all, a living person who could speak and move was always much better than raising a glass for the evening breeze, bright moon, and horse. After comforting himself, Chu Kuo was happy again. He drank one cup by one.
I don't know how long it took, but the piece of jerky meat in the female hand had already been eaten. But she stopped. Her moving eyes were wide open, staring at the wine and meat placed in front of her. This focused expression scared Chu Kuo, thinking that she had suddenly become evil and lost her soul, otherwise she would not even blink her eyelids.
He reached out and held the wine glass and shook it in front of her, but the female friend pushed it away. Although Chu Kuo still felt strange, at least the other party still responded.
"Look, there seems to be words on this stone slab!"
The female friend said.
She was illiterate in the Dingxi Prince's Mansion.
According to King Huo Wang of Dingxi, there is no good thing for this scholar. What can we do if we know the text and snippets? There are only so many right and wrong in the world. As long as we live a life of one's own decent life, we don't care about these things... On the contrary, these scholars rely on how many ink they have in their stomachs to write a few bad articles, and they will make some tricks of right and wrong every day, and all the things that disrupt people's hearts will come out.
Therefore, for a female friend, she would never let them know the words. But she didn't know whether it was her talent or what. When she saw the book, she felt that the words seemed to have grown legs and feet, and she had to drill into her mind. After a long time, she could match the words she said and written.
But this is the female friend who is not apart from herself. If Zhang Yang goes out, she will either die now or have to eat rotten rice with the swordsmen who are right with Huo Wang in the dungeon of Dingxi Prince's Mansion.
As early as in Yinghuomen, she helped Chu Kuo read the letter in Jingyao's camp, so Chu Kuo did not respond to this. Instead, she looked with her with interest and found that the words written on the stone slab were actually from the five kingdoms, not the grassland text.
"interesting!"
Chu Kuo moved the wine and meat all over again, and then Yueguang carefully looked at the stone slab and said.
“What is written on it?”
The female friend asked curiously.
"There is a very powerful scholar who should have traveled here during the dynasty. It seems that he is still a big official."
Chu Kuo said.
What he said was not someone else, but the immortal in Bogu Tower who was able to understand the world through literature and prove the great way through poetry, and finally ascend to the world.
During the imperial period, after he finished his studies at Bogu Tower, this poet wanted to go to the imperial capital to gain some fame. However, because he was too persistent and arrogant, and was greedy for drinking, he was excluded by the powerful and powerful in the dynasty. Fortunately, the emperor at that time was not a mediocre master. In addition, he also gave the talents in Bogu Tower a little face to win over the body and mind of scholars all over the world, so he gave him a name and rewarded some gold, silver and wealth.
Chu Kuo estimated that the time when the poet traveled here should be the end of the dynasty, the court was incompetent, and the management of the border was no longer as good as before. Therefore, the wolf cavalry of the grassland royal court often robbed the border, burned, killed, and robbed him. He really couldn't stand it, so he was inspired. After writing a small preface, he engraved an article "Fear of the Royal Court" on the stone slab.
"The grassland royal court can be filthy in the vast world. Since you and others repeatedly invaded the border, burned, killed, and robbed. Now there are eight or nine out of ten in the world. The grassland royal court only has two huts on the left and right, but the world has nine provinces. Just like Tu in Taibai Mountain, Kunbu in the South China Sea, drums in the Chacheng, deer in Fuyu, pigs in Moyejie, horses in the lead Bin, crucian carp in the Wozhou, crucian carp in the Meituo River, plum in the Jiudu, pears in the Leiyou, to exchange for group of wild grass. If you still don't restrain yourself, you will raise an army to fight in the future. Let's see which family wins and loses!"
Although the text is not long, Chu Kuo felt heartbroken after reading it. It seemed that he met this old friend too late and had a soul fusion. The words engraved on the stone slab are even sharp and have an unparalleled sharpness. Even after so many years, the wind and sand eroded a complete stone slab like tofu, but the charm remains undiminished.
After reading it, Chu Kuo read it to the female friend. Unexpectedly, after listening, she burst into tears. She snatched the wine glass from Chu Kuo's hand and drank it with her neck.
