In places where refugees gather, the environment is always not very good, the living conditions are simple, the security is chaotic, and there is even excrement everywhere.
In such an era, to make such a long-distance migration and walk thousands of miles on foot, these people not only had to have relatively good physical strength, but also had to be wary of wild beasts, and people often harmed each other.
Therefore, it is difficult for those who are weaker and have no support to survive until the end.
Survival in a group is normal, and dependence relationships are also very common.
The little barbarian lady mentioned by several Changle people earlier was actually relatively lucky.
At least she still had an uncle to rely on.
Her uncle also gathered with a group of people.
They would go hunting together, work together in the towns along the way, and rob together, robbing other refugees, and also robbing the towns and villages along the way.
They killed people.
Many people have died on my side.
This Hu girl has often felt scared recently.
Logically speaking, she should be grateful to her uncle for being able to survive until now, but she also vaguely felt that her uncle was no longer the uncle he used to be.
He is becoming more and more cruel now, cruel to others, cruel to himself, and to her niece, he may also become cruel one day.
I heard that many girls in this refugee area were sold by their families or the gangs they belonged to.
Some women and children were also sold, but girls in their early teens were sold at the highest price.
She felt that her uncle also wanted to sell her, he was just waiting for a good price.
She wanted to go to the city to work, find a job for herself, and then get some money for her uncle.
Maybe then he wouldn't sell herself.
In the early days, there were some people who came to work in the city.
They asked for very low prices and basically paid no wages.
As long as they gave them a little food, they could get a large amount of completely unequal labor from refugees like them.
At the beginning, the people in Gaochang City Those people are also more willing to use them.
However, there will inevitably be friction in this process.
Refugees have suffered too much along the way.
They are often sensitive and can show hostility easily.
This makes the locals feel dangerous and repulsive.
Then one day in mid-August, something happened that completely cut off the refugees' route to work in the city.
Instigated by her husband and the gang she belonged to, a woman kidnapped two children from a customer's family and sold them to human traffickers in a refugee area.
That day, tens of thousands of Gaochang people swarmed around the refugee area, clamoring that they would be driven outside the customs to feed the wolves.
Amidst the ferocious noise, it seemed that even the air, even the autumn wind blowing in the face, was full of anger and hostility.
The scene at that time made the girl feel scared and at a loss.
The people in Gaochang City had completely rejected them, but in fact there were many good people among them refugees.
In addition to her uncle, she also had I have received help from other people, and there are still many kind-hearted people.
But who cares about this at this time?
The seeds of hatred have been sown, along with stubborn rejection and outright prejudice.
Although this conflict finally ended with Anxi Governor Guo Xiaoke dispatching the army, they later raided the refugee area and captured the human traffickers and those involved in the robbery and trafficking to mine.
The two children were also Found it.
However, the road for refugees to go into the city to work and seek food was completely cut off.
Some were so hungry that they couldn't stand it anymore and took the risk of going into the city again.
As a result, they were beaten up.
If it weren't for the persuasion of some kind-hearted monks, , I was afraid that I would be beaten to death in that city.
This young girl knew very clearly that even if she escaped from her dangerous uncle now, there would be absolutely no one in Gaochang City willing to accept her.
As for other places, as those people said, places like Changle County, Dunhuang and Jinchang are probably similar.
Ever since someone abducted the employer's child in revenge, the reputation of this group of people has been ruined.
So she can only live in this refugee area, next to her uncle, knowing clearly that there is danger and feeling full of uneasiness, but she can only be like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, with no other choice.
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In this way, more than a month passed.
At the end of September in the lunar calendar, the nights in Gaochang City were already very cold.
The refugees did not have enough warm clothes and food was in short supply.
On this day, I suddenly heard that envoys from Chang'an City had arrived in Gaochang.
They said that Shitian Khan wanted to grant these refugees the status of Tang Dynasty household registration.
