Chapter 1: Xianbei
Today's weather is not mild, Liaodong is not the Central Plains with four distinct seasons, this place began to blow one after another cold wind in September and October. When the Central Plains was still in an autumn rain and a cold, it was already snowing in Liaodong. Compared to the flat Central Plains, this place is indeed not a good place to survive, but no matter what, it still has to survive well.
The young man in the fur hat skimmed through the jungle quickly, his steps were light, and he was not at all as heavy as an ordinary man's foot. The hare is alert and runs so fast that if one is not careful, it may run into the woods and never be found. The boy drew a few arrows from his quiver behind him, and the feathered arrows took his bow and shot them at the fleeing hare.
The hare was shot by an arrow, kicked twice in both legs, and then did not move.
The boy slowed his pace, reached out and grabbed the feathered arrow and lifted the hare up. The hare was pierced by an arrow, and blood was dripping down the arrow.
At this time, a few young people in thick fur fur appeared in the forest, and the appearance of their hair was not Han at first glance, and sure enough, the opening of the leader was a pure Xianbei language, "Qin Xuan, this one didn't shoot well, and the fur was already stained with blood!" ”
The young man pulled out the arrows from the hare's body, and threw the prey he had obtained into the leather bag he had prepared, and when the young man heard this, he raised his face, revealing a delicate face, "Andamu, it doesn't matter if the fur is stained with blood, just eat it." Qin Xuan's voice was slightly low, and when she heard it, she was still a young boy who had just grown up.
The Xianbei boy known as Andam smiled, and the Xianbei people behind him were even more coaxing, "Even Qin Xuan has hunted several hares, it would be too embarrassing for us to go back empty-handed!" ”
"What are you afraid of?" Andam could hear the meaning of these words, but it was just that Qin Xuan was a woman who could return with a full load, and these men would lose face in front of their sweethearts if they returned empty-handed.
"As long as there's a jungle, we don't have to worry!" Andam said loudly, "There are endless wild boars and minks in it, and we won't go hungry!" ”
When those Xianbei teenagers heard Andam's words, they cheered, and at this moment, an elk happened to be unlucky to run in front of this group of teenagers, and those teenagers except Andamu immediately had their eyes lit up and seized the opportunity to rush forward. Andamu didn't chase the elk like the other partners, he walked up to Qin Xuan, with a little shyness, "Are you enough of the ones you fought today?" ”
Qin Xuan raised her eyes and smiled at the young man in front of her, "Not yet, it's just that there is no place to put it if you fight again, you know, I didn't ride a horse." ”
Qin Xuan's uncle does have a horse, but if she rides out, it is estimated that her aunt Chen will be able to point to the sky and scold all day. It's not interesting to deal with a shrew, Qin Xuan came out of someone else's horse this time.
"I brought the horse!" Andam immediately patted his chest and said, "Later, you can ride my horse back!" ”
Qin Xuan also nodded politely, "Okay!" ”
This place freezes its butt for half of the year, but fortunately there is no shortage of food in the forest, roe deer, deer, wild boar, and countless hares, as long as you have good riding and archery skills, you will always find food.
Qin Xuan has been rooted in Xianbei since she was a child, and she has long learned a good skill.
She hung the prey on Andam's horse and rode back on his horse. When I arrived at the door, I heard Qin Xuan's aunt scolding in a sharp voice: "Don't you have long eyes?" The good things are put there, and you even kicked them down, you little bitch, shameless, and broke your hands and feet! The province has to eat and drink for nothing in my house, wasting rice and grain! ”
While scolding and beating, there was a little girl's whining cry and grievance justification.
"You! And quibble, quibble! I'll tear your mouth apart! The woman's scolding became more and more unbearable.
Andam tightened the reins of the horse, Qin Xuan immediately jumped off the horse's back with a blushing face, and strode towards the door.
Chen grabbed a bunch of thorns in his hand, had no head and no face, and beat the little girl under him to death, and the ruthlessness of his attack was quite like a posture of wanting to kill someone.
Suddenly, there was a sound on the other side of the door, which startled the Chen family, she stopped and looked up, and saw Qin Xuan standing there with a pale face.
The little girl trembled and hugged her head, and before her aunt's thorns fell, she looked up timidly, saw the person standing on the other side of the door, and choked up and shouted, "Sister! ”
"What is my aunt going to do?" Qin Xuan saw the two slap prints on her sister Qin Rui's face, and there was already anger in her eyes. She approached, smiling angrily.
"What am I doing, your own sister is such a big person, she doesn't walk for a long time, and she kicked the firewood pile that my eldest man had stacked to scatter, isn't this still a beat!" Qin Xuan has a long body, inherited the Xianbei bloodline of the maternal line, and walked into the capital more than a head taller than the Chen family, the Chen family was pressed by her so much, he couldn't help but shrink back, remembering that this was his junior, and trembled again.
"Sister, I didn't! It's a little girl......" Qin Rui's face was swollen after being beaten, and when she heard Chen's words, she immediately defended herself.
"And nonsense! It's you! Xiaoya saw it with her own eyes! You bad-hearted little slut......" Chen's mouth was not clean, and he wanted to fight, but his raised hand was held by Qin Xuan.
"It's just a pile of firewood, as long as it's dry and usable. What's more, even if you want to teach a lesson, you have to come to the grandmother, and you don't have to worry about the aunt. When Qin Xuan spoke, her words were smiling, but there was no warmth in them.
Seeing that her hand was buckled, Chen immediately struggled to escape from under her palm, but Qin Xuan was extremely strong, and a layer of sweat appeared on her struggling head, but she didn't break free, she felt that the wrist bone was getting more and more painful, as if it was about to crack, Chen opened his mouth in a hurry and was about to bite, but Qin Xuan reached out and buckled his jaw.
