Zhao Er was startled when he opened the door. There were many baskets, baskets and bags filled with eggs, mushrooms, bacon, red beans, pancakes, dumplings, and beautiful sugar-coated rice cakes at his door.
There are more than a dozen pairs of tightly packed insoles, homemade rice wine, various side dishes packed in jars and sealed with oil, and even a big bag of steamed buns.
Lan Ya also sent a basket of eggs.
She held her eldest brother's belongings and looked at them for the whole night. After more than ten years, this was the only thing she had been waiting for.
Zhao Er couldn't get out at all, so he had to call his family to help him move his things in. Zhao Er's parents were very proud of their son, and since he was respected and appreciated by others, they even said that he should learn to read.
After Lan Ya and He Qing discussed it, they circled a few places, all within the territory of Northern Huns. They wanted to go there, take a look, and search, and perhaps there would be news about their elder sister and sister-in-law.
Today, life is peaceful and tranquil, and it has been so for at least ten years. Many residents on both sides go to each other's territory to do business or to look for relatives.
He Qing told Lan Ya that he would be returning to Kyoto to report on his work soon, so it would be a good time to wait until he got back to arrange the wedding. When Lan Ya left, He Qing put his cloak on her and tied it up.
More than a decade ago, Aruna, the pearl of the grassland, married Qinggertai, the man she had always dreamed of. But her married life was not what she had expected.
Qinggertai was always very cold to her. Not only that, after being defeated in the life-and-death battle with Xuanyuan Dynasty, Aruna's situation became very miserable.
Qinggertai often gave her away casually as a woman for a night of pleasure. At first, she resisted desperately, shouting to the strange men who walked into the tent that she was Qinggertai's woman, she was the woman of the king of the grassland.
But it was of no use. Instead, these men laughed at her. You may be his woman, but you are like his cattle and sheep, which he can give to others at will.
Aruna gradually became a walking corpse. She was treated as worthless by the man she loved deeply and was trampled and bullied by other men at will.
Imprisoned in the tent with her were two captured Central Plains women, Chunya and Landuo. Later, the number of women increased to six, including Northern Qiang women, Hu women, and, like Aruna, Northern Xiongnu women.
Like Aruna, Lando always fought back with all her might, shouting and screaming. Once, Lando even broke a man's head. But it was useless. In the end, they were tied up and severely whipped. Every time they resisted, they were punished more cruelly.
But Chunya was different. She was quiet and well-behaved. Whenever a man took Chunya to another tent, Chunya always behaved very calmly.
This puzzled Aruna and disgusted Lan Duo. But Chunya's benefits were substantial, as she had never been subjected to those punishments.
When Lan Duo and Aruna were starving, Chun Ya had plenty of food. Chun Ya ate her own food first, then found a way to bring some for Lan Duo, and later for Aruna.
Chunya soon received further preferential treatment. She was allowed to walk out of the tent and participate in cooking like the free women.
Chunya began to work hard. When she was not chosen by a man, she washed clothes, boiled water, fed horses and sheep, picked mushrooms, made milk tea, mended clothes and tents, and even volunteered to be a translator.
She was so useful. She was obedient, hardworking, quiet, and as busy as the bees after the geraniums bloomed on the grassland. The Northern Huns who gathered together after the great defeat almost did not realize that they seemed to always be calling this woman Chunya.
Chunya, boil some water. Chunya, wash the clothes. Chunya, help me look after the child. Chunya, lead the horse over. Chunya, pick out these mushrooms and take out the poisonous mushrooms. Chunya, there is such a big hole in my clothes. Please mend it. Is Chunya's milk tea ready?
So when Chunya's waist gradually became thicker and her bulging belly could no longer be concealed, these Northern Huns tacitly chose to turn a blind eye.
As long as she is still so useful and hardworking, why must she die?
Lan Duo's eyes changed when she looked at Chunya. She wanted to ask Chunya, is this eldest brother's child or one from here?
If it was the eldest brother's child, then everything Chunya did was to protect the child. The more Lan Duo thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.
But Chunya never gave her a chance to ask. Lan Duo thought, then don't ask. You'll know when the baby is born. The men who come to the tent are all Northern Hun men. As soon as the baby is born, you'll know whether it's my eldest brother's or one of ours.
The Northern Huns had the same idea: wait until the woman gave birth to the baby, and then they would know whether it was from the grassland. If not, they would just kill it with a single blow.
Even though Chunya was so diligent and obedient, it was common for her to be whipped at random. The Northern Huns would order her around and whip or slap her. They treated them like animals, not human beings.
When being beaten, Chunya always tried her best to protect her stomach first.
When the spring buds begin to sprout at night, I feel desperate.
If it happened during the day, she had already thought about where to give birth and how to leave after giving birth. She could die here, and Lan Duo and the child could return alive.
But if it launched at night, leaving the tent and heading for the grassland in the cold and dark night would be practically suicide. There was no way Lan Duo and the child could survive the winter grassland at night. Was the child truly doomed?
The first person to notice that something was wrong with Chunya was Landu, and she came to her sister-in-law to take care of her.
Chunya endured the pain and tried not to make a sound. Lan Duo thought that if her sister-in-law could give birth to a child without alerting the Northern Huns, then the child must be her eldest brother's.
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