From Chief to Ball

On the way back, a few people carrying salt on their backs quietly put some saliva on their fingers into the salt jar and licked it. Character.

"Salt!"

He shook his head, and led a few people to the front. There are still more than 20 miles to the place where the reeds are hidden. Don't be careless here.

Several strange footprints on the snow aroused Xie's alertness. This was a kind of hoof print he had never seen before. It was much larger than a sheep's hoof, and smaller than a cow's hoof. These hoof prints seemed to have just passed by. It's not long here, because the snow hasn't covered it yet.

"What is this?"

"It's fine if it's not a human. No matter what it is, even a tiger is not afraid. It's just a matter of changing some tiger skins for some salt."

Come to think of it, humans are much scarier than animals, since there are no human footprints, there is no need to worry.

Just as he was about to leave, a voice came from the wind and snow: "Wu Na man, how far is this from the village? Where are you going in the wind and snow? Come, come and drink some wine to keep warm."

The person beside you was startled, panicked, and cursed, "What are you panicking about?"

He raised his head and looked into the distance. The two were riding on a beast that looked like a big donkey, shouting at them from a distance, and took out a gourd from his arms and shook it.

He whispered: "It's just three people, they must have regarded us as people from the village. Since they kindly gave us drinks, we don't want their lives, just snatched the thing that was riding under the crotch."

He took out a stone dagger and hid it in his bosom, deliberately pretending that the wind had blown his hair away to cover the burn scar on his face, and shouted loudly: "Okay, wine is best. We are from the village. Let’s heat up the fire and go back together. You don’t sound like people here? What are you riding?”

"Horse. We are really not from here. Well, here is a shelter from the wind, so we can light a fire and roast."

One of the three riders jumped off, and the other two remained on the horse, forming a horn seemingly inadvertently.

He quickly walked over with a few brave hands and feet, and when he was pretending to salute, he suddenly grabbed the leather robe of the man who dismounted and shouted: "Do it!"

Since he didn't want the man's life, he didn't use the stone knife, he grabbed the man's arm and collar and carried it on his shoulder, and with his back he was about to throw the man over and grab his arm. Few people can hide from having fun with people.

But as soon as he tried hard, he found that the person behind him was no less capable than himself, and his legs were hooked by the other party at this moment. After a strong shock, both of them fell into the snow. Grabbing the horse's tail and barking a few times, the steed started to gallop, and after a few ups and downs, it had already thrown off the crowd, and the other two riders also left.

He cursed secretly, but said in his heart: "He is a capable person, this is not good, you need to leave quickly."

But in the wind and snow, I heard a few words faintly coming from a distance: "I'll report to Ji Xia, you hold them and don't let them run away."

Seeing that the man ran a few steps and climbed onto the horse's back, he whistled at the horse from a distance, and he patted the horse and disappeared.The remaining two wanted to follow the wolves behind the flock at a distance, rushing in and knocking two or three away without paying attention, or tied one with a rope to tease.

Sigh, when this group of people stopped and took out their weapons and stood up, the two of them fled far away. If they were not worried that they were people from the village, the two of them would have used spear throwing, but Chen Jian told them not to provoke the village as much as possible. The middleman had no choice but to be patient.

Seeing people like himself walking more and more slowly, he felt anxious, and thought to himself: "What is that Jixia? I haven't heard of such a person with a surname nearby, and they are riding horses they have never seen before. What is going on outside this winter?" ?”

Looking back at the two riders who were resting their heads, he frowned and said, "I'm afraid something will happen if we slow down so much."

"Not good! Look over there!"

A person screamed and dropped the salt jar by mistake. Looking around, he saw a strange snow sledge drawn by one or two horses, forming a half-moon shape in the distance, heading towards him Pack it here.

A few people stood on the speeding sledge and drew their bows and arrows. If you can shoot a bow on such a speeding thing, you can know that you are not an ordinary person. I also saw that these people controlled the speed of the horse, neither fast nor slow, and slowly surrounded half of them, sigh Knowing that today is going to be a bad day, he cursed, turned around and threw the salt jar to his companions, tore off the leather on his body and shouted: "A few people are here to hold them back, you run back quickly, this is our life-saving salt, There is the woods over there, just go into the woods. Talk to Ze, let him take care of my woman, and talk to my woman, and find a wild man to raise her own while you can, and say I am the father of the child, give me a bowl of rice during the sacrifice."

After shouting, a few people who were usually convinced stood up and said: "When I killed my master and escaped, I died once. What are you afraid of? You go!"

Seven or eight people stood in a row and rushed towards the people near the woods, which was the closest to the woods and the easiest to catch the people behind.

The people behind didn't say much, they picked up all kinds of salt containers and ran, knowing in their hearts that they would be safe if they entered the forest.

In the distance, Chen Jian stood on the sledge, stared at those people, and shouted to the people beside him: "Blow the whistle, tell the people in the south to stop those running into the woods. A good man plays and shows his skills, and when he plays well, he will have good wine."

