Chapter 241(1/2)
: Food, clothing, warmth and plenty of years
Author: Shui Qianche
: Food, clothing, warmth and plenty of years
The Night Travelers never expected that they could get meritorious missions in Siye Mansion. They were so coveted for the things in the meritorious library and they were so thirsty for the merit points.
What's more, the significance of this mission is extraordinary. Even if there are no merit points, if they are assigned to do it by the superiors, they will not refuse.
What these teenagers didn't expect was that this task was accepted as a small team, and the supplies were sent to Chu Qianqian to collect them. What they received were not boxes of heavy items, but light wishful bags.
The people who got the wish-fulfilling bag were still a little in disbelief, "This, is this for us?"
Chu Qianqian glanced over and said, "It's just for your use temporarily, but if you want to keep it for yourself, it's not impossible."
"I won't do that." The Night Traveler who asked the question was startled and immediately straightened his posture.
He was just shocked for a moment, how could he embezzle the public property of Si Ye Mansion.
He said: "I will work hard to make meritorious service and get it based on my strength."
There is also a wish-fulfilling pouch in the merit library. The Night Travelers all know the function of this thing, but no one currently owns it.
Now I can actually try it out during missions, which is really an unexpected surprise.
At the scene, there was a team leader trying out the wish-fulfilling bag. A piece of coal appeared in his hand and disappeared, and then another object appeared and disappeared again. The teenagers around him watched intently.
Chu Qianqian laughed at their ignorance and waved them out. If you don't have any merit, don't block them here.
The young people said goodbye to her politely and then left.
After they left, the accountant next door said to Chu Qianqian: "Miss Qianqian, why do you always try to induce them."
Although the accountant is an ordinary person, Chu Qianqian is more polite to him than to the group of night wanderers. Because according to the rules, the accountant and she have the same position, which is equivalent to the same status.
It would be bad if the accountant complained to her.
Chu Qianqian innocently quibbled: "Sir, you don't understand. The slave family is testing them. I won't be fooled here. Only when I go out and experience the same situation can I deal with it calmly. After all, it doesn't hurt if I fall into the trap. In
If you fall into someone else’s trap outside, you may be in danger of being undone.”
Mr. Accountant heard that what she said was clear and reasonable, and coupled with his trust in Si Yefu, he was deceived by Chu Qianqian, who was 90% true and 100% false.
The night wanderers set off collectively.
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The freezing weather makes the people in Beiyuan City happy, but the surrounding villages are actually living miserable lives.
This year's climate is much colder than the previous two years, coupled with the premature snowfall, people living in small border towns have already had some experience in predicting the climate and have guessed that this year's cold wave will hit.
The possibility is extremely high.
This makes the people in the border towns and villages miserable but helpless.
Yongmengxiang is also one of the villages outside Beiyuan City. It is not much better than other villages.
In the past few years, the harvest of farmers in the village has been poor, and the health of the villagers is obviously worse than in previous years, and some people often get sick. This makes the young men in the village have to travel far away to find work, and the daughter's family is more looking forward to marrying outside, and the parents at home are looking forward to getting married.
Some matchmakers also arrange marriages with foreigners, with the intention that they can move away with their daughters who marry well, or have their daughters to support them.
On the narrow path, oxcarts were carrying goods, with a few children mending clothes sitting on them, and more people were walking.
Among the people walking, there are both men and women, old and young, which is unusual. Not to mention the inconvenience of long distances for the elderly, women are not allowed to go out easily under the traditional concept, especially girls of marriageable age.
Their destination was Beihara Castle. They had been walking for several hours. The dirt road was icy and difficult to walk on, so they were slower than usual.
At this time, there was a commotion in the walking team, which forced the team to stop. After checking, it was found that someone had fallen, and the reason for the fall was that the child he was holding was crying.
"Dad, Dad, I will only eat one steamed bun a day from now on. Don't sell me, don't sell me." The girl with withered hair hugged the short and thin man's legs and cried and begged.
The man's eyes flickered, "I said I'm not selling you, I'm not selling you. Didn't you hear that your Uncle Wu said he was going to the city to live a good life?"
As the saying goes, children from poor families become masters early. The girl is not very old, but she already knows how to watch the man's words and expressions. When she sees the man's guilty expression, she looks even more desperate.
Although she had heard from the villagers that those who were lucky enough to be sold to the city and worked as slaves in powerful families would indeed have a better life than in the village. But there are not so many lucky people in the world, and most of the children who were sold were
They don't end well. Most of the slaves in powerful families are born at home, and they are more loyal than those bought from outside. They don't need to work hard to train them.
The girl's pitiful cries triggered a series of effects, and other children in the team were also infected, and they burst into mourning for a while.
"What's going on? What's going on?" the visitor asked.
When the girl's father saw him, he immediately said: "Wu Ping, you came just in time. My daughter thought I went to the city to sell her. Come and explain to everyone."
