Prince is a slave

Occasionally, when I press my fingers, I still feel the slight itching of the wound healing.

On this day, Yi Luojia saw that Su Yue was in good spirits, so he proposed to take him to the "Labor Gathering of the Noble and Low" to have a look.

"The labor assembly without dignity, as the name suggests, is an assembly without any class distinction. Common people, slaves, nobles, and even the king work together." Iroja and Su Yue explained, "There are four times a month, and they are willing to work for Elbe. People who make labor contributions without compensation gather in the square and distribute tasks uniformly.”

Su Yue asked: "Isn't it mandatory to go?"

"It's voluntary."

"No pay?"

"Except for others' thanks."

"There is no hierarchy?"

"The status is completely equal."

Su Yue stared at Yi Luojia, who had already put on a clean but very simple coat, Su Yue shook his head, almost in a puzzled tone: "How could anyone go to such absurd farce?"

Facts proved that Su Yue was wrong, quite completely wrong.

The folk customs in Elbe are completely different from those in the Shang Dynasty. People are not willing to work, but are keen on this kind of unpaid labor. When Su Yue and Yi Luojia rushed to the square, it was still daylight, but a large number of people had already gathered in the square , from the ladies of the family to the prostitutes in Yirenlou, from the current officials to the beggars on the roadside, from the elderly to the old, and down to the yellow-mouthed children, they gathered here to make a lot of noise.

When Iloka walked into the crowd, a bearded man immediately recognized him and greeted him warmly: "Hey, brother and friend Luojia, have you come to the rally today?"

"Brothers and friends" is what the Elbes call each other at the Innocent Assembly.Even if the king appears in person, the beggar can still call the king "brother and friend".

Su Yue couldn't take it anymore. He knew that this bearded man sold pork at a stall next to the Pingxi Duke's Mansion. Usually, when he saw Yi Luojia, he would always eat "Master". Out.

Yi Luojia seemed to be used to it and didn't mind it. He smiled: "It's boring to be idle at home, why don't you come out to help. By the way, is this your daughter?"

The bearded man lowered his head, looked at the little girl who was snuggling against his legs, tightly clutching his big hand, and laughed: "Yes, this is the little girl Linghu, come on, little Linghu, go say hello to uncle. "

The little girl didn't move, she hid behind her father, showing half of her face timidly, looking up at Iroka with deer-like eyes, and after a long time, said softly: "Daddy, is this the lord?"

Yi Luojia walked over, gently put his hands on the little girl's hair tied with a flower headband, and said with a gentle smile: "Girl, what are you afraid of, I am not an enemy, I am a subject of the king just like your father , all live for Elbe."

The little girl hesitated, and asked softly: "Is the uncle the same as us? But, but Daddy can only live in a small, low house, but the mansion of the uncle is so big that you can't see the side... Also, Uncle Grandpa has a lot of delicious food, a lot of fun..."

Yi Luojia looked at her with soft eyes, and he listened to her patiently. He didn't touch her head until the child's voice became quieter, and said, "Uncle Sir has some. Sooner or later, the Linghu family will Yes, as long as everyone obeys the king's orders, Elbe will become richer and richer, and everyone will have those houses and food."

"Really?" The little girl poked her face out from behind her father's legs, and asked suspiciously, "You're not lying?"

"Of course I'm not lying." Yi Luojia squatted down, stretched out his little finger, and said with a smile, "Shall I hook up with you?"

"You are so boring, you can talk for so long with a little girl who sells pork." When Yi Luojia finished coaxing the little Linghu, and Su Yue walked towards the center of the square with Su Yue, Su Yue said with some contempt, "Whatever you want Just pull the hook and promise, it's really a lie."

"Who told you I was lying?"

"That's weird. Living with the people, eating the same food, sharing the same wealth, what a ridiculous scene? You want a pork seller to live in a house as big as Pingxi Jue Mansion, don't be stupid, how is it possible."

"Why not?"

"There is no such place in the world."

"No, there is such a place in this world."

"You want to say, the paradise after death? Don't laugh at people."

Iroka stopped and stared into Su Yue's eyes in the endless stream of people, and then he said: "Su Yue, that's not the afterlife, I'm talking about Elbe, here, in this land, we Together with the king, drive away poverty, hunger and hardship. Look at these people, each of them is willing to work for Elbe. If one day, our mother Elbe needs their protection, every Elbe person will use it It is a great pride to offer one's own head and blood."

