Chapter 51: The Open-Minded Old Monkey

When the water on the linen evaporates quickly, it takes away the heat from the silver kettle, causing the water in the kettle to become cold.

In such hot weather, even if there is a sunshade above Yunchu's head, the heat reflected from the ground will still make people miserable.

Naha held the cold water bottle and drank heavily. If Yun Chu remembered correctly, this was the third bottle of water that the child drank today.

After drinking three bottles of water, Naha didn't feel the slightest urge to urinate. After Yunchu drank two bottles of water, she also didn't feel any need to pee, but her mouth felt dry.

Yunchu had a lot of idle camels, so two camels were specially responsible for carrying water for him.

This can support the almost luxurious drinking of water by him and Naha.

In fact, the water on the camel's back had been baked by the sun for three days. Since the bag containing the water was a sheepskin bag, there was no question of taste.

Ever since the old monkey found out that Yun Chu put tea foam and honey into the water he and Naha drank, and didn't know what method he used to make the water cool and delicious, he basically had no good feelings toward Yun Chu.

Reverence for the sky and the earth is something that Old Monkey, a native of the Western Regions, has imprinted in his bones. He insists that since he travels to the Gobi Desert, suffering is also part of the journey.

Yun Chu doesn't think so and insists that as long as he has enough ability, he can live the life he wants even in hell.

When the old monkey still wanted to argue, Yun Chu put the old monkey's precious wine in a silver pot and made it cold for him. The old monkey stopped talking about Yun Chu. After drinking up the cold grape wine, he secretly He wrapped the silver pot in linen and shook it vigorously.

The result was not good, he used dry linen! Without water, there would be no reaction of evaporation taking away heat, and this would only make his wine hotter.

When the Gobi reaches the end, there is a rolling sea of ​​sand in front of us.

The Gobi is the predecessor of the desert, so the desert always creeps on the Gobi, and eventually eats away the Gobi little by little.

If the Gobi is hell, then the desert is the deepest part of hell.

After walking in the desert for two days, it was finally time to climb the tall sand dunes. Animals that died of exhaustion began to appear in Ding Dayou's team.

The big-wheeled oxcart carried by Yunchu also had its wheels removed at this moment, allowing the camels to drag the carts forward.

While everyone was struggling with the desert lifelessly, Ding Dayou issued the rule that from now on, the leader would start keeping vigil.

Yun Chu was the leader of Naha, Lao Houhou was the leader of the Hu merchants, Ding Dayou and the two captains, one of whom joined the army and was the leader of the soldiers, so after the second day after entering the desert, they became vigil people.

During the day, the sun shines brightly in the desert and the heat is unbearable, but at night, the desert wind is biting and chilly.

While Ding Dayou was cooking on the fire, he used a knife to cut a dried leg of lamb to eat. The old monkey also took a dried leg of lamb and ate it hard while waiting for Ding Dayou to blackmail him.

Yunchu put a small pot on the fire and cooked her favorite beef soup with dried vegetables. Because the beef was dried, it was difficult to cook it into a paste. However, Yunchu wanted to hear what Ding Dayou said. When you blackmail Hu Shang, you don't care much about time.

Ding Dayou was silent for a long time, just eating the roasted and dried lamb legs. He seemed not to care much about leaving the desert.

So, the old monkey looked at the fire that was swaying wildly in the wind and said: "According to the rules, 20% of the goods belong to the protector."

Ding Dayou glanced at the old monkey with eyes as big as cowbells, and remained silent, but bit harder when chewing the leg of lamb.

This should be a very clever negotiation method. Of course, it is also possible that Ding Dayou is unwilling to negotiate and is ready to eat the pot without leaving any soup for others.

The old monkey remained calm. He seemed to understand that he was now in a weak position, and said: "Thirty percent, no more. If it exceeds this number, I would rather leave with the camel team now."

Ding Dayou looked at the tense Hu people and the government soldiers who were on full alert, and finally said: "Forty percent, that's because you provided the information about the Buddha's footprints."

The old monkey nodded, and the soldiers who had already drawn out their knives returned to their posts.

Seeing that the old monkey seemed to have negotiated with the Tang people, the Hu people relaxed their guard, and the camp became lively again.

Ding Dayou said again: "If those people behind us don't leave after we leave the desert, I will kill you and then those people."

The old monkey shook his head and said: "Those who are not my people, their purpose is you, to be precise, they are the footprints of the Buddha.

Desert warfare is not good for you Tang people. Here, the war horses you rely on have no fighting power. Those sand bandits are familiar with every grain of sand here. The general must be careful. "

Ding Dayou sneered and said: "Get out of my camp immediately. Before dawn, if you are not dead, we will talk about returning to Yumen Pass."

The old monkey seemed to have expected this result. Without arguing, he led the barbarians to camp on the windward side of another sand dune.

