After waiting for more than half an hour, more than a dozen plates of roast chicken were served. That Shimada Hidean personally helped Asahina Taehyung serve the plate, "Even if you eat, adults, if it's not enough, there are still five roast chickens that haven't been served." ”

"Okay, good, good hospitality," Asahina Taehyung smelled the smell of roast chicken, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, waving his dirty hand and grabbing a chicken leg and stuffing it into his mouth, "Wait on the side!" Useful to your place to call you again! ”

Yu Qiuping didn't eat a few bites, and his stomach was slightly uncomfortable. It was estimated that he had been bumpy for too long and was not used to it, so he left through the back door again, intending to take a break from the wind.

When they came out and went around, they made a detour next to the barracks of the slaves. Yu Qiuping was about to walk by quickly, but a sharp sound of plates breaking inside made him stop, and he leaned over with some curiosity to see what was going on inside.

"! What a thing! A tall man who was about 1.7 meters tall and stout Chinese characters seemed to be the one who smashed the plate just now, and he seemed to be still angry, and punched the stake again. Yu Qiuping felt pain when he heard it.

"We have worked so hard to raise chickens for a year! For this more than 200 of our brothers, we also saved a lot of rations, and we all gathered together from our little savings to honor the prison army and let him allow us to raise chickens! The results are good now! The tall man spat the ground, "Those overseers said they would take it, and that's twenty chickens!" None of them were left for us! ”

"Didn't you see that there was a distinguished guest over there, the young son of the Asahina family," a young man sitting on the haystack next to him with messy hair said sarcastically in a yin and yang weird tone, "Our Lord Supervisor is wise and powerful!" If you want to use these chickens to please the adults above, where can you take care of us slaves? I don't know, when the time comes, I will be promoted," the corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a sarcastic smile, "Will you drink water and don't forget to dig wells, think about who raised this chicken for a year." ”

"Yoshioka Katsumasa, Mizenzaki Nakahide, both of you keep quiet!" A young man sitting in the center who seemed to be the leading brother lowered his voice and scolded. He was dressed as the cleanest of these slaves, and although his face was also cloudy, he could see his usual forbearance, "We can't take care of the affairs of the overseer." ”

"Eh~" Mimasaki Nakahide shrugged, "Our big brother Anari Fukushima has ruined you and taken care of us," he continued to say in a weird manner, "Why didn't you take care of it when the prison army came to snatch our chickens arrogantly just now." ”

"Yudon Ogawa, don't drink either, say something," Nakahide Omaezaki looked at a man lying in the haystack, pouring shochu after sip of shochu. His face was flushed, and he couldn't open his eyes. "At that time, in order to raise chickens, you took out half of the wine money, why didn't you say anything?"

Ogawa Yudong glanced at him, didn't speak, and poured another sip of wine.

"Damn, these brutes who kill a thousand knives!" Yoshioka Katsumasa seemed to have tears flashing in his eyes, "The brothers have raised chickens for a year, if they are robbed of their own blessings, forget it!" We're going to send these chickens back to Junfu and open meat for our families. ”

"There are more than 200 households, 20 chickens, how many mouthfuls can a family get." Mimasaki Nakahide sighed, but he still didn't stop sarcastic.

"That's better than nothing." Yudong Ogawa, who was drinking incomprehensibly, finally burped and said, "Since my uncle was arrested, the family hasn't eaten meat for almost ten years." ”

"My mother is not in good health, and she has been sweeping the streets in Junfu every day for the past few years, and her illness has become more and more serious. I have long wanted to buy her a chicken to stew and make up for her body," Yoshioka Katsumasa gritted his teeth as if they were almost cracked, "Finally, everyone got together to buy chickens and raised them for a year!" I'm just waiting for my mother! Damn it! These beast overseers! ”

"Shengzheng, be quiet, beware that the wall has ears." Fukushima Yasunari whispered.

"The prison guards are busy serving the nobles, so how can they have time to come and see us." Nakahide Mimasaki said disdainfully.

