Chapter 1145
What?
Chen Shuijia and his two cronies were shocked and dismayed at the same time.
But when Zhou Haijian spilled out the whole story, both Chen Shuijia and his two cronies changed their seriousness.
Both Chen Shuijia and his two cronies changed their seriousness from their earlier gaze, and were replaced by a joyful excitement that was hard to hide.
“The first warrior of the Huns, if we can break through him, then we will definitely be able to find out the news of Barbara’s life and death.”
Chen Shuijia said heartily, and then patted Zhou Haijian’s shoulder appreciatively: “Haijian, you have made your mark, later in the day, you will be in charge of facilitating relations with Kui Gang, make sure to pry his mouth open, either you drink him to death or he drinks you to death!”
Zhou Haijian’s gaze was awe-inspiring: “……”
Another crony also smiled and nodded his head.
“Unexpectedly happy, really unexpectedly happy ah, Hai Jian this time you are the head of the credit, just now we are still sad.”
Zhou Haijian looked back, “Did something happen?”
The two cronies looked at Chen Shuijia at the same time.
They were both close friends, and Chen Disjia had no intention of hiding anything.
He sighed and said in a serious and grave manner, “Just now I went into the king’s palace to meet with the Hun king, the progress was brief, the follow-up was the time to really discuss cooperation in commercial matters, nowadays the Hun king is withered and powerful, as if he is on the verge of dying, more crucial is ……”
The first time I went in and out of the king’s palace, along the way several times to side track the Hun general who brought me into the palace, that always keep their mouths shut, even I took the opportunity to explore the ordinary servants in the king’s palace, but those servants not only keep their mouths shut, but also as long as I mention some key words, will immediately fear like a ghost, fleeing away. ”
The first time I saw him, I was able to see him.
“So, you’ve made a great achievement this time! Now the king’s palace is already an iron barrel, it is impossible to corrupt information from it, but you managed to run into the first warrior of the Xiongnu by accident, and even pulled together a relationship, this is really an unexpected joy!”
“It’s actually quite embarra*sing, at first I did want to go into the tavern to poke around.”
Zhou Haijian scratched his head, “But hell knows, I caught everyone’s attention as soon as I entered the tavern, so I had to lie and say I was drinking to relieve my boredom.
“Perhaps this is the blessing of a foolish man.”
Chen Shuijia sighed.
Zhou Haijian: “……”
He scratched his head and asked with a spit of wine, “Brother Chen, although I’ve had too much to drink, how come I can’t tell if you’re complimenting me or scolding me with this comment?”
Chen Duijia and the other two cronies looked at each other and smiled.
The sooner we do so, the smaller the loss to the Chen family merchants. ”
“As you command!”
The Xiongnu King’s Palace.
In the Xiongnu King’s room, the sound of unbridled and unrestrained laughter persisted for a long time.
This was the first time the King of Xiongnu had laughed since Chen Dong had fled the Thirteen Cities and the Xiongnu Heaven had changed.
The pressure was heavy, and the crisis of the king’s court being overthrown was like a lofty mountain pressing down across the King of Xiongnu’s shoulders.
The old ancestors had blessed him with a chance of survival, which was a great blessing!
Now the arrival of the Chen family’s caravan seeking to cooperate with the Xiongnu made the Xiongnu king feel even more relaxed, and the pent-up anger in his chest seemed to have been lifted a little.
Inside the room, the lights were bright.
The Hun was glowing and in high spirits.
He was laughing, trembling with laughter, with tears in his eyes.
From the brief discussion he had just had with Chen Shuijia, he already had the outline of the Chen merchants’ intention to cooperate.
“A masterstroke, worthy of the Chen family, when they make a move, it is a masterstroke!”
Even as the King of Xiongnu, he couldn’t help but sigh with emotion at this moment, “Planning investments around various infrastructure and livelihood projects, this is what my King wants most urgently today!”
That day when the Huns changed, the impact was too great.
Even if it was lucky that the old ancestors had blessed the situation and suppressed the whole situation, seeking a ray of hope for the royal court.
