Finally we set foot on the mountain road to Hunu Town. The mountain road started along the north bank of the Krakash River, but in some places they had to wader to the south bank. The Krakash River had not yet officially arrived during the flood season and after the flood season, the river water in most places was very shallow and could wader through it, which was not difficult for them.

However, starting from Phuket Village, along the Krakash River, there is a mountain road of about 500 miles. According to Ajir, it is the most ideal to walk 30 miles a day. It is the end of May now, and the main flood season caused by large-scale melting of ice and snow has passed, but you should not be careless.

When Sun Xiurong saw that Agil and the eight teenagers, in addition to each carrying a package, she also carried a single bow and a short knife on her body, she thought to herself: "The danger on this road is probably much greater than what Duan Xiushi said."

So he pulled Aguil aside, "Aguil, to be honest, what dangers might happen on this road?"

Agil said: "First of all, it was the sudden flood, but it was the end of May. According to common sense, there should be no such thing, unless a glacier with snow on the snow-capped mountains suddenly collapsed, but that was only found in the event of an earthquake..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly made an action on his chest with his hand. Sun Xiurong had seen this action in many Hu Shangs before, and his heart moved, "Are you a Zoropause?"

Ajiel looked a little unnatural, "Ahem, yes, I'm seen by Jun Ye. I'm not hiding Jun Ye, most of the people in the entire town of Khotan believe in Buddhism, but there are also people who believe in the Prajna, Manichi and Tianfang. We live under the Great Snow Mountains. Earthquakes, avalanches, and droughts are common. I'm stupid and think that Prajna is very suitable for me..."

Sun Xiurong suddenly remembered that there were few fields near Phuket Village, but he saw some cattle, sheep and horses, so he asked, "Why don't you farm?"

Agil said: "We used to be herders. When we came here, we saw that there were few people. So we simply became a settled herder and drove the animals to the city of Khotan every now and then. In addition, this is a must-pass place to Hunu Town. We can also make some money by providing food and accommodation and being a guide, and we live a worse life than farming..."

Seeing that these people had no estrangement from the Tang people, Sun Xiurong asked, "The Tubo people came here not long ago. What is the impression of them?"

A look of horror suddenly appeared on Agil's face.

After a while, he said, "The Tubo people are not as young as the Tang Dynasty. Although I was very young at that time, I also learned from my parents that after they occupied this place, they forced us to believe in Bon or Buddhism. Secondly, except for some landlords and masters or nobles, all the remaining people would become slaves, either serfs or herdsmen. Sixty percent of the food and livestock were to be handed over to them. The remaining men had to be drawn. At that time, there were nine brothers and sisters in my family. After the Tubo people left, there were only three left..."

Sun Xiurong nodded and thought to himself: "From this point alone, the Tang Dynasty is far better than the Tubo."

"Jun Ye, about half of the 500-mile mountain roads have trees and grass in the valleys, and next to the river, there are no need to worry about the food of the animals. But along the way, there are still a large number of wild animals, including wild sheep, wild horses, wild donkeys, wild wolves, wild bears, and snow leopards. Although Jun Ye is young, he looks like he has martial arts at first glance. If at night, at least one person will be on duty, and one person will have to take care of eight animals. If a whole wolf pack arrives, it will still be difficult to catch it."

For these, Sun Xiurong, who once had a much larger density of wild animals than in the Kunlun Mountains, was completely stressful. In fact, with his and Yang Shouyu's current abilities, even if the entire wolf pack comes, there is a way to deal with it. As for wild bears and snow leopards, they will definitely not appear in groups. They will only come alone to give them skins.

"Jun Ye, these dolls, although they are young, know some skills in archery and fighting. Of course, they are far inferior to Jun Ye, but if they grow a few years older, it will be completely different."

Hearing Agil's words, Sun Xiurong's heart moved, "When did you come here?"

Agil said: "I don't know much, but my ancestors said that I used to be from Wusun and moved here when I was a great man."

"Wusun?" Sun Xiurong suddenly thought of the famous Princess Jieyou and the Yili River Basin, which is now occupied by the Tuqi Shi Huang tribe, "There is the real place with abundant water and grass."

But no matter how much he thinks, he is only eighteen years old and has no autonomy at all. If he wants to follow the times and achieve his career, he still has to work hard to do something.

After hearing that Hunu Town did not need them to bring their own food, he decided to use up the food he brought on the way.

Starting from the flat ground, after the Krakash River entered the Kunlun Mountains, there were a wide area of ​​river valleys within about a hundred miles. Originally, there were people in this area, most of which were Wusun herders. They carried out fishing and hunting activities. After the Tubo people occupied this place, they killed or robbed these sporadic herders to the flat ground to be centralized for jurisdiction. After the Tang Dynasty took over again, no one was willing to return to the mountains.

As for desert-edge oasis like the four towns of Anxi, the closer the mountains is to the mountains, the more herders dominate. In the past, the Wusun people, the Sogdians, and the Yuezhi people all reproductively and thrive here, but in general, the Wusun people are still pure nomadic tribes.

When Sun Xiurong saw a young man's face looking like a Han man, he asked, "What's your name?"

Like Kashgarha, the boy had a black and red face, but his facial features were still like a Han Chinese. The boy shook his head after hearing this, and it seemed that he did not understand Chinese. Sun Xiurong said aside in Sogdian, and the boy replied, "My name is Geng Sidu."

"Geng Sidu?"

