Chapter 23

23

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Early in the morning at dawn, the slaves of the inn were woken up by the rats and called up the bed, the slaves got up one by one and washed their faces by the well of the inn, then they were brought to the inn compound by the rats, each of them was issued a pottery bowl, the fellows of the inn still carried three buckets of corn porridge and scooped it up to them as their breakfast.

Because yesterday lanky slaves snatch food, today the slaves hold to their own corn porridge, no one wait for the porridge to cool, are ignoring the burns straight into the mouth, when the lanky slaves remembered to go to snatch breakfast, but found that the slaves actually have eaten their own share of almost, the pair of father and son the fastest speed, is the first to drink all the rice porridge, holding the empty ceramic bowl licking the leftover grains in that.

The stout slave held the small half bowl of rice porridge that he had snatched, stared viciously down at the slaves wiping their mouths around, secretly annoyed that the slaves were too fast with their hands and feet, and decided that he would give these guys a little bit of a hard time in the future.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui choose to buy twenty-two slaves spent a total of 130 gold, the two hands are still left 370 gold, this money to save a little use, can be maintained until the grain harvest in the valley in October, Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui intend to continue to buy slaves every month in the future, this amount of money is not enough to cover their expenses, the two discussed, commissioned Wu Mu in the city of Dacheng around the purchase of a large number of help them to buy cotton and flax, purchased cotton and flax shipped to the South Port, the two prepared to build advanced textile machines to organize the spinning and weaving farm women, so as to arbitrage the profits to maintain the valley farming plan. The two men were ready to create advanced textile machines and organize the farm women of Nambu to spin and weave fabrics, so as to extract profits to maintain the farming plan in the valley. Weaving can produce the fastest profit, a peasant woman spinning half a year, there are jenny machine and loom do not half a day can be done, peasant women spinning the cost of a cloth is twelve gold, by the jenny machine and loom to complete, the cost of a piece of cotton cloth only need 5, 6 gold, with textile machines, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui is equal to the money printing machine.

The machine spun cloth is very fast, but the cloth can not be sold all in Dacheng, it has to be sold to neighboring countries, all in the local sales will destroy the financial Dacheng area, the impact of the economy of Dacheng, causing the Dacheng aristocrats to loathe, the two will become a target.

There are two channels to sell the cloths from Nambu to foreign countries, besides selling them to foreign merchants who come to Dacheng to do business, the other one relies on Wu Mu to sell them to the neighboring countries. Dacheng green cloth can be exchanged for fifteen gold in the local area, and can be exchanged for more than twenty in the neighboring countries. Wu Mu sells Dacheng green cloth to the neighboring countries to exchange for gold, and then uses the gold to buy the green cloth in Dacheng, and removes the road fees and expenses, Wu Mu's green cloth business makes a profit of about thirty percent.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui with the textile machine to produce green cloth can make Wu Mu's pure profit is guaranteed at fifty percent, Wu Mu of course, such a business heart, as long as Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui a month after the delivery of better than the Dacheng green cloth cloth cloth, Wu Mu to move to help them go to the neighboring countries to sell goods.

After arranging for the acquisition of cotton and hemp, the two travelers returned to the valley with the slaves and purchased supplies. In order to transport the slaves and supplies back, Wu Da not only booked all the mule carts and oxcarts in Dacheng, but also borrowed all the vehicles from Wu Mu's family and relatives and friends, twenty-two slaves were driven on top of the three oxcarts, Zheng Yuming, Chu Zhaohui, and Xiao Rats each rode in an oxcart to follow the slaves' carts, and Wu Da drove his own mule carts and led a dozen or more other mule carts loaded with supplies to go back to Nambu first, and those supplies, most notably grain, were to be stored in Wu Da's house. These grains were to be stored in Wu Da's house.

The speed of the mule train is twice as fast as the oxcart, out of Dacheng soon, walking in front of the mule train quickly disappeared, Zheng Chu and rats this team of six oxcarts slowly fall behind. Dacheng to Nambu mule carts can arrive in three hours, but the oxcart needs five or six hours. After the oxcart passed Qiuzhuang and Qiancun, the caravan stopped at the roadside to rest, Rat took out the inn's wheatcake and gave the slaves two pieces for lunch, the stout slave ate his own wheatcake and then went to grab the wheatcake of the two slaves next to him, which caused the slaves to make a commotion. Rat saw, in his heart want to teach this no one to not abide by the nature of the slave, but the strength of his skinny body and lanky slaves and the difference is really too big, Rat never do eggs against the stone thing, he eyeballs a turn, ran to Chu Chao Hui side.

"My lord, that big slave is so unruly, your lordship should show some power to him."

"How do I give him awesome? I'm still counting on this slave to work for me." Chu Chao Hui was oblivious to the commotion not far away.

