Chapter 7 He wants to save people, but he can’t save anyone

Author: Ging Le

Chapter 7 He wants to save people, but he can’t save anyone

How could he not know what these people were up to? Gu Jingzhao was kind-hearted in saving people, but some people didn't know what was good and wanted to tear him apart.

His tone was very calm. After saying this, he passed through the crowd and continued to knock on the next door.

Several people on the field looked at each other in confusion. No one knew Aning's background. They only heard that he was a child that Gu Jingzhao picked up from the river. But looking like this, he was definitely not a soft persimmon who was easy to bully.

I thought that since Gu Jingzhao was going to be taken advantage of, no wonder they were extorting money from him, but I didn't expect that the kid next to him was a ruthless character. Seeing that they had no chance, they dispersed like birds and beasts.

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After An Feng returned home, An Zhiping hurriedly ran out of the kitchen with two steamed millet grains hanging from his mouth.

"Dad...Dad, why are you back?"

An Feng was full of troubles. When he came back, he saw his useless cub eating secretly and became furious.

"I told you to eat secretly! I told you to eat secretly! You don't know how much food is left in the house? You have eaten all the food. Do you want me to starve to death, or do you want to starve to death your mother?"

He grabbed An Zhiping, took off his straw sandals, and spanked his fleshy butt several times. An Zhiping burst into tears. "I was wrong, dad... don't hit him, I... I know."

Wrong. I don't dare to steal..."

An Zhiping cried loudly, which alarmed his mother who was weaving inside the house. The woman was slender and small, with soft facial features. She cried and ran out and hugged An Zhiping behind her.

"If you want to beat him, beat me to death first!" She only had An Zhiping as her only son. She had doted on him since childhood and was unwilling to let him suffer any grievance.

An Feng couldn't bear it either, but he was so angry that he took action.

Since his eldest son followed the shaman, he never sent a letter home for several years. I only heard that the eldest son was very arrogant in front of the shaman, so he had the opportunity to take charge of more than a hundred households in Xiaxi and made a small

Township chief.

But now...

"Alas." An Feng sighed again.

Seeing this, the daughter-in-law asked, "What's wrong with you?" As she said this, she winked at An Zhiping.

Little Fatty immediately understood what my mother meant, slipped out of his father's arms, opened the door and ran out.

Anfeng sighed and took out a token from his body, "The tribute is about to be paid, but where will we get the food this year? What will happen if we can't pay the food?"

The great witch will send priests to each village on the fifteenth day of every month to collect tribute grains. If the tribute grains cannot be paid, someone will be handed over to do hard labor. Each household must hand over one person, but these people who are handed over to do hard labor will leave.

He left the village and never came back.

His family is very small. If An Zhiping is handed over again this time, both of his sons will follow the witch... An Feng feels very distressed just thinking about this.

He sighed again.

"Why don't you ask the clan leader, if there is still food in Shangxi, share some with us. You said that people are starving to death every day, and they still have to pay tribute. I don't know what this big witch is..."

Before he finished speaking, An Feng covered his mouth, "You bitch, if you talk nonsense again, you will be punished by God! I will give you mouth sores and a rotten tongue!"

The woman was also startled when she heard this. She quickly recited a few words of blessing and did not dare to say anything nonsense.

After a moment of silence, she said cautiously: "I heard that the restaurant at the entrance of our village is the Shangshiji of Gu Jingzhao's family. If you ask people to eat there for free, do you ask people to go and see if there is still food there?

"

An Feng snorted disdainfully: "He is a foreigner. He doesn't even have a piece of land. How can he get food? I'm afraid that fake mouth is trying to trick people into doing experiments again."

He stood up and shook his head, "I'm going to the ancestral hall. Please cook less for dinner. Our family doesn't have much food. Don't just steam the corn, just make me a bowl of wild vegetable soup."

The woman nodded in response.

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Shang Shi Ji is at the front of the stockade. The stockade is built along the Anxi River. The stream flows through it in an S-shape, so the stockade is built in a winding shape. From a distance, it looks like a swimming snake.

Snakes are popular in Fujian and Vietnam, and the architectural layout of the village adapts to the saying of "a dragon walks around and a snake walks around". When the Feng Shui flows, it will bring blessings to the entire village.

An Ning walked along the main road of the village. The households at the head of the village were large households in the village. They were not interested in Shang Shi Ji. He walked to the middle section, past the ancestral hall. The second half of the village was occupied by poor families.

Some of the houses Aning knocked on were already empty, with a white cloth hanging on the door. It must be that everyone in the family died of disease and poverty.

When Aning passed by another empty house, he couldn't help but frown. This was already the thirtieth empty house. The locust plague this time was so serious. If he hadn't walked through it in person, he might never have been able to understand this.

This kind of draft blows through the empty house, making a whimpering sound, which is nothing more than hell on earth.

A house behind, a faint voice came from the room: "Who is it?"

Aning said: "Gu Jingzhao invited you to have dinner at Shang Shi Ji."

The door opened a small crack, and a man poked his head out of the crack. He looked at Aning warily.

Aning said again: "Shangshiji provides free food. If you are hungry, you can go to Shangshiji to eat."

As soon as Aning said this, he paused for a moment. He seemed to smell the smell of meat. Steam was boiling on the cauldron in the yard, and the smell of meat wafted out from there.

There is meat in this place?

The moment An Ning hesitated, the expressions on the man's face changed one after another. He was obviously stunned for a moment, looked at An Ning with a pained and smiling look, and turned into an accusation with strong anger: "Who cares about your charity!

"

--boom.

The door was slammed shut.

This reaction was really weird. After thinking about it, Aning went around to the back of the house and climbed onto the roof. He saw the man taking meat out of the cauldron, but that scene turned out to be the most terrifying scene in his life——

He saw with his own eyes that what the man fished out from the cauldron was a section of an arm, a whole section of a child's arm.

After almost a long time, Aning came down from the roof and continued walking towards the end of the village. He no longer knocked on the door of each house. He was already very sure that no one would go to Shang Shi Ji to eat.

Gu Jingzhao was wrong. He wanted to save people, but he couldn't save anyone.

Aning walked past the last house. There was a small thatched house standing in the fierce September sun. The wind blew the thatch on the roof flying randomly. There was an old woman sitting in front of the house.

From a distance, Aning couldn't see clearly the expression on the woman's face. She seemed to be waiting for something, waiting for a heavy rain? Waiting for the salvation of the great witch?

An Ning hesitated for a moment and walked towards her. No matter what it was, An Ning knew that she needed someone to give her a bowl of vegetable soup. Suddenly, an old man came towards her and grabbed An Ning, but his withered hands had already

With little strength left, he could only stand weakly, half leaning on Aning. "Did you just say that there was food? Free food?"
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