198. The past
There are no high-end restaurants around the slave market, Bobby just randomly chose a big food shop that looks relatively clean, we opened the curtain and walked in only to find that it was overcrowded, many businesses in the slave market are very hot, all kinds of livelihood here are driven by the slave market, just like this big food shop, rough food is served on the table in pots and basins, without the slightest sense of beauty, if it is opened in the East District, I am afraid that until the closure of the business will be unmanned, but here, the business is so good that it bursts。 Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
There were a lot of nobles with slaves dining, and there were many slaves with brass collars around their necks sitting or standing beside them, each collar was clearly engraved with the name of the slave owner, Bobby and I walked in and didn't attract strange glances, but some sharp-eyed people couldn't help but look at the long-eared elf slave girl's eyes, although her whole body was covered in a black cloak, but the yellow, orange and orange brass ring on the neck exposed outside revealed her identity.
The most surprising thing about her was that the metal collar was actually blank, it turned out to be brand new, and she had not had time to engrave the name of the slave owner, and her pure elven beauty also attracted the attention of many diners, Bobby seemed very happy, and said proudly to me beside me: " Nichols's lame in the class lately, probably because you beat him to know that he was scared, when he came to the magic academy to take classes, he didn't forget to bring an entourage with him, probably his follower, a knight's apprentice in steel armor, that guy stood at the door of the school building with a dead face like wood all day long, if he didn't breathe, it was almost no different from the stone statue at the door!"
I didn't know that the half-elf actually brought his followers to the magic academy to class, and after listening to it for a while, I looked at Bobby curiously and motioned for him to continue.
"Actually, I also thought about taking Baburu to class on Monday, and let Baburu's scimitar be compared with his knight's apprentice retinue, I think Babulu can easily make a cross-shaped mark on his breastplate!" But Bobby has already begun to show me how powerful Babulu is.
I am very sensitive to the foreknowledge of danger, and my magical perception is always feeding me back to the state of the people around me, and I can easily feel that the power in Bobby's entourage is very restless, and he is trying his best to suppress the power in the musculature of his body, but he does this, but it makes me feel that Baburu can't control all the power in his body at the moment, so he will suppress it hard, how can a person who can't even fully control his own strength win? I smiled disapprovingly.
"But I'm looking forward to seeing you with your elven sister, who is taking the knight's apprentice's entourage, and you're bringing a pure-blooded elven slave girl, you're sure to turn this guy's face green, there's nothing more interesting than this!" Bobby smirked and talked about the academy without hesitation.
I don't know if the elf girl next to me can understand Bobby's words, but she has been quietly following us, without any resistance, and has not spoken.
She is quiet and beautiful, so beautiful that it makes people feel distressed.
After seeing the real elf, I found that there is really a lot of difference between the half-elf and the elf, just like the half-elf of Nichols, he usually dresses up very carefully to make himself look more like an elf, but now I find that in addition to his long ears and silver hair, his temperament, skin color, and the color of the pupils of his eyes are very different from the real elf. However, the sister-in-law of Lagertis was only a little like an elf in the outer outline of her ears.
"But then again, you give her to me, you don't mind what I do with her, do you?" I turned to Bobby and asked, laughing at the embarrassing scene of Nichols, with a look on his face.
Bobby swore to me, "Of course, you're her master!"
After that, Bobby glanced at the diners around him, lowered his voice to me, and said, "I brought you to this restaurant, the food is very special, and it is probably the only thing that can be tasted here in El City, it is delicious!"
I'll admit, Bobby is more particular about eating than I do, and he likes fried chicken thighs the most.
There were also some people in the big food shop whose eyes were attracted by the orc mother and daughter, and they glared at them fiercely with a little disgust, probably thinking that it was very unfortunate to meet two orcs in a restaurant.
No one likes to meet filthy orcs while eating, although it seems that the appearance of the orc mother and daughter is very neat, but for many years people here have been accustomed to believe that the orcs living on the Pai Plateau never bathe, where the water of the Urutu River is extremely cold, it is this large river that allows the orcs to bathe only three times in their lives: at birth, before the coming-of-age ceremony, and after death.
In fact, I have the impression that the orcs in the orc tribe are far more clean than the residents of the slums in El City, at least they can take a bath once every two days on average, while the residents of the slums of El City cannot do this.
Bobby stood beside me, and his personal guard, Babulu, walked up and whispered to one of the waiters in the restaurant, who immediately bowed humbly to me and Bobby, and then respectfully led us out of the noisy lobby into a quiet little hall.
