Chapter 30: Night Talk

Xiao Chen used a stone as a chopping board by the campfire and cut the wild boar with a dagger. He has a lot of energy now, and although he has never done this kind of work, the meat is still easily cut into small pieces. Caterina put the cut pieces of meat on the branches, and a few children ran around and picked up the branches for her.
Barbecue work was given to the captain of this team, a soldier under Roger. The skewers made a sizzling noise on the campfire, and from time to time, grease dripped into the fire, and a rich flavour of the meat was scattered.
The people standing around are all from this team. They are used to cooking these days and waiting in line to get their meals. But like other teams, the people waiting for dinner are different. The people here are still a little nervous in anticipation. Therefore, the crowd is a little strange quiet.
A magician for everyone to eat! A lord with slaves. This is not only unheard of, it's not even possible to appear in a dream.
Xiao Chen also felt this subtle atmosphere. He glanced at the people around him, and wherever his eyes touched, everyone lowered his head, as if his eyes were heavy. The ability of night vision allows him to see everyone's subtle expressions, doubts, tensions, and puzzles.
These people, although the body is standing, the heart is used to kneeling. Don't look like they were like lions when they rioted, but they were calmer but gentler than sheep and timid than rabbits.
The little captain cooked the first batch of skewered meat, but no one dared to come up and get it. Some children wanted to come up with it, but they were caught by their parents.
"Don't worry. This is Master Xiao's reward." Katerina was not surprised by the performance of these people. She beckoned to the children. The children suddenly broke free of their parents' control and happily came up to grab the meat. string. However, after all, it was the children who had been in the slave camp. After the skewers got their hands, they remembered something, whispered something, and led by an older child, walked to Xiao Chen and knelt down.
"Thank you Lord Lord for your reward." The leader said aloud. Although he looked sloppy and dirty, he could not even see his face, but his voice was surprisingly gentle and pleasant.
But Xiao Chen didn't listen to it very much. When these children were naughty, they were no different from the bear children he had seen, but when he came to him, he made a worldly surrender attitude, the kind of power that caused all this. Disgusting.
He put down his dagger and walked in front of these children, saying, "This is not a reward, just a share. All stand up, I don't like someone kneeling."
Having said that, he stretched out the old kid. The other children looked around. Although they didn't know where to go, they all stood up, and then he ran off to eat meat.
Seeing that Xiao Chen was still pulling the eldest child, a middle-aged man ran forward with his back and bowed to Xiao Chen repeatedly: "These children don't know your preference, they will understand next time."
"you are?"
The man glanced at the child supported by Xiao Chen, "Adult, my name is Quinte Sandro, and you are in front of my son Crete Sandro."
"Son?" Katarina said in surprise. She stepped forward and lifted the child's dishevelled brown hair, revealing a rather handsome face, but it was obvious that this was a boy a few years younger than him.
"Yes," Quint said gulpingly. "He has a good voice. But it was also the voice that made the Lynch family take a fancy to him. If it wasn't for Master Xiao who rescued us that day, a few days ... he It's about to become a castrate. "
"Eunuch?" Katerina clearly didn't understand the word.
"That is, he was castrated before he became a man, so he could keep his voice." Quint said angrily. "Although both our father and son have become slaves, our ancestors have been knights, If it is really that day, we can only die. "
Seeing the man who had been bowing and bowing before saying "can only die", Xiao Chen understood that this was forced to the limit, and he also remembered that this Lynch family was not one of the last three to cooperate with him. ? It seems that they are cheaper. He promised: "You can rest assured that this will never happen to the place we are going. You can see the grown up of Little Cretan with peace of mind and let you embrace your grandson."
Quint repeatedly thanked.
Xiao Chen patted Crete's shoulder, "Go and play with other children."
Unexpectedly, Crete said: "Sir, my father and I will help you barbecue together. We used to do this when we were doing business with the caravan."
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"Are you still walking outside with the caravan? How old are you?"
"At fourteen, I have been to many places east of the kingdom," Crete replied generously.
"Okay! Come and help together, Crete will help Caterina to skewer meat, and Quint will help your captain barbecue." Xiao Chen beckoned to the people standing around, "I think you are also in a hurry, come again Personally, let ’s barbecue together. Right, that ’s how it looks like eating barbecue. "
Nothing can increase people's mutual understanding better than working together. When you see a person working hard, you will have a natural recognition for him. And creating friendship in labor is as natural as it is natural. Because labor is the fundamental driving force for human development, even if we do not realize it in our minds, our instincts understand this very well.
Xiao Chen roasted the meat with everyone and ate the meat. He naturally merged with the people around him. The slaves slowly forgot that he was a lord and a magician, and laughter began to appear in this corner of the camp.
