"The Fall of the Inca Empire" (Novel) (Volume 2) Inca Elegy Zhang Baotong
After Pizarro held the coronation ceremony for the new Inca King, he held another afternoon meeting. After the meeting, it was already evening. When he returned home, the Inca Princess had already prepared dinner for him. Dinner was tortillas and braised potatoes, with vicuna and a tall glass of chicha. These are the foods that Mr. Marquis usually likes to eat.
Braised potatoes are the Spanish way of cooking them because the Indians just boiled them and ate them. The dried vicuña meat has an authentic Indian flavor. Pizarro was very fond of llama meat. This kind of dried llama meat is made by slaughtering llamas and cutting them into pieces or strips. The meat is cooked thoroughly with spices and salt water, and then placed in a ventilated mountain pass outside the town to dry. It tastes particularly chewy and chewy, with a lingering aroma and endless aftertaste. Therefore, the Spaniards especially like to eat this kind of dried vicuña meat. In the past, this kind of food could only be enjoyed by the Inca kings and a very small number of princes and nobles. Because some of the Inca mountainous areas were grazed by large herds of vicuñas and alpacas, and these vicuñas and alpacas were owned by the royal family. The Spanish robbed all these llamas and alpacas for their meat. Therefore, Spanish soldiers stationed in Cajamarca had a daily supply of this meat.
Pizarro sat at the small wooden table in the room, picked up the rice bowl, and as soon as he took a bite of food, he turned to the Inca Princess and asked, "Have those children eaten?" The Inca Princess said, "They must wait until you finish eating. Eat. This is the rule, sir." Pizarro quickly put down his knife, fork and wine glass and said, "I have neither married nor had children in my life. Although they are all Atahualpa's children, they are now mine. We have children. Let them eat with me from now on." Princess Inca hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, sir."
Pizarro said, "Call them to come and eat with me." So the Inca princess called all the children from a nearby room to eat with Mr. Marquis.
Before Atahualpa died, he asked Pizarro to protect his children, and Pizarro assured him that he would treat his children as his own. Therefore, after executing the Inca Queen, Pizarro immediately had the children brought to him from the temple. Atahualpa had a son and two daughters. The son’s name was Don Francisco. The reason why he called him this name was because Pizarro really wanted to treat the child as his own, so he renamed the child after himself. However, Don Francisco's fate was not good and he died while still in school. When he died, not only did some people applaud him happily, but they also said that he was the son of that sinister, treacherous, and violent man and that he deserved to die. They even said that his father was a heartless man. He was not the son of the Inca King Huayna Capac at all. It was his mother who betrayed the Inca King and slept with a Quito Indian. If he were an Inka, he wouldn't be able to commit those inhumane crimes, he wouldn't even be able to think of them. Because the teachings of the Inca ancestors have always been to prevent people from harming others, not even their enemies, let alone their own relatives. So, they scolded his father together, because it was his father who destroyed the kingdom and destroyed the royal family. When Don Francisco was alive, he deeply felt that the Inka royal family and Indians in general hated him, so he did not interact with them, and did not even leave his home. The same goes for his two sisters, because as soon as they leave the house, they will hear people calling them sinister, tyrannical, and despicable villains. One of the girls named Kaya was the baby daughter of Queen Anna Maya. Her later life and fate were also very bad. Her mother had not been heard from again since she fled with the Spaniard.
The three children entered the room timidly and stood beside Pizarro. The girl named Kasala is the oldest, eleven or twelve years old. She is a beautiful and sensible princess. Standing beside her was Don Francisco, who looked to be only six or seven years old. Kaya is only four or five years old. Not only is she handsome, she is also lively, smart and cute. She held her sister's hand and followed her sister. The three children entered the room and looked at Pizarro with very unfamiliar and reserved eyes.
Pizarro said to them, "Sit down and eat quickly?" However, no child dared to sit in front of him. This made Pizarro feel a little at a loss. He asked, "Why, you don't want to eat with me?" The eldest girl Cassara said timidly, "We have to wait for the master to finish eating before we can eat. This is Rules." Pizarro then realized that the Inca king never ate with his family, so the children did not have the habit of eating with their father. Moreover, the Incas are also very particular about rules, because not following the rules is a serious violation of the law.
