The men in the hunting group had been itching to get a big bounty. After laughing and joking around Chu Tian and the "hand-chopping slave", the rough men dispersed and ran to the market in the old bear cave to have fun.
Chu Tian and the 'hand-chopping slave' stood blankly in the huge cave, not knowing where to go. Two maids, aged around 30 or 40, with ordinary looks, wearing neat green dresses, respectfully came out from behind the huge stone screen that the old black bear had just entered.
"Lord Ming Wang, we are the servants arranged for you by the leader. From now on, all the chores you do in the base will be served by us." The two maids kowtowed to Chu Tian with smiles on their faces, and respectfully led him into a corridor on the side of the cave.
The corridor is about a mile long, with stone doors on both sides shining with faint rune light.
The two maids carefully introduced the situation here to Chu Tian. There were about 350 to 360 formal members of the old black bear's hunting group, that is, members who had signed employment contracts. The hunting group also had nearly 3,000 slave soldiers with the same status as Chu Tian!
Every contract member can enjoy a separate stone house in the base, and as for the slave soldiers, there is a huge cave right below the base, where more than 3,000 people usually live together.
Because Chu Tian killed Scorpion Old Three in public, he fully demonstrated his strength and character. So although Chu Tian is a slave soldier, his strength is enough for him to enjoy the same treatment as Wang Tiebi and others.
A separate stone house, two maids who serve him exclusively, a separate kitchen for three meals a day, no need to compete with those slave soldiers for the big pot meals and steamed buns, and the right to enter and leave the base freely and go to the market for leisure and entertainment. These are the benefits that strength brings to Chu Tian.
At the end of the corridor, two maids took out a bronze plate and pressed it on a stone door. The mottled defensive runes on the surface of the stone door lit up, and the three-foot-thick stone door slid silently to one side.
After respectfully handing the bronze medal to Chu Tian, the two maids rushed into the stone house and started working.
Chu Tian walked into the stone house with the 'hand-chopping slave' and nodded. Although it was located deep in the mountain, the air in the stone house was very fresh, without any feeling of stagnation.
The structure of the stone house is also very reasonable. The outermost room is a living room about three meters long and wide, with tables, chairs, cabinets, and even a few pots of green plants in the corners. I don't know how these pots of green plants grow in this cave without sunlight and rain.
Behind the living room, there is a corridor several meters long. On the left is a meditation room about ten meters in diameter for practicing martial arts, and on the right is the living room, which is fully equipped with all kinds of household items.
Two maids entered the living room and took out mattresses, quilts and other items from the storage cabinet. Chu Tian took notice and found that these mattresses and quilts were made of the finest silk and brocade. In the Great Jin Dynasty, even the mattresses and quilts used in the residences of ordinary provincial officials would be of about this grade.
Walking to the round table in the living room and sitting down, Chu Tian casually grabbed a teacup from the tea tray.
This teacup was carved from a piece of white jade. The jade was extremely delicate and smooth, cool to the touch, and faintly exuded a trace of the essence of heaven and earth. This kind of white jade would be a treasure in Dajin, but in this old black bear's hunting group, it was used to make teacups, and it looked like an everyday utensil.
Chu Tian couldn't help but smile bitterly. Was this teacup reminding him that this was a completely different world from Da Jin?
Seeing Chu Tian pick up the teacup, a maid hurried out the door. After a short while, she came back carrying a large copper kettle and brewed a pot of fragrant hot tea for Chu Tian.
Chu Tian took a sip of tea and couldn't help but smile bitterly again.
The spiritual essence of heaven and earth contained in this mouthful of hot tea was actually ten times more powerful than the medicinal power of the 'Leopard Embryo Pill' that Hong Gu had given him in Jizhou. The boiling hot tea spread in his stomach, and the rich spiritual essence of heaven and earth naturally merged into his body, making Chu Tian feel unusually refreshed.
Putting down the teacup, Chu Tian looked seriously at the 'hand-chopping slave' standing in front of him.
The girl's face was pale, and her beautiful big eyes blinked in panic. She was as frightened as a frightened deer. She knelt on the ground with a thud. Without waiting for Chu Tian to support her, she kowtowed to him several times.
Because she lost an arm and the wound was very painful, the girl kowtowed a few times before she fell to the ground in a very embarrassing manner. She tried to get up in panic, but the more panicked she was, the stiffer her movements became. She accidentally hit the wound on her shoulder heavily on the ground, and the pain made her face twisted, her lips pale, and two lines of hot tears flowed from her eyes.
Chu Tian grabbed the girl and dragged over a round stool for her to sit down.
The girl wanted to stand up, but Chu Tian shook his head, pressed her shoulder with his right hand, and motioned her to sit on the stool.
"Take a break. You are... quite pitiful. Do you have a name?" Chu Tian was silent for a while, and asked the girl with a headache. He really had no experience in this area and didn't know how to deal with her.
He just felt sorry for a moment and rescued her back to the base, but what should he do with her?
Chu Tian himself is in a lot of trouble now, does he really need to keep a burden around him?
The girl screamed "Ahhh" several times, and Chu Tian looked at her in astonishment. The girl was angry, anxious, afraid, and embarrassed. She looked at Chu Tian tremblingly, and after a long time, she slowly opened her mouth.
Inside her mouth, her tongue was cut off at the root.
Looking at the smooth and neat wound, it was clearly cut with an extremely sharp weapon and with extremely fast techniques.
"Scorpion... Third Brother?" Chu Tian's rage grew more intense. It was unbearable for Chu Tian to come up with such an evil act as 'cutting off the hands of slaves' in order to extort money from others.
Such a tender and beautiful little girl should have been the apple of her parents' eyes, but she was raised as a 'hand-chopped slave' and her tongue was also cut off!
What kind of vicious person must be to do such a thing?
"Your...family?" Chu Tian looked at the girl with tears on her face and asked carefully.
The girl's face suddenly became extremely frightened, her pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip, and she let out a rapid, frightened hiss from her throat.
Chu Tian almost wanted to slap himself.
How stupid! If she still had family, how could this girl fall to such a state?
"Well, let's not talk about the past... You, have nowhere to go... Well, I..." The more Chu Tian spoke, the more he felt guilty and powerless. He looked at the frightened girl in front of him in distress, and finally shook his head helplessly.
"Just think of it as me picking up a kitten or puppy to raise! Hey, it would be nice if Ah Gou was here. Even though he's a bit of a jerk, he loves picking up wolf cubs from the forest to raise! Having him take care of you is more reliable than me!"
"I don't know your name either, so I'll give you a name."
"My last name is Chu, so you should have the same last name. What's Chu?"
"Naming is a science, it's difficult, difficult... How about Chu Yaya? Seeing that you keep calling out 'ya ya', I'll call you Chu Yaya."
Chu Tian chuckled foolishly a few times and pinched Chu Yaya's face hard.