The camp was located next to an oasis, so it was not difficult to fetch water, and Huang Xing was instructed to take the indigenous women to fetch water. When they were on the road, in fact, many of them were also leading the carriage to fetch water, and some conversation was inevitable.

This camp, which belonged to the camp established by the Western Expeditionary Corps, contained 500 garrisons belonging to the military, but the number of people who did not belong to the military was not so easy to calculate accurately, because there were people who left and people who came in every day, and the rough number should be more than 2,000 people.

Among the more than 2,000 people, the largest group were mercenaries who came out to lick blood, followed by merchants who traveled between the mainland and the Western Regions, and some natives from the Western Regions.

The natives of the Western Regions are indeed the people who are waiting in the camp, most of them are some Loulan people from the southern part of the Western Regions, and some women who come from the vicinity to make money.

That's right, the women near the camp just came to make money, and what they earned was generally in the leather and meat business, but in fact, they could only be regarded as the lowest-grade people in the camp, and they also needed to compete with Persian women, steppe women, Baiyue women, and imperial women.

If you have to divide it into grades, the price of imperial women is the highest, and then the more amazing is the Baiyue woman, and the remaining Persian women, steppe women and Western Regions women are generally not very popular because of the aesthetic relationship between imperial men.

It must be explained that the difference between the Baiyue race and the Chinese race in appearance and skin is not too big, the difference is only in height, so the Baiyue woman ranking in the second echelon is really a real honor. In addition, there are some guys who actually like petite women, so Baiyue women's business is really good.

There are also women from the empire who come to the Western Regions to sell? Or rather, how could the empire be honored to have a woman in the skin business? Now it's not in the Tian~ Dynasty era, Fenghua Xueyue's business has always been legal until the establishment of the Tian~ Dynasty. It is a profession in which tax payment is protected and supervised, and then this profession is actually divided into its own types, such as selling art or not selling oneself or both.

In general, there are not many imperial women who come to the Western Regions to start their own business. And the posture can only be regarded as average, after all, who wants to come thousands of miles away with a good posture? And recently, the environment of the empire is getting better and better, and the number of women who are willing to do this is getting fewer and fewer day by day.

There are only three women in this camp who are from the Imperial Fengyue Place, and their business is basically very good because of the small number of them, but the weird thing is ...... Far fewer people than they think are willing to spend some money and chat politely.

"What's so strange? Far away in a foreign country and want to sleep with a woman? From Persia, the steppe, and the Western Regions, those women toss whatever they want. However, there are only a few women in this broken hometown. There are not many opportunities to listen to the euphemistic voice of the woman in my hometown. Opposite Chen Bing was a middle-aged man who looked rather sloppy.

The middle-aged man is undoubtedly from the Empire, but it seems that he has not been in the Western Regions for a short time. He looks like an extremely depressed person, with a sad past that no one knows?

"It's not uncommon for people like you to come to the Western Regions single-handedly." Chen Bing raised the wooden glass containing the wine, and looked for it: "Generally, people who committed crimes in the local area and then escaped." ”

The scruffy middle-aged man visibly tensed, and reached for the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"What are you nervous about?" Chen Bing didn't care: "Use your brain before you start, don't say that you can't beat me, you are alone, and your identity will be exposed after killing me." Can you escape? ”

"What do you want?" The sloppy middle-aged man's voice sounded a little hoarse.

"It depends on what you've done." Chen Bing continued to look like he didn't care, he drank when he should drink, and ate when he should eat. He wiped a mouthful of greasy spots from gnawing on mutton, and said, "Killed someone? ”

"Yes......" The sloppy middle-aged man tensed his body. It was very much as if he could break out at any time and hurt people, he said: "Do you know what happened to the mountain people in various parts of the country? ”

Chen Bing really knew this. On the way to the Western Regions, their mercenary team saw many migration teams, some of which were voluntary. Some were forced to move under supervision, many of them in groups of mountain people.