The lads laughed, and each showed their skills, not for the sip of hot wine, but to make a good impression in front of the leader. They all knew that no one could get their hands on the army in Ji Xia's hands, and Ji Xia had to let Ji Xia know if he wanted to make a contribution. I have the ability to make meritorious service.

A few horses ran over rumblingly, it was difficult for these people even if they wanted to die, and after a while, they were tightly tied up one by one and thrown into the snow.

Even though he was tightly tied up, Ge still moved his body like a bean worm. He wanted to see his companions running into the woods with salt on their backs, but when he finally turned around, he saw several horses rushing away. Those people are arresting everywhere.

Soon, the spoils of war were placed in front of Chen Jian. Chen Jian dipped his finger on it, spat and said, "Is it salt?"

"Yes, a lot, enough to feed a thousand people for a while."

Chen Jian nodded and smiled, walked up to the tightly bound He, looked at the marks on He's face and said with a smile: "You must think that you are a good man and responsible, don't you? It's a pity, in my opinion, you You are a fool. Since you are asked to get the salt, and getting the salt back is the most important thing, why do you have to think about us? You lit a fire yourself, but rushed into the fire to fight the fire and expect others to give you a thumbs up ?”

Chapter 33 Only fires are allowed, no lamps allowed

It's the first time I've heard of the saying that idiots are connected together, but after a little guessing, I know that this is not a good thing, but I have to admit that I am indeed an idiot. If something happens, it will definitely not cause these troubles.

The partners behind him were all captured one by one, and the salt was scattered all over the ground and mixed with the snow, which made him feel distressed.

With so much salt, Chen Jian guessed that it should be used by those escaped slaves in Onozawa. He has his own considerations for these escaped slaves.

On the banks of the Caohe River, before the appearance of ox plowshares, he was a staunch supporter and defender of the slave system. Even after Xiacheng had ox farming, some slaves who fled from E and Weicheng to Xiacheng would be tied up. Because he didn't want to offend the slave owners along the Caohe River, which was the foundation of Xia City.

But here, he doesn't have much hostility towards these slaves. On the contrary, he also hopes to use the east wind of Xiacheng's cattle farming technology to cause a violent shock-a developed handicraft industry requires a broad market, and these slaves who have no purchasing power Slaves must be eliminated—not physically, but by turning them into self-cultivators and workshop apprentices in the form of an institution, so that scissors can be exploited on a large scale to support more full-time soldiers and full-time people.

Now that the slave owner class in Xiacheng has been formed and their interests cannot be touched for the time being, the newly built city needs to become another template, giving future people another choice.It is much easier to tear down an old house and build a new one than to build a tall building on flat ground.

He didn't know what Chen Jian was thinking, he just thought that he was going to die this time, although he was not as famous as Ze, but he could be regarded as a heinous villain in the nearby cities, so he would definitely be hanged.

Now that he has seen through life and death, he is not afraid in his heart, snorted and shouted at the rider who reported the letter just now: "Didn't you just say that you want to buy me a drink? I was just joking with you, so why did I run away? How many days have you had a drink?" Already drank."

The rider glanced at Chen Jian, who nodded and said, "Give him the strongest words."

The strongest wine from half a gourd was poured into his mouth, and it was hot from his tongue to his heart. He stretched out his tongue and licked the remnant around his mouth, and said with a smile: "Good wine. I am Ye, congratulations, I caught one and I can exchange it for a piece of wine. A person who stores corn."

He originally thought that this group of people would look shocked, but he didn't want Chen Jian and the others to look at each other. Obviously they didn't know the name. Seeing that they didn't seem to be fake, he couldn't hold back his face.

Chen Jian smiled and said, "Look at what you mean, you are still a character. You came from the depths of Onozawa?"

"Yes. Don't you know everything?"

"Come out to get salt?"

"Correct."

"With whom?"

"It was picked up from the ground. Someone asked us to put the goods in the valley, and when they took the goods, they put the salt in the valley and we picked it up."

He didn't keep his mouth shut, but lied, even in the eyes of that village's exploitation, it was better than nothing, he didn't want to involve that village, it was the last thing he would do for his partner in Daze before he died.

Of course Chen Jian didn't believe it. There was a village in the distance, so he must have exchanged with someone from that village.But he didn't say anything, he just told a few people what to say in a low voice.He only saw a dozen people galloping away, but he didn't know what they were doing, he just felt a little bit in his heart, those people clearly followed their own footsteps to that village.

"What are you going to do?"

"Don't do anything, let's see if you are telling the truth. A woman said that you slaves are bad people, for example, if you don't tell the truth, it seems that it is true now."

"Do meat eaters have to tell the truth?"

"It is a virtue not to speak the truth for a flesh-eater, but a baseness for a slave not to tell the truth. You don't understand."