Gold escape plan

Seeing that Ma Xiaorui was puzzled, Xu Er continued to explain: "After I came out of Palenque, I came to Tikal. I didn't know what to do at first, but fortunately I met the master, so I followed the master and worked as a paint worker. I usually make some paints, paint the walls of those big families, and draw decorations..."

Xu Er's master drew up the curtains to prevent the light from the oil lamp from coming out.Then he poured Ma Xiaorui a glass of water.

The shouting outside the window still hasn't dissipated.

"Xiao Rui, what's going on?" Xu Er held Ma Xiaorui's hand, lowered his voice, and said anxiously, "Who are they? Why did they arrest you?"

Ma Xiaorui thought about it, and told Xu Er in detail about his experience after leaving the Palenque Temple.Among them, Huo Qin gave him a big bag of cocoa beans, but he just found an excuse to prevaricate it.

After he finished talking about everything, he drank all the water in the glass in one go.

The fire probably couldn't be put out. It was almost dawn, and the shouting outside gradually died down.He didn't know Pan Qia's sphere of influence, and he didn't know whether he would join forces with wealthy businessmen to arrest him.But at least he knew that he couldn't stay here.

"Xu Er, I have to go. If I don't go, I will cause you trouble."

"Ah?" Xu Er was stunned for a second and realized: "No, Xiao Rui! Are you going out now, waiting to be caught by them?"

Ma Xiaorui: "..."

He had just thought of hiding in the bushes until dawn, and then going out after Pancha gave up looking for him.Then, maybe like Xu Er, find a master and ask for a craft, and then you can go up as high as the tide, and finally hold the scepter in your arms.

However, Xu Er found him.But he couldn't implicate these two innocent and kind people here.

Slaves don't even have a name in this slavery society, let alone human rights.If Pancha couldn't find him, he might report it to the priest in charge of their area, and then the priest would even search house to house.

At that time, nothing can be hidden.Xuer and his master will also be punished for hiding a slave.

He hugged Xu Er's thin body, and shook hands with Xu Er's master.That naive-looking man had hard calluses on his palms.

"Don't worry, I'm fine," he said.

"What do you mean it's okay?" Xu Er was anxious: "What do you eat and drink? What are you going to do? Xiao Rui, you won't hurt us..."

After finishing speaking, Xu Er looked at the master and asked for his opinion.The master nodded quickly.

"You hide here, wait for the limelight to subside in two days—"

"Xu Er." Ma Xiaorui interrupted him: "You are my friend."

So I can't drag you down.

Xu Er was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Well, if you insist on leaving..."

He turned around, opened the door of a cabinet, took out two large bags from it, and put them on the table.

"How much does a slave need to redeem himself?" Xu Er pushed the bag to Ma Xiaorui.

"There are 500 cocoa beans inside, if not enough, we still have..."

Ma Xiaorui was dumbfounded.

The money, the two of them saved for a year, may not be able to save it.

"Hurry up and take it." Xu Er's master chimed in.

If Ma Xiaorui refused, he would be a fool... Without money, his identity has always been that of a runaway slave.But with money, it's different.

However, Xu Er and his master are also ordinary people running small businesses...

He suddenly felt a little hot in his eye sockets.At this time, it seems that saying anything is superfluous.

He saw that there were still paper and pens on the table, so he took them over, solemnly wrote an IOU, and pressed a fingerprint with ink.

"You guys accept this." He handed them the IOU: "This is the way in my hometown, the manager borrows money. I will pay it back..."

Xu Er took the IOU in a daze.

He went up to hug Xu Er: "I didn't make friends with you..."

Xu Er patted his back hard.

Where Ma Xiaorui couldn't see, Xu Er's eyes moved, and then he suddenly said——

"Xiao Rui, my master and I plan to develop in Karamoke, where the pay for paint workers is better... You will be free soon, would you like to join us?"

Xu Er looked at him with sincere eyes.

Karamoke, a city-state that advocates force.It is also the only city-state that can compete with Tikal.Warriors like to paint their whole body red to show their strength, and paint workers are indispensable there.

But Karamoke is also a city-state with a very strong class consciousness. It is completely hereditary and there is no meritocracy system.A commoner, no matter how capable he is, is absolutely impossible to fly into the sky with wings.

This alone restricts his path to death.

So he politely declined.

Xu Er blinked: "Are you really not going?"

Ma Xiaorui shook his head with a smile.

"Okay." Xu Er also smiled: "We will meet again when we have a chance, I wish you good luck Xiao Rui."

"You too, good luck, good luck..." Ma Xiaorui said goodbye to them and left the dilapidated house.

Standing at the door, Xu Er watched Ma Xiaorui's disappearing figure, his eyes gradually changed from youthful and innocent to cold and mature.

