314 (Western Regions: Encounter with Runaway Slaves)
They were dressed roughly, gulping in the air, their chests rising and falling, running barefoot, stepping into the sand with one foot, and the other foot quickly lifted, and the sand that was kicked up by the foot seemed to be running in all directions and panicking.
Behind him was a man with a long whip in his hand and a distinctly well-dressed person. He chased after him and yelled, "Stop! You two want to escape from under Lao Tzu's nose? Know the consequences? Stop me! ”
The man and the woman held hands, still not stopping the scolding of the people behind them, and ran forward desperately.
They didn't seem to care what the people behind them would do to them, as long as they could get out of here, nothing else mattered.
Passers-by on the road were slammed down by the two of them, fell to the side, rubbed their buttocks, and pointed at the two people and cursed. Some of the food that was placed outside the shop was also knocked over because of them. All kinds of food were scattered all over the place, blending with the sand, and they couldn't be separated at all, and they ran in the direction where Hua Xinyue was while causing trouble, completely ignoring it.
"What's going on?" Hua Xinyue looked at all this in front of her with a bewildered expression, because they were still watching from a distance.
"This is a slave in the Western Regions, you can see it by looking at the skin color and clothing of the two of them......" Shen Feiya saw that the two were about to come to the three of them, and hurriedly took a few steps back, preparing to avoid making way for a way, so that at least they would not be pushed like the previous ones.
Just when Shen Feiya and the three of them were about to get out of the way and not meddle in this matter, the two slaves dressed in cool clothes knelt in front of the three of them, dragging the ankles and hems of their clothes, and they didn't let go, begging bitterly, "Please, save us......"
"What the hell is going on?" Hua Xinyue was completely caught off guard by this sudden unexpected situation, she looked at Shen Feiya and Chongming beside her, and then at a man and a woman kneeling in front of her and begging.
The man's steamed bun was sweaty, and his hands trembled, "Girl, childe, please have mercy on the two of us...... Both of us were born in poor families, and we grew up together as childhood sweethearts, but unfortunately there was a change in the family, our parents were seriously ill and died, and we were also poor people who were sent to the slave market in the Western Regions......"
The woman cried, "We were exposed to the sun every day, unclothed, and locked up in that cage like livestock, for people to watch and choose, and now we have finally found the right time to escape from the ghost place where slaves are sold...... We've been running for a long time, and now we can't run anymore...... Buy us away, and we will repay you by being cows and horses......"
The two of them were in a hurry at this time, talking hurriedly, looking at Hua Xinyue and the other three, and then looking back in horror at the person who was chasing them behind them, especially the long whip that the man was holding in his hand, as if he had whipped countless slaves.
When they heard these words, Hua Xinyue and the other three were also slightly stunned, and before they could react, the people behind them chased after them.
"You two can run, huh? I've been chasing Lao Tzu for so long! "The man had strong muscles, and there were many scars on his face and neck that had healed.
There was a new wound on top of the wound, and he didn't know who had scratched a red mark on his cheek, which looked like it had been scratched with his fingernails, and the red wound was swollen around it. He held the whip very hard, and slammed the ends of the whip hard, and the whip immediately made a crisp snapping sound.
As soon as he raised his hand and wanted to throw out the whip in his hand, he was grabbed by Chongming, who was quick-eyed.
A man and a woman on the ground hugged each other like frightened birds, and cried out in alarm, as if the whip had not yet fallen on them.
"Wait a minute!" Chongming looked at the man with the long whip in his hand and frowned, "We bought ...... for them."
Chongming knew that if they didn't buy these two poor slaves on the spot, the whip would hit them hard, and if this continued, the two slaves would definitely be beaten to the flesh and blood.
Slaves are similar to those spirit animals that are trafficked, and they have no human rights.
"Aha~ Since Childe is willing to buy these two slaves, I won't beat them...... I was really embarrassed to ...... just now, "The man with the whip in his hand, put away the whip, pinned it to his waist, looked at Chongming, Hua Xinyue, and Shen Feiya in front of him, and made a respectful appearance.
It is completely different from the arrogant attitude of no one in the eyes before, and no one has trouble with money.
Hua Xinyue didn't say anything, just watched Chongming take out the silver taels from his pocket and hand them over to the man. The man weighed the silver, glared fiercely, still in fear, a man and a woman trembling like chaff, and then snorted coldly and swaggered back.
Hua Xinyue saw that the man had left, and hurriedly said to the two people who fell to the ground: "Get up quickly......"
