The Lihe River can be regarded as a town close to the water vein in the Qin State, and such a city is definitely comfortable in the Qin State. I didn't expect that there would be a sale of children and daughters for silver.

The lame young man sneered, "The riches of Oak River City are just rich old nobles, and their greed is a hundred times better than that of the upper echelons of the barren land. There is no oil and water to scrape in the barren place, and there is still a glimmer of life for people. However, in the Lihe River, the nobles are eager to eat the flesh, bones, and blood of the people at the bottom! Except for the capitation payment, the old nobles do not dare to impose harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the rest of the taxes, whether they are farming, fishing and hunting, are heavy enough to be paid! The old peasants who have planted dozens of acres of land may not even be able to eat a full meal in the end.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Oak River Territory is a rich land, but in the eyes of the locals, it is undoubtedly a hellish existence, the local Taishou City Lord, in order to retain the population of the town, the entire Oak River City, the outside is only in and out.

People outside think that their relatives and friends are going to enjoy happiness when they enter the Oak River, and they are not homesick and refuse to return, but who can think of coming, they should all become the subordinates of the Oak River, and the Oak River has also become an important head recruitment point in the Colosseum over the years, in order to provide the upper class of nobles for fun, the lives of the people have become a play.

Alain's eyes were full of disbelief, although their family was poor, his father and mother would always be frugal enough to raise their children, even in the years of food shortage, he and his two younger siblings did not really go hungry.

This time it was expropriated, it was really a death order issued by the government officials, and if there were two or more men in the family, one of them had to be drawn and go to the Colosseum.

Originally, his parents thought that they would run away with him and his younger siblings that night, but when they saw that the neighbors were shooting in the street because of the people who wanted to flee, they had to give up this idea.

In the end, in order to be able to protect his younger brother and sister, at least for the next year, to live a peaceful and stable life, Alain hid from his parents and secretly went to the recruitment office to sign the head. When he handed the silver taels to his father, his father slapped the silver from his hand and raised his hand to give him two slaps, and those bloodshot eyes were that Alain believed he would never forget.

Then, his father, mother, younger brother, and sister hugged him together, and the family wept and wept, and when he was forcibly pulled away by the conscripted samurai, he saw his father kneeling on the ground, smashing his head so hard that he complained that he was incompetent and had no way to protect his child.

Alan shouted at his father: "Dad, mother, you take good care of yourself, take care of your younger brothers and sisters, I will definitely survive, I will definitely survive!"

The memories receded like water, Alain's eyes were already moist, he looked at the lame young man in front of him, who was also a child, how could this gap be so big, some were the flesh of the heart, and some were just silver taels in the bag and rations in the belly.

"Anyway, if you're going to die, it doesn't matter. I don't hate Daddy and Auntie, I hate this number of lives, and I hope to be a good family in the next life. The lame boy had to hold his head up in resignation, breathing in the last piece of air that belonged to him.

"What if you don't die?" Ning listened to the conversation between the two, his heart was slightly turbulent, Ning couldn't remember anything about his father or mother, and naturally he wouldn't know whether he was sold as rations or forcibly cut his heart from his parents.

He didn't get out of the bushes, he just opened a crack to reveal his face.

The boy named Alan and the lame boy were all startled by the sudden appearance of A-Ning.

Ning made a silent motion: "Don't make a sound," he looked at the lame young man: "Now the choice is in front of you, I won't talk nonsense, just ask you if you want to die or live." ”

The lame boy was in a trance for a while, and then a light suddenly appeared in his eyes, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw: "I want to live! I want to live!"

"Silence!" Ning looked around, and the samurai who had gone to change his trouser belt had already walked to the front of the group, grabbing a neatly dressed teenager and talking.

"Big brother, I want to live, I really want to live!" the lame young man stared at A-Ning with a dead gaze.

Alain reminded on the side: "If we escape, we will ......."

"I don't care!" the lame boy clenched his fists, "I can't care so much, in a few more miles, I will really go to hell." I don't blame Daddy and Auntie for letting me die, and I believe Daddy and Auntie won't blame me for letting them die!"

Alan was frightened, and couldn't help but shrink back, it seemed that the cold-blooded seed of his parents had been planted in the heart of this person, and at this moment, under the stimulation of the desire to survive, this seed was gradually germinating.

A-Ning was very indifferent to this: "What you want has nothing to do with me, I won't care, you change your clothes to me in a while, I will go to that city for you, you lie here and wait, and when we leave, you leave by yourself, wherever you want, whatever you want." ”

Alan looked at Ning curiously, he had never heard of anyone going to that city on their own initiative.

The lame boy swept away the state of waiting for death just now, and his spirit was much better, as if the injury on his leg no longer hurt.

Ning looked at Alan and said, "You stand up in a moment, help block the right side of this tree, and block the view of the samurai." ”

Alan was stunned, and the lame young man grabbed Alan by the hand: "You have to help me, you must help me!" I thank you, I will remember you for the rest of your life!"

Alain didn't have the same pity for the lame boy as before, he felt a little terrible, and if he could, he wanted to get as far away from him as possible.

However, Alan still nodded, stood up, and turned his back to Ning and the lame boy without a sound.

"Crawl over slowly," Ning let go of the bushes and let the lame boy crawl over.

Soon, in the bushes, Ning changed into the clothes of the lame young man, and slowly climbed back to the edge of the tree, and the bushes were closed by the young man, completely motionless.

And the samurai not far away had already found a suitable belt to change it into, and was so satisfied that he walked back with the leather whip in his hand.

"His leg is injured, what are you going to ......" Alan thought of something, turned his head to look at the person behind him who took the initiative to change his life for others, and suddenly saw the wooden plank tied to his leg, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Ning untied the plank tied to his feet and threw it aside: "Maybe it's the destiny of heaven, it's just such a coincidence, I also injured this leg." ”

Destiny arranged, Ning didn't know why he said these four words, maybe it was influenced by the wolf, after all, he was such a person who believed in fate.

If God doesn't let you die, you can't die anyway, everything is arranged in advance.

What was happening before my eyes was as if the wolf had predicted it before.