() Mr. Liang said aggrievedly: "You will know for yourself by going to Wang Gong Factory and taking a look. These people may survive if they are sold at a low price, but if they are not sold, they will die!"
Zhong Jinwei turned to look at the three girls huddled in the corner. They all nodded with tears in their eyes.
Zhong Jinwei turned to Gu Baichuan and others and said, "Let's go take a look."
The three girls were all relatively delicate and beautiful. However, they suffered a sudden change. They were hungry and cold every day. They were wandering about life and death. They either sold themselves or were sold to Mr. Liang. They expected to be slaves and maids, but at least they were able to survive.
If you keep living, you can choose a good family to marry after the deadline.
As a result, he found that he was taken to a restaurant to be filthy and inhumane. If he resisted even a little, he would be whipped. However, it also attracted Zhong Jinwei and his group, which was considered a kind of luck.
One of them was smarter, named Li Simin. He knew that as soon as Zhong Jinwei and the others left, those people would definitely vent their anger on them, and by then, it would be their death. So, she rushed out and fell at Zhong Jinwei's feet: "Young Master
Help!"
Seeing this, the other two people also knelt down and asked for help.
It was the first time for Zhong Jinwei to be kneeled down by someone. He didn't know how to deal with it, so he turned to look at Gu Baichuan.
Seeing Zhong Jinwei's intention, Gu Baichuan seemed to want to save people. The people had already been beaten anyway, so there was no need to save others. He walked directly to Young Master Liang and said, "My Young Master will build up your virtues for you and give them the contract of betrayal."
Hand it over."
A good man does not suffer the consequences of his immediate loss. Mr. Liang pursed his lips. The servant, who was standing aside and was beaten in the face, took out three pieces of paper from his arms and approached Zhong Jinwei fearfully, wanting to hand it to him.
Gu Baichuan took a few steps over and stood in the straight line where the servant was walking towards Zhong Jinwei. He reached out and grabbed it first, and then looked at him.
I don't know whether it was because he was afraid of being beaten or because of Dongchang's reputation. The servant was afraid and backed up to the wall. He stopped when he had no choice but to retreat.
Seeing that there was no possibility of a sneak attack on him, Gu Baichuan turned to hand over several deeds of renunciation to Zhong Jinwei.
Zhong Jinwei glanced at it casually a few times, and it was like looking at English words in college. The traditional Chinese characters written vertically without punctuation gave him a headache.
He didn't look at it further, and handed it to the women casually: "Take your deed of betrayal, and live a good life in the future." Then he was ready to leave.
"Sir, please take us in, we have nowhere to go." Li Simin cried and begged.
I haven't considered this. If I want to take him in, I have to see what my wife wants. Zhong Jinwei turned around and looked at Archie.
Although Aqi left home and entered the palace at a very young age, he had never seen such a miserable experience for them, and he felt sympathy in his heart. When Zhong Jinwei looked at her, he knew he wanted her to make a decision.
Archi thought for a while and said: "Sir, the house should need some maids, or we should take them in."
Zhong Jinwei heard what Archie said and thought about it, so he agreed.
Zhong Jinwei went out first, followed by Archi, then An Guiyi, then the three miserable people, Gu Baichuan followed closely, and finally Wang Peng saw that everyone else had exited, so he put away the knife
, everyone present glared at him before exiting.
Originally, some people wanted to find out which Dongchang hero he was, but they swallowed it down after being given such a glare.
As soon as they went out, the three girls shivered when the cold wind blew. Zhong Jinwei frowned when he saw it. It was really cold enough to be so thin, so don't get sick from the cold. But now they have no clothes, so he looked at Gu Baichuan,
See if he has any ideas. Through this incident, Gu Baichuan gave him a very good impression.
Gu Baichuan cupped his hands and said, "Young Master, please stay here for a while. Don't bother me with anything. The younger one saw three fox fur coats hanging inside." Zhong Jinwei took the things belonging to the people in the room without any psychological burden and ordered them with a smile.
nod.
Soon Gu Baichuan took it out and put it on the three girls. Then, he smiled and said to Zhong Jinwei: "These dandy boys only bully the weak and fear the strong. If the little one goes in, they don't even dare to fart."
Several people laughed.
Zhong Jinwei thought for a while and asked An Guiyi: "Where is Wang Gong's factory? Are you on the way?"
An Guiyi replied: "Sir, Wang Gong's factory is in the southwest corner of the capital. It's a bit far and not convenient."
The three girls were a little surprised when they heard this. No wonder An Guiyi had been silent before. It turned out to be a father-in-law.
"Then please, Mr. An, please take them to see the house first. I don't have to go. Archie can just go. If there is anything else that needs to be purchased, Archie will write it down and I will buy it later."