"Thank you, thank you......" After seeing the man with the whip leave, the two immediately got up from the ground and kowtowed to Hua Xinyue and Chongming to thank them.
"Get up quickly!"
Chongming didn't stretch out his hand to pull them, just frowned, looked at the two of them, and said a little indifferently: "You are very lucky, you met us, although we helped you, but we don't need slaves, you should leave here quickly...... "Tomb robbery."
The man said: "Benefactor, we are not from the Western Regions, and now we are penniless and can't leave the Western Regions, even if we leave the Western Regions, we don't have the ability to support ourselves......"
The woman said: "We can do anything, we can do dirty work, please take us......"
After listening to the words of this man and woman, Hua Xinyue squinted at Chongming, Chongming shook his head helplessly, and thought about it, as if it was really like what these two people said, if these two people were thrown here, they were slaves and penniless, and they really couldn't survive smoothly in this harsh environment, and if they didn't do well, they would be caught back and continue to be sold as slaves.
In order not to let this kind of thing happen again, Chongming felt that he would take in the two people around him first.
Chongming said: "You follow us first, and when we leave the Western Regions, you will leave with us." ”
Hua Xinyue said: "It's definitely not good for you to wear clothes like this, it's too undecent, let's go to the shop on the side and take a look at it, let's change into clean clothes for you......"
The man and woman hurriedly bent down and bowed, clasped their hands together, and muttered countless thanks.
Shen Feiyan looked at Hua Xinyue and Chongming, who were overflowing with kindness, and finally set their eyes on the man and woman standing beside them, blinked and did not speak, and followed them into a store.
They don't seem to be very good at choosing clothes, and at the beginning of picking, they pick the cheapest kind of coarse cloth clothes, in fact, when they see good-looking clothes, their eyes will also shine, but the light is fleeting, and they are overwhelmed by the inferiority complex in their hearts.
At the beginning, Hua Xinyue and Chongming also stuffed the lace embroidered clothes into them, they just touched them timidly, and then pushed the clothes to Chongming and Hua Xinyue, the woman shook her head, and the man waved his hand.
No matter how Hua Xinyue and Chongming persuaded them, they just didn't wear clothes with better workmanship and fabrics, even if those clothes were not expensive, they still insisted on choosing coarse cloth clothes.
It wasn't until the two of them had changed into clean clothes that they finally walked with their heads raised generously.
"Do you want to go back to the bamboo hut now?" After Shen Feiya watched that it was getting late and the weather was no longer hot, she tugged Hua Xinyue's hand.
Hua Xinyue looked at the sky that was gradually dyed with ink, and nodded.
"Uh...... My stomach ......"
Suddenly, the woman covered her stomach and began to curl up in pain, squatting in place and unable to move.
"What's wrong with you?"
Hua Xinyue hurriedly walked over to check, and heard the man holding the woman open his mouth and said: "I won't tell you, when we were captured as slaves, we were threatened by the person just now and swallowed the Gu worm, this Gu worm will attack after a certain period of time, we don't know which part of the Gu worm is in our body, we only know that every day we have a different place of pain......
After listening to what the man said, Hua Xinyue frowned, Chongming even took the woman's hand, checked the pulse, and found that the Gu worm was in the woman's stomach, scurrying back and forth, and the worm was not big, it should be a new Gu.
"This is not easy to do, although I know that this is a Gu worm, but I have never raised a Gu worm, I don't know what this Gu is, and I don't know how to take out the Gu worm......" After Chongming finished speaking, he glanced at the woman, the woman's eyes were blue, her face was pale, her cheeks were covered with layers of cold sweat, and her body trembled slightly as if she couldn't move.
Chongming said again: "In that case, let's hurry up and find a doctor in the Western Regions!" ”
Since this is a Gu worm unique to the Western Regions, the local doctors in the Western Regions will definitely encounter similar cases, as long as they find the doctors and let them think of a way, there is always hope.
Then Hua Xinyue and Chongming inquired back and forth about a lot of places, until it was all dark, and finally found the medical hall that could treat Gu worms, fortunately, there were people in that medical hall, and the lights were bright, and there were figures wandering back and forth in the room.
When he walked to the door, he saw that the door was open and not closed, so he hurried in.
"Hello doctor, help us see this woman'......"
As soon as Chongming entered the door, he happened to see the doctor who grabbed the medicine there, and the doctor was stunned, and saw the five people who came in in a hurry, and hurriedly walked out of it.
As soon as the doctor came out, he saw that the woman's whole face was earth-colored, and her lips were white. She had been tossed by that Gu worm for a long time, and at this time, she was already very haggard and weak.