Chapter 639: The Man Weaving Koji

When he woke up again, as soon as Li Yi regained his consciousness, he felt a feeling of 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 forty or fifty years old was holding a wooden bowl, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, scraped out a spoonful of paste-like stuff, and wanted to stuff it into his mouth.

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

Seeing him tilting his head, the old woman was overjoyed, reached out and stroked his cheek, and said, "Ping Nu, are you awake? Do you still have a headache?"

Hearing what she called him, Li Yi was slightly taken aback.

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.

Could it be?

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

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

no?

Possessed by 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 looked down unwillingly, but the feminine features on his body became more obvious.

The last trace of luck was dispelled, he sighed, and then looked up at the surrounding environment.

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

The wooden wheels have almost no shock-absorbing effect, and it is very bumpy to walk on, so he can feel the ground shaking.

There are many cloth bags under his body, I don't know what's in them, they are hard, square and ribbed, long and short, very irregular.

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

But his treatment was pretty good, and 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 the defeated army this time?

"Ping girl, come, drink some water."

The old woman took a bamboo tube and fed Li Yi with 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's water at the campsite tonight, and I'll let you drink it up."

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 his forehead when Li Yi got up, and helped him wipe the dust off his face.

Yingdu is within the territory of Chu State.

Li Yi searched his memory and judged his position.

Yingdu is the royal capital of Chu State, which is the area around Jiangling County, Jingzhou, Hubei Province.

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

So, he was still in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but he didn't know which year he was in during the four hundred years.

So, Li Yi asked again: "Let's go here, can we see King Chu?"

"Shut up..."

The old woman raised her hand nervously to cover her mouth, glanced at the driver driving the car behind, and then whispered: "We are just weavers, and we are here as hostages, how can we have the chance to see you?" 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 take pity on the power of the people, maybe you and my mother and daughter can be safe, if..."

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

Picking up the thick silk, she wiped the dust off Li Yi's face and forced a smile: "Fortunately, Ping girl is very beautiful. If you can be favored by the young master, being 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 possessed, and their identities are weavers, that is, weavers.

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 regarded as guests of honor by the king.

Lu Ban once came to Chu State from Lu State to help Chu State manufacture weapons and attack Song State. The king of Chu respected him very much.

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

The so-called hostage body is a hostage, usually used as means of production seized by victory in a war, or as an apology to the enemy after a defeat.

Just don't know which one they belong to.

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

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

This shows that they came from the state of Lu.

Chu State was one of the Five Hegemons in this period. It once defeated Lu State in the Battle of Yangqiao. Could it be that he lived 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 is the name of this period, and he is the famous King Zhuang of Chu.

Chu State also grew into one of the Spring and Autumn Five Overlords during his more than 20 years of reign.

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 that Lu State lost to Chu State after the Battle of Yangqiao.

In "Zuo Zhuan", this matter is clearly recorded.

In the second year of Lu Chenggong, 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 the winter, the army of Chu State fought all the way to Yangqiao of Lu State, forcing Lu State Minister Mengsun 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, to invite an alliance, Xu Ping from Chu.

That is to say, 100 carpenters, 100 seamstresses, and 100 weavers each. They also took Mr. Cheng Gongheng as a hostage and mortgaged it to the state of Chu. Only then did they win peace.

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

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