On the banks of Onozawa, the mountain cols are long, the snow is deep, and the dogs are barking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A few gray dogs followed the feet wrapped in blades of grass in front of the footprints, and the owner of the two feet turned around and pretended to fight, and the dog swished into the distance, and thought that he would not be able to show his merit without barking a few times, so he barked wildly.

"Stop biting, lie on your stomach!"

The straw curtain on the room was opened, and the heat spewed out, and a man with a thick fur hat reprimanded a few times, nodded and said hello to the comer, and let in.

The man who came in stood by the fire and rubbed his hands, not caring that the cracks on his feet were still bleeding from the cold, so he felt a few round beads from his bosom for fear of being lost, and a smile appeared on his face.

"If you touch the shell beads in the water this day, you will inevitably fall ill, but since you want it, we have to do it. Out of the hundred and ten beads, I picked a few round ones. ”

The person holding the bead had a smile on his face, but he was thinking of his friend who died of cramps in the water, but he could not be dissatisfied at this time.

With a smile on his face, he tugged at his cheeks, making a scalded scar on his face a little hideous. If it is in Sucheng, it will definitely be recognized, it is the sign of a slave in a certain city, scalded with hot pottery.

The owner of the house was about forty years old, followed by several strong men of the same clan, took the beads and looked at them, they were satisfied, and nodded: "It's not that I embarrass you, this bead is also what we want to offer, and they are all used by the nobles in the city, where can we afford to use this thing?" ”

The people who came kept nodding, but they cursed in their hearts, who doesn't know that they only need to offer a few beads every year, where can they use so much, and Su Yue, the leader of Sucheng, is not the kind of person who is not sympathetic to the villagers, where will they have to sacrifice beads in the winter?

But I understood in my heart, but I didn't say it, and I was cold for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say: "Old man, this winter's salt...... Is it possible to exchange it for us? Or change it according to the way we went to the old age, we are all ready. Fish, deer, pig, water chestnut, lotus seeds...... It's all on the edge of Onozawa, and when you say it, you can take advantage of the snow to carry it. ”

The old man shook his head and said, "There is salt, but you can't change it according to the way you went to the old age." Last year those things, in now only half of the salt can be exchanged. ”

When the visitor heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Why is this?" Old man, we are never short of you, the festival of spring and winter hunting always brings some wild things to you and the village, and there is never a shortage of courtesy. Now I am waiting for this bit of salt for the winter, I can't eat salt, I don't have the strength to stand up, and the children can't stand up, and the white salt on the pit is not enough to eat if I dig a pit and scrape the white salt on the pit. It's easy for you to get salt, so you should help us, it's not easy to survive this winter. ”

The old man snorted and laughed: "I know that you hate me to death in your heart now, and I also know that your leader Ze is not a Chinese person, smart and martial, don't say that the small village of our clan is a smaller city, and you are not afraid." But within a hundred miles, we can get salt from the city. Last year, many children were sick, and I went to the city to change the herbs. It's easy for you to kill us, but it's hard to get something. You still have burns on your face, might as well ask yourself if you dare to go to the city? ”

The person who came gritted his teeth with hatred, but when he heard it, he suddenly softened and begged: "Then can't it be changed like this?" A huge deer, just change it for a small half jar of salt? When I was a slave in the city, I didn't know how to change it. Besides, the salt pond is in the hands of Sucheng, which is more common than my original city, why is it so rare? ”

The old man was not in a hurry, got up slowly with a cane, and said with a smile: "If you want to change it, you will change it." If you don't want to change it, you will find a way. Maybe tomorrow a deer will only be able to exchange for a child's fist-sized lump of salt. Oh yes, there's a lot of salt in the city of Sucheng, and there's a salt pond to the north, so if you have the ability, you can go there and grab it. ”

The person who came gritted his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, and hated to kill the old thing in front of him with a punch, according to his temperament, he would definitely kill his whole family at this time, but when he thought that the people in Onozawa were still looking forward to salt to spend this winter, he finally let go of his fist, forced a smile and pleaded.

He didn't have a name, or his name was Woo, and his previous owner didn't bother to name him, so he shouted "Woo" every time he called him. Theoretically, that master is his blood father, but it is not recognized, it is just a story of a slave girl who was hardened by the master.

