The grasslands are vast and the formations can be varied. At present, Huo Xiaolong and Ya Lanyu have not yet reached the point of fighting each other. Last night's group of Xiongnu was just a test.
"Does your brother have any weaknesses?" the red-armored girl asked Da Nier.
Dani thought for a moment and said
"It has no weaknesses, but it does have some shortcomings."
"What?"
"He had many concubines; almost all the daughters of the major tribes on the grasslands were his concubines."
"That's why even my fourth brother and the Imperial Advisor couldn't touch him."
Huo Xiaolong pursed his lips and thought for a moment before saying...
"Bribed his concubine to kill him?"
"You can't bribe them. The concubines on the grasslands are different from you people from the Central Plains. They rarely fight over men. They're always thinking about how to get some real good stuff for the tribe, or going hunting together. They don't care about men. Calling them concubines is more like a job."
Da Ni'er was holding a large bowl and slurping up the soup.
After finishing his work, Huo Xiaolong lay back in his chair, pressed his temples, and longed to go straight to the front lines.
"Report! General." Li Xiaocao entered the command tent and knelt on one knee to report.
"speak."
“That kid from the Windstone tribe, Little Stone, is now leading the prisoners of war to feed the mastiffs.”
It's impossible to massacre the entire Hadie Goddess tribe; there will always be some prisoners of war. For now, Huo Xiaolong has handed them over to the Fengshi tribe for management. They're all grassland people; if they can get along with them and influence them, then there's no need to kill them.
The prisoners of war who remained were not particularly wicked. As a general, the young woman had to handle all matters, big and small, in the military camp every day, managing both battles and daily life. Therefore, Huo Xiaolong tried his best to delegate his responsibilities.
"What's going on? Let's go see." The girl pulled Da Ni'er outside, not caring whether the other person had finished their soup or not.
Before he even got close, Huo Xiaolong saw that Xiao Shizi and Ha Die had already tied up the prisoners of war one by one and were preparing to send them to the mastiffs.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
“General Huo, these people are disobedient,” Little Stone replied.
“Why are you being disobedient? Tell us.” The dark-skinned girl said to them in the grassland language.
Having only recently learned the Central Plains dialect, Xiao Shizi couldn't clearly articulate long sentences. After chatting for a while, Da Nier said to Huo Xiaolong...
"When this group of people saw Hadie, they pounced on her and told her to die so they could be sacrificed to the Bodhisattva."
“This child told them that under General Huo’s rule, people don’t believe in the Heavenly Bodhisattva and allow these things, but these people wouldn’t listen. Look, they’re still muttering that they want Hadie to die. They said that no matter who owns the grassland, they have to believe in the Heavenly Bodhisattva, otherwise the Heavenly Bodhisattva will send down disasters and make this land uninhabited.”
Huo Xiaolong didn't understand faith. She had never believed in anything, except for going to temples with Xiaohai and the girls from Fengyuelou.
"Is the Heavenly Bodhisattva a belief of your grasslands?"
Da Nier shook her head and said
"Not entirely. Some people believe in Buddhism, some believe in Bodhisattvas, it's not always the case, so tribes often fight each other because of this."
The girl had previously thought that conquering the grasslands would allow them to have enough to eat and live the same life as the people of Pingyang County. But now it seemed that governing the grasslands was far more difficult than waging war.
“Moreover, they have aspirations towards the royal family; they believe that the royal court is the closest place to the gods,” Dani continued.
"Is everyone like this?" Huo Xiaolong asked, frowning.
“Yes, tribes like the Windstone Tribe are extremely rare, and they are too poor to have time to worship and make offerings to these things,” the dark-skinned girl replied.
The girl in red crouched down and pulled Xiaoshizi and Hadie aside, saying...
"These people can't die yet. You two need to help me find a way to make them stop believing in any Heavenly Bodhisattva."
"We need to try using them. If these people listen to me from now on and stop believing in the Heavenly Bodhisattva, then you two will have done me a great favor. Just tell me what you want then."
The two people in front of her were just children. Da Ni'er knew from behind that these two were about to fall for her tricks when she saw her little sister squatting down and coaxing them softly.
Then they heard Little Stone say in broken Central Plains dialect
“We don’t want anything. We enjoy working for General Huo and are willing to do so.”
"Oh my, our little pebble can even say idioms now! As a reward for our little pebble, how about I take you and Hadie to the military camp for lunch today?"
Upon hearing this, the little boy's eyes suddenly lit up, and the little girl next to him stomped her feet happily.
"We can eat the food from General Huo's camp now," the two nodded, and Ha Die said from the side.
"General Huo, rest assured, I will definitely make them stop believing in God!"
When Da Ni'er was a princess, she didn't believe in any goddesses, but now, she's starting to believe a little bit.
She had a goddess-like figure by her side, loved by everyone. From childhood to adulthood, the people around Huo Xiaolong were always willing to do things for her, even if all they got in return was a happy look from her.
Including myself.
She was also willingly kind to them.
Da Ni'er smiled and followed the red-armored girl leading the two children to the canteen. She looked up at the sky.
The sky was a clear blue, and although the sun was dazzling, it wasn't hot. However, everyone had gotten a bit tanned lately, except for Huo Xiaolong, who hadn't changed at all, which was really annoying.
Da Nier took out a small mirror from her handbag, looked at her already dark cheeks, and then caught up with Huo Xiaolong, asking him...
"Long'er, have I gotten darker recently?"
The girl looked at Da Ni'er, who already had a bronze complexion, and didn't know what to say. After a long silence, she finally managed to squeeze out a sentence.
"No...it's not dark. If you think it's dark, go back and put on some pearl cream."
"Didn't you see the older sisters applying masks every night? You're applying one too? Oh, you didn't tell me, but I did."
Wang Dani snorted and touched her cheek.
"I'll use your stuff!"
This is the scenery that the grassland should have. Two large birds fly by in the sky, and the nearby river is babbling. Although it is a solemn and dignified military camp, there is also a sense of warmth in it.
"Come here, Da Ni'er, don't just stand there, serve Long'er some rice."
"Oh my, aren't these the two skinny kids from the grasslands?"
"What's wrong? Did Long'er not give you enough food? You're still so thin."
"Who knows? It's okay if they don't get fat. We'll just give them extra portions today and fatten them up to be as chubby as Erhei."
Aunt Wang and Aunt Zhang had been working in the kitchen for a long time and couldn't bear to see people so thin. So they let the two children sit on stools and started serving them rice. Their little legs couldn't even reach the ground, and their toes were dangling in mid-air.
But the bowl he used was a large bowl, just like Erhei's, and so were his sisters'.
Xiao Shizi hesitated to touch his chopsticks and said to Huo Xiaolong...
"General Huo, this is too much, I can't eat it."
Before the girl could reply, the two older women said...
"What do you mean you can't finish it? If you can't finish it, pack it up and take it back for your friends to eat."
"Yes, if there's not enough food, just say so. Hurry up and eat, learn from your sister."
Ha Die next to me was practically burying her head in her bowl. "You can't eat it, but I can! I'll eat it!"
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