He also said that he would select dozens of people as representatives to go to Chang'an City.
See Tian Khan.
The big and small bosses in the refugee area were fighting for the dozens of places.
There are also rumors that these people will eventually be dispersed and arranged to various prefectures and counties in Longyou Road.
Some people do not want to be dispersed, and some people are simply concerned about where they will be arranged to go.
The entire refugee area It was noisy, people were excited, and there was a lot of joy mixed in during the period.
On this day, the girl was sitting in front of her shack twisting twine.
Although these refugees have little contact with the local people nowadays, there are always some brave locals who shuttle through the refugee area and get extremely cheap labor from them through connections with various bosses, big and small.
Among them Making twine is one of the more important items.
Not everyone can do such a job, but this girl's uncle can do it.
He brought the materials back and asked her to work.
She sat there twisting the twine while her uncle sat and watched.
The reason why they watch is because they are afraid that someone will rob them.
If these things are lost, they cannot afford to pay for them, and they will probably never be able to get this job that can make a living.
The girl was immersed in her work when she suddenly saw a commotion on the other side of the street.
She wondered if someone was coming to distribute relief food again.
The uncle asked her to take a look at the things, and he quickly squeezed over there.
After a while, he came back empty-handed, with a look of lack of interest on his face.
Obviously there was nothing he wanted there, but more and more people were gathering on the street, and it was clear that something good was happening.
"What are you looking at?
Get to work quickly."
The uncle scolded her: "If you don't finish these things before dark, I won't feed you today."
""The girl had no choice but to immerse herself in work again.
She had been working since she got up in the morning, and she was already a little tired and very hungry.
The work in front of her seemed like it would never be finished.
Pedestrians were coming and going on the street, each talking about something.
She could understand some of the words, but not at all.
She vaguely guessed that this was Luo's cashmere workshop and towel workshop that were here to recruit people.
The reason why her uncle was not interested was because they wanted to hire workers, not buy them.
Two or three months have passed since they entered the customs.
During this time, she also heard some things from acquaintances and some monks and Buddhists who came to help them.
Among them, what she yearned for the most was the cashmere workshop and towel workshop in Changle County.
I heard that the young ladies there lived a good life.
Not only did they earn money, but they also learned skills.
There were even There are also female teachers who teach people how to read and practice martial arts.
If they do well, they can be promoted to managers.
This girl never imagined that the manager of Luo's cashmere and towel workshop would come to their notorious refugee area to recruit workers.
However, her uncle obviously did not intend to let her go.
After a while, for some reason, I saw people coming back carrying cloth and food.
Some people were even brave enough to hold strings of copper coins in their hands without fear of being robbed.
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When her uncle saw it, he hurriedly went up to ask.
The girl also counted her ears while working, and probably understood that the money and food were not obtained from selling people, but from advance wages.
Not long after, the uncle also took her to the street.
There were several queues here, and several stewards from Luo's cashmere workshop and towel workshop were watching people in front and accepting them.
Some wages can be paid in advance.
The standard for advance is fifty cash per month, which is six hundred cash per year.
The maximum advance can be five years, which is three thousand cash.
This price is enough to buy people, let alone hire them.
But they have a rule here, that is, as long as the wages are advanced, these women cannot visit them after they enter the workshop.
If the wages are advanced for several years, they cannot visit them for a few years.
In the eyes of the refugees, hiring workers like this is not much different from buying people.
After all, it is the property of the Luo family.
I heard that the Luo family is very powerful in this area and has a close relationship with Guo Xiaoke, the governor of Anxi. friendship.
When it comes to Guo Xiaoke, the refugees are very afraid.
Even if the construction period expires in a few years, it is not up to them to decide whether Luo's workshop will let people go.
How many people dare to come?
Looking for trouble, even the governor of Guazhou, Changle County Magistrate, is one of their people.
However, there are also rumors that the Luo family also has a rule, which is to only hire workers and never buy people.
