"Alas!" Mrs. An sighed, "Dad, hurry up and find someone for Qiyue! Don't waste time. If you delay any longer, you still won't be able to find a village or town today. We're all so hungry that we can't eat anymore."
I can’t drink water and I’m going to collapse! Jiajia won’t be able to bear it anymore!”
Their faces are full of food color, and their lips are extremely chapped. They are all similar, except for the five people from Xia Qiyue. The food color on their faces is fake. Although they are thirsty, their lips are not chapped. Although they are all equally weak on the surface,
But they are all fake!
"Well!" The patriarch didn't say much, and left with the crutch that he kept with him all the way.
After a while, six young men were brought over. At this time, it was impossible to tell whether they were strong or not, and they were all very hungry. However, the clan leader chose the one who was in better condition and was willing to protect Xia Qiyue and his family as they fled the famine.
Someone brought it here.
Xia Qiyue took a look and saw that there were sons from her eldest uncle's family. What surprised her even more was that there was also An Zihao.
The patriarch saw her confusion, shook his head and explained to her, "Zihao was separated by his mother, and this little girl was also assigned to him. I looked really pitiful, so I brought her here!"
An Zihao lowered his head in embarrassment. When the clan leader told him, he came over without hesitation, but when he saw his fourth sister-in-law, he felt a little embarrassed.
After all, we are all a family, and it is unreasonable that he would protect his fourth sister-in-law and ask for money.
"Fourth sister-in-law... I don't want any money. I just want... I just want Ling'er and Xuan'er Ke'er to sit together, and I'll push the wheelchair, okay?" The voice was low, but it came clearly to Xia Qiyue's ears, "I
, I really don’t know how to take care of children…”
Xia Qiyue didn't expect that Ge Mingyu and An Zikang would really give this girl to An Zihao. They were really cruel. Seeing the little girl being held by An Zihao in front of her with a hot face and talking nonsense from time to time, Xia Qiyue
Yue knows that it is not always easy for adults to blame children for their grudges.
What's more, this little girl has always been ignored by Ge Mingyu. She was bullied at a young age, and now that she is with An Zihao, she has to help.
At the very least, she is still the cousin of the two children. She does not look at the Buddha's face but the monk's face.
"No need to be special, the money will still be given to you. There is enough room for three children to sit down, so let Ling'er sit down!" Xia Qiyue said calmly.
Although she said she shouldn't vent her anger on the child, she couldn't become enthusiastic.
"Thank you, Fourth Sister..." An Zihao pursed his dry lips, not knowing what to say other than this.
"Okay, the few here are also coming with us. Girl Qiyue, please tell them clearly that we are also leaving! We are all waiting!"
The clan leader waved and introduced the remaining five people to Xia Qiyue.
One is An Liang, the uncle's cousin, and two of them are brothers. When they were in the village, the two brothers were good at robbing. There are only two brothers in the family, one is seventeen years old, the other is nineteen years old, and there is a sister who is only five years old.
.
Their father was also a hunter. He was less than forty years old, and the family's burden was enough to bear. So as soon as the patriarch told him, the two brothers came out to earn money.
One is called Anton and the other is Ancheng.
The other three Xia Qiyue all knew each other, and one of them, the son of the patriarch's family, An Youde, the second eldest son of the patriarch's family, was smiling at Xia Qiyue and saying hello.
One is An Laozhuang's youngest son, An Sijin, who is the same age as An Zihao and the others. He is only seventeen years old and has not married yet.
Anlaozhuang chose the names of his sons very casually, Dajin, Erjin, Sanjin, Sijin. His daughter also saw that Da Ya and Er Ya should go to the back.
The reason why the people we found were all unmarried people was because we couldn't find anyone who was married. After we had a family, everyone in the family needed them and couldn't get out.
Xia Qiyue looked at the six spirited young men who were now wilting from hunger, but judging from their stature, she knew they were all good.
"Okay! Let me tell you all, just protect our mother and two younger brothers and sisters along the way. When the time comes, we will give you a salary of one tael of silver a month. When we can buy food and water, we can
have a meal together."
Li Zheng had already summoned people to set off, and Xia Qiyue didn't dare to waste time. "As for the rest of the time, you can go your own way. You don't have to follow us. Just go as usual!"
She didn't want to be too conspicuous, she just wanted to find someone who could protect them and take action at critical moments. She didn't want to treat them as subordinates.
Except for An Zihao, the other five of the six people agreed happily, and then each returned to their own team. However, after returning, those families started to get closer to Xia Qiyue, intentionally or unintentionally.
The salary of one tael of silver a month was something they did not dare to think about. Even the price of grain at the dock was not that high.
Twenty cash a day, a month of non-stop work is only six hundred cash, not to mention that the work can't be continued.
What's more, you can still earn money while escaping from famine, and you can earn so much.
Xia Qiyue told her not to make any noise, so the five of them had no intention of making any noise after they returned. Only An Zihao stayed. After putting Ling'er in the wheelchair, the wheelchair suddenly felt crowded, but the two sensible children did not.
No sound was made.
Cousin Ling'er is not much better off than them at home. She often doesn't have enough to eat and has to feed chickens and sweep the floor.
She has never bullied them, so they have no hostility towards her.
Mrs. An initially wanted to grab the eight taels of silver from Liu Mei, and An Qingyan also wanted to take away one tael of silver, so she couldn't care about Xia Qiyue.
Looking back, she was busy taking the fifth child out. She didn't want to do this, but the fifth child insisted on keeping that damn girl, and was determined to take that damn girl out who was sick and about to die. When she saw that the old man didn't say anything,
, she just let him go. It was okay to wait until the dead girl died and then call her son back to work as a coolie.
Some people in the province said that she died of not treating that dead girl.
After everything was settled, the dead girl was kicked out of the money-losing guy, and another money-losing guy was sold. After the seven taels of silver came into her hands, she turned around and heard about Xia Qiyue's earning of one thousand taels, and she suddenly felt her hands
The seven ounces held in it are fragrant.
Now it’s time to take a step forward and say a few words of curse, saying that I missed the best opportunity.
Liu Mei felt resentful in her heart. She sold her daughter but didn't give her a tael of silver to take away. The old woman only gave her a tael of silver. She was unwilling to do this. She was so angry.
But when someone else said that Xia Qiyue sold the drawing of the wheelchair for one thousand taels, she suddenly felt that her daughter was undersold.
Just a piece of tattered paper was sold for a thousand taels, but the girl she raised until she was a teenager was sold for only eight taels of silver.
She thought about it and felt that she had made a huge loss.
At the same time, she hated Xia Qiyue. She couldn't say what she hated, but she just couldn't see her living a better life than herself.
So the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who had just been at war with each other, had already begun to plot, and their eyes were on Xia Qiyue's pocket, but they didn't know that Xia Qiyue was protected by six young men.