The choice between drinking to quench one's thirst and dying today has always been difficult, but the choice between the manholes in the earth is unusually fast. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He opened the baggage, divided the white salt into a small pinch of it, and several people took it in their mouths and tasted it carefully, and then made a decision.

When his daughter was born in the spring of this year, the best gift he received was not a clay pot, fish, shrimp, pearls, or even a piece of jade that someone took from the owner's corpse, but a few pieces of underwear soaked in salty sweat, and boiled in the water to make a bowl of corn porridge in black salty water, which was really delicious.

"If he wants to do something instead of pity us, then in two days he will still find a way to change with us, even if we don't change. If he just pitied us, we would have had the most salt for this winter, and there was nothing else we could do anyway. ”

After thinking for a while, he stood up and said, "I'll go and see for myself tomorrow and ask him what he's going to do directly." There are a lot of people with me, I'm just afraid it's a trap. If it's a trap, it's nothing more than me getting caught. ”

After he finished speaking, he did not wait for the sadness of everyone's parting, grabbed a few cakes from the stove by himself, and left overnight, before leaving, he only asked the people in the kiln not to tell their own affairs, this thing was too strange. As for the rest, he believed that Ze would take care of his remaining relatives who were not related by blood.

Two days later, the agreed valley.

There were many things in the valley, many useful or unseen things, and this was the goods that Jian Chen carried on the plow when he came.

Before he came, he had inquired about the situation in the vicinity of Oshiro Oshinozawa, and knew that there were some villages and that they had not been moved, so he knew that this kind of gray area trade was inevitable, unless the people in Onozawa had near-perfect conditions like Natsushiro and could be self-sufficient in everything.

Originally, he hoped to get in touch with the fugitive slaves in Onozawa through the people in the village, but since he encountered it directly, he saved a lot of trouble, and forced those villages to move away just in a quiet place, so that it was convenient for him to do something.

There is a lot of salt, and there are also a lot of common herbs, and although the various daily necessities exchanged for Ainogi are rough, they must be perfect in Onozawa.

At least I was dazzled by it, and I was afraid that the salt was poisonous, so I could only taste it myself first to see if I would die; I was afraid that the salt was non-toxic, so I didn't take anything and ate other people's salt, even if I took a sip, this is not what I should do.

After thinking about it, he took off the broken skin on his body, found some grass to wrap around his body in the cold weather, put the broken skin next to the pile of salt, grabbed a small pinch of salt and ate it with the cake.

The cold wind was blowing everywhere, and I didn't know when those people would come, and they were hard, but they didn't wear the skin, and they cowered and waited in the cold wind.

In the evening, Jian Chen led people to the valley slowly, and heard a shivering cry from a distance: "I exchanged a handful of salt for you with a broken skin." ”

Jian Chen looked at the frozen bruises, sighed in his heart, and shouted, "Okay, it's just right to change." That's all there is to it? ”

Knowing that he was not dead, he was a little embarrassed in his heart, and saw that Chen Jian and the others only appeared at night, and there were no hidden people here, so it seemed that this was really not a trap, so he had to say: "I just finished exchanging with them a few days ago, and there is really nothing to change." ”

Chen Jian laughed and said, "It's not that there is nothing to change, but I'm afraid that the person who will be replaced will be arrested by me, right?" He smiled awkwardly to cover up the past, Chen Jian had already lit a fire over there, and shouted at him: "It's not a change now, it's a guest who has seen a snowy day, and it is a courtesy to entertain it." There is wine and meat, and they come and eat. ”

He nodded, walked over and sat by the fire, and it took a long time to relieve the fire, and Chen Jian saw that he was stubborn and didn't return the broken skin to him, but only handed over some wine and meat.

After a few sips, he couldn't help but ask, "Ji Xia, I just want to ask you, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'm soft-hearted, I'm afraid you won't have salt to eat."

"Ze said, you are not a soft-hearted person. Your heart is as hard as a stone. ”

"I haven't finished speaking, I'm afraid you'll die a lot of salt without salt."

He immediately got up and said, "We will no longer be slaves, even if we don't have salt to eat." This salt is just a random exchangeable thing in the city, and you use this random exchangeable thing to make us slaves again and make us grateful? We're not those idiots in the village. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "Even if you want to be a slave for me, I don't want it." How much work can you do even if you are slaves? How many people can be fed? Rest assured, I don't think so. As for what I want to do, I can't tell you, are you willing to change? I'll continue to trade with you. Don't want to change? I won't change it. You don't have to feel like you owe me anything, didn't you do well before? Took a sip of salt and threw a piece of skin. It's all your love to exchange this thing, you don't have to feel that you owe me anything, if I really want you to do anything in the future, you don't want to turn your face without saying a word, I'm happy. ”

I have never heard such words, especially when Jian Chen said that he was feeding a few people, he was shocked, it has always been the master who feeds the slave, how can this person say that the slave feeds the master? However, Jian Chen's words were full of his appetite, so he said bluntly: "Then our exchange is that you and I are willing?" ”

"Nonsense, if I don't come, you can still exchange with the people in the village. I'll drive the people of the village away, and then I'll change salt with you, and I'll not bother to talk to you if you're thanking me. ”

He laughed out loud and shouted, "Good! Then I'll change the first one first, can you change the partner I captured a few days ago to us? We'll exchange it here tomorrow, and we'll try to take out as many things as you want. ”

"There are sixty-three people in total, and I can only exchange forty for you."

"Why?"

"There are twenty-three days when you said something that shouldn't be said in order to survive, and when I asked you again if you had made an oath before and were not allowed to say it, I helped heaven and earth fulfill the oath."

Jian Chen clapped his hands, and someone poured out more than twenty severed heads from the basket, which had already frozen, and nodded and said, "Good kill." And what about the rest? ”

"One skin per person, save it, and make up for it together when you change it next time. You can also take these goods with you, and exchange them here every fifteen days in the future, and count them together when the spring grass is green. Now you give it to me, I can't take it away. ”

I had probably never seen such an exchange, and my heart became more and more uneasy, it was obvious that this Ji Xia in front of me was going to do something, but he didn't say what he did.

But after thinking about it, he said in his heart: "This exchange is exactly what you and I want, and the exchange is not a promise, and I have not promised to do anything, if he says something bad in the future, he just doesn't hear it." The previous masters also said that we should be thankful for eating and drinking them, and if we all have such thoughts, then what shall we run? Anyway, although this person is weird, since he killed more than 20 people, it doesn't seem to be bad, it's a big deal to turn his face and deny it in the future, and it's better to have a weak appetite these days. ”

Thinking about this, he got up and saluted Chen Jian: "That is the case, we want all these goods." Wait until the next spring. ”

"Can there be so many skin prey?"

"Yes! But there is one thing that does not change. The feathers of the birds can be used as arrows, and I don't want to shoot me in the future by the tail feathers I plucked. ”

Hearing this answer, Jian Chen smiled imperceptibly, since there are so many skin prey, it seems that there is at least an island or peninsula in the middle of the lake surrounded by swamps, and the area is not small, otherwise where would there be these things?

He was happy in his heart, and he didn't notice the trap in Jian Chen's problem, just thinking that these things had solved the problem of survival for everyone in Onozawa, and he was anxious to get up and leave.

"Wait, there are herbs you haven't seen before; Even if you've seen Ohnozawa, is there anyone who can cure the disease? I'd like to trade something with you. ”

"What?"

"People! People who can heal diseases and use herbs! (To be continued.) )