In the eyes of Xiaohei Captain, this Goguryeo woman seemed a little timid. She stood in a restrained manner in front of the table, bowing her waist and back, and her eyes looked around from time to time. It seemed that the Sui people around her were like tigers who were eating people, and their hands kept rubbing their clothes and feet.
However, this woman is very young, and judging from her appearance, she should have been the daughter of a powerful family. She has a fair face and beautiful eyebrows. Although she has fear in her eyes, she is not that kind of foolishness.
"I'll ask you what's your name?"
The woman was stunned and looked up at Xiao Hei, but she didn't dare to speak.
"Translation now." Xiao Hei said to a Goguryeo man next to him. The Goguryeo man used to be a businessman and knew Chinese, so he quickly translated Xiao Hei's words to the woman.
"My name is Songquan." The woman whispered.
"Songquan, don't you have a surname?"
"The surname is Song, the name is Quan." The translation explains next to it.
In Goguryeo, it is considered good to have a surname, at least it is a commoner. Goguryeo was established by Zhu Meng, the prince of the Fuyu tribe, and has been in the south for seven hundred years. At the earliest, many people in Goguryeo had no surnames but only names.
Or simply take the tribe name as your surname.
Later, the kings and nobles gave their subordinates a large number of surnames, so the Goguryeo people gradually developed surnames. However, in the early days of Goguryeo, it was a tribal system. Later, although they learned the culture and system of the Central Plains and became a semi-cultivating and semi-pardoned country, they still had many customs of tribes, such as having a large number of slaves.
Most of the slaves had no surnames.
There are also many surnames in Goguryeo, with the royal family surnames Gao, and there are many surnames such as Song, Quan, Cang, Zou, Luo, Yu, Ke, Yuan, etc., as well as many surnames, such as Shaoshi, Dashi, Zhongshi, etc., and there are also many surnames of Han families such as Li, Huang, Zhou, and Sun. Most of these surnames are from previous Han descent.
This woman's surname is Song and her name is Quan, and she is considered an authentic Goguryeo.
Xiao Hei asked some more, and the woman answered honestly. The woman's family used to be a landlord in Xincheng. She had hundreds of acres of land, more than a dozen slaves, and several groups of cattle and sheep. Her life was pretty good. His family also had a large population, with five brothers, seven sisters, and his father had six wives and concubines.
This girl named Songquan is the little girl in the family. She is sixteen years old and has not yet married. She was originally engaged to a landlord's son of Xincheng, but before she got married, the Xincheng was destroyed and the whole family became slaves.
The cattle, sheep, fields, and slaves at home were confiscated by the Sui army, and even their family became prisoners. His two brothers died in battle while defending the new city, while the rest were still alive.
Now she and her two widowed sisters-in-law have been brought up by the Sui people, saying that they would go on a blind date with the Sui army and marry them to the Sui army as concubines.
Songquan was not willing, but as a slave to the captive, they had no choice.
Xiao Hei asked Songquan to raise her head, and asked her to open her mouth and then check her teeth.
I found that her teeth were good, neat, and were not missing, and very white.
She is also pretty big. Although she has never done any physical work, she is not as strong as the wife he married in Zhangqiu, Qijun, but she does have the temperament that the country woman does not have.
"Have you learned a little Chinese in the prisoner's camp?" Xiao Hei asked.
He cared about this. If he really wanted to take this woman as his concubine, he wouldn't be able to talk to each other all the time in the future.
"Learn a little." The woman hurriedly said that in the prisoner camp, the Sui army asked them to learn Chinese. They learned a little every day. Although they were slow, they knew a little bit, and they could understand most of the words, and even said some simple words.
Xiao Hei asked her to say a few words, but she stuttered, but fortunately she would indeed say a little.
This made Xiao Hei very satisfied. He said to a clerk next to him, "This woman is good." The clerk smiled and said, "That's natural. You are a captain. You will definitely give it to you first. This woman was in Goguryeo before, and she was equivalent to the daughter of the landlord family in our Central Plains."
"Okay, I want her."
So the clerk smiled and congratulated Xiao Hei, asked him to sign a few clerks, called Songquan, asked her to put her handprints, and called her father and brother.
"Congratulations, Miss Songquan, our Captain Liu Heifu, is now the concubine of Captain Heifu, and you have become the honorable family of the Sui army."
As a family member of the garrison, there are many benefits. For example, the Songquan family originally worked in the prisoner camp, working every day, then earning work points, and finally giving rations based on the work points.
Now, after becoming a military mate who supports the army, they can leave the prisoner camp.
Xiao Hei was a lieutenant, and first divided 100 acres of land, plus the honor fields, and also divided 200 acres. Xiao Hei naturally had no time to cultivate these 300 acres of land. He also bought some land at home, which was planted by his wife and younger brothers and sisters.
Now he can hand over the land divided here to his newly acquired concubines and fathers and brothers to cultivate. They are Xiao Hei's tenants. Half of the harvest belongs to Xiao Hei, as a tenant, and the other half belongs to them. But they have to take out 20% to pay the rent, and the remaining 30% are all theirs.
Although he only got 30% of the harvest in the end, it was much better than the current prison camp. The labor in the prison camp could only obtain a little food, and there would be no private property at all.
Of course, after Xiao Hei married Songquan, he also had the obligation and responsibility to supervise the Songquan family. If they escape or make trouble, Xiao Hei would be responsible.
Xiao Hei bowed to Songquan's father, a thin old man with a goatee. The old man was originally a fat man, but he stayed in the prison camp for more than a year and has now become a thin old man. At this time, he could not find any of the same condition as a Goguryeo landlord. He faced the son-in-law of the Sui Army's lieutenant, and was extremely respectful.
"We are a country of etiquette. I will not treat you badly if you take your daughter as concubines. In this way, I will give you a horse and ten silk as a gambler."
Xiao Hei was very satisfied with Songquan, so he gave the bride generously.
Songquan's father Songyu heard it and his eyes shone.
He turned around and went back, then pushed two Goguryeo women in their twenties over, talking and gestured.
It turned out that he was going to marry the widows left by these two dead sons to Xiao Hei.
"No, no, no." Xiao Hei shook his hand repeatedly.
The clerk over there laughed and said, "Person Liu, you are the captain, and it's not too much to accept three of them."
"One is enough, one is enough." Xiao Hei said repeatedly.
"According to the rules of Luo Shuai, ordinary soldiers can take one concubine, the leader of the team can take two concubines, the captain can take three concubines, and the partial general can take four concubines, and the general leader can take five concubines. You won't violate the rules."
"Forget it, one is enough."
"There is no fat and water flowing to the outside world. This family is following you, so it's so neat." Wenshu still smiled.
"How inappropriate this."
"What's wrong with taking a Goguryeo concubine, and you don't have any bride gifts. You can give it as much as you want. If you take two more concubines, you will have two more workers. Besides, you can warm the bed, fold the quilt, cook and wash clothes when you are on vacation. You don't want this good thing. Two young Goguryeo women in Donglai City are worth at least ten cents of money. If they are in Luoyang or Daxing, they can be worth at least fifteen to twenty cents of money, which is a big advantage."
Xiao Hei was slowly moved when he heard this.
Chapter completed!