Twenty-four: Artie
The round-faced woman raised her hand to stop them, and made a gesture to invite Liu Danru into the tent.
The dome is supported by birch shelves, and the top is high and low, so it does not look cramped. In the tent, the couch is fully furnished, and it is covered with good beast skin felt. There is a stove in one corner of the tent, and there is a gas window on the top of the tent. There was even a roasted sheep cheese on the case, and it was not particularly slack, but Liu Danru had lived in the Han family for a long time, and he couldn't get used to these felt Qiu Zhong cheese at first glance, so he was sad, and he turned around and waved his hand to let those Hun maids out, and the round-faced Hun maid smiled slightly, and it was not difficult for her, leading the rest of the Hun women to exit the felt tent.
The curtain fell, Luo Luo and Zhu Zhu turned around, only then did they dare to speak boldly, and asked pitifully, "Princess, do we really want to live here for the rest of our lives until we die of old age?" ”
Liu Danru looked up with tears in her eyes and said with a smile, "Is there any other choice?" Fu looked at the two children in front of him who were only thirteen or fourteen years old, and said pitifully, "I'm a princess who is close to him, so forget it." Pity the two of you, you will never be able to go back to Dahan for the rest of your life. ”
Zhu Zhu Luoluo was relatively crying, and said, "The princess is pitiful, we will accompany the princess." ”
It was just a tent away, and the Huns outside the tent laughed happily, drank hot wine, raced horses, wrestled, celebrated their celebrations, and became a world of its own. In the tent, there are three relatively weeping Han women, who are abandoned by their hometown, but they can't integrate into the new home, and they pity themselves, not knowing how to go through the long future and half of their lives.
The three masters and servants were sad, and suddenly heard a bright and pleasing children's voice outside the dome: "Is this the felt tent of the princess of the Han family?" "Crisp and uplifting, but it is a very authentic Han accent.
An eight- or nine-year-old girl wearing a hood and a snow-white sable coat wrapped in a snow-white sable coat opened the felt curtain and came in, with a gold belt around her waist and deerskin boots on her feet. A look at the face, as if the cold winter tent into the splendor**.
Liu Danru stood up with an "ah". She rarely sees a child who makes people feel bright when her face is not fully grown, and the girl in front of her is still young, can speak Chinese, and is the first person to have good intentions towards her since entering the Xiongnu, and she unconsciously has a good impression.
"My name is Timirona." The girl smiled and introduced, "It's the ninth daughter of Sun Wuhan, the king of Zuogu Li, and my brother is Dadanghu Qu Yuan, you can call me Arti." ”
"Artie," Liu Danru shouted blankly as she meant, thought about it and said, "My name is Liu Danru, it's ......"
"I know you're the princess of the Han family, who came to kiss her." Timilona opened her mouth to cut off, and seeing that she had an innocent look on her face, she walked around her chair and suddenly leaned closer, "The princess can't do this." There are also two ** clans in the tent, Ci'e and Zha Hua, if you look soft, you will definitely be suppressed to death by them. ”
Liu Danru sneered, "Even if I am strong, can I have a good life?" ”
Timilona was silent, sitting cross-legged beside Liu Danru, "Then life will be better." ”
Liu Danru smiled slightly, took her hand, and felt a little warm in her heart, "Thank you, you are willing to come and talk to me, those Hun women in this tent can't speak Chinese, I am here alone, very sad." ”
Timirona looked at her strangely for a while, and finally said, "We Huns are more or less able to speak Chinese. ”
Liu Danru's heart sank, if this is the case, then either the Xiongnu nobles told the slaves and maids to be embarrassed by themselves, or the Huns generally rejected themselves and refused to accept a foreign princess. - And either of these two situations is extremely detrimental to oneself.
"Artie," Liu Danru asked her, "why would you like to come and visit me?" "If all the Huns don't welcome him, why is this girl named Arti willing to visit him openly?
Timirona jumped down from the chair and saw a roll of bamboo slips beside Liu Danru, so she took it over and looked at it, raised her eyebrows and asked,
"You watch "Left Biography"?" Timilona asked as she picked up the bamboo slip next to her pillow and raised her eyebrows.