"I was serving in the army, but when I returned home, I found the village empty. When I went to the government to ask, I learned that the villagers had been gathered. The sloppy middle-aged man took a deep breath, raised his glass and took a big sip of wine, wiped the wine stains on his beard, and said in an extremely resentful tone: "I have inquired in advance, because I have a record of military service, and I and my family can be exempted from migration, but what does that dog county order tell me?" It was said that my family did not listen to the persuasion, because of violent resistance, and died in the fight, and they all died! ”

Chen Bing was stunned when he heard this, he knew a lot of violent resistance to the migration of mountain people, and it seemed that some fleeing mountain people also committed a lot of bad murders, such as killing the family that helped him in order to hide his whereabouts. It seems that a lot of bad things have happened, and the people who were originally sympathetic to the mountain people have changed their views to be hostile to the mountain people, and those who fled are gradually arrested.

There is another thing that is more famous, that is, the prince Lu Yi took in a young mountain people, originally to avenge him or something, and later found that the mountain people's riot was first caused by that young family, which led to a series of bloodshed in the future, which once made the prince very embarrassed?

"So, you're on the path of revenge?" Chen Bing has already begun to be on guard.

"The road to revenge? Oh, yes! The road to revenge! The sloppy middle-aged man laughed miserably: "You know what? There was no resistance at all to be killed accidentally, it was a relative of the dog county who took a fancy to my sister, insulted my sister and killed her, my wife wanted to get justice, but she was also killed, and the whole family was killed overnight. ”

"Huh!?" Chen Bing was shocked!

Seeing the lust, and then using the power of public office, such a thing is not uncommon at any time, Chen Bing is most concerned about where the county order came from so bold. Then, he also wanted to know if this sloppy middle-aged man had tried to use legal means to seek justice for himself and his family.

"Legal means? That's the nephew of the county order, and it's a lone seedling! The sloppy middle-aged man apparently did not try legal means, he said: "I first sneaked into the county commander's mansion that night, killed him in the county commander's sleep, and also killed his wife, son, and daughter." After setting the fire, he went directly to the beast's house without pausing, still killing them one by one in their sleep. ”

"How much?" Chen Bing quietly moved a little distance back, and asked in his mouth, "How many kills in total?" Did you kill the servants or something? ”

"Hehehe......" The sloppy middle-aged man stared at Chen Bing, raised his hand and made a gesture: "Forty-seven, not one falls." Servant? They are accomplices, and there is no reason not to kill. ”

Chen Bing used to think that he was poor and vicious enough, but now he feels that he can be called kind compared to the sloppy middle-aged man in front of him. He was already thinking about whether to call on the people around him to take down the sloppy middle-aged man together.

"I know what you're thinking, but ......" The sloppy middle-aged man had already held the hilt of the sword at his waist with his hand, and looked at Chen Bing with a serious expression, also vigilant around. asked: "If it were you, would you kill or not?" ”

Yes, if it's yourself, kill or not? Chen Bing hesitated for a while, but he moved back very obviously, his hesitation did not mean that he was willing to stay in the position where the sloppy middle-aged man could be stabbed with his sword drawn.

A man holding a leg of mutton in his hand, he first shouted at Chen Bing and the sloppy middle-aged man, "Hey! Then he said, "That's what you said." I just knew. ”

Chen Bing simply stood up and pulled back the distance, the person who spoke he also knew, was the captain of a medium-sized mercenary group, and the people who sat at the table with him were the members of the team he was in.

"It's a matter of Wucheng County, right?" Wu Dong grinned. After saying a few words, he nibbled on the leg of lamb and signaled not to be nervous. He looked at the sloppy middle-aged man and said, "The latter matter has been investigated, and the guy who killed the person is called Makino, who was originally a team leader of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment. You're talking about you, right? ”

Makino? It's a strange name, Mu should not be a surname or a surname, and the two words should be a name. However, there are more people who don't have surnames these days. For example, Wu Dong and Chen Bing, they can be from Wu or Chen, which were once more than 3,000 vassal states divided by the Zhou royal family. One thing that is very certain is that none of the vassal states divided by the Zhou royal family are called "Mu".

