It is not uncommon to encounter living people while moving sheep.
Most people just pretended not to notice and pushed them into mass graves. There are also people who have a little conscience and abandon them on the way to the mass grave, leaving it to fate whether they survive or not.
The big guy Xu Gang had other ideas.
He squeezed the woman's chin with his hand and moved it back and forth, and said happily: "Look at this little lady, she has thin skin and tender flesh. Sell it to the third aunt before she is dead, and maybe you can get a bag of grains."
The third aunt is the most ruthless character in the prostitution street. Any woman dares to take over and sell to any woman.
The woman being pinched by Xu Gang had just woken up from a coma and was unable to resist at all. She could only look at the cheerful Xu Gang anxiously and fearfully.
At this moment, another man squeezed into her sight.
Qin He looked up and down her body, his eyes naked and unabashed.
"She looks quite glamorous. She must have been a pampered young lady in the past." Qin He opened her mouth and checked the tongue coating. "There are no signs of poisoning. Maybe she was just acclimatized and was misdiagnosed."
Xu Gang chuckled: "She is so beautiful, and she won't have a good life even if she is poisoned."
Qin He nodded, understanding the meaning of Xu Gang's words.
The woman was mistakenly thought to be poisoned by a miasma, so no one touched her. If he was healthy, he would have been mutilated by the soldiers and turned into a human figure. When Hua Can Liu Bai is sent to hard labor, how many days can her thin arms and legs survive?
From the moment she was exiled, her tragic ending was doomed, it was just a different process.
Seeing Qin He staring at the woman, Xu Gang asked with a smile: "Brother Qin, why don't you do something first? As long as you don't kill her, you can get food in exchange."
He smiled innocently, but the words he spoke made women's hair stand on end.
"If we miss this moment, if we want to get her in the future, we will have to go to the third aunt and spend more money!"
Xu Gang said that he was about to grab the straw and prepare to make a soft bed, not caring that there were corpses around him.
"Brother Qin, I'll do it after you finish it!"
The woman was so anxious that she was in tears, but there was nothing she could do.
Qin He waved his hand at this time, signaling Xu Gang not to worry.
"Keeping this woman might be of greater use."
Qin He's eyes moved to the woman's face.
"Can you read?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded and blinked with her limited strength, fearing that Qin He wouldn't notice her response.
Qin He smiled.
"This woman is not for sale." He turned to Xu Gang and said.
Xu Gang was a little confused.
If you don’t sell it, how can you keep it yourself?
Even if you like drinking milk, there is no need to raise a cow at home, right?
Qin He patted Xu Gang's shoulder. It's not that he couldn't explain many truths, but that these people couldn't understand them.
Xu Gang spent his whole life floundering in the quagmire of the bottom class, and he couldn't understand the importance of literacy no matter how hard he tried.
But Qin He knew that if he wanted to change his life, understanding the words of this world was the first step he had to take.
"Anyway, I'm keeping this woman. You can just sell her to me. I'll give you a bag of grains later," he said.
Xu Gang quickly refused: "Brother Qin, why would you say such unreasonable things?"
He saw Qin He's family situation in his eyes, and he almost couldn't open the pot.
"One code equals one code." Qin He nodded.
The two of them stopped talking and immediately covered the woman and the seven corpses with straw and transported them out of the yard to the inaccessible mass grave.
Along the way, pedestrians encountered two people wearing masks and dragging wooden carts covered with straw, and immediately hurriedly avoided them.
The closer you get to the mass grave, the fewer people there are.
Occasionally, a dilapidated house appears on the roadside, with only dust and cobwebs inside. Even homeless people with nowhere to go will not come here to stay.
Qin He and Xu Gang dragged the woman down and placed her in a broken house. After a bumpy ride, the woman seemed to be unconscious again. Xu Gang kicked her but she didn't wake up.
"It's better to find a hemp rope to tie her up." Xu Gang said worriedly.
"There's no need. This is southern Xinjiang, and the land is full of miasma. Where can she, a northerner, escape to?"
Qin He continued.
"Since she is literate, she should know how to assess the situation and know what choices to make at the moment."
The woman's eyelids moved, and Qin He smiled silently, without saying anything.
"Let's go." Qin He pulled Xu Gang and turned around.
Xu Gang was very efficient in his work. He immediately pulled the wooden cart like a bull and hurried towards the mass grave. Qin He was pushing the cart behind, keeping an eye on the body to prevent it from rolling down.
When the two of them smelled the stench, they knew they were very close to a mass grave.
The so-called mass graves are originally natural valleys formed by mountain collapse. Later, some people abandoned baby girls and disposed of stolen goods here, and gradually it became a place where officials agreed to bury corpses.
Looking up at the sky, we can see many large scavenging birds circling in the sky.
These evil birds are like the evil people in the world. The more chaotic the world is, the fuller they will eat!
Qin He and Xu Gang were afraid of being infected with corpse poison and did not dare to stay here for a long time, so they worked together to tilt the wooden cart. The corpses on top rolled down together with the straw, and a few muffled sounds came back after a few seconds.
Then there was a delicate wail. Maybe the falling corpse hit a dying patient in the pit, or maybe some of the corpses just pushed down were just unconscious and not really dead...
But the pit was so dangerous that the two of them could not take the risk to rescue him. They could only cover their noses and speed up, dragging the wooden cart back.
When I returned to the shabby house, the woman was indeed still there.
Not long after Qin and Xu left, the barking of wild beasts sounded around the broken house, which scared her.
"Brother Xu, I will take this woman back first, and you can go to the accountant's office to collect the reward for me." Qin He ordered.
Xu Gang couldn't help but be moved. He didn't expect Brother Qin to trust him so much.
After all, these untouchables are notoriously profit-seeking, and would even sell their own fathers for money.
The two separated immediately. Qin He found a path and led the woman home.
Behind Qin He's house is a swamp, and in front are many barren graves. The people who live in this kind of place are all descendants of exiles, untouchables with no money or power.
While leading the woman past a barren grave, the two happened to be bumped into by a thin man.
The thin man's name is Pockmarked Six.
He used to have a pockmarked face, but later he contracted some unknown disease and his cheeks turned blue, and the pockmarks were covered with green skin and were no longer visible.
"What a handsome lady, where did Brother Qin get such bright things?" The pock-marked Liuyi looked up and down with fine eyes, staring at the woman with horror.
Qin He showed off his predecessor's mischievous skills and replied jokingly: "I picked it up near a mass grave. It looked clean, so I took her back to be my wife for a few days. When I got tired of playing with it, I sold it to my third aunt. If you want to get involved, , bring a jar of rice wine tonight!"
These words frightened the woman's expression. She pulled away and tried to escape, but Qin He grabbed her wrist tightly.
Upon hearing the word "mass grave", Pockmarked Liu immediately changed his expression and jumped back a few steps.
After coming back to his senses, he said with an apologetic smile: "Brother Qin, you are so brave, I am not so lucky." After that, he quickly slipped away.
The pock-faced Liu walked away before he cursed in a low voice.
"This wicked thing wants to use a plague woman to trick me into giving me a jar of wine? Bah!"
