Chapter 513: Take action

After a while, Batu prepared two chariots and came in to greet the guests.

Batu's wife had already filled everyone's water bag with milk tea, and asked her husband if she wanted to bring some milk skin and milk tofu.

Batu nodded with a smile. Batu's wife found a leather bag, put it in milk, handed it to Xiaoman, and said something in Mongolian saying to wish them a safe journey.

Xiaoman thanked him and took it. Cao Yong stood up and said goodbye to Batu's mother.

The old man picked up the prayer wheel casually and stood up to see the guests. Batu's daughter was named Qimuge.

The little girl's eyes were sharp-eyed, and she took out the purse from behind the tube rack, wherever Cao Yong had just tucked, and sent it to Cao Yong. She said in Mongolian words that the guest had left something.

Cao Yong took it with a smile, looked at Batu's mother, and hesitated for a moment.

In order to arrange for them to avoid the blizzard, the Batu family died of more than 20 sheep. There was a problem with their livelihood. It is worth thanking this time.

But the Mongolians love face the most, and it is their tradition to entertain every guest passing by the felt bag. They will accept gifts, but will not accept gold and silver, otherwise they will feel insulted.

Looking at the old man's eyes that had insight into the world, Cao Yong hesitated and temporarily took his purse back into his sleeve.

He first took off a string of Bodhi bracelets on his wrist and sent them to the old lady with both hands, saying, "Good old mother, please accept the gifts from the guests, don't let the guests go on their way with regrets."

In the middle of the bracelet, there was a carved coral the size of a thumb. The white Bodhi seeds were paired with blood-red corals, which looked very eye-catching.

Seeing Cao Yong's sincere face, the old man nodded with a smile, and took Cao Yong's gift.

Cao Yong asked Xiaoman to take a pair of new deer-skin boots from his luggage and give them to Batu's son Narisong.

That Risong looked at his father and nodded when he saw him. He took the boots and thanked Cao Yong.

The Mongolian customs are mascots that the objects facing upwards are mascots. Among all kinds of gifts, besides Hada and Wujia, boots are the favorite gifts of the Mongolians.

Cao Yong's entourage came to the frontier several times, and he also had Mongolian friends, so he knew this.

After all the big and small ones were delivered, Cao Yong bent down and pulled out a dagger from his boots.

Although this dagger looks plain and not as popular as gold and silver as it is now, it is made of fine steel and is very sharp.

He handed the dagger to Batu with both hands and said in Mongolian words: "I will never thank you for your great kindness. I will remember this life-saving grace on the grassland forever. This dagger is my own use, not for my thanks. It is a gift to my Mongolian friends."

Batu listened to the front and waved his hand with a smile. When he heard behind, the straightforward Mongolian man didn't know how to refuse.

He laughed twice, and took Cao Yong's gift happily. At the same time, he took out the Mongolian knife he carried with him and gave it back to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong took it solemnly and hung it around his waist.

Then he took out two ingots of five taels of silver ingots from his purse and handed them to Batu and said, "Our work is all man, and we can't give our sister-in-law a gift to Qi Muge. If we don't feel so naive, Brother Batu will accept this bracelet for the sister-in-law and Qi Muge."

Although the Mongolians did not have the principle of collecting money from guests, Cao Yong gave a gift, which made Batu a little confused.

When he woke up, the Mongolian man's head was shaking like a rattle. In desperation, he stuttered a Chinese saying: "No... don't..."

Cao Yong also shook his head and said, "It's not about spending money on Brother Batu, nor is it about using this to ruin Brother's enthusiasm. This is for making jewelry for Qimuge. It's not about her calling me uncle for a day. Could it be that Brother Batu doesn't treat me as a friend?" At the end of his speech, he was already frowning, with a little annoyance.

Although Cao Yong doesn't like to say much on weekdays, his mouth was trained in Beijing. Where can Batu, the honest Mongolian herder, resist?

If you don't accept this, you will offend the customer.

Although he felt that it was not very good, Batu hesitated for a moment and took it over and handed it to his wife to put it away.

The whole family accepted Cao Yong's gifts, and Batu felt a little embarrassed and whispered to his wife. His wife went aside, took out a bag from the wooden box, and handed it to Cao Yong with a smile.

