In Tibet, it is an honor to become a monk, and many families with multiple sons choose to send one of their children to a Tibetan temple to serve the Buddha. Dorjee is the second child born in the family.

Dorjee was a genius who could speak several languages and could communicate with the Tang envoys in Chinese. Although he was born in a slave family, he became a guest of honor in an aristocratic family because of his language talent.

Tashi Dundrup was the daughter of a slave owner in Tibet, and although she was a young lady, she was an unpopular young lady, because her mother was from a bad background, and she was brought home by the slave owner because of her beauty. Zhu'er's birth not only did not make her mother more expensive, but because she suffered more unfair treatment. At a young age, he died of depression.

I met Dorjee at a banquet at home.

At that time, Zhu'er's father wanted to marry Zhu'er to another slave owner as a successor. She was sixteen years old, but the slave owner was already fifty-six years old, older than her father. Zhu'er looked at the slave owner from a distance, aggrieved like an overly frightened rabbit.

At that time, Dorjee was already a well-known monk, and he saw Zhu'er's fear, and used his identity to help her resolve the marriage she didn't want.

A sixteen-year-old girl meets a wise and handsome monk, and it seems destined that a new story will happen between the two.

Zhu'er thought about marrying Dorjee.

Dorjee also thought about returning the vulgar for the sake of Zhu'er.

Just because you think about it doesn't mean you have to go back and do it. Although love is beautiful, reality is more important. Dorjee knew very well that if he took off his monk's robe, he would no longer be the respectable monk in the eyes of everyone, but the second son of the slave family. Zhu'er is no longer favored, and it is also a card in her father's hand, and Zhu'er has also inherited her mother's beauty, and his father can exchange Zhu'er's beauty for more benefits. He wouldn't let Pearls marry him anyway.

Just when Zhu'er was bent on eloping with Dorjee, and Dorjee was hesitating, Datang's mission arrived. Because of his excellent language talent, Dorjee was assigned to communicate with the officials of the Tang Dynasty envoy to Tibet, and Li Han was the outsider of the Tang Dynasty Rite Department, who was in charge of docking with Dorjee.

Like Dorjee, Li Han was also a linguistic genius, and he spoke the Tibetan language very well. The two are the same age and can talk together on many things, and Li Han himself is also a person who is obsessed with Buddhism, and he has a lot of common language with Dorjee. When they met together, Zhu'er ran to the camp tent to find Dorjee, but bumped into Li Han in a hurry. Li Han was amazed by Zhu'er's beauty, so he asked Dorjee about her in private. With complicated feelings, Dorjee told Li Han everything about Zhu'er.

What Dorjee didn't expect was that this Li Han was actually a lover, because he liked Zhu'er, so he went to Zhu'er's house, asked Zhu'er's father to marry Zhu'er, and asked the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who went with him at that time to be a matchmaker for him, and presented a large number of precious dowry gifts. Although it is only a side room, it is also a side room for Tang officials, and Zhu'er's father naturally agreed.

When Zhu'er learned of this situation, she also ran to find Dorjee, hoping that Dorjee could take her away. Dorjee refused, he told Zhu'er that Li Han was a man worthy of being entrusted for life, and he had been in and out of Tibet many times, understood Tibetan culture, and could also speak Tubo, and Zhu'er married him much better than following him.

Zhu'er saw that Dorjee had made up her mind, so she obeyed her father's arrangement, followed Li Han back to Luoyang, and became Li Han's side room.

"We Han people pay attention to marrying and obeying their husbands, and in my opinion, this husband does not necessarily have to listen to the husband's words, but when considering things, we should properly consider from the perspective of the husband's family, and consider the emotions and interests of the husband's family." Xing Ruyi looked at the image of Zhu'er who appeared in the shop: "Since you are married to Li Han, you shouldn't meet Dorjee in private. ”

"I don't want to, but I can't help it."

"What do you mean you can't help it? Dorjee is looking for you, if you don't go to see him, you won't have it. As for you, not only did you go to see Dorjee, but you also booked a guest room at Yuelai Inn and met him for a long time. I know that you are from Tubo, and I also know that your customs and customs in Tubo are different from those of our Datang, but Zhu'er, as a wife, you shouldn't do this. ”

"They threatened me with the lives of my father and the whole family, and I can't help but go." Zhu'er said aggrievedly: "Yes, my father is not good to my aunt, and he is not good to me, but after all, he is the father who gave birth to me and raised me." I can't watch them get killed. I went to see Dorjee because I wanted to ask him for help in saving my Abba and my family. ”

"They? Who are they? ”

"It was some of us in Tibet who couldn't see the friendship between the two states, they controlled Dorjee, and asked Dorjee to come to Luoyang to find me, asking me to be their eyes and provide them with the situation in Luoyang City."

"It's not just the situation in Luoyang City."

