Published at 29th of October 2020 04:40:49 AM
Three months after the stone tablet with characters of ancient Qidan was found, the Fourth Prince Wanyan Su set off with his mighty troops . The leading troop was cavalries which had gone through tough training . The troop was awarded by the Grand Khan of North Di . Wanyan Su arranged this troop at the forefront, which was not only very imposing but also useful for the removal of mines when crucially necessary .
“The removal of mines means that if there were some dangers, the troop would be the first to die, which could warn the troop behind . ” Leng Changxi explained the term carefully to Qin Yunuan . Wanyan Su had arranged a very comfortable horse carriage for the two respected guests, Qin Yunuan and Leng Changxi, but Qin Yunuan refused . She felt so eye-catching for a woman with white gauze covering her eyes to ride a horse in the street .
Qin Yunuan ignored the horse carriage and listened carefully to Leng Changxi’s description of the troop .
“There are about one hundred and seventy people together with only seven women, including Yaqi, who is dispatched to serve you . ”
“Seven women?” Qin Yunuan said in a slightly higher tone . She seemed to be a little bit surprised . The number was excess for a troop, which caught out this terribly dangerous task .
Yaqi was necessary to serve Qin Yunuan herself . What about the other six women?
“The rest of the six women are maidservants and dispatched from the Royal Palace for serving the troop on the way . ”
Maidservants? Qin Yunuan knew clearly that those women were just for satisfying the sexual desires of those young and robust men . Qin Yunuan knew that it was so normal in North Di . Such an arrangement was considerate for those warriors who took the life risk to research for the treasure for North Di .
On the way, strong winds blew with sands . Qin Yunuan wrapped thick white gauzes on her body to roughly avoid the attack of bean-sized grits . At dusk, the leader warrior said towards the dim outline of a house in the sandstorms, “Prince, there is a village in front . We can have a rest temporarily . ”
Wanyan Su felt unprepared with the sandstorm . He ordered the troop to proceed toward the village at full speed .
Qin Yunuan was about to ride a horse to proceed and exactly saw an imperial maidservant tumbled and luckily supported by a warrior . But the woman did not thank him and showed a disgusting face . She pushed the warrior away and even patted the place reluctantly, where she was touched by the warrior .
Qin Yunuan saw the whole scene and continued to proceed toward the village with the troop . When they arrived at the village, though the sandstorm was over, it was dark now . Only two solitary stone tablets were standing there as a milestone in front of the village .
“Tamuer Village . ” Wanyan Su looked at those blurry characters and said, “It seems that our journey goes smoothly . We can arrive at Yeren Valley the day after tomorrow at the present speed . ”
Yeren Valley was not far away from the capital of North Di . Few people dared to go there due to rare post houses and villages and the scary legend of Yeren Valley . This village was the nearest one from Yeren Valley . There was no other place to have a rest except this one .
“Yeren Valley? You guys will go to Yeren Valley?” Hearing the words of Wanyan Su, a short old man in a grey cotton-padded dress suddenly appeared behind the stone tablet . Such an inanimate man showed up abruptly, which made people doubt if he was stuck behind the stone tablet .
“My old friend . ” Wanyan Su got down from the horse and supported the old man tumbling on the ground .
But the old man refused . He pushed Wanyan Su away and then stepped back, “Go away . You guys are insane . How dare you want to go such a terrible place?”
Wanyan Su smiled and tried to say with a soft smile, “My old friend, we came here by order of the Grand Khan . I just wonder if there is a place for us to have a rest in this village?”
The old man waved his hands and spit to the ground, “No! No! There are few people in our village . We have no inn . You guys are even more than out village people, so we can’t receive you guys . You should go back and never come here . ”
Wanyan Su reached his hand to stop and said with a smile, “OK, listen, my old friend . We do not want to bother the village, but our water in the bottles had run out already on the way here . We want to buy some water . Could you save us? Please . ”
The old man was about to shook head to refuse, but a young man in medium height came out behind the old man . He was slim with charming dark eyes . Such kind of figure was seldom seen in North Di . Men from North Di were always tall and robust .
