Xin Yi wanted to leave this cage, so he had to find Nong Zhigao.

But the strange thing is that since he said those words in the main hall that day, Nong Zhigao seems to have deliberately avoided her, and has never come to see her again.

Therefore, the only "supreme leader" that Xin Yi could see was Boum.

This woman guards her like a thief, how can she find Nong Zhigao to repay her?

After failing to lobby Boum for the third time, Xin Yi starved himself for a day, and was finally summoned by Nong Zhigao the next night.

He feasted with the nobles of the clan in the side hall of Nantai.

Xin Yi walked in in the sound of music and saw many strangers, but he didn't see Fu Jiuqu.

She was a little worried, but she had to cheer up, pretend to be casual, and walk towards Nong Zhigao.

"Chief Nong."

She spoke softly in a rare voice, Nong Zhigao was a little surprised, and the hand that raised the glass paused, and looked at it with a slight mockery.

"I heard you don't eat for a day?"

Xin Yi hummed.

"Why? My food in Nongzhai is not to your liking? ”

Xin Yi shook his head, "I'm fat, I have to lose it." ”

This answer surprised Nong Zhigao again, his eyes inadvertently swept over her much plumper body than when she came, and the corners of his lips were slightly raised, "You grow more meat, you look good." I used to be so skinny that I didn't even have a place to start. ”

His voice was not small, causing several guests to laugh.

"The king really spoils this Song Ji."

Xin Yi secretly took a breath, saw Nong Zhigao's face with a smile, suppressed the displeasure, and said lightly: "I have something to do with the leader of Nong." ”

Nong Zhigao is not surprised.

If there is nothing to do, how can you ask for it?

He tapped his index finger on the wall of the cup and smiled very lightly and mockingly, "Tell me about it." ”

Xin Yi said: "I want to go to the walled town to see the excitement." ”

Unexpectedly stunned again, Nong Zhigao looked at her with a deep gaze, "Oh? Haven't you always been uninterested? ”

Xin Yi said: "I have never seen the New Year Festival of Nongzhai, and I feel itchy when I hear Boum, so I want to see the world......

"Hahaha." Nong Zhigao likes that she likes the festivals of her own clan, and when she sees her eyes shining, as if she has a curious light, she can't help but smile heartily.

"Go ahead, let Boum accompany you."

Xin Yi's heart was relieved, "Thank you, Chief. ”

Nong Zhigao looked at her impatiently lifting her skirt and was about to leave, and suddenly smiled.

"Come back!"

Xin Yi turned his head to look at him.

Nong Zhigao had a thick smile in his eyes, and raised his chin to signal to the Nong nobles in the hall, "Why don't you give a salute to the Venerable Elders?" ”

Xin Yi was stunned, oh, feeling awkward.

I don't know why, she felt that Nong Zhigao's eyes were a little sticky.

Moreover, she is a hostage, in what capacity does she salute his honorable chief?

She didn't speak, bowed her head slightly to the crowd, and left.

Nong Zhigao didn't blame, and smiled shallowly in his eyes: "Don't be playful, come back before dark." ”

Xin Yi had already walked away, and Hun Xiang didn't hear it.

"Humph!" An elder nobleman suddenly spoke out in displeasure, "The king is too used to her. A Song girl, when she treats each other as a slave, how can she be regarded as a distinguished guest? ”

Someone spoke, and someone followed to express dissatisfaction.

"I heard that she is still Fu Jiuqu's woman, so the king of Guangling County has harmed us like this, why should the king treat her politely?"

Nong Zhigao drank lightly, spread his feet and changed into a comfortable position.

"Not anymore."

Everyone looked puzzled.

Nong Zhigao's voice sank slightly.

"From now on, she will be my woman. Zhigao also hopes that your Holiness will be cautious in your words......"

The side hall fell silent.

Nong Zhigao has always been a man who does his own thing, he can be called heroic, he can also be called arrogant, he calls the Venerable, as if he is a request, but in fact it is a warning, so that they must not be rude to his women.

And this woman is the only woman who can go up to his hall and sit and drink with him.

"The King...... Alas! ”

The eldest of the clans summoned up the courage to persuade him.

"What kind of woman do you want, why do you fall in love with a Song girl? If the Song court refuses to negotiate peace, if the Song court wants to redeem people through peace talks in the future, what should the king do? ”

Nong Zhi raised his eyebrows and drank his glass disappreciatively, only then did he let out a low-pressure sneer.

"Then it depends on Song Ting's sincerity."

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In these days in Nongzhai, Xin Yi often thought about what Fu Jiuqu would look like when she saw him again, what kind of expression she should look at him, and what she should say to him, but when she really got out of the cage-like house and walked up to the busy walled town, she calmed down and stopped thinking nonsense......

It is a place where the customs are very different from those of the Central Plains.

Before going out, Bumm specially dressed up, changed into new clothes, decorated with jewelry, and led his son in a jingling manner, deliberately showing the style of being a housewife in front of Xin Yi.

But when I got into the carriage, I looked at Xin Yi's pale face with little water, there was no jewelry on my body but it was clean and beautiful, and I couldn't help but feel depressed when I didn't say a word.

"Yongchang, Ah Qi (pronounced meh, mother) is not beautiful?"

The son is the heart of the mother.

Yongchang turned his head to look at his mother and nodded.

Then stab a knife.

"Ah Qimei, aunt is more beautiful."

Aunt is a homonym for Xin Yi's name, the child simply does not understand the complexity of the adult world, they are happy to call it that, Xin Yi takes it as an aunt's title and readily accepts it.

