The era of all the princes

Chapter 126 Pessimistic expectations.
"Mother, I'm cold"

Outside the deck, a little girl hugged her hands and feet, her face was flushed by the sea breeze, and she said coquettishly to her mother.

"Go back to the cabin to sleep when it's cold." The woman pinched the little girl's face and said softly.

"No." The little girl shook her head: "The cabin stinks."

"After a few days of full food, you know that you think people smell bad?" The woman knocked the child on the forehead angrily.

"It really stinks."

"You are too spoiled"

The woman also sighed. She came to the deck late at night because she was not used to the filth inside the cabin. The adults who took them away were very reluctant to load the ship. Each ship contained nearly a thousand people, basically crowded in the cargo hold. All kinds of body odor, sweat smell, and foot odor are gathered in such a narrow space, and the strong smell is indeed a bit scary.

Not to mention that there are enough seasick people, and people often vomit, especially on the first day, the entire cabin is full of vomit, so there is really no place to stay.

Then the adults in charge of the boat organized people to clean up, and strictly stipulated that the vomiting should be vomited into a large wooden barrel, so the environment was slightly better.

Of course, this is completely tolerable for most refugees. After all, many people have been displaced for nearly a year. What kind of dirty and messy things have they never eaten or lived in?

But for those who have just been in distress, for example, her family can't bear it. She was born in a noble family, and the husband she married is also a well-known scholar. She can wear silk and satin when she goes in and out, and she can afford nobile jewelry. She is also considered a middle class. Well, my daughter has been pampered since she was a child, so she can't bear the pain she is suffering now.

But she also knew that there should be no going back to the previous life.

On the day of the war, my father's family was wiped out for not cooperating with the payment of supplies, and my husband happened to be socializing with my Yue's family, so I fled overnight with my daughter and got mixed up with the refugees.

For four or five days in a row, relying on the porridge in Guankou County to hang her life, the quilt to warm her body at night was also taken away, and the mother and daughter died of cold in the countryside several times. Thinking about those few days, the first thing she woke up every day The thing is to touch her child to see if she is still angry, that is almost her last belief in living.

Especially when she saw the child's complexion getting worse day by day, she couldn't bear the despair she felt at that time, and wanted to take Yaya to commit suicide several times.

When North Shore recruited short-term workers, she just came here with the idea of ​​trying it out. After all, these places recruit short-term workers who are strong and strong men. How can there be a woman like her with a drag bottle?
But she didn't expect to be directly called into the boat by the soldier. She thought that maybe the officer had taken a fancy to her, and she had already compromised in her heart. In order for the child to have enough to eat, she would give it to her body.

But I didn't expect that after boarding the boat, I found that the people on the boat were all women, and many of them had children.

This made her very puzzled, recruiting short-term workers, why do they need so many women and children?
But it's probably not a good thing.
Thinking about it, she sighed and touched her daughter's face. The people on this boat are very generous with the food, especially the children's food. The daughter has eaten well these two days, and her complexion has improved visible to the naked eye, but she is still not optimistic about the future. How to expect.

She has heard that there are many slave traders in Bingzhou, who often take homeless people overseas and sell them to the nobles of the island countries. She and her daughter look good, so it is estimated that they were taken in by them, but she looked away, but when she thought of the six-year-old girl Ah, in case you meet someone who likes children.
Thinking of this, she has been frowning for the past few days. If that moment really comes, she would rather jump into the sea with the child in her arms.

"Why are you here again?" A cold voice instantly made the woman shudder, and the little girl next to her hurriedly hid behind her mother.

"My lord." The woman quickly saluted.

The questioner was a woman, and she was a woman in military uniform, her status was not low. She had seen many sergeants salute when they saw her, which made her very curious.

"It's windy on the deck at night, and your mother and daughter are both delicate. If you catch the wind and cold, there is no room for you and your mother to live alone!" The woman who spoke was obviously Liu Yan who came out to patrol.

The woman's face turned pale when she heard the words, and the daughter behind her asked crisply, "Then where should we go if we are sick?"

Facing the child, Liu Yan's eyes softened a lot, but her tone was still cold: "Throw it into the sea!"

"Ah..." The little girl was so frightened that she hugged her mother's leg aggrieved, tears streaming down her face.

"Adults, don't scare the child." The woman quickly knelt down and hugged the child to comfort her.

"I'm not scaring you." Liu Yan looked at the sea and said quietly: "There are so many people on board, and the medicinal materials are scarce, if you really catch the cold, it is impossible to take risks for your mother and daughter."

"The concubine knows." The woman nodded with a pale face. The owner here is really not a kind person.

"That." The woman hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't help but said: "Excuse me, my lord, what are we doing overseas when we go overseas?"

"You'll know when you arrive."

