Chapter 51: Slave Girls
"The people of this shore will not go to the other shore! It's not that they can't, but it's only because they won't go, unless the flower shows them the way, they won't go. The www.biquge.info man smiled and said to Manshu, "You are Manju Sahua." You are the flower of this calamity. ”
"So I'm asking you, what the hell are you talking about......" Manshu frowned.
"There is a catastrophe in the creation of the world, and its number is nine." The man's voice turned into a vague garbberish, "One of them is called Tanhua ......"
Manshu woke up. She quickly forgot about her original dream, only to remember that the TV ended up like a snowflake white on the screen at midnight.
Strange, how do you think of TV? How long has it been since she watched TV? Just look at the computer. There is no snowflake white on the computer.
"What's wrong?" Songhua asked with concern.
"What's wrong?" Manshu also asked rhetorically.
"You looked very uneasy in your dream." Songhua Road.
"Oh......" Manshu looked ahead and suddenly exclaimed, "It's all eyes!" ”
Ahead is already the red-eyed grassland.
They could see the red-eyed grassland, but it was not convenient for them to go there for the time being. It was already the territory of the Lord of the Yakshas. The Yaksha forest lord doesn't let people harvest the red-eyed grassland casually!
It's not so much that he is very precious to the red-eyed grass, but that he despises the red-eyed grass, as he himself said, what's so good about the red-eyed? Olives, honey, figs, that's the most essential good thing in Huoling State! So, all the merchants want to come and sell red eyes? Let's sell these goodies first! The merchants had no choice but to carry him for other transactions for the sake of red-eyed grass, and they all complained that he was really weird.
Manshu and the others came down first outside the red-eyed grassland to see the sprouts.
They inquired about some opinions, and the polarization was serious, some praised the Lord of the Yaksha Forest as a hero and an unborn master, and some people blamed him for being a big demon and a villain who was too willful, no matter what, he had an unusual temper.
Fortunately, there is a housekeeper by his side, who is very trusted. The butler's temper is passable. Many businessmen deal with this housekeeper first. Manshu and the others pondered, otherwise, they first thought about getting close to the housekeeper, and asked the housekeeper's opinion, if it really didn't work, forget it, and go home. If there's still a possibility, then ask the housekeeper to lobby on your behalf?
Manshu came out this time with good things in his backpack. There are not only universal stepping stones: gold and silver. There are quite a few other goodies. For example, women's favorite pearl jade pendant, silk and satin, everything.
The textile industry in Huoling Prefecture is not well developed. The women of Huolingzhou are very fond of the thin silk, silk, and embroidery of Shuilingzhou.
Manshu and the others planned to bribe the housekeeper with these things.
Housekeepers don't come to the market every day. She came at a fixed point. Counting the time, there are still two days. Manshu and the others took this time to walk around.
As soon as I walked around, I found that there was a place where a lot of women were locked up! Why do those women use the word "guan" instead of the word "live"? Actually, they are not prisoners! But they were locked up like cows and sheep.
Manshu asked with concern what was going on.
The answer was, "Oh, this is a slave girl, and she is going to be sold to the southern states."
Dizhou has always had the custom of keeping slaves.
Manshu immediately jumped to his feet, filled with righteous indignation, and asked how this could be done!
She didn't deliberately want to go down the path of some righteous heroines, but she didn't have a choice on some major issues of right and wrong.
There has always been a custom of keeping slaves in the prefecture, which is actually not too bad...... Many masters in the prefecture are very lenient to their slaves, and generally do not beat them, and they cannot kill them. If you kill someone without a reason, you will also be punished heavily. Normal people don't kill. Have you ever seen a normal person who is idle and has nothing to do to kill horses and mules? and not to kill pigs, for the sake of eating meat. The masters of the prefecture don't raise slaves to eat meat, do they?
In this way, Huozhou also had slaves in the past, and it is said that it is even more generous than Dizhou. So that many little masters regard their big slaves and maids as amiable people as their mothers, and the mothers may even scold the little masters with a straight face, but the slaves and maids are only generous and tolerant, so these little masters grow up and sing two praises with tears and gratitude: Ah, XX, my mother! …… And so on.
Such a good and humane system is now abolished in Huozhou. The current masters of Huozhou still hire people, they are hired, not to buy a slave, they are bought like livestock. In the end, I thought about the basic decency of the employed. But some people say that there is less human touch than before. It's really a topic of opinion.
In any case, watching Manshu jump to his feet, the onlookers have a feeling of "Our Lady, what kind of nerves do you have".
Manshu took a deep breath: "What's the matter with these people being sold into slavery?" ”
The answer is: who knows? Maybe they were defeated, and no one saved them if they were killed on the spot, so they could survive longer if they were sold into slavery.
"But aren't there no slaves outside the prefecture?" Manshu then asked, "How can they be treated as slaves?" ”
Well, the jurisprudence goes like this: it's not legal to keep slaves......
