Chapter 5: Searching
Andam came to the Great Thorn City, looking left and right can't see enough, the east and west cities in the city will not open until after noon, Qin Xuan was afraid that Qin Rui would be hungry, so he took out some things and exchanged them with others for steamed cakes, the steamed cakes were hard, they had not been fermented at all, they were just lumps of gnocchi, but Qin Rui was hungry, and eating this was more fragrant than anything else.
She first took Andamu and Qin Rui to find a place to live, planning to inquire tomorrow where there was a place to live, she felt that as long as she was willing to work, she could earn a piece of the world by herself after all.
When the market opened, he bought some necessary supplies and food, and Andam sat in front of the two of them and stuffed his mouth full. Qin Xuan took a dagger in his hand and cut off a piece of meat from the leg of mutton, and asked Qin Rui to eat it slowly, "Slow down,"
Qin Rui nodded, but still stuffed meat into his mouth. In the past, when I was in the Qin family, my sister gave meat to eat privately from time to time, but my aunt never gave me a full meal, and now I can finally make my own decisions, Qin Rui is afraid that she will eat less next time.
This place in Liaodong is cold and frozen, although under the governance of Murong Xianbei Shan Yu, learn Han personnel agriculture and mulberry, but this place itself is not very suitable for the development of agriculture, so the local Xianbei people are still engaged in hunting more, and rely on Xingxing Daling, the jungle is lush, as long as you are diligent before the heavy snow closes the mountain, there will be a lot of harvest.
So the price of roe deer meat and the like is quite cheap.
Qin Xuan saw that the two in front of her were full, and she went out to fetch hot water for Qin Rui and Andamu to wash their hands. Qin Rui obediently asked her to wash it, but Andamu said that there was no need and rubbed his hand on the robe on his body.
"Wash it up." Qin Xuan saw that the corners of his eyes twitched several times, and pushed the basin of water in front of him.
"There isn't much water, if you can save it, you can save ......" Andam's voice gradually lowered under Qin Xuan's gaze, and finally he couldn't hear it himself.
He moved, leaned over and washed his hands, the water was very hot, and after a few washes, his hands were clean.
Qin Xuan went to lay out the quilt, and the charcoal fire in the house had already been lit. It was cold early in Liaodong, and if there was no charcoal fire in the house, it would not be able to survive at all.
Qin Rui was already tired, so she hid in it early and went to sleep. Leaving only Qin Xuan and Andamu, Andamu came all the way, frightened, especially when he saw those homeless people along the way, looking at people with the same eyes as wolf cubs, and he was uncomfortable up and down. But there's also a lot of something new to him.
"That man's horse is so high!" Andam still likes to look at horses, and when he recalls the horse that the young man rode, he was full of energy, "The eldest husband should have a horse like that!" But the man looks like a girl. ”
The young man's face was indeed too beautiful for a man, and he often hunted with good eyes, and saw the man's face clearly.
"You've paid attention to this." When Qin Xuan heard Andamu say this, she immediately wanted to laugh, that young man was indeed very good-looking, but then she just paid attention to the Teletubbies-like step on his head. I almost laughed out loud when I think about it now.
"A man should be strong, what does it mean to look like a girl......" Andam was immediately interested when he heard Qin Xuan say that, but when he said the word "girl", the expression on Qin Xuan's face suddenly became like a smile, and he immediately closed his mouth.
"Look at that pomp, I guess it's also a rich man." Qin Xuan smiled as she spoke, "There is a saying among the Han people that boys and girls are noble." ”
"Anyway, we Xianbei people don't care about these ......," Andam muttered.
"Okay, hurry up and wash up and sleep, there will be a lot of things to be busy from tomorrow." Qin Xuan stood up as she spoke, and she was going to prepare tomorrow to find a place to live and a job. once wanted to go over to find his own family, and Gai Lou also said where his mother's home was before his death, and he was even ready to take his children back to his parents' home. But after her uncle's incident, she was also a little afraid that she would meet people like Chen and Qin Chun. She is not afraid, anyway, the soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth, but Qin Rui is young and needs someone to take care of her, and whether she is going hunting or doing something else, it is unlikely that she will keep Qin Rui by her side.
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan felt that her head hurt. She watched Andam go to another room, and sat there thinking for a while before she slowly got up. went to his room, Qin Rui slept soundly in the room, her little face was flushed, and her long and curly eyelashes trembled lightly with her breathing.
