Vaguely, a tingling sensation came from the toes, Qin Nanxi instinctively retracted his feet, and slowly understood, the feeling of stiffness and numbness in his hands and feet as if they would be broken when he was broken was cold.

In my ears, there was a noisy human voice, but I couldn't understand a word in the words. There was also a low sobbing sound sandwiched in it, staccato and choppy.

"Dumbo?" Qin Nanxi struggled to open his heavy eyelids. In front of him, there was only a dirty child, staring at the light in the distance with a pair of frightened eyes, and his skinny little body trembled with a whining sob.

"Hey" Qin Nanxi shouted in a hoarse voice, and when she wanted to get up, she was shocked to realize that she couldn't move, she had been tied hand and foot.

The boy turned his head, a dirty finger resting on his blood-scabbed lips.

Qin Nanxi understood, and fell his stiff body back into the dark corner.

Seeing that she understood, the child slowly moved his little body over.

"Don't talk loudly! They will whip people with leather whips. It hurts! The child's eyes were horrified, and there were a few fresh whip cracks on his tattered coat, and a few strands of tatters came out of the cracks, and there were still blood stains.

"Who are they? Little brother, what is this place? Why are you, and me, here? His mind was spinning rapidly, but everything ended in the glass of wine in the small noodle restaurant in Yunze City.

"They're from the North Fan, but they're fierce!" The child replied in a low voice.

"The people of the North! I was sold by her to the Hokuban? A thunderstorm exploded in his brain, and Qin Nanxi's body was stiffer than Fang Cai.

The child was obviously stunned, nodded cautiously and shook his head, stared at her for a long time, and then dared to come forward, put his lips to Qin Nanxi's earlobe, and whispered, "I was sold to them, brother, I don't know how you came, you were already here when I came." ”

A chill rushed up from the bottom of my heart, and regret outweighed anger. She had already guessed that the theft of the inn might be related to Xiao Fei, but she was so stupid that she believed that Xiao Fei would not attack her again because Xiao Fei's eyes were a bit like Xue Rui.

Twisting his body in vain, Qin Nanxi looked around for his little baggage, and naturally found nothing without accident. She bit the corner of her lip stubbornly, regretting and hating: "Qin Nanxi, Qin Nanxi, you are so painstaking and lonely that you do not hesitate to put your father and brother on the edge of the cliff, all the way is hard and difficult, I thought that I would be able to find Brother Xu when I arrived in Yunze." How did you expect that just because of your temporary soft-heartedness and temporary loss of caution, you will be sold to the Beifan people as slaves. Now that you are in deep trouble, and the relics entrusted by Mr. Su are gone, what are you going to do? ”

"Brother, in the future, we will be in one place, the calf will follow you, listen to you for everything, the calf has great strength and can help you work." The boy leaned forward again, interrupting Qin Nanxi's thoughts with his clumsy sophistication.

Suppressing the thousands of threads in his heart, Qin Nanxi tried his best to say to the child named Xiaoniu with a pleasant face: "What can you do as a child?" How did you get sold? ”

"I don't know, I've been sold here and there since I can remember. I heard from a former proprietor that my father was captured and killed in the war, and my mother also died of illness. Xiao Niu was at a loss for his life experience, and he didn't know how to be sad, but he was very smart to please Qin Nanxi and said: "Brother, I learn everything quickly." If I could follow my brother, maybe I wouldn't have to do heavy work. ”

Seeing a child who was harmed by the smoke and war, Qin Nanxi stared at the thin and yellow face of the calf, as if he saw the children who starved to death on the way to escape ten years ago.

"What innocent child?" This end-of-life question of Mr. Su, who had been buried in Qin Nanxi's heart for ten years, finally broke through the confinement of memory and echoed in his mind. What innocent is the child? After the change of dynasty, Mr. Su refused to turn his back on the old master, and Brother Xu was hunted down and killed. What innocent is the child? Expanding the territory, the calf, an ordinary peasant son, will lose his father and mother and be sold into slavery.

