Standing at the door of the thatched hut, looking at the unkempt, hunched bodies wrapped in thin clothes, and looking at the dull, silent, and lifeless faces in the hut, Chu Yang felt mixed feelings. This is the first time he saw the victims, the first time he really saw the displaced victims described in the book.
"You, what are you talking about?" Hearing what Chu Yang said, Gouzi was slightly taken aback. He looked at Chu Yang carefully again, and saw that Chu Yang had a handsome appearance and was wearing a brocade robe. Wearing a fine felt hat. Just by looking at the clothes, you can tell that you are either rich or expensive.
"I'll trade you ten catties of sweet potatoes for that child." Looking at Gouzi, Chu Yang said expressionlessly.
"Five, fifty catties!" After thinking for a while, Gouzi took the opportunity to increase the price.
Hearing this, Chu Yang snorted coldly. "Just that skinny kid in your hand? Worth fifty catties of sweet potatoes?"
"Thirty catties, at least thirty catties!" After thinking about it, Gouzi hurriedly lowered the price.
"Then you'd better eat him!" As he said that, Chu Yang made a gesture to leave.
"Twenty catties, twenty catties can't be less. Although this baby is skinny, even the bones and flesh are worth twenty catties, right?" Seeing that Chu Yang was about to leave, the dog hurriedly bargained.
"Where are the child's parents?" Looking at Gouzi, Chu Yang asked.
"Dead, starved to death. When his father died, he entrusted the baby to me. I brought him all the way here. In summer, I even dug bark and grass roots for him to eat, but There is nothing to eat this winter, and I can't even feed myself, so what can I feed him?" Gouzi sighed softly, his face full of helplessness.
"You can't afford it, and you can't eat him?" Staring at the dog, the big head said dissatisfied.
"Go to the carriage and get a quilt and twenty catties of sweet potatoes!" Turning his head, Chu Yang looked at Datou and Xiaopang.
"Hey!" Nodding, the two turned and left. Not long after, a bag of sweet potatoes appeared at Chu Yang's feet.
Seeing sweet potatoes, a group of dull men finally had expressions on their faces. Everyone's faces were full of joy and shock!
I saw Datou open the bag, pour out the sweet potatoes, and pile them up into a hill. Gouzi swallowed, walked over, and handed the child in his arms to Chu Yang.
After taking the quilt, Chu Yang wrapped up the naked child and handed it to Datou. "Put him in the carriage and let the coachman watch him! Don't let him get lost."
"Yeah!" Nodding, Datou took the child away.
Look at the victims who have already run over to grab sweet potatoes. Chu Yang frowned. Turn around and leave, and go to the second grass shed.
When he came to the second thatched hut, Chu Yang found that the hut was full of women. Some are old, some are young, and they are all unkempt and scrawny women. Chu Yang glanced at Datou and Xiaopang, and the two of them walked in with a bag of sweet potatoes, opened the bag, and dumped the sweet potatoes on the ground.
Seeing those sweet potatoes, the women were stunned and looked at Chu Yang in astonishment.
"These are for you to eat, let's cook them!" Looking at the dozen or so women in the shed, Chu Yang said calmly.
Hearing this, the women rushed forward, took sweet potatoes and began to eat them.
"Don't grab it, don't grab it, everyone has it!" Seeing them eating raw sweet potatoes, Chu Yang felt very sad.
The big head and the fat man immediately took some sweet potatoes and distributed them to the old women and little girls who didn't grab them.
"Here you are!" Walking up to a woman, the big head handed over a big sweet potato to her.
"Thank you, thank you!" After taking it, the woman gave the smaller one to the woman beside her, and took the bigger one and ate it in big mouthfuls.
He squatted beside the woman, stared at her with his big head, raised his hand, and put the hair stuck on her face behind her ears.
While eating, the woman looked suspiciously at the big head beside her.
"You look so good-looking, how old are you?" Looking at the woman, he asked her with a big smile.
"Fourteen!" Saying that, the woman started eating again.
"I'm sixteen, and I haven't got a wife yet? Are you willing to be my wife?" Staring at the woman, Datou asked again.
Hearing this, three black lines slid down Chu Yang's forehead, and he thought to himself: "Big head, this is too straightforward, right?" When they met for the first time, they asked if they wanted to marry him? However, ancient times seem to be so straightforward. There was no love affair at all.
Hearing this, the woman froze. "Is there anything to eat after following you?"
"Yes, I work in a restaurant and I get paid every month. If you become my daughter-in-law, I will spend all of my wages in the future." Nodding, the big head promised earnestly.
"Okay, then, then you, can you marry my sister too?" As she said, the woman looked at her sister who was eating sweet potatoes beside her.
"Ah? Well, I, I'm afraid I won't be able to support two daughters-in-law!" Speaking of this, the big head was a little embarrassed. With the money he earns, raising one daughter-in-law is okay, raising two, and raising children in the future, I'm afraid it won't be easy.
"My sister is dumb. If I leave her here, she will be bullied. My sister is one year younger than me, and she will be 14 years old. She is not ugly. You, you , you married her too?" Looking at the big head, the woman said pitifully.
"This, this, boss, this, what should I do?" Looking at Chu Yang, the big head asked in distress.
"It's okay, let's take the sisters back. Don't Goudan and Sanwazi still have wives?" Speaking of this, Chu Yang was overjoyed. Buy one get one free. This daughter-in-law is really cheap to get!
