This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 252 New Life

In early spring in Shanzhou, in the early morning, thick cold dew hangs outside the tent. After the rooster crows three times, there is an urgent sound of gold and iron knocking. In the huge dry-basket house, the windows are suddenly opened, and the cold air is accompanied. With the slight skylight shining into the room, there was a sound of getting up and turning the quilt in the room.

Hearing the sound of gold and iron knocking, Jia quickly got out of the warm quilt, and habitually looked for the shoes under the bed. After putting on the straw sandals, Jia quickly turned around and folded the quilt on the bed neatly.

Everyone else in the bunk next to him was doing similar work.Their quilts were folded extremely carefully and meticulously, as if they were touching the most precious thing in the world.

But this is actually not just a metaphor, touching the soft quilt made of linen and catkins, the softness at the touch, really makes Jia feel that he is touching the most precious thing he has ever owned in his life.

"Get up, pee and eat, I'll count to twenty, right away!"

Just when they had just folded the quilt, the door of the room was opened, and a young man in military uniform stood at the door and shouted loudly.

Everyone in the room speeded up when they heard the sound. After folding the quilts, they went to the small windows, picked up a cup made of clay, and walked out the door.

Buckets of clean water had already been prepared for them by the well outside the door, and everyone lined up in order to come to the bucket, filled a glass of water, and picked out a willow branch from the cup.

This willow branch can be used repeatedly. Jia carefully bit off the part of the willow branch that was used yesterday with his teeth, and then put the fresh willow branch in his mouth to chew for a while. The soft willow branches were chewed into the shape of a brush. He picked up the brush and rubbed it against his teeth for a while, then swished water to take away the fresh and slightly bitter smell of willow branches from his mouth.

After brushing their teeth, everyone went to the well to fetch water to wash their faces. The cold water splashed on their faces, which made everyone wake up from the warm dream state they were still in just now.Soon, someone urged them to go to the cafeteria.

It was time to eat, Jia couldn't help but feel happy when he thought of this, and at the same time he felt his stomach growl at the right time.

Walking towards the tent called the canteen together with the others, smelling the aroma of food coming out of the tent, he couldn't help but took another deep breath.

"Hurry up and eat. You have to go to work after eating. You haven't earned enough work points today. You can't be too slack. Mr. Wang will come to the field in person today. You all show me your energy and don't make me lose face." Do you understand?"

Jia's movements were slow, and the Qiang soldier slapped him on the back angrily, making Jia excited. He hurried to the tent to line up, but he was not too angry, especially when he heard the soldier say that today the king When the adults will come in person, Jia is even more motivated.

He thought that he must have enough food today, and he will use all his strength to work later, so that he can perform well in front of Mr. Wang Huiwang.

Walking into the tent called the cafeteria, Jia has been used to it for the past few days. When he smells the food of normal people, he knows that the breakfast this morning is porridge. As soon as he entered the tent, he saw that the tent had been put away There is a big bucket of thick and sweet porridge water, and a little sliced ​​delicate pickles are placed in front of each person's seat.

Seeing those foods, even after living in this place for a month, Jia still couldn't help feeling like he was in heaven.

In the blink of an eye, it has been a month since I came to this place, and Jia has always kept this in mind.

Recalling the day when I was sent to Shanzhou, it is still a horrible and dark memory.

Jia didn't know his name, and he didn't seem to have a name either. His name was actually just a Qiang word, probably because when people called him, there was always a voice as his representative, so he didn't know why. Whoever chooses him has been called Jia since he was a child.

Most of the time in Jia's life, he didn't feel that he was a person. In fact, slaves like them were not used as people on the grassland. Their status was a little higher than that of cattle and horses. When the master needed them, they would act like Cows and horses serve their masters like cattle and horses, but there is no food in the tribe. After all the cattle and horses are eaten up, they will be killed like cattle and horses as food for the nobles in the tribe.

Jia's parents are also slaves. He has never met his father. He only knows that after his mother can have children, their master seems to think that there are not enough slaves in the tribe, so he asks his mother to go with another A slave bore him together.

After remembering, when Jia was a child, he was tied up in the room by his master with a small rope. His mother raised him, and when he was able to move the lamb, Jia was asked by the master to go Sheep on the pasture.

