Chapter 91 It's not scary to bow your head, it's scary to forget the scenery when you look up after bowing your head
After several days, the laboratory in the back garden was finally completed in Wren's expectation, and he was looking forward to the technology brought by Yang Kai, and believed that these technologies could make his career flourish. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Yang Kai is in good spirits, if you don't think about the damp and dark environment of the dungeon, life here is much more comfortable than his home in Ilwolf. Three meals a day are delivered on time, with wine and meat, and they are all carefully cooked by real chefs, with all the color, flavor, and taste, and the delicious ones can make people bite their tongues off. There is nothing to be picky about the wine, and the people in the city lord's mansion drink the kind of wine that costs a hundred copper coins a pot, which is far from being comparable to the sour water of a cup of a copper coin.
Of course, it would be nice to have another woman.
After dinner, he picked up a piece of dead grass from the ground, tore it in two, stuffed the narrower and sharper end into his mouth, and licked it back and forth between his teeth, turning his mouth twice from time to time, and spit out a trace of stuffed meat crumbs. He looked at the dark dungeon, showing no resentment or other negative emotions as he might deserve. He was very smart, and knew that Wren would not kill him easily, but would use him. After figuring this out, Yang Kai completely put his mind at ease, at least he wouldn't worry about his future.
I don't know what time it is, slightly sleepy, Yang Kai is lying on the mat made of dry grass, with his hands behind his head. The clothes that had not been washed for more than ten days exuded a strong smell, a kind of old oil smell on a man's body, and kept drilling into his nose.
Inexplicably, Yang Kai thought of the bits and pieces that happened in the past in another world, and just when he couldn't stop sighing, the door of the dungeon was pushed open.
The fresh air came in along the open door, dispelling the rotten old smell, as if he had experienced a baptism, making Yang Kai feel that his body was three points lighter. He scrambled up from the ground, greedily breathing in the fresh air, and the little sleepiness was gone, and his mind was awake.
Wren raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose lightly, and the topaz cuffs of the cuffs were tightly attached to the crimson cuffs, which was dazzling and extraordinarily noble. Although the texture of the two bronze rings on his fingers is ordinary, the patterns engraved on the rings are extraordinary, full of mystery. The sharp eyes seemed to make the entire dungeon light up for a moment, he approached the cage, glanced at Yang Kai, who was covered in stains all over the cage, and frowned, "It's too dirty, give him a flush and change his clothes." ā
Yang Kai was pulled out of the cage by two tall and strong servant women like an animal, and drove out. As the steps continued to rise, the light became brighter and brighter, and the dazzling light made Yang Kai's eyes narrow, and he raised his hand to slightly block Guangyuan. At the moment when he crossed the dungeon gate and left the dungeon, the sun shone on his body, and on his face, the warm feeling of being soaked in hot water made him feel like a world away, and his spirit was in a trance.
By the time he came to his senses, he had been thrown to the well outside the dungeon, where the strong servant had torn off his sour clothes, and the other had drawn a large bucket of warm well water, and poured it on his face. At the moment when he was splashed wet by the well water, Yang Kai had the illusion of suffocating when drowning, and gasped and took two steps back, which was just a subconscious move. But the servant women don't think so, they are surrounded by the lord of the city, they are not good at acting too rough, these peasant women have no other skills, only they are strong, and they all have ox strength.
One of them grabbed Yang Kai's hair and pulled him back stiffly, Yang Kai had a painful expression on his face, but he didn't say anything very stiffly. He looked at the two servant women beside him, and engraved their faces firmly in his memory. The gaze with a little hatred and palpitations angered these uneducated servants, who didn't know what it meant for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, but only that he couldn't spend the night if he had a grudge.
Raised the brush that was taken from the stable to bathe the horse, and rubbed it against Yang Kai for a while. These brushes are made from the thickest bristles trimmed and tied together, which may be comfortable for horses, but brushing them on people with fine skin and tender flesh is like a steel knife. Only two or three times. Yang Kai couldn't help but cry out in pain, there were red marks on his body, and there were red spots with blood beads in each red mark, which was a bath, it was obviously torture.
The sharp scream didn't win him much sympathy, Wren was silent, like a transparent person, and the servant woman suddenly knew in her heart, and the two of them pinched Yang Kai in the middle like this, so that he couldn't even struggle.
The wailing lasted for twenty minutes, and the layers of white and gray dead skin on the ground were densely packed, and Yang Kai's whole person was like a shrimp that had just been taken out of the steamer, all red.
