After waiting for about half an hour, more than a dozen plates of roasted chicken were brought up. Shimada Hideyasu personally helped Asahina Taehyung carry the plates, "Sir, you can eat, but if it's not enough, there will be five more roasted chickens that haven't been served."
"Okay, okay, the hospitality is really good," Taehyung Asahina smelled the aroma of roasted chicken. He didn't care about anything, waved his dirty hands, grabbed a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth, "Just wait on the side.
!I’ll call you when I’m useful!”
Yu Qiuping felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach after eating a few mouthfuls. He probably couldn't get used to it after being bumpy for too long, so he left through the back door again, intending to take a breather and rest.
After walking around, he took a detour to the slaves' barracks. Yu Qiuping planned to pass by quickly, but a sharp sound of shattering plates inside made him stop, and he went over to take a look inside with some curiosity.
what happened.
"Damn it! What the hell is this!" A tall, sturdy man about 1.7 meters tall seemed to be the one who smashed the plate just now. He seemed to be still angry and punched the wood hard.
Zhuang. Yu Qiuping felt pain when he heard it.
"We have worked hard to raise chickens for a year! We, more than two hundred brothers, have saved a lot of rations for this. We all pooled our little savings to honor the supervisor and asked him to allow us to raise chickens! The results are now good
!” The tall man spat hard on the ground, “Those supervisors took them away as soon as they were told, but those were twenty chickens! Not a single one was left for us!”
"Didn't you see that there is a distinguished guest over there, the young master of the Asahina family?" A young man with messy hair sitting on the haystack next to him said sarcastically in a sinister tone, "Our Lord Supervisor is so wise and powerful! We must use this.
A few chickens are trying to please the adults above, but how can they care about slaves like us? I don’t know, when I get promoted,” he curled his lips and showed a sarcastic smile, “will he drink the water without forgetting the well digger?
Think about who has been raising this chicken for a year."
"Yoshioka Katsumasa, Omaezaki Nakahide, you two please keep your voices down!" A young man sitting in the middle who seemed to be the leader lowered his voice and scolded. He was the cleanest dressed among these slaves, with a bright face.
Although there are also many clouds, he can still see his usual forbearance skills, "The affairs of Lord Supervisor are not up to us."
"Hey~" Gomaezaki Nakahide shrugged, "Our big brother Fukushima Yasunari, you are so powerful that you still come to take care of us," he continued to say in a sinister manner, "Just now the supervisor came to rob us arrogantly
Why didn't you take care of me when I was eating chicken?"
"Ogawa Yutong, please stop drinking and say something," Omaezaki Nakahide looked at a man lying on the side in a haystack, drinking low-quality soju one after another. His face was red and his eyes were red.
It's like you can't open your eyes. "At that time, you spent half of your wine money to raise chickens. Why didn't you say anything?"
Ogawa Yudong glanced at him, said nothing, and drank another gulp of wine.
"Damn, these beasts that kill a thousand people!" Yoshioka Katsumasa was so anxious that tears flashed in his eyes, "The chickens that my brothers have been raising for a year, if they are taken away for their own good, I can't bear it.
Forget it! We plan to send these chickens back to Junfu to serve as meat dishes to our family."
"There are more than 200 households. With twenty chickens, how many mouthfuls can one family get?" Nakahide Omaezaki sighed, but he still didn't stop being sarcastic.
"That's better than nothing." Yufuyu Ogawa, who was drinking and not talking to anyone, finally said something after belching, "Since my uncle was arrested, my family has not eaten meat for almost ten years."
"My mother's health is not good. She has been sweeping the streets in Junfu every day for the past few years, and her illness has become more and more serious. I have long wanted to buy her a chicken to stew to replenish her health," Yoshioka Katsumasa gritted his teeth until he almost died.
Like cracking open, "Finally, we all pooled together to buy a chick and raised it for a year! Just waiting to give it to my mother! Damn it! These beastly supervisors!"
"Katsumasa, keep your voice down, be careful that walls have ears." Fukushima Yasunari whispered.
"The supervisors are busy serving the nobles, so they don't have time to see us." Gomaezaki Nakahide said disdainfully.
