Chapter 10: Reincarnation as a Man
The ruler of the ruler gate walked silently in the procession, not long ago, he thought he was a shrewd man, much stronger than his Yi master, the ruler was born a slave master, but he became a slave master by his own efforts, few people know that when he was born, he was not a Yi man. He was born outside the mountain, and when he was six or seven years old, he was caught in the mountain, and after a few hands, he entered the house of the ruler. His impression of his hometown, apart from his obscure parents, was the tall white-clothed temple beside the graveyard at the head of the village, but that was a long, long time ago! for he was a child at the time of his arrest, and soon learned to speak cleverly that he could not remember the affairs of his family, and that he was trusted by his master more than any other slave, and soon they regarded him as a real man.
He was a bat among a man, which means that, as a slave, he spoke better and flattered his master's family than the average slave from outside the mountain, and as a man, he remembered many things about labor, and was better at tending to the land and livestock than a real man, and one might wonder how good a child could be at farming?
Go to the fields in the spring to sow seeds, go to the fields in the autumn to harvest, and after the harvest is over, drive the pigs into the fields, even if they turn over the ground - this is the Yi people's understanding of farm work, not so much that they are planting, but that they are herding their crops as sheep. And their ability to herd sheep is comparable to their ability to farm, each has its own merits, they do not know what a good breed is, nor do they know what disease prevention is, it is said that this is still a more industrious Yi people, less industrious? They will choose a valley with a narrow entrance, drive the pigs and sheep into it, and then block the entrance with stones, and when they want to eat meat, they will bring a bow and arrow to shoot...... Build a sheepfold, drive the sheep up the hill every day, and then drive them down?
They are quite proud of their complete set of skills, and even make up many songs to praise their attitude towards crop work, such as: "Yi people don't work, and those who work are not Yi people." "If you want to be a samurai, you can't work. "If you have touched the hand of the hoe, you will not be able to touch the bow and arrow for three years." ”
This gave the ruler a great opportunity, the people did not like to work, and the sky did not fall pies, so someone had to work for them, farming, herding sheep, and making pies to serve to them.
If a mountain is managed by the Yi people, the harvest of a year is only enough for them to eat for three months, and the ruler of the ruler promised them that they would not have to go to the mountain, and that they would be able to send them enough food to eat for half a year, is there such a cost-effective thing in the world? The Yi people happily agreed to his request, but in order to maintain the dignity of the slave owner and intimidate him, they asked him for two more sheep and five chickens a year, and after much bargaining, this condition was compressed to one sheep and three chickens.
In this way, a slave from outside the mountains obtained the right to manage a mountain of Yiren, and naturally he would not scatter the seeds into the field and go back to sleep like the Yiren, but on the contrary, he turned the ground and cut down trees, and was busy in the field every day, and in the autumn, the harvest of his mountain was more than the three mountains of his master's house, and he sent the promised grain to his master's house.
"You promised two more sheep and five chickens!" said Shakumon, glaring.
"It's a sheep......" he didn't say any more, because Ruler Gate had already taken out the rope that bound the seller and shook it in front of him, and he was surrounded by the samurai of the Ruler Gate family.
If he thought that he could be peaceful for a year by handing over two additional sheep and five chickens, it would be a big mistake, every time the ruler family encounters a wedding or funeral, a visit by a distinguished guest, or a war with other families, in short, whenever the master needs money, he must show "filial piety" and bear a lot of expenses, he is not like a tenant, but more like the wallet of the ruler family.
But, by his shrewdness and slickness, he soon won the favor of his master's family again, and he no longer buried himself in his field, but on the contrary, he often went to work on his master's land, and never talked about redemption anymore - the redemption here does not mean that he wants to be a free man, joke, don't talk about him, even his master, if he goes too far and gets lost, he is likely to be taken as a slave, since he can't put on his wings and fly out of the mountains, where is he not a fool - Redemption means that he may never work on his master's land and concentrate on the mountain to which he is assigned. Under his busyness, the harvest of the master's family has also improved slightly, unlike before, although it still cannot be compared with the fields he manages himself, and the ruler family also feels that he is loyal and must give a little benefit.
The so-called advantage was that he was given another mountain, this time on the condition that the master's family should be supplied with a whole year's grain, five sheep, and he wisely did not bargain this time, but asked the master for two slaves as assistants, and he himself often went to the master's field to help with the work, and sometimes brought one of the two slaves to help, so the ruler family finally felt that this time they did not suffer a loss in the business, of course, from time to time extra filial piety is still necessary.
The steward of the ruler of the ruler gradually owned four slaves, many cattle and several mountains by his own shrewdness and ability, and he knew that he was richer than his master, and the ruler family did not let him go in vain - it was not until that catastrophic day that he learned that the ruler family was not satisfied with the annual rent and filial piety from time to time, and they were fighting for the idea of "making a fortune" by first selling him as a slave and then swallowing all his possessions in one go!
Because of this, when that strange girl set fire to the house he had accumulated over the years, When the grain and fields were burned down, not only did he not feel heartbroken, but on the contrary, he had a liberated mood, he had been working under the greedy and vicious ruler family for so many years, and there was no chance of escape, but he always remembered that he had earned the status of a steward and many properties in the ruler family, and he always refused to risk escaping, on the contrary, he also hoped to get more captive in the war of the Yi people, he was obviously a soul devoured by a hungry tiger, but he also dreamed of upgrading to a tiger by being a ghost, that day, if that little girl was not a true immortal with mana, he was no different from those Yi people who plundered and sold civilians?
However, after these extraneous assets that he could not use up at all were burned down, he saw the ruler family's plan against him, and he no longer had the idea of continuing to work for the ruler family, and suddenly woke up from the dream of being a slave owner, how could he think of tying up and selling girls who had no grudge against him? Didn't he hate these Yi people who plundered and bought and sold human beings the most? Didn't he always want to return to his parents? Why did he want to do the same thing as those Yi people, take his children away from them and sell them far away?
Therefore, he did not have the same malice as the ruler door for this girl who kept driving them forward, on the contrary, he was more curious.