Chapter 525: Goguryeo Concubine
In the eyes of Captain Xiaohei, this Goguryeo woman seemed a little cowering, she stood in front of the table in a restrained manner, hunched over her back, and her eyes looked around from time to time, as if the Sui people around her were all man-eating tigers, and her hands kept rubbing her clothes and feet.
But this woman is very young, and she looks like she should have been the daughter of a powerful family before, with fair skin, clear eyebrows, and although there is fear in her eyes, she is not that kind of foolishness.
"Let me ask you, what's your name?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, looked up at Xiao Hei, but did not dare to speak.
"Hurry up and translate." Xiao Hei said to a Goguryeo next to him, that Goguryeo man used to be a businessman and knew Chinese, so he hurriedly translated Xiao Hei's words to the woman.
"My name is Matsusen." The woman whispered.
"Songquan, don't you have a surname?"
"The surname is Matsunazumi." The translator explains on the side.
In Goguryeo, it is already good to be able to have a surname, at least it is a common family. Goguryeo was founded by the prince of the Buyeo tribe, Jumong, who went south and has lasted for 700 years. In the earliest days, many people in Goguryeo had no surnames but only names.
Or simply take the tribal name as a surname.
Later, the king and nobles gave a large number of surnames to their subordinates, so gradually the Goguryeo people also had surnames, but Goguryeo was a tribal system in the early days, and later although it learned the culture and system of the Central Plains and became a half-farming and half-pastoral country, there were still many customs of the tribe, such as having a large number of slaves.
Most of the slaves did not have surnames.
There are also many surnames of the Goguryeo people, the royal family surname Gao, in addition to Song, Quan, Cang, Zou, Luo, Yu, Ke, Yuan and many other surnames, there are also many compound surnames, such as Shao Room, Da Muru, Zhong Mur, etc., in addition to many Han surnames such as Li, Huang, Zhou, Sun, etc., most of these surnames are of former Han descent.
This woman's surname is Song, Mingquan, and she is considered an authentic Goguryeo.
Xiao Hei asked some more, and the woman answered honestly, this woman's family used to be a landlord in Xincheng, with hundreds of acres of land, more than a dozen slaves, and a few herds of cattle and sheep, and her life was okay. His family is also quite large, with five brothers, seven sisters, and his father has six wives and concubines.
This is the youngest daughter of the family, sixteen years old this year, unmarried, originally engaged to the son of a landlord in Xincheng, but before they got married, Xincheng was broken, and their family became slaves.
The family's cattle and sheep, fields, and slaves were confiscated by the Sui army, and even their family became captive slaves.
Now she and her two widowed sisters-in-law have been proposed from the Sui people, saying that they want to let them go on a blind date with the Sui army, and they will marry them to the Sui army as concubines.
Songquan didn't want to, but as a captive slave, they had no choice.
Blackie asks Matsuquan to look up, asks her to open her mouth, and then examines her teeth.
Her teeth were found to be good, straight, not missing, and white.
She is not bad, although she has not done any physical work, she is not as strong as the daughter-in-law he married in Zhangqiu's hometown in Qi County, but she does have the kind of temperament that a country mother-in-law does not have.
"You were in the prisoner camp, didn't you learn half a word of Chinese?" Xiao Hei asked.
He is more concerned about this, if he really wants to take this woman as a concubine, then he can't keep talking about it in the future.
"A little." The woman was busy, in the prisoner camp, the Sui army asked them to learn Chinese, they learned a little bit every day, although they learned slowly, but they could understand most of the words, and even could say some simple words.
Xiao Hei asked her to say a few words, and she stammered, but fortunately, she did say a little.
This made Xiao Hei very satisfied, and he said to a clerk next to him, "This woman is good." The clerk smiled and said, "That's natural, you are a school captain, and the good ones will definitely give you priority, this woman used to be in Goguryeo, which is equivalent to the daughter of our landlord family in the Central Plains." ”
"Okay, I'll want her."
So the clerk smiled and congratulated Xiao Hei, asked him to sign a few documents, and called Na Songquan again, asked her to press her handprint, and called her father and brothers.
"Congratulations, Miss Songquan has won the favor of our Captain Liu Heifu, from now on, Miss Songquan is the concubine of Captain Heifu, and you have also become a glorious family member of the Sui Army."
As a family member of the garrison, there are also many benefits, such as the Songquan family originally worked in the prisoner camp, worked every day, and then recorded the work points, and finally gave rations based on the work points.
And now, after becoming military dependents of the army, they are able to leave the prisoner camp.
Xiao Hei was a lieutenant, and he first divided 100 acres of land, plus Xuntian, and also divided 200 acres. These 300 acres of land, Xiao Hei naturally has no time to cultivate, and his family has also purchased some fields, which are planted by his wife and younger siblings.
Now the land allocated here can be given to the cultivation of his fathers and brothers who are the concubines of Xinna, who are considered tenants of Xiao Hei. Half of the harvest of the field belongs to Xiao Hei, which is considered a tenant, and the other half belongs to them. But they have to pay 20% for rent, and the remaining 30% is their own.
Although in the end only 30% of the harvest was obtained, it was much better than the current prisoner camp, where labor could only obtain a small amount of rations, and there would be no private property at all.
Of course, after Xiao Hei married Song Quan, he also had the obligation and responsibility to supervise Song Quan's family, and if they ran away or made trouble, Xiao Hei was responsible.
Xiao Hei bowed to Songquan's father, a thin old man with a goatee, this old man was originally a fat man, but he spent more than a year in the captive camp, and now he has become a thin old man, at this time he can't find the slightest bit of Goguryeo landlord's state, facing the son-in-law of the Sui military academy, extremely respectful.
"Our Central Plains is a country of etiquette, and I will not treat you badly if we take your daughter as a concubine. So I will give you a horse, and ten silks as a gift. ”
Xiao Hei was very satisfied with Songquan, so he deliberately gave a generous gift.
When Matsuizumi's father, Matsuba, heard this, his eyes lit up.
He turned around and went back, and then pushed two Goguryeo women in their twenties over, and even made gestures.
It turned out that he was saying that he would marry the widows left by his two dead sons to Xiao Hei as well.
"No, no, no." Xiao Hei shook his hand again and again.
The clerk over there smiled and said, "Captain Liu, you are a captain, and it's not too much for one person to take three." ”
"One is enough, one is enough." Xiao Hei said again and again.
"According to Luo Shuai's regulations, ordinary government soldiers can accept one concubine, team leaders can accept two concubines, school captains can accept three concubines, partial generals can accept four concubines, and all commanders can accept five concubines, and you will not violate the rules by accepting three concubines."
"Forget it, one is enough."
"Fat water doesn't flow into outsiders' fields, this family follows you, how neat." The clerk still laughed.
"How inappropriate this is."
"What's inappropriate, don't want any bride price for Goguryeo concubines, and the gift is also as you like, how much is arbitrary. Don't you have two more concubines, don't you have two more people who work, not to mention, you can also warm the bed and fold the quilt, cook and wash when you are on vacation. You don't want this good thing, such two young Goguryeo women in Donglai Renma City, one is worth at least ten yuan, if it is in Luoyang or Daxing, it can be worth at least fifteen to twenty yuan, which is a big bargain. ”
Xiao Hei listened and slowly moved his heart.
"I've written it down for you here, and the three women of the Song family are all yours."