Tang's dining table

"Squeaky-"

A sharp whistle sound came from behind a sand slope, and then, a flower-winged hawk glided over from behind the sand slope silently, a pair of brown eyes with gold rings staring closely ahead, two The sharp claws suddenly stretched out and hooked a running vole, then flapped its wings twice, drawing a beautiful arc in mid-air, and went straight into the sky.

A broken felt hat carefully poked out from behind the mound. Under the broken felt hat was a dirty face with a pair of smart black eyes. However, at this moment, these beautiful eyes were full of disappointment. color.

The field mouse was used to catch the falcon. Now the falcon broke the thread in his hand and snatched the field mouse away.

"Dog Bandit!"

Xiao Yuhua looked at the falcon disappearing into the clouds and cursed in a low voice, then stood up holding up his baggy sheepskin pants.

This is a large area of ​​red sandstone land. Because it cannot hold water, only some Haloxylon ammodendron and tamarisk drought-tolerant plants grow here.

On the edge of the red sandstone field, Xiao Yuhua saw an Elaeagnus angustifolia tree. He cheered, turned a hollow somersault from a high sandy slope, and landed steadily on another piece of red sandstone, with his feet wrapped in cowhide. Two wet footprints like cow hooves were left on the red sandstone.

His body jumped like a projectile on the patchwork red sandstone. In a short time, he came to the edge of the rare Elaeagnus tree.

The Elaeagnus Elaeagnus on the Elaeagnus Elaeagnus tree has turned red, and some of them have even turned deep red. As for the leaves of the Elaeagnus Elaeagnus tree that have been coated with a layer of silver powder, they have not changed color at this time, but there are some overly stubborn leaves falling on them. on the ground.

Xiao Yuhua is very experienced in eating Elaeagnus angustifolia. Only those truly ripe Elaeagnus angustifolia will lose their astringent taste, leaving a trace of sweetness.

After Xiao Yuhua collected a handful of ripe Elaeagnus jujubes, he stopped picking them. You must not eat too much of these. Eating too much would be extremely harmful to the back door. He didn't want to repeat that experience again.

Elaeagnus must be eaten one by one. Anyone who stuffs a mouthful of angustifolia into their mouth is a fool, and they can’t even open their mouths if they are so astringent.

Red sandstone fields cannot hold water, but there must be water sources around large areas of red sandstone fields.

After passing through a tamarisk bush with strange shapes, Xiao Yuhua came upon a clear spring.

He looked around carefully, then squatted down and listened carefully to what was going on around him.

There was only the sound of the wind blowing through the red willows, causing the branches to rub against each other. Only then did Xiao Yuhua kneel down on one knee, put his mouth to the surface of the water and swallow big gulps of water.

A rope suddenly jumped up from the spring water and strangled his neck tightly. Xiao Yuhua was startled. He grabbed the rope with both hands and tried to untie the shackles, but the rope had already been strangled into his flesh, causing He couldn't breathe, so he could only hold on to the rope desperately to give himself a little space to breathe.

Two strong men in leather clothes ran out laughing from the red willow bushes. One was holding a leather rope, and the other opened his arms to catch Xiao Yuhua.

Xiao Yuhua ran nimbly around the pool. As he ran, he drew out his knife and slashed hard at Pi Suo.

After a hole was cut in the leather cord, the knife could not cut in. Looking at the silver-white iron wire under the leather cord, Xiao Yuhua let go of his hands, walked quickly on the ground for two steps, then jumped up and hit him hard with his shoulder. To the strong man holding the leather rope.

The strong man laughed loudly and raised his leg with a kick. He was about to kick Xiao Yuhua over and then tie him up. However, he did not expect that the kick was sure to miss. The knife in Xiao Yuhua's hand was deeply inserted into his shoulder, and he used The knife circled half a circle in mid-air from its starting point, and the angustifolia wood prong in the other hand pierced the strong man's crotch neck.

At this time, the strong man chasing him rushed over, shouting.

Xiao Yuhua put the leather cord away. This was a good thing. Inside the leather cord was twisted an iron wire that could only be made in a Chang'an workshop. It was the best for killing people or tying things up.

When the strong man in leather clothes saw that Xiao Yuhua was no longer running, his steps toward Xiao Yuhua became slower and slower, getting smaller and smaller, and then he rushed out diagonally after passing the pool.

Seeing the strong man's figure disappearing into the red willow bushes, Xiao Yuhua followed him slowly. This red willow bush was his home, and no one was more familiar with this place than him.

After a while, a large bush of red willows began to sway wildly. After a while, Xiao Yuhua dragged the body of the strong man back to the edge of the pool again.

Today, we didn't catch any falcons, but we caught two fat sheep. Xiao Yuhua was still very satisfied, as he lived up to his pretense these days.

He was the first to take off the boots from the corpse. The stench from the boots made him retching, and then he quickly buried all four boots in the hot sand to remove the smell.

Then he carefully peeled off the clothes on the strong man. When he saw that there were dense gnats and lice crawling everywhere on them, he buried these clothes in the hot sand again.

The sand in Hexi is hot during the day and cold at night. You only need to do this twice, once for a day and a night, and the clothes full of parasites will be clean.

