The young lady said: "If it is delivered next summer, the construction period will be half a year, and the five hundred slaves that Ying Ning is equipped with will not be able to call in this year, I don't know what kind of house the big chief wants to build?"

The big chief said: "Bugu wants to build a place covering an area of more than five acres for the second lady, and the place where the slaves live, and build it together, and when the summer comes, the adults can accompany Ying Ning to come on vacation and personally accept it." ”

The young lady said, "Since the Great Chief has promised so, next summer, Xia Guan and his sister will go to Gongra together. After speaking, he turned to Xiao Tiemur and Borhu, and arched his hand and said, "I want to go and see the slaves to be handed over now, and the two chiefs of Lao will lead the way." ”

When Xiao Timur and Borhu heard this, they got up and said goodbye to the Great Chief of Yelu, led the way, and led them out of the tent of the Great Chief of Yelu.

After the three of them got out of the tent, the chief of Yelu took the burden, took out a peerless bear skin, compared it for a long time, looked at the shining and reflective smooth fur, and said in his heart: "The five peerless bear skins given back by Yan Guo this time are really very immortal, and how to deal with them needs to be carefully considered." ”

Chief Yelu played with the peerless bearskin for a while, put it into his baggage again, and said to the maid standing at the door of the tent, "Go and tell the accountkeeper that he will come to me." ”

The maid agreed to go, and brought three accounts after two moments. Chief Yelu began to discuss the construction of the office with the three bookkeepers, and decided to select 500 officials and slaves, led by a bookkeeper, to go to Gongra to build the office.

The young lady followed Xiao Timur and Borhu to the stable, took their horses, rode them on horseback, and walked out for a while, until they reached a radius of two miles from the tent of the great chief of Yelu, and began to enter the area where the slaves and the Rong people were mixed.

Most of these slaves were captured from the Yan and Jin kingdoms, and they built their own courtyard houses to live in, and there were also many patrol slaves, but they lived in the same domed tents as the Rong people, but there was a branch on the roof of these domed tents.

These slaves were not only official slaves, but also the slaves of the Rong people who had gone south and resisted the slaves who came from the north to make meritorious contributions, and the tribe rewarded the slaves of the Rong people according to their merits.

Boerhu pointed to the front and said to the young lady: "Those earthen courtyards are all slaves of the Zhou people, and the branches on the roof of the tent are all dumb slaves. ”

The young lady said, "What is a dumb slave?"

Boerhu said: "The dumb slave is the captured patrol slave, not only the language barrier, difficult to communicate, but also the temperament is brutal and irritable, tall and powerful, so they are simply not allowed to say those 'grunt' words, lest they plan unforeseen things." ”

When the young lady heard about it, she looked at the courtyards of these tents and found out the mystery.

The location of these tents seems random, but they have their own rules: the ordinary domed tents where the Rong people live, enclosed various areas, and the areas were the various earthen courtyards where the Zhou people lived, and the residences of the Rong people and the slaves of the Zhou people, surrounded the various domed tents with tree branches in the innermost.

The young lady said, "Since only the old and weak are at home, I want to see the performance of those working slaves." ”

Boerhu said: "That's fine, let's take the adults to see the scenery of Chagar." ”

The three of them walked their horses, and along the way they met many Rong people riding horses, and when the Rong people saw the two chiefs, they all greeted each other.

These Rong people rode on horses, all dressed up, with scimitars at their waists, running back and forth, passing messages to each other.

The slaves I met along the way were just driving cattle, sheep and horses to graze, and their clothes looked very thin.

The cultivated land here is built by the river, and the river water is directly irrigated, although the ridges are also divided, but there are few wells, and it is not like the cultivated land in the Guannai, but one by one, along the bank of the river.

The young lady followed Boerhu and Xiao Tiemur, and soon came to the river, only to see that on the east and west banks of the river, there were already many tall dumb slaves working in the cultivated fields.

The young lady said, "These tall slaves are dumb slaves, right?"

Boerhu said: "Exactly. ”

The young lady looked at it for a while and said, "I don't want these patrol slaves to farm." ”

Boerhu said: "These dumb slaves are difficult to train, so we divided them into groups and handed them over to Zhou Nu to manage, and implemented joint accountability management, Zhou Nu was also afraid that these dumb slaves would do unfortunate things, so they taught them to farm." The work of grazing is afraid that they will escape on horseback, and they will sit on the responsibility and dare not hand it over to them. ”

The young lady said: "I don't know how many Zhou slaves and how many dumb slaves there are in your state?"

Boer Hu said: "My lord said this, these are the secrets of all clans, please forgive me for not telling them." ”

The young lady thought about it, looked at the table below, it was already ten o'clock, and said, "I want to find a dumb slave and ask if it is possible?"

Boerhu said: "If you can communicate with the dumb slave, just ask." The heart said, "It's all in vain to ask anything, and those dumb slaves will only dance with their hands and grunt." ”

The young lady went out on horseback and came to a field. This land is only five acres, and there are two dumb slaves working in it.

The young lady could not speak the slave language, but when she communicated with Salagu, she knew that she should be able to understand these foreign languages, so she raised her tiger tail whip and shook it three times in the sky, making a "pop" sound that split the air.

When the slaves heard the movement, they all looked here, and saw that the person on the horse was dressed in a purple official uniform, with an extraordinary appearance, bright and bright, and they did not dare to slack off, and looked at the young lady, I don't know who the young lady is shouting at.

The young lady saw that the two dumb slaves in the plough also looked at her, stretched out her left hand and made a gesture, and called for the two patrol slaves to come over.

The two dumb slaves were weeding and diverting water, and when they saw that the young lady was waving her hand at them, they looked left and right, and when they saw that there was no one else, they looked at each other, put down the farm tools in their hands, and walked towards the young lady.

When the herdsmen saw that the adults had summoned two dumb slaves, they all looked at each other and thought, "There is a lot of fun." ”

The two dumb slaves stood still in front of the young lady's horse, looked at the young lady, and said nothing.

The young lady looked at these two patrol slaves, both of whom were tall and tall, with fair skin, deep eyes and high noses, and blue eyes, which were very different from Zhou Min's image.

The young lady said in her heart: "If you don't speak, how can I speak, and I don't know your language." The young lady and the two dumb slaves met for a moment, and the young lady said nonsense: "I dialed the ancient ones." ”

When the two dumb slaves heard this, they were excited, and they stretched out their hands to gesture and said, "My lord, please accept my wait." After saying that, they all bent down and bent their arms to salute the young lady.

The young lady said in her heart: "I won't say these 'babbling' words of theirs, and say a word of nonsense casually, I don't want these two dumb slaves to be like this." ”

Why are the two dumb slaves like this, just because after being captured by the Rong people, some people began to ask them to speak, although they didn't know what to say, they had a sense of existence. I didn't want to communicate between them later, so these Rong people directly assigned them to Zhou Nu to manage. These Zhou slaves were not good-looking, but they yelled at them, and the captured patrol slaves were very angry, and frequently clashed with Zhou slaves.