The person in the light was only a dark silhouette, but his body was outlined by the light, revealing a thin and tall figure.
Even though they couldn't see his face and didn't know where he came from, everyone would kneel down willingly.
He who has power that men do not have is God.
Ye Zhou felt very calm as he watched the chief steward and the slaves kneel down before him.
He inexplicably thought of the first time he met Cao'er and her daughter. They struggled, knelt down and kowtowed to him, even if it meant knocking themselves unconscious.
What he saw on their faces was the desire to survive.
That instinctive, fierce and brutal desire to survive.
And on the faces of these people, he saw an ambition that left him unmoved, a greedy desire to get more from him.
Cao'er and her daughter shocked him, made him sympathize with them, and made him unable to help but reach out.
But these people made him feel disgusted.
He lifted his foot.
The lord's forehead was pressed against the ground, and his nose was filled with the smell of soil and rotten leaves, but he thought it was particularly pleasant, better than the most expensive spices.
A figure fell on top of his head. When the lord caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, his whole body trembled involuntarily, and every piece of his flesh was dancing.
"Are you the lord here?" A strange voice sounded in the lord's ears.
The voice was very light, but the accent was very strange, but it did not make people feel that it was right and correct.
The lord swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice: "My respected, great, true God from the moon, I am Ryan Kadiel, your most devout believer, the most loyal slave, your shepherd, and I will give you everything."
There was no response. The lord was terrified, but he didn't dare to look up. He could only continue to kneel on the ground without moving.
After an unknown amount of time, so long that the sweat on Ryan's face fell into the soil, he heard the strange male voice again: "Whose land is this?"
Ryan was not stupid. He considered himself a smart man. He might be a little bit worse than the King, but he was many times smarter than other nobles. He immediately said, "This is your land! Not only this land, but all the land on this continent is yours!"
"I will have someone build a palace for you right away!" Ryan couldn't stop talking, and kept on talking, "It must be decorated with the finest gems, the most gorgeous furs, and the floor..."
He wanted to stuff all the luxuries he knew into the "palace".
Ryan heard a chuckle after he finished speaking.
That laughter made him feel relieved suddenly - Lord Moon God accepted him.
Ryan didn't think there was anything wrong with it. To serve the gods, people must serve them with their entire fortune, heart and soul. Only by suffering can they gain the favor of the gods. Otherwise, if they are favored by the gods without doing anything, then the favor of the gods would be too cheap.
When he has given enough and has been pitiful enough, the gods will grant him eternal life.
From now on, he would no longer be trapped in the territory, and even the entire continent could not trap him.
Therefore, before going up the mountain, he was already prepared to go through hardships. Even if his hands and feet were broken, he would persist in order to serve life forever.
"You, come here."
Ryan looked up immediately after hearing this.
But he still couldn't see the Moon Goddess's face clearly this time, because someone had already stood up and walked towards her.
Ryan's face suddenly became hideous.
Witch doctor! The witch doctor!
The witch doctor had been observing, and when he heard the Moon God say "come here", he stood up immediately. If he didn't show it now, Ryan would squeeze him aside! And if he didn't confirm his identity as a messenger of God, he would definitely be liquidated by Ryan later.
He must become a messenger of God!
Ye Zhou, who originally wanted the lord to come to him, did not expect that the person who came would be a witch doctor.
But he didn't mind it at all. It didn't matter who could pass on the message.
The witch doctor walked up to Ye Zhou, but he lowered his head and did not look up at Ye Zhou's face. No matter how good he was at speaking in front of other people, he did not dare to flatter him directly now.
He wanted benefits and wanted to be associated with God, but he also believed that God was omniscient and knew who he was.
But he also thought he was pious to God! Piety and selfishness should be able to coexist.
Ye Zhou didn't know what the witch doctor was thinking, but he could tell at a glance that he was guilty.
After meeting more people, Ye Zhou now has a lot of experience in judging people.
The man in front of him with bird feathers stuck in his hair had gray hair and a beard that covered most of his face. His clothes were also tightly wrapped, but Ye Zhou could tell from the skin on his face and the way he walked that he was a young man.
No matter what, his age would not exceed thirty years old.
After all, in this era, people over 30 are actually considered old.
After all, the average age is only around 40.
Ye Zhou asked him: "What's your name?"
The witch doctor replied stiffly: "Kurt."
Ye Zhou: "I have something I need you to do."
Kurt's spirits suddenly lifted. He immediately regained his tiny bit of courage and whispered, "What does the Lord need me to do?"
Then he added: "Even if you ask me to die now, I will go right away!"
