27. Adventure
Liu Ting was not stupid enough to take the initiative to go to Ou Zhu to express her heart. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info before trying to find a way to get close to Ou Zhu, she thought that there should be one more thing to do - to confirm Ou Zhu's thoughts.
The deaths of Wangmu and Wumei not only gave Liu Ting an unexpected gain, but also made her more cautious. In a foreign land where she has no relatives and doesn't even know the road, Liu Ting knows that even if she masters the Tiele language, the situation is still precarious. There was Tashi who was waiting for him to become an adult, and then there was Tiele who never treated himself as a human being and beat and scolded at will. A slave whose status is lower than that of cattle and sheep will get worse than death if he is not careful. Even if Ou Zhu was wary of Tashi, and because of Wangmu's death, there was a lack of a dedicated maid, and Liu Ting still didn't dare to approach it.
Even Jian Zhongxi admitted that now is the best opportunity to fight for Ouzhu.
After Wangmu's death, Tashi pretended to be confused and did not give Ouzhu a new maid. Without the servants who serve him, Ou Zhu can send other subordinates, and some things are free and he has to do them himself. Jian Zhongxi suggested that Liu Ting take advantage of the situation to get closer, if she could become the maid assigned to Ou Zhu, at least others would no longer beat and scold at will, and she could gradually win Ou Zhu's trust in the future. But Liu Ting knew what it meant to show favor to Ou Zhu.
Tashi has two wives and no children, and Ouzhu is the weakest. Liu Ting is sure to approach Ou Zhu, and she also knows very well that if she chooses one, she will lose the other two. If you only choose according to the force, Ouzhu is obviously not the best choice. But if you want to think about the purpose, Ouzhu is the only hope.
Liu Ting wants Tashi to die before he dies, not to improve his current situation.
Regardless of whether she can escape back to Dawu, Liu Ting wants to watch Tashi die. The life of a slave has long been regarded as worse than death in Liu Ting's heart, how can she allow the initiator of making herself a slave to continue to enjoy the life of the master of the family? If you have to rely on the power of the Tiele people to get Tashi the retribution he deserves, Ouzhu, who is dissatisfied with Tashi, is of course the best choice.
However, is Ouzhu's grudge really deep enough to murder Tashi? Liu Ting asked herself: Tashi is Ouzhu's husband. What can I do if Ou Zhu only wants to get her husband's handle and has no intention of murdering him? Find a way to make Ouzhu's grudge explode? The problem is that Ojoo has lived with Tashi for decades. After decades of husband and wife, no matter how much grudge there is, it won't make the wife ruthless enough to murder each other, right? Even if the women here are strong and dare to resist injustice, it is not often that wives beat their husbands to death.
Liu Ting, who was puzzled, decided to test first. Although "cautious" and "careful" always came to mind, Liu Ting's first temptation was extremely risky - after being touched by a drunken Tashi, Liu Ting put caution aside at that time.
When only herself and Tashi were left in the tent, Liu Ting was so angry that she vigorously blocked Tashi. Tashi, who was already so drunk that he couldn't open his eyes, fell softly on the couch and muttered inaudibly, which also made Liu Ting's nausea taste increase a lot. Knowing that leaving without finishing the account book at her feet would cause a severe beating the next day, she still subconsciously walked towards the tent door. When she walked to the front of the tent, Liu Ting saw Ou Zhu's figure through the gap in the curtain.
In Tashi's house, only Ozhu wears the usual costumes of Uighur women. Will Ouzhu, who is getting closer and closer, come in?
Liu Ting wasn't sure, but when she thought that Ou Zhu was dissatisfied with Tashi, and that he was most likely the only one among Tashi's wives who hated her husband, Liu Ting couldn't bear it anymore. She resolutely turned and walked over to Tashi's side and opened the box that Tashi had pressed under his hand. Inside the box, there is only a ledger with a blue shell.
The moment she held the ledger in her hand, Liu Ting thought of what she might have to face. If Tashi is detected, the best thing to do is to be hung somewhere and whipped until he is out of breath. Fortunately, until Ou Zhu lifted the curtain, Tashi was still squinting and in a drunken state. But this does not mean that Liu Ting can retreat with her whole body - in the case that Ou Zhu will inevitably find out, Liu Ting's purpose in doing this is to test Ou Zhu.
If Ou Zhu still sees Tashi as one, she will severely punish Liu Ting and inform Tashi of this matter to eliminate Liu Ting as a potential threat. After all, Liu Ting was coveting Tashi's secret. If Ou Zhu's grievances are so big that she turns a blind eye to Liu Ting's behavior of flipping through the account books, it doesn't mean that she won't do anything to Liu Ting - it's one thing to not care about Tashi's gains and losses, and it's another thing to teach slaves a lesson with the attitude of a hostess. Liu Ting thinks that Ouzhu, who is not happy in his wife's room, will at least scold herself in order to exercise her hostess privilege.
The hands holding the account book trembled appropriately when Ou Zhu walked in front of him. Standing up with a pretended panicked attitude, Liu Ting didn't forget to let herself be so shocked that she dropped the account book. But what she didn't expect was that Ou Zhu actually looked at her without saying a word, and bent down to pick up the account book.
After handing the ledger to Liu Ting, Ou Zhu stood sideways in front of the couch. She looked at Tashi, who was too drunk to wake up, chuckled twice and lifted the curtain and left.
Liu Tingting, who was confused, stood still holding the account book. She asked herself: How could this be? Even if you don't punish or praise, what does this Ouzhu mean?
The only thing that answered her was a barrage of mutters from Tashi.
Liu Ting hurriedly put the ledger back in the wooden box and returned to where she should have been—on the leather blanket spread on the ground. The workmanship is exquisite, and at first glance it is a leather blanket from Da Wu's craftsmanship, of course, it is not designed to make Liu Ting sit comfortably. It is for the purpose of placing ordinary accounts, those accounts that Liu Ting must calculate before tomorrow morning.
The ledger discarded on the blanket at random confirms that Tashi is indeed going to Dawu. What Liu Ting has to do is to calculate the corresponding silver taels of the items listed in the accounts. Tashi would take the horses with him according to the last taels of silver in the account. But the longer Liu Ting looked at the accounts, the more she thought about Da Wu in her mind.
Before the crossing, Liu Ting, who was tossed to the point of powerlessness by her livelihood, did not understand the meaning of the country very well; Before leaving Dawu, who had only been staying for more than a month, Liu Ting didn't quite understand what Dawu and Waiyi meant. But now, in the territory of Tiele, which is collectively known as "Waiyi" by the Han people, Liu Ting, who has been a Han slave for nearly half a year, is extremely eager to return to Dawu.
Even if she has a modern social mindset and has been ashamed of imperial rule; Even if the last memories Da Wu left her were poison and hunting; still can't shake Liu Ting's yearning for Wu Guo.
Dawu is the country of the Han people, and it is also my motherland. Liu Ting said to herself: Da Wu not only has the Zhuang Guo family that must be kept away, but also everything you love. Back in Dawu, no matter how down-and-out he is, he is also a person, and I don't know how much better it is than this place outside the plug. You must find a way to return to Dawu, even if you die, you must die in the land of Dawu! But before you die, make sure to make the people who made you a slave pay.