When the law forcibly stipulates that women must get married at the age of fifteen, women's status cannot be high. This is true for women in the Han Empire, let alone the girls of the Qiang people?

Looking at the young man who was snot and tears, Dong Hu felt a little puzzled, funny, and also felt a little sad.

Whenever Dong Hu goes to Qinghai to sell salt, he will never avoid the horse bandits in Jishishan regardless of whether he is willing or not. Compared to spending a lot of money to satisfy the leaders of the horse bandits, he is more willing to bribe some children with valuable but strange gadgets. Yaowa is one of the bribes, but now it seems that Yaowa is really miserable.

Yaowa held the soup bowl and choked up while picking up the soup. No matter what Dong Hu asked, she didn't say anything until he stopped talking, and started eating with a wooden bowl...

"Tiger baby, can you marry your sister, or... or your youngest baby..."

Dong Hu was stunned and raised his hand to knock her head. He raised his arm, but looking at her dark, thin and dressed in a womanly costume, she turned into a big hand and rubbed her little head hard.

"I will think a lot, when we meet your elder brother and second brother..."

"Tiger baby!"

Yaowa suddenly stood up, lowered her head and sat on the stone sobbing, and soon turned into a "wow" crying...

"Wuwu... wuwu... they don't want my sister... I don't want my baby... I don't want many people... wuwu... I don't want my baby with them... wuwu... they think my sister, my baby is a burden... wuwu..."

Yaowa cried loudly, everyone stopped eating, but none of them spoke...

"well……"

Dong Hu sighed in a low voice and rubbed her head hard.

"If Yaowa likes it, you'll be our girl."

...

"Um."

Yaowa lowered her head and um, holding the wooden bowl for a long time...

"Brother."

When she looked up again, her little face was covered with tears. Dong Hu felt a little sad. She took out a cloth scarlet from her arms. There were no plum blossoms or orchids. It was just a simple cloth scarf woven by Da Ya herself, wiping the tears on her face.

Even without asking Yaowa in detail, Dong Hu could guess a rough idea from her words.

The northwest is prone to turmoil. Every turmoil between the east and west Qiang, even if the war is quelled, it will continue to turmoil for several years, for more than ten years, until countless people are killed or injured, and everyone has no strength, so the war will gradually calm down.

Not only Jishishan, but all smaller tribes are like this. When they are unable to resist foreign enemies, they will always escape from the young and strong at the first time, leaving a place where the old and weak struggle on the brink of life and death. The only difference is that Jishishan is even more cruel.

Jishishan is a place where horses and bandits gather. They not only have some family members, but also a large number of slaves. They were slaves who were plundered again and again. Beigong Boyu forced Mengdu, Meng Wei and others to leave Jishishan, and it was impossible for them to use their cattle and sheep to support the women, children, elderly and weak behind Jishishan. These people were all abandoned in Jishishan, allowing thousands of elderly and weak to fend for themselves.

It seems ruthless, but this is the survival rule of Jishishan. As long as the horse bandits have a knife in their hands, they can steal women and slaves at any time. Jishishan, which has frequent fighting, will not care who the leader is. The remaining women and children, slaves will only instinctively bow their heads and surrender. Even if Mengdu, Meng Wei and others leave, after they come back, these people will become their slaves again. They know very well.

Dong Hu had a lot of dealing with Jishishan, knew their customs, and knew why Yaowa asked herself to marry a sister who already had two children, or a woman of thirteen or fourteen. This was exactly the same as conquering another tribe on the grassland, defeating the other party and marrying a woman on the other party. Since then, this tribe has become its own tribe.

Marrying a conquered tribal woman does not matter whether her beauty is good or not, her age is not important. Sometimes it is just a form of "recognition" and more of a comfort. Just like Dong Hu married a bitter baby, more than 10,000 people in the Ganlang Valley were able to completely surrender and return to their hearts in a very short time.

Dong Hu can marry a bitter baby, but he will not marry a young baby. Even if she became an abandoned wife after only one month of marriage to Bianba, he could not regard her as a woman at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

After having a dull lunch with Yaowa, Dong Hou returned with two scouts without waiting for him to check on the remaining old and weak hiding in the mountains and forests.

"Brother."

Dong Hou punched.

"Three days ago, the Marquis of Li Wen took away three thousand soldiers in Yunwu City, and there are only two thousand soldiers in the city now."

Dong Hu was stunned and frowned and said, "Mr. Li Wen took away three thousand soldiers? Do you know where he went?"

Dong Hou nodded and said, "I don't know if I'm going to Jincheng Pass for the time being, but the three thousand soldiers did go east."

Dong Hu pondered for a while...

"I inform my brothers below to continue to rest for a day, and draw a hundred people from the Second Cavalry Camp to be repaid. No matter how life or death, no one should be allowed to enter and exit here. Also... You must be careful. Brothers who sneak into the city should not act rashly, and do not let Yunwu City notice you."

"promise!"

Dong Hu just patted Dong Hou on the shoulder, and as soon as he sent away his most elite squadron leader, Yaowa hurried over.

"Brother...Brother..."

If it weren't for the red and swollen eyes, Dong Hu would have no way to believe it...

"Brother, let's go...it's almost dark..."

