75. Chapter 75 Transactions
The so-called hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and people are busy every day, of course, in order to obtain benefits. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info like going out to pick up lottery tickets and winning the lottery, jumping off a building to become the protagonist or helping the old lady to be sentenced, these are all accidental profits, which are encounterable but not sought.
Therefore, if the host in Ye Dai's mouth wants to make a profit, he can't expect a windfall from the sky. They must have a steady source of income. Ding Chen didn't think that those people on the highway could pay the intermediary fee, so the host industry could only have one source of income, and that was to sell people.
Sure enough, what happened later did not exceed Ding Chen's imagination. Or that there is nothing new happening under the sun.
Ding Chen held his rifle and watched a group of people come out of the refugees downstairs, standing in the open space in front of the building for Daddy, Su Ying and others to choose, and felt bored in his heart. turned his head to look at Ye Dai and found that her face was ugly.
Obviously, these people who are to be treated as commodities have been selected in advance. Ding Chen didn't know what the decision-making process was, but it wouldn't be very pleasant for these people. After all, active choice and passive acceptance are two different things from a sensory point of view, and Ding Chen is also worried about what will happen to those who are selected but no one wants them.
"Go get some rest." Ding Chen said: "I'm watching." ”
"No, you don't." Ye Dai said coldly: "I am the commander here." ”
Ding Chen shrugged his shoulders and said in his heart, "Are you a good friend?" Or do you just lose your temper at me? ”
Ye Dai probably also felt that Ding Chen had suffered an unwarranted disaster, so she paused for a moment before saying, "This is the first time I have seen so many refugees. ”
"Then how do you ......" Ding Chen asked casually, but in the middle of his words, he stopped, obviously aware of the possible adverse consequences of this question.
Ye Dai didn't get as angry as he imagined, just glanced at him and said lightly: "Because my mother was also bought." ”
She looked at the crowd downstairs and whispered, "Caravans will buy some men, but apartments usually only buy women." ”
"Because men are too unreliable?" Ding Chen asked.
"Yes." Ye Dai said: "These people all have families, women are more likely to settle down, men will run when they are full, and they are always prone to trouble." At this point, she paused and said, "Actually, women can run too, whenever possible." ”
"Ahh Ding Chen felt very embarrassed, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't think of what to say, or Ye Dai said: "That's right, my mother ran away not long after giving birth to me." ”
"You haven't looked for it?"
"Why are you looking for it?" Ye Dai turned her head, looked at him and asked, "Will you look for it?" ”
Ding Chen looked at her cautiously, "If you want, I will accompany you." ”
Ye Dai looked at him fixedly for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't like men who don't have opinions." ”
"Don't worry." Ding Chen immediately raised his hand and said, "I'm still very assertive in the general direction. ”
Ye Dai simply ignored him, raised the telescope he took from Ding Chen's hand and looked down, frowned and said, "Why are there so many people this time?" ”
"We'll find out soon." Ding Chen said: "But I think you still don't want to know." ”
The human trade did not last long, and the noise soon subsided. The people who were selected by Daddy and Su Ying stood in a pile, and more of the losers stood between the two groups of people in despair.
There were people crying in the three refugee groups, and some of the losers rushed out to beg Daddy and Su Ying to buy them, but they were quickly dragged away by the people called by the host. Many more silently accept the facts and wait for their own upcoming results.
Sure enough, just like Ye Dai said, whether it is Daddy or Su Ying, the people selected are mainly women and teenagers. Daddy doesn't pick many people, which is also in line with the actual situation here in the apartment, if there are too many, it will increase the food burden of the apartment.
On the contrary, Su Ying seems to have a lot of money, and she has picked a lot of people, obviously not bad for money.
However, it is obvious that there are no young men among the refugee goods, and there are very few young women, and if there are, they are frail and sickly.
What is more noticeable is that among the people selected by the father, there is a middle-aged man, looking at the woman and three children who are leaning on him, it should be a family of five.
Ye Dai looked at it with a telescope and said to Ding Chen with certainty: "That man must have some special skills, otherwise Dad wouldn't have left him." ”
Originally, Ding Chen thought that after the transaction was over, it should be a large amount of grain payment. But it is clear that he overestimated the value of the population in the last days. In fact, there is not much to pay for an apartment.
After the deal, both sides looked relieved, and the chosen ones were brought into the apartment building, and buckets of hot porridge were brought out of the apartment, picked up by the host's men, and then moved into the crowd, causing a commotion in the tired and numb crowd, with people beating and scolding with sticks to maintain order, but there were still occasional riots in the crowd over food.
Ding Chen looked at all this with his rifle in his arms, and asked Ye Dai, "Are they going to leave after eating?" ”
Ye Dai nodded, this period after eating is the most dangerous moment, whether the refugees are full or not, riots are likely to occur. However, usually the host will stop this kind of thing from happening in time, after all, he is eating this bowl of rice and can't smash the pot.
Despite this, both the apartments and the caravans were like enemies, and the selected people were brought into the building and held together, and they could not be released until their relatives left.
Watching the straw pockets being moved out of the building, Ding Chen asked, "What are these?" ”
"Grain." Ye Dai said coldly: "It should be mainly the old grain left from the past. They came too early. ”
The main food harvest of the apartment is corn and potatoes, and flour is not easy for them to carry and eat. Of course, from another point of view, Daddy uses the whole corn cob to deliver the goods, which saves the trouble of threshing.
Ding Chen didn't have anything to do, lying on the roof of the building watching the two sides handing over the food with great interest, and found that Dad had found an opportunity to hand over a small bag to the host. The host opened it and glanced at it, and quickly took it into his arms. He didn't know what was in the bag, but it was clear that this was the revenue part of the host, and it was clear that he was eating kickbacks. It's just that I don't know what the kickback Su Ying gave him was.
After lunch, some of the refugees began to move back on the road, but some stayed. There are a lot of men among them. This made Ye Dai nervous, but soon Dad sent someone to inform him that those people would go to work in the potato field today.
Ding Chen felt a little incomprehensible about this sudden decision, although the servants in the apartment were nervous, but they were not enough to finish it. And according to his understanding, the agricultural products harvested here are far from abundant enough to employ labor.
Ye Dai did not express an opinion on this, but it can be seen that she is not particularly supportive of this decision. In her opinion, this is the so-called conscience of the father again.
With this hint, Ding Chen easily guessed his father's thoughts, obviously he knew that there was a host, and those who really needed help couldn't get enough food, so he provided another channel, after all, this kind of thing of getting paid immediately after doing the work, it is difficult for the middleman to get his hands on it, and it can be regarded as giving these people a chance to eat their stomachs.
But Ye Dai scoffed at this, of course, people with assets are not as dangerous as people who have nothing, but watching most of their labor harvest be taken away by others, and they can only get a small part of it rewardingly, the gap is enough to make people take risks. So Daddy is asking for trouble. However, she did not stand up against it, because according to her, these people are at least willing to work in exchange for payment.