Commander's Destiny

Chapter 94 Diao Chan's Past

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, Diao Chan began to slowly recall her past in the world:
When I first entered the world, I didn't know where I was going. I just walked all the way to the northwest based on my feeling, and soon I walked out of the deserted mountains. I walked for an unknown amount of time before I finally saw a group of people.

So I pretended to walk with them, and gradually realized that these were a group of refugees who were naked and hungry because of the war, and were forced to leave their hometowns because of the famine.

Along the way, wherever we passed, not only the wild vegetables were dug up and eaten, but even the grass roots were not much left.I saw with my own eyes that the corpses of those who died of freezing and starvation in the procession were scrambled for food; Some mothers with children knelt on the ground and begged in low voices in order to let their children have a full meal, and were at the mercy of others.

Those human tragedies completely overturned the human impression I heard from the story.I, who have always longed for life in the world, never even dreamed that I would experience these things when I first came to the world.

If I hadn't had a thousand-year cultivation base and could persist for a long time without eating anything, I might have died on the way to escape like most people.

In that extreme environment, we persisted in walking together for many days before we finally came to a small village.
At this time, only a few people left in the team rushed to every house to beg for food like grabbing straws.

Although I also followed the example of other refugees and went door to door to ask for money, but I still got nothing.

But when I came to the door of the fifth family, a miracle happened. The door was opened by a kind-hearted middle-aged woman.

Seeing that I was a weak little girl, the woman not only gave me a steamed bread made of rough noodles, but even invited me into the house when I was ashamed.

In the still cold room of her house, she first gave me a hot bath, and then changed me into a clean floral dress. I was suddenly treated gently, and it seemed that I felt the warmth of the world for the first time .

Just as I was immersed in that kind of warmth that I had never felt before, she slowly took my hand and asked me what my name was.I said my name was Hongchang, but she asked me what my last name was.Only then did I realize that people in this world not only have family members, but also have the same surname.

I didn't know how to answer for a moment, and after a long time, I suddenly remembered that among those fleeing refugees, I had heard a surname with the same pronunciation as the human character.

So I said that my surname was Ren, and my name was Ren Hongchang, and my family members had died of illness while fleeing.

After hearing this, the woman told me that although she had a son, she always wanted to have another daughter, but her husband disappeared after joining the army and never came back. When I met me today, she was so cute and lovely. There is no family to take care of her, it is simply a gift from heaven, and she asked me if I would like to be her adopted daughter.

I saw her benevolent, considerate and sincere to me, so I agreed and stayed at her home.

A few days later, a young man with piercing eyes and an imposing manner not inferior to tigers and leopards came back from hunting in the mountains. My mother-in-law introduced to me that this was her son Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian.

Since then, Lu Bu and I have been called brother and sister, and we have been getting along day and night.

During the day, when he went hunting in the mountains, I helped his stepmother prepare meals at home and waited for him to come back. At night, when he was exercising and honing his skills in the yard, I would tell him some stories about demon spirits to amuse him.

As Lu Bu's body became taller and stronger day by day, the contours of his face also became tougher, becoming very strong and courageous.

Only after seeing his changes did I know how a person grows up, so I also used spells to make myself grow up slowly like other little girls.

Seeing that I am getting more and more beautiful, Lu Bu treats me better and better.

He would often bring me some girls' rouge powder or hairpin headbands from the county town.

Although most of those things are worthless and cheap, and he has a bad eye, so he doesn't know what styles girls like, but I can still understand his intentions.

Suddenly one day, Lu Bu brought me a buckskin cloak bought from a whole deer and put it on me, and then said to me: "Hongchang, do you know that when you grow up, you will marry and leave?" this home."

I was very disdainful and argued with him: "I am different from other people. I was originally alone. It was my mother-in-law and you who took me in. I will never leave this house! On the contrary, you, with all your body With the ability of not being afraid of tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, coupled with the skill of bending a bow and shooting big eagles, I don't know when I will go to the battlefield and become an enemy of thousands of people."

Unexpectedly, Lu Bu said what was in his heart: "Our family has been hunters in Jiuyuan, Bingzhou for generations. I have never thought of leaving here. I only want to hunt more wild boar and deerskin in the future, and sell it to marry you as a wife." Son, let you stay at home in a legitimate way."

At that time, I thought that we would continue to live in such a carefree way. I would become Lu Bu's wife as a matter of course, give birth to a pair of children for him, and accompany him to the end of his life, and then quietly Leave the world.

But I didn't expect that I would be the last person to leave that place first.

Just when I became a tall girl from a little girl, a group of eunuchs suddenly came to Jiuyuan County to select a group of beautiful girls for the emperor.

Every family could not escape the screening, and I, who was only in my prime, was selected in one fell swoop.Those eunuchs threatened all the selected show girls with high-pitched voices. If we were disobedient and even dared to resist, our family members would suffer.

When I thought that if I didn't go, my adoptive mother would be executed and Lu Bu would be beheaded, I was afraid, and I had no choice but to submit.

When I was leaving, only my adoptive mother had tears in her eyes, but Lu Bu did not come.

I think he should have hid in the deep mountains by himself and fought desperately with the beasts, maybe this is the only way for him to vent.

In this way, I entered the palace.

But in the palace, I didn't get to see the emperor, I just became a court lady who was in charge of the Diao Chan hat worn by the courtiers.

From then on, I was called Diao Chan by the palace people.

Because I often deal with many courtiers, occasionally I try to learn some information from some ministers, such as where the plague and famine broke out, and where there is a peasant uprising. I often don’t hear the news of Bingzhou, but it makes me feel at ease.

Slowly, I also discovered that at that time, eunuchs interfered in politics and foreign relatives exercised power. Not only was the entire court in chaos, but even in the palace, there were sudden turmoil, and rituals and music collapsed.

Power ministers are not only free to enter and exit the harem, they can even decide on the life and death of most concubines and concubines, so everyone does not know their future fate or whether they can continue to stay in the palace.

By chance, I finally met the person who can change my destiny in the world.

(End of this chapter)