Yaowa was both tugging and tugging, and Dong Hu couldn't help but look up at the sun in the day, but his face was full of bitterness.

"We have agreed that you can't talk nonsense in front of your sister..."

"Sister is very beautiful, her breasts are bigger than Da Ya's..."

“Haha…”

"You'd better stop talking..."

...

The crying made people feel sympathetic before, but now it is a headache. Dong Hu doesn't want to go to the shady wall in his heart. It's not that he is unwilling to take in Jishishan old and weak, which is different from Jishishan green and strong horse bandits. Jishishan has many horse bandits, countless big and small leaders, and frequent fights with each other. People's hearts are better than a piece of loose sand. It is extremely difficult to make them truly surrender, but the old and weak in the mountains become another way.

The young and strong above fought very frequently, and the leaders were replaced frequently, so that the old and weak under their names had no sense of belonging at all. Whoever had a strong knife would follow the leader, and they were extremely honest and obedient. Even if they cut their tongues, dig their eyes, and peeled their skin, they would only scream and beg, instead of resisting hard. It sounded incredible, but this was their way of survival.

It is impossible to let these people who have no sense of belonging but are extremely honest and obedient in fighting, but they are the best slaves or tribes, far better than the Qiang tribes in the Hehuang Valley where they rebel from time to time.

Usually, a soldier needs several people or families to support him. Dong Hu now has 30,000 soldiers to support him, and the people in need need 300,000 people to support him. And it is just like 300,000 slaves. Thousands of old and weak in Jishishan are like this. Even if they are not slaves, they are honest and obedient. Dong Hu naturally would not refuse, but he did not want to go to Beiyin in his heart. It was not that he was too hypocritical, but that he hated seeing people eat bones.

Thousands of horse bandits were forcibly taken to Jinchengsai by Beigong Boyu. The original camp of the horse bandits was destroyed. The food, cattle and sheep would definitely be plundered and sent to Jinchengsai together. What about the abandoned women, children, elderly and weak? What about the slaves who were robbed by the horse bandits?

What have they eaten for months?

Even if Dong Hu thought about it with his butt, he knew what they were eating, but this was the situation he most reluctant to and disliked seeing the most.

Beiyin Wa is located north of the Wuqiqi hiding place. It is a semi-arc valley. Because it is on the north side of the mountain, the side of the shady side, and the mountain is too tall, the valley is as amazing as a knife. This is what Beiyin Wa.

To the north of the Hehuang Valley are countless mountains, an east-west mountain range, a mountain range with an altitude of three to four thousand meters. The water flows on the mountains continue to inject into the Hehuang Valley. After thousands of years of erosion, river valleys have been formed, and valleys can be directly penetrated into the Hehuang Valley.

If there is no special reason, the closer the mountain is to the foot of the mountain. Because the foot of the mountain lacks soil and harder the stones, the gullies washed out are shallower. A little farther away from the foot of the mountain will cause thicker soil and deeper gullies. This is the road where Dong Hu ran from Jishi Mountain to Hehuang Valley. He headed west along the edge of the mountain with fewer gullies. Although it is accessible, it is not a real smooth road.

Dong Hu led a hundred cavalry along the river valley to Beiyinwa. Perhaps the old and weak in the valley knew that he was coming, and thousands of people walked out of Beiyinwa. When he met him halfway, he looked much more natural. At least he didn't have to see the scene that he hated and didn't want to see.

The sister in Yaowa's mouth is Wuwa. I have met several times before, but I have never said a few words to each other. She is calm and less verbal than Yaowa. Although she is in her twenties, she has married three times. The men she married are all small leaders, but the battles in Jishishan are fierce, and the first two men died.

The five kids gave birth to two kids. When Dong Hu saw them, there was only one girl left. The other was taken to Jinchengsai by her man. Only God knows whether he would die outside in the future.

Thousands of people were like frightened quails. After seeing a hundred cavalry, no one dared to speak, and they all hurried together. Seeing this scene, Dong Hu didn't say much, and directly made Yaowa the leader of everyone. For these people, it doesn't matter which leader is.

Dong Hu patted the youngest baby's head twice, and didn't care about the fifth baby following behind.

"When my eldest brother came, I didn't think about you. I just thought you followed your eldest brother to Jinchengsai, so my eldest brother didn't have much food, so you have three choices."

"The first choice is to go from Heguansai to Longxi County."

"The second one is to go from Bai Shisai to Ganlang Valley.

Dong Hu said: "Whether you go to Longxi County or Ganlang Valley, as long as you arrive at the place, you can get food or cattle and sheep in the name of your elder brother, but the road is farther. There is another option, which is to take down Yunwu City, you can use the food in Yunwu City to survive."

"But the eldest brother came here to break the Qiang and burn the Qiang and the others' butts. It is impossible for him to stay in Yunwu City. You either follow the eldest brother all the way west, or stay in Yunwu City to help us defend the city, waiting for the eldest brother to come back to pick you up. But if you can't defend Yunwu City, the eldest brother may not come back, but instead go to Wuwei County or go to Qinghai."

Dong Hu glanced at the fifth child beside him and looked at the youngest child who was two shorter than him.
Chapter completed!