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Chapter 230

Chapter 230: [Xiao Yu signs a slave contract]

"Your Highness the County Lord? What does this mean?

"Could it be that you want to strangle Suning with a rope?"

After Yan Baoding looked at the demeanor of his county lord, a bad premonition surged in his heart, but he still tried to explain the county lord's behavior with unrealistic fantasies.

Try to deceive yourself, paralyze yourself.

"Lord Xiao, what are you doing with the rope?"

Suning also looked at Xiao Yu who took out a bundle of rope in front of him with some doubts, and from her eyes and movements, Suning did not feel any threatening breath.

Therefore, he did not attack Xiao Yu, but silently watched her operation.

I saw Xiao Yu gently holding his jade hand and putting the rope woven from hemp rope on one arm.

The other hand pinched its thread, circling the shape of a circle, and finally the circle tightened, and a simple lasso was ready.

What is this operation?

Is she going to tie herself up?

Tie yourself up?

Suning looked at Xiao Yu's operation just now, and couldn't help but frown, he was really a little confused.

He suddenly found that he was more and more unable to guess this woman in the Liao Kingdom.

Obviously, the two of them had only met for less than an hour, but what she brought to her was even more shocking than the previous Yuezun.

"Lord Xiao, you don't want to tie yourself up with this rope, do you?"

"Could it be that this is also your custom of taking prisoners when you were defeated in the war?"

Suning looked at the ring that was large enough to contain his entire revealed hemp rope and asked with some doubt.

I thought about what this thing did.

Originally, Suning thought that Xiao Yu was going to use it to tie up her arms, so that she was more sincere as a prisoner.

It's just that if you look at it now, it obviously has nothing to do with Suning's thoughts, and such a large circle is estimated to be enough to fit the arms of seven or eight people, and it can't trap people at all.

"Young Master Suning, you'll know later."

"Please be patient."

Xiao Yu was like a different person, and although the timbre of the voice did not change, it must have been more gentle as water than the previous heroic momentum.

She did not look up to pay attention to Suning's gaze, but continued to weave the rope with her own care.

Finally, she carefully looked at the circle that had just been made, revealing a row of white teeth, and made a satisfied smile.

Then she wrapped the circle around her slender neck, put it in and gently stretched one of the ropes, gradually shrinking to the size of her neck.

Xiao Yu bent his knees and half knelt on the ground, handed the other end of the rope to Suning, took Suning's arm with the other hand and put it on his forehead, and said in an expectant tone

, "The twenty-third generation descendant of the royal family of Daliao, Xiao Yu, the lord of Liaoyang County, begs the master to take me as a slave."

"Xiao Yu is willing to swear with his own bloodline, scrupulously fulfill his duties as a slave, love his master forever, and never betray!"

What, to be her master?

Suning looked at Xiao Yu who was kneeling on the ground, and finally figured out what she had just done to what it meant.

I guessed that this was probably some kind of custom on the steppe, or a ritual in which slaves and masters made contracts.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu just met him, and after being beaten unilaterally by himself, he didn't have a grudge, but wanted to become his own slave.

Suning couldn't help but be shocked by the strange ideas of these grassland peoples.

What Suning didn't know was that this kind of contract between slave and master was actually very common as early as when Daliao had not yet established a state and was still a grassland tribe.

Even if hundreds of years have passed, Daliao is no longer the people who once drank blood on the grassland.

Both the system and the concept of etiquette are all in line with the Great Song Dynasty, but they still retain a large number of the inherent customs of the grassland peoples.

And the slave contract ceremony that Xiao Yu just performed is one of the most important customs.

Even in the great Liao, where the national power became more and more prosperous, and even gradually surpassed that of the Great Song Dynasty, this custom not only did not evolve with the development of civilization, but further developed, and even the number of people who carried out this kind of slave contract increased dozens of times than before.

Although this slave contract seems to be a bondage to the party who becomes a slave, it is a forced personal dependency.

As a slave, the contracted party should be very resistant to resistance.

But the reality is quite the opposite, in the territory of Daliao, the number of people who choose to become slaves is far greater than the number of indentured slave owners.

This custom of Daliao was even exported in reverse to the people of the Dasong Dynasty, whose civilization seemed to be higher.

Most of the reasons for this are because this slave contract is not as simple as imagined.

Although it seems that the party who has become a slave by the contract has more obligations, including helping the master to be a family, maintaining the dignity of the master, meeting the needs of the master, and not betraying the master.

However, as the party to the contract, it also has a very important and non-negligible obligation.

The first is to ensure the safety of slaves' lives.

This seems simple, but in fact, in this world of cultivating immortal refining bodies, people are like grass mustard is very difficult to do.

Some civilians in war-torn places took the initiative to sign slave contracts with the family clan.

This may be an unequal treaty of personal attachment for Suning in the parallel world, but it is simply a talisman-like existence for those civilians who are precarious.

Of course, these are general versions of slave contracts, and the owner's obligations may vary and differ except for the first article.

For example, it is necessary to ensure the health of slaves, as well as the education and recuperation of slaves.

The slave contract of the Great Liao Kingdom that Xiao Yu had just performed was even more special, so that many male royal families in the Great Liao were not even willing to sign slave contracts with their subordinates.

Because there is an obligation to the master in this contract, which can be called a tool for the slave to reverse the slave master.

That is, if the master and slave are opposites, the contract ceremony will add a clause that limits the ability of both parties.

That is, as long as either master and slave has a need to be satisfied, the other must carry it out unconditionally.

Neither master nor slave shall disobey.