"Yes, there are other things, but I don't know about them, and I can't provide them. Although my lord is a member of the Ministry of Etiquette, he distinguishes official affairs from private affairs very clearly, and never talks about officialdom at home, and never talks about family affairs when he is in officialdom. In desperation, I could only regard the things I heard as if I had heard them from the mouth of my master, and tell Dorjee, and then Dorjee told those people. I don't know what they're trying to do, but I know it's not a good thing. ”

"Why don't you tell Li Han about these things? He's your husband, and he should have a way to help you solve these problems. ”

"I'm scared."

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid that my husband won't believe me when he finds out, and he will think that the reason why I came back with him in the first place was to make ears and eyes for those people. My grandma was born in an extremely poor family, and because she was good-looking, she was brought home by my father. When I first came to my father's house, I was also pampered, but with my birth, my father's attitude towards my grandmother became worse and worse. I often see my grandma crying, and I ask her, why don't you leave? Since she was crying every day and unhappy every day, why didn't she leave Abba and leave the place that made her sad.

My grandmother said that I was still young, and that I didn't understand the world of adults. She was Abba's wife, though she was only one of his many wives, but she was his man in life and his ghost in death. Unless Abba kicks her out of the house, she won't leave herself. I grew up in that kind of family, and I slowly became like my grandmother. What my grandma worries about is what I will worry about when I grow up. ”

"Is Li Han bad for you?"

"No, husband, he is very good to me. Back then, I came to Luoyang alone with my husband. From Tubo to Luoyang, the road is long, and I am sick almost all the way because I am not accustomed to the water and soil. It was he who took care of me untiringly, treated me with a pleasant face, and cared for me. I never thought that a man could treat a woman with such an attitude. My aunt is also a concubine, and I have suffered a lot of grievances at home, I thought I would be the same as my aunt, but I didn't expect that my sister was very good to me. What to eat, drink, wear, and use at home, my sister will let me pick it first. I was afraid, afraid that my husband would kick me out of the house if he found out, and all the happiness and joy I had all these years would be gone. ”

"Do you have children?" Xing Ruyi asked Zhu'er.

"I have a daughter who looks like me in her eyes, and she looks like her husband in the rest of the place." Speaking of her daughter, Zhu'er showed a smile on her face: "Although it is my daughter, she has been raised by her sister since she was a child." It wasn't my sister who asked for it, I asked for it myself. I was born in Tibet, and many of my living habits and ways of speaking are the habits of the Tibetan people, although I learned to speak Chinese, but I have not learned the real Chinese. My daughter is the daughter of the Ministry of Rites and the daughter of Datang, she should not be my appearance, but her father's appearance and sister's appearance. For her own sake, I begged my sister to keep her in front of me and teach her carefully. ”

"How is your daughter's relationship with you?"

"Very good, she knows that I am the one who gave birth to her, and she will come to accompany me whenever she has free time. My sister is a nice person, and she never thought to embarrass me. Zhu'er said, adding, "It's because they're so good to me that I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'll lose all this." ”

"Have you said these words to Dorjee?"

"I said that at first, he didn't speak, and when we met again, he became very angry, angry, as if I was the one who did something wrong."

"Do you still like Dorjee?"

"I think I like it, but my liking for Dorjee is different from that for my husband and sister. Also, the current Dorjee is not the same as the Dorjee I knew before. At that time, Dorjee was like the moonlight in the sky, transparent, and smiling. The current Dorjee is gloomy and gloomy, like a Buddha enshrined in an ancient temple, a scary Buddha. ”

"What happened that night at the Joy Inn?"

Duo Ji asked me to go with him, saying that he regretted it, and that he shouldn't have let me follow Li Han back to Luoyang in the first place. He also said that over the years, he has saved a lot of money, and with this money, we can live well no matter where we go. ”

"You promised?"

"No, I didn't say yes. I am Li Han's wife and daughter-in-law of the Li family, and my name is recorded on the Li family tree. I can't, and won't leave, with Dorjee. I told him to let him go on his own and stop helping those guys. Tubo is very good and powerful, but compared with the Tang Dynasty, it is still much worse. Those people can't make any waves at all. ”

"And after that?"

"Dorjee forced me, saying that if I didn't leave, I would die in Luoyang with my husband and them. I said, I'd rather die with my husband than leave with him. He got angry and came to pull me, insisting on taking me with him, and in a hurry, I took out the Tibetan knife that I had placed on my body. That knife was given to me when he left Tibet. During the robbery, I inadvertently stabbed myself, and Dorjee was frightened, saying that he was going out to help me find a doctor. I asked him to go, let him leave Luoyang, and told him not to come back to me in the future. I also said that I would not help him anymore and would not do anything for those people anymore. I'm going to tell my husband everything I know. ”

"Dorjee agreed?"

"No, he held me, looked at me for a long time, and held the Tibetan knife that stabbed me in his hand." Zhu'er smiled bitterly: "His eyes are cold, the knife is cold, and the wound on my body is very painful and painful." ”