In the afternoon, the little girl with the bun painted as usual, carrying a vegetable basket to buy vegetables at the evening market about 100 meters in front of her. It's what she does every day, picking up fresh ingredients at the dinner market and buying enough for the day.

Although Hua'er opened up a small vegetable field in the backyard of the county government and raised a few chicks, the vegetables have not yet grown up, and the growth of the vegetables has been affected by the floods.

Every time I go out, there will be an errand officer not far away to follow and protect, and the painting is now used to it.

After about a stick of incense, the painting returned from the evening market with a vegetable basket, and the vegetables in the vegetable basket were tender and fresh. The guards who followed behind were carrying two large carp and a white-striped chicken, and kept a distance of about three meters from the painting, and followed not far away.

"Dad, don't, please, don't...... Don't sell me to Yichun Lou to laugh, that Wang Yapo has always sent the girl she bought to Yichun Lou, daddy begs you...... Don't......"

Just when the painting was about to reach the small gate of the backyard of the county government, a girl dressed in coarse cloth and with messy hair staggered over from the side path in a hurry, whimpering and crying and turning back to beg as she ran, but after running a few steps, her feet slipped, and she only let out an exclamation and fell to the ground.

Impartially, she fell three or five meters away from the painting, the pear blossoms of the girl's crying brought rain, it was the appearance of a standard village girl, her cheeks were slightly black, stained with dust, and she often worked in the fields to form a touch of red, according to a rare appearance, the clothes on her body were not very clean, wrinkled, and there were traces left by doing farm work.

The errand who followed behind Hua'er was still very vigilant at first, and quickly approached Hua'er to facilitate protection, and after seeing that the person who came was a weak woman, he felt that there was no danger, so he took two steps back.

After the girl fell, a man ran on the side of the path, the man was long and thin, about forty or fifty years old, wearing dirty and tattered clothes, with a bitter face and hatred, and suffered from wind and frost.

"Cui'er, Dad, there's really no way to do it, this God doesn't give him a way to live, we can't live this day, we can't open the pot at home, my mother is sick again, I don't give money, Lang Zhong doesn't give me medicine, and my brother, I don't love him the most, I am willing to watch him starve to death."

The middle-aged man stepped forward, grabbed the girl's hand, and sighed heavily while dragging it.

"Dad, if you want to sell me, sell me to ordinary people, just don't sell me to Wang Yapo, she is the Yapo of Yichun Building, and if I fall into her hands, that is, I will be sold into Yichun Building. Dad, why don't I know where Yichun Lou is, if I am sold into Yichun Building, how can I still live, I can only sell people laughter, anyone can bully me, thousands of people ride thousands of people to sleep, and I am tortured to death. ”

The girl kept retreating, resisting the strength of not getting up from the ground, as if the ground could give her a safe job, grabbed the man's sleeves with both hands, raised a face full of tears, and pleaded bitterly, the voice was like an autumn wind blowing through the bamboo forest, and the tears on her face were like a flood that burst the embankment.

"Cui'er, my father doesn't want to sell you to Wang Yapoli, but I can't help it. Other people think that you are married to a widow, and you are only willing to pay 5 taels of silver at most, but only Wang Yapo is willing to pay 10 taels of silver when you are still living when you are long. Our family is more than 5 taels of silver for your mother's medical treatment, not to mention that my brother and our family live, if it is only sold for 5 taels, what use can it be, it can only be sold to Wang Yapo. ”

The middle-aged man pulled the girl up hard, and said to the girl with a helpless and resolute face.

"Dad, I don't want you not to sell me, just ask you to sell me in another family, just don't send me to the fire pit."

The girl cried tears and snot, grabbed the middle-aged man's sleeve tightly with both hands, and pleaded bitterly.

"Cui'er, this is fate, no way, it's my father who is sorry for you, and my father will be a cow for you in the next life."

The middle-aged man's tears were about to fall, but he still shook his head ruthlessly and insisted on pulling the girl up.

This girl is so pitiful, seeing this scene in front of her, the little girl with the bun can't help but redden.

Seeing this scene, the guard who followed behind him let down his vigilance, he had seen many people selling their sons and daughters before the flood, and the poor people really couldn't survive when they encountered difficulties, so it was not surprising that they sold their children and daughters. The day before yesterday, Zhang Laohan in their village sold his five-year-old son, so that he could sell some silver and find a way for his youngest son to live.