When Sun Xiurong heard this strange name, he couldn't help but repeat it. He had learned Sogdian. In Sogdian, "Sidu" and "Sidu" all have hometown and hometown. This "Geng" naturally comes from Chinese. In the past, in Central Asia, although it was known as the Jiu surname of Zhaowu, it was for residents who spoke Sogdian. There were still many tribes who spoke ancient Turkic. In addition to the Jiu surname, there were more Han surnames, but this was the first time that Geng surname had seen it.

Perhaps it was after Geng Gong's Han army stayed in the Western Regions Han people. Thinking of this, Sun Xiurong couldn't help but take a look at this. Ajiel naturally saw it. He took over the conversation, "June, Phuket Village is known as a village, but in fact, Dingkou is far larger than a village. Because it controls the only exit of the entrance and exit of the Kunlun Mountains of the Tang Dynasty, many people on the Oasis of Yutian Town have also come here to seek livelihoods, otherwise it would not have been so many years at once."

"Geng Sidu's family moved from Shule City. They originally farmed, but later changed to grazing cattle and horses. After the Tubo people came, they snatched all their cattle, sheep and horses. They fled to the mountains to pick and escape. Later, after the Tang Dynasty came back, they went down the mountain again, but there were no houses, cattle and sheep, so they had to make a living in Phuket Village."

"Shule City?" Sun Xiurong suddenly remembered the situation when Geng Gong, a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, guarded Shule City. In addition, his surname was Geng, so he was very likely to be a descendant of Geng Gong's Han army. However, hundreds of years later, no matter how stubborn these people were, they were unlikely to be unique in the Western Regions and were eventually assimilated.

"He is an orphan. Shortly after he arrived in Phuket Village, his father died of illness. Speaking of which, he grew up eating a hundred-family meals."

"Hongshui River has arrived!"

As he was talking, someone shouted, Sun Xiurong followed the others to the bank of the Krakash River. He saw that the river water on both sides to the distance upstream, the rocks and soil on both sides showed a solemn red color, and the Krakash River here was also reddish-brown, which looked very eye-catching.

Sun Xiurong rode his horse along the north bank of the Krakash River for a long time, and finally found that it was simply a problem of rock and soil, not that there was an iron ore here. He couldn't help but feel a little depressed. However, as the sky approached noon, he said, "Build a pot to make rice!"

He wanted to show his hands in front of the teenagers. When the stove was ready, he spread more than a dozen large cakes with the flour he carried. The large cakes were sprinkled with sesame seeds purchased from Yutian Town, and the salt smelled particularly attractive. Then he cooked a pot of soup with wild vegetables and jerky meat. Everyone had big cakes and meat soup with the other hand, and they ate so happily. In the four towns of Anxi, this was the first time that everyone had eaten this way of eating - of course, when they were in the Pamir Mountains, the Yang family had naturally eaten it.

After eating and having a rest, Ajir simply asked his son Kashha to ride a horse in front of him alone, Sun Xiurong followed behind, and Yang Shouyu followed the brigade as a guard at the end. After about five miles, the red Krakash River was completed. As soon as he walked out of this red sandstone area, a large area of ​​green with the smell of grass came to his face.

It is a rare green area in the Krakash River Basin. There is a large oasis on the shore. In addition to the green grass, there are also some fir trees on the mountain. What makes people feel even more relaxed is that there are large groups of wild horses, wild donkeys, and wild antelopes who are wandering there to eat grass!

It was still surprising that such a place suddenly appeared in the seemingly deserted Kunlun Mountains. Sun Xiurong stood on the shore and stared at the river water carefully. Soon he discovered the clue. The river surface was very fast, and there were whirlpools in the river water near the river bank on both sides, which showed that the river water here was very deep, and at both ends of this green grassland were cliffs.

The deep river water and the closed environment, the only exit is to continue walking up the green hillside, and the farthest is snow-capped - there is naturally more snow here than other hills.

In such a place, wild animals are naturally not afraid of the arrival of humans. The only thing they are worried about is carnivores, but there are so many animals gathered in this small place, and there must be carnivores nearby. In the eyes of Sun Xiurong, a person born in a safari tribe in his previous life, there are at least two wolves nearby, and there may be several snow leopards and brown bears.

But there are no signs of carnivores appearing at the moment, most of them are waiting for the arrival of evening or night.

Sun Xiurong wanted to go over and catch an antelope, but he could only sigh in the river.

Keep walking forward until evening, when the scenery in front of me becomes deserted again, the twilight of the day finally comes.

In a sheltered valley, Sun Xiurong and others set up tents.

Ajir and others who accompanied him only brought two tents in total, but four or five people squeezed over a tent.

The man who looked like a Han Chinese but did not know Chinese, Geng Sidu lived with Ajier and his son. In fact, this person was not very popular among young people, but Ajier was obviously a person who knew how to do things. When he learned that Sun Xiurong, a young man who was not much older than a kind of young man, was going to Hunu Town to serve as the only cavalry gang, his original contempt was also concealed. Sun Xiurong also saw Geng Sidu's thoughts and quickly took the initiative to let Geng Sidu live with him.

That night, Sun Xiurong arranged for Yang Shouyu to take two teenagers on duty and he went to bed early.

In the middle of the night, he was woken up again.

The night sky was filled with the smokey smell of torches and the strong bloody smell. When Yang Shouyu's mixed-blooded face with the Qiang and Hu people appeared in front of him with a smile, everything was settled.
Chapter completed!