Queen Xiaozhuang's personal maid: Su Malagu

Chapter 1 Prologue
On the Mongolian Horqin Grassland, Haritao looked up at the sky. The sky was still blue just now, but at this time a black cloud came over.Hari Taogao looked at the black cloud in amazement. The black cloud was like a monster with its mouth wide open, swallowing the blue sky in an instant.Even the grassland where Hari Taogao stood, as well as the cattle, sheep and yurts on the grassland, were swallowed up.

"Heavy rain is coming?" Hari Taogao muttered, looking at the flock of sheep not far away.The flock of sheep, who were taking a leisurely walk just now, obviously also felt the terror brought by the black cloud.They looked around restlessly, jumped and bleated.

Those sheep belonged to Boritie Chi's family, and he couldn't afford to lose one.Hari Taogao picked up the whip at his feet and walked towards the sheep.He wants to drive them to a safe place, lest when the heavy rain comes, the sheep will be frightened and run away.

Suddenly, "Chirp Chirp... Chirp Chirp..." There was a faint bird call from under his feet.Haritao looked down and saw a small bird chirping in the grass at his feet, circling around a bird's egg.Hari Taogao took a closer look and found that there were already cracks on the eggs surrounded by the little birds.

The little bird didn't fly in panic like it usually does when it sees people, its attention was all focused on the egg.

Hari Taogao was overjoyed, and slowly squatted down.He wanted to use his two palm-like big hands to cover the little bird first, and then take the bird's egg, so that he could nourish his wife Anari who was about to give birth.

However, just when he raised his two hands to catch the bird, the bird glanced at him, uttered a "chirp", flapped its wings twice, and flew away.

Haritaogao felt a little regretful, and stretched out his hand to get the egg again, but the little bird that had just flown away did not fly far away, but hovered over Haridaogao's head, chirping non-stop, and the sound was louder than the one just now. Much sharper.

"Little bird, little bird, give your egg to my Anari!" Hari Taogao murmured and picked up the egg.

Before he stood up, Hari Taogao yelled "Ah yo", and was pecked by a bird on the top of his head.Hari Taogao held the egg with one hand, and touched the top of his pecking head with the other hand.

The little bird was still screaming around the top of Hari Taogao's head, and Hari Taogao felt that the cry was more shrill than before.

Hari Taogao picked up the whip and raised it high, and flicked it twice at the bird. The bird flew a little higher, but it was still hovering above his head.Looking at the spoils in his hand, Hari Taogao suddenly felt something strange. Looking carefully, there were deeper cracks on the bird's eggs, and his palms were also a little itchy.

Haritaogao had a strange feeling in his heart. He straightened his palm, and with the sound of "click", the bird's egg was completely cracked, and a wet chick was struggling in the cracked eggshell. Make a faint "cheep" sound.

Looking at this little life that had just been born, Hari Taogao became excited. He looked up at the little bird that was still circling above his head, thinking of his wife with a big belly, his eyes felt hot.After hesitating for a while, he put the young bird that had just hatched back into the grass.

"It's your child!" He looked up at the little bird and said loudly, "I've let it back, feed it quickly!"

Haritao put his hands together, closed his eyes and muttered a few words, and strode away.

Just when he walked to the flock, Hari Taogao suddenly heard a "pop".

He looked towards the source of the sound and saw that the slingshot his son Jida had raised high had not yet been put down, and the bird he hit fell heavily into the grass.

"Bad boy!" Haritao yelled at his son and rushed towards the place where the bird fell.

The bird was shot in the head and died.Hari Taogao had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Is it dead? Is it dead?" Jida ran over excitedly, holding the chick that had just hatched in one hand.

"Jeda!" Hari Taogao reached out and slapped Jedda hard.

"Let go of it, it will die, its mother has already been beaten to death by you!" Haritao said loudly.

Jeddah looked at Hari Taogao in surprise.He used to graze with his father, and his father would encourage him to shoot birds, so that he could roast and eat them when he took them home.But today's father's reaction was very strange.

"Put it down!" Hari Taogao roared again.

Jida pouted, and stretched out the hand holding the chick in front of Hari Taogao, who placed it carefully in the palm of his hand.The chick struggled in his hand, making a faint chirp.