After hearing that a group of slaves had escaped into Onozawa, he killed his father's whole family and led the slaves to swim to Onozawa in the autumn with dried reeds.

Maybe in other cities, he may not be a slave, or he may have to experience a touching story of a slave son working hard to make his father love, but in this city where he is located, the ending is a murderous father, according to the morality of the slave owners in the city, this is a heinous bad person.

After leading those slaves to escape into Onozawa, under the leadership of the leader Ze to live a new life, the first thing he did was to hunt and fish hard to change into clothes that were not slaves, but after changing clothes, he found that even though he was wearing the clothes that his master had worn, the scars on his face could not be washed off, and after thinking about it all night, he understood the difference, tore his clothes and laughed a few times, which happened to be seen by Ze, and after asking him the reason for his laughter, he was heavy.

This time, he came to change the salt to be in charge, and this is a major matter related to thousands of people in Onozawa. The slaves who fled to Onozawa did everything, such as making pottery, burning charcoal, planting, and raising pigs...... There are even those who have boiled salt, but there are no salt pans around Onozawa, so even if you know how to boil it, you are helpless.

Without salt, life is very difficult, and if you don't have strength, it's still light, and if it's heavier, you'll die. Fortunately, there are still a few villages on the banks of Onozawa, and these villages are smart and secretly exchange with the people in Onozawa. The prey that can be exchanged for two jars of salt in the city can only be exchanged for half a small jar here, but it is not possible to exchange it.

In addition to salt, herbs, seeds, cubs...... These are not things that can be made, they can only be exchanged with the outside, and after a few years, several nearby villages have become rich, but there is less and less salt that can be exchanged.

Even if the salt is very small, it is enough for hundreds of people to die, in terms of ability, he is also outstanding among those thousands of people, even if it is not as good as Ze, but if he is really like a beast, whoever is stronger and who eats it is also qualified. But Ze, who everyone believes, is not that kind of person, Ze said that he can't care if he dies, but as long as he lives, he will share it equally, and he never eats much. I admire this very much, and I agree with it, there are many people like him, so those who try to replace it with the rules of Ze are dead or pretend to be the same.

This time, it was for the salt that everyone ate this winter, the more I wanted to get it, the more I fell into the wind, begged for uselessness, was not afraid of intimidation by force, was witty, and there was nothing I could do, and after smiling bitterly for a long time, I finally had to change it according to the method proposed by the old man.

Before leaving, the old man sent out the door with the smile of a victor, and the vicious dog from before saw that he was scolding, so he pounced on his throat from the side.

He was holding his breath, his heart was itching, and when he saw the vicious dog pounce, he secretly screamed in his heart: "Your master deceived me, and you dog thing also wanted to bully me?" I am bored in my heart and have no place to vent, so I will spread this evil breath on you! ”

The dog pounced into the air, retreated, and grabbed the throat of the vicious dog with a horizontal lightning flint in his left hand, and the vicious dog opened his mouth to bite, and was hit on the nose with his right fist, and the dog's legs softened with a whin, and he was kicked and flew on the snow, and he didn't dare to make a second time, and he only dared to peek behind the fence with his tail between his legs, but he didn't dare to howl.

The old man behind him didn't know where he was venting, and clapped his hands and praised: "Good ability, don't say that my body is old, even when I was young, I was afraid that I couldn't withstand your three punches and two kicks." But even if you are powerful, you can only beat the dog and discourage, but you can't help it when I stand here. ”

He snorted and strode through the snow, but was stopped by the old man, and a young man brought a small vanilla purse.

"I heard that you gave birth to a daughter, take it, the artemisia mushroom picked during the spring bath, take it with you and don't get sick. The salt is still changed like that, this purse is given to you by me, and there are also one hundred and ten clansmen behind me, public is public, private is private, and you are not angry. ”

Stunned there, he stretched out his thick and dark palm that could break the wolf's neck, put the small purse in the palm of his hand, held it tightly, and threw it into the snow with a wry smile.

"I died of illness a few days ago. Thank you. ”

He straightened up and left without looking back, the wind and snow were not heavy, and there was a white expanse in front of him, and he couldn't see the way back. (To be continued.) )