White Bone Monkey King

Tianhu is next to the snow-capped mountains, and the sky above is as blue as water dripping from it.

It has the most magnificent scenery of snow-capped mountains, sky and lakes in the world, as well as the most barren land in the world. In winter, it is covered with white snow and ice, and in summer, it is a desert Gobi where no grain of rice can be grown.

You can imagine how hard it is for people living here.

As we go deeper into the hinterland of the Blackstone clan, we see more and more local people along the way. Most of them are unkempt, sallow and thin, and most of them are serfs.

The big landowners and big serf owners had tents and butter tsampa to hide from the scorching sun on the plateau, while the serfs grazed and cut grass day and night.

Due to year-round hunger and heavy work, these serfs all looked numb and their eyes were empty. They had no hope for the future and could only repeat the heavy farm work they were doing over and over again.

Although they are all serfs, there is a clear difference between the energy and spirit of the serfs of the Black Stone clan and the serfs under the jurisdiction of the Tianshen clan, the Golden family, and the descendant tribe of the divine monkey.

There is no hope in the serfs of the Blackstone clan.

Even if they see outsiders like Jin An passing by while grazing by the lake, they just keep their heads down and busy cutting grass or driving cattle and horses. Hungry and heavy physical work have left them with no energy to distract themselves and think.

Because the ancient Shangshung Kingdom was the area with the worst environment and the poorest land in Tubo, many people asked landlords for credit or borrowed seeds because they could not survive. Moreover, it was difficult to grow things because of the poor land, and natural disasters often occurred. , every year many farmers or tenants went bankrupt and signed contracts of sale and became serfs.

To become a serf here means that the whole family, young and old, will become serfs for generations to come. It is like a family being lured into a bottomless abyss by the devil. Once they fall in, there will be no way out.

Moreover, because the land in the ancient Zhangxiong Kingdom was barren, no matter whether it was animal husbandry or farming, only the minimum harvest could be harvested. Therefore, those landowners, serfowners and nobles who tried their best to exploit the serfs and only saw cattle, horses and gold would squeeze every serf even more and let themselves Earn more money.

It ranges from increasing grazing time to farming time and shortening the serfs' rest time, so that the serfs can work for 12 hours a day without sleeping; as small as every piece of cloth and food rations on the serfs are inhumanely exploited layer by layer. In the eyes of farmers, the most indispensable thing on the plateau is a steady stream of serfs. Today a few serfs will die from exhaustion, but tomorrow there will be seven or eight people from a family who cannot afford the seed money and will become new serfs. But these landowners and nobles felt that this was not enough. They even wanted to strip away the last bit of dignity from the serfs. They could not afford to wear clothes during the day, so they grazed and farmed naked, and slept in the livestock sheds huddled together with the cattle and horses for warmth at night.

This is the tragic experience that happened to the serfs that Jin An saw along the way! And several mountains of cannibals weighing on their heads made them unable to breathe!

Along the way, he encountered miserable serfs, all naked, men, women, old and young, standing on the meadows next to the holy lake in the snow-capped mountains, grazing, cutting grass to feed cattle and horses, their bodies tanned and thin, and the magnificent scenery of the plateau. The snow-capped mountains, holy lake and blue sky form a sharp contrast.

It's not that they don't know etiquette, justice and shame, and are only numb, but that people are not as dignified as a beast in the face of hunger.

Only by seeing more in this dark age can we fully understand how dark the mountains of this era are.

When he was near the West Kunlun Mountains, because it was deep in the plateau desert and far away from human settlements, except for some mobile herdsmen, it was rare to see a few people on the road for several months. At that time, he had no idea about this era. The darkness of the world still only remained in some memories that were about to be forgotten, but when he really saw the darker side of this era with his own eyes, he realized that this cannibalistic hell was worse than what he had seen among the serfs in the West Kunlun Mountains. To be more gory and direct.

At this time, Jin'an came to fetch water from a living lake formed by the melted snow at the foot of a snow-capped mountain. On the other side of the lake, there were several male serfs with naked skin and severely sunburned skin grazing. These people They should be only about twenty years old, but each of them is as old as forty or fifty years old. The heavy work has long crushed their thin bodies, making their already overwhelmed bodies prematurely bent.

Facing Jin'an, an outsider who came to the lake to fetch water, these male serfs turned a blind eye and continued to huddle up, staring blankly at the cows and horses that they had herded until their coats were shiny, trying to save energy and make them hungry as much as possible. Gotta slow down.

I wonder if they are thinking about their future life at this time? I'm still thinking about whether I can get an extra piece of dried meat for this evening meal after feeding the cows and horses earlier.

Jin An got the water and stood up. He looked at these serfs with no hair, yellow faces and thin muscles, and he couldn't bear to look at them. He distributed the remaining dried meat to several people.

Because of hunger, those serfs became slow to think. They did not notice Jin An's approach. It was not until Jin An left the dried meat and turned around and walked away that the slightest expression change appeared on their numb and expressionless faces, and their empty and numb eyes gradually The focus is on Jin An’s back, but at this time, Jin An’s back has already gone away...

This living water lake is very large, so it also attracts many herdsmen and passers-by to come here to collect water. When Jin'an collected the water, and was about to leave, he unexpectedly saw a familiar figure who had just finished collecting the water. stand up.

"Huh? It's that human trafficker's kidnapper Gesang!"

The first time he saw this kidnapper Kelsang was when Uncle Dorjetso took them into the Kunlun Snow Mountains. When they were resting outside the meadow on the permafrost, they accidentally met this man. The guide was leading a group of Tianzhu people into the Kunlun Snow Mountains. Uncle Dorjetso’s evaluation of this person was not good at all.

It is said that this man was possessed by some unknown evil ten years ago, and his temperament suddenly changed drastically. He stopped being a good herdsman, and his cattle and livestock were not released. Not only did he traffic in people, but he also sold his wife and daughter, making his daily life uncertain. All the days of wandering.

The reason why Jin An was so impressed by the kidnapper Gesang was because of his strange appearance.

Uncle Dorjetso once said that this kidnapper Gesang was stealing all day long, he was greedy for money and stingy, and he accumulated a lot of wealth in ten years. The strangest thing is that this man has always given people the image of a poor person. He lives and eats for free wherever he goes. He is not an ordinary stingy. No one knows where he has spent all the wealth he has accumulated in the past ten years. .

"Speaking of which, I didn't see the Tianzhu people who followed the kidnapper Gesang into the Kunlun Snow Mountains. I thought they also encountered the red snow disaster and Kunlun blood corpses, and something unexpected happened. I didn't expect that the kidnapper Gesang Not only did I leave Kunlun Snow Mountain alive, but I have also been living well..."

"How could this kidnapper Kelsang appear in the Blackstone Clan's hinterland by such a coincidence?"