Zhao Kuo rode on a horse and walked in this group of refugees, and some people stopped to observe Zhao Kuo and his party from time to time, looking at the clothes of Zhao Kuo and others, and there were entourages behind them, they should be regarded as the children of rich families in the city, after all, their environment here is so poor, even the officials in charge of managing them are too lazy to come over on weekdays, let alone the people in the city, so gradually many people surrounded Zhao Kuo and others to watch.

After Zhao Kuo saw the situation in front of him, he thought that these people would not rush up and rob them, right? The main reason why he came to this place was to think that it would be easier to come here to recruit some women back, after all, these people can't even fill their stomachs here every day, so they shouldn't care about that ethereal reputation anymore, right?

After Li Yan saw this, he was a little afraid that these refugees would make trouble, so he hurriedly pulled out the sword he was carrying and said a little nervously: "Disperse quickly, disperse quickly, don't get in the way"

Li Yan was really afraid that these refugees would suddenly rush to them and rob them, and after seeing the few entourages brought by Li Yan, they also drew their blades one after another, dispersing the surrounding crowd and shouting: "Disperse, disperse"

When those refugees saw that the comer had drawn out their weapons, they all retreated in fright, but they did not disperse, and still gathered around to watch Zhao Kuo and the others.

Zhao Kuo saw this group of refugees with yellow faces and thin muscles, and wondered in his heart, we are not giant pandas, as for watching like this? You must not have hatred for the rich in your heart, I am not a rich man, and then I leaned closer to the Void Monk, after all, if there is any emergency, I still have to rely on the monk to protect me.

At this time, a middle-aged man took a few steps forward, knelt down and asked, "Sons, have you come to us to recruit slaves?" The little man is big, he can do anything, and he asked the sons to ask for me."

As soon as this man's words fell, many people around him shouted, this one said he wanted him, and the other said he wanted him.

It turned out that these people were looking for something to do, Zhao Kuo and the others were relieved, and then Zhao Kuo glanced at Li Yan and asked him to explain his intentions, his own voice is still a little uncomfortable now, and he shouted too much yesterday.

After Li Yan understood, he shouted to the crowd around him: "Everyone be quiet, we are indeed here to recruit people this time, but this time we only recruit women who have not been out of the cabinet, men will not be recruited for the time being, if any of you have a daughter or sister who has not been out of the cabinet, you can bring it over."

"Are you from the Qinglou in the city? Specially come to us to buy a woman? ”

Li Yan waved his hand to the person who opened his mouth to ask, and was about to open his mouth to reply to him, when a person from the crowd squeezed out and shouted to him: "This son, there is a pair of daughters in the villain's family, born on the same day, now fifteen years old, not yet married, I don't know how many silver taels the son can give?" ”

"Wang Lao Er, they are from Qinglou, you sold your daughters to them, then your daughters will be prostitutes in the future, are you still human?" Many people think that Wang Lao Er sold his daughter to the fire pit, and they all pointed fingers at his behavior, and the insults continued.

"What about being a prostitute? As long as they can fill their stomachs and let them live, what better place is there than here? As long as you are in the city, even if you become a prostitute, it is better than only drinking porridge every day here" After the second Wang finished speaking, the crowd around him was still discussing, some nodded, and many shook their heads.

Li Yan opened his mouth again at this time and shouted to everyone: "Listen to me, we are not from the Qinglou in the city, we came to recruit some women this time and did not let them go into the city to be prostitutes, we opened a restaurant in the city, and recruiting people is also going to the restaurant to do things, now everyone listens, we only need twenty women this time, don't be short, don't be fat, don't look ugly, if anyone's daughter and sister meet, you can bring it over now for us to see, as long as we choose, We will pay ten taels of silver directly to sign a deed of sale with you, do you understand? ”

"Ten taels of silver? So much, huh? The crowd around them were all taken aback when they heard Li Yan say that he would pay ten taels of silver, and then many people left, thinking that they should have brought their daughters and sisters.

Zhao Kuo, who was on the side, was a little stunned when he heard Li Yan say this, thinking that we didn't come here to recruit people? Why do you now need to sign a deed of sale and change to a direct buyer? asked Li Yan to come over and ask him, "Li Yan, what are you doing?" We're here to recruit people, not buy people? What do you ask them to sign a deed of sale? ”

After hearing this, Li Yan smiled and explained to Zhao Kuo in a low voice: "Brother Zhao, it seems that you don't understand the doorway here, the people in this place can be said to be the lowest people, and there are not a few people who sell their sons and daughters. How can I say that the people we selected will be workers in our restaurant in the future, and I am also thinking about them, their hard-earned silver should be spent by themselves, how can they give these people again? Brother Zhao, don't care how nice they say, they are always the ones who sell their daughters and sisters, right? Don't say that life is not easy, I have no family affection in my heart since I was able to do this, and I did this to completely break off the relationship between them, Brother Zhao, do you understand what I mean? Of course, the main thing is that after they sign the deed of sale, we will bring these women back, and they will do whatever we say, lest they run away like yesterday and everyone runs away in the end."

