However, at that time, the Ming Dynasty had a good and bad thing, that is, the clan. Under normal circumstances, once an orphan appears in the clan, no matter how much property his parents left behind, it will definitely not be saved. It will definitely be divided among the clansmen. But under normal circumstances, the clansmen will also give him a way to live, and will more or less help him and let him grow up slowly. When he grows up, no one cares whether he is dead or alive.

The vicious Qing army killed all the brave, conscientious, and wise people! Because these people must have stood up against the Manchus. Those who remained were cowardly, vile, cruel people who fell to their knees at the feet of the Manchus and wrecked on their masters' destruction!

Therefore, when the Qing Dynasty entered the middle and late stages of the literary prison again and again, the truth, goodness and beauty of the people disappeared, and only ferocity remained! At that time, when the head of the family died, and he had no son, or when the son was not yet an adult, the people of the clan would rush up and divide the family's property. After dividing up the floating wealth, the remaining houses cannot be taken away. They would tear down the houses, sell the bricks and timber, and use the money to eat and drink on the ruins until they ran out. Then they would go home drunk, leaving the orphans and widows weeping over the ruins.

The boy glanced at the knife on the soldier's waist, gave the soldier an expected answer, and said, "My name is Wang Da." My father and mother are dead. ”

Wang Da didn't squeak, just kneaded the dough in his hand vigorously,

Wang Da's kneading action immediately stopped. In his heart, the first reaction was that this person was lying. Then he also reacted, as he said, this person really didn't need to lie to him. The knife on his waist is really worth more than all his belongings, so why lie to himself? And his age has long passed the age of being trafficked. Even human traffickers don't look down on him as a half-sized kid who eats a lot and does little.

The soldier pointed to the convoy parked in the middle of the village and said, "The grain is on the car." Take back the blue flint and I'll exchange it for food. ”

Wang Da took the cake and found that it was a cake made of all-white flour. Both sides are browned by the fire, and there is a smell of wheat. Even if he was making fun of himself, it was worth running to this cake, so Wang Datong's cake went up the mountain. He is still reluctant to eat this cake, so he will save it for tomorrow and eat it slowly.

Before he could get to the convoy, the soldiers stood up and walked up to him and asked, "How much do you get back?" ”

Wang Da was stunned when he saw the grain! I didn't expect that a few stones could really be exchanged for food. After a moment's pause, he took off his shirt in two of the three and motioned for the family to put the food in his clothes. The family was not polite, so he poured it directly into his dirty clothes. Wang Da ran home at a trot. After a while, he saw that he was chewing the big cake given by his own soldiers and walking into the mountain quickly.

However, they did not dare to get as close to the convoy as Wang Da, so they shouted from afar: "Can stones really be exchanged for food?" ”

The villagers were quiet for a moment and then dispersed in a hurry, and all of them went home to find people and take their belongings. After a while, all the people in the village went up the mountain!

The villagers' way of identifying a stone is simple: hit one stone at another. Anyway, in the collision there must have been a stone smashed open. As long as you see a blue flash, you know if it's a blue flint. These surface primary ores have been blown and dried by the wind for tens of thousands of years, and the weathering is very serious. There are even many stones whose shells have fallen off naturally, and the blue light can be seen from afar!

The old man carried a basket with more than fifty pieces of blue flint. It should be his family who has gathered their respective gains to him. The soldiers secretly looked at the old man proudly. Among the first people to say that they were liars was this old guy, but I didn't expect that he was the first to come to exchange food! But the pro-soldier is too lazy to deal with an old man who has no knowledge. He carefully admired the worried look in the old man's eyes for a long time before signaling the family to change food for him.

As a result, the news spread to other villages. More and more people are getting the news and starting to join in the carnival. So much so that the soldiers had to rush to Jinan and ask Huashufeng for help to buy food.

In this way, the soldiers easily collected the sapphires in the cart and transported them back to the warehouse. And the acquisition activity continued until much later, when sapphires were hard to find on the surface.

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