The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 338 From Dancing Girl to General ([-])

After returning home, Lin Shu was supposed to wash up and then go to bed.

It's just that she was lying on the hard floor right now, but she didn't feel sleepy for a while.

In the summer night, the cicadas on the trees outside and the bugs in the grass were still calling one after another.

In the next room, Sharita was asking her husband Babu about the results of the latter taking his daughter to the city.

"...I thought you would leave Alan in the city and come back alone. What's going on? Did things go wrong?"

"Don't mention it, my uncle Tosang is now well-off, and he doesn't want to recognize our poor relative anymore. I went to his house this time, and I didn't even meet him, so I let the other's servants kicked out."

Hearing the frustrated tone in Babu's words, Sharita opened his eyes wide and said, "How could this happen? Besides your uncle Tosang? There are so many rich and prestigious adults in the city, you can't Would you like to go to someone else's house and try again?"

Babu shook his head and said, "We don't know those people. If they are rich, we can't just bring people to the door for nothing. Maybe we can't even enter the door."

"I've seen all the dance halls in the city. They're all places where poor families sell their daughters. They're not serious places..."

When Sharita heard this, a complicated and incomprehensible thought surged in his heart.

She and Babu's original plan was to find a way to let Alan go to the city to learn something, and then climb up to a high branch and get married in the future.

But now the cousin of Babu's family can't be counted on, and the dance hall in the city is a little dirty.

Could it be that her daughter can only continue to stay in this small village, and after a few years, let her marry those bastards in the next village?
"However, our family's life has become increasingly difficult in recent years..."

After thinking about it for a long time, Sharita suddenly said this sentence.

Babu looked a little sad after hearing this.

Why doesn't he know that his family's life is not as good as every year.

Think about it a hundred years ago, when the Mughal Emperor was still there, those foreigners who wanted to do business from home and abroad were all vying to please the emperor and his ministers.

But the descendants of the great emperor were not kind. Because the treasury had a problem, they wanted to pay for the lack of money from them, the Hindu believers, and they only caught their flock of sheep and killed them.

Poll tax, land tax... All kinds of heavy taxes taught them to collect in different ways. In the end, the entire empire was disintegrated, and hundreds of states in the east, west, north, south, and south immediately went their separate ways.

The small state where their village is now is the settlement of Hindu believers.

But the princes and aristocrats who ruled their own country have long been mixed up with the group of foreigners, and they used different methods to oppress the little people like them together with the latter.

Take the tax package system they set up as an example. These people say whoever bids the highest land will get it, but who can be richer than those big businessmen in the city?

As a result, those families who had been farming for generations in their village were abruptly squeezed out until they lost their fields, and became refugees who could only go to the city to beg.

Even some families who still have a few acres of thin farmland will have their families destroyed by taxes weighing more than a mountain.The family has been working hard for more than half a year, but in the end, only a few grains of food grown can be eaten by the family.

If the annual income is not good and the taxes cannot be paid, what awaits them is the whipping of the tax collector. A single beating can cost a person half his life.

But even if you are about to lose your life, you still have to pay back the money and pay taxes.

As the saying goes, when a tree is moved to death, a person is moved to live.

People can't survive in this place, and the only way left is to escape.

So now many young people in the village would rather not farm, because if they don't farm, they can beg for food, but if they farm, they will die faster.

So those foreigners only know how to use the land to grow profitable cash crops, and they don't know how many people's blood and tears are mixed in the snow-white fine flour they eat.

The life of the peasant family is not easy, and it seems that the life of their family is not much better.

Since the British Company's factory opened in a nearby city, it has been difficult to sell the homespun cloth they produced in the past. On the contrary, the foreign cloth produced by these people has been selling well.

When he entered the city today, he heard someone say that foreign cloth was selling well. That was because the British company only charged 50.00% tax when goods came into their country, but their fine cotton cloth had to be charged [-] when entering the other country. % tax.The man also lamented that in the long run, all those who rely on handicrafts for a living will starve to death.

