Chapter 285: Fugitive Slaves
Gorihan didn't know when he got used to being scolded by this woman, and he was immediately stunned and asked, "Does the hero have any good ideas?" ”
"Yes." The woman was still fiddling with the campfire nonchalantly.
Ge Lihan was overjoyed and asked: "Quick, the hero tell me quickly, as long as I can take Zhu Yutang, my Ge Lihan will not hesitate to lose his life!" ”
The woman gave him a disgusted look and said, "What's the hurry? Since I have rescued you back, I will naturally be of use to you, as long as you do what I say, you will definitely be able to catch this slut! ”
"Good! So what do you want us to do tomorrow? ”
"Well, tomorrow you send a few hundred men to the mountains to the east."
"Okay, and then what?"
"Go shoot some roe deer, roe deer or something."
Ge Lihan was full of thoughts about how to catch Zhu Yutang, and asked with a puzzled expression: "Call...... What is it used for? ”
The woman was obviously ennoyed by his question, and shouted, "Eat! I said, how did you become the head of the Eight Horsemen of Blood? There are only so many people in my village, and you don't go hunting and fishing, enough for you to eat for a few days? ”
Gorihan was so choked that he couldn't speak, and when he was about to have a seizure, the partial woman said the most obvious truth, and there was really nothing to refute.
The woman threw down the branch and said, "I'm tired, if you have anything to say, I'll talk about it tomorrow." So he left Glaham and a group of gobbling soldiers, and went on his own.
After Ge Lihan waited for her to leave, he pulled the little boy just now, tried to squeeze out a smile and asked, "Little brother, Uncle asked you, who was that woman just now?" ”
"It's our village chief."
"yes, I know it's your village chief, I mean what do you call her?
"The village chief."
Ge Lihan frowned and thought about it, then smiled again: "Then she doesn't have a name?" ”
"Yes."
"What's it called, tell me quickly!" Gorihan thought to himself, finally out of the way.
"Her name is Thayesani."
Gorihan was stunned.
He knew that it was not a personal name, but the name of a river. Next to the capital of the Bone Mountain Blood Clan, there is a winding river called Saiye Sani.
In the language of the Bloodline, it means the stars in the sky.
The next day, Gorihan got up early and selected 500 soldiers from the camp to personally lead the procession to find the woman.
There were also some early risers in the village, and Gorihan randomly asked an old man to help lead the way to Thayesani.
The old man was very kind, and led them to turn left and right in the village for a while, and then came to the woman's residence.
"Aru, take them to the mountains for a spin, and let them write down where they can hit their prey." The woman understood what she meant, but she was lazily spreading the word in a bamboo hut, and she didn't mean to go out and talk.
The old man, Aru, replied respectfully, and said to Corriham with a smile, "I will go and call my grandson, and I will accompany the adults to the mountains." ”
After Aru turned to leave, Gorihan wanted to ask the woman about the geography of the area, but the woman dropped another sentence:
"There are too many of you, and you are very noisy, so let's go with Aru."
Ge Lihan had to swallow his words, and a few generals on the side looked uneven and muttered: "Why did the general put up with her so much?" Although she saved our lives, the general is the head of our Eight Horsemen, so she has to give some face, right? ”
Gorihan waved his hand and whispered, "Don't talk too much nonsense, hurry up and follow Aru to hunt." However, since Sayesani asked Aru to lead the way, Aru must be very familiar with the surrounding terrain, so it is the same to ask him, but the old man seems to be much better than she is.
After a while, they returned to the middle of the village, and found Aru with a donkey with a child sitting on it, the same one who had told the name of the woman in Golihan the previous night.
Aru still had a smile on his face: "My eyes are not very good, sometimes with my grandson, he can see more clearly for me." ”
Ge Li rarely had only one donkey for his grandparents and grandchildren, so he took the child and put it on his mount, and said, "Old man, you ride the donkey, the child rides with me, I protect him, you can rest assured." He bowed his head and said to the child, "Riding Uncle's horse is more interesting than riding a donkey, isn't it?" ”
The child was naturally very happy and clapped his hands.
When Gorihan and his men crossed the river again the night before, it became clear to him that the whole village was surrounded by hills in a col, and from the outside, there was a large bamboo forest to obscure it, and it was not easy to see without guidance.
"Old man......" As soon as Gorihan spoke, he was cut off.
"The status of the general is honorable, just call me Aru." The old man is very humble, and this humility does not come from self-cultivation, but from an innate habit.
Faintly, Gorihan could feel that this habit was very similar to the sense of humility in the slaves of the Blade Clan that he had come into contact with before.
"Aru...... The bamboo forest in front of the village was originally planted there...... Or ......"
"The general really has good eyesight, and the bamboo forest was planted by the village chief."
"Oh, what is the purpose of the village chief's order for you to plant that bamboo forest?"
