Mr. Bai, the richest man in town, has the most luxurious mansion, but now it is depleted and gradually withering away.
The red lanterns hung high at night were also broken and covered with a layer of dust.
It was late at night, and the closed door of the Bai family was kicked open.
A group of vicious debt collectors took the guy into Bai's house, stood in the lobby and courtyard, roared and smashed the house, the sound was so loud that it could be heard from ten streets away.
"Where's Bai Shan!? Tell Bai Shan to come out to me! If you don't repay your gambling debt today, no one in your Bai family can even think of running away!"
"If you lose one tael of silver, I'll cut off one of your fingers!"
The courtyard was silent.
In the side room, little Fu Bao, who was only four and a half years old, was thin and trembling with fear. "Nanny, Fu Bao is scared..."
The wet nurse pressed her into her arms, "Don't be afraid, Fu Bao, don't be afraid, Liniang's spirit in heaven will protect you..."
The wet nurse said, hatred flashed in her eyes.
It all started when Bai Shan, the head of the Bai family, became addicted to gambling.
After Master Bai died, the family property was left to the eldest son Bai Shan to manage, but Bai Shan was really not a good person!
Relying on the fact that his family is a landlord, he used to be tyrannical, robbed women of the people, and committed all kinds of evil. This is how Liniang was... Even after Bai Shan came to power, he tried to get his hands on her many times!
She refused, and Bai Shan had never been kind to her and Fu Bao. Not giving them food would be a minor punishment, but in more serious cases, they would be punished by punishing them, master and servant, to kneel on the stone road in the ice and snow, which was so cold and so painful.
!Fu Bao and her simply depended on each other for their lives, and they managed to persevere until now!
When people like Bai Shan are in power, how can the Bai family be in good times?
He spent extravagantly, married eighteen or nineteen concubines, and gave birth to twenty or thirty children. Later, he drank wine with a group of gangsters, went out and became addicted to gambling, and was defrauded of all his family property.
Bai Shan could only come back in despair and sell off his ancestral property, land deeds, shops, servants, and even gold and silver. He resold everything he could and used it to pay back the money, but he couldn't plug the hole!
Now, the debt collectors are coming to your door!
Seeing that no one from the Bai family came out, the debt collector sneered, "Give me a fire to burn! I don't care how many people are burned to death by then!"
As soon as his voice fell, countless pieces of fire ignited like sparks in the dark night.
"You have to order the boss!"
"No! You can't burn it!" Bai Shan had to run out. He was so thin that he lost his appearance. He still looked like a playboy from before. He promised, "Here, this house hasn't been sold yet..."
It turned out that what he was thinking about was not how many people would die, but that the house could still be sold for money.
The debt collector sneered, "How much can this dilapidated house be worth? Why don't you trade your fingers, toes, eyes and ears for it? How much money is missing from our boss, you can pay back as many organs as possible!"
He stared angrily and saw that he was about to carry the big knife over. Bai Shan was so frightened that he softened like noodles and begged for mercy.
"No! No! Sir! Sir! I can pay you back!"
He trembled his lips, "Children! Yes! I have more than twenty children! Children are so valuable! If you sell them to the madam, each child will cost at least five taels of silver! A beautiful girl is also worth money if you give it to the madam.
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"I still have more than twenty concubines. Even though a few have escaped, they are all as beautiful as flowers and jade!"
"By the way! I have a daughter, Fubao. Although she is the youngest, she is a beauty at first sight! She must be valuable! At least ten taels of silver!"
He seemed to be insane, crying and laughing. He knelt down in front of the gang of thugs whom he had once looked down upon. His forehead hit the bluestone and he turned around with a thumping sound, "Please forgive me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"
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The debt collector spat and kicked him to the ground, "I'm telling you, your house belongs to my employer, and your children, wives, and concubines also belong to our employer! Aren't you going to sell them? Call them all out to me.
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As he spoke, a vulgar expression appeared on his face, and he touched his greasy chin, "I want to see what kind of beautiful lady the former overlord of Haizhu Town has..."
The brother behind him also let out a lewd chuckle.
"I, I'll go right away..."
Bai Shan staggered to get up, but was pressed by several debt collectors to find his beautiful wife and children. Suddenly, the originally dark Bai family was illuminated by fire, and the women and children who had been hiding quietly were found, screaming.
The sound of crying was endless, resounding through the night sky.
"Oh God! Oh God! Selling sons and daughters, what kind of world is this!"
"An unexpected disaster is coming! If I had known this, I might as well have died in Yihongyuan!"
"Let go of my son! Let him go! Ah Bao, Ah Bao! Mom can't live without you, Ah Bao!"
The women were all led out by the thugs. Their covetous eyes fell on the women's faces like hungry wolves. The children were tied up one by one. Those who were disobedient were beaten mercilessly until they fainted and stopped quarreling.
But Bai Shan just watched all this happening numbly, as if it had nothing to do with him, his eyes were empty and there was no trace of movement on his face.
Fubao and the others lived in the worst woodshed, not in the owner's yard where the Bai family members lived. It seemed that the thugs didn't know about this and were about to walk over.
The wet nurse held Fu Bao and huddled in the corner, praying in her heart: Liniang's spirit in heaven bless them and bless them to survive this disaster smoothly...
But she clearly heard the trembling voice of Bai Shan: "...Here! Fu Bao is here! Her mother is just a coquettish, low-life bitch! She must be valuable too! You sold her, sold her to
Madam!"
God damn it!
Fuck Bai Shan!
Heaven is unfair! Heaven is unfair!
The nanny wiped her tears and put the little blessing into the woodshed. "Be sure not to make a sound! When people start making trouble, run, run out! Don't come back! Never!"
Even being a beggar is better than living such a miserable life!
She wiped away her tears and rushed out, "I will fight with you evil ghosts!"
She only had a stick of firewood in her hand, which was thicker but far inferior to a real sword or spear.
"Where did you come from, bitch!"
They probably didn't expect that there would be such bloody people in the Bai family. The thugs got into chaos and rushed to stop the wet nurse.
"Nanny!" Fu Bao ran out crying.
"Let's go! Let's go!" The nanny didn't even dare to look at her, her face was full of anxiety!
Fu Bao has always been an obedient child. She immediately rushed out of the yard like a little mouse. Naturally, the thugs couldn't let her go. They thought she was going to run away from the door, so the thugs who chased her made a misjudgment.
Who knew that this little thing was so clever that he just ran out of the dog hole next to the door.
It's only big enough for such a child to run out.
"Fucking bad luck!" the thug cursed, not in the mood to care anymore.
How much is a female doll with a gray face worth? Only a desperate person like Bai Shan thinks that a daughter can be sold at a high price. How can a female doll be worth as much as a male doll?
In the yard, the wet nurse was no match for them. A thug went down with a knife——
Pfft——
The sound of the knife entering flesh was heard, and severe pain radiated from the nanny's belly. She didn't dare to think about it. She lifted the firewood in one breath and tried her best to knock down several of them.
She probably knew that her death was coming, and all the events of the past years were flashing before her eyes, and she was looking at them briefly, as life was impermanent.
"Liniang! How unfair is the way of heaven! How unfair!"
"You evil ghosts! In the next life, you will be cooked in oil and fire, even going to the eighteenth level of hell will not be enough to relieve your hatred!"
Her voice was particularly sad, resounding throughout the night sky in this chaotic, screaming night.