Even the servants who work hard at home are hired and never bought.
Such a rule seems really weird to many people, but no matter what, three guan is already a rare good price in their refugee area.
The prices offered by previous human traffickers were often less than three guan, and The place is an excellent place to go, and sending them there would be a great honor to these girls.
More and more people got the news and hurried to the streets, and the queues became longer and longer.
When it was the girl's turn, the person in charge of the team she was in was a neatly dressed woman with a serious expression.
She was about less than thirty years old, but she had a majestic aura about her.
With the help of an interpreter, she asked the girl and her uncle several questions.
The translator was also neatly dressed, his hands and face were clean, and his hair was neatly combed.
He was obviously not from the refugee area, but he could speak their language and looked like a scholar.
"Extend your hand and show me."
Finally, the steward said again.
The young man in charge of translating conveyed the steward's message to her and gave her a warm smile, but that smile made her lower her head in shame.
She really shouldn't look at such a man more often.
The girl stretched out her hands.
They were a pair of medium-sized palms, covered with wounds and calluses.
There were also some redness and swelling on the finger joints, which were obviously caused by overwork.
The steward looked at the hands, then raised his eyes to look at the girl's face.
Just one look was enough to ruin the situation.
The girl's uncle had never seen anything like this before, and he was like a spirit.
Seeing the scene in front of him, the steward clearly felt compassion for his niece.
So he opened his mouth and said that five years' wages were not enough and he wanted to advance ten years' wages.
When the girl heard this, she raised her head in panic.
Sure enough, she saw an unhappy look on the steward's face, and she clearly refused, saying that it was the rule of the workshop and she could not make an exception just because of her.
Just like that, the girl was pulled and pushed by her uncle, and she walked out of the crowd again.
She looked back frequently, but the uncle told her to go back to work quickly.
They had to deliver the batch of goods before dark.
Walking on the dirty yellow mud streets, with the noisy crowd behind her and hope, there is only a shabby shack in front of her, a pile of never-finished work waiting for her, and everyone waiting for her there.
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Daily hunger and fear.
This was the first time that this girl thought about death.
No matter how painful she was, she never thought about death.
However, just now, a huge hope was placed in front of her, but her uncle mercilessly crushed this hope in front of her, making her life return to hell.
The huge disappointment was too much for her to bear.
Since she couldn't go there, she might as well die, leaving her uncle unable to get even a grain of food or a piece of cloth.
Leave him with nothing but a tattered corpse The girl was still sitting on the street working.
Her uncle cursed and said something, but she didn't listen at all.
The sky is getting darker, and there are fewer and fewer people on the street.
They can be vaguely seen packing their things, and they seem to be leaving soon.
After a while, she saw the steward who had just spoken to her walking towards her, and the translator also followed her.
The girl who had been paying attention to their movements saw this scene, stood up from the ground, stood upright, and looked at them.
The lady in charge glanced at her, then continued talking to her uncle, and the man in charge of translating tried his best to convey her meaning to him.
"You can only advance wages for five years at most.
This is the rule in the workshop."
She said.
"I see that your niece really wants to go to our workshop, and she does seem to be a capable worker."
"So I decided to lend you three dollars privately, treating her as an advance of ten years' salary
.
" ""
When the girl was held by the steward and left the shack behind her and her uncle, she did not look back once.
She just grabbed the steward's hand tightly and let her lead her away from this place step by step. .
This was a very kind and powerful hand that pulled her weak and powerless out of the quagmire, letting her step on solid ground again, and igniting hope in her heart again.
Later, she learned from others that the steward's name was Peng Er.
He was not only the chief steward of the towel workshop, but also one of the main stewards of the cashmere workshop.
There are also rumors that Guanshi Peng was once dragged to the streets by human traffickers to sell on the streets.
The people who rescued her at that time were the heads of the Luo family, Luo Yong and Luo Sanlang. gd1806102: