Chapter 636: The Lesser of Two Evils

Jin Chen sighed and said, "I originally thought that Yinyue, who grew up with me since childhood, would have the same thoughts as me. But when I came back this time, I suddenly realized-" Jin Chen smiled bitterly and didn't continue.

Li Mu frowned slightly, he keenly discovered the loophole in Jin Chen's words, and said, "You're lying, right?" I've heard people say that your Camel Valley is a woman in charge, you, the sect leader, are a woman, and the high priest is also a woman, why is Yinyue's father the patriarch? Ha, let's show the stuffing! ”

Jin Chen smiled and said, "Master Hou, the name on our side is not the same as that of the Central Plains, our father is the mother that the Central Plains calls it." ”

"Oh." Li Mu said in a 'I believed' tone, and asked jokingly: "What about your 'mother'?" ”

"Nope."

"No?" Li Mu got angry and said, "So perfunctory to me, you still expect me to help?" ”

"Not really." Jin Chen explained: "We all only have 'fathers', not mothers. Our people, when they are of the right age to give birth, will go to the bonfire by the sacred spring at night, and if they see the object of their choice, they will-" Jin Chen paused and continued: "...... Until we were pregnant, we didn't know who the 'father' was. ”

Li Mu was stunned, this custom is fierce enough! The so-called free love in later generations is not so free. He subconsciously asked, "Then ...... you?"

Jin Chen has been in Chang'an for so long, he naturally understands the difference between the customs of the Central Plains and the Yin people, and can understand what Li Mu means, and said ashamedly: "I didn't want to have children, how could I go to Shenquan at night, Master Hou, aren't you ridiculing me?" ”

"I'm not that boring," Li Mu pouted.

Jin Chen looked down at him, and when he saw that he was silent again, he continued his topic: "Master Hou, aren't you curious, why did I do everything possible to deceive you?" ”

"Not curious." Li Mu choked back his words, and said: "To reiterate, you not only deceived me, but you kidnapped me again, these two together, I will not forgive you, so no matter what you say to me, I will not care." ”

Jin Chen smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, you hate me so much, how can you help me...... But I still have to say, if you listen to me, I'll let you go. ”

"Really?" Li Muhu asked suspiciously: "Will you let me go?" I'm not a generous person, if you let me go, aren't you afraid of my revenge? Don't look at you here, it's far away from Datang, but if I want to take revenge, it won't be difficult to call tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to level here! ”

Jin Chen sighed heavily: "I'm afraid that when the Hou Ye mobilizes troops and horses to come over, I will already die...... Gaochang colluded with the Western Turks and wanted to be the vanguard of the Western Turks' eastward advance. Going to Chang'an to meet is actually to listen to the truth. I brought you here, and your brother-in-law mistakenly thought that Gaochang had sent us to rob you, and mobilized the garrison of Dingxiang to attack Gaochang City. Ju Wentai, the lord of Gaochang, thought that the matter had been revealed, and he had already decided to completely fall to the Western Turks, and the messenger to the Western Turks had just passed yesterday, and the schedule would only be three or five days at most, and the advance of the Western Turks would come. ”

Li Mu's eyes widened and said, "Is this true?" So, you also fell to the Western Turks? ”

Jin Chen shook his head and said, "No, at least our Jin clan won't." But there is no denying that there are people in the clan who think so. After all, we are closer to the Western Turks, but too far from Chang'an. The cavalry of the Western Turks is unrivaled in the Western Regions, and our people, all combined, are less than 10,000 people, how can they resist? ”

"According to you, you should go to the Western Turks, why don't you?"

"The Turkic people live nomadically and brutally by nature. There are few of our people, and most of them are women, and if they go to the Western Turks, don't they all become slaves of the Western Turks? How can the people continue? ”

Li Mu pondered carefully, too, the Turks respected force, and women without status were like livestock in the Turkic world, and they could be traded goods, and they would not allow a matrilineal clan tribe to exist between them.

But after pondering it again, it was still not right, and said: "The Western Turks can't tolerate you, so the Tang Dynasty can tolerate you?" Not really, respecting women and not establishing a family is very different from the customs of the Central Plains! ”

"But didn't the emperor of the Central Plains say, 'Since ancient times, China has been noble, and I love it as one'? We won't mess with others, we just want a place to settle down, the Tang Emperor is like the sea, he should be able to accommodate us, right? ”

"——" Li Mu was stupid, he now understands what the sentence 'women are made of water' means, the woman in front of him, not only is her body made of water, but her brain is probably also made of water, this kind of words are obviously the scene, Li Shimin is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how can he love the Turks like the Tang Dynasty, this can be believed?

However, if it is the current Datang, it seems to be possible. After all, so many people died in the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the Central Plains was also in urgent need of population filling. Although there are not many more than 10,000 people, they are also people, but the rules of this matrilineal clan are estimated to be acceptable to no one. But if they are willing to give up and live like the Central Plains, Li Shimin should accept them.

On the one hand, the Western Turks do not treat women as people, and on the other hand, the Tang Dynasty treats women as people, and compared with the two, it seems that the Tang Dynasty is a little better.

Li Mu can understand Jin Chen's thoughts a little, she may not have believed in the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but after she saw the life of the people in Chang'an City, compared with the customs of the Western Turks, the lesser of two evils.

"So you brought me here because you want me to take your people to the Tang Dynasty?"

Jin Chen nodded violently and said, "Master Hou, is it okay?" I know that you are very rich, our ancestors have run a business here, and they have saved a lot of gold and silver treasures, which should be enough for our expenses, and if you help us buy a piece of land for us to live on, we will definitely not harass anyone, we will not cause you trouble, and we are willing to pay any taxes, can we? ”

Li Mu pouted secretly, will Lao Tzu believe in your evil? When you ask someone, you can say it how nice it sounds. But by the time it came to the real chapter, didn't you kidnap me? But now that he is under the eaves, there is no way, in order to escape, he still agrees to come down first, get out of this dungeon, and then make a plan.

Li Mu cleared his throat and said: "This matter has to be carefully planned and studied, it's not something that I can decide as soon as I say it, so let's think about it, you let me out first." ”

"Good!" Jin Chen did not doubt him, took out the key from his arms, and was about to open the lock of the skylight, put down the ladder and let Li Mu come out.

Li Mu raised his head and waited, clenched his fists, planning to wait for the ladder to be lowered, and the moment he climbed up, he would punch Jin Chen and knock her unconscious, and then take the opportunity to escape.