“Sorry, sorry,” The young man explained in a hurry, “My father is a little bit silly . Sorry to slight your respected guys . Fine, there is a well inside our village . But now some people in our village have slept . To avoid making noises, you can dispatch two people to fetch water with me . If you are willing to eat some steamed buns at my house, you can fetch some . ”
“OK . ” Wanyan Su turned back to order the troop to pitch camps five miles away from the village . The place was sparse white aspens woods but could keep out of sandstorms and burning sun . The woods looked gloomy in the dark, which showed a kind of unspeakable fear .
One hundred and seventy people pitched camps there . Wanyan Su selected two robust and shrewd men to fetch water together with the young man . Before entering the village, Wanyan Su indicated the two that they should be shrewd and acted accordingly and tried their best to collect some useful intelligence .
Qin Yunuan sat beside an aspen root . She took the ox-horn kettle Leng Changxi passed to her . Yaqi aside was untying the tightly wrapped roast cakes . She took a patch of cake for Qin Yunuan and put it into a clean handkerchief then passed it to her .
Qin Yunuan was chewing a little bit hard roasted cake carefully . Her nose had caught the information agilely in the air .
“Something weird in the aspens . ” Qin Yunuan said calmly and lowered her head to eat the still crisp edge of the cake .
Leng Chanxi sat down and drank water, “I think so . Under the burning sun for the whole day, the aspens are still humid . There must be someone pouring water for the woods . The nearest place from here is the village . Aspens need no watering when naturally growing . If no one came here to do watering from five miles away, the aspens must be planted just now . ”
“I think so too,” Qin Yunuan continued, “But it is not due to the aspens . The key is that village,” Qin Yunuan looked at Leng Changxi and said, “There must be a kind of smell . There must be fuel fume smell in the place where people live . But the Tamuer Village’s air is too clean . ”
“Maybe the strong wind blew the smell away?” Yaqi said .
“Yaqi, you should believe my nose . It never goes wrong . ”
Yaiqi withdrew her neck and held a piece of cake Qin Yunuan passed to her . At the same time, male’s whoops came from the other side of the camp suddenly . They were speaking dirty words of the North Di language . Qin Yunuan frowned because she had mastered the language generally .
Those whooping people also noticed the side of Qin Yunuan . They glimpsed at Qin Yunuan prudently . And then they pulled those imperial maidservants sieged by them toward the woods . It seemed that they would have sex with those women . Qin Yunuan did not stop them and just turned sideways to avoid hearing the noises from the woods . As usual, those imperial maidservants would probably know that their mission was to satisfy those soldiers when they went out together with the troops . But there was one imperial maidservant who showed resistance . With hands and feet, she lowered her head and resisted a soldier who was dragging her .
“Go away . You are such dirty perverts . How dare you touch me?” The woman said arrogantly .
But then the seeming chaste woman was slapped by that soldier . The red palm print seemed not to vent the anger of the warrior totally . He dragged the hair of the woman, shouting, “You are just a bitch . Don’t pretend to be chaste . ”
When the woman tidied her tousy hair back to her ears, she showed her comely and pure face . Qin Yunuan and Leng Changxi were astonished .
“Stop . What are you doing?” Wanyan Su showed up . He hugged the abused woman and felt sorry to touch the red fingerprint on her face, “Yasu, how come you came here?”
Right . The woman was Side Concubine Yasu in the Fourth Prince’s Mansion, who tumbled and was noticed by Qin Yunuan but disliked the warrior who supported her .
The close guard of the Fourth Prince rebuked that soldier at once, “This is the Side Concubine of the Fourth Prince’s Mansion . Your behaviors are so dirty . Even if you were dispatched by the Grand Khan, it would be not enough to be executed for your disrespect towards Side Concubine . ”
The soldier shuddered and knelt . Wanyan Su supported the frightened Suya and helped her sit down . Qin Yunuan gave the ox-horn kettle to them and heard their intermittent words .
“Why do you come here? You hid in the troop as an imperial maidservant . I even can’t recognize you with makeup . ”
“Your Highness, I realized that I’d better come with you to Yeren Valley instead of stopping you . If you were in danger, I would be beside you . ”
While communicating, the close guard came to ask how to dispose of that solider who did not respect Side Concubine . Wanyan Su was hesitant because the soldier was dispatched by the Grand Khan, and he could not punish him badly .
“How to punish him? Behead him here . ” Leng Changxi said coldly without any human kindness .
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