Liu Danru was greatly stunned, although Timirona just told herself that most Huns could speak some Chinese, but the Chinese accent of this nine-year-old Xiongnu aristocratic girl was extremely authentic, as if the official dialect of Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty, was born and raised, and this is okay, she is actually literate.
You must know that even in the territory of the Han Dynasty, not every aristocratic woman is literate.
"Shh," Timilona made a silencing gesture and smiled mischievously, "this is my secret." Her eyes were as bright as the morning star in the night sky of the prairie, "Even my elder brother doesn't know that I know Chinese characters, since you know, you have to protect it for me." ”
She nodded wordlessly.
"There's no why, I just come here if I want to." Timirona casually threw the bamboo slip back on the couch, and jumped back on the couch to sit cross-legged, "I'm not from the royal court, and the meaning of the Ci Eyan clan has no effect on me. I want to see what the princess of the Han family looks like. ”
She raised her cheeks and looked at Liu Danru and said, "Princess Xuping, you are very beautiful." ”
Liu Danru's face turned slightly red in an instant.
This kind of weak Han woman's style, I don't know if Mao Dunshan likes it or not. Timirona sighed slightly, although she could release her kindness to the greatest extent, but this could not help the poor woman in the slightest.
She poured a bowl of cheese, pulled out a small dagger and cut off a piece of roasted meat, pushed it in front of Liu Danru, and said with a smile, "The princess has been walking for so long, she is hungry." Try the food of the Huns. ”
Liu Danru nodded, took a sip of the cheese, the cheese was fishy, she frowned unconsciously, reluctantly put it down, looked at the rough roasted meat, and lost her appetite. He asked Timilona, "Does Artie know what kind of person is this?" ”
"Mao Dun Shan Yu?" Timilona frowned and said embarrassedly, "I only came out with my father and brother to see the big scene this year, and I have never seen a few sides in total. I think he should be a hero. He was heroic, wise, decisive, but also ruthless. Others, I won't know more either. ”
Liu Danru was slightly disappointed, and wanted to ask again, but suddenly heard the respectful worship of the Hun maid outside the tent, and Timirona's face in front of him changed slightly in an instant, and was about to ask what's wrong, the felt curtain of the dome was lifted again, and a voice was uninhibited and heroic, "Yan Shi wants to know about me, why don't you come and ask me in person?" The man standing under the curtain was dressed in black, with a ring of black fur trim around the collar and cuffs. His stature did not seem to be taller than that of an ordinary Hun man, but when he stood there, it was like an impassable mountain.
Mao Dun's pair of dark and sharp eyes probed and scrutinized Liu Danru, and finally fixed on the delicate Timirona.
Timilona jumped up, put her right hand on her chest, and bowed, "Artie has seen Shan Yu. ”
Mao Dun smiled at Timilona and tapped the fingers of his right hand on the gold belt around his waist, "Timilona of the Subu family?" ”
"Yes." Timirona didn't dare to look up because of his staring, and reluctantly smiled, "Artie is curious about the appearance of the new clan, so she sneaked over to take a look, and I hope that Shan Yu will not be surprised." ”
"Why should I be surprised?" Mao Dun glanced at Liu Danru with a smile, "The beauty of the new Yan family is my blessing." I can't bear to sneak over and take a look, why do I blame you? ”
Liu Danru stood aside, his face snow-white. Mao Dun Shan Yu and Timirona spoke both Xiongnu dialect, she couldn't understand a word, only vaguely heard the word Yan, and her heart was shocked. Suddenly, Mao suddenly turned to Chinese and said, "This kid is racing horses outside, this kid is not self-sufficient, and he has gone to challenge your brother, do you want to go and see it?" ”
Timilona knew that this was Maudun's eviction order, and smiled and rejoiced, "Naturally, I am going, although the prince of Ji Congee is young, he has great ambition, there is a tiger father without a dog, but Artie doesn't dare to guess who wins!" ”