Clearly, the target she was waiting for had come. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A knight led by a gallop came to Dong Dai, with a nimble hand, holding the thin house slave with one hand, quickly turned over and dismounted, like grasping a fluttering straw, came to Dong Dai's horse and knelt down and saluted, and said:

"Gentleman, the fugitive slaves have been brought!"

"Okay, set him up fifty steps away, this fugitive slave has no master, trying to escape without permission, and trying to resist during the period, just use him to practice archery today!"

"No!"

Dong Dai waved his hand proudly, and then several knights who led the order hurriedly carried the thin fugitive slave to fifty steps away, and then put the fugitive slave down, stood him in the same position, and then walked a few steps away, waiting for Dong Dai's order.

Although the fugitive slave was bound with his hands and feet, when he heard that he was going to be used as an arrow target, he was anxious and afraid, and instantly he howled and cried, and threw himself on the ground crying and begging for mercy.

Yan Xing was secretly relieved when he saw that this human target was unsuccessful, although he knew that human life was like grass in the troubled times, and this kind of fugitive slave would definitely not end well even in the peaceful period, but he himself had not yet become a ruthless executioner after all, treating human life as a blind eye, and shooting arrows for fun like a target for fun.

And Li Ru frowned when he saw this phenomenon at the moment, he had already sent people privately, and he hurriedly approached at the moment, looked up at Dong Dai on the horse and said:

"Gentleman and daughter, the law of the Han family prohibits unauthorized killing and abuse of slaves, so don't compare this method again, can't help it-"

Before Li Ru finished speaking, Dong Dai immediately raised her willow eyebrows and said with a sneer:

"Who said that I want to shoot is him, come here, tie the skin to his head, what I want to shoot today is the skin on his head, Li Ru, you don't know that this is the gift of shooting the marquis, the ancient sages have been used to this day, specially to punish adultery, and I want to see what other laws you have in your mouth to stop me!"

At the beginning of the founding of this dynasty, although Emperor Guangwu did not take the righteousness of "the nature of heaven and earth is precious" like the emperor of the new dynasty, Wang Mang, and stipulated that slaves and maids were "private subordinates" and were not allowed to buy and sell privately, in an attempt to limit the expansion of the scope and number of slaves owned by the powerful clans. However, it has also been strictly ordered that "the crime of killing slaves and maids shall not be reduced", "burning slaves and maids is like a law", etc., which legally confirmed the right to life of slaves and maids, and now, although the laws and regulations are relaxed, and there are powerful people who abuse and kill slaves and maids, if they are really seriously investigated, this is also a major crime of murder and beheading.

Li Ru just wanted to use the laws of the Han family to prohibit this gambling fight led by Dong Dai, but he didn't expect that Dong Dai had also premeditated, and directly asked people to tie a leather strip on the head of this fugitive slave, and falsely called it a gift for shooting the marquis, which made Li Ru quite passive and speechless for a while.

In ancient times, the arrow target was called "Hou", which is a kind of thing with cloth as the main body and animal skin decorating its side, so it is also called "Pihou". Legend it can be traced back to ancient times, after the Yellow Emperor's victory in the conquest of Chiyou, "so capture it and peel its mouth leather for the dry marquis, so that people shoot it, the more in the reward cut its hair and build the sky, the name of the said (Chi) of the Jing, fill its stomach to bow, make it cling, the many in the reward of its flesh and bones, cast it bitterly, so that the world to look at it."

It means that after the Yellow Emperor defeated Chi You, in order to vent the resentment in his heart, even after Chi You died, he skinned him and made an arrow target for the soldiers to shoot, and the winner was rewarded. This is the same reason as filling Chiyou's stomach with weeds as a keju activity, and it has become a common method of training non-commissioned officers in the two armies.

It's just that at this time, the "Hou" of "Shooting Hou", which targets the human body, has a deeper meaning than Keju, which is a curse of witchcraft. The Yellow Emperor cursed Chiyou by asking his soldiers to shoot Chiyou's skin, and warned his soldiers that if they betrayed the leader, they would have the same fate as Chiyou.

