"How the fuck are you any different from those Northern Barbarian beasts if you do this? The marquis ordered us not to make trouble for these women."
"Bullshit! The marquis only said not to kill women too weak to truss a chicken. He never said we couldn't take them as slaves. Everyone in my village died at the hands of the Northern Barbarians. Am I supposed to-"
Before he could finish, Song Jie suddenly said darkly, "Are you supposed to what?"
At the sound of Song Jie's voice, everyone turned in unison. When they spotted Jiang Hao and the other senior officers, they were so frightened that they immediately dropped to their knees and chorused, "Greetings, my lord! Greetings, generals!"
Song Jie still wore an ugly expression as he looked at the two arguing soldiers. "What happened?"
One of the two was tall and the other short. Both were around thirty, and neither was a Beast Tamer.
The tall man pointed indignantly at the short one. "He wants to take this woman as a slave."
Song Jie looked at the short man and asked, "Is that true? Why?"
The short man had lost his nerve the moment he saw Jiang Hao and the others. Only under Song Jie's questioning did he timidly reveal the truth. "I-I'm already thirty-six. My family's poor, and all the women in my village looked down on me for being short, so I still haven't been able to find a wife. I joined the army to earn enough money to marry, but if I could snatch a Northern Barbarian woman and take her home as my wife, I wouldn't have to spend so much money."
Taking a slave was merely an excuse. Getting a wife was his real aim.
This fellow really dared to dream and