Passing through the station

"Snapped!"

Accompanied by the sound of breaking through the air, there seemed to be an explosion in the air, and Ruan Bai felt a dull pain coming out of the cracks in his bones.

There was a huge hole left in the gray-brown coarse cloth, and the cold wind poured into it, making it painful.

The one who was waving a whip in his hand was still a young boy, riding on horseback, scolding something loudly with a still immature voice.His ears seemed to be stuffed with two balls of cotton, and he couldn't hear clearly at all.

A voice seemed to come from a distant place. The boy rode his horse around twice, scolded him twice, and walked away unwillingly.

Ruan Bai was lying on the ground, and what caught his eye was a pair of dry, cracked, black and yellow hands with thick joints. Under the hands were rough soil particles, and sparse grass roots could be vaguely seen.

Where is this place?

It's all good, as long as he's not dead yet.

"Cough cough." His throat was dry, and after only two coughs, a tingling pain appeared in his throat.He resisted the itch in his throat, barely swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and staggered to follow the long-distance team.

Flocks of cattle and sheep, carrying high burdens, followed by a group of people with disheveled hair. It was almost impossible to distinguish between men and women, let alone their expressions.

Several men and women rode horses as tall as people, cruising around the team, and when they saw someone leaving the team, they whipped them down.Some fell directly on people, but most of them fell on the side, mostly as a warning.

In the ears, heavy breathing spread.

Along with clear vision, hearing is gradually recovering.The voice of the man on horseback was strange and high-pitched, even under the noise of so many animals, he could still hear it clearly.

Ruan Bai wrote down what they said word by word, silently repeating it over and over again in his heart.

Even if you don't understand the specific meaning, many emotions can be revealed in a person's voice - love, sternness, cruelty, coquettishness, joy, longing...

Combining the clothes and the faces of everyone who seized the opportunity to see, when the camp was approaching, Ruan Bai already knew a lot of information, but he didn't know whether it was useful or not.

Snapped!

There was another explosion in the air, and it landed beside Ruan Bai.It was still the boy who was wielding the whip, but after the previous reprimand, the whip didn't fall on him this time.

This time it was not Ruan Bai who was targeted by the young man, but another young man walking beside him.

Ruan Bai turned sideways unobtrusively, distanced himself from the young man on top of him, and continued to unload the luggage from the cows and horses obediently.

The young man asked something loudly in their own language, and seeing the bewildered look on the hunched young man's face, he could only ask again in broken Da Zhou Mandarin: "What are you hiding?"

Ruan Bai breathed a sigh of relief, even though the boy's accent was thick, he finally understood a sentence.He is never afraid of not being able to learn the language, but at least it is good to have a reference, or even a cultural heritage that does not violate his own.

What happened to him was so weird that it could only be explained by time travel in some popular novel.As far as the current situation is concerned, although the "masters" are difficult to get along with, they obviously have no intention of killing them.As long as his life was guaranteed, even if it was only temporarily, the so-called master would not pose a threat to him.

What worries him is his surroundings.The lack of information made him not know where this place is, what caused the current situation, and who were the slaves together.He wasn't sure if someone would stab him in the back when he reached out to his master.

People don't kill heaven and earth for themselves. The harsher the environment, the more human nature will be tested.

Ruan Bai would never hand over his back to a group of precarious people.

While he was thinking to himself, the young man being questioned stretched out a hand similar to his, with a handful of grass seeds on it.The young man's voice was dry and hoarse, and he spit out almost out of breath: "...hungry..."

Seeing the result, the boy snorted and left without interest.It is the seed of the most common grass on the prairie, and it is not uncommon.Thinking of his father's plan to save these people in the market and sell them in exchange for beautiful silk for his sister's wedding dress, he called out to his mother who was cooking: "Is the meal ready?" The dowry, you can't sell it for money when you die.His older sister was going to marry a tribal warrior, so she couldn't be underestimated just because the dowry was small.

Beside the bonfire, two women were working on it, and did not let the slaves do it.Soon the air was filled with the aroma of pancakes, mixed with the aroma of oil and milk.

What fell into Ruan Bai's hands was a bowl of hot soup, which contained nothing, like boiled water for washing a pot, but with a few oil stars.

Feeling warm in his empty stomach, he closed his eyes and curled up with the others in the barn for the night.The smell is indeed intriguing, and at least it keeps the wind and keeps warm.

In the current situation, there is really no way to pay more attention to it.Even if he was so hungry that he wanted to eat the sheep alive.

After sleeping until midnight, Ruan Bai woke up.

The temperature was already two seasons from what it was before going to sleep, the hot air exhaled formed a white mist in the air, and the exposed nose and ears were cold.

There were faint rustling sounds around him, and then the starlight in the sky and the light reflected from the campfire in the distance, he saw the people around him were weaving grass.The rough hands bent eastward and westward, looked like one thing, and scattered into a pile of grass clippings in a short while.

The man looked at the grass that had been tortured beyond shape, and frowned tightly, as if he was facing a difficult problem.

Ruan Bai was expressionless, and didn't even change his breathing. He subconsciously stretched out a hand. Not only was he startled, but even the other party was so scared that he almost jumped up from the ground.