Xiao Yuhua left the crotch cloth for them, which was the last trace of dignity.

He found the luggage of the two people from the bushes. After opening it, he threw away all the angustifolia hidden in the pockets, because the luggage of the two people was full of food, including five pieces of cured mutton. , enough for him to eat alone for several days.

He looked up at the sky. It was not the time to light the fire yet, so he had to sigh, cut the bacon with a knife and eat it with naan bread. When he was thirsty, he lay down and took another sip of water.

The wind in the Gobi has cooled down since the afternoon, and now I can feel the coolness blowing on my body.

Xiao Yuhua quickly used a knife to cut the wound on the strong man's body, letting the blood that had not yet solidified continue to flow for a while. He quickly smeared the blood on his face, and inserted a bloody knife into his own In the armpit, if you didn't look carefully, you would think that he was also a corpse pierced by a sharp knife.

Xiao Yuhua lay down for a long time, clearly feeling that the enemy had come to his side, why didn't his body send any warning signal?

Moreover, there was an indescribable sweet fragrance that always enveloped him, making him reluctant to open his eyes.

"Are you eating human flesh?" came a soft female voice that made Xiao Yuhua's heart tremble.

Xiao Yuhua knew that he could no longer pretend, so he turned around, got up, and continued squatting on the ground to cut the mutton and eat it.

In order to cover up his racing heart, he lowered his head and took two sips of water.

"Are you drinking my bathwater?"

The water Xiao Yuhua just drank was caused by these words to spurt out all the water.

Through the strands of hair covered in blood, Xiao Yuhua glanced at the woman in front of him and felt that she was so clean that drinking her bath water was not a big problem. Besides, this pool was not a stagnant pool. The water has long pushed the dirty water out of the pool.

"There is water here, why don't you clean yourself up? My brother is different from you. He always cleans himself up."

Xiao Yuhua carefully retracted his ox-like feet, because he lowered his gaze and saw a pair of red boots with flowers on the woman's feet. They were beautiful and could not be worn by ordinary people. .

"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to catch slaves. Besides, you are from Tang Dynasty, so others don't dare to catch you as a slave.

Master Shanxing said that during the three days we were stationed here, you peeked at us for three days and stole a bag of salt and a jar of wine. Master Shanxing was about to recover the things, but later he discovered that you had mixed the salt with the wine. You gave it to an old beggar, but he didn't catch you and said you were a good person.

Hey, are you a good person? "

Xiao Yuhua raised his head to look at Hu Ji, who was as beautiful as a fairy in front of him. He wanted to speak, but for some reason he quickly lowered his head after seeing Naha's smiling face.

He was worried that if he said anything, he would scare away Hu Ji, who was pretty and had a sweet voice.

"Turns out he is a fool." Naha sighed, thinking that this guy was a young man as powerful as her brother. Unexpectedly, after saying so many words and getting no response, Naha thought that he was a fool and felt that she had no It's necessary to talk too much to a fool.

"I'm not an idiot."

Naha, who was about to leave, received a response and came to the edge of the water pool. She lifted up her skirt and squatted on the ground, looking at Xiao Yuhua and said: "Did you kill these two bandits?"

Xiao Yuhua lowered his head and said, "They are not bandits, they are field mice."

Naha stood up and kicked the corpse and said, "Liar, they are humans, not field mice."

Xiao Yuhua said: "Those who live underground are voles."

"That's not necessarily true. Marmots also live underground. Let me tell you, my brother's roasted marmots are delicious. Have you ever eaten marmots?"

Xiao Yuhua raised his head in astonishment. He really couldn't connect the beautiful Orchid with pink makeup and jade in front of him to the marmot with a pair of big fangs.

Naha wiped her saliva and said: "Little beggar, what are you looking at? If you look at it again, I will dig out your eyeballs."

Xiao Yuhua quickly lowered his head and heard Naha say again: "Don't dare to waste the corpses of these two bandits. If you stick them on wooden poles, one in the south and one in the north, I guarantee that this large red willow forest will be destroyed." This is your territory. The only bad thing is that it stinks. However, you shouldn’t dislike it if you are so dirty, right? When the flesh rots and is washed away by rain a few times, the corpse will turn into a skeleton. By then, others will I won’t dare enter your woods if I see a skeleton.”

Xiao Yuhua said in surprise: "Are you from Sai?"

Naha said in surprise: "You also know Sairen?"

Xiao Yuhua said: "Only you Cypriots have the habit of sticking corpses on poles to scare others.

By the way, I haven’t asked yet, which king’s Hu Ji are you? "

Naha was furious when she heard this, kicked Xiao Yuhua on the shoulder and said: "My name is Yun Na, you can also call me Naha, I am not anyone's Hu Ji, if you must say so, I am my brother's Hu Ji!" "

Xiao Yuhua held his head and let Naha keep kicking him. He had never thought about taking this beautiful little Hu Ji away and selling her for money. The problem was that there were several bald heads tanned by the sun in the red willow bushes. That.

His instinct told him that if he dared to have any bad thoughts towards this little Hu Ji, he would be beaten to a pulp by those violent monks with sticks.

Chapter two