"Hey, Carpenter Long, are you still not a human?" The blacksmith cursed: "It's all from the same village. Did the third aunt take care of you? You should honor your third aunt and take a coffin?"
"Uncle carpenter, don't worry, I must pay it back. There is still food in the house. You can take it." Sanwa didn't want to owe others. This carpenter was really amazing. He didn't dare to take it in front of people. He pushed the cart in the evening. All the food for Sanwa was taken away, and he cursed that it was not enough.
"Uncle Carpenter, I will pay it back, you give me three months."
People are cold, things are thin, and there is not much love as a bowl of rice, but the food is indeed not enough. How much can one child of Sanwa produce
"I owe the carpenter one or two pennies, the blacksmith fifty pennies, the Orion three taels pennies, and the doctor seventy pennies." Sanwa calculated the accounts and wrote these accounts on the table. This house is too poor and all around, the three children huddled in the wood shed and hugged the little fox to keep warm. Don’t say that the fox’s fur is really warm. The three children in the dream murmured: "I will definitely pay it back. ."
The carpenter came to collect debts twice in three days. The blacksmith and the hunter never asked. Instead, they would send something for the three children to eat. It was not the two of them. The three children were starving to death. After all, this winter is too difficult. money.
"Sanwa, you're not done yet. Why don't you show me a clear road? The town's Longyuan Waijia is recruiting slaves and selling himself into the Long's house. Everyone has five taels of silver." The carpenter was not at ease: " Then you can pay off all your debts."
"Uncle, I will pay it back one month."
"You sign this. If you don't pay it back for a month, you are mine." The carpenter deliberately sold the Sanwa, but the Sanwa was forced to sign the agreement.
Ignoring the heavy snow to seal the river, Sanwa changed the medicine to the little fox, and came to the frozen river with a pickaxe by herself, waving desperately. After all, she was young and had little strength. A hole.
Sanwa tied a rope and dived into the river. Although it was cold outside, the water was relatively warm. Although Sanwa was good in water, it is very difficult to fish now.
Twenty-nine days have passed. It was the blacksmith and Orion who sent their children to give Sanwa something to eat every day. The Sanwa had a high fever. After all, he had fished for 20 days in a row, so it’s strange that you don’t catch a cold on a cold day. .
Sanwa shrank in the wood room dizzy: "Little fox, I will sell it to someone as a servant tomorrow, and your legs will soon heal."
The little fox tilted his head and looked at Sanwa suspiciously. His eyes were full of cleverness. The Sanwa hugged it and said, "Haha, I owed money to my mother-in-law for funerals. Uncle Carpenter asked me to pay it back. Tomorrow is the last day. No, I can only sell myself as a slave before I come out."
The third baby in the misty middle seemed to feel the fox in her arms move, as if she had seen her become a woman, covered herself with straw and disappeared. The third baby only woke up at noon the next day, if it were not the son of a blacksmith. When Long Tie came here to deliver food, the three children might have to sleep forever.
"Sanwa, why are you so hot?"
Long Tie is the same age as the third baby, just eight years old, but he has been helping the blacksmith at home to strike iron since he was a child. This is very powerful. Originally the main force for the third baby was him.
The three children should not be killed. They were raised in the blacksmith’s house for seven days before healed. Although the carpenter was desperate for money, he did not dare to provoke the five big and three rough blacksmiths. Moreover, the blacksmith’s brothers are hunters, and these two brothers belong to the rich in the village. And it is indeed not a glorious thing to sell a child to be a slave, but Sanwa always remembers it.
"Sanwa, be my son in the future, just live with Tiedan, so that I don't have to send you food." The blacksmith's face was shaved and his beard was covered with rust, but the others were really enthusiastic.
"Thank you, uncle, I still owe uncle carpenter one or two pennies." Sanwa was nervous.
"Aren't you just a couple of silver? I'll pay you back. The carpenter's deer-headed rat has no good intentions. He has been thinking about doing bad things for the past two days. I think he wants to sell you to the Long's family as a slave." The blacksmith was full of alcohol. Said: "It's not easy to be a minion in the Long Family, don't you kill one that day?"
The thirtieth day finally arrived. The carpenter brought three family members of the Long family to ask for someone. The carpenter is not a thing. The contract he deceived Sanwa to sign is the time, and it says that he will be his slave if he doesn't pay the money.
Slaves can naturally be resold, and blacksmiths and hunters don't have that much money. Besides, according to the contract, they have to pay twenty taels of silver. They can't get it, and who is the Long Family? That was the general who made great contributions to the protection of the king in the past. Although he is crippled and reclusive in the wilderness, his energy is still great, let alone a contract, and it is easy to find a few servants without a contract.
Sanwa doesn’t know what it means to be a slave, but he knows that he must pay back what he owes others. This was taught by the old village chief from an early age when he was in the village. He must be clean, not stealing, not robbing, and not owing others a shot. On the front line, Sanwa is very upset about the money he owes. It is good for him to say that being a slave means paying off the debt. However, he is still very angry about the carpenter’s insidiousness: "Uncle blacksmith, if you have land at home, give it away. For you and Uncle Orion."
