Children are naturally afraid. When these adults encounter unscrupulous beasts, they will find a reason to take their younger brothers and sisters to some prostitute village and sell them. They will also beat them and scold them for dirtying their land!

Many people in Bianjing City were doing this kind of thing, not just in Bianjing City, but those two gangsters outside Xinghua City also wanted to sell Ye Xiaochai and others back then!

This older child, who was about ten years old, had another younger child tied to his back with a straw rope. He had two pigtails and was sleeping on his back, with his face turning a sickly red color from the cold.

Everyone saw Liang Chuan and his party trembling, and they didn't know whether it was from cold or fear.

Liang Chuan jumped off the horse and turned to Yelv Zhongguang: "Is there anything to eat?"

Yelu Zhongguang took out a large piece of dried meat from his backpack, made a small cut with the short knife in his boot, and prepared to hand it over.

"Bring them all!"

Yelu Chongguang ate the small bite himself and gave the rest to Liang Chuan: "I have been hungry for several days..."

"I'll let you eat enough later!"

Liang Chuan handed the meat to the child, but the child did not dare to come out to pick it up. He even pulled other children to leave. However, the temptation of the meat was obviously huge. After the child pulled it a few times, the other children only saw the piece of dried meat.

They were very hungry. In the past few days, they had either eaten grass stems in the ground or drank a mouthful of snow water.

I can’t remember the last time I had a bowl of fragrant rice porridge. My mother only boiled one more egg when my father celebrated his birthday. The meat was so greedy.

"You can't eat! Come with me, quickly!" The child's words were so firm. At such a young age, his eyes were full of perseverance. What kind of suffering caused the child to lose his innocence and grow up so big overnight?

Liang Chuan admires this kind of child who has grown up through hardships. Ma Dan is the same and Hong Bufan is the same.

"May I have your name?"

"Hong Buping."

Liang Chuan's eyes lit up and he tried to ask: "Do you know Hong Bufan?"

Hong Buping's expression changed instantly, and a glimmer of hope appeared on his originally dull face.

"He's my cousin, he's my cousin!" He said it twice in a row. The other children didn't understand why the eldest brother was so excited today!

Liang Chuan patted the child's head and said, "Did your cousin ask you to come to Bianjing?"

When Hong Buping heard his cousin's name, he was no longer wary of Liang Chuan. He was eager to survive and said excitedly: "Yes, we couldn't live anymore at the beginning. My cousin's family was even worse, so we could only

He went out to wander, and later sent a message back to us saying that he met a kind man in Bianjing and asked us to come together."

Liang Chuan looked at these children, sighed and said, "That's why you're here, right? Where are your adults?"

Hong Buping couldn't hold it back any longer. The tears that a boy of this age should have were filled with tears, rolling down his face, along with runny nose and drool: "My parents are both dead... starved to death."

The other children also cried. The noise was too loud, and little heads suddenly popped up in the surrounding houses! After careful counting, there were dozens of them, all helpless orphans, with fear written in their eyes.

, looked fearfully in Hong Buping's direction, worried that they might be driven away.

This is the only place where they can get some protection from the wind and snow...

"We should have stayed with my cousin at the beginning, thinking... the world outside is even more uneven, and we can survive if we stay in our hometown, but who knows that we won't be able to survive this year. Not long after we came out, my father...

Mom sold it in exchange for five kilograms of rice and noodles for my sister and me. Later, he couldn't bear to eat it himself... he starved to death. Mom also threw herself into the river halfway along the way."

A group of gentlemen listened to Hong Buping's words and made him cry. This is a fucking peaceful and prosperous age!

Liang Chuan said: "Then your cousin must have mentioned me to you!"

Hong Buping's eyes were full of longing, and he said urgently: "Are you Mr. Liang?"

Everyone laughed, they had followed Liang Chuan for so many years, how could Liang Chuan have any of the old man's style and airs?

"I am Liang Chuan!"

Hong Buping looked at the tattoo on Liang Chuan's face and found it difficult to accept it for a moment.

"The family my brother mentioned in the letter lived very comfortably in Bianjing. When I arrived at this village, I saw only ruins. My cousin and the others didn't know where they had gone. I asked the nearby farmers and they said

Are you a remnant of some party that was captured by the imperial court and sent to the army..."

Liang Chuan sighed for a while and said: "I did encounter some troubles before, but now that I'm back, this Zhuangzi is still in my name. It can't just be abandoned like this. Zhuangzi needs some farmers. Are you and the other children willing?

Stay?"

Hong Buping's throat was a little dry. He was too nervous. He was afraid that this was a dream, so he pinched himself: "It hurts!"

"Your cousin used to do a good job in my village. Later I asked them to go south to Qingyuan. If you don't want to stay in this village, it's not bad to go to Qingyuan. I can give you some money."

"No, no, no, should I call you boss? It's already a blessing to my brothers and sisters that you are willing to take us in. How dare we take your money again... It's just..." Hong Buping stammered with his mouth.

Speechless.

Liang Chuan said: "If you have anything to say, please be direct. I am easy to discuss."

