It's still the same gambling house.

The gambler happily took the money, not paying the slightest attention to the cries of the child next to him. The money lender had the child and the woman tied up and taken to a back room. Yan Che asked Yin to follow the three of them to see where they went. Then continuing to look at the gambler, he took the money and returned to the table. The person who shakes the dice sees a look from the lender and starts shaking the dice. The gambler is fighting for his life, he put all the money on the "one, two, three", and it seems that he wants to win or lose, and win back all the losses he has lost before. The dice shaker picked up the dice clock and shook it and placed it on the table, and everyone held their breath. But there is a small movement in his hand, and when he shakes the dice, the dice have been arranged in the order of four, five or six, and then he uses ventriloquism to make the sound of shaking the dice mislead everyone to think that the dice are chaotic. When the dice clock opened, there was a "four, five, six", and the gambler's money was all gone.

The gambler collapsed to the ground and was pushed out of the table by the others. He staggered to his feet and went back to the lender. The lender sneered, "What else do you have to pledge?"

The gambler thought for a long time and blurted out: "Put my life on the line!"

The lender laughed: "Your cheap life is worthless, a rotten person like you, how much does the Meng Dynasty want." We will spend money to support you with your life, how can anyone do a loss-making business. “

The gambler also wanted to entangle with the money lender and was thrown out of the gambling house by several of his men. The gambler fell to the ground, and his body, which had been very excited in the gambling house before, suddenly seemed to become weak, and he staggered to his feet and kept falling for half a day before he got up from the ground. No one in the past looked at him, and helped him, maybe the people here are not surprised. After the gambler got up, he staggered to the door of a tobacco house, and Yan Che followed him. From a distance, Yan Che smelled an unpleasant smell wafting from the smoke house, the pungent smell made the brain uncomfortable, and the gambler was even more excited after smelling it, and ran into the smoke house.

Yan Che asked Yan Tiege, "What is this smoke house for?"

Yan Tiege said: "In the past, the smoke was used to relieve pain, and the soldiers who were injured during the battle could not stand the pain, and after smelling the smoke, they would be fluttering, forget the pain, and even have the effect of refreshing and exciting." However, heavy smoking will make people addictive, once they do not smoke again, the body will fall into pain again, and over time they will become dependent on heavy smoke, and long-term smoking will slowly damage the body. It seems that the medical methods that used to be used to march and fight have now become a luxury for human degeneration. Saving and harming others is just a choice for people's hearts. ”

But after a while, the gamblers who had gone in before were blasted out. The guy in the hall scolded at the door: "I don't have money and I want to be happy, a big cigarette is worth more than your life." Next time you dare to come in and break your legs directly. The gambler seemed to be weaker, and crawled on his stomach, and the passers-by were disgusted with him, and even spat on him. The gambler kept crawling, dipping himself in the canal, letting the sewage and saliva mix with him, and then preparing to crawl back to his home.

But does he really still have a home?

In an alley, Yan Che stood in front of him. The gambler looked up from the canal, and he was a young man-like figure, who had nothing to do with him, and probably came to laugh at him.

Yan Che asked, "You don't care about your lady and children?"

When the gambler saw that Yan Che was dressed nobly, he immediately smiled, lay on the ground and looked up and said, "This son, you can do well, reward some silver for Xiaomin to smoke a big cigarette." ”

Yan Che repeated his previous words again with an expressionless face. The gambler saw that Yan Che had no intention of rewarding him, so he lowered his face: "I'm afraid Childe is here to make fun of Xiaomin, right? The old woman didn't marry me, if it weren't for the children who hadn't been killed, why would they have fallen here. If she can give birth to a few more, she can sell a few more money, why not win a bet today, it is really a Kefu's life. ”

Yan Che raised his head and did not look at the gambler again. Seeing that Yan Che ignored him, the gambler crawled home alone. But where does he have a home, and every way is the way to hell.

Yan Tiege asked puzzledly, "You just let him go?"

Yan Che said: "Good and evil have their own certainty. He wanted to go to hell, and no one could stop him. ”

At this time, Yin has returned. It is implicitly said that the woman was caught in a landlord's house, and the two children are now in the slave market.

