Chapter 39 Conslavement

Chapter 39 Concubine

The scorching sun and flames, July and August are the hottest time of the year. Especially in the wilderness, where there is no shade, there is a flame in the sky above your head, and the hot temperature is baking the ground, and even the air seems to have steamed.

There is such a group of people walking in a desert in Yun County, China. There were two camels walking in front of the team. Each camel sat an official wearing a seven-grade escort official uniform, wearing a chicken feather top, staggering between the two humps of the camel, and looked drowsy, as if it could fall off the camel at any time.

The two camels not only had to hold the two officials, but also hung two huge water bags and a bag for dry food on both sides. The bags were full of inferior coarse cakes, one by one, hard to swallow. The footsteps of the two camels left a deep and shallow footprint in this desert sand pit.

And behind the two camels, dozens of people walked crookedly. These dozens of people wore a style of linen clothes and trousers, with a large circle drawn on their clothes and a big word "service". Moreover, the feet of these dozens of corvée were locked together with the same iron rope, making them make a sound of iron rope dragging across the sand as they walked. This long iron rope locked them together, and the keys were held between the waists of the two escort officers who were making camels, which prevented these corvées from escaping halfway.

At the same time, on both sides of the dozens of corvée locked together, there were four or five servants with long whips and angry eyes. The hot weather makes people irritable, not to mention that in this wilderness, under the scorching sun, even the two escort officials sitting on camels are full of unhance, not to mention the four or five escort servants who are still walking.

Therefore, every few steps, these servants will find excuses to shake the long whip in their hands and slap them fiercely on the bodies of these corvées. The corvée who were beaten by the whip dared not say anything, so they had to grit their teeth and endure it. Because if you resist, you can only get more whiplash.

"Brother Qian, aren't we going to suffer from spending hundreds of taels of silver as this kind of escort officer?" One of the escorts sitting on the two camels in front was called Tang Jiaguo, who seemed to be in his early 20s, blocking the scorching sun with his hand, narrowing his eyes, and complaining to another escort officer.

Another escort official Qian Gain was in his early 40s. He wore the chicken feather on his head, held the brim of his head, wiped the sweat flowing down his face, and swallowed his saliva. This damn weather made him feel that his throat was about to smoke.

"Brother Tang, it's already very good to have such a job! After this desert, it will be much better when you arrive at Yuncheng, the county city of Yun County in front of you. We can also find some girls!" When Qian Gain talked about the girl, Tang Jiaguo's tired eyes were instantly fascinated by the long journey.

"How long will it take to arrive? Brother, I don't have much experience, but Brother Qian often hangs around on this road!" Tang Jiaguo can't stand such bad weather. He usually stays at home. On such a hot day, he either soaks in the pool or makes a few ice cellars to put in the house. Now, although riding a camel, there is no need to walk step by step by step, it is still unbearable for a prince like him who relies on donating money to become an official under such a big sun.

"You bastards, don't be nagging, go quickly! Don't be lazy..." The two escort officers complained about the heat of the weather in front, but the escort team behind sounded the call for the escort. A servant was dissatisfied with the chattering of the corvée, picked up the whip and pumped the corvée.

Bang! Bang!

The long whip twitched on a corvée's body, and even the linen clothes on his body were cracked. The corvée hugged his body and fell to the ground in pain, humming in a low voice, and didn't even dare to scream loudly.

With such a small episode, the team moving forward stopped. Because in order to prevent the corvée from escaping, all the corvée' feet were locked together with the same iron rope. The fallen corvée moaned softly on the ground, and the servant kept whipping him, as if it was because the corvée was not loud enough for him to be angry.

And the other corvée stopped and looked at the tragic situation of the corvée who fell to the ground in front of them. There is fear, pity, indifference and fear in the eyes! Looking at the fierce servant, his eyes were full of fear, and at the same time, they did not dare to stare at the servant, for fear that the next person to be whipped would be himself.

"Brother Qun, it's really annoying! We are here to be corvée, not to be prisoners. Why do they beat us and scold us? If it goes on like this, I won't go back and not be this corvée!" At the end of the team, a young corvée saw the scene in front of him, with blue veins on his face and hands, and his eyes stared at the beating corvée fiercely.

"Liu Sheng, don't do this, be careful of being heard by them! That must kill you!" Liu Sheng was a young corvée who had just been angry, and this time it was a thin corvée beside him who hid behind them in awe, afraid of being seen by the corvée.

"Han Jing, you coward! Sooner or later, people like you will be bullied to death! If they bully us, we will rise up and resist. We are not criminals who have violated the law. We are just conscripted! How can there be such a beating!" This is said by the person Liu Sheng just spoke, named Feng Qun, who has a little martial arts and is righteous. He is recognized as the leader among these dozens of corvées. These dozens of corvée were requisitioned from the same township in Yun County and transferred to Kyoto to build a new palace for the current emperor. Therefore, almost dozens of corvée know this Feng Qun. He originally entered a small school of secular martial arts, learned a few skills, was human and righteous, and had some reputation in seven miles and eight townships. This expropriation of corvée happened that he was also among the expropriation, so he followed. But he didn't expect that the escorted corvée looked like this. Feng Qun wanted to unite all the corvée to escape more than once along the way.

Unfortunately, China's laws and regulations are getting stricter and stricter. One of the corvée escorts like this, one escaped, all sat down, that is, one ran away. They were all guilty of the same crime, and their families were not spared, and all of them had to be convicted of raiding their homes. It is also because of this that Feng Qun has repeatedly failed to convince these corvées.

"What are you looking at? What to look at? It's itchy, isn't it? Do you want me to reward each of you with a few whips!" The beating servant saw so many concubines looking over and shouted unsently, and then waved the whip in his hand to those corvées who watched the bustle.

Bang!

The long whip on people is painful and painful. I don't know whether this beating servant is addicted or whether the sultry weather makes him lose his mind. In a word, he was crazy, laughing wildly and beating these corvées with whips, and more and more corvées were beaten by whips. Because the corvées are locked on a rope, it is difficult to escape. One by one, the corvée was beaten by the whip and screamed.

The other servants saw that the servants beat the corvées like crazy, and did not come out to stop them. Instead, they stood aside, with their waists in their waists, as if they were watching the bustle. What's more, he even thought it was fun and pulled out the whip to join the ranks of flogging corvées.

This happened, and the team heard it. Tang Jiaguo and Qian Geng, the escort officers sitting in front of the two camels, naturally found that they drove the camel to the center of the team and watched the corvée howling under the whips of the servants happily.

"These unruly people can't do it if they don't fight! If you don't call, you won't be obedient!" Tang Jiaguo pointed to the corvée who was being beaten, as if he had a good understanding of the money gain beside him.

"Yes! Just beat hard a few times, just like the long-term workers hired by my family always eat all the food in my kitchen! After being severely beaten by me several times, I became honest! Therefore, these bitches are cheap in their bones. I can't do it without fighting!" When Qian Gain heard Tang Jiaguo's words, he was also deeply convinced that in the eyes of their social superiors, this is that ordinary people have no human dignity at all.