mortal clerk

Chapter 21 Twenty Gold I Bought
While the father and father were talking, a group of carriages came from a distance, and it was only after they walked in that they saw that there were as many as a hundred people.Except for more than a dozen people who looked like guards, the rest were women dressed in animal skins and sackcloth, with confused faces and bare feet, imprisoned in a cage in a bullock cart.

Li Qingniu had never seen such a scene before, so he got out of the carriage and asked Lao Shen.

"Old Shen, what are these people doing?"

Old Shen shook his head and sighed: "Looking at it, it should be a slave bought by a slave merchant from the Wuman tribe!"

Li Qingniu had never heard the word slave, so he asked again: "What is a slave?"

"Slaves, in the eyes of slave masters, are like cattle and horses in your family!"

"How could it be possible? People are people, and cows and horses are cows and horses. How could they be the same!"

"Well, you are still young. These barbarians from the Wuman tribe neither belong to the people of Central China nor are they recognized by the Yufu Kingdom, so they have become the best source of slaves in the eyes of some nobles. In fact, in some To some extent, if you are caught by these people, you may also be traded as a slave!"

"How is it possible? I am the son of my father and mother, how can I be a slave?"

Seeing that the naive Li Qingniu didn't believe it, Old Shen had no choice but to continue explaining.

"None of these people have parents, and none of them are the children of parents. It's just that the weak are like slaves in the eyes of the strong!"

Li Qingniu was greatly shocked by Lao Shen's words, but he was very unwilling in his heart, and said angrily: "These people are obviously human beings, they are not slaves! They are not cattle and horses! Old Shen, let's save them!"

As he said that, he was about to lift the sword.Old Shen hurriedly grabbed the troublemaker to persuade him.

"Although I also hate these people's deeds, their actions are approved by the government of Guimen County! Besides, with my martial arts, I can't beat so many masters on the opposite side! Among them is a master who is similar to the captain Woolen cloth!"

Hearing that Lao Shen couldn't beat him, and there were experts like Luo Wushuang, Li Qingniu could only feel resentful.

"How can this county government allow these people to treat people as slaves, as cattle and horses! If I learn fairy arts and become a god in the future, I must rescue these people!"

Hearing Li Qingniu's ignorant rhetoric, Lao Shen felt a little admiration, thinking to himself, I have thought this way too long ago!well!Immediately said:
"Li Qingniu, you have to remember what you said! But now you have to do what you can."

"Things within your power?"

When the master and Lao Shen went to discuss with the slave trader, Li Qingniu thought over and over the words of Lao Shen "do what you can", and remembered that one of the three conditions that his mother asked him was to be a kind-hearted man. , Do not bully the weak!
Suddenly, I felt something in my heart. I looked up and saw a little slave about my own age in the cage of the last bullock cart. His messy and dirty hair covered his face, and his thin body was covered with scars. The lower body was wrapped in a cloth, lying sickly in the corner.

Seeing this, Li Qingniu felt miserable and wanted to save this little slave.So he shouted to the opposite team, pointing at the little slave,
"Hey! Opposite, I bought this little slave!"

On the horseback opposite, a man with a fleshy face pressed his saber to his chest, and sat on the horseback looking at Li Qingniu with a half-smile.He turned to look at Old Shen.

"Oh! I bought your little slave!"

Old Shen sneered, "That's my nephew, not a slave!"

At this time, Li Laoer also dragged his tired body out of the carriage, protecting Li Qingniu behind him.

The chubby face looked at Luo Wushuang who was sitting on the roof of the carriage not far away, closed his eyes and rested his mind, with a spear standing beside him, and pretended to apologize.

"Brother, I'm blind, sorry!"

Turning to Li Qingniu, he replied: "Young master, my slave is not cheap, are you sure you want to buy it?"

Li Qingniu said firmly: "Of course I want to buy it!"

Li Laoer grabbed Li Qingniu who was about to go forward.

