The Wutu tribe has had many caravans recently, and the surrounding small tribes have also become more and more lively. For this reason, Wotu had a large area of business accounts cleared out, and according to Yin Ruxu's suggestion, he first created the prototype of a big market. In this way, in addition to those caravans, other small tribes will also come here to exchange some things with people.
Wo Tu took Yin Ruxu to find her way around the tribe and introduced her to various places. He went to the market with her twice. Although in Yin Ruxu's eyes, this so-called "market" was very simple, the tribesmen who came and went in it all had happy smiles on their faces. Many people here have lived on the grassland all their lives and have never even been to the border town where Yin State and the grassland meet. This scene in front of them is enough to make them feel novel. Even the children in the tribe like to gather here and run around during this period.
Yin Ruxu didn't quite understand the various tribal languages, but he could roughly guess what they were saying just by looking at their gestures. The things they brought to exchange were also of various kinds. Yin Ruxu also saw a half-grown boy holding a large shiny stone and wanted to exchange it for a piece of candy with a caravan.
No one knew what the stone was, but it was really beautiful, so the caravan owner gave it to him in exchange. The boy was overjoyed and left happily with the candy.
The grasslands are not rich in products, but merchants have their own unusual minds. If they take the things they exchanged at low prices and process them a little, they can sell them at a high price. If there were no such high profits, there would not be so many caravans coming and going. Some have better vision and can find business opportunities at any time. Yin Ruxu saw that a caravan had taken the initiative to ask the young man, probably wanting to exchange for that kind of stone.
It is suitable for making jewelry. In that case, the nobles in the capital will probably like it very much. At that time, its value will not be measurable by one or two pieces of candy.
Yin Ruxu ignored them. She hoped that there would be more attractive things on this grassland. The most important thing now was to attract more merchants to come here and drive more people. Before her grandmother passed away, she told her that the caravan was like a water source. If a place was dry, it needed water to nourish it. And if water was to live, it had to flow.
In many lives, she really couldn't do anything, but she couldn't help but occasionally think, what if it was this, what if it was that. Then she found that wars were mostly caused by poverty, because people who had nothing had to rob. She had a vague idea in her mind, thinking that if the world was peaceful and people were rich, they could live a good life without robbing, would wars disappear
The merchant caravans came and went, and the Yin merchant caravans were the most numerous. There was also a caravan from the palace, which was sent by her mother, Madam Wang, who brought her many things that were not available on the grassland. After all, she was her own flesh and blood, and although Madam Wang was annoyed that she was disobedient, she was still concerned about her.
Yin Ruxu held Mrs. Wang's letter, her eyes slightly red, and sat at the desk to write her a reply. It was still the same, advising her not to try to contact the State of Zhao again, advising her brother not to trust Zhao Xu, and advising her father to make peace with the State of Lu. Just as her mother couldn't ignore her, she couldn't ignore her mother either.
She was writing a letter when Wo suddenly came in with a shiny stone in his hand. Seeing her writing the letter with tears in her eyes, he stopped smiling, put the stone in his hand on the small table, walked forward and turned Yin Ruxu's head to look at her expression.
"why cry?"
When Wo Tu spoke with a smile, he looked like a cheerful young man, but when he spoke in a deep and angry voice, he looked scary.
Yin Ruxu blinked and a tear fell from her eye, which was wiped away by Wo Tu with his thumb.
"I'm fine, just writing a letter home."
Wo Tu then let go of her face and asked, "Do you miss your family?"
Yin Ruxu touched her face and sat back to write, "I... have gotten used to leaving them." She finished writing the letter and carefully put it aside. She looked at Wo Tu sheepishly, snuggled into his arms, and said, "Wo Tu, I want... a child."
Wo Tu was stunned, then he touched his ear, unable to believe it: "Am I not working hard enough?" He was afraid that he would do whatever he wanted and cause trouble for others.
It wasn't a question of whether he tried hard or not, it was that Yin Ruxu looked so frail that she didn't look like a mother. Wo Tu was used to seeing the strong women in the tribe, who could fight three Yin Ruxus with one arm. Giving birth was not an easy job for them, not to mention Yin Ruxu's appearance. Wo Tu thought about how she looked like when she was pregnant, and he was immediately terrified.
"Don't be so anxious. Wait until you feel better." Wo Tu picked up Yin Ruxu and carried him back to the bed to sit down. "Wait until I can make you stronger."
"Yeah." Yin Ruxu leaned on his shoulder, feeling very relieved.
She once had a child, who was one of the reasons for her countless sufferings. She knew from the first life that the child would come, and she also knew that he would die, but in every subsequent life, she could only watch him be born and die. Wotu's countless births and deaths almost wiped out her feelings as a woman, and that child almost wiped out her feelings as a mother.
She wanted a child now, not to fill this long-standing regret and pain, but because she needed such a child. This grassland needed a child with Yin blood. He would be the future king, strong and healthy like his father, and inherit her wish as a mother to guard their common home.
She will do everything that is different from her previous life, and she wants to get back everything she lost in her previous life.
Because the princess "disdained" him for not working hard enough, Wo Tu simply gave up and satisfied his craving, so Yin Ruxu didn't even get up to eat lunch the next day.
The palace maids who were familiar with Wu Rizhu'am saw this and went to whisper in Wu Rizhu'am's ear, saying that the clan leader was too promiscuous and didn't care about the princess's health. Wu Rizhu'am went to talk to Wo Tu and asked the young clan leader to restrain himself.
