Chapter 4 Naadam

Outside the yurt, beside Uri Lake.

The mirror-like moon hangs in the sky, casting silvery brilliance onto the calm lake.The evening wind blows, the lake is sparkling, and it is extraordinarily quiet and beautiful.

A young man and woman are sitting side by side on the grass by the lake.

The youth looked fifteen or sixteen years old, with a straight nose, Xingjian eyebrows, and exceptionally clear and bright eyes.Despite being exposed to the wind and sun in the grassland every day, his skin is fair, and his handsome appearance is a bit more bookish.

The girl next to her was dressed as a Mongolian woman, her eyes were like water, and her skin was like suet. She looked young, but most of the girls in the grassland were precocious, tall and tall, with good bumps, beautiful and rusty.

The two have been sitting side by side, silent.

Until there was a gust of cool wind blowing, seeing the girl beside him trembling slightly, the young man said softly: "Junior Sister, it's cold at night, you should go back to rest earlier."

Hearing the young man's words, the girl seemed to have no intention of leaving, and said in a low voice: "Senior brother, the master said that you will return to the Central Plains this time, and you will not be able to return until about a year later. Xiaowan will not see her senior brother for a year, so I will think about it. Before you leave, just stay with me more."

"Xiao Wan, one year will pass soon, and I will be back." The boy said as he picked up a stone on the grass and threw it into the lake.

"Master told me that too, but I still don't want to be separated from you. Brother, can't you take me to the Central Plains? I won't drag you down." The girl turned around and begged the boy.

"Xiaowan, my mother said that it has been 20 years since Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty made the "Agreement of Peace" that would not invade the grasslands for 20 years. Now there are frequent conflicts on the border, and the two countries may fight at any time. Princess Yuan, it is not suitable to go to the Central Plains with us. I promise, I will definitely come back in a year." The boy stared at the mirror-like lake under the moonlight and said.

Hearing the young man's refusal, the Mongolian girl sighed softly: "Brother, a year is not long or short. One year ago, you rescued me from the wolf's mouth at the Nadam meeting, and I followed you and the master to Uganda. Li Grassland, this year has passed so fast. I never thought that the beautiful days would come to an end so soon. I heard that all the women in the Central Plains are as beautiful as flowers. It won’t be long before you forget me look."

"Junior Sister...I...I will remember your appearance." The young man said softly.

"Look at you, you are so hesitant to answer, you don't have me in your heart. If you had me, you wouldn't have shied away when your father asked us to get married last year." The girl bit her lip and said.

"Junior Sister, you know that I can't break my virgin body until my internal strength is broken. Naturally, I won't marry a wife. No matter how beautiful the Central Plains women are, my father married my mother and returned to Mongolia with my mother." Is it?" Seeing the girl's aggrieved face, the boy comforted her.

"Your mother, my master, was the most beautiful woman in Mongolia back then. And I, at most, was not ugly, how could I compare? However, from the moment you rescued me, I thought about it, and I will be with you in this life. You. Whether you like me or not."

The girl looked up at the starry sky, and her thoughts drifted back to that day a year ago that she could never forget.

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Fishing sea, the sky is vast and the earth is vast.

Naadam, the Mongolian Spring Festival.

This year's Naadam was placed in Yuyuerhai, and the princes and grandchildren of the Northern Yuan Dynasty all brought their families and gathered in Yuyuerhai.

Wang Baobao sent a message to Zhao Min very early on, inviting Zhao Min to come and have a gathering.For so many years, Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min's family lived in seclusion and rarely left the Wuli Grassland to contact the outside world.Thinking that his son Zhang Qingming will leave the grassland in one year to go to Guangmingding to take over as the leader of Mingjiao, it is time for him to go out to broaden his horizons and increase his knowledge.

So, after discussing with Zhang Wuji, Zhao Min took Zhang Qingming to Yuerhai to attend the Naadam Conference.

The Naadam meeting place was crowded with people, including all the relatives and relatives of the Northern Yuan Emperor.

After living in seclusion for more than 30 years, Princess Shao Min, who was so energetic in those days, also changed her temperament greatly, and she did not want to show her face in public.Sitting in a corner behind Wang Baobao's seat, he said nothing.Zhang Qingming was very interested, sitting in the front row and watching with relish.

The climax of every Naadam event is the hunting competition.

