"Sir, let's go and take a look. Something seems to have happened!" Upon hearing this, Zhu Yucao immediately suggested to Zhang Mingwei.
Zhang Mingwei nodded after hearing this. In fact, it was just in front. No matter if it was fast or not, he would be able to see it soon anyway.
I saw a group of people surrounding the city gate, including soldiers guarding the city and people wearing ordinary clothes, all watching the fun.
As soon as Li Ruolian saw this, he immediately signaled to his two men, one on the left and one on the right, to pass Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Acuo by a horse's head and watch from the front to prevent accidents. And he himself also got closer to Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Aona.
Zhang Mingwei and the others were sitting on horses and were relatively tall, so although they were outside the crowd, they could still see clearly what was going on inside.
Inside the crowd, I saw a tall man standing with a livid face. Beside him, a woman squatted on the ground, hugging two children about five or six years old, crying and crying. Said: "If you really want to sell your son or daughter, then sell me!"
A boy and a girl were crying and hugging the woman tightly.
"You think I want to sell them! Aren't they my children?" The man said with a painful look on his face, "Don't I treat them well? Don't you think about it? I haven't had anything to eat for three days, and all I have to do is drink. What's the use of water? Look at them, they will starve to death if they continue like this! If we sell them, they can survive, get a bucket of food in exchange, and can also treat my mother."
"Then sell me, sell me too!" The woman cried loudly and replied, "You are so cruel, they are so young, you don't know what the masters will do to them after being sold? I sold it for food, and you took two children with you!"
"What should I do about my mother?" The man howled in pain, "If you were not here, who would take care of my mother, and who would take care of them both? Besides, my mother still has a fever, so we must ask a doctor to take a look immediately."
"Have you had enough arguing?" A man in gilded clothes in front of them got a little impatient and immediately asked, "It's just a matter of whether we sell it or not. Don't waste my time!"
At this point, he paused and then added in a cold voice: "These days, there are many people selling it over there. If you don't want to sell it, just go away!"
"Sell!"
"Not for sale!"
The tall man and the squatting woman answered loudly almost at the same time, but the answers were exactly the opposite.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Yuyao immediately turned to Zhang Mingwei and said in an angry tone: "This man is really nothing. Why didn't he sell himself first?"
Zhang Mingwei actually knows the plight of refugees. Now that he really saw a real case of selling children and daughters in front of him, he was still shocked.
However, he was not as angry as Zhu Yuluo, because he knew that, just like Lan Tianbao's family, sometimes a good family might be forced into a path of no return by the world.
Zhang Mingwei has never experienced this kind of experience, but he is an adult and has written a lot about the late Ming Dynasty, so he naturally knows too much!
However, Zhu Ainao was different. She grew up in the palace. As the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, she naturally grew up in care and did not have to participate in the struggle for imperial power. It can be said that she is a real flower in the greenhouse. Suddenly seeing this kind of selling of children and daughters, her anger is also understandable.
Zhang Mingwei was thinking this in his heart. Before he could respond to Zhu Yuluo's words, he heard a weak, but extremely firm and angry old man's voice coming from the other side of the city gate: "If you sell my grandchildren because of me, an old man, I will hit you." I'll die for you!"
The tall man was shocked when he heard it, and immediately turned his head to look, then shouted "Mother" and hurried over.
Zhang Mingwei heard the sound and looked over, only to see an old woman holding on to the city gate, as if she couldn't stand firmly.
The tall man immediately supported the old woman and said sadly: "Mom, it's all unfilial children, but your disease must be cured, we can't wait any longer!"
The old woman seemed to have a strong objection to her son and wanted to get rid of him, but she had no strength at all. So, she raised her head, looked at the man in brocade clothes, and said firmly: "We, the Liu family, will die together and live together. We will not sell it!"
When the squatting woman heard this, she cried with joy and quickly shouted "Mom!"
However, at this time, the man in brocade clothes changed his expression and shouted coldly: "If you dare to tease me, come here and snatch those two little bastards from me."
"Yes!" Upon hearing this, his subordinates immediately stepped forward and snatched the woman from her arms.
"Mom, Dad..." The two children were robbed, and they cried out in fright.
Although the woman had not eaten for several days, she had the strength to hold the two children tightly, making it impossible for the two servants to snatch the children away for a while.
With a "pop" sound, the old woman slapped her son and shouted sternly: "Why are you still standing there?"
The tall man was beaten, so he ran over to stop him and said at the same time: "I won't sell it anymore, I won't sell it anymore!"
"Haha, you said you won't sell it?" The man in brocade sneered, and then sternly ordered, "You dare to amuse me, you are so shameless, don't even want a grain of food, give me a beating! "
So, the man's remaining three or four men immediately swarmed over. But he didn't expect that the man was very skilled and couldn't do anything to him. When the two people who robbed him saw him, they gave up and then went to beat the man.
As soon as the woman saw it, she immediately retreated to the city gate with her two children in her arms. She put her children next to the old woman and without saying a word, she rushed into the crowd to help her husband.
The onlookers were just watching, and even the soldiers guarding the city were just watching the fun. Although most of them had expressions of intolerance, they did not speak. Only a few of them seemed to whisper something, but when the man in brocade heard the sound and looked over, his voice immediately fell silent.
The couple must have been hungry and lacked strength. The person they knocked down immediately got up and pounced on them. After a while, the couple was unable to resist.
When the tall man arrived, he quickly protected his wife behind him and bore the fists of those people alone.
"Alas!" Several people sighed and couldn't bear to look at it any longer, so they turned around and wanted to leave.
"Stop!" Zhang Mingwei shouted loudly when he saw this.
When the man in brocade heard this, he turned around and shouted: "Who dares to interfere in my business? Are you tired of living?"
But when he saw clearly that the speaker, including the people around him, were all riding tall horses, he was stunned for a moment, and then changed his tone and explained: "I am Xu Yunchao, the steward of the Jiading uncle's house. Teasing is really intolerable and unbearable!"
It sounds like he is the weak one!
From Jiadingbo's house? When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he immediately thought, what a coincidence!
When Zhu Yuyao heard this, she was a little surprised, but immediately her face darkened and she shouted: "Why do you want to rob other people's children if they don't want to sell them? And beat others? Is this how your master taught you?"
When Xu Yunchao heard this, he immediately became unhappy. He changed his expression and said, "When did it become the turn of outsiders to point fingers at the affairs of Uncle Jiading's house? Haha, you are just a maid. Isn't it the master who didn't say anything? You're just blind to yourself." Bibi, what did your master teach you?"
Zhu Yasuo was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help but think, had she really gone beyond her duties as a maid?
When Xu Yunchao saw her like this, he thought they were concerned about Jiadingbo's identity, and he felt a little proud.
But before he had time to speak, Wang Erbiao became angry and quickly protected the Lord: "How dare you say such arrogant words?"
When Xu Yunchao heard this, he was stunned for a moment and became angry. He immediately shouted sternly: "Who dares to take care of the affairs of my Jiading uncle's house? These two brats today were appointed by the young master! Whether you sell them or not, I don't care. It’s decided! Let’s put it here, who cares, who will be unlucky! If you don’t believe it, come and give it a try?”
Although the title is not very high, with the current queen and the prince here, it is impossible for even those from the Duke's residence to get into trouble with the Jiading uncle's residence just for the sake of a mere refugee!
The group of servants who were attacking the couple originally stopped, but after hearing this, they all started to attack again with evil smiles.
