When he woke up again, as soon as Li Yi's consciousness recovered, he felt a sense of shaking for a while.

Earthquake?

He hurriedly opened his eyes, only to find himself lying on a shaking thing, with a thick wet silk on his forehead.

Beside him, an old woman who looked about forty or fifty years old was holding a wooden bowl, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, scraping out a spoonful of paste-like stuff into his mouth.

Seeing this, Li Yi wanted to raise his hand to resist, but he didn't even have any strength on his body, so he could only tilt his head and dodge the spoon.

Seeing him tilt her head, the old woman was overjoyed, reached out and stroked his cheek, and said, "Pingnu, are you awake?" Do you still have a headache? ”

Hearing her call herself, Li Yi was slightly stunned.

The last time he entered the eight-sided tablet space, he had lived in the era of Mount Tai.

At that time, when people called their daughters, they would call them that.

Don't?

Thinking of something, he suddenly forgot his tiredness and looked up at himself.

Although he was lying flat, his slightly bulging figure still made the corners of his eyes twitch.

No way?

Possessed a woman again?

How can the eight-sided monument be like this?

Seeing him look up, the old woman thought that he wanted to get up, so she reached out and put her arm on his back and helped him sit up.

After sitting up, Li Yi looked down again unwillingly, but looking at it this way, the female characteristics on his body were more obvious.

The last bit of luck was dismissed, and he sighed before looking up at his surroundings.

It turned out that he was sitting in an ox cart at this time.

The wooden wheels have almost no shock absorption effect, and it is very bumpy to walk, which is why he feels the ground shake.

There were a lot of cloth bags under him, and I don't know what they contained, they were hard, square and edged, long and short, and very irregular.

Although there is a layer of straw mats, it still feels very uncomfortable to lie on it.

But his treatment was quite good, and there were hundreds of people walking behind the ox cart.

Most of these hundreds of people are women, and all of them have dishes.

On both sides of the crowd, there were dozens of soldiers holding Changge walking with the car, looking at the women in the crowd from time to time.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

Could it be that he possessed the body of some defeated army's family this time?

"Pingnu, come, drink some water."

The old woman took a bamboo tube and fed Li Yi saliva.

Li Yi happened to be thirsty, so he opened his mouth and drank two large sips.

But when he still wanted to drink, the old woman put down the bamboo tube with a distressed face.

"There is not much water, there is water in the camp tonight, and you will be told to drink again."

Licking his lips, Li Yi felt the thirst in his throat relieved a lot, so he asked, "Where am I?" ”

The voice came out, and it was really a weak female voice.

"In three days, it's time to go to Yingdu."

After the old woman picked up Li Yi's got up, the thick silk that fell from his forehead helped him wipe the dust on his face.

Yingdu, that is the territory of Chu State.

Li Yi searched his memories and judged where he was.

Yingdu was the royal capital of the Chu State, that is, the area around Jiangling County, Jingzhou, modern Hubei Province.

Since King Wen of Chu moved the capital from Danyang, he has been building the capital here for more than 400 years.

Therefore, he is still in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but I don't know which year he is in these more than 400 years.

So, Li Yi asked again: "Let's go, can we see the King of Chu?" ”

"Silence..."

The old woman raised her hand a little nervously to block her mouth, glanced at the coachman behind her, and then whispered: "We are just a weaver, and we are here to bribe the body, how can we have a chance to see Wang Jun?" ”

Speaking of this, the old woman's eyes couldn't help but redden: "It's really because your father died early, and there is no male support in the family, so this kind of hard work fell on my mother and daughter."

I heard that the king of Chu is kind-hearted, if he can take pity on the people, you and my mother and daughter may be able to live in peace, if so..."

When she said this, her lips trembled, and she couldn't go on.

Picking up the thick silk, she wiped the dust on Li Yi's face and squeezed out a smile: "Fortunately, Pingnu is very good-looking, if she can be favored by her son, being a concubine is better than working hard all day." ”

Hearing her words, Li Yi also understood.

This old woman was the mother of the people he possessed, and they were weavers, or weavers.

The identity of the weaver in this period is still okay, after all, in this era of handicrafts, weavers also belong to the relatively advanced productive forces.

During this period, the status of craftsmen was still very high, and if they were highly skilled, they could even be honored by the king.

Lu Ban once came to Chu from Lu to help Chu make weapons and attack Song, and the king of Chu was very respectful to him.

But it's a pity that my mother said that they were bribes.

The so-called hostage body is a hostage, which is generally used as a means of production captured during a war, or as an apology to the enemy after defeat.

I just don't know which one they belong to.

This time the start was much more difficult than the last time, Li Yi was not in a hurry, just quietly thinking, collecting available information.

His mother's accent is obviously the accent of the Lu region, he once studied under Lu Ban, and although the intonation of his mother's speech is different from Lu Ban's accent, it is roughly the same.

This shows that they came from the country of Lu.

The State of Chu was one of the five hegemons of this period, and he had defeated the State of Lu in the Battle of Yangqiao, could it be that he was in this period?

After thinking about it, Li Yichong asked the old woman: "Mother, what is the nickname of King Chu Xian?" ”

The old woman glanced at the coachman, lowered her voice and said, "I heard Bingding say that the first king of Chu is called Zang, why do you ask this?" ”

Hearing her words, Li Yi knew it in his heart.

King Chu Zang is the name of this period, and he is the famous King of Chu Zhuang.

The state of Chu also grew up to become one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period during his reign of more than 20 years.

A blockbuster, winning the Central Plains, these idioms are all written based on his deeds.

He also left a lot of popular allusions, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Dong Zhuo found out that Lu Bu and Diao Chan were having an affair, the strategist Li Ru used the allusion of his absolute meeting to persuade Dong Zhuo, asking him not to worry about Lu Bu because of a mere woman.

Since he is dead, Li Yi can roughly judge the period he is in.

"In what year did King Chu Xian return to heaven?"

He asked his mother again.

After learning that King Chu Zhuang had just died two years ago, Li Yi knew that he was in the period of King Chu Gong.

King Zhuang had just died, and King Gong had just ascended the throne for two years, that is, in 589 BC.

In this way, Li Yi knows his identity.

He should be one of those gifts that Lu was defeated and paid to Chu after the Battle of Yangqiao.

In the "Zuo Biography", this incident is clearly recorded.

In the second year of Lu Chenggong, the four kingdoms of Jin, Lu, Wei and Cao sent troops to attack Qi.

Although it ended in the victory of the Jin State, it greatly depleted the strength of the warring parties, and also caused the Chu State to take advantage of the situation and launch a campaign to save the Qi State.

Finally, in the winter, the army of Chu fought all the way to Yangqiao in Lu State, forcing Meng Sun, Secretary of State of Lu, to come forward to sue for peace.

It is recorded in the "Zuo Biography" that at that time, Mengsun bribed the Chu State with execution, needle, and weaving, all of which were hundreds. Gongheng is the hostage, in order to invite the alliance, the Chu people Xu Ping.

That is, there were 100 carpenters, sewers, and weavers, and they also took Gongheng as a hostage and mortgaged it to the state of Chu, which brought peace.

The person Li Yi possessed was obviously one of the hundred weavers.

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