Seeing that Batu and his wife were looking at him with great enthusiasm, Cao Yong took it over and touched the soft fur through the cloth.

Among the adults, gifts were sent to the ground, and Qimuge stared at the round eyes.

Although the little girl was only in her teens, the Mongolians got married early and saved things early. She also realized that her parents received a great gift from customers, especially the last money, which was specially for her and her mother.

The little girl thought about it and took off a leather chain from her neck, with a wolf tooth underneath.

She went forward, and did not allow Cao Yong to refuse. She stuffed the wolf teeth necklace directly into his purse, and then ran behind her grandmother with a smile and watched.

Why did Cao Yong feel embarrassed to accept the little girl's gift? Just as he was about to take it out of his purse, the little girl was already pouting and looking like she was about to cry.

Cao Yong had no choice but to thank him with a smile.

The little girl smiled and helped her grandmother out the felt bag. She watched Cao Yong and others leave with her grandmother.

Among the crowd, four people froze to death and got on the Lele carriage driven by Batu.

Although the two chariots were pulled by horses, only Batu drove the car. The reins behind were tied to the car in front, so no one needed to worry about it.

The snow was more than one foot deep on the road. Because the lele carriage was a high-wheeled carriage, the speed of pulling it up was not slow.

When the sun was west, the group arrived at the Smoky Lights Station.

Batu was worried about his family and didn't stay for a long time, so he sent Cao Yong and the others here. He exchanged two frozen sheep he brought for two packs of salt and half a pack of tea, and drove back first.

The post station here is simple, but it is just a two-entry yard. There are horse sheds and carports on the left. The room on the middle is living on the left and the warehouse on the right.

As soon as I entered the next stage, there were a row of houses on three sides. There were about twenty rooms in total.

Not only is the house simple, but there is only one postmaster, one cook, and two grooms.

Although it is simple and not as good as a station in the mouth, at least it has a house to accommodate and can still eat hot meals.

Everyone ran in the snow for two days, and now they can do this. They are already content.

The post station is located here, which is to contact the Eight Banners Ranch and the Taipu Temple Ranch. I knew that the head of the Taipu Temple Yamen arrived, and the postmaster was very attentive.

Wei Hei has been paying attention to the movements of Nalan Chengping and others, and the Eight Banners Ranch is west of Taipu Temple Ranch.

Listening to the front, Cao Yong was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Cao Fang say again: "...It's just that Master Zhiran is in trouble. The young men were detained to Shuntian Mansion when they left the capital..."

Speaking of this, he explained the reason why Zhiran was detained.

After hearing this, Cao Yong clenched his fists hard and felt angry.

Zhiran is a foreigner. When he arrived in the capital, he had only had those who had been with him. How could he offend anyone?

Although Cao Fang only told the story roughly, as long as he is not a fool, he can tell that something is wrong.

It seems that someone is behind the scenes, and the target is the Cao family. Maybe it is Cao Yong, otherwise Cao Yin would not have sent Cao Fang out with a few guards who had never shown up.

He wished he could fly back to the capital immediately, look for clues, and pull the man behind him out, saving so endlessly, which made people upset.

But it was just empty talk. How could he return to Beijing after having no end to his errands?

Cao Yin is still there in the capital, and Cao Yong trusts his old father quite much. However, although he knew in his heart that with Cao Yin and Mr. Zhuang, the young monk would definitely not suffer any grievances, but he still couldn't help but feel worried.

The young monk grew up in Buddhism since he was young and did not know the sufferings of the world. This suffering was too heavy for him.

Not to mention other things, if the sin of "killing" is put into practice, how would the young monk who is dedicated to Buddha deal with it? I am afraid that he will be confused by himself and his inner demons will arise...

Capital City, Gulou Street, Shuntian Prefecture Yamen.

In the living room of the second hall, Wang Yi felt a little confused when he was sitting and drinking tea. This prince has always been cold-hearted and has no good popularity. He only works hard on weekdays. Why did he think of coming to Shuntian Mansion today?

No major incident happened in the city these days. Except for a monk who was living in the Cao Mansion, the rest of the yamen were all mixed.
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