Chapter 4: Flickering

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One of the traffickers named Beard took the initiative to meet him, and then Chen Xiaobai peeked and found that three yellow-faced men dressed in puddings had come down from the boat, with thin bodies and sallow faces, and they looked like people who had been malnourished for a long time.

Because the shore is not far from where they parked, and this is in the mountains, the surroundings are very quiet, so Chen Xiaobai and the others can hear their conversation more clearly.

I heard the bearded man speak first, "We brought the people, where is the money?"

One of them, a yellow-faced man with a slightly better face, rubbed his big rough hands and walked forward, and all three of them felt a little nervous at a loss.

He rubbed his hands and stammered, "Hu, Brother Hu...... Can you let us look at the people first?"

"Look at people, okay, look, look at it, yes, it's there. Three young girls! According to what you want, they are all unmarried chicks, and they have never budded. ”

The three yellow-faced men hesitantly walked into Chen Xiaobai and the three girls, and looked at them, as if they were really young, so they nodded.

"See, give the money. Beard looked at the three men as if they had confirmed it, and spoke.

And the previous Brother Sen stood aside with another trafficker, and it seemed that everything was approached by this bearded man.

It's still the yellow-faced man from before, he took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, Chen Xiaobai peeked at it, I'll ...... The man was holding a pile of thick stacks in his hand, one cent, two cents, and even one piece was very few, and occasionally there was a ten-piece piece, how much it added up, Chen Xiaobai couldn't see it.

"Here are two hundred, you ...... You count. The yellow-faced man handed the crumpled stack of bills to Beard with both hands.

Beard turned out to be a pile of banknotes, although his face was a little disgusted, but he still counted them carefully one by one, Chen Xiaobai looked at it and felt that it was more difficult than the modern tens of thousands of yuan!

After finishing the count, he nodded at Brother Sen, indicating that the number was correct.

Chen Xiaobai felt speechless, the three of them were as beautiful as flowers, and they were only worth two hundred yuan? !

Is...... It's so cheap!

But what she didn't know was how low prices were in the sixties, when the whole of China fell into a period of economic hardship in the early sixties. Let's just put it this way, taking ten yuan as an example, in the sixties, ten yuan could buy at least 80 catties of rice or 15 catties of pork, and ten yuan of green vegetables could directly buy 500 catties!

If you think about it in modern times, ten yuan? I'm afraid you can't even eat a decent meal! It can only be the level of fast food, and it may be the price of the cheapest meat and vegetable in fast food.

In this era, most of the Chinese society is also a proletariat, and the wages of the factories in this era are only twenty or thirty yuan a month, which is still the treatment that only those who have iron rice bowls in the city have, and the peasants have no money.

If you calculate it again, there are 365 days a year without rest, so you won't make much money in a year.

So these two hundred yuan can be regarded as all the family funds of these three families over the years. How difficult is it to marry a daughter-in-law in such a poor age in the poor ravines?! No one in the surrounding villages wants to marry at all, so they have to use this illegal means to obtain it!

The conditions of these three families are the best in the mountains, and many families can't afford to marry their daughters-in-law at all, so there are many men in the mountains who can't afford to marry their daughters-in-law because they are poor.

After the traffickers collected the money, they directly left Chen Xiaobai and the three of them here, and drove the ox cart back the same way.

Chen Xiaobai had been pretending to be weak before, but at this time she had slowly sat up, and she pretended to be scared and squeezed together with the other two girls.

But in fact, she was observing her surroundings, and when the traffickers carried them up the mountain, they didn't give them blindfolds or hoods or other things that blocked their view, as if they didn't seem to be worried that they would write down their routes and escape.

It turns out that there are many paths in this mountain, and they still have nine twists and eighteen bends, if they are not locals, it is difficult to recognize the way out of the mountain.

Chen Xiaobai looked at the other two girls again, they just kept their heads down and kept crying and crying, how could they still think about something about escaping.

These cunning traffickers still have to rely on themselves at critical moments!

Chen Xiaobai looked at the three yellow-faced men who had already paid, and knew at a glance that they were all honest people, looking at the three girls crying around here, standing next to them one by one and looking extremely helpless.

From them, it seems that there is no sign of the buyer's strength in treating "private goods", but from their helpless eyes, Chen Xiaobai sees honesty and simplicity.

She thought, if they hadn't been forced to have no choice, they probably wouldn't have taken this illegal way to marry a wife.

But in any case, the abduction and trafficking of women, the sale of women, is a felony.

Chen Xiaobai's big eyes rolled, and he immediately came up with a solution.

She secretly reached out and pinched each of Hu Lan and another girl, Liu Xiaohong, the two girls immediately looked at her with red eyes, she made a look, it is not appropriate to speak at this time, she only hopes that what she means, these two girls who don't look too stupid can understand.

Then, she pretended to wipe the tears from her face, and then stood up weakly, looking at the three yellow-faced men with panic and fear in her eyes.

"Three big brothers, I know that you are all good people, but do you know that it is illegal to buy and sell human beings now! The crime is very serious! Once you are caught, you will be shot!" Chen Xiaobai said very truthfully and seriously.

She doesn't know what the crimes of human traffickers are in this era, but the buyers will definitely not be guilty to death, but these honest people in the mountains will definitely not know, so of course how serious it is, as long as you bluff them and let them know that the consequences of accepting themselves are very serious, then that's right.

If she couldn't even fool these few people who lived in the mountains and didn't have much knowledge, then the years in her previous life would really be in vain.

Sure enough, after hearing what Chen Xiaobai said, the faces of the three yellow-faced men instantly lost color, and they rubbed their hands nervously one by one.