Above the Seven Towers

When Hawk finished his work and returned to the camp, he saw a lot of people under the wooden platform more than one meter high in the small square of the camp.

A simple t-shaped wooden frame was pressed on the wooden platform, and a man with a strong figure was shackled to the wooden frame. His face was facing downwards, and his hanging gray hair covered his face, but the bulging tendon from his body showed that this man should be quite powerful, and certainly not an unknown person in the camp. The man had no clothes on his upper body, revealing a bruised back. Fresh scars staggered on his back, embedded in the undulating muscles.

Three mercenaries guarding the camp stand around the wooden stand, one mercenary holds the whip, and the other two guard the sides with spears. Standing right in the middle of the wooden platform is Ji Yijun, who is holding a blank sheet of paper in his hand, and is using a less standard lingua franca to announce the guilt of the man to the people around him.

Hawke sat down on a fence post a little further away, took out a cigarette, and lit it, watching the play while swallowing clouds and fog.

"Rhod made troubles and tried to meet with prisoner Carla in front of the Laogai mine. When he was stopped by the guards, he shoved and beaten the guards, causing three minor injuries. The camp management office said that he performed well on weekdays. The punishment of whipping for ten times is now over, and the confinement is now open. Whiplash is openly accepted. "Ji Yijun was thinking on stage, and the people under the stage were also talking about it.

"Isn't Kara the woman who was caught because of child abuse?"

"What is child abuse? She is a spy of the Temple of Nature. I heard that the magicians and adults in Montenegro do not deal with the Temple of Nature."

"What does Narod have to do with Carla."

"I heard that they are concubines. Don't look at the seriousness on Kara's surface, it's actually very wavy. I know several people have climbed onto her bed."

"Neither can Rhodes go to her? Isn't that to death?"

"Hi, I heard that Rhode was a dead brain, and it seemed that he was really fascinated by the dead mother-in-law."

"Kara, I've seen a very ordinary woman. What is he worth doing? Rhode is usually silent. When looking for a woman, she can be very courageous."

"You know how fart, the more this kind of dumb people, the more you can do scary things."

"I can't see it, I can't see it. It turns out that he was imprisoned, no wonder he hasn't seen anyone in the past few days. I made my plow broken and went to the next camp for repair.

Hawk listened to these people's comments, and his mouth showed a sense of ridicule. Kara knew that he would only lie to the fool who fools the fool. If such a person could become a spy on the Temple of Nature, the Temple of Nature would perish as early as 800 years. This Rhode can be released for seven days, I am afraid it has nothing to do with the Temple of Nature, maybe even believers are not counted. Bacheng was just mad at the crazy woman. Hawke recalled Carla's face. Although he was fatter and older, he was generally correct. Although he didn't mention any interest at all, a middle-aged man like Rhode might just be the one.

"You know what he is roaring at the gate of the Laogai Mine?" An audience **** said mysteriously.

"What? What?" Everyone else walked together curiously. Even Hawk extended his ears and listened.

"He shouted:‘ Release that woman, she can still have babies. How much waste is thrown in the pit! ’”

"What? Really shouting like that?"

"Naturally is true. A cousin of mine worked nearby and heard it with his own ear."

"Oh, don't kill a woman!" Everyone snickered.

"Normally, he doesn't talk much, and it's really ridiculous to talk about women."

"In fact, this is the reason! What a waste." A man sighed.

"You also want to be whip?"

"I'm not as fierce as he is, this is a horrible person!"

Hawke smiled slightly at the words, and he was all good. He likes to deal with such foolish people the most.

There was a crackling sound from the stage.

"Yo, it started."

The whip was drawn on Rhode's back again and again, each whip leaving a clear scar. But the gray-haired man received the whip whip, and said nothing.

"Anyway, Rhode is a tough guy." An audience member said. It caused people around to nod frequently.

Gradually, the argument became quieter, and the tough guys were more likely to gain respect from others.

After ten lashes were drawn, Rod was taken down by the mercenaries. When walking down the stairs, Hawke saw his face and captured his resentful glance at Ji Yijun.

Hawke flicked the soot and smiled thoughtfully.

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After nightfall, before the curfew.

Hawke carried a bundle of green grass and walked on the road to the camp. When he saw no one around, he staggered into a fork and walked towards the blacksmith's shop.

Hawke went to the blacksmith shop to repair the shovel before. In these days after the appearance of the strange magicians, the area at the foot of Montenegro to the town of Floro is different from the outside. Let's talk about this blacksmith shop. It is not a blacksmith shop here, but a maintenance workshop.

