Twenty-five: Listen to accounts
Mao Dun laughed, "Artie has a very sweet mouth. Then he instructed Zhu Zhu Luoluo, "Go out too." ”
Timirona came out of the tent and looked up at the sky, the sky of the steppe was high and clear, and the white clouds were pleasant, which was her favorite place. "I'll go first!" She turned back to Zhu Zhuluo and said, "You two will learn the Xiongnu language well, and pay more attention in the future, so that you can help your Yan clan." ”
Zhu Zhu Luoluo nodded timidly.
Timirona wanted to say a few more words, but suddenly heard Liu Danru exclaim in the account, "Shan Yu, I haven't done the kiss yet, you can't treat me like this, please respect yourself." ”
Mao Dun chuckled at her, "So what? Then there was the sound of the cloth tearing, "This is my account, and since you have entered the account, you are already my woman, and I can do whatever I like." Don't bother me with that set of etiquette of your Han family. ”
Timirona's face turned pale for a while when she heard this, no matter how innocent she was, she could guess what was happening in the tent, swallowing her sympathy for Liu Danru's adrift fate, Timirona turned around to leave-this was not something she could get involved in, she had to stay away.
Zhu Zhu and Luo Luo's faces turned pale, they climbed Timilona, and begged with tears, "Lady Ati, can you save our princess?" ”
"What are you kidding," Timilona was amused by them, "how can I save her?" ”
She relied on the power of her father, King Zuo Guli, and dared not to take the words of the Ci Eqian clan to heart, and ran to visit Liu Danru; But this does not mean that she dares to defy Mao Dun's authority on the grassland and save people from his tiger's mouth, not to mention that "this is Shan Yu's family matter," although it is indeed too much for Liu Danru, but in the eyes of others, Mao Dun is not at fault.
Zhu Zhu and Luo Luo may finally realize that they are powerless, no longer speak, but just clasp Timilona tightly with both hands, as if this can draw some strength, Timilona is young and short, and she can't break free for a while, she raised her eyebrows and was about to get angry, suddenly looked up at the pale faces and tearful eyes of the two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, and suddenly her heart softened slightly.
We admire heroes, but we can't avoid seeing the blood of countless people under the hero's success. And is everything the hero does right? Does a hero have the right to hurt others with impunity?
Timirona stood there, and heard the desperate cry of the Han girl who was as quiet and soft as a black lotus in the moonlight, and her face turned blue and white, changing like a horse's lamp.
The cry in the tent suddenly rose up, and then gradually weakened, so the man's heavy wheezing ** voice stood out, ** and cruel desolation. The girl's cry is like a cat trapped in a cage for others to play, and finally resigned to her fate, wandering and weak.
Zhu Zhu let out a low cry, relaxed his hand to catch her, squatted down, covered his face and cried bitterly.
Along the way, they were abandoned by their families, abandoned by their homeland, abandoned by Han envoys, and finally, even the princess who was regarded as the master was bullied, and she had ,...... Already...... I can't find anything to hold onto.
Timilona looked at her desolately, and suddenly remembered that half a year ago, she woke up from her illness, and all she saw was strange, and she didn't know what to do.
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I don't know how long it took, but I came out of the tent with a lazy and relaxed expression, and a drop of sweat fell from my slightly damp hair and fell into the neckline of the slightly open robe. Seeing that Timirona was still standing outside the tent, she was slightly surprised, and her eyes swept over her bruised left wrist, and the right wrist that Luo Luo held tightly, and snorted.
Timirona's face turned pale and she tried to find a place to hide, but there was nowhere to hide, so she stood there and pursed her lips. His gaze swirled, and finally landed on the golden rhino (with hook) around his waist, and the beast's head was hideous and cold.
Mao Dun stared at her for a moment, as if for a moment, and as if for a long time, smiled, and turned to the place where the Huns had gathered.
Timilona was sweating heavily and relieved, and heard Zhu Zhu Luoluo shouting in the tent behind her, "Princess, what's wrong with you?" The voice cried, very sad, hesitated for a moment, and stood at the mouth of the tent and looked out.
Liu Danru was lying on the felt couch, his face was pale, his expression was stunned, and he only looked at the dome in a daze, motionless, as if he was dead. The black embroidered skirt on her body had been torn to pieces, revealing countless bare skin and purple kiss marks, her legs could not be closed, and they were slightly open, and there was a touch of blood on the white fur between them, and her eyes were dark and piercing.
The black lotus, which bloomed quietly under the moonlight, was finally broken by the storm, and there was no more beauty, only a mess of flowers and branches.
Timilona stood with her eyes downcast.
The round-faced Hun maid Shan Li entered the tent, and when she saw this tragic scene, she couldn't help but show a sympathetic look in her eyes, and said in Chinese, "Okay, don't you two girls do anything else except cry around the Yan family?" I don't pick up for the Yan family. Although the voice has an awkward Hun tone, it is extremely smooth.
Luo Luo raised his head and stared at her angrily, "I don't want you to be pretending to be kind." ”
A trace of annoyance flashed in Shan Li's eyes, and he sneered and clasped his hands and stopped talking.