This year is even more ingenious, capturing dozens of live wolves from the grassland and putting them in a cage in the middle of the square.One or two are released at a time for the princes and grandchildren with bows and arrows around the square to hunt and kill.The Mongols have been martial since ancient times, and every time they shot and killed a live wolf, it would attract bursts of applause, and the scene was particularly enthusiastic.

After shooting six or seven wolves, the wolf cage guards in armor opened the door of the wolf cage. The male wolf released this time was extraordinarily huge. Although it was daytime, the cold light in the eyes of the giant wolf could be clearly seen.

As soon as the giant wolf came out of the cage, it was different from the live wolves that were released before and fled around. Before waiting for the surrounding princes and grandsons to shoot arrows to hunt them down, they suddenly turned around and rushed towards the wolf cage.

Before the wolf cage guards arrived, the giant wolf would turn back, unable to dodge in time, and was knocked down by the giant wolf.After biting the guard several times and being unable to move, the giant wolf rushed towards the cage.

After six or seven of its kind died, this giant wolf that looked like a wolf king seemed to see the way.The door of the wolf cage opens inward, and it is impossible to rush through the cage door from the inside.However, rushing from the outside to the inside, there is a glimmer of life.Sure enough, under the desperate impact of the giant wolf, the wolf cage that kept the living wolf was knocked open by the giant wolf.

After the cage door was knocked open, more than 20 hungry wolves rushed out of the cage and rushed towards the crowd of onlookers.The incident happened suddenly, there was no one on guard, the venue was in a panic, and the closest to the wolf cage, the princes and princesses in the hunting ground, were in danger.

Seeing this, Zhang Qingming knew that if he didn't make a move, the lives of the few people in the hunting ground were very likely to be lost.

So they used Ti Yun Zong, and the few rushed to the hunting ground.

As soon as he arrived at the hunting ground, Zhang Qingming saw two giant wolves pounce on a girl in a costume. If they go all at once, the girl will have no chance of surviving.It was too late to say it, and there was no time to draw the sword.Zhang Qingming remained calm in the face of danger, with Qi flowing to his dantian, he pushed out with one palm together, the two giant wolves were forced by the palm Qi, and immediately backed away.

Seeing that the hungry wolves were forced back, Zhang Qingming hurriedly helped the girl up, trying to take her out of danger, but found that more than a dozen wolves had surrounded her and wanted to attack her.

The more dangerous the situation, Zhang Qingming became more and more calm.Pulling out the long sword in his hand, he protected the girl behind him.

The two hungry wolves who had been forced away by Zhang Qingming's palm before were unwilling to do so, so they rushed towards Zhang Qingming and the girl in costume when they saw the support of the same kind.

The swordsmanship practiced by Zhang Qingming is the Tai Chi sword that his father Zhang Wuji learned from Zhang Zhenren.The faster the opponent moves, the more he can strike late and find a flaw.As with humans, so with wolves.

Just as the two hungry wolves fell forward, Zhang Qingming raised his sword and both were stabbed in the vital parts, bleeding profusely, and collapsed to the ground.Seeing this, the other hungry wolves rushed towards Zhang Qingming together.

Qingming has practiced Nine Suns Divine Kung Fu and Tai Chi Sword and Boxing since he was a child. Although he is still young and his internal skills have not been able to break through, he still has rules and can cope with it freely.Seeing the pack of wolves encircle, the long sword draws a beautiful arc, the arc crosses, and several hungry wolves were stabbed to the vitals and died immediately, the rest of the hungry wolves didn't dare to go forward after seeing this.

The entire Naadam venue was shocked by the thirteenth and fourteenth-year-old boy's skills, and they all praised him.

At this time, the guards at the venue just came to their senses, and rushed towards the hungry wolf with a weapon in hand.

Not long after, the hungry wolves in the hunting ground were wiped out by the guards one after another.

After a false alarm, the girl hiding behind Zhang Qingming may have been overly frightened, her body softened, and she fell into Qingming's arms.

At this time, Qingming could see clearly the girl in her arms, she was about twelve or thirteen years old, she looked like a woman from the Han family, although she was not as beautiful as her mother, she was fair and beautiful, with exquisite features, and she was a bit heroic in her beauty.

 ps: For the needs of the plot, the time of the battle of Yuyuerhai, including the death of Wang Baobao, will be somewhat different from the time of historical events.

  
 
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