"Little Niu, don't talk nonsense, why are we buying slaves!"

"Second Dad, look at that man, he is as old as me, very pitiful, I want to buy him! Didn't you tell me to be a kind and upright person who will do what is right? Just now, old Shen said that we must first do what we can !"

The second Li was very surprised by Li Qingniu's recent changes, and he didn't know how to argue, so he had to stand in Li Qingniu's place and bowed his hands.

"My lord, are you really willing to sell this little slave?"

The man looked at the dying little slave.

"Sell!"

Immediately, he stretched out two fingers to signal, and Li Laoer saw this and confirmed, "Two thousand dollars?"

The man shook his head with a smile and replied, "It's twenty gold!"

"So expensive?" The second child was surprised.

Old Shen at the side couldn't stand it anymore and took over the conversation.

"You little slave, you are about to die, and twenty gold is the price to transport to the county!"

The man said with a sly smile: "Originally, these newly purchased goods are not far away. I will sell them for ten gold! But if your young master wants it, I will only sell it for twenty gold!"

"you……"

Old Shen is also very angry!Li Lao Er was trying to persuade Li Qingniu to forget about it, but he heard Li Qingniu shouting from behind.

"Twenty gold is twenty gold, I bought it!"

The man chuckled: "It's better to be refreshed, young master! Give me the money!"

Li Laoer looked at Li Qingniu with a look of embarrassment on his face, Li Qingniu said firmly: "Second Dad, twenty gold can save a life! It's worth it!"

Li Lao Er asked with blood dripping from his heart, "Do you know how much twenty gold is?"

"It doesn't matter how much he is, it can't be more expensive than human life!"

Mr. Li said in his heart, you know what a fart, I have worked hard for most of my life, and I only praised a few dozen gold, you are so good, I lost most of my life's hard work when I said it!But I tell him every day that human life is above all else, but now I refuse to pay the twenty gold, doesn't it make him think that I say one thing and do another!
Seeing Li Laoer's expression, Lao Shen knew that he had no money, and then looked at Li Qingniu's determined face, feeling something in his heart.

"Okay, my old Shen is also proud today, I will help you pay ten gold!"

Li Qingniu quickly thanked: "Old Shen, don't worry, I will pay you back!"

Then he looked at Li Lao Er with a begging look on his face.Li Laoer saw that Lao Shen had already told him, so he had no choice but to agree.

So, Lao Shen and Li Laoer each offered ten gold to help Li Qingniu buy the little slave.

In the end, Master Pushan and the slave trader failed to reach an agreement, so everyone had to stay for another night.

When Lao Shen helped Li Qingniu carry the little slave into his carriage, Li Qingniu hurried forward to check, only to see that the little slave had passed out, so he hurriedly begged Lao Shen.

"Uncle Shen, save him quickly!"

Old Shen also felt that this kid had a sudden change of sex today. In the past, he refused to be called "Uncle Shen", but today he bowed his head for a little slave.I feel more and more in my heart that this kid always seems to have something that people can't refuse.

Li Laoer also handed over his hands and asked Lao Shen for help.But Li Laoer thought in his heart, this was bought with my savings of half a lifetime, don't die right after getting it, that would be a big loss!After thinking about it again, it seems that my body can't last long, if I can rescue this little slave, in case I die on the road, the little Niu'er can also have a companion.

When Li Laoer thought that he was going to die, his sudden heart seemed to feel that his body was really dying.So he leaned on the carriage, watched Lao Shen's treatment, and didn't bother to move.

Li Qingniu and Lao Shen didn't notice the abnormality of Li Lao Er, they only cared about treating the little slave.After Lao Shen fed the little slave a few pills and briefly bandaged his wound, he said to the anxious Li Qingniu.

"This kid is seriously injured and is very weak now, but he should be able to survive! Since you want to buy him, then take good care of him. I still have a task, call me when he wakes up."

"Okay! I will guard him!"

　Those who give everything for us are often not noticed by us!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)