Chapter 161 The Father Who Sells His Son and Daughter Part Three
Chapter 161 The father who sells his son and daughter 3
As darkness fell, I heard all kinds of sounds around me, including snoring, grinding teeth, and talking in sleep.
After days of traveling, everyone was exhausted, and Yao Chunlin soon fell asleep.
Only Qin Xiaocui was left, secretly taking out some grass roots and the like from the bag, throwing them into a bamboo tube, mashing them, and feeding them to her children.
"Mom, I'm hungry..." the youngest son Yao Erdan sobbed.
If he hadn't cried out from hunger at the beginning and was beaten by Yao Chunlin, he would probably have burst into tears by now.
"Chew some roots and swallow them before going to bed. You will not be hungry when you fall asleep."
Qin Xiaocui touched the small withered yellow hair on his head distressedly.
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After a pair of children ate some, they endured hunger and fell asleep.
The next day, after dawn, the city gate was still tightly closed, and only those who paid could enter through the small door.
Yao Chunlin and Qin Xiaocui didn't know what to do, so they could only sit in a daze with the others.
Until the city gate suddenly opened, three carriages came out, and a group of people wearing the clothes of servants and maids came out of the carriages.
The leader was a middle-aged man dressed as a butler. He said with a straight face: "I am the butler of the Liu Mansion. Our Liu Mansion wants to buy someone. If you are willing, you can come and line up, negotiate the price and sign the deed of sale."
"Butler! I'm going to..."
"Butler, and us!!"
"Butler, what do you think of my daughter??"
"Butler...my wife is a prostitute and good at cooking. Can she do it?"
Butler Liu frowned and shouted angrily: "Get in line for me! Don't let anyone who squeezes in!!"
After saying this, those crazy refugees calmed down a bit.
He hurriedly started to line up, still holding the crying child tightly in his hand.
An aunt pinched the girl next to her and cursed: "Damn girl, why are you crying? Mom is sending you to enjoy your happiness! When you get to Liu's house, you will have food to eat, water to drink, and a place to live.
, what’s wrong with that?”
The girl shook her head and cried. She knew that she was selling herself into slavery, which was not what her mother said.
Yao Chunlin looked at the Qin family. If the daughter-in-law is not good enough and she has to take care of the men of their Yao family, then...
His eyes fell on Yao Daya, who was shrinking at the side.
After all, they have been married for several years. How could Mrs. Qin not know what he was thinking.
She knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and begged: "Mr., please don't betray me! She doesn't eat much, I'll find roots for her to eat, and I'll take her with me! She won't be in the way..."
"Oh, I won't sell her! Do you have the entrance fee? Apart from people, what else is valuable to our family?"
Yao Chunlin stood up, picked up Yao Daya and left. No matter how Qin family begged and Daya made troubles, it was of no avail.
He brought the child to Butler Liu and asked flatteringly: "Butler, how much do you think I can sell this girl for? She is obedient, can do anything, and looks good."
Yao Chunlin wiped Yao Daya's dusty face clean with his dirty sleeves.
Originally, Housekeeper Liu had no intention of having such a young child. It would take several years to raise her before she could work. What would she do?
However, I saw that the little girl did look a bit upright, so I thought that the young master in the family needed a personal maid, so it would be fine if she had been trained since childhood.
"Okay, one tael of silver."
"This..." Yao Chunlin hesitated, and he prayed: "Butler, good people are rewarded, can you give me one or two more? This girl of mine is really well-behaved."
Butler Liu was unmoved, "No, it's just this price. If you don't want to sell, get out of the way. There will be more people selling behind!"
"Master, we won't sell it! One tael of silver is not enough anyway, let's go." Seeing the opportunity, Mrs. Qin quickly came up and pulled Yao Chunlin away.
Yao Chunlin hesitated for a moment, looked at his crying wife and daughter, and thought about it, it was right, one tael of silver was not enough.
His wife cannot be sold and she has to take care of them. His son cannot be sold either. He is his only male son.
"Hey, forget it..."
When Butler Liu saw that this man really left with the child in his arms, he thought about it and stopped him, "You! Wait."
"I?"
Yao Chunlin looked around, and after confirming that he was being called, he hugged the child and walked back.
This scared Mrs. Qin's heart out of her chest.
"If it weren't for you, my daughter, who is indeed a bit upright, I would never give you any advantage. I'll take you two taels of silver and have your fingerprints pressed."
Butler Liu wrote a contract displeased, and then threw a small piece of silver to Yao Chunlin.
"Thank you Butler Liu!"
Yao Chunlin was overjoyed, nodded and bent down to press his fingerprints, and then handed the crying and struggling Yao Daya to Liu's mother-in-law to hold.
"Mother! Da Ya don't want it, mother!!" Yao Daya stretched out his hands and struggled towards Qin's direction, shouting heartbreakingly.
"Da Ya, mother-in-law, Da Ya! Boss, I beg you, don't betray Da Ya! Let's not go into the city, okay?"
Mrs. Qin knelt at Yao Chunlin's feet, pulled his trouser legs tightly and begged.
"Damn mother-in-law, are you looking for a slap in the face? Let go! That's not your eldest daughter, that's the Liu family's eldest daughter!"
When Butler Liu heard this answer, he stroked his beard with satisfaction and asked his mother-in-law to take the girl away with a smile.
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After Yao Daya was sold, Mrs. Qin held her son and cried heartbrokenly, but it didn't help.
After Yao Chunlin dug out the silver in the package, he took out a few more coins from his pocket, and added the two taels of silver to make up three taels of silver.
After paying three taels of entry fee, he took Qin's mother and son into the city.
The city is very prosperous and lively! But there is no place for them.
With the remaining two cents of silver, Yao Chunlin gave two cents of money to the child to guide him when he entered the city, and then rented a small room in the back alley of Fireworks Street.
It's the kind where you have several rooms in a courtyard and rent them separately.
Even for this kind of house, the monthly rent is one cent and sixty cents.
With 38 Wen left, Yao Chunlin bought three big buns and two bamboo tubes of water were gone.
Then he asked Mrs. Qin to go out to work, "I have already asked the girls in the flower house next door to ask the nearby women to help with the laundry. You can pick up the work tomorrow."
"What? Master, you want me to go to the flower house to pick up the work?" Mrs. Qin looked at the man in front of her in disbelief.
Yao Chunlin didn't take it seriously, "What's the point? Weren't you also sold here? I didn't ask you to pick up guests."
Hearing her husband's humiliating words, Mrs. Qin wished she could have killed her on the spot, but she couldn't let go of the ignorant young son and the daughter who didn't know life or death in her arms.
As for Yao Chunlin, after he had finished eating and drinking and giving instructions, he lay down on the bed and stopped moving.
There was a daughter missing from the family, and he didn't even feel the slightest bit sad or concerned...
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In order to let her son have food to eat, Mrs. Qin went to Hualou the next day and begged hard and got a job.
She goes to the backyard of Hualou every morning to wash clothes, and goes home after finishing work in the afternoon.
Because water is so precious now, there is no water to wash clothes in the yard she rents.
In the backyard of Hualou, there is an ancient well. It is said that it has a history of many years and has never dried up.
I stopped updating, my heart is broken () I will make up for it overnight, everyone will watch tomorrow morning~