The water tank was dark and emitted an unpleasant stench.
Wang Lin covered her nose and looked into the water tank with squinted eyes. The water tank is very deep, and the sunlight can only illuminate the outline of the contents inside.
However, Wang Lin saw at a glance that there was a dead child inside.
Due to the hot weather, the child not only had bruises and bruises on his body, but also emitted waves of stench. The moment the vendor opened the lid, countless flies buzzed out, and they are still buzzing around the water tank.
The vendor was short and did not look closely into the water tank. He kept tapping the water tank with the wooden stick in his hand.
"Hey, wake up!"
Seeing that the little thing inside didn't respond, he tried his best to stretch his head and look over. The sight frightened him so much that he collapsed to the ground, facing the side and couldn't help but vomit.
I saw that the child inside had been dead for a long time, and parts of his body were even covered with white maggots, densely packed and slowly squirming.
"Is this what you're selling me?"
"Do you know what kind of crime can be punished for buying and selling children in our country?"
Wang Lin looked at the child in front of him who had been dead for a long time with some disgust, his eyes filled with coldness.
When the vendor in front of him saw the chill on Wang Lin's body, he immediately stopped retching and quickly waved his hand and explained:
"I'm not a human trafficker. These children are slaves I bought. Please don't slander them!"
slave?
Wang Lin frowned.
In Daxia, there are indeed slaves. There were even people who specifically gave birth to children and sold them directly into slavery.
Some children are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and these children are born with a contract of prostitution that follows them everywhere.
It seems that these large water tanks with uniform specifications are all filled with children?
Seeing that Wang Lin didn't speak, the vendor stumbled to the row of large water tanks.
One, two...
The vendor used his hands to remove the big stone pressing on the water tank, and then opened the lid of the water tank.
Dead, all dead.
The weather has been hot recently, and even when Wang Lin stayed in the palace, he still felt unbearably irritable.
It's hard to imagine what the consequences would be if a large living person were placed in this hot, airtight water tank.
After seeing the death scenes, the vendor cried bitterly and retched at the same time.
Of course, he didn't feel sorry for these dead children, but shouted over and over again.
"My money, my money!"
To him, these slaves are no longer human lives, but a pile of gold and silver numbers.
However, just as the vendor in front of him was crying, there was a banging sound from another water tank.
The hawker immediately broke down in tears and laughed. He was still alive? !
He immediately looked at the last two remaining water tanks aside.
These two water tanks are different from the others.
Other water tanks just have a big stone pressed on top. This makes it impossible for children who have little strength to push open the lid and escape.
The remaining two water tanks are now tied tightly with hemp ropes.
If the hemp rope is not untied from the outside, even an adult inside will never be able to lift the water cover.
"What's the difference between these two water tanks?" Wang Lin asked.
"Hey, sir, this is truly top-notch stuff." As the vendor spoke, he untied the rope tied to the water tank and said.
Snap.
Snap.
The wooden cover on the water tank was flipped to the ground by the vendor, revealing the contents inside.
A disheveled, ghost-like head popped out of the first tank, leaning out of the tank, taking in big mouthfuls of fresh air.
The voice was obviously that of a teenager. Judging by his appearance, he should be much older than the children who died in the tank, and he should be around eighteen or nineteen years old.
As for the other tank, it seems to be a girl.
But she was already lying in the tank, motionless.
"died?"
The hawker's face showed a sad expression again.
However, the next second, the boy obviously saw the girl's condition. He quickly jumped out of the tank and dragged the girl to the ground.
Touching his nose with trembling hands, he said in surprise: "She's still alive! She's still alive!"
The vendor on the side said: "Hey, sir."
"Ordinary slaves have one or two, but this is a strong boy, he has two and two."
"This woman next to you, please do your best and give me a couple of cents."
Wang Lin frowned, looking at the scene in front of him, and felt an uncomfortable feeling welling up in his heart for some reason.
Three taels?
He drank three ounces of wine in the palace.
Today's three taels are enough to buy two lives.
After a moment of silence, he took out three taels of silver from his pocket and threw it to the vendor on the side.
"Sell yourself to me."
"Hey, okay!"
When the hawker saw that he had received the silver, he quickly took out his small scale and weighed the silver. Seeing nothing more and nothing less, I was instantly happy.
Then, he turned his face, the expression on his face immediately turned into a fierce one that did not suit his body shape, and he kicked the young man squatting on the ground hard.
"Hey, your noble man is here, why don't you kneel down in front of him!"
The boy was kicked. He had been living as a slave for a long time, but this kick would not cause him any emotional ups and downs.
However, the boy was holding the back of the girl's head and received a kick that almost caused the girl's head to hit the ground.
Now, the young man looked back angrily and looked at the vendor beside him.
That look was like a lone wolf protecting its cubs.
The hawker was also startled by this look, but he immediately took out the whip from his arms.
He knew how to deal with this little beast.
smoke! Pump it hard!
The customer is still around. If the customer sees him being so disobedient, asking him to refund the money will ruin his business...
"You little bastard, I have to beat you to death!"
The hawker now had an angry look on his face, looking at the young man in front of him with wide eyes, and raised the whip in his hand to hit him hard.
boom.
But before he could use the whip, there was a muffled sound all over his body.
Soon after, Wang Lin stepped forward and kicked the vendor.
The hawker's originally small body flew backwards two or three meters in an instant, and he lay on the ground and screamed non-stop.
"Sir, you...what are you doing?"
The vendor's eyes were full of surprise and confusion.
He has never seen anyone beat someone over a slave.
"Since you sold it to me, it belongs to me. If you kick him, I'll kick you back. This is fair."
"But next time, I won't move my feet."
The vendor smiled apologetically and nodded when he heard Wang Lin's words in front of him. When he saw the weapon on Wang Lin's waist, his face turned earth-colored, and he ran out of the alley.
At this time, the girl lying on the ground slowly opened her eyes.
"elder brother……"