Later, according to Mr. Wang who had heard his story, he may be sixteen or seventeen years old this year, and it must have been twelve or three years. He lived with the sheep like this, until last month Suddenly, the slaves in the tribe said that the master wanted to capture them and send them to the Han people.

Han people, when Jia thinks of this word, he has no reason to be afraid. When listening to the nobles in the tribe, Jia probably knows that the Han people are a group of very terrifying people who will ask them to do some hard work that ordinary people can't bear.

When I heard that the tribe wanted to capture those slaves who could not eat enough to work for the Han people, many slaves were afraid that they would be selected. They thought that if they were sent to the Han people, they would definitely work to death. Being a slave is not considered strong. If others would die from working for the Han people, he felt that if he was sent to the Han people, he would die faster than anyone else.

On the day of selection, when he saw his master walking towards them, Jia prayed to God in his heart and hoped that he would not be chosen, but fate did not favor him, probably because he saw his small arms and his appearance, and his master's fingers lightly I clicked on him, so Jia was tied up with a rope and sent to Shanzhou City. The journey to Shanzhou was a very terrifying process. The masters had leather jackets to protect their bodies, and no matter how heavy the snowstorm Don't be afraid, but during the day and night of the journey, these slaves were already thin. They only wore ripped leather jackets that were as hard as boards and hadn't been washed for many years. They usually didn't have much to eat. Seven or eight slaves froze to death or died of exhaustion and fright.

Jia and the others were sent from that Qiang tribe to a total of more than 50 people, and only 30 people actually came to the city wall of Shanzhou alive.

When we got to the place, I watched those nobles take money from a tall Han man and leave happily,

Then Jia saw that the Han man ordered a few words to his subordinates, and soon these slaves were driven to stand together. The Han man saw their appearance one by one, and then he seemed quite happy, and he again The man ordered a few words, and a group of Qiang people led them to a tent. Someone had already prepared hot water and razors in the tent. Jia and a group of slaves were very frightened, not knowing what these people wanted them to do. , But they didn't have the courage to resist at all, and soon, their hair and beards were all shaved off, and then they were taken to a place with hot water, and everyone was asked to wash their bodies.

Jia didn't know why, but at this moment he already felt that the Han people might not want them to do terrible coolies, at least as far as bathing is concerned, even if there are rivers on the grassland, the hot water for bathing is not something they can enjoy , not to mention that a slave like him doesn't even have a container to hold his own water, so how can he take a bath?
After taking their first bath in their lives, the group herded them to a tent and motioned for them to sit down and eat in various languages. Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Jia looked at the bowls of ready-made meals, and couldn't believe that he could still sit on the table to eat. He used to eat with his hands, but today the Han people prepared them for them. The host used the same bowl as usual, and gave them the chopsticks used by the Han people. From that moment on, Jia suddenly realized that his life was about to change in the future.

In the next month, Jia gradually became familiar with the environment. Only then did he know that the Han man's surname was Wang, and his name was Wang Hui. They were rented by the tribe to Mr. Wang to do labor.

The man named Wang Hui treated them much better than his original master. Under Mr. Wang's hands, he not only had a place to eat every day, but also had a bed to sleep in, and Wang Hui also distributed clothes to each of them.

In the beginning, their first job was not to farm the land, but to learn how to make bases from the masons sent by Wanghui, and to build work sheds around Zhuangzi for themselves.

For slaves like them who have not been educated since childhood, it is not easy to learn these things, but Jia worked very hard. For the first time in his life, he can eat well. He does not want to be rejected by the king and then drive back. Master there.He found that most of the slaves from other tribes thought like him.So to the surprise of those old craftsmen, it took only a few days for these slaves to master the skills of making dry bases.

Soon, they built their own thatched cottage.The official named Wang Hui sent people to manage them, and asked them to either dig ditches or level the land.

Jia did these things very carefully, unlike other slaves around him who just felt that the king would treat them well for fear of being driven away, Jia had more thoughts, he used to think more than others, but now he I always feel that the king has taught them so many things, and he will definitely not be willing to drive them back to the grassland. Moreover, Jia found that the king would often observe their work while they were working. Jia was surprised and happy. He dared to tell others about this, but he just worked harder. Jia already guessed in his heart that if they did well, they might be kept.

(End of this chapter)