The girl opened her arms, stopped in front of Ma Chao, and shouted at the top of her lungs: "You can't kill my brother, my brother is just a child!"
A little boy in gorgeous clothes was hiding timidly behind the girl, like a chick hiding from the eagle, hiding under the wings of an old hen.
In recent years, the power of the Xianbei people has expanded rapidly on the grasslands, and has gradually replaced the Xiongnu's position on the grasslands. However, the vast majority of Xianbei people are still quite poor. In ordinary Xianbei herdsmen families, people like the four or five-year-old in front of me
A little boy, not to mention wearing exquisite silk clothes, can find a rag to cover his body, which is already considered very good.
Seeing the little boy's clothes, Ma Chao was sure that he was Jian Man. He immediately ignored the girl and reached out to grab her. The girl didn't give way at all. Instead, she took a step forward and blocked Ma Chao. Ma Chao's
He was tall, and as soon as he raised his hand halfway, it was blocked by a soft thing. When he looked down, he saw that his hand was pressing on the girl's breast, and he hurriedly retracted it.
Ma Chao is from Xiliang. Xiliang is a place where many ethnic groups live together and the atmosphere is open, and Ma Chao is half Qiang. Although he is still a boy, he is not unfamiliar with things between men and women. However, Ma Chao
Luo Xiang could be allowed to "fight" with the mother and daughter in the tent, but he did not dare to do anything excessive to the Xianbei women in front of him. Because the military discipline of the Han Dynasty was established by Ma Yun, the first article strictly prohibited soldiers from molesting women.
The crime was much more serious than killing prisoners and surrendering. That's why Ma Chao held back because he was afraid of causing unnecessary misunderstandings. The latest chapter of Tomb Robbers.
However, his hand was pressed in the wrong place. Even if the Xianbei people were open-minded, the girl couldn't help but blush. When she thought about it, Ma Chao must have had evil thoughts towards her. However, the Xianbei girl was only slightly shy.
But he puffed up his chest and said: "As long as you are willing to let my brother go, I, I will do whatever you want!"
Ma Chao was a proud and arrogant person. He knew that he had been misunderstood, but he did not explain. He just looked at the Xianbei girl in surprise and said, "You speak Chinese well!"
The girl didn't have the slightest fear and said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "You are a Han Chinese and you don't speak Chinese. Do you understand me?"
Ma Chao was stunned, and then he carefully looked at the Xianbei girl in front of him. Like other Xianbei people, this girl also had yellow hair, blue eyes, a high nose, and white skin. But she didn't have the characteristics that are unique to ordinary prairie people.
The mutton smell of sheep breeds, but it exudes a faint fragrance.
The Xianbei people eat cattle and sheep as their staple food, and they don’t bathe all year round, so they will inevitably have various odors on their bodies. In fact, not only the Xianbei people, the Huns, the Qiang people, but even the Han people living in the Xiliang area also don’t bathe all the year round.
The smell is equally unpleasant.
Ma Chao had grown up in such an environment since he was a child, and he was not averse to the smell of the Xianbei people, but when he suddenly smelled the fragrance of the girl, the expression on his face was still slightly stagnant.
When the Xianbei girl saw that Ma Chao didn't speak and just looked at her blankly, she became a little annoyed and said angrily: "Hey, do you agree or not?"
Ma Chao suddenly smiled and said, "Do you know who I am?"
The girl replied without thinking: "Aren't you a Han general?"
Ma Chao nodded and said: "Yes, I am a Han general, and my official position is not low. Just one word from me can kill your entire clan!"
The girl snorted coldly and said, "I'm not afraid of death, as long as you let him go!"
In this short time, Ma Chao could no longer remember how many people he had killed. Among the people he killed, there were strong Xianbei warriors, old and weak women and children. In a tent before arriving at this camp, there were
a year
The young Xianbei woman tore off her clothes in front of more than a dozen soldiers, revealing two trembling balls of white flesh. She wanted to use her body in exchange for the soldiers to spare her life, but she was killed by Ma Chao.
Shot to death.
When Ma Chao took action, he didn't mean to look down on the woman at all. An ant can still survive, let alone a human being? In the face of death, how many people can truly be indifferent? However, the girl in front of him seems to be such a person
Ma Chao couldn't help but admired: "He Lian gave birth to a good daughter!"
The girl retorted: "I am not Helian's daughter!"
Ma Chao's expression changed, he pointed at the boy behind the girl and asked: "So, he is not Jian Man anymore?"
The girl shook her head and said: "No, he is Jian Man!"
Ma Chao asked sternly: "Then why do you say he is your brother?"
The girl rolled her eyes and said angrily: "She's my aunt."
It turns out that this girl is called Tuoba Yan, the daughter of Tuoba Jun, the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, and Tuoba Jun's sister Tuoba Ying married Helian and gave birth to a son for Helian, who was hiding in the
The little boy behind Tuoba Yan, Jian Man.
