Chapter 169: Trampling on the Dead
The fog dark guard made a gesture, which was to tell the shopkeeper Zhao to protect the six princes, and this person was up to him to solve, but when he wanted to have a good fight, the dark guard on the opposite side suddenly fell to the ground.
Looking at the wound on his neck, and the guy who fell to the ground, the misty guard glanced in the direction of Fu Bao, and he didn't see how Fu Bao made a move.
The carriage finally stopped, and the shopkeeper Zhao hugged the six princes to go back to the carriage, but the six princes refused, he first wanted to take a look at Fubao, only if Fubao was safe, he could feel at ease.
Fu Bao stood behind his father and mother, his hands were close to the backs of the two, and in an instant, Fugui and Fugui's sister-in-law felt that their backs were warm, and the pain just now slowly subsided, and their spirits were better.
"Daddy, mother, how are you feeling now?" Fu Bao asked.
Fugui's sister-in-law didn't answer, but turned around, took Fu Bao's hands, and looked up and down, Ma went crazy just now, Fu Bao must not be hurt.
Fugui also settled his mind, moved his hands and feet, and found that he was completely fine, so he grinned, as long as his daughter and daughter-in-law were safe and sound, but it was a pity that the carriage was lost.
"Fugui, your horse trampled on my daughter, what do you say, my daughter, why are you so miserable......" A burst of crying came, making Fu Bao feel his scalp tingle.
Fugui looked at it, it turned out to be the daughter-in-law of Xiang Er, originally Xiang Lao Er was far away from their convoy, but because Xiang Lao Er wanted to sell the four daughters to the Xiang family, he came to them.
They came out of Xiangzhang Village, stopped and stopped, and stayed in Fucheng for a few days, it was almost a month, because of the wild rice, most of the villagers brought out a lot of food, but the water was basically running out.
So every time I go to a place, the first time is to look for water, but basically I am disappointed, but fortunately, there is still a margin at the old man's house, and I can give everyone a little bit more or less.
The water of Xiang Er's family is about to run out, looking at the four girls, Xiang Lao Er's eyes are calculating, he already has a son, and these four money-losing goods can be sold.
Especially the eldest girl and the second daughter, one is thirteen years old, and the other is eleven years old, and they can get at least eight taels of silver for selling to big families as maids, and two are sixteen taels.
But now there is a famine everywhere, and everyone has to calculate even to drink saliva, where is he willing to spend money to buy a maid, only the shopkeeper of the cloth village looks like he has some silver, but he doesn't dare to provoke.
Only the Xiang family is left, don't look at the Xiang family's eating and drinking every day, but looking at the faces and demeanors of each of them, it is obvious that Ma Wuye grass is not fat.
He has already looked for Fugui, saying that Fu Bao is already old, a sister of a good man, how can there be no few maids around him, and his two daughters are just a few years older than Fu Bao, and they serve Fu Bao just right.
Fugui is indeed a little tempted, their family does not have to worry about eating and drinking, and there is a lot of silver, spending dozens of silver to buy two maids, on the one hand, you can accompany Fubao, on the other hand, you can also help Xiang Er.
But the old man Xiang was unwilling, even if he wanted to buy a maid, he also wanted to buy those fatherless and motherless orphans on the side of the road, and the villagers in his own village were all villagers, which was not suitable.
After Fugui refused, although Xiang Lao Er was unhappy, he didn't come again, and thought that the matter had been revealed, where did he think that the coincidental Xiang Lao Er came over with two little girls.
He thought that maybe Uncle Han Lin disliked the age of his two girls, but one of the two little girls was three years older than Fu Bao, and the other was the same age as Fu Bao, so it should be okay.
He couldn't get close to Old Man Xiang's carriage, because there were six princes and four princesses sitting in it, so he could only look for Fugui, and when he saw Fugui and Fugui's sister-in-law setting up the carriage, he was angry.
pulled up a girl and ran towards Fugui, but fortunately he walked in front of Fugui's carriage, deliberately blocking it, hoping that Fugui would stop the carriage when he saw him.
I thought that the dead horse suddenly neighed, and jumped up with its front feet, and pounced directly on the two of them, and Xiang Lao Er was so frightened that he jumped away from the side, but forgot the girl on the side.
Fugui jumped off the carriage with only one board and two wheels left, and walked to the back, and sure enough, a little girl was lying in a pool of blood, and her body was trampled by the horse.
The little girl who was trampled to death by the horse was the little daughter of Xiang Laoer, who was young and did not eat and drink enough, where did she have the strength to escape, and watched the horse pounce on herself and step on it again.
The eldest daughter, Coriander, was standing at a distance from the two people in the carriage with the second sister and the third sister in her arms, and saw the horse suddenly go crazy, and then her father jumped away quickly, completely ignoring the little sister who was still standing in front of the horse.
She knew that her father and mother didn't want to see them, especially after having a younger brother, their sense of existence was even weaker, and she was really happy to learn that her father was going to sell their sisters to Fubao as maids.
Fubao is the only girl in the Xiang family, spoiled by her grandmother and father, and protected by six brothers, she simply lives in a sugar pot, so that they can live a day, even if they can only live for one day, they are willing.
But the old grandfather of the Xiang family was unwilling, they were willing to buy the wild girls on the side of the road rather than their two sisters, and the father and mother were even more disgusted when they saw them, and they hadn't given them food and water for several days.
The third uncle and the third aunt still couldn't stand it, so they secretly gave their sisters a few two pieces of dough and a bowl of water, and finally saved their lives, but the fourth sister still couldn't escape a dead word.
"I don't know why my horse will suddenly go crazy, the four girls did die because of our horse, you say, as long as it's not too much, I'm willing to pay." Fugui is very guilty in his heart, and it is also a human life.
"Twenty taels of silver, ten catties of grain, no, twenty catties of grain, two jars of water." The second daughter-in-law rolled her eyes, and the lion opened her mouth.
As soon as the words fell, the side remembered the boo, now no one asks for a girl a tael of silver, and the second daughter-in-law of Xiang Lao actually offered twenty taels of silver, as well as food and water, which is obvious extortion.
Shopkeeper Zhao's anger rose, and he came to Xianglao's second daughter-in-law with an arrow step, pointed to the corpses of their four daughters and asked: "You are obviously over there, why did you come here, could it be that the horse of the rich family was shocked and you were the devil." ”
As soon as these words came out, many villagers looked at Xiang Lao Er and his daughter-in-law with suspicion, in their hearts, Xiang Fugui's character was much better than Xiang Lao Er.
He is not only the father of the old man, but also helps everyone find water sources and wild rice, and tries their best to help some extremely poor families on the way to escape the famine, never caring about gains and losses.
Xiang Laosan also looked at his second brother with unkind eyes, this second brother has a lot of careful eyes, and his heart is particularly narrow-minded, if he is said to have a grudge because Uncle Han Lin refused to buy his daughter, it is also possible.