In the quiet room, there was a sudden sound of coquettish cheers, Gu Changning followed the sound and found that the person who spoke was indeed the girl who kicked the wooden bowl over yesterday.

Hearing the content of her words at this moment, the corners of Gu Changning's mouth twitched, and he didn't know what to say.

A big heart is also a kind of ability.

There was silence all around, perhaps because she couldn't wait for the nurse's response, and the little girl also felt that something was wrong.

She opened her eyes in a daze, her expression was dull for a few breaths, and then she realized what was happening, and her eyes suddenly widened, and the person immediately woke up.

After waking up, there was silence, and a person sat there silent.

There was no one around who responded to her.

The people who were ridiculed by her last night would not pay attention to her at all, the people who sat on the same side as her were not familiar with her, and Gu Changning, who stayed in the third place, had no good impression of her performance last night, so everyone was ignoring her.

The room was quiet for a while.

The sound of silence in the courtyard came in unmistakably.

"Is the kid still strong?"

"But no, it's been seven or eight days since I was caught, give him water to drink, and give him food, but I don't say a word, if you want to move him, he will also make you look like a fish is dead and the net is broken, look at that posture, it's almost like a wolf cub, how like a five or six-year-old child."

The person who spoke "tsk" twice, and then the exchange gradually faded away, and after a while, there was no movement.

Wolf cubs? A five- or six-year-old child? Who are they talking about, is there more than this place in this courtyard where people are kept?

Gu Changning rolled his eyes and looked thoughtful.

In the house she is in now, counting her and Lin Junze, there are a total of thirteen children.

There were four richly dressed children, and the remaining seven were all coarse linen, some of whom had been washed off the colour.

With so many children, I thought that this was all that had been arrested, but I didn't expect that there were other people in other parts of the yard, how many people did they arrest?

The more Gu Changning thought about it, the more he felt that the water in it was unfathomable.

Ordinary flower shooters, dare to catch so many children at once?

"What are you thinking?" Lin Jun saw that she didn't know what she was thinking with a wrinkled face, and asked in a low voice.

"I'm wondering how many people they've arrested and where they're going to sell them." Gu Changning pressed his chin and whispered back to him.

Lin Jun was silent after hearing this.

He'd been thinking about it last night, too.

The captured people were traded as slaves without a certificate of household registration, because they could only be traded privately without going through the hands of the government.

For slaves without a certificate of household registration, the buyer will definitely know that the slave is from an improper origin when he buys it.

Then the problem arises, most of the laws of this dynasty follow the previous dynasty, and there is a clear provision that the buyer who decides to buy a slave knowing that he has been abducted is regarded as a thief and is punished with capital punishment.

Of course, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and he naturally knows that it is impossible for all Ya Pozi to act according to the regulations, and he will accept one or two abducted and trafficked people in private, which cannot be prohibited by the imperial court decree.

But there are not many children like this, and I am afraid that the people behind are not ordinary.

As soon as Lin Jun had such a thought in his mind, the wooden door was pushed open.

The morning light reflects through the courtyard through the wooden door into the dark room, bringing a bit of bright light.

Everyone turned their faces to look in the direction of the wooden door.

It was the person who guarded the courtyard who came to deliver the morning food to them, and the person in charge of delivering the food had already changed, not the same person last night.

When they saw the food delivery man carrying a basket in his hand, everyone's eyes lit up.

Because they were only given about six or seven percent of the food at each meal, they were hungry very quickly, and when they slept, they felt hungry and desperate for something to eat.

At this time, when someone brought the morning food, everyone sat quietly, waiting for it to be distributed.

Also waiting for the little girl who disliked last night's meal was pig food.

She was caught by someone yesterday morning, and she has not eaten for a whole day now, and her stomach is almost empty, and she is very uncomfortable.

At this moment, she rubbed her stomach to relieve the discomfort, and she was not so resistant to the food that was delivered, and waited for the guards to distribute the food.

However, when she saw that the person delivering the food jumped over her and handed the steamed buns in the basket to the next person, she was immediately shocked and angry: "What about mine? ”

"Yours? What's yours? The food we eat here is used to feed the pigs, which is not suitable for you to be a golden and noble lady. The man listened to Wang Erma's words, and there was a smiling expression on his face, and he said in a very yin and yang manner.

"You!" Ren Xuanyi glared angrily at the person in front of her, and her angry eyes were red.

The man snorted coldly, ignored her, continued to divide the steamed buns in the basket, and then went straight out of the house.

Ren Xuanyi sat in place, biting her lower lip, looking at the people around her with an annoyed and aggrieved expression, and her eyes kept looking at the steamed buns in their hands.