"..." Su Yue looked at him for a long time as if he had never seen this person before, and then he smiled sarcastically: "Yi Luojia, I thought you were a good person, but I didn't think I was wrong Now, you are not abusing good people, you are simply a fool."

Iroka seemed to have expected his disdainful attitude, he raised his light golden eyebrows indifferently, turned around and picked two brooms from the tool basket in the square, threw one of them to Su Yue, and said, "Okay Well, so wise, mature, and knowledgeable Su Yue brothers and friends, please follow me, who is stupid, naive, and ignorant, to clean up the embankment over there, will it work?"

"..."

Su Yue suddenly had a very strong urge to turn the broom in his hand sideways and slap the smiling face of the golden-haired fox in front of him fiercely.

The embankment is made of long white bricks and stones. Many ginkgo trees are planted on the embankment. The yellow leaves on the tall and straight trees are shaking gently, like hundreds of thousands of golden butterflies. Bit by bit, it fell on the branches, and when it fell on the ground, it was sifted and washed, leaving only swaying shadows.

When Su Yue and Yi Luojia rushed over, there was a circle of people on the embankment, and everyone was pointing and discussing something.

"What's the matter?" Iroka asked an old man.

"Tsk tsk, it's miserable...it's too miserable..." the old man said tremblingly shaking his beard.

"awful?"

"A good young man, I don't know who did it so viciously, how will his father, mother and daughter-in-law live..." the old man sighed.

Su Yue and Yi Luojia glanced at each other, and then the two of them squeezed into the crowd. Su Yue separated the two fat women and finally squeezed to the front. The tragic scene before him shocked him, who had always been calm. , he stared wide-eyed, looking at the dead man lying in a pool of blood, unable to speak a word.

He knew the man who was killed. Back then, Lin Ruizhe led some cronies to the palace outside the palace, and this man was one of them.

Su Yue remembered that he seemed to be urging Lin Ruizhe to kill himself at the beginning, but now, the man's corpse lay on the ground, with protruding eyes and a wide mouth. pull out.

The doctor in Yibei was squatting down beside the dead man to observe, finally he stood up, waved someone to put a white cloth on the dead body, turned around and said to the crowd next to him: "...his heart was taken away by the murderer. .”

There was a gasp from the crowd.

Su Yue stared at the raised white cloth, which blocked the corpse, but the blood still slowly leaked out, staining the cloth surface red.

At this moment, there was commotion from the opposite side, and then the people dispersed one after another to make way, and a soldier hurried over. The leading man was in his twenties, with resolute features, tight mouth corners, and frowned eyebrows. The stern word Chuan, the eyes are terribly cold.

Su Yue trembled slightly, the leading officer was none other than General Lin Ruizhe.

Lin Ruizhe walked up to the corpse of his subordinate, he looked down at the undulating white cloth, then under the gaze of everyone, he bent slowly, half-kneeled beside the corpse, raised his hand, and slowly uncovered the cloth. The white cloth reveals the face of the deceased.

Glassy eyes, bloody face.

Intertwined with the heroic spirit of the past.

Lin Ruizhe stared at him with a rather strange expression, as if he didn't want to believe that his brother had died tragically. He looked at him even in a daze, as if he was asking the brother who left, why are you lying here? Can you stand up?

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Ruizhe raised his hand, gently covered the dead man's eyes, and took off his eye straps.

Ginkgo leaves rustle and fall on the street.

Lin Ruizhe stood up, turned his back to the subordinates behind him, and his voice was filled with oppressive and dangerous wind and rain: "Issue a Class-A search warrant, wanted by the whole country, and offer a reward of [-] Nabel! Do it immediately!"

As he spoke, he suddenly turned his head, and the long wind blew his black hair in an instant. He gritted his teeth, and every muscle in his face was tense because of the pain: "Whoever did it?" Yes, I want to let that bastard know what will happen to my brother Lin Ruizhe!!"

After a while, the mourning team came, and they set up a stretcher and carried the deceased down.

The crowd tore apart after discussion.Lin Ruizhe was still standing where he was, looking down at the mottled blood on the white bricks and stones, his bangs were hanging down his cheeks, making it impossible to see his expression clearly.

"...It's so strange, it's just that a running dog died, so why be angry." Su Yue looked at Lin Ruizhe's profile from a distance, and said in a low voice.

This sentence was heard by Yi Luojia, who patted Su Yue on the shoulder and said, "Forget it, General Lin is the most important general in Yibei who regards human life as the most important thing. Killing his brother is better than killing him." Still uncomfortable."

"Killed his brother?" Su Yue sneered, "It turns out that a person from the Shang Kingdom would put