The end of June and the beginning of July were the best days in Onozawa, especially after Awagaku asked for Chen Jian and acquiesced to the various actions of the people of Natsujo in Onozawa, the necessities of life such as salt were no longer in such a tight supply, at least the gray beads that condensed on the hair after sweating during the hot summer and the white nitrate on the mounds of dirt piled up in the toilet were no longer cherished by the fugitive slaves in Onozawa. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The exchange would take place every once in a while, and the leader of the fugitive slaves, Ze, carved the various goods that needed to be paid each time on the stone slab, and looked at the more and more goods owed, and the anxiety in his heart became heavier and heavier.

The witch doctor named Himeba, who came to Onozawa in Natsujo, has been living here for half a year, and he is a good person. This is the evaluation of Ji Bai by the fugitive slaves in the entire Onozawa.

However, Ji Bai did not agree with this evaluation in his heart, he knew very well that he was different from his brother, and his brother might really help these people because he couldn't see their suffering, and his purpose in helping these people was just so that Jian Chen would reuse his promise.

The mind is different, but the thing is the same, Xia Cheng is a city that does not ask the heart, but he always knows what he thinks in his heart.

Only by enduring what ordinary people cannot endure can it be of great use. However, Ji Bai's life here is not unbearable, on the contrary, there are many women who are intoxicated by the stories and wisdom he brings, and even three or five women are pregnant.

He brought back a lot of tools and herbs from the people of Xiacheng that the fugitive slaves in Onozawa could not use, Ji Bai was rough and saved, saved many lives, and taught these people to use reed ropes to knot nets and make hemp, although life was hard, it was much better than a few years ago, and it was not unbearable.

When the summer sun is in full bloom, the reeds walk through the lotus roots, the lotus flowers are swaying in the red water chestnuts, and the fugitives who have had a good life sing handsome songs, and occasionally throw some lake gadgets to Ji Bai, who is sitting by the lake and basking in the sun.

Ze in the distance looked at it for a long time, and finally moved to Ji Bai's side, and reached out to take away the lotus leaf that he shone on his face.

"Why are you so sleepy during the day?"

"Last night a child was sick, and her mother was distressed that the child choked up with me for half the night. The child also had a great fate, and she didn't die, and her mother gave me those things to eat in the morning, and I couldn't eat much, so I ran away and slept for a while. ”

Ze smiled: "Children are always easy to die, you saved that child, and the mother's gratitude should also be deserved." Just as you Xiacheng people let us go through this difficult winter, we should be grateful to you, I hope you Xiacheng people are not like you are not thanked by others. Your leader said that this was just a deal, but I knew in my heart that it was different. Where can the same piece of meat be the same in front of the eyes of a dying of starvation and in front of the eyes of a person who has just eaten enough? ”

After talking for a while, a group of children ran over and shouted for Uncle Bai to tell stories about how the people of Xia Cheng walked from the cave to the outside to build the city, and myths such as the incisor girl and the nettle, and the black and white of the ancestors.

Ze still had important matters, so he had to blast the children away, and sat silently with Ji Bai for a long time before asking, "Your leader Ji Xia, what do you want to do?" Can you talk to me about it? ”

"What Ji Xia wants to do, how do I know? He only asked me to help you boil the herbs and teach you how to weave nets and reeds. I'm not even an official in Xia City, let alone the council, how can I know so much? ”

"Then when will Ji Xia return to Xia City?"

"I don't know."

"What do you Xia Cheng do with the escaped slaves?"

"Catch it and kill it, you don't have to ask, Ji Xia is not the kind of person who will be afraid and soft-hearted when he sees someone."

Ze was a little confused, he had asked these words many times, but the more he asked, the more questions he had, what would be the fate of his own people? It's not easy to survive, but he has encountered this kind of unprecedented strangeness that has been hidden in his heart because of the joy of surviving, and he is at a loss.

The people of Onozawa are happy with this change, they don't think about it so much, they just know that they have salt to eat and medicine to use, and they are grateful to those people named Ji Xia who have never met. As long as he didn't want to take himself back as a slave, then he had to be grateful for the rest of his life, and he was like a god—they thought, maybe the man named Ji Xia just wanted to be worshipped and grateful, which was more important to some people than food and clothing.

Ze didn't think it was so simple, but he couldn't guess it, so he simply found a lotus leaf to shine on his face like Ji Bai, and put his hands behind his head to think about it.