Ye Zhou: "I don't need slaves on my land."
He said coldly: "All of you are my slaves."
Kurt quickly said, "Yes, sir, we are all your slaves!"
He understood the Moon Goddess's implication - since they were all his slaves, there was no need to distinguish between high and low.
Because the only noble one here is Lord Moon God.
"I will stay here for a while." Ye Zhou, "but I don't need a palace. I'm tired of living here."
Kurt continued to nod and didn't think there was anything wrong. According to legend, the sun god once turned into a horse and ran and ate grass in the woods every day. He also fell in love with a mare, and the mare gave birth to the son of God - a foal. This foal had a horse's head and a human body, and now it is a priest in charge of the stars.
It can be seen that there are no rules for gods. They do whatever they want. Not only do they not want to live in a palace, but even not wanting to wear clothes is normal.
Ye Zhou: "If you want to build a house, I will give you seeds and farm tools."
"Slaves shall become freemen."
Kurt said quickly: "You are so kind and generous. You are our father in heaven and our mother in heaven. You are the torch in the dark night, leading us to..."
Ye Zhou listened to him flattering him with a wooden face. Not only was he not moved, he even found it very funny.
These people don't even know how to be tactful when they flatter others. They do it so bluntly that it's hard not to laugh.
"I'll come again tomorrow." Ye Zhou said, "You should know what kind of scene I want to see."
Kurt immediately took the responsibility: "Even if I die after I finish it, I will do it for you!"
"This is for you." Ye Zhou threw the glass bird he had been holding to Kurt. Kurt caught it in a hurry. Before he could look at it, he heard Ye Zhou say, "It's beautiful, but also fragile. I don't think you want to become like this."
Kurt was stunned.
Although he guessed that the butterfly might have been transformed into that shape by the gods using magical powers.
But he didn't expect that God would turn people into that kind of person...
Before he could say another word or express his loyalty again, another strong beam of light shone towards him.
Kurt closed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them again, the Moon Goddess was gone.
There is nothing where the Moon God originally stood, as if he had never appeared, and everything that happened before was just their imagination.
Only the things in his hands gave him a sense of reality.
Kurt looked at the "bird" in his hand in the firelight.
Compared to the butterfly, this bird is more beautiful. Every feather of its is clearly visible, including its eyes, claws, and even the texture on its claws.
It was impossible to carve something so fragile, and only a god could transform a living bird into this state.
The people who were kneeling didn't know what was happening and they didn't dare to move.
Kurt quickly stuffed the "bird" into his clothes while they were still asleep.
"Ryan." Kurt straightened his clothes and walked up to Ryan. This time he called Ryan by his name instead of calling him Lord. His tone was relaxed, but also full of arrogance. "Get up. Lord Moon has left."
Ryan then struggled to stand up on his knees. He looked at Kurt's face angrily, but he didn't dare to scold him. He could only hold back his anger and ask, "What does Lord Moon God want?"
Kurt smiled and said, "Lord Luna needs this land, and he said he doesn't need your slaves."
Ryan was confused for a moment: "What do you mean?"
Kurt raised his chin slightly and said proudly: "You are all slaves of Lord Moon God. How can a slave own a slave?"
Ryan's face changed slightly, but he said nothing.
"I will make them free people." Ryan said decisively.
Kurt: "The master wants you to build houses, and he will also give you seeds and farming tools. The Moon Goddess came down this time because he wanted to have fun. You'd better know what you should and shouldn't do, and don't make the master uncomfortable."
Kurt: "A divine messenger like me is different from you, so you don't have to be hostile to me. After all, even if I'm gone, you won't become the next divine messenger. You're not a witch doctor, and you don't know witchcraft. If we have a good relationship, Lord Moon God will be relieved."
He also didn't want to really offend Ryan. After all, he had no money to donate to the Moon Goddess, and he still needed to use Ryan.
Ryan glanced at Kurt, and although reluctant, he nodded and said, "I know."
"Let's go down the mountain first." Ryan said to Carl, "Go find all the parchments."
It was easy to turn civilians into slaves, just delete their household registration. But turning slaves into civilians was much more troublesome. He had to rebuild their household registration one by one. Although he didn't need to write the documents himself, he needed his signature.
With so many slaves, if they were to go back and write the documents now, they probably wouldn't be able to finish them tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
But he dared not disobey the order of Lady Moon Goddess, so he could only fight with Carl and several other male servants.
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Ye Zhou felt relieved after the performance. He was not in a hurry to do business with the lord. Doing business while pretending to be a god would easily arouse suspicion. Anyone who was not too stupid could realize that God was doing business with humans? Exchanging things? Did God take the wrong medicine?