"Trading market?" Yan Che asked, frowning. Nodding implicitly. "Check it out right away. ”

The slave trade was heavily guarded, and many people of all kinds were chained and locked in cages, which were so small that slaves had no room to move. The air was muddy, the ground was full of sewage, mosquitoes were raging, and the slaves were unkempt and yellow-skinned. Some of them were humans, some were orcs, but none of them were the same as they were. Yan Che and the others easily blended in, and found the two children under Yin's guidance. Along the way, Yan Che heard the voices of the slaves, many people were crying for help, longing for liberation, and many people wanted to die. Yan Che saw the two children, huddled in a cramped cage, his brother holding his sister. A slave owner saw that Yan Che had been staring at the two children, and immediately came up to greet him:

"This guest officer is really good eyesight, these two babies were just sent at noon today, absolutely clean. Although he is a little younger, he is good at training, looking at the two faces, he must be the first time to take care of him, and the younger brother will give you a discount, two dolls sixty taels. ”

"Sixty taels? These two children were sold with their mothers for only fifty taels, and you will be sixty by the time?"

The slave owner saw that Yan Che didn't seem to be here to do business, and suddenly changed his face: "We don't have to worry about eating and drinking this slave here, isn't there a cost to this?" Besides, the local slaves in the market are cheap now, and the foreign slaves are even more expensive. After bringing it home, you can play as much as you want, and torture as much as you want. If you kill the government, you won't care about it, and people who have a deed of sale will ignore it. If you don't plan to buy it, please don't do business with our store. ”

Yan Che laughed after hearing this. The slave owner saw Yan Che laughing, thinking that he was going to buy a slave, and laughed along.

"Are you the biggest, the most expensive slave, do you have this?" Yan Che asked.

The slave owner was immediately very happy, and it seemed that the temper of the rich man was indeed wavering, and he hurriedly said: "Oh, I have met the gold owner." The smaller one is Luo Tong of the Jimin Gang, and the Jimin Gang is in charge of the best slaves in the country, and the best ones are here with us. There are a few descendants of generals and sorcerers left by the rebels before, and they were really captured after wasting their strength. There is also a maid who gets tired of playing with the prince and the high-ranking official once, and she is still waiting to be released. Childe, please, I'll show you the way. ”

Yan Che followed him into the shed, where there were two cages. One of them was a woman, disheveled, her skin could be blown and torn, and she was quite beautiful. Luo Tong introduced this woman as a maid who was cheating with the eldest prince, and when she was cheating with the prince, she was discovered by the prince's wife, who sold her to us, and originally asked us to sell us as prostitutes, but we secretly stayed, which was for interested guests.

Yan Che approached the woman, her eyes were blank, and she didn't even notice that Yan Che was staring at her. Yan Che said to Luo Tong: "This woman has not lived long, and she has no motivation to live. Luo Tong naturally didn't understand Yan Che's words, and the right was that he was dissatisfied with the slave and took him to see another slave. In the other was a male slave, and the cage was large and he was the only one. He had an iron pestle stuck in his back and turned his back to them. The slave owner took out the whip and whipped the cage to turn the slave around. The slave turned slowly and looked at Yan Che.

It was the face of a delicate young man, almost sixteen years old according to human age, and although the clothes were shabby, it could still be seen as a military uniform. Even though he was unkempt, his eyes were clear and clean. He stared straight at Yan Che, his eyes shining with infinite anger. When the slave owner saw the slave's wickedness, he took the whip and taught him a lesson. Although his eyes had left Yan Che at this time, but after a moment's eye contact just now, Yan Che clearly felt his desire to survive from his heart - I want to live, go out alive to avenge my family!