That is to say, if you are a slave who wants to keep slaves, and you happen to live in the state of wind, water, and fire, and you want to buy someone, and the money is paid, and this person is not your slave in law, and you want to call them as the slave owner calls a slave, and they don't listen. You resort to legal protection, and the law does not protect your rights. If you are furious and want to beat them to death and force them to comply, then whether they can resist or not, whether you can really beat them is one thing, the bigger question is that you beat them to death and break the law, and the law will take care of you......
So, are you willing to spend money on slaves? Is there a feeling that you have spent money and lost money?
That's why no one buys it!
No one buys slaves, so is there anyone else who sells? Unless it is sold to the prefecture.
And in the process of selling, the sale mainly restricts the personal freedom of these would-be slaves, which is feasible. As long as the local king produces a document that legally restricts personal freedom.
For example, the defeated in battle, or the failure to pay certain debts, according to the law or common practice in some places, they can be beheaded, bound, imprisoned, and exiled - yo, exile!
Then it is normal to flow to Diling Prefecture.
If someone is willing to buy it in Diling Prefecture, it is logical.
So these children are slaves...... No, no, it's a female prisoner of war, a would-be female slave, and it's normal to be held here. What's all the fuss?
The residents of Lingzhou have experienced too many wars and seen too many casualties, and the threshold of compassion is relatively high, at least not for these female prisoners of war.
Some extreme people, even claiming that sympathy for dogs should not sympathize with a person. Because you feed the dog, the dog wagging its tail at you. You feed someone, and they turn around and bite you.
Most people weren't so extreme, but it was enough to get them to walk past the would-be slaves without looking back. They even think it's a lot of things.
Well, Manshu doesn't have much to do! Manshu follows the rules of this world!
Okay! If she doesn't follow the rules of this world, just shouting a few words, it will be annoying at most. As soon as she decides to play by the rules, someone is about to suffer.
The deputy commander asked Manshu vigilantly, "What does the commander want to do?" ”
Manshu said, "I have a good idea. ”
"Really? Tell me about it? Songhua was in high spirits.
Manshu spoke from beginning to end, and the deputy commander rubbed his brow with his fist.
"Isn't it good?" Manshu asked Songhua.
"Feasible." Songhua said truthfully.
"And what's your expression?" Manshu asked the deputy commander again.
"No, Commander, do you feel ...... Every time you come up with an idea, does it end up annoying everyone? The deputy commander asked.
The encounter outside the city of Xiuser is proof of this! In the end, the demons fled thousands of miles, and even the Black Armor Commander was damaged! And when you want to rob Zhang Ling, how big do you think it is?
"I don't have any bad results every time, do I?" Manshu Dao.
"Our Black Armor Commander ......" the deputy commander turned over the old account from the beginning. That was a bad outcome, right?
"Hey, don't blame me that time. The account must be counted on the king of wax county! Manshu said.
That's right.
"In the future, there is a way, take us to the King of Wax County for revenge?" The Deputy Commander said.
"Okay." Manshu agreed, "Now let's help Songsong avenge Wang Yan's revenge!" ”
"Okay." The deputy commander said, "There is one more thing. ”
"What?"
"Loose or something, you really don't feel numb?" The Deputy Commander said.
So "Songsong" went to be shy.
"Come back, come back!" Manshu begged him, "And business!" ”
The so-called business is that the leader of these quasi-female slaves, nicknamed "Little Humpty Dumpty", saw a beautiful girl in the market.
This girl is not only beautiful, but also vain, obviously has no money and still looks at other people's good fabrics in the store, and looks coquettish with the man next to her: "Okay?" Buy it for me! ”
The man looked at the five big and three thick, and the hooked nose was very imposing, but he was actually very poor, and immediately said that he could not buy it. Can't get by after buying it?
The girl was so angry that she threw the fabric and gave him a big look, and when she looked back and saw that the ring on the little fat hand was so beautiful, she threw him a wink. Humpty Dumpty was suddenly dizzy.
After the girl threw off the hook-nosed man, she went to a remote place by herself, and the little Humpty Dumpty thought that the girl was going to make an appointment with him, and hurried to catch up. Who knew that this girl took his money and ran away, and Humpty Dumpty found out that this girl was not asking him to make a cannon, but to play him! Will he give up? Immediately catch up and don't negotiate!
If you chase after two chases, it will be dark. He didn't notice a trap looper hidden in the grass, and stepped on it impartially.
This looper is made by Songhua himself, even a big mountain beast can be trapped, and now with the spell, it is enough to set a small village chief, not to mention this little short and fat?
Oh yes, Songhua is the stingy man in disguise.
As for Manshu? Manshu squatted next to him and praised the deputy commander with a smile: "You are so good-looking!" ”
Oh yes, the deputy commander is the one who sacrificed hue to seduce Humpty Dumpty. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )