Chapter 3: Water Moon City
"Do you know where my father is now?" asked Mu Hanxuan.
Seriously, when Mu Hanxuan saw those illusions, he especially wanted to ask Mu Xie clearly, because he now has amnesia, and there are many doubts in his heart, and he said that he is a child of the combination of Mu Xie and the monster, is this really the case? And more importantly, who is the monster?
"Uncle Mu usually goes up to the mountains to cut wood at this time, although Uncle Mu was expelled from the Mu family, but in view of the broken bones and roots, the family still has a subsidy of fifty dollars every month, and now he may also go to the city to drink wine or buy rice. ”
"You said my father was in the city, which city?"
"Water Moon City, it'll be there in a while!" Mu Yan said, pulling Mu Hanxuan down the mountain.
There is a lot of bamboo growing on the mountain, which is why his home is built on bamboo.
After going down the mountain and walking for about two or three miles, Mu Yan took Mu Hanxuan to the Water Moon City in her mouth.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, I'll tell you if you have amnesia. This is Shuiyue City, a second-rate city in the Chu Kingdom, and there are a lot of delicious and fun things in it. ”
Mu Hanxuan listened in a daze.
"There are a lot of fun things in Shuiyue City, and in addition to the city lord in Shuiyue City, our Mu family can give orders to almost anyone, so with me, no one should laugh at you on the street anymore. ”
Mu Hanxuan was taken into Water Moon City by Mu Yan.
The tall walls come into view.
"This is Watermoon City. Mu Hanxuan said with emotion.
On the street, there was a lot of traffic, Mu Hanxuan walked and looked, and the scenery on the road made him feel novel.
"Sugar gourd, sugar gourd, sugar gourd for a penny, a string of sugar gourd......"
"Sell straw sandals!
The streets were full of shouting.
Mu Hanxuan walked through the crowd of people coming and going, everything felt so familiar, as if he had been here before.
With each step, his brain felt clear, and the lost memories began to make up for it.
The strange thing is that there are many people on the street who always look at them with strange eyes, but after noticing Mu Yan beside him, they walked over like a nobody.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, look, there are people selling hairpins over there!"
One was not careful, Mu Yan ran over directly, and Mu Hanxuan hurriedly followed.
Suddenly, Mu Hanxuan's footsteps stopped.
In front of me, a group of people gathered around the street, and it seemed that something was being sold.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, what's wrong?" When Mu Yan came back from buying the hairpin she wanted, she looked at Mu Hanxuan looking in one direction stupidly.
"No, I'll take a look first, there are so many people over there, it seems to be selling something. Mu Hanxuan said.
"Let's go, Brother Xiao Xuan and I will go and have a look!" As she spoke, Mu Yan pulled Mu Hanxuan and squeezed towards the crowd.
"Come on, come on, don't miss it when you pass by!" Mu Hanxuan and Mu Yan squeezed into the front of the crowd.
Mu Hanxuan's eyes trembled.
On a high platform, there stood a famous table of men with meaty faces, and behind him was a group of people locked in cages.
Still alive!
They looked around with pitiful eyes, women, old people, children, everything.
The chains tightly bound them, tired them tightly, their clothes were torn, and they could only guarantee the most basic cover, and the shocking whip marks on their bodies made people feel their scalps tingle.
"Everyone, come and see! What slaves do you need at home, you can all come here to buy, one only costs twenty dollars, and the whole audience can pick at will, the men can take it home to do heavy work, and the women can take it home to wash and warm the bed with a little posture, and everyone is satisfied. ”
"Yan'er......" When Mu Hanxuan spoke, even his tone was trembling.
"What are they selling?" Selling chickens and ducks, selling clothes and jewelry, Mu Hanxuan has seen it all the way, but he has imprisoned a living person in prison and sold it, Mu Hanxuan is definitely the first time he has seen it.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, those are slaves, they have many origins, but most of them are displaced refugees, they have suffered from the war, and they were forced or captured by these slave traders to sell. Mu Yan's heart was flooded with sympathy.
"These are the properties of the city lord Lin family and the Wang family, Brother Xiaoxuan, you are recovering from a serious injury, don't act impulsively. Mu Yan faintly heard a little indignation from Mu Hanxuan's words, afraid that Mu Hanxuan would act irrationally on the spur of the moment. What's more, the current Mu Hanxuan spiritual vein has been abolished, for anyone, he is a waste without cultivation, and a few people can beat him to the ground.
"Alas, I'm going to buy, I'm going to buy!" was the first to come to the stage.
"Twenty knives, I want this person!" was a man who was not very richly dressed, but he still spent money to buy a strong slave in the cage, needless to say, he must have bought it back to do heavy work.
"Howler!" said the slave trader, taking the key from the key ring and handing it to him.
The man took the key and opened a cage that held a young and strong youth.
The young man's clothes were torn and he looked a few years older than Mu Hanxuan, Mu Hanxuan simply didn't expect that people of this age would be locked in a cage and sold as slaves at will.
"Hurry up!" said the slave trader.
The young man was indifferent, he lay quietly in the cage.
"Okay, come on, bring me a whip, I'm going to whip this beast that doesn't know whether it's alive or dead!" the slave merchant was furious, and several strong men stood beside him and handed the slave trader a whip.
