I am fish

Sitting on Jiang Daochang's donkey cart for a whole day and night, the donkey cart bumped in the wild mountain roads, Zhen Wenjun's buttocks were almost broken into four petals, and when his waist was about to be broken, he finally saw a shallow official road.After walking another three miles on the official road, a square city wall can be seen faintly on a dirt slope not far away.The city stood there alone, without even a guard.Dayu's black and red flag was planted crookedly above the watchtower. When the cold wind blew, it swayed, as if the next gust of wind could snap it in half.

This is a broken place, a small county that is even poorer than Qi County.Jiang Daochang drove the donkey close to the city gate. The guard without a helmet yawned and glanced at his household registration talisman, and waved his hand with half-closed eyes, telling him to go in quickly.

Moved to Su County.

When entering the city gate, Zhen Wenjun saw the name of the small county engraved in small seal script on the stone tablet covered with dust, but it was a pity that it was in disrepair for a long time, and the characters were almost unclear.

Millet?

Zhen Wenjun remembers that the six counties of Suichuan all have single-character city names like Qi County, and the compound-character city names seem to be mostly Dongchun.Judging by the amount of distance in my heart, this place should still be in Dongchun County.

As soon as the donkey cart stopped in front of a courtyard, Zhen Wenjun heard a woman's angry scolding and a child's sobbing from inside.

"Every one of you doesn't stand upright, and you can't even sit down. You don't need to learn how to serve tea and water, just laugh at the general meeting, right? Who will take a fancy to you when you look like a star? It's bad luck. ! How many people like you will still be able to keep their mouths warm next winter?"

Jiang Daochang tied up the donkey cart and led her into the yard.

"Who am I to you?" Jiang Daochang asked as he walked.

"Father, Duke Jiang."

"Where are you from?"

"Six hundred miles south of the Suidong Mountains, there is Cumo Mountain. This year, I was 15 years old and just passed away. Three years ago, my father passed away. After I went down the mountain alone to seek a living, I met Jianggong and Yueshi. Jianggong and his wife missed me. Take me as a daughter, and the family will make a living selling herbs."

"I'll sell you to Wang Yaren here, and you only need to remember eight words for everything that follows, just accept the situation and let nature take its course, and don't act rashly. If you ruin something important, sir, you understand the consequences." Jiang Daochang took it out of his arms. He took out a plain cloth kit and threw it to her. When the kit fell into the palm of his hand, Zhen Wenjun's heart beat wildly.

Before opening the bag, her palms were sweating, she finally made up her mind to untie the string of the bag, opened it, and there was a strand of blue silk inside.

She didn't know whether to be sad or relieved.

"If you cheat, Xiao's hair will be cut off like this."

It does seem to be Grandma's hair.

The word "fortunately" fell into her heart properly.It's not just other residual limbs.

Zhen Wenjun carefully put the kit into his arms, and entered the courtyard with Jiang Daochang.

The door of a large room in the courtyard was open, and a middle-aged woman with a big arm and a round waist was blocking the door and sternly lectured people.A dozen trembling girls huddled in one place, not daring to say anything, only tears fell down.

Zhen Wenjun looked at the little ladies and felt pitiful, but now that things are not going well, they rush together in disorder.This is the case in Suichuan and other counties. How many people's fields are barren, no matter how much they sweat like rain, it is difficult to grow food in the fields. If they can't even eat enough, how can there be surplus food to support their children.If a young man might still be able to recite incense and grit his teeth to raise him, the little lady is a loser to them.Selling into a wealthy and powerful family as a servant can exchange some money and food to help the family tide over the difficulties. It is also a good thing for the young lady herself. She can at least have a meal with a rich and powerful master so that she will not starve to death.

Zhen Wenjun once heard her mother say that Dayuyou has become a large-scale slave market, and there are even slave traders who specialize in slave trading.The natives rely on experience to eat, and with their countless eyes, they can pick out the ones that can be sold at a good price from a large number of children who have been tortured by the famine and sell them to the next family.The next family may be a high-ranking family - if you can become a family slave of a powerful family, it will be the best ending, or you may become a servant of a small soldier in all walks of life, which is the most ending.The world is in a downturn, and countless people starve to death. Whether they can survive is not resigned to fate, but a struggle.

