Chapter 8: Slave market

The next day, when Silo invited several partners to inspect the goods, Xiao Chen and Luo Ling took Kalanda to the slave market. Suero ’s slave market is naturally not in the inner city, but is located about one kilometer east of the outer city.
The slave market is different from other markets. It is separated by tall and heavy fences, and only two doors are opened on the east and west sides. There is a team of heavily armed mercenaries in front of each door. There are also many towers around the market, and the mercenaries above hold bows and arrows and watch the movements around them cautiously. This place is more of a walled city than a market.
When entering the door, the stationed mercenaries clearly knew Karanda, nodded and greeted her, and carefully looked at Xiao Chen and the two before giving way to them and letting them in.
"The slave market is very strict. If it is not brought by an acquaintance or noble, sometimes you need to search. Those greedy and timid slave traders are afraid of slave riots." Karanda said, she lived here for many years. It is natural to understand some palms.
"Has such a thing happened before?" Xiao Chen looked closely at the mercenaries at the door. They saw that they were wearing scale armor, long swords on their waists, and carrying crossbows, which were more elite than the soldiers he had hired before.
"Some people can admit their lives as slaves, but some people would rather die for a chance of freedom." Kalanda lowered her voice while walking the two of them, "Ten years ago, some people engaged in a game together During the riot, the slaves of the entire slave market escaped, the guards and merchants in the market were killed, and the outer city of Suero was looted. At that time, even the inner city was almost beaten down. The current guard The father of Baron Gregory, the city official, was killed at that time. "
"Later?" Luo Ling saw Calanda's expression severe, and secretly guessed that it would not have a very good result.
Kalanda forgot a glance at the tower on the hillside of the inner city in the distance. "Master Ikasa of the Eye of the Eye shot and killed the leader of the slave before the slave rushed into the inner city. It is said that those people were under the influence of magic Suddenly attacked each other, and later they were surrounded by noble private forces in the surrounding cities, and they died very miserably. "
"You sympathize with those slaves?" Luo Ling asked.
Kalanda hesitated, "I, can't say sympathy ... They did a lot of terrible things after the riots, and if I were there, I would definitely fight them. But if they were not slave traders, they would not face it. That fate. "
"The battle between the two classes is always the cruelest. In contrast, the war between nobles is like a game." Luo Ling sighed.
"What are you talking about?" Kalanda puzzled.
"They stand on each other's standpoint of life and death, and there is no so-called 'rule of war'. So once the slaves break the shackles, the slave owner will not have good fruit to eat." Luo Ling explained.
"Okay, why do you still say the same old thing? We are not slave owners. Don't forget, we still have modern management techniques." Xiao Chen interrupted the conversation.
Luo Ling slightly lifted her chin and smiled at Xiao Chen, with a provocative, but unexplained language. Instead, she asked Kalanda: "What about the slaves later?"
"Scattered, those people have brand marks on them, they can't go inside the kingdom. Some have become horse thieves, some have crossed the border and voted for the empire, and some ... have heard that they have entered the temple of the false gods."
"Pseudo-God? I only heard that people here believe in the God of Nature." Xiao Chen said in surprise.
"Pseudo ..." Kalanda was about to explain, but suddenly looked forward, and then changed his mouth, "I'm speechless. Let's say something else."
Xiao Chen looked down at her, and saw three people in green robes approaching them. The robes were very peculiar, like woven from vines and leaves. Although they looked rough, they were worn by these people. Very harmonious.
"People in the Temple of Nature?" Xiao Chen asked in a low voice.
Kalandamer nodded silently.
Xiao Chen has never dealt with people in the Temple of Nature and is watching their clothes with interest. But unexpectedly, the three people saw them and greeted them.
"Natural gift to the rich, Miss Luo, I didn't expect to see you here." The middle-aged man headed about fifty, a little blessed, his head round, his eyebrows thick, his mouth always smiling, it looks like everything Is a businessman. He stretched his arms diagonally downward, his palms flat, his palms up, and performed the etiquette of a temple of nature.
"The world protects the world, Roland Priest, what a coincidence, how did you come here?" Luo Ling showed just the right look of surprise, touched his forehead with his hand, and gave him a Master's Ceremony.
"Nature's servants are always busy. There are too many people in the slave market. Recently, there has been an epidemic in the north. We have to take a look." Roland explained, looking at Luo Ling's companion, "Ah, this I know it is the head of Kalanda of the Blue Flame Mercenary Corps. What is this handsome young man? "
"He is the Master Xiao Chen I talked about."
"Ah, disrespect. I heard a lot of people mention your name." Roland priest nodded to him. "Suero's place needs some fresh blood. Otherwise, even if people are coming and going, it is still full. It's stale. "
"Do you think Suero needs some changes?" Xiao Chen felt that the priest's words were a bit of an implication.
"The river will not stay on the river bed, and the mountain breeze will not miss the valley. The sage's" ming sentence "tells us that change is the way of nature." Rowland priest did not explain after saying these words, but to Luo Ling. Said, "I heard that Miss Luo was very kind to the slaves who were bought back. This is really a good thing. I rarely see such a master in Suero."
"I just don't like to face people with bitter faces every day." Luo Ling smiled.
"In any case, I hope to see more people like you." Roland praised.
