Chapter 23: The Apologetics (I)

The tall stone statues are gradually taking shape to the clanging of hundreds of thousands of slaves, who are like dense ants, climbing small black dots on the huge stone statues.

Not far away, there is an extremely grand earthen city called Ava City.

At the beginning, Lu Ning didn't expect that most of the so-called northern Burma had such a large earthen city, perhaps with a population of no less than Yangtho City, of course, the earthen city was extremely dirty, because its population, many of them were looted slaves, doing extremely heavy work every day, under the scorching sun, those ** skinny slave laborers, there were many in the city.

Ava City, which is believed to be the Mandalay area in later generations, has also been the ancient capital for hundreds of years.

Nowadays it is said that this place is northern Myanmar, but in later generations, it should be the central Myanmar region.

Look at the Tucheng buildings, stone statue style.

I have to admit that in fact, here now, it is more influenced by the South Asian civilization that came to the west, but the core area of the Central Plains civilization is too far away.

The "Radha Nabuni" in Ava City, the local language is probably the meaning of "King of Many Treasures", that is, the local tribal leader and the big slave owner, the transliteration of the name is very strange, Lu Ning simply called him "Ava Duobao", this black and fat leader, hearing the new name, couldn't help but be overjoyed.

The translator for Avaduobao and Lu Ning was Duan Yuyan, Lu Ning decided to bring her to Burma, in fact, she had heard that she was erudite and talented, proficient in many tribal languages, and knew several Burmese languages, which could be communicated.

Lu Ning and his entourage came to Ava City, and Ava Duobao was very happy and curious when he heard that it was from the distant Daqi Order, and sent people to welcome Lu Ning and others into the city to settle their residences, and set up a feast in the evening to personally meet the Daqi Order.

The wooden hall is slightly low, and it is somewhat depressing, but in today's Southeast Asia, the palace that Avadobao built for himself does not know how many slaves' bones are buried.

Local musicians played cheerful tunes, mostly flute-like hollow instruments and various tambourine, and dozens of girls danced enthusiastically.

The sumptuous dishes on the table are all local barbecue game, melons and fruits.

In the sect of Lu Ning and his party, the leader of the Taoist Guardian was enlightened, but Lu Ning sat at the top of the guests, and Duan Yuyan sat next to him to interpret for him.

Avadobao thought that Lu Ning was the leader of the Order, and he showed that he was very curious about the Heavenly Taoism that had arisen in the Central Plains, and he kept asking questions.

Although Lu Ning is not a defender, Tiandao is actually the traditional culture of the Central Plains that combines Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and he can answer his questions.

The two talked very happily, but Avaduobao looked at Duan Yuyan's eyes, although he tried his best to hide it, it still made Lu Ning frown slightly.

Although Avaduobao sent people to arrange a residence for Lu Ning and the others in Tucheng, Lu Ning still lived on a grassy slope outside the city with his entourage under the pretext that the elephant herd was not suitable to enter the city.

After all, there are no rules in today's world, so if Avadobao suddenly turns his face, his party will easily be made dumplings.

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Lu Ning's marching tent was specially made, more than twice as large as the standard marching tent of Daqi, and it was not too crowded for four people to sit in a circle inside.

Hanging the oil lamp, Lu Ning and Duan Yuyan, Mu Wanqing, and Gao Ling'er sat in a circle and played cards in the tent, similar to the upgrade of later generations, the opponent is an ally, and the game of two VS two.

Gao Ling'er liked it very much when she saw that Zhongyuan got cards, and she liked to play with her the most, Mo said that Duan Yuyan had an easy-going temperament, but Yang Wanqing, who was relatively cold, was also entangled by her, so she had no choice but to play with her.

There is only Dong Baifeng, and every time they play cards, they are far away.

It is difficult to get a densely populated place today, and Gao Linger and a few people finally freshen up comfortably, yes, before going to bed, Gao Linger pulled Duan Yuyan and Yang Wanqing to find Lu Ning to play cards.

Lu Ning doesn't care, it's not bad to be lively.

Originally, the four of them were playing cards outside, but there were too many mosquitoes, and Gao Ling'er was upgraded to nine because of his own group, and Lu Ning's group was upgraded to five, Gao Ling'er was reluctant to give up, so he had to continue arguing, so he entered Lu Ning's tent.

Gao Linger must choose a group with Duan Yuyan to play cards, because Duan Yuyan has a very good memory and a high winning rate with her.

Of course, Lu Ning played casually, and never really cared about it.

Otherwise, if it was more than ten years ago when Lu Ning was looking for people to gamble heavily, they would definitely lose a lot.

However, if you are in a group with Yang Wanqing, you often make mistakes, and you will inevitably roll your eyes by this cold beauty.

Central Plains solitaire, and later generations of solitaire is about the same, after all, since the number of cards and rules after hundreds of years of history perfected, Lu Ning does not need to start a new stove, just the Central Plains solitaire, eleven points are called soldiers, twelve points for horses, thirteen points for cars, two trump cards to become a general and a small general, is also a kind of taboo.

"Husband, you are so clean here, and the smell is still very good!" After triumphantly playing his cards, Gao Linger looked around and shouted as if he had found a new continent.

I don't know when Gao Linger naturally called Lu Ning "husband", but now that the four of them are present, listening to Gao Linger shouting "husband", Duan Yuyan and Yang Wanqing's expressions are somewhat unnatural.

Lu Ning smiled slightly, speaking of which, the three beauties are his legitimate side concubines, and there is no persecution and so on, they are all newly married girls, and now they are sitting around playing cards, which is still quite exciting.

The three of them, although they are all Dali aristocratic girls, have been influenced by the Central Plains culture since childhood, but etiquette and so on, are naturally different from the Central Plains, such as playing cards now, they are not like the Central Plains women kneeling, but mostly hugging the knees, under the skirts of various colors, it is inevitable to faintly reveal the brocade socks that wrap their small jade feet, Gao Linger is more casual, she is like many barbarian women, has never liked to wear socks, and now a pair of small delicate snow feet are generously exposed, and even naughty with snow-white feet when the cards go wrong. Lu Ning didn't allow her to repent of the card, and also reached out to block it, and when she fought back and forth, she couldn't help but hold her little snow feet, which were soft and smooth, which made Lu Ning's heart flutter, but she didn't realize it, but Duan Yuyan and Yang Wanqing both turned their heads slightly unnaturally.

Listening to Gao Ling'er's words at this time, Lu Ning said smoothly: "I like it here, I will stay here tonight!" Originally, it was just a mouthful, but then, I saw this beautiful little girl's pretty face flushed, and even the snow-white little feet were scared, but she hummed lowly.

Lu Ning's heart couldn't help but flutter slightly.

The sweltering weather, it seems, suddenly became less irritating.