To what extent do people have to be so depressed that they are willing to sell their flesh and blood, not to mention that now is not the year of famine, this man's behavior is a bit incredible.

"Is he your own father?" asked the boy.

The child wiped his nose with his sleeve and said weakly, "Yes." ”

"Where's your mother?" asked Niu again.

"Dead. "This time the child's voice is quieter.

Ah Niu looked at the man, and then at the long sword in his arms. Questioned:

"Why do you want to sell your children? Why don't you sell yourself?"

The man didn't raise his head and said: "It's the same for whoever sells, anyway, it's just our grandfather's life." ”

Ziwei stepped forward and asked, "How much are you going to sell this kid?"

Hearing someone ask for the price, the man raised his head, looked at Ziwei with a pair of sharp eyes, and said:

"If the prince is willing to take him, thirty taels of silver cannot be less. He can hold the horse and carry the bookcase. ”

Ziwei pointed to the long sword in his arms and asked:

"How much are you going to sell this long sword?"

When the man heard Ziwei ask about the price of the long sword, he hurriedly tightened the sword tightly, and said in a firm tone:

"This daughter is not for sale!"

Rather sell children than long swords, Feng'er suspects that she has met a madman. Just as he was about to ask a question, Ziwei opened his mouth in advance.

"This old brother is a little strange to speak, since you have valuable things to sell, why do you sell children instead of swords?"

The man said leisurely: "Look at Gongzi is also a scholar, there is an old saying that you must also know: a strong man starves to death and does not sell swords, and a talented man dies poor and does not sell books." I think that I am a dignified Uncle Li Bu, chivalrous and courageous, and I should be regarded as a hero, how can I lose my ambition because I am slumped for a while?

Ah Niu said: "My brother is good, there is a kind! The sword cannot be sold, which old saying says that a child can be sold? There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest." You sold your son, who will continue your family's incense?

The man was speechless for a while, and said for a long time:

"Little flower, you go and beg for your food, what do you care what I sell? ”

"I'll just ask you why you're selling your children?" said Ah Niu.

"I eat. ”

"What are you going to do after eating?"

"Be chivalrous. ”

"What are you doing after you're done?"

"I still eat. ”

"What do you sell after you've eaten the money from selling your child?"

“ ...... Just don't sell swords. ”

Feng'er thought to herself: Dare to stubbornly stick to his beliefs, and he is not a man, but this way is too extreme, giving people the feeling of hitting the south wall headlong.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, collect taxes!"

Several people were preaching around the man, and suddenly an old man about sixty years old was squeezed over, with a cloth bag on his arm.

"What kind of tax is collected?" asked Ah Niu curiously.

"Market tax, stall tax, land tax, sanitation tax, management tax......" The old man was breathless, and the tax items were gushing.

Ah Niu said angrily: "He is so poor that he sells his children, where can he have the money to pay taxes for you?"

The old man squinted at Ah Niu and said:

"I don't care what he sells, as long as it's on the land in Qing'an Town, he has to pay taxes for me. ”

Feng'er said: "The old man took pity on him once, and he didn't have any money for you." ”

The old man said in a resolute tone: "No! Whether he sells it or not, he has to pay taxes for me! Even if he collects the stall and leaves now, he will have to pay the mobile tax." If you don't have any money, don't you have a sword in your arms? ”

The man regarded the sword as his life, and was desperate, and would rather sell his children than the sword. Now I heard that the old man asked him to use a sword to block the tax on selling children, and I couldn't help but be angry. Then he put his right hand on the hilt of his sword, and cried out:

"Leave one step leeway in doing things, don't deceive people too much! My Uncle Li Bu has been chivalrous and righteous all his life, and it is the vicious person who kills, don't provoke me, otherwise you will be splashed with blood on the spot!"

The old man was startled, then changed his evil face and said:

Since I was three years old, Tian San has followed my grandfather to collect taxes in this market, which is my family's. As long as I go to the head of the market, you go and inquire about how much it costs, do you dare to bargain? Uncle Li, right? Dare to blow my beard and stare at me, I'm afraid I'll be impatient! As long as I stomp my feet, you don't even know how you died! If you want to compete with me, if you can't clean up your words, I'll write Tian San's name upside down!"

Ah Niu doesn't know much about writing, and Tian San can still write two words. In my heart, I compare and compare, and there is no difference between the two words written forward and backwards.

Uncle Li Bu shouted: "You are really doing death!"

"Poof" drew his long sword. I saw a flash of light, and the long sword in Uncle Li Bu's hand was cold and aggressive.

"Good sword!" shouted Feng'er.

Ziwei knew that he had encountered a scoundrel in the market, and if he continued to make trouble like this, he was afraid that the man would suffer. Hurriedly ran over and pressed the man's hand holding the long sword, and said:

"Brother Li, if you have something to say, you can't hurt the harmony. ”

Uncle Li Bu said angrily: "What is there to say to him?

Ziwei turned back to the old man and said, "Old man, do you see how much tax this big brother needs to pay? I'll give it to you for him." ”

When the old man saw that someone had come out to persuade him, he became bold and said loudly:

"Childe, don't care, I see how he cut off my head! The matter of twenty copper coins is now not possible without two taels of silver! I don't believe that the boat can be capsized in the gutter. ”

"What? Two taels of silver? This is too ridiculous, isn't it?" Ah Niu shouted.

There are more and more onlookers, and the old man is bold and arrogant.

"Slander, I'll tell you, if you don't nod from me in Qing'an Town, you won't even be able to eat dog food!

"Old bastard, you are looking for death!"

Ah Niu was so angry that he screamed, reached out to grab the long sword in the man's hand, and wanted to stab this old scoundrel who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Feng'er's eyes were quick, she reached out and grabbed Ah Niu, and glared at him fiercely, Ah Niu lowered her head angrily.

Feng'er gave Ziwei a look, Ziwei immediately understood, stretched out his hand and grabbed the old man and said:

"Old man, take a step to speak. ”

The old man said viciously: "I won't go! I won't look at whose world Qing'an is, let me play horizontally, I will let you go around without eating!"

Ziwei dragged hard and pulled the old man out of the scene for more than ten steps.

"Old man, they are all reckless people, you have a lot of adults, don't be like them. Here I will give your old man a gift, this is two taels of silver, you take it, the right to give me a thin face. ”

The old man saw that Zizi was in his way, and said with a straight face:

"Childe, don't care, none of them can run! Just now it was two taels of silver, and the little flower child stretched out one leg again, and I won't let them live without five taels of silver!"

Ziwei seemed to have really met a scoundrel, and he didn't want to give him more words, so he broke his fortune and avoided disasters, and found out three taels of silver, and paid some good words, so the old man scolded and left.

When Ziwei came back, Ah Niu asked:

"How many taels of silver did you give him? This is an old dog who has died!"

Ziwei didn't answer, and went straight to Uncle Li Bu and said:

"Brother Li, I bought this child, let's go to your house to talk. ”

Uncle Li Bu pressed the long sword in his hand, sighed and said:

"I think that my Uncle Li Bu has been fighting violence and peace all his life, but in the end he will still be bullied by wicked people, and he will not be able to kill the bad guys!

Feng'er said: "Brother Li, let's go, this is not the place to speak." ”

Uncle Li Bu stood up very reluctantly and led his son out of the crowd, followed by Feng'er.