After all, the gods here rely on open robbery.
The red-haired man Kane told Feng Ling the mythological stories here, saying that the Moon God is the most tolerant of all gods.
But after listening to Feng Ling's story, Ye Zhou didn't understand why the Moon Goddess was so tolerant.
Because this Moon God, apart from not killing people, has done all the bad things he should have done. He doesn't say anything when he's in a good mood, but when he's in a bad mood, he will shake the earth and bring about violent storms.
Whoever offends Him will be arrested and imprisoned for a thousand years, and that person will suffer torture for a thousand years.
God wants something from the human world, and if humans don’t give it to Him, God will snatch it away himself. After snatching it away from humans, God will reflect on himself - why are we so stingy, so narrow-minded, and so excessive that we don’t even offer God the things he wants with both hands.
Therefore, if gods were to exchange with humans, it would definitely be the end of the gods.
Ye Zhou's plan was to first give them a carrot and then hang it in front of them so that they could never eat it but would always chase after it.
Then let the lord take the things on his own initiative.
Originally, Ye Zhou was a little worried. He needed a spokesperson who was familiar with the rules of this continent and could understand what he meant, and would go to great lengths to provide him with benefits and trick the lord, like Cao'er Niang.
Cao'er Niang provided him with so many benefits in the Daliang Dynasty, and Ye Zhou hoped to meet a second Cao'er Niang here.
As for whether this person is good or bad, loyal or treacherous, it doesn’t matter, as long as he can help Ye Zhou achieve his goal.
Ye Zhou returned to the woods and said to Zou Ming, "I think that guy named Kurt is pretty good."
Zou Ming frowned: "Not bad? He is just a speculator."
Ye Zhou patted Zou Ming on the shoulder: "Don't think like that, as long as he is useful, it's fine."
If he is really an unforgivable criminal, Ye Zhou will not hesitate to shoot him with a bullet, but if he has not done anything against the law, then just ignore him.
"I'm going out for a while." Zou Ming said suddenly.
Ye Zhou exclaimed, "Ah!" "Aren't you going to set up the tent?"
Zou Ming glanced at Ye Zhou and said, "You don't like living in a tent."
"I can't help it even if I don't like it." Ye Zhou sighed, "Just now I couldn't say that I wanted to go to the cabin to rest. There was a wounded person inside, and I was the one who injured him."
Although he didn't think he was wrong to shoot, and he didn't feel guilty or ashamed, he couldn't bear the thought of the shooter and the injured person being in the same room.
As for driving people out of the cabin, that's even stranger.
"Then let them carry him down the mountain." Zou Ming didn't care about the wounded man's life at all. He didn't care whether he would die from the bumpy ride down the mountain. He said calmly, "He will die on the mountain."
After saying that, Zou Ming walked towards the wooden house.
Ye Zhou hurriedly chased after him, grabbed Zou Ming's arm, and said repeatedly, "Forget it, forget it."
"Really, don't go." Ye Zhou, "I feel uncomfortable all over when I think about lying on the bed where the person I shot slept."
Ye Zhou added: "I know you are thinking about me and want me to sleep well, but I think if I go over there, I will sleep worse."
"I'll just spray more floral water tonight." Ye Zhou said.
He was not lying, nor was he being polite. After spending such a long time with Zou Ming, he felt that they had become close friends. Zou Ming was not a talkative person, but he would listen carefully and keep his needs in mind.
Ye Zhou felt that Zou Ming had a scale in his heart and knew everything, but he just didn't want to say it.
In short, in Ye Zhou's heart, Zou Ming is a gentle, silent, capable and efficient person.
Zou Ming won’t say what he can do.
In other words, you are a bit stubborn. Once you make up your mind, you will go forward with determination. You will not turn back even if you hit a wall. You will keep going even if you get a bloody head or die.
Because this is the path he has chosen, he will not give himself the chance to regret it.
Ye Zhou admires this kind of character and also likes people with this kind of character.
He has always been like this. The more friends he likes, the more they are liked. He will magnify the other person's strengths and ignore their weaknesses. He himself is not a perfect person, so he will not demand perfection from others.
When it comes to Zou Ming, Ye Zhou always speaks his mind directly and never beats around the bush.
"That's what I think." Ye Zhou pulled Zou Ming back and asked him to sit on the stone. He also sat down next to him. He handed Zou Ming a bottle of water. After Zou Ming took it, Ye Zhou said, "It's better to keep a distance from them. Once people get close to each other, they will take advantage of them."
