Chapter 98 – A Straight Man with Sense

“All the sages of old are lonely, but they hang themselves from the southeast branch.”

“If you are not happy in life, you might as well hang yourself from the southeast branch.”

“Sitting up in shock from a dying illness, I turned my head and hung myself from the southeast branch.”

“Life has a way of hanging itself.”

“Your Excellency this is-it’s really-” Jing Hong chased after him, stifling a laugh, “Good writing.”

Su Yan shakily rode on the back of the horse, the tender flesh of the inner side of both legs in the saddle blanket grinding raw pain. He wore a head to secretly sent secret envoys to visit the northern desert tribes, the most eager response to the Wala, the leader of the tiger Kuo Li intends to accept the Pingning King tin number, and even proposed, as long as the Ming dynasty to support the unification of his department of the steppe, would like to go to the north into the emperor’s number, calling himself Khan, while honoring the Ming son of heaven for the sky Khan. Rounding up is to indicate the meaning of subordination.

Emperor Jinglong was moved by this, and Su Yan also felt that among the dozens of tribes in the North Desert, Walar was considered to be a more desirable object to draw in. For one thing, the power is quite strong, and not so dominant; secondly, Walar had killed the last emperor of North Cheng who fled after being defeated by Emperor Chengzu of Daming, and fought with Tartary for years because of the competition for the orthodox throne of khan, and it is a pair of snipes and clams that will not stop until they are dead. This hostile relationship was valuable for Daming to utilize.

Only the first condition they put forward was to let Prince Kunle marry Princess Daming, which Emperor Jinglong could never accept, and the alliance was shelved.

In the past few months, both sides have been testing each other’s bottom line, asking for sky-high prices while sitting on the ground, neither tearing their faces off nor reaching an agreement, just hanging on for the time being.

Su Yan’s hostility subsided quite a bit after recalling this outburst, but he was still wary, and then asked, “What is your Excellency’s purpose in coming to my Daming territory?”

The Valar man cocked his thumb and pointed backwards, “Came to sell our horses for tea and salt. Went to Pingliang, but the officials in that place are too rogue, want to use poor quality moldy tea, in exchange for our good horses. Simply left, planning to go to Lingzhou, I heard that Qingshui camp in Lingzhou, early fall this year to open the border market. What about the two of you? Where is this going?”

Su Yan wanted to pry news from him, so he said, “Coincidentally, we’re also going to Spirit State.”

The Valar man laughed, “Since we are all going to Spirit State, why don’t we travel with us. It’s not peaceful inside or outside the Great Wall these past few years, so it’s better to travel in company.”

Jing Hongchou condensed his inner strength and sent a line of voice to Su Yan’s ears, “My lord, the identity of the other party is difficult to confirm, so beware of deception.”

Su Yan nodded slightly, indicating that his heart was in the right place.

The other party could not hear Jing Hongchou’s voice transmission, but could see that of the two, Su Yan was the Lord, so he looked at him with a sincere face, waiting for an answer.

With an apologetic face, Su Yan said, ”I have an unkind request. Since you have also said that the border is not peaceful, we have just escaped from the swords and arrows of the Tartar cavalry, and the aftermath is still fresh. Unless Your Excellency can identify yourself, we dare not travel together.”

After being stunned, the Valar man did not show an unhappy look and slowly drove his horse closer.

People to the near front, Su Yan realized that the other side of the stout body, visual estimate at least in one meter nine or more, the horse he rode and tall, face to face is very oppressive.

“How do you want me to prove it?” He asked rhetorically.

Su Yan recalled that the Tartar cavalryman who took himself captive with a lasso had a wolf head tattoo on his chest, and did not know if it was their tribe’s totem, so he asked, “I heard that in the Northern Desert tribes, each tribe has its own totem, which is not only a carrier for recording the soul of a god, but also the symbol of the clan’s emblem, is this statement true?”

The Valar man smiled, “It’s true.”

“Does Your Excellency know what the totem of the Tartar tribe is?”

“Coyote.”

“What about your ministry?”

The man didn’t answer, reaching down to undo the lacing under his ribs and pulling back the sash to show Su Yan.

Around his neck hung an exotic gold necklace, the emerald-studded pendant crossing over well-developed pecs and dangling down above longitudinally full abs. Below the pendant, there was a distinctive tree-shaped tattoo.

“‘Toktirak’, the sacred tree that stands in the very center of the world and holds the sky, is the god that we Wererats believe in.”

Su Yan’s eyes were attracted by the ancient and mysterious tattoo, and after examining it for a while, he always felt that there was something strange about it, but he didn’t find it for a while.

After his eyes lingered for a moment, he suddenly realized that the other party was wearing two gold nipple rings on his ***. Thin and round gold rings against the oily dark skin, there is a kind of indescribable color and sexy ……

What’s wrong with feeling? We are all men, what he has, I also have, there is nothing to see! Su Yan a little vainly averted his gaze, arched his hand and said, “My name is Su Yan, may I ask your name?”

“Altan.” The man opened his arms and eyed the young man from the Central Plains in front of him, pronouncing his name in an exotic accent with a unique flavor, “Su Yan, Su Yan, I remember you.”

Jing Hongchou coldly said, “No need to remember. Anyway, Ping Shui met, after that is forgotten, or don’t bother with that.”