Chapter XVII. Threats
The sky slowly darkened, Lin Cuilan cried at home, and soon came out to the vegetable field to continue pulling vegetables.
Bai Xia ignored her.
The entire Lin family, I'm afraid that only Old Man Lin knows where the Lin family went.
Otherwise, when she asked someone to ask, it would be impossible for the rest of the Lin family to say that they had not seen the Lin family, and the situation of the collusion of the whole family, she had not thought about it, but it should have been when the official sent to the village to collect grain, and everyone was in the village.
If the Lin family entered the village, some people would see her.
Bai Xia lay on the side of the road, not moving.
Not long after, I saw a figure holding a torch and staggering from the direction of the town.
The sky was already dark, and the man couldn't see Bai Xia hiding on the side of the road, but Bai Xia could see him clearly through the firelight, this person was none other than Lin's father, Old Man Lin.
Old man Lin worked for the master's family, and today the master's family was happy, and the people who worked were rewarded with wine, and the others were already drunk.
"Say, where is Lin Sanni?"
When Bai Xia approached, he went directly to the front, and the snow-white blade of the kitchen knife reflected the light in the firelight, and directly stuck to Old Man Lin's neck.
The cold blade frightened Old Man Lin into a spirit, and he woke up most of the time.
"Sanya"
He recognized Bai Xia in front of him at a glance, they had all heard and seen the Lin family's child daughter-in-law.
"You girl, why are you holding a knife, it's scary"
He hadn't realized the danger yet, and subconsciously pushed Bai Xia with his hand.
Bai Xia's eyes sharpened, and he sent the kitchen knife forward, the sharp kitchen knife cut the skin, and the pain came, Old Man Lin finally realized that this was not a dream, and subconsciously shouted: "What do you want to do this kid, don't let me go quickly"
Even when it came to this, he still didn't have the slightest fear.
I just felt that this was the child's nonsense, but the knife was on his neck, and his roar was a little ugly.
"Let me ask again, where did you get Lin Sanni?"
Bai Xia almost asked through gritted teeth.
The government has little time left for her, and she wants to find the Lin family as soon as possible.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I haven't seen Sanni" Old Man Lin's heart trembled, but he gritted his teeth and didn't let go.
Bai Xia didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he just said to himself: "Okay"
"You haven't seen her"
"She's gone, Brother Yuan and I have no way to live, we can't live, then you don't want to live"
"Die with us"
As he spoke, he was about to wipe Old Man Lin's neck with a knife, so frightened that Old Man Lin hurriedly shouted: "I know, I know where she is, you, you let go of me, let go of me"
Old man Lin has lived for decades, when has he experienced such a thing.
Seeing that Bai Xia was really coming, he couldn't hold back suddenly.
"Say"
Bai Xia looked at him coldly, he was looked at by this look, he only felt as if he was being stared at by a beast, swallowed his saliva and said, "Sanya came to me that day and told me...... Tell me that the family is out of food, and she can't live anymore."
As he spoke, he observed Bai Xia's face, and saw that the expression on her face did not change a little, so he had to continue: "She came to beg me, begging me to find her a good family, she wants to remarry"
But she was afraid that the Li family would not agree, and she didn't want to ...... I don't want to bring ...... Take you with you."
"So let me say no one"
"I'm distressed, this is my own daughter, where can I watch her starve to death, so ...... So ......"
"So you helped her find a good family and marry her off, didn't you?" Bai Xia answered expressionlessly, and Old Man Lin nodded again and again: "Yes, yes"
Bai Xia laughed angrily.
"I know that grandpa loves us, and I can't see me and Brother Yuan going down to suffer, so don't delay your efforts, you go down and wait for us first"
After speaking, the kitchen knife in her hand was about to be forced, which frightened the old man Lin and shouted: "Don't, don't"
"I lied, I lied, Sanni she didn't get married, she was sold, I sold her"
"Where's the sale?"
Seeing that he finally told the truth, Bai Xia's eyes turned red and he roared in a low voice.
"I don't know, I don't know."
Old man Lin was really desperate at this moment.
"There is a merchant in the town, I sold her to the merchant, I don't know where that person is from, I only know that the accent is not ours, a bit like the accent of the north" Old man Lin was frightened, how did he know that the girl Lin picked up was so terrible, and his eyes were like eating people.
After getting the news of the Lin family, Bai Xia was relieved.
Although the person was sold, it at least proves that the person is still alive, and as long as he lives, there is hope.
"How much did you sell?"
Old man Lin raised a hand tremblingly and gestured that he had sold five taels of silver.
Bai Xia closed his eyes, opened them again, removed the kitchen knife and turned to run.
"You will have retribution"
Old man Lin sat on the ground with his buttocks, his pants were wet, and he was scared to cry by such a female doll as Bai Xia.
There was no light at night, fortunately, Bai Xia wrote it down during the day on the way back to Lijia Village from Linjia Village, groped and walked towards Lijia Village, and before he arrived at Lijia Village, he saw a few figures outside Lijia Village from a distance, Bai Xia was shocked, carefully lowered his body, and slowly approached.
I couldn't see what they looked like, but there were about four or five of them, with a stick around their waists.
Bai Xia guessed that it was a big knife.
Are these people officials?
She was a little frightened, the county order sent an official to stare at Lijia Village, is there any Linjia Village?
She thought about it carefully, and didn't seem to see anyone stalking in Linjia Village.
Is it because they are afraid that the villagers will run away?
Bai Xia secretly pondered in his heart.
She didn't dare to stay longer, so she started a detour from the hill in the village, and detoured for an extra hour before returning home.
I took off my shoes, used a needle to pick up the blisters on my feet, and scooped up a little water to rinse them.
"Three, Sanya, are you back?"
Li Xiuyuan in the room asked cautiously.
"It's me"
Bai Xia answered, put on his shoes again and walked towards the house.
She lit the oil lamp and looked at Li Xiuyuan, who was holding the quilt on the bed with a pale face.
"Brother Yuan'er is hungry, right? I'm going to go get something to eat."
After speaking, he was going to go to the kitchen, but he was caught by Li Xiuyuan's hand, and he pounced on her with a frightened face, almost throwing Bai Xia to the ground.
"Sanya, I'm afraid"
His body trembled slightly, trembling and began to cry: "Woo woo, mother, I want mother, Sanya, I want mother"
Bai Xia's throat is blocked, and I want to tell him that your mother was sold by your grandfather, but I can't say it.
Her nose was sour.
"Brother Yuan, our family has no food"
"But the government now wants us to pay more than 300 catties of grain tax."
"If we can't hand it over, we'll all die"
"So we can't stay in the village anymore, we're going to get out of here"
Bai Xia also had no choice.
In addition to running, she really didn't know how to raise so much food, mainly because there were still seven days before the awakening of Goldfinger, but there were only two days left in the deadline given by the government to pay the grain, and it would be too late if she didn't run.
The main reason is that in the past two days, all villages have asked the village elders with high moral standing to go to the county government to intercede, but the county order is still unmoved.
The crops in the field have begun to wither.
Everyone is working hard to raise food.
Thinking of the official errand who was watching outside, Bai Xia's face was even more ugly, but he was afraid that the further back he went, the stricter the government's stalking.