Chapter 5: The Theory of the Flock

In the hall.

The old man seemed to have expected someone to ask, glanced sideways at the child who spoke, and then opened his mouth and said: "I laugh at you when you come like a flock of sheep that can be driven away, and I at first said that I was tired from several days at sea and did not have the strength to resist. Let your subordinates strip you of the last trace of shame, but I didn't expect you to only know how to squat down to cover your shame, but no one dared to resist. I think it is only fitting for you to go back and stay in your bondage, and serve those nobles for the rest of your life, sheep. After speaking, the old man got up and prepared to go out.

Suddenly, I heard a young man behind him muttering: "No, I also want to resist, but I don't know anything, what to resist, I heard my father say that the emperor wants to fight, and it costs money to fight, so the taxes accumulate higher and higher." Daddy couldn't pay the taxes so he was taken to the army. Another teenager heard the words and said, "Don't say these rebellious words, my mother said that this is our life, and we were born to serve the master." ”

"Yes, yes, if you say bad things about the master, you will be punished."

Although the voice was not loud, it aroused the approval of many people around him. For a moment, the crowd was cluttered with voices.

"Life? Who ordained your life? The old man in blue laughed.

"Oh, it's His Majesty the Emperor."

"It's heaven."

The voices of the children rose again.

"Emperor? Heaven? Then let me ask you, Emperor Jianwen often calls himself the Son of Heaven, who stipulates his life? Mo was also ousted from the throne. And now Zhu Di, isn't he an emperor? Did he suffer retribution? The old man in blue asked rhetorically.

The crowd was dumbfounded, but there were a few more people who looked up. It seems that some agree with the old man's words.

"You are beggars who have been exiled in the market after the criminals, and there is no way to live, and I brought you to the island to give you a chance, a chance to live again. I need someone to do things for me, and I will train you to be a sword in my hands, and the useful of you will stay, and the useless will be your last journey. Hehe sneered and sneered, and a burst of smoke suddenly floated in place, and when the smoke cleared, the ground was empty, and the old man disappeared.

Leaving behind a burst of exclamation from the children.

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In March, the beach is still soaking in coolness.

Before they knew it, the teenagers had been living on this island for half a month.

For those beggars among the 200 people, these countless days are tantamount to the most lively days, and there is no need to worry about the most difficult problem of food and clothing in the past. But for the young masters and ladies who were once high-ranking officials and nobles, life here is tantamount to purgatory.

The people here are indeed much more popular than those officials and masters in the imperial court, and they first gave ten days to rest and then gradually began to teach and practice, so that even the young master and young lady who began to complain were gagged, after all, they had been imprisoned for a long time before, and some people had fallen into the middle of the family since they were young, and some of them had begun to remember before becoming criminals, and the general difference was only the length of time.

"Sister, you see that although the life here is a little harder to practice during the day, it is much better than us being bullied in the sin slave workshop and working all day." Taking advantage of the break, Shen Shiyi whispered to Shen Sansan.

Shen Sansan's shoulders shrugged, and he was about to answer, when he suddenly felt a cool breeze behind him, and he turned to the side like a soul, and a branch passed by. Only half of it hit the cuff.

"Huh?" A soft sound came from behind, and a young man in white clothes walked from behind.

"What's your name?"

Zhi Ning raised his finger and pointed at his throat, ahhhhhhh

"Back to the Lord, this is my sister, named Shen Sansan, who has lost her voice since she was a child, and she can't answer with you." After a pause, Shen Shiyi hurriedly replied.

"Shen Sansan?" When he heard the name, he paused for a moment, did not speak again, gave her a long look, and continued to walk forward.

"Huh, sister in danger, I heard that it was the young island master on the island, it seems to be called Lan or something, it's called Lan Yi. His status is higher. Shen Shiyi scratched his head and whispered.

"You also said that you secretly talked during meditation, and you don't want to eat at night?" Shen Sansan glanced at his younger brother and muttered vaguely.

After that day, the teenagers were divided into two exercises every day, and most of the time was physical practice, which was called exercise training. And the so-called rest time after exercise is to meditate cross-legged. As if a Taoist meditates, it is called meditation here.

And Shen Sansan here is naturally Zhining who sacrificed for his father, sometimes fate is so amazing that it is incredible, the end of the soul is not necessarily just a return, maybe it is also the beginning of a new life. Since landing on the island that night, she has emphasized to her younger brother Shen Shiyi that he wants him to speak for her on weekdays. I just pretended to be dumb to see if I could find out what kind of place it was. Fortunately, Zhi Ning's deafness and mute have become a habit for many years, and no one has noticed this.

After a few days of life on the island, many of the friends who came with me liked it and got used to the life here, and even many people began to feel that there were good clothes to wear and good food to eat, and life was enough. But she hadn't forgotten that the long knife that night was only half a finger away from her, and stabbed into the body of the girl beside her, the body that was still sobbing just a moment ago, had turned into a corpse in an instant, and the temperature on the body in the small cage could be felt a few seconds ago. This is not a good place, although this child is not my own brother, but since I have a new life, I will protect this physical brother, she secretly decided.

The night washed by the rain, the men and women were separated, and everyone was arranged in their respective rooms, accompanied by a dream and a slight cry in the middle of the night, after confirming that everyone was asleep, her closed eyes opened, this is a time when no one noticed her, she touched her whole body in surprise, and gently tried to cough with her throat, and looked around with slightly tearful eyes in the dark night, there was nothing abnormal. She called her name softly in a voice that almost no one could hear: Zhining, Zhining. I can really hear it, and tears flowed down at that moment.

This was not the first night that Zhi Ning came to the Ming Dynasty, but it was the first time she had time to think almost alone. The endless chaos in her mind came to her mind, the worries about her father's future, the helplessness of the future, although her soul did not belong to this small body of only 9 years old, but she was only 19 years old after all, and in modern times, she was just a child who had just entered college.

A terrible and chaotic life has taken her from one abyss to another, where she is a slave of the Slave House of Sin, a lowly descendant of this dynasty, and now a juvenile delinquent who has been trafficked here by human traffickers. In this era of the supremacy of monarchy, does she have the capital to live? She spun helplessly, not knowing where to look.

She raised her thin, somewhat pale palm in front of her eyes, and looked at the silver moon in the sky through the wooden window frame through the gap between her fingers.

The silence in the middle of the night added a touch of uneasiness to her, Mom, I miss you so much.

The memory of this body was shattered in her mind, and the little boy named Shen Shiyi, who was also a younger brother, was silent for a long time. The indifference of her relatives in the previous life disappeared in this little boy, and she felt the affection and dependence of that family affection again after a long absence. In any case, let's survive with him in this untold mess first.

Thinking of this, a sudden realization appeared in her mind, wait, the weapons held by the group of black-clothed people in the day looked familiar, the long handle seemed to need both hands to hold, the slightly curved blade, and their clothes......

Could it be? No, no, no, what is this place?

After some cranky thoughts, she was cold and tired, and finally temporarily let go of her guard and fell asleep.