CHAPTER XVI

A few people were talking and laughing while eating, and Aunt Cai told Lao Yang about their situation again, and Lao Yang also warmly invited the two little guys to stay for two more days, and the two were naturally very happy to hear it.

When it was time to sleep at night, Tao'er insisted on going to live with Lin Jiu in the firewood room and lay on the floor, Aunt Cai was unwilling, and finally Tao'er couldn't twist Aunt Cai and had to sleep with her on the bed in the house, Lao Yang and Lin Jiu went to the floor together, not long after falling asleep, they heard the sound of Xiaobai picking the door, Lao Yang was about to get up and open the door, Lin Jiu rushed up and said, "Uncle Yang, you are lying down, I'll go and see, it is estimated that it is a wild mouse." ”

Lin Jiu walked to the door and opened the door, giving Xiao Bai a look, Xiao Bai turned around and ran out, it came at night for several days in a row, and walked during the day, and there was no accident, so Lin Jiu gave it a look, it knew that there was no danger and went out of the city again.

In the second half of the night, Lao Yang beside Lin Jiu woke up, he saw Lin Jiu sleeping Zhengxiang and walked out with his hands and feet, carefully closed the door, and saw that Aunt Cai was standing in the yard, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold her in her arms, and was about to get up and down her hands, when Aunt Cai slapped her hand "presumptuous"

"Thief woman, you can do this hunting skill, I just sold those three rabbit cubs, you can bring back two more, Lao Yang admires" Lao Yang said in a low voice.

"Damn, if you don't come back, these two boys will have to eat and clothe the old lady, where is the silver?"

Lao Yang smiled and took out the small silver bag in his arms and gave it to Aunt Cai, Aunt Cai frowned with her hand and said, "Bah, damn the Huang family is getting more and more picky, this time these two must be sold to the Ding family." Aunt Cai stuffed the money bag into her arms and said, "I've already tied the one in the back room, you don't think it's easy to get it, use incense." ”

"Pull it down, my old Yang is one to top him three. So saying, he walked to the firewood room.

Aunt Cai grabbed Lao Yang and slapped Lao Yang on the head, "You can't make a scene, don't you know?"

Lao Yang smiled and nodded, took out a blowpipe from his arms and walked gently to the door of the firewood room, blowing a pipe of incense inside, and then the two waited outside the room for a while, pushed the door into the house and saw Lin Jiu lying motionless on the bed, Lao Yang stepped forward and slapped Lin Jiu twice to see that Lin Jiu did not move at all.

Aunt Cai gave Lao Yang a kick behind her and scolded, "You fucking slow down, it's worthless if it's broken." ”

"I think you feel sorry for this little white face."

"I'll fuck you uncle"

Lao Yang smiled and didn't speak, bent over and found a hemp rope to tie Lin Jiu with five flowers, Aunt Cai turned around and went out, and after a while the tied peach resisted, Tao'er's mouth was stuffed with something, and she couldn't make a sound, but she kept looking at the two people in front of her in horror, Lao Yang looked at the pitiful appearance of Tao'er lying next to Lin Jiu, and couldn't help but reach out to touch her face, Aunt Cai pulled Lao Yang back and whispered" surnamed Yang, this little girl has not broken her body yet, she can sell it for a good price, if you dare to beat her idea, the old lady will make you unable to touch a woman for the rest of your life. ”

When Lao Yang heard this, he was frightened, and quickly covered his crotch and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." "He knows how ruthless this woman is.

Then Aunt Cai twisted her waist and said with Lao Yang in a charming way: "Thief, I haven't seen my wife for a few days, and I really miss you." ”

As soon as Lao Yang saw this situation, he put the woman on her shoulders and walked towards the bed in the inner room, it was another sleepless night.

The next morning, before dawn, Lao Yang got up early, tossed to midnight last night, was bullied by this mother-in-law on weekdays, last night in bed was a ruthless repair, Lao Yang came to the yard to push out the flatbed truck pulled back yesterday, and went to the house to take two large wooden boxes and put them on the board car, at this time Aunt Cai also got up and came to the courtyard to watch Lao Yang clean up, "I'll go with you today, the relationship between the Ding family is not good, you will suffer when you arrive"

"Okay, you go with me" Lao Yang said and walked into the firewood room, first put Tao'er out and put it in one of the boxes, and then went in to bring Lin Jiu out, at this time Lin Jiu had already woken up, and kept struggling, his mouth was stuffed with something, and he could only make a whining sound.

