Chapter 8: Plugging the Smoke and Dust
Through the death of King Wei, the Central Plains fell into a dark war again, and it seemed that all the peace was hidden in all the unknowns.
At the same time, in the grasslands of the north, a struggle for survival has slowly unfolded.
The great green mountains lie across the grasslands, and the great rivers flow through its southern foothills, and the plains formed by the impact are rich in water and grass, and the channels are vertical and horizontal, which are not only suitable for farming, but also suitable for grazing. At the foot of Daqing Mountain, thousands of miles of grassland, it is the warmest hometown of grassland people.
The girl ran out of the tent, carrying a copper basin, and ran quickly and lightly to the river, and was about to draw water, when she saw her own shadow in the reflection of the river, and her face was still a little bruised, she picked up a puddle of water and splashed it on her face. The icy river made her feel numb in an instant. So, she picked up a puddle of water again and was about to splash it on her face, but she heard someone behind her scolding: "Zhuoka, what are you doing? ”
The little girl shuddered, looked back at the fierce old woman, and remembered the bruises on her face, so she didn't dare to slow down any longer, picked up the copper basin and ran to the tent not far away.
Zhuoka carefully picked up the basin of water, knelt there, raised it above her head, the old woman stared at him fiercely, put the hand towel in the basin and washed it twice, fished it out, wrung it out, and handed it to the beautiful woman next to the bronze mirror, the woman lazily took the towel, just wiped it twice, the beautiful eyebrows condensed, took it down and looked, there were two grains of river sand.
"Humph!" The woman turned around, put a foot on Zhuoka's body, and scolded: "Do you know, I am the king's favorite clan, if I cut my face, it will not be a pity to kill you!" ”
Zoka lay there, letting the cold river water pour on his thin clothes, and some of his exposed delicate skin, some of which had cracked, was now doused with cold water, and it hurt again.
She wasn't Lou Furen, but Lou Nuren went south and took her back from Daidi, when she was only eleven years old, her parents died in Lou Fanren's camp, and her younger brother also starved to death, because Lou Nuren let these slaves sleep outside the cattle and sheep shed no matter how cold or cold, and they couldn't eat for a few days. The men were a little better, some were taken to feed the horses and graze, and they had to give something after all, but the women were not good, the younger ones were dragged to serve the Yan clan and the second place, and the older ones went to serve the livestock, and those who were sick were pulled away, and they were never seen again. Zhuoka saw it with his own eyes, another old grandmother from Zhao Kingdom, who was sick and was pulled away by a group of people, and didn't see her come back, but when Zhuoka went to the river to fetch water, he saw a bamboo hairpin that the old grandmother was carrying, with blood on it.
Later, she was favored by this Yan clan and asked her to go over to serve her daily life, and the slaves in the Central Plains were very envious of her, because it meant that she could not live in the cattle and sheep shed, and could stay in the big tent of the Yan clan, although it was rare to sleep well at night, but it was much better than staying outside in the wind and snow.
This Yan is the favorite woman of King Lou Fu. King Lou Fu has more than a dozen Yan clans, distributed in different places, in this territory, as long as the woman he likes, they will become Yan clans. Once, Lou Fu Wang saw Zhuo Ka, a terrible smile at her, Zhuo Ka was shocked, and his strength was not big, Lou Fu Wang had already torn her thin clothes, and the thick stubble kept kissing her, she struggled, and couldn't struggle, in a hurry, her hand seemed to have groped for something, she couldn't think about it anymore, picked up the thing and smashed it towards Lou Fu Wang.
King Lou Fu was in pain, roared and let go of his hand, Zhuoka hurriedly escaped from the tent, the people in the camp saw it, but no one dared to step forward to stop it, the surrounding Lou Fu men still kept coaxing and intercepting, Zhuoka pulled her clothes to block her naked body, and ran, she wanted to leave here, this is not her home.
At this time, she bumped into Yan's arms, and Yanshi looked at her, slapped her, knocked her to the ground, and cursed Lou annoying words in her mouth. King Lou Fu chased him out, saw the Yan family, and looked at Zhuo Ka, knowing that he would not be able to succeed today, so he left in a huff.