But afterwards, the King of the Huns went to great lengths to seal off the country and purge it of foreigners in order to minimise the impact.
The consequence of all this, the greatest damage of all, was the weakening of the people!
When the people’s hearts are in the right place, there is nothing to lose.
If the people’s heart does not return, it can also overturn the boat.
This is an ancient truth.
Today, the people’s heart of the Xiongnu is already reduced to a threshold, stuck at that threshold point by the blessing of the old ancestor and his fierce might, but it could break through at any time.
Once it breaks through, it will be the time for the people to revolt and for the thousands of years of the royal court to be overthrown in one go.
The Chen family’s investment plans, whether in infrastructure or livelihood projects, are all people-oriented, working for the welfare of the people and improving the existing dilemma of the Xiongnu people.
In the eyes of the Hun king, once this cooperation was secured, it would certainly be able to win the hearts and minds of the people and pull them back from that precarious threshold of discontent.
“No matter what the cost, even if the royal court pays in blood, we will still facilitate this cooperation with the Chen family!”
The Hun king gritted his teeth, his gaze firm as he squeezed the words out from between his teeth.
Stabilising the situation in Xiongnu and consolidating the continuation of the royal court was what the Xiongnu King wanted to facilitate at the risk of burning his life today.
The appearance of the Chen family’s caravan was undoubtedly a blessing from heaven for a man who was dying of thirst in the desert!
Even if this cooperation would make the Hun court bleed, the Hun king would not hesitate to do so.
It was better to bleed than to have the kingdom destroyed!
In the cage of the royal palace.
Darkness is the only tone in the cage.
The only light is in the blank area in the middle of the cage.
The surrounding cages were already empty.
The cage now exists in name only.
If there is only one “beast” being held, it is only Barbara.
In the darkness of the cage.
There are no fingers in sight.
The air is still filled with the sickening stench of beasts and the smell of dung.
Even though the fierce beasts were no longer there, the unpleasant stench had been carved into every inch of the cage, leaving it behind.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, a childish, frightened scream rang out from the darkness.
Immediately after, Barbara’s cries rang out, “Ooooooooooo …… uncle …… ooooooooooooo …… Barbara, scared… . when is Uncle coming to pick up Barbara? ……”
The cries of desperation and fear echoed through the fighting cage, echoing continuously.
Each cry was filled with despair and helplessness.
It was just that in the darkness, there was only Barbara’s voice echoing as well, and it was impossible to see where Barbara was.
Clattering …… Clattering ……
The sound of chains rang out.
Barbara’s cries came to an abrupt halt, and she knew that it was from the chains at the feet of the beast slaves.
A beast slave was coming!
A beam of light shone into the beast cage.
Curled up in the corner, Barbara’s face was full of filth, written with fear and scorn, and her clothes were in rags.
Just a moment after the light shone, Barbara hastily pulled out her dagger from her arms.
She remembered the words of her Aunt Shying, and the dagger was the only weapon of defence that Aunt Shying had left her!
Her hands held the dagger tightly, but she was still trembling a little. Her big clear eyes were full of vigilance as she stared at the beast slaves outside the bars, but as young as she was, she could hardly maintain her composure in fear, and her hands were trembling badly as she held the dagger.
Tears were streaming down from her eyes.
But she was stubborn, her teeth clenched tightly on her lips to prevent herself from crying out.
Heartbreakingly stubborn!
“Dinner is served.”
The beast slave outside the iron cage let out an indifferent, hoarse voice, as if it was mechanical, without the slightest bit of emotion.
Then, the beast slave raised a wooden bucket in front of the iron bars, then picked up a ladle and scooped up a scoop of sticky, vegetable leaf-stained, unpleasant-smelling, pig-like food and slowly poured it into a trench inside the beast cage.
Clattering ……
As the food was poured into the trough.
The man’s expression obviously relaxed a bit.
But when she looked at the food in the trough, which was like pig food, she did not hesitate in the slightest and jumped straight into the trough, cupping her hands to drink the sticky paste into her mouth.
As she drank, her tears kept flowing down her face.
But in her clear, tear-filled eyes, there was a determination like no other.