"Brother, can you take me with you? Just say that I am your brother, and I want to be with you before you are willing to do it? Naturally, the calf did not understand these painful questions, and was bent on following a glimmer of hope in the difficult future.

"Why don't you have to do heavy work with me?" Qin Nanxi raised the two hands that were tied together, stroked the cracked and stiff face of the calf with the back of his hand, and asked softly.

"My brother is a literate person at first glance, and I have heard people talk about it, people like you are valuable, and they were bought by barbarians to be a gentleman. If my brother had been a gentleman, he would naturally not have been sent to do hard work, and if the calf could follow my brother, he would have less hard work. "It's a kid in the end, and his mind is shallow.

"They buy scholars to be gentlemen?" Qin Nanxi frowned and said suspiciously.

"Well, the owner who sold me said that it was a big prince of the Northern Fan Kingdom who came to buy Yunze to buy slaves this time, and he had gold and silver mountains and silk at home, and he would not suffer a loss if he went with him. If the elder brother is a gentleman in the prince's house, the calf can be by his brother's side even more, and he will never go hungry again. The little cow looked yearning, said next to Qin Nanxi, stretched out her dirty little hand to untie the rope on her feet.

"They're not going to hit you?" Qin Nanxi hurriedly shrunk his feet, and couldn't bear to dodge the calf's hand.

"Tomorrow they will drive us away in a bunch like cattle. How do you walk with your legs tied like this? The calf smiled smartly, revealing a few small teeth.

"Rushing to Beiban tomorrow?"

"Well, the new buyers will be driven to Beiban the next day."

"You and I were only sold here today? You were also sold from Yunze? ”

"Well, I was sold in Yunze." Maverick nodded.

Qin Nanxi's heart lit up and was slightly relaxed. Although I don't remember how long I've been asleep, the calf was also sold from Yunze, the calf should have been bought this morning, and he was still here with him, I'm afraid that they are still near Yunze, if they haven't left the Great Chu Realm, maybe there will be a chance to escape.

Thinking of this, she hurriedly looked up and studied her surroundings carefully, only to realize that she was trapped in a tent.

The tent was a very simple one, just a circle of dusty thick felt tied to the ground, and a gray and black felt cover was randomly erected and perfunctory. It is apparent that this is just a place where they bought their Beifan transit slaves.

Qin Nanxi struggled to put away his frozen stiff feet, and forced the anger and remorse that surged from time to time in his heart, and was thinking carefully. Suddenly, I felt a piercing cold pain under my feet, only to feel that under the root of the felt wall, a cold wind suddenly chopped in like a knife, and in the darkness, I saw a light flash and then extinguish.

It turned out to be a wide figure rushing in. I saw him standing still under the low felt roof. swept a pair of thief's bright little eyes over Qin Nanxi and the calf for a long time, then turned his head and muttered a few words outside the tent.

"You, go!" The big figure spoke, and suddenly turned back to look at the two of them, and spat out two words that Qin Nanxi could understand from his thick beard.

Qin Nanxi was stunned, reminisced for a moment, and just decided to get up obediently, he suddenly felt that the black shadow in front of him flashed, and he was carried by the big man on the shoulder like a little chicken and pushed out the door that was only half a person high.

Outside the door, a piece of light was as bright as silver, and as far as the eye could see, there was boundless, pure and cold snow. One or two fine snow stars slashed at the cheek with the thin and sharp wind like a knife. The feet that were dragged forward were knotted and stumbled through two three- or four-inch-deep snow ditches on the unmarked snowfield.

Looking around blankly at the vast white snow, Qin Nanxi only had cold fear left in his heart, it is only October, and there is already such snow here, I am afraid that this is no longer the border of the Great Chu State. Is it really trapped in Beiban like this? Was he really sold to Beiban to be a slave?