Chapter 5 chapter Five

Aini hurried into the room to change clothes, and directed the maid to pack her clothes.Three hours is too short a time to be ready to face a new life. While she was busy, Joss reasoned behind her. "Don't complain, miss," said Joss. "Men hate complaining women the most. They like wives who always smile." "He didn't notice me at all, except when he 'executed' the marriage," she said sourly. "That's going to take years," Joss said. "A man doesn't reveal his sincerity easily. He is that if you persevere, love will come one day."

That's what she wanted, Aine thought, she wanted her good-looking husband to love her and need her.If she had to take a little piss now and then, it was worth it. She packed it up in three hours, and went downstairs to say good-bye to her father and stepmother.Gilbert was talking about eagles drunkenly with a bunch of people and barely said goodbye.Instead, Lina hugged her tightly and wished her happiness and happiness. The European horses outside are all ready to go, and the white eagle flag is flying in front of the team.Aini suddenly felt a fear that she was about to abandon everything she was familiar with and entrust her fate to a stranger.She stood transfixed, her eyes searching for her husband.

Lowe rode up to her on a big daisy-blue horse. "Get on the horse, woman," he said, and walked to the front of the line. Aini hid her clenched fist in the folds of her skirt.Bear, bear, bear, she told herself, trying to ignore her husband's rudeness. In a cloud of dust, Lowe's brother appeared, and he smiled at him. "May I help you to your horse, my dear lady?" Aini smiled at the handsome young man.He was dressed as badly as Lowe, and his blond hair was too long, but at least he had a smile on his face.She held out her hand to his arm. "I'm very honored," she said, walking with him to the horses.

Aini just got on the horse, but Luo Wei rode back.He didn't look at her, just opened his mouth and yelled at his brother. "If you have nothing to do, maid, come with me," Lowe said. "Maybe your wife wants to go ahead with us." Seaman deliberately said in front of Ai Ni. "I don't need a woman." Lowe replied, he still didn't look at Ai Ni. "I don't think—" Seaman wanted to say, but Aine cut him off. She didn't want to be the cause of their brothers' quarrel. "I'd better stay here," he said. "I feel safer with this group of people. And you, sir," she said to Seaman. "My husband will need you."

Seaman frowned at her for a moment. "As you wish." He said and saluted slightly, and rode his horse to his brother's side. "Oh, that's great, Miss." Joss said as she rode beside her. "You already know how to please Lord Lowe, he will like you." They rode across the courtyard, across the drawbridge, and the dust lingered for a long time as the crowds passed by, and Aine sneezed. "I've been trying so hard to please him, but now I have to walk behind a bunch of people." "You're going to make it," Joss said. "When he finds your faithfulness and obedience, he will love you."

Ai Ni coughed a mouthful of dust.It's hard to talk about love and obedience when your mouth is full of dirt. They walked for hours.Except for Seaman who came back occasionally to ask her how she was feeling, Joss was the only one who kept nagging. "That man is too attentive to you." Joss said after Seaman walked away. "You'd better say he knows about your relationship." "But he's just being friendly!" "If you continue to accept his friendship, your husband will wonder who you have been faithful to." "I don't know if my husband has really seen me." Aini murmured.

Joss smiled triumphantly in the dusty sky.Since she was a child, Miss Aine never listened to her, and several times she was punished in her place for it.But now her young lady finally has a day to obey her. They rode until evening.Ernie knew that Joss and the other six maids were dozing off on the horse, but she dared not tell Lowe to stop.And she is not tired because of excitement.Today is her wedding night, and her husband will spend the whole night with her tonight. When they stopped to make camp, she was filled with anticipation.A knight helped her hastily from her horse, and Aine told Joss to look after the other maids while she searched for her husband.She saw him go into the woods.

Aini could vaguely hear the maids complaining, but she couldn't control that much.As casual as she could be, she followed her husband into the woods. After Lowe called out in the forest, he walked towards the dark stream.It took him a while to find the stone marker he had made: a six-foot-high stone mound that he built in memory of his brother Luther who died at the sword of the Huo family.He stood for a moment, letting his eyes adjust to the dim moonlight.The sound of weapons clashing during the war rang in his head again: Luther and his younger brothers went hunting together. They left the territory of the Huo family—actually, the territory of the Ou family. It was already two days away. Luther felt that it should be safe enough So I ran to the river alone to drink.