"Yo, the young man's body is okay, my unique fragrance is a strong man, and I can't wake up in two days, you woke up this night, it seems that your physique is okay, and you may be able to sell it for a good price" Aunt Cai stepped forward and gently patted Lin Jiu's face with her hand, as if she was patting a beast who was about to be betrayed. Lao Yang smiled and threw Lin Jiu into another box.

Tao'er was already crying in fright when she was in the box, she couldn't speak, her tears kept flowing, she looked at Lin Jiu and then at Aunt Cai, she couldn't understand why Aunt Cai, who was as kind as a mother two days ago, treated them like this.

"Boy, before you die, I also told you to die to understand, so as not to be a fool, every time the Huang Ding family in Fengtai City delivers goods to the eastern border of the Yuntian Continent, they will secretly bring some human slaves, and the women will be sold to the kiln as prostitutes, and a little white face like you will be sent to those sects as medicine jars, if the bones are good, they are more valuable, don't you want to cross the border? After speaking, he didn't care about Lin Jiu, who was angry, and with a wave of his hand, Lao Yang hurriedly closed the lid of the big wooden box, and the two pushed the car towards Ding's house in the north of the city.

There were almost no pedestrians on the streets of the city, and the two of them just walked to the door of Ding's house in the north of the city.

"Go to the back door" Aunt Cai led the way in front, Lao Yang pushed the car and followed behind, turned two streets to the back door of Ding's house, and Aunt Cai stepped forward to knock on the door. After a while, the door opened, and a young man stretched out half of his body, looked at Aunt Cai, who was laughing, and saw a man behind him pushing two large boxes on top of the car, so he yawned and asked impatiently, "What are you giving away?"

"Send two little hares to Master Ding"

"What kind of hare, it has to be packed in a box, how big is this?"

Aunt Cai lowered her head and smiled, this little guy pretended to be quite similar, and asked knowingly, but Aunt Cai didn't dare to offend, after all, it was a big force in the city, so she had to whisper, "One male, one female, and two little rabbits, they are all good goods." ”

The little guy glanced at her and said, "Nonsense, if the goods are not good, you dare to send them to our Ding Mansion?" We are not like the one surnamed Huang, who collects rags, and I will inspect the goods at the door of the firewood room. ”

Aunt Cai waved her hand and hurriedly asked Lao Yang to move it to the yard, Lao Yang put the two boxes at the door of the firewood room that the little guy said, and opened the lid, and the young guy stepped forward and said, "This girl can still have a little bit of beauty, and she can sell it for a price if she dresses up a little, I don't know if it's still complete?"

"Yes, yes, little brother can ask an aunt to test it now. Aunt Cai hurriedly whispered

"That's not necessary, although it's the first time to receive your goods, but everyone in Fengtai City who does this knows the credit of the two of you."

"Thank you for the compliment"

The little guy waved his hand and interrupted what Lao Yang wanted to say, "This man is not very good, he doesn't look at it much, you don't have many catties and taels if you don't pull a few pounds, you pull this back, don't." ”

"Don't, little brother, this kid may not look very good, but after being stunned by the special three-step inversion in the middle of the night last night, he woke up early this morning, this body is okay!" Aunt Cai said anxiously

"Oh, yes, don't lie to me, or you know the consequences?"

"Don't dare to lie to you, don't dare"

"You guys wait here" The little guy finished speaking and walked towards the front yard, and the two waited for about a meal before they saw the little guy leading a middle-aged man back.

Aunt Cai just wanted to step forward to say hello, the middle-aged man didn't look at her, and walked straight to the box containing Lin Jiu to take a look, the middle-aged man didn't see any difference in Lin Jiu's appearance, reached out and pinched a few places on Lin Jiu's body, nodded, turned his head and said to the little guy, "The root bone is good, it's a piece of material for practicing internal skills, take it" After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the front yard.

Aunt Cai smiled happily when she heard it, and after the middle-aged man left, she said, "You can go, you go to the account room with me to get the money" and stretched out her hand to point at Aunt Cai. Lao Yang hurriedly closed the lid of the wooden box and walked out of the back door, while Aunt Cai followed the little maid to the account room to collect the money.