"Ah, that's right, let's go, I'll take you to the carriage. You can marry me when you get back, and your sister can marry my brother, and I promise you will have enough to eat!" Looking at the woman, he said with a big smile.
"Hey!" Nodding, the woman tugged at her younger sister, took her with her, and followed Chu Yang and the others out of the hut.
Continuing to deliver sweet potatoes, Chu Yang found that there were people living in all ten huts, but some huts had more people and some huts had fewer people.
Walking to the last thatched hut, Chu Yang found that there were very few people in this hut, only nine people.
"Hey, why are there so few people in this hut?" Xiao Pang asked curiously when he walked in carrying sweet potatoes.
"They should be twins, right?" Looking at a group of men who were all relatively short in stature, Chu Yang guessed that these people should be twins.
"Are you twins?" Looking at the crowd, the big head asked suspiciously.
"Yes, yes!" Nodding, everyone said yes.
"Go get a quilt!" Chu Yang ordered. Because Chu Yang brought relatively few quilts, he only distributed one quilt to each of the three huts where women lived. Hearing that these people were twins, Chu Yang ordered to bring them a quilt.
"Hey!" Nodding, the big head immediately ran to get the quilt.
Opening up the sweet potatoes, Xiao Pang poured out all the sweet potatoes. "This is given to you by our boss, come and eat!"
Hearing this, everyone froze for a moment, and looked at Chu Yang in surprise.
"Divide and eat, these are all for you!" Looking at the crowd, Chu Yang said softly.
"Thank you boss, thank you boss!" Thanks again and again, everyone immediately went up to grab the sweet potatoes on the ground.
Quickly snatching five sweet potatoes, a little pair ran to the corner and handed the sweet potatoes to the other two pairs lying on the side. "Mother, father, younger brother, eat quickly, eat quickly, a kind person sent sweet potatoes here."
Hearing his words, the two hands on the ground slowly got up from the ground, took the sweet potato in his hand, held it tremblingly in the palm of their hand and began to chew.
Looking at the picture of a family of three sitting together eating sweet potatoes. Chu Yang frowned. I feel a little sour in my heart. The victims have already had problems with their bodies. It seems that next time I come, I should bring silver needles and cupping to see the victims.
Looking at the pair sitting on the ground eating sweet potatoes, Xiaopang ran over. He squatted beside the person and looked at him carefully.
"You, what are you doing?" Looking at the man squatting beside her, her face flushed.
"You, how old are you?" Staring at the other party, Xiao Pang asked the other party with a smile.
"Fifteen."
"I'm sixteen, still, I haven't married a wife yet!" Speaking of this, Xiaopang looked at the other party foolishly again.
"I, I was married when I was fourteen, but there was a flood in the village, and my man and I got married just over a month ago, and he died!" At this point, his eyes were slightly red.
"It's okay, I don't think so, you, you marry me!"
Hearing this, Chu Yang twitched the corners of his mouth, and said to himself: It seems that there is no need to look for Mrs. Zhang, they have already found a wife.
Hearing Xiaopang's words, his eyes froze. He turned to look at his mother, father and younger brother beside him.
"Young man, what do you do? Who else is there at home?" Looking at Xiaopang, Shuang's parents asked.
"When I was young, there was a flood at home, my parents died, and there was no one at home. Now I do odd jobs in the boss's restaurant, and I can earn a hundred copper coins a month. I can afford him!" Looking at On the other side, Xiaopang said seriously.
Hearing his words, the pair looked at Xiaopang again. nodded. "Zi Cheng, follow him, follow him, you still have a way out."
"No, mother and father, I can't abandon you, I can't abandon my brother!" Shaking his head, the pair refused.
"Stupid child, if you can survive, you are one. A bowl of rice soup a day, if we stay here, we will starve to death sooner or later. If you follow him, you can still survive!"
"No, no mother and father, I won't go!" Shaking his head, Fang Zicheng repeatedly refused.
"Brother, let's go, leave us alone!" Looking at her brother, Fang Zixin said the same.
Hearing Fang Zixin's words, Xiaopang looked over. Look at each other. "You, how old are you?"
"I'm thirteen, and I'm fourteen in the Chinese New Year!" After thinking for a while, Fang Zixin replied truthfully.
"Wait a minute!" After speaking, Xiaopang got up and ran to find Chu Yang.
He looked at Xiaopang who ran to his side with a flattering expression. Chu Yang smiled. "Okay, I fancy a daughter-in-law."
"Boss, you are a kind person in our Longquan Town. Look at how filial my wife is. Why don't we take away their father and son? Didn't Brother Goudan and Third Brother both marry wives? Brother-in-law, after the fourteenth year, you can marry. Besides, my father-in-law and brother-in-law are sick. They can only die if they stay here. If you have a wonderful hand to rejuvenate, it will be different. What do you think?"
"You know that I will definitely agree?" Chu Yang raised his eyebrows and asked amusedly.
Hearing this, Xiaopang knelt down in front of Chu Yang with a bang. "Boss, you are my second-born parents! Just pity them!"
"What, what's the matter?" Putting the quilt aside, he looked at Chu Yang and Xiaopang two suspiciously.
"Let's go!" Seeing that the quilt has been brought over. Chu Yang was about to leave.
"Boss!" Looking at Chu Yang, Xiaopang hugged his thigh aggrievedly.
"Go and bring him!" Chu Yang said helplessly, looking at Xiaopang who was hugging his legs without letting go.
"Hey, thank you boss, thank you boss!" Nodding, Xiaopang hastily thanked him.
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