Chapter 163: A Man with a Surname
After Wu Qin and the others left, the little girl came up, before Wu Qin and Wu Chen talked to him, the little girl was always beside him, at this time people are not like modern times, they can go out casually, the little girl may not have left Daqiu in her life, knowing that Wu Zhongyuan came from afar, she came over curiously to listen to the situation outside.
Because the little girl had tossed him before, Wu Zhongyuan didn't have a good impression of this little thing, and he didn't want to pay attention to her, but he thought that he could take advantage of the conversation, and by the way, he asked her what happened to the bear clan in the more than a year that Wu Tai left, so he told her some northern customs, the little girl is only sixteen years old this year, which is the age of curiosity, and she listens to it with relish.
Wu Zhongyuan naturally didn't just say and didn't ask, through the conversation with the little girl, he first knew that the little girl's name was Ah Tong, at this time, only the royal family and warriors had surnames, and ordinary clansmen did not.
Then in this year, the situation of the bear clan has become even worse, especially in the last half year, after the new Great Wu ascended the throne, he was eager to show himself, and frequently launched counterattacks, fighting for the cities occupied by the cattle clan and the bird clan before, but he fought for a few cities back, but many people died, including warriors of all levels and ordinary warriors, only three of the purple qi masters of the older generation died, and the purple qi warriors of the new generation also died a lot, and now there are only more than 20 purple qi masters left in the entire bear clan.
The bear clan now has a total of fifteen walled cities, although there are three more than a year ago, but the population is much less, as for how many people died, Ah Tong does not know, but he has a general idea, because when Wu Tai left, the bear clan had less than 50,000 people left, and now I am afraid that there are only about 40,000 left.
Most of the men who died in the war were in the prime of life, the bear clan is now yin and yang, many women of school age can not find the person they want, in order to expand the population, the new Dawu issued an order, canceling the limit on the number of wives that men marry, and having more children is not only not punished, but also rewarded, just like modern Australia.
In addition, there were slaves at this time, but there were very few slaves of the bear clan, because the bear clan always lost the battle, and the defeated side rarely caught prisoners, so there were no slaves to use.
Most of these situations were expected by Wu Zhongyuan, and he was more concerned about what kind of person the current Da Wu was.
Ah Tong has never seen the current Great Wu, only knows that his name is Wu Yu, in his early Chinese New Year's Eve, very handsome, is the only person with royal blood, courage, ideals, is the last hope of the bear clan.
Wu Zhongyuan is skeptical about Ah Tong's opinion, courage and recklessness are not the same, ideals and delusions are not the same thing, hundreds of thousands of people died to 50,000, this guy did not stabilize the foundation after coming to power, but immediately launched a war, which shows that this person is the same as the fratricidal predecessor Da Wu, he is a guy who is very happy.
In addition, three problems can be found through this matter, first, this person must be his grandfather's own son, and he is by no means an imposter puppet supported by the ministers, if this guy is really a powerful minister behind him, he will never be allowed to start a war in a hurry at this stage.
Second, it was a very stupid decision to start a war at this time, and it was impossible for the sorcerers and warriors in the clan not to oppose or dissuade him, but he still started the war, which shows that Da Wu said everything and had supreme power within the scope of his clan, and as long as his orders were ordered, his subordinates would obey them unconditionally.
Third, the current Great Wu has mastered the high-level spells of the Bear Clan, if he is not bullshit, he will not dare to start a war, undoubtedly he has learned high-level spells, and he thinks that he is the best in the world before he dares to do anything wrong.
In all fairness, he is still very repulsed by this uncle who jumped out of nowhere, which is also human nature, because this position should have been his. But from the perspective of family affection, he doesn't want this person to be a wine bag and rice bag, although he is not an uncle, but he is also related by blood, and the most important thing is that if this person is not bullshit, the unlucky one is the clan of the bear clan, the bear clan is now a broken ship that has seriously leaked, don't let this guy toss and sink.
The conversation can't be completed at one time, and the old man can't ask questions when he is there, and they all say that people are old and become fine, which is not unreasonable, and some questions he asks are more targeted, and the old man is easy to be suspicious if he hears it.
Fortunately, the old man is busy, there are thousands of people in the walled city, Ah Tong has to take care of him, and the old man has become the only doctor, and people come to call him from time to time.
After the old man came back, Ah Tong would also ask him about the situation outside, according to the old man, there were many purple-clothed warriors in the city, and finally why they came, the old man didn't know.
The old man didn't know, Wu Zhongyuan could guess a rough idea, Jiang Zhang had mentioned the envoy of the Divine Dragon when he was chasing Wu Chen, and asked Wu Chen what the envoy of the Divine Dragon had told her, this dry purple qi warrior gathered here, it was likely to be related to this matter.
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, a young man in his twenties, a young warrior, dressed in a cloak of pale red.
The young man came to get medicine for someone, Ah Tong was very attentive to him, and it could be seen that she liked this young man very much, and the young man seemed to be interesting to her.
It is said that women are jealous, in fact, men are also jealous, seeing Wu Zhongyuan's appearance, the young man's eyes are not very kind when he looks at him, and when he leaves, he told Ah Tong that he is not from the bear clan and asked Ah Tong to keep his distance from him.
After the young man left, Wu Zhongyuan asked Ah Tong who this person was, and Ah Tong replied that this person's name was Wu Shaoyong, and he was a red-clothed warrior here.
