Chapter 118: The Farmer

The farmer was hung from a tree. ()

Inside the gray dawn, a flame was very noticeable--- it was the farmer's hut burning.

Perhaps this is the worst loss for a farmer, his tools, seeds, food, and clothing are all reduced to ashes in the flames. The cavalry slaughtered the farmer's livestock and cut the best meat for dry food.

One of the cavalrymen who stayed behind to carry out the order warned the village chief to tie up the farmer for three days, and within three days the captain would send someone to check on him, and if the farmer was no longer on the tree, the whole village would be punished in the same way as the farmer.

The village chief, a thin old man, swallowed his saliva and said to the cavalryman, "My lord, if you hang like this for three days, this man's arm will be ruined." We are not thinking about him, but for the sake of the whole village, there is a famine now, and we can't afford to raise a wasted person, you are equivalent to executing him, and you will also bring the whole village to the burden. ”

The cavalryman looked at the team that had gone far from a distance, and waved his hand impatiently, "You can watch it, anyway, when the captain checks, you can pass the test." If you mess up yourself, don't worry about me, alright, old man, I've said enough, goodbye. ”

After saying this, the cavalry rode his horse to chase after his own team. The village chief bowed to the cavalry in thanks, wished the cavalry good luck, and told the cavalryman that he would get hot water and food whenever he arrived in the village.

The cavalryman turned his back to the crowd and raised his right hand to his ear to indicate that he understood.

The village chief waited until the cavalry disappeared from the end of sight before ordering the crowd to disperse. At this time, the farmer who had been beaten badly let out a groan, and the village chief shook his head and looked at the farmer: "Elindaha, why is this so painful. You should be wronged first, and when the adults are far away, I will come to see you again. ”

The old village chief looked left and right, looked for a little child, and then pointed to an oak barrel and said to him, "Look at this man, roll this barrel under him every hour and let him stand for a while." ”

"I can't push," the child shouted.

"This Elinda Harry has a group of friends, you know, and if you bring them in, be careful that they come to you for trouble." The village chief saw the child's frightened expression, so he happily walked over and said a few words of comfort and left.

The man in the tree is from Elindaha and was once a serf.

Every day, the man would take the lord's cattle to the river to drink enough water, and then take the cattle to the pastures that had been predetermined to find fodder to eat. The cattle were docile, but the lord never allowed the man to ride on them.

The man's father had followed the old lord to the north when he was young, and that was the most beautiful time for men, and the man remembered that his father was wearing strong armor and a long sword hanging from his waist. His last memory of his father was that he had him spinning around his shoulder, and the soldiers passing by around him were smiling merrily.

At that time, the men remembered that the apples in the field were hanging on the branches, the cattle and sheep were walking comfortably on the river beach, and the women wore white turbans on their heads. Women always like to get together and help the lord's family sew clothes while chatting about their husbands, brothers, or fathers. The old lord said that after returning from Beihai, everyone will be richly rewarded, and it is not impossible for those who have made military achievements to be canonized as knights.

However, this was not the case.

One day, the death knell sounded in the town outside of Elindaha, and in the midst of the crying, the death knell spread everywhere.

The sky was overcast, and the apples on the branches were unpicked, and they were knocked down by the rain and slowly rotted in the ground; The untended cattle and sheep watched in horror as the women gathered together in mourning clothes to pray; The pastor of Elindaha told the man that he would learn to be in charge of the house.

The territory, which had lost most of its population, seemed lonely, and it was a man who was still a child who participated in the oath ceremony of the new lord as a lord.

The old lord returned a few years later, bringing back a handful of farmers who brought endless joy to some families and a second wound to others. The man remembers that his aunt found a rope to hang herself on the apple tree when she finally determined that her husband and son would not return, and from that day on, the man stopped eating apples.

The fate of the man was affected by the fall of the territory, and the man was supposed to be apprenticed in the various workshops of the territory, and then sent to the town to learn more advanced skills when he was older, and when he was old enough, the lord would find him a wife.

But now, everything is different.

