Chu Qianqian innocently argued: “Sir, you don’t understand. The slave family is testing them. Don’t be fooled by me. Only when you go out and experience the same situation can you deal with it calmly. After all, it doesn’t hurt if I fall into a trap. In If you fall into someone else’s trap, you may be in danger.”
The accountant heard that what she said was clear and reasonable, and coupled with his trust in Si Yefu, he was deceived by Chu Qianqian, who was 90% true and 100% false.
The Night Travelers set off collectively.
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The freezing weather makes the people in Beiyuan City happy, but the surrounding villages are actually living miserable lives.
This year’s climate is much colder than the previous two years, coupled with premature snowfall. People living in small border towns have already had some experience in predicting the climate to survive in this environment. They predict that this year’s cold wave will hit. The possibility is great.
This makes the people in the border villages miserable but helpless.
Yongmengxiang is also one of the villages outside Beiyuan City. It is not much better than other villages.
The farmers’ harvest in the village has been poor in the past few years, and the villagers’ health is obviously worse than in previous years, and some people often get sick. This makes the young men in the village have to travel far away to find work, and the daughter’s family is more looking forward to marrying outside. The matchmaker the parents find is also to arrange marriage with outsiders, in the hope that they can move away with their daughter who marries well, or has a daughter. Plans to provide relief.
On the winding path, oxcarts were carrying goods, with a few children mending clothes sitting on them, and more people were walking.
Among the people walking there were men, women and children, which is not something that happens often. Not to mention that it is inconvenient for the elderly to travel long distances. Under traditional concepts, women are not allowed to go out easily, especially girls of marriageable age.
Their destination was Beiyuan City. They had been walking for several hours. The dirt road was icy and made walking slower than usual.
At this time, there was a commotion in the walking team, which forced the team to stop. After checking, it was found that someone had fallen, and the reason for the fall was that the child he was holding was crying.
“Dad, Dad, I will only eat one steamed bun a day from now on. Don’t sell me, don’t sell me.” The girl with withered hair cried and begged while hugging the short and thin man’s legs.
The man’s eyes flickered, “I said I’m not selling you, I’m not selling you. Didn’t you hear that your Uncle Wu said he was going to the city to live a good life?”
As the saying goes, children from poor families become masters early. The girl is not very old, but she already knows how to watch the man’s words and emotions. When she sees the man’s guilty expression, she looks even more desperate.
Although she had heard from the villagers that if she was sold to the city and was lucky enough to work as a slave in a wealthy family, her life would indeed be better than in the village. But there are not so many lucky people in this world. Most of the children who were sold did not end well. Most of the slaves in powerful families were born at home. They were more loyal than those bought from outside and did not need to be trained hard.
The girl’s pitiful cry triggered a series of effects, and other children in the team were also infected, and they burst into mourning for a while.
“What’s going on? What’s going on?” the visitor asked.
When the girl’s father saw him, he immediately said: “Wu Ping, you came just in time. My daughter thought I went to the city to sell her. Come and explain to everyone.”
The person coming was Wu Ping, the leader of this team, or in other words, the leader of the team going to Beiyuan City was the Wu family from Yongmengxiang.
Previously, the four brothers of the Wu family had made enough money by participating in temple construction. The four brothers rented a house in Beiyuan City together, thinking of returning to their hometown to bring the family and children to the city to live a good life.
They returned to their hometown and told their parents about their plan. At first, the family did not believe it, but Wu Laosan took out the saved medicinal powder and soaked it in water for his father to drink. For good people, the results can be said to be very fast and the feeling is very obvious.
With the example of Father Wu, the four brothers of the Wu family spoke eloquently and told everything they had seen and heard when they went to Beiyuan City.