Before, Mo Wen had always thought that the so-called human market was just one or two streets similar to the bazaar, but when he arrived at the ground, he learned that this city called Weicheng was a huge human market, and the size of the city was three times the size of the town where the two of them had previously inquired about the news, and there were no fixed residents in the city except for the merchants who operated the teahouse inn, all of them were sellers and merchants who came to sell and buy people.
The city is divided into the east city and the west city, the west city is mainly the poor families who sell their children and daughters, these people are without exception ragged and skinny, and the parents who sell their children have no reluctance, their eyes are only empty and numb.
And those children who sit on the street with straw sticks on their heads have no nostalgia for their parents, and every time a pedestrian walks in front of them, they will stare directly at the passerby, and their eyes show pity and longing.
Mo Wen can understand the helplessness of parents, selling their children is actually so that their children can live, but he can't understand why these children have no nostalgia for their parents.
"Depending on the situation, they would love to be bought."
Mo Wen said to the fifth brother who walked beside him.
"That is, if you are bought, you don't have to starve, you haven't tasted starvation, people are hungry and ruthless can do anything, these eight or nine-year-old children are still bought, and those young ones can't be sold so they can only be exchanged with other families."
Lao Wu said casually.
"To whom," Mo asked, slightly puzzled.
"For other poor people."
Lao Wu said.
"What are you doing in exchange?"
Mo asked even more confused.
"Eat, if your own children are not willing to eat, they will eat from other families."
Lao Wu said.
"Yi Zi eats" Mo Wen was shocked when he heard this, before this he had only heard of the Hu people eating people, but he didn't expect that the poor Han people would also do such a thing that destroyed human nature.
The two of them had a small amount of dry food on them, and at first Mo Wen did not give alms to the children on the side of the road, he knew very well that once he started, everyone else would gather around and beg for it.
But he had not gone far and could not help but be kind, and secretly stuffed some food into one of the poor children, who was lying on the side of the road with skin and bones, and was weak.
"How can there be a father like you in the world," Mo Wen shouted at the middle-aged man who snatched the dry food from his child's hand.
The latter did not answer, but quickly devoured the half of the cake, ignoring the little hand that the child was crying and reaching out to his mouth.
Mo Wen was helpless, and gave the child half a piece of bread again, and the child hurriedly took it, clutching it with both hands and stuffing it into his mouth, eating embarrassed, lest he be snatched away by his father again.
Mo Wen looked at the father and son blankly, he was still skeptical of the words of the fifth child before, but now he believes that people are hungry and can really do anything.
"Master, don't look at it, this kind of thing also exists in the Jin Kingdom, you haven't been out on weekdays, you don't know."
Seeing Mo Wen standing stunned, Lao Wu pulled him forward with his hand.
"Let's buy the child, or he'll starve to death sooner or later."
Don't ask and turn back frequently.
"Can you buy them all, and then what to do with them after you buy them" Lao Wu stretched out his hand and pointed around, there were no less than hundreds of children in the same situation as the previous child.
Mo Wen can only do sigh, the scene of the father snatching the child's food has always haunted his mind, it is a choice made by people between life and death and family affection, a wrong choice, a hateful choice.
"If I were him, I wouldn't starve to death and rob my children of food."
Don't ask Zhengse.
"People are different."
Lao Wu said that he knew more about the hardships of the poor people than Mo Wen, and he was used to it.
It was not only children but also adult men and women who were sold in Xicheng, and the men were mostly young and middle-aged, and these people were more expensive because they could work and cultivate, and buyers from all over the country looked at their limbs and even their teeth as if they were picking animals.
The women, mostly young women, were followed by her husband and children, and they sold themselves voluntarily in order to give their husbands and children a way to live, and where there were no men and women who did not kiss each other, and the buyers would touch her waist and breasts in front of her husband and children, and their husbands would look pained while their children would stare at each other with puzzled expressions.
"These men are all able-bodied, they only need to work hard, why worry about not being able to support their wives and children, how can they end up so miserable" Mo Wen looked at the fifth child again.
"They may have no land, or they may have been affected by the disaster, and they will have no food to eat when they are affected."
Lao Wu said.
Mo Wen sighed again when he heard this, and after arriving in the human market, he sighed from time to time, everything here made him feel so ugly, in his opinion, this is not the world, but a hell full of betrayal and parting, and there is no Yellow Spring with a good conscience.
