Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 24

one year later
The fifth year of the Han Dynasty

Bailu
Liaodong Mountain Forest
"This is already the lowest price. As you know, Wangjiazhuang is very strict about salt. If found out, it will be degraded to a serf at least, or even lose its head." A Han trader was facing a bronze-skinned woman in animal clothes in front of her. Shaking his head and talking.

"However, we have paid so much ginseng, pearls, and animal skins, but we can only get two bags of salt." The bronze-skinned woman was very dissatisfied, speaking Liaodong Chinese not very fluently, the wooden spear in her hand threatened Han merchants.

"It's useless for you to threaten me. Kill me. Who will smuggle sea salt to your tribe in the future?" Although the Han merchants were a little scared, they still pretended to be calm.

"Can't you add more?" The bronze-skinned woman still wanted to bargain.

"If you insist on doing this, I won't come next time. I risk losing my head but I can't make huge profits. Who is willing to do such a thing?" He has long seen that the salt of these mountain and forest people is almost exhausted, which is why they are so urgent.

"Alas..." The bronze-skinned woman had no choice, after all, the other party was the only Han trader who dared to risk being beheaded by the royal family of Liaodong and secretly sold sea salt to the Jianren tribe.

In desperation, the bronze-skinned woman had no choice but to agree to such an obviously bloody deal.

After the caravan of private salt traders left with several carriages of goods, several tribal warriors asked in Jianren: "Patriarch, why did he leave? He hasn't given us any salt yet!"

The tribal warriors couldn't understand Chinese, so they didn't know the content of the transaction just now. They thought that the private salt dealer ran away without giving the salt.

However, the bronze-skinned woman picked up the two cloth bags in her hand and sighed: "He has already given it, and the salt is here."

"what?!"

"Patriarch, are you kidding me? You only got two bags of salt for so many goods?"

"Patriarch, did that Han traitor deceive you with his rhetoric? I'll catch up and chop him up right now!"

"Okay, shut up! The patriarch never does anything wrong, he must have a reason." At this time, another tribal warrior who seemed to have a relatively high status yelled at everyone.

Everyone had no choice but to follow the bronze-skinned woman back to the tribe, but they kept muttering along the way.

On the way back to the tribe, the bronze-skinned woman kept frowning.

Her name is Ayina, and she is the new leader of the Nuolan tribe among the many tribes of Jianren.

Not long ago, the old leader of the Nuolan tribe couldn't bear the pain of not having salt to eat, so he led the warriors of the tribe to the Chenyue salt field of the Wang family in Liaodong to grab salt.

As a result, the tribal warriors wearing animal clothes and holding wooden spears were defeated by the heavy armored cavalry of the Liaodong royal family, and then fled back to the mountains. Dare to chase in.

However, the old leader was seriously injured by a royal soldier named Li Xi in that battle, and died of his injuries shortly after returning to the tribe.

"Cowards of the Nuolan department, if you are afraid, kneel down obediently, men will be our servants, and women will be our playthings!"

"Hahaha!"

As soon as she returned to the tribe, Ayina heard someone shouting outside the village of the Nuolan tribe.

"It's Ke Aobu, those lunatics, they're here again, do you think our old leader will be bullied after he dies?" A tribal warrior behind Ayina was very angry, looking at the yelling Ke Aobu in front of him People, veins burst out of the palms holding the spear tightly.

"Patriarch, kill them! Ten years ago, the despicable Ke'ao people invited our previous patriarch to visit their tribe. Our previous patriarch kindly accepted the invitation, but they actually tied up our previous patriarch and gave it away. To the royal family of Liaodong, so that the patriarch of the previous generation was executed by the devil king Kang Lingchi, this blood feud must be repaid with blood!" Another tribal warrior from the Nuolan tribe became more and more angry as he talked, wishing he could rush up and kill those Cole All the people in Aobujian were killed.

"Don't talk about it." However, Ayina thought further away, looked at the Korao tribe who were shouting, and turned to explain to the tribal warriors beside her: "30 years ago, our tribes were originally One family, however, the devil Wang Kang used the pretext of trade to poison our great king. Since the death of the king, we have split into many independent tribes and fought each other under the instigation of the Liaodong royal family. , it's time to end!"

