In the early morning of the next day, Xiong Huobao was woken up by the movement of the innkeeper feeding the horses.

"Damn, it's not as good as a horse."

Looking at the way the guys carefully served these horses, Xiong Huobao felt sad from his heart. If you think about it carefully, a slave really can't be compared to a horse in these days, and the horse will probably not be happy when he knows it.

Renyazi doesn't seem to be in a hurry today, and there is no sign of leaving the stone hill after the morning meal (07:00-08:59).

In the stable, Xiong Huobao carefully observed the guards outside, guessing who they might be waiting for.

As for the rest, with the exception of a few who were immersed in grief and confusion, most had come to terms with their fate as slaves. This makes Xiong Huobao feel that people are always so submissive, is this another kind of "survival of the fittest"?

"Where do you think they're going to sell us?"

"Who knows, anyway, they are all subordinates, and it's not the same wherever they go?"

"Don't let me go to the army to die, I heard that the north side of Daba Mountain was fought badly, and the Ba people were about to be killed."

"Lives are in the hands of others, and when the time comes, it will be our turn to say where we want to go!"

Someone laughed, and the man then lowered his voice: "You really just accept your fate? ”

The people nearby looked at each other and did not make a sound.

"There is still a day's way out of Wuling Mountain from Shigang, and when I get to the town outside, I really have nowhere to run."

These words tugged at everyone's heartstrings, but no one spoke up for a while, and they were really scared. Those who escaped before, after being captured, were broken by them, their hands and feet were broken, the bones and slags pierced the flesh, and the blood was thrown in the forest, and before the others could go far, they could hear the sound of being pecked and bitten by birds and beasts. And those who were next to him were given a beating, and they were denied food or water for the rest of the day.

No one wants to be a slave, but there is no more temptation to live than to die a miserable death.

Silence returned, and only a few people exchanged ears to discuss something.

"All the little cubs come out of Lao Tzu!"

Several people came to the outside of the stable with scimitars, "Those over five years old and under fifteen years old should come out and slip on the ground." ”

"Do you want Mao Tuo to do it?" Everyone with children looked nervous.

"The fuck is all the goods in Lao Tzu's hands, what do you care about me!"

Soon all the eligible children were standing outside the stable, and Xiong Huobao and Ah Luan also looked at these traffickers nervously, not knowing what would await them.

A total of twenty-three children were brought to the front yard, and Xiong Huobao saw the leader of the group, a bearded man wrapped in a turban.

"Big brother, it's all here."

The bearded man looked at the children and frowned, "Go wash them and wipe their faces." ”

Xiong Huobao secretly looked at the people in the yard while washing his face. The bearded man looked at Tianyi for a while, and then looked outside the courtyard, he should be waiting for someone. Could it be that a buyer has come to the door? But how could the buyer come to the barren mountains and mountains of Shigang?

Xiong Huobao had heard them say that they were going to be taken to Tongluo Town outside Wuling Mountain to be sold, and it was said that good-looking boys and girls would be dragged farther to Baishi City, where they could be sold for a better price.

Xiong Huobao had just wiped his sister's exposed face and hands clean when he saw two people walking in at the door of the inn. One old and one young, the old one looked at least sixty, with steady steps but holding a big cane, and a white bracelet on his wrist; The small ones are at most sixteen or seventeen, with small heads, dark skin, thin, and when you get closer, they are black and red, and they look very leathery.

The vicious bearded man looked a little humble at this moment, bent down and stepped forward, and said to the old man: "My lord, this is all my children of the right age, do you see if you can see it?" ”

The old man nodded, and walked directly to the group of children. Every time the old man saw one, he had to touch each other's head and back with his hands, some had to pinch his shoulders and pinched his hands, and some children didn't know whether they were scared or pinched, and several of them cried, and some even sat on the ground and cried.

Hearing the cry, Ah Luan nervously grabbed his brother's hand, Xiong Huobao pinched Ah Luan's little hand, and comforted softly: "Don't be afraid." ”

Xiong Huobao felt that the old man's eyes were very kind, as if he was an old man next door. But the hand that grabbed his Tianling Gai and the back of his head was as hard as a stone, especially when this hand was on his shoulder, as if he was about to unload his arm, and in his memory, it didn't hurt so much in the orthopedic massage in the serious Chinese medicine hall.

Xiong Huobao grinned for a while, and when the old man's hand left his body, he felt that half of his body was numb, especially the place where he had been pinched was still a little hot!

"I want all three."

When all the children had been seen, the old man reached out and clicked a few times, among which was Xiong Huobao, but there was no sister Ah Luan.

Just when the old man threw a small cloth bag to the bearded man, and the two of them were about to take the rest of the children back, Xiong Huobao was anxious.

"Wait... Wait a minute! ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on the half-grown boy, and even the few children who were still crying stopped to look at him.

Seeing that the bearded man was not good-looking, Xiong Huobao hurriedly grabbed Ah Luan and said, "She is my sister, grandpa, can you buy her together, buy one and get one free." ”

Buy One Get One Free?!

The old man was stunned, the bearded man was stunned, and everyone was confused.

The old man was the first to come to his senses, looking playfully at the bearded man, as if waiting for his reply.

