The summer morning was not much cooler. It could be said that Jia Hui woke up not long after dawn.
In winter, I always look forward to being exposed to the sun, but in summer, I hope that there will be cloudy days without the harsh sunshine. Jia Hui is such a person.
For example, right now, even if the sun is blocked by curtains, there will still be a few rays of sunshine shining on the bed, waking up the Taiwei.
"ha"
Yawning, Jia Hui sat in front of the dressing table, watching the slender girl with blond hair, blue eyes and soft features, using her slender and dexterous hands to tie herself into pigtails.
Hmm. The last time I had pigtails tied was before the rebellion last year. It was my favorite Crested Ibis among the three skinny horses who did it for me.
"Master, do you think you can be so rough?" A strange voice came from behind. After the voice went through her mind, Jia Hui barely understood what she was saying.
Yelena Anatolyevna Kuznetsova.
By coincidence, Jia Hui knew one of her descendants, who had achieved some success. He had been the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for a while in his early years, and had the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".
"Okay." Looking in the mirror at a braid on the girl's hand, Jia Hui nodded and talked to her in as short a vocabulary as possible.
I can speak Chinese, but I don’t speak it very well.
Maybe it was because she was trying to survive, or because she was really good at languages. Not long after she was captured, within a month or so, Yelena was able to speak stumblingly to communicate with the soldiers responsible for escorting them.
Although those soldiers always like to make fun of sixteen-year-old girls' accents and weird accents, beauty is everywhere, and human aesthetics are actually quite different.
Whether you like the talisman or not is not in line with your own aesthetics. But most people can tell whether it is good-looking or not. Unless you are really good-looking or have a special talent for aesthetics, or you are trying to win respect, otherwise beauty is beauty, and ugliness is Just ugly.
Yelena is this kind of girl, that is, her flowing and straight golden hair does not conform to the mainstream aesthetics of today's Han people. Otherwise, when Jia Hui snatched her out of the palace, he would not have only fined her two months' salary.
At least three months to start.
However, these days, black hair and black eyes are king in both the East and the West, so golden hair like Yelena has no market in Daqi. Even the emperor's punishment of Jia Hui's salary has invisibly discriminated against her.
"Master, there is news from Rong Mansion."
Huang Oriole, the eldest maid in Jia Hui's room, stepped lightly into the small courtyard assigned to Yelena by Jia Hui. She ignored the master's half-braided hair and lowered her head, waiting for the master's inquiry.
"Oh, how was it distributed in the end?" Jia Hui did not look at Oriole, but looked at Yelena through the mirror, making the blonde beauty blush with shame.
"Sir, after you left Rongxi Hall yesterday, the ancestors held on to the old man again. They didn't let him go until he promised to pay him 40,000 taels of silver."
"Forty thousand taels?"
"Yes, it was originally ten thousand taels. After hearing this, the ancestor scolded the old man for nearly two-quarters of an hour. Then the old man added some more, reaching twenty thousand taels.
The ancestor was still dissatisfied and wanted the old man to pay 100,000 taels. The old man gave up as soon as he heard this and said that it was either 20,000 taels or nothing. The old lady then put down her arrogance and negotiated for 40,000 taels.
Moreover, the old man said that these 40,000 taels were paid on behalf of the eldest family. This is the last time he paid for the second old man." Oriole replied.
"That's all, it's only 40,000 taels." Jia Hui acquiesced to Jia She's approach.
I accidentally cheated my father by leaving early last night, so this time it was up to Jia She to make the decision.
"What else?" Jia Hui didn't want to say the word "second bedroom" now.
"Go back to the master, the old lady will receive 60,000 taels herself, and the remaining 100,000 taels will have to be paid by the second wife." As a confidant, Oriole naturally understood what the master meant.
"One hundred thousand taels? Ha, the man surnamed Wang will definitely not agree, but it doesn't matter. How much each of the remaining 160,000 taels pay is a matter between the old lady and the man surnamed Wang. Let's just watch the show." Jia Hui sneered. A sound.
"That's all, go and continue to pay attention. If you have any fun over there, remember to come and tell me at any time."
"Wei! I'm sorry, please leave." Oriole leaned over and agreed. After getting up, he left the house without looking back.
The blonde Rakshasa aunt started to take off her clothes. It was not appropriate for me, who had no intention of becoming an aunt, to continue to stay in the room.