Yan Che stopped the slave owner, approached the slave and whispered in his ear, "If you can hold out until tomorrow, I will take you out." Let you deal with your enemies with your own hands. But remember, if your enemy dies, you have no motivation to live. I don't know who you want to kill, but you have to understand what it means to do it and what it means to keep living. Tomorrow, if you want to understand, I will come and set you free. ”

When the young man heard this, he was very surprised, and the man in front of him seemed to know his thoughts. Then he kowtowed heavily, slammed into the iron cage with a dull sound, and said, "If you can get your wish, you will die with you." Then he asked why he didn't save the slave girl in another cage. Yan Che replied that she was alive in health, but her heart was dead. Presumably she was tortured inhumanly in the cage, but the shopkeeper didn't tell the truth. He will not save those who do not intend to live, but those who want to live, even if there is only a line between life and death, he will do his best. This is what Yan Che's father once taught.

Yan Che said to the slave owner, "I want this man, and the two children from before." I'll be coming to get it after tomorrow. After speaking, he was about to touch his ring, and suddenly remembered that the ring was given to the girl in Shinojia Village. Yan Tiege understood Yan Che's intentions, took out a gold leaf from the Book of Eternity, and handed it to the slave owner as a deposit. The slave owner happily took the gold leaf, took a bite of it with his mouth, and then rubbed it vigorously with his hand to confirm the authenticity, and after confirming that it was correct, he happily sent Yan Che out of the slave market.

When a person has been enslaved for a long time, and finally succumbs to being oppressed, loses the desire to survive, and loses human dignity, such a person is not worthy of helping him anymore. Because after such a person helps him, he will still walk back to the cage and lock the shackles himself. If he has a strong desire, there must be something to be done while he is alive in the world, and he will not be willing to be enslaved and wait for it to explode. At this time, it is necessary to step forward and help, untie the shackles and let them break free on their own.

It was evening when I returned, and the dusk was shining on everyone's faces. Along the way, Yan Che was expressionless, or was his heart like ashes? There were more and more crowds passing by them, more and more, and Yan Che didn't pay any attention to it. Yan Tiege reminded Yan Che, and Yan Che came back to his senses and found that many poor people kept gathering in one direction.

Follow to the gathering place, which is the home of the poor, Dream City.

Yan Che saw that there were people there distributing food. A woman in white distributes food in front of the poor, and only a young man who seems to be in his twenties, holding a sword in his hand, stands beside him, and the poor people are lining up to get food. Soon, the food was shining, but many people still did not eat it. The person who didn't eat reached out to the woman to ask for it, but the woman just shook her head regretfully, saying that she could only bring so much, and she would bring as much as possible next time. But the hungry crowd began to stir, and the woman was so frightened that she retreated. The man with the sword immediately took out his sword and retreated from the crowd, and then left with the woman in white.

Yan Che met the woman in white, but ignored it at first, and when the woman walked behind him, Yan Che called out to her:

"Girl, do you think you're saving people or hurting people?"

"What do you mean? Of course you're saving people. The woman said.

"I don't think so. When you give alms to others, you don't think about the mind of the beggar. Constant giving will make them gain something for nothing and develop dependence. When you want to be the same as today and give less, they will no longer appreciate you, but will resent you for snubbing them. When you're gone, people who haven't eaten food will grab it. They are already in hell, and no one wants to live, but you give them hope to live but you don't give them the means to live. In the end, no one will survive. Yan Che said to the woman.

The woman was speechless, and she couldn't speak for a while. The sword-wielding boy saw that the situation was not right, drew his sword and pointed at Yan Che: "Which prince are you sent, princess, don't be afraid, he must be sent by other princes to interfere with you." ”

"Princess?" Yan Che asked, "Which princess?"

"Nonsense, King Jiang has only one princess, and that is Princess Mengsheng. I advise you not to be delusional and do anything, only Yan Qinghou is above me in Jiang Guo. ”

Yan Che laughed when he heard this: "No wonder this place is called Mengsheng City, it turned out to be your name." I didn't expect you to use your name to build purgatory. ”

These words made Princess Mengsheng tremble and stand unsteadily. When the young man saw that the princess was sad, he immediately drew his sword, but Yan Che was calm, and caught the sword with only his thumb and index finger, and held it firmly in his hand. No matter how hard the boy tried, he couldn't advance or retreat.