Lowe knew why his brother liked to be alone so much, was so drunk in the wine country, the death of the three brothers and his father-all were the hands of the Huo family. Lowe just watched his brother walk into the darkness alone, but he didn't stop Luther, but just waved a few warriors to follow him, ready to protect him when he was too drunk. Lowe looked at the pile of stones and remembered everything.He hated why he fell asleep that night.A small sound in his sleep woke him, and he jumped up, grabbed his sword, and ran into the wood.But it was too late, Luther was lying by the stream with a Huo family's sword stuck in his throat, and the two warriors protecting Luther were also killed.

Lowe raised his head and let out a long, sharp cry of pain. All of a sudden his men and Seaman rushed over.They did a blanket search in the woods and finally caught two distant relatives of the Huo family.Lowe made them die slowly and long, and when one of them mentioned Dolly, Lowe ended his life.Since then, Lowe has been the eldest son of the Ou family, and now the responsibility to protect Heman and Sal rests on his shoulders.He has to protect them, take care of them, and more importantly, he has to take back their own land from the Huo family. He gradually sank in Memory City, but a soft sound of branches breaking behind him made him turn around immediately, and drew his sword across the throat of the comer.this girl.Oh, by the way, it was the wife he just married this morning. "what are you going to do?"

Aini looked at the sword he held between her throat, and swallowed. "Is that a grave?" she asked hesitantly, remembering what Lina had said about how vicious these people were.Now that he has got the dowry, he can kill her now and tell others that she is with another man. "No." Lowe said hastily, he didn't want to tell her all the history of the Ou family. "Go back to the camp and don't run around." She was about to say that she could go wherever she liked, but Joss' words floated in her mind. "Okay, I'll go back," she said timidly. "Do you want to go back with me?" Lowe wanted to stay, but he didn't want her to walk alone in the woods.Since she is already a member of the Ou family, she is also an enemy of the Huo family. There is no doubt that the Huo family will try to capture the Ou family woman as a hostage again. "Okay," he said reluctantly. "I'm going with you." Aine felt a surge of excited joy.Joss was right, and her obedience finally moved him.She waited for Lowe to reach out to help her, but he walked straight ahead and Ernie trotted behind when suddenly her long skirt caught on a branch. "Wait!" she yelled. "I stumbled." Lowe turned back to look at her dress.His eyes gleamed in the moonlight, and Aine almost forgot about everything—until he raised his sword and slashed off a swath of her skirt with one blow.She stared blankly at the torn skirt, opened her mouth but couldn't speak.Those hem embroidery cost her the season rent of six farmlands! "Okay, let's go!" he ordered, then turned and walked forward. endure!She warned herself that a woman cannot find fault with her husband.As she followed him, she wondered if he was as looking forward to their wedding night as she was. With every step Lowe took, his brother's death became more stark.Two years has not dimmed the memory.Here he talked with Luther about buying horses, about the deaths of Tom and Shanya eight years ago, about how to protect Sal—here— "Can you tell me about your castle? I want to know where to hang tapestries." Lowe had forgotten the girl following him.William was three years older than Lowe. He died at the age of eighteen, and his will was to take back the Huo family's land.He said that only in this way can he die in peace. "Is that place big?" the girl asked. "Not much," he replied sternly. "It's very small. That place was left by the son of a bitch Huo's family." He walked out of the woods and stopped at the edge of the camp.In front of him was a large feather mattress.Why didn't they just light the torches, blow the horns, and tell Huo where they were? He walked through the camp angrily, and found Ximan who was teasing with Fei's maid.He punched Seaman on the shoulder. "What is this?" he demanded. "Why don't you invite the Huo family to take our heads?" Seaman gave Lowe a push. "We are very guarded, not to mention it's just a few mattresses." Lowe patted Seaman on the chest. "I want all these to be put away, women can also sleep on the ground, otherwise I will invite them to go back to Fei's house." Seaman punched Lowe again, but his brother Wen Feng didn't budge. "Some men want to sleep with women." "Then don't sleep too peacefully. If people from the Huo family come, we must get ready immediately—it can't be like the night Luther was killed. " Seaman finally nodded, and turned to ask someone to put away the mattress. Aine stood on the edge of the wood, watching her husband and his brother fight each other like enemies, and she worried about bloodshed, but