Chapter 391 Princess Please Marry 40
“Tick tock...”
Water drops fell into the water tank in the courtyard, making a slight noise, but did not change the atmosphere in the courtyard. Lively.
It had just rained, and there was still a damp smell in the air. Lin Chunhuan stood on the porch, watching the water droplets falling from the corners of the eaves, and did not move for a long time.
"Prince-in-law, the eldest princess has not eaten for a whole day. You should try to persuade her." Caiyun was holding a tray in her hand, and on it were her master's favorite foods. something.
But today, these things were delivered and returned intact, untouched at all.
Caiyun was anxious in her eyes, but she had no choice but to place her hope on Chang Huaijin.
But when Chang Huaijin heard this, she just shook her head, "This incident has a great impact on Ah Huan. She can't accept it for a while. I'm afraid no one can persuade her."
"But." Caiyun bit her lip, her eyes full of confusion, "Prince-in-law, what is going on? Why is the eldest princess doing this?"
"Tell me what I can think of." What’s the solution?”
When Chang Huaijin heard this, he turned around slightly, stared at Caiyun in front of him for a long time, and said inexplicably, "Others may not know, but you."
"Caiyun, you know about sharing a wife. "Yes, right?"
At first, Caiyun was still confused, as if she didn't understand what Chang Huaijin was talking about, but the moment she said the word "shared wife".
Caiyun's face was pale. She watched Chang Huaijin take several deep breaths before turning her eyes to look in the direction of Lin Chunhuan, "So the eldest princess looks like this now. She already knows about the shared wife. What happened? "
"Who told her? How much did she know? "
The more Caiyun talked, the more excited she became. For a moment, she seemed to have forgotten where Lin Chunhuan was standing. In fact, it was not that far away. As long as her voice was louder, she could be heard.
It wasn't until she saw Chang Huaijin looking behind her silently that Caiyun came back to her senses, turned around stiffly, and met Lin Chunhuan's eyes, who had walked behind her.
As soon as I let go, the tray full of food shattered on the floor.
"My slave does know about the matter of sharing wives." Caiyun took a deep breath, stepped forward and grabbed Lin Chunhuan's clothes, "Please forgive me, princess. I didn't mean to hide it from you."
"It's just this matter... I really know your temper and can't bear to let you suffer, so I listened to the emperor and led you out of the palace."
Lin Chunhuan opened her mouth slightly, but found that even her throat was interfering and she was speechless, "Tell me everything you know, without leaving a single word."
"From now on, you don't have to be here. I’m waiting by your side.”
Caiyun kowtowed quickly.
Looking at Lin Chunhuan's appearance, it was clear that she already knew, and Caiyun had no need to hide anything, "It was the day you met Shen Yuming."
"On that day, slave girl I deliberately coaxed you out of the palace, because that day is the day when the Yihe tribe comes to ask for someone from our court.”
Before the establishment of Shengguo's political power, the largest force in this land was the Yihe tribe. Later, although the Sheng Kingdom was established, the Yihe clan not only had the merit of following the dragon, but also had a large clan. At that time, everything was in ruins and there were many places that needed construction. So Emperor Sheng made the leader of the Yihe clan the king of Yihe. , and divided a large piece of land for them, allowing them to continue their previous way of survival.
Ideological assimilation needs to be gradual. At that time, all the Emperor Sheng could do was try his best to appease all forces.
There is nothing wrong with this, but this land was so chaotic in the past. In order not to starve to death, girls who were born weaker were almost destined to be degraded from birth. for food.
When the war stops, there is no need to eat people, but there are not many women left in the Yihe tribe.
In addition, the Yihe tribe has always had a system of sharing wives. After the establishment of the new dynasty, they were no longer allowed to snatch women outside. They could only use one woman in turn.
After this pattern continued for a while, finally, the first deformed child appeared in the Yihe tribe.
Seeing the child with four arms but no legs, the Yihe tribe panicked. They began to understand that their daughters and biological sisters could not sleep with them. They understood that they should find children who were not related by blood. Only women who have a relationship can have children.
But there are so many unrelated women in the Yihe tribe.
So, they began to test the bottom line of the court, robbing women outside to give birth to children, but there were hundreds of thousands of Yihe people, and robbing just one or two people would solve the problem.
When the number of people increased, they would definitely offend some people they could not afford to offend. After many large-scale fights, they finally attracted the attention of the court.
"The emperor had just ascended the throne for a few years at that time, and he was helpless when encountering such a thing. There is nothing wrong with the people of the Yihe tribe wanting to reproduce, but people outside are not willing to marry their daughters to someone who will not The matter was at a stalemate for a while when women were sent to be human beings."
"Later, someone came up with the idea that the imperial court would send ten women to the Yihe tribe in marriage every year. Things have settled down."
Following Caiyun's words, Lin Chunhuan sneered coldly, "During the war, I thought women were a burden and treated them as food. When I needed women, I grabbed them from others. The baby here, this Yihe tribe is really proud.”
Lin Chunhuan just heard something from Mrs. Chang before.
Mrs. Chang could know because she was one of the people who was almost snatched away by the Yihe tribe. Lin Chunhuan also knew what happened next.
The Yihe people failed to snatch Mrs. Chang, but took away Aunt Jiang. Aunt Jiang was also injured because of this incident and could not have children since then.
But it was also because she could not have children that Aunt Jiang was left at the foot of the mountain. Otherwise, Aunt Jiang today would probably be one of the women who suffered in the Yihe tribe.
"It's not that easy." Chang Huaijin took a long breath, "This method was okay at first. There are always people who want money and power who are willing to send their daughters to suffer. But as time goes by, It’s hard to find such a person.”
Caiyun nodded and agreed with Chang Huaijin’s words, “The prince-in-law is right, so when this so-called marriage entered into its third year, the people were dissatisfied. The sound was getting louder and louder, and it was about to cause a riot. The emperor had no choice but to announce that the royal family would set an example.”
"Every ten years, a royal woman will be sent together for marriage."
"It's just that royal women still have some privileges. As long as the next one arrives, the one in front can leave. If you are lucky, you can't say Compared with others, there is hope that I can live an ordinary life again. "
Caiyun said, secretly raising her head to look at Lin Chunhuan, "The first one is the emperor's sister, Princess Jing'an."