Chapter 160 The Father Who Sells His Sons and Daughters Part 2
Chapter 160 The father who sells his son and daughter 2
Author: Qingqingli acridine
Chapter 160 The father who sells his son and daughter 2
Qin's real hardship came when her daughter was one year old and she finally became pregnant again despite her husband's few efforts.
Father Yao was very happy. In order to supplement his daughter-in-law's nutrition, he was over sixty years old and wanted to go up the mountain to find some food for her.
As a result, he accidentally slipped down the mountain and fell to his death...
The couple both fell to death. The villagers said that Yao Chunlin was a lazy man who was so lazy that even God could not stand it anymore, so he punished him.
Such remarks could not even reach Yao Chunlin's ears...
Because he doesn't go out... Qin Xiaocui doesn't like to gossip. She goes out to work every day while pregnant, and rushes home to cook in the middle of the day.
After serving her husband and feeding her daughter, she placed her next to her and hurried back to the fields.
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In this way, it was obviously a family of three, but she was the only one working hard to support the family.
Not long after, the government came to collect people for military service, which frightened the original person very much.
In order not to serve in the military, he finally left his bed, ran to his parents' house, rummaged through the cabinets, and found three taels of silver from his family's savings. He also sold the remaining two acres of land to collect ten taels of silver and handed it over.
Qin Xiaocui felt as if her family's fields were gone.
But it is even more unacceptable to let the husband go to the battlefield and die, so the field still has to be sold.
After paying the remaining two taels of silver from the military service, Yao Chunlin gave it to Qin with a big wave of his hand, and said: "Go buy meat, bring back some wine, and keep the rest for your wife."
The fields are gone, but life still has to go on.
Qin Xiaocui cheered up and diligently went up the mountain to find food, collect firewood to sell, and helped others harvest wheat during the autumn harvest to earn five cents a day.
Then I kept chickens, caught bugs to feed them, and laid eggs, but I didn't want to eat any of them, so I sold them all.
In this way, after making some money, I would go to other people's houses to weigh some noodles and go home to make wild vegetable paste, and I could still survive.
It wasn't until five months after my son was born that his second military service came again.
This time, Yao Chunlin sold his house and homestead! He got twelve taels.
I still paid ten taels, and the remaining two taels were given to Qin as food expenses.
They moved to live in an abandoned thatched house on the mountain looking at the orchards. Little did they expect that by moving to the mountain, Yao Chunlin could escape the night when young men were forcibly recruited.
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Another year later, the third military service came.
Late at night, Mrs. Qin, who was alert, heard the screams of pain in the village at the foot of the mountain.
She panicked and quickly got up and went out, approaching the village in the dark to eavesdrop, without even daring to hold a torch!
"Master! My two sons have been expropriated twice in the past two times. This is the only male in our family. Please let him go!" Aunt Yao knelt on the ground and begged.
But the officers and soldiers who were begged were unmoved at all and said coldly: "Search the house to see if there are any strong men."
"As you command!"
The officers and soldiers rushed in and even broke into the boudoir of Aunt Yao's youngest daughter, frightening little sister Yao and running out screaming.
Then there were all kinds of smashing sounds...
"Boss, there are no young men in this family, only a sixty-year-old man."
The leading man, who was wearing a headhunter's uniform, nodded coldly, "Next one."
Aunt Yao was kicked away by the man, and the officers and soldiers held sabers and threatened her not to scream again.
There are officers and soldiers guarding the village entrance and various intersections.
Qin Xiaocui was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she quickly and gently retreated to the mountain road and ran back to the drafty cabin.
With tears in her eyes, she bit her lip, shook Yao Chunlin's body with her hands, and shouted: "Master, wake up quickly! Master."
"Damn bitch, are you tired of living? What do you want me to do in the middle of the night?" Yao Chunlin scolded angrily.
"Master, stop shouting! Stop recruiting officers and soldiers. Many officers and soldiers have come down the mountain. They are recruiting strong men to serve as soldiers in the army camp! Master, let's run!" Qin Xiaocui begged with tears on her face.
She cannot live without her husband-in-law, and it is even more difficult for orphans and widowed mothers to live in these years!
Yao Chunlin listened carefully and found that there were indeed many noises at the foot of the mountain! He was so frightened that he quickly got up and put on his shoes and wanted to run.
"Master, wait for us! We haven't gotten the things yet!"
Qin Xiaocui anxiously carried her one-and-a-half-year-old son on her chest, woke up her four-year-old daughter and held her in her hands. She also packed clothes, household registration, money, and other items and packed them in a package.
Yao Chunlin, who originally planned to run away regardless, realized that his wife was bought with three taels of silver, so wouldn't she be at a loss if she ran away?
So he stopped and waited for Qin Xiaocui to catch up before walking quickly towards the mountain road.
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The two of them didn't know the road, so they ran around the mountain road in the dark to the foot of the mountain on the other side. As a result, they met people who had escaped from the next village.
So the two of them were overjoyed and hurried to follow!
Dissatisfied with Yao Daya's slow walking, Yao Chunlin picked her up and followed her quickly.
This is also the first time Yao Daya’s father has held her since she was four years old!
The family of four walked with that group of people for the rest of the journey. They were all from the same village, so they were familiar with each other.
They have been going east.
In that direction lies the most powerful country on the mainland, Donglin Kingdom.
Because they were afraid of meeting people from the government, they could only walk through the mountains.
The mountains are very dangerous, but there are many of them, and they only walk around the perimeter, so they can still eat some wild fruits and so on at the beginning.
Later, the drought became more severe, and they began to eat grass, bark, and roots.
The further we walked, the greater the conflicts among the people. The teams began to quarrel and fight!
Finally, everyone couldn't stand it anymore and decided to go into the city to see what was going on!
It took them a month to get out of the mountains and arrive at the nearest city.
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Outside the city gate, many people fleeing the famine were already waiting. They sat on the ground in a daze with numb expressions.
Some are evading military service, some are evading grain taxes, and some are escaping drought and famine.
In short, everyone is dressed in rags and smells bad.
The people in the team walked to the city gate and wanted to enter the city, but they were stopped by the officers and soldiers, "Stop! Each person has one tael of silver to enter the city."
"What? One tael per person??"
"Oh my god! Why don't you go and grab it?"
"Oh my God! Open your eyes, we can't survive anymore!!"
"Can I have less money, sir? There are thirteen people in our family, how can we get thirteen taels?" the old man begged.
"Don't go in if you don't have money. This is the rule of the government. Even a penny is indispensable. You can't come in if you like." The officers and soldiers guarding the gate looked at them with disgust, as if looking at them even more would make their eyes dirty.
The nostrils are almost pointing towards the sky...
There was no way, the rich people gritted their teeth and went into the city, while those who had no money could only sit outside the city gate and wait for a miracle.
Yao Chunlin was also complaining, "You too, the girl is just sick in the film, and you still spend money to hire a doctor.
You have to hire someone to give birth to a baby, and it’s not the first time you’ve given birth. Why don’t you just leave it at home? What should I do now?”
Because there were only three taels of silver left in the family, more than two taels were spent before fleeing the famine.
The child is sick, asking for help from the mother-in-law, food expenses at home, etc.
Qin Xiaocui couldn't tell her the pain. Since the war and drought, the price of food has increased five times. With that little money, she can't even buy much food.