"My lord, this won't work, letting this slave be lawless will affect your lord's prestige." Rat had one more thing left to say, if he couldn't control the lanky slave, the other slaves might follow suit, and with only two adults and three children in the main house in the valley, Rat was afraid that he wouldn't be able to suppress the slaves. Rat now consciously thought of himself as a slave manager.

"Uh, got it." Chu Chao Hui nodded at Rat, and there was appreciation for Rat in his eyes.

Rat saw that Chu Chao Hui did not have the intention to step in to stop him, he could not help but feel a little sulky in his heart, he gave the lanky slave a hard look, and decided to focus his surveillance on this person in the future, this slave had overdone it, and I believe that Lord Chu would not always stand by and watch with folded arms, Rat had seen Chu Chao Hui beat up the lanky slave in the inn, and he worshipped Chu Chao Hui's value of force.

After resting in the former village, the oxcart convoy continued to walk forward, after the slope, the mule caravan that helped them to transport the supplies had returned after unloading the goods, and the one who took the lead was Wu Mu's housekeeper Cui Fu, who was very respectful when he saw Zheng Chu and his two men and got off the car and saluted, letting the mule caravan give way to the oxcart convoy to precede them.

The oxcart stopped at the foot of the slit hill, and Zheng Chu and the two of them had the slaves unload all the supplies on the oxcart onto the roadside, and watched the oxcart returning to Dacheng go far away before they told the slaves to carry the supplies unloaded onto the roadside up the hillside on their backs.

Rat and Zheng Yuming walked in the front of the team, Chu Zhaohui carrying a steel stick to escort the rear. Slaves are all afraid of the burly slave carrying bags of grain walking in front of Chu Chao Hui, burly slaves in the inn has seen the power of Chu Chao Hui, Chu Chao Hui in the side of the surveillance, the attitude of a lot of honesty.

The slaves rested for the night, ate three full meals, the body strength is roughly restored, these slaves were originally born poor, hard work has become the essence, the things carried on their backs are the weight of Zheng Chu and his two people have long been calculated, it will not let the slaves can not bear it, each person carrying the supplies walking speed is very fast.

Slaves into the gap are very surprised, did not expect a large camphor tree there is a channel, burly slaves are looking around, in the ass suffered Chu Chao Hui a steel rod, burly slaves to stop looking around the action. Out of the gap, the slaves in the exit to rest for a moment on the back of the supplies to the villa in one breath.

Huo family siblings in the yard to see a group of people from afar, at first the two were very nervous, and when they saw that the forefront of the team is Zheng Yuming and rats, the two children can not help but grin straight. Although the two children and a small dog are protected by the fence, but hear and see the beasts walking outside the fence from time to time, the two children are still very afraid, the heart has been looking forward to the early return of the adults.

When the slaves saw the gray brick and red tile villa standing in the valley and the white concrete fence surrounding the villa, one by one, they stopped in their tracks with their mouths hanging open, they had never seen such a strange building before. Arriving at the fence, Zheng Yuming ordered the slaves to stop, put the supplies on the ground and stay in place waiting for instructions.

Zheng Yuming took the key to open the fence gate, wood suddenly ran out, pounced in front of Zheng Yuming vigorously flicked his tail, puppy mouth whimpering and pampering. Zheng Yuming touched the wood head.

"Your honor has worked hard!" Huo Sizhong was originally very mute, but now that he was in an excited mood, he actually forgot to be formal and ran straight to Zheng Yuming to greet him.

Zheng Yuming smiled at the two joy-filled children, and seeing the child and the wood safe and alive in the villa, the heart he had been holding on to was released.

The lanky slave's eyes began to twinkle from the moment he came out of the crevice and saw that there was actually a valley in the crevice, and when he saw the villa, his eyes glowed even more. After Zheng Yuming told the team to stand still and wait for instructions, Chu Chao Hui left the lanky slave and walked to the side of the slave team ready to lecture the slaves.

After Woody had pampered himself with his master, he remembered his responsibility and began to scrutinize the group of strange humans that had followed his master into the valley, it first let out a few barks at the group of slaves and then ran to each slave's feet sniffing the scent, sniffing one by one and sniffing them over, all the way to the end of the group. Upon sniffing the lanky slave, Woody looked up as usual after sniffing to examine the eyes of this human, Woody could recognize good and evil from the eyes of a human, and when it saw the lanky slave's fierce eyes, Woody jumped back and arched his doggy back to bark furiously at the lanky slave.

