Lin Gui looked at the woman whose tears kept falling, and sighed: "This old woman is from Liujia Village, the family has run out of food, the water in their village has been stopped, the family has a large population, and her man is not a trouble-free, if this continues, the family can only starve to death, so sell the youngest girl to the human tooth......"

Hearing this, Jiang Yan suddenly remembered that when she got on the ox cart, there was a sound of children crying in the carriage, but the sound was too small for her to notice, but when she saw the carriage for the first time, she couldn't help but look at it twice.

Now that I think about it, it should be a carriage with human teeth, and most of the people sitting on it are sold children.

Jiang Yan bit her lip and looked at the heartbreaking woman who was crying, her mood was extremely complicated.

Thinking of a few sensible and filial children, she thought that if she really reached this situation, even if she starved to death, she would never sell the child she gave birth to in October.

She looked at the woman, some people had the idea of selling their babies, in fact, it was not necessarily to the point of starvation, but once they had this idea, the bottom line would slowly drop again and again.

Jiang Yan didn't know the actual situation, but if it really came to the point of starvation, maybe if the child was sold, the child would be somewhere else, and maybe there would be something to eat, after all, in this era, human trafficking is legal.

When the ox cart came to a fork in the road, the weeping old woman got out of the car with great difficulty.

Jiang Yan retracted her gaze and patted Lin Bei, who had been holding him tightly, with a heavy heart.

"Mother, will you sell us too? That's why it's so good for us to eat? ”

Lin Bei looked at Jiang Yan in horror, at first he thought that his mother gave them three meals a day was so good, he definitely didn't want to live or didn't want them, but now his mother took them to set up a stall to do business, and cut meat for them to eat......

Jiang Yan's backhand was a brain melon, pinching his out-of-appearance little face and saying, "What does this little brain melon think day by day?" You think you're piglets? Do you have to eat the fat ones and sell them for a good price? ”

"Don't worry! I'm still counting on you to provide for me, and I won't sell you! ”

Jiang Yan comforted Lin Bei, but her mood became heavier and heavier, the drought continued to worsen, and there would only be more and more people selling children.

The path of Liujia Village was about half an hour away from Linjia Village, and after turning a corner, the familiar mountain appeared in front of several people.

At this time, the sky was just right, the scorching sun shrouded the entire Linjia Village, and the rice was shrunk in the field, revealing a different kind of beauty.

"Aunt Jiang, it seems that you are doing a good job in this business, you take an ox cart back and forth to the town, and you have bought a lot of things."

"It's like, it's a new jar, it's really beautiful."

The women chatting in the shade under the big tree at the entrance of the village saw the mother and son of the Lin family getting off the ox cart at a glance, and they all knew that she went to the town to do business.

Jiang Yan was glad in her heart, fortunately, she used the leaves to block some of the back baskets, so that they would not be able to see all the contents of the basket, and a few salt jars saw it.

She motioned for her sons to go back first, and responded to a few women: "It's just that I have made some food, but fortunately I have done less, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to sell it, and I finally earned a few copper plates, so I am reluctant to let a few children walk back with those many things on their backs." ”

"The price of food in the town is rising now, and my family doesn't dare to buy anything, it's expensive!"

"That's it, Aunt Jiang, what did you buy?"

Jiang Yan smiled and said: "It's nothing, I bought some soba noodles and less than half a catty of fatty pork, the family hasn't eaten meat for more than a year, I want to buy some fatty meat to squeeze some oil, and get some oil residue for a few children to taste meat." ”

Several women nodded one after another, although they were all saying that Jiang Yan had earned money and could afford meat, but they would not be too envious, the fat itself was for oil refining, and for them, it was not real meat.

"The price of this fat meat has also risen now, I'm afraid it will cost eighteen or nineteen wen a catty."

"That's it, Aunt Jiang, how much money did you make?"

Most women are naturally gossipy, especially this kind of village woman, who is more broken than the other.

Jiang Yan learned from the original body and said angrily: "The price of meat is 20 Wen, and the amount of money my mother makes is not enough to eat meat, if it weren't for the lack of oil in the pot at home, it would be better to buy more buckwheat noodles." ”

The women looked at Jiang Yan with hot eyes, only to feel that this Aunt Jiang was very different from before, and seeing that she was not angry, she asked again: "Aunt Jiang, what are you selling?" ”

Jiang Yan said: "Cold tofu, cold tofu made of wild vegetables, the cost is not high, but it is very troublesome to make, it is steamed and boiled, and sugar and oil are also put in oil, sugar and oil are expensive, and now the price has risen, and I am busy working, and I don't know if I can make money." ”

Jiang Yan naturally knew what these people were thinking, she just wanted to know how she did it, so she just said it was more complicated.

Sure enough, as soon as they heard this, the faces of the women present were complicated, and when they heard about the sugar and oil, most of their curiosity went away, if it was sold, it would be fine, but if it could not be sold, the sugar and oil would be lost.

Now they don't get to the bottom of it, no matter what it is, it's sugar and oil, and the taste will definitely not be bad!

"Hey, I still owe the copper plate of the sugar shop, so I hope that I can sell a few more copies tomorrow, and I will pay off the money first......"

The more they listened, the paler their faces became, Jiang Yan smiled in her heart, and was about to go home to cook and eat, but as soon as she turned her head, she saw Lin Bei stumbling over.

"Mother! Little Five is gone! Little Five is gone! Woowoo...... It's all my fault! I shouldn't ...... And he was separated! ”

The twelve-year-old child's thin eyes were convex and sunken, and he shouted with a panicked face, and his hoarse cry came into Jiang Yan's ears from far away.

Jiang Yan's heart beat wildly: "What happened?" ”

Lin Bei knelt down in front of Jiang Yan, tears fell big and big, tears and snot were slugging, and his thin figure looked very miserable, Jiang Yan subconsciously hugged his body.

"The sister-in-law said that Xiao Wu is missing, and they haven't found it since they found it in the morning! Xiao Wu is afraid of life, he never talks to others, he has been brought up by me since he was a child, and he has always been inseparable from me for half a step, it is not good for me to ...... Whining... I shouldn't have left him alone at home... I shouldn't have gone to town with my mother......"

Jiang Yan hurriedly said: "Have you looked for it in the village?" Have you found a lot of places that Xiao Wu usually goes? ”

"I've looked for them all... I've found it too, mother... What to do? What should I do? If I lose it, I'll ......."

Jiang Yan hurriedly comforted Lin Bei, this child always looks like a little adult on weekdays, but in the end, he is a child, he will cry hoarsely, trembling all over, out of breath, his relationship with Lin Feng is more cordial than that of several other brothers, if Lin Feng really loses it, this child is afraid that he will cry to death.