Chapter 463 Yumen New Year's Eve
The snow stopped in the evening, and the color of the sunset glow was exposed in the sky. It was almost the fixed dinner time in the army, but Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui were already full, so they sat in the room drinking tea and chatting. Chen Yan didn't stop at all. The things in the kitchen were over. She called more than 20 non-commissioned soldiers, shoveled the snow in the yard, cleaned the place, and laid three thick layers of sheepskin blankets handed over from the Tubo people, and made a lot of dry firewood and horse dung around a big bonfire. It is said that there are too many people and the room is too small to sit down. Today, the traditional New Year's Eve dinner in the Central Plains is to learn the style of the Hu people and have a 'bonfire banquet'.
Qin Mubai was so funny that he thought that Chen Yan was really thoughtful and took care of the living habits of the Hu brothers. If she lived in the 21st century, she would definitely be a qualified director of the neighborhood committee.
It's not over yet. Chen Yan asked the soldiers to take ten large pots from the barracks and put the clean new snow shoveled in the pot and cook it. It's not for drinking - let Qin Mubai take a shower.
She thought that Qin Mubai smelled when he was sleeping at night. Yumen is closed here, and it is much more difficult to take a shower than to have a dental sacrifice and marry a daughter-in-law. If it hadn't been for the snow and the Spring Festival, Qin Mubai's body would really continue to stink. In a few days, he would have to become a Jigong.
Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui chatted with each other. Looking outside the house, Chen Yan was busy with a group of sergeants. Xue Rengui grinned and smiled, "Mubai, you are really blessed."
"It's just so-so!" Qin Mubai's mouth was flattering, but his smile was full of laughter.
"Whoever sees Chen Yan will think that her appearance is what a beauty should look like. But as soon as she saw the sword in her hand, the temperament on her face and the look in her eyes were clearly an iceberg fairy who refused to eat fireworks thousands of miles away, with a murderous spirit. Who dares to get close to half? Xue Rengui said.
"It can't be blasphemed from afar, right?" Qin Mubai is plagiarizing righteously again.
"Yes, that's what it means. Xue doesn't read much, but Mu Bai's literary talent is still outstanding. Xue Rengui smiled and said, "Xue has a shallow knowledge and has never seen a woman like Chen Yan. She is really the only one in the world!" Who would have expected that a woman like her would still be a good wife and mother? The sword is a hero, take the spoon..."
Speaking of this, Xue Rengui hesitated, scratched his cheeks awkwardly, and said with a wry smile - "Take the spoon - cook!"
"Haha!" Qin Mubai laughed, "Good poetry, good poetry!"
Smiling, Chen Yan came in without saying much. She threw a sentence, "Here comes."
"Who's here?" Qin Mubai asked.
"A fire phoenix." Chen Yan, who rarely joked, smiled mysteriously and said, "Master, you have to be a little hospitable, right?"
"Oi, welcome!" Qin Mubai patted his knees and smiled and got up. He knew that what she was saying was that A Shi's blood lotus was coming.
But what does 'Fire Phoenix' mean?
Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui walked outside the house and took a look and immediately understood.
The house was demolished in Guancheng, and more than a dozen people came from the empty snow in front of them. They were all wearing the traditional white moon robes and mink with white hats. Only a woman walking in the middle was wearing a red robe all over her body. Even the hat brim was red, and her whole body was red. Walking in the snow among a group of people in white, dazzling and eye-catching, just like a jumping flame.
It is Ashina's blood lotus.
Gradually, people approached. Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui looked at each other and looked amazing.
In the past, Xuelian was always dressed in armor and the equipment of ordinary soldiers, looking like a man from afar. Today, she obviously put on the dress of a noble woman on the grassland. The femininity and wildness all over her body are like flames.
Qin Mubai was still afraid that her dress would blind the soldiers who had not been close to women for a long time.