Perhaps because of the mixed race, the silhouette of the two sisters is darker than that of ordinary Han people, and even their skin is naturally white. So when Chen was in a bad mood, he scolded them for being Xianbei women under Xianbei women. From the paternal line, they are Han, but their appearance is different from the real Han people, over the years, many people say that she is a Xianbei mother-in-law.
However, in this world, it doesn't matter whether the Han people or the Xianbei people are there. In these years, the fist is big, so whoever is the most expensive. Even if it was the emperor of the Sima family, once he was captured by the Hu people, he still wore green clothes to serve others.
She took off the heavy fur on her body, lay down beside her sister, looked at Qin Rui who was asleep, she reached out and pulled the quilt on her sister's body up a little more, and then closed her eyes.
**
The Gao family came to a distinguished guest today, or it should not be a distinguished guest, he was originally the nephew of this family, but this nephew is Murong Hong, the third son of Murong Kui, the Duke of Liaodong, and his biological mother is Gao. He is a concubine, not the eldest son, he can't be seen among the brothers, and the Gao family is not favored, and even taking his son to Murong Kui is not taken seriously, but for the Gao family, this nephew is the link between the Gao family and the Murong family.
The Gao family is not local to Liaodong, when the rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Central Plains could not stay, the patriarch of the Gao clan took the clan to migrate to Liaodong, Liaodong since the world returned to the Jin, the vast majority of them were inhabited by the Xianbei people of the Murong Department and the Duan Department, and when they arrived at this place, they naturally wanted to worship the mountain, but that Liaodong Gong wanted to enable the patriarch of the Gao clan, and even the words were very good, saying that they were to assist the Son of Heaven together, but the patriarch of the Gao clan said that he was sick, and someone stirred up trouble in the back, and finally he was divided, and the second patriarch also died of too much worry.
The children and grandchildren want to make a living under the Murong family, and the father's set is absolutely useless, so he sent his sister to the new Liaodong Mansion as a side room, and the Gao family is not favored by Murong Kui, but fortunately there is a son.
Gao Bing asked the people to open the door and guard it by himself, and after a while, the front began to be noisy, and a young man in brocade clothes and hair walked in quickly, his eyebrows were beautiful, his figure was slender, and he was obviously only thirteen or fourteen years old, but standing there was already a head taller than Gao Bing.
"Uncle!" Murong Hong's biological mother is Han Chinese, and she speaks Chinese fluently, and when he opened his mouth without a Xianbei accent, he walked over quickly, his eyes bright.
"Saburo is here." Gao Bing saw his nephew coming, and his face was full of smiles.
"Meet my uncle." Murong Hyun performed a Han etiquette to Gao Bing, his long hair was draped, his head was tied with a Xianbei step and a crown, he looked like a Xianbei person, and the etiquette of a Han person was a bit nondescript. But Gao Bing was full of smiles.
"How is your father?" Gao Bing pressed one hand on his nephew's back and let him go into the hall.
"Grandpa is all right!" Murong Hyun actually didn't see Murong Kui a few times, Murong Kui didn't pay attention to this son, Murong Kui had a group of children, and the most favored was the youngest son Murong Ming, he just heard others talk about his father's health. But if there is no change, it will really take a few years until Grandpa lets go.
"Where's your aunt?" Gao Bing then asked, the Gao family is a concubine in the Liaodong Mansion, and according to custom, she cannot be called a mother.
"Auntie is fine." Murong Hyun replied.
Gao Bing welcomed Murong Hyun into the hall, and he didn't even want him to take off his boots. But Murong Hyun knew the etiquette of the Han people, took off the boots on his feet, and only then walked indoors.
"They are all relatives, why pay attention to so many false courtesies?" Gao Bing said with a smile.
"There is still a number of courtesies." Murong Hyun said with a smile.
Sitting down at the table, Gao Bing asked the maid to bring buttermilk made of goat's milk, and personally brought it to Murong Hyun and poured it into the clay pot.
"The world hasn't been peaceful lately." Gao Bing showed his nephew buttermilk, "I heard that the Jin in the south has started the Northern Expedition, speaking of which is the first time, I heard that there is a powerful person here, a person surnamed Huan." I heard that he even destroyed the Cheng Han in Shu, what does Da Shan Yu think about this? ”
When Gao Bing was serving his father, he had heard that the former Liaodong Duke said that he wanted to restore the world of the Sima family with him, but it would be good to listen to this, where can he really take it seriously?
