The carriage quickly threw Zhang Tao's cry behind, Zhang Xing wiped her tears, reached out and lifted the curtain to look outside. Zhang Tao stood in the middle of the street, looking in this direction, stretching out his hand to wipe his tears. Wang Bingyi lowered his head and spoke to her. The figures of the two faded away, and after the carriage turned a corner, it was gone.

There were more than a dozen children crowded into the narrow carriage, the youngest was about seven or eight years old, and the oldest was only twelve or thirteen years old, all of them were yellow and thin, and their clothes were ragged. The stone sat next to Zhang Xing, and when he saw that she was no longer crying, he lowered his voice and said, "We're going out of the city." Zhang Xing saw the crack in the curtain again, and sure enough, he saw the towering city wall of Huaiyang City.

Out of Huaiyang City, the carriage traveled for a while and stopped. The stone lifted the curtain again and looked out, sighed, and said, "How did you get to the Dongyuan River?" Zhang Xing also turned his head, and what appeared in front of him was a turbid river with rolling waves, a stone wharf extending into the river, many awning boats docked on both sides, and people came and went along the river avenue, mostly river workers who were wearing short coats or carrying goods bare-chested, and they were sweating and walking while shouting: "Give way, give way." ”

Zhang Xing's face couldn't help but change, this is the dock?!

Shi also frowned and said, "I have been to this Dongyuan River with my father before, and from here all the way to the east, you can go to the Huai River." Xing'er, where are they going to sell us?"

He didn't know the way, and Zhang Xing didn't know the way.

The children in the same car heard the sound outside, and they also came over to see, and they were familiar with the river, so they said: "Take a boat at this wharf, to the east is the Huai River, to the west is Chenzhou, Heyang." Seeing that he said it very clearly, Shi asked, "Have you been to Chenzhou, Heyang?"

The boy, who was about eleven or twelve years old, thin and dark, touched his head and said, "I have seen it from afar in a boat." Shi continued to ask, "Are these two places as big as Huaiyang?" The boy thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "It shouldn't be as big as Huaiyang." I saw that the wharves along the river over there were not as big as those in Huaiyang, and there were not as many people on the wharves as here. ”

"And what about Heyang, where is Heyang?" asked Shi again.

The child's eyes widened and he said, "Then I don't know what to do, there are some big mountains after Heyang, and I didn't finish the boat ride for several days." ”

After Shi finished asking, he squeezed out, sat next to Zhang Xing again, and whispered: "We may be going east, I'm afraid we will have to take a boat for several days." ”

Zhang Xing nodded. Chenzhou Heyang is not as big as Huaiyang, they have so many children, Huaiyang doesn't make a move, and I'm afraid that it will be even more difficult to make a move. And to the east, it is the Huai River, and along the Huai River to the south is Jiangning, Jiankang and other places. Those places are the most prosperous, the literati and ink are like sand, and the beautiful merchants are like clouds. Most of the human teeth are going to sell them over there.

The kids were talking about where to go. The helper lifted the curtain of the carriage and shouted, "Get off, get off, hurry!"

A dozen or so children were pushed and dragged out of the carriage and led onto a canopy boat by the helpers. When she arrived at the boat, as soon as the straw curtain was lifted, Zhang Xing couldn't help but be stunned - there were already many children in the canopy, and there were one or twenty of them. This batch of human teeth has done a lot of business.

Seeing that Zhang Xing couldn't stand still, he shouted: "Why are you stunned?

The stone hurriedly dragged Zhang Xing. Zhang Xing came back to her senses, followed behind the stone, and found a corner to sit down. Not long after she sat down, the stone suddenly turned around her, pointed to the innermost part of the boat with his finger, and whispered, "Xing'er, look ......"

Zhang Xingshun looked at what he pointed to, and was taken aback again. The two brothers, whom she thought were long gone, were sitting in the corner over there, and the two brothers looked much thinner than before. The elder brother is especially serious, almost skinny, and because of the hideous wound at the corner of his eye, the whole person looks gloomy and terrifying.

These two brothers got on the boat first, and obviously saw Zhang Xingshi a long time ago.

The two looked at each other, and the elder brother actually nodded and smiled at Zhang Xing and the two. Shi was stunned for a moment, grinned back, turned his head and bit Zhang Xing's ear in a low voice: "These two brothers have a long life." ”

Zhang Xing stabbed the stone with a crutch. Stone smiled and scratched his head, and said nothing.

The boat started, but instead of going east, it went all the way west along the river, and when it was dark, it reached Chenzhou. Renyazi didn't let anyone in the boat get off the boat, but only let the helpers send some nests and drinking water in, and after eating and drinking, they shouted for them to rest early, and someone was sent to guard the door of the curtain.

This black canopy is about three feet wide and more than ten feet long, full of twenty or thirty children, the grass curtain is dense and unventilated, the smell inside is messy, Zhang Xing can't sleep, he opens his eyes and listens to the sound of water outside, thinking that at this time Zhang Shuisheng has already known that she and Shi have sold themselves, and he will inevitably be sad with his temperament. Wang Bingyi agreed to help persuade him, but he didn't know if it would make sense.

Shi squinted for a while and woke up, saw that Zhang Xing's eyes were still open, hesitated, grabbed Zhang Xing's hand, and said, "Xing'er, when we have a chance in the future, let's come back to see Uncle Zhang and Tao'er, give them money, so that they will never worry about food and clothing in the future." ”

Zhang Xing listened to what he said bluntly, and her heart was moved, and she couldn't help grinning. Shi frowned and shook his head, and said: "No, no, there is no shortage of food or clothing, what is it? If I have a chance in the future, I will buy them a big mansion in Huaiyang City, and buy many maids and servants to serve them, so that they don't have to do anything, just eat and sleep and wake up before eating." ”

Zhang Xing couldn't help but smile and said, "You and my father and my sister are all pigs, what did you eat, sleep and sleep?"

Shi smiled and sighed: "It's finally a smile." ”

The figure at the door of the straw curtain shook, Zhang Xing pulled the stone, and the two stopped talking. When Zhang Xing turned her head again, she looked at the hand on her shoulder, smiled slightly, leaned over the stone, and closed her eyes.

When I woke up again, it was already dark, the boat had already started, and the man Yazi threw some water in and let the children share the food. Another whole day on the boat, the children are lively by nature, unable to sink, talking to each other. The stone was originally happy to move but not to be quiet, and soon played with the children in the boat.

The pair of brothers, Shi also talked to others, turned his head and told Zhang Xing that they were from Liu Wan, and their family originally opened a silk shop, surnamed Ye, the elder brother was called Ye Shen, and the younger brother was called Ye Huan.

That Ye Shen is the older of the children in the same boat, his face is injured, and he doesn't like words, he doesn't smile at anyone, and the children in the same boat are a little afraid of him. He was quite kind to Zhang Xingshi and the others, although he didn't take the initiative to talk to him, but he was also smiling. That Ye Huan is all for his brother.

Zhang Xing is not a child after all, she is not very interested in the interaction between children, her attention is all on Ren Yazi and a few gangsters who are on the same boat, and she feels a little uneasy in her heart.