The first time my mother had the idea of adopting a righteous daughter was after the old gentleman of the academy returned to Middle-earth.

Without Mr. Wang's academy, it was like a rice cook, and the original schoolchildren were taken away by their relatives who lived in Wangcheng one after another.

In the past, when the smoke rose every morning, the sound of reading in the backyard was completely calmed down with the departure of the children, and it was a deathly silence.

The mother, who had become accustomed to this kind of lively popularity, suddenly felt extremely lonely and lost.

All his passion for running the "Qingfengze" inn came from these lovely children.

Now these babies, like her two children, have left her, and her whole person has suddenly become slackened.

The sensible cousin Langol volunteered to stay and stay by her mother's side.

I also realized that my mother was the most in need of care at this time, and that it had long been her care for all of us, warming us with the radiance of love, and that it was time for me as the eldest son to show it.

My mother liked to be complimented by guests in front of her, so every day when I went to the counter, I would pick up the radiant light of the jade tree and the wind of the jade tree.

My mother likes to be lively, so I told every relative around Wangcheng and invited them to come to "Qingfengze" for dinner every once in a while.

Several of the Kabuki sisters who live at my inn would come over every day to invite their mothers to enjoy the songs and dances they had just created.

With the efforts of everyone, the mother finally recovered from her decadent state, and Mrs. Khotan's aura began to inspire every loved one around her.

But the mother also knows that the happy days of her children around her will never come back.

Her cousin, Rangol, whom she regarded as her daughter, would marry another woman sooner or later.

On the surface, my eldest son looks like he is pleasing her everywhere. But in private, I have long wanted to spread my wings and fly high.

A person who is accustomed to taking care of others and caring for others, once no one needs her protection and care anymore, for her, the greatest pain in life is nothing more than this.

Mother is such a person, and it is in this mentality that she has long had a plan to adopt a righteous daughter.

The current generation of Khotanese kings is a man of great talent, and he is no longer willing to be a carefree monarch in a small country in the middle of nowhere, as his ancestors did.

Therefore, after he succeeded to the throne, he vigorously rectified military affairs, accumulated grain and grass, and opened the road of conquering cities and expanding territory.

In a few years, he took some small surrounding city-states, such as Pishan, Qule, Ronglu, Humi, etc., into his own pocket.

Everywhere the king's army went, the local princes, the money, the women and children of the wealthy families all became their spoils of war.

As a result, the slave market, which had been dormant for a long time in the square of the Intramuros, suddenly flourished.

Every day, a large number of buyers from Kushan, Sasanian, and Middle-earth come to this market to choose their favorite domestic slaves and maids.

Yesterday, he was still rich and rich, but in the blink of an eye, he became a pariahs who were enslaved and traded.

Such a hellish identity change in heaven confirms the old proverb that I would rather be a peaceful dog than a person in a troubled world.

During this time, my mother would take me around this city in a carriage every day, and when I saw such a miserable situation, I couldn't help but cry with sadness.

"Jincheng, people must cherish their blessings in this world, and they must have compassion. You see how pitiful these people are, hey! Although the Buddha said karma, plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans. What kind of sins did you commit in your previous life to suffer such misfortune in this life, and even more so women and children and children! Ay! Sins, sins, sins! ”

Before that, I didn't have much awareness of the human market.

I only know that our "Qingfengze" inn and the dozens of guys and maids in "Chang'an Fang" were all bought from this market by grandfather and mother when they were very young.

As for where they came from and where they came from, I never had the curiosity to inquire about such a thing.

Today, when I saw these ragged people in the square with numb expressions, being sorted and locked in the fence like cattle for sale, it suddenly dawned on me.

These brothers, maids, and sisters may also have been born in foreign princely and noble families, but because of wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters, their life circumstances have changed all at once.

Fortunately, in our "Qingfeng Ze", whether it is my grandmother Murong Qionglin or my mother's housekeeper now, we all act in the spirit of compassion and the bodhisattva heart of crossing others and ourselves.

