21. Strife
On the day Zhuang Cheng was escorted to Longxi by his father's private lieutenant, Liu Ting was taken to a drinking party by Tashi for the first time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Under the deliberate dress of the maid, Liu Ting's entire face was tightly coated with powder grease with the smell of mutton. She also wore a decent tunic for her. Fortunately, the hem of her robe was large enough to cover her broken legs, which were still tied to the planks. The funny thing is that the outer robe is actually a Han cotton robe. In this place where Tieler's rugged style is everywhere, the delicate embroidery on the cuffs and neckline of the cotton robe is even more beautiful.
But Tashi was not satisfiedβthe powder fat could only slightly cover the bruises on his face, but could not completely hide it.
Liu Ting understood Tashi's Tiele language. As the head of the family, Tashi was very dissatisfied and shouted to his eldest wife: "She is a slave, and she wants to bring it to her brothers." Even if you want to hit her, don't slap her in the face. β
Ouzhu, who was about to be half a hundred years old and had already chapped skin on his face, glanced at Tashi, and finally scolded the maid twice. Liu Ting didn't expect that just two words of reprimand made the maid hate herself.
After being pinched and poured wine by countless greasy Tiele men, Liu Ting didn't realize that the drinking party that treated her as an animal was over until she was thrown into bed. Dizzy from the wine, she struggled out of bed and crawled in the direction of the kettle's memory. Her hazy vision made her unaware that the tent was empty, and her vague consciousness caused her to mistakenly put her hand on the food box by the kettle.
That's when Wangmu walked in. This maid, who has always liked to make Liu Ting angry, pulled her hair and dragged her out as soon as she saw Liu Ting touching the food box. Standing on the largest hillock in the wind, the maid who kicked Liu Ting didn't even say a word - Ou Da Hannu didn't need to have an explanation, no need to have an explanation.
The cold wind and the constant pain in her abdomen made Liu Ting wake up. Knowing that resisting would bring more harm, she didn't dare to use too much force. When holding Wangmu's legs, Liu Ting kept praying in Tiele language, but this did not dispel Wangmu's anger. It wasn't until the wailing attracted Jian Zhongxi that Wang Mu's strength decreased slightly.
"She is the master's slave, and she will be sent to the master's bed as soon as she becomes an adult." Kneeling beside Liu Ting, Jian Zhongxi half-begged and half-reminded Wangmu: "No one knows if the master wants her to have a child." If the master lets her give birth to ......"
"That's the wild seed of slaves, too." Spit at Liu Ting, Wang Mu swung his whip and cut a bloody mark on Jian Zhongxi's face. "Ouzhu won't agree to let her give birth to wild seeds. I'm going to go to Ouzhu and say. β
As soon as Wang Mu left, Liu Ting grabbed Jian Zhongxi's hand.
"You're going to be sent to Tashi's bed as an adult?" Her eyes widened in horror, and she cried and shook her head: "Tell me it's not true." β
At this moment, Liu Ting couldn't even feel the pain. The image of Tashi lying on the bed with a woman in his mind came to mind, and Liu Ting vomited out.
"Han women, regardless of age, are sent to their master's bed. You're fine now, but because of their faith. Jian Zhongxi turned his face sideways and said guiltily, "I'm sorry." I knew it as soon as you saw you, but I couldn't bear to tell you. β
"Sorry, did it work? Why don't you stab me to death with a knife?" Liu Ting, whose mind was blank, let go of Jian Zhongxi and staggered towards the camp, but was hugged by Jian Zhongxi.
"Don't do anything stupid." Jian Zhongxi, who fell to the ground in the struggle, grabbed Liu Ting and said in a low voice: "This is the realm of Tiele, and we are Hannu." The slave can't resist, you can't even get close to Tashi's body. β
"Then I will die in front of him. Let him know that slaves are not all those who are at his mercy. Liu Ting didn't know where she got the strength, so she actually pushed Jian Zhongxi away. But she had just been beaten, and one of her legs had not fully grown, and she was paralyzed on the ground by dizziness.
"If you are not even afraid of death, why should you be afraid of being defiled by Tashi?" Jian Zhongxi looked around, leaned into Liu Ting's ear and said, "You still have three years to be considered an adult in Tiele." Three years is enough time for us to find a way to escape. β
"Escape? Didn't you say you didn't even think about running away? Liu Ting looked up in surprise, feeling that Jian Zhongxi, who was only in her early twenties, had become unfamiliar in front of her.
"Yes. We don't know the way, and if we run away, we will be caught. Even if you don't get caught, you will starve to death or die of thirst. But have you ever thought that the Han people have their own Han solution. A male voice surrounded her ear and said, "Tashi will never let us go for nothing." Instead of being tossed to death by him, it is better to find a way to let him die. β
Seeing Liu Tingleng on the spot, looking at himself at a loss, Jian Zhongxi simply said bluntly: "It's better for us to find a way to let Tiele people kill him than for us to kill him or be tossed to death by him." β
Liu Ting admitted that Jian Zhongxi's prompt pointed out a clear path for herself, but finding the right direction does not mean that she can find a way. Regarding the question of "what should we do next", even the initiator Jian Zhongxi only shook his head. Until Liu Ting's legs no longer need to be tied to a wooden plank, they still can't think of a way.
After using clumsy embroidery to help the night watchman embroider a handkerchief for her lover, Liu Ting got the opportunity to go to the sheepfold in the middle of the night. She had just taken off the plank, wrapped in the fur trousers that Tashi had given her, and limped towards Jian Zhongxi. Hearing the movement, Jian Zhongxi pushed away the sheep beside her, and her eyes fell straight on her legs.
It wasn't until Liu Ting nested under the fence that was only half a person high and pulled the sheep to her side to cover up that Jian Zhongxi hesitated and said, "Your legs are ......."
"It's good that Doctor Hu can still move this leg." Wiping the wool off her face, Liu Ting's face was full of indifference: "It's just a little lame when walking, it's nothing." β
"What do you mean to be lame? It's a lifetime thing. Jian Zhongxi was so sad that he shook Liu Ting, lowered his voice and scared the other party: "Find a way to beg Doctor Hu and let him help you heal." Don't take it seriously! It is difficult for a woman who walks a little lame to find her in-laws' house in Dawu. β
"I'm not even afraid of death, I'm afraid I won't find my in-laws?" Shaking off the scene that had been floating in his mind, Tashi was lying on the couch with the woman in his arms, Liu Ting let out a sneer: "I hate to become an old woman myself, so that Tashi doesn't even have the appetite to drink wine when he sees it - it is better to please Tashi who has made himself a slave than to die with him!" On the occasion of life and death, why bother to think about such a trivial matter of lameness. β
Jian Zhongxi looked at it with strange eyes for a long time before saying in a complicated tone, "You...... You've become different from when you first arrived. β
"I learned from a woman in Tieler. I hate them, but they're not the same as Han women. Hooking the corners of her mouth that were still bruised and swollen, Liu Ting waved her hand: "Don't talk about this." Do you know what this is? β
Liu Ting took out a few slender plants as thin as embroidery needles from her pocket.