Under the sky

Chapter 247

The one-armed man noticed that Xie Yunjin looked at him strangely and asked, "What's wrong?"

"You..." He tilted his head and looked at Xie Yunjin carefully. He felt that he looked familiar. After thinking for a long time, he shook his head, "Do I recognize you?"

Xie Yunjin did not dare to answer and asked: "You don't know me, why did you save me? What if I am a bad person and want to harm you?"

"After thinking clearly, I still have time to save you? That old man's martial arts is very powerful, I can't beat him." The one-armed man laughed.

Why can he still laugh?He broke a hand...

"your hands……"

"It's broken. It was cut off by the old man." The man waved his other hand, "Why were you chased by that old man? Did you offend Kalle?"

Xie Yunjin said: "I was passing by and found that Kale wanted to do bad things. He sent people to hunt me down." He didn't know whether he should lie to his savior, "Thank you for saving me. I am the academic priest of the priest's college. In ancient times, Isas's penman, please come to the priest's court for me to express my thanks."

"The pen clerk of the Priesthood?" The one-armed man was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Gulthas likes smart young people. You must be very smart."

"Can I go back?" Xie Yunyan said, "Although it's dark, I can walk back."

"What if we bump into that old man again?" the one-armed man asked, "Aren't you afraid of him?"

"As long as he returns to the priest's courtyard, he can't hurt me." Xie Yunjin thought for a moment. He wanted to ask the one-armed man to protect him, but he didn't dare. The one-armed man was no match for Master Jin, and he would definitely be killed if he bumped into him.

"You don't want me to protect you when you return to Nabu Batu?" the one-armed man asked.

"No." Xie Yunjin sighed, "I'll think of a way and say goodbye."

"You can't leave." The one-armed man shook his head, "You heard us talking, you can't leave."

Xie Yunjin waved her hands hurriedly: "I didn't hear anything."

The one-armed man smiled: "You are so smart, do you think I believe it or not?"

Xie Yunjin lowered his head: "Then what do you want to do with me?"

The one-armed man said: "Walk with me for a while, and I will let you go when you reach a safe place. When you meet the old man, I can also help you resist for a while."

Xie Yunjin thought to himself that Master Jin could not find him, and he would probably go back to Naibubadu and wait there. He was afraid that he would be caught before entering the city. In this case, it was better to stay away from Batu, so he said: "I I'm going with you, I just met that old man, don't fight him, just run away by yourself, he won't kill me, at most he'll give me a beating and I'll be gone."

"Let's go." The one-armed man said, "Don't light the torch to avoid being discovered. Be careful. Follow me. Walk slowly. I will wait for you."

Xie Yunjin nodded: "Thank you very much."

The man took off his coat and put it on Xie Yunjin, saying, "We are going to walk in the middle of the night."

The autumn night was getting colder. Xie Yunjin didn't expect to spend the night in the wild, but as soon as he put on his coat, he felt chilly.The two of them walked westward, one after the other, which was the direction leading to the Holy Mountain. He suddenly remembered that there was a conflict outside the Holy Mountain a few days ago, and Atulie Batu killed 23 members of Nabu Batu's holy guards.

During the long night and the long journey, Xie Yunjin thought to himself, since the one-armed man already knew that he was eavesdropping, why not be more frank and inquire more carefully?If the other party doesn't want to disclose it, that's okay.He always felt that there was something going on here. He was a good man. Xie Yunjin thought, could he remind him of something?
"I heard you were talking to that slave just now. You had already planned a rebellion?"

"Yes." The one-armed man nodded, "Luskale deserves to die. He abused his slaves and treated them like animals. I regret not killing him then."

He was talking about stopping him from bullying slaves in the highland barley fields.Xie Yunjin said: "It's already dark now. They rush back to Batu to report the news. Someone will be chasing them soon."

"The soldiers at the guard station were all dead. I was originally asked to help, but I succeeded after I was not needed. God Sa blessed me and lowered the punishment, so everything went smoothly unexpectedly."

