Volume 1 Chapter 16 Meet the Little Beggar Again

Li Tian kept an eye on it, the amount of a day will not be finished quickly, he is busy, and he is not busy anywhere, and the firewood will be chopped.

Sometimes, he can leave a little early, or go out shopping, or simply go back to the dormitory to play with the little girl.

After walking around like this, when the time is almost up, I will come to the restaurant for dinner, and finally go back to the dormitory. Every day is regular and pleasant.

Li Tian felt that his current lifestyle was very good.

When this person is busy, he longs for leisure, but when he is free, he feels idle. I want to do something.

Li Tian is like this, after he wandered around for two days, he lost the freshness he had when he first came, and he didn't go out on the street for a few days.

"Let's go to the north today, I've been here for so long, I haven't been to the north," Li Tian thought in his heart.

The location of Tianxiang Restaurant is not in the middle of the town, but it is not far from the middle.

There is a main gate in the east and west of the town, which is guarded by officers and soldiers. In the middle is a large road, and the location of the restaurant is on a south-facing branch of the main road.

Coincidentally, the location of the yamen of the town's government is not in the middle, but in the south of the town, and there is a mine of the government at the west gate of the town, so there are more officers and soldiers on duty and walking traders going to the west gate.

So, the whole town, south and west, is bustling.

The main road runs from east to west, and the east side of the town is not very prosperous, but it is not too bad next to the main road, and there is a small barracks, and there are about thirty city guards stationed there, who take turns guarding the east gate of the town.

Only in the north of the town, the area is not prosperous, and it is far from the government, and the poor, gangsters, beggars, and even some refugees from other lands are concentrated here, which is very chaotic.

In the north of the town, it is not uncommon to see a corpse lying on the side of the street the next morning after the night has passed.

The government is also very helpless here, and it is not easy to handle the case, and it may not be possible to find out the identity of the dead person after checking and checking.

After a long time, the government will turn a blind eye to this side, and as long as there is no large-scale fight, the government will not care.

If it had been placed in the past, Li Tian would not have wanted to go to a place like Zhenbei, after all, it was too dangerous over there.

Not long ago, before the mine was shaken, the government arrested many people from the north of the town to go to the mines.

Later, the government posted a notice to recruit workers, and many people in Zhenbei signed up to mine, and now Zhenbei, rarely, has entered a period of stability and quiet.

After hearing about the current situation, Li Tian also planned to go over there to have a look.

On this day, Li Tian finished chopping firewood early, and after eating the afternoon meal, he slipped out of Tianxiang Restaurant through the back door.

There is one more thing to mention here. As long as the work can be ensured, the shopkeeper basically doesn't care much about the back hall.

First, he turned into the alley along the back door of the restaurant, and Li Tian was going to cross the main road from the street of the residence, and then walk north of the town.

After all, it is not a day off to go on the street, Li Tian still has to avoid the people in the shop, if he goes directly to the main road from the back door of the restaurant, he may be seen.

The main road is still so prosperous, firewood, rice, grain and oil, cloth clothes, rouge gouache, gold locks and silver spoons, all kinds of shops, and there are a variety of goods.

Li Tian could only look at it and be happy, but he couldn't afford to buy one.

Li Tian crossed the main road and walked towards the north of the town.

On the north section of the main road, there are some shops, most of which sell some daily necessities, firewood, rice, and spices.

There are still some cloth clothes sellers, but Li Tian looked over, these shops are completely incomparable with the shops on the main road, there are few shops that look bright and gorgeous, but there are a lot of coarse linen clothes.

Here, there are no shops such as jewelry and silk.

The pedestrians heading north of the town were also dressed plainly.

There is also a characteristic on the street, there are more and more people begging along the street, but they are also some old, weak, sick and disabled, and those beggars who look able to work, the government has long been arrested and mined.

When Li Tian passed by a recruitment booth set up by the government, further north, there were no shops on the road. The two sides of the road are no longer tidy, and there are piles on the left and on the right, and I don't know what they are.

And the house has no uniform style specifications.

The houses in the south of the town are not carved beams and painted buildings, but they can also be called bricks and tiles, the houses are tall, and each family can have a small yard.

In the north of the town, brick and earth yellow mud houses are common, and what catches the eye is a continuous earthy yellow. The houses are next to each other, and the streets are at the end, and they are all alleys.

It was in this style that continued to the northernmost town wall.

Walking here, Li Tian was not ready to go any further, Li Tian heard Hou Ping say that there are some human trafficker dens in the north of the town, specializing in catching children and selling women.

Children caught from other places are generally first searched to see if there are any large families that accept children as domestic slaves, and then to find out if there are any families who cannot have children because of illness.

If you're lucky, you'll sell it if you can.

But not all the time it can be sold, and the children who can't be sold are mutilated and put on the street to beg.

The children begged for money, and the traffickers took all of them, so they kept them for a longer period of time to see if they could be useful.

However, how can there be so many well-wishers who give money, it is possible to give money once or twice, but it is impossible to give alms every time.

At this time, if the child can't even beg for something, the ruthless trafficker will directly kill the child.

Because those children have already seen those traffickers, it is impossible for them to let the children go and fend for themselves.

The same is true for abducted women.

Most of them are sold to Qinglou as prostitutes, and almost all Qinglou brothels are associated with these traffickers.

First, because of this business, the women there are easy to get sick and die early.

Once infected with a dirty disease, if it weren't for the popular top brand, Qinglou would not give too much money to treat the disease. Some of the women who were sold to the Qinglou may die within a few years.

Second, there are some special hobbies, and they may torture the prostitutes to death in one night. Afterwards, at most I will pay some silver taels, and then it will be gone.

The third point is that there is indeed a certain chance that some prostitutes are very lucky and have been loved by their customers, and they will be loved by them at home.

In short, women are treated as commodities and consumables in these places.

So these establishments are connected to those traffickers, and from time to time they are replenished with "new products".

When Li Tian heard this, he really hoped that those traffickers would be punished by heaven and struck by lightning.

Those people are simply scum and tumors, Li Tian hopes that those people will all die at one time, and then they will relieve their hatred.

However, Li Tian can only think about it in his heart, his arms can't twist his thighs, those traffickers have done such hurtful things, and they still exist, which is not simple.

If one day, Li Tian has this ability, he really hopes to change all this.

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Back in front of him, Li Tian was about to turn around and leave, but saw a thin but familiar figure

"Is that so, little beggar?" Li Tian muttered in his mouth.