The new lord is an impulsive young man, and in order to prove his status, this person will often deliberately change the territorial laws set by the old lord--- in fact, those are not laws, but some traditional customs that have been passed down from ancient times to the present. The man's family was also deprived of their land, because the family was no longer able to fulfill the obligation to provide food for the lord. He became a tenant farmer who had lost his freedom. The situation continued to deteriorate, and the man without agricultural skills and manual skills could not prevent his family from becoming poorer and poorer, and he was finally unable to retain even the right to land leases.

Men become outright serfs, and these are things that happen before the man is fourteen years old.

All these experiences have made the man a silent and honest farmer, unable to find a wife, watching the crops on the land, and watching the foaming mouth of the cow regurgitating in a daze.

Time passed slowly, and just when the man thought that he was going to be like this for the rest of his life, a young man in the village named Saglon found him and asked him if he would like to go outside to do some work, pay well, and ensure the harvest in drought and flood.

The man was impressed, so he approached the housekeeper and applied to work outside the town.

The butler looked at Sagron with crooked eyes: "If you can bear it, you can take people out, I'm afraid I will have to rely on you in the future." ”

Saglon lowered his head and smiled, then took out the silver coins from his bosom, carefully counted the three of the most silver and full, and placed them in front of the butler in turn. The butler grinned and put the silver in his bosom, then took a pass from the cabinet and threw it to Sagron.

The man followed Sagron away, but returned a few days later, for when he went out, he found that Sagron had said that business was not a good thing. When the butler found out, he found the man, and after some probing, the butler had a rough idea of what business Sagron was doing. The steward summoned Sagron and threatened to send him to the lord.

"Say," said the butler, "how are you going to shut me up?" ”

Saglon said, "Please go back and think about it, and tell me how to do it when you're done." ”

The housekeeper smiled and left, calculating as he went.

That night, the cow in the steward's house was gone, and there was half a bloody tail in the pen;

The next morning, the housekeeper's wife was gone, and the housekeeper received a small bag of hair;

The next afternoon, the housekeeper watched his little daughter and son play happily in the garden. After staring for a while, the butler broke down, and he came to Sagron's house in a daze.

Sagron still had the same expression, "Have you figured it out?" ”

The butler felt a great humiliation, but he didn't dare to say a word more, "I want to think about it, and I wish you good luck in the future"

After solving the housekeeper's problem, Sagron found the man and asked him why he had left.

The man said, "After my father left, my mother was blind from crying. I can't go until she's gone. ”

Saglon pouted and left the village.

A few years later, the man's mother died, and he approached Sagron for a coffin. Saglon hired one of the best carpenters in town to make a bite for the man, and paid the butler to help the man with a simple funeral.

After the funeral, the man said to Sagron, "Can I still help you?" ”

Saglon hugged the man: "Anytime. ”

It wasn't long before the man got his own outfit: a green hooded blouse, leggings, a willow bow and a dagger.

The man later learned that his leader was a Kujit. In the hearts of men, there is a natural hostility towards aliens, but this Kugit can convince men with fair judgment and iron wrists. The man gradually adapted to this life, until one day, the leader of the Kujits led his men to rob a suno and drive a carriage, and from that day on, everything changed.

Since entering this industry, men are ready to be hunted down and run away at any time.

When the team of green forests pushed to the edge of the cliff, the man was ready to leave. It was at this time that the man heard that in Elindaha, the lord was preparing to sell his people like cattle. This news made the man's heart, which had been numb for a long time, also angry.

Soon everything went haywire: the Kugit were dead, the second leader was captured, Saglon was clueless, and Elindaha was surrounded by soldiers of the search party.

The poor peasants waited anxiously for what would happen, their wives and daughters trembled, and the widows who had been left behind in their early years now began to fear that they would be sold into slavery in poor places.

But at this time, a young nobleman stepped forward and was ready to pay a ransom for the farmer. To the man's shame, this young nobleman was the one he had kidnapped.

When this aristocratic partner was bullied, the man did not stand up; Second, when the family rebelled, the man did not stand up; When the leader of the Kugit was killed, the man did not come forward.

