Escape from the desert

Lin Gui looked at the woman whose tears kept falling, and sighed: "This old woman is from Liujia Village, the family has run out of food, and their village has stopped water again. The family has a large population, and her man is not a convenient man. Going down, the family can only starve to death, so they sold the youngest girl to Renya..."

Hearing this, Jiang Yan suddenly remembered that when she was just getting on the ox carriage, there was a sound of crying children coming from the carriage, but the sound was too low, she didn't notice it, it was the first time she saw the carriage, so she couldn't help but take a second look .

Now that I think about it, it should be a human tooth carriage, and most of the children sitting on it are children who have been sold.

Jiang Yan bit her lip and looked at the crying heart-piercing woman, her mood was extremely complicated.

Thinking of a few sensible and filial children, she thought, if she really reached this situation, even if she starved to death, she would never sell the child she gave birth to in October.

She looked at the woman, and some people had the idea of ​​selling a baby. In fact, it was not necessarily that they would starve to death, but once they had this idea, the bottom line would slowly drop again and again.

Jiang Yan didn't know the actual situation, but if she really starved to death, she might sell her children, and the children might still be able to eat in other places. After all, in this era, human trafficking is legal.

When the bullock cart came to a fork, the old woman, who was crying, got off the cart with difficulty.

Jiang Yan retracted her gaze and patted Lin Bei, who had been holding him tightly, with a heavy heart.

"Mother, will you sell us too? That's why you gave us such a good meal?"

Lin Bei looked at Jiang Yan in panic. At first, he felt that the mother gave them three meals a day so well, and he definitely didn't want to live or want them, but now she took them to set up a stall for business, and cut meat for them to eat ...

Jiang Yan's backhand was a brain collapse, pinching his disembodied face and said, "What does this little brain think every day? Do you think you are piglets? You have to eat fat ones and sell them for a good price? "

"Don't worry! I'm still counting on you to give me retirement, I won't sell you!"

Jiang Yan comforted Lin Bei, but her mood became heavier. The drought continued to worsen, and there would only be more and more people selling their children.

The path in Liujia Village was about half an hour away from Linjia Village. After turning a corner, the familiar mountain appeared in front of several people.

At this time, the sky was just right, and the scorching sun shrouded the entire Linjia Village.

"Aunt Jiang, it seems that your business is doing well. You go to town by ox cart and buy a lot of things."

"That's right, it's a newly bought jar, it's so pretty."

The women chatting in the shade under the big tree at the entrance of the village saw the mother and son of the Lin family who got off the ox cart and knew that she was going to do business in the town.

Jiang Yan was fortunate in her heart, but fortunately, she blocked some of the back basket with leaves, and the contents in it were not enough for them to see all of them.

She motioned for her sons to go back first, and said to the women, "I just fiddled around with food, but fortunately I didn't do much, otherwise I'd be afraid that it wouldn't be able to sell. Come back with that many things on your back."

"The price of food in the town is going up now, and my family doesn't dare to buy anything anymore, it's so expensive!"

"That's right, Aunt Jiang, what did you buy?"

Jiang Yan smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just bought some buckwheat noodles and less than half a catty of fatty pork. I haven't eaten meat in more than a year. I thought about buying some fatty pork to squeeze some oil, and getting some oil residue for a few people. A kid to taste the meat."

Several women nodded in succession. Although they were all saying that Jiang Yan had made money and could afford meat, they would not be too envious. Fat meat itself was used for oil refining, and to them, it was not a real thing. of meat.

"The price of this fat has gone up now, I'm afraid it will cost [-] cents a pound."

"That's right, Aunt Jiang, how much money did you make?"

Most women are born to gossip, especially this kind of village women, who are more broken than each other.

Jiang Yan imitated herself and said, "The price of meat is already 20 cents. How much money my mother earns is not enough to eat meat. If it weren't for the fact that there is no oil for the pot at home, it would be better to buy more soba noodles."

The women looked at Jiang Yan eagerly, only to feel that this Aunt Jiang was very different from the previous one. Seeing that she was not angry, they asked, "Aunt Jiang, what do you sell for food?"

Jiang Yan said: "Cold tofu, cold tofu made of wild vegetables, the cost is not high, but it is very troublesome to make, and it is steamed and boiled, and sugar and oil are added. Sugar and oil are expensive, and now the price has increased. Busy and busy, I still don’t know if I can make money.”

Jiang Yan naturally knew what these people were thinking, she just wanted to know how she did it, so she simply said something more complicated.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, all the women present looked complicated. When they heard about the sugar and oil, most of their curiosity disappeared. It would be better if they were sold. If they couldn’t be sold, the sugar and oil would be a loss. died.

This time they don't get to the bottom of it, no matter what, it's sugar and oil, the taste will definitely not be bad!
"Hey, I still owe the candy store's copper coins, so I'm looking forward to selling more copies tomorrow, and I'll pay off the money first..."

The more they listened, the paler their faces became. Jiang Yan smiled in her heart and was about to go home to cook and eat, but when she turned her head, she saw Lin Bei stumbled over.

"Mother! Xiao Wu is gone! Xiao Wu is gone! Woohoo... it's all my fault! I shouldn't... be separated from him!"

The 12-year-old child had convex eyes and concave faces, and shouted in panic and helplessness, and his hoarse crying sounded into Jiang Yan's ears from all the way.

Jiang Yan's heart skipped a beat: "What happened?"

Lin Bei knelt down in front of Jiang Yan, tears fell down big and big, tears and snot smeared his face, and his small body looked very miserable, Jiang Yan subconsciously hugged his body tightly.

"Sister-in-law said that Xiao Wu was gone, and they haven't found it since they found him in the morning! Xiao Wu is afraid of life and never talks to others. He was brought up by me since he was a child, and he has always been away from me for half a step. It's my fault... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuier (I shouldn’t have left him alone—I shouldn’t have gone to town with my mother…”

Jiang Yan hurriedly said: "Have you looked for it in the village? Did Xiao Wu look for it in places where he usually goes a lot?"

"I've already found it... I've found it too, mother... What should I do? What should I do? If Xiao Wu is lost, I..."

Jiang Yan quickly reassured Lin Bei. This child always acts like a little adult, but after all, he is a child. He will cry hoarsely, tremble all over, and be out of breath. His relationship with Lin Feng is more than other Several brothers should be kind, if Lin Feng is really lost, the child will cry to death.