the other warriors didn't seem to care.They parted after a while, and Aini finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, Joss ran over, her face twisted. "Miss Aine, they don't have tents, and we're going to sleep on the ground." She said the last words with the utmost horror. When Aini travels with her father and stepmother, they usually live in luxurious tents with all the facilities. "They don't even have hot food," Joss said. "Only some cold cuts of meat brought from the wedding feast, and the two maids were crying." "Then tell them to put away their tears," Aine replied. "You told me yourself that wives are not allowed to complain, and I think this applies to maids as well." Aini's anticipation for the wedding night far outweighs her concern for the cold cut of meat. After a while of confusion, the women all slept peacefully on their furs, and a few warriors from the Ou family hugged and comforted them. Aine herself spread the furs under an oak tree outside the camp.Joss helped her change out of the rags and put on a clean linen blouse, then Aini lay down and waited.She waited and waited and waited, but Lowe didn't come to her.The weariness of the journey made her gradually fall asleep, with a smile on her lips, because she was convinced that her husband would wake her gently. Lowe was lying on the blanket next to Seaman, as they usually slept when they traveled. Seaman turned to him smugly. "I thought you were already married." "The Huo family is here, but I'm busy with a woman?" Lowe said sarcastically. "She's a pretty little thing," Seaman said. "You might as well find a rabbit! The only way I can tell them apart is by the color of their clothes. Is it Thursday?" "Yes!" Seaman replied. "We'll be home on Saturday." "Ah, then," Lowe said softly. "I won't eat meat-free on Saturday dinner." Seaman rolled over and fell asleep, but Lowe lay awake for another hour.His mind was busy planning how to use the Fei family's property: they had to forge all kinds of weapons first, they had to hire more warriors, and they had to store more food.Because he knew that it would be a long war to regain the Ou family's land. As for the petite and poor wife, he didn't even think about it. The next morning, Ai Ni didn't have a good temper, and Joss came to convey the complaints of the maids in a high-pitched voice.The samurai of the Ou family were so rude when they had sex, and two of the maids were bruised and swollen. "It's better to be bruised and swollen than to be safe." Aini said, with anger and sarcasm in her words. "Bring me the blue robe, and tell them to shut up, or I'll make them suffer." She wore a long skirt of blue silk, and a golden sash studded with broken diamonds, and her tiara was full of diamonds.Maybe he would be happy to see her today.Maybe he was just embarrassed to come to her in front of his subordinates last night.yes!Maybe he has a reason. He hadn't greeted her that morning, in fact, he had walked past her without even looking at her.He looked as if he no longer recognized her. Ernie was helped to mount by a knight, and once more rode behind the caravan eating ashes. By noon she began to feel impatient.She saw Lowe and Seaman talking enthusiastically in front of her, and she wondered what it was that interested them so much.She rode aside. "Miss Aini!" Joss shouted in shock. "Where are you going?" "Since my husband didn't look for me, I had to go look for him myself." "No," said Joss. "Men don't like women who take the initiative, you have to wait for him to come to you." Aine hesitated, but her boredom won. "I'll see what happens." She said as she kicked off the horse and rode beside Seaman, and Lowe was beside him.Seaman catches a glimpse of her, Lowe keeps his eyes on. "We're going to hoard all the corn," Lowe said. "We have to get ready." "What about the fifty acres to the north? The farmer says there's nothing to grow in those fields, and all the sheep are dead." "It's all dead, ha!" Lowe sniffed his nose. "These bastards are probably selling the sheep to traders who come and go, and keep the grain for themselves. Send a few people to burn down a few houses, beat up a few old farmers, and let's see if their sheep will die!" This is exactly what Ai Ni likes. Fields, farmers and agricultural products are her areas of expertise.He has long forgotten "obedience" and "not talking much". "It's no use scaring the sharecroppers," she said aloud, without looking at the two men. "First of all, we have to find out whether they are telling the truth. There are many possibilities: it may be that the fields are too depleted, the water quality is not good, or the sheep have been cursed. If these are not true, then these The peasants are just lying to us, and we can deport them. I've found deportation to be as effective as abuse and intimidation, and more... pleasant. I'll deal with it as soon as I get home." She turned her head and smiled at the two of them. Both of them stared at her with their mouths wide open. Aini