Pei Yao stood outside the courtyard and heard a boy's arrogant voice in the courtyard: "Milk, you see that this little calf is still picking up rotten vegetable leaves without chopping wood, it is better to sell them as my mother said, sell them for one or two silver, and you can buy a lot of meat to eat." As soon as the words fell, he started again: "Milk, you still dare to stare at me, milk, you beat him!" ”

Pei Yao's heart tightened, and sure enough, there was a 'snapping' sound of a stick falling on the flesh in the courtyard, and she continued to cooperate with the scolding of the vicious old woman, coupled with the boy's crying, and a woman and the schadenfreude who provoked the boy to applaud and cheer, this picture is what it is like if you think about it with your brain, Pei Yao's chest rises and falls violently, what she looks down on the most is this kind of bullying weak people, if it is really disobedient, it is understandable, and if you are beaten for no reason like this, you are a wicked person.

Zhao Gongzi next to him seemed to have seen many similar scenes, and his face was indifferent.

Pei Yao didn't look like he was nosy, so he said, "You stand here and don't move, or you go back, don't come with me." ”

Zhao Gongzi raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders, indicating okay.

Pei Yao walked towards the yard with the basket on her back, and saw a smiling daughter-in-law and a sturdy half-grown son leaning against the door in the yard, as well as a large quilt cover that had not been dried in the courtyard.

The boy was beaten and lay in the corner with his head in his arms and didn't even cry, the woman didn't even get rid of her hatred, she beat her with a wooden stick with a fierce face, and Pei Yao, who was angry at this scene, clenched the green tendons on the back of her hand and shouted loudly: "Stop!" ”

"If you want to kill someone, I will report to the government to arrest you!" Pei Yao said loudly.

Hearing the words of the government, the woman stopped and said, "Who are you, what does my family matter to you?" ”

"If you commit murder, you will be sentenced to murder, even if you kill your relatives, you will be sentenced to a fine, and you will be fined silver for the lightest meal, and you will be imprisoned for the worst one." Pei Yao looked at her mother-in-law's expression, knowing that she was an ignorant person and fearless, and it seemed that she had to report to the government to arrest someone in order to scare her.

Pei Yao didn't bother to speak, seeing that this kid didn't make a sound for a long time, she didn't know what to do, and said: "500 Wen, buy these two children and go back to work for me." ”

The mother-in-law's eyes rolled, she had also asked people before, seeing that these two children were thin and small, they were willing to give 300 Wen, saying that they were so big that they couldn't do anything and had to be eaten, no one liked to ask for it, this girl actually gave 500 Wen, and then I thought about it, just the eldest grandson said to sell one or two to buy meat to eat, could it be that the eldest daughter-in-law inquired about giving one or two silver?

Seeing the mother-in-law's inverted triangular eyes, Pei Yao moved: "If you don't sell me, I'll leave, if it weren't for you being so abused, I wouldn't have bought such a small child who can't do anything." ”

"Wait!" The woman shouted: "One tael of silver, just one tael of silver, my daughter-in-law went to ask someone to adopt and give one or two pieces of silver, and it is not enough to have a penny!" ”

Pei Yao was cold in her heart, she was really a poisonous woman, the children who had been raised under her eyelids for so long would sell them when she said they would sell them, and they would be beaten if she said they would be beaten, leaving them behind was also a life to be beaten, just like a godfather saved himself, it would be good to buy it back to be his companion.

Pei Yao frowned and hesitated, the old woman saw that she was going to regret it, scolded a few more words and twitched the boy a few times, seeing that the boy twitched, her heart was even more unbearable, so she said: "Stop, a tael of silver is fine, but you have to sign a buyout contract for me, and you have to wake up the two children, in case you kill me, I won't spend money in vain." ”

Seeing that Pei Yao really gave a tael of silver, the mother-in-law's eyes lit up, and she turned her head and commanded the sturdy grandson and said, "Good grandson, go and call the village chief." ”

When the boy heard that he could sell these two unpleasant taels of silver, his happy mouth grinned to the back of his head, and he quickly ran to the gate of the courtyard and went straight to the village chief's house.

In the courtyard here, the mother-in-law shouted at a side room: "The third one, come out and make some porridge, you have been doing it for half a month." ”

Hearing Pei Yao's speechlessness for a while, there were still two hard women standing in this courtyard, and they actually asked a confinement person to come out to cook. I heard a baby crying in the side room, and then a soft voice sounded: "Mother, this baby is pulled, and I am still hungry, and I still have a headache and can't go out." ”

It seems that the worst thing in this courtyard are the two fatherless and motherless siblings, who are even more pitiful than when they were children.

The mother-in-law didn't call the eldest daughter-in-law standing in the courtyard, as if she was quite afraid of her, so she went to the stove room by herself, and scolded and said: "I am an old woman, half of my body is buried in the soil, and I still have to serve you old and young." ”

Whether the eldest daughter-in-law or the third daughter-in-law ignored her, the wicked must eventually grind the wicked.

When he saw the boy lying in the courtyard, he sighed, shook his head, and said, "It's good if someone buys it, maybe you can have a full meal, and if you stay in this house, you will have to die of exhaustion like their father." ’

After a while, the woman came out of the stove with two bowls of warm water soaked in leftover rice, poured a sip on the boy, and when he saw that he was awake, she put the bowl on the ground like a rice player, and turned around and went to the side building, and the boy saw that there was still rice in it, so he drank it all in a big gulp, and he didn't see him chew the real gobble, and he didn't know that this was his last meal in the house.

At this time, a light cough sounded in Bixia, and after a while, it may be that after waiting for the sister to finish eating, she was dragged out by her mother-in-law A girl who was more scab than a boy came out, and the clothes were even more torn, and it was already a little cold in this autumn, and I don't know how the sister and brother survived.

The old village chief, on a small table and chair brought out by the eldest daughter-in-law, wrote a note with the pen and ink he brought, and the general meaning was marked in triplicate: These two children were sold to others as servants, and so far they have nothing to do with the family, and they live and die in peace.

After writing, the village chief said: "Let the child's grandfather come out and press his handprint." Pei Yao didn't expect that there was a grandfather at home, and she didn't make a sound, and she didn't make a sound when she watched her wife beat her children, which was also ruthless.

The old woman shouted into the house, "The old man came out and put a handprint." ”

Pei Yao looked at the door curiously, and saw that the door opened, and a rickety old man came out, his eyes were not bright, and he pressed a handprint on each piece of paper expressionlessly, and turned around and went back to the house, without even looking at the two children standing in the courtyard like Hanako.

Pei Yao shook her head secretly, and pressed her handprints with the village chief and the two children.

The village chief picked up two sheets, one of which was dried and folded, and the other was handed to Pei Yao and said, "I will go back to the Yamen for the record, and your one is the deed of sale of the two of them."

glanced at this simple piece of paper, and bought out two lives, Pei Yao couldn't help but sigh for a while, this ancient human life is really cheap enough.

paid the money and walked out of the courtyard gate with two children who were a little shaky, and the two children supported each other, all of them were silently crying, and they were all in tatters, which was really sad. (To be continued.) )