Chapter Forty-Six: The Home That Can't Go Back
After hearing Zhang Wuji's words, Pasha shook his head and said, "Is this not, it was the Prime Minister who brought me and my sister back." It's just that the Prime Minister said that if the slaves and maids don't serve Your Majesty well, then we don't have to stay in the top of the light, so they sent us home. ”
Hearing Pasha's words, Zhang Wuji was even more confused. I always feel that this little girl's words are a bit inexplicable.
Since it was Fan Yao who saved them, and if he couldn't take care of Zhang Wuji, he would send them home.
No matter from which point of view, Fan Yao has no ill intentions. It's just why is this little girl so scared?
Pasha's reaction intrigued Daisy and Zhang Wuji, and the two of them glanced at each other.
"What the hell is going on?" You seem to be scared to go home. Didn't your family treat your sisters well? And when you go home, what does it have to do with the life and death of your whole family? ”
This is also Zhang Wuji's question.
Zhang Wuji picked up the little girl and said, "Okay, if you have something to say, stand up and say." What the hell is going on? ”
So Pasha told Zhang Wuji and the two about his origins.
The Pasha were Uighurs in the territory of the Chagatai Khanate. Her parents were Semu officials of the Chagatai Khanate.
Like the Han landlords and warlords of the Central Plains, the Semu people in Chagatai had to intermarry with the Mongols in order to preserve their family's status.
It is also common for Mongolian women to marry into the families of Semu officials, and then women from Semu families to marry into Mongol families.
Originally, this tradition is a good way to be bloodless and stable.
Pasha's parents, on the other hand, did not want their daughters to marry into Mongol families.
This is due to the fact that their future "son-in-law" is the current Khan of the Chagatai Khanate. An old man on the verge of death.
However, this Mongol Khan had a "hobby" that was different from that of the Mongols, that is, burial. He did not want to carry out "sky burial" according to the Mongolian custom, but built himself a very luxurious mausoleum.
He would bring everything he liked to his mausoleum. And not leave it to your own successors.
Several of the Persian cats he liked before were put in the mausoleum by him after his death. The same is true of the woman he likes.
If they simply marry an old man, although they can't bear it in their hearts, they can only endure pain for the sake of their family.
After all, the Mongols have the custom of accepting step-marriages, and the two sisters can marry the next Khan in the future.
And his two daughters are the people whom the old Khan personally took a fancy to and asked for by name.
And because of this old Khan's unique "hobby". They will surely be taken to the grave by this old man in the future.
No matter how ruthless Pasha's parents were, they would not just bury their daughter.
So under the father's arrangement, Pasha fled to the East with his sister. Although the father is reluctant, this is also the only way to protect the family and his daughters.
If they remained in the territory of the Chagatai Khanate, they would surely die in a few years. Although he may die after escaping, at least he has a chance of surviving.
And their chance to survive is the world's first "anti-thief" Mingjiao. Because Mingjiao was the only force that the Mongols did not dare to provoke.
Fan Yao's operations in the Western Regions over the years not only alarmed the Great Yuan court, but even the Chagatai Khanate around him became wary of Mingjiao.
But despite the vigilance and the fact that the Mingjiao had only encroached on a little bit of worthless territory around the Guangming Peak, the two sides still maintained the usual "well water does not interfere with river water".
The Chagatai Khanate did not want to provoke the Mingjiao, and the Mingjiao did not take the initiative to invade them.
Moreover, Pasha's father also heard that the people in the sect were living well. That's why they sent someone to escort their daughters to the East.
He wanted his daughters to temporarily escape to the territory of the Ming Sect, and then after the death of the old Khan, he would find a way to find them.
Hearing this, Zhang Wuji asked: "So, if you are sent back, then your father's disobedience to the Mongolian king will be exposed, and your whole family will be punished by the Mongolian king?" ”
Little Pasha nodded and said, "Not bad." If we're sent home, that's it. ”
Zhang Wuji nodded silently. He was still a little strange before, why this little girl with colored eyes spoke Chinese so fluently. If it is the children of high-ranking officials, it is not surprising.
The Chagatai Khanate was nominally a vassal khanate of the Great Yuan court, while Kublai Khan was a Mongol emperor who admired sinicization. Many Mongolian nobles and local high-ranking officials were like Zhao Min who knew several languages and scripts.
This little girl is also from a noble background, so she naturally knows Chinese.
Dai Qisi asked at this time: "Since this is the case, then you said that the prime minister saved you before, what is going on?" ”
Little Pasha continued to tell about what had happened to him.
Although the two sisters managed to reach the junction of the power of the Mingjiao and the Chagatai Khanate. But the man sent by their father to escort them could only get them here, and then they turned back.
The two sisters came to this land full of unknowns together.
Despite the efforts of Fan Yao and the Ming Sect, the security in the Western Regions has become much better. But where there is light, there is a shadow, even if it is small.
The two of them are little girls, and Pasha is still a beautiful little girl, which naturally attracts the covetousness of some people.
Soon after the two sisters arrived in the Mingjiao's sphere of influence, they encountered a Persian caravan that was on their way to Yumen Pass to do business.
The Pasha inquired about the "Ming Religion" from them. But the Persian merchant lied to them that he was going to do business with Mingjiao.
So the Pasha gave them a jewel and wanted them to take their sisters on a ride.
However, the Persian merchant was more interested in the Pasha sisters themselves than in the gems in the Pasha's hands.
So the Persian profiteer first deceived the two sisters into trust, and then inquired carefully about them.
And the flowers in the greenhouse went out for the first time. In addition, he said that he could take them to Mingjiao.
Naturally, he told the Persian merchant all the basics. Knowing that the Pasha sisters had no one to protect them, the Persian merchant revealed his robber nature.
He had been thinking about bringing some goods in exchange for a lot of money, but now the two sisters came to the door, and the gems and gold coins on their bodies were not only returned to him, but even the two sisters became his "goods".
He wanted to take the Pasha sisters as "slave girls" to the vicinity of Yumen, and then sell them to the Central Plains.
After all, female slaves of the Semu people are very rare in the homes of some Han people, and they will look very face-saving.
They will pay a very high price for it.
And the Pasha sisters are not only beautiful, but also very young, and they are still untouched little girls. It can be sold for a higher price.
Hearing this, Zhang Wuji frowned and said, "Huh? I didn't pay much attention to this journey, but I didn't expect that there would be human trafficking now! ”
(End of chapter)