The bearded man's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he walked over and looked at Xiong Huobao with a fierce look: "When will you be the master of Lao Tzu?" ”

"Buy one, get one free? Have you asked Lao Tzu? ”

Ah Luan hid behind her brother in fear, clutching her brother's clothes.

Xiong Huobao was extremely embarrassed and really scared. I even forgot that I am now someone else's goods, and I am a slave without freedom.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Xiong Huobao could only keep bowing and apologizing, but fortunately the bearded man didn't do anything to him, maybe because he had already sold him to the old man.

"Bring the others back!"

As soon as the bearded man waved his hand, a person came over and was about to pull Ah Luan's arm.

"Wait, old man, buy my sister, please!"

Xiong Huobao hugged Ah Luan tightly and ran to the old man, looking at the old man's deep eyes, pleading.

"Grandpa, how much money did you spend, I will pay you back double as a part-time job in the future, no, ten times more to you, I will be very diligent, my sister is very well-behaved, she is still young, I want to take care of her, please, buy my sister!"

Ah Luan is his only relative, he has lost everything, and he doesn't want to lose this sister again.

Now that he has inherited this body, he has inherited everything in this body, and all of Ah Xiong's experiences are imprinted in his mind, which is no different from his own experience, and from then on Ah Xiong is him, and he is Ah Xiong.

The old man took a closer look at Ah Luan, and nodded in agreement.

"Remember what you said today."

Then the old man was left alone with the bearded man for a while, and then left the inn with his four children. When Xiong Huobao left, he also heard the parents of the children who had been taken away in the stable, but unfortunately to no avail.

On the way, Xiong Huobao thought about the fate that he and his sister might face in the future.

Generally speaking, those who are willing to buy children are large families with good conditions, and only these people have the extra financial resources to support people who cannot work. For slave owners, slaves raised from childhood were more loyal and malleable.

This old man bought several children at one time, and he should have a good family. Xiong Huobao fantasized about whether there was a chance for Ah Luan to read and write. The knowledge of the slave society was almost completely monopolized by the aristocratic class, and most of the ordinary people were illiterate who could not read a few words.

Xiong Huobao was a little eager to understand the cultural knowledge of this world, Ah Xiong's original memories were limited to Huangshi Village and the mountains near the village, and there were some strange contents that he didn't know much about, all of which seemed to him to be too strange and even unbelievable, and he hoped to know this strange world as soon as possible.

Xiong Huobao didn't know where they were going, and seemed to have been circling in the mountains and forests. The roars of beasts and birds in my ears became more and more frequent, and it was clear from the sound that they were becoming more and more difficult to mess with. Along the way, Xiong Huobao saw a wild boar the size of a jeep staring at them, and then being caught by an even bigger bird; They had also seen long worms thicker than a human follow them until the old man kicked a boulder into a cloud of rubble and struck it before scaring it away.

On the way, they passed several stockades, and the old man stopped at each place to look at the young slaves, all of whom had been defeated and captured in tribal conflicts, and then picked and chose each stockade and took one or two with him, and even in two of them, none of the dozens of children in the stockade had bought. Xiong Huobao couldn't see the standard that the old man bought, he was tall, short, fat and thin.

"Where is this old man going to take them, so that he won't buy them and feed them to the beasts?" Xiong Huobao thought wildly.

In this way, it was not until noon on the third day that Xiong Huobao saw the destination of this trip, and the number of children about his age around him reached fifteen.

This is a deep valley, the central stream flows, dozens of acres of terraced fields are layered, through the lush trees, you can vaguely see more than a dozen thatched houses on the mountain.

In the valley, Xiong Huobao met a dozen children about their age, and a new old man dressed like an old man and carrying a bamboo cane.

After coming to the valley, Xiong Huobao began to be afraid.

I thought I was just bought to be a house slave, and on the way he comforted himself that it was a big deal to be a lifelong worker, except for the poor treatment, a lower status, no holidays, and it is likely that there will be no wife in this life, in fact, there is nothing, the mentality is very important!

But when I saw this valley, I couldn't hold back my newly adjusted mentality.

A small den hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, which looks like it should be self-sufficient, with little dolls in their thirties and about ten years old, and a master like the old man, this is definitely not a simple pyramid scheme!

You must know that there are a lot of beasts and birds of prey they encountered along the way for three days, after all, more than a dozen dolls in the deep mountains and old forests are too eye-catching, can these beasts not be greedy! But whether it was a long and wet python, or a big bird with knotted muscles, or other hideous jackals, tigers and leopards, they were easily frightened by the old man.

There is also the inch-headed young man who was silent all the time next to the old man, who has been expressionless and does not say, every night he can actually hunt prey alone in this dense forest, either a wild boar with fangs turned out or a huge wild deer, the key is that he didn't see him with tools at all!

If you don't realize that this combination is not very human, Xiong Huobao will be listed in a key high school in vain.

Now that they've got these kids, these two old men are definitely going to do something!

Secret training? In vivo experiments?

I heard from the captives in my companion that there was a war going on in the north, what will be the fate of these flowers and bones in the future?

Killer? Spy? It's not going to hold back the rebellion, is it?

Xiong Huobao began to brainstorm, because of nervousness and fear, a lot of sweat oozed from his forehead, which was very different in this autumn valley.

"You're hot?"

The old man's deep voice woke him up from his ramblings.