Many people in Onozawa have children, and the first person to flee here is getting older, and even if he can break the neck of a deer deer with both hands, he will die one day.

When I escaped, I just wanted to live, and at that time everyone could trust and rely on, and I could lick a mouthful of salt with more than a dozen people, but as more and more people came, the first to come here, the most powerful, had some different thoughts, and some people shouted out to eat salt by virtue of their ability when salt was most scarce.

With his prestige and the support of people like him, the salt is still divided equally, because he knows that if he eats salt according to his ability, he is divided by his ability and is the master by his ability......

He had thought about an Onozawa without slaves, which was his dream after killing his master and fleeing here with many people. Everyone farms together, regardless of whether they are high or low, but now it seems that when he dies, waiting for this group of people who stand with him to die, Onozawa will eventually be the same as those cities, some of the original slaves will become masters, and the other part will still be slaves, but the masters have changed.

Sooner or later, he will always die, and even if he sighs after he dies, he will not be able to suppress that group of people, or he will become the same as that group of people, or he will be sent to him by that group of people.

Thinking of this, he suddenly sighed, it was still far away, but it was like the sun in the sky: it was the hottest time, and those who had seen the sunset would know that no matter how hot it was at this time, it would fall to the lake in a few hours and be sprinkled with slanting light.

Present, Future, Natsushiro, Onozawa, Himself, Himexia...... All these made his heart feel very stuffy, as if a breath of hot and warm air was blocked in his chest, he jumped up suddenly, grabbed a stone and wanted to throw it into the lake, breaking the dull surface of the lake that could not ripple because there was no wind.

The stones made some ripples on the water, and the ripples did not dissipate, but they grew larger and larger, and several pairs of birds were startled in the lotus bushes, revealing a few reeds.

The person in front of the reed is Mo, yesterday was the day of the agreed exchange, Ze rubbed his eyes, and was shocked to find that there was a woman standing next to him, with a layer of silk cloth covered by Ji Bai when he came, not too old but not young, standing at the head of the reed.

The woman carried her hands, and a fish-shaped jade hung around her waist, and her silk shirt followed the wind, her hair was lightly raised, and a reed was waving and treading the waves.

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It was not only Ze who was surprised, but Ji Bai, who had half-closed eyes, jumped up suddenly, rushed to the lake and exclaimed, "Sister Redfish, why are you here?" What about Ji Xia? ”

Hongyu didn't tear the cloth off his eyes, and said with a smile: "He's here too." Just outside Onozawa. ”

Ji Bai hurriedly ran over and stretched out his hand to untie the cloth on the red fish's eyes, remembering about the memory of suddenly opening his eyes and being stung by the snow when he first came, and lifted the lotus leaf to hold up a shadow for the red fish.

Hongyu just blinked his eyes slightly, reached out and threw the lotus leaf aside and said, "Where are you so squeamish?" ”

Tugging his hair, he asked, "Take me to Jianze, there are some things to tell him." ”

Ze was on the side, stunned, and guessed that this woman was by no means an ordinary person in Xia Cheng, and the anxiety in his heart was actually a little safe, since that Ji Xia was also here, no matter how good or bad, he didn't have to guess every day.

"I'm Ze."

"I am Redfish, the elder of the Council of Summer City, the female official of the city, the lord of the Land of Fish, and...... Ji Xia's woman. ”

This is her consistent habit, and she has always put her relationship with Jian Chen last, but here it is actually the last one that is more important.

"Ji Xia is now outside Onozawa, there are some things I want you to discuss, let me wait here for you to come back as a hostage. You don't have to worry, although you are famous on both sides of the river, a head is only a thousand acres of land and thousands of catties of millet, and I am in charge of much more goods in Xia City. ”

She said it in one go, naturally, and after finishing speaking, she stared at Ze for a few moments, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's getting dark, and it's time to discuss it with your people at night." I'll stay here, and if you don't go, I'll take Ji Bai back. Tomorrow when the sun comes out, I will reply that there is no need to prepare a dinner party due to the lack of food and goods in Onozawa, and I still have something to say to my brother in the clan. ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't look at Ze anymore, walked straight to Ji Bai's side, took out a small package, took out a jade perforated cypress leaf from it, handed it to him and said: "You have done a good job here, when Xia Cheng was divided, a settlement of one hundred and ten people, your younger brothers and sisters help manage it, and you can be regarded as laying a foundation for your younger brothers and sisters." It stands to reason that you are Jian's younger brother in the clan, Ji is surname, but you and your brother are from other settlements after all, Ji Xia said that if you are willing, you will still take Ji as your surname, and if you are willing to sacrifice your ancestors, it is Ji surnamed Bai, your fief is called Bai, and it is a lineage of its own, but even if it is a lineage, you have to remember that the same surname is not married. ”