After all, Ayina added with extremely firm eyes: "All tribes of the Jianren must unite!"

"I don't want to unite with the despicable and shameless Ke'ao people." The tribal warrior retorted disdainfully.

"Ugh……"

Hearing the complaints from the warriors of her own tribe, Ayina knew that her idea was good, but it was extremely difficult to realize it. Under the instigation of the Liaodong royal family, the tribes of Jianren fought against each other for decades. There has long been a blood feud between them, how can it be so easy to let go of the hatred, unite together and resist the increasingly powerful Wangjiazhuang.

Thinking in this way, Ayina brought the tribal warriors to the crowd, and said to the Kerao people who called the formation: "I, Ayina, am the new leader of the Nuolan tribe, my friend, what can I do?"

"Hahahaha!" The caller laughed loudly, then pointed his spear at Ayina and said disdainfully, "I have long heard that the men in Nuolan's department are useless, and they actually let a woman be the leader. I thought it was a rumor before, no It turned out to be true, little girl, kneel down and be my female pet, I will let your Nuo Lan tribe go, otherwise, I will kill all the men in your tribe."

"asshole!"

"Don't insult our leader!"

"Patriarch, let me go, I'm going to fight them!"

The tribal warriors glared, and one of them was about to rush out, but was stopped by Aina.

"The bad guys don't kill the bad guys!" Ayina dissuaded, and then said to the caller: "If you are here as a guest, I, Ayina, welcome you, but if you are here to provoke, I, Ayina, will also welcome you." Not a coward!"

"It's up to you?" The caller said disdainfully.

"Do you want to try?" Ayina was very confident.

"Hmph!" The caller snorted coldly, and then said to Ayina: "Call out the most capable man in your tribe to fight me one-on-one, and settle the dispute in a cruel way, do you dare?"

"Of course I dare!" Ayina then added: "But it's me, Ayina!"

"Although you are a woman, I will not be merciful." After saying that, the caller gave Ayina a hostile salute, which is a kind of hostile ritual to invite the other party to fight one-on-one.

Ayina put the two bags of sea salt in the hands of the tribal warriors behind her, then saluted the callers, and said politely: "Please!"

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, the caller suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "If you lose, you will give five bags... No! Give us ten bags of sea salt!"

"what?"

"Kor Ao's dog, are you crazy!"

"Since our Jianren salt field was taken away by Wangjiazhuang, we have been short of salt for several years. Where did we get ten bags of sea salt?"

The people of the Nuolan tribe were angry and cursed at the callers.

"I accept!"

However, Ayina is still very confident. Although Nuo Lan doesn't have ten bags of sea salt at all, she can't lose, absolutely impossible!

"Patriarch!"

"leader!"

The clansmen still wanted to dissuade them, but Ayina waved her hands and said with a smile: "Why, don't you know my strength? Do you think I will lose?"

After all, he no longer cared about the emotions of the clansmen, and smiled lightly at the callers: "So, what if you lose?"

"I'm a noble Ke'ao man, how could I lose?" The caller first subconsciously expressed disdain, and then said: "If we lose, I'll give you twenty bags of sea salt. How about ten bags more than you? It's very generous."

"No, we don't want sea salt." Ayina shook her head.

"Then what do you want? Do you want our noble Kor Ao people to be your slaves? Hmph! Stop dreaming!"

"I'm not that kind of person. I, Ayina, will never enslave my fellow Jianren! If you lose, form an alliance with our Nuolan tribe, and we will resist the royal family of Liaodong together from now on."

"The leader of the Nuolan people, do you know what you are talking about? Our noble Ke'ao people are allies of the Liaodong royal family. Why would you want to form an alliance with us to deal with Wangjiazhuang?"

"Do you really think that the Liaodong royal family regards your tribe as an ally? Whether it is an ally or a sheep waiting to be slaughtered, you know better than I, Ayina. Besides, there are very few tribes that have been killed by the Liaodong royal family. Do you want to end up like this too?"

"Hmph! I don't understand the nonsense you're talking about, watch the trick!"

(End of this chapter)