The setting sun takes away the heat of the day. The cool breeze crosses the mountains, gently brushes through the green bamboo forest, and sweeps to Xu Ping's place on the hillside, bringing the long-awaited coolness.

The yard was filled with people, and the soldiers who were staying in the village were sorting out the spoils.

Xu Ping stood in front of the door, with one hand on his waist looking at the busy people. Today is the second battle he has come to this world, which is easier than the first night of attacking Ke Wulang and his gang of thieves. This is the right thing to do. If this can be a loss, Xu Ping should consider his IQ and whether it is suitable to participate in the fight and killing. For example, the manpower of He County is stronger than Zhongzhou, and other strengths are far better. With a mind-set and unintentional, there are more than 200 more than the Shuxiang Army to help. Just like adults fighting children, it should not suffer any loss.

"The magistrate, one hundred and fifty stagnant coins, ten sips of sheep, fifty bottles of wine are ready."

Li Kongmu, who was on duty here, came to report. As Xu Ping's direct subordinates, Duan, Zheng, and Li San Kongmu took turns to Xu Ping, and the other two handled daily affairs in the Tongju Hall in Yongzhou City.

Xu Ping responded and said to Li Kongmu: "Call Chen Du to come over."

Li Kongmu took the order and soon brought a big man covered in clothes back. The big man came to him and crossed his hands to salute Xu Ping: "Chen Liang, the head of the inspector's village, has met the magistrate!"

"No gifts. Today, thanks to the lives of the officers and soldiers in the inspection village, they attacked the Zhongzhou barbarians who came out to cause trouble. I have prepared some gifts here, and you will take them back to the inspection village and let Inspection Zhang distribute them to his brothers. In the future, I will write to the Transfer Office and also have a reward."

Chen Liang looked happy and hurriedly thanked him.

Xu Ping said: "It's getting dark soon. I won't leave you here. I'll take you back to the inspection camp with my things. Inspection Officer Zhang is afraid he will be anxious. Be careful on the road and don't have any accidents."

Chen Liang took the order and turned around and left excitedly.

Xu Ping sighed. The army of the Song Dynasty was really, alas, and they had to feed them all the time. After this battle today, Xu Ping pretended to be stupid and refused to give rewards, but it would inevitably make the officers and soldiers complain, and don’t think it would be easy to use them again in the future. The atmosphere of this era is like this, and Xu Ping cannot avoid the common people. As soon as the battle was finished, he took the initiative to notify Zhang Rong to send someone to come back to receive the rewards. Chen Dutou followed him with more than 20 people.

In one battle this afternoon, there were not many spoils left, but more than 150 barbarians were captured alive. Xu Ping took them all back to his residence and was not prepared to let them go back in the future. They were all broken up and organized into the production team under his command for labor. Compared with Zhongzhou, he was like heaven to ordinary barbarians, and he was not afraid that they would run back secretly. This kind of thing had not happened yet.

Xiuxiu was fine, and she followed Gao Daquan and Tan Hu around the crowd to see if there were any fun and strange things. Unfortunately, the barbarians came out to grab things today, and there were really nothing rare.

Xu Ping watched the night gradually soaking the earth and ordered Li Kongmu to prepare wine and meat. After the battle, the soldiers in the inspection camp had food, drink, and money, so he couldn't treat his subordinates badly.

"My God, my God, why are there someone in this basket?!"

Xiuxiu's voice suddenly came from the crowd, and she felt in a panic.

Xu Ping quickly walked forward, took a torch from the crowd, came to Xiuxiu, and held the torch to shine in a large bamboo basket in front of her.

This is a large backpack commonly used by people in the mountains. The lid was lifted and thrown aside. In the basket, a girl was looking around curiously. The girl's hair was messy, and the scars on her face were mixed with blood and soil. She could not see her original face. Only her eyes were big and bright. Xu Ping's torch shone over, and the girl's eyes crossed the torch and faced Xu Ping's eyes. There was panic in her eyes, and she was more curious.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Liu Xiaomei, and it is Zhongzhou Titu."

Liu Xiaomei looked around and asked Xu Ping again: "This is not Zhongzhou, right? I heard that I was fighting in the afternoon, so it shouldn't be in Zhongzhou."

“This is Ruhe County.”

This little girl has a surname and a name, but she is not a man. Ordinary mountain man has no surname, so she just takes the name of A San and A Si, A Niu A Shui, and it would be fine if she didn't call him Hun. She also knew that she was Titau, which means ordinary people, and she was not a slave in any family. She should understand the difference between them very well. Theoretically, the private slaves and the government of the Song Dynasty would not care about it, and the Song Dynasty court had reasons to intervene. Of course, this is also theoretically. In fact, in order to prevent conflicts with the barbarian chiefs, the government of the people in the states did not care about it.