That was what happened after Xie Yunjin was kidnapped from the slave house by Master Jin. Luskale locked the young Nadia siblings outside the house. After the slaves came back from their farm work, Nadia ran to her father. , cried and pointed to the slave room. The slaves immediately understood what was going on. They had been oppressed by Luskale for a long time and could not restrain their anger. They broke into the house with hoes and rakes, beat the guards to death, and caught Luskale. Beaten.

The slave guards who noticed the commotion wanted to rush out of the guard house, but were blocked by the slaves at the door. The guards fought back with bows and arrows. I don't know whether it was due to neglect of maintenance or some other reason, but the bows and arrows were crooked and inaccurate.After Kale was escorted out of the house, the guards who were afraid of hurting Kale had to retreat. The slaves locked the guards in the guardhouse, set fire to the guardhouse, robbed the horses of food and fled, and sent someone to notify him to meet up.

If Luskale hadn't driven all the guards into the guardhouse, this thing wouldn't have been so easy to succeed, and even the one-armed man who was originally going to take action wouldn't have been able to use it.

"By the time Prince Hu Gen found out that his son had not returned, he sent someone to look for him. It was already night. The grassland was very big and they didn't know which direction to pursue. We could buy some time to escape."

"But there are marks on the slaves, there is no place to hide, and no village is willing to take them in. Where can they escape to?" Xie Yunjin asked.

"Become a refugee." The one-armed man replied.

"The refugees will not take them in. Slave owners are rarely willing to let their slaves learn Kung Fu. Most of the slaves are not good at Kung Fu." Xie Yunyan said, "Some refugees will even sell the captured slaves. And there are also female dependents. It wouldn’t be good if it fell into the hands of the refugees, most of them are shared by the women’s families of the refugees.”

"It's miserable to be a refugee," the one-armed man said, "Then why do we force slaves to be even worse off than refugees, so that they would rather become refugees?"

Xie Yunjin's heart moved. He wanted to think about this issue, but not at the moment. He asked: "The refugees cannot enter Batu, and they dare not get too close. The slaves' movements are restricted and they cannot communicate with the refugees."

He came to his senses and said, "I understand, you are not a slave, you are a free man, and you help them contact the refugees." Then he wondered, "But can these refugees be trusted?"

He has seen too many cruel refugees.

The man was silent for a long time, touching his broken arm, and suddenly changed the subject: "Weren't you there when my hand was broken?"

The soles of Xie Yunjin's feet were so cold that his scalp was numb, so he turned around and ran away. In the dark, he stumbled and was about to fall with a black nose and face. A one-armed man grabbed him by the collar and picked him up: "Be careful if you fall. I told you not to run away yet." .”

"You, you, you...remember..." Xie Yunjin's teeth chattered as soon as he opened his mouth.

"If I don't remember you, I'll just call you face to face. I don't have such a good memory. But my benefactor said that my enemy's son has recently been working as a penman next to Gulthas. You reminded me as soon as you mentioned it."

"Benefactor?" Xie Yunjin was stunned, "You... you know, why don't you... kill me?"

"I see that you are being chased by that old man, so there must be something going on. Is he your biological father?"

Xie Yunjin shook his head: "It's my adoptive father."

"What weird habits does he have? Why else would you have escaped? Has he abused you?" the man asked again.

"He did a lot of bad things." Xie Yunjin shook his head again, "He also wanted to stop me from studying in the Priest's Academy and took me away."

"Don't like you studying in the Priesthood? You are Gulthas's assistant." The man suddenly realized, "Fuck, your father is from the royal power? Sure enough, they are all bastards!"

There is a very small minority of royalists, who believe that what belongs to God Sha belongs to God Sha, and what belongs to Arien belongs to Arien. The Priesthood should not affect the rule of the aristocracy.There are many arguments in it, including the belief that power corrupts people, and God's servants should not interfere with secular power, or the dichotomy between God and man that believes that Sa God does not want to interfere with people's lives.This theory denies that God cares about people's good and evil. Therefore, some priests and scholars believe that believers who advocate the dichotomy between gods and humans are generally of low moral character. Xie Yunjin has had some experience in the priesthood.