The Xiongnu boy Attu, who had just led Liu Danru to the vault, came to the tent and said in a loud voice, "Shan Yu has ordered, and the kiss ceremony will be held in half an hour, please get ready and go to the field." ”
Luo Luo jumped up and screamed, "My princess is like this, can you go to that Rausch and kiss ceremony?" You deceive people too much. Zhu Zhu's eyes also flashed with grief and indignation.
Seeing that something was wrong, Timilona hurriedly stopped, "You go back and tell Shan Yu, the Yan family must be dressed up to attend." ”
"Lady Ati," Lolo stomped her foot, extremely dissatisfied.
"Do you want to kill your princess?" Timilona said in a stern voice.
She turned around and instructed Shan Li, "Go and serve the Yan family to freshen up." ”
Shan Li responded, stepped forward to help Liu Danru, and the moment he touched Liu Danru's skin, Liu Danru shrank, shook his head and said softly, "Let Zhu Zhu Luoluo serve me." ”
Timilona stroked her forehead and celebrated, finally she hadn't lost her brain.
You must know that even if she is a real Han princess, since she has come to the Xiongnu grassland, she has to learn to read people's faces.
"Then Shan Li, you take someone to boil hot water." Timirona instructed, "I don't care what the Ci'e clan has told you, but the kiss is the face of the Huns and the Han Dynasty, and there must be no mistakes." ”
Shan Li nodded, lifted the curtain and went out to summon people. There was a fire in the stove in the tent, and after a while, the water boiled and poured into the copper basin, Luo Luo soaked the veil, wrenched it dry, and gently wiped it for Liu Danru with tears, when the heat touched the skin, Liu Danru shook it, pursed his lips and did not refuse again.
Timirona also pursed her lips and looked at her, and suddenly had a strange thought: the quiet and weak black lotus was broken by the storm, and there were only two ways waiting for her, ** into a beautiful demon lotus, breaking the tranquility of others; Or quietly withering and withering, and finally dying quietly.
Which path will Liu Danru choose?
The hot and humid towel wiped away Liu Danru's embarrassment, and Zhu Zhu waited for her to change into another prepared red shirt, a six-panel long skirt in crimson, lively and festive like a beautiful peony flower, and the pale face against the background was also a little ruddy.
"Atie," Liu Danru turned her head and smiled, "Do you think I'm so beautiful?" ”
Timirona nodded involuntarily, a woman's beauty is a very abstract thing, Liu Danru was a beauty before and after Mao Dun came and left, but her beauty has changed in essence, if Liu Danru's beauty in the past lies in a clean and quiet temperament, then now her beauty is a kind of bewitching and stunning from the bones.
Although they are all beautiful, in Timilona's opinion, the current Liu Danru can capture men's eyes and hearts more.
A woman is a very resilient animal, and if you force her to the point where there is no way back, she will have to find a new way to live.
Timirona knew that Liu Danru had to choose the way forward.
"The redness and swelling of your neck is too conspicuous." Timilona frowned, thought for a moment, and untied the white fox fur from her neck and wrapped it around her neck for her.
"That's fine." She stepped back and looked.
The strange contrasting colors of snow white and red are reconciled to create a fierce, contradictory but beautiful.
"Hmm." Liu Danru didn't look in the mirror, she didn't need to look at the face in the mirror anymore, "Artie, I will remember how good you are to me." She said, shaking Timilona's hand and smiling, "I have to go...... I hope to see you more often in the future. ”
She got up and bent out of the vault, pretending not to feel the pain in her lower body, no longer caring about the admiration or disdain of the Huns who had fallen on her, and walked with her head held high and walked towards the high platform of Dragon City.
Timirona looked at her back blankly, only to feel that in the crowd, she was dressed in red like a red cloud floating on it, with an elegant gait and a smile on her face. Under the dignified beauty, no one can know, her every step is like stepping on a sharp blade, dripping with blood.
She looked at it for a moment and shed a tear. However, the tears fell in the wind of the prairie, so she did not feel it, and turned back to walk where she had come, and the strong wind of the prairie blew on her body in May, and she suddenly took off her shoulder girdle and felt cold, and sneezed in the wind.
"Atiati, you're finally here." A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl of the same clan wore colorful ornaments on her head, fragrant and brilliant, and said happily, "Qu Plover has won the first place in the horse race, and is looking for you everywhere." ”
On the racecourse, the eight-year-old Ji Congee fell on his horse in frustration and hammered his mount to thunder. Ben Lei raised his hooves and neighed, and the men and horses were united and barked in the direction of the canal plover.
"Next time, next time I'll definitely win you." Ji Porridge hated and hated.
