Chimen squatted in the grass, looking at the tall thatched house of Qiong Lubu's family in the distance. He felt happy and sad at the same time, with mixed feelings. What was happy was that his biggest enemy in this life, Qiong Lubu's family, was about to be in disaster. What was sad was that , this disaster just hit him on the head a few days ago, and ran straight over his head.
The enmity between the Qionglubu family and the Chimen family can be traced back to the previous generation. At that time, a slave of the Chimen family escaped to the Qionglubu family, but the Qionglubu family refused to admit it. The two sides first exchanged curses and then beat each other. , in the end, each tribe formed an alliance and fought happily for three or four times, until today, ten years after the Chimen family became the leader, the Chimen family was defeated steadily, and the slaves they originally owned were captured by the Qiong Lubu family. They were sold off to compensate for the casualties of their allies. Now that they were famous for a while, the Shomon family, which had at most hundreds of slaves, only had five slaves left, four of which were the private property of his butler.
The day before yesterday, Chimon learned that his butler was plotting to escape to Qiong Lubu's house because his life was becoming more and more difficult. He was furious and decided to ambush his butler with his brothers in the middle of the night and kill the butler and his four slaves. They were all tied up and sold to others. They were used to setting out in the middle of the night to capture slaves, and this time they were doing business on their own territory. The operation was very familiar to them. They didn't need to start a fire at all, and they reached the door of the housekeeper's hut with just a little starlight. After signaling to each other, they raised a rope made of coarse wool, opened the straw curtain at the door and rushed in. They groped around on the ground, ready to tie up one person immediately if they touched them, and then go to tie up another one - - Shomon was the first to touch the warm human body. He knew that the butler and his slave had not had time to escape. Just when he was grinning happily, he touched something that he had never expected to appear on the other person's body!
rope!
"Ahhhhhhh~~~~~~~" The shrill screams pierced the night sky in the mountains. This cannot be blamed on the coward of Shakumon, who had been on the battlefield at the age of thirteen and had a knife tip stained with human blood. An object that looked like a woolen rope could actually move and tied him and his brothers up. How could he not be scared out of his wits and scream loudly? At this time, it was his lifelong enemy Qiong Lu. He would be grateful to the people of the Bu family who could save him. Unfortunately, when the light came up, what appeared in front of him was not the Qionlu Bu family who he thought was very amiable at this time, but a person he had never seen before. A strange little girl I have never seen before.
His housekeeper and four slaves were all tied tightly and fell to the ground. The eyes they looked at him were as complex and indistinguishable as the way he looked at Qiong Lubu's thatched cottage now.
Because they are different from the ignorant outsiders, they all know the customs of the Yi people and know what it means when the master appears in the servant's hut with a rope at night. No matter what kind of favor the master had given to his servants before, they were not blood relatives of the chieftain after all. There was no personal guarantee. When the master was facing the end of his rope or someone offered a big price, he would break into the slaves or even the housekeeper's thatched house at night and tie them up with a rope. It is common for them to be bundled and sold thousands of miles away. This kind of thing is so common that any slave who is favored by his master and has some status and wealth will take precautions and establish good relations with the nearby slave traders and housekeepers, give gifts, and become brothers to each other to ensure that they have One day when he was sold by his master, he could rely on his status as "the steward's brother" to avoid the severe beatings that slave owners were accustomed to inflict on new slaves.
Of course, even if they have made such preparations, they absolutely do not want to go through such a process. After all, some of the people who are sold are like the stewards of the Shomon, who own their own thatched houses, fields, livestock and slaves. Once they are sold, Even if they are lucky enough to be recognized by the other party's housekeeper, and become a second housekeeper at first, they will have to earn back the house, land, livestock, slaves, etc. They don't have to think about asking for it from the original owner - their new owner will not They support their legitimate request because they themselves have the idea of reselling the slaves if they are unlucky, and then selling the private property that the slaves have worked hard to accumulate.
The housekeeper of the Shomon, that night, experienced great joys and sorrows, ups and downs. At sunset, he received a lost little girl in his room. The little girl was not easy to escape, and she could give birth to little slaves. She was sold in the mountains. The price was even higher than that of an adult man. Seeing a large amount of property falling from the sky, the housekeeper of the Shomon was overjoyed at the time. He even generously gave a scone to the little girl. All he could think about was whether he should keep her and enjoy it by himself. He planned to resell it, but he didn't hear the strange voice of the little girl chirping, "Don't the Yi people put salt in their cakes?"
When he thought about the fact that he had a master above him, a master with a bad record who had taken away his accumulated belongings many times and refused to return them, and it was too difficult to hide a living little girl under his nose, the housekeeper of the Shomon started to fight. He made up his mind to sell the little girl, and signaled to his four slaves, asking them to fetch the rope for binding the person. As for the knife, it was obviously useless to deal with such a little girl.
His slaves quickly brought the ropes to tie people up. Even though they were slaves, they were all prepared with such things, because the Yi people still pay attention to "war merits" and can serve their masters in battles or "night raids" If a slave is captured, even if it is a slave, the master will give him something according to custom. This is why the housekeeper and others can have several slaves of their own as slaves. The barbarians are ignorant, cruel, and often treacherous, but they Not stupid, at least, much smarter than some so-called famous officials in feudal society.
The housekeeper took matters into his own hands and took the rope and tied it over the little girl's head. He was not a particularly hard-working person, but others had to do the binding. As usual, he had to give the "captive catcher" a fraction of the girl's worth. , he himself obtained his current slave by capturing prisoners, how could he let others easily get a share of it from him?
It's a pity that this easy-to-get credit, once you get started, hey!
"Crack! Pah!" They saw with their own eyes that the girl squirted some water. They didn't know whether this was a step for her to cast a spell or just a smile. Anyway, after the spit, the rope started to move in the butler's hand, and the rope started to move. He and four others were tied as tightly as a bunch of wild berries on a tree, and then the girl stood up and looked down at them as they fell to the ground, terrified.
Then, the little girl waved her hand and put out the fire in the fire pit.
There was no such luxury as an oil lamp in the housekeeper's hut. He fell to the ground, and all the scary stories about monsters he had heard in his life came to his mind. Especially when a hand touched him, he almost died. He was scared to death - until the fire lit up again, and he found that the person who touched him was none other than Shomon who was holding a rope and preparing to capture him for sale.
This is embarrassing.
But the embarrassment only belonged to Shomon and his housekeeper. The little girl herself was not embarrassed at all. She ate all the bacon that Shomon's housekeeper secretly hid, and even Shomon didn't know it existed, and ordered them to stockpile the housekeeper's. He carried the meager amount of food on his back, and then burned the housekeeper's house to the ground. The next person to suffer this fate was Chimon's own house, although the little girl questioned it a lot before burning it down. : "This is the master's house? Why is it not as good as the housekeeper's?"
In response to such an insult, Chimon could only tell the truth. His old big house had been occupied by the Qionglubu family, and now it was the house of the Qionglubu family's chief steward - a phoenix in distress was worse than a chicken, which was also true in the territory of the Yi people. The same applies.
The little girl said "Oh", and the Qiong Lubu family was doomed.