"Good luck Xiao Rui, I hope we won't see each other again in the future." He narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly.

"You let him go like this?" "Master" stood behind him and asked.

"How else?"

"This man has extraordinary cunning and intelligence. If he can't..."

The young man turned his head and looked at him like a sharp knife that had just been sharpened.The man's voice gradually decreased.

After a pause, he still didn't hold back: "Will he be suspicious?"

"No." Xu Er said, "Pack up your things and set off."

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Ma Xiaorui found Pan Qia with a gloomy face, and threw two heavy bags of cocoa beans at his feet.

Pan Qia's face turned a liver purple.

Ma Xiaorui rolled his eyes, turned around and left.

"Stop!" Pancha yelled after him.

Before Ma Xiaorui could respond, two servants came up and pressed his shoulders.

"Damn it." He cursed and raised his head: "What else do you want? This money is enough to redeem me!"

It was already dawn, and some civilians who watched the excitement came out one after another on the street. Seeing this scene, they couldn't help but start pointing in small groups:

"This slave has been redeemed, so let him go."

"It looks like I don't have much meat, and I can't do much work. No matter what, you earned it..."

Pancha is as deaf.

He clenched his fists again and again, his face faded from an eggplant to a tomato.

Pan Qia stepped forward, squeezed Ma Xiaorui's chin, and snorted coldly: "Come and humiliate me? That's fine. Even if you have money, you still run away. Don't think about leaving so easily!"

Ma Xiaorui ruthlessly shook off Pan Qia's hand.

A slightly mocking voice suddenly came from the periphery of the crowd——

"Hey, a piece of gold fell from the sky, is it worth being surrounded by you?"

The crowd immediately fell silent, shook their heads and dispersed.Pan Qia's face turned into an unripe tomato, but after a moment, he looked at Ma Xiaorui and smiled triumphantly.

Ma Xiaorui could clearly see the appearance of that person—very ordinary, except that he was wearing a priest's robe.

The fabric of the robe is not high-end, and the decoration on it is also very simple.It looks like a low-level priest.

Pan Qia turned around, bowed his head and said, "Master Yagur."

The priest named Yagur glanced at him and snorted through his nose: "If you want to discipline your slaves, go home and discipline them. It's not embarrassing to run here."

"Oh, my lord, you are blaming me wrongly..."

Ma Xiaorui frowned, seeing that Pan Qia stuffed a large bag of cocoa beans to Yaguer.

One seems to be paying tribute, while the other is really a corrupt official.

Yagur took it without changing his expression, and hid it in his wide priest robe.After that, I listened to Pancha's embellished narrative like listening to a joke.

Then he turned his head to Ma Xiaorui who was still under pressure: "He said, you stole the money for your ransom?"

Ma Xiaorui rolled his big eyes: "No."

"Where did that come from?"

Ma Xiaorui didn't speak.

Yagur sneered: "Can't tell?"

Ma Xiaorui raised his head and asked back: "If I really stole it, why hasn't anyone come to report to you that there was a thief in the house last night and what was lost?"

——The sky is bright, and everyone has been up for a long time.

Yagur raised his eyebrows.

"I've already paid enough money for my ransom, and I'm a free man now. But he," Ma Xiaorui raised his chin towards Pan Qia, "he tried to detain a civilian."

This is not Palenque, where power has fallen, but Tikal, which is prosperous and stable.This kind of thing is not allowed to happen.

Yagur lowered his head to weigh it, then raised his head: "Yes, you are indeed a free man now."

"However," he touched his chin again: "If you escaped when you were a slave, you must accept 10 whips on the soles of your feet."

Pan Qia immediately smiled.Ma Xiaorui's heart sank.

Before he could react, he was already held by the servants and tied to a nearby stone.The feet are raised high.

He twisted his body in vain, and gave the two men a hard look.The younger sister escaped the first day of junior high school, but did not escape the fifteenth day. He felt that his cultivation was not enough, he could not even handle a character who was not a boss, and urgently needed to improve.

Huo Qin and Mi Bao appeared in his mind for no reason.He froze for a moment, and kicked the two out.

That's right, they saved themselves once, but this kind of thing can't be counted on...

Yagur took out the whip from his clothes and raised it with a sneer.

He closed his eyes.

Yes, what's the matter... My heart went away in less than a few minutes... Well, yes, that's it...

The whip fell sharply.

There was a "pop" sound from the bottom of the foot.What followed was a sharp pain.

Ma Xiaorui frowned and clenched his teeth, not letting himself make a sound.His hands were shaking.

Yagur raised his whip again, but suddenly there was a roar from behind: "Enough!"