Chapter 0008 - Concubine

Shi Min didn't know that a conspiracy was quietly coming against him.

At this time, Shi Min was sitting on the Hu chair with a pensive face. In fact, he doesn't like Hu chair very much.

The traditional way of sitting in ancient China was to "kneel and sit", that is, to kneel on a futon or a straw mat, also known as sitting on the opposite seat. Later, probably in the Tang Dynasty, this kneeling method was transmitted to a small island country in the east, and it was continued.

As for this kind of "kneeling sitting", with the prevalence of chairs and benches, it gradually declined in China until it disappeared.

To this day, kneeling is still prevalent among the aristocracy.

At this time, a white-bearded healer was on the edge of the bed on one side, checking the pulse of the little old man who Shi Min had carried back. And Miss Ying'er was wiping her tears on the side, although she had stopped crying, her eyes were still red, like a little rabbit.

After a long time, the doctor got up and said, "General, this person's health is fine. He only suffered a very serious external injury and injured his bones, but he was cured by prescribing a few pairs of drugs and letting him take them internally and externally for a month or two. ”

"Okay." Shi Min bowed slightly, "Ma Liu, take the doctor down to prescribe medicine." ”

Ma Liu was the housekeeper of Shi Min Mansion, but he was in his early thirties, and when he heard this, he immediately made a "please" gesture to the doctor, and then went down to grab the medicine together.

At this time, Miss Ying'er stepped forward to give Shi Min a blessing and said, "Thank you so much." If it weren't for Engong's rescue today, maybe our father and daughter would have died in Huangquan. ”

"That's what I'm supposed to do." Shi Min shook his head and said.

When the road is uneven, draw a knife to help. Shi Min thinks this is what he should do. The three people bullied a father and daughter of the Han family like this, Shi Min must not turn a blind eye to this, and since he saw it, he couldn't sit idly by.

Miss Ying'er hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Engong, you ...... Are you a general of the Zhao court? ”

"Yes. I am Zhao Guo's Zuo Jichu general, Shi Min. ”

"Surname Shi? Engong, are you a child of the royal family of Zhao State? ”

"Definitely."

If you say too much, you will lose, Shi Min doesn't want to reveal more of her personal information in front of this Ying'er girl. Almost everyone who knew that he was the general of the Zhao State and his surname was Shi would ask him if he was a child of the Zhao royal family, and Shi Min was already surprised by this.

Shi Min didn't want to speak, and Miss Ying'er seemed to have a little mustard in her heart, secretly thinking that this young man next to her was a general at a young age, and even the people who patrolled the battalion didn't dare to touch him, even if it wasn't the royal family of Qianzhao, he should be a certain noble child of Qianzhao, otherwise he shouldn't have such power!

However, looking at his appearance, he does not have the eye-catching characteristics of the Qianren, and he rescued him today, it is clear that he is not used to seeing this kind of robbery of people's daughters!

Could it be that this Shi Min is a Han Chinese? Han Chinese generals?

Shi Min seemed to be a little unable to bear the silence, and seemed to have something to do, so he got up and said, "Miss Ying'er, as long as your father is properly conditioned, there is no big problem." You can rest assured that he can recuperate in my house. There are still some things to deal with in our army, so let's take our leave. ”

"Thank you." Miss Ying'er opened her mouth, as if she wanted to ask something, but when she saw that Shi Min had already turned around and was getting away, she gave up.

In a corridor, Shi Min met his wife Dong Qiaoqiao, who had just wanted to come out for a walk.

"Qiaoqiao, you have just given birth for only half a month, and you are still in confinement, so you can't go out and walk around like this!" Shi Min hurriedly went up and helped Dong Qiaoqiao to the pavilion on the side, complaining quite much.

When Dong Qiaoqiao heard this, he glanced at Shi Min and said, "Brother Min, it's not okay for the concubine to come out to bask in the sun?" Lying in the house for so long, it really suffocated the whole person of the concubine's body! ”

"Brother Min, I heard that you brought back a father and daughter to the house at noon, and the woman was born like a flower and jade, and she was very beautiful. Is it true? Dong Qiaoqiao blinked her eyes, looking like a curious baby.

When Shi Min heard this, he couldn't help but laugh.

How can you look at people and things like that? The focus is not on the little old man who was injured and unconscious, but on whether the girl is beautiful?!

Shi Min slandered in his heart, but he still replied honestly: "I don't know if that girl was born beautiful like a flower." Miss Ying'er's face was smeared with a touch of dust, and she couldn't see the specific appearance clearly, but she had a beautiful face and should be a beautiful embryo. ”

"Are you intrigued?"

“……”

"Say?"

Shi Min patted his head and said, "Qiaoqiao, I didn't say you, what do you do when you always care about whether other people's girls are beautiful or not?" Ying'er is a hard-working girl, why should I have any lustful intentions and plot against her? ”

Hearing this, Dong Qiaoqiao stared at Shi Min's face for a long time, and finally couldn't help it, and laughed out loud.

