"Among the people outside the mountain, there are also very powerful people. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ujida thought silently, "However, she can't resist this time. ”

Beside her were bands of Yiren warriors, who she could tell from the tiny embroidery on their clothes and the ornamentation on their shields that they belonged to the Tusi clan as easily as her own palm prints. Every young Yi person has to memorize a family tree from an early age, and outsiders will be surprised that even a small child can recite a family tree for forty generations in one go, not only to commemorate the glory of their ancestors, but also for practical needs.

The relationship between the Yi people and the Yi people, because of the practice of slavery, is by no means harmonious.

If a Yi man unfortunately walks far in the mountains because of chasing prey or the like, and steps into another Tusi territory, he is likely to be caught and sold like a foreigner outside the mountain, and become a slave, and the only way to save himself is to recite the family tree in the buyer's house, if the family tree he recites can prove that he is indeed a descendant of a Tusi noble, the buyer will send someone to his house to ask for ransom, and he will be free, if he is not a nobleman, and reciting the family tree is not completely useless, the local Yi people may have a relationship with him, then he will be acceptedIn the homes of the "relatives", the "relatives" vouched for that he would not run away, so that he could easily obtain a status similar to that of a tenant instead of becoming a slave. Therefore, every child of the Yi people is forced to recite a long family tree from an early age, unlike those outsiders who are lazy because of a peaceful life, and cannot even recite the name of their grandfather's grandfather.

Slavery - the people know how terrible this thing is, they do not have the slightest fancy about it, when a new slave arrives, the master will beat him several times until he sees the shadow of the master and tremble, and then point to a few farm tools to be used and read them to him, and if they can't repeat it, they will beat it again, and when they have taught the words about farm tools, it will be time for the new slave to work. When a slave is old, or when the master thinks he is unable to work, he will smash him on the back of the head, and this execution is public, in order to prevent other slaves from thinking of being "lazy". Some outsiders foolishly thought that they were valuable possessions, ah, indeed, if they were healthy and strong enough to work, Tusi might even promote them to the status of tenants or stewards, but a slave who could not be of any use, whether their incompetence was due to unruliness or simply due to old age and sickness, was left with one last use in Toast's eyes: to frighten the other slaves with the misery of their death.

So the people of the Yi did not leave their hills easily, they hated and envied their neighbors, and fought against each other for land and slaves, and Ujida was a little older, but she had already experienced several decent battles herself. Every year, her father sent samurai and priests to declare war on the surrounding Yi nobles and toasts, or to quietly plunder slaves, and every time the slavers came to the territory of the Paigala Tusi family, they would see bound captives waiting to be betrayed. It may seem inexplicable that the Paegala family would sell slaves taken from nearby in exchange for other slaves brought in from afar by slave traders, but it was in fact very necessary - slaves caught from nearby knew how to escape easily, and only slaves sold from afar could not easily escape.

The Yi people were strong because of this bloody system, and there was no weak position among the Yi people, even if the noble Tusi nobles of the blood, once he could not win the battle with his neighbors, he could only watch his territory being encroached upon, the slaves were plundered, and finally there was no way to escape, on the contrary, those powerful families were able to grab land and slaves from their neighbors, so as to become strong. After two hundred years of vicissitudes, the descendants of the garrison of Shuanghe County have long since lost their knowledge of swords, but these brave warriors have not slackened because they devour each other's flesh and blood: they sit around the fire night and night, keep their weapons within reach, they do not know how to write, they do not recite poetry, war is their entertainment, their daily life, and their final destination.

Now, the high priest said, it was time for them to feast.

Ujida had never seen so many warriors in her life, outnumbering all her father's warriors, tenants, and slaves, and she had never dreamed that there were so many mountain people living behind the mountain beams. Many of them came from a prominent family line no less than the Paigala Toast, and some came from a small independent Yiren family that did not belong to the Tusi, and in addition to the real Yiren warriors, there were many slaves without family names and surnames in the ranks, and their eyes flashed with the same glint of war and blood as the real warriors - each of them tried to replicate the fate of the three stewards of the Paigala Toast family, and relied on victory to rise from a lowly slave to the steward of the Tusi, with their own slaves.

All the people gathered under the command of the High Priest and listened to his commands, who had guided them all the past years, and no one doubted his authority, and his divination never went wrong, and not only ordinary warriors, but even the noble toasts would bend down before him and ask for his blessings. As soon as the high priest gave the order, they sent out the most elite warriors and priests, prepared their own rations and weapons, and followed him to the strange mountain to fight.

Ujida also had no doubts about the strength of the High Priest, she never thought that the little girl she met had the possibility of resisting the High Priest, she was very capable of fighting, and the High Priest was above everything. If it were anyone else, she would do her best to get out of Jiming Village, and what could stop the High Priest, not to mention that there were so many strong, brave, and well-trained Yiren warriors accompanying her, and there was no way for the world to defeat them!

But...... Ever since Ujida set out with the High Priest, he has seen a strange man beside the High Priest two or three times, dressed in the same black clothes as ordinary Yi people, and his face and conversation are vaguely like Yi people, but he is not Yi people! Ujida is very sure of this.

She didn't tell anyone what she had discovered, that the High Priest wouldn't talk to anyone casually, and that the strange uneasiness in her heart was probably only because she feared that the target she wanted to capture would fall into the hands of someone else!