Zhuoka thought that she could escape the catastrophe, but she didn't expect that from then on, the Yan family would make things even more difficult for her, punching and kicking her if she didn't go well. They called her "Choka", which means "slut". Over time, she couldn't remember what she was called.
"What are you still doing there, get out and fight again." The old woman yelled.
She could only wipe her tears with the back of her muddy hand, and trotted out with the copper basin. She really didn't dare to delay, the king of Lou Fu went out hunting, took most of the soldiers with him, and the Yan clan had to dress up before he returned. At this time, Zhuoka usually hides in the cattle and sheep shed to prevent the king of Lou Fu from seeing him.
Just when she was stirring up the water and carefully looking at the lack of a grain of river sand, suddenly the river surface moved violently, she looked at this strange scene in horror, and suddenly remembered something, and looked into the distance, on the hill, a gray line appeared.
The lines moved faster and faster, more and more magnified in front of her, Zhuo Er just thought it was the king of Lou Fu who came back from hunting, and was about to run back to hide, but as the army got closer and closer, she saw clearly that these people were definitely not Lou Furen.
Although the living habits of the various ethnic groups in the grassland are roughly the same, but due to some of their own characteristics, there are still differences, especially between the tribes and tribes on the grassland, wars break out from time to time, in addition to the totem, clothing is one of the factors to distinguish the ethnic group. For example, the Huns were better at wearing animal skins because they lived farther north, and animal skins were much better at keeping out the cold; Although the Lou annoying and Donghu people are also good at animal skins, but because they are close to the Central Plains, they also like to wear fabrics, and only when it is cold will they wrap animal skins outside, not tightly like the Huns, but only decorate their hats and boots with fur; The Linhu people, on the other hand, mostly have thin-soled fast boots and rarely decorate fur, because they live in the mountains and forests, and although they have animal skins, they don't take them too much to trade with the Central Plains people, and rarely use them themselves.
So when Zoka saw that she was wearing a leather jacket, boots and hat, she knew that it must be a Huns, so she hurriedly threw down the basin and ran to the tribe.
The arrival of the Huns also attracted the attention of others in the tribe. The men took up arms and took up shelter in the bars of the camp and prepared to meet them; The women and the old people began to pack their things, all valuables; The children were all gathered in the middle, dumbfounded, not knowing what was happening.
Zoka ran back to the tent as fast as she could, she had to hide before she could have a chance to live. She has experienced several enemy attacks on the camp, but because Lou Annoying is also very strong in combat, she is naturally fine, but now it is different. Don't want to take the horse and leave, because the other party is also a cavalry, it's hard to say whether you can run away, even if you can, thousands of miles of grassland, you can't find the next place where you can provide food. You might even encounter a pack of wolves. Even if these people are caught, they will be nothing more than slaves of others, just as they would treat others themselves, and they will be treated the same by another master. Living in the grassland, you must believe that the strong is king, this is the rule set by the Immortal Heaven.
The speed of the Huns' horses was not slow, not to mention that the distance from the hill to the camp was not particularly far, I saw them shouting the trumpet, while drawing their bows and arrows, and shooting arrows with a bow, one by one with a whistling sound, forming a rain of arrows, enveloping the camp.
At the edge of the camp, the men raised their shields to cover themselves, and arrows rained down, striking their shields to make a "tuk-tuk" sound. But at this distance, they could not make any moves, it would be unwise to try to return fire with a bow and arrow, they would only be shot as hedgehogs.
When the second wave of arrow rain arrived, Lou Annoying saw that the Huns were in front of him, and immediately took out his throwing spear and threw it at the Huns. This is a calculated distance, almost close at hand, the spear is very accurate to hit the target, the vanguard of the Huns hit, immediately abandoned the shield, took out the copper hammer, machete, and killed them.
At this distance, the bow and arrow had lost its effect, and the Huns did not hesitate to replace the machete and copper-headed hammer, and rode on their horses towards the few annoying people. Gold and iron intersected, and the primitive fight appeared on the grassland of Jingning, and soon there was a smell of blood.
Although the courage of the Lou annoying people is commendable, it still cannot withstand the numerical advantage of the Huns. The king of Lou Fu hunted and took away most of the men and horses, leaving behind only the old, weak, sick and disabled, and some women and children, these Lou Fu soldiers only relied on instinct to fight, and were soon annihilated by the large number of Huns. This is a war of annihilation without suspense, and if there is suspense, the only thing is how many slaves the Huns can get.
