A Chinese netizen uploaded the second volume of "Shan You Mu Xi Mu You Zhi" - a poem that reads: "In the mountain there is wood, and in the wood there are branches. One zero one, scattered and dispersed."

  The afterglow of sunset shines on the grassland, with a golden hue.

  He and his cousin Luo Xiu rode on horseback, lifting their heads and wiping away sweat.

  Endless green grass stretched out from under the feet of the horse-drawn carriage, seemingly all the way to the horizon. In the distance, a few fine horses galloped towards them from the direction of the setting sun, swift and majestic.

  "Full alert." Luo Xuan shouted loudly. The Han army reined in their horses and heavily guarded the palace carriage of the Chu State princess.

  "Halt." The newcomer galloped to within three feet of the carriage, then reined in his horse and silently made way. A young Xiongnu man with a left-facing animal pelt on his shoulder rode out from behind, smiling, "Wang Ting, the Wei of the Xiongnu, has been sent by the Chanyu to welcome the Han princess." He bowed at the chest while still on horseback, revealing a set of white teeth.

  A bonfire blazed up in the night of the Huns' grassland.

  In the temporary tent, Liu tightened the cloak on her body. Although it was already early summer, the grassland at night was quite cold, which made her very unaccustomed to growing up in the rich and fertile Central Plains since childhood.

  "Princess, put on another layer of clothing." Shu Lan took out a purple sable coat from the dowry trunk and wrapped it around Liu Xuan's body.

  "Mm." She nodded and asked, "Is everyone asleep?"

  "Except for the night watchmen, everyone should be asleep."

  "I'm going out for a walk."

  Early summer grasslands carried a humid breath, the bonfire burned quietly, occasionally with one or two crackling sounds. She stretched out her hand to warm up by the fire, the night sky of the grassland seemed to be pressed particularly low, and the quiet night sky presented a deep blue hue, the stars seemed to be within reach. Cold and chilly, she looked up, suddenly feeling a sense of desolation in her heart.

  "Knock knock."

  A sound came from behind him.

  "Who?" She jumped in fright and hastily turned her head back.

  In the evening, a Xiongnu man rushed to lean against the tent, took a big mouthful of wine from his wineskin, and looked down at the face of the Han princess.

  Because the station was close to the bonfire, the flames cast a bright red glow on her cheek, with a warm meaning. On this cool summer night, she seemed like a paradise.

  "What are you looking at?" Liu said with a mix of annoyance and embarrassment, "You have quite a nerve."

  He hehe smiled and opened his eyes. "Then you'd better get used to it. We Xiongnu people are different from the Han people, we love to appreciate good things openly, if you get angry one by one, you'll be busy later."

  The young Xiongnu nobleman's clear eyes held a hint of nostalgia, making it impossible for Liu to feel disgusted. The two people stood tens of steps apart, silently facing each other, the entire camp quiet as if only the two were awake.

  Liu picked up a handful of dry grass and added it to the fire, asking, "It's so late, General, aren't you going to sleep?"

  "Isn't the princess also awake?"

  He took another sip of wine and suddenly said, "The princess and she are nothing alike." "She?"

  "Hmm. It's Jingyuan. Oh, according to your Han people's way of speaking, it should be called Xuping Princess Chang."

  He thought it would be a gentle and quiet woman like Liu Danru, but unexpectedly, he saw a strong and thorny peony flower.

  "It's not the same." Liu felt a sudden sense of humiliation, "She is just an ordinary woman chosen by Empress Lü, while I am the princess of Chu State."

  How can they be treated as equals?

  "What's different?" He smiled faintly and said.

  Liu Jiao suddenly lost heart. What's the difference, after all? Both are Han princesses sent to marry Xiongnu khans. In the eyes of the Xiongnu people, they are all the same.

  The noble lord of Chu and a humble servant are the same.

  Three days later, Dou Xian escorted the Princess of Chu into the Dragon City of the Xiongnu.

  "General Touwei." The Xiongnu guard opened the outer gate of the city and said.

  "Hmm." He nodded and asked, "Can my sister enter the city?"

  "Everyone knows that Du Wei is fond of his sister," the guard burst out laughing, "the Left Valley Tiger King's troops entered Long City yesterday, and it's said that Adie is inside."

  He was overjoyed and laughed, saying, "What about that Chanyu?"

  The Khan is in the imperial city.

  In the northeast corner of Wang City, there were several tall and spacious tents. "Let Princess Da Han rest here for a few days." Qu led Liu Xian into the most luxurious and sturdy one, clapped his hands and ordered the Huns slaves in the tent, "Take good care of the princess."

  "Yes." The four maidservants clasped their hands together in front of their chest and curtsied.

  "Go down, all of you." Liu ordered, "I'm very tired and want to rest for a while."

  The Xiongnu slave girl took a glance at her pale and exhausted face, lifted the curtain and exited the tent.

  "Is the princess going to sleep?" Shulan asked as she helped her take off her outer cloak, "It's been a tiring journey, you must be exhausted too."

  "How dare I?" Liu said with a bitter smile, "In someone else's place. Just slightly narrowing my eyes would be enough."

  The fire in the stove was burning fiercely, and she lay on the bed covered with layers of fur, unknowingly falling into a dream. In her dream, her young mother who had passed away early opened her arms and smiled lovingly, "Ah Ru, come."

  She pouted and ran to her mother.

  No matter how much wind and rain there is, mother will block it all for her one by one.

