Chapter 010: Wolf Smoke Spreads
In the big tent, the concubines who drank with their father, except for the eldest concubine who was not in good health and stayed in Dadu, all who could come came.
Bubug, Peony, Gaowa, Heya and its Muge. Qi Muge is Bubuge's own niece.
Speaking of these father's concubines, I can introduce my father's side and what are the people left now.
My father fought for many years and took nearly 30 concubines before and after. Among these concubines, either because of old age and decrepitude, or because of illness, or died in battle with their father, and some were plundered by other tribes, and now only these six concubines are left.
The eldest concubine generally doesn't care about things, and takes care of the affairs of the royal family every day, and has always been in charge of Princess Bubuge, who is the most favored by her father at the moment.
The father had a total of eighteen princes. The eldest prince and the second prince, one died young, and the other died in a long battle. In front of the concubine is the third prince Hada. Although Bubug was favored, he was nowhere to be found.
Concubine Rong is my mother's concubine, who was my father's favorite princess, but because of her weak health, when she gave birth to my sister, the two died together due to dystocia. But I heard rumors in the palace that my mother was killed by Bubuge, and then I was handed over to Bubug to raise for a few years.
So, whether this rumor is true or not, I am still in the dark. My other brothers and brothers died of illness or war, and now I am the only one left.
The mother of the fourth prince, Turigen, is a foreign race, and she has not been heard from in a tribal battle, and her life and death are still uncertain. The fifth, sixth, and seventh princes are my elder brother and younger brother.
The eighth prince Gandiga and the sixteenth prince Huchun are from the peony. The Nine Emperors were my other deceased younger brother. The tenth prince, the eleventh prince's biological mother is Gao Wa, and the twelfth prince's mother is a mystery, according to his father, he was born to his concubine outside, but the palace has never seen the concubine's face, and I don't know her origin.
For so many years, the twelfth brother Doro has been ostracized by other princes. Only I like him, treating him as if he were my own sibling.
The thirteenth brother, Bilig, and the fourteenth brother, Battle, were both born to Heya. The seventeenth brother also died at an early age, and the fifteenth brother Ao Deng and the eighteenth brother Baoyin were born of his wooden grid.
Therefore, in the palace, now everything is still in the hands of Princess Bubug.
Today, although Bubug was drinking with several other concubines, her eyes were focused on her father's body, and she had been secretly observing his father's drinking movements.
At first, his father was engrossed in staring at the beauties in front of him, and the beautiful postures made him look straight in his eyes.
But, after a while, Bubug saw his father begin to cover his head with his hands, as if his head was about to crack.
Just as she was about to get up and walk in front of her father, her father had already fallen down in front of her.
"Great Khan!"
Bubug stepped forward and reached out to help his father.
"What's wrong with you?"
Her eyes searched everywhere.
"Batu, Batu!"
A swarthy-looking Batu walked in from outside the tent, holding a jug of mare's milk wine.
"Where have you been? Sweating profusely and fainting. ”
Bubug's tone was stern, as if he was complaining that Batu had not taken good care of his father.
Several other princesses also stood up and gathered in front of their father.
"Great Khan, what's the matter?"
"I think the sweat was fine just now!"
Everyone is gossiping.
As an attendant and caring person who has followed his father for many years, Batu has always taken care of his father meticulously. When he saw his father fall, he hurriedly knelt beside him and stretched out his hand to hug him.
"What's wrong? Sweat! Sweat! ”
He shook his father's body vigorously, and his father opened his eyes weakly, and pointed vigorously at the outside of the big tent, and Bubug immediately understood what he meant.
"Go and call the Great Wizard!"
With that, he fell into Batu's arms again. Bubug frowned and waved his hand, and the group of dancing women and musicians were so frightened that they hurriedly withdrew from the big tent.
"Qimuge Peony stays, Gao Wa and Ya, you go back first, the situation of the Great Khan has also appeared before, there should be no big problem, not to mention, the Great Wizard is about to come in!"
Gao Wa originally wanted to stay, but seeing Bubug's resolute attitude, she had to give up.
"Then let's go back to our tent first, if there is anything, Bubug will naturally call us over."
She wanted Kazuya to come with her.
"I'll be here, and I'll leave when Da Khan is well."
Heya's eyes were staring at Da Khan, as if she didn't mean to put Bubug in her eyes at all. Bubug saw everything in her eyes, but she did not make a sound, her eyes anxiously looking at the door of the big tent.
Gao Wa also stopped at this moment.
An old sorceress walked in, her face smeared with colorful graphics, a prayer wheel in her hand, and a phoenix feather on her head. Seeing her father's sleepy appearance, she immediately surrounded her father's body and began to dance a sacrificial dance, chanting words in her mouth.
After a while, I saw my father's expression soften slightly. Suddenly, she knelt in front of her father, her eyes looking straight at him, but she didn't say a word in her mouth, she just kept shaking her head.
The father looked at Bubug and the others, and motioned for them to stay away for the time being.
Bubug glanced bitterly at the wizards, then took them with him, and turned away from the tent.
Only the father, Batu, and the sorceress were left in the tent.
"Wizard, you're here!"
The father leaned his body against Batuu's body, and half of his body was supported weakly.
The sorceress nodded, still silent.
"You say me?"
Father glanced at the sorceress, then pointed to himself, and asked her reverently. The sorceress seemed to understand, looked into her father's eyes, and nodded silently.
"The princess hasn't come back yet, she's outside, do you want to call her back?"
The sorceress gave her father a deep look again, and nodded heavily.
"Last time you said that the princess was the queen's order, but the concubine has not been found until now, can I entrust the entire desert to which prince?"
The sorceress shook her head and pointed to the sky.
"Do you say you want to conform to the will of God? In this desert, only the princess was born with the life of a queen, and only the concubine who married the princess had the destiny of the king, to be the king of the grassland, to rule the entire desert, right? So, can't the princess herself rule the desert? ”
The sorceress nodded, then shook her head desperately, and finally smiled.
"However, I heard from the people below, I'm afraid that if I don't wait for the princess to return to Dadu, my throne will be in jeopardy."
The sorceress's eyes stared at her father in a daze, and she did not say anything.
"Witch, if you don't say it, I also know that among these princes, they have been looking forward to letting me establish a prince as soon as possible. But I believe that your prophecy will not go against the will of heaven. Thinking that I have been fighting for so many years, constantly expanding the territory of this desert, now there are thirty-two tribes in the entire desert, with countless treasures and countless horses, cattle and sheep, and now there are still three foreign tribes waiting for me to sweep away, it seems that I can't wait for that day. ”
The father's gloomy expression seemed to have foreseen the time.
The witch put her hands on her chest and shook the prayer wheel quickly.
"You want me to get the princess back sooner, do you?"
The witch nodded.
Father glanced at Batu and said with a serious expression.
"Go and call the Great General Baoli!"
Batu nodded, looking at his father, as if he was worried about his father's body.
Father waved his hand: "Go early, he is outside the big tent, I will wait." ”
Batu carefully put his father's body away, then stood up and walked quickly to the outside of the big tent.