"An Cheng, do you really complain?" Nakahide Gozenezaki glanced at Yasunari Fukushima, who was sitting in the middle and was silent, "I remember, when you started raising chickens last year, you wrote a letter to your family, saying that your younger brothers and sisters have not eaten meat since they were born, and finally my brother can order chickens for them to come back." It's been a year since I wrote it, and every time my family asked someone to write back to you, they all said that they were looking forward to eating the chicken you raised, what do you say now? ”

Yasunari Fukushima's Adam's apple squirmed up and down, and his cheeks suddenly fell into the shadows.

"I've dreamed several times how happy my father and my mother were when they ate meat," Nakahide Omaezaki sighed, and when his yin and yang tone mentioned his parents, he disappeared without a trace, leaving only full of helplessness.

The more than 200 slaves around you complained word by word, mixed with whimpering from time to time.

"I don't know what happened to my mother." After a long time, Fukushima Yasunari spit out a few words, "The last letter from home last year said that the money was almost gone, and I couldn't even get the money to write a letter from someone else." My mother's lung disease was getting worse and worse. With that, he fell silent again.

"No wonder I haven't seen you write in months." Ogawa Yudong burped and muttered.

"! I can't bear it! Yoshioka Katsumasa, who had been hitting the stake alone for a long time just now, suddenly roared angrily, "A dignified man! How can you be so angry, Lao Tzu is going to kill all those bitches! With that, he lifted a sticky in the corner and was about to run out. Fukushima Yasunari hurriedly got up and hugged him, and several people around him also rushed to help hold him down.

"Are you crazy!" Another slave whispered fiercely, "If you make such a fuss, our family will die!" ”

Yoshioka Katsumasa struggled as he roared, and Nakahide Mimasaki led a few people to help hold him down.

"Don't be heard." Ogawa Yudong crow beaked.

Suddenly, there was a sound of stumbling footsteps at the camp gate.

"Oops, heard!" A thought crossed everyone's minds.

Everyone was shocked, and the more than 200 slaves who had originally gathered together scattered like birds and beasts, and quickly returned to their respective posts. And the entangled Mizenzaki Nakahide and Yoshioka Katsumasa had no time to dodge, and leaned against the edge of the haystack by surprise. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yasunari Fukushima fell to his knees and began to kowtow before anyone entered the camp.

"The villains were rude just now, and they disturbed all the adults, my lord Haihan! The villain deserves death! I also hope that the adults will ignore the villain's mistakes and let the villain go! ”

As soon as Yu Qiuping came in, he saw Fukushima Yasunari kowtowing to the ground "bangbang", and kept muttering and begging for mercy. Immediately afterwards, Nakahide Gozenzaki and Katsumasa Yoshioka also knelt down and kowtowed, and then the two hundred slaves around also knelt together.

"Your Excellency, you have a lot, for the sake of our usual rules, spare those few guys who don't have long eyes!" Fukushima Yasunari didn't even raise his head after saying that, so he kicked Mimasaki Nakahide and Yoshioka Katsumasa, who were kneeling on the ground, to the side, "The two of them are really damned!" But for the sake of their diligent work on weekdays, I hope that adults will leave a way to live! ”

"My lord! The villain doesn't dare anymore! Just now, we drank too much wine," Mimasaki Nakahide casually pointed to Yuto Ogawa, who was still drunk in the haystack, "That's all that nonsense!" It's not really, sir! ”

Yoshioka Katsumasa seems to be a rough man, and he can't even say words begging for mercy, but just keeps kowtowing somewhere.

After waiting for a long time, the kneeling slaves did not see any statement from the "adult" who came to inspect, and they knelt there in fear and did not dare to move.

After a long time, a whimper broke the silence of the barracks.

"Don't kowtow, it hurts."