Lin Jiu and Tao'er were locked in the box for a whole day without anyone taking care of them, and no one sent food, until after dark at night, the little guy who opened the back door in the morning led two people to open the box again, and the two of them were already hungry and didn't move, the little guy stepped forward and took out the rags that the two of them stuffed in their mouths, and the two couldn't keep their mouths together for a long time, how could they have been abused like this at a young age.

"Wait a minute, I will let these two people take you to the wing room in the front yard, it is full of people and goods like you, I am polite to you now, I hope you will dispel the idea of running away and do not resist fearlessly, as long as you stay honestly, I can even not tie you up, but if I give you a face and you don't carry it, the consequences can be imagined!" After speaking, he gave the two subordinates a look.

The two bent over and walked towards the front yard, and when they arrived at the front yard, there were two wings in a remote courtyard, and there were two people standing at the door of each room, and the doors were locked from the outside, and the little guy asked the subordinates to separate the two of them, and one person was sent into a room, Lin Jiu was loosened after entering the house, but after all, it had been tied for a day, his hands and feet had long been numb, and he couldn't get up after lying on the ground for a long time, Lin Jiu looked up at the environment in the house with great effort, there was nothing empty, but there were four bunks on the ground, and there were three people sitting on it, it seemed that the empty one was left for him, but he didn't know what the situation was on Tao'er's side, Lin Jiu slowed down for a while, kneading his arms and legs and standing up, at this time the door opened again, and a subordinate walked in, put a food box on the ground, stretched out his hand and pointed at Lin Jiu, "This is your meal, hurry up and eat, put the box at the door after eating, someone will come to pick it up later" After speaking, he turned around and went out

Lin Jiu was hungry for a day, and when he heard it, he quickly opened the food box, and found that there was only one steamed bun in it, and a bowl of soup like white water, with a few vegetable leaves floating on it, Lin Jiuyi frowned or picked it up and ate it slowly, now it is the most important thing to save physical strength, and after eating, go to lie on the floor that belongs to him, the three people looked at Lin Jiu, looked at each other again, and did not speak, so they all lay down to sleep, in the second half of the night, Lin Jiu vaguely heard a sound around him, as if a tongue was licking his face, so he opened his eyes, and saw that it was Xiaobai, Lin Jiu sat up happily, took Xiaobai into his arms, and whispered"How did you get in?"

Xiaobai looked up at the roof, it turned out to be directly above the beam, it opened a hole in the tile and jumped down like this, Lin Jiu nodded and said, "Tao'er is next door, you go first to see if she is okay, you can't speak, just go into the house to see if there is danger, don't let her know that you are coming" Xiao Bai nodded, and suddenly jumped up to the beam, and after a while, Xiao Bai came down from the beam again, and at this time, several people in the room woke up, looking at Lin Jiu and this sudden white-haired beast, Lin Jiu didn't mind that they would tell the truth, because they had a simple chat before going to bed, and Lin Jiu knew that they didn't want to stay here.

Lin Jiu took Xiaobai into his arms and said, "I knew you would find me, you are so powerful"

Xiao Bai rubbed his head against Lin Jiu's chest

"You have been secretly protecting Tao'er near that house during this time, and as soon as you find out that someone is bullying her, you will directly kill him. Lin Jiu made a gesture with his hand.

Xiaobai looked at him and nodded, and looked at him with puzzled eyes.

"You're worried about me, it's okay, I don't think they're trying to kill me, as long as I don't run away, they probably won't be too difficult for me, besides, I'm not going to leave, in the words of the poisonous woman, this happens to be a free caravan, I'm going to follow them through the wasteland, but the free things are not good. ”

Xiaobai nodded as if he didn't understand.

"You wait to go out of the house before Tao'er, go and kill the two thieves, damn, Lao Tzu has not experienced such a bird gas since he came out of the mountain, grandpa often said that the world is sinister, not as simple as the people in the small mountain village, it seems that you will have a snack in the future, and you can't trust anyone too easily." ”

Xiao Bai didn't say anything this time, so Lin Jiu asked it again

"You must have taken a turn in this mansion, let me ask you if there are any masters here who are more powerful than you?"

Xiaobai tilted his head and thought about it, and shook his head.