But when the man's brother and father were about to be sold like slaves, the nobleman stepped forward.

With the help of the young nobleman's dinar and a young master of his own, the man successfully broke away from the territory. Sagron took some of the men to the north, but the man could not leave his homeland, and he went to settle in a place not far from Elindaha, and he became an ordinary farmer again, and he was not ready to get involved in the strife of the world again.

But sometimes, people don't have a choice.

The Kujit suddenly crossed the border, the soldiers came and went, the empire regained the grain regions in the north, and someone ascended the throne in Paraven, but it was not the prince who ascended the throne in Paraven.

The man tried his best to hide himself in the field, but the news from the outside world kept reaching his ears.

The peasants said that there were people in the city who were doing things that had never happened before: some said that everyone was the same, that God loved everyone impartially; It is said that with dexterous hands and wise heads, the world can be as fair and beautiful as heaven again; People sighed in a low voice, on the other side of the mountain, there was a young master of the lord's family who had already thrown himself into this vigorous movement.

When he heard the news for the first time, the man's heart was shocked. The poor and oppressed youth and the debauched and sinful youth make the man hate the world, he does not believe that the world will change, he is not a naïve person, and he will not listen to the propaganda of others.

Men, like other farmers, only observe and judge by the things around them. He didn't believe the propaganda of the high-ranking scholars, but he believed the young aristocrat.

The civil war broke out, and the man waited for his chance, he wanted to repay the young nobleman, and he wanted to see if the people called 'pioneers' were doing what they said.

Soon after, rumors began that farmers had become masters of the land on the Dehrim Heights with the help of 'pioneers', who had given their wealth to farmers and artisans and promised them a new world

The man's heart was moved.

He waited for the news of the Eastern Army's attack, the news of the 'fall' of Uxhall, and the news that the people of Frost Castle had crossed the Blue Water River.

Just as the man was about to take the Ilindaha immigrants around him to join the Eastern Army, the Eastern Army was routed on the north bank of the Blue Water River. In the midst of all the mess, the man heard that the nobleman who had helped him in his village was fleeing in panic, and that nobleman might be anywhere in the Suno Plain.

The patrol warned villagers not to help the 'rebels' and encouraged them to report their whereabouts.

That night, when the man heard the sound of horses' hooves in his cabin, he began to wonder if the men were the nobleman who was on the run, the lord on the other side of the mountain.

That night, the lord named Arcadio knocked on several houses in succession: "Can you give us some water?" ”

All the doors were closed, the man did not hear anyone open the door, and no one wanted to help this man wanted by the Empire--- although this man's ideal was to transform the Empire for the people, so that people could live with dignity, and that fairness and justice would shine brighter than the sun.

Soon after, there was a knock at the man's door: "Excuse me, can you let us stay overnight?" ”

The man was silent for a moment, then got up and opened the door. By the dim moonlight, the man saw the bearded nobleman and his ragged men.

The man bowed and greeted: "Of course, my lord." ”

Now, in the tree, the man was beaten all over and his arm hurt. He thought about what had happened that night, but he didn't regret it at all. If given another chance, he would open the door and bring out the best food and water for Arcadio II and his soldiers.

Under the tree, the somewhat bored boy poked the dirt at his feet with a stick and suddenly heard a call from above.

"Help me loosen." The man said weakly.

The boy looked back at the man and said timidly, "Kenlahir, I'll bring you the bucket when the village chief comes, right?" ”

"Oh", "Have you forgotten what the village chief said", "My friends", ""

The boy thought for a moment, then stood up and pushed the barrel over, causing the man to step on it.

The rope tied to the hand became a little looser. The years in the mountains taught the farmer a lot, including breaking free from the rope that bound him back--- of course, it would not be possible to hang himself from a tree, that would not be able to borrow strength.

The man knew very well in his heart that he was going to the north at once, to find Sagron.

Because the lord on the other side of the mountain is dangerous, because the lord on the other side of the mountain needs help.