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In March, there were two light rains in the tobacco wind.

Due to the unusual weather last year, many places were affected. Although the imperial court had sent people to various places to provide disaster relief, many displaced people still flocked to the capital with their children and daughters.

These people came in groups of three or five, with shabby clothes and vegetables, and they had come all the way to beg.

I thought that the Son of Heaven was rich in products at his feet, and there would always be a bite to eat.

In response to these hungry people who came to the city, many rich and powerful families set up porridge tents outside the city to do good deeds.

But for more and more residents, it's just a drop in the bucket.

These hungry people had no choice but to sell their sons and daughters.

In order for children to have a way to live, but also to solve the current urgency.

For many large families, the famine year is good for them. Not to mention the price of the grain in Tun, you can buy a large number of slaves and maids at a very low price, and you can change hands when you raise a little bigger.

It's just that they are very picky when they choose, and don't want those who are too thin, physically disabled, or bad-looking.

Therefore, on the streets of the capital, you will always see adults in ragged clothes kneeling down and praying to the buyer to ask the other party to buy their children, and the price is not as expensive as a basket of steamed buns.

Zhong Ye walked down the street, and when he saw the situation in front of him, he really felt indescribable grief and indignation in his heart.

"This official, please do well, buy this child of mine." A thin woman like a bamboo pole knelt down in front of Zhong Ye's horse: "He is eight years old, he can do any work, and he eats little. ”

The woman said that she hurriedly pulled the child over and pushed it forward to Zhong Ye, who was thin and small, and looked to be no more than five or six years old.

The boy saw that Zhong Yeren was tall and big, scared and shy, and lowered his face and refused to look up.

The woman hurriedly lifted the child's face up, and although her mouth was dry, she said in a hurry: "You see, he has had smallpox, and he will not do it again." ”

Those who buy it like to buy smallpox, which means another layer of insurance. lest you buy it back and cause smallpox to die, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Zhong Ye didn't want to buy it, and he couldn't buy it.

There are tens of thousands of residents in this capital, and they are still coming, how can he, an empty lord who doesn't even have a fortune and a fief, have the ability to ask about this?

At this moment a group of officers and soldiers came up, with clubs in their hands, shouting and shouting to drive away the hungry people, and told them to go outside the city and not enter the city.

Immediately behind, there were people also wearing official clothes, banging gongs and posting notices everywhere.

It turned out that the emperor was about to celebrate the Wanshou Festival, and these hungry people were in the way of the city, so they had to be expelled in advance.

Zhong Ye's ears rang with bitter cries and insults, wave after wave. The sunny and bright spring day turned into gloomy clouds and fog, as if the next moment it would be dark.

At this moment, several fast horses galloped in the distance, and the people on them were wearing eunuch uniforms, which should have come out of the palace.

"Get on the road! Get out of the way! Don't get in the way of the noble adults! Someone shouted.

"Zhonggui" is an honorific title for the eunuchs, and these incomplete people live in the palace and are closest to the royal family, so although the grade is not high, no one dares to offend.

Don't look at these eunuchs when they are in the palace, they are all cautious and servile. When they came out, they were more powerful than anyone else, and the horses were as fast as the wind, and they ran rampantly over them, regardless of whether there were pedestrians on the road.

The mother and son who had stopped in front of Zhong Yema were also expelled by the officers and soldiers at this moment.

The woman wept in despair, she was not yet thirty years old, but her hair was already gray.

The mother and son had not eaten a mouthful of food for three days, and if there was no way out, they would starve to death.

Zhong Ye glanced at them, and his heart was very unbearable.

Such a little pity was seized by the woman who had fallen into the abyss of despair.

She didn't know where she got the strength, so she ran over with the child in her arms again.

Ignoring the chasing and scolding of the officers and soldiers behind him, he knelt down in front of Zhong Yema with a thud, and pleaded bitterly: "Master! Living Bodhisattva! Take this child away! I don't want a single penny, I just ask you to give him a stutter to live! ”

At this time, the eunuchs on horseback also came to him, because several horses stood up in parallel to fill the road, although Zhong Ye and the woman had already leaned on the side of the road, but a eunuch still felt that this woman was in the way, so he raised his horsewhip and pulled it down fiercely, and scolded in his mouth: "Stinky food!" Don't you want to live when you're in the way! ”

At this time, the woman was too late to hide, but instinctively held the child in her arms, closed her eyes tightly and waited for the whip to be drawn.

How could Zhong Ye let people hurt people at will in front of him? After patting the horse on the head, the horse barked, raised its front hooves, and kicked at the horse that had beaten the eunuch, and at once knocked both men and horses over.

The eunuch fell from his horse, kowtowed, and bled out, and his teeth were broken.

Several people who traveled with him also stayed on the horse, and one of them recognized Zhong Ye and knew that he was a super brave man who had been punished and was a young man, who was poor, hard, and nosy.

"It turned out to be Grandpa Zhong, what a collision. The small ones went out of the palace by order, and they were in a hurry, so please forgive me. The eunuch quickly weighed it in his heart, although they looked down on Zhong Ye, but he had a title on his head, and if he stiffened, it would not look good to each other.

What's more, a few of them are tied together without Zhong Ye's fist, the hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and it is not too late for the gentleman to take revenge for ten years.

The injured eunuch was also helped up at this time, and looked at Zhong Ye with a bloody face, although he was unwilling, he didn't dare to attack.

"Whose will are you doing? Horses are not allowed to gallop on this street, this is the rule set by Emperor Taizu. Zhong Ye's voice was as thick as a bell, and there was a hint of anger, which sounded very frightening.

"Grandpa said that the little ones can't afford it, but we can't hide it, we are from Tianxi Palace. I came out to do things on the orders of the concubine Niangniang, and a few of us just stood in the front, but Father-in-law Ding was behind, and it was disrespectful to delay the matter of the concubine Niangniang! "When the eunuch saw that Zhong Ye moved out of Emperor Taizu to suppress them, he simply carried Xu Guifei out.

What about Emperor Taizu's hadith? You can't just invite Emperor Taizu out to call the shots for you.

"Father-in-law Ding?" Zhong Ye couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked, "Is it the chief eunuch in front of Xu Guifei?" ”

The eunuchs thought he was scared, so they said proudly and threateningly: "Exactly, because the things ordered by the mother are very important, so Gonggong Ding personally went out of the palace to do it." Grandpa, take your time! The little ones go first! ”