The Rebirth of Da Yan

In September, on the edge of the Mongolian steppe.

The war is about to start.

The great Shan Yu Dashang was leading his brave warriors to besiege a Han city.

This city was an important town on the border of the Han Dynasty, with a large population and prosperous trade. Most of the people did not engage in agriculture. However, due to the continuous transportation of grain from the Hetao Plain, it can be regarded as a full warehouse.Here, the trade between the Han people and the Huns has been going on for many years. Although they will be harassed by small groups of Huns from time to time, as long as they give up some goods and food, they can keep safe. At the same time, the Huns will also dry their own meat and livestock. Dairy products were traded in exchange for the exquisite food and clothing of the Han people.

The large amount of benefits brought by the border trade made people very rich, and also prompted people from other places to move here one after another. This is the case of the Qing family in the west of the city.The Qing family used to be a well-known family in the Central Plains, but the grandfather who is now the head of the family took the wrong side in the political struggle of the court, so he had to escape to this important border town, abandoning his career and starting a business.

The Qing family mainly traded silk cloth with the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu did not have the technology of raising silkworms and reeling silk, but they loved the delicate silk very much. Therefore, many shops specialized in silk trading were opened in the city. Although the store is not the largest in the city, it is enough to feed a family, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

When the new emperor came to the throne, the young emperor was so ambitious that he couldn't swallow the anger of being harassed by the Huns for many years. Not only did he reject the Shanyu's request for marriage, but he also told him that the Han army would march north to defeat the Xiongnu.Da Dan Yu Dashang was in his prime of life and had a violent temper. He immediately led his cavalry to surround the city where the Qing family was located, clamoring for the Emperor of Han to pay for his frivolity.

The soldiers guarding the city have long been accustomed to a comfortable life, and the guards in the city are vulnerable.Soon the whole city fell into chaos, and a large number of people were injured and died in the process of stampeding and fleeing.

The Xiongnu captured a large number of Han people and were taken as slaves to the depths of the Mongolian steppe.

The head of the Qing family, Qing Zhongqi, and his wife were also among them.

Qing Zhongqi's wife was eight months pregnant with their first child.

The life of being a captive of the Huns was very depressing. People had to do a lot of coolies and endure cruel bullying by the Huns.

The people who used to live a life of adequate food and clothing died in large numbers due to overwork, and Qing Zhongqi was no exception.He was originally a scholar-turned-businessman, and his family was quite good. His fine skin and tender flesh, which he had raised since he was a child, quickly collapsed under the harsh slavery of the Huns.In less than a month, Qing Zhongqi, who was less than 25 years old, passed away, and he couldn't even meet his son who was about to be born.

His wife gave birth to a baby boy in grief, and named him Qingyun, which was the name Qing Zhongqi had thought of long ago.I hope that his first child will live a normal life, not seeking to make achievements, but to be free from illness and disaster.

The life of orphans and widows is very difficult, and the heavy labor makes a frail woman overwhelmed.Qingyun's mother couldn't bear it any longer, and used her beauty to seduce Liu Si'er, a scoundrel who was also captured.Liu Si'er used to be unwelcome in the city, but here, his sly words and servile demeanor were very popular with the Huns, and he was rewarded as a supervisor.

Liu Si'er beat and scolded Qing Yun's mother and son, but since Qing's mother became pregnant, the beating target became Qing Yun alone.Qing Yun grew up to be five years old amidst the sound of beating and scolding. The Han Dynasty finally assembled elite troops to attack the Xiongnu. The Huns were defeated and agreed to return the captive Han slaves.

A promise is a promise, but it is impossible to let them all go.The Huns threatened that every Han family must leave one person to continue to be a slave in the Huns, and the rest can leave, otherwise the whole family will be beheaded together.For a while, the wives and children were separated, and there were cries of separation of flesh and blood everywhere.Without even thinking about it, Liu Si'er left Qing Yun behind and took Qing's mother and her child away.

Qing Yun was placed in a slave camp and competed with a group of strangers for the few food. At the age of five, he had learned to endure hunger silently.Fortunately, it is not easy to eat enough on the grassland, but it is not difficult to satisfy the hunger. Several younger children who could not grab food spontaneously formed a difficult brother and learned to find food from the land without a teacher.Earthworms, beetles, wild fruits, scorpions, the nectar of wild flowers... The children who can't survive fall to the ground and become a delicious meal for vultures.Qing Yun is considered a hard-fated man, but after spending more than half a month like this, he is also dying.

On this day, Qing Yun didn't grab food again, he sneaked out to find something to eat while the guards were not paying attention, but was rushed by a child on a horse.Qing Yun was knocked into the air in an instant and fell on the meadow. Fortunately, he was light and was not fatally injured.