"You might be able to do better, for example, don't come here to buy slaves, don't give slavers the opportunity to make money! Tigers, leopards hunt lambs, owls hunt for flies. Weak meat and strong food have always been the way of nature, but never seen animals There is the same kind of slavery! Slavery is not a natural way, it is sin. "The young man beside Roland priest said suddenly.
"Gano, this shouldn't be spoken. You should apologize to Miss Luo." Rowland dissatisfied.
auzw.com "Master Roland, it is not better to have fewer transactions, we are here ..." the young man argued.
"Shut up, you don't say this to the people in the slave market, but you only say this to Miss Luo, who is the best, is it to bully her?" Roland seemed really angry, "think about your father, Don't embarrass him. Apologize to Miss Luo. "
The young man blushed, and when he saw left and right, no one released him, and he bowed his head to Luo Ling, "Sorry."
Luo Ling nodded, just like a mage should have.
"Gano, remember: the quiet tree has a long life, and the gorgeous flowers only bloom for one season. We should go." The priest Roland greeted several people again and left with them.
Xiao Chen watched several people leave and asked Luo Ling: "How do you know these people?"
"Roland is a silver leaf priest in the city of Suero, second only to the golden branch priests of the Elder Order in the Temple of Nature. We have had some dealings."
"Why are they talking so weird?"
Luo Ling chuckled, "Just like to drop the schoolbag. The priests of the Temple of Nature are rare cultural people in this world. Do you not allow others to be artistic?"
"These words are translated into Chinese, but they look a bit like poetry." Xiao Chen pondered. "But when caught in a normal conversation, I feel like I'm eating bibimbap and I'm panicked."
"The Temple of Nature has no scriptures, and many of the so-called" ming sentences "are just words and phrases handed down from the senior priests. In our case, it is called Jingjing.
"Hah, it turned out to be some nerds."
"Don't say that, Mr. Rowland is my big customer, and the fertilizer business depends on him."
"You still do fertilizer business ?! Not on the report!"
"All the industries on the tall have been left to the school, you have to be careful about people who earn a little fat, it's really boring ..."
As the two ran the train, Kalanda reminded: "Miss Luo, it's weird that they are here."
"How to say?"
"The young man named Gano seemed to be the son of another silver leaf priest. When he was a trainee priest here, he heard that he had caused a lot of trouble, as if he had a conflict with the slave merchant." Kalanda recalled Road.
"You mean ..., shouldn't they be here?"
"Maybe I am more concerned, but I have never heard of the priests of the Temple of Nature who like to help slave merchants."

This is a luxurious and excessive reception room. All the furnishings seem to pick up and shake, and you can drop out the gold coins. The windows are opened along the street, and the traffic and bargaining sounds from outside are transmitted into the room, adding a bit of urban vibe to the owner.
"Well, Roland, they are here to check the epidemic. They all went to the places where the slaves were closed." Inda, the full-slave slave trader Inda, stuck in the back chair, fiddled with the ruby ​​ring on his thick finger, and there were a few smiles A taunting taste, "However, this has never happened before. It must have been that time when my dead ghost daddy was. It was really a big epidemic. Many slaves died, and several slave merchants were poor. "I couldn't get rid of it, so I sold myself and became a slave." Inda threw the armrest without any image and laughed. "Haha. A few of them were still sold by my dad."
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling were sitting opposite Inda. Kalanda stood beside him vigilantly, observing the four heavily armed and tall soldiers behind Inda.
"Head Karanda, don't be nervous, we will be hated somehow, and we are naturally used to being careful, but I can trust you." Dain turned his head and waved his hands, so that the four soldiers walked out of the door. "Actually We also give people a way to live, right? Who were these slaves? The captured soldiers, the famine fleeing people, without us, these people can't live for three days. My dad said a lot of nonsense in his life, but there is a saying that is right : What we do is a good thing to save people! "
Luo Ling looked at Dain's blushing and nonchalantly talking nonsense, but admired him a bit, but she didn't want to waste time on the slave merchant's kindness, so she asked, "Roland's priest checked it?"
"All medicines were given to everyone, even I took one. It is said that the epidemic came from the empire. Although not too many people would die, those who got sick had to be sparse for several days and lie in the upper half. Months. Nobody wants soft odors. "
"Then why didn't they check the businessmen in the city first?" Xiao Chen wondered.
"They're not going here. Master Xiao, who is this in Suero City." Dyne raised his thumbs. "It's up to us, the guys in the Temple of Nature finally learned the importance. Poor Old Roland, if he could be so funny last year, he would have had a comfortable life. "
Dyne laughed again. He smiled for a while and tapped the coffee table with his knuckles, emphasizing, "Slave business is not for anyone to do, it's troublesome! If the average person dares to touch it, I'm afraid I don't need one Moon, he became a slave. "
"Mr. Din seems to be the one who can solve the trouble." Luo Ling said with a smile.
"That's natural, but although it's troublesome, once this kind of business is done, it will be tasteless to do any other business."
This cheeky face really satisfied all his imagination of the slave merchant, Xiao Chen thought.
Dyne yawned and seemed tired. As soon as he snapped his fingers, a thin and serious middle-aged man walked in from outside the door, "Not to mention the old guy, the two mages came just today. A group of slaves just came from the border. What kind of good things are the ones who survived, otherwise, if the force is not good, it will have become gray. Let Cohen Manager take you around, and if you see what you like, take it back. "