"Okay, I see, you go ahead, be careful outside. ”

Xiao Bai glanced at him with a very contemptuous gaze, turned his head and jumped out of the roof, and gave Lin Jiu a smile, "Okay, you white-haired beast dare to laugh at me"

Xiao Bai jumped to the courtyard of Aunt Cai, and saw Zheng Xiang who was sleeping on the bed in the back room from the crack in the door, Xiao Bai directly hit a hole in the door and flashed in, and there was only a sound from Lao Yang's "who" in the house. Xiao Bai walked out of the doorway leisurely, and there was still a drop of blood hanging on the exposed fangs at the corner of his mouth.

After that, Xiaobai has been guarding Dingfu for about a month, although Lin Jiu and Tao'er have been locked up, but there has been no danger, on this day, the little guy who guarded the backyard came to this side courtyard and brought a carriage,

"Let all the people in the house come out, and the women get into the car, and the men tie their hands and put them in a string. The three women who came out of Tao'er's house were about the same age as Tao'er, and they were still slightly beautiful, the three of them were driven into the carriage of the carriage, and then the door was locked, and the carriage was not big, and the three people were still a little crowded, Lin Jiu They were tied and connected with ropes to follow the side of the carriage, the little guy turned his head and walked towards the backyard, and the carriage pulled the horse to follow, and the four people who watched the door followed behind the car, and they didn't talk nonsense.

When he came out of the back door, there was already a long queue on the street, dozens of carriages before and after, more than 300 people, some got up the horse, there were servants and maids standing next to the car, a strong man in the lead was in a black tights and a cloak, holding a long knife in his hand, he turned his head to look at the group behind him, and he didn't speak, he waved his hand to lead the way, and there were no idlers on the street who stopped and watched, and the group went out of the city from the east gate of the city.

There were a few outsiders drinking tea at the tea stall at the city gate, and they didn't understand what it was for, so they asked Cha Xiaoer, "Why are these people going?"

Xiao Er said enthusiastically, "What else can you do, caravan, it's time for the Ding family this year, this is the largest family in the city, people only go once in two years, every time it's such a big battle, but it's never publicized, unlike the other one, who hasn't gone out yet, and it's beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers." ”

The shopkeeper slapped Xiao Er's head from behind, "Don't die, if the Huang family hears that I can't do this tea stall?"

After that, Lin Jiu followed the Ding family caravan into the wasteland, walking for several months without seeing people, the Ding and Huang families in this wasteland are only once in two years, one in the first year and one in the second year, because the groundwater in this wasteland is not drinkable, and there are only a few places where there can be a lot of rainwater hoarding and small lakes on the ground, so I am afraid that these resources will be consumed too quickly, and some people who are not in a hurry and some small caravans enter without permission, nine times out of ten they can't get out, although the grass and trees in this wasteland do not grow high, but they grow quickly, and the new grass will soon grow after the convoy passes, and it will cover the road when it comes from a short time。

And the Ding and Huang families have maps and leave secret marks in their hands, every time the Ding family enters the wasteland, the Huang family will send a large number of family members, and they will patrol several main entrances on the edge of the wasteland, and any caravan of any size can not enter, and when the traces of the Ding family's caravan are covered by new grass, they will withdraw the patrol, on the contrary, the year when the Huang family entered, the Ding family also patrolled, so that they could firmly grasp this money-making line in the hands of the two of them.

Just like that, after almost two years of cold and summer, the caravan of the Ding family finally came to the eastern edge of the Yuntian Continent, after leaving the wasteland and entering the eastern border, people who come here for the first time will feel that this place is so clean, especially in the wasteland, there are exactly the same scenery everywhere, which is annoying, and the sky is dusk, and the wasteland and the eastern border are like a line of separation, and when they enter the eastern border, it seems that the sky is also high and transparent, at this time everyone stopped and took a deep breath, as if there was a trace of sweetness in the air, Lin Jiu took a deep breath and felt comfortable all over his body。

The captain of the Ding family, who took the lead, ordered him to rest in place for a day, and the next day he entered Baisha City on the border, Lin Jiu and several of his slaves were tied up again, and they were not afraid of running away in the depths of the wilderness, and now they came out and were tied up again, Lin Jiu had secretly agreed with Xiaobai a few nights ago, as long as he went out of the wasteland, he would come to save Tao'er and him that night, he was not going to follow into the city, for fear that he would be sold as soon as he entered the city, who knows if there is a more powerful master than Xiaobai in the city.

