King Dongming took the princess to a banquet and entertained him, said goodbye to his brothers for a long time, and went north with Yu Chenyi to reverse and return to Beijing.

When I came, the wind was calm and there were no waves, but when I didn't want to go back, there were frequent accidents.

After going out of Southern Border City and passing through the Jade River Pass, after arriving at the range of Taifeng City.

Seeing that the night was getting darker, the group finally found a small village that had been abandoned for a long time and was very deserted. The whole village looks like a dozen or so families, and it is full of broken rubbles and dilapidated.

I chose a slightly better small yard as a place to stay. Xuanxian led people to quickly tidy up the inside, and then the well-trained dispersed to perform their duties, and Xuanqi Xuanqian made a fire and began to prepare everyone's dinner.

After eating hastily, Rujiu, who was chatting casually around the fire, suddenly said something, and several other people restrained their smiles at the same time, showing a serious and vigilant look.

The hidden guards drew their weapons.

The small courtyard was silent for an instant, leaving only the sound of the night wind rustling the fallen leaves.

A low, hoarse and strange bird call broke the tense and oppressive atmosphere.

A large number of people descended from the sky, wearing black robes, and the hoods behind them tightly covered the whole person from the face down, leaving only two openings above to expose their eyes.

The weapons in their hands were also very strange, few swords, but slightly different shapes.

Judging from their slow steps, their breaths are also of different shades, and they look like people in the rivers and lakes who are mixed with fish and dragons, not quite like secret guards.

"Master, it's a Nanban person." Xuanxian guarded them with his sword horizontally, and his body moved slightly as he spoke, just staring at the fierce and obviously ill-intentioned comer.

"Hmm." Yu Chenzhi naturally saw that these people were here for themselves, and he couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the three of them, "I'm sorry Brother Shen, Jiujiu." ”

"If you say this, you will see the outside." Shen Ruliu was thinking that the journey was too smooth, and she was bored and had itchy hands, thinking that she might have a good time at this time, so how could she complain in her heart.

After waving his hand at him, he couldn't wait to meet him with a weapon in his hand, and selected a few black robes who looked like martial arts were more powerful and began to move.

However, before Shen Ru could leave, he was instructed by Rujiu not to leave the scope of Xuanxian's protective circle.

It is worthy of his own family, and his thoughts are the same, just like what Shen Ruliu thought, and before he finished speaking, the person had already jumped out of the crowd in a few steps and was already fighting.

There were bursts of controversy from one after another, although there were a lot of people in black robes, but all of them were masters on their side, and it was needless to say whether they won or lost.

They came quickly and retreated very decisively, and once they found that they didn't have much chance of winning, they no longer struggled desperately. It is closer to an assassination than a temptation.

For a while, in addition to the corpses left behind and the strong smell of blood, only his own people remained.

"Why are they coming and going?" This is just the beginning, and he ran away before he was addicted, Shen Ruliu frowned unhappily and said after pulling a sword flower.

"I'm afraid I don't plan to have any unexpected gains, just make a tentative test."

It's just an outlaw who takes people's money and people to eliminate disasters, and it's just a matter of taking benefits, why bother to give your life for this, you know that you can't do it, and it's not a fool to live a life.

Wiped Qingfeng clean into the scabbard, Rujiu walked up to Yu Chenzhi and asked, "Yu Mutou, do you think this group of people will be invited by the Great Witch?" ”

"I don't know."

After the interrogation, the big witch inevitably let people go and was tricked, and he had already ordered someone to deal with it.

However, whether it was invited by the people in the Southern Barbarian Army or for the sake of the Great Witch, they were destined to get nothing.

"No worries."

"That's right."

As long as it doesn't pop up again, those shady witchcraft are really unguardable. Fortunately, the Nanban Great Witches are already scarce, and it is extremely difficult to practice, how can there be a few more people who will work for the military.