Although there were some problems with what Li Yan said, Zhao Kuo also understood, so he didn't say anything more, thinking that after all, it was not easy for others to raise a daughter, so he asked Li Yan to raise the silver to twenty taels.

There are too many refugees here, tens of thousands of people, Zhao Kuo doesn't have the ability to help everyone, at a certain moment Zhao Kuo also had an idea, looking for Qin Tian to borrow more silver, recruit all the young and middle-aged people here, and train them into an army, if anything happens in the future, at least they can have some soldiers in their hands, but then they were vetoed by themselves, not to mention that Zhao Huangyun did not allow him to do this, that is, he himself didn't want to raise any private soldiers in Zhao Du, Zhao Kuo didn't like Zhao Du, at the emperor's feet, everything had to be done according to Zhao Huang's preferences, It's too unfree, here, he doesn't want to do too many eye-catching things, and he doesn't want to change anything too much, which is also why Zhao Kuo can come up with many ways to make money, but he only chooses to open a restaurant, because it saves trouble, and everything else needs to start over.

Hearing that the person who sold a daughter could get ten taels of silver, after a while, he really brought his daughter or sister over, Zhao Kuo's front was gradually full of many women, and he swept over at a glance, Zhao Kuo sighed, the people at the bottom of society, Li Yan just had a body fat can be saved, the people here usually can't eat, where are there obese people, all of them are yellow and thin, these women stand there resignedly, a little overwhelmed, and their faces are full of fear. Then, Zhao Kuo got off the horse and began to choose one by one in the crowd.

The selected people were all taken aside by Li Yan to sign the deed of sale, and finally Zhao Kuo selected twenty-eight people, including Wang Laoer, who was the first to run out to ask, and his twin daughters were also among them, and then Zhao Kuo stood together with these selected women, some of these parents were still standing not far away and looked at their daughters with tears in their eyes, and some parents left with a smile as soon as they got the silver, including the second Wang Lao, Zhao Kuo saw him get the silver with his own eyes. didn't even look at his pair of daughters, and left with a smile on the silver in his hand. Zhao Kuo thought at the time, it seems that some things really can't just look at the surface, I saw him come out and say those words before, I really thought that he was thinking about his daughter for the sake of his daughter being able to live a well-fed life, but now it seems that he has no family affection in his heart, only silver, for this kind of person, it is indeed right to let his daughter completely cut off relations with him.

Zhao Kuo saw that the parents who were reluctant to give up their daughters were still wiping their tears, so he said: "Don't worry, after we take your daughters into the city, we will not sell them into the Qinglou to receive guests, let alone let them become prostitutes", and then pointed to Li Yan, who was still busy not far away, and continued: "He, his father is the military department of Zhao State, the second-rank official, I am here in the name of his father to assure you that this time I bought your daughters just to let them work in the restaurant, you can rest assured"

Li Yan, who was not far away, was stunned with his mouth open when he heard Zhao Kuo say this, thinking that it was obviously you who were coming to recruit people, why did you promise them in the name of my father? Don't you still have a history of patrolling? Is the official too small? Embarrassed to say it?

After Li Yan was busy with everything, it was already afternoon, so Zhao Kuo and a few people took these women to the city, but the group just walked out of the road, and suddenly two figures stopped in front of Zhao Kuo's horse, Zhao Kuo and Li Yan did not react, one rushed to Zhao Kuo, and shouted excitedly: "Your Highness, the slave can be regarded as seeing you"

The Void Monk turned over and dismounted, blocking in front of the man and stopping him, Zhao Kuo only reacted at this time, looking at the two people not far in front of him, a man and a woman, their whole bodies were dirty, and their faces were covered with stains and dust.

Seeing that Zhao Kuo didn't recognize him when he looked at him, the man hurriedly shouted again: "Your Highness, it's me, and the slave is Li Xuan."

When Zhao Kuo heard that it was Li Xuan, he was instantly startled, and then hurriedly turned over and dismounted, ran to him and asked, "You... Are you Li Xuan? ”

As he spoke, he wiped his face with his hand, and after wiping off some dust, he exclaimed ecstatically: "Li Xuan... It's really you, you're alive."

At this time, Li Xuan was already kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to Zhao Kuo and said: "Your Highness, you are a slave, the slave has finally seen Your Highness again, and I can serve you by His Highness's side in the future."