At the beginning, the abandoned wife brought two children, and became the richest man by farming and

A night without dreams.

When Yi Ren got up, the sky was bright and clear.She stretched herself and stood under the eaves, smelling the fresh air after the rain and the fragrance of the soil.

She took a deep breath, as if infinite vitality was surging in her body.Looking up at the sky, seeing a red sun rising in the east, my heart is full of hope and expectation for the future life.

She has been in the book for so long, she is always running around for her livelihood, she has no time to think, let alone enjoy life.

Today's good weather made her feel that no matter what happened in the past, there will always be a better tomorrow in the future.This hopeful feeling made her feel happy and fulfilled.

She seized the time to make the pancakes to be sold today. Today's breakfast was rice porridge and soft egg custard. After breakfast, Yiren sent the small dumplings to Aunt Li's house.

When I came back, I saw that Uncle Qing's ox cart was already waiting at the door of the house. The three-year-old and four-year-old children were helping to transport mountain goods to the cart. The two and a half older children finished loading the cart in a while, greeted Yiren and ran away.

Today, as usual, I first went to the county to deliver the mountain goods, settled the money, and then rushed to the town's wharf to sell cakes.

But when he arrived at the pier, Yi Ren found something strange.

In the past, laborers came and went, although there were not as many small stalls and hawkers on the central street, they were still lined up, and there were dozens of them.Today, there are only a few laborers on the pier. They don't sing hard songs like before, don't talk, don't even make eye contact, and carry silently.The only vendors left were Old Weitou who sold noodles and Yiren who sold cakes.

Yi Ren had a premonition that today's business would not be better, but he still stayed and waited for the noon break.

"Brother, you have a foreman surnamed Xiao, do you know him? Didn't he come today?" After the work break, several people came to buy cakes one after another. Yi Ren looked around, but he didn't find Brother Xiao.Since she came to sell cakes, that brother Xiao came to buy them almost every day.Even if she doesn't buy it, she can still see others.Yi Ren was about to ask an acquaintance what happened.

Hearing this, the elder brother who bought the cake suddenly became nervous, with a secretive expression on his face, took the cake and paid for it, and then walked away.

Seeing that no one was buying cakes, and seeing no acquaintances, Yiren was hard to inquire, and was about to pack up and leave.But I saw a group of people coming out of the corner of the street.

There are old people, children, young adults, and even young women in the crowd.The thin old man with a stooped back was supported and walked in the middle.The young woman had disheveled hair on her temples, holding a seven or eight-year-old boy in her hand, and a baby in swaddling arms, staggering every step.

There was another person carrying a stretcher next to them, in a group of two. The stretcher was covered with a white cloth. Judging from the shape, it was a person.

The rest of the young men and women, male or female, either held a pickaxe for digging the ground, or a sickle for mowing the grass...

The crowd came fiercely, crying and howling all the way, and walked over mightily.Yi Ren's stall had already been cleaned up, but she was going in the same direction as the group of people came, and she couldn't move.And she also wanted to know what happened. Yi Ren stood sideways on the side of the road with the spirit of panting and gossiping, ready to watch the excitement.

A head protruded from the black-covered boat, it was the steward of the dock.He obviously also saw this scene, pulled the servant-like person beside him, whispered a few words, and the servant quickly ran away.

The crowd overtook Yi Ren and flocked to the pier, placing the stretcher on the ground.

"Give me back my son's life!" Although the old lady was thin, her voice was shrill.She sat on the ground and pulled off the white cloth to reveal a man. The man had a strong figure and his arms were as thick as the legs of a calf, but his face was pale and bloodless, as if he had drained all blood.

If you look carefully, you can still see a neat cut on his neck, which is very short but right in the middle of the main artery.

"My husband is dead here, and you will give three taels of silver. How can the three of us live!" The woman with the child also cried and slumped on the ground.

"You cannibals! We must seek justice today!" The young and middle-aged man next to him shouted with red eyes.

"Fairness! Fairness! Fairness!" Everyone shouted in unison.

Yi Ren looked at the person on the first stretcher from a distance, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became... She couldn't help but move forward, wanting to take a closer look.

"Blind date, everyone!" A person came out of the black boat. "I'm the chief steward of the pier! Yesterday, I sent people home and gave me money, and you all came to make trouble, isn't it unreasonable!"

"Bah! Fucking shit! You will pay three liang of silver for a life! Three liang of money for life! You have the face to take it!" One of the middle-aged men with a scythe stared wide-eyed and spat on the ground. a mouthful. "Three taels of silver, how do you let those orphans and widowed mothers live? They can only die! The whole family is dead and used as fat for you corrupt officials, you are happy!"

"You pay for your life! We also pool three taels of silver to buy your life!" Another person shouted.

"My life! My life!"

Seeing the crowd getting angry, they gradually approached the chief steward at the dock.

Yi Ren also saw clearly that lying on the stretcher next to the old lady was Brother Xiao who was the first to buy her cakes on the pier.

Yi Ren looked at the clean wound on his neck, and was a little dazed for a moment: It was just that it rained yesterday, and he didn't come to sell cakes for a day, and Brother Xiao, who was as strong as a cow, just disappeared?Mingming said with a smile the day before yesterday that her pancakes were delicious, and that the pancakes would be hot when winter just started, when the fields were not busy and the rivers were not frozen, so they would definitely be good to buy.He was her first buyer on the pier, and when she thought she was teased for being young and beautiful, he also helped her out...

The images since meeting Big Brother Xiao flashed through Yi Ren's mind like a movie...

She knew that this was a book under the ancient system, without modern civilization and laws, but she never thought that so many people would die overnight.Never thought that a human life is only worth three taels of silver.

At this moment, she only had four words in her heart, and her life was like nothing.

While she was in a daze, those family members rushed forward, pushed down the stacked sacks, and scattered the grain on the ground.The boy who ran away earlier also came back, bringing back a team of officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers held spears and poked into the crowd indifferently. Some civilians were stabbed to the ground, and some officers and soldiers were cut by sickles...

For a while, the scene was chaotic, with blood all over the ground. There were old people and children crying around, as well as the sound of cursing and evading each other.Yi Ren was engulfed in it, was bumped back and forth several times, and finally came to his senses, but he couldn't push away the crowd around him.

Seeing that the wooden handle of the pick next to her was about to hit Yi Ren's stomach, she subconsciously squatted down.