Ma Chao knew that Tuoba Yan was not Jian Man's biological sister, but she stood up to protect her. He was even more impressed with her. He couldn't help but smile and said: "Miss Tuoba, let me ask you, has Jian Man ever been taller than a wheel?"
Tuoba Yan turned around and looked at it, and asked, "Can't you see it yourself?"
Ma Chao was not angry because of Tuoba Yan's rudeness, but simply said: "Since he is not higher than the wheel, why should I kill him?"
Tuoba Yan breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: "What do you plan to do with us?"
If they were captured by other grassland tribes, they would know the outcome without asking. The young women would be divided up by the warriors in the tribe, and the older women and younger children would be used as slaves.
Read. But now they are captured by the Han people. Tuoba Yan doesn't know the rules of the Han people, and she is still a little uneasy in her heart.
Ma Chao did not answer her words, but pointed at Jian Man, whose face turned pale with fright, and said: "However, although I will not kill him, I am not sure whether His Majesty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, can kill him!"
"Didn't you say that your official position is very high and you can decide our life or death?" Tuoba Yan became nervous again and suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Let him go!"
Ma Chao waved his hand and said: "He is the son of the former Xianbei Khan. No one can let him go easily. But don't worry too much. His Majesty, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, is kind by nature. Maybe he can be spared his life."
indefinite."
Tuoba Yan seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw at once, and said repeatedly: "Then you must help me say a few kind words in front of your emperor, and save my brother's life no matter what, I can thank you as much as you want!
"
Ma Chao asked strangely: "Why are you so attentive to this cousin?"
Tuoba Yan murmured: "Actually, he is not just my cousin, he is also my future husband! This was decided a long time ago."
Ma Chao finally understood why she must try every means to save Jian Man's life. To say how much Tuoba Yan has feelings for Jian Man, it's not that much. Tuoba Yan is already a young girl who has just begun to have a love affair, while Jian Man is just a dragster.
Even if the snot-nosed little brat has feelings, it can only be between brother and sister.
However, this marriage is very likely to involve the tribal interests of the Tuoba tribe, and even the life and death of the entire Tuoba tribe. Because before setting off, Ma Chao carefully read the information on various Xianbei tribes collected by Phantom. There are many tribes in Xianbei.
, there is one more
These originated from other ethnic groups, but gradually became Xianbei. It is impossible for Ma Chao to remember the situation of all tribes, but he knows the names of the larger tribes. However, Ma Chao has no impression of the Tuoba tribe, which means that the Tuoba tribe
The postscript is just a small tribe.
The law on the grassland is that the weak eat the strong. This is true between different ethnic groups, and it is also true between different tribes of the same ethnic group. If these small tribes want to survive, they will either just be dependent on those large tribes, or they will be annexed by the larger tribes.
, and if that doesn't work, the only option is to hide in some barren pastures where no one is fighting for it.
As the leader of a small tribe, Tuoba Jun obviously chose the first path. He first married his sister Tuoba Ying to He Lian, and after He Lian died, he planned to marry his daughter Tuoba Yan
To Jianman. Although Jianman is young, he is the leader of a large tribe after all. There are many people in Xianbei who support his return to the throne. With the support of the Jianman tribe, the Tuoba tribe can survive.
And he can survive pretty well.
Of course, Tuoba Jun's best choice is to marry Tuoba Yan to Jian Man's cousin, now the leader of Xianbei Khan. But everyone in Xianbei knows that the so-called conflict between leader and Jian Man is actually
Jianman’s biological mother Tuoba Ying and others
The conflict between the tribal leader who supports Helian and the leader. Therefore, the Tuoba tribe wants to step into two boats, and the approach of marrying both sides is not feasible. Tuoba Jun can only make the relationship between the Tuoba tribe and the Jianman tribe
The relationship has become closer.
Although he has not yet figured out what the deal was between the Tuoba tribe and the Jianman tribe, Ma Chao still pointed at Jianman with disdain and said: "He is not yet five years old, right? When he grows up, you will already be quite young.
No. He is not worthy of you."
Ma Chao's words touched Tuoba Yan's sore spot, and she couldn't help but look sad. In fact, Ma Chao said it very implicitly. What he wanted to say was, when Jian Man grows up, you Tuoba Yan will be old.
.However, this is indeed the case. Even if the prairie people get married early, they will not be able to wait until Jian Man arrives.
The age of getting married was at least twelve or three years later, when Tuoba Yan was already in her late thirties, and her beautiful youth was wasted. Of course Tuoba Yan understood what Ma Chao meant, but how could she herself?
There was no resentment, she just made sacrifices for the benefit of the tribe.
Tuoba Yan stamped her feet fiercely and said: "He is not worthy of me, how can you be worthy of me?"
"Haha, haha..." Ma Chao laughed loudly, stretched out a hand and waved it in front of Tuoba Yan, and said with a proud face, "Looking at the heroes in the world, there will not be more than this number who can beat me, Ma Chao!
If I am not worthy of you, then who else is worthy of you!"^-^Book (0000)^-^