"There's interference behind your legion, and there's interference on the prosecutor's side." Wu Dong waved his hand, signaling that no one should be nervous, and deliberately said: "Are you a fugitive, as long as you don't threaten us, or if no one wants you, in fact, it has nothing to do with us at all, who is full and idle to fight with you?" ”

Makino obviously didn't believe it, he still tensed his body, but with a look of longing, he asked, "Did my legion interfere?" ”

"O military! Do you know what the military is? Wu Dong looked proud and said, "The people present are probably all retired from the military, right?" ”

It's all nodding heads, and there are really all retired from the military in the tavern without exception.

"It's not unreasonable for civilian officials to scold the military, we are domineering, and when it doesn't make sense, it's even more domineering." Wu Dong grinned and continued the topic just now: "The Fifth Army intervened, and in the past, Wucheng was a military marquis, and he quickly figured out the process of the matter with the assistance of the local prosecutor's office. Actually, it's also the guy named Ulian who is an idiot who has shown off what he did more than once when he was drinking......"

When Makino heard the two "Wulian", green tendons appeared on his forehead.

"So it's relatively easy to look up." Wu Dong nibbled on a few more mouthfuls of mutton, took a big gulp and poured some wine, and then said: "Actually, you are stupid, even if you don't kill it yourself, the people involved will get the end they deserve." ”

Makino laughed miserably: "When anyone hears that their family has suffered like that, no one will be able to bear it. ”

"You're right." Chen Bing had already sat back in another seat, and he said, "But it's also stupid." ”

Wu Dong beckoned the man from the tavern to bring another jar of wine, turned his head to look at Makino, who was still tense, and said, "You killed all the people, and you also killed a lot of women and children, making your legion very passive. Because of this, the military and civilian officials can't hold the reason when they are arguing, and the reason is that the empire at least still has laws, but it makes no difference to you, there is no mourning for the dead county order, and you are also wanted by the counties for killing people. ”

Makino's cheeks twitched, and he wanted to know a little: "I...... of the legion, ...... they? ”

"You have been removed from the military, even if the legion calls veterans, you don't have your share." Wu Dong watched Mu Ye's eyes turn red, not a hideous redness, a kind of sadness and bleeding redness. He said: "You deserve it, because you did that, the civilian officials did not make things difficult for the military, and it became a proof of the lawlessness of the military." ”

"Damn those civil servants!" Makino took a deep breath, then raised his neck, face up. In order not to cry, he said word by word in a muffled voice: "My matter is not an exception, being a soldier outside and being bullied by my family in the township will not be an exception." Even if those civil officials don't bully themselves, their relatives are strong enough to fight people. ”

"You're right." Wu Dong seemed to be a well-informed person, he lowered his face seriously, and said: "It is because such a thing cannot be avoided that the empire is recently adjusting a policy to add a courtyard composed of retired veterans on the basis of the three elders in the countryside?" Anyway, it's for the soldiers who serve as the backing of their hometowns and something. ”

Makino didn't understand that, he took a deep breath and sniffed, looked around, and asked very bluntly, "You already know about me." Say it, think about it. ”

For a while, many people laughed, they laughed indifferently, but a lot of sneers or something.

"What do you mean?" Makino simply stared at Wu Dong and said, "Didn't you say I was wanted?" As mercenaries, aren't you chasing bounties? ”

"yes, for bounty, of course." Wu Dong's words made Makino subconsciously grasp the hilt of the sword again, but he quickly added, "The problem is...... There seems to be no civil government in this poor place in the Western Regions? There are some wanted lists on the military's side, but they are all bandits who attacked the caravan or something, have you ever attacked the caravan and then been wanted? ”

Another "Hahaha!" "Ringing in the tavern.

After listening to the tavern shopkeeper for a short while, he simply understood: "That person, you can escape to the Western Regions, it is already very illustrative." ”

Makino is hiding all the way, trying not to contact people, whether it is necessary or not, and where do you understand what the situation is.

"Let's put it simply, the civil official is looking for you when he comes out, if you are in the country, you will definitely be arrested, but when you go abroad, as long as your brain is not bad, change your name and don't do anything bad for the empire......" Wu Dong teased with a face: "Don't go back to the empire in this life, who cares about you!" (To be continued.) )