The Wang Yaren that Jiang Dao used to talk about should be the one who taught others a lesson.Zhen Wenjun felt that it was reasonable for this person to be fierce. Now that there are many disasters and storms in all directions, anyone who wants to survive has to do his best.

"Sister, what are you busy here?" Jiang Daochang changed his usual cold appearance, and actually bowed his waist obsequiously and approached Wang Yaren with a smile to say hello. Staring at Wang Yaren's plump breasts, it's extremely wretched.Wang Yaren glanced at him sideways, turned sideways, and snorted unceremoniously as he didn't know who had offended him.

Jiang Daochang pulled Zhen Wenjun behind him: "Look at the wrong time for me to come, but I am also impatient. I told you last time, if you have time, let me take a look?"

Wang Yaren originally had an impatient expression on his face, but after squinting Zhen Wenjun's eyes, he seemed to find something, pinched Zhen Wenjun's small chin and looked left and right, and said with a smile:

"Yo, not bad. How old is the little lady? She looks pretty, but I don't know her temper. What's her name? Jiang Lang, is this really your daughter?"

Jiang Dao often wanted to speak again, but he didn't expect Zhen Wenjun to understand quickly. He stepped forward to say hello one step ahead of him, and said that his surname was Zhen, she was the daughter of Jiang Gong, and she was old this year.

Wang Yaren said hello three times in a row, then suddenly suppressed his smile and said sternly to Jiang Daochang:

"Your surname is Jiang and her surname is Zhen. How can you be a family? And this face doesn't look like yours. Don't be tempting, I won't accept it here."

Jiang Daochang smiled all over his face: "What are you talking about. This child is indeed my daughter, my adopted daughter. She looks like her biological mother. She looks a bit handsome. If it weren't for the family, it would be difficult for her to survive. , I, I really can't bear it. After all, I have been with us for so many years, and I gave her all the good food and clothes. I also secretly brought her here when my wife was out this time." He said with dirty hands. Xixi wiped her tears on her cuffs, and the tears wiped away the black mud all over her face.

Zhen Wenjun saw that Jiang Daochang really learned what he looked like, and secretly admired him. Who could believe that such a farmer was actually a master assassin.Since Jiang Daochang performed so hard and passionately, she couldn't just stand there stupidly. Zhen Wenjun rubbed his eyes hard a few times, rubbing the eye sockets until they turned red, and then propped up his eyelids without blinking.As long as the eyes don't blink, it will soon become sore and unbearable, and if you persist for a while, the tears will fall down like broken beads.In the past, when she caused trouble and was about to be beaten by her mother, she used this method to beg for mercy, but she didn't expect it to be useful on such occasions today.

"Father, I also can't bear to part with Father and Mother..." Zhen Wenjun pulled Jiang Daochang by the corner of his clothes, crying with tears all over his face.

Jiang Dao saw that she could cry into tears in an instant, and she was actually better at acting than himself, so she was a little out of play and in a trance for a while.

Wang Yaren: "All right, all right. Although I am a little older, but fortunately, this appearance is still pretty. Since it is not a temptation, I will accept it. After all, I only have absolute sales here. Redemption. If you have no objection, you can sign the bond and take the money and leave. From then on, whether your daughter lives or dies has nothing to do with you."

Jiang Daochang immediately responded with a "hey", rubbed his hands, pressed his fingerprints on the deed, and after taking the broken silver, he told Zhen Wenjun to listen to Wang Yaren and not to cause trouble.Knowing that there was something in his words, Zhen Wenjun nodded in agreement, while seeing Wang Yaren's old face under his vulgar makeup, he wondered if this person was also a pawn of the Xie family, so he must find a chance to test it out.

Unexpectedly, before this temptation found a chance, she was thrown into the carriage together with a dozen other girls, and was resold several times along the way. On the turn.A few girls vomited to death in the jolt, and the people who turned their hands on them completely ignored them, allowing them to weaken day by day.