The boy who threw him was Ruodi, the only son of King Youxian.The 6-year-old boy is remarkably muscular, with muscular contours already bulging in his tanned arms.The emaciated Qing Yun was pinned down by him, unable to move.Ruodi looked at the person below him curiously. Qingyun's fair face was stained with several spots of ashes, and his skinny body was wrapped in tattered clothes. His small face was no bigger than a palm, and his cheeks were sunken. Eyes widened in horror.Ruodi had never seen such an ugly child, and his playmates were all nobles of the Huns, so naturally they would not be short of food and clothing.Thinness hardly exists in the Xiongnu dictionary. The only destination for a weak body is death. A nation on horseback must be strong.

Qing Yun was so weak that he fell to the ground and couldn't even get up.Ruodi curled his lips in disdain, and handed the cowhide water bag hanging on his body to his mouth. The water bag contained his favorite mare's milk, sweetened with sugar.Ruodi has always been very protective of food, but this time he took the initiative to give up his favorite food. If King You Xian saw it, his old father would surely shed tears of relief.

It was the first time in Qingyun's life that he drank such a delicious thing, he swallowed it, even choking on his throat, which caused a huge pain.Ruodi has already turned around and continued to fight with the horse. This is a small foal with great strength. It is neighing and jumping, and it is bound to knock the human on its back.Ruodi strangled the horse's neck tightly, his body was almost suspended in the air, and he kept hitting the horse's back heavily with the horse's movements, but he didn't seem to feel any pain, and his strength didn't slacken at all, and the foal was only a few months old. Not to mention being strangled by the muscular child, he pressed up again and again, and finally couldn't stand it and made a gesture of submission.Ruodi happily rode up to Qingyun, but unfortunately Qingyun's full attention was on the mare's milk. He had already drank all the mare's milk in the water bag, and he was still licking the mouth of the bag, Ruodi looked at it. Seeing that all his mare's milk had been drunk, he jumped off the horse angrily and yelled at Qing Yun, who turned around and ran away in fright.

Qing Yun was caught by Ruo Di within a few steps. He closed his eyes, waiting for the usual beating.When Ruo Di saw Qing Yun's appearance, he couldn't stretch out his fist no matter what, but the grievance in his heart was still there. He grabbed Qing Yun, looked at the pony beside him, and suddenly had an idea.He carried Qing Yun onto the horse's back. Qing Yun got on the horse for the first time, panicked and grabbed Ruo Di's arm, his dirty little face turned red, Ruo Di thought it was very funny.The little pony had some difficulty carrying two children at a time. It snorted unhappily and deliberately wanted to knock the two off its back.Qing Yun was even more terrified. He hugged Ruodi's neck tightly. This scene seemed familiar. Just now someone treated the little pony like this... Ruodi was about to be strangled and suffocated. He instinctively wanted to throw him off his body. , but when he touched Qing Yun's slender arm, he unconsciously hugged him even tighter.

In this way, the two returned to the camp of the Huns.

Shan Yu was very happy, because Ruo Di had just tamed a foal by himself. It was the offspring of Shan Yu's love for horses. His temper was inherited from his father's fierceness. Children of the same age were afraid of it. Only Ruo Di dared to challenge and succeeded.Shanyu was very optimistic about the child, and he believed that Ruodi would become a brave warrior, so he not only rewarded Ruodi with the colt, but also promised him a slave.In the Xiongnu, slaves belonged to personal wealth just like cattle, sheep, chariots and horses. Six-year-old Ruodi owned the first wealth in his life: a horse and a slave.When choosing slaves, Ruodi found that the child he met on the grassland was also there, so he chose him decisively.Dan Shang Shanyu nodded in agreement considering that Qing Yun and Ruo Di were about the same age, and such a young child would not threaten Ruo Di's safety.

12 years later.

Right Xianwang fiefdom.

Although he was a slave, Qing Yun didn't do much heavy work other than serving Ruodi in his daily life. He followed Ruodi all the time and met many of Ruodi's friends.Among them, Tu Qilu, the son of King Zuo Xian, had the best relationship.Tu Qilu and Ruodi were about the same age and often played together. His mother was a beauty from the Western Regions, so Tu Qilu had eyes as blue as a lake on the prairie.

Tu Qilu's father was Zuoxian King of the Huns, who was the next Great Chanyu. His Han slave was a well-known doctor in the city before, proficient in Chinese characters and medical theory. Everyone called him Mr. Zhaoyuan.Mr. Zhao Yuan likes Qing Yun very much, and he often teaches him medical science and Chinese characters, tells him about his hometown, and teaches him not to forget the big man. One day the big man will send people to rescue them, and they can go back to their hometown.

Ruo Di was already full. He had deep eyes and a high nose, was tall and solid, and stood out even among burly grown men.He always loved to sleep with his little slave in his arms at night. It was okay when he was a child, but the felt blanket was obviously not enough when the two grew up. The half-grown boy slept in a bold and bold posture. Qing Yun was squeezed by his hard muscles and couldn't sleep well. He always waited for Ruodi to fall asleep and slipped out of the hut quietly, lying on the grassland watching the stars in a daze.