Thinking too far, Xie Yunjin pulled back his thoughts and nodded: "He also felt that the Priesthood should not interfere with Arien's power, so he wanted to take me away so that I could not study in the Priesthood."

"Fuck, heretic!" the one-armed man cursed again.

Xie Yunjin saw that this man didn't want to hurt him, so he asked, "Do you want to use me to threaten my father and avenge yourself?"

"You don't look like a bad person. Gulthas is a wise mentor with high moral standards and pious beliefs. He will not let bad people be his companions."

Xie Yunjin still didn't know how to say it, so he asked again: "Don't you... regret it?"

"I regret every day." The one-armed man said. "I regret that I am not capable enough. I regret that I did not kill Luskale at that time. My benefactor said that it was because I only did half of the good deeds."

"Who is your benefactor?" Xie Yunjin was curious. He could tell that this man admired his benefactor very much.

"I can't say his name, but I can tell you his principles and let you learn from them." The one-armed man said.

That was the day his arm was chopped off.

Jin Fuzi caught up with him and fought with him. He still had some skills, otherwise how could he escape from Jin Fuzi?But he was still defeated. The two fought more than twenty moves, and he escaped after having one of his arms cut off.

After breaking his arm, he lost a lot of blood and suffered severe pain from the wound. After escaping to a safe place, he fainted in the highland barley field. It was his benefactor who passed by and saved him.

The benefactor treated him, chanted sutras for him, took care of him for three months, and pulled him back before he fell into the ice prison of death. He also found out that the murderer who injured him was the captain of the guard at Prince Hugen's house.

"I was very depressed at that time." The one-armed man said, "It was my benefactor who enlightened me and helped me find my direction in the confusion." The one-armed man wanted to take revenge, but he felt that he was no match for Master Jin.His benefactor gave him a sword manual and asked him to practice hard after recovering from his injuries, so that he could improve his martial arts.

"You did nothing wrong. Doing good deeds is always right." The benefactor told him, "You just don't have enough ability. Being a good person requires ability, and ability should be given to people like you."

"I was too reckless," the one-armed man replied.

"If you could go back to that day, would you still be willing to cut off a hand to save a girl you couldn't save?" asked the benefactor.

The one-armed man dared not answer.

The benefactor continued: "You have thought about the consequences, so you don't dare."

The one-armed man nodded.

"You're right, but you didn't expect that someone would be the claws of the evil tiger. You wouldn't have been harmed by this."

"But once you think about it and know it, you're afraid."

"Smartness is innate, but kindness is not. Kindness requires courage, and courage needs irrigation like barley fields. Once you put intelligence before kindness, you must have enough intelligence and ability to practice kindness. This kind of person After gaining abilities, most of them will use very little of them to do good, because what they worship is not kindness, but ability. They don't believe in kindness, only ability."

“When you weigh too many pros and cons, you miss a lot of opportunities to save lives.”

The one-armed man said: "I saw you running away, and I knew that the person chasing you was my enemy. I couldn't defeat him, so I still rescued you. I didn't think clearly at the time, but if I waited until I thought clearly before saving you, it would be better. That's too late."

Xie Yunjin thought of the arrow that Luskale shot at the child, and he hesitated. He had not thought of a solution at that time, but what solution was worth wasting time to think about?He should stop it first and then find a way to make up for it.

"Are you tired?" the one-armed man asked.

Xie Yunjin was indeed a little tired, but he shook his head: "I can still leave, don't delay your business. What else did your benefactor say?"

The one-armed man nodded and continued his story.

The benefactor said to the one-armed man: "Only those who want to gain the ability to do good because of their kindness will use their ability to do good, because kindness is his belief, just like Sri Yanabhata was favored by the god Sasha because of his kindness, and It’s not because he received the favor of the Sa God and gained abilities that he gained goodness.”