It’s not a home here. The third child has a cold that hasn’t healed, but Jiading doesn’t care about it. Nowadays, almost all adult men are fighting, except for those with special reasons, so many jobs require women and half-old children to come. Do.
But the slaves of the Long Family are really not good. The first thing you do when you enter the door is to be branded like a beast. The red-hot iron burns the skinny flesh, and there is a cry in the yard.
"Yep?"
Long Yuanwai was a general, but he was cut off on the battlefield and was unable to continue to join the army. Therefore, he returned to his hometown, but he still likes punching and kicking every morning. Today is the day when the new slaves arrive home, so Grandpa Yuan is really interested in taking a look.
After all, in these chaotic times, there are many bandits. If you don’t have a few powerful bodyguards, how can you do it? Therefore, the first type of slaves is the guardian guards, and then those who serve the old lady, and then they work.
Long Yuan found that other children started crying before they even touched the soldering iron, but one of the children did not cry, and immediately became interested: "What's your name, little guy?"
"Sanwa." Sanwa had not recovered from a cold and looked blushing. This gave the dragon the illusion that the child was in good health.
"En? You are from Longjia Village, don't you have a big name?"
Long Yuan admired this child, even if the adult was burned by a soldering iron, he couldn't help crying out in pain. In fact, he knew that the third child was about to burn out now, and he couldn't even feel the pain. It was not brave and extraordinary.
"Longjiacun, there is no name, my name is Sanwa." A murderous intent flashed in Sanwa's eyes: "The dead carpenter actually lied to me to be a slave. I will definitely get revenge."
There are a total of more than 20 children, both men and women. However, the price of boys is higher, and girls will be cheaper. In the future, those who have money can redeem themselves as free people. But how can the brand be removed
Fortunately, it's only on the chest, and no one can see it when wearing clothes. Dirty is something that nobles can't tolerate. The almost boiled water boiled in a big wooden barrel allows these new slaves to take a bath, not to mention that the hot bath is really comfortable.
The physique of the three babies was much stronger than others, and they had been washed well for a long time. Moreover, those former servants seemed to dislike them very much, so they brushed them hard with a brush, and they almost got rid of the skin.
After taking a shower, everyone put on new winter clothes and ate a ton full. It was cold here. Sanwa was eating hot peppers. After a night, the cold was miraculously healed. I just had a dream and dreamed of one. The woman fed a few grasses into her mouth and gave herself a bag.
The Sanwa was confused and didn't hear what the woman was talking about. When she woke up early the next morning, she found that she was actually well, and her body seemed to be exhausted, so she used to come to the yard to carry her. The broom began to clean the yard.
Sanwa never wakes up very early, others haven't gotten up yet, and it's so cold, who doesn't want to sleep more? But Sanwa is really used to getting up early. Although he is not used to the large courtyards on several floors here, he still gets up to work.
Naturally, servants cannot live with their masters. The Long’s mansion is very large. Slaves like Sanwa and others can only live in other courtyards that are affixed to the main house like plasters. Of course, this is the place where the most inferior servants live. Without training, he is not eligible to enter the main house.
When the new slaves woke up, Sanwa had already cleaned the yard, but he didn’t know what he was doing. After all, he didn’t need to cook. He didn’t expect his habit to bring him a meal. whip.
The housekeeper wielded the cowhide whip and beat the three babies who were hanging on the shelf. Everyone finally knew what this weird shelf was for: "Damn, what the master asks you to do when you arrive at the Long's house is what you sell. You are so cunning at a young age, I'll kill you."
Everyone has their own work. If you do someone else’s work, then others will have no work to do, and the work here is uniformly arranged. The butler’s beating the three babies is actually killing the chicken and the monkey. The butler beats and scolds: "You Remember, I will arrange everything in the house in the future, and don't do unnecessary things."
The rule is the rule. The third child was given twenty lashes and lay on his warm bed covered in bruises. He had already lost consciousness. The rest of the children looked at the shelf in fear and watched the process of the whipping. It was the first lesson when they came to the Long's house. The master allowed them to do it, and their living space was this other courtyard.
"Housekeeper, the child died without treatment. Would you like to call a doctor?" A servant asked for instructions: "That kind of child, is it too much for you to put such a heavy hand?"
"Second, don’t be troublesome. This is the rules of the Long Family, and we must implement it now." The steward has a very high status here. He has been following Long Yuan since he was a child. He was originally a vice general outside the Long Yuan, so this housekeeping work. The military law is also used. If the rules are established, they must be followed. All those who intend to sabotage will be punished: "Well, the child is quite interesting, so don't cry if you are beaten, and call a doctor to show him."
The Long’s family has a dedicated doctor. After all, there are many right and wrong in the gate of this mansion, and people often make mistakes and suffer military laws. Therefore, the doctor is a must. The old doctor is more than fifty, and he is used to it in his eyes, and he is an old military doctor. This trauma did not care, and immediately prescribed a prescription for medicine.
In fact, the new slaves weren't taught what to do a few days ago. They just taught them some rules, such as where they shouldn't go, where they can go, when to eat, and when to sleep. This is simply a strict military force.