Non-my race will have different hearts, the rebellion of the eight kings took advantage of the chaos to rise up Xiongnu and those people, now the so-called Shizhao Emperor, or slave birth, in addition to the Chinese orthodox court in the south, which one of the other emperors and kings is Han again? It's all some Hu people making a fuss.
Gao Bing didn't believe it, Murong Kui saw that the Central Plains didn't have the slightest idea.
Although the Xianbei people are not as noisy as the Huns and the Xiongnu people at the moment, they must have ambitions. Whether it is the Tuoba Department who has repeatedly helped the Jin family fight against the Xiongnu Hu people, or Murong Shan Yu, who was canonized as the Grand Governor of Xianbei by the Jin Dynasty, really has no idea about the Central Plains?
"......" Murong Hyun smiled on his lips and was silent for a while, "Now the shape of the Central Plains is unknown, and Grandpa has also asked Pei Jun and others to discuss this matter, but after all, we are in Liaodong, which is too far away from the Central Plains, not to mention that there are Goguryeo and Duanbu, if we go west, I am afraid it will not be easy." ”
The Murong Department is not the overlord of Liaodong's side, there is Goguryeo in the east, and there are Duan's Xianbei and Yuwen Department next to it. Murong Bu and Duan Xianbei have already fought several times, unless these two troubles are all cleaned up, otherwise the Central Plains can only be spied on and take a look.
"Well, very much." Gao Bing listened to Murong Hyun's words and nodded again and again.
After Murong Hyun said a few words, he asked Gao Bing's mother and wife if they were well, whether the charcoal used for the winter was enough, and even asked people to prepare a lot of furs.
Xianbei people originally lived on the grassland, and they were in a cold place all year round, so the furs produced were all good things, and Murong Hyun also brought a lot to his uncle this time.
Gao Bing waved his hand again and again, but finally accepted it. The winter in Liaodong is too long and too sad, and the Qinggao of the scholar clan cannot be used to protect against the cold.
The meaning of politeness is over.
Murong Hyun hurried to practice riding and archery, and after a few words with Gao Bing, he took his leave. Gao Bing personally sent Murong Hyun to the door, and after seeing him turn over and walk away on horseback, he turned around and slowly paced back home.
Gao Bing's son, Gao Chongzhi, came out of the house with a strange face, "Father, why did you say that to San Langjun?" ”
Gao Chongzhi is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he is only a little older than Murong Hyun, "Now that the south has used troops to recover Shu, there is no possibility of recovering the Central Plains......"
"Kid is ignorant!" Gao Bing turned around and reprimanded his son, "What do you know?" The shape of the Jin Kingdom is much more complicated than you think! ”
"Father?" Gao Chongzhi recently read the history books and saw Wei Qinghuo going to illness to expel the Xiongnu and regain the lost land, and his heart was full of pride. As a result, his father poured such a bucket of cold water on his head.
"When the Central Plains was in turmoil, if there was a heart, Jianye could clean it up, but did they clean it up?" Gao Bing sighed heavily, "Within Jianye, the interests of the Shi clan are complicated, not that they will fight, but that they can be recovered. Even if someone can come out to clean up, it is definitely not those who only know the mysteries every day! It's okay to let those people make a look with the dust tail, and if you really go to war with the Hu people, it's good to have two out of ten people do things! ”
Speaking of which, Gao Bing no longer looked at his son with a stunned face, pulled his sleeves, and went directly into the house.
The Jin Kingdom is not without talents, but in the eyes of those people in Jianye, where is the recovery of the homeland more important than the power of their family, and it is not bad to have a corner of peace.
Immediately, Murong Hyun turned his head, and the entourage around him immediately drove his horse over, "San Langjun." ”
"Qu Tudu, just now on the street, you saw a little lady with a child...... Ah, no, is it Xiaolang? Murong Hyun asked.
The attendant named Qu Tu was five big and ten thick, and when he listened to Murong Hyun's question, his face almost wrinkled, "Fang Cai...... Didn't you see a child with a child? ”
When Murong Hyun heard this, there was a little disappointment in his eyes, and Qu Tu immediately said, "Or, my subordinates will send someone to find it?" ”
"Great Thorn City is so big, where can I find it?" Murong Hyun sighed and said, some people have some things, won't they appear until a certain designated time?
He sat on his horse and looked up at the sky. Is this day really exactly the same as what he saw back then?