  Her mother.

  Bang!

  The sound of cups and saucers falling to the ground. 16K network.

  She was startled and hastily woke up, asking Shulan, "What's wrong?" But saw that Shulan was also bewildered, and after searching around the tent several times, she saw a small doll on the ground.

  She was a girl of about three or four years old, wearing a Huns' animal skin dress, with a circle of white rabbit hair on the collar, and more than ten small braids on her head, tied very neatly.

  It seemed that because of thirst, he went to take a cup from the case, but because he was small and weak, he didn't hold it firmly, and the cup fell down.

  The little girl was startled, turned her head around, saw the person, shrank her shoulders and burst into tears.

  Liu frowned, she was most annoyed by children crying and making a fuss. Also, at this time her mood was uneasy, so she stiffly said, "Where did this child come from? She actually ran here. Take her away."

  Shulan responded with a sound, seeing that the girl's clothes were thick and sturdy, but the fabric was tattered and worn out, obviously she had not been treated well in her daily life, and was probably not a noble or aristocratic child. Her hand moved heavier. However, the girl sobbed a few times, lifted up her head, revealing her eyebrows and eyes, which surprisingly showed a few hints of a Han person's delicate and soft features.

  She let out an "ah" and then couldn't pull anymore.

  "It's a separate residence." A Xiongnu slave girl lifted the curtain and entered, seeing the girl. She was shocked.

  Although not very familiar with the Huns' customs, Liu Xie knew that "Ji Ci" was a term used by the Huns to refer to noble women. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did a Ji Ci like you end up in my tent?" Not to mention her shabby and pitiful appearance, "Who are her parents?"

  The maid hesitated for a moment and said, "Just now I saw Luo Luo looking everywhere for Li Li. I'll take her over to avoid worrying her."

  Liu picked up an eyebrow.

  But after all, this is not her hometown, she sighed, and she didn't have any extra curiosity to spare.

  The maid led Lili out of the tent, and in the distance, a Xiongnu-dressed girl ran over, saw Lili, let out a low sob, bent down and tightly hugged her.

  After crying for a while, she lifted her head and saw the cold face of Chu Guo Zhang Gongzhu in the account, as well as the deep clothes with right armpit sleeves, and her whole body shook.

  "Lo lo." The maidservants gathered around, advising, "Now that you've found Lilou's residence, you should hurry back. If she sees you again, it won't be good."

  Luo Luo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly knelt down outside the tent and kowtowed. "I beg the Princess of Chu to save Lili's life." Her head knocked against the ground with a loud thud.

  "So that's it," Liu's gaze fell on the girl who was intently eating a pancake in her seat. "She is the posthumous daughter of Princess Su Ping?"

  "Yes." Lolo knelt in the tent, "The princess had a difficult labor when she gave birth and didn't make it through. Fortunately, Xiao Ju'er was able to survive. The Khan handed her over to Qi'er's mother to raise, but Qi'er's mother resented the fact that the princess had been favored by the Khan back then, so how could she treat Xiao Ju'er well? Calculating it out, Xiao Ju'er is already six years old this year, but looks like she's only four."

  After the death of Princess Pingchang, she and Zhu Zhu were Han women who had lost their master's protection in the royal court. She was just quietly carrying her lonely residence. However, the Khan seemed to have forgotten that there was such a daughter as Lilou, and because Lilou had Han blood, she was like an insignificant child in the royal court. Last month, eight-year-old Prince Duoxian met Lilou, who cried and made a fuss, finally scratching a wound on Duoxian's face with her hand.

  She endured twenty lashes for Li Li and still can't get out of bed to this day.

  Without Zhu Zhu by her side, Luo Luo alone took Li Li away and couldn't help but be flustered. Today, due to a moment of carelessness, she let Li Li slip out, but didn't know why he had crawled into the tent of the Princess of Chu State.

  Luo Luo bowed her head repeatedly and sobbed out loud.

  Heaven is pitiful, another Han princess has married into the Xiongnu.

  She believed that only under the command of a Han princess, Zizhu and herself, as well as Lili, could receive proper care.

  Liu's face was uncertain, and finally he sighed, "Take Xiao Ju back with you."

  Luó Luó raised her head incredulously and said despairingly, "Won't the Princess Chang offer a helping hand?"

  The Xiongnu people are not good at treating Han people, and that's nothing to say. Why, even the princess of the Great Han, is unwilling to help them out?

  Liu Ze pinched her fingernails into the palm of her hand and said sternly, "If you only know how to cry, then even if I can help, I won't exert any effort for you."

  "You go back and think about it carefully."

  "Princess." Shu Lan handed a new cup of milk tea to Liu Xian, saying carefully, "That person who lives alone, looks really pitiful too."

  Liu glanced at her and said, "You also want me to take them in?"

  Shulan was too shy to speak up.

  "She sighed, 'I've always wanted to, but for now, I still can't.'"

  She was new here and hadn't even formally greeted her relatives, nobody knew her, she didn't know anything. How could she suddenly take over the children of the former madam?

  Isn't it a great offense to have wronged the wife who is now taking care of the scattered family?

  "You just hope they can hold on for a while longer," Liu said with a faint tone, "If I can stay for a while longer, maybe I can..."

  I will finish the plot in Xiongnu as soon as possible and then continue with Ah Yan's emotional scenes.

  Continue to ask for pink votes of encouragement.

  The big wedding is really not far away.

  Escape from it.