He Chaoyan was very calm and was not frightened by Su Rong. On the contrary, he called out calmly, "Uncle!" and said in a deep voice, "I told you before that some things are hard to explain to you. Only when you see it yourself can you understand it. What you see now is just the tip of the iceberg. Go a little further if you don't want to give up halfway."
After all, they are colleagues and comrades-in-arms. After looking at He Chaoyan for a long time, Su Rong finally suppressed his temper and anger, raised his chin towards He Chaoyan, and continued to ride forward with He Chaoyan without saying a word.
They passed several villages along the way. Without exception, there were many children in these villages, and they were all unattended. However, as Su Rong went south, he saw more ordinary children. Most of the farm children were unattended and playing wildly in the fields. However, those children were completely different from the children here. They were not the same concept.
These children don't seem like children, but more like pigs and dogs raised at home, whose owners don't care about their life or death.
Shocked by his own thoughts, Su Rong took a deep breath on horseback. While he was still thinking about things in uncertainty, He Chaoyan suddenly called him. He turned around and found a huge archway not far ahead with three big characters "Go to Beizhen" written on it.
He collected his previous thoughts and asked He Chaoyan: "Do you want to get off the horse?"
He Chaoyan had already dismounted, nodded at Su Rong, and lowered her voice to remind him: "Uncle, don't rush out later. No matter how incomprehensible the things you encounter are, just think that you are used to it. Let's leave the horses here, someone will watch over us, and we will walk in on our own."
Su Rong's heart skipped a beat. From what He Chaoyan said, it seemed that there were things happening before that were even more outrageous than the way those adults treated the children just now
But He Chaoyan had already walked forward, and he knew that he could not ask any more questions, so he followed He Chaoyan all the way into the town.
The town is quite prosperous. After walking through a residential area, you can see many small stalls selling food on the street, as well as vendors who have casually spread some straw on the street with many small items on it.
Su Rong watched coldly and began to doubt what He Chaoyan had said before.
This place looks no different from any other ordinary village town. What is so incomprehensible here
The town was quite big. After walking for more than an hour, they finally reached the center of the town. Seeing a small river appear in front of them, Su Rong was about to call He Chaoyan when he suddenly heard a violent cry. The cry was like a knife stabbing Su Rong. He immediately ran towards the source of the sound. He Chaoyan almost didn't catch up with him at such a fast speed. Fortunately, He Chaoyan was on guard from the moment she heard the sound. As soon as she heard the sound, she rushed up and grabbed Su Rong's sleeve, and said firmly: "Uncle, you can't go!"
As he spoke, he did not hesitate, and suddenly pulled Su Rong to a small building nearby, and then said to Su Rong: "Uncle, listen to me, it's useless for you to go."
At this time, someone had already come to greet him in the small building, and Su Rong realized that this was a restaurant with fairly good decoration.
He Chaoyan seemed to be very familiar with this place. After the shopkeeper came up to her, he said a few words to He Chaoyan. He Chaoyan answered with a smile, asked someone to prepare food, and pulled Su Rong into the door and went up to the second floor.
Then he pulled Su Rong and said, "Come over here."
Su Rong followed him with full of doubts, and saw that after He Chaoyan entered the room, she suddenly opened the window and then climbed out of the window with ease.
Su Rong reacted quickly and climbed out of the window and landed on the roof next door. The roof here was blocked by the restaurant, so the people below could not see them.
After walking a distance with Su Rong bent over, He Chaoyan stopped, motioned to Su Rong to lie down, and carefully lifted a tile.
Su Rong did as he was told, and then lay on the roof and looked down. He couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling - there were at least fifty or sixty children down there, with their hands tied with hemp ropes like piglets. The person in front waved, and someone would pull a child out to the front.
Then someone slashed the child's wrist.
The children were small, and some of the older children seemed to know something and were able to hold back their tears. After their wrists were cut and they were busy for a while, they hurriedly walked aside and sat down. However, more children could not help but dodge and cry.
At this time, someone will come forward and beat and kick the children until they obey.
Su Rong lay on the roof until these people had dealt with the last child, then he got up and followed He Chaoyan back to the room.
Not long after they returned, the door was knocked by the waiter who came to deliver food.
He Chaoyan also knew the waiter, so she smiled and gave him a piece of silver. Seeing that the waiter was so happy that he didn't know what to do, she smiled and asked, "I heard crying just now. What's going on? Why are there so many people coming?"
The waiter obviously didn't take it seriously. He said with a smile, "I forgot to arrange a quieter room for you. How about changing the room for you?"
He Chaoyan declined: "It's okay, it only took a short time, and now there is no sound. I just asked."
"There is a new group of children here. They are said to have been brought in from outside. We don't know where they are from." The waiter said as a matter of course, not thinking it was wrong at all. "We don't know how many of them can survive. Please bear with us. There haven't been many people here these days. It's only today that there is a lot of noise."
He Chaoyan hummed: "No one from the imperial court has sneaked in, right?"
"No." The waiter quickly put the food on the table and said with a smile, "They come in groups and then they are beaten. They don't dare to come. Even if they come, they only come in groups to inquire about the news. We are not afraid of this."
He Chaoyan chatted for a few more words, then waved at him and asked him to leave.
When he left, He Chaoyan said to Su Rong, "Master, please sit down. If you have any questions, you can ask me now."
Su Rong was indeed puzzled. He looked at the person in front of him in disbelief. He had no interest in even picking up chopsticks. He asked directly, "What happened just now? Where did these kids come from? Why are they like this? The people here seem to be used to it."
"Of course they are used to it." He Chaoyan laughed, but the smile did not reach her eyes. She said coldly: "Because they have seen this kind of thing countless times."