didn't understand at all why they had such expressions. "It could also be a seed issue," she said. "One year all our seeds were moldy—" "Go back!" Lowe said in a low voice. "If I need a woman's opinion, of course I will ask," he said. "I just—" began Aine. "If you say one more word, I'll tie you up in the carriage." Lowe said with angry eyes. Aini held back her anger again, and rode back to the back of the ranks. After she left, Seaman spoke first. "Water quality? What's wrong with the water quality? And the curse, do you think the Huo family has cursed our sheep? How can we solve it?" Lowe stared straight ahead.Damn woman!he thinks.What does she want to do?Interfere in a man's life?Every time he got women involved, they turned against him. "There are no curses, only greedy farmers." Lowe said firmly. "I want them to know who they are farming for." Seaman pondered for a while.He didn't hate women as much as his brother did, in fact there were a lot of things he discussed with Randy and her answers were helpful.Maybe this Miss Jiao from the Fei family is not the silly girl he imagined. He looked back at her from the saddle.She sat upright on her horse, her eyes gleaming with anger.Seaman smiled back at his brother: "He pissed her off," he teased. "I don't think she's very good-tempered at night. From my experience, you'd better tell her how much you're fascinated by her golden hair, and she'll probably be in a better mood." "The only thing I'm obsessed with is the gold in the carriage, not her hair. Also, I think you'd better spend the night with a maid tonight, lest you think about women's hair." Seaman was still smiling. "And you lie down with my beautiful sister-in-law and let her have some sons, don't you?" Son, Lowe thought.His son can help him deal with the Huo family. "Yes, I'll let her have some sons," said Lowe at last. They pitched up again that night, and Ernie still made her sleeping bed under the tree, but still Lowe didn't come. Aini didn't want to cry, she didn't want to think of Lina's warning, but just recalled the scene of him kissing her by the pool over and over again.She fell asleep intermittently for a while, and woke up before dawn, and everyone was still asleep.After she got up, she walked into the woods. She bent over to take a sip of water from the spring, and suddenly felt a pair of eyes watching her.She turned around and saw a man in the shadows.She gasped for breath and put her hands to her throat. "Don't leave the camp without anyone following you." It was Lowe's deep voice. She was well aware that he was only wearing a thin pajamas, his long hair was loose in the back; his stockings were from waist to toe, and his chest was bare.She took a step forward. "I can't sleep," she said softly to him. "did you sleep well?" He frowned at her.For some reason, she gave him a very familiar feeling, as if he had seen her before.She was very attractive in the dim morning light, but he had no urgent desire for her. "Go back to camp," he said, turning away from her again. "Damn—" Ai Ni stopped in the middle of the sentence.Why on earth is this man so indifferent to her?Maybe Joss was right, and when she was home, she could give him comfort and satisfaction, and then he would begin to warm up. She hurried forward to catch up with him. "Can we reach Oujia Castle today?" "It's Castle Murray," he said. "The Huo family has occupied the territory of the Ou family." She had to run to catch up with him. "I've heard of them. They took your lands and titles, didn't they? You'd be a duke if it weren't for them." He stopped suddenly and turned to stare angrily at him. "That's what you want, isn't it? You want to marry a duke, don't you? Is that why you refuse others, marry me?" "Uh, no, I'm not." She stammered in surprise. "I married you because..." "What?" he demanded. Aini didn't know how to tell him.Said she longed for him?Said that every time he approached her, her heartbeat couldn't be controlled?Or how much she wanted to touch his naked skin? "So you are here." Seaman said from behind them. "Everyone is ready to go, ma'am," he said, and Ai Ni nodded. His examining eyes made her flush.She looked up to see if Lowe was paying attention, but he wasn't.He looked at the camp and left Aini.Aini followed the two brothers and walked back to the administrative area. "She's even more beautiful than I thought." Seaman said to his brother as he rode the horse. "She didn't interest me at all," Lowe said. "A woman with the title 'wife' doesn't attract me." "I thought if someone wanted to take her away, you would desperately fight for her!" Seaman wanted to joke with his brother, but as soon as the words came out, he immediately regretted it.Ten years ago Lowe had indeed cost his two brothers his life in order to win back a woman. "No, I'm not going to fight for her," said Lowe, strangely calm. "If you like that woman, take it. She means nothing to me, only his gold is what I want." Seaman frowned at his brother, but said nothing.