"Asunari, are you serious about not complaining?" Omaezaki Nakahide glanced at Fukushima Anari, who was sitting in the middle and said nothing, "I remember that when you started raising chickens last year, you wrote a letter to your family, saying
My younger siblings haven’t eaten meat since they were born, but my brother finally ordered some chicken for them. I’ve been writing for a year, and every time someone at home writes to you, they always say that they’re looking forward to eating the chicken you raised.
, what do you say now?"
Fukushima Yasunari's Adam's apple moved up and down, and his cheeks were suddenly buried in the shadows.
"I have dreamed several times how happy my father and mother were when they could eat meat," Omaezaki Nakahide sighed, and when he mentioned his parents in a sinister tone, he disappeared without a trace.
There was so much helplessness left.
There were more than two hundred slaves around, complaining and whimpering from time to time.
"I don't know how my mother is doing." After a long time, Fukushima Yasunari spat out a few words, "The last letter from home last year said that the money was almost gone, and she couldn't even raise the money for the person to write the letter. My mother
My lung disease is getting worse." After saying that, he fell into silence again.
"No wonder I haven't seen you write a letter in months." Ogawa Yutong burped and muttered.
"Damn it! I can't bear it anymore!" Yoshioka Katsumasa, who had been beating the stakes alone for a long time, suddenly roared, "What a man! How can you be so angry? I'm going to kill all those sons of bitches right now.
Come on!" After saying that, he picked up a sap in the corner and ran out. Fukushima Yasunari quickly stood up and hugged him, and several people around him also came to help hold him down.
"Are you crazy?" Another slave said in a low voice, "If we make such a fuss, our whole family will be killed!"
Yoshioka Katsumasa struggled hard while roaring, and Omaezaki Nakahide also led several people to help hold him down.
"You are making such a big noise, don't let anyone hear you." Ogawa Yudong said in a crow.
Suddenly, there was a burst of staggering footsteps at the entrance of the camp.
"Oops, I was heard!" A thought flashed through everyone's minds.
Everyone was shocked. The more than two hundred slaves who had been gathered together scattered like birds and beasts, and quickly returned to their respective posts. However, the entangled Nakahide Omaezaki and Katsumasa Yoshioka had no time to escape, and they were caught off guard and leaned on the grass.
At the edge of the stack, Fukushima Yasunari saw that the situation was not good, so he knelt down and started kowtowing before anyone could enter the camp gate.
"The little people were rude just now and disturbed all the adults. Sir, I'm sorry! The villain deserves to die! I hope the adults will ignore the villain's fault and let the villain go!"
As soon as Yu Qiuping came in, he saw Fukushima Yasunari kowtowing to the ground, constantly muttering begging for mercy. Immediately afterwards, Gomaezaki Nakahide and Yoshioka Katsumasa also knelt down and kowtowed, and then the two people around him knelt down and kowtowed.
Hundreds of slaves also knelt down.
"Sir, you have a lot. For the sake of our usual rules, please spare those blind guys!" Fukushima Yasunari said without even raising his head, and kicked him hard to the side.
Omaezaki Nakahide and Yoshioka Katsumasa, who were kneeling on the ground, said, "They both deserve to die! But considering how diligent they are in their daily work, I hope you will leave a way for them to survive!"
"Sir! I don't dare to dare anymore! We, we drank too much just now," Omaezaki Nakahide casually pointed at Ogawa Yufuyu, who was still drunk in the haystack, "That's why we said those nonsense! We can't take it seriously.
grown ups!"
Yoshioka Shengzheng seemed to be a rough man, he couldn't even say anything to beg for mercy, he just kept kowtowing somewhere.
After waiting for a long time, the kneeling slaves did not see any expression from the "adult" who came to inspect, and they all knelt there in fear and did not dare to move.
After a long time, a sob broke the silence of the barracks.
"Don't kowtow, it hurts so much."
Fukushima Yasunari and the others looked up in disbelief, only to see a young man holding a basket of roast chicken, with tears on his face. Yu Qiuping moved the basket to one side and shook it feebly.
. Wiped away his tears, he gently lifted up the more than two hundred kneeling slaves one by one. He walked back to the gate of the camp and asked Fukushima Yasunari: "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
"Sir...what are you..." Fukushima Yasunari looked at the handsome and strange boy in front of him at a loss.