...... Beautiful Dividing Line......
"No one forced me to be a slave. "These were the first words that the orc female warrior said to me as she sat down.
A moment ago, I asked her what caused her to become a slave. Because the slave traders here have the courage to sell the elven nobles of Etia, and they are not willing to provoke the orcs on the Pai Plateau, in fact, because they are afraid of the vengeance of the orc warriors, the slave traders on the Pai Plateau will not buy the orc slaves to Sloit Province, which is too close to the Pai Plateau.
She saw the surprise and incomprehension in my eyes, but she showed a helpless and wry smile, and bent down to pick up the little orc girl who was holding her calf like a koala, and still refused to let go, her eyes showed a rare look of love, and she looked at her daughter, revealing endless sadness. The little girl seemed to have never been to such a place, and she was now stunned by the unbridled eating and drinking of the diners around her, perhaps in her mind, she had never seen such a rich food on the table, nor had she ever seen the people around her drink so happily. Her eyes, like beautiful black beans, kept blinking, and the fingers of one small hand were inadvertently placed on her mouth, and she could barely move her eyes as she looked at the wheat-scented wheat cakes on the adjacent table outside along the curtain.
She just muttered to the girl, "Sorry to bring you into such a miserable world, you have become a slave before you have the right to choose your life!"
She seemed to lament the fate of her daughter, but I didn't understand why she had turned herself into a slave when no one was persecuting them.
Before I could say anything, someone outside the door lifted the curtain, and a waiter from a large food shop brought up a pot of golden baked wheat cakes, the rich smell of wheat filled the whole room, there are three copper plates of wheat cakes here, almost every corner of El City, wheat cakes are at this price, but there are some differences in size, obviously the wheat cakes here are the largest I have ever seen, but I saw the black wheat bran dregs inside from the golden skin of the wheat cakes, and the little orc girl looked at the wheat cakes that were almost much bigger than her face and kept swallowing。
"On the last plate of purple green mountain city argai goat cheese and a big pot of locally produced sweet milk, the kind that needs to be boiled hot and put more honey, I like the honey collected from the linden trees, come up quickly, we are all hungry. Don't rush that stew, make sure it's flavorful, soak the juices into the ingredients, and do as I say!" Bobby exclaimed to the waiter who served a plate of wheat cakes, and he didn't even glance at the guy.
However, the waiter said very tactfully and respectfully, "Follow your will, Your Excellency the Magic Apprentice!" and said respectfully withdrawing from the door.
At this point, Bobby unceremoniously reached out and grabbed a golden wheat cake and handed it to the drooling orc girl.
The little orc girl, who was only four or five years old, looked at the hot wheat cake in Bobby's hand with some hesitation, although she wanted it very much, but she never reached out to take it, but looked at her mother pitifully, she didn't understand what her mother just said, but she had to follow her mother's will, if her eyes were resolute, she would not reach out to take the wheat cake.
But then she found that her mother nodded to her unexpectedly, and the little girl could hardly believe her eyes, and blinked hard, and found that her mother was indeed nodding her head, "Yes!" She could not wait to stretch out her little hand and catch the golden baked wheat cake, which was still hot outside, and although the little girl grinned, she held the wheat cake with both hands and brought it to her mother.
"Grandma, what is this, why is it so fragrant!" The little girl innocently asked the beast girl warrior, and then thought for a while before making a difficult decision, and said to the beast girl warrior word by word: "Grandma, can I eat only a small piece? I have already eaten delicious black bread just now, and I am not so hungry, I can take this piece of wheat cake back with me, and leave it for my brothers! I am still young, I can't eat so much!"
I seemed to realize what the problem was, I didn't expect someone to be stupid enough to sell him, and I wondered what kind of difficulties the orc warrior was facing.
"The warriors of the orc tribe once stood at the mouth of the Guruding Fortress and roared at the Emperor of the Grimm Empire: Orcs will never be slaves!" I whispered to her, and the way I spoke was also the roar of the superior to his warriors, the orc language burst out of my throat like an erupting volcano, and I stared angrily at the orc female warrior. All along, in my mind, the warriors of the orc tribe would never have the word 'surrender', they would rather die than be someone else's slave.
For a moment, the orc warrior had a trance in her eyes, probably recalling those fragments of life in the orc tribe, but her willpower was very strong, and she recovered in an instant, and said to me calmly: "Food!"