Although sighing, Mo Wen did not stop at his feet, took Xiao Wu to look quickly, and after looking for Xicheng, the two went to Dongcheng, and when they arrived here, Mo Wen knew that he had found the right place, this is a wide open space, it is the place where the Hu soldiers sold the looted women, the Hu people are wearing military uniforms and armor, and do not hide their identities, the captured women are sitting in rows in the open space, and the beautiful faces of these women account for the majority, compared with the dead air of Xicheng, there is more resentment here, full of women's cries and Hu people's shouts.
The women captured by the Hu people were all gathered here, and there were thousands of them, and the Hu people did not belong to the same team, and occasionally shouted at each other, the young Hu people spoke Chinese, and the old Hu people spoke a language that Mo Wen did not understand.
There are also many Han Chinese who buy women in this area, although the Hu people are angry but do not beat them, and the buyers are not afraid of the Hu people, and they compete for the price.
Seeing this, Mo Wen dared to take the fifth child over and look for Lin Ruochen's figure in the crowd, because they were not sure whether Lin Ruochen was still wearing red pants, the two could only look at the appearance of the women one by one, most of these women lowered their heads, and the two of them bent down and looked sideways to look for it not fast.
Although these women are beautiful, they are all disheveled, and when they are looking for it, they don't ask in their hearts, if they find Lin Ruochen, they must be kind and persuasive, and take care of them carefully, she can't be blamed for this matter, she is powerless to resist, her mother's family is dead, she has no relatives, and her husband can't dislike her.
When the two were looking for it, there were Hu people scolding from time to time, blaming the two for only looking at it and not buying, not asking or answering, and walking quickly so as not to quarrel.
There was a delay of an hour in Xicheng before, and it was already Chen Shi in Dongcheng, and at noon, more than 1,000 people finished identifying one by one, and Lin Ruochen was not among them.
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"Master, don't look for it again" Seeing that Mo was in a low mood, Lao Wu made a suggestion.
"No need."
Mo Wen shook his head slowly, the two of them were looking very carefully before, and there would be no omissions, and Lin Ruochen was really in the crowd, so he had already found the two of them and called for help.
"You've done your best, let's go back."
Lao Wu said.
Mo Wen glanced at Lao Wu when he heard this, he knew that Lao Wu did not agree with the matter of looking for Lin Ruochen.
"Let's go to the inn and inquire, if there is no news of her, let's go back."
Mo Wen said in a deliberative tone.
"Done."
Lao Wu nodded in agreement.
Mo Wen turned around and walked towards the inn in the city, which covered a large area and was the largest building in the city.
The seller and the women who were about to be sold stayed here at night.
After entering the inn, Mo Wen found a corner and sat down, there were not many people in the inn at this time, the guy ran up to greet the two, the food here is only meat and chop fruit in addition to gruel, Mo Wen thought that the two had not eaten meat for a long time, so they asked for two bowls of chop soup.
Soon the choppy soup was served, Mo Wen took out copper coins to pay for the meal, and at the same time gave the guy two more copper coins, asking him if he had seen a woman in red pants live here half a month ago.
Mo Wen didn't have any hope, after all, nearly a month has passed, but he didn't expect the guy to run the hall to have a good memory, and he actually remembered that some time ago, there was a Hu Ren lieutenant with his subordinates who drove a group of women to sell, among which there was indeed a woman in red pants, but the woman in red pants was not sold by the captain, but hired a car to bring it back to Yecheng when she left.
Judging from the appearance described by the guy, there is a good chance that the woman is Lin Ruochen.
"Master, you don't want to go to Yecheng, right?"
the fifth child took out the cake and handed it to Mo Wen.
"With the news, you can't close your eyes and obstacles."
Mo Wen took the piece of cake.
"That is the capital of the Zhao Kingdom, and there are Hu people everywhere."
Lao Wu frowned.
"After eating, let's separate, you go back first, I'll go north to find her."
Mo Wen resolutely spoke.
"I'll follow you wherever you go."
The fifth child knew that Mo Wen was angry, so he hurriedly lowered his head and drank the soup.
After lunch, the two set off again, and when they arrived, they found an abandoned village on the side of the road, and estimated that they could get there when it was dark.
At night, the two of them rested in the abandoned village, and continued their journey during the day.
Yecheng is not less than two thousand miles away from here, Mo Wen took Lao Wu all the way north, and after a few days, it snowed heavily again, and the two of them went on the road in snow and walked slowly.
When they met Hu Ren on the road, the two of them avoided from afar, and if they couldn't dodge, they bowed their heads and gave way.
Because Mo Wen was careful along the way, although the two suffered but did not encounter danger, until the end of the year, the two passed by a jungle accident, from the forest rushed out of several big men to surround the two, "Give up your possessions and spare you from death":