Chapter 22: The Slave Catchers
Ouyang Yu is now standing at the gate of the city looking for a caravan heading north, and she hopes to find a job or take a ride on the road with her.
After the last experience of making jokes in the office, she did not wear the so-called magic robe or the previous set of leather armor this time, but a simple gray-white muslin dress and a high-waisted small coat, only to the knee skirt below the pair of white and tender calves, plus a pair of brown small leather shoes without any decoration and a simple ponytail, carrying a small leather suitcase, giving people a pure and lovely feeling.
After asking a few caravans in succession, a caravan slowly approached when he thought there was no hope today, Ouyang Yu hurriedly ran over and asked loudly: "Hello, are you going to the northern carager? I want to go to the Federal Republic of Florne, can I take a ride?"
"What's going on?" asked a middle-aged man who looked like a steward poking out of a carriage.
One of the caravan men replied, "It's a little girl going to the Federal Republic of Flon and wants to take our car with us." ”
The steward got out of the carriage and walked in front of Ouyang Yu, his eyes lit up, he looked up and down, and grinned: "We are a caravan to the Kingdom of Hannoqi, although it is not the Federal Republic of Frone, but the border between the two countries, will you go?"
"Go, go, thank you. Although Ouyang Yu felt that the middle-aged man's smile was a little ill-intentioned, he was not afraid and agreed.
Hearing Ouyang Yu's promise to the steward, he smiled and grinned: "But I can't take you in vain, you have to give seven silver coins for the passage, and we won't ask you for these seven silver coins in vain, the caravan will arrange tents and food for you." ”
"Okay, I'll give it now. Ouyang Yu took out seven silver coins from the small bag that straddled his shoulders and handed them to the steward.
"Get in the car. The steward took the silver coin and put it in his pocket and motioned to Ouyang Yu to get on the last carriage, Ouyang Yu climbed behind the carriage with a small suitcase, and the caravan left the city gate and headed north.
There are not many carriages in this caravan, there are only nine in total, no mercenaries or adventurers are hired, there are only more than 20 caravans trained by themselves, and the highest is only a second-level warrior, and the six carriages in the middle of the nine carriages are not the style of transporting goods but like a big box, closed all around, except for a small door, there are two small ventilation windows, and they are covered with black cloth during the day, and they will be taken off at night, and when they camp at night, there are guards who take some black bread and throw it in from the ventilation window.
Beast, or is it some other living thing?, Ouyang Yu guessed when he was bored.
"Mr. Billy, may I ask what are in these carriages?" Ouyang Yu asked the steward curiously when he was camping.
Billy looked at Ouyang Yu and showed a strange smile and said, "These are all the favorite goods of some noble lords. ”
"Oh, that's right. ”
Feeling that Billy's smile was a little ill-intentioned, Ouyang Yu was very smart and ran away without asking again to find an excuse, Billy Yin looked at Ouyang Yu's back deeply and smiled: "Hehe...... You are also a nobleman's favorite goods, such a superb goods will definitely sell for a good price. ”
The caravan went all the way north and nothing happened, after all, it was the hinterland of the United Kingdom of Higra, and the security was still good, occasionally a few small thieves were easily sent away by the guards, and after more than 20 days of long-distance travel, the caravan came to the northwestern city of the Higra Kingdom, and the caravan had to rest here for two days to meet with another caravan of his own family and then set off together, Ouyang Yu could only wander around the city while replenishing a large amount of food.
On the third day, the two caravans converged together and hit the road again, the size of the new caravan was about the same as Ouyang Yu's caravan, but the strength of the guards was much higher, the highest level was actually a fourth-level warrior, and there were seven or eight third-level warriors.
The new caravan steward sat across from Billy in the first carriage and said, "You've had a good harvest this time, haven't you?"
"Generally, it's just some civilians, and there aren't many people with outstanding appearance, Ashford, seeing that you're so happy, have you found a sought-after item? ”
"Hahaha...... The eldest daughter of the Springs family of the Temple of Ancestors, a noble genius of divine arts, do you think it is a sought-after commodity! Hahahaha......!"
Billy was taken aback and quickly asked, "What......? You're too daring, aren't you? You dare to arrest anyone from the temple?"
"Hahaha...... You can rest assured, I didn't take the initiative to look for her, in fact, the daughter of the Springs family sent it to the door herself, and after I caught it, I immediately sent someone to clean up all the clues, there will be no problem, hehe...... What would it be like if that old man in Springs knew that our Dark Council had sold his granddaughter as a slave girl, and then used the gold to buy the material for the uprising. ”
"I think it's going to be wonderful, it's time for him to pay the price for who told that old guy to kill so many brothers in our council. Billy said with a gritted tooth expression.
"Huh, who is this little girl?" Ashford asked, pointing to Ouyang Yu, who flashed past the carriage.