The benefactor said: "I saved you because you are a kind person. I hope you remain so kind, which is rare."

"I asked my benefactor a question, which I thought was very important at the time."

"Is kindness really worth believing in?" the one-armed man asked, "Are countless people like me dying in vain? Is it worth it?"

"Sa God will not allow a world with only evil to exist." The benefactor replied, "Let us, Sa God, forgive me and let Sa God rest for a while. Let's not disturb it first. Close your eyes and imagine a world where all evils exist." A world where everyone believes in kindness, and then imagine a world where everyone doesn’t believe in kindness.”

The answer is obvious.

"My benefactor is a kind and wise man. Thanks to him, I am freed from my troubles." The one-armed man said, "I believe in kindness."

Xie Yunjin was leisurely fascinated. He really wanted to know this wise and kind benefactor among the one-armed people, but the one-armed man refused to tell him.The other party must be a person of great status, either a noble or a priest. He suddenly thought of a person close to him, Potu Xiaoji. He was gentle and kind, and even tried to win as little as possible in chess, but he didn't ask, because the one-armed man must have Won't admit it.

"My benefactor told me that the biggest mistake I made that day was that I only did half of the good deeds. If I had killed Luskale that day, the girl would have kept her innocence and I would not have lost my arm."

"Don't do a good thing half-heartedly, do it to the end."

"The one who deserves to be more damned than the enemy is Luz Kaler. He is more disgusting than the worms in the cesspool. I had a good chance, but I didn't do it. My benefactor always wanted to get rid of Luz, but he had no chance. Lu Si has not committed a crime and cannot be sent to the execution stand."

"My benefactor gave me a way. God Sa is above, there is such a wise person in the world as my benefactor. He must have been kissed by God Sa."

God Sa has no mouth on his face, how can he kiss him?Xie Yunjin didn't say this, it was too blasphemous.

The benefactor asked the one-armed man to look for the refugees. It was not easy to find the refugees. After all, they would be rounded up. But there was only one one-armed man, so the refugees would relax their guard against him.Northwest of Batu, he found a refugee named Mahler whose leader his benefactor asked him to find. The one-armed man asked them if they were willing to accept a group of slaves to join them.

Mahler would not have agreed, as most of the slaves were useless, except for the women they brought with them.The one-armed man convinced the refugees that he was willing to join them. Although he only had one hand left, he was still a master. He could train these people to use weapons, and the slaves were good at farm work. Although the refugees had no land, they still needed farm work.

Xie Yunjin didn't expect that he would voluntarily become a refugee for the sake of slaves.

"Because I didn't carry out the good thing to the end, I harmed so many people." The one-armed man said, "And I want revenge."

"But there is a condition." The one-armed man continued, "He cannot completely trust us, so we must take Luskale and kill him in front of them."

Xie Yunjin knew that this was called a certificate of surrender, and it was a requirement for the Ma bandits to recruit people to join their gang.

"If it weren't for this, Luskale would have died in the slave room." The one-armed man gritted his teeth.

"Actually, there are benefits to catching him." Xie Yunyan said, "Those who are chasing him will be wary."

The one-armed man nodded.

The next step is to contact the slaves during busy farming hours, sneak in when the guards are lax, and ask these people if they want to become refugees.The slaves knew that this man was the righteous man who lost his arm to save the girl, and they were willing to believe him.

Instead of living in fear, having your family humiliated, and being in danger of being shot as prey at any time, it would be better to be a refugee.The more important reason is the same as the one-armed man.

"They can take revenge and teach Luskale a bloody lesson."

But they are still worried that if they join the refugees, their wives and children will become refugees, and if the slaves rebel and the whole village joins in, everyone over the age of 12 will suffer the same crime. This needs to be discussed in detail and cannot be leaked. They can only win over one by one. A trustworthy companion.