Wo Tu had to restrain himself even if he didn't want to, because he had to take his men out to attack a tribe and had to leave the tribe for a while.
The source of this incident was a caravan. On the way to the Wutu tribe, the Bai people killed and robbed the caravan. After the incident, the Wutu tribe, which had just become lively, lost a lot of caravans. Wo Tu would never let people run wild in his territory. In the past two years, he led his people to swallow up all the powerful tribes on this grassland. The Wutu tribe was the well-deserved center of the grassland. The Bai people had never dealt with him in the past. After being beaten by him once, they hid away in shame. Now that the limelight has just passed, they dare to provoke him again. Naturally, he can't tolerate it.
"The princess recruited a caravan, and they just want to rob it? I will not only take their things back, but also cut off their heads." Wo Tu led a group of tribal warriors to track down the Bai people and completely solve this disaster.
Among the warriors who followed him, there was a group of wolf riders, that is, cavalrymen who had trained wolves. Those wolves were loyal and fierce, and were extremely sensitive to any movement on the grassland, making them the most useful scouts.
When Yin Ruxu went to see Wo Tu off, he saw for the first time this wolf cavalry that he had only heard of from the palace maids. The tall wolves followed the tall and strong men, and their cold wolf eyes would never be mistaken for dogs.
It was no wonder that they reacted like that when they encountered wolves on the way to pick her up with Wotu. The wolves they domesticated were many times more ferocious than those wild wolves. In comparison, those wild wolves were no better than their 'guard dogs'.
"I will be back in a few days. You can make your own decisions regarding any matters in the tribe." Wo Tu sat on his horse and leaned down to touch Yin Ruxu's shoulder.
Yin Ruxu was stunned. "I'll handle it?"
Wo Tu laughed, "Of course it's you. You are my wife, and we share the tribe. There is nothing you can't handle." Moreover, the princess was smart and handled things prudently, so of course he trusted her.
Yin Ruxu stared at him. This man was completely different from Zhao Xu. Zhao Xu only cared about power, and he would never feel comfortable handing over power to a woman. Her father was the same... No, most men in this world were like this. Those men felt that women did not need ambition and power, they only needed the love of men.
Because they were all afraid, afraid that after the woman awakened, she would take away their power as masters, but Wo Tu was not afraid, not because he loved her, but because he was confident. Even if he was down and out, he never lost this confidence.
"Okay, Wo Tu, I'll wait for you to come back." Yin Ruxu stretched out his hand to Wo Tu, and he held her hand and kissed her.
"Let's go!" Wo Tu let go of Yin Ruxu's hand, gave an order, and rode away first. The warriors shouted and followed one after another. The men and women in the tribe did not react much to this kind of expedition. It was a very common thing for them, just a part of their lives. Moreover, their tribe leader was their unshakable belief. They all believed that as long as Wo Tu was there, no matter what kind of enemy it was, they would not be afraid.
The wolf god on the snowy mountain will protect their wolf god son and return with victory.
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Zhao Xu married a princess of Jin State. Although she was not the queen, she was given a high position of wife. The two countries entered a state of relaxation. Zhao Xu stabilized the domestic situation and the situation in Jin State. He also secretly ordered people to investigate the situation on the grassland, especially Yin Ruxu's situation.
The news he got back made him restless and anxious. If possible, he wanted to send troops to the grassland immediately to completely cut off the Wutu tribe's path before they became stronger. However, the Jin State was reluctant to cooperate and his attempts to inquire were rejected several times.
The State of Jin wanted to ally with the State of Zhao to attack the State of Lu first, and then discuss entering the grassland after victory.
The King of Jin did not understand why Zhao Xu was so obsessed with a grassland tribe far away from Zhao State, and could only suspect that he had some conspiracy, such as borrowing the name of the grassland to borrow the road from Jin State, but actually intended to take the fertile land of Jin State. Thinking of this, the King of Jin was even more unwilling to cooperate with Zhao Xu's actions.
Zhao Xu had no choice but to temporarily put Wutu aside and send a large army to join forces with Jin to attack Lu, in order to give Jin face and show them his sincerity.
However, Zhao Xu did not expect that the Lu State, which he had imagined would be easily conquered, suddenly became a tough nut to crack this time. The battle situation was deadlocked and could not be broken for a long time. Not only that, the armies of Jin and Zhao suffered repeated defeats, and the news was reported back to the capitals of the two countries.
"The King of Zhao must not want to contribute. He has found excuses to refuse several times before, and even made up an excuse that he wanted to attack the Wutu tribe first. How ridiculous! His Zhao army has only half the number of troops as our Jin army. What use can they be!" The commander of the Jin army spared no effort to throw the blame for the defeat on the King of Zhao in front of the King of Jin.
At the same time, the commander of Zhao State also denounced the allied Jin State in front of Zhao Xu, "The Jin army is really too much! They treat us as pawns and let us take on all the dangerous battles. So many of them are hiding behind us, shrinking and without any courage. How can we fight this battle!"
Zhao Xu was of course angry and began to doubt whether he had made a mistake in forming an alliance with the State of Jin.
The author has something to say: Green: I have to deal with the heroine's matter first, and everything else will be dealt with later.
Me: No, if you don’t want to deal with the heroine’s issues, you have to deal with your teammates who are not clear-headed first.