RPAGF Chapter 451: Beirong Man (2)
Chapter 451: Beirong Man (2)
The man's eyes were fixed on him, as if he was listening carefully.
Shen Yu smiled even more friendly when she saw this. "This time, I sent people out of the city because the Yun family sent people to pretend to be from Beirong. So I'm not sure how many of your original local residents are left. If you are willing, I welcome you to move to the city to live. This way, you don't have to eat and sleep in the open air. I accept you as the people of Zhuocheng. Do you understand what I mean?"
She looked at the woman again, "If my people want to harm you..." She pointed at Zhao Fan, "then he won't let the doctor treat your child, and he won't take the risk of bringing you to me. After all... I'm a pregnant woman, understand?"
She pushed up her belly, and the woman's eyes showed surprise, as if she had just realized that the person in front of her was a pregnant woman? But the wariness and uneasiness in her eyes were visibly reduced.
The man opposite stared at her for a long time, as if to confirm the truth of her words... so long that Shen Yu was about to lose patience, and suddenly a not-so-standard Cantonese voice came from the other side, "My name is Molt..."
Shen Yu smiled and nodded, "Hello, Morte, did you understand what I just said?"
Morte nodded, but then shook his head and said, "You... never welcome us, you will kill us... and not let us in..." He was trying to express his thoughts. Although he could speak Linyue, his vocabulary was obviously limited.
Shen Yu understood from his intermittent words that Beirong was the name used in Linyue. They did not have a country name. They were a nomadic people and generally lived in groups with their families. Generation after generation, they constantly reorganized and split, so there were several kings on the grassland.
Many generations ago, the ancestors of their tribe would trade cattle, sheep, and game with the people of Linyue in exchange for some necessary biological supplies, such as salt and herbs. However, one of the kings was very powerful and overbearing. After he merged several tribes, he no longer allowed them to trade... Instead, he ordered the men in the tribe to rob in the city, robbing caravans and supplies. At first, many people resisted and were unwilling to participate. Unfortunately, the inability to trade meant that they lacked necessary supplies, so most people had to accept their fate and follow.
But there are some people who don't want to associate with them, and Merte's family belongs to this category.
Although survival was difficult, they could still survive by relying on the young people in the tribe to secretly go to the border to continue trading with the people of Linyue. As long as they did not enter the border, the people of Linyue were relatively friendly.
But a major war suddenly broke out more than ten years ago, and I heard that almost all the men in that tribe were killed. Then outsiders began to wear their clothes, learn their way of life, and continue to live on the grassland.
Recently, for unknown reasons, these people suddenly began to encircle and suppress the rest of the Beirong people. In the chaos, Morte was separated from his family while protecting his wife and children. If his son had not been seriously ill this time, he would not have been able to find any herbs and would not have risked running here.
Shen Yu fell silent after hearing this. This was consistent with what she saw in the notes. The Beirong people had never thought of invading... Perhaps when the gap between the two sides was large enough, they would not even have such thoughts, but...
"Hearing what you said, are you actually willing to continue living outside the Great Wall? Even if there are dangers everywhere and the environment is harsh, are you willing to continue living there?"
A look of confusion appeared on Morte's face, as if saying: That is our roots, our home.
Shen Yu understood that she was just thinking too simply.
She had originally thought that the people of Beirong had been severely damaged by the Yun family, and only one in ten survived. It would be most convenient to bring the remaining people in to live here. But she was taking it for granted...
"What if I can send people out to trade with you regularly for the supplies you need? Do you know how many people you have over there? I'm talking about people like your family who don't want to fight."
While Molt was still in doubt, his wife beside him pulled his sleeve with an anxious look on her face.
Shen Yu understood, this woman could also understand... Could it be that all the people in Beirong have learned the language of Linyue?
"Madam... do you have something to say?"
The woman was visibly startled by the sudden question.
"Tara?" Morte also looked down at his wife, his eyes full of confusion.
The woman named Tara was obviously anxious. She looked at Shen Yu, took a deep breath and said, "Princess, my father's family has fifty-eight people, and my mother's side..." She looked at her husband, her eyes obviously filled with sadness.
Morte lowered his head and kissed her head, then sighed softly, "Princess, this time I went back with Tara to visit my mother's people, but we ran into those people as soon as we arrived nearby... We hid behind the bushes and saw them kill many men and tie up the women and children together, so..."
He was incapable of revenge, so he had to protect his wife and children and escape. He was a coward! Molt's eyes were red, and suddenly filled with anger.
Gu Liu took half a step forward, showing a defensive posture.
The person opposite suddenly knelt down on one knee, raised his right hand to his chest and patted it three times. This was a gesture of submission. "Princess, please help us! I, Morte, swear allegiance in the name of God!" He lowered his head.
The wife beside him also knelt down and made the same gesture of submission. The little boy, who was left alone on the chair, also knelt down and kowtowed.
Shen Yu was also confused by them. After a pause, he wanted to go over and help the man up.
As a result, Gu Liu took the lead and stood in front of her. Gu Yu took the position consciously and went over to pull up the family of three... Seeing her step back and sit down obediently, Gu Liu stood on her right side again.
Alas, she is still not used to the treatment she is given as the golden baby!
"In fact, I have read the records over the years. You Beirong people only come to rob when you can't survive and have no food. And the Zhuo kings of all generations have never killed you. Can I understand that there is actually some agreement between the two sides?"
Shen Yu really didn’t understand. Is it because this is a novel that everyone is so friendly?
When I read other novels before, these foreigners would invade again and again, or did she meet a fake Beirong?
Seeing that she didn't agree to him, Molt stubbornly kept one hand on his chest and lowered his head. Shen Yu had no choice but to promise carefully, "Okay! I will send someone to go back with you to check and rescue everyone."
"Thank you, Princess!" Both the husband and wife looked up in surprise. Tara burst into tears of joy and kept saying thank you. She knew that this was very mean, but apart from this princess, no one could help her save her mother's people...
Shen Yu didn't care about their "coercion". Since she had to negotiate with the Beirong people, she could accept a different form.
After all, Zhuo Cheng's notes clearly recorded that the area outside the snow-capped mountains was actually Linyue's territory, so she had always been curious about who these Beirong people were.