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The threshing floor outside the village is now a market, with some simple awnings set up here and there. Groups of soldiers are wandering around with their chests exposed, and some of them are drunk. [No pop-up novel website] Groups of refugees are treated as commodities and herded into open spaces. Those sent to the market are all women and children - some of the rebel soldiers are engaged in prostitution and child molestation to vent their lust, some have not had a son for many years and want to get a boy to inherit cigarettes, and some have no wives and want to get a wife as soon as possible - Although Kong Youde was a general many years ago, he never had a wife. He only got a wife after the Denglai Incident.
Young women with better looks are treated better, because they are afraid that they will not be able to sell their tanned clothes at a high price, so they have to put up a tent on their heads. If you were an average peasant girl with rough hands and feet, you would have to kneel at the foot of the wall and wait for your choice. All of them have unkempt hair and sallow complexion.
There are both "public goods" and "private goods" here. The latter are mostly young women, mostly plundered by soldiers and generals who then resell them when they get tired of them.
In addition to the human market, there are piles of rag markets, which cover a wider area. Each stall is spread out and filled with items: everything is sold here: rags stripped from piles of dead people. From gold and silver playthings to jade ornaments... farmers' farm tools, businessmen's abacus, actors' suitcases and musical instruments, and even longevity materials purchased by wealthy families are all here - anything that can be found in homes, government offices, shops and even temples, there is nothing like it. Some of them were not snatched and sold, but some even carried beautiful native flowers - they were buried as funerary objects dug up by bandits who took advantage of the war to rob the graves of wealthy families.
Those who come to buy things are not only rebels, but also all kinds of people who are not afraid of death in this troubled world. They dare to fish for the money in the frying pan. They gather like flies smelling a dead body and try their best to get benefits. Recently, a group of human traffickers from Nanzhi have ventured from the sea and are buying young women.
Buyers and sellers. Everyone is carrying sticks and swords - there is no order here. Disputes over price are common and knives are used frequently. As for theft and robbery, it is even more common. Just walk a few steps on the edge of the market and you can see several corpses covered with flies. Swollen corpse. There are also rows of blackened heads hanging on the wooden poles.
Huang Ande frowned. Like Cao Qing and Zhu Si, he wore a pig-mouth mask made by Lingao according to the health worker's instructions. Even so, the stench of corpses still penetrated his nose. Their strange appearance often caused people around to look on, but no one dared to say anything - the rebels were a ragtag group, and even Li Jiucheng could not completely and effectively control every straggler. But everyone agrees that people under the "Qi Mu" brand name are not to be messed with. The rebel general guarding the market knew that if he offended Mr. Lu, the place would be slaughtered from top to bottom, so he strictly ordered his subordinates to pull out anyone who was disrespectful to the people coming to Qimu Island and behead them directly.
"It's Master Huang here!" Huang Ande was strolling. A strong man wearing a tattered trousers and an open chest came up to him and hugged his fists first. This man was the leader guarding the market. He was originally a servant beside Kong Youde, and he also took the surname Kong. Now that Kong Youde is the deputy marshal, he has naturally gained the title of "guerrilla". He led a team of people to run the market here.
After the two parties greeted each other, the boss asked: "How is it? Mr. Huang. Is it the old rule?"
"Of course it's the old rule." Huang Ande said, "Three hundred strong men. You count first - last time you tricked people and stuffed so many old, weak, sick and disabled people into them, more than forty died when they reached the ground. It wasn't enough. They got food money for food along the way! If something like this happens again this time, we, Mr. Lu, won’t be able to give us any food.” He took out a blue stamp and handed it over.
"It depends on what you say." Although Kong Youyi was born as a servant, he felt quite self-taught in business, and he excused himself with a smile on his face. "The last batch of young men were definitely not a small deception - how dare we do that. They were all real young men, mainly because they had been left in the circle of people for a long time. They didn't have enough to eat, and the weather was hot. It was hard to walk all the way. How many people are going to die on the way? Let me tell you, if I hadn’t chosen a particularly strong person for you, at least half of them would have died when they reached the island. Not to mention them, the commander-in-chief was marching a few days ago, and all the people who got sick on the road died. I lost it all the way! It’s poisonous from the sun.”
"Let's not talk about it anymore. You have to pick everyone up this time - if too many people die on the road, you may have to deliver the goods next time." Huang Ande said.
"Okay, okay, I'll go and prepare the goods right now. Should you still take care of the women and children by yourself?"
"Yes. All according to the old rules."
Kong Youyi immediately called a personal attendant and asked him to lead "Master Huang" to the labor market to select people.
