A Slave who became Emperor Chapter 56

Zaffar started marching his army towards Hindustan . it was a tedious and rough journey . . the journey was exhausting the soldiers . . . many felt like giving up . . but Zaffar was a cruel man, death would only free them from him . . after marching for several weeks, they neared a huge river . . many people had happiness on their faces looking at the river . . . this river was the Sindhu or Indus river, this indicated that they reached Hindustan . .

They set up their tents and settled down near the river basin . . many soldiers bathed and washed their horses . . the group of people responsible for cooking built a fire and started chopping vegetables and washing rice . . some of the soldiers came back carrying dead mountain goats . . a soldier removed the skin of the goats and cleaned the flesh . .

There was one huge group of people who refused to do anything . . they were the soldiers sent by the Shah himself . . they considered themselves to be better than Zaffar's men . . they only came when the food was ready . . had it and left . . they set up their own tents separately and they also hoisted the flag of the Shah of Iran in their camp . .

Zaffar didn't like this . . though the men belonged to Shah, they now belong to him . . but nevertheless . . he didn't want to disturb the peace prevailing in the camp . . he was sitting on a couch and a woman who was dressed in skimpy clothes was massaging his long hair with oil . . .

There was a look of deep sorrow on her face . . Zaffar didn't seem to care . . she meticulously massaged his long tresses, combed his hair and braided it . . she then came forward and stripped him . . she took him to a bath tub filled with hot water and made him sit in it . . she wet his body and applied a paste and started massaging his body . . she cleaned him thoroughly and then dried his body . . and dressed him in fine silks . .

Whatever she did, her expression remained the same . . Zaffar's expression remained cold and unreadable under his scarry face . . she finally applied some perfume and was about to take leave, when he said, 'you . . woman . . ' she stopped and turned . . 'don't go out in those clothes . . my men have not been with a woman for long . . here . . ' he threw a robe at her and said, 'cover up . . ' she took the robe, Covered herself and left . .

He looked at the woman for some more time . . he killed her entire family to capture her . . it didn't matter to him . . . but she was still thinking about her father and brothers . . he sighed and thought . . 'I am making more enemies than anyone . . but I don't care . . ' he laughed . .

He looked at himself in the mirror . . 'I will make Samyukta mine . . . only after having her several times . . . after I get bored with her . . I will give her to the Shah . . what would he know . . Meanwhile I need to teach a lesson to his piece of army . . '

He stepped out of his tent and walked towards the Shah's piece of army . . he saw the flag of Shah flying . . he laughed to himself . . he ventured inside their camp . . he saw the leader . . he was also a seven foot tall man . . he was heavily built . . he looked at Zaffar, but he didn't get up from his chair . . . he smiled carelessly . .

Zaffar came before the leader and said, 'I know you are Shah's men, but now, you belong to me . . you need to abide by my rules . . ' the leader asked, 'what rules? ' Zaffar said, 'you need to help my men, you just come, have your food and go . . it's not good . . ' the leader said, 'of course we will help . . give us your women . . they say they are not properly f****d . . . we will help with that . ' everyone laughed . . Zaffar looked at him . . he too laughed . . as he laughed everyone turned silent . . he continued laughing like a maniac . . he held his stomach and laughed hard, then with one hand he pulled the leader down his chair and placed his leg on his throat, he pulled a dagger from the folds of his robe and punctured the jugular vein . . soon the leader died thrashing in his own pool of blood . . after some time his body became still . . all this happened within few seconds . . . the Shah's men couldn't react . . they were shaken to the core . . they looked at Zaffar with fear . .

Zaffar said, 'who else want to help me with my women? ' silence greeted him . . he said, 'good . . , bury this body, come and help your brothers . . hope you learnt a lesson today . . don't play games with me . . . if still someone wants to play . . I have all the time in the world . . ' . . .

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