“Live! You must live! Eat well, sleep well, Uncle will definitely come to get Barbara… If she dies, Uncle won’t be able to get Barbara!”
This was the thought in Barbara’s mind.
“Goooo …… goooo ……”
Even though the paste carried an unpleasant smell and even some of the stuff would get stuck in her throat unpleasantly, Barbara still drank it as willingly as she could.
She was sure that …… uncle would come and get her!
And until then, all she has to do is try …… to survive!
As Auntie Shying said!
However, just as Barbara was concentrating on eating.
She did not notice that the vicissitudes of the ugly face behind the overhead light was slowly revealing a greedy and lewd wry smile ……
Chapter 1146
A greedy, obscene smile.
It was revealed behind the light, as eerie and ominous as possible.
His cloudy eyes, full of fire, looked down unscrupulously at Barbara in front of him.
Barbara, on the other hand, did not notice.
The food swallowed whole was too hard to swallow, not only did it carry a sickeningly strange taste, but something would get stuck in her throat.
She had been through a lot, but with the instinct to gag, she had to concentrate on suppressing the gagging sensation and forcing herself to swallow.
She had to live and wait for her uncle to come and get her!
To her uncle’s place under the stars.
“Vomit ……”
Her thin body shuddered violently, and Barbara staggered backwards with a poof and sat down on the ground, vomiting the food she had just swallowed directly onto the ground out of nausea.
Under the light of the lamp.
Barbara’s face was covered with sticky food residue, some vomiting, and even more tears in her eyes, extremely wretched and pitiful.
After a few seconds of reprieve.
Barbara pursed her lips stubbornly, raised her hand to wipe the sticky food residue from her face, and then continued to lean down towards the trench, ready to continue eating.
But then there was a sudden flash in front of his eyes.
An appetising scent poured into his nose.
Barbara was stunned.
Her big, tearful eyes stared straight at the fragrant chicken leg in front of her.
In the light of the lamp.
She could clearly see the crystalline grease left on the charred skin of the chicken, and the tantalising aroma made her throat well up and she swallowed with a gulp.
“Is it for me?”
Barbara tilted her head and looked at the beast slave beyond the bars.
The beast slave looked at Barbara in the same way, and then at the chicken leg in his hand, his throat welling up as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
This was the chicken leg he had gone to all the trouble to get his hands on.
To him, as a beast slave, such a delicacy was something that could only be found in heaven.
For chicken legs, he yearned for the same.
But he yearned even more for the primal instinct of that desire.
Especially the girl in front of him, who was so tender.
Even if the heads of the people Shying had killed earlier rolled and blood flowed all over the floor.
But after a brief moment of fear, slowly settling down, that primal desire, like a beast, spurted out.
“Even if I die, I want to die under the peony flower!”
This was the thought in the beast slave’s mind.
When they had not seen the sun for years, when they had no future, when they had lost everything, when they were even worse than animals, the price of desperation, in their minds, was infinitely closer to nothing.
At most, …… is just a life.
It is better to die under the peony flower than to slowly suffer this boundless darkness and finally die of old age and exhaustion.
“Thank you …….”
Barbara smiled happily, raised her hand and grabbed the chicken leg.
The beast slave retracted the chicken leg, allowing Barbara to grab it in one go.
With that, a hoarse, cold voice rang out, “Exchange.”
“Exchange?”
Barbara blinked her big eyes, her face full of confusion.
The beast slave didn’t shy away from pointing at Barbara: “Your body, in exchange for a chicken leg.”
Yes!
In the eyes of a beast, a body was only worth a chicken leg.
At least in this beast slave’s mind, in Barbara’s current situation, a chicken leg was already a heavenly price that was hard to refuse.
Barbara’s delicate body trembled, and a look of shock and horror fiercely appeared on her dirty face.
On her pale, pretty face, her eyes instantly went round.
Almost simultaneously, Barbara took out her dagger and pointed it at the beast slave, hissing and shrilling, “Don’t come over, don’t come near me!”
“Don’t chicken legs smell good?”
The beast slave was laughing, the corners of his mouth had pulled to the extreme on his face, which was full of vicissitudes and furrows.
