Chapter 14 Section IX

When Xiang woke up, he opened his eyes and saw a piece of blackness. It took him a long time to realize that it was a night sky without stars.His body was bumping, and he found himself tied up and thrown on a large cart, and there were many tied up fellows lying on top of each other, layered on top of each other.In the rear, there is a burning forest, the fire is soaring into the sky, and the sky is so red that the eyes are blinding. Three days later, Xiang and the captive Yu people were dragged to a muddy flat ground, where there were temporary wooden platforms and cages, and many human races crowded around.Xiang could understand the language of the human race, and he quickly understood that this was a slave market.

Most of the captives were women and children, and the heads of adult men were all hung in front of the horses of the human cavalry, which became a symbol for them to show off their military exploits.Xiang heard the buyers discussing: Yuren are the most unpopular material for slaves. They are light and weak, and cannot do hard work. Generally, only those fair-looking women can be bought as slaves or maikos, while the rest If there is no buyer, all will be killed on the spot and buried. Xiang saw several shockingly large mounds standing in the distance of the market, some of which were overgrown with weeds.Would that also be his burial place?

The human buyers walked around among the wooden cages, like picking animals, and asked the caretakers to drag out whoever they liked, to look at them, and bargain.Most of the Yuren in the cage stared with numb eyes. There was a shrill cry, it was a woman from the Yu tribe who had been picked, she was pushed down on a board beside her, and was picked alive with a sharp knife to the condensate point on her back, the woman's screams seemed to be It's like tearing yourself apart.Xiang huddled against a corner of the wooden cage, trembling unceasingly, not knowing whether it was because of anger or fear.

In the afternoon, a voice rang out from the wooden platform: "Look, everyone, here is a rare item, a fish-tailed shark, have you seen it before? It came from the net in the swamp! If there is no high price, I will give it to you." King Qingyang has gone to ask for a reward. Without five hundred gold plants, we can never buy them!" Xiang was startled, could it be Jinger?Isn't Ze protecting her?Had she been caught too? He struggled to stand up, and saw people rushing up to the stage, surrounded by a blue figure, shouting and laughing wildly. The voice shouted again: "Congratulations to General Qi Jiche for winning this treasure!" Two soldiers walked out of the crowd carrying a sack, only a girl's face was exposed at the mouth of the bag, and the rope was tied around her neck. Thus was carried into the carriage.

Xiang suddenly felt a familiar face staring at him. He looked up and saw that the person outside the cage was his father, his human father——Yi.At this moment, he was wearing a human soldier's battle uniform, with a long knife hanging from his waist, his face was burnt black, and his face was full of beards. Xiang could hardly recognize him. "Father! My father is me!" Xiang shouted in surprise. But Yi seemed to be shocked, turned around and disappeared behind the crowd. Xiang rushed to the cage, looked at him in panic, but couldn't see him again.It was impossible for his father not to have recognized him, or not to have heard his voice.Why is he leaving?Just because we're already a warring race?Or did the ugly wings on his back disgust him?

Xiang suddenly felt that death was not so scary anymore.If you live in this world without relatives, no one will remember your name, then it is no different from death. The slave market has been open for three days, and only Xiang and a few other elderly patients are left in the cage.The slave traders began to dismantle the bazaar, and dragged out those Yuzu who were still in the cage and could not sell them, and killed them on the spot, bleeding everywhere.The slavers cleared cage by cage.Xiang felt cold all over, he couldn't imagine being dragged out with the knife on his neck, but the slaughterer had already come to the wooden cage beside him.Xiang closed his eyes tightly, not daring to look at the killing that happened so close.

When the door of this cage was finally opened with a bang, Xiang felt that he could not breathe.The people around him were dragged out one by one, and no one struggled.When a rough hand dragged himself out of the cage, he found that he had no strength left to struggle.It turns out that when people are in despair, they don't think about anything and accept all fate. The Yuren beside him fell into a pool of blood, and the knife and axe came to his side. "This feathered man is really strange. Other feathered men's wings melted when they were not flying, but his was still on his back." The man with the knife said.

"What is this guy growing on his back? Are those wings? It's really scary. Anyway, he can't sell it, so kill him." Suddenly a voice said, "Wait a minute." Xiang raised his head and saw his human father. Yi looked even thinner, as if he hadn't slept well for several days, his face and clothes were dirty, but his eyes were shining brightly, as if he was happy to finally arrive in time. He threw down ten silver plants and said to the vendor beside him, "This is the price you told me that day, isn't it?" The vendor took the money without saying a word.Yi grabbed Xiang Xiang and rushed out.Xiang could feel his fingers pinched extremely tight, extremely tight.

It wasn't until he was far away from the slave market that Yi Cai seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and fell to the side of the road holding Xiang.He still refused to let go of Xiang's arm, maybe he was afraid that if he let go, he would leave again.But his body was trembling constantly, his eyes were looking at the land in front of him, vain. "Father..." Xiang said. Yi didn't answer, and after a long time, he opened his parched lips: "Do you know how much you are worth?" "Ten... silver plants?" Xiang murmured. Yi shook his head, his lips trembling.

"Father...you..." "That's your sister..." Yi held Xiang tightly, "I sold your sister..." He suddenly threw Xiang out: "Why did I raise you in the first place? After raising you to such an age, you have been harming our family. Because of you, the whole village has been confiscated, we have no land, and the fields have been used. Come to raise a horse, I will be driven to fight for my life when I am old. I am stupid, I am stupid, I actually raised a feather clan. I have been harmed by you all my life. Pity my Amu , Ah Mu..." Xiang sat dumbfounded, feeling that there was a force tearing him apart, trying to tear his internal organs to shreds.He would rather be torn apart, why do people always suffer so much in this world, why do people always have to be like grass in order to live.What is war for?The peaceful life in the past is gone. Who can benefit from fighting?

Unable to bear the torment in his heart, he jumped up and ran wildly into the field.Yi was stunned behind, and shouted: "Xiang, come back! My child, come back!" But Xiang couldn't stop his footsteps, he no longer had the courage to face his father, and his father couldn't bring a Yuren into the army.He used to be full of longing and wanted to take a pair of wings and fly back to his father, sister and Xiao Dan to show off to them.But now that I think about it, what a naive fantasy that was.The reality is so cruel, the human race and the feather race are doomed to be unable to coexist in the world, Xiang just wants to run wildly, wishing to throw everything away, even forgetting himself.