I never treat these children who come to my house as house slaves, they have no worries about meals, they dress decently, and they have wages.

When you grow up, you can get married and have children, and you can freely choose to leave or stay.

This is also a blessing in misfortune for them.

So very few of my buddies run away or ransom away.

For as long as I can remember, these brothers and sisters who are busy at home have basically not changed.

"Madam, is there a doll in the picture! This villain is good, organic and spiritual, and he will be a good guy in the future, as long as ten gold is yours! ”

"Madam, the appearance of the son Pan An! Do you want to give him a few girls? I have ready-made goods here, and I used to serve the king and queen, so I guarantee that you are satisfied! ”

"Madam, go back and tell Master Yi to take all our goods, the price is cheap! In the future, it will be resold to Middle-earth, but it will be dozens of times more profitable! More sought-after than jade and silk! ”

The traffickers in the market seemed to know my mother and kept greeting her.

"Grandma, I look at these people disgustingly, let's go back!"

I took my mother's arm and suggested that it is a sin to sell people like objects, and that there is such a trade in the world!

The mother walked up and down the city noncommittally, as if looking for something.

Finally, behind a poplar fence, a little girl who was playing with sand caught her mother's attention, and she hurried over.

This girl was about 4 or 5 years old, with blond hair, a baby's fat face, and two innocent watery blue eyes, which reminded me of the distant Yamika.

Maybe this is what Amika looked like when she was a child.

The girl was barefoot, covered with a gray cloth dress worn by an adult.

Judging from her appearance, whether it was the Wangcheng officer who captured her at the beginning, or the trafficker who bought her, they all treated this poor little girl well.

Unlike the other slaves who are waiting to be sold, they have been tortured to the appearance of animals who have forgotten their humanity and are numb to their consciousness.

"Son, what's your name?" Mother asked distressedly through the fence.

The little girl looked up at her mother blankly and did not respond, and continued to play with the sand in her hand.

But it can be seen that this girl is silently shedding tears, and the moment when the country is broken, the family and relatives are separated, may have left a huge trauma in the heart of this girl.

She doesn't trust anyone anymore, and silence is her only right against this sinful world.

Seeing the girl crying, the mother instantly cried too.

"Boss! I want this girl! The mother stood up, wiped away her tears, and cried out with determination.

"Madame, good eyesight! The young daughter of King Ronglu! Authentic and superior goods! ”

When the traffickers saw that business came to their door, they hurriedly trotted over and laughed.

"But the price is not cheap, at least this amount!" The trafficker smiled flatteringly, and mysteriously held out a finger.

"One hundred gold, I also bought it from the officer of Wangcheng at a great price!"

"100 gold, 100 gold, I'll take the child away now, I'll go back and let the housekeeper send the money!"

My mother looked at the trafficker's face in disgust and replied, "I can't stay here for a moment."

"Madame, buy me! Madame take me away! ”

The screams of the conscious slaves almost broke me, and the suffering of the hell was nothing more than that.

I'm definitely going to have nightmares for the next few days.

"Good madam, deal! Mrs. Khotan, a good person, this girl is finally out of the sea of suffering! The trafficker finally said a human word.

In the troubled times, in fact, if he doesn't do this kind of business, there will be others who will do it, and with such a channel, those "loot" still have a way to live.

Otherwise, these poor captives are really dead.

Since leaving the square and boarding the carriage, my mother has been holding this girl tightly in her arms, and she can't stop crying.

It's like her own flesh and blood who have been lost for many years and finally returned after suffering a lot.

The little girl hugged her mother's neck so softly and fell asleep sweetly.

A few days later, while my grandfather and grandfather were resting in the "Qingfengze" caravan, my mother hosted a banquet for all the relatives in Khotan to celebrate the rebirth of her daughter.

also according to the customs of the people of Wangcheng, she was given a very beautiful official name, called: Gulando.

Since then, I have had a lovely little girl named Gulando.