Ji Bai stretched out his hand and took the jade cypress leaf with some trembling, although he didn't quite understand the meaning of the fief, but he knew that from then on, at least he was no longer Song's younger brother in Ji Xia's heart, but a person named Ji Bai, who could do great things, had courage and responsibility.

Tremblingly retracted the piece of jade, groping all over his body to find a thin rope to match the jade, but he couldn't find it after touching it, Hongyu laughed and took out a thin rope from his arms and moistened it with saliva and penetrated it into the jade hole, Ji Bai stood straight as when he was in the new army of the academy last year, and asked Hongyu to help him match the jade, trying to be a little heavy, and his heart was extremely satisfied.

"You have all grown up, and our surname Ji will be scattered in the future, and we are no longer children. This jade is not for everyone, no one here recognizes it, but when I go back, I am inevitably envied by girls, but I want to tell you, although you are from another clan with your brother, but you have sworn an oath, you know in your heart that the rules can not be messed up, even if the girl surnamed Ji sings your heart is itchy, then you are not allowed to mess with the rules. Go ahead, go clean up, I'm tired too, make room for me to live. ”

Ji Bai promised again and again, and followed Ji Song to Xia Cheng, which was not yet a city, when he was still a minor, and the adults fought all year round, Hongyu took care of these unattended children as a relative surnamed Ji, and supervised the city several times, although the age was not much different, but Ji Bai had a kind of respect for Hongyu in his heart.

Along the way, he asked about the separation, and said with some twist: "I...... I seem to have a child, and I will be born in the early spring of next year, and the fiefdom will ...... in the future."

Hongyu sighed: "The ability is not small. It is the rule that the son of a non-duli cannot inherit a fief. You go and ask, the women are willing to go with you and take them back to the summer city, this year's Pregnancy Festival, the wild people in the lower reaches of the grass river have dozens of female babies running to the city with their belly children, it's also a good thing...... Then lead me to see the girls, and I'll tell them that your mother is gone, and I'll take care of this matter." ”

The two of them talked and left, one was polite and the other was generous, and Ze who was watching was surprised behind him, shaking his head again and again.

"It's rare for a woman in Xia City to do the same. When you see this woman, you know what kind of person Ji Xia is, a male cat can't climb on the back of a tiger. ”

He sighed on the side: "Where is the male cat?" We don't even know what people want to do until now, if he's a male cat, we're the mouse. Ze, will you go tomorrow? This woman seems to be really Ji Xia's woman, and she is also very famous in Xia City, as if Ji Xia has no other woman. ”

"You can see it. This Ji Xia will explain everything to you clearly, too lazy to use some tricks, just like the pine trees on the mountain, straight and sharp, although it pierces people, it makes people believe. I had nothing to worry about, as the woman said, and my head was nothing more than that in their eyes. Did you see Ji Xia today? ”

"See, there are a lot of people, all of them are similar to the group of people who chased me last time, the terrible thing is that after standing there for a long time, no one moved, about 100 people, bronze swords and long ge, fish skin for armor. When he saw me, he greeted me first, and then he directly said that he had sent hostages for you to talk to him tomorrow. ”

Ze laughed and said: "Then let's talk, bring that woman and Ji Bai tomorrow, I am not the kind of person who is afraid of death, so as not to make them underestimate." My head isn't worth his effort, so it's up to these people on our island to be left. Look at what he says tomorrow, if you want us to be slaves to him, then let's come back, return the fish and shrimp that we owe him, and bring some mussel beads Thank you for sending Ji Bai to save many lives, and don't come back again. ”

"I'm going to see what he's trying to do. Let's go, let's clean up too, and after a while, you can also ask the women who are pregnant with children, if they don't fall out, let them follow Ji Bai, they are always people. If they fall out, let them stay, what will happen to them when they leave? Livestock that will give birth to children is not yet a slave? Ay. ”

After making up his mind, Ze stood on the surface of the lake for a long time without moving, until the night dew and the wind came and the fire flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking. (To be continued.) )