"You...... He He ...... "Chen's jaw couldn't close, and a sharp pain came out of his bones." Cloudy saliva flowed from the gaping mouth.
Qin Xuan was impatient to wash clothes, and when she reached out and shook it, Chen was thrown to the ground by her, and almost hit her head.
Chen was stunned, and sat on the ground and cried, "God has no conscience!" Eat and drink for nothing in my house, and I want my wife's life! ”
As soon as Andamu entered the door, he saw the "spectacular" scene of the shrew pointing at the sky and scolding, he knew that Qin Xuan's uncle and aunt had migrated from the Central Plains, but it was the first time he had seen such a dry howl and a look of wanting to die.
Liaodong this place, vast and sparsely populated, later Murong Department of Shan Yu brought a large number of Xianbei people to settle in Liaodong, before the Han people in the Central Plains fought, in addition to the defenders and generals left in Liaodong by the Great Jin, it was the Xianbei people the most.
Where did Andamu see this posture, and he immediately looked at it in a daze.
"Something born of a humble woman, phew!" Chen howled and scolded for a while, seeing that Qin Xuan had no intention of fighting against her at all, he picked up Qin Rui and walked out of the door, there was still a Xianbei person standing at the door of his house, and he thought of Qin Xuan's biological mother Gai Lou even more sloppy.
"If the two of them have stained their ancestors with dirty blood, they should die outside! Who doesn't know that Xianbei women are messing around outside, and two still don't know whose kind it is! ”
This was already said viciously, Andam looked at Chen and scolded while glaring at him fiercely, even if he couldn't understand Chinese, he knew that Chen was not saying good things about himself. He immediately blushed with anger, he hadn't even provoked this crazy woman, he was scolded for some reason, and he would be furious if he changed people.
"Let's go." Qin Xuan walked over with her sister in her arms and glanced at Andamu apologetically, "She's such a person, I'm sorry." ”
Qin Xuan's father was a general in the Jin army stationed in Liaodong back then, and he also had meritorious deeds, but the court of the Sima family was not so easy to promote, especially the evaluation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng was firmly controlled by those big families, and almost all the people who went up were the children of the scholar family.
Moreover, the court did not take the generals seriously, and the men in Luoyang learned from women to apply grease and powder, and regarded soldiers as slaves. Qin Xuan's father was in Liaodong until his death, and he was never valued as a person by those scholars, not to mention promotion, and was driven like a dog by those so-called elegant people.
The generals are not doing very well, and there is also a lot of discrimination in marrying wives, there are not many good people in Liaodong, where will the official lady marry a lowly soldier, and in the end, Qin Xuan's father simply married Gai Lou as his wife. The husband and wife gave birth to a son and two daughters, and the one in front of them was a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. Later, the Central Plains was in turmoil, the rebellion of the eight kings, the queen was deposed and killed, and it was so lively that the relatives who originally stayed in their hometown couldn't stay, so they ran all the way to Liaodong to join their brother.
Who knew that it was not a coincidence, at the critical moment, Qin Xuan's father was seriously ill and died. After that, Surroy will take the cattle, sheep and other property left by her husband back to her mother's house in Big Thorn City.
Xianbei women are different from Han women, Xianbei women have the right to inherit the property cattle and sheep left by their husbands. It's a pity that Chen's people just came, and they thought that this realm was the same as the Han people, and they were entangled with a few people to stop Gai Lou's, and the conversation was ugly, Chen said that Gai Lou's was not ashamed, and he wanted to leave with his husband's cattle and sheep.
Gai Lou is a typical Xianbei woman, after understanding Chen's words, she was furious, picked up the whip and whipped Chen in front of everyone. Those people in the Qin family are all bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, seeing that the Lou family is not easy to mess with, and even the Chen family ran away without saving them.
Until now, there is still a scar in the corner of Chen's eye, which will be cut by Gai Lou.
Cover Knowles didn't make the trip in the end, the winter came very early that year, Cover Knowles got sick, and he didn't survive the winter and went. After Gai Lou left, the three brothers and sisters completely became the anvil of the Qin clan.
When those clansmen came to defect, when they saw her father, they had not yet said a smile on their faces, and when her father went, those clansmen were white-eyed wolves, drooling and eager to knock their family out of their bones. After Billy's death, the young children lost their shelter, and all the remaining family assets were divided, and then all three were stuffed into the uncle's house.
Chen and Gai Lou have such a big grudge, where will they take good care of her child, only two years ago, the boy in the dragon and phoenix fetus died.
Qin Xuan felt a headache when she thought back to the past.
When Andam heard this, half of his original anger disappeared, and he smiled innocently, "It's nothing, it's nothing." After speaking, he saw the red face of the child in Qin Xuan's arms, "Why don't you go and find a witch?" ”
The Xianbei people believe that everything in heaven and earth has spirits, and there are witches in the tribe who are responsible for sacrificing these gods.
"Hmm." Qin Xuan knew that those witches would deal with the wounds of some basic diseases, so she lowered her head and touched the top of her sister's hair.
If Gai Lou hadn't had that illness at the beginning, I'm afraid they would have been in their grandfather's house.
"That woman is too unspeakable." Andam asked Qin Xuan and Qin Rui to ride their horses, and walked in front of them with the reins of the horses, "I don't know what the rules of the Han people are, but sooner or later something will happen." ”
Andamu saw that Chen's beating was really beating to death, so the delicate and tender little lady was afraid that she would be beaten to death in a few strokes.
"I know, and I don't plan to stay here for long." Qin Xuan said.
Andammu was startled and turned his head to look at her.