"Boy, what's your name? You said that you are only under Yan Qinghou, and I can't feel it. ”

"You don't deserve it!" said the young man, straining as he drew his sword.

"It's not too old, it's not too small. If you know Yan Qinghou, tell him that the person who fights with you is called Zhang Che. You see what he will say. Then he let go of his fingers, and the boy fell to the ground.

Yan Che said to Meng Sheng: "I'm not laughing at you, it's just that you don't have the consciousness and ability to be a good person. If it were me, I would have done it another way. ”

Meng Sheng shed a tear at this time, and the tears were crystal clear, with a hint of blue light. It was such a faint bit of blue light that made Yan Tiege suddenly startled and kept looking at Meng Sheng. Yan Tiege trembled and said, "You... Are you related to the Privet Clan?"

At the mention of the "Privet Clan", Mengsheng's face suddenly changed, and he said suspiciously: "What did you say?"

The young man got up and protected the princess, and said: "It's really ignorant, Princess Mengsheng is the daughter of the dignified Jiang King, how can there be any privet clan." Privets no longer exist. Meng Sheng saw that Yan Tiege didn't ask any more questions, and left with the young man.

Yan Che hurriedly asked Yan Tiege, "Uncle, why did you suddenly ask like that?

Yan Tiege looked at the woman's distant back and said slowly, "There will be no mistake. Nuwa still has descendants. I saw your mother cry before you were born, and her tears were so pure, and there was a faint blue light, which was completely different from the tears of ordinary human beings. It was the exact same feeling as it had been before. ”

Yan Che was stunned at first, and then looked overjoyed. I didn't expect that today was really worth the trip, and I finally found someone of the same clan as my mother.

But.

"But she should have something else to hide. If she is really a privet clan, as the princess of Jiang Kingdom, she may lead the other five countries to crusade. Let's not act rashly without full confirmation. Yan Qinghou may take us into the palace at night, and we can ask us clearly when we meet. “

So they returned to the mansion, where Yan Qinghou was already waiting early. Yan Qinghou led Yan Che into the palace, and Yan Che's entourage also followed in with a simple package. In the palace, King Jiang sat on the throne, and Princess Mengsheng sat beside him. The banquet had been set up, the civil and military generals were all in place, and the three princes were also sitting closest to King Jiang, and they all showed disdain when they saw Yan Qinghou come in. Standing next to Princess Mengsheng was the young man who looked foreign during the day, and when he saw Yan Qinghou coming in with Yan Che, he suddenly knew something in his heart, and looked at Yan Che incredulously. Princess Mengsheng was also surprised that the man who spoke to him during the day today was actually a master of repelling the enemy and helping Yan Qinghou.

Yan Qinghou walked to the center of the hall, in front of King Jiang, and after saluting, he turned back and introduced Yan Che: "This time I went east to fight against the Qi State, I don't want the Qi State to actually buy the cultivators and attack our army with the people of the Jiang Kingdom as hostages." If it weren't for this Zhang Che Shaoxia's action, I'm afraid Da Jiang's border would be in danger. “

King Jiang said happily: "Who is this Zhang Shaoxia, let this king see him." “

After Yan Che heard King Jiang speak, he began to walk forward, getting closer and closer to King Jiang. Yan Qinghou reminded in the back: "Zhang Shaoxia, it's too close to the king. Yan Che didn't seem to hear it, and continued to step forward. The soldiers began to react, holding spears at him. Yan Che's entourage suddenly made a move at this time, Hua Yao and Hua Rui gave birth to vines to seal the entrance, and Ji Wumei flew in the air and used a whip to take the weapons of the soldiers blocking the way. The green wolf also took off the hood covering his head and bared his fangs. Sharkbreaker has subdued the guards outside the door. Everyone was frightened by this scene, only screaming and bewildered.

Yan Che walked in front of King Jiang, Princess Mengsheng came to protect King Jiang, and was instructed by King Jiang not to act rashly. Yan Che said seriously, "You are not worthy to be the ruler here. “

King Jiang said timidly, "Who are you?"

Yan Che approached him and sneered, "I'm the demon Yan Che!"