After observing the environment and knowing the demographic strength of the master's family, the guts are expanding dramatically, his former master's family has more than a dozen domestic servants and fighters, like this a domestic servant and fighters do not have a slave owner, lanky slaves as civilians have not seen, he narrowed his eyes to measure Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming, he felt that as long as he subdued Chu Chao Hui, this master of the valley in exchange for him to be completely achievable, for Zheng Yuming, in the The stout slave's eyes, although tall, but the appearance is too handsome, the person's temperament is warm and elegant, let a person can't feel a bit of threat, the stout slave has the certainty that he can put down this master.

Just when the burly slave heart plan, the little milk dog to him suddenly barking, burly slave heart annoyed, raised a foot towards the wood kick, spare wood smart back straight back, but now too small, no big dog flexibility, was burly slave swept to the back of the legs kicked off, fell to the ground rolled several times before stopping, fortunately, fell down to the place where the vegetable field, the wood did not suffer fatal injuries.

"Wood!" Zheng Yuming shouted in a hurry when the lanky slave raised his foot and kicked to think about the wood, and Chu Chaohui hurriedly rushed towards the lanky slave with a steel rod at the sight of the situation.

The lanky slave heard Zheng Yuming's scream, realized that he kicked the little puppy is not an ordinary puppy, must be the master's beloved things, and then see Chu Chao Hui rushed to their fierce kind, immediately alerted to their own downfall is not good, in the inn has seen Chu Chao Hui's ability, head-on dueling their own absolutely can't get the upper hand, the eyes of the surrounding area is no obstruction of the forest, lanky slaves in line with the spirit of the good man but not to be forced to do anything, he escaped first! After that, then look for an opportunity to kill the most forceful Chu Zhaohui, the idea of the villa's adults and children are killed, subdue the gang of slaves, after this valley will become their own all!

The lanky slave made up his mind in his mind, and after seeing Chu Chao Hui rushing towards him, he immediately turned around and fled to the forest. Rat saw the lanky slave escaping and immediately followed Chu Chao Hui to catch up.

"Rat! Stop and don't chase!"

Seeing the lanky slave fleeing to the forest, Chu Chao Hui did not speed up to catch up, instead he stood still dropping the steel rod in his hand, pulled out his pistol from his waist, and while opening his mouth to stop Rat from chasing after him, he removed the silencer from the pistol.

The slaves from Chu Chao Hui carrying a steel rod ready to go to teach the stout slave, one by one eyes will be wide open, face is gloating expression, heart all in the hope that the master family will be able to beat the stout slave to half dead. Just when the slaves were expecting the stout slave to be unlucky, Chu Chaohui suddenly stood still and just pulled out a black thing, this situation made these slaves very puzzled, could the master just let that fierce demon run away so easily?

Rat was called by Chu Chao Hui and saw the lanky slave running farther and farther away, and was anxiously jumping on the spot when there was a muffled sound of ''bang'', a flock of birds were startled in the forest, and the running lanky slave was suddenly immobilized, and after grasping and raising both of his hands towards the air, his body was twisted and fell down on the ground.

"My lord! That murderer fell and lay on the ground!" Rat didn't understand why the lanky slave suddenly fell, all he could think of now was for Chu Chao Hui to go up and catch that guy back to teach him a hard lesson.

"Rat! Go drag that murderer back!" Chu Chao Hui put away his pistol, pinned it back to his belt, and ordered the son of the father-slave pair with his hand. "You go too."

"Aye! Master!" Although the teenage slave who was pointed by Chu Chao Hui was afraid of the lanky slave in his heart, he didn't dare to disobey his master's orders and obediently followed behind Rat towards the lanky slave.

Rat took the teenage slaves and approached the lanky slave gently, and found that the lanky slave was lying motionless on the ground, and only when he approached within ten meters did he realize that there was a large pool of blood next to the lanky slave's head.

"My lord! This murderer is dead!" Rat rushed to the side of the lanky slave's body and found that the lanky slave was no longer breathing, so he couldn't help but shout excitedly in the direction of the villa. The teenage slave who followed behind Rat violently saw a large puddle of blood on the ground, and then met the lanky slave's big dead copper-bell eyes, and sat down on the ground in shock.

Rat's shouting caused a shock to the slaves, when the body of the stout slave was dragged in front of Rat and the teenage slaves, the slaves were all shivering in shock, it's too scary, the master can take a person's life from a distance of 100 meters by only using a small black thing, the master's power is too strong, it's no wonder that the residence has no domestic servants who also dared to buy them to make use of them.

Zheng Yuming as early as when Chu Chao Hui purchased the lanky slave, vaguely aware of the lanky slave's future fate, originally the heart of the slave without a good end is still a bit of pity, in the past to see this person all the way to do, especially on his beloved wood kicked out a foot, the heart of that pity has long disappeared, indifference to the next no breath of the body a glance, then the whimpering wood to give Huo brother and sister to let the Huo brother and sister carry back to the villa. Huo family siblings to carry back to the villa.