. . .
It was already three o'clock in the morning when I got up from the bed again. My half-braided hair was untied and cleaned. I had sweated a lot just now, and it would easily go rancid if not washed.
Since the beginning of summer, Jia Hui has stopped practicing martial arts in the morning. Instead, he has changed his martial arts practice time to the evening, when there is no sun.
Today, he stopped taking a bath and even refused to practice martial arts at night.
"Okay, Master!" The last strand of hair was braided, and Yelena showed off to Jia Hui with a sense of accomplishment.
"Yeah, it's not bad." Looking at Yelena who was still energetic in the mirror, Jia Hui couldn't help but sigh that this girl is indeed of Maozi blood. If it were his other wives and concubines, they would not get out of bed so quickly after the activity. They would always be there. Lying slowly on the bed, and this...
After taking a short rest, I was able to get up and tie myself a pigtail.
He is worthy of being a ruthless man who worked all the way from Liangzan to the north of Mobei, Chita.
In Yelena's angry eyes, she turned around and pinched her white and tender face full of collagen, and was amazed.
It stands to reason that after migrating so far, her skin and figure should have been polished into the kind of thick and rough muscular woman, but this girl is not only slender and slender, she even has two headlights. Although her skin is not It's a little rougher, but still has a smooth feel. I believe it will get better after a while.
What a gift.
Through the stumbling chats with her during these days of sage time, Jia Hui also roughly understood the reason why their family ran so far all the way.
Yelena came from a good background, a middle-class noble and a viscount in the Grand Duchy of Ryazan (actually it disappeared long ago in 14xx, just think of it as a butterfly effect.). It is not their turn to carry the big flag, but they are not the little nobles below. They live a carefree life in the local area. They only need to pay attention when the king changes.
In addition, they also made good friends with the local nobles, and successfully became a well-known local socialite family through marriages, adoptions, etc. Ask the Kuznetsovs to mediate.
However, you never know whether the next event that appears in your life will be a surprise or a shock.
The Kuznetsov family was very popular in the local area and was planning to go all out to marry the then eight-year-old Yelena to the eldest son of a count family in the Grand Duchy of Moscow next door. The Grand Duke of Ryazan was defeated by the Grand Duke of Moscow and was deprived of the title of Grand Duke. title.
The Grand Duchy of Ryazan is dead!
Although this incident has little impact on small and medium-sized nobles such as the Viscount Baron, it is different for the Kuznetsov family. They are direct vassals of the Grand Duke.
The tough one!
Therefore, there is no place for them in the newly established Ryazan Principality!
What's more, they also offended a certain big shot in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
To be precise, it was the Grand Duke of Moscow himself. His favorite jester was accidentally hacked to death by Yelena's old father, Viscount Kuznetsov, in a sneak attack while he was passing out on the battlefield.
Now they were in big trouble. The originally famous family suddenly became a street rat that everyone yelled at. The godfathers and godsons suddenly became kind and filial, and invited their family to take refuge in their territory.
After experiencing the dangers and sufferings of the world, especially when nearly half of the originally prosperous family members died and only about 60 people were left, Viscount Kuznetsov. Oh no, he is no longer a viscount, the head of the Kuznetsov family. Decide to run away.
Originally, he wanted to go west to live with his relatives in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but a piece of news that made the entire Grand Duchy rejoice made the Ku family members who were preparing to move west feel as if their parents were dead.
Princess Sophia of the subjugated Eastern Roman Empire is about to marry the Grand Duke of Moscow.
It's over. To the west is the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. It is already very dangerous to cross it, but now the guard force will definitely be stronger and the defense will be tighter. If more than 60 people from my family go there, aren't they just falling into a trap?
Therefore, the Ku clan leader decided to move eastward!
To the west and north is the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and going there is seeking death. To the south is the rising Ottoman pagans, so the only choice is to go to the east!
Although to the east were the Turks who had been driven over by the Mongolians who had invaded their pastures, they had no other choice. At least, walking on the ice sheet was less dangerous than walking on the Central Asian grasslands.
As long as the wolf disaster is avoided, a single brown bear, tiger or even a pack of more than a dozen wolves will be nothing more than a piece of meat in front of more than 60 people.
Moreover, it is said that there is a vast land flowing with milk and honey in the easternmost part of the continent. It is a place called Khitan. Perhaps the Kuznetsov family will flourish again there.
