It was a famine year, and the shops on both sides of the streets of Yanchuan County were in a recession, and the city and outside the city were full of unkempt and unkempt victims. In these years, there is no surplus food in every family, and many poor people in the city are starving to death. These victims are nothing more than going up the mountain to eat bark and grass, chatting to earn their lives, and there are very few lucky people who can find one or two jobs in large households, and earn two handfuls of brown rice every day, which is already blessed by the Emperor Bodhisattva! These days, when will the government not pull a few carts out of the city and starve?

Ansai in the west heard that there is food, but the road is difficult, there are still thieves in the middle, and all the way to the drought, the scorching sun is exposed, there are no people for hundreds of miles, nine out of ten are going to send their lives on the road, the east is close to Shilou County in Shanxi, where the year is slightly better than Shaanxi, but the local government has built a customs card to strictly prevent Shaanxi disaster victims from entering the country, and the posture is not worse than the prevention of thieves, and it is not possible to go. The disaster situation in the two counties of Qingjian Yanchang, one south and one north, is only heavier than that of Yanchuan, and when I look around, there is no place to go!

In this year, it is already a creation to be able to live to this day, and one day it will be a hundred to fall to the side of the road, and when you are reincarnated in the next life, you must keep your eyes open, and you will not be reincarnated in the realm of this back! The victims have long since become numb to their situation.

The city is depressed, but there is one place that is more lively than in the past, and that is the mule and horse market in the west of the city. In this catastrophic year, no one has anything to eat, and where can they afford mules and horses, and this mule and horse market is not worthy of its name. But although the mule and horse sellers are no longer here, there is still a lively scene here. What seems quite discordant to this lively scene is the rows of people kneeling on the ground on the side of the road, men and women, old and young, without exception, all of them have a thatch stuck in the back of their necks, which is selling themselves. Someone passed by, and the voices of pleading came and went: "The master bought it and I go, I eat less and dry more, only 5 liters of millet." "I don't want anything, just give me a bite to eat, and I'm willing to be a slave to the master for life." "Master, look at my daughter, she is already thirteen, look at this fine teeth, this flesh and skin, as long as you have 1 bucket of millet!"

Most of the people who came and went to look at them were from the south, and the shouts of the victims did not arouse the slightest pity in them, and they searched for what they thought was valuable with a critical eye. The more famine the year, the more prosperous the business of these people's teeth, and the high-ranking families in Henan, Huguang and even all over the south of the Yangtze River have a large need for maids and slaves, and they can really make a lot of money by taking advantage of the disaster here. There were also some people who were housekeepers sent by the families of high-ranking officials and nobles, and they went directly to the disaster area to buy slaves and maids. Such people can see at a glance that the dress is much more ornate than that of human teeth, and unlike human teeth, which are only young and strong, some of them are willing to accept the whole family being sold into slavery, and they think that such servants are more loyal. Such buyers are the most popular among the victims, so their presence has also caused even more noise from the victims.

From time to time in this market, you can see tragicomedy such scenes happening: a half-grown girl is crying and being taken away by her teeth, and she can't help but look back, and her parents take the little grain they have sold her, and her younger siblings take her and wave to her wordlessly. At least the family can survive for the time being, which is enough to attract the envy of the surrounding victims. As for what the fate of the waiting girl is, whether she will be reduced to a prostitute or be lucky enough to become a servant girl of a large family, it is not known, but one thing is certain, it is better than starving to death!

In addition to the victims who sold themselves, there are several high platforms in the center of the market, on which rows of men, women and children stand, and below which are crowded with buyers and spectators. On each stage, there was a local Yazi who was pitching loudly, trying to introduce their merits and prices to the crowd. Generally speaking, there are no old people on it, most of them are young men and women, and there are some children, whose clothes are barely covered, and their faces have been wiped, and they are better than those who sell themselves, and of course, the price is higher. Most of these people sell themselves to human teeth as soon as they eat a bite, and it doesn't seem that this choice is much worse anyway. And it is also risky for human teeth to feed them, and if they can't sell it, they will lose money, and now food is silver!

