Chapter 916: The Chief's Family is Full of Strange People
When Ren Zong heard Guan Tao's request, he immediately said to his son, "Ren Zuo, why don't you go and get the photo album for your Uncle Guan and introduce the contents to him."
"Okay, Dad, I'll go right away." Ren Zuo agreed and hurried to the inner room to get the photo album for Guan Tao to look at. Guan Qing quickly moved aside. Although she had seen it before, she couldn't help but want to take another look at such a rare thing as a photo.
Guan Tao sat on a small stool and saw Ren Zuo bring out an exquisite black wooden box. There were words engraved on the lid of the wooden box and red paint painted inside. It read "Han Tribe Presents Qiongzhou Immigrants Memorial Photo Album - Huzhang Zong", which looked very beautiful.
Ren Zuo opened it and revealed the photos inside. Although it was an album, the photos were not framed. They were all scattered in boxes. This might be to make it easier for immigrants to take them out and look at them. Besides, it would be too expensive to frame them all, and there was no time at all. So they were all packed in an exquisite wooden box.
Ren Zuo took out some photos and handed them to Guan Tao, took some more photos and placed them on the table, and then introduced them.
"Uncle Guan, please look, this is the album. When we moved here, the chief specially sent someone to make a commemorative album for us. It contains some of our own people and things, as well as the characteristic scenery of the eight counties in the north. There are also photos of the chiefs. There are a total of 100 photos for each family, so that we can take them out and look at them when we miss home."
"Okay, okay, let me take a look. Is there any photo of our Han tribe leader in it? Take it out and let me see it. I heard that our leader is so powerful at a young age, but I don’t know what he looks like. Although the coin has the leader’s appearance, I asked the county officials, but they said that the coin’s appearance is at most 60% similar, and they said it is a little older than the real leader." Guan Tao looked at the beautiful photos one by one, as if he had seen another fairyland, which dazzled him and he didn’t know which one to look at.
Ren Zuo also laughed after hearing his request, and took out several photos with the leaders and introduced them.
"Uncle Guan, this is the leader of our Han tribe. He is only eighteen years old this year. These photos were taken last year when he was only seventeen!"
After Guan Tao took a family photo taken by Luo Chong in his own courtyard, Ren Zuo introduced again.
"Uncle Guan, this is our leader. Next to him are the two wives of the leader and the pair of children of the leader."
Guan Tao looked at the photo with his eyes wide open. The young man sitting in the middle of the photo was the leader of their entire tribe, with so much territory, population, army, and ships. It was said that all of this was founded by him. Even the complex management system of the Han tribe was all thought up by this young man.
He was dressed in gorgeous clothes and a tall crown. He sat on the chair with a calm and confident expression, revealing a sense of pressure brought by being in a high position for a long time. Just sitting there, people dared not despise him.
On the left and right of the leader were two pretty girls, slender and slim, wearing light gauze and satin, with extraordinary temperament and eyes full of wisdom and agility, which were definitely not comparable to women who only knew how to farm and raise pigs.
In front of the three stood two children about three or four years old, also wearing brocade clothes and black gauze hats, staring at the front with curiosity. It should be the person who took the photo of them at that time who attracted the children's attention.
This is the family of the leader of the Han tribe. It was this person who casually said a word, and tens of thousands of soldiers in armor came to their Zhudao on the fleet that covered the strait, and killed the entire family of Xin Tong, who had ruled them for who knows how long, and the blood flowed like a river.
Guan Tao's hand holding the photo was shaking a little, and his mood was very complicated. He didn't know what he was thinking. Then, when he was stunned, he heard his daughter say enviously beside him.
"Dad, look at the beautiful clothes our leader and his wife are wearing. I heard that they are not wearing linen or cotton, but a kind of silk spit out by insects. It is extremely gorgeous and can only be made in the Han tribe."
"Well, yes, it's a pity that we can't wear it." Guan Tao came back to his senses and followed his daughter's words.
"No, Dad, I heard from Brother Zuo that even civilian women without titles in the Han tribe can wear silk wedding clothes when they get married. Dad, look, this is the wedding dress of the Han tribe."
Guan Qing took out the wedding photo of Qubing from a pile of photos. The two sat on the big bed in the wedding room. Qubing and his fiancée Zhan were wearing wedding clothes. Zhan was wearing a phoenix crown and bridal robe, which was extremely gorgeous. Although it was only a black and white photo, it was not difficult to see how soft and beautiful the dress would be through the reflection of the photo.
"Yes, Uncle Guan, common people can wear such wedding dresses when they get married. But even common women who cannot wear silk in daily life can still wear beautiful clothes.
Uncle Guan, look, this is a photo we took at my aunt's house after the New Year's Day. The new dress my sister is wearing is made of cotton, but it is also very beautiful. We have many weaving and dyeing techniques over there. Even ordinary cotton and linen fabrics can be dyed into beautiful colors. It's just that this photo is colorless and you can't see it."
Ren Zuo introduced the costumes of the Han tribe to Guan Tao, but Guan Tao was obviously not very interested in this. Instead, his silly daughter was very interested in the beautiful clothes of the Han tribe, especially when she saw Luo Chong's two wives and Qu Bing's fiancee, she couldn't bear to look away.
Ren Zuo saw Luo Chong's family photo, and he took it over again to introduce it.
"Oh, Uncle Guan, our chief's two wives are not ordinary people. According to legend, when our Han tribe was still very small, before the eldest lady married the chief, our Han tribe did not have the weaving skills. This method of tying grass to weave cloth was passed down from the eldest lady's tribe.
However, our chief was knowledgeable and talented, and his ideas were even more unconstrained. After learning this weaving method, he asked the carpenters in the tribe to make a loom. Later, it was improved many times, and then we had the extremely fast flying shuttle loom we use now.
After the eldest lady stopped weaving herself, she studied the printing and dyeing method, which made the Han tribe The fabric has a variety of colors.
The tribe of the second wife is good at growing glutinous rice. After marrying the chief, she became obsessed with cooking and developed many novel ways of eating. They were widely spread in the tribe and also benefited the people. The tofu, steamed buns and dumplings, noodles, baked biscuits, stir-fried vegetables, stewed meat and other ways of eating that we eat most often were taught to the people by the second wife. "
Guan Tao was very surprised after hearing this. He only knew that the leader of the Han tribe was powerful before, but he didn't expect that his two wives were also extraordinary people. One taught the people how to weave and dye cloth, and the other taught the people how to cook and eat. With clothes and food, they directly supported half of the Han tribe. Could it be that all the family members of this chief are capable people?!
He flipped through a few photos of Luo Chong's family, and suddenly saw a photo with Tang Yao, and then asked curiously, "Who is this person? Seeing that she is dressed so well, is she the sister of the chief? Does she have any special skills?"
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