Xue Lian, dressed in a daughter's suit, still with a sword on her waist, walked to the front of the house and glanced at Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui, but first punched Chen Yan, "Sister Yan!"
"Oh, very standard Central Plains martial arts etiquette!" Xue Rengui was happy.
Chen Yan smiled and nodded: "How are you, princess?"
"Oh, when did the two of them call each other sister and sister?" Qin Mubai curled his lips and was confused.
After the two women saw the salute, Xue Lian took more than a dozen Hui generals behind her to Qin Mubai, stroked her shoulders and bent back to salute, "I have seen Major General Qin and General Xue!"
Qin Mubai was a little puzzled. After returning the salute, he asked, "Your Highness, why do you push the boxing salute with Chen Yan, but return the military salute with us?"
"Of course there is a reason." Xuelian raised her head, looked directly at Qin Mubai's eyes with big eyes, and said, "Sister Yan and I are like old friends at first sight. We only talk about personal friendship, of course, it's a boxing ceremony. And the young commander and I have military power, only the relationship between the commander and the general.
"Oh, I see." Qin Mubai nodded with a sudden understanding and said to himself: This little girl is still angry with me, which means that 'there are only business and no friendship between us'.
Next to Xue Rengui and Chen Yan, General Huihu and others were coughing and smirking. Qin Mubai only pretended not to see An Zhiruosu, but Xuelian stared: "What's so funny? Am I wrong?"
"Yes, yes, yes, that's right." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The princess and all the generals have arrived. Please come to Xi'an and sit down - today is the traditional New Year's Eve of the Central Plains Eve. My wife has prepared a little simple meal and put on a bonfire. I'd like to have a simple meal, which is a happy New Year's Eve!"
"What's called 'what do'?" Xuelian's big eyes glanced at Qin Mubai and said thimblely, "As far as I know, the New Year's Eve dinner of the Tang people in the Central Plains is a family reunion, and few outsiders are invited to attend. If Sister Yan can invite us here, it means that we are regarded as compatriots of our family, and you don't have to bury her beauty!"
Qin Mubai was a little embarrassed now. He grinned and smiled bitterly, "You know too much!"
Xue Rengui hurried out to make up the scene and said with a smile, "Sister, you only know one and don't know the other. In fact, the young commander also means this, that is, he is polite in words. This is also the habit of our Central Plains Tang people, which is a kind of courtesy.
"What kind of politeness, what kind of habit is hypocrisy! Our grassland children are not used to this!" Xue Lian said rudely, and immediately turned her face and smiled and hugged Chen Yan's elbow. She said with a smile, "It's still this woman who admits that I like it!"
"Osh, you two get married!" Qin Mubai grinned and said with a smile.
"Do you think I dare not?! Sister Yan, come back to the grassland with me tomorrow and be the son-in-law of the grassland!" Xue Lian snorted coldly and rolled her eyes. Everyone laughed loudly, and then sat down one after another.
A moment later, the commander-in-chief of the Turkic South Court, came to the banquet with more than a dozen Turkic generals. These people are very happy to see this bonfire banquet, just like Chinese people seeing a hot Beijing roast duck in the Antarctic. Before he sat down, Bathsimi asked two attendants to go back for a run, brought two fat sheep from his camp, peeled and washed them on the spot, and wanted to roast two whole sheep for everyone.
This bonfire banquet lives up to its name. Chen Yan and Tang Jun are really not good at this craft. Hui people do it, but they have always been more reserved than the Turks. Naturally, it is also because of the delicate relationship between Xuelian and Qin Mubai. It's like two children 'seems' to be in love, and the parents of both sides accidentally meet. Of course, the more polite they are to each other, the more polite they are, the better.
After a while, the generals of Gaochang Guo, Koo Wensheng and Koo Wenyuan, also came, and only two people came. When Qin Mubai left Gaochang's military camp, he casually said that he would invite them to have New Year's Eve dinner. I'm afraid that the two of them came to a Hongmen banquet. If they didn't come, they didn't dare to come, so they had to come bravely and didn't dare to bring one more person. When they came, they were guests, and Qin Mubai also invited them to the table. The two of them sat down timidly and never raised their heads again.