When Ren Xuanyi's eyes fell on the steamed buns in her hand, they all turned their faces away from her, bowing their heads and eating their own morning food.

Ren Xuanyi swallowed her saliva and moved her gaze to the person who was sitting on the same side as her.

These people also sped up eating, and they looked very afraid that they would be snatched by her.

Ren Xuanyi glared at them with annoyance and hatred, grievances and resentment spread in her heart, but she couldn't do anything.

When she was at home, how could she have suffered this kind of wretchedness!

She is from the main room, she is the eldest lady, what good things are in the family, not to follow her first, only her sisters will have this cold treatment, look at her face to beg for life.

Now that she has changed to experience it, she only feels that these people are very annoying, and she can't wait for them to be taken away and sold by those people outside immediately!

Gu Changning was pinching the steamed buns he had received at this time, and was tearing and eating them one by one.

Suddenly felt a faint gaze on her side, the gaze was pressing, she subconsciously looked back, and just met Ren Xuanyi's hungry green eyes.

"You! Give me the steamed buns in your hand! Ren Xuanyi said to her proudly.

She looked around, only this girl was the most elegant, and she looked the most soft and glutinous, so she started her idea.

When Gu Changning heard her words, he was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyelids and snorted at her, "Why do you think I will listen to you?" ”

"You give me the steamed buns in your hand, and when we go out, I can ask my mother to give you five taels of silver as a reward!" Ren Xuanyi knew that she would definitely not be able to rob hard, so she started to lure her.

Her family runs a jewelry store, and some of them have money, and five taels of silver may not be enough to make her a hairpin, but for these people who are poor in her eyes, it is enough for the family to eat for a year.

It's as easy as passing the street to call Hanako, and kneel and kowtow excitedly to one or two copper plates.

After Ren Xuanyi said this, the older child sitting on the other side had stopped chewing, and looked at her with disbelief in his eyes, as if he suspected that he had misheard.

That's five taels of silver!

The younger children didn't understand what five taels of silver meant, and were still eating their food with their heads down.

But the older children, who had already started to help with the family, knew very well what they could do with the five taels of silver.

Five taels of silver can buy an acre of dry land, more than 100 chickens, 1,000 catties of brown rice, and even 5,000 steamed buns!

In an instant, the eyes of these children straightened, and they looked at the steamed buns in their hands from time to time, and then glanced at Ren Xuanyi, and their hearts were about to move.

"Heh, five taels of silver?" Gu Changning smiled coldly at her and sneered, "I don't know if we can go out now, the five taels of silver you promised are not as practical as a steamed bun in my opinion." ”

As soon as she said this, the children, who were still a little brain-hot, also calmed down, and it was right to think about it.

"Besides, your family is so rich, why don't you tell them to go to your house to report the news and exchange you for silver?" Gu Changning said again, "Because you yourself know that you have seen their faces, they will not let you leave here alive, so maintaining your physical strength is the most important thing." ”

Only if you have enough physical strength to support your movements, you can still escape here if you find an opportunity.

According to Gu Changning's conjecture, the place where they were most likely to be locked up was not in the city, but in the mountains and forests.

After all, there are many people in the city, and these little sellers are afraid of exposing their feet, and if the East Window incident happens, it will be difficult for them to escape if they stay in the city.

Only these vast mountains and forests are the most suitable for hiding and escaping.

So as long as you can find a chance to leave this courtyard, there is always a place to hide from this group of people in the mountains and dense forests outside.

And Gu Changning didn't believe that they would risk being discovered and search in the mountains.

I'm afraid that when they know that someone has escaped, they will immediately want to leave here, because it is no longer safe.

Ren Xuanyi saw that she said it so bluntly, her face was full of resentment, and she endured the hunger in her stomach and glared at her angrily.

She also just figured out the key to this, she is different from those poor people who can't even afford to eat meat, since she was a child, her family has invited her husband to teach her to read and write, plus her brain is much more flexible than others, and her reaction is naturally smarter than these people.

She did have the idea of tempting them to give her food with silver first.

Anyway, there are so many people, she can always keep herself from going hungry by exchanging one at a time.

However, now that Gu Changning was exposed like this, everyone's faces changed, and they were more careful to guard their food, she didn't know how long the people outside would starve her, and she was even more annoyed with Gu Changning in her heart.

Just when the atmosphere froze, Ren Xuanyi's stomach suddenly "gurgled", and it was very loud in this space equivalent to a confined space, and everyone's eyes were instantly on her.

Ren Xuanyi blushed with shame, the feeling of hunger and the shame of shame made her want to burrow into the ground now.