The wine that night was very silent, and they both thought about their own thoughts. When he woke up the next day, it was already midnight. The sun shone warmly on the turf, and it was extremely comfortable to lie on it.
Chu Kuo was still awakened by his female friend in his dream. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked in the direction of her fingers and found a caravan slowly heading towards the depression where the two of them spent the night.
Chu Kuo stood up, patted the grass branches stained with his body, and prepared to wait for the caravan to approach and ask about the journey. Although the direction was known, Jingyao did not tell them how long it would take to arrive. He ran all the way yesterday, but he and his female friend couldn't remember how many journeys they had rushed.
Unexpectedly, when the caravan saw the two of them from afar, they remained still. Chu Kuo was surprised. When he was about to walk forward, he was suddenly pulled by his female friend.
"They regard us as strong men of the robbery."
The female friend said.
Chu Kuo saw that he and his female friend were wearing grassland clothes. In this place where they were not in front of the village or behind the shop, they were listening to the long sword in their hands, and in a deep depression, it was inevitable that others would think too much.
But after a second thought, Chu Kuo still walked forward.
But he left the sword with the female friend.
Seeing Chu Kuo's bare hands and his back was facing him, the female friend suddenly stopped thinking, but in the end she gave up this idea and stood there honestly.
Chu Kuo naturally felt the difference behind him just now.
When people have thoughts, they will naturally reveal them. These may not be felt by others, but they cannot escape Chu Kuo's awareness.
"Who are you? Don't move forward any further! We have a pass order issued by Gong Sifeng, the third division of the Moon Swallowing Moon! "
The leader of the caravan saw Chu Kuo walking towards him and others, and quickly spoke.
But they regarded Chu Kuo as a grasslander, and the sentence just now was said in grassland language. Chu Kuo naturally couldn't understand it and still walked forward without stopping.
It was not until the martial artist in the caravan showed his sword that he stopped and asked.
"Where are you going?"
"Who are you?"
The caravan leader was extremely surprised when he heard that Chu Kuo was using the standard words of the Five Great Kings.
"We are going to the Homura Tengbu, where are you going?"
Chu Kuo didn't know how to introduce himself for a while, and he really didn't have any titles. It can't be said that he went to the Swallowing Moon Division to kill people, right?
"I'm going to the Swallowing Moon Tribe too!"
Chu Kuo said.
"Our caravan has a pass order personally issued by Gong Sifeng, the three departments of the Moon-Swallowing Moon Department. Where did you come from? Why are you dressing like this?"
The caravan leader asked.
"I am a friend of Gong Jingyao, the third division of Yinghuo tribe, and went to the Moon Tribe to do something."
Chu Kuo said.
When they heard this, the caravan leader put down a little alert and made a gesture to the martial artists who were already tense behind them. Then they put down the sword in their hands, but their faces were quite disdainful and even had a kind of hatred.
Chu Kuo didn't know where this emotion came from, and he felt it was inexplicable. However, his purpose was to find out how far there was to the Moon Sect here, and he didn't care about the sudden changes of the martial artists. "It's less than half a day to reach the Moon Sect here. If you ride a horse, it's faster. It only takes more than an hour to reach it."
Although the caravan leader spoke quite politely, his tone was extremely cold.
After hearing this, Chu Kuo nodded thoughtfully, thinking that the horse Jingyao gave him was indeed a treasure. He had been rushing so many roads without realizing it, and I am afraid that it would be more than enough to travel 800 miles a day.
After receiving the answer, Chu Kuo thanked him and turned around and walked back to the depression. But he clearly heard a wave of insults rising from the caravan behind him, especially the martial arts practitioners who drew their swords, who cursed the most fiercely, and they were not satisfied with all the 18th generation of Chu Kuo's ancestors and the unborn children.
He didn't understand why, but he laughed as he listened
"I'm so happy to be scolded?"
The female friend rolled her eyes and said.
"Don't you think it's fun to be scolded like this inexplicable?"
Chu Kuo asked back.
To be continued...