In the past few months, Qingzhou City, which has always been prosperous and rich and the people's livelihood is stable, has a more panicked atmosphere, many people who have fled out of the city have poured into the city, all of them are ragged and gray-headed, with yellow faces and thin faces curled up in the sunlight under the root of the wall, men and women, old and young, live together in this way, with the warm sunlight to dispel the dying hunger, with the only remaining strength to reach out to the passers-by, begging for a little life money, really hungry, can occasionally catch a lice from the unkempt hair, and then ecstatic stuffed into the mouth, it is the best day。 There are also many children with straw sticks on their heads, kneeling on the street for people to buy and sell.

The ancient road of Jianshui in the east of the city is far away from the bustling city, built at the beginning of the founding of the Yunchu country hundreds of years ago, it was originally the most prestigious monastic place in Kyushu, and even some people flew into the sky here to cultivate immortals, but after hundreds of years, it is no longer prosperous, I don't know whether it is the decline of the Taoist system or bad luck, in the past hundred years, although all the countries are still martial cultivators, almost everyone will have some rough and shallow Taoism, but most of them can only pinch a trick to light the wick, it is not as easy as using the fire fold, as for the clever Taoism such as sprinkling beans into soldiers, it is no longer seen, as for cultivating the positive fruit to fly immortals, it has become a distant legend recorded in the book。

After a long time, the ancient road of Jianshui lost the reputation and status of the holy land of cultivation, gradually barren and dilapidated, and few people set foot on it, until now, hundreds of people poured into the city of Qingzhou, there was no room for them without a ridge of land, and the people who disturbed the business were depressed, Qingzhou Yin Mansion had to draw the long-abandoned ancient road of Jianshui for the victims to accommodate, and built a simple shack and porridge factory, but the monks have more porridge and less, and some people will starve to death every day.

In order to survive, the victims started to sell their sons and daughters, and a human trafficking market was gradually formed here, but because there were more people who sold and fewer people who bought, the price of human life was not as good as grass mustard, and twenty times you could buy a yellow flower girl to go back, as for what to buy back for, only God knows, but the sale of children and daughters is still endless, as long as you can escape a life in the disaster year, it is a blessing. In the distance, there is a carriage driving an ash shed to run over the light dust, getting closer and closer to the ancient road of Jianshui, seeing a carriage coming, the victims of the disaster pulling the children wearing straw labels on their heads, ragged children, have rushed up, surrounded the carriage, and the bleak pleading is endless.

"Have mercy on us, and give us a little money for life. ”

"Give the child a way to live, buy the child. ”

"Mr. Heng, it's here. The carriage stopped suddenly, the coachman took the whip, jumped out of the carriage with low eyebrows and respectful solemnity, stood with his hands tied on the side, and whispered back to Du Heng who was sitting in the front of the car.

Hearing this, Du Heng bowed slightly, his eyes shrouded in the slight sun were bright and compassionate, he jumped out of the car to look around, and said loudly: "Who is in charge here." ”

As soon as the words fell, a skinny man came out of the crowd, accompanied by a smiling face of twelve points, cautious but not humble or arrogant: "What does Mr. want to ask, just ask, the villain must know everything and say everything." ”

The morning sun is bright and scorching, penetrating the gaps in the dense green leaves, and the cage is warm all around. The two moved to a place where no one was, and whispered a few words that were only half a cup of tea, and Du Heng nodded with satisfaction.

Walking quickly to the car, Du Heng whispered to the car: "Master, I have inquired clearly, there are more than 400 people in their group, they left Yongzhou half a year ago, and Yongzhou was already ten rooms and nine empty, and even the bark was gnawed away. They are also pitiful, they were scattered along the way, starved to death and died, and those who were sold for human teeth, and there were less than 200 people when they arrived in Qingzhou. ”

After saying that, Du Heng lowered his head slightly, and stood beside the car with the coachman, and there was no extra sound.

A personal shadow can be faintly seen in the dim car, slightly straightening his back, his posture is graceful and his face is clear, his thin wrist is raised, he opens a corner of the curtain, his eyes are cold and looking at each other through the window, and he looks deeply at the crowd gathered in front of the car, Qingzhou is the last trace of vitality in the eyes of these people, but Qingzhou is not really prosperous, but it is covered up by the prosperity.

Raise your eyes and gaze at the tall buildings in the distance, the building was just started a month ago, the glazed top of the white jade is dry, the cover is very broad, when it was built, there was a big banquet for guests, and the people in the car also followed to eat a banquet. The man was eating while thinking about the sentence that he saw him get up from a tall building, watched him feast guests, and saw his building collapse, and couldn't help but remember that the building was not strong, and when it would fall, for fear that the building would collapse while eating.

Seeing that the group of people had stopped moving for a while, the scrawny man rushed to the car with vague steps, grabbed the car door, and begged bitterly: "Pity the poor children, buy these children, otherwise, they will be dead." ”

The man leaned in the shadows, slightly lowered his eyes, even if one person took a bite, so many victims would be like locusts crossing the border, eating a dime, if he had a smart head like a saint, or guarding a mountain of gold and silver all day long, how to spend it in his lifetime, he would definitely not hesitate to save it, and the man Qingzhou who wanted to shout knew that doing good deeds without leaving a name has never been his style.

Dumbfounded, the man stretched his sleeves that had been washed to white and furious, feeling that he was thinking a little too much, and when he got up in the morning, he just ate more fried meatballs, and he was calloused by Du Heng's ears, saying that this was a loser, and it should not be promoted. Then he shook his head, stretched out his hand to lift the corner of the thick cotton curtain, called Du Heng over, and said softly: "You go and count how many of these children there are." ”

This voice is cold and cold, but it sounds like a spring flower from winter to spring, it is a ray of warm light in the cold, and the yellow-faced and thin-skinned victims have pulled the children with the same yellow-faced and thin muscles, and surrounded Du Heng, for fear that he would miss one.

