Xinshun 1730

Chapter 919 The Old Ones Don't Go, The New Ones Don't Come (Part [-])
The overall moral level of Dashun is quite high in the feudal dynasty, and it is not like the situation during the Eight Kings of Jin Rebellion, where there was a decree that allowed children to be exchanged for each other's food.

The scholar-bureaucrats also condemned the custom of drowning infants a lot.

But people can't help but feel that this is normal.If the years are good, they will be raised, and if the years are not good, they will be drowned. What else can I do?

Zhang Pilu's wife is young and doesn't have much experience in making things perfect, but she also saw her mother drown her younger siblings when she was a child.

Because it is relatively normal, there is no such thing as a psychological shadow at all.On the contrary, I have to thank God, the years of my birth were good, and I was not taken away by She Hualong and his wife.

Maybe if you want to eat your own children, you really can't do it, so you have to change each other and eat other people's.

In the current situation, even if they have good intentions and leave the child alone, and don't drown themselves, no one will want it.In the end, starving to death, it would be better to drown directly, which can be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

Zhang Pilu felt sorry for his wife, even though he saw his wife nodded, he knew that he was really reluctant to drown the flesh that fell from his body.

After thinking about it, he said, "You wait here first."

After all, he glanced at several places, squeezed through, and found a family with a situation similar to his.

He was not from the same village, and he didn't recognize him. He just sang a good song and asked, "Should we change the child? I'm afraid I can't do it with the one in my family. In fact, I can't do it too much. Brother, look Okay?"

The other family didn't hesitate, and said with a hum: "It's done, but I'm afraid that I will drown here, so I won't let you go there. Dude, I just saw you begging there for a long time, why don't you go first?" Go ask, and say that the child has been killed, will he let him board the boat?"

Zhang Pilu thought about it, and it made sense, he nodded and said, "Well, I'll ask."

Pushing aside the crowd, he came to the side of the trafficker again, knelt down and said, "Master, I don't have any children this time. Can we go?"

The trafficker frowned, glanced at Zhang Pilu, and heyed, neither shaking his head nor nodding.

"Man, to be honest, I really don't want you to go. You said I let you go. Doesn't it seem that we encourage killing children and parents?"

Zhang Pilu knelt on his knees and said loudly, "Master, I heard a story from the master's family. It said that there was a rich family who saw someone leading a sheep across the hall to kill the ancestors. He said that he couldn't bear it." .That's why the master doesn't go to the back kitchen, for fear of seeing the slaughter of sheep. This is conscience."

"But the master also knows, is it abnormal to drown a child? If you don't care about it, you won't drown? Pretending not to see it, will your conscience feel better?"

"You don't accept us, your conscience feels better. But our family may all die next year. How many people can live in a year?"

"We just went to work, and we didn't want to choose Xiaolian or set up a memorial archway. Besides, we didn't kill our father or mother. Master, please do me a favor. I beg you."

The trafficker looked down at Zhang Pilu, who was kneeling there, and after a while, he knew that he was a strong worker.I also thought about the requirement of the male to female ratio on the Duke's side, at least a certain amount.

In fact, some money was also given to them, because women are items at this time, parents can sell them, and husbands and in-laws also have the right to sell them. Those young women who are not married want to go to work on the boat, and their parents really don’t care. Be sure to let it go.

If you give some money to release it, it will be considered as a sale.

The money given is not much, but if you can save one, you can get some kickbacks.

He is also a kind person. Seeing that Zhang Pilu is like this, he feels that even though he says he wants to take him in, this is to encourage drowning in the Huanghuai area in the future.This year is like this, and if there are still people who want to go next year, they think about drowning the children before the traffickers come to collect them.

But in the end, he is still soft-hearted, and he just accepts him, as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

"In this way, you can't wait here, I can't accept you directly. Accepting you directly, it seems that I encourage drowning infants. It's okay for me to make a fuss afterwards, so don't get the Duke involved. You know the south side Ten Mile Shop, right?"

Zhang Pilu shook his head.

"I'm not from this area. And I haven't traveled too much, and I followed others when I was in corvée a few times. The rest of the time I work in the countryside."

