Chapter 17: Ten Deaths and Life
It wasn't a long time ago, everything was as clear as it was yesterday, a year ago, a caravan came to the village, which was not unusual, although it was a small village with little contact with the outside world, and the villagers lived a completely self-sufficient life, but the arrival of merchants always brought some new things to the village, and people were willing to exchange some daily necessities and new gadgets from the merchants with surplus food during the harvest season. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, the merchants strongly recommended a red pill in a glass bottle, called "Ten Deaths and Life".
According to them, this "ten deaths and lives" is now the most popular thing in the entire duke's fiefdom, and even those high-ranking officials and nobles have bought it in large quantities, and the carts they carried on this trip are all this thing.
The villagers are still joking with them, how can so many "ten deaths and lives" be sold, and the things that the nobles and lords play with are the common people in the poor countryside here who can play it.
But the boss of the caravan was very bold, and generously stuffed a few bottles of "Ten Deaths and Lives" to the villagers, and everyone met together is fate, and these bottles will be given to you as gifts, and you will buy them again if you think it is good.
At that time, there were a few young people who couldn't bear to take the "Ten Deaths and Lives", and the effect that surprised everyone appeared, and the strength of several young people after taking the "Ten Deaths and Lives" skyrocketed several times, and the hundred-pound stones in front of the village were playing with wind and water, and the whole person did not feel a little fatigue at all, and the most wonderful thing was that the wonderful feeling of falling into heaven was really ten deaths and life, as if dozens of times as for the pleasure between life and death, which made people want to stop.
It took only three days for several families to complete the harvest of their fields, and the strength was inexhaustible, and they didn't even need to sleep, you must know that it usually took half a month to harvest the fields, and the effect of a "Ten Deaths and Lives" could support a whole day of sleeplessness, and they also enjoyed the intoxicating power and the thrill of falling into heaven every moment.
Soon, the magical effect of "Ten Deaths and Lives" quickly spread in this small village, and people rushed to buy "Ten Deaths and Lives" from the caravan.
The price of "Ten Deaths and Lives" is very cheap, a bag of rice can be replaced with a bottle, and there are thirty grains in a bottle, that is, it can be used for a whole month.
There is only one accident in the whole village, that is, Lao Mai with a quirky personality, Lao Mai has a child, and his wife died because of dystocia, so he has always had some quirks, living alone at the entrance of the village, Lao Mai is also an older person in the village, of course, he is more stubborn in his thinking, a point of hard work and a point of harvest, how can there be a reason to drop pie in this sky?
The whole village used the "ten deaths and life" to harvest all the fields quickly, only Lao Mai still took his son to slowly harvest the wheat little by little with the oldest method, and the people in the village who kindly wanted to help were also driven out by Lao Mai with a sickle, the grain is a favor given by God, you little melon babies with the help of crooked ways are not qualified to touch my food!
Soon, a month's "Ten Deaths and Lives" ran out, and when the villagers were worried, the caravan "coincidentally" passed by here again, and this time the caravan owner told the villagers with a smile that the price of "Ten Deaths and Lives" had risen, and now two bags of grain could only be exchanged for a bottle.
Two bags of grain, this is nothing, anyway, the surplus grain will be sold to the merchants who collect the grain later, and they can't be hungry, and there is a long queue in front of the caravan.
But the villagers can't think about it so much, and they always feel that if they get up every morning without "ten deaths and lives," they will have no energy for the whole day, like the walking dead; on the contrary, as long as there are "ten deaths and lives," every moment is the kind of pleasure that makes people want to stop.
The next month, the caravan arrived again as scheduled, this time for ten bags of grain, and the villagers didn't even seem to be able to bargain.
When winter came, when the first snow fell, the whole village finally ushered in the caravan, twenty bags of grain a bottle, no bargaining, the leader of the caravan laughing and groaning told the price this time.
Twenty bags of grain, which is already a difficult amount for the current villagers, will not be easy to hand over this winter.
Lao Mai appeared at the entrance of the village and scolded the villagers angrily, look at what you have become, did the ancestors leave the land for us to exchange for this harmful thing!
You can not change, the caravan boss is not angry at all, he still looks like he is smiling: "We are serious businessmen, we never buy and sell, but I said first, this "ten deaths and lives" can be sought-after now, the next village is still waiting for us, we can only stay for a short time." ”
Lao Mai could only watch as the red-eyed villagers carried bags of grain to fill the caravan owner's car, and then exchanged for bottles of bright red "Ten Deaths and Life".
This winter is very difficult, and there are a few families who are ruthless and did not change the "ten deaths and lives", but in the following days, people have seen the power of "ten deaths and lives", and with "ten deaths and lives", it is the pleasure of going to heaven, no, it is the indescribable pain of going to hell!
When there is no "ten deaths and lives", people are almost forced out of the deepest desires of human nature, almost tortured and crazy, and do not hesitate to exchange more food for even one "ten deaths and lives", which is the most terrible part of "ten deaths and lives", strong dependence and addiction.
When surviving this winter, people's bodies have almost reached the limit, many people die inexplicably, and more people become weak, but because of this, it is more necessary to "ten deaths and life", as long as they take this thing, the whole person is immediately full of strength.
Muraguchi, this time the expression on the merchant's face was still smiling, but what he said was the most cruel words, fifty bags of grain a bottle, which could also be exchanged for other things.
Fifty bags of grain, how can people who have finally survived the winter have any surplus food, but no one is thinking about not buying "ten deaths and lives", they only think about how to scrape together enough money to buy it.
Lao Mai knelt directly at the entrance of the village, are you all crazy? Even the grain seeds left behind must be taken out, what to do with the land left by the ancestors, spring is coming, spring plowing is about to begin, how to cultivate without seeds!
But everyone selectively ignored Lao Mai, and the irony is that even Lao Mai's only son finally tasted the taste of "ten deaths and life", and never disobeyed Lao Mai's son, who pushed Lao Mai to the ground and carried the family's food to happily replace the "ten deaths and lives".
Finished... It's all over...
Lao Mai knelt alone on the abandoned 10,000 acres of fertile land, this is the Danube Plain, the most fertile land in the whole continent, is the wealth left by the ancestors...
The last time, the villagers had nothing left, but just by giving them a look at the medicine bottle containing "Ten Deaths and Life", they willingly gave everything they had, and all of them were shackled.
Lao Mai pounced hoarsely at the entrance of the village to the leader of the caravan, where are you going to take everyone!
The caravan leader showed a real smile at this time, old man, you are very lucky, you escaped, but these people are already slaves, of course, it is a deed of sale that they voluntarily signed, after all, we are serious merchants, as for where to go, it is not necessarily, the beautiful ones are sold to the nobles as pets, the strong can go to war, those old and weak, sick and disabled, it is also useful, let them plant flowers, this is this kind of flower.
The leader of the caravan took out a bright flower as blood, and saw it, this is the demon flower used to extract the "Ten Deaths and Life", it is very delicate, it requires a lot of manpower to carefully breed, and it is the flesh and blood of the slaves that irrigate them!
There is more than one caravan like this, and such a tragedy is far more than just happening in this small village, the power is far greater than the war, it only took less than a year, and the legendary imperial granary became a devastation, which is "ten deaths and life"!