"Poor child, there is no Eji (mother) at birth." Hari Taogao muttered.

"Abu (Father), what's the matter with you, isn't it just a bird?" Jida stared at Haritaogao dissatisfied.

"Jeda!" Hari Taogao had just finished calling his son's name when he saw a herdsman running towards them and shouting loudly: "Hari Taogao, hurry home, Anari is about to give birth!"

"It's about to give birth?" Hari Taogao stuffed the chick and the whip into the hand of his son Jida, and ran home.Hari Taogao didn't know why, his heart was in a panic.

"Crack", followed by a flash of lightning, thunder rumbled, and Jida's voice calling "Abu", "Abu" behind was also covered by the thunder.

The raindrops are like beads, pouring down from the sky, forming a water curtain.

Hari Taogao ran to the herdsman and grabbed his arm: "How is Anari? How is the child?"

"I heard that she won't be able to give birth. But it should be fine. Anari is already a woman who has given birth to five children, so it's fine!" The herder's arm hurt a little from Hari Taogao's grasp, and he kept struggling.

"No, it's different this time, it's different!" Haritaogao murmured, and he couldn't say why it was different. In short, he didn't feel good, the bird that Jida killed with a slingshot, and the dark cloud And the thunderstorm made him feel a bad omen.

Hari Taogao looked up at the sky, another flash of lightning flashed by, and the dark cloud revealed a ferocious face.Hari Taogao wanted to tell his son Jida to drive the sheep to a safe place, but he didn't say anything.He jumped onto the herdsman's horse at once, and let the herdsman yell behind him.

Hari Taogao ran wildly all the way, praying in his heart that nothing would happen to Anari and the child in his stomach.

Before he reached his yurt, he saw his two youngest sons, Selemo and Si Ribo, squatting outside the yurt from a distance, with miserable faces.

"Selemo, Si Ribo!" Haritao shouted.The two sons turned to look at him at the same time, and then greeted him together.

Hari Taogao got off his horse in front of his two sons. Before he could ask, the four-year-old Si Ribo said, "Abu, Eji is going to die!"

"You are going to die!" Selemo, who was two years older than Sribo, pushed Siribo to the ground at once.Si Ribo burst into tears.

Hari Taogao didn't care about his youngest son who fell on the ground. He walked straight to the yurt. Just as he put one foot into the yurt, he was pushed out by the neighbor's aunt.

"Women give birth, men cannot enter!"

"How is Anari?" Hari Taogao stretched his neck and looked into the yurt. In the past, Anari gave birth to a child, and the yurt was full of Anari's screams, but today, it was very quiet inside. .

Just as the aunt was about to say something, the loud cry of the baby came from the yurt.

"I was born! I was born!" said the aunt to Hari Taogao.

"Ah..." Before Hari Taogao finished speaking, the aunt had already entered the yurt.

Hari Taogao had to wait nervously outside the yurt while listening to the baby's cry.

"Anari, Anari!" A shrill cry suddenly came from the yurt.

Hari Taogao's tense body went limp in an instant, and he realized that his feeling was right, his Anari was just like the female bird, and went away without a sound after seeing the chick break its shell ...

Hari Taogao sat cross-legged outside the yurt for an unknown how long.In his ears, what kept echoing was the chaotic cries in the yurt.

"Abu, Eji gave birth to a younger sister!" said the 12-year-old eldest son Su Rige standing behind him.

Hari Taogao did not move.

"She killed Eji!" The ten-year-old second son Si Re clenched his fists and shouted.

"I hate her!" Sire yelled again at the crying baby in the yurt, and then ran into the rain curtain.

"Abu, give her a name!" Su Rige said again.

Hari Taogao sighed and stood up, his legs were a little numb, and his feet had already begun to lose control.Staggering into the yurt, he glanced at the baby in the arms of the neighbor's aunt. The baby's eyes were slightly open, and its pink face was fluffy.

"Hey!" Hari Taogao sighed, he didn't reach out to hug the baby, but glanced at the direction where the baby's eyes were looking, where there were long fur bags piled up, so he said: "Call her Su Mo'er !"

That day was October 1616, 10.

(Note: Sumoer means "long hair pocket" in Mongolian. Ordinary Mongolian working people have the custom of naming their babies by the first thing they see when they are born.)
(End of this chapter)