The trafficker froze for a moment, then laughed dumbly.That's right, before I became a soldier, didn't I just think that thirty miles from the village was the whole world?
"Then you go south, along the road, there are two big elms over there. Wait there."

Zhang Pilu quickly kowtowed a few more times.

"Thank you, master! Thank you, master! There is one more thing about my little one... Actually, if I don't go down and kill my own child, I do it in exchange for others. Can the master take him too?"

The trafficker snorted and said with a wry smile, "You can take care of yourself, but you still have the mind to take care of others? All right, but you can't have more people. If there are more people, I won't accept you. Go ahead. "

dong dong dong...

Zhang Pilu kowtowed seven or eight times before he stumbled to his feet, his eyes full of hope.

Returning to his wife, seeing his wife was still there holding the child and wiping tears, Zhang Pilu gritted his teeth and said, "His life is not good. His life will be better in his next life, and he will be born in a master's house."

After all, he snatched the child from his wife's arms.

His wife stood up almost instinctively, wanting to snatch the child back.But I got up too fast, and I was hungry for a long time, my eyes went dark, and I couldn't stand up after all.Then he sat down numbly, glanced at the child who was still sleeping soundly at last, and turned his head away cruelly.

Holding the child in his arms, Zhang Pilu came to the side of the family he had agreed with just now, and muttered the words of the trafficker in a low voice.

The two families changed their children, and Zhang Pilu came to the river with another family's child in his arms.The child happened to be awake, and his dark eyes rolled around. It may be that he has been hiding from disasters for the past few months. There are people everywhere, but he is not afraid of strangers. His eyes only look at this skin.

Zhang Pilu felt a little terrified when he saw the child's gaze, he wanted to put it on the ground, life and death would be at stake.

Otherwise, just get a log and let it float in the water.

Tang Sanzang's mother did the same, but it didn't delay Tang Sanzang's becoming a Buddha.

When I looked down to find the wood, I suddenly figured it out.If Xin Dao commits a serious crime, he will die, so why Ling Chi and beheading?

The beheading was just a matter of one stroke, but Ling Chi was in pain for several days.

I also suffered from hunger when I was a child, and the feeling of being hungry was really uncomfortable.Just leave it like this, now that everyone has suffered a disaster, even if there is no disaster, there are still many children in the mass graves, who is short of children?

Wouldn't he be starving to death here?
Anyway, I have already taken on this crime myself, so why should I learn from those masters who are far away from the kitchen?
Looking down at the child again, Zhang Pilu said in a low voice: "Baby, baby, in the next life, you can join the master's family. But even if you vote in the master's house, you may not survive. I heard that a master gave birth to two daughters. They were all drowned. The third one was a girl. She didn’t drown this time, but set her on fire. She said that the girl was dependent on his house. She was drowned before, and she was drowned. This time, she was burned out , don't come next time."

"Don't hate me. My parents have also drowned several of my younger sisters and younger brothers, and they have come here all these years. You are still young, so you don't know. You will know when you grow up. This kind of thing is too normal. "

He muttered a few words silently, although this is indeed normal, extremely normal in this society, but Zhang Pilu still has a conscience in his heart and is not very comfortable.

Finally, he made up his mind and came to the river.He suddenly lifted the baby's leg, lifted it upside down, and slapped the baby's butt with his left hand.The baby was in pain, and opened his mouth to cry. Taking advantage of the baby's crying and inhaling, his heart slumped, and he plunged into the river fiercely.

After returning there, they called another family over, and when it was almost night, they arranged two more bowls of porridge.

I drank half a bowl by myself, and gave the rest to my wife. I had to walk to find the big elm tree at night, and I could last by drinking half a bowl by myself.

His wife, who had just died, held the bowl, drank the porridge, licked the bottom of the bowl clean, packed up the only belongings, and put the bowls in the bag.

Of course they haven’t read a story in a foreign country. The noble lady saw the serf girl who died of her child drinking cabbage soup there and exclaimed that your child died. Aren’t you sad?How can I still drink the soup?The female serf gave this lady a reason that she could never understand in her entire life.It even seems to be a wrong answer.

There is salt in the cabbage soup!
There was no expensive salt in the two bowls of porridge that Zhang Pilu asked for, but there was strength hidden in the porridge. He could walk under the big elm tree and go to Nanyang.

