Chapter 39 comes from a twelve-year-old Lori's marriage reminder letter

Less than a hundred miles south of the Heishui River, he had already left the Great Zhou Realm. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Fifteen years ago, this was considered the sphere of influence of the Hundred Beast Alliance. It's just that in that big battle back then, although the Hundred Beasts Alliance was victorious, their strength was also seriously damaged. had to shrink the line of defense and vacate a large area at the junction with Da Zhou, which was regarded as a buffer zone.

The Hundred Beasts Alliance said that it was a Jianghu sect, but it was better to say that he was a local force. They have no lineage, just a loose organization formed to fight against the forces of the Central Plains. It is led by the seventeen largest tribes in the southern mountains.

These tribes vary in size, from nearly 10,000 people to a few hundred. They all live in this big mountain and rarely communicate with outsiders.

Occasionally, people from the tribe go to the Central Plains in the north just to obtain some necessities of life.

But that changed after the war.

With such a large tribal alliance, there will always be one or two smart people. After the war of that year, they saw the sophistication of the Great Zhou iron tools and were eager to obtain them in large quantities.

But the war had just ended, and the Great Zhou Dynasty, whether it was from the central officials or to the local people, would not sell iron tools to these barbarians in the south.

In particular, Tiannan County, which is connected to the mountains, suffered the heaviest losses in the original war, and naturally did the most desperately.

But that changed the following year.

In order to obtain a certain medicinal material in the mountains, the imperial court set up a fang market in Tiannan County, allowing the tribesmen to exchange medicinal materials for various items they needed.

In the beginning, the tribesmen did not know how to distinguish the good and bad iron tools, and tasted the pits. There are even examples of bronze being used as iron. A lot of things are basically useless or lower than their expectations.

This made them extremely angry. A group of envoys were sent to the capital, hoping that the king would give them an explanation. They even threatened that if King Zhou Mu could not give them a satisfactory answer, they would send troops to attack Tiannan County.

The Great Zhou court, which had just pacified the world, had to send the then household department Zuo Shilang to sit in Tiannan in order to cultivate the national policy of recuperation, and issued a royal order not to allow the Great Zhou merchants to be shoddy and deceive the tribesmen.

Under the king's order, naturally few people disobeyed it.

But businessmen seek profits, and good things naturally need good prices. But for most tribesmen, it doesn't matter.

There are not many other herbs in the mountains, but there are medicinal materials for 100 years. But there are some rare medicinal materials, and they still know the truth that strange goods can live.

For example, Hou Ping'an, one of the purposes of their southward journey this time is the unicorn grass.

Unicorn grass is a miracle medicine that is said to bloom in ten years, bear fruit in ten years, and mature in ten years. But it is not his fruit that is used in medicine, but the body of its fruit after it ripens and lands.

This medicine, together with several other precious herbs, is said to have the same effect as the name of the plaster.

It's a pity that the unicorn grass has been missing for ten years.

On the mountain trail, Hou Ping'an and the four of them rode slowly on their horses. The war horse under the crotch walked by itself, regardless of whether the direction was south.

Immediately, after the excitement of the first time they came out, they became a little dull and tired.

The beautiful scenery of the south that Yue Laoqi told them at the beginning is so desolate in their eyes now.

Patches of giant trees, vines that cover the sky, and forest paths that can only be passed by a single horse make them regret not insisting on traveling to the north in the first place.

The most important thing is that they haven't even seen a figure after being out for a long time.

Travel, travel, not even a person, what kind of travel. But now that it's out, there's naturally no reason to go back.

Yue Niu wiped the sweat on his head irritably, and asked Hou Ping'an, who was also sweating profusely, but did not wipe it.

"Monkey, why did you say your father let us pass the test so easily yesterday?"

"The purpose of the exam is to prove our ability, and since the owner of the village did not embarrass us, he naturally recognized that we have the ability to travel. It was Qin Hao who answered, and he seemed a little impatient with Yue Niu's somewhat idiotic question.

"Since you recognize our ability, why don't you announce it halfway up the mountain, and ask us to reach the bottom of the mountain and do it after we have done it with him?"

This question can stop Qin Hao.

For the conversation between the two behind him, Hou Ping'an listened to it in his ears, but he didn't want to answer, some things can be understood in his heart, but he may not be able to say it clearly in his mouth.

The reason why he didn't show the same obvious impatience as the other three was because he was still thinking about the letter from yesterday, the letter that his sister had given him when he got home.

The letter was written two months ago, and in a world where transportation is largely on the go, such a pace cannot be considered slow.

When he first saw the letter, he was actually in a trance. Because he saw the payment first, but the person who made the payment was a person who took him more than an hour to remember. The full letter is as follows:

Little brother, do you remember me?

I am 12 years old, and my mother told me that my family is starting to choose a husband for me.

But how can I marry someone else now that I promised to marry you? But my mother and father did not care about my objections, and said that my marriage should naturally be arranged by them.

I know that the sisters in the family are like this, the uncles and aunts choose good candidates, and then invite them to the house for the sisters to take a sneak peek.

After the sisters take a fancy to someone, the uncle and aunt will tell the sister about the person's family history. Then if the sisters agree, someone in the family will tell each other and let them come to the door to propose.

But I don't want to do this, I don't want to marry people I don't know at all, I just want to marry you, little brother.

Little brother, will you marry me? As long as you come to the door to propose, I will definitely tell my father and mother, I like you.

Little brother, you come early.

The letter ends here, and the payee is Cui Haiyao.

When Hou Ping'an read this letter for the first time yesterday, he thought it was very funny, a twelve-year-old girl actually remembered what she said when she was three years old.

When he read the letter again this morning, he had a new feeling.

It is estimated that the little girl is not satisfied with the husband her parents chose for her, so she will use herself as a shield.

Otherwise, with the means of communication in this era, how could a twelve-year-old girl send a letter to herself.

Hou Ping'an didn't want to care about this matter, but after his sister knew about it, she forced Hou Ping'an to write a reply.

Hou Ping'an wanted to ask his sister if she was coming to her aunt, her brain was not normal.

In other people's family affairs, there is no room for me, an outsider, to interfere.

And I met this little girl almost ten years ago, who knows what she looks like now.

The most important thing is that as long as you reply to the letter, unless you refuse in a very firm tone, you will almost always be regarded as a courtship.

But in the face of a twelve-year-old little Lori, she really can't do it safely.