The village chief said that although it is located in the middle of nowhere, it is safer to plant a forest as a shelter, just in case. The bamboo forest is a good plant, it grows tall and big, and when it is blown by the wind, it will rustle, that is, some people pass by in front of the forest, and most of them can't find the village. ”
"Your village chief is very smart." Ge Lihan exclaimed, "But your village chief said that she is a blood clan, and bamboo is only available in the Bihai Kingdom, and there is not a single one in our blood clan's territory." She is so familiar with bamboo, has she lived here for a long time? ”
Aru did not conceal what he meant, and when he heard him ask, he folded his fingers and counted, and said, "When I came to this village, it was six years ago, and there was already this village at that time. The village chief has lived much longer than I have. ”
"Oh? Six years ago? Then this kid is ...... this year."
The child sat on Gorihan's chest, heard the mention of himself, and hurriedly replied: "I am seven years old!" ”
Ge Lihan laughed, stroked the child's head and said, "What about your father?" ”
The child shook his head blankly: "I don't know, I only have grandpa, no father." ”
Gorihan was stunned and looked at Aru.
Aru was still smiling. At his age, he has weakened all kinds of joys and sorrows in life, and he can calmly respond to the sad past.
"It's a long story, I don't know if the general knows about Thorn Rock City......"
"You know, the small city on the edge of Baodi City?"
"Yes, yes! Our family used to live in Thorn Rock City, and we made a living by herding sheep and sheep, but one year because of the cold and snowstorm in winter, it was extremely cold, and all our livestock froze to death overnight. We couldn't survive anymore, so the child's parents signed a blood pact with the nobles of Baodi City. I exchanged money for my grandparents and grandchildren in exchange for some food rations. ”
When Gorihan and the soldiers around him heard the word blood contract, their expressions changed. They knew that it was a deed of sale, and what was even more terrifying was that once the blood deed was made, it could not be dissolved until death.
Aru continued: "It's a pity that my daughter and son-in-law are poor, and they died of exhaustion only five months after the blood contract was signed. The blood pact ......"
Ge Li was heartbroken, and he was still trying to keep calm in front of his grandson, and said softly: "I know...... The Blade Clan's blood deed can't be repaid for less than six months, and the original debt still has to be paid by the family, right? ”
Aru nodded, "It's not that we have debts that we can't repay, it's that I can't pay off my old bones and a child who is still breastfeeding, so I had to escape from the city, and at that time there were some other fugitive slaves who went south together, saying that there would be a secret place after crossing the Kamaka Valley into the blue sea, and the fugitive slaves of the Imuram people were hiding there, and I didn't know if it was true or not, so I took the dead horse as a live horse doctor, and took the child with them through the Kamaki Valley and fled to Linzhou." ”
"Daddy Alu, do you remember when you fled to Linzhou?"
"I can't remember a few months, but I vaguely remember that it was the hottest time, and as soon as we passed the Kamaka Valley, it was full of green mountains and green waters, and we were all so happy that we thought we would be safe now."
Ge Lihan groaned for a moment and said: "If the Blade Clan is concerned, there have been a lot of trade contacts with the Bihai Kingdom over the years, if Daddy pretends to be a foot merchant of the Blade Clan, he can pass through Linzhou City?" ”
Aru shook his head and said, "Linzhou City...... Where we dare to pass through, we dare not even approach the gates of the city. ”
"Why is that?" ”
"The general doesn't know, the blade clan catches the fugitive slaves very well, the Golden Blade King has long had a secret agreement with the prefect of Linzhou, all the foot merchants pass through Linzhou City, there are hand-shaped tokens issued by the Golden Blade King, and the soldiers of Linzhou City will check them one by one. As long as it is found that it is a fugitive slave, he is caught in Linzhou and sent back to Imulan, and he will pay five yuan of gold. The prefect of Linzhou City...... I still remember his name, Cai Shouxin! It's that Cai Shouxin! Aru's calm tone suddenly became angry, obviously full of hatred.
"Some of our fugitives knew the stakes, so they took us around the city to the east, but Cai Shouxin also knew that there were the most fugitives who went south from Imuran every summer, and often waited there with soldiers guarding the city......" Aru's tone became contemptuous, and he snorted: "As soon as the cavalry of our Imurans arrived in Linzhou, they closed their doors and turned into turtles with shrunken heads, but as soon as they heard that the fugitives were coming, they came to arrest us one by one and treated us as cash cows!" That time, we happened to be bumped into by Cai Shouxin, so we fled in all directions in a panic, and I saw with my own eyes that many people who escaped together were arrested by them. At that time, I thought that those young and strong people might be able to sell coolies to live, and that an old bone like me with a child would be a dead end if they went back, and they would never turn back if they said anything. So I stepped into Senkanuma......"
Gorihan was taken aback and couldn't help asking, "Senkanuma?" Daddy Aru is so daring! ”