It was a separate house, two floors up and down, below is a workshop for ironing, the upper floor is a bedroom, there is a stove and anvil in the workshop, and some basic tools that allow the blacksmith to repair damaged agricultural tools, but only Nothing more. The blacksmiths here, including Rhode, never need to do anything new. Almost all the ironwork is made in factories outside the camp.

Hawke came to the door of the blacksmith's shop and saw the light shining through the cracks of the windows on the first floor. He settled at the door and pushed the door and went in.

Rhode was sitting next to the anvil. He was pulling a sloppy black ointment from a clay pot and rubbing it on the wound on his back. It may be that his backhand squeezed into the wound, and he showed a grin, which was more vivid than his face when he was hit by a whip.

Hearing the sound of opening the door, Rhode glanced at the door with Yu Guang, and said coarsely, "Not going to work today!"

"I'm just here to visit you." Hawke walked into the room on his own, and placed the blade of grass on the table beside Rod. "This is the herbal medicine from the logging team, chopped and boiled. Into sauce to treat trauma. "

"I'm not familiar with you." Rhode glanced at the herbs, put on a coat, and looked up and down at Hawke. "It's a business to see what you look like? What do you want to do?"

"I am the one who admires the most capable and courageously. Rod, we talk about courage in our camp, but you are this." Hawke gave a thumbs up and said to the blacksmith with a smile.

"Are you kidding me ?!" Rod stood up sharply, clenching his fists.

"No," Hawke waved his hands again and again. "I dare not, you ask who dares to laugh at you casually in the camp. Most people dare not let a fart in front of the camp guards, like you, have the courage to ask them Discourage women. "

Rod squinted at him, as if to discern what he meant, his eyes reminded Hawke of the wild boar in the hunting ground. Ferocious, direct, and wondering why.

"Huh." Rod exhaled, took a piece of cloth on the table, and wiped his hands covered with black ointment. "You guys who have done things, have too many thoughts, and came to me in the middle of the night, There ’s nothing good about it. I ’m going to get out as soon as I do n’t want to find a target. "

"It's the same, why don't you talk a few words. I have some good things here." Hawke took two cigarettes out of his arms, one in his mouth, and one handed to Rod, "I made it myself. . Taste it. With this, your back hurts less. "

The cigarette lighted, and the room was filled with a spicy and fragrant smell. Between the clouds and the clouds, Hawke felt that the other party was kind to him.

"Why can't you get through for the woman and the prison guards?" Hawke asked casually as he put the soot on the ground.

"My woman, of course I have to protect it." Rhode's face sullenly.

"Many of those guards are from mercenary backgrounds, they are very black, and if you are not careful, you will put yourself in." Hawke said, "Is it worth it?"

Rhode took a cigarette and bowed his head and did not speak.

"However, there are many women in the camp. Why is he staring at that one?" Hawke said with a spit of smoke. "I heard that in a few months, I can apply for marriage. Which one do you like? Having said that, go to fill in the forms together and you will be able to live together. "

There was a bright flash in Rhodes' eyes, but then it dimmed again, and he said after a half-rate: "My woman is pregnant with my seed. I want her, don't want anything else."

"Hey, then you have to find a way quickly. Laogai is not a good place. Three days ago, two wounded dead were lifted out. Even if there was no exhaustion, the tunnel collapsed one day, the wall fell, and no one blinked. That's how fierce the living man is, not to mention a woman. "Hawker said in a whisper, while looking at Rod's look, he saw the green script on the blacksmith's forehead and jumped, his eyes angry. They all squirted out. "Even if she was released alive, the child would definitely not be able to keep it."

"You don't need to teach! I will definitely go tomorrow!" Rhodes said, holding the cigarette in his hand to the ground.

"Catch them again for a fight?" Hawke sneered. "Ji Yijun said that, he missed your first offense and punished lightly. If you do it again, do you believe that you will be put into the mine?"

"What can I do? You said, what can I do? I'm just a blacksmith, besides swinging his fist and roaring a few times," Rod roared a few times, and suddenly stopped, squinting at Hawke, "you have a way ? "

"Hey, they all say you're flustered, I think you're smart." Hawk laughed, pressed the cigarette **** on the anvil, moved his head closer to the blacksmith, and said in a low voice, "In this camp, I'm not satisfied There are so many mercenaries, and someone is planning to make a big one. "

Seeing the blacksmith looking at him for unknown reasons, Hawke said in a lighter voice: "Riot"

"You mean, like tax resistance"

Hawke nodded: "Just open up and scare those magician masters, can't we talk about the conditions? Those who want a woman want a woman, those who want money need money."

"But in case they come down hard." Rhode compared his hands on the base of his neck.

"Isn't it impossible? There are so many people who are with you, is it even worse?"