28. Chapter 28 Buy Life Money

Author: Lao Huang next door 007

No dreams all night.

When the woman got up, the sky was bright and the sky was clear. She stretched and stood under the eaves, smelling the fresh air after the rain and the fragrance of the soil.

She took a deep breath, as if infinite vitality was surging in her body. She looked up at the sky and saw a red sun rising in the east. She was also full of hope and expectation for her future life.

After so long, she has been traveling around for a living and has no time to think, let alone enjoy life.

The good weather today made her feel that no matter what happened in the past, there will always be a better tomorrow in the future. This feeling of hope makes her feel happy and satisfied.

She made the cakes she wanted to sell today, and today's breakfast was rice porridge and soft egg custard. After breakfast, Yiren sent the small dumpling to Aunt Li's house.

After returning, I saw Uncle Qing's ox cart waiting at the door of my house. Sanmao and Simao were helping to transport mountain goods into the car. The two and a half-aged children finished loading the car in a while, and said hello to Yiren and ran away.

Today, I went to the county town to deliver mountain goods, paid the money, and then rushed to the town pier to sell cakes.

But when he arrived at the dock, Yiren found something strange.

In the past, laborers came and went. Although there were not as many small stalls and vendors as central streets, they were lined up and there were dozens of them. Today, there were only a few workers on the dock. They did not sing the songs of effort like they used to, without even talking, and even had no eye contact, and they carried them silently. The vendors were only Lao Weitou, who sold noodles and Yiren, who sold cakes.

Yiren had a premonition that the business today would not be good, but she still stayed to wait for the afternoon to stop work.

"Brother, you have a foreman named Xiao. Do you know him? Did he not come today?" After the work was over, several people came to buy cakes one after another. Yiren looked around, but he didn't find Brother Xiao. Since she came to sell cakes, that Brother Xiao has come to buy almost every day. Even if she doesn't buy them, she can see others. Yiren was about to ask his acquaintance about what happened.

After hearing this, the big brother who bought the cake suddenly became nervous, with a secret expression on his face. He took the cake and paid the money and walked away from afar.

Yiren saw that no one had bought cakes and hadn't seen anyone, so she was not easy to inquire about it. She was about to pack up and left, but saw a group of people turning out of the corner of the street.

There were old people, children, young and middle-aged people, and even young women in the crowd. The thin and hunched old man on his back was supported by someone and walked in the middle. The young woman had a scattered temple, holding a boy of seven or eight years old in her hand, holding a baby in her arms, and staggering step by step.

There was also someone carrying a stretcher next to him, two people in a group, and the stretcher was covered with white cloth. From the shape, it was a human.

The rest, young and middle-aged men and women, either holding pickaxes for digging the ground or holding sickle for mowing grass...

Everyone came in full force, crying and walking over in a mighty way. Yiren's stall had been packed, but the way was exactly where the group of people came, and she couldn't move. Moreover, she wanted to know what was going on. Yiren stood sideways on the roadside with a spirit of breathlessness and immortal gossip.

A head was poked out from the black-sailed boat. It was the big manager of the dock. He obviously saw this scene, pulled the person who looked like a servant beside him, whispered a few words, and the servant ran away quickly.

Everyone passed by Yiren, rushed to the dock, and placed the stretcher on the ground.

"Give me my life back!" Although the old lady was thin, her voice was sharp. She sat on the ground, lifting the white cloth, revealing her personal appearance. The man was strong in shape, with his arms as thick as a calf's legs, but his face was pale and without a trace of blood, as if he had dried up blood.

If you look closely, you can see a neat hole on his neck, which is very short, but the middle artery.

"My husband dies here, you will give me three taels of silver. How can we three mothers live!" The woman with children also started crying and collapsed on the ground.

"You group of people who eat and don't spit bones! We have to seek justice today!" The young and middle-aged man next to him was red and shouted first.

"Just! Justice! Justice!" everyone shouted in unison.

Yiren looked at the person on the first stretcher from afar, and the more she looked, the more familiar she looked... She couldn't help but move forward, wanting to see more carefully.

"Dating blind dates for everyone!" A person came out of the black-sailed boat. "I am the manager of the dock! I sent the person home yesterday and gave him money. Everyone came to make trouble. Isn't it a bit unreasonable?"

"Bah! Let's go shit! You can give three taels of silver for one life! Three taels of money to buy life! You have the face to take it out!" One of the middle-aged men holding a sickle stared at the ground with wide eyes. "Three taels of silver, how can you let those orphans and widows live? They can only die! The whole family is dead and they are used as the oil for you corrupt officials, so you are happy, right?"

"You guys will pay for your life! We will also raise a few taels of silver to buy your life!" someone shouted again.

"Pay for life! Pay for life!"

Seeing the crowd getting angry, he gradually approached the big manager at the dock.

Yiren also saw clearly that the person lying on the stretcher next to the old lady was the first brother Xiao to buy her cakes on the dock.

Yiren looked at the clean and neat wound on his neck and was a little confused for a moment: it was just raining yesterday, and he didn't come to sell cakes for a day. Brother Xiao, who was as strong as a cow, was gone. He smiled and said that her cakes were delicious the day before yesterday, and when the winter just started, the fields were not busy and the river was not frozen, the cakes were hot and they would definitely be easy to buy. He was her first buyer on the dock. When she thought she was young and beautiful, she also helped her to help her get rid of the situation...

The scenes since I met Brother Xiao flashed through Yiren's mind like a movie...

She knew that this was a book under the ancient system, without modern civilization and laws, but she never thought that so many people would die overnight. She never thought that a life was only worth three taels of silver.

At this moment, she only had four words in her heart, and her life was like a mustard of grass.

Just as she was in a daze, the family members had already rushed forward, pushed down the stacked sacks and spread the food all over the floor. The servant who had run away had also returned and brought back a group of officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers held spears and poked into the crowd without any concern. Some people were stabbed to the ground, while others were cut by sickles...

For a moment, the scene was chaotic, with blood all over the ground, and there were the howling of old people and children around, as well as the sound of cursing and ruling each other. Yiren was swept up and down, and was hit back and forth several times. Finally, she woke up, but she could no longer push away the crowd around her.

Seeing that the wooden handle of the pickaxe next to it was about to hit Yiren's stomach, she subconsciously squatted down.
Chapter completed!