Receiving food is easier than Lin Yuan thought. The aunt's surname is Zhao, and her man's surname is Zhang. Some people around her call her Aunt Zhao, and some call her Lao Zhang's family. She agrees. She calls her man from the ground. When he came back, he warned, "Don't be stubborn, even if the price is lower, it's better than stacking it all the time."
Her man was impatient: "I see."
Aunt Zhao: "Remember!"
The price is easy to negotiate, and both sides are cheap. Jiang Gui rounded up the Chenliang from Aunt Zhao's family, and bought a few more Chenliang, which filled ten carts.
Cattle can't afford it, either hire people and pull the trolley back, or buy people.
"How much money is there?" Jiang Gui handed Lin Yuan a bowl of water, and Lin Yuan felt his throat dry. He calculated in his heart and whispered, "There are fifty taels left."
They took almost all the money with them.
Jiang Gui: "Buy people."
Lin Yuan nodded. They had to go to another town to buy people. No one in this town could buy them. The food was kept here, and no one would steal it. Food is good.
Fifty taels doesn't seem like a lot. Now, the people who sell their bodies are only two taels of silver for a middle-aged man, and one tael for women and children. This is still a good time. Now it is estimated that there are only one tael of middle-aged men, women and children. You don't have to have half or two.
Lin Yuan was not prepared to adhere to modern morality either. In modern times, human trafficking is of course a heinous crime, but at this time, human trafficking is all poor people who cannot survive and want to sell a good home and live.
The purpose and the era are different, so it cannot be viewed with the same moral concept.
Driving down the path with the bullock cart, Lin Yuan said to Jiang Gui, "Brother Jiang, what do you think this world will be like? It's getting worse, or will it get better slowly?"
Jiang Gui looked at the front, his expression was a bit complicated, and finally he sighed leisurely: "It's getting worse and worse, I'm in the yamen, I know that the current emperor doesn't care about anything, and his head is smoky. Before the accident, the prisoners were all locked up. common people."
"If there is a plague of people in the north, the people from the north will go south, and the plague will also go south."
Lin Yuan knew that human plague was a kind of infectious disease, and it was a key reason for the demise of the Yuan Dynasty. Some modern scholars believe that the human plague of the Yuan Dynasty was the Black Death in the West, but it has not been proven, it is just a guess.
In this era, the human plague cannot be treated, and those infected can only survive, lying down and waiting to die, allowing themselves to be surrounded by despair day by day.
It's just that Lin Yuan didn't expect the plague to come so quickly, which caught him off guard.
He thought it should have appeared in the last few years of the Yuan Dynasty's demise, but the reality was very different from his expectations.
"Fourth brother." Jiang Gui suddenly spoke. He touched his chin and seemed a little embarrassed. "When there was an accident in Wucheng, both your sister-in-law and I were afraid that you would not take us in."
Just as Lin Yuan was about to speak, Jiang Gui added, "If you don't want to take us in, I don't blame you, it's life."
In that case, if it was me, I might not be able to agree.
Jiang Gui said, "Fourth younger brother, you gave your brother this life. If you have anything to do, let me know, and you can risk your brother's life."
Lin Yuan smiled: "Third brother, we have to live a good life, think about the good."
"It's a good day to be able to eat and wear warm clothes." Jiang Gui smiled.
Lin Yuan found that since the accident in Wucheng, Jiang Gui has become more taciturn and more stable. His pressure is probably not small. The family of six is all on his head, so he is afraid to steal. A little lazy.
Probably because they were afraid that once he also fell, their family would not be able to stay.
The righteous brother sounds nice, but how reliable is it
When he arrived at Baishan Town, Lin Yuan felt that his physical strength had been exhausted. After walking on the road for three days, he almost fainted with excitement when he saw the stone tablet at the mouth of the town. No wonder there are no outsiders in Liuzhen. It was difficult, the road was rotten, and it was shaking. On the road, they were all people walking on the ground, leading cattle.
Compared with Liuzhen, Baiyun Town is much more pitiful. The roadside is full of scantily clad beggars, as well as poor people who sell themselves. There are no vendors on the street, and the tea stalls and restaurants are closed. The scene is only a three-day journey, but one side is heaven and the other is hell.
Fortunately, the inn was still open. Lin Yuan and the others went to open a room. There were not many people staying in the inn, and the price of the inn was also low.
Xiao Er was a young man with a yellow face and thin skin. He followed Lin Yuan and the others affectionately, expecting the guests to give him a little reward.
Lin Yuan knew that in a short time, money would not have much purchasing power, and the important thing was food.
When the horn of rebellion sounds, food will be more important.
Therefore, when Lin Yuan bought people this time, he still planned to buy strong labor. When he had nothing to do, he would farm the land.
A street is full of people selling themselves, some of them encountered bandits, and the whole family died, leaving them alone.
In some cases, the whole family took to the streets, hoping to meet a kindhearted person and buy the whole family.
Lin Yuan and Jiang Gui walked around a few times and decided who they would buy. Young men and women should preferably have families, and the best ones would be children who need to be fed, or the elderly who are frail.
These people are the least likely to betray, because their family members are always the weak point. They don't just think about their own lives, but also let their family members live.
However, Lin Yuan also said that if he wanted to bring his family, he would not pay too much, he would only pay them alone, but he could ensure that their families had food to eat.
All these people will.
You don’t need to be displaced, you have food to eat, and whether you have money to sell yourself is actually not that important.
These people were going to leave with Lin Yuan and the others the next morning, and they didn't have much luggage.
They bought forty people in total, and they also came with eighty people...
There were two people when they came, and a mighty group when they left.
This way, almost everyone walked there on foot, including Lin Yuan and Jiang Gui - there is no way, walking on such a steep road with an ox cart, you basically don't want to live.
These people were in awe of Lin Yuan, and didn't dare to speak. They just walked forward with their heads buried in the ox cart. There were grains in the oxcart, just to write dry biscuits. There was no water, but there was a stream in the woods. Even Lin Yuan drank water directly by the stream.
The possibility of parasites and pathogenic bacteria in living water is relatively small, so Lin Yuan can only comfort himself to drink water.
Ten carts of food, a cart takes four men of prime time to pull.
Fortunately, there is still a cow, which is barely enough for people.
It's time to go back, Lin Yuan's heart was like an arrow.