Chapter 34: The Singing Brook
Ujida, the daughter of Paikon Gala Toast, was on her way back to her father's domain, and her operation this time was a serious failure, not to mention that no one was caught, and all of her men were seriously injured, but she did not think of this at all in her little head, "There can be such a powerful person in the world, High Priest...... Can it be her opponent?"
Her mood was very conflicted, she originally felt that there was no one more powerful than the high priest in the world, even her toast father could not be compared with it, in the Yiren toast, her father was also a very powerful person- Not everyone can arrest and sell slave traders without punishment, in the territory of Yiren, even a hawker who sells daily necessities is under the joint protection of several Tusi households, and whoever catches them and sells them is the enemy of the Tusi of Lianbao, and the slave traders engaged in human trafficking are a great source of wealth for the Yiren people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are guests. But when the Paigang-Gala Toast family wanted to arrest someone and sell it, they didn't care about the toast joint guarantee, and the guarantors of the caught hawkers could only reluctantly return part of the guarantee money to the vendors' families, telling them to try to ransom people from the buyers, and never dared to question Paigang-Gala Toast.www.biquge.info
The fact that the Paigang-Gala Toast family can be so domineering is inseparable from the strength of their family, they have the most warriors and priests in the surrounding Yiren Tusi, and the five Yiren Tusi nearby don't add up to as many warriors and priests as their family! However, the High Priest was above all the Tusi, he was the one who was especially respected by the Guru God, and he was the master of all the priests, and when he gave the order to attack the land of the Yiren, Paegon-Gala Toast did not hesitate to send his youngest daughter and the strongest warrior as the vanguard of the path!
When she set out, Ujida believed that she would be able to do everything the High Priest commanded with ease, although she was young, she was the most talented of the priests of the Paikand-Gala Toast family, and the others needed to dance all night to enter the spiritual state, she only needed a simple blood sacrifice to enter, she was the only girl in the Gala Toast family who could activate the Divine Bell to summon the oracle, and Paigang-Gala Toast had praised her in public at the Toast Banquet: " Even the thirty best warriors are no match for Ujdah, whom I have the blessing of the Gruul God. ”
No one thought to refute Toast's words, her strength is known to everyone, she only needs to shake the divine bell given to her by the high priest, no matter how many warriors are not the opponent of the little Ujida.
There was no match for her in the world except the High Priest who had granted her spells and bells, Ujida had believed with certainty.
For this mission, she actually disagreed, the villages around Jiming Village have long been decayed in the long years of peace, they don't know the sword, they don't know the sword, not to mention that she sent the warriors of the Gang-Gala family, that is, those Yiren warriors on the border who did not even have the blood of the weakest Tusi, and often could catch some people from outside the mountains as slaves, this kind of captured slaves, according to the rules, three can be exchanged for one Yiren slave, and the Paigang-Gala family did not look down on it, even if they occasionally received it from vassals or slave traders brought in transactions, they were also quickly sold deeper into the mountains。 When the High Priest ordered them to learn "the words of the Outsiders", they didn't think so, so they didn't learn it, and Ujida didn't study it more seriously than the others, but she was so gifted that she still learned a little, and for this reason, the High Priest appointed her as the head of the vanguard.
"Why do you want to learn the words of those weak outsiders?" said to each other, the slaves who were caught or sold, it was very simple to say Yi language, point to the tools to be used, read them twice, let them read along, and if they could not read it, they would be beaten, and they would be beaten twice - would they be beaten or not? Then sell it to others, but what if they can't sell it? Give a stick to the back of the head, throw it into the ditch, and go and catch or buy one, among the Yi people, slaves have always been such lowly things, what? Please, in a "civilized" place like Jiming Village, where there is a school, parents still kill their own children and throw them into the ditch of the mourning gate, why can't the barbaric slave owners kill the people from outside the mountain and throw them into the ditch?
Before, Ujida also thought the same way, learning the words of the people outside the mountains is a purely superfluous thing, why should people learn to speak the words of cows and horses? As long as they can drive "them" to work with sticks and leather whips, and prevent "them" from stealing food, it is not enough! Buying new slaves, just as buying new cows and horses is to teach them to take yokes, teach them a few words of the people, and when they reach the age, they will match men and women like they match cattle and horses, and they will not have to hold a wedding in front of the altar of the god Guru like the Tusi family, and give birth to little slaves like cows and horses. So, why take "them" for what they say?
"Find out what they're prepared for. Despite what the High Priest had said, Ujida still felt that the goal of her mission this time was to arrest people, not to question them.
At first, it was true that the enemy was ridiculously weak, as she thought, not to mention that the two men with knives who were guarding the slaves they were ready to sell were defenseless against them, but even the five outsiders who seemed to be prepared for their group, armed with weapons and dogs, were also very weak, they had neither horses nor long-range weapons, and the clubs they carried did not look like they could quench poison, as if they were specially designed to deal with unarmed and unarmed There were no trained children and slaves as their targets, they walked upright on the hills, neither knowing how to hide their bodies in the surrounding jungle, nor lightening their steps, and the leaders did not know whether to see if the ones behind them had followed, nor did they know whether the terrible tails had followed behind, and they were so noisy that they seemed to have entered the door of their son-in-law's house, and as if they were going to meet the merchants who had come from afar, and if the people were so noisy and conspicuous when they went out, let alone slaves, the rats would not be able to catch a single one!
The three stewards and the others all thought that they could easily clean up these "fools swaggering in the woods" without the help of her noble priest Ujida, who remembered the high priest's teachings to her and vigorously rejected their proposal: "The eagle flying in the sky does not need to hide its shadow, and the vipers on the earth hold its body high, these people from outside the mountains are so arrogant, they may have more power than eagles, and have tricks more terrible than poisonous snakes." ”
The others thought she was right, and Ujida shook the bell and summoned the oracle to launch the first wave of attacks.
However, these noisy outsiders are really ...... It's just stupid.
From beginning to end, their struggles speak volumes about how ignorant they are of the real battle.
When attacked, they didn't immediately split up and flee - stupid, but considering they couldn't see the oracle, that's fine, but they didn't form a tight defensive formation to cover each other, well, they didn't have defensive shields at all, and as for the sticks and forks, snort, do they think they can use that one to resist the crossbowman's arrows?
Even Ujida, who was a priest, could see how laymen these people were in the battle formation, and they didn't need to send a second person, and a few attacks from the invisible divine envoy overturned them all. The greatest counterattack they can make against an invisible enemy is to throw what they have in their hands: flasks and sticks.
Ujida and the others tied them up with the captives in front of them, roasted and ate the black dogs they brought, and then heated the discussion about whether to take the captives back with them, or simply rush into the village to catch some more people and sell them for money?
It was the goal of their trip to catch the villagers who could torture them and bring them back, and these armed and well-nourished men were obviously the best "tongues" they could catch, and the task was accomplished, and they could boast of their abilities in front of the high priest. The defense of Jiming Village is so weak, why don't you catch more outsiders, and catch some cattle to go back to fill the Tusi and their own treasure trove?
Both opinions seemed to be good, so they delayed another day in the mountains, and then they came across ...... Ujida didn't know how to describe the girl.
The people outside the mountain didn't know how to hide their movements, and when they found out and followed Zhao Xiaoliu, they were far earlier than Zhao Xiaoliu found out, and everyone else said: "Look at that person who has no strength in his hands and feet, he can't do work, he can't do anything when he catches it back, and he can't sell it for money." "Of course they're talking about the adult, the child is not in their eyes.
"No," said Ujda, "the girl—the spirit of the Gruul god fell upon her—to be caught alive." ”