Zhen Wenjun really doesn't understand the minds of these idiots.Even the goods are bought with money. If he really died halfway, wouldn't it be a loss-making business?But looking back, food is more expensive than human life in this situation, and each of these dentists has a shrewd mind to settle accounts, and they would rather die of illness than spend money.I remembered that when I was fighting with Jiang Daochang, I accidentally found a kind of herbal medicine that seemed to be able to strengthen the original and replenish qi.

The two girls who vomited the most after taking the herbal medicine finally fell asleep and woke up the next day looking a little better.The two of them saved up a piece of steamed pancake and secretly handed it to Zhen Wenjun to repay her life-saving grace.

The carriage went south all the way, stopping and going, and a dozen girls were also divided up one after another, and there were fewer and fewer entourages.

In famine years, food is precious. Zhen Wenjun hid a piece of steamed cake for a long time and was reluctant to eat it.Every time I want to eat, I think of my mother. I don't know how she is going, whether I can eat a piece of hot steamed cake, so I hold back my greed and hold the steamed cake firmly in my arms.

To the south of Dongchun, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the jacket on Zhen Wenjun's body is a bit unwearable.

Taojun City is at the southernmost tip of Dongchun, only separated from Pingcang County by the shortest mountain in the south of the Suidong Mountain Range. After this mountain, vehicles and horses come and go frequently, and Taojun City is about to arrive.

The carriage entered Taojun City, there were not many girls left in the carriage, and all of them were of outstanding color.Zhen Wenjun didn't know where she was going to be sold, and was secretly surprised.The year I stayed in the old gallery courtyard was obviously to recharge my energy and wait for the opportunity to get close to Wei Zizhuo, but now I sold her to a distant place and didn't tell her what to do next. Is she afraid that something bad will happen if she doesn't know her future?Zhen Wenjun looked at the blank faces of the other girls in the carriage, and suddenly realized that he was similar to them, and immediately understood their intentions.

Since he doesn't know where he's going, he doesn't have the ability to show his feet and minimize the possibility of revealing his identity.It seems that Jiang Daochang's exhortation to "subdue the situation and adapt to the situation" is not empty words.They set up the most natural situation, so that Wei Zizhuo can't see through it. If they can successfully reach Wei Zizhuo's side in the future, they will be invisible.

And the word "adaptive" is the biggest test for her.

After arriving in Taojun City, she and the girls were locked up in a courtyard in the east of the city.The Ya people here didn't treat them harshly, and entertained them with food every day.At the beginning, the girls were sad and wept because they left home, but within a few days they started chatting and laughing after seeing the food and clothing.A few days later there is still nothing to do, every day there will be a team of vendors delivering rice noodles to the back door in a bullock cart, and the Yaren will let the idle girls help unload the goods.

"Could it be that we are house slaves here?" The girl who was the most talkative on weekdays asked quietly when she entered the house with a pile of cloth.

"It's a beautiful idea. Don't you know where this place is? Outside the wall is the largest slave market in Taojun City. We are waiting for buyers to come to our door." girl back to her.

"Which son will come here to buy slaves?"

"You want to be bought back by some beautiful son and become a housemaid."

"Oh, what are you talking about! Don't say you don't think so in your heart."

"Of course I want to. It's best to be liked by Mr. Liao. If he can be bought by Mr. Liao, he will have a bright future in the rest of his life."

"Master Liao? Who is it?"

"Mr. Liao, don't you know? He is the most generous and romantic son of a family in Quandongchun. He is known as a man who loves fragrance and cherishes jade. As long as he likes him, no matter how poor his status is, he will treat him equally. People are the most considerate and gentle. I heard that Mrs. Zhenfu in Sile Academy likes to eat Songjiang perch. The young master smiled for Mrs. Bozhenfu, and sent the freshest perch from Songjiang to Sile every day. There is also the third lady of the Zhu family who is the best at swordsmanship. The young master asked someone to collect a lot of money to find a peerless sword manual and write it on gold foil as a gift for the Shangyuan Festival. Oh, if I can win the favor of Mr. Liao, I will die No complaints!"