Now the auction on the stage is a family, the man is about 25 or 6 years old, medium height, at first glance it is the kind of honest dealer, the woman is about 22 or 3 years old, but the appearance is neat, the height is taller than the man, behind him are two men, a woman and three children, the younger is only 2 or 3 years old, the older is only 4 or 5 years old, all of them are not yet the age of the general horn, cowering behind their parents and not daring to look at people. I saw that the human teeth showed a pair of yellow teeth, and he said foamingly: "This family of five only needs 20 taels of silver!" 20 taels, everyone, a cow costs 50 taels, and 20 taels buy 5 big live people! If it weren't for this catastrophe, it would have cost 80 taels! One of the people below snorted and said: "A cow always has one or two hundred catties of meat, and this family of five is five mouths for eating!" There are still three oil bottles that can't do work and can only waste food, why are they worth 20 taels? 20 taels of good buy seven or eight buckets of millet, now a yellow flower girl is only worth one or two buckets of millet, like this child on the side of the road is to stutter with you! When the people looked at it, the man who spoke had a face of a tuan, rosacea, a square scarf on his head, and a long robe, as if he were a butler. The man's old face flushed, and he hurriedly said: "The price over there is cheap, but the origin is unknown, and you don't understand half of the rules, so you dare to use it?" I'm different, my hometown is local, I know the roots, and the official Huang is there! In case you run away halfway, you can still come to me for this seller's bad luck, who do you go to if the one over there runs away? ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and he was also a reason. I saw the middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper and said, "Since you say so, that's it." It's just that my master said, don't want this big family, just this woman, how much is the price? The men and women on the stage were shocked when they heard this, and when they looked over, they saw that there was a young man in his 20s next to the person, wearing a round-necked silk shirt, and looking like a rich young master. There were also a few slanted eyebrows and drooping helpers standing on the side, and it seemed that they were all the way with these two people. When the man saw the appearance of the person, he was obviously either rich or expensive, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, and said with a smile: "The old customer said that he was joking, where is there any reason to disassemble a family and sell it?" This ordinary person buys a servant, and he is always happy that the whole family buys it, and the family has a way to live, and he is the most grateful and loyal to the master's family, isn't it? Besides, if you buy this woman, it's not easy for me to leave a man with three children. I only heard what the young man who looked like the young master said to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man said: "In this case, I will give you 20 taels to buy this family, and we will take this woman away, and the man and child will be given to you for nothing." In what he said, he actually took a fancy to the woman, and thought that the man and the child were in the way. When the man heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and then said, "25 taels, since you have done such a lack of virtue, you must give more money for sesame oil to atone for your sins." The young master nodded without hearing the sarcasm in his words. The middle-aged man took off his blanket and reached for the money.

The man in the family on the stage fell to his knees with a pop, kept kowtowing to the people's teeth, and touched the hard mud on the countertop, and said continuously: "Boss Huang, you promised us not to break up our family of five." The woman was so ashamed that she fell to her knees, took the child into her arms, bowed her head and sobbed. When the three children saw their parents like this, they all cried and cried. The man said with a straight face: "If you sign the deed of sale, you are a slave, and you are sold by your master, and you don't understand the rules of this idea!" This son takes a fancy to your mother-in-law, that is her blessing, she has to eat and drink spicy food, wear gold and silver, maybe come to pick up your father in the future to enjoy the happiness together! The second half of the sentence is a coaxing at first sound, but the first half of the sentence is irrefutable. Breaking up flesh and blood, ordinary people will not do it, because it is too immoral, but according to the law, that person has the right to do so, in fact, because of profits, there are many human tragedies that are separated from wives and wives are happening every day, and this is just one of them. The spectators were quite unbearable, and they all pointed and pointed, but the boy just turned a deaf ear.

I saw that the butler took out the silver and was about to settle with the man, and a gang of idlers jumped on the stage to pull the woman's arm, and actually wanted to forcibly take her off the stage, and all the gangsters laughed jokingly. At this time, a loud voice sounded: "Slow! I'm out 50 taels! ”

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