When Xu Ping saw her leaving Zhongzhou, his eyes lit up and turned to Xiuxiu and said, "You go find two stronger women, carry the basket into the house, change the clothes for the girl and then speak."

Not only was Liu Xiaomei's face full of injuries, but her body was also covered in blood. She was obviously severely punished, and it was a bit indecent to help her out in front of a group of big men.

Xiuxiu looked at Liu Xiaomei's face full of panic. Xu Ping said it twice before she could hear it clearly and ran out the door.

The custom of the barbarians is that women work. Although Xu Ping used collective organization to forcibly eliminate the laziness of men under his subordinates, the diligence of women is still retained. He weaving with men to do some textile work, and there is also a woman's residence around here.

Liu Xiaomei in the basket kept looking at Xu Ping, not very panicked, her eyes were a little curious, and she also had a passion and a desire for life.

"Are you an official in the state?" Liu Xiaomei asked Xu Ping.

"I am the Tongzong of Yongzhou."

Liu Xiaomei was a little confused: "What kind of official is Tongzong?"

Xu Ping didn't know how to answer. Taizu set up a magistrate to monitor the magistrate. Now, although the relationship between magistrates is not that sharp, the meaning of magistrates is still there. The Song people did not shy away, but the barbarians may not understand.

When Huang Tianbiao saw that there were people around here, he also squeezed over and said to Liu Xiaomei: "President Tong is another magistrate in our Yongzhou City, an official who is smaller than the magistrate."

This is the county lieutenant who was a barbarian, but it is hard to say that Xu Ping's subordinates are so straightforward.

Liu Xiaomei looked at Xu Ping and her eyes became brighter: "So it was a high-ranking official. Will you send me back to Zhongzhou? - I won't go back!"

Xu Ping didn't know the cause and effect of her affairs, so he had to answer vaguely: "You are Titu, and you are also a commoner under the court. As long as you have not committed a crime, no one will force you."

Xiuxiu took three women all the way back, ran to the basket, bent down and gasped, and said, "The official told me to carry the basket into the house and change the clothes for the little lady. - Little lady, we will take you to change clothes and wash your body. I have medicine for you to apply to it."

Liu Xiaomei opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but finally closed her mouth and said nothing. She let Xiuxiu take someone to carry the basket into the house with her.

Xu Ping waved to Huang Tianbiao to follow him, and went to the front of the house and asked him: "Is there anyone with the surname Liu in Zhongzhou?"

"Yes, it is said that during the Tang Dynasty, a plague spread around here. A medical official collected medicine to treat the people and saved many people. In order to commemorate his kindness, after the medical official left, the person who practiced medicine with him gave himself the surname Liu. There are several nearby states, but none of them are big surnames."

The surnames of barbarians are complex. Some have been passed down from ancient times. For example, the surname Huang, some have been converted into Chinese, such as the original meaning of Wei Zhuang, and the original meaning of the surname Nong is forest. Many of them come from the surname Han, which makes them even more inexplicable. Some come from teachers, some come from officials, and many come from doctors. And the last source is not a time and place, and some happen to be the same surname, so it doesn’t matter.

Xu Ping asked Huang Tianbiao what he meant, because he was afraid that Liu Xiaomei's ancestors were originally Han people, but for various reasons, they entered the barbarian area and became Han barbarians for a long time. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been many Han people living in the southwest, and there have been many Han people living in various barbarian areas. They have been a long time, and some have been assimilated by barbarians. During the Song Dynasty, these people were called Han barbarians, and the largest in the southwest, with quite a few settlements.

There are Han barbarians in the southwest and Han Hu in the northwest. The meaning of the barbarians is partly uneducated, not just the ethnic group. The policies of these Han barbarians and Han Hu and Song dynasties are different from those of the original barbarians. They are also subject to the court's rule, one is the reinforcing people, and the other is the reinforcing people, and there are different political treatments. If Liu Xiaomei is the Han barbarian, Xu Ping will also bear the burden for her. The majesty of the Central Plains dynasty is still there. If it is the native barbarians, then we will analyze the specific matters in detail and will be subject to the constraints of ethnic policies.

It was completely dark, and the spoils were sorted out, and there was nothing valuable. Xu Ping asked Li Kongmu to command and receive it to Curry and then deal with it slowly in the future.