Late that night, Xiaobai quietly sneaked into the camp of the convoy and found Lin Jiu, this time the cage of several of their slaves was just at the edge of the camp, just so that Lin Jiu could escape, next to the cage was the locked carriage, there were two family members watching here, and they were negligent after a long time, and there were fewer people sent to them, and the two family members were snoring and sleeping late at night, Lin Jiu asked Xiao Bai to bite open the ropes they were tied to, and also bite the lock on the cage.

Lin Jiu said, "If you want to run for your lives, go your own way."

But the slaves looked at each other, they all lowered their heads and did not move, Lin Jiu said hatefully, "Something that is not angry" Then he pointed to the two housekeepers outside with his hand, Xiaobai's body flashed twice, and the two housekeepers stopped snoring, Lin Jiu and Xiaobai walked to the locked carriage, Xiaobai bit the lock open, Lin Jiu opened the door and smelled a foul smell, the three girls usually use the toilet in this compartment, the smell must not be good, Tao'er has not slept yet, but she is listless, she was startled by Lin Jiu who opened the door, and was about to shout, but Lin Jiu took a quick step and held her mouth, but the two girls were also awakened.

The other two girls, who had just woken up, shouted in fright.

Lin Jiu frowned and said, "Damn, you know shouting, shouting, shouting, shouting, shout

Lin Jiu and Tao'er just ran out of the camp, there were people with torches and scolding to see what was going on, and found that someone killed the family and ran out, the captain who led the team and more than a dozen family members with long knives all rode out on horseback, because it was late at night and they were not sure the direction of Lin Jiu's escape, they separated the three people to chase in three directions, Lin Jiu chased four family members here, he and Tao Er ran south out of the camp, and after a while, the four family members chased up, one of them was just about to go back to report the news when Xiao Bai came out of the back of the heart and fell under the horse, Xiao Bai turned around on the back of the horse and ran towards the three family members who were about to get off the horse, jumped on the head of the housekeeper and had another paw on the top of the head, and after jumping on the back of the horse next to him, the four housekeepers fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, Lin Jiuyi quickly turned over one of the horses, reached out and pulled Tao'er on the horse's back, and ran towards the south with a bang.

By the time the two families found the bodies of the four people, Lin Jiu and Tao'er had already run away for a long time, and the captain looked at the corpses on the ground and said, "Bury them on the spot, no one can mention the matter of running away from the slaves today, otherwise don't blame me for being polite."

"Got it, Captain Ding" The family members hurriedly responded.

When it came to the dawn, Lin Jiu and Tao'er ran out for a long distance, and when they saw that there was no home behind them, they knew that they were safe for the time being, Lin Jiu asked the horse to slow down, and the two of them were tired after running for half the night, Lin Jiu turned the horse's head and got down from the road, walked to the forest on the side of the road, found a fast and clean place, tied the horse to the tree and let the horse rest to eat the grass on the ground, Lin Jiu lay down on the ground and breathed fresh air, indescribably free.

Tao'er sat next to her and looked at Xiaobai who was running slowly, and stretched out her hand and said, "Xiaobai is here with me"

Xiaobai took two steps and stretched out his head to smell it, then turned around and ran to Lin Jiu's side, Lin Jiu laughed when he saw it, "Peach, Xiaobai thinks you stink." ”

Tao'er angrily grabbed a handful of grass and threw it at Xiaobai, "Stinky Xiaobai, if you don't come to save me earlier, let me nest in that stinky carriage every day, the stinky housekeeper in charge won't let us talk more, otherwise we won't be given food, I'll be angry."

Lin Jiu smiled and said, "Don't you have to use the toilet in the carriage too?"

Tao'er blushed and ran over and beat Lin Jiu, "It's all your fault, you didn't let Xiaobai rescue us earlier." ”

"Alright, alright, wait until you find a stream or a stream along the road, let you wash it. ”

"Then why don't we leave yet?"

"The horse must be tired after running for half the night, and I'm sleepy, so I'll look at the map and see how we go." ”

"Oh, okay, then I'll get some sleep first"

Lin Jiu took off his coat and spread it on the ground for Tao'er, letting Tao'er sleep for a while.

At noon, Lin Jiu woke up first, the two of them were in a hurry to flee without bringing dry food, Xiaobai went out to hunt a pheasant and came back, but he didn't bring anything to make a fire, so he could only watch Xiaobai eat by himself, and Tao'er was also woken up from hunger, and saw Lin Jiu looking at the map in his hand.

Tao'er asked, "Brother Jiu, how did you bring this map with you?"

Lin Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Secret"

"Hmph, don't say pull to"