Li Ping'an's heart tightened, and he subconsciously clenched the sharpened wooden stick and moved it to the child a few times, and at the same time, the people who were keeping vigil with him also stirred up their spirits and instantly became energetic.

"What's going on?" Zhang Xiaoshan stood up in a panic, holding a woodcutter in his hand and looking ahead, but it was dark around him, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and then he said, "Do you want me to take a look?" ”

Li Ping'an also wanted to figure out what was happening in front of him, but he still suppressed his curiosity and desire to explore, "Don't go, whatever happens has nothing to do with us for the time being, don't do much." ”

In the darkness, there was an adult who echoed, "Peace is right, don't do too much, wake up your spirits." ”

It didn't take long for the movement to get louder and louder, and the sound of a child crying loudly could be heard, as if he was still shouting something, and when it came to Li Ping'an's ears, he couldn't hear it clearly, no matter how carefully he listened.

Li Erlin and the others couldn't sleep soundly, and they were basically awakened at this time, and you and I hurriedly asked what happened.

But who knows.

"Go to sleep, wake up, we'll keep watch."

Li Ping'an was replaced by Zhang Dashan, he lay down next to the children on the spot, since he hit the mountain to now, it has been almost eight or nine days, he has not washed a bath, his clothes have not changed, a big living person is stinky, and his long hair is messy, there is no such condition to pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene.

The cry that came to his ears made him panic and irritable, he couldn't sleep at all, but he couldn't help but sleep, he tried to let his mind open, looked at the stars in the night sky and silently counted the sheep, forcing himself not to listen to those sounds.

I don't know how long it took, but just as he was drowsy, the voice grew louder and closer. He sat up and looked ahead, only to see a dozen torches coming and going in their direction.

When the torch approached, Li Ping'an saw clearly that under the torch were more than a dozen burly men, dressed in strong suits, with fierce faces, some holding knives and some holding sticks, some pushing a board cart, the board cart was loaded with a number of bulging sacks, and some people were holding ropes in their hands, and behind them were children who were tied with ropes and strung their hands together.

There are boys and girls, about a dozen or twenty children, and in general, there are far more girls than boys. Occasionally, a child would cry in a low voice, and immediately provoked the strong man with a weapon next to him to shout and scold in a low voice, and then the crying child would not dare to speak out again.

As the team approached Li Ping'an's position, a man who looked relatively thin and sven shouted "stop", and then looked greedily at the group of children next to Li Ping'an.

"Guys, do you have any plans to sell your children?" The Sven man arched his hand and got straight to the point, "A boy has two buckets of brown rice, and a girl has one bucket." ”

It turned out to be a person's tooth, but this price is low enough, in exchange for a bucket of brown rice in normal times, it is only 50 yuan, even if it rises ten times now, it will not exceed 600 yuan.

Li Erlin's face froze, and he said in a resolute tone: "Don't sell it!" ”

Others have also said they will not sell it.

"You must be planning to escape from the wilderness." A look of regret suddenly appeared on Sven's face, "It's a pity, I don't know how many of these children will survive in the end." ”

Then he earnestly persuaded, "Sell the children to me, I can take care of their food, and prevent them from starving to death, and you can also exchange it for food, although it is not much, but the price of food is not low now, and it is not easy to buy." In a few days, there will be more people selling their children, but it will not be the price it is now. ”

At this time, almost everyone was woken up, and the women were still confused, but when they heard these words, they immediately changed their faces, and found their children in the pile of children in a panic, crying and chirping under them, angrily looking at people's teeth, and looking at their own heads of houses with anxiety.

The younger ones couldn't figure out the situation, but the older ones understood, and clutched their mother's hand tightly and cried out not to sell them, and as soon as they cried, the children outside the situation also cried.

To say that the most scared and worried are Chen Taohua and Chen Zhaodi, as well as Li Xiaoyan and Li Xiaoling brought back by Li Silin, they have no father or mother, there is not even an adult in the family, and they are female babies, I am afraid that adults are reluctant to sell their children and sell them in exchange for food.

Zhao Di almost shrank into Peach Blossom's arms, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Ling hugged each other and trembled.

The scene suddenly became a mess.

"We all said that we don't sell it, we don't sell children!" Li Erlin stood up with a firewood knife and glared angrily.

As soon as he moved, Li Ping'an also stood up with a wooden stick, pointed the sharp end against the human teeth, and his palms were covered with sweat. Zhang Yu didn't know when he took out his bow and arrows, and he was in a posture of opening his bow and arrows at any time, staring at the human teeth with slightly squinted eyes.

The others also clenched their weapons tightly, staring at them poorly.

Li Erlin was able to choose them to persuade them to flee the famine in a group, because he took a fancy to their reliable temperament, and on the first night of escaping, they did not have a reason to stand by coldly and only let Li Erlin and Zhang Yu look up.

At this time, you can't be cowardly, you have to put on such a posture, isn't it just to fight, they won't go into the mountains to hunt, but they still have the courage to fight, although they can't eat enough in the mountains these days, but they are not hungry, and they still have a lot of strength.

But once they admit it, or they don't work together, the dozen or so fierce strong men on the opposite side are not here to do chores, they may not look down on one or two children, but there are twenty or thirty children here, but whenever there is a chance, they dare to grab it.

"Eh, don't be angry, there's something to discuss, there's something to discuss!"

The human tooth was stunned first, and he glanced at Zhang Yu with some weakness, the bow and arrow in this man's hand put too much pressure on him. The people he brought with him were all thugs from the gambling house and kiln, and he was not very afraid of hand-to-hand combat, let them rush in front of him and behind him, and he could run away when he saw something bad, but he couldn't outrun the arrows he shot, and this thing could kill him from a long distance.

And there are about twenty young people in front of him, and their expressions don't look like the homeless people he has seen along the way.

"Let's go, don't beat our children's ideas, we won't sell our children." Li Erlin's tone was a little relaxed, and he didn't want to clash with these people.

Ren Yazi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he was also afraid that these people were all stunned, and they would do it to the end regardless of it. After calming down, he smiled and said, "Since you don't sell children, then forget it, let's leave and bother." ”

Although twenty or thirty children look very tempting, but there are so many homeless people, there will be no shortage of people who sell their children and wives, and he is not worried about not being able to exchange for a population, so there is no need to have a conflict here, and he will pay a sum of money for nothing.