Babu couldn't understand what the other party meant, but he vaguely felt that it made sense.

Because he himself has not received work these days, relying on his own food storage and a small self-sufficient vegetable field, he can barely make ends meet.

If things had to go on like this in the future, I'm afraid his family would be in trouble too.

Babu thought about these things and remained silent for a long time.

At this time, his wife, Sharita, who was beside him, poked his arm with her hand, and he only responded lazily.

I only heard Sharita whispering to him, "If our family really can't live on in the future, you can send Alan to those dance halls in the city, and maybe you can save us some money. road."

Babu heard what his wife meant, that he was going to sell Alan for money when he was desperate.

But if my family really got to that point, I'm afraid that the people who are rushing to sell their sons and daughters will already be rotten on the street, and my family may not even be able to line up.

Therefore, after Bubba thought carefully for a while, he said slowly, "I'll go to the city again tomorrow to see if I can find some other way out. It's not the way to keep Ah Guang and Ah Han like they are now. The factories inside may still be hiring.”

Sharita responded after hearing this.

In the dark room, she touched her husband's chest, and the latter also turned sideways to face her, and the couple began to do intimate things.

Lin Shu, who was sleeping in the next room, turned over at this moment and made a slight noise.

Ah Guang, who was sleeping across a curtain from her, was not asleep at this time either.

He vaguely heard the movement in his parents' room, and subconsciously, half awake and half confused, he reached out to touch Lin Shu behind the curtain.

However, after he touched it several times, it was empty.

Just when he wanted to open his eyes and get up to see if his sister was still there, the back of his neck suddenly felt heavy, as if he had been stabbed by something, and he fell asleep completely.

In the room where no moonlight came in, it was dark and the air was silent, except for the slight snoring of Ahan who was already asleep.

After confirming that Ah Guang had been fainted by herself, Lin Shu quietly returned to her curtained compartment.

Unlike his younger brother, the eldest son of this family, Aguang, is a wanderer who often hangs around in the village.Because he often dealt with people of all schools and classes in the village, he formed a set of the most traditional and standard view of men in a subtle way, that is, women are born to serve men.

No matter what men ask women to do, they are not allowed to resist.

Therefore, when he feels that he is in need, he will even reach out to his sister.

It's just that Lin Shu, who was aware of the strangeness in advance, strangled the flower of evil that was about to bloom next door to her in the cradle.

Lin Shu, whose face was as calm as water, sat scattered on the floor.

She knew she couldn't stay in this home any longer.

If she stays any longer, firstly, it will be difficult to realize the original owner's desire to have a place in her lifetime, and secondly, there are factors that are unfavorable to her in this family and in this village.

According to the memory left by the original owner, in more than two years, a massive famine will break out in Bangladesh due to drought.

In that natural and man-made disaster, more than 1000 million people will starve to death.

After that, the colonial rulers of the British Company will strengthen their integration of politics and business, annex and control various small federal countries, and establish a truly behemoth.

The current original owner can be said to be impoverished, and her family is equally in danger.

Once the British company's local mechanized production is popularized again and the second industrial revolution is completed, craftsmen like Babu will completely lose their support for survival, their families will go bankrupt and they will be forced to go into exile.

People always praise the magnificence of the great wheel of history, and praise the progress and innovation of history, but forget how many people need to pay the painful price of blood and tears every time it is crushed, let alone everyone who is now becoming a wheel. past.

After midnight, the moon rises above the treetops.

When the moonlight gradually disappeared in the clouds, Lin Shu heard that there was no movement in the next room, and the Babu and his wife were fast asleep.

She kneaded the soles of her feet a few times, then stood up from the ground.

Ah Guang, who was in the next curtain, was also asleep, and a line of saliva even dripped from the corner of his crooked mouth.

Lin Shu deftly walked past Ah Guang and Ah Han, walked all the way to the door of the house, picked up her pair of hemp rope shoes lightly, and went outside to put them on.

At this time, it was the coldest time of the day, and there seemed to be a hazy frost fog in the forest in the distance.

