After breakfast the next day, I called Shang Chunlan, Lao Liu drove the carriage and we went out of the alley, and asked Lao Liu to go to the inn where I lived first, which also had my gold and official clothes. The carriage circled around the city, and it took more than an hour to reach the inn, and I went in and counted the room money, took out my luggage, and then headed for the market.

The human market is outside the west gate of the capital, and now it is at the east gate, and we have to pass through the entire capital to get there. Lao Liu seems to be very familiar with the capital, and the carriage walks through the streets and alleys, all in the middle of nowhere.

It was more than half an hour before the carriage left the capital and came to the human market under the city wall.

There are a lot of people in the market, and there are not a few good officials in the entire court in recent years, and all of them are corrupt officials, and the common people are not able to make a living. Especially in the border passes, they can't survive at all, so they all flocked to the capital, thinking that the capital is at the feet of the Son of Heaven after all, and they can still eat with a mouthful, who knows, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in the past dynasties are faint monarchs, and they don't care about the people's livelihood at all, and the people who come to the capital to make a living, there is no way, there is only selling children and daughters, one is to temporarily get some money to make a living, and the other is also counting on the children to find a good family, to be able to eat and dress warmly, boys can have a future, and girls can find a good family.

The requirements of ordinary people in all dynasties and dynasties were very low, as long as they were well fed and clothed, they would not be troubled. But the rulers have a few who really care about the ordinary people, in the old society, they don't even have the basic living conditions, they grow grain every year and starve every year, looking at these hungry children with yellow faces and thin muscles, unkempt and gray faces, my heart is crying, my childhood has been growing up under the care of the master and brother, although poor, but I have never tasted the taste of hunger, in front of the market, hundreds of children standing there waiting for the Lord's family to buy, even if the heart of the stone is going to melt.

I asked Chunlan to get off, wait for Lao Liu to tie up the carriage, and walk around the market together, I really want to take them all away, but the conditions don't allow it, I can't go to the cottage in a few days, let them come here, and take away those who are honest, as for speculation, count on those who survive by selling children, forget it, who is willing to give up their own flesh and blood until the last resort, unlike the people in the Celestial Empire in the later generations, people in the southwest direction, giving birth to children are like giving birth to livestock, and they are sold when they are born, there is a bit of flesh and blood kinship.

As she walked, Chunlan suddenly stopped and said, "Young Master, do you think those are okay?" I looked in the direction pointed by Chunlan, but I saw that five or six steps away from us, a thirty-two or thirteen-year-old woman, wearing a blue coarse cloth skirt, although tattered, but all cleanly washed, leading three children, squatting there, two boys were twelve or thirteen years old, the younger was five or six years old, and there was a little girl who was in her teens, the children were very thin, with big eyes, looking at those who came to buy Yahuan and Xiaowu, but no one cared about their situation at all, the small ones were too small, and the big ones were not big.

I came to the woman and the child, crouched down and said, "Sister-in-law, where are you from, are you going to sell the child or do you want to find someone to live as a slave?" "At that time, there were two ways of trading, one was to buy out completely, and be the master's slave for the rest of his life, and the other was to only work for the master's family, and the master would pay a lump sum of money, and then he could leave after ten or five years.

The woman looked at me and asked her, raised her head, and said, "Uncle, we are from Shanxi, our hometown suffered a disaster, his father took us to the capital to join our relatives, who knows that the relatives were not found, he went to build a house for other people's short-term jobs, fell off the roof and died." The main family is not bad, I gave a coffin, and gave five taels of silver, but I am a woman's family, where can I go without relatives and friends, this silver is not used for a few days, and it is spent, there is really no way, I can't watch the children starve to death, so I came out to find a place to rely on myself as a slave to let me pull the children up. We've been here for days, and no one wants us, and the kids haven't eaten for two days. Please, uncle, you will take us in. ”

Chunlan over there also said: "Young master, we want them, you see they are all pitiful." ”

I looked at a few children, those children were not afraid, staring at me with big eyes, the eldest child, looking at me and looking at him, knelt down and kowtowed several times, and said in a childish voice: "Uncle, you bought us, I can work, my younger brothers and sisters can work, you look at my arms, very powerful, as long as I have enough to eat, I can do anything." After saying that, he stretched out his thin arm to show me.

I looked at the pitiful eyes of the children and said, "Sister-in-law, come with us with the children, this is Miss Chunlan, this is Steward Liu, when you get home, Chunlan who doesn't understand there will teach you." ”

"Quickly kowtow to Uncle." The woman led the three children and knelt down to kowtow to me, and I quickly helped them up and asked Chunlan to lead them to the carriage. Lao Liu and I continued to watch in the market.

At this moment, I heard the sound of someone shouting outside, I heard Chunlan's voice, I looked back and saw that not far from the carriage, several big men surrounded Chunlan, I pulled Lao Liu and ran quickly to the carriage.

When they came closer, they saw several big men pulling Chunlan, and the older boy was holding one of them by the leg and didn't let them take Chunlan away. Chunlan saw me coming and shouted, "Young master, help, they want to rob me." ”

I yelled, "What are you doing, stop me." robbed the people's daughters in broad daylight, and there was no royal law.

When those people saw us coming, they also stopped and let go of Chunlan, who picked up the boy who had been kicked to the ground and came to me together.

Among those people, a man in his thirties came out, and he said while walking slowly: "Brother, is this a woman in your family, she really looks good, uncle, I am optimistic, let's make a price." ”

I glared at the man and said, "This benevolent brother, you dare to rob people in broad daylight, is there no royal law in your eyes, this is at the feet of the Son of Heaven." ”

The man laughed and said, "Brother, who is the king for, these little people are about the same, do you know who I am, uncle?" Tell you don't be afraid, the emperor is my brother-in-law, my sister is the most favored Qin Guifei in front of the emperor, and I am the uncle of the country today, and I can't afford it. I'm afraid, haha, send me the little girl, and I'll give you five taels of silver. ”

I saw this person's arrogant appearance, and I had already saved the heart to teach him a lesson, but my arm was injured, so I quietly asked Lao Liu next to me: "How is Lao Liu's kung fu, can these people clean it up?" ”

Lao Liu said softly: "Young master, what do you want them to do, they are alive or dead, I will cut them for you wherever you want." ”

I know that my cheap father's subordinates are not mediocre people, but I didn't expect an old Liu who was a janitor to not put five or six big men on the other side in his eyes, I said: "The one who deceived people under the banner of Uncle Guo, give me a broken appearance, those few dog legs, just break the dog legs." ”

When the uncle of that country saw that Lao Liu and I were talking and ignored him, he was already angry and shouted: "Little ones, rob me of someone to go home." ”

Those dogs, seeing their master's words, and relying on the strength of the crowd, rushed to us together,