Huang Ande was not the first to come back on errands. He was a refugee himself and knew how much the elders valued the population. And we know that the leaders, unlike other forces, attach special importance to women and children, and in many cases even give priority to transporting women and children away. exist
The first batch of people to be transported away from Qimu Island were also women and children. Moreover, he had vaguely heard that the chiefs were particularly interested in big girls from Shandong, especially those tall women with broad shoulders and long legs, who were particularly interested in them. Therefore, you have to be very careful when selecting people.
He walked along the way and picked out the ones he liked. With a finger, Zhu Si and Cao Qing would put a stamp on each other's arms with an engraved blue stamp. The rebels nearby will take the person out and circle him alone.
For those who are stamped - whether they are women personally selected by Huang Ande or Ding Zhuang who are randomly drawn by Kong Guerrilla - once they are stamped, they are destined to die - as long as they can get to the middle station. If you still have children or family members, one chapter can support the whole family. As usual, the whole family can go along. Therefore, people often ask people who have been stamped to pretend to be family members. If a single man is stamped, a woman will immediately be willing to be his wife.
In the past, they had used the method of hanging wooden signs, but later, for some reason, everyone knew that if they followed them, they would have enough to eat. So as soon as they hung them up, people would come up to rob or steal them, causing fights and shouting of injustice. There have even been fatalities. In the end, it was changed to stamping.
The instructions given to him by the owner of the Deer Village were simple: give priority to healthy women with natural foot, height over 1.5 meters, age under 40, it doesn't matter whether they have children or not. As for children, as long as they are not disabled, they are all required.
The condition of natural feet is more difficult to meet - the foot-binding custom in Shandong is different from that in Jiangnan: rural women in Jiangnan have to work in the fields, so rural women generally do not bind their feet. However, foot-binding is very common in Shandong. Even farm women rarely have their feet bound. . Therefore, the prerequisite of natural footing is not necessary. Other conditions are relatively easy to meet.
Huang Ande walked all the way and chose all the way. The women and children in the market were watching them with wide eyes. Although the rebels did not allow anyone to rush towards them, as soon as Huang Ande's eyes turned here, they would involuntarily want to stand up and rush towards them - until they were betrayed. The army's swords and guns forced them to hold back. This terrifying look full of expectation for survival made Huang Ande afraid to look at it sometimes.
Especially when I see the orphans in the market, I feel even more pitiful. They are all naked, lying down or sitting, and are extremely weak. They are small and frail, and have no one to take care of them. They are at the bottom of the entire biological chain in the human world. Huang Ande sighed while trying to take away every child who looked healthy.
Every time he takes away someone from here, he saves one more life. But now the reception capacity of Zhaoyuan and the island is also very limited. The spy boat can only transport a few hundred people at a time, so the quota given to him by Lu Wenyuan is to take away a maximum of 1,000 people at a time.
The last place I went to was the "small shed". The women sold in these small sheds usually have good looks, or women from middle-income families or above. Although you can't buy such women at the "standard price", and you have to pay cash. , but you can often find some women who match the aesthetic tastes of the chiefs. Chief Zhu allocates him twenty taels of silver each time specifically to acquire such women. The guide price given to him is three taels of silver per person.
There is a special guard outside the shed. Only those who show their sincerity by showing money can go in to "see the goods." Huang Ande has been there several times, but the guard knows his origins and does not question him. Zhu Si came in for the first time. He couldn't help but look around curiously. Suddenly, he trembled all over and pulled Huang Ande's clothes.
Huang Ande turned his face and found that Zhu Si was already blushing, lowering his head and not daring to look. Huang Ande knew that he was probably still a virgin, so he couldn't control himself when he saw the spring scenery in the shed.
The shed was not big, but it was packed with people. Under the sunlight, there was a smell of sweat inside, but there was an empty space in the middle that was surrounded by ropes and no one was allowed to come near. The women who were sold were all stripped naked and pushed inside for the buyers to inspect. You can only watch from outside the rope, but you are not allowed to touch it. Otherwise, they will be served with swords and guns.
Huang Ande knew that some out-of-town buyers were extremely picky and would not even buy products with slight scars on their skin. A young woman with a good figure and good skin can be sold for only five taels of silver at the highest price - only one-tenth of the purchase price in Jiangnan. When buying a girl in Jiangnan, you will never be allowed to check it out like this. It’s no wonder that all the traffickers in the Nanzhi area would rather tuck their heads in their belts and risk their lives to come here to “buy goods.”
On normal days, Huang Ande would have to make fun of this young man, but the "spring scenery" at the moment was an endless miserable scene. The women first had their families broken up and their families were destroyed, and then they were repeatedly humiliated and abused by the rebels. They were tortured until they were stunned and looked dull. She can do whatever she is told, even in the presence of a group of men, she is completely shameless and allows others to judge her - even a well-informed person like him cannot be interested in joking.