The person who came was none other than Wu Ping, the leader of this team, or in other words, the leader of the team heading to Beiyuan City was the Wu family from Yongmengxiang.
Previously, the four brothers of the Wu family had made enough money by participating in temple construction. The four brothers rented a house in Beiyuan City together, thinking of returning to their hometown to bring their family and children to the city to live a good life.
They returned to their hometown and told their parents about their plan. At first, the family didn't believe it, so Wu Laosan took out the saved medicinal powder and soaked it in water for his father to drink.
For good people, the results can be said to be very fast and the feeling is very obvious.
With the example of Father Wu, the four brothers of the Wu family spoke eloquently and told everything they had seen and heard when they went to Beiyuan City.
"The emperor is gone?!"
"The glow of that day was actually divine light?"
"No wonder some people in the village said they heard the sound of galloping horse hooves."
"Li Zheng and the others haven't come back yet. This is the reason."
After some talk, Father Wu made the decision and agreed to the four brothers' plan. However, he had other ideas, which was to tell other people in the village the news and let other fellow villagers who were having a hard time go to Beiyuan City to seek a chance to survive.
Father Wu thought, if Beiyuan City is as good as the fourth son said, then the villagers this year will be saved.
The four brothers of the Wu family did not refuse their father's request. They also had feelings for their fellow villagers.
After another round of persuasion, it took several days to get some people in the village to agree to go together.
Most of these people traveling with us were having a hard time, and they had no choice but to follow them with hesitation and take a gamble. Some of the others went to the city to look for people, looking for those who had never returned, and others were following the trend.
Go to the city and check out the situation.
The father with his daughter was someone who couldn't make it. He thought that if the situation was just like what the Wu family said, girls could also work and get paid in the city, and the wages were not low, so he would stay with his daughter.
He was looking for something to do in the city. If it was fake, he would sell his daughter. Anyway, he originally planned to sell his daughter, and the food reserves at home were really not enough to open an extra mouth.
At this time, Wu Ping, the eldest of the four Wu brothers, came to solve the problem.
He first reassured the girl that he didn't want to sell her, but the girl didn't listen to him at all and kept staring at her father.
The girl's father lied and said, "You don't understand people anymore, do you?" He raised his hand as if to hit her.
Wu Ping stopped him and said angrily: "Speak well, why are you beating the child?"
Wu Ping was already strong, but after working in the temple, his strength became even stronger.
When the girl's father was caught by him, he couldn't move no matter how hard he struggled.
"I can't even touch my child. I even had to pay for her because of her fall." The girl's father couldn't stand it, so he took out his anger on the girl.
With tears in her eyes, the girl still pulled off his trousers, begging him not to sell herself.
Her hands were grabbed and she couldn't move, but her feet could still move. The girl's father kicked her out.
This kick was meant to express anger, and the force used was not small. In addition, the girl was thin, and she was kicked more than one meter away, rolled around and fell to the ground without moving.
"You!" Wu Ping never expected that this man could be so cruel to his own flesh and blood.
After staying in Beiyuan City for such a period of time, he saw a lot of harmony among the people and the laughter and play of children, which made him forget that many families in the village beat and scold their children at every turn.
This incident made the commotion in the team even greater. Some of the other children accompanying him were crying and some were silent. The same thing was the sadness and despair on their young faces.
"Mother..." Wu Zhu clutched her mother's sleeves in fear.
She is Wu Ping's eldest daughter.
This time, the entire Wu family left. Even though Wu Zhu knew that her family's situation was good and they were not so poor that they had to sell their children, she still couldn't help but feel scared when she saw a girl of similar age suffering like this in front of her.
Sister-in-law Wu originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but her daughter's reaction aroused her compassion, not to mention that her husband was the leader of this team.
She handed her daughter over to her mother-in-law and took the initiative to check on the girl who fell to the ground.
Because her father-in-law was in poor health, she was the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wu family. On weekdays, her husband was not around, so she took care of many things at home. But when Mi came to the Wu family to see Father Wu in August, she was waiting nearby.
I also listened to Mi August talk about some medical theories.
It was also like this that Sister-in-law Wu checked the girl's condition without being in a hurry. She breathed a sigh of relief successfully and opened her eyelids tremblingly.
"How is it?" Wu Ping asked his wife.
Sister-in-law Wu said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to walk for a while."
"I'll carry her." Wu Ping didn't hesitate.
Sister-in-law Wu glanced at her husband. She felt that her husband had changed after returning from Beiyuan City. He was not only more confident and independent, but more importantly, he respected his wife and daughter more than before.
This was one of the reasons why she believed her husband's words and had more expectations for leaving her hometown to live in Beiyuan City.
Wu Ping gently carried the girl on his back, and the other children were comforted by the other three brothers one after another.
However, this section of the road was still not peaceful, and the child on Wu Ping's back suddenly vomited blood.
To be continued...