With so many outsiders present, Archie's face turned slightly red, but his heart felt sweet, and he softly said "Hmm".
An Guiyi turned to the three girls and said, "This girl Aqi will be your mistress from now on. You must obey her in everything. Do you understand?"
Only then did Gu Baichuan and Wang Peng understand Archi's true identity.
No more words were said at the moment. After going downstairs, Zhong Jinwei made an appointment with An Guiyi to meet at Donghua Gate, and then watched An Guiyi drive away with the four girls.
When An Guiyi drove far away and was about to leave, he realized that the same transportation problem still needed to be solved.
It seems that in this era, it is really inconvenient not to be able to ride a horse.
Fortunately, there happened to be an old horse with a gentle temperament in this shop, and Gu Baichuan forcibly lent it to Zhong Jinwei to ride.
So, under the guidance of Gu Baichuan, Zhong Jinwei learned to ride and gradually mastered the essentials of riding. As long as he was not running fast, his riding skills were passable. A group of three people headed towards Wang Gongchang.
There are not many pedestrians on the road and the main road is wide, so it basically does not affect horse riding.
Since it was his first time riding a horse, Zhong Jinwei was fully focused and did not pay much attention to the surrounding scenery.
Now that martial law has been lifted in the capital, you can still occasionally see Shuntian Prefecture officers, but they have not come to take care of the three of them. Those who can carry swords and ride horses in the capital are all people with status.
By the time he was approaching Wanggongchang, Zhong Jinwei had become somewhat accustomed to riding a horse, so he put aside part of his energy and went out to observe the scenery along the way.
At this time, they had arrived near the slums of the capital. Although the streets were still relatively spacious, the sanitary situation was obviously not optimistic. They often saw piles of domestic garbage on the street corners, including all kinds of garbage. Fortunately, it is winter now.
There were no mosquitoes, rats or ants, otherwise it would be hard to tell what would happen.
Seeing this, Zhong Jinwei also thought of the famous plague in the late Ming Dynasty. Some netizens even said that the Ming Dynasty died from the plague. It seems that there are too many things that need to be changed. We need to pay attention to this matter and find a suitable one.
I had the opportunity to tell Emperor Chongzhen about this matter.
Suddenly, there were several officers leading mules in front and pulling over several flatbed carts, which were covered with straw mats, but the straw mats could not cover everything. When Zhong Jinwei passed by each other, Zhong Jinwei discovered that there was something exposed under the straw mats.
Many people's feet.
He immediately realized that this might be a dead refugee. Although he thought he had guessed the truth, he still wanted to confirm, so he crossed his horse in front of the second car and stopped the car.
He sat on his horse and asked the man leading the mule: "Excuse me, are all the refugees on the car dead?"
The man leading the mule looked up at him and sighed: "Is there any need to ask?"
"Can you lift up the straw mat and take a look?"
"It's better not to watch it. It's important for people to die. At least leave them some dignity."
If you are not allowed to see it, is there any inside story? Zhong Jinwei said: "Did you do something shameful and you don't dare to let us see it?"
The man sighed silently again and shook his head: "Young master, you can watch it if you want. It's your fault."
Gu Baichuan led his horse closer, bent down slightly, and lifted up one of the straw mats covering the car.
Zhong Jinwei was stunned for a moment. Most of the corpses in the car were old and weak. What surprised him even more was that all the corpses were without clothes and were just stacked in the car.
Immediately, Zhong Jinwei became angry. He even had to take off the clothes of these dead people and scolded those who could sell them for a few bucks.
The man saw Zhong Jinwei's reaction and spoke first, with a hint of helplessness in his voice: "Young master, do you think we took off these people's clothes to make money from these dead people?"
"Isn't it?"
"I know that the young master is also a kind-hearted person. Let me tell you, it is afternoon and the people in this car are all starving to death. There are not many people. If the young master comes here early in the morning, he can see the corpses.
The number of cars was several times that of today, and those people would freeze to death. So as soon as someone died, the people next to them would take off their clothes and put them on to avoid freezing to death at night. It’s not what we are doing.
Master, you understand what is immoral."
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he realized that he had misunderstood them. In fact, the demeanor of the black-hearted people was exactly as Zhong Jinwei had misunderstood. It should be completely different from those of them. Anyone with a little vision should be able to see this.
Zhong Jinwei apologized and then asked, "Are you going to take me outside the city and bury him?"
"It's freezing cold today, and there are so many dead people. It's impossible to bury them, so they can only be taken away and cremated."
Zhong Jinwei was speechless and stepped aside.
Cars were pulling past him one after another, and he could still hear someone sighing: "These are all poor people. They might have been talking and laughing at home a few days ago. The Tatars are a scourge.
This is what happened in the blink of an eye. If the emperor had arrested that Yuan Chonghuan earlier, this matter would have been over. What a fate!"