As long as it is not a forcible purchase or sale or a forcible robbery of people's daughters, the government will not care.

When the time comes, they will pay money with one hand and others with the other, and sign a deed of sale, and from then on, their fate will be in the hands of the master's family, and there will be no more freedom.

"Cui'er, Daddy and Auntie treat you well, and they all say that the girl who married out spilled the water. But your husband died on the day you got married, and your in-laws scolded you for being a husband, but your father and mother took you back and kept you all the time. Now that we have suffered a natural disaster, your mother is sick again, our family really can't go on, and there is really no way. Now your mother's life hangs by a thread, just wait for the money to grab the medicine. Cui'er, Dad really can't help it, since I was a child, Dad didn't beg you, today, Dad begs you this time, I beg you, Cui'er......"

As the middle-aged man spoke, he knelt down, and the old tears on his bitter face were like rain.

"Daddy...... Father, get up, my daughter should go down, my daughter should go down...... Woowoo woo ......"

Seeing the middle-aged man kneeling and crying, the defense line in the girl's heart seemed to be broken, and she knelt down and cried.

"Cui'er, dad is sorry for you...... If you want to hate me, you can hate me, it has nothing to do with your mother and your brother......"

"Dad, I don't blame you, I blame the world, it's all my life......"

For a while, the father and daughter were in front of the painting, hugging their heads and crying, which was really sad for the listener and shed tears.

"Which, which...... Don't be upset......"

The painting was already in tears, wiped his tears with a handkerchief, red eyes, and stepped forward and whispered.

The father and daughter raised their heads crying with rain, and their eyes looked at the painting blankly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to listen to your privacy. That, you better don't sell your daughter, how can you send your daughter to the fire pit, I have ten taels of silver, you take it to the emergency, go home and live a good life......"

Hua'er said with red eyes, took out a silver ticket with ten taels of denominations from his sleeve, and stretched out his hand to hand it to the two of them.

"Huh?"

The father and daughter were more surprised than surprised.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much, Madame is really a bodhisattva...... We've kowtowed to you......"

The girl reacted first and pulled the middle-aged man to kneel and kowtow, and the middle-aged man also reacted and kowtowed.

"Get up quickly, take it home quickly, your mother is still waiting to see a doctor and grab medicine, and you can't delay it......"

Hua'er stretched out her hand to pull the girl and handed the silver ticket to the girl.

"Engong, although I can't read big characters, I also know shame, and I'm not a beggar, how can I take Engong's money for nothing."

The girl cried and shook her head, resolutely not reluctant.

"Yes, we are not short of ambitions, so we can take the silver of the Duke for nothing." The middle-aged man also shook his head resolutely.

"Go home quickly, your mother is still waiting to see a doctor and get medicine......" The painting was about to cry.

"Dad, this silver is for you, you can take it home and go home to see your mother, and buy some food to go home, my brother can't bear the hunger." I sold myself to Engong, and in this life I used as a cow and a horse for Engong to repay Engong's kindness. Dad, this is the last time I call you Daddy. From now on, I will be the slave and maid of Engong's family, and I will be at the disposal of Engong, and I will have nothing to do with you. ”

The girl bit her lip and made up her mind, took the silver ticket from Hua'er's hand, stuffed it into the middle-aged man, and said to him with a resolute face.

"Huh? No, not really. The painting waved his hand again and again.

"Then I don't want this silver ticket, Dad, I'd better sell me to Wang Ya's wife, a thousand people will ride a thousand people, this is my life......"

Hearing this, the girl shook her head vigorously, cried and took the silver ticket back from the middle-aged man's hand, stuffed it back into the hand of the painting, and cried to the middle-aged man with a face of resignation and sorrow more than death.

"Huh?! I'll buy, I'll buy ......" Hearing that the girl was going to sell her own Yichun Building, the painting couldn't help but say anxiously.

So, Hua'er went out to the evening market to buy vegetables, chickens and fish, and on the way back, she bought a girl who sold herself into slavery.

"Dad, let's go, from now on I have nothing to do with you, and in the future, life and death will be a destiny."

The girl occupied her face with her sleeves at the door of the backyard of the county government, and after saying goodbye to the middle-aged man, she resolutely turned around and walked into the backyard.

Under the sleeves, the corners of his lips hooked a touch of arc, and with his head down, no one saw a pair of fox eyes, which was very attentive.