After selling all the things they could sell, the Ku family began to move eastward with the few remaining food and equipment supported by sympathetic relatives and friends.
However, there have been fewer man-made disasters, but the seemingly endless ice field has given the Ku family a blow.
severe cold.
Since they had never experienced such a cold winter, more than a dozen people froze to death in the first winter when the Ku people moved eastward. They could only endure hunger in the leather tents and log houses they built at the risk of their lives. I had to endure hunger for several months.
Although it is a bit presumptuous to say this, the remaining rations of the dozen or so people who froze to death really saved them.
When spring came next year, the Ku family, who had been holding back all winter, ran south like joy, vowing never to go to the ice fields again in their lives.
Then they were chased by a Turkic tribe in the south with nowhere to go. As a last resort, they had no choice but to escape into the ice field again.
Fortunately, they still purchased enough supplies. From then on, they basically walked on the ice field for a while. When they couldn't wait any longer, they walked south on the grassland for a while. After being chased, they escaped into the ice field again. It was really freezing. If it doesn't work out, I'll go south again.
Stopping and stopping along the way, they once tried to settle down, but all the good places were occupied by the Turkic tribes, and the rest were all barren mountains and rivers. They now only have about 40 people, and they really have no conflict with the Turkic tribes. qualifications
Finally, in the eighth year of their escape, they finally found a place to stay in Chita, which is now a hundred kilometers northwest of Hulun Lake.
Just as they had built the residential area and planned to start building a serious settlement, and were preparing to go south to find the local lord to pay homage to the dock after a while, a group of Khitan soldiers wearing strange-style armor and holding fire-burning sticks appeared. Appeared in their temporary village.
A few slaves they bought halfway up the road were about to step forward and chop twice to test, when they heard a few loud noises, and the wooden sticks suddenly sprayed out fire and smoke, and several holes instantly exploded in the slaves' bodies. He fell to the ground and died.
The leader of the Ku clan immediately followed the rules of the east and led his clan members to kneel down on their knees, while begging for mercy in the Mongol language he learned on the road. Maybe these Khitan people felt strange, so they took dozens of them away.
"Then, those soldiers took our family all the way south. Later, we fell ill in a place called Shengyang."
"Shenyang, Shen, not Sheng." Jia Hui is already a qualified translator.
"Shengsheng."
"Forget it, you should talk to the maid more these days, and continue talking."
"Yeah, well, later, after our illnesses were all cured, we continued walking south, walking and walking, for more than a month, and then we came to you Khitan people."
"Qi, not Khitan, Khitan is just a branch of our nation. You can call us Han people or Qi people, but we can't call us Khitan!" Jia Hui corrected again.
This matter is still very serious.
Yelena nodded quickly to show that she remembered.
They were not always rushing on their way south. They were also learning some common sense about Daqi and Chinese.
After going through multiple translations and comparisons from Chinese to Mongol to Kipchak to Rakshasa, Yelena barely understood some things about Daqi.
For example, the identity and power of the man in front of me.
This was also the reason why she didn't resist when Jia Hui took her away.
He is the highest military officer of this vast, wealthy and powerful empire. He is a noble duke who rules a place called Dunhuang. He is the favorite of the emperor as his nephew. He was founded by the Mongol people who destroyed the terror. The gods of war in three countries.
She was not qualified to resist with strength at all, and she was even somewhat grateful that the great Duke chose her.
Thinking of this, Yelena leaned down and hugged tightly from the back such a noble man who still chose to respect herself, the daughter of an exiled viscount who was a foreign, pagan and not noble enough blood, and pressed her face tightly against the Duke's. on the shoulders.
As if feeling Yelena's thoughts, Jia Hui smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and gently stroked her long golden hair.
On the other side, Yelena's viscount father, who was being detained in a certain yard, was also in a very complicated mood.
He originally wanted to improve his family's status through Yelena's marriage, but he was forced to put it on hold because of the country's destruction, and his title was also lost. But after coming to Daqi, Yelena still became a duke due to a strange combination of circumstances. What is the name of that Khitan man? Aunt?
Although the daughter exceeded expectations and became one of the wives of a duke? Not a lover anyway. But now he doesn't have a title or even an official, but he has been protected by the country's top dignitaries.
Viscount Kuznetsov's eyes were blurred and he was confused.
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