A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 639
When he woke up again, as soon as Li Yi regained consciousness, he felt the ground shaking.

earthquake?
He hurriedly opened his eyes, only to find that he was lying on a swaying thing, with a wet thick silk covering his forehead.

Beside him, an old woman who looked about 50 to [-] years old was holding a wooden bowl, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, and scraped out a spoonful of paste-like stuff, which was about to be stuffed into his mouth.

Seeing this, Li Yi wanted to raise his hand to resist, but he didn't have any strength. He could only tilt his head and avoid the spoon.

Seeing him tilting his head, the old woman was overjoyed. She stretched out her hand to stroke his cheek and said, "Ping Nu, are you awake? Do you still have a headache?"

Li Yi was slightly startled when he heard the name she called him.

The last time he entered the Eight-Sided Monument space, he had lived in the era of Mount Tai.

People in that period only called their daughters that way when they called their daughters.

Is it?

Thinking of something, he suddenly forgot his tiredness, and raised his head to look at himself.

Although he was lying flat on his back, the slightly bulging figure still made the corners of his eyes twitch.

isn't it?
Possessing a woman again?

Why is the eight-sided monument like this?
Seeing him looking up, the old woman thought he wanted to get up, so she reached out to support his back and helped him sit up.

After sitting up, Li Yi reluctantly looked down again, but looking at it this way, the female characteristics on his body became more obvious.

The last trace of luck was dispelled, and he sighed before looking up at his surroundings.

It turned out that he was sitting on a bullock cart at this time.

The wooden wheels had almost no shock absorption effect, and it was very bumpy when walking, so he felt the ground shaking.

There were many cloth bags under his body, and he didn't know what they contained. They were hard, square and ridged, long and short, and very irregular.

Although there is a layer of straw mat between them, it still feels very uncomfortable to lie on it.

But his treatment was pretty good. There were hundreds of people walking behind the bullock cart.

Most of these hundreds of people are women, and all of them have looks.

On both sides of the crowd, dozens of soldiers with long daggers were following the cart, looking at the women in the crowd from time to time,

Seeing this scene, Li Yi's heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that he possessed some family member of a defeated army this time?

"Ping girl, come, drink some water."

The old woman took a bamboo tube and gave Li Yi some saliva.

Li Yi happened to be thirsty, so he took two gulps with his mouth open.

But when he still wanted to drink, the old woman put down the bamboo tube with a distressed expression.

"There's not much water left. There will be water at the camp tonight. I'll ask you to drink until you're full."

After licking his lips, Li Yi felt that the thirst in his throat had eased a lot, so he asked, "Where am I?"

The voice that came out was indeed a weak female voice.

"In three more days, it's time to arrive at Yingdu."

The old woman picked up the thick silk that fell from Li Yi's forehead after he stood up, and wiped the dust from his face.

Yingdu is within the territory of Chu State.

Li Yi searched his memory and judged his position.

Yingdu was the royal capital of the Chu Kingdom, which is the area around Jiangling County in Jingzhou, Hubei Province in modern times.

Since King Wen of Chu moved his capital from Danyang, he has established his capital here for more than 400 years.

Therefore, he is still in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but I don't know which year he is in these 400 years ago.

So Li Yi asked again: "Can we see the King of Chu when we go?"

"Shut up..." The old woman raised her hand nervously to cover her mouth, glanced at the driver behind her, and said in a low voice: "We are just weavers, and we are here as hostages. How can there be a chance to meet Wang Jun?"

Speaking of this, the old woman couldn't help but her eyes turned red: "It's true that your father died early and there was no male support in the family, so this kind of hardship fell on my mother and daughter.

I heard that the King of Chu has a kind heart. If he can show mercy to the people, you and I may be able to live in peace. If..."

When she said this, her lips trembled and she couldn't continue.

Picking up the thick silk, she wiped the dust on Li Yi's face and squeezed out a smile: "Fortunately, Pingnu is very beautiful. If she can be favored by the young master, becoming a concubine will be better than working hard all day."

Hearing her words, Li Yi also understood.

This old woman is the mother of the person he possesses, and their identity is Weaver, that is, a weaver.

The identity of weavers in this period is still acceptable. After all, in this era of handicrafts, weavers are also relatively advanced productive forces.

During this period, the status of craftsmen was still very high. If they were highly skilled, they could even be treated as guests of the king.

Lu Ban once came to Chu from Lu and helped Chu make weapons to attack Song. The kings of Chu respected him very much.

But it's a pity that my mother said that they are hostages.

The so-called bribe body is a hostage, which is usually the means of production captured in a war as a victory, or an apology given to the enemy after a defeat.

Just don't know which one they belong to.

This start was much more difficult than the last time. Li Yi was not in a hurry, just thinking quietly and collecting available information.

His mother's accent was obviously the accent of the Lu country. He had studied under Lu Ban. Although the tone of his mother's speech was different from Lu Ban's accent, they were roughly the same.

This shows that they came from the state of Lu.

The State of Chu was one of the five hegemons in this period and had defeated the State of Lu in the Battle of Yangqiao. Could it be that he was living in this period?
After thinking for a while, Li Yi asked the old woman, "Mother, what is the posthumous title of the former king of Chu?"

The old woman glanced at the coachman and said in a low voice, "I heard from the soldiers that the posthumous title of the former king of Chu is Zang. Why do you ask this?"

Hearing her words, Li Yi knew it in his heart.

King Zang of Chu was the name of this period, and he was the famous King Zhuang of Chu.

Chu State also grew into one of the Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period during his 20-odd years in power.

A blockbuster, aspire to the Central Plains These idioms are written based on his deeds.

He also left many popular allusions. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Dong Zhuo found out that Lv Bu was having an affair with Diaochan, the counselor Li Ru persuaded Dong Zhuo not to be with Lv Bu just because of a mere woman. Care about.

Now that he is dead, Li Yi can roughly judge the period he is in.

"When did the former king of Chu die?"

He asked his mother again.

After learning that King Zhuang of Chu died just two years ago, Li Yi knew that he was in the time of the Communist King of Chu.

King Zhuang just died, and Wang Gang took the throne for two years, that is, 589 BC.

In this way, Li Yi knew his identity.

He should be one of the gifts given to Chu after the defeat of Lu after the Battle of Yangqiao.

This incident is clearly recorded in "Zuo Zhuan".

In the second year of Duke Cheng of Lu, the four kingdoms of Jin, Lu, Wei, and Cao sent troops to attack Qi.

Although it ended with the victory of the Jin State, it greatly consumed the strength of the two warring parties, and also caused the Chu State to take advantage of the vacancy and launch a battle to save the Qi State.

Finally, in winter, the Chu army fought all the way to Yangqiao of Lu, forcing Meng Sun, the minister of Lu, to come forward to sue for peace.

It is recorded in "Zuo Zhuan" that at that time Meng Sun bribed hundreds of people from the state of Chu to hold knives, needles, and weaves.With fair balance as a pledge, Xu Ping, a native of Chu, asked for an alliance.

That is to say, there were 100 carpenters, tailors, and weavers each. They also took Gong Heng, the master of Cheng, as a hostage and mortgaged it to the State of Chu. This was how peace was achieved.

The person Li Yi possessed was obviously one of the one hundred weavers.

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