What they didn't know was that if it weren't for Rujiu's existence this time, not to mention that King Dongming, who had been recruited, would return to the west with his life, even Yu Chenzhi was afraid that he would be secretly attacked by that great witch.

Because of this incident, everyone had no intention of resting, and after discussion, they all agreed to continue to set off overnight.

……

Two days later, the group passed through Yuanping Town.

Starting from the straight road into the city, the official road was crooked and full of people dressed in tattered single clothes and described as withered, men, women, and old people, all with one or more children.

The similarity lies in the fact that each child has a special knot on his wrist tied with a coarse cloth, and most of the children are girls with double buns.

One after another, there were businessmen or stewards of large families, who first looked at them from a short distance, and then stepped forward to inquire carefully, and if they were satisfied, they would give money and take them away.

It turned out to be a sale, and it turned out to be a commodity for people to choose.

"Those people are the children's relatives?"

I can't believe that there are such dear family members, and in modern times, such behavior is the abduction and trafficking of children by human traffickers that everyone shouts about, but now it has become a normal money transaction?

She knew the hard work of the ordinary people, and occasionally saw many people who couldn't afford to sell their children and daughters, but such a large-scale and large-scale scene like a livestock market still made Rujiu feel shocked and puzzled, and there was a faint indescribable anger and sadness.

This is not uncommon in Yuanping Town, where a five-day assembly is held every three years on the end of the year, called the closing of bids. Most of them are poor families who can't get by, and there are also a few bad parents who make a living from it. ”

How sad it must be to be born in such a family, and to have such biological parents.

Since it is a fair deal that you and I are willing to make, what can they do as outsiders?

"Jiu'er?" Shen Ruliu patted her shoulder, feeling the cold air pressure on her body, she couldn't help but be a little worried, "But you feel uncomfortable?" ”

Shaking his head and smiling forcefully, there is some discomfort, but more of it is a conflict with the laws of this world.

However, she knows that without the ability to challenge the whole world with the power of one person, it is only if people learn to adapt to it, and it will not change because of personal feelings.

No longer looking around, the moment he retracted his gaze, a thin figure suddenly broke in.

It was a child who looked no more than six or seven years old, with patches on his coarse cloth and patches, and thick threads of varying lengths pulled down at the cuffs of his hands and feet.

The body is unusually thin, the head and neck are particularly slender, the exposed skin is as black as carbon, and it is impossible to see the specific appearance, what makes people deeply affected is his fierce and shining eyes like a wolf and a tiger.

Unsurprisingly, he was firmly grasped by several strong men chasing after him, followed by a wealthy man led by a large group of people guarding more than a dozen girls, and followed by a couple with sharp beaks and cheeks who did not look like good stubble.

"Hey, what a little wolf cub." The other wrist that the man held with his hand was still dripping blood from his fingers, and he looked back at the couple with an extremely unkind face, "It's not that you husband and wife said buy one get one free and count it as a match, is this little rabbit cub your child?" ”

"It's... This old man, to tell you the truth, he is a wild seed that we picked up, and he has been fed for more than a year for nothing... How can we be considered his adoptive parents, right? ”

The little woman twisted her husband, who was about to speak, and began to sobble in reply, and howled dryly, "It's not that he can't live anymore, and even his own children have been sold, how can he still keep him." ”

It's really not the kind of family, the rich man looks clear, obviously not surprised by this result, just these two are afraid that they won't be able to raise such a wild wolf cub.

"It's all been taken as a head, since this wild species dares to hurt you, the eldest master, this is of course up to you to be happy whether to fight or kill."

……

Listen to these words clearly, and what is before you will be clear.

"Jiu'er, are you in love?"

Seeing that her sister had been staring at the child in the middle of the road, Shen looked back and forth a few times as scheduled, the black one was still a little wild cat that could only bite, Jiu'er, is her vision different from ordinary people?

Rujiu, who didn't reply to him, looked at him and suddenly thought back to his once small self.