At this time, the concept of hierarchy is very heavy, in order to distinguish from ordinary people, but also in order to highlight the noble identity of warriors, their clothing is different from ordinary people, according to the different aura cultivation, respectively, wearing nine different colors of clothes, whether it is a single coat in spring and summer or a cloak in autumn and winter, all by the capital according to the warrior's different aura cultivation for the unified distribution, its nature is somewhat similar to modern military uniforms, the higher the level of aura, the better the style of the outfit, the more powerful.
In addition, the warrior's aura cultivation is also their official rank, divided into cave god, high xuan, ascending xuan, cave xuan, three caves, big cave, jushan, dong yuan, taixuan nine, etc., taking wu qin as an example, he is the mountain of daqiu, at a glance, very intuitive, if his aura cultivation is promoted from the mountain lilac to the cave abyss purple qi, then he is the cave abyss of the big hill.
Ah Tong listened to Wu Shaoyong's words very much, Wu Shaoyong asked her to keep her distance from Wu Zhongyuan, so she stopped pestering Wu Zhongyuan to talk, and only approached him when she was feeding.
In this way, Wu Zhongyuan could only lie down honestly, without words for a day, without words for a night, and in the evening of the next day, Wu Zhongyuan began to mumble, it stands to reason that no matter how important the meeting is, it should be over at this time, why no one cares about him.
When the old man came back in the evening, when he asked, he realized that the meeting was really over, and those purple-clothed warriors had already left, even Wu Chen had left.
Hearing this news, Wu Zhongyuan was more or less lost, but he was not very disappointed, because he didn't want any benefits in the first place, and when his strength recovered, he could leave.
In the past few days, Wu Zhongyuan has eaten very little and drank not much water, not that he is not hungry, but now he is unable to move, no matter what he does, he has to be served by others, and it is inconvenient to go to the toilet.
On the seventh day, he was finally able to barely get out of bed, grinning with pain, he only knew that his feet hurt, but he didn't know why, but now he knows that the soles of his feet are full of blisters.
insisted on going to the toilet, and finally relaxed and had an appetite, but Ah Tong only gave him a bowl of rice porridge when he had a bad appetite, he didn't eat enough, and he didn't ask for it.
After a few more days, the situation improved again, and it was possible to move around from the neighborhood, and there were houses made of wood and stone, but there were not many of them, most of them were mud brick and thatched houses, and most of the passers-by were in rags, and the few were dressed in sackcloth, and the majority were wrapped in animal skins, and there were even those covered with straw curtains.
At this time, there were no concrete roads, they were all dirt roads, and the city was muddy because of the snow.
From time to time, people came to see the old man and Ah Tong, and he stayed in the house and felt in the way, so he stayed outside most of the time, probably because he was wearing the clothes of the cattle clan that had been robbed, and many passers-by stopped and looked sideways.
Just when Wu Zhongyuan was squatting by the wall and looking at the passers-by and being looked at by the passers-by, several warriors came from the east, a total of four people, a dark blue cloak, two red cloaks, and a light red cloak, this person he recognized, it was Wu Shaoyong.
Wu Zhongyuan thought that the four of them were just passing by, but he didn't expect the four of them to stop when they walked in front of him, and the one led by him was the old man who rushed out of the city to rescue him on the night of the incident, "Your name is Zhongyuan?"
"Ahh Wu Zhongyuan stood up suspiciously.
"Congratulations," the old man said with a smile, "you helped the noble man return safely, and she reported the events of the day to Da Wu, and Da Wu sent down a reward." ”
"Oh. Wu Zhongyuan replied casually.
Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan did not have any fear and gratitude, the old man was a little excited, and took out a sheepskin scroll from his sleeve, "Your situation is already known to Dawu, and you are not tolerated by the clansmen, and there is nowhere to live." Admiring the prosperity of your own family, you have come thousands of miles to vote, and you have made meritorious contributions, so you will be given the surname of the royal family by making an exception. ”
Hearing the old man's words, Wu Zhongyuan felt so awkward in his heart, when did this happen, he didn't forget to brag and beat the drums, the clansmen were all dying, and they were still prosperous.
Seeing Wu Zhongyuan frowning, the old man disliked the meager reward and explained, "If you have the surname of the royal family, you are a nobleman, and you have to be a servant of the field and a method of practicing qi, which is a generous gift from Long." ”
Wu Zhongyuan wanted to say what I knew, but after thinking about it, he didn't say it, because if he was really from the horse clan, he shouldn't know this.
"Thank you to the nobles for taking you in. Wu Zhongyuan took the scroll.
The old man smiled and nodded, took out a wooden card from his sleeve and handed it over, "This is a practice of the cave god of this clan, and after memorizing it, you will hand over the magic card." ”
Wu Zhongyuan even knew by heart the Qi cultivation method of Jushan Lilac, this thing was useless to him, but he still had to take it, and he still had to thank him.
After finishing the business, the old man took another person back, leaving Wu Shaoyong to be in charge of specific matters.
As a person with a surname, he has to have a place to live, and I don't know if Wu Shaoyong deliberately made things difficult or how, he picked a small and dilapidated house for him
With a house, Wu Shaoyong didn't let him live with Ah Tong and asked him to move over immediately.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't say anything, let him move.
It didn't take long for Wu Shaoyong to bring another old lady who had two teeth that were about to fall out, "This is the servant assigned to you." ”
Wu Zhongyuan couldn't hold back any longer, "I don't want it, take ...... away"