Chapter 12: Internal strife of the Miao people (I)

"Magu, you are already eighteen this year. Our Miao woman should get married when she is fourteen or five years old. You have been delaying for three years. My father's family's threshold is almost flattened by the person who proposed marriage!" Ma Laoguan looked at his young daughter who was in love with all the Miao men in all places and sighed.

Magu did not keep his father's complaints in his heart. He hugged Ma Laoguan's neck with a smile, and acted coquettishly in his father's ear: "Dad, don't worry, your daughter will not be worried about not being able to get married!"

Mr. Ma is the chief of the Wuzhai Division, the leader of the 72 Miao villages. Among the Miao people, he is a person who calls the wind and rain. Even the Miao king of the Xinzhai, Wu Heimiao, had to politely call him: "Uncle Ma", only Magu, the treasure daughter, dares to ride on his head, and no matter what, she will not be angry.

Magu's mother was a Han girl. She fled to Xiangxi and met Ma Laoguan when she was young. At that time, Ma Laoguan was only the heir of Mazhai Tusi. Although Ma Laoguan was born in the Miao Tusi family, she was very sympathetic to the suffering life of ordinary Miao people and did not have that much hatred for the Han people. Maybe because he was a mature Miao, Ma Gu's grandfather suddenly fell ill, but Ma Gu's mother was penniless and had difficulty in eating. She had no money to find a doctor to get medicine for her father to treat her. She happened to meet Ma Laoguan. Seeing that she was pitiful, Ma Laoguan gave her some money to Ma Gu's mother and asked her to treat her grandfather. Because the Tusi family was very strict, Ma Laoguan brought a lot of money every time, so every three or two days, he would treat the pocket money he saved to Ma Gu's grandfather.

When he went there, Ma Laoguan found that Magu's mother was kind, hardworking and very beautiful. The Miao young men from several nearby villages liked Magu's mother. Due to the custom of Miao and Han's intermarriage, no one dared to express love to Magu's mother. As the heir of the chieftain, Ma Laoguan could not marry a Han daughter as his wife. Besides, he had already decided on a marriage, and Magu's mother also found that Ma Laoguan was not like half of the noble children, without any arrogance and extravagance, but was humble and polite, helpful, and talented. A heart was already entangled in his benefactor. Later, a Han local official fell in love with Magu's mother and wanted to force him to take him as a concubine. The only one who could save Magu's mother was Ma Laoguan. Although Ma Laoguan was the heir of the Miao and was not an official after all, and a natural barrier for Miao and Han to not intermarriage was across the two.

At that time, the Miao people in Guizhou Wei, Pingyue, Xintian, Longli, Qingping, Bafan and other places were forced to "rob the merchants" and "rob the officials" and attack the Wei Suo Tunbao fort in the Ming Dynasty when suppressing the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Bozhou. In order to rescue his beloved woman, Ma Laoguan was alone and covered his face to kill the local official who came to rob his relatives. The situation was chaotic at the time. Originally, he was alone and was reported to have hundreds of people. Therefore, everyone only thought that Ma Gu's mother was rescued by the Miao people's own uprising army. After that turmoil, Ma Laoguan's father died of illness later. Ma Laoguan inherited the position of chieftain. Ma Laoguan did not dare to disobey the marriage he had made during his lifetime, so he married the Miao girl. However, at this time Ma Gu's mother had already had a secret marriage.

After being pregnant with Magu, she gave birth to Magu. Ma Laoguan's original wife was diagnosed with infertility. Whether she was really jealous or unable to give birth, Magu's mother entered the Ma family half-light and half-dark. Unfortunately, Magu's mother died when Magu was ten years old, and she had the same illness as her grandfather. Later, Ma Laoguan became the chief village department of the 72 Miao villages of the Wuzhaisi by relying on her own ability and prestige among the Miao people. She was extremely fond of her only daughter. She invited the best teacher from the Han people to educate him and cultivate her. Fortunately, Magu inherited all her father's advantages. Not only did she grow a water spirit, she became the most beautiful phoenix in Miao, but she was also a recognized talented woman in Miao. She was known as "Ma Phoenix". The royal city built by Ma Laoguan in Laodongtun was her work.