He watched the movement of the opponent with one hand on the ground and the other on his waist, and said nothing.

Soon, a handful of grass was placed in his hand.The most indispensable thing on the grassland is grass.In this season, yellow grass is everywhere, and I don't know when the man collected it.He moved his hands absently, and quickly rubbed out two pairs of straw sandals.One pair for yourself, one pair for men.

I already had shoes on my feet, and I don’t know how long I’ve been walking. The soles of the shoes are so thin that they are almost useless. I’m afraid they will fall apart after walking two more steps.The toes are all exposed, which is extremely cool.

The man's eyes gleamed in the night, full of surprise. After taking the straw sandals, he put them on his feet with a little care.Immediately, the feet that had been leaking everywhere were tightly wrapped, and the heat began to accumulate, and they were no longer cold and numb, and they didn't even rub their feet very much.

The man handed over another handful of grass.

This time Ruan Bai finally saw where the grass came from.The man even stuffed grass in his clothes, and the grass was exactly the same as what the animals ate.

Is it really good to grab the rations of the animals?

This kind of thought just flashed through Ruan Bai's mind. When he was short of food and clothing, even if he wanted to be merciful, he couldn't take the livestock as the object of sympathy.If the animals don’t have enough to eat, they will share a bowl of mutton soup among themselves…

He shook his head violently, feeling that his brain was being controlled by his stomach.Now it was obvious that those animals were worth much more than these people.

After moving the fingers for a while, it is obvious that there is more heat, and the movements are much more flexible when weaving again.

The man stared intently, making Ruan Bai feel like a flower bloomed on his hand... No, it felt like he had an extra fragrant chicken leg.With a flick of his fingers, the grass stem broke, and the man grinned silently.

It turns out that you will tear it too——Ruan Bai instantly understood his gaze, he didn't even bother to groan, he took off his tattered coat, tied the woven straw mat outside the single clothes, put on the tattered coat again; rolled up the trousers again Sleeves, elbow pads and knee pads tied at the joints, turning a blind eye to the man's curious and longing eyes, and curled up to sleep.

After closing his eyes for less than 5 minutes, Ruan Bai was woken up by strangling.The arm was numb with pain as if bitten by a wild animal.

The man who attacked was innocent, with a completely "I don't know anything" face, and handed over a pile of grass.

Ruan Bai almost lost his breath, covered his face and lowered his head and sighed, when the man's hand was about to pinch him again, he quickly took the grass, resigned himself to his fate and began to weave with his fingers.

The man grinned, his big white teeth almost glistening.

The situation is stronger than people, he endures it!

After the elbow pads were knitted, the man stretched out his arms, and Ruan Bai put them on.

After the knee pads were woven, the man stretched his legs, and Ruan Bai put them on.

The straw mat is finished, and the man opens his hands...

Ruan Bai kicked it over, seeing how he was used to being served, his whole body was full of flaws, I really don't know how it got mixed up like this.

However, he is not a servant!

The man was stunned for a moment when he saw that Ruan Bai didn't move, and then he probably reacted, he even flattened his mouth, and put it on himself aggrieved.

What a shame he is!Ruan Bai was furious, gathered his clothes, and fell asleep with his head tilted.Seeing that there will be another "Long March" tomorrow, it is impossible to have no physical strength.

After tidying up his clothes, the man wanted to show off when he was satisfied, but when he saw that the person he was showing off wasn't cooperative at all, he wanted to stretch his fingers over again. After thinking about it, he put it down and adjusted his position to block it for Ruan Bai. some wind.

The cracking of the whip rang in his ears, Ruan Bai was about to attack subconsciously, Hao Xuan remembered the current situation, and got up quickly and awkwardly, which made the whip-whip boy laugh out loud.

Ruan Bai was submissive on the surface, even with his head down, even his eyes looked timid and cowering, like a standard quail.As a slave, there was no such thing as washing. He directly queued up with the others to get a bowl of washing water for breakfast.

He held the bowl to warm his hands, and then drank the hot soup as quickly as possible.After savoring it carefully, it is still mixed with various subtle smells... the smell of washing pot water. Compared with last night, there is not even a star of oil this morning.

There were nearly 20 slaves, and of course the slave owners would not allocate twenty bowls.In fact, there are so many of them, there are only two bowls.

Ruan Bai handed the bowl to the person behind him, but when he turned around, he was stopped by the soup girl.According to his judgment, this girl should be the daughter of the "chief", the older sister of the brat who whipped him yesterday.

He couldn't understand what she was saying, but seeing her pointing to the straw sandals on his feet and gesturing a few more times, he probably understood.

The leader saw his daughter talking to a slave, and quickly strode over.The girl trotted over, hugged the leader's arm and shook it back and forth. The leader's wife beside her had a doting smile on her face. The young man rolled his eyes, curled his lips and walked over to Ruan Bai, pointing at the straw sandals, and then pointing again. Pointing at the girl: "Teach."

Ruan Bai agreed with trepidation, he couldn't help but refuse, and he didn't want to refuse.

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