The plan was launched, and he and the slaves arranged it in detail. The pile of barley poles where Xie Yunjin was hiding was made by the slaves for the one-armed man to hide.After that, he negotiated terms with the refugees. Even slaves could not bear to share their wives with others. He kept communicating with slaves and refugees to discuss terms. It was not until recently that the two sides reached a consensus. The slaves could keep their wives and daughters, but their sons must join the war. And the newly added refugees will get even less share of their prey.

Then they waited for the opportunity to transport this pile of barley stalks into the slave house together with other piles of barley stalks before Luskale came to the slave house for fun again - usually with one or two days' notice.In the middle of the night, a one-armed man came out and attacked the guards in the slave room, setting up an ambush and waiting to launch an attack.They have a large number of people, and they are attacking by surprise, so they have a high chance of winning. The one-armed man has already taught them some methods of dealing with the enemy. For those who don't know martial arts, the main thing is to be reckless and ruthless.There are also some people in the slave group who know some martial arts. For example, Monduke privately taught the slaves some basic self-defense methods a long time ago.

But he didn't expect Luce to arrive unexpectedly, and he wanted to bully Munduke's wife Mira, which caused the slaves to rebel early, and then came to inform him specially.

Xie Yunjin was worried that there was a bigger conspiracy behind it, but it turned out that it was the one-armed man who was planning it, so he felt a little relieved.The two kept walking for a long time. Fortunately, Xie Yunjin walked a thousand miles from Guigu Palace to Nabu Batu. Although he was tired, he was still used to it.The one-armed man was a devout believer. He kept asking about Gursasi's daily life and had infinite respect for the old priest, probably second only to his benefactor. Xie Yunjin could still respond at first, but then he gradually became tired and could not speak Panting, the one-armed talent stopped asking.

I don’t know how long I walked, but when I came to an intersection, the one-armed man said: “We’re here.” This was a three-way intersection, presumably the agreed place. There was a large slave population, including many women and children, so it was normal for the pace to be slow.

The one-armed man looked around, pointed to a stone not far away and said: "You hide there for a while, and when they come, I will lead them a little further. Then I will see if you want to go back immediately or wait until dawn." "

Xie Yunjin asked: "Aren't you afraid that I will reveal your whereabouts? You know that I am the adopted son of your enemy, but you still don't hurt me?"

The one-armed man shook his head: "You are still worried about my safety in the barley pile. I know you are not a bad person. Besides, that old man is chasing you. You must have been abused by him on weekdays, so you hide like this."

He added: "It's almost dawn when you walk back. The guards won't be able to catch up for a while. Besides, there is a branch road behind the branch road."

Xie Yunjin lowered his head: "But I... you should kill me to vent your anger."

The one-armed man smiled and said: "I want to be a kind person and go to see God Sa as a kind person. Only then can I be worthy of my benefactor. If I kill you, I will not be kind."

Xie Yunjin felt a rush of blood welling up in her heart, almost bursting into tears, and asked, "What's your name?"

The one-armed man shook his head: "I will be a refugee from now on, and refugees don't need names. Go ahead, the slaves will definitely kill you to vent their anger when they see you."

Xie Yunjin walked alone behind the big stone and squatted down.He was shaking, not because he was afraid, maybe a little bit, but that wasn't the main reason.

There are still kind people in this world. Jin Fuzi's words were wrong. He was trembling because he was sure of this.There are many kind-hearted people in this world. They use clumsy methods to help others. They should not be laughed at and denied.

Master Jin is the one who is wrong.

Soon after, there was a rustle in the distance. He poked his head out from behind the stone and saw a group of black shadows gradually approaching.The group of slaves finally arrived, bringing their families with them, carrying women and children in horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and slowly came towards the three-way intersection.

Xie Yunjin hoped that these slaves could escape safely. He believed that with the one-armed man around, even if they were refugees, they would be a relatively good group of refugees.

He hoped he could help, even just a little bit.

(End of this chapter)