Qu Plover held the prize of the horse race, a snow wolf that had not yet been weaned, frowned and smiled, "Boy, let's talk about it when your hair grows." ”
He saw Timilona coming from a distance, and called out with great joy, "Artie," drove the horse to meet her, and threw the wolf cub in his hand into her arms, "This year's Marseille organizer is really wrong, such a wolf cub can't eat a bite, and it's not enough to make a fur fur after peeling the skin, what are you going to do?" I also made a prize, and I was not in the mood to fight a horse when I looked at it. ”
Timilona hurriedly hugged the white wolf and glared at him fiercely, "Do you know that if you eat and wear, you won't take care of it?" ”
"I still need food to keep it," Qu Yuan sneered, holding the reins of the horse in his right hand and his sister in his left hand, "I heard that the peace ceremony is about to begin, let's go and have a look." Turning around, he accidentally bumped into Ji Congee who was standing in place, and was startled, "Your Royal Highness the Little Prince, what's wrong with you?" Is it stupid here? He opened his big palm and shook it in front of Ji Congee.
Ji Congee waved his hand away, staring at Timirona, his eyes were reluctant to blink, he had seen a lot of his father's beautiful concubines, even his dead mother, I heard that she was also a stunning beauty, but she had never seen such a beautiful girl, and he was the same age, as if the snow on Qilian Mountain, clear; It seems to be the rising red sun, proud and gorgeous.
"Ahh
"Do you have a cold?" Only then did the qu qu find out, "Where are your girdles?" ”
"Gave it away." Timilona muttered, "It's fine. ”
Qu Yu took off his upper clothes and draped them on Timilona, frowning slightly,
His pleated garment was too long for Timilona, and he had to be pleated when he fell to the ground.
"Put on my clothes." Ji Congee hurriedly took off the sable folds on his body and handed them over.
The brother and sister glared at him strangely, speechless, and finally the Gully picked up Timilona and sat on top of his mount, so his wide folds of gray flutter swayed at Timilona's feet, "Let's go." Qu Yu looked up to heaven and led the horse and his sister on the horse's back to the nave where the peace salute was about to be held.
Ji Congee instigated Ben Lei to walk with Timilona. "Your name is Artie, and you are the daughter of the king of Zuoguli?"
Timirona hugged the white wolf in her hand, she couldn't put it down, and when she heard the words, she raised her head, and the eyes of one person and one wolf were smart and sensitive, "Hmm." Timilona nodded with a grimace.
Ji Congee was overjoyed, and said softly, "You wolf is too small, Ming'er, I will go to the Tianshan Mountain to hunt a wolf for you, peel the skin and redo the strip to send you off, okay?" ”
"Prince Xie Ji Congee is kind." Timilona said stiffly, "The prince's hunted wolf skin, Arti can't afford to take it." ”
Qu Yu turned his head, glared at Ji Congee fiercely, turned over his horse, hugged Timirona and said, "Prince Ji Congee, Qu Yu went to see your father marry the new Yan clan." Artie, sit tight. As soon as he pulled the reins of the horse, the horse under the seat, although he was carrying two people, rushed out like an arrow and galloped towards the high platform in the center of Dragon City.
Longcheng is the place where the Xiongnu sacrifice their ancestors every year, the head of the man is a city in the people, five hundred people a day, imitate the Qin palace and build, two years old is already. The city is divided into inside and outside, the inner city wall is made of earth, and the center is the central hall, which is held in the main hall for ancestor worship and major celebrations.
Timirona watched Liu Danru go up the steps step by step from afar and walked towards Mao Dun Shan Yu on the high platform. When Mao Dunshan Yu took her hand, Timirona clearly felt Liu Danru tremble slightly, but she quickly controlled it, turned around, and smiled at the Huns.
So many Huns cheered in unison, and the master of ceremonies sang loudly, blessing Shan Yu and the Yan family to extend their children, and the longevity test Tianqi. And according to the intentions, the canonization of the new Yan clan is Jing.
Mao Dun seemed to find it interesting in the song, and glanced sideways at Liu Danru, who was still smiling.
Timilona couldn't bear to look at it anymore.
After the peace ceremony, Mao Dun and Liu Jing signed the Han-Hungarian contract, stipulating that the two countries are brotherly countries, and the Han will give the Xiongnu a fixed number of tillers every year. The two sides are bounded by the Great Wall and do not invade each other.
That night, Timirona fell ill with a cold and developed a high fever.
Qu Yu was very worried and left her to recuperate in Dragon City. Timirona was weak, but she shook her head and insisted on returning to Xiongqu with her father, Sun Wuhan, the king of Zuoguli.
"That girl of yours went back?" On the third day, Mao Dun came out of the newly sealed tent of the Jing Yan clan, saw Qu Yuan, and asked him.
"Hmm." Qu Yu nodded, puzzled, "When I came, Timirona also promised to go to the royal court with me, but now she is desperate to go home, I really don't know what he thinks." ”
Mao Dun smiled slightly, and said unconcernedly, "Maybe the little girl misses her grandmother." ”
"Speaking of which, your sister is also very good, but she went to my Dragon City for a trip, and she didn't stay for three days, and she already kidnapped the hearts of my sons and sons."
Qu Yu laughed, very proud, and asked again, "Speaking of which, how is that princess of the Han family?" ”
Mao Dun's eyes were also dyed with a kind of bloody smile when the jackal saw it, and said meaningfully, "I can't put it down." ”