Fukushima Yasunari looked up in disbelief, only to see a teenager holding a basket of roast chicken, tears on his face couldn't stop sliding. Yu Qiuping pushed the basket to the side and shook it weakly. Wiping his tears, he gently lifted up more than two hundred kneeling slaves one by one. He walked back to the camp gate and asked Yasunari Fukushima, "Is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

"Your Excellency... You are..."Fukushima Yasunari looked at the delicate strange boy in front of him blankly,

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a prisoner, I'm just an entourage of Lord Asahina, just from the Ming Kingdom," Yu Qiuping tried to suppress his crying and keep his voice as steady as possible, "I happened to hear your story just now... I feel that your life is too unfair and miserable. ”

"I live in Junfu now, and I still have a little savings at home, I just want to ask," Yu Qiuping said, tears still flowing again. He grew up worry-free since he was a child, and his family was harmonious. He had never come into contact with such a family tormented by fate. "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

In the summer, a cool breeze blew, rolled up the leaves on the ground, and quietly left.

As a low sobbing sounded among the slaves, Fukushima Yasunari in front of Yuqiu actually covered his mouth and cried, and the two hundred attendants behind him also suppressed their cries and sobbed in a low voice. Yu Qiuping suddenly felt very powerless, not long after he came to this world, he had already seen too much unfairness.

He obviously just did to care for and help others equally like a normal, kind ordinary person, but he never thought that he would receive such a touch.

Is yourself too good? Or the times are too bad.

An era of dignity and humility, order, and hierarchy. How many tragedies have been brought about by the ruthless exploitation of the people at the bottom and the lower classes by those in power. How could there be only more than 200 slaves wandering in a foreign land in front of him?

I wondered if I was a great person, and I hadn't done any philanthropic feats before. But as long as I live in this world as a person with a conscience, I will never sit idly by and ignore such a tragedy.

I'm Yuqiuping, and I do what I say.

The boy made up his mind in his heart.

"These five roast chickens are something that those adults can't eat," Yu Qiuping pointed to the baskets, "Although more than 200 of you share these, each person can get a mouthful of meat." But let's eat a little. ”

"Also, if you believe me, you can give me your home address and contact information, and when I get back to Junfu," said Yuqiuping, "I will find them as much as I can, and buy half a chicken for each family." I will also try to help families who need help, such as herbs for medical treatment. In the future, they will write to you, and they will leave it to me. I did the accounting for a silk shop that had a branch in Trois-Rivières, so it would be okay for them to help carry some letters when they delivered the goods. ”

Before Yu Qiuping finished speaking, Fukushima Yasucheng in front of him knelt down again. "Great kindness and great virtue!" He whimpered and said, "We are slaves to the iniquity of our family, and we do not deserve such mercy from our adults. We can't thank you enough for your kindness, but this is too much trouble..."

"Trouble me, I don't care, as long as I can help you a little." Yu Qiuping couldn't pull Yasunari Fukushima who was kneeling on the ground.

"Your Excellency doesn't have to be like this—" The others also knelt down.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it." Yu Qiuping interrupted them, "You don't have to feel indebted to me in your hearts, I am not only doing this out of pity for you, but also because my own conscience cannot tolerate me sitting idly by and ignoring such a tragedy. If I hadn't helped you today, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. ”

"What's the matter, don't you want me to regret it for the rest of my life?" Yu Qiuping joked, wanting to ease the atmosphere of the scene.

"How dare you," said Nakahide Mizensaki with a smile, "It's too late to wish you a safe life, and how dare you make your adult regret it for the rest of your life." It's just that these more than 100 chickens are really a lot of money..."

"You don't have to worry about that." Yu Qiuping said.

"We don't have to buy so much, the adults bought us a total of twenty chickens, so that we didn't work in vain for a year, and the villain was content." Yoshioka Katsumasa said honestly.

"More than 200 households, hundreds of people, how many chickens can be divided into 20?" Yu Qiuping shook his head, "I'll find a way to make money, don't worry about it." I'll go get pen and paper. Wait a minute. ”

After completing the registration of the addresses and contact information of more than 200 people, Yu Qiuping followed everyone to eat a few bites of chicken. When he was about to say goodbye and leave with the thick pile of paper, Fukushima Yasunari suddenly grabbed him.

When he turned around, he saw more than 200 people fall to their knees again.

"Adults are very kind, and villains are difficult to repay," Fukushima Yasunari's voice was unusually low, but full of firmness, "If there is fate in this life, I am willing to follow the adults until the Nine Shadows." In the next life, he should be the head of the fall, and the death should be the grass, in order to repay the kindness of the adults. ”