Pizarro smiled at the children and said, "But, I am not the Inca King, and I am not a master. If you want, you can call me daddy, or uncle. Whatever you want is fine." But Kaya replied in a very angry tone, "You are not our father, our father asked you to be hanged." After hearing this, the Inca princess turned pale with fright, and she scolded loudly, "Don't talk nonsense, you crow mouth, shut it up quickly." These words did make Pizarro look a little surprised and embarrassed, but instead of being angry, he thought the girl was very cute.
He walked up to the girl, held her in his arms, then sat at the dining table, and said to the girl with a very sad look, "Uncle and your father have always been good friends, but those soldiers insisted that uncle do this." , if uncle doesn’t do this, they will rebel, do you understand what rebellion is?”
The girl thought for a while and said, "I heard from my father that rebellion is betrayal. What dad hates most is betrayal. Aunt Gina betrayed dad. Therefore, dad hated her very much." Then the girl asked, "Why do they Why do you want to hang my father?" Pizarro felt that this question was difficult to answer, but he couldn't help but answer, so he said, "They said that your father had committed a crime of rebellion and planned an Inca army to attack the Spaniards, and then put him to death. Kill them all." The girl lowered her head and remained silent. Pizarro then said to the girl, "Your father entrusted all three of you to me before he died. Therefore, I will follow his last wish and raise you as my own children. Therefore, I will be Your father or uncle is here."
The girl still lowered her head and refused to speak. Pizarro kissed the girl on the face and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. You are also hungry, let's eat." After saying that, he held the wine glass and placed it on the girl's mouth. The girl takes a sip of wine. The girl took a sip of wine and choked until she coughed. So Pizarro immediately put a piece of dried llama meat into the girl's mouth. The girl chewed the dried meat and slowly recovered.
At this time, Pizarro called to the children standing nearby to sit down. At the urging of the Inca princess, the children timidly sat down at the table. At this time, Pizarro asked the Inca princess to bring some cutlery and cutlery. However, children usually eat meat and food with their hands and do not know how to use knives and forks. Pizarro and the Inca princess taught them how to use knives and forks one by one. The three children soon learned to use knives and forks. Not only did they not find it difficult, but they found it very interesting.
In the past, children would always eat with their mother, and their mother would sometimes eat in her own home, because each concubine would have her own residence in the Quito Palace, but sometimes she would take them with other concubines in the palace. eat together. For example, after they left the Quito Palace and followed the king to the palace in Cajamarca, they had to eat in the restaurant with everyone. Although they are the king's family, they usually eat corn cakes, boiled potatoes and some ordinary vegetables. They can also often eat some rabbit, venison or llama meat. Sometimes you can also eat some fish and shrimp, which are quickly transported from distant seaside. However, since they moved into the temple courtyard, they ate corn and vegetables all day long and almost never ate meat again. So a large plate of vicuña jerky was eaten by the children in no time.
When Pizarro saw that the children had finished eating the llama jerky, he asked the Inca princess to get some more. The Inca princess went into the kitchen and brought another plate of vicuña jerky. Normally, Pizarro only needs ten minutes to eat, but this meal took about an hour. Although the time was longer, this meal made Pizarro feel very happy. After he finished eating, he said hello to the children and went out.
After the meal, the Inca princess took the children to the next room. The room is not very big, with a few small beds and a few small stools. The Inca princess sat on the edge of the bed, twisting the string and humming an Inca ditty. Inca women were very hard-working and did not want to waste time. They want to spin and weave clothes for their husbands and children, and are proud of it, but the clothes they weave are relatively simple, a complete piece, and do not need to be cut at all. Because the Incas did not have a profession that specialized in making clothes. People's clothes were made by their own women, and the clothes of the Inca kings and princesses were made by the virgins in the Virgin Palace.
The eldest girl named Kasala was nestling next to the princess, learning to twist the thread while watching. Although she was young, she could still twist the thread in a decent way. Regardless of whether they are royal family or common people, whether they are rich or poor, the Inca people never pamper their children when they grow up, but let them endure hardships and stand hard work so that they can set an example for the Inca people when they grow up. Therefore, from this child The princess does not have the elegance and arrogance of a king's daughter.
