"Please, come and see, this is my daughter, she's nine years old, and she's very capable! You will be able to get married in two years, and you will definitely not suffer a loss if you buy her! ”

"As long as there are two bags of grain, two bags, you can take her back!"

By the withered grass on the side of the road, a ragged woman with her hair scattered, she grabbed a man's clothes and kept him from leaving, and her mouth let out a miserable pleading.

"Forget it, two bags of grain, thin like this, you have to raise it when you go back, who can still raise extra children now!"

The man was just passing by and didn't want to buy it, but he was dragged by the woman and couldn't leave, so he could only kick her away: "Get out!" ”

"Ahh The woman screamed, clutched her chest and fell backwards, panting for breath.

The girl kneeling behind her just glanced at her indifferently and withdrew her gaze.

As if resigned to her fate, and helpless, she raised her head and looked at the passers-by on the side of the road, her eyes confused.

The woman was still screaming in pain, and the girl began to shout at herself, "Big brother and sister, okay, I can cook, I can do laundry, I don't eat much, everyone pity me, buy me." ”

But the people who go to the market with things on their backs, the people who hurry home, who don't have children waiting to eat at home, not to mention that this winter is not easy, many people start to sell their children and daughters, do not look for people's teeth, and do not go to high-ranking families to sell, in this kind of countryside, no one wants to waste the life-saving money in their pockets.

Gu Lan noticed the situation here, and felt a little unbearable.

When she had gone far away, she looked back again, and the girl stopped shouting, and sat numbly in the snow, life and death.

"Hey, let's go, Lan girl, there are so many things like this, you can't finish watching them, you still feel pitiful about them now, wait for you to go further, I'm afraid that this bit of sympathy will soon run out."

Someone in the village reminded him, mixed with sighs, everyone is a kind person, if it weren't for the current situation, how could they turn a blind eye to themselves?

This person didn't tell a lie, from Xiaolongkan to Stone Town, I don't know how many children were sold along the way, and there were also children who sold their bodies to bury their fathers and mothers.

Gu Lan also noticed that there was a group of people in gray clothes, who walked up to those children as if they were picking goods, "This is not good, the teeth are not very good, and they love to be sick." ”

"How long and short are these feet? Can you work in the field? ”

The parents who sold their children looked embarrassed and reluctantly explained that they had been repeatedly lowered by those people, and finally had to sell their children.

These people seem to be more willing to sell their children to the Grey Men than to sell them to passers-by who don't know where to go.

Gu Lan rummaged through her memory and quickly understood that these people in gray clothes were the people who bought and sold human beings.

Before the original owner's father was sick, Mrs. Gu intended to sell one of Gu Lan's younger brothers and sisters, but was later stopped by Gu Lan, so she gave up.

These people were responsible for selecting tenants or servants for the wealthy families.

The long-looking ones, some large families are willing to raise them, and they have many uses; Those who are quick with hands and feet and clever with their brains can be slaves; Those who have only brute strength and are not very good brains can let them work in the fields like animals.

Xiaolongkan is at the foot of the mountain, and the land is relatively small, and a big family like the Gu family has only ten or twenty acres of land, but those rich people often have hundreds or thousands of acres of land, and there are at least dozens of slaves in the family, not to mention tenants.

Jingguo does not prohibit human trafficking.

Therefore, once the people are struggling to make a living and the people cannot survive, selling their sons and daughters has become a good choice.

Gu Lan lived in her previous life, and she had only heard of such a thing, but where had she seen it.

Now when I see it, I was a little unaccustomed to it at first, and then a great desire for salvation rose in my heart.

But this is just one of her thoughts, Gu Lan is self-aware, she has empty potential, but she has no ability, if she wants to do good deeds, she can't morally kidnap the villagers of Xiaolongkan.

Therefore, she can only endure it, she can't wait to become stronger, and she doesn't want to see such a world.

The group finally arrived at Stone Town, as the name suggests, the whole town is built with stones, it looks very tall, there are many people, the market is full of mud, people, oxen, and carts are walking around in such a chaotic environment.

Outside the town, in front of a group of tall men, there was a wooden cage containing about seven or eight children.

The children had no clothes on them, huddled and hidden, covered in scars.

The men shouted and shook the sky: "Look, the little slave has been sold cheaply!" Give money and sell it! ”

"How are you selling this?" A few gray-clothed people happened to pass by, hesitated for a moment but stopped.

"You want to buy it? Eight children, at least five taels of silver, not too much, right? ”

One or two pieces of silver can buy a person, and the price of a bag of grain in exchange for grain is indeed not expensive.

"Are they all alive?"

"Alive!" The man explained to the man in gray, kicked on the wooden cage, and shouted: "Hey, squeak, let this uncle know that you are all alive, and when he buys you back, you will be able to eat enough, happy or not!" ”

"Woo woo woo ......"

The children in the cage cried quietly and crowded together, and one of the little girls cried out: "Brother, I'm afraid! ”

"Don't be afraid, sister, my brother will protect you."

The boy who spoke was only twelve or thirteen years old, and his body was already covered with bruises, and he was weak when he spoke, and his hands and feet were festering, and he didn't know whether he was frozen or beaten.

It makes people feel pity when they see it.

Gu Lan couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and the gray clothes were not very satisfied: "None of them are good, and they are beaten like this, and they lose five taels of silver!" ”

"Phew! Fuck you! Five taels of silver and eight children are still expensive? We snatched it back with our lives! If it weren't for the fact that life in the village was not easy this year, how could it be cheaper for you, and you would keep it for yourself! ”

A fat man was very dissatisfied with the words of the man in gray, and he walked out, still holding a simple knife in his hand, looking fierce and vicious.

As soon as they heard this, everyone else knew that these men didn't look like serious people, they turned out to be thieves in the bandit village!

The man in gray didn't say anything more, and hurriedly waved his hands and left.

"The third! Who made you reveal your identity! The tall and thin man slapped the fat man and hated it.

These little rabbit cubs who waste food will not be sold again, but they are afraid that they will be scolded by the owner of the village when they go back!

He took a sip, staring fiercely at the child in the cage, and his heart fell as soon as he bit his teeth.

I really can't sell it, so I'll kill them all and eat meat!

I can still open the meat and stuff my teeth!

At this moment, a hand suddenly appeared in his sight.

"These kids, should I take ginseng as a substitute?"