"Then" the woman gritted her teeth: "I am literate and good at painting. If I am a slave, can I be sold to a good family? I don't ask for anything, I just want children"

"That's not up to you." Liu Yan interrupted the other party lightly.

"The concubine understands." The woman hugged the child in a downhearted manner, and after a salute, she quickly stepped into the cabin.

After the woman left with the child, a tall shadow stepped out of the shadows: "You said you obviously like this mother and daughter, so why scare them?"

The person who came was Luo Lin who came from another cabin.

"It's good to scare her, but with such a strong sea breeze, the child is still playing around." Liu Yan looked at the sea, her eyes darkened: "Besides, she is very lucky to meet an adult before the child dies."

Luo Lin opened his mouth, and didn't know how to answer for a moment. He and Liu Yan were from the same village. Knowing Liu Yan's past, both children were killed by a savage in front of his face. This woman became mean Some, there seems to be a reason.

"What about you? How's the situation?"

"It's all pretty good," Luo Lin said with a smile, "Most of them are ordinary refugees. Those who have a stutter are already satisfied, but there are also some ruffians who make trouble secretly. I threw a few into the sea. Now the rest People are much more honest.”

"There are no other forces?"

"How many?" Luo Lin nodded and said, "But my lord won't let you move."
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In another large ship, groups of three or five young and strong men were also discussing what they would be sent to. Men and women were separated on all ships. After all, there were too many people, and it was really inconvenient for women to be with men.

Many people with their wives and children can only temporarily separate to get rid of the anxiety when boarding the ship at the beginning. Now most of them are familiar with each other. After the food and clothing are settled, they have more energy to discuss other things.

"Brother Feng, where do you think we will be sent?" A big man asked while chewing on half a steamed bun left during the day.

"Where can I go?" The young man named Feng Geer rolled his eyes and said: "The worst thing is being dragged to dig gold mines for those overseas nobles. I heard that those overseas barbarians are cruel and treat foreigners harshly. With the whip whipped to work, many miners died of exhaustion in the mine pit, and were directly dragged to the sea to feed the fish, and there was not a single corpse."

Everyone trembled when they heard it, and a big man couldn't help but said: "It's not that miserable, is it? I think the owner of this boat is very kind to us, much more kind than the government, and the porridge he drank was thick and thick, and it was full of meat. .”

To be honest, in the past six months of wandering in Bingzhou, during the ten days on the boat, many people ate the best food in the past six months.

"Heh" the young man sneered: "The purpose of making you full is to make you look better, and then you can sell it for a good price."

Everyone was speechless for a moment, it sounded so depressing.

"So there's no chance of something better?" Another person couldn't help but ask.

"The best thing is to be a domestic slave to those overseas barbarian masters. It's better than being a miner's slave. Although humble and at least have a full meal, you have to be careful. Those people overseas are different from us in the Central Plains. They don't follow the rules very much. If you move, you will chop off your hands and feet, and you will not cultivate the concept of family slaves, and slaves of foreign races will basically be squeezed out and oppressed by slaves of their own race, and they will not live well anyway."

"Brother Feng knows a lot, what did you do before?"

"The doorkeeper," the young man said with a smile.

"That must be guarding the door for the elders, otherwise how would I have such insight!"

The people around nodded repeatedly, with admiration on their faces, leaving the young man speechless for a while.

His name is Ye Feng, he was a scholar in Jingyang Nian, and he became famous at the age of 14, but because he offended the local school officials, he failed in the next two township examinations, so he came to Bingzhou in a fit of anger, and became a servant of a certain general.

Yu Wentai rebelled. He persuaded the general to retreat to Jiuqu, at least there is a sea route to get in touch with the court, but he was scolded for being greedy for life and afraid of death. When the city was finally broken, he fled among the rioters. Come to Toshiba County and board this thief ship.

He also knew that the person behind the temporary labor was probably not a kind person, but he was about to starve to death at that time, so he didn't care about it so much.

Now that he has regained his energy, he has to find a way to subdue some people to escape, but the surrounding townspeople who stutter seem to have nothing to ask for. No matter what he says, they don’t seem to have much complaints, which makes him a little have no choice.

Those jokes in the book that gather followers with a wave of the anti-king's arms don't seem to be very useful here.
Although there were not many scholars like him on the ship who were the guests of the generals of Bingzhou, there were a few, and they had secretly contacted each other to encourage the people on the ship to find a way out.

But after a few days, there was almost no effect, and I felt a little desperate all of a sudden, saying that the scholar rebellion failed in three years, which really makes sense.

In desperation, suddenly, the door of the cargo compartment was opened, and a tall armored sergeant walked towards him: "Everyone is up, we are going to the place soon!"

About to arrive?
Ye Feng, who was originally discouraged and wanted to go to sleep, suddenly got excited again. Now that the people on the boat have enough to eat, they don't have much resentment. When they get to the island and know what happened to them, they may have a chance.
(End of this chapter)