Zou Ming was stunned for a moment. He didn't say anything, but just looked down at the water bottle in his hand.
Ye Zhou didn't notice Zou Ming's abnormality, and continued, "So there's no need to ruin my Moon Goddess identity that I worked so hard to get just to live better. It's okay to suffer a little now. Suffering now is all for the sweetness later."
Zou Ming: "I know what you mean."
Ye Zhou breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
Ye Zhou looked at the moon in the sky and smiled: "If there really is a Moon God, would he be so angry that he can't sleep when he sees me pretending to be him?"
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They were not beaten! They were not arrested!
Ila hid among the slaves. They had originally tried to run away, but when they found out that the stewards did not catch them, they ran back - it was difficult to escape, after all, there were no villages around, and even if there were, they did not dare to enter the village. Once they were discovered to be fugitive slaves, they would be caught and hanged.
Seeing that the others were not beaten after returning, Ira also returned quietly.
Some slaves who escaped far away did not come back. After Ira came back, he kept regretting. Maybe he should not have come back. Maybe they would be free now. But after a while, he did not regret it. After all, who knew whether those escaped slaves would die in the mouths of wild beasts or in some trap?
He just wanted to live. Whether he ran away or stayed, the danger was the same.
"I thought you wouldn't come back." Som looked at the slaves with a complicated expression. A huge sadness suddenly surged in his heart. He said to himself, "You can be free, but you still want to come back. Are you born to be lowly?"
The slaves did not answer him, nor did they feel that Som was scolding them.
After all, slaves are lowly and they never feel that they are noble.
Som looked at the panicked faces of the slaves. He didn't understand: were these slaves born lowly, or did they become lowly after becoming slaves?
If he were a slave, would he be the same as them?
Som now feels pain when he thinks of that day.
But the slaves didn't care, they were still glad that they might not be punished.
Ira whispered to the slave girl next to her, "Mister Moon Goddess just came again!"
The slave girl also said longingly: "If only we were free people, we could have seen the Moon Goddess just now."
"I wonder what Lord Moon God looks like, but he must be very handsome! He must be the most beautiful man!"
Ira also nodded: "I wonder how long Master Moon God will stay here."
The slaves all thought that it was because Lord Moon God had come that they were not punished or beaten even though they ate the lord's bread.
They sat on the grass and didn't have to work today. The stewards didn't come to urge them or whip them. When they came over occasionally, they looked hurried, as if they had something urgent to do. The slaves were not curious either.
The big guys are always busy.
A small steward is a very important person to the slaves.
Just as the slaves were watching the sun rise overhead and wondering when they could have dinner, a male servant came over with a roll of parchment.
"Everyone whose name I read, please stand up." The servant had a stern face and looked very anxious. He unfolded the parchment and began to read the names without even explaining anything: "Tahir!"
The slaves looked bewildered—slaves had no names.
Ila had a name because he had a relatively "favored" mother in his childhood.
The other slaves only had code names, such as the one with the big nose and the one with the mole, and the names they gave themselves were all flowers, plants and stones.
Seriously, there is no such name as Tahir.
But the slaves did not dare to ask questions. The male servant had read the names several times and was really impatient. He could only say, "I will read a name, and those of you who want that name, please stand up."
The servant repeated it again.
This time, no one stood up. The servant could only point to a male slave in front and say, "You, stand up. From now on, you are Tahir."
The slave stood up quickly. He was so scared that sweat covered his head, his face was pale, and his legs were shaking.
The butler didn't look at him again, but continued to read out names and call out people.
He read out sixteen names in total, fourteen male names and two female names.
After reading it, the servant said reluctantly: "From now on, the lord grants you the status of freemen. You can own your own property and get a piece of land to cultivate. Of course, the land tax must be paid to the lord on time."
The servant continued, "You should feel lucky. If it weren't for Lord...Mister Moon, filthy bugs like you should be slaves forever!"
The male servant looked at the slaves with disgust, unable to bear the fact that these "beasts" were going to become free citizens like him.
However, the slaves did not cheer. They looked at the servant in confusion, as if they did not understand what he was saying.
Free folk?
They have never been free people!
When they had no hope in the past, they regarded becoming free citizens as hope, believing that becoming free citizens would bring them happiness.
But now that they can really become free citizens, they are beginning to feel unprecedented fear.
They were born slaves and only knew how to be slaves, not how to be free people.
At this moment, Ira suddenly stood up from the crowd and shouted to the servant: "I have a name, my name is Ira! I want to be a free man!"
The other slaves looked at him as if he were a warrior.
Everyone seemed to be meeting him for the first time.
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