"Alas, blah, blah!" the man saw that the slave merchant's hand was about to fall, and hurried to stop it.
"Don't whip his legs and feet for a while, at least let him be able to work. ”
Mu Hanxuan in the audience thought that the man would stop the slave dealer from pumping him, but he didn't expect to be so ruthless when he spoke.
"You can rest assured! The slave trader said, and in full view of the public, he whipped the young man in the night cage.
"Smack!" the whip sliced through the flesh, and there was a crisp sound as it landed on the ground.
"I see that you have itchy skin, Lao Tzu spent money to buy so many slaves, but you are stubborn, affecting me to make money in business, I will make you stubborn!
"Ah!" the young man roared in fear, looking not like a normal man, but like a beast of prey.
But even if the beast of prey, it has been whipped by humans, and it has to be obedient as usual. Within a few lashes, the young man was already beaten to death.
The scene was so bloody that it was unbearable to look at it directly.
"Yan'er, how much is twenty knives worth!" Mu Hanxuan asked.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, there are very few twenty knives, and the popular currencies are different among countries, copper coins are popular in Qin, knife coins are popular in Qi countries, and cloth coins are popular in Chu countries, but these slaves are brought from some small countries in Wu and Wei, so it is better to convert knife coins when buying and selling for them to settle more clearly. Twenty dollars is only the price of 100 catties of rice, which is really very little. ”
"What about slaves being bought? Is it possible to do whatever they want, even if they are maimed or killed, and the people who buy slaves are not responsible for their lives!"
"Yes......" Mu Yan nodded.
"Twenty knives, it turns out that human lives are only worth twenty knives......" I don't know why, Mu Hanxuan saw the two people on the stage who were doing business, and his murderous intent gradually rose. Either out of their trampling on life, or out of sympathy for the flogged youth and the caged.
"Whoever else wants it, only twenty knives!" the slave merchant threw the iron whip to his subordinates, and asked them to teach the disobedient slave a lesson, and continued to shout for sale.
"Yan'er, can you buy them all!" Mu Hanxuan said.
"Brother Xiaoxuan, this is very difficult, I don't have any money with me at all, it's already a lot to buy four or five of them, not to mention that there are dozens of them behind them, and how to settle them after buying all the slaves is the most important key. Mu Yan was very helpless.
"If you buy them, maybe they will at least have a chance to live, but if you say so, they will be taken back to do endless work, and the only end will be exhausted, starved to death, or beaten to death. Therefore, I don't think they are allowed to do this!" Mu Hanxuan rushed straight up.
The strong man behind the slave merchant was whipping the young man, and Mu Hanxuan stepped forward to catch his iron whip directly.
"Stop!"
Mu Hanxuan was a mortal body after all, and when he caught the iron whip, he suddenly felt a tingling pain in his palm.
When the slave merchant saw Mu Hanxuan coming up, he thought it was just an ordinary guest, but when he saw Mu Hanxuan coming up, his eyes couldn't help but be stunned.
"Yo, Master Mu, it's you!" said the slave trader in surprise.
"Do you know me?" Mu Hanxuan let go of the hand holding the iron whip, his eyes full of surprise.
"Why don't you know, Young Master Mu's father and the demon woman are reluctant, and they are even more indiscriminately combined with the demon woman, Young Master Mu's half-body demon blood is known all over the city. ”
"If I hadn't seen Young Master Mu, I really didn't expect that the child born from the combination of man and demon would look like this, hahaha!" The slave merchant deliberately said very loudly, which made everyone in the audience talk about it, and the whispers kept uploading.
"He's a child of humans and demons?"
"Don't you know that you are a merchant from another country and another city? This person on the stage, his father was the second young man of the Mu family, but he privately bought a demon woman and forcibly combined, as for later, after he found out that this evil seed did not even destroy the corpse, he even dared to take it back to the Mu family mansion openly. ”
"Is there a proof, but you see that the child is good-looking. ”
"Do you still need proof? It's all the father's own admission!"
"I heard that both father and son were kicked out of the Mu family later......"
Both father and son were driven to the Yunsheng Mountain outside the city, and they were never allowed to return to the herd's house, tarnishing the name of the herd's family. After all, the Mu family is also a big clan in Shuiyue City, how can someone afford someone to tarnish the name of the Mu family. ”
“......”
Mu Hanxuan listened to the harsh language in the audience, and this scene felt very familiar.
"Young Master Mu is really a noble person who forgets things, in Xia Wang Jia, I don't know if Young Master Mu came up, is it for appearance or to buy and sell slaves?" Of course, Mu Hanxuan's identity slave merchant knows, but business still has to be done, and he can't mess up the scene because of a Mu Hanxuan.
"Wang Jia, right, I want you to let these people go?" Mu Hanxuan got straight to the point.
"Let it go?" Young Master Mu said with a smile, don't say that I have just sold it not long ago, and this is just one person ready to sell, Young Master Mu said to let it go, how to explain this loss-making money and the Wang family behind me?"
The Wang family's Mu Hanxuan in Wang Jia's mouth knew that it seemed to be a big family in Shuiyue City.