Yun Chu looked around and decisively chose to enter Ding Dayou's camp. Although he and the old monkey seemed better, at this critical moment, he would only choose to believe in Ding Dayou.

A whistle wind appeared in the sky. This kind of wind is a high-altitude wind. The wind on the ground is still not strong. However, such a whistle wind has a very bad characteristic, that is, it can bring a lot of sand and dust.

Yun Chu wrapped Naha with two round shields and placed her in the middle of three camels. He put on leather armor and waited for Ding Dayou's instructions with a bow and arrow.

"Tingfeng, can you shoot accurately?" A white-bearded brigade commander asked Yun Chu. It was obvious that Yun Chu was assigned to his command.

"Four or five out of ten."

"It's OK, you can make do with it. Your defense area tonight is the width and narrowness of the two camels. No matter what method you use, even if you bite with your teeth, you can't let the enemy rush in from the area of ​​​​the two camels."

Yun Chu knocked on the breastplate and said, "Yes!"

The brigade commander laughed and said, "I heard that you were shot like a hedgehog by the arrows of the Hu people, but you can still fight hard. You are a man. I also heard that you came to Beijing this time to study in the Four Gates Academy.

Since you have a bright future, take care of your life. Don't die in vain in the hands of the sand bandits and even get no military merit."

As he said this, the brigade commander gave Yun Chu a white cloth strip and asked him to tie it on his forehead so that he could distinguish between enemies and friends in the dark.

After Yun Chu tied the belt, he sat cross-legged on the cold sand. When the dust settled, he opened the black sheepskin cloak wrapped around Naha, hugged Naha, who was wrapped like a turtle, yawned, and prepared to have a good sleep.

The brigade commander bullied Yun Chu because he was young and ignorant, thinking that this would make Yun Chu, who enjoyed high treatment in the team, frightened for a whole night.

He had no idea how Yun Chu, who had been on the battlefield before and knew Ding Dayou's combat habits well, would be teased by him.

If the person who said this just now was a captain, Yun Chu would definitely keep his eyes wide open and hold on for a whole night, and as the captain said, he would never let the enemy come in from the range of the two camels.

Since it was a brigade commander who was bored to death who came to make arrangements, it naturally meant that he was not needed on the battlefield at all.

A dim moon hung in the sky, and Yun Chu accidentally saw it. He untied Naha's shield and wrapped the unconscious child in a cloak.

The moon came out, which proved that the whistle wind in the desert would stop. Since the wind stopped, it was a good time for sand and dust to fall down. At this time, the desert would be illuminated by the moon, and with the fine sand falling, any moving object would be easily detected. It could only serve as a target.

Yun Chu resumed his sleeping method in the Aries tribe, that is, people sleep while their ears are on guard.

That night, he only heard the sound of feather arrows cutting through the air, and it didn't last long. Because there was no wind in the air, he heard the snoring of the palace soldiers one after another.

At dawn, when Yun Chu and Naha came out of the black sheepskin cloak with dusty faces, they found that except Ding Dayou and a group of people who seemed to have come out of the soil, the rest of the people were in good spirits.

Seeing Ding Dayou sitting on a wooden box with a big horse and a golden sword, his hair was messy and there were large patches of red mud on his armor, he felt sorry for him and handed him the water that he had soaked in tea foam and honey.

Honey green tea was indeed refreshing. After Ding Dayou took a sip, he paused for a moment and drank it all.

"Were there any casualties in the assault last night?"

"No casualties, but there were two dead people. One had a broken neck and the other was shot through the heart by a short spear. Can you save them?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "No."

"Since you can't, do something you can do. Go and tell that old Hu man that this time, I want half of his goods."

The situation here at the old monkey is very bad. Hu people are dead all over the ground. After Yun Chu told the old monkey who was directing the collection of goods about Ding Dayou's request, the old monkey agreed very happily.

"Too many Hu merchants died last night, and most of the goods became ownerless. It is reasonable for Ding Dayou to take half, and it also helps us who survived save a lot of money."

"Are you going with Ding Dayou today?"

"Let's go. If we don't go with him, how can we enter Yumen Pass? Don't think that Ding Dayou's expulsion of us from the camp last night is a treacherous act. This is a choice, and even the best choice.

It is right for people to only want to win. You must remember in the future that tigers and wolves cannot fight together."

The old monkey has become a considerate and open-minded person. Sometimes, Yun Chu really can't give this guy an accurate character profile.

He is like a combination of a jackal and a tiger. If you want to describe him more accurately, you should also add a little bit of the insidiousness of a crocodile and the ferocity of a shark.

This kind of person is more dangerous than anyone Yun Chu has ever seen before, but he is also a rare person with a strong personal charm, which makes people unconsciously willing to believe in him and rely on him.