These days, she gets along with the children happily, often sees the shadows of the three little ones on them, and secretly asks the children to help her find the lost golden doll......

Although the golden doll was not found, Nong Zhigao was even more furious because of it, but she formed a friendship with the children.

Yongchang praised her very sincerely, but Xin Yi didn't dare to accept it.

After all, this was the first time she had left Nong Zhigao's "castle", and she had to rely on Bumm's kindness to stay outside for a while longer, looking for a chance to see Fu Jiuqu, but she couldn't offend her because of this.

"Yongchang, your beauty's beauty is different from your aunt's."

Since Yongchang was sick last time and was cured by Xin Yi, he has been very affectionate to her, and he stared at her curiously when he heard the sound.

"What's the difference?"

Xin Yi glanced at Boum's displeased face and smiled lightly.

"My aunt is a very ordinary-looking woman in Bianjing City, but your Ah Qi is the most beautiful woman in Nongzhai. What's the difference, you say? ”

Yongchang's eyes widened.

Xin Yi didn't wait for him to speak, and then asked:

"Think about it, have you ever seen someone more beautiful than you in Nongzhai?"

Yongchang shook his head, "No, Ah Qi is the most beautiful." ”

Xin Yile smiled happily and touched his head.

Boum's face also looked much better.

In fact, after getting along for so long, Bum can also see that Xin Yizhi is not in Nong Village, and he is ruthless to Nong Zhigao, but it is just the mind of men, and they can't be influenced as women......

Boum sighed, looking at Xin Yi with kindness for the first time.

"That village is my mother's home."

The Nongren's streets and towns were connected by villages, and there would be mutual exchanges between the villages, but there was a significant difference from the towns of the Great Song Dynasty, because there would be more "bartering" rather than all monetary transactions.

Under the guidance of Bum, Xin Yi watched the bustle in the stockade.

People are buying and selling, preparing items for the New Year.

The goods are placed on the stone platform, and there are a variety of them. There are some merchants who also hang flags like Song Shang, but the words written on them are not recognized, and they look like totems, and the people who come and sell are full of festive smiles on their faces.

There is no shadow of war here.

"When I followed the king, I just turned sixteen......," Bumm's voice was soft and soft, with a little indescribable emotion, telling Xin Yi about the god in her mind.

"The king is the most handsome and heroic man in Nongzhai. The daughters in the village all want to be the king's concubine, and when I saw him for the first time at the age of fourteen, I liked him very much, but I am the daughter of an ordinary family, and I have no chance to serve the king......"

"That day was also a year ago, I took the fox skin hunted by Ah Gong to Shangzhai to sell, and was lightened, and it happened that the king passed by and saved my ......"

"I am sixteen, and the king is seventeen. They all said that I was the king's first woman, and that I would be the most glorious in the future...... In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, and the king gave my mother's gold and silver treasures, and gave my brother official land, but he didn't give me a ...... The name I want. ”

A story of a hero saving the beauty is told by Boom with lingering compassion.

was already secretly promised, and then rescued by Nong Zhigao, and there were ten years of getting along and having children, Boom's attachment and love for Nong Zhigao can be seen.

But as Nong Zhigao's concubine, although she has children, she has the same status as other women, except for being the old man next to Nong Zhigao and having more face, she has not received a reassuring honorific title.

In the past ten years, Nong Zhigao has had many women one after another, but he has never asked her if she is happy, let alone cared about her feelings......

Xin Yi sighed when he heard it, and from time to time he should be with Bum, but his eyes kept watching the streets on both sides......

"You're different." Boom was still saying, "He takes you very seriously, and he probably wants to marry you to be his Yaji and the queen of the Nongren...... Yes! ”

The carriage suddenly jolted, and the bamboo curtain shook and trembled, but as soon as they met, several barbarian youths rushed up with a grin, blocking the way of the carriage, and their mouths were chattering.

Xin Yi didn't understand what they were saying, and saw Boum's face ugly.

At this time, several accompanying guards had already stepped forward, pointing at the young men menacingly, signaling them to retreat, this was the king's carriage.

Unexpectedly, in exchange for their laughter, more people watched.

On the New Year's Festival, according to the rules of the Nong people, they will not quarrel and fight with the clansmen, the guards are angry and scolding, but they are very restrained, and do not draw their knives to kill, but put away their knives and push forward, trying to push a few young people who do not have long eyes off the road......

Who knew that those people seemed to be drunk and drunk, and they even pulled with the king's guards regardless of it.

For a while, chickens flew and dogs jumped, and the scene was very chaotic.

Xin Yi's chest was pounding, and his eyes swept to the man in the crowd in a short kudzu linen robe, with a thin face, his cheeks were so thin that he was sunken, his eyes were very deep and dark, and when he lifted his lips, he was a cold yin owl.

Several youths were still pushing forward frantically.

Except for Xin Yi, no one noticed the strong men with weapons in the crowd who touched the carriage.

Then I saw an ox cart suddenly lose control and crash into the carriage.

There was a burst of screams, one after another.

Boom hugged his son Yongchang in a panic, not seeing Xin Yi tumbling off the carriage with a violent collision......

When the carriage was quiet, Boom turned his head, only to find that Xin Yi was not there, and he was immediately frightened.

"Xinyi?! What about people—"

Boom eagerly lifted the bamboo curtain and looked out at the crowd with wide eyes.

In the distance, a loud sound of horses' hooves galloped away.

She only saw a corner of Xin Yi's dress hunting and flying on her horse.

"Song Nu escaped! Song Nu escaped! Chase! ”