"Hehe, Brother Min, why are you explaining so much to your concubine? Explanation is a cover-up, as you said! Say, are you interested in other girls? ”

Shi Min said shamefully: "Qiaoqiao, the conscience of heaven and earth." I don't have any bad intentions for other girls! ”

"My Fair Lady, good gentleman. Brother Min, you have a crush on Miss Ying'er, how can this be said to be a bad idea? Dong Qiaoqiao smiled and said, "If you like Miss Ying'er, you will accept her as a concubine, and we will serve you together." ”

“……”

Shi Min didn't know if what Dong Qiaoqiao said was true or false, and thought it was a language trap, so he said with a broken face: "Qiaoqiao, how can you be like this?" Aren't all women who want to be alone with their husbands? Why did you push your husband out! ”

"Hee-hee. Brother Min, don't think nonsense! The concubine is all for your good. Dong Qiaoqiao pouted and said, "You think, you are now the general of Zuo Jiju, the general of the First Army, and you will have to be a marquis in the future!" A general, a marquis, only one wife is like this? When it is spread out, outsiders may not think that our husband and wife are in deep love, but slander the concubine, saying that the concubine is a Hedong woman! ”

"So, the concubine is preparing to give you a family affair during this time. If you can see this Ying'er girl, you might as well take her as a concubine, and we will serve Brother Min together. ”

"Ahem." Shi Min pretended to cough twice and said, "Qiaoqiao, you better stop talking about this kind of thing!" The army has just returned to Korea, and I am going to the army to deal with military affairs. ”

"Miss Ying'er and her father are a pair of hard-working father and daughter, you must arrange for people to take care of them."

"This concubine knows." Dong Qiaoqiao frowned again and said, "But Brother Min, you really don't think about this concubine matter anymore?" You don't have to come forward, you can be done by the concubine's wife! ”

“……”

"Qiaoqiao, I'll go first." Shi Min was so frightened that he fled.

Looking at Shi Min's escape, Dong Qiaoqiao couldn't help laughing out loud, and immediately got up and walked towards the house where Ying'er's father and daughter were.

As soon as he saw the young woman with a faint ash on the bottom of the pot, a beautiful face and a very beautiful appearance, Dong Qiaoqiao looked at it for a while.

Well, at the age of fifteen, he is a beautiful embryo. He was slender, dressed in kudzu cloth, with black and somewhat greasy hair scattered behind his back, hanging down to his shoulders, and three thousand green silk tied with a cloth belt, and the whole person looked very simple.

It's just that this Ying'er girl's face still has a little tear stains, and seeing Dong Qiaoqiao looking at her, she looks quite restrained and a little uneasy.

"I'm General Shi Min's wife, Dong." Dong Qiaoqiao broke the silence for a moment and said with a smile.

"Ma'am." Miss Ying'er hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Dong Qiaoqiao said: "Miss Ying'er, I don't know who your father and daughter are? What is the last name? ”

Shi Min is a relatively negligent person, who rescued the father and daughter, but he never even asked about the origin and surname of the family.

Miss Ying'er bowed down and said, "Back to Madame's words." The slave's surname is Cui, and the father's name is Cui Hao, we were originally Youzhou Baima people, and the slave's father was a teacher who opened a private school to teach and educate people for a living. Later, a great war broke out between the Great Zhao State and the Xianbei people in the north, and the government levied grain, and we had no grain to offer, so my father and mother still had a slave family, and a family of three wanted to go to Jiankang in the south to join relatives. ”

But helplessly, he was robbed by a strongman on the road, and all the entanglements were snatched away, and the slave's mother died because of this. The slave family and his father had no choice but to live in Yecheng, selling books and writing letters for a living, wanting to earn some entanglements, but unexpectedly ran into those three people, and the last thing Mrs. You know. If it weren't for the general's rescue, maybe there would be two more cold corpses in this Yecheng......"

After hearing this, Dong Qiaoqiao couldn't help but sigh faintly and said, "Alas, what a hard-working girl. Ying'er, you father and daughter, don't worry about staying here, no one dares to embarrass your father and daughter here. ”

"Thank you, ma'am." Cui Yingfu saluted and said, "The great kindness of Mrs. and the general, there is nothing to repay in this life, in the next life, you will be a cow and a horse, and you will also repay the kindness of the general and the lady!" ”

When Dong Qiaoqiao heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "You don't have to be a cow or a horse." Ying'er, why don't you go down and freshen up? I see that you look so standard, and you can't dress so plainly. ”

"This ...... How does this work? ”

"Sister Ying'er, you don't have to be polite to me, the general had already told me before leaving. He asked me to take care of you father and daughter. ”

Dong Qiaoqiao is really a wonderful person, her title for Cui Ying can be said to have changed three times in a while, one "Ying'er girl", one "Ying'er", one "Ying'er sister", the three titles are progressive, undoubtedly narrowing the relationship between the two, making Cui Ying feel good.

When Cui Ying heard this, she couldn't help but say with a shy and timid face: "Madam, I don't know what the general does?" ”

Cui Ying is very curious about Shi Min's origin, but Shi Min is reluctant to reveal it, Dong Qiaoqiao is also knowledgeable and knowledgeable, knows Shi Min's concerns, and is unwilling to reveal her heart and reveal her identity in front of a woman she has just met.

Dong Qiaoqiao then said: "The general is the general of the imperial court, the adopted grandson of the current Great Zhao Heavenly King. But please Sister Ying'er, you don't have to worry, the general's father is Han, and his mother is also a Han girl, and he is a Han with good roots, so he will not do you any disadvantage. ”

"No."

That's all Dong Qiaoqiao can say to Cui Ying, and the rest depends on her future creation.

If Cui Ying really became Shi Min's concubine, then it was indispensable to know everything about him. Dong Qiaoqiao and Shi Min, the husband and wife, are not stupid enough to reveal their hearts directly in front of the people they just met.