Magu's boudoir is unavailable to wait for people to enter. In addition to his father, there is also a close-fitting girl. Even Ma Laoguan's original wife could not enter without her nodding. She followed her father as soon as she was born, and her mother lived alone. Although the whole Miaojiang knew that Ma Laoguan had an entanglement with a Han girl, no one knew that Magu was the Han girl. The tribe members tolerated Magu's mother's existence, because Ma Laoguan did not formally marry Magu's mother after all, and Magu was all born to Ma Laoguan's original wife. Magu's life story

In addition to Magu himself, only Ma Laoguan and his original wife Qi Zhenhui, and Wenpo, who delivered Magu's mother, knew that no outsiders knew such a huge secret for eighteen years. If this secret was leaked, not only will Ma Laoguan's status be lost, but he may also be ruined. Ma Gu is even more unable to inherit the hereditary lord. Therefore, this secret is Ma Laoguan's biggest heart disease. Therefore, for eighteen years, he has been cautious and hard-working to manage it, which has achieved its current status and fame.

"Wu Heimiao has come to propose marriage to my father. He wants to marry you as his princess and be the happiest bride in Miaojiang!" Old Guan Ma didn't know how to speak to his daughter, but it was related to her lifelong happiness. A father could only say it with his teeth.

When Magu heard this, a pair of bright black pearls suddenly lost a little glory and said coquettishly: "Magu will not marry, Magu will accompany his father for the rest of his life!"

"How can you not marry?" Although Ma Laoguan didn't like Wu Heimiao, who could be his daughter's father, he was now king in Miaojiang and had great power. Under pressure, he had to agree to surrender. The royal city he built had become his territory. Although he had some strength, no one was strong, so he could only bow his head. He did not see Wu Heimiao's uprising rebellion, but if he did not agree to rely on him, he would probably not be able to control his seventy-two villages. Once he was confirmed as a "Han Hawk Dog", it would be useless even if he had high reputation. The hatred of the Miao people towards the Han people accumulated over hundreds of years.

"Dad, do you really want to marry Magu to the man who can be Magu's father?" Magu had never seen his father speak to her in such a tone, and tears rolled down from his eyes like a broken pearl.

"My father doesn't want it, but if you find a man you like earlier, you don't have to make such a difficult situation!" Who is Wu Heimiao? Everyone among the Miao people knows. In the new village, whether it is a chieftain or an ordinary Miao people offend him, there is no good ending. He raised the banner and rebelled not to resist the Han oppression of the Miao people. He was whispering for his own whispers. He wanted to become a country composed of Miao people. He came to be the emperor of the Miao people. Two years ago, Wu Heimiao died his original wife. Although he had many concubines, he never set up a wife in the house and put his ideas on his daughter Magu. At that time, the seventy-two Miao villages under Ma Laoguan were much stronger in terms of strength.

He was not ashamed of Wu Heimiao's secretly selling Miao girls. Marrying his daughter to him was a waste, so he refused sternly. Unexpectedly, two years later, Wu Heimiao's power expanded so quickly that it had surpassed him. After he started a war, he even bewitched many Miao villages to follow him. In a short while, tens of thousands of soldiers were gathered, which was no longer something that he, Ma Laoguan, could no longer compete with. Not only was he under pressure, but he surrendered himself, but he also forced himself to give up his time, worked hard to build a royal city. Wu Heimiao never forgot the shame of being refused marriage back then, and repeatedly came to the door to propose marriage. Such a person was under the roof, and he could only bow his head. At this time, Ma Laoguan was no longer as brave as robbing his daughter's mother.
Chapter completed!