Start the Tang Dynasty: The descendant of Wei Wu from the Qin Qiong family!

Chapter 101
These two salt mountains are located outside Chang'an City, on the outskirts of the imperial city.

Qin Huaiyu and the four of them arrived in front of a small village not long after.

This small village is sandwiched in front of two salt mountains.

Although it is already noon, there are still few people in the village.

"It's strange, it's not the busy farming season, why is there no one on the street?" Cheng Chumo looked around curiously.

"Eighty percent of it has been abandoned, right?"

Yuchi Baolin said.

"Come on, let's go in and have a look."

Qin Huaiyu took the lead into the village riding a red rabbit.

This place is the closest to the two salt mountains. If you want to recruit people to join in the production of snowflake salt in the future, these local people are the best choice.

The buildings in this village are quite old, and half of the earthen walls surrounding many houses have fallen down.

There are dead branches and leaves everywhere, and no one has cleaned them up at all.

"It seems like what Yuchi Heizi said, this village has been abandoned."

Cheng Chumo said a little surprised.

"Let's look around first." Qin Huaiyu still felt a little strange.

How could there be no one in such a big village?
"Hey, kid, don't run away!"

The three of them were walking forward. Cheng Chumo didn't know what he saw. He suddenly exclaimed and rushed out.

"You idiot Cheng Er, be careful!" Yuchi Baolin reminded hurriedly.

However, Cheng Chumo's figure moved so fast that he had no time to reply to Yuchi Baolin's concerned words.

"Go, chase after."

Qin Huaiyu and the other two turned over and chased after him.

Cheng Chumo ran to a house. The place was so small that the war horse couldn't escape even if it got inside.

However, before the two of them could rush out far, they heard Cheng Chumo's scream coming from inside the house.

"what!!"

The piercing screams made those who heard it sad and those who heard it shed tears.

"Cheng Chumo, are you okay!!"

Qin Huaiyu kicked open the door and rushed in with a roar.

Then the next second, he stood frozen on the spot.

"Boss, how is he?"

Yuchi Baolin was one step slower than Qin Huaiyu. He rushed in and saw Qin Huaiyu standing there blankly, looking straight ahead.

That shocked look made Yuchi Baolin's liver tremble.

"Boss, is that boy Cheng Chumo dead?"

Yuchi Baolin didn't dare to look back.

After all, they have been good brothers since childhood, and no matter how much they fight, their friendship will not be affected. But now if Cheng Chumo disappears so suddenly, Yuchi Baolin really can't accept it.

"You Yuchi Heizi, you are actually cursing me to death!"

Cheng Chumo's angry curses came from the side, and Yuchi Baolin suddenly trembled.

Looking back, I immediately felt happy.

"You Cheng Chumo, didn't you just get bitten by someone, and why did you scream so miserably?"

Yuchi Baolin laughed without hesitation.

"This little bastard is not big, but his teeth are quite sharp."

Cheng Chumo frowned and grabbed the little kid's collar with his left hand. No matter how hard he struggled in mid-air, he couldn't get out of Cheng Chumo's hands.

He flashed his right hand in the direction of Qin Huaiyu and the others, and saw a deep purple tooth mark on his originally rough wrist.

Even on some edges, blood began to ooze faintly.

"Tsk!" Seeing such a deep wound made Qin Huaiyu feel a toothache.

"Kid, what is this place?" Yuchi Baolin asked, looking at the child in Cheng Chumo's hand.

The child looked to be about six or seven years old. He was dressed in patched coarse cloth clothes that were already dirty and messy. His face was also dark, as if he had a lot of pot ash on it.

The two eyes were very bright, just looking at them full of vigilance.

"Don't be afraid, we are not bad people."

Qin Huaiyu tried his best to look kind and looked at the child with gentle eyes.

But this kid obviously didn't buy it.

"It seems like something happened in this village."

Qin Huaiyu saw that the child was silent and looked too wary, which aroused a little suspicion.

"No way?"

Yuchi Baolin was a little shocked.

"This is around Chang'an. It's impossible to deal with such a large population silently!"

"Did I say they are all dead?" Qin Huaiyu asked.

"What do you mean, boss, that they have all been transferred?" Cheng Chumo responded.

"Moreover, the person who asked them to move must be someone they cannot and dare not resist."

Qin Huaiyu said firmly.

"But who would come here with nothing to do and transfer a bunch of civilians?"

Yuchi Baolin still didn't understand.

"What good will it do to them to take these people away?"

"Digging for salt."

Just when the four of them were a little confused, the child who had been silent until now finally whispered something.

"Digging for salt?"

The four people turned their heads in unison, and eight eyes fell on the child. The pressure was really heavy, and the child was so frightened that he lowered his head again.

"Don't worry."

Qin Huaiyu raised his hand and stroked his head a few times, and softly comforted him: "We are not bad people, we just want to know where have all the people in the village gone?"

The child was silent for a long time. He seemed to think that these people were quite nice, or maybe it was because of the child's tendency to trust other people's wisdom easily, so he said in a strange way:

"They were all forced to dig for salt."

"Digging for salt...are you talking about the two salt mountains behind the village?"

Qin Huaiyu asked after thinking for a while.

"Ah."

The child nodded: "Those bad guys discovered a salt mine on the mountain and insisted on dragging everyone to dig for salt."

"Isn't digging salt a good thing?" Cheng Chumo asked doubtfully: "Now is not a busy farming period, almost everyone is at home and idle."

"Isn't it great to have an errand to do at this time and also add some income to the family?"

The child shook his head hurriedly and said, "That's not what my parents said."

"Oh? Then what did they say?"

Qin Huaiyu felt that adults must know more things than a child like him.

"My dad said that these bad guys just want us to do hard labor and don't care about our life or death."

The child's voice was crisp, but what he said made people feel chilled from the bottom of their hearts.

"Uncle Wang next door was beaten to death by them with whips, Grandpa Zhang at the head of the village was exhausted, and Aunt Liu's leg was broken because she didn't cook well..."

As he spoke, he clapped his fingers as if to count how many people had died in their hands.

The child's unintentional behavior revealed a very real thing.

The little things that you think don't matter are all clearly recorded in a child's heart!
(End of this chapter)