It's already dark. Qin Mubai took a look at the scene. The four generals of Hanhu had reached 40 or 50 people, and they were surrounded by the bonfire twice. The sergeants carried wine urns, tables, big cakes and other things to distribute them, and they were about to have a banquet. In the camp outside Yumen Pass, there are hundreds of miles of light and bonfires, which is full of noise.
Qin Mubai thought to himself. When the prisoners of Tubo saw the scene in front of them, they must feel particularly uncomfortable and may cry. While thinking about it, Su Dingfang came over and whispered in Qin Mubai's ear, "Mubai, why don't you call more than you?"
"It suits me." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "But who can invite you?"
"Xue Rengui, I'm sure you can!" Su Dingfang vowed, "Although they are fighting for their masters, the Tubo people recognize a dead reason - they respect the warriors who are more brave and good at fighting than them. Xue Rengui was brave and invincible. Although he personally killed his second brother Zan's mother-in-law, he definitely admired Xue Rengui.
"Oi, please take a trip!"
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xue Rengui to really invite you!
When he saw the captured commander of Tubo, the whole audience calmed down, and everyone's faces were different. Qin Mubai got up and waved his hand with a smile: "Go on, everyone! General Ghar is also one of today's guests. Today, just drink and eat meat, not talk about state affairs and military affairs!"
Everyone was also calm, and the banquet quickly returned to its previous bustle.
Xue Rengui led Xiduo to sit next to Qin Mubai. Without saying anything, as soon as he sat down cross-legged, he only cared about drinking, eating meat and eating big cakes, and didn't come to look at Qin Mubai.
Qin Mubai smiled, poured a glass of wine and handed it over to Xiduo, "General Gar, I'll give you a toast."
After a meal, he picked up a glass of milk wine on the table in front of him, touched Qin Mubai's cup hard, drank it dry in one breath, put down the cup and continued to chew, as if he hadn't eaten in his life.
"Honeer!" Qin Mubai gave a praise and drank the wine with a smile on his face.
He paused and did not turn his head. He stiffly held his neck and said, "The defeated general, if you want to kill him, it's just a word. Why do you need to be sarcastic?"
"Oh, General Khar's Chinese is really authentic!" Qin Mubai smiled and praised, "If you talk alone, I think you are a person from Chang'an."
"What's so strange? The three brothers have visited and lived in the Central Plains together for seven years, and we have lived in Chang'an for four years!" He said angrily, "Is it great to be able to speak Chinese? My eldest brother is full of knowledge, even how many Han people can compare with him?
"So it's still a Central Plains!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "You're right. Your eldest brother, the garqinling, is indeed outstanding and amazing. I don't know anyone else. I, Qin, am ashamed of myself.
More than his face and his mouth curled, he slanted at Qin Mubai and said, "You just look angry! It's up to you!"
"I'm telling the truth."
"You Han people, you don't tell the truth!"
"Haha!" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Ok, I'll tell you a few stories. Do you want to hear them? Stories are naturally lies.
"It's up to you, whether you like it or not. I just eat and drink. When I'm full, I'll either behead or send me back to bed!" He shouted a few words angrily and continued to eat and drink.
Qin Mubai played with the wine glass and said it slowly. The battle situation of Dafeichuan, the celestial burial of the Magic Moon Valley, the flood of Golmud and the defeat of the Garqin Mausoleum, all of which are more detailed and detailed than the original.
He didn't care about it at the beginning. He thought that Qin Mubai was purely a "YY" blind petal. Hearing that there was a nose and eyes in the back, he couldn't help but be a little stunned. Then he was very angry in the back. He jumped up and threw the cup to the ground fiercely: "Blow! Fart! You Han people, there is not a word of truth!"