"I also delivered it myself. Billy briefly said Ouyang Yu's matter, "Now this girl still doesn't know what kind of goods we are transporting, so she is stupidly following." ”
"Ha Lu Ha...... Your luck is also good, although this little girl is a little smaller, but she is three points more beautiful than the Springs daughter I caught, and she will be a big beauty in a few years, and some nobles like the most is a little girl of this age, and she will definitely be able to sell for a high price. ”
"Hahaha...... Lend you good words!"
The caravan continued to walk for a few more days to Manan, the largest trading city in Higra, but instead of entering the city, the caravan went directly to a hidden manor on the outskirts.
After the caravan came to the manor and stopped, Ouyang Yu, who had been sleeping in the carriage, woke up sleepy-eyed, and found that the situation was a little wrong, she found Billy and said, "Uncle, where is this?
Billy smiled and said, "Miss Widnina, I remember you didn't ask what was in the car? Now that it's going to be unloaded, you can see what the cargo is on the side." ”
The small doors of more than a dozen carriages were opened, and women who were in a state of mind and malnourished were sent out of the doors, and there were nearly two hundred people in a rough count, standing in a row in fear under the scolding of the guards, because they had been eating, drinking, and sleeping in the small carriage for a long time, and their bodies had a strong smell, and their hair was dry and clumpy and sticky together.
Although he had long felt that this group of people was a little asked, now that he saw this scene, Ouyang Yu realized that they were slave traders.
There are generally three sources of slaves on the mainland, the first is bankrupt civilians, which is not much, the second is the prisoner of war from the enemy country, which is also the most numerous, and the third is captured by the slave hunting team, and this kind of slave is mostly female.
On the surface, slave trappers were illegal and rejected by the whole continent, but there were often aristocrats who privately organized slave trappers for their own interests, haunting places where wars or riots were frequent, posing as bandits or rebels to loot young and beautiful women to sell.
The women in front of Ouyang Yu did not have the numb look of a normal slave, nor did they have the mark of a slave on their foreheads, they were obviously just caught, not bought through legal procedures.
"...... you guys are in trouble, and you actually threw yourself into the net and caught up with the convoy of slave catchers. Ouyang Yu patted his head in annoyance.
"Hehe, you're not as stupid as you are, you can see what I'm doing at a glance, you two watch her, don't let her run around. Billy called two guards to stand behind Ouyang Yu, and turned around to leave to arrange for the women.
The two hundred women were ordered to take off their clothes, and at first the women were unwilling, but Billy waved his hand, and the wolf-like guards rushed into the women and reached out to tear them directly, and at the same time took advantage of them with their hands, and the women who were touched screamed.
After stripping a dozen women of their clothes, Billy asked the guards to come back and shouted, "If you still don't want to take it off, I'll continue to ask them to take it off for you!"
In desperation, the women had no choice but to strip off their clothes, holding their hands in shameful places, looking at these bastards uneasily, wondering what else they wanted to do.
"There's a big bathhouse over there, you all go there and wash me, new clothes will be given to you after you've been washed, and you'll be given a place to eat and sleep after you've bathed, and from tomorrow you'll learn how to be a good slave girl, and don't think about running away! Whoever dares to run away will be killed! Not only will those who run away die, but all those in the same room with her will die! You remember! Take them down and burn them all. ”
The women didn't dare to resist, and walked honestly towards the bathhouse under the leadership of several guards, Billy walked back to Ouyang Yu's side, and at the same time, Ashford also walked over with a silver-haired girl wearing a white robe with gold ornaments.
This girl is about seventeen or eighteen years old, with beautiful facial features, cuteness, and a slender figure, but she is plump where it should be, unlike Ouyang Yu, who only has two poached eggs on her chest, and there is no meat on her buttocks, and she carries a pair of dusty bracelets in her hands, and follows behind Ashford dejectedly.
"Billy, she'll leave it to you, I'll arrange the auction now, this time there are two such good goods, those nobles will definitely like it." ”
"Good. Billy nodded in response, turned to Ouyang Yu and the silver-haired girl and said, "You come with me." ”
Billy took Ouyang Yu and the silver-haired girl to a room on the second floor of the main building of the manor and said: "You two will live here during this time, tomorrow I will arrange someone for you to learn how to please men, don't think about running away like other women, especially you Miss Springs, although you are an important commodity and will not kill you, but we have many means to make you life worse than death, you don't think about yourself, think about the little girl next to you, and say goodbye." Billy left the room, leaving two guards outside the room to guard him.
Ouyang Yu made a grimace at the closed door, she was not in a hurry to leave now, she wanted to release the ghost at night, and kill all these people after finding out the situation of this manor, and then rescue those women, although Ouyang Yu claimed to be not a good person, but he would not see such a thing.