From Chief to Ball

"In the white pockets are tall peas; in the black pockets are short peas."

"You plant them separately, and when the peas grow, it's about July. Then, tell me what you see in the peas."

Then Chen Jian pointed to the other two pockets and said: "It's full of wheat. One is the wheat we planted a long time ago, and the other is the malt after soaking the poison I made with the day lily. This Divide them into two pieces, remember to keep in mind not to mix them together, otherwise next year there will be no harvest."

"Fertilize in the same way, weed in the same way, harvest in the same way, and plant in the same way. In autumn, tell me which of these two kinds of wheat yields higher."

"Just these two extra things, there is nothing to say. Go, it's getting late. On the most ordinary land, do something different."

Finally, Chen Jian took out a brass badge engraved with the logo of ears of wheat and sickle and said: "I hope that one day, this badge can be hung on your chest. Labor is a hero, and it can also be admired." People will remember it. You are Xiacheng, and Xiacheng is for you."

Chapter 6 Six moments in 34 years ([-])

It was March when the children of the farm were sent away.

The first festival in March is the Huaizi Festival. There are more figures bathing in the river, and more seductive songs on the river bank.

Several boats fought against the current and broke through the waves of the big river tenaciously, and the boats were full.

The relatives and noble children of various cities and the black-clothed guards to be trained are not crowded on such a boat. They will stay in Sucheng for a while before heading to Yucheng.

What is on board is a batch of special "goods", which are living and can talk.

In addition to these talking goods, there are also some very novel things. The envoys sent by the ethnic group on the south bank of the Dahe River came to Sucheng and exchanged gifts. Su Yue gave some to Chen Jian and came with the ship.

Some rice, some bamboo utensils, some crocodile skins, a bundle of ivory, and some snow-white cloth that the people of Sucheng have never seen before.

Those talking goods are a group of female slaves, which Chen Jian ordered a long time ago, but the number is larger than what he ordered.

Some Suyue who came out hoped to exchange for some iron farm tools, as well as a large number of iron arrowheads and leather armor, and asked the messenger to send a message to Chen Jian, saying that they might go out soon, but there is no need for Xia Cheng to go out, Jixia just needs to be good To train those soldiers is to keep the oath.

In other words, the glory, slaves, and trophies of this expedition have nothing to do with Xiacheng, and it seems that Chen Jian doesn't want Chen Jian to take the initiative to do something to fight for fame and reputation.

Among the goods on the ship were some very special ones. They dressed better than other female slaves and looked more beautiful, but they were still slaves, but what existed as tools was not their hands, but something else.

Sitting in the bow of this group of people is a pair of siblings, it is difficult for others to distinguish who is the older sister and who is the younger sister.The elder sister is called Ou, and the younger is called Lian. The lotus is originally one. Even if the sisters are separated, the lotus has tender and white fingers like lotus, and the lotus has a face as delicate and beautiful as lotus.

They are playthings, very high-end playthings, and they are also playthings given to the leaders of Xia City.Their mothers were buried early because they were beautiful and slaves.

For them, there is no difference between the original city and the future city, and there is no difference between the original owner and the future owner.

But this journey between the past and the future is different. This is their first time in a boat, and it is a boat that travels against the current.

The younger sister couldn't help singing a few times with her voice open. It's rare that the guards didn't criticize them for such an outrageous behavior.

After singing for a while, the younger sister realized that the soft harmony was missing in her thin voice, and then realized that her elder sister was staring at the river in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Sister, have you heard where we are going? Will our new master be fierce?"

Lotus root shook her head, but nodded again. When she was a plaything, she naturally heard people talking about that strange city and the strange leader there, and the iron pot that the owner liked very much was given by the leader of that city.She had never seen the original owner so happy that he invited many people to the banquet just for that black iron pot.

It's just that she heard a lot of weird remarks about the leader of that city, their new master, and she felt a little scared.For example, he likes to kill, for example, he is as cunning as a fox, or he is a madman...and he seems to have no children.

This is terrible, because there is a possibility that there is no child who can't do that kind of thing at all, and people who can't do that kind of thing are often very strange in their hearts. A master can't do that kind of thing, but likes to hear the slightly frightened voice of a woman after being conquered.

With all kinds of uneasy guesses, she is not in a mood that has completely surrendered to fate like her younger sister, but is full of worries about the future.

When she was suffering the most, she thought about killing her master, but in the end she didn't dare, so many years ago, when some cities panicked because of a riot, she envied those who took the lead in fleeing.

