Shi Chen felt the disdain, envy, or jealousy from all directions, but he didn't care in his heart, because until now, he had the illusion that he had no real sense.

Before coming to the Empire, he had fantasized about many possible experiences, either as a civilian in the Empire to secretly inquire about the whereabouts of Artaria, or simply join the Poplar Cult of the Empire, and by the way, he could also spy on the enemy, try to disrupt the situation of the Empire again, and buy some precious time for the integration within the Federation, no matter what he did, he seemed destined to hide in the shadow of the Empire.

But who would have thought that as soon as he came to the periphery of the imperial capital, he would be chased and intercepted by the Imperial people as Arsaliya, and when the fish scale ship fell, he was already ready to die.

However, the changes in the world are always so unexpected, even he did not expect that he could meet an old acquaintance in a carriage that he got into immediately when he fled, and that kind of thing happened by accident.

A series of bizarre and mysterious events are mixed together, which leads to him, a guy who was originally a wanted criminal in both the Federation and the Empire, who can walk openly on the streets of the Imperial Capital, the most heavily guarded imperial capital of the Empire, accompanied by the most beautiful third prince of the Empire, and constantly appreciate the customs and customs that are completely different from the Federation on this beautiful planet.

And the imperial soldiers who were supposed to capture him, Shi Chen saw at least a dozen along the way, but Shi Chen didn't have to worry about his own safety at all, because those soldiers were responsible for protecting their safety, and they all kept their faces calm and vigilantly watched the wind and grass around them.

Along the way, Shi Chen also saw a lot of things, although the empire's state system is imperial, but in terms of various scientific research levels, it is not much behind the Federation, even if it is a little backward. It has also absorbed and digested a lot in the process of ruling the Federation for nearly a hundred years.

The streets of the empire are equally spacious, the mainstream of the streets is also cars, and the eyes are also high-rise buildings, but compared with the capital of the federation, Rensa, there is less unrestrained that kind of civilized city, and more solemnity and restraint unique to feudal countries, of course, this restraint is from top to bottom, although this situation also exists in the federation, but in the imperial capital it is open and transparent or even naked. The gap in status and the oppression between different classes are particularly obvious.

For example, as a princess, Su Yayan can go out, she can be dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses, and her followers are like clouds, even if those rich businessmen who drive luxury cars meet them, they have to humbly give way, and those rich businessmen turn their heads and change their bodies, and they can put on the face of the superior. unscrupulously oppress those powerless ordinary people.

For example, at this moment, in front of a small noodle restaurant, there is a middle-aged man with a sallow complexion, who is holding a little girl's hand and the woman next to him who is still crying and begging. They were more or less a family, but they didn't quite look like a couple, and the mother and daughter both had outstanding appearances, and the curves of their jaws looked like they had been carved by the same sculptor.

Listen to the discussion of the surrounding neighbors. It seems that the mother and daughter man died on the front line, helplessly living in the house of the eldest brother-in-law, and the brother-in-law is a gambler. It is a big burden for a small noodle restaurant to raise a pair of orphans and widows, and at this moment, the brother-in-law seems to be facing a debt situation because of the huge gambling debts of the noodle restaurant that he depends on for his livelihood, so he plans to sell his niece as a thin horse to alleviate the economic crisis.

Thin horse, this is also a word that Shi Chen only heard today, it is a kind of deformed industry in the empire, first pay to buy back the good-looking girls in poor families, then adjust them, and sell them as concubines with rich people or into the green // Lou Goulan, so as to make a profit. Because the poor girls are so thin, the name "thin horse" comes from this.

When I first bought a virgin, it was only a few tens of thousands of imperial coins, but when I sold it, I could earn millions of dollars.

There are many businessmen in the empire who are rich and rich, and the executives and magnates are even more unknown, and the appearance of thin horses is completely used to meet the psychological needs of this group of people.

Skinny horses are also divided into three, six, nine, etc. Among them, the first-class thin horse was taught to play the piano and blow the flute, sing and dance, chant poems and write, draw and play Go, play double-backs, wipe dominoes, and do all kinds of obscene tricks.