The people in the car looked at each other through the gap in the curtain, and felt that Du Heng, who was not in the posture of a man, was very majestic and tall at this time, like, the people in the car said silently, like a ray of sunshine, Du Heng was always like the sunshine with a broken mouth, managing the sky and the earth, eating, drinking, and sleeping, and his mouth was not idle for a moment.

"Ouch, why do you drink cold tea again, be careful of stomach pain. ”

"Eat more carrots, eyes. ”

"Drink plenty of water, good skin. ”

"Eat more veggies and have a laxative. ”

"Don't eat meat, grow meat. "Yunyun.

When the sun was still napping and cloudy, Du Heng's mouth was not idle and tired for a moment, just at this time, a slight cloud moved to the top of Du Heng's head, and the sun suddenly became a haze. The man leaned on the warm yellow flower pillow, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Du Heng counted them one by one, and the number was clear, but he found that there was no female doll among the children wearing straw labels, and they were all male dolls, and he was suspicious in his heart, even if there were endless things selling children and daughters in the disaster year, and the girls were much better than the boys, but it was not so much that half of the girls could not see it, he was suspicious, and said to himself: "It's really strange, how are all male dolls." ”

This road while selling people, every time the town is bigger, it will sell a batch, the girl has always been more sought-after than the son, the price is good, as for what to buy back for, the skinny man knows it, their father and mother also have a number, but it is useless to have a number, it is not easy to live a life in the disaster year, and it is even more cost-effective to use the girl's body money to exchange for a son's life.

The man lost twelve points of caution, and explained softly: "Mr. is going to buy a female doll, then it is a little late, a rich man came at dawn, and bought more than 30 female dolls, although the rest of these children are all male dolls, but they are all born very strong, if they grow up, they can do any hard work, if Mr. can buy them back, the price can be negotiated again." ”

Although Qingzhou City is big and there are many rich families, there is such a big demand for girls, and there are such big strokes, only a few major brothels on Liu Mo Street, thanks to Suzi, Du Heng was fortunate to have been there a few times, but unfortunately the smell of fragrant powder made him unable to open his eyes, he only knew that the girls in it were all cardamom years, and they spoke softly, glutinously and seductively, but they didn't see what they looked like. He couldn't help but regret in his heart, and the innocent daughter's house, which was so good, fell into an unsightly place in a blink of an eye, and he looked back silently: "Master, there are twenty-six male dolls, you see." ”

The car was quiet for a while, and the cold voice once again blew through everyone's ears and hearts: "Buy it all at the market price." Lifting the corner of the curtain, the man's face was hidden in the shadows, and he saw that the outstretched hand was as white as condensed fat, called Du Heng over, and whispered a few words in his ear.

After listening to this, Du Heng flew with his hands like flowers, and made a half-ring abacus in the void, his temporary housekeeper was really hard, not only to calculate the cost of three meals a day, but also to calculate the cost of the master's whim to buy a person, he calculated for a while, if there is no meat for three meals a day, the remaining money to buy these children, it is more than enough, so he laughed seriously, blurted out another statement: " Master, it's only the beginning of the month, so I bought it like this, but it was really like spending money in the first half of the month, and I could only eat soil in the second half of the month. ”

The man leaned under the car window, stretched his cheeks and smiled: "Then I will eat less food a day for the first half of the month, and I will give it to the second half of the month." "What a kind gesture this is, the man did not hesitate to praise himself in private.

Du Heng endured the smile and endured it hard, his cheeks twitched slightly, and finally squeezed his eyebrows and laughed: "Master, Qingzhou is windy, if you eat less every day, I'm afraid that you don't need to prick your wings if you are thin, you can fly to the sky, this light body kung fu is much easier to practice." ”

The man glanced at Du Heng, pursed his thin lips and said with a smile: "Since you feel sorry for me, I naturally want to become your love, and the silver is easy to do, you, in the future, you are not allowed to eat my family's rice, vegetables, and meat, and you are not allowed to drink my family's water, wine, and tea." Without your mouth that can eat, won't you save money? ”

Du Heng is as good as flowing: "What the master said is naturally right, but if he starves to death his subordinates, there will be no one to take care of the house. ”

The man stretched out his hand, and he flicked a violent shudder at the door of his head: "If Su Zi is not here, no one can care about your mouth, right?" ”

Du Heng stroked his forehead, lowered his voice and laughed: "General Su's mouth only does two things, one is to eat, and the other is to say, his subordinates are also following in his footsteps, and they are just good as streams, tracing back to the source, or General Su's upper beam is not right, and his subordinates' lower beam is crooked." ”

Yes, in the past two years, the uncared for weeds has grown teeth and claws, and the person who was originally tired of each other has been gone for two years, and I don't know if he has shortened his eating and drinking, whether he has even lost his teeth and lost weight, and I don't know if he has shortened his human language, will he raise his mouth to be fatter.

The person in the car sighed lightly and whispered in his ear: "Go to the Ministry of Officials in a while, you go to see the prince in person, and then send a message to the main altar, and send people to Yongzhou day and night, without a moment's delay." ”

"Well, let's ask General Su to go. Du Heng knew the severity, no longer said a word, very neatly handed over the silver two deed of sale, received everyone's household registration list, and instructed the coachman to take away the children who were crying with their father and mother, from this moment on, these twenty-six children really started a completely different day from the past.