The sky is blue, the clouds are white, the trees are green, the grass is green, and one or several butterflies flutter out from time to time among the flowers on both sides of the road.

In such a touching spring scene, there was a discordant scene, a group of people and horses walked on the forest road, including a woman dressed in a strong suit and wearing a veil, more than 20 strong men of the rivers and lakes, and a dozen two-wheeled prisoner cars. There were crates in the carts, which were dilapidated and small, and each cage was stuffed with three children, a total of fifty children, the youngest of whom was only nine years old, and the oldest was only fifteen years old.

This team of people came from Shaojiu County, there is a gang called Yansuolou in Shaojiu County, which is in the business of selling slaves, and this time Yansuolou wants to bring the freshly baked fifty small slaves to Gusu City for sale.

"This time, we brought fifty little slaves, half of them are girls, and a few of them are very good-looking, and they will definitely be able to sell for a good price when they go to Nagusu City, which is a big business for us to smoke and lock the building. Wu Hongxiong, who had a scruffy beard, said to Jiang Nian proudly.

Wu Hongxiong is the helmsman of the slave trader in the Yansuo Building, and he is mainly responsible for the slave trafficking business, Jiang Nian is a woman dressed in a strong suit and wearing a veil, riding a tall black horse in front of the team, as the only daughter of Jiang Chonglou, the owner of the Yansuo Building, she is above a hundred people under one person in the Yansuo Building.

Jiang Nian looked back at the little slave who was imprisoned in more than a dozen prisoner cars, and squinted at Wu Hongxiong: "Don't be too happy, this trip to Gusu City, there may be danger on the way, even if you get to Nagusu City, you may be suppressed by the local snake." ”

"Don't worry, this trip will be led by Uncle Wu and me, and there will be no mistakes. Wu Hongxiong was full of confidence, but he was disdainful in his heart: How old are the little girls, pretend to be with me, you weren't born when I was mixed with the rivers and lakes, if you weren't the daughter of the landlord, you would have become a crotch plaything.

Wu Hongxiong's gaze at Jiang Nian suddenly became hot, and when Jiang Nian's gaze came, he hurriedly turned his head away from looking at her.

Jiang Nian was depressed, she knew that Wu Hongxiong had always had ill intentions towards her, she had told her father Jiang Chonglou about this before, and proposed to kill Wu Hongxiong, what made her depressed was that although her father was annoyed but persuaded: "Wu Hongxiong founded the Smoke Lock Building with me, and he has also made contributions to the Smoke Lock Building over the years, there are merits and hard work, you should be remembered by a beast, anyway, my father believes that he only dares to think about it in his heart." ”

Turning around, Jiang Nian condescendingly looked at a small slave in the middle of the team, this little slave is named Jiang Sheng, only fourteen years old, he looks a little delicate, but his body is very thin, his face is pale, and he asked, "That little guy is not dead?"

Just this morning, when the convoy was about to leave, Jiang Sheng suddenly fainted, Jiang Nian was about to throw him away, but was stopped by Wu Hongxiong, saying that the young man just fainted, and he might wake up on the road and throw away the waste.

Wu Hongxiong said with a smile: "This little rabbit cub has a big life. ”

Jiang Nian became curious: "He was sold by his parents?"

Wu Hongxiong said: "An orphan, just born was thrown at the door of the Qinglou, was picked up by a Qingqi person to raise him, not long ago this Qingqi man suddenly disappeared, the Qinglou people sold him to us at the price of five taels of silver. ”

Jiang Nian asked: "Look at his thin appearance, and he is very sick, can he sell it?"

Wu Hongxiong disagreed: "He is seriously ill, we don't say it, the buyer doesn't know, don't look at him thin, he can definitely be sold in Gusu City, and this little rabbit cub looks a little delicate, if you meet a buyer who has a habit of Longyang and a lady who likes to raise a face, you can still sell it at a good price, we only spent five taels of silver to buy him, maybe we can sell it for fifty taels by then." ”

Jiang Nian nodded, thinking that this Wu Hongxiong did have some ability to trade slaves.

A few hours later, the sun was thin, the twilight was vast, at this time the convoy of Yansuolou came to the bank of a river, Jiang Nian decided to rest on the bank of the river for half an hour, let people and horses eat something, and the dozen or so inferior horses pulling the cart were very difficult.

On the green riverbank meadow, more than 20 Yanshulou gangs began to eat meat, drink wine and chat, and the fifty little slaves naturally did not have this treatment, and they ate hard steamed buns. Jiang Nian didn't sit with the gangs, sitting alone on a big rock on the riverbank, eating meat and drinking water, compared with the group of gangs behind him, he stood out from the crowd, although he was dressed in a strong suit and wore a veil, he still showed a bit of seductiveness, and he was beautiful and delicious.

At this time, there was a light rain in the sky, and it was still a sunny and good weather during the day, but in the evening of this day, a light rain suddenly came, and the spring rain was sometimes so sudden.

Jiang Sheng, sitting in the cage, while nibbling on hard steamed buns, listening to the sound of light rain, looked into the distance through the gap in the cage, a river with no end in sight, and then a continuous mountain in the distance, and a vast and boundless sky in the distance, and his previous life has become a farther distance, a vast and lonely distance!

Suddenly, a flock of egrets flew up from the riverbank, flying towards the sky against the light rain. The egret, also known as the egret, is a beautiful water bird, naturally beautiful, slender, they have very slender legs and neck, the beak is also very long, and the whole body is covered with white feathers like snow.

The group of egrets in front of me flew into the sky against the light rain, their white wings fluttering in the rain, and their cries echoed in the air, "quack", "quack". Egrets don't usually call, and only make a low-pitched croaking sound when frightened. Are they frightened at the moment? Jiang Sheng didn't know, but he felt a sense of vitality from the flying gesture of this group of egrets.

Half an hour later, the light rain was still falling, but the sky was dark, with Jiang Nian's order, the team set off again, and the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps suddenly came from the woods on the riverbank, and more than fifty bandits rushed over like a tide, surrounding the entire team.

Most of these thieves are burly and sturdy, most of them hold spears, some have messy hair like a chicken nest, some have long hair with shawls, and they are dressed in a variety of clothes, some are wearing long coats, some are directly bare-chested and bare-backed, deliberately trying to show off their trembling muscles, or deliberately want to show off the strange tattoos on their bodies, as if they are afraid that others will not know that he is a person who has fallen into the grass and lived on the edge of the knife.

Among them, there are more than a dozen bandits riding strong horses, the price of strong horses is quite expensive, the key is that it is not easy to buy a lot of strong horses on the market, and it is enough to ride more than a dozen strong horses, which is enough to show that this group of bandits is not simple.

Wu Hongxiong and more than 20 Yansuolou gangs panicked, and Jiang Nian asked with a gloomy face and dissatisfaction: "Master Wu, what's going on?"

Wu Hongxiong was embarrassed: "If you meet a bandit, what else can it be." ”

At this time, Jiang Sheng, who was locked in the prison car, suddenly smiled playfully and muttered: "Yes, I am still alive, I am reborn, and today I will use the blood of this group of bandits to witness my Jiang Jianwu stepping on the rivers and lakes!"