A soft, dry and incense-smoked robe was put on Yang Kai's body, Yang Kai's slightly reddened eyes slowly closed, and when he was pushed, there was only obedience in his eyes when he opened them again. Higher education made him understand that in the resistance to the rulers, if you cannot grasp the local initiative, then it is better to remain obedient and silent.
Wren observed the whole process from the sidelines, and the more obedient Yang Kai became, the higher his vigilance level for Yang Kai would be.
The group walked through the back garden to the edge of a four-story tower, which was thin and thick at the bottom, with no windows on the first, second, and third floors, and only a window with iron bars on the fourth floor. The tower covers an area of more than 200 square meters, there is no exquisite decoration, everything seems so simple, and the style of other buildings in the city lord's mansion is in strong contrast.
"From this day on, you live here. I will provide everything you need, and you, you need to give me what you want. Ren looked very kind, walked to Yang Kai's side and even tidied up the open neckline for him with his own hands, his movements were very gentle, "I am a very good talker, as long as you meet my requirements, I will also meet your requirements within a certain limit." But I'm also a not that good talker, if you can't satisfy me. ā
He smiled slightly, patted Yang Kai's shoulder, and walked to the huge stone table on the side. The enclosed tower was not dark, the base of the cured illumination magic array on the ceiling was constantly radiating light under the influence of Tiberium hedrons, illuminating every part of the level, and the flames in the fireplace made the temperature pleasant. Wren pointed to the pile of materials on the stone table, "The first step is that I need soap, which doesn't have to be much better than what I can buy in the supermarket, but only two requirements, delicate and smooth, and a long-lasting fragrance." ā
"You have a month to do this well, I know you have a lot of ideas, and I won't have any problems with them, but you have to prove your worth first. Wren turned around and looked directly at Yang Kai, "People who have no value are not worthy of breathing free air, including you and me." ā
"Good job, I'm looking forward to your performance. Wren smiled and pushed the door open. The heavy steel door slowly closed, followed by the sound of latches coming into the sheath.
The expression on Yang Kai's face gradually changed, from anger to hideous, his facial features were distorted, and his clenched fists trembled slightly. He kicked hard against the stone wall, and the reaction nearly knocked him over. His emotions came quickly, but also quickly, his face gradually calmed down, and there was no hatred in his eyes. Glancing at the buckets of materials on the stone table, he sighed helplessly.
Man, when it is time to accept his fate, he must accept his fate. It's not a terrible thing to look down, it's terrible to forget the scenery when you look up.
In the midst of Balatan's vigorous repressive war, Ortlenburg ushered in the first slave auction.
Completely different from the usual simple slave market, Wren demanded that the venue be beautiful, functional, clean and tidy, and not as bad as the previous farmer's market. Every slave had to wear a collar, which had a dog tag that recorded the slave's lifetime number, physical data, and some specialties. For example, it can lift multiple things and run multiple pieces to facilitate the selective purchase of major slave owners and distributors, rather than blindly buying a batch back, leaving a few useful ones and killing other useless ones.
When the buyer decides, all they need to do is take out a small card with the same number as the one on their dog tag from the leather pocket on the slave's belt. In the other part of the hall was like the trading cards hanging in the exchange, and in the column after the number of each particular slave was the highest price that was constantly being refurbished. If you like a slave, find the slave's trading card, and then quote your price to the trader, and when the trading time is over, the last person with the highest bid will get the ownership of the slave.
Each round of slave trading lasted two hours, and after two hours another batch of 300 men was replaced, so as to ensure that every slave owner and distributor could see all the slaves.
On the first day of the fair, Oltrumburg saw a peak of crowds, and the franchise system of Rennes caused the demand for slaves to skyrocket throughout the Bell region after the beginning of spring. There will certainly be clandestine slave hunting in some small groups, and there is no way to completely eradicate it, but large-scale slave hunting will not occur. As a result, many slave owners and dealers who had an urgent need for slaves had to rush to Ortlenburg to conduct auctions.
What shocked them the most was that Wren devised this set of trading methods, which can be said to maximize the value of slaves and earn several times or more profits than before. This part of the loss will not end up on the slave owners and dealers, who will also pass on the loss to the next family until the last customer, like a drum and passing flowers.
But I have to say that this is really attractive, and even some ordinary locals in Ortlenburg have run in to join in the fun.
On the first day of the fair, an astonishing record was set for all the participating slaves to be sold out. You must know that in the past, it was thankful that a hundred slaves were captured and seventy were sold, and no one imagined that there would be such a day!
As the size and amount of the slave trade continued to expand, Ortrenburg finally received his first income after Baron Wren took office.
Whether it was Wren himself, Richard, or anyone else who was concerned with Ortlenburg, they were completely relieved.