It was getting dark, but the moon was still bright.

Zhang Pilu's other family walked quietly along the road to the south.When it was almost dawn, Zhang Pilu suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction of his parents' tomb.

"Father, mother, I went to Nanyang. When I come back, I will repair a good mausoleum for you. Father, mother, bless and protect us. You have been hungry for a few years, and I will have money in a few years, so I will pay for it." Yes. Let’s offer a pig’s head and a big fish.”

Two days later, the four dying of starvation finally arrived at the queue of traffickers.

These two big elm trees were found, but if it wasn't for their rich experience, they really wouldn't be able to recognize them as elm trees.The bark of the elm tree has been stripped off a long time ago, because the bark of the elm tree has mucus, which can be mixed with some chaff or cotton husks, so that it is lubricated, so it is easier to swallow without scratching the throat.

The leaves were basically gone, but fortunately, some old leaves remained. The four of them survived after eating some of the old leaves.

After waiting for the team to arrive, it will be better.

These human traffickers who were soldiers and some people who were former staff officers helped organize and prepared places to eat along the way.

How far to walk every day, how long the victims can resist, how far the victims can go, how many people to eat, how much food needs to be prepared, how to prevent food from being piled up together, these are the basic courses for the staff with professional background, even the victims, Also walk very methodically.

Zhang Pilu followed him for a few days, and felt that his good days were really coming.

At the beginning, I drank porridge, although I was not full, but it was more than before.

After a few days, I started to eat dry, brown rice with sweet potatoes, and even pickles.

He didn't know where he was going, so he just followed the team every day.I don't remember walking for a few days, and I gradually smelled the sea.

Then I saw a thatched hut, registered one by one there, and received a small sign with a number on it.He also didn't recognize these strange numbers used in the military, and separated from his wife after taking the small sign.

Men and women cannot be on the same boat, and women can take another boat and meet again there.There are women in charge of the women's side, and the women will distribute the clothes before boarding the boat, so Zhang Pilu can rest assured.

Before entering the wooden house, everyone took off their clothes and burned them clean.

"When you go to Nanyang to send out clothes, the old clothes have to be burned."

No reason was given, just such a rule.Then they were driven to the beach to take a bath, and then one by one they were forced to wash their hair with unknown water.

Zhang Pilu felt a burning pain in his scalp after washing, as if he had been burned by something.A group of people were naked, and several people entered the wooden house in groups.

Then a group of people with whips told them not to pee anywhere and to go to the toilet.Anyone who urinates anywhere is beaten, but not with a whip, but with a stick.

They said that whipping is easy to trauma and may cause inflammation, and it would be bad to die on the ship.

This group of people with whips told a total of two rules.

The first rule is that you are not allowed to urinate anywhere, otherwise you will be beaten.

Another one is that he would rather die of thirst than drink unboiled water.If you go to Nanyang, you will die if you drink water casually, and there will be someone responsible for boiling the water there.

Other than that, there are no other rules.While waiting for the boat, there was a strange incident. A man in a white cotton jacket cut his arm with a knife, saying that he would be free from smallpox after he got it.Zhang Pilu didn't know if it was true or not. Anyway, the children were all drowned, and they all came here, so they did whatever they said.

He thought he was lucky, and within a few days, the sky cleared and the wind was right, and he saw several large ships that he had never seen before.

On the boat, small squares were drawn with white ash in the cabin.Below is a pile of dry sand.

The small square is not big enough to lie down and turn over.

In the cabin, there are densely packed people, stuffed to the brim.

"Each person sleeps in his own square. It is not allowed to occupy other people's space. When you vomit, vomit in your own square, and you are not allowed to spit in other people's."

"No fighting."

"A group of thirty people, have you looked at the urine bucket tied to it? Pull urine into the bucket and take turns to empty it."

"It's better not to be sick. Otherwise, for the good of everyone, I can only throw it into the sea."

Before the steward had finished speaking, many people had already started to vomit.

At first, Zhang Pilu dug a hole with the sand under his body, vomited it into the hole, and buried it again.

But later on, I didn’t even bother to dig a hole, so whatever, I’m naked anyway, so I just need to wash up at that time.

(End of this chapter)