Seeing that she seemed to have no reaction, the man said it again anxiously, and even gestured and shook his hands to indicate to her, but unfortunately Xu Yixing still didn't understand.
Cang Ligu from the nearby yard came forward, and Xu Yixing noticed that this elder brother had a severe limp on his right foot. No wonder he asked others to help him repair the tent.
Cangligu obviously understood Chinese, and explained to Xu Yixing in a thick accent: "Miss Ah Shan, this brother wants to buy your mare's milk."
"Ah!" Xu Yixing suddenly realized, oh, it's not a big deal.
The man was obviously surprised, then he looked at Xu Yixing and said, "Han?"
Xu Yixing heard the accent, a typical Miaozhou person. It seemed that the people in the tent must be connected to Daxia. Were they spies... or traitors? She had no idea of a third possibility. After all, this was the former site of the royal court. Ordinary Han people couldn't possibly live here. And now that the trade route had been closed for over a month, it couldn't possibly be a caravan.
This Miao man must be from the army! He's sneaky and doesn't dare show up, and he speaks a foreign language. He must be a spy!
"ah."
The man looked at her again and felt that the girl in front of him did not have any Han Chinese temperament. But if she was a Hu person, how could she not understand Hu language? . . . Seeing that she was dull and could not speak clearly, he asked again, "Are you dumb?"
"Ah." Xu Yixing continued to nod, but this time there was sadness in his eyes, which made people feel sorry for him.
"Sell me that mare's milk." The man pulled out a dozen copper coins from his pocket and handed them over. They were obviously Daxia copper coins. Daxia copper coins weren't widely accepted on the grasslands, but with so many caravans traveling back and forth, they were easily spent, so there wasn't anything wrong with it.
But Xu Yixing didn't dare to take the money, and kept muttering something. Yingba had already stepped down from the pile and hurried to explain.
"Big brother, my sister means that this mare's milk is not hers. It belongs to your family. We are just borrowing some to nourish my sister. We are not selling it."
The man glanced at Yingba again. He clearly looked like a Hu man, so how could he speak Mandarin so fluently? Was this on the grassland or in Daxia?
"Are you Han Chinese too?"
"I'm not, I just do business with you and make friends with you often!" Yingba's accent was so strange that it really scared the man.
But when he was still wondering why the Hu brother had a Han sister, he saw the woman suddenly smile and present the two jars in her arms, as if she had changed her mind.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
Yingba pretended to understand and translated seriously: "My sister said that since you are a distant guest, this mare's milk is given to you, no money required, hahaha!"
"How can you take this for free? You must accept the money..." The man stretched out his hand. Xu Yixing saw that there were calluses on his palm and fingers. He was more certain that he was a soldier, and an officer at that. Those were the marks of years of holding a horse whip and carrying a sword.
"Hey, do you look down on us Mai? Take this gift for you!" Yingba began to get impatient. He saw clearly that the man came out of one of the tents. At this moment, the tent curtain was blown by the wind, and it could be vaguely seen that there were many people inside, who must be watching the actions here.
The man had no choice but to take the two jars, said thank you and hurried back. Xu Yixing also quickly gave Yingba a look, and Yingba understood, said a few words to Brother Gu and left.
"Yingba, prepare the poison smoke quickly!" As soon as he returned to the tent, Xu Yixing hurriedly took off his disguise, took off his clothes and threw them on the ground. It was urgent.
"Ah, what are you doing?"
"I just added poison to their milk. They'll probably be here soon. Let's kill those traitors!"
"What? Why didn't you tell me? You're so careless!" Yingba complained, and just like her, he painstakingly dug out something from the only box in the room, his hands no slower than hers. He finally understood why his master had smiled so brightly just now. It seemed like he had ulterior motives!
"I just observed that the one buying milk is an officer from Da Xia. An officer appeared in the former royal court, and he had to be so polite to buy milk. What do you think this means?"
"Does that mean they are polite?"
"Stupid! They don't want to reveal their identities. They even found someone who speaks nonsense to trade with us. If they're not spies, what are they? They're hiding in the tent, but now they refuse to come out in broad daylight. So the person who wants to drink mare's milk must be of high status. If I hadn't poisoned them just now, I wouldn't have had another chance in the future."
"This..." Although Yingba did not agree with her hastily labeling someone a spy, he was indeed puzzled about the origins of those people and could not think of a suitable explanation for the time being.
"Hurry up, there's almost no wind today. Let's go throw the poison smoke into their tent. If we have to be quick, we can wait until their master drinks the mare's milk and becomes toxic and starts to act!"
Yingba dug out ten things that looked like straw cakes from the bottom of the box. Looking at his master's calm yet crazy behavior, he suddenly felt a little scared. If it was a spy, it would be fine, but if the knife he saw yesterday poisoned the Khan, could he walk out of the grassland alive?
Although I thought so in my heart, I couldn't stop the arrow from being drawn on the string. If I had known earlier, I would have let Yingyi watch the master. I know too little about the master!
"This is a cigarette cake, just light it and throw it in." Yingba gave her three, and kept Datou for himself to avoid any accidents.
"Great, I knew you had something good."
Yingba was speechless. It seemed that you hadn't thought of a way out before poisoning? What if you didn't prepare poison smoke? What would you do now?
"Let's go." Xu Yixing changed back into his own clothes and wrapped his face in the scarf. It was lunch time now, and most of the people who were originally bustling around had gone into the tents to eat, which made it convenient for them to move around.
Not daring to follow the original route, Yingba led Xu Yixing around the outside and hurried to the back of the tent. As soon as they arrived, they saw the man who had just bought the milk, with an angry face, leading four people to their tent. The two of them looked at each other and realized that the incident had happened, and it was now!
Yingba whipped out his dagger and slashed it fiercely at the side of the tent where the man had just emerged. At the same moment, the tip of a spear from inside slashed through his chest, tearing a large hole in his hide. Xu Yixing seized the opportunity and tossed the straw cake Yingba hadn't been able to throw in through the crack, quickly moving away from the smoke outlet.
The remaining two tents obviously heard the noise, and the sound of weapons being unsheathed came from inside. Ying Ba took advantage of this opportunity and threw a dart to cut through the edge of the tent. Immediately afterwards, Xu Yixing's straw cake flew in through the gap.
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