"Don't be afraid. I'm not a supervisor. I'm just a follower of Asahina-sama. I just came from the Ming Dynasty." Yu Qiuping tried to suppress his crying and kept his voice as steady as possible, "I happened to hear your story just now... I think you
Life is so unfair and miserable."
"I live in Junfu now, and my family still has some savings. I just want to ask," Yu Qiuping said, tears still flowing out again. He grew up with no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and his family lived in harmony.
Meimei. He has never come into contact with a family that has been tortured by fate like this. "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
In the summer, a cool breeze blew by, picking up the leaves on the ground and then quietly leaving.
As a low sob sounded among the slaves, Fukushima Yasunari in front of Yu Qiupei covered his mouth and cried loudly. The two hundred followers behind him also suppressed their crying and sobbed in low voices. Yu Qiuping suddenly felt very
Wenwei has only been in this world for a short time, but he has already seen too many injustices.
What he did was obviously just like a normal, kind-hearted ordinary person, caring for and helping others equally, but he never thought that he would be so touched.
Is it because I am too good? Or maybe the times are too bad.
In an era of orderly hierarchy and strict hierarchy, the ruthless exploitation of people at the bottom and lower classes by those in power has brought so many tragedies. How could there be only more than two hundred slaves wandering in a foreign land in front of us?
I ask myself that I am not a great person, and I have never performed any charitable feats before. But as long as I live in this world as a person with a conscience, I will never turn a blind eye to such a tragedy.
I, Yu Qiuping, do what I say.
The young man made up his mind in his heart.
"These five roast chickens are more than the adults can finish," Yu Qiuping pointed to the baskets, "Although you can share these with more than two hundred people, each of you can get a bite of meat. But you should still eat a little.
"
"Also, if you believe me, you can give me your home address and contact information. After I return to Junfu," Yu Qiuping said, "I will try my best to find them and buy half a chicken for each family.
I will also try my best to help families who need any help, such as herbal medicine for medical treatment and so on. If they have to write to you in the future, leave it to me. I helped a silk shop with a branch in Sanhe to do the accounting.
It’s definitely okay for them to help carry some letters when they are transporting goods.”
Before Yu Qiuping could finish speaking, Fukushima Ancheng knelt down in front of him again. "Your Majesty, you are so kind!" He sobbed, "We are the slaves of the family who have done evil, and we are not worthy of your mercy. Your kindness.
We are grateful, but this is really troublesome..."
"Trouble me, I don't care, as long as I can help you a little." Yu Qiuping could not lift Fukushima Yasunari who was kneeling on the ground.
"My lord, you don't have to be like this..." Several other people also knelt down.
"Okay, okay, stop talking." Yu Qiuping interrupted them, "You don't have to feel in your heart that you owe me. I'm not just doing this out of pity for you, but also because my own conscience can't tolerate me treating such a person.
You sit back and ignore the tragedy. If I didn't help you today, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
"What's wrong? Do you want me to regret it for the rest of my life?" Yu Qiuping joked, trying to lighten the atmosphere.
"How dare you," Omaezaki Nakahide said with a smile, "It's too late to wish you a safe life, how dare you make you regret it for the rest of your life. But these more than a hundred chickens are really a big expense..."
"You don't have to worry anymore." Yu Qiuping said.
"You don't need to buy so much. If you buy us a total of twenty chickens, we will be satisfied if we don't work in vain for a year." Yoshioka Shengzheng said honestly and courteously.
"With more than two hundred households and hundreds of people, how much can you share among twenty chickens?" Yu Qiuping shook his head, "I will find a way to get the money. Don't worry. I'll get paper and pen. Just wait for me."
"
After completing the registration of the addresses and contact information of more than 200 people, Yu Qiuping shared a few bites of chicken with everyone. When he was about to say goodbye and leave with the thick stack of paper, Fukushima Yasunari suddenly grabbed him.
.
When he turned around, he saw more than two hundred people kneeling on the ground again.
"It's hard for a small person to repay you for your great kindness," Fukushima Yasunari's voice was unusually low, but full of determination, "If there is a fate in this life, I am willing to follow you until you are under the Nine Netherworld. In the next life, you will die.