Cassara was born to Atahualpa and a concubine named Natali. After birth, because of insufficient milk, she gave it to a maid to feed. I don't know whether it was because the maid's milk was not good or she was pregnant. Instead of gaining weight during the maid's feeding, Kashara became even thinner and weaker. Half a year later, when the mother's milk became better, she took her back from the maid and fed the child with her own milk. Since then, Kashara has quickly gained some weight and her appearance has gradually improved.
Don Francisco's mother was originally born to an entertainer from King Atahualpa's mother's family. Of course, that entertainer later became Atahualpa's concubine. At this time, he was sitting by the bed playing four-digit chess alone. This is the most common form of entertainment for the Incas. He was very attentive.
Kaya was born to Atahualpa and his wife and queen, Anna Maya. Ana Maya was the favorite daughter of her father, King Huayna Kabak, and the half-sister of King Atahualpa. She was regarded by the Incas as the "goddess of wisdom." And this little girl inherited her mother's advantages in both appearance and talent. She was very smart and beautiful, and was deeply loved by people.
She was currently drawing a little alpaca on a piece of silk cloth. The little alpaca is painted vividly, deftly and very cute. Her mother taught her painting since she was a child, and she has shown her talent and talent in this area since she was a child. As she drew, she stopped and tears flowed down silently.
At this time, Don Francisco saw that she was crying and said, "Kaya is crying again."
The princess knew that she was thinking about her mother again, so she wiped her tears and coaxed her, "Stop crying, your mother may come back one day."
However, Kaya shook her head vigorously and said, "My mother will not come back. Uncle Antonio said that my mother fell in love with the Spanish secretary named Albert, followed him and flew away, and she will never come back."
The princess still coaxed her and said, "When the master forgives them, they will come back together."
After hearing what the princess said, Don Francisco also started crying and asked the princess, "Auntie, when will my mother come back?"
This statement troubled the princess, because her mother hanged herself after the king was hanged by the Spaniards, that is, she went to the father of the sun with the king's husband. But this cannot be said to children. She let out a long sigh and said, "Your mother has returned to Quito. I'm afraid she will have to wait a year or two before she can come back."
As a result, both Cassara and Don Francisco cried, "I want my mother." However, Cassara's mother contracted smallpox and died when she was five years old. But she couldn't tell the child. In order to divert the children's attention, the princess began to tell the children stories. She said to the children, "Stop crying and listen to me telling you a story."
After listening to their aunt's words, the children wiped their tears and sat beside their aunt's bed, listening to her tell them stories.
The story told by the princess is called "Olijanta", which is not a very old story. Oriante is a well-known warrior of the Incas, but he came from a humble background and worked as a palace guard in the palace since he was a child. He developed a sincere love with the little princess Coyul, and the two vowed to never change their hearts. In order to match his status to that of the princess, he was extremely brave and performed extraordinary feats in foreign battles, and became the leader of the Inca army. His only wish was to marry the youngest daughter of the Inca king Pachacuti. Pachacuti was the ninth monarch of the Kingdom of Cusco. During his reign, Cusco gradually developed from a small country into a vast empire. But the Inca King felt that he was of low birth and unworthy of being his consort, so he firmly disagreed with the marriage and sent his youngest daughter to the Palace of Virgins for confinement. But at this time, the little princess was already pregnant with Ollyante's flesh and blood, and she gave birth to her daughter Ima Suma in the Virgin Palace. When the Inca king found out about this, he was very angry and ordered the princess to be thrown into the dungeon. When Oriante learned the news, he was extremely disappointed, so he led his troops to resist and declared himself king. The Inca king sent General "Stone Eyes" to lead an army to suppress it. The two armies fought, and Oriyantai was so brave that he defeated General "Stone Eyes" and was completely defeated. General "Stone Eyes" then used a bitter trick to deceive Oriyante's trust. He entered the city of Oriante, opened the city gate from the city, and allowed the Inca army to rush into the city, captured Oriante alive, and sent him to the Inca king. The Inca king decided to sacrifice him to the Sun God. At this most critical moment, the Inca king suddenly died, and the new Inca king ascended the throne. Because of Oriyante's outstanding military exploits, the new king ordered him to be pardoned and restored. his official position. As a result, Oriante finally married the princess, and the empire was reunited.
After hearing this story, the children no longer miss their mother.