In other words, many years ago, Onozawa was the home of her dreams, but now it is also Onozawa, but it is just the past reincarnation.

"Perhaps... those people have already been thrown into the lake, right? That's why the fish here are so fat."

With such guesses in mind, Ou Lian finally came to Onozawa, where he saw a workshop with thick smoke, and strange and busy people.

Many people bear the marks of slavery on their faces or arms, but here they hold their heads up, as if walking in a deserted field.

"I smell people."

Lotus root said something for no reason, but Lotus retorted puzzledly: "I smell smoke. It smells bad."

Lotus root smiled, some people must have smoke, and there are weird people, there will naturally be weird smoke.

Before they had time to stay on the shore, they were taken to a house in the city. It was a beautiful red house made of unknown stones and strange square things. In front of the house was written They said a few words, which made them panic. They were words. They had heard of strange things that they had never seen before, and they seemed to have some kind of divinity.

After entering the house, Lianyuan kept her head down, and there were many words that they understood or did not understand in her ears. Occasionally, she raised her head when she heard her own name, wanting to see their future master.

It's a man.

He is a normal-looking man, not very old, with a good-looking but sparse beard because of his young age. There are many people beside the man, and there is also a good-looking woman, just like in Everyone else in the city held their heads up.

However, no matter the man or the woman, they didn't even look at them, but stared at the cloth and bamboo utensils sent by the distant ethnic group on the south bank of the river in amazement, and kept asking the envoys of the southern ethnic group who followed. Weird question.

For example, are the white snow-like flowers of weaving on a tree or a kind of grass?For example, can those bamboos be transported here?For example, is rice grown in water or on dry land?How big is that weird crusty fish?Those white big-toothed animals were domesticated and so on.

These strange questions made the envoy of the southern ethnic group stunned for a while, and even a little frightened, because Lian found that the envoy made a very strange gesture, like a kind of admiration or admiration, and after answering a question, even more It was to see their new owner walking around the ground excitedly like a child, and to hear him say something like "It's really different".

She only heard one person translate into the language of the tribes of the river: that is a kind of grass, and there are trees, but the trees are not as good as the grass.

After that, they were taken down, and the last conversation they heard before leaving was not about myself who was as white as a lotus root, but about those white cloths.

After that, they seemed to be forgotten, locked in a large courtyard, a few women came to teach them some very simple things, such as going to the toilet after unloading, and then some women took off their clothes After checking their bodies, they were given a piece of soap to wash their bodies, and they soaked their clothes in hot water to boil...

For four or five days in a row, someone explained the rules here to them, but they had food and drink every day and didn't have to work, but they had to listen to women nagging about many things every day, and they had to remember them.

On the sixth day, they finally walked out of the courtyard and walked cautiously on the street. Today, they can look around freely. Many of them shrink back, and some dare not speak, let alone look around.

However, at noon, curiosity finally defeated timidity. A few women went to the place where everyone was eating to watch, and they also attracted many people's eyes. Their eyes were a bit like wolves, like very hungry wolves.

There was a terrified voice from a female slave who came with Ou, and then she was suppressed, and she heard that person say a word...

"That's Ze... is he still alive? I recognize him..."

Sometimes just a name is enough to shock people, such as this name.This is a name that the owner of lotus root thought was terrible many years ago, and it is also the name of Onozawa that many slaves fantasize about. However, what surprises lotus root is that this person is now a slave in this city safely.

Of course it was a slave, because there was still a burn mark on his neck, and their food was much worse than that of another place not far away, their clothes were also poor, and their faces were dark.

Lotus root is not very courageous, so she didn't dare to kill her master when she was suffering the most.However, she is not small in courage, at least when she is not killing people, so when those people hurriedly left after eating, she boldly came to that person and asked, "Are you Ze? That... that……"

The person being questioned nodded calmly and helped her finish her sentence: "The slave who killed the master and escaped."

Lotus root swallowed, since she was not the master, she naturally didn't need to be afraid, but these words made her feel more horrified than killing people: Ze in Dayezawa, which she had fantasized about but never dared to go, is now a slave here?It's like something that was once out of reach but always wanted, but when you get it, you find that it is not what you think.

"You...why are you a slave here?"

"I'm not a slave, I'm a human being."

After speaking, she smiled at Ou and left. Lian quietly followed behind her sister, patted her chest and said, "Is that the legendary Ze that likes to grind children into meat and eat them?"