"Everyone... I've been hungry for several days... I'm afraid I don't have the energy to do the work." Hong Buping's little face was green and red, and he seemed to be an honest person.

Liang Chuan said: "This is easy to handle!"

"Chongguang, you go and buy a big pot and three fat sheep. Bring me a thousand kilograms of corn and a few jars of rice wine. I'm going to have a drink with Hong Buping and my brother Zhan Zhao tonight.

!”

Fat sheep! Hong Buping and the other children's throats shrugged unconvincingly. Liang Chuan handed over the dried meat. Hong Buping didn't even look at it. He first tore off a piece for his sleeping sister, and then tore off the same ones.

The pieces of meat were handed over to other children, and I just licked the palms of my hands. I was satisfied, and I told myself in my heart that if I persist, I will have something to eat!

The intelligence team members all licked their lips fiercely. Over the past year, they followed Liang Chuan through wind and rain. They had long forgotten what mutton soup tasted like. Most of the time, they just had a piece of sesame seed cake to cushion their stomachs.

Who doesn’t miss the feeling of drinking hot wine and eating hot hot pot in the village.

"Master, why don't you go back to the city at night?"

Yelu Zhong was asking Liang Chuan on his face, but his eyes were actually fixed on Zhan Zhao. Zhan Zhao said slowly: "Master Xia went to the court to discuss matters. The officials will definitely reward you with a royal banquet at night, so you can't come back so soon."

This meaning is very straightforward, just go and have fun, I won’t make it difficult for you!

The crowd roared with joy, the joyful hoofs of the horses raised high snowflakes, and the whip struck the pain and disappeared without a trace.

This group of people is becoming more and more efficient. There is no need for Yelu Zhongguang to assign tasks to everyone. Some of them go to the city to buy sheep, some to buy corn, and some to Qixian County in the southern suburbs to buy charcoal.

, and some people bought iron pots and brooms to clean up the village.

"Dong..Dong's house." Hong Buping blurted out nervously.

Liang Chuan didn't react for a moment and turned his head, only to see Hong Buping cautiously as if he had something to say.

"Um..what's wrong?"

"I'm already your banker... Arrange something for me to do..." All the children of honest families know that they will be able to fill their stomachs in a while, but he really can't do it if he just eats from others.

, even if he is hungry and faints in the snow, he still has to do something to help him feel satisfied.

Liang Chuan looked at this boy who was not short, but his body was obviously malnourished. He touched his chin and said, "Let's do this. Gather the children together and count the number of people. Those who want to enter Zhuangzi stand together.

If you want to leave, I will pay for it."

Hong Buping said: "That doesn't count. Let me do some more tiring work."

Liang Chuan touched his dirty hair that was almost clumping into balls, and said without looking dirty at all: "This matter is very important to me. Later I will know how many people there are in my village. It is not an easy job."

, do it well! If you can, Zhuangzi will take care of it for you from now on!"

Hong Pingfan's breathing was a little short. What a trust. He couldn't understand the letters he sent back before, so he asked the teacher in the village to read them to him. The letters always praised him for finding such a kind and righteous employer. The villagers always didn't believe it and said

This is Hong Bufan's bragging. I just saw it with my own eyes when I met him today. Just one action made him die!

"good!"

Hong Buping carried his sister on his back and shouted quickly to gather the children. His sister had been hungry for three days, and her spirit was getting worse and worse today. Her forehead was as hot as a furnace. Winter was getting colder day by day, and it was just about the beginning of spring.

At the most difficult time, when he looked at his biological sister who was losing all her vitality, it was as if a knife was cutting himself.

Sister, we are saved...

The intelligence team members came back very quickly. Although there was no chili pepper, the smell of the mutton soup kept them going non-stop.

I rinsed the iron pot with water, put it on the pot and the water soon started to bubble. I threw the mutton in again, chopped a few green onions, and sprinkled a few handfuls of coarse salt. A dizzying and charming fragrance filled this desolate and ruined place.

The people slowly dispersed in the village.

Once upon a time, this Zhuangzi was a well-known and powerful village in Zhongmu Xiangfu, and even the nearby government agencies did not dare to disturb them too much. However, the flowers are not blooming for a hundred days, and the prosperous days will be defeated at a glance, which is really disappointing.

It's a rare sight today. There is another wisp of smoke floating in the sky above Zhuangzi!

This group of children had nothing, but each one of them could magically pull out a broken bowl or a broken jar with a missing corner. This was what they survived...

"Have the people been counted?"

Hong Buping shouted: "Come here, everyone!"

He saw more than a hundred children gathered together timidly, like a long queue. Zhan Zhao was worried for Liang Chuan when he saw it. With few people, everyone could have enough to eat, but with more people, what would Liang Chuan do?

Hong Buping was also very nervous, but he had no choice. He just wanted these friends to survive, that's all. He looked at Liang Chuan nervously, hoping that Liang Chuan would keep them all, even if it was just to have enough to eat today, but he

I also know... there are too many people.

"There are a lot of people..." His voice sounded like a mosquito buzzing.
Chapter completed!