More than a dozen torches were lit in the yard, which were as bright as daylight. Rows of tables and stools were placed under the lights, and large bowls of wine and chunks of meat came up to celebrate today's war.

For some reason, Xu Ping felt that he was not excited at all, so he asked someone to call Duan Fang, took Gao Daquan and Tan Hu to attract everyone, moved a chair by himself, and sat silently in front of the door.

The semicircular moon rose, lying on the hazy mountains in the distance, sprinkling cold light, looking at the people shouting in the yard curiously.

Xu Ping looked at the moon, and the moon looked at him mischievously and looked at each other silently.

He suddenly felt that the world was so strange. Since he came to this world, this feeling was so strong for the first time. Everything around him, those familiar people and those familiar scenery, seemed to have suddenly become out of reach. The fire was bright, but Xu Ping felt that he was sitting in the shadow, away from all this.

Xiuxiu finally took Liu Xiaomei out and took her hand to Xu Ping.

Liu Xiaomei stood quietly and changed into Xiuxiu's new clothes. She looked a little short, but she became more and more slender, like a willow branch swaying gently in the breeze. Her eyes became brighter, and although the blood marks on her face were hideous, it did not diminish the radiance on her face at all.

Xiuxiu couldn't stop talking and said to Xu Ping: "I know everything about you, I'll tell you. Sister Liu Xiaomei, I'll tell you about your affairs!"

"She is the Teduo of Zhongzhou, and she is the common people. She has land at home and a big buffalo. She grows enough food for herself. This sister can weave cloth, which is the cloth we wear. She can weave many pieces a year and exchange many things. Her parents are gone long ago. Oh, there is another brother in her family. This brother is not a good person, she is lazy and does nothing, and she likes to drink! She sold all the things at home to drink, and went to gamble again. She lost the bet, but couldn't pay it back. She stole the things from her family and finally stole all the buffaloes! After selling the buffalo, this brother also gambled, lost again, and no more stole it, and actually sold the sister to others! This sister is beautiful, can weave cloth and do work, why are she willing to sell it to others like this? She told them that she weave cloth and weave cloth. She told them that she weave cloth.

Repay the money and redeem yourself. My sister really weaves cloth and redeem herself. His brother - he is really not a human - lost money again and actually sold this sister to the Huang family. The Huang family beaten by the official in the afternoon. The little yane of the Huang family saw that she was beautiful and asked her to be his wife. I tell you, it turns out that the barbarians can marry several wives. What a bad person the little yane is, my sister doesn't want to, so she sneaks out. This afternoon, I was caught by the magistrate named Huang, and beat her and locked her in a bamboo basket. Official, do you think these people are so bad? There is no good person! Official, will you send her back to Zhongzhou? My sister said that her brother owes others money and she can do her own work to repay the money. Official, don't send her sister back to Zhongzhou, okay?"

Liu Xiaomei looked at Xu Ping with bright eyes, with curiosity and endless hope inside.

It is not uncommon for barbarians to marry a few wives. The king of Jiaozhi in the south has also established many queens. Li Foma, who ascended the throne recently, surpassed his predecessors and established more than a dozen queens side by side. Otherwise, how can he be called a barbarian?

Xu Ping didn't care about this. He just looked at Liu Xiaomei, looking at the hope that was revealed in her curiosity, and listening to Xiuxiu telling a story that is not bizarre. Xu Ping had heard this story many times in his previous life. With this story that was so familiar that he could not be more familiar, there were always bursts of mountain songs.

This is a story that happens in a world without kingly law and morality. No matter how this story is packaged, it always tells the impatience and beautiful hope of the people under the rule of the toast.

"Xiuxiu, please take her to rest. I won't send her back to Zhongzhou. She will live well here. Under the rule of the Song Dynasty, no one can sell her to others as long as she doesn't want to!"

Seeing Liu Xiaomei's eyes brighten, Xu Ping finally knew why she felt that strange. The little girl was covered in scars, and the torture she suffered was unbearable even in a big man. However, in her eyes, there was only a passionate hope for life and a little curiosity about another world. There was no pain, no hatred, and no such things that should have.

In Xu Ping's previous life, the central government went deep into these mountains. For these slaves, there was a word called liberation. In this era, the central government came here and turned these people from private slaves into people under the rule of the court, and there was a word called education.

There were no untouchables under the rule of the Song Dynasty, and this was the first time in thousands of years. Even if there were many strange things in this dynasty, it made them grateful to the people at the bottom. As the son of a slave, Feng Zheng could still be the prime minister and did not look down on his background.
Chapter completed!