The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

southwest.

Yuewu County.

"By now, the ceremony of crowning the queen in the capital should have been almost prepared." Holding a blade of grass that she had just picked up diagonally in her mouth, Jun Yuexin had already changed into the clothes of a local mountain dweller.

"What ceremony?" Zhu Queyin was walking in front, and turned around and asked in confusion after hearing this.

"Our Emperor is going to establish a queen!"

"Empress?" Zhu Queyin glanced at the grass in her mouth, and after making sure that Jun Yuexin hadn't eaten anything she shouldn't have, she decided to ignore her. "The Han emperor, no, His Majesty is going to marry a new wife?"

"It's not a new marriage, it's an appointment as queen." Jun Yuexin added, "Appoint Consort Zhao as queen."

"Oh!" Zhuqueyin nodded suddenly, but as the eldest daughter of the Yuewu tribe's chief, she was the future leader of the entire Yuewu tribe. So even if the Yuewu tribe surrendered to the imperial court and began to build a new county town at the foot of the mountain bordering Dasheng, Zhuqueyin's mother did not take her down the mountain immediately.

It was not until she was in her teens in the mountains and the new Yuewu County at the foot of the mountain had basically stabilized that her mother thought of taking the child over to learn Chinese.

Zhuqueyin's talent in learning Chinese is only average, but she is diligent and has become very proficient in the Chinese words she uses in daily life, except for those complicated and confusing words that still give her a headache.

"I know this. You mentioned when you came here that you wanted to organize several girls in our Jimi County who are good at mountain hiking into an army and let you lead them. You are the one sent by Empress Zhao Fei!" Zhu Queyin carried a machete and a small bamboo basket on her waist. When she walked on the mountain path, she would skillfully dig out medicinal herbs and wild vegetables with a knife and throw them into the army.

The paths in the mountains were not cleaned and were often overgrown with weeds. Jun Yuexin saw her slashing the tall grass from time to time, her movements light and agile: "Yes, she sent me here."

"I have something to ask you." Zhu Queyin raised the machete and turned to Jun Yuexin. "I have also been to your Han county. If there were no widows whose husbands had died, they would not do these things, which you call men's things. Did your husband die too?"

She scratched her head: "But since the emperor can still make that Concubine Zhao the empress, then the emperor must still be alive. You and her, coming out to do these things that only Han men would do, there's nothing wrong with that, right?"

"In fact, among us Han people, there are women who do these so-called men's things, but they are indeed rare. Maybe you just haven't seen them." Jun Yuexin replied with a smile, "I don't have a husband, I have never been married-"

Seeing the curiosity and excitement in Suzakuin's eyes, she added, "...Of course I haven't, um, ever married a man."

"What about the lover?" Zhu Queyin tilted her head, and the string of beads made of bird feathers and colorful agate stones hanging on her bun began to tick. She had to find out the attitude of this "Jun Baichang" for the Yuewu tribe and the mountain people of several other vassal counties.

Most of the leaders of the various ethnic groups in the vassal counties are women, but the differences between the rules of the Sheng Dynasty and those of the mountain people are too great. Although Zhu Queyin is not good at Han people's articles, calligraphy and painting, she is very clear that it is not easy for her mother to be an official. She doesn't know whether she is the magistrate of Yuewu County or not, it is not easy for several female officials from the mountain people in the vassal counties.

The army that came to the south to conquer the New South Kingdom had actually arrived at the provincial capital for some time, and the imperial edict to recruit mountain dwellers who were good at running had also been issued long ago. The reason why they waited until today to contact the new commander was that they were worried about his attitude, and they also had some fear and dread about whether Sheng Dynasty would use the mountain dwellers as cannon fodder.

But when Zhuqueyin discovered that the Baichang who came was also a woman, her worries were relieved a lot.

While talking about light topics to show closeness and friendship, he quietly inquired about Jun Yuexin's specific situation.

"I don't have a lover either." Before coming here, Jun Yuexin had already asked Lin Qiao about the customs of the mountain people, so she didn't feel offended by Zhu Queyin's relatively open questions. Among the two personal soldiers following behind him, the man that Jun Muchin had called for her sister was already a little overwhelmed.

But even if he couldn't hold it in his heart, he didn't show it on his face - after all, the Jun Muchen he followed in the past was not a normal man in the secular sense of this era, and this family was more or less rebellious.

The former general who defended the country was a peasant who appeared out of nowhere. It was said that he used to hunt in the mountains. Because he saved the life of General He by chance, he was appreciated by him and got a regular household registration. He went down the mountain to join the army, and he was undefeated in several foreign battles in the last years of the previous emperor, making a great name for himself.

Even if he died of his injuries in the end, he was on his way back to the court in triumph.

The mother of the brother and sister, Madam Ye, was a daughter of the royal family. Her mother's blood relationship with the emperor was relatively close, and she was granted the title of Princess Kangle County. Madam Ye herself also had the title of a county lady and received the salary of the royal family, but she did not have a title.

Logically speaking, she was a daughter who married out of the family, and if you were to be serious about it, she should not have this title. However, her mother, Princess Kangle, lost her mother at birth and was raised by Empress Dowager Hu for a period of time. When Madam Ye was born, Empress Dowager Hu, remembering their friendship, issued an edict to give Madam Ye the title of a county lady.

The Ye family that Princess Kangle married was also an old meritorious official who had followed Taizu in founding the country. However, when it came to this generation, the title had been passed down. However, Lord Ye worked hard and was already an official in the Ministry of Works. After marriage, Princess Kangle had two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Ye Lianou, is now the Junior Minister of the Dali Temple, and the second son, Ye Lianpeng, is teaching in the Imperial College. The youngest daughter, Ye Lianxin, and the second son were twins born from the same womb. At that time, Empress Dowager Hu gave her the title, also borrowing the saying that twin dragons and phoenixes are a good omen.

With such a background and such honor and favor, Mrs. Ye was naturally the daughter of a hundred families when she was young. However, to everyone's surprise, she finally chose a dark-skinned general who came from the mountains and looked like a savage to the aristocratic families in the capital.

Lord Ye and Lady Kangle actually let her marry such a savage who only knew how to fight and kill.

One of Mrs. Ye's close friends once asked her what she was thinking out of sheer confusion, and then Mrs. Ye's famous quote was passed down: "A pure wild orphan like him, without a father or mother, without uncles, aunts, brothers or sisters, and a bunch of relatives, and with a family background and position that is high enough to get his parents to agree with, is really hard to find in a family like ours!"

"And don't you think that although he's a little dark, his facial features are not bad, and he's tall enough, with broad shoulders, and he can eat three buckets of rice in one meal, and he can shoot three heads with one gun, so he's still very cute?"

The handkerchief friend immediately covered his face and ran away.