This culture of witchcraft curses, which originally targeted the human body, was also expressed in the later Yin Shang and Western Zhou dynasties. For example, in "Yin Benji", "Emperor Wuyi has no way, is a puppet, called the god of heaven, and Bo, so that people are invincible to the gods, but the insult is a leather bag, full of blood, and shoot it on his back, and he is called "shooting the sky".

Wu Yi in the Yin Shang period made the illusory gods into puppets and shot them with bows and arrows, and used this curse to achieve the purpose of dominating the world and deterring the Quartet.

As recorded in the military book "Liutao", "King Wu is acting on behalf of Yin, and Marquis Ding is not in court." Taigong is to draw Ding Hou Yu Ce, three arrows to shoot it, Ding Hou is sick, and the diviner Zhanyun is 'in the country'. Ding Hou was afraid, so he asked the whole country to be a minister. The envoy of the prince pulled out the head arrow of Ding Hou on the first and second days, pulled out the mouth arrow on the day of Bingding, and pulled the belly arrow on the day of Wu Ji, and Ding Hou recovered from his illness a little. Jiang Shang also used this kind of courtesy to punish the Marquis Ding who did not obey the king, so as to achieve the purpose of deterring the princes and the world.

Ma Qian, a former Han Taishi company, also recorded this kind of ritual of shooting the marquis in his "Historical Records and Feng Zen Book", "It is the time to attack Hong to Fang Zhou Ling King, the princes Mo Chao Zhou, Zhou Li Shao, attack Hong is a Ming ghost and god thing, set up to shoot the head of the raccoon dog, the princes do not come, according to the strange desire of the princes." is the same as "can't shoot the marquis" in "Zhou Li Ziren", these are all aimed at the princes who do not come to pay tribute, that is, the target of the archery is to use the human body, or the virtual human body as the target of the arrow, that is, by cursing them with witchcraft, so as to control the disobedient subordinates and make them obedient.

This kind of witchcraft curse culture that shoots the human body as a target is not uncommon even nowadays, especially in the border areas are still popular, the Wuhuan people are disgusted with the Gongsun Chan who kills their own family members too much, so "it is a painting in the shape of a gourd, galloping and shooting, and the middle one is called long live", and made a human-shaped target in the shape of Gongsun Chan that they hated, which was used to practice galloping archery, and at the same time cursed the enemy and deterred his subordinates.

Dong Dai has lived in Lintao for a long time, and her body is somewhat contaminated with the habits of the mixed Qianghu, she is going to use this ancient and bloody ritual of shooting the marquis to punish the fugitive slaves, and deter Li Ru, Yan Xing and others, and shoot the skin tied to the head of the fugitive slave instead of deliberately shooting people, and also cleverly avoid the Han family's decrees, not deliberately killing the slave to build the temple.

Seeing that Li Ru had nothing to say, and couldn't find a reason to stop her for the time being, Dong Dai couldn't help laughing a few times, and then she looked angrily at the fugitive slave who was still crying and begging for mercy on the ground, and scolded in her mouth:

"Dead slave, don't stand up quickly with the skin on your head, if you can stand firm and let me shoot a few arrows, your cheap life may still be saved, if you still wail twice on the ground, do you have to let people bury you half in the ground, and then ten thousand arrows will shoot you through the heart!"

Under the intimidation of Dong Dai, who had been accumulating power for a long time, the fugitive slave who fell to the ground really didn't dare to cry and beg for mercy in an instant, and could only be like a chicken dog waiting to be slaughtered, after moaning in pain in a low voice or two, he stood up tremblingly, and then a servant holding a leather ben walked up to him, and couldn't help but say, roughly tied the leather ben to his head, his thin and skinny hands trembled and held the leather ben on his head, and his eyes didn't dare to look at the delicate but ruthless Dong Dai, and turned to look at Yan Xing, who was also standing in the field immediately, with begging eyes.

The gaze that penetrated his heart made Yan Xing's heart tremble, he had seen this kind of gaze many times, this was the last light in the eyes of the dying person who begged for life.

Dong Dai didn't care about the life of this fugitive slave like a mustard, her delicate face was a little impatient, watching the fugitive slave stand up tremblingly, she turned to urge Yan Xing, who was also standing not far away, to urge Yan Xing, who was also standing immediately.

"The surname Yan, don't delay the time, this gentleman is about to start!"