The orc warrior began to reminisce about the past, and the gaze in her eyes was deep, revealing a faint sadness: "We are a group of deserters who ran down from the Pai Plateau, and we have abandoned our belief in the beast god, the orc tribe of the Pai Plateau****** That year, the grass roots within dozens of miles of the tribe were dug up and eaten by us, but in the end we still could not survive the famine, since the third heavy snow came in the depths of winter, people in the tribe continued to die, our big tribe of 3,000 people in the spring after the ice and snow melted, only more than 2,000 people remained, but even in the spring, ****** In the winter, the surrounding grass roots have been dug up and eaten, and more and more people are starving to death in the whole tribe, and many tribal warriors are going to participate in the spring hunt, and the rest of the orcs have a more difficult life......"
She recounted the past, and from her words, a very clear picture emerged in my mind:
Winter goes to spring, the land is barren after the ice and snow melt, an orc girl who has just participated in the completion of the human ceremony, because of her excellent hunting skills became an orc warrior, but because she is a girl, she was excluded from the spring hunt, after the warriors left the tribe, the livelihood in the tribe became more difficult, and in desperation, the old patriarch had to try to migrate the entire tribe to find a place where the water and grass were more abundant......
But the tribe is so big that it passes through like locusts crossing the border, and can eat almost everything that can be eaten along the way, and even so, there will still be people who will continue to starve to death, and at that time, as long as someone is sick, it is equivalent to being sentenced to death, and the tribe does not provide any food, and the food has to be reserved for the orcs who have hope of survival. The large army of the tribe will have to go farther to the Yelian Mountain Range, and the sick orcs will be abandoned, which is related to whether the entire tribe can continue, this is the way to survive in the wasteland.
More than a hundred sick orcs were left on the journey, and the taste of abandonment was not pleasant, and the younger brother of the orc girl was among these forsakens, and the orc girl decided to stay and take care of these orcs who were abandoned because of illness, in fact, everyone knew that staying was just waiting for death, and there would be nothing to eat here. Those days were like nightmares, deeply imprinted in the girl's memory, crazy looking for food, but there were still people who kept dying, dying of disease, starvation, sickness and starvation, and suicide from starvation.
Until everyone already feels that they have been forgotten by the orcs, and they are already waiting for death to come in despair.
But waiting for a group of horses, a caravan of men happened to pass by, the Terran boy on the horse proudly waved his whip, galloping on the wasteland, he saw the orc girl kneeling on the ground, desperately digging the roots of the grass in the dirt, riding on the horse and saying to her: If you have something that you think is very valuable, you can take it out and exchange it with us, we have a lot of rye flour!
In the evening, the orc girls and the sick, abandoned orcs were given the most delicious porridge of their lives.
The Terran boy frowned and looked at the broken copper and iron piled up on the ground, and was very embarrassed, touching the corners of his mouth with his hand and saying: It is difficult for you to exchange these things for more black flour.
In the eyes of the orc girl, the merchant is an extremely cunning vampire, but in the face of the hope of survival, the vampire can also become a beautiful angel.
Finally, the Terran boy whimsically said: Since you can't afford to buy as much black flour as you want, you will give me hard labor.
However, the admonition of the Orcs of the Gurudin's Blood Wolf Clan reminded all the orcs that the orcs would never be slaves! These orcs, who had been abandoned by the beast gods, would rather starve to death than go to the Terran territory to be a lowly slave.
The Terran boy frowned and pondered: My family's orchard needs a lot of coolies, you can follow me back to El City, you are free, we are only an employment relationship, I can provide you with food, but you must work for me until you pay off the debt completely, or we should have a deadline, I only need you to work in my manor for three years, we will pay off!
Then these orcs, led by the orc girl, set foot on the land of mankind, and came to the rich city of El, where there are golden apple trees all over the mountains.
It was also at this time that the orcs who came from afar learned for the first time that the golden apples on these apple trees scattered all over the mountains and fields were not to be eaten casually, and that all apples had their own owners.
The life of ploughing at sunrise and resting at sunset is so beautiful.
The human boy was originally loved by the elders in the family, and he had become the leader of the younger generation in the family, but the good times did not last long, and all the tragedies came to an end from the combination of the human boy and the orc girl, and the combination of the two was strongly dissatisfied by the human boy family. But the stubborn boy withstood everyone's pressure and really married an orc girl, and the two gave birth to a cute half-orc girl.
On the day the girl was born, the human boy fell off his horse on his way home and died unexpectedly......
The orc laborers from the wasteland were driven out of the manor, and the orc girls became ominous...... (To be continued.) )