Skinny horses, like prostitutes, are only one level higher than the lowest slaves, not protected by basic human rights and laws, and can be manipulated and disposed of by their masters after being ransomed, and every year they are maimed to death and thrown into the rivers of poor people.

At this moment, the girl who is about to become a thin horse, her two little hands are pulled by two adults, and the small flower jacket that was already wrinkled and worn has been torn, revealing the gray and inferior industrial cotton inside.

The little girl stood in the cold wind, and she didn't know if it was because the little flower jacket was too thin and cold, or because she was desperate because of the cruel fate that was coming, her eyes were full of tears, but she insisted on not shedding a drop, because she knew that even if she dried her tears, she would not change anything about what was about to happen, so she bit her lip and stared at the bald fat merchant standing by a luxury car in the distance of the noodle shop, waiting for the results.

The couple's deliberations seemed to end in the man's victory, and in the midst of the woman's painful cries, the little girl was pulled like a puppet by the man in front of the rich merchant, and the man smiled and said something to the rich merchant, saying that his body was getting lower and lower, and finally he actually knelt down.

The bald fat merchant looked condescendingly at the man who bought the previous year, raised his chin, and beside him, a woman with heavy makeup skillfully grabbed the little girl's hand and pinched it, and then opened her small mouth, as if she was testing something, no different from picking livestock in the vegetable market.

After inspecting the goods, the woman bowed down to report something in the ear of the rich merchant, and the rich merchant nodded reluctantly, took out his wallet, lit a small stack of banknotes, and sprinkled it in front of the man, and was about to leave with the little girl who was trembling and kept turning back, which made her mother cry even more heartbreakingly.

At this moment, a thin yellow dog suddenly rushed out of the noodle shop, it ran very resolutely, the purpose was also very clear, opened its mouth to bite the rich merchant's feet, the frightened rich merchant and the man were both pale, or a fast-eyed black-clothed bodyguard kicked the yellow dog before he pounced.

The big yellow dog immediately flew out of the hall with a miserable roar, smashed a deep pit on the signboard of the noodle restaurant, and seemed to want to struggle to get up, but it seemed that the injury was too serious to continue, and the little girl who was about to be stuffed into the luxury car couldn't help but whimper.

"Rhubarb!! You bad guys! Villain! Why are you going to hit it? The little girl who had been holding back and preparing to accept her fate silently finally cried out, struggling in the hands of the black-clothed bodyguard.

And because of this kind of thing, the man was not spared, and a bodyguard kept kicking the middle-aged man who couldn't stop howling and begging for mercy amid the angry scolding of the rich businessman.

Shi Chen rarely went deep into the empire, looking at this strange world, along the way, he has also seen similar bullying incidents, but Shi Chen has always regarded himself as a real bystander, in the world view he has cultivated since childhood, the imperial people seem to be strangers to him, and he is on the battlefield, I don't know how many imperial soldiers he has killed, and every time he kills, it means that there will be one more such broken family in the empire.

There was a lot of hatred between the Federation and the Empire, which made him think that he could look at the people of the Empire as indifferently as another kind of intelligent beings, but when he temporarily integrated into the Empire in another capacity, when he listened to the real tragic stories told by the people in the streets and alleys in the obscure Chinese language, and watched some tragedies play out in front of him, he found that his frozen heart was suddenly shaken.

Especially when he saw that the little girl who had always been strong finally cried bitterly in the continuous cruel blows, for some reason, he suddenly remembered Xiao Qianlin who was left in the star circle of the capital, and couldn't help but tilt his cheeks slightly and take a deep breath.

Seeing Shi Chen stop and struggle when he looked at the little girl who was about to be taken away in the distance with a complicated expression, Su Yayan suddenly showed a gentle smile, as if she felt that Shi Chen had such a change, which was very much in line with her expectations in her heart, but there was still some distance from her expectations after all.

So she smiled, looked into Shi Chen's eyes and said, "What? Can't bear it? But such things are staged in the empire all the time, and the trade of thin horses and prostitutes is also a legal industry in the empire, and the taxes they pay account for more than 7% of the total tax amount in the country. ”

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