After Zhang Rui said goodbye to Li Rong, he felt a little dry mouth. Looking around, there is actually a tea chat too far ahead.

Tea talk is typically made of wood with a straw roof. A tea word is hung on a cloth at the eaves to show its purpose. There are two stoves under the tea cloth, one is used to boil water, and the other is steaming.

In the tea chat, there were a few people sitting in twos and threes drinking tea and chatting, and there was a table playing chess, and a few people were watching, not lonely but not lively. The shopkeeper is carrying hot water to heat the water on a teapot for a table.

This summer, it is indeed a good place to drink tea and chat.

Zhang Rui took Li Niushi to the tea chat place, and sat down at an empty table on the right side of the door. At this time, the boss of the tea chat also saw Zhang Rui and the others, so he stepped forward to greet him.

"What do you two little brothers drink? What should I eat? ”

Zhang Rui asked, "What do you have here?" ”

"My hot water is a bowl of one penny, and five wen a bowl of coarse tea. Maojian, Longjing, and Biluochun are respectively fifteen, twenty, and thirty-five. I also have two pieces of soybeans and one plate, three pieces of beans and one plate, two pieces of steamed buns, four pieces of cakes and vegetarian buns, and one meat bun. The boss of the tea chat said to Zhang Rui one by one

"I'm a rough person, and I don't know how to taste tea, so I'll have two bowls of coarse tea." Zhang Rui said and asked Li Niushi beside him: "Brother Niu, is one bun enough for you to eat?" ”

"Enough, enough, in fact, I have eaten a lot at noon, and I don't have to eat meat buns." Li Niushi hurriedly said to Zhang Rui

"Okay, then let's have two meat buns."

"Okay, wait a minute."

"Woo ......"

A low child's cry was heard

Zhang Rui was speechless for a while, in such a hot weather, there were still children who came out to play and cry, and sure enough, children are good physical strength.

The boss of the tea chat skillfully served tea and meat buns to Zhang Rui and asked them to use them slowly

Zhang Rui took a bite of the meat bun, the oil and water of the bun flowed out at the corner of his mouth and sandwiched the unique aroma of flour, and then took a sip of tea. instantly made Zhang Rui's heart happy.

The crying continued intermittently, with comforting voices in between. It's not very clear, but it's a bit like Mandarin, not a local dialect.

Zhang Rui followed the sound to find it, but saw a family of four standing in the shade of the room not far from the tea chat.

The crying was a little boy of about three years old, dark-skinned, unclothed, very thin, who was being comforted by his mother at the moment. His mother was dressed in a shabby dress with numerous patches, and her face was the color of vegetables, and her cheekbones were so high that her hunger was so thin that her cheekbones were high.

Next to him was a middle-aged man, with the same face as a vegetable, and a numb face. The thin body seems to be only the head is relatively large, and only a handful of hair on the top of the head is left around the whole head, and the money squirrel's tail looks indescribably ugly and greasy. Wearing a shabby short-sleeved trouser with countless patches and sewing. His feet are the same as most of the villagers, but they are covered with dead skin and do not wear shoes.

The man was holding a little girl about six or seven years old. The little girl had some straw stuck in her head, and she was inevitably hungry. At this time, a smile appeared on Nana's face, and she was helping her mother comfort her brother.

Zhang Rui watched them and listened attentively

"Uh......h Mother, I'm hungry ......."

"Xiaobao is good...... Drink some water...... Drink some water and you won't be hungry......" I saw the child's mother hand over a bamboo tube to the little boy.

"You lied to me, I couldn't drink enough, and I was hungry again all of a sudden......"

The child's mother had no choice but to silently hold the boy tightly.

"Brother, it's okay, sister, I can also drink water to my heart's content...... You see, my stomach is so full, and I am not hungry at all......" The little girl said and touched her belly with her hand to make it look like I was full and hungry.

The little boy pushed away his mother, who was holding him tightly, and poked his neck out, revealing an innocent look. Said to his sister

"Really? Sister, can you drink enough water? ”

"Really, brother, you drink water first and drink your fill. I heard my father say that I can buy you food when I sell it in a while, and then I will buy steamed buns for you to eat. The little girl seemed to think of steamed buns, and said happily to her brother.

"Oh, oh... You can eat steamed buns, I'll drink water, sister, let's play hide and seek together after eating steamed buns in a while..."The little boy heard that he could eat steamed buns, he was very happy, and obediently took the bamboo tube and drank water desperately.

At this time, Zhang Rui's eyes suddenly turned red, and tears involuntarily remained. Zhang Liu's memory of his mother and relatives did not understand anything.

The way of the world

"Sixth brother, what's wrong with you?" Li Niushi saw that Zhang Rui suddenly left tears, and hurriedly asked

"It's fine, it's just some sand in my eyes." Zhang Rui touched his tears and argued

"Oh... This place is dusty. Li Niushi replied in understanding

"Do you know them?" Zhang Rui pointed to the family who were in the shadow of the room

Li Niushi looked at Zhang Rui's fingers.

"I don't know, I think it's someone from the north, who works as a tenant farmer in another village." Li Niushi looked at them for a while before saying

"I can't imagine that someone will sell their daughter so early."

"How often do people buy daughters here?" Zhang Rui was a little incredulous

"Yes! In many cases, as long as the year is a little bit worse, it will be. Most of the people in our village are locals, so most of the time the rent is 55 cents, sometimes a little less. But the people who came from the north of them sometimes had three or seven points, so as long as the year was worse, they could only sell their daughters to pay off their debts and eat. Li Niushi seemed to see something very ordinary, and then muttered again

"I didn't expect to start selling my daughter so early, and this hasn't been taxed yet."

Zhang Rui beckoned the tea chat boss to come over and find out. It turned out that the family only came from Jiangxi two years ago, and it is said that the family was not bad at that time. However, the good times did not last long, and the family's land was taken by the manchurian uncle and forcibly seized it.

didn't lose a penny, the man's grandfather wanted to theorize, but he was beaten to death. I want to sue the official, but where does the government dare to take care of the uncle. If it weren't for the fact that the government was still concerned about face a while ago, it would be impossible to say that there would be no family of them. In this way, he fell here, and now he is a tenant farmer in Shier Village, with four or six sub-rents.

These months have been dry, the fields have not been harvested, the rent is owed, and the summer tax is coming again. The family really didn't eat it, so I sold my daughter here, and it has been sold for two days, and it hasn't been sold yet.

After listening to the brief description of the boss of the tea chat, Zhang Rui asked Li Niushi to wait for him here, and then got up and walked to the family.

Zhang Rui suddenly remembered a story about a wave that slapped a school of fish on the beach, and a little boy passed by and threw the fish back into the sea one by one. At this time, someone told him: Don't be busy, who cares about the life or death of this fish. The boy responded: The fish care.

Wear clear and do not rebel, chrysanthemum set electric drill. I'm sorry, I want chrysanthemums, even if more people die because of this, I have to change the way of the world.