In the light of the lamp, it was like a ghost, eerily seeping.
“If you agree to the exchange, you can eat the most delicious food in the world, and you don’t have anything to lose.”
There would be no loss?
Barbara’s lips trembled, her pretty face was filled with fear, and her eyes were even filled with tears.
She was young though, she was ignorant and untouched by many things.
But she had been told these things by her ama since she was a child!
That the body …… was the most important thing of all!
When she first entered the beast cage, she really didn’t understand the look the beast slaves showed her.
But now that the beast slaves’ words had come to this point, how could she not understand?
“Don’t come over, go away, go away!”
Barbara screamed in fear and threatened, “If you come over, I, I’ll stab you to death.”
And yet.
Zee ……
The beast slave was unconcerned, smiling to himself as he opened the door to the beast cage and walked in with a flourish.
In his eyes, what resistance could a little girl have?
Even if she had a dagger, so what?
In the hands of an adult, a dagger was a murderous weapon.
But in the hands of a little girl who trembled even when holding the dagger, it was just an ornament, with no power to kill.
Not to mention the fact that he was already prepared to die before he made the decision.
In the process, a few wounds would not affect the outcome.
Such extreme thoughts made the beast slave, who was at this moment filled with primitive desire all over his body, no longer cared.
“Get out, get out!”
Barbara screamed, waving the dagger in her hand, her body trembling as she wailed and cried out in pain, “Ooooooooooo …… Uncle, Auntie Xixing …… Oooooooooo… …”
The cries were miserable and echoed in the fighting cage.
The large beast fighting cage, at this time, this heartbreaking fearful cries, but seems silent, no one knows.
And inside the cage.
With a chicken leg in one hand and a torch in the other, the beast slave slowly approached Barbara.
He seemed a little frightened, afraid of scaring Barbara and of alerting the others.
Creeping along, he moved as slowly as a tortoise.
Even though he knew that the other beast slaves in the fighting cage, at this time of day, would not come this way, as it was his turn today.
Since the beasts had been released from their cages, the beast slaves in the cage had been disguised as free.
The other slaves, when they are not on duty, are mostly curled up in their hay nests, snoozing, which is their only leisure.
This slow approach was never without a smile on the faces of the slaves.
Even the corners of his mouth were tugging at the roots of his ears.
Faced with the desperate and helpless little Barbara, there was not the slightest hesitation or pity in his eyes, but only that blazing heat that was like a burning flame.
“Ooooooooo …… get away, get away, don’t come over, don’t come over ……”
Barbara sat on the ground and waved her dagger desperately, hoping to scare off the beast slaves.
But as the beast slaves slowly approached, she was sitting on the ground, desperately moving towards the corner, her pale face written with helplessness and fear.
Tears were streaming down her face and her body was trembling.
“Uncle save Barbara!”
A harsh scream, which Barbara let out with all her might.
Like an explosive thunderclap, it resounded through the fighting cage.
Zhenjiang City.
Inside the practice room.
People were exchanging shadows.
A strong wind whistled.
As Chen Dong’s hands and feet swung out, muffled thunder would explode from the bottom of his fist blades and feet.
Each move was fierce and domineering.
But in Chen Dong’s state of forgetfulness, it was flowing without stagnation.
And yet.
Boom!
The moment Chen Dong’s right foot landed on the ground, the floor cracked with a loud bang.
Chen Dong snapped out of his state of forgetfulness, his features twisted, his eyes terrified, and he directly fell to one knee on the ground.
Pain!
Tearing heartache!
It was as if in an instant, there were countless sharp needles, poking violently at his heart.
“Ho ho …… ho ho ……”
Chen Dong grasped his right hand over his heart, his neck thick, and gasped for breath.
Sweat, moreover, dripped down to the ground like broken pearls.
Just now in the state of forgetfulness, he vaguely, his ears seemed to hall see Barbara’s screams.
That heart-breaking cry made Chen Dong unable to remain calm any longer.
Terrified and in heartache.
Chen Dong’s gaze was terrified and his lips were mumbling, “Is Barbara …… in danger?”