When Lin Shu left Gupta's house, the insects in the woods stopped chirping.

The whole village was also very quiet, and the roosters and dogs did not dare to bark to disturb their masters.

When Lin Shu, wrapped in a tight robe, walked out of the village alone, and set off towards the small road that entered the city yesterday, the sky above the village left behind by her had just turned pale.

From Lin Shu's point of view, since the Gupta house was no longer suitable for her to stay, it would obviously be better to find another place.

And the ancient city that was in the alternation of old and new that she visited yesterday was her first stop.

This country is in the midst of unprecedented changes, and many people will be shattered in the next whirlpool.The more ordinary people are, the less they can detect the breath of the storm.

As for the untouchables outside the fourth-class people, they have long been numb to their unchanged fate and no longer complain about injustice.

But can all this change after the storm sweeps across the country?
No one can know the answer at this time.

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Lin Shu didn't know that after she left, A Guang had a nightmare when he fell asleep.

In the dream, he returned to the time when he went to the city to sell things with his grandmother when he was a child.

"Hey, the green beans in your basket are pretty good, how did you sell them?"

Seeing a guest come to ask the price, his grandmother hurriedly greeted him enthusiastically, "This is all grown in our own home, and it only costs two copper coins and three catties!"

"Let's make it cheaper. I bought them all for you. This basket is only about five catties of beans. That's it. I'll give you three copper coins, no more."

"Okay, okay. Aguang, I'll pack the things for the guests, and you keep the money."

His face was full of joy when Grandma asked him to accept three small copper coins from the dumpy guest.

He knew that with the money, his mother would definitely take him to eat delicious food after she finished selling the goods.

By the time his grandma finished selling what she grew in her fields, he was already very hungry.

After finally looking forward to the fact that his mother would take him to a bakery, he was so happy that he was just jumping up and down in front of him, not noticing that there was an adult of a higher caste passing by.

Due to the angle of the sunlight, he accidentally stepped on the shadow of the adult lying on the ground.

As a low-level person, although Ah Guang did not touch the skin of a high-level person, nor did he speak to the latter, but the mere fact that he stepped on the other person's shadow already violated the latter's holy brilliance.

Therefore, without the need for the adult to make a sound, the opponent's subordinates stepped forward one after another and surrounded Ah Guang, who was still a child.

Ah Guang, who had no idea what he did wrong, was met with violent beatings from this group of people, as well as stinky saliva that was spat on his face and hair wantonly.

When the young mother saw her son being beaten and kicked by a group of adults, she subconsciously stepped forward and tried to beg them to stop and let her child go, but what she got was a slap in the face.

"You bitch! Why didn't you educate your child well? Do you know what he just did?"

"He actually stepped on the shadow of an adult! If it weren't for seeing him as a child, I should have taken his life!"

Shalita, who was stunned by the slap, had no idea that her son would be slapped for such a reason.

You must know that higher people are heaven and are the people closest to gods. Low-level people like them are not allowed to get close to higher people.

Even if she is a mother at the moment, all she can do is watch her child being beaten until his nose is bruised and his face is bleeding.

Ah Guang, who was being taught a lesson, opened his swollen and painful eyes and looked at the woman who was kneeling on the ground and ignored her being beaten. He didn't know why his mother didn't come to save him.

So he tremblingly stretched out his hand to the other party and begged, "Grandma, save me, save me..."

But the other party just stayed in place, motionless.

His heart suddenly seemed to fall into a bottomless pit, and his whole body seemed to slip into an abyss.

"Mama save me!"

Ah Guang, who suddenly woke up from the nightmare, took a while to remember that he had just had a nightmare again.

He raised his hand to touch the cold sweat on his face, and he calmed down for a while.

Seeing that the sky outside was a little brighter, he didn't know what was wrong with him, so he lifted the curtain of the sister next door with one hand, but the curtain was unexpectedly empty at this time.

　Thanks to book friend Ye Zhibing for the tip!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)