Lou Nuren didn't resist at all, and didn't even want to run away, because they couldn't run, and maybe they would be killed by the other party's random arrows. So they remained in the middle of the camp, watching the men fight the enemy, and their task was to wait to be taken over.
The Huns surrounded this group of people, and many of them had already begun to laugh lewdly, because they saw the Yan clan and the other female slaves. Of course, the Yan clan will not belong to them, but the other female slaves still have a share. At least tonight, I can have a good night's comfort.
Zhuoka hid behind the trembling Yan clan, watching a group of Hun soldiers facing this group of old and weak women and children, that gaze was very similar to the king of Lou Fu that day, and the terrifying images of that day seemed to be played back in front of her. A Hun soldier, seeing her hiding behind the Yan clan, jumped off the horse, with a knife in his hand, and walked in front of her, before Zhuoka could react, the Hun soldier pulled her out of the crowd, hugged her in his arms, showed a treacherous gaze, stuck out his tongue, licked her face, from bottom to top, and from top to bottom. Zoka wanted to vomit in disgust, struggling hard, but he couldn't get it away at all.
Zoka kept crying, and the tattered clothes on her body were broken away again, revealing the white skin inside, swaying like a bud in the wind and rain. She struggled more frantically, screamed more frantically, as if to indict why all this nightmare had befallen her. However, the result was futile, and the captured Lou was annoying and looked cold, as if it had nothing to do with him; The surrounding Hun soldiers showed hungry wolf-like eyes one by one, laughing happily, coaxing, and even saying obscene words; Although there was anger in his eyes and trembling, he was afraid that he was only worried about whether he would face such an ending, and if there was still a trace of pity, he just wanted to say: "Who made you a woman?" ”
Just when Zoka was desperate, a sudden rebuke came like a heavenly sound: "Stop! ”
The Huns were obviously afraid of the voice, and even the soldier who had molested Zhuoka stopped, and Zhuoka suddenly fell to the ground as if relieved.
The Huns consciously separated a path, and two horses came together, one sat on a man with a proud expression, and the other sat a woman.
The two jumped off their horses, and the man walked up to Zhuoka, and when he saw her soft and timid appearance, coupled with the occasional spring light, his eyes became like those of the Huns just now. I was just about to grope for a while, but I heard the woman say, "Second brother! ”
The man stopped, looked back at the woman, turned his head, glanced at Zoka again, walked past her, picked up the man, placed him on his horse, and headed for the hill not far away.
Encouraged by him, other Hun soldiers also began to rob people and grab things, and after a while, they were divided up, leaving only those old, weak, sick and disabled, and the Huns scavenged them clean and ended their lives with a knife.
Seeing so many people disappear in front of his eyes, Zhuoka also began to tremble, lest the next moment, he would also be dead here. Suddenly, her body tightened, as if she was being embraced, and the Hun soldier who had molested her just now picked her up again, put her on her shoulders and walked towards his horse.
"Smack!" Just when he was triumphant, his back suddenly hurt, and he turned around angrily to see who had attacked him, and saw the woman just now walk up to him and slap him in the face.
The soldier did not dare to fight back, so he had to put down the djoka and walk away.
"Are you from the Central Plains?" The woman asked.
A terrified Djoka nodded, fear written all over his face.
"Yan Guoren? Zhao Guoren? ”
Droka nodded.
"Are you from Yan Kingdom? Or Zhao Guoren? ”
"Zhao... Zhao Guo. Zoka said.
As if she had received a satisfactory answer, the woman stretched out her hand, "Get up and follow me." ”
Zoka stood up tremblingly, not knowing what the woman wanted to do?
"What's your name?"
"Zhuo... Choka. ”
The woman frowned, knowing that this was not Zhuoka's real name, but she didn't want to delve into it, so she said, "Qiulin Zhuoer is second. She said, "You can also call me Qiu Linyue." ”
Qiu Linyue: After hibernation for a few months, I finally met you again, and the appearance of the old lady naturally requires a little more words!
(End of chapter)