In the wilderness, after the meal, there is nothing else to do. Everyone naturally sat around the campfire and chatted about gossip. Xiao Chen unexpectedly discovered that Crete was really a eloquent little guy. Speaking of the story of his business with his father, he was much stronger than his father. . When he asked him, he knew that when he was seven or eight years old, this little guy began to be responsible for bargaining with customers. In contrast, his father seemed to be a cargo buddy.
"... The robbers surrounded the caravans. They drove the horses to drive the people who wanted to escape. The timid mercenaries saw four or five times more robbers than themselves, and surrendered without a shot." Ke Ritter seemed indifferent when he talked about his story. It was like a storyteller telling a story, but there was not much mood swing. It's as if the past has nothing to do with his life.
"The mercenaries are it! It's a shame for mercenaries. The robbers are actually like mice. As long as you shoot a few, they will run away." Katarina's eyes widened, fully integrated into this tragic story.
"Sister Caterina, it's a pity that there were no people like you among the mercenaries at that time. Otherwise my mother might not die. She tried to push me away and was killed by a robber who was rushed by a horse. I had a nightmare I have always seen her look like she was hit and flew ... "Speaking of here, Crete's emotions finally fluctuated," I rushed over and pounced on her, her body was still warm, but she was awake. But come. I wiped the blood from her mouth with my sleeve, but it couldn't be wiped out. I can only shake her, keep shaking her ... "Crete said, as if recalling the scene at that time , Stunned there.
"Later?" Katarina asked with red eyes.
"Ah, later ..." Crete recovered, "A robber took me away. Because I wanted to bite him, I was stunned by his slap, and when I woke up, I was beaten with my father. Closed in prison. "
"We became the culprits of robbers." Quint sighed and said for his son. "Some of the wealthy businessmen in the family have been redeemed one after another. But our family's property has been robbed by the robbers. They can only do the hard work for them. Crete and I pick up the water and split the wood every day to do everything. After a whole day, we can get a little bit of dark bread ... it has been so hard for more than ten days, I thought we would soon I ’ll be exhausted there. I did n’t expect that the lord over there sent an army to destroy the robbers. "
"Then are you saved?" Katerina asked, and she woke up, "I'm so stupid, if you're saved, you won't be in a slave camp."
"Ah, everyone knows that the nobles and the robbers have an unclear relationship. The robbers have long been informed that they fled before the army arrived. But our hard laborers were thrown into the camp because of their weakness. The knight who led the team saw that none of the robbers had caught him and started killing us all! "
Xiao Chen found that when Quint said here, there were some scattered comments around, but most listeners were not too surprised. It seems that killing Liang Gong is not new in this world. Even Catalina didn't say anything, just clenched her fists tightly, and it seemed to her that mercenaries were much more reliable than the lord's army.
Quint touched Crete ’s head lovingly:
Speaking of that, Crete saved me. When he killed us, he said to the knight: 'Knight, I will sing a nice song, please Please do n’t kill us. You can sell us a good price.
Then the knight put the knife on my neck and let him sing. If the singing is not good, the knife will be cut off. Crete wants to turn his back Go, do n’t let me see how the knife is against his neck, but the ... forced him to watch me sing. Crete sang a 'Shepherd Girl', that was his mother's favorite song. He The voice was trembling, but it was as beautiful as an elf singing. I ’ve never heard such a nice song, and surely there was n’t that bastard. Finally, maybe it ’s a heartbeat, maybe it ’s enough people. Anyway, he left Our life, then we came here ... "
Crete, who had always been quiet, heard this, but his eyes were red, hugged his father, buried his head on his shoulder, and sobbed in a low voice.
Everyone around made a sigh, and the story of the Quint family made them feel the same, and finally appeared in the slave camp. Who didn't have a few sad situations? Several people stood up. The men used to pat Quinte's shoulder, or touch Crete's head. Several girls cried and hugged Crete in tears. Even Catalina hugged him for a long time, and secretly took out a piece of chocolate that no one gave her and stuffed it in Crete's hand.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Chen pondered for a moment: "Crete is really a brave good boy. We will protect him and let him learn to protect himself in the future. Let him do something with me when free."
Quint was stunned by this sudden decision, and the insights of the merchants let him know what a great opportunity to serve a magician. He froze for a while before rushing to Xiao Chen, shouting loudly: "Thank you lord! Thank you lord! We ... we are grateful."
But Crete was calm, stood up, and bowed deeply to Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen lifted Quint and said to the others: "Since we are all sitting here today, everyone will tell their own story. I have heard a word, to share the pain with others, and I am only left. Half the pain. Today, we share the pain with each other here, and tomorrow everyone will be more intimate brothers and sisters. "
brothers and sisters? These four words were shouted out by Xiao Chen in the afternoon with a big horn, but the feeling at that time was so different from that spoken by the campfire. At this moment, these simple four words shake Katerina's heart. She stared blankly at Xiao Chen. His face was calm and firm, and her eyes were full of encouragement and hope, making her suddenly feel that today's campfires are particularly warm.