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The boy who was held in the arms of the Taoist was condescending, looking at the girl kneeling on the ground, he had something to say in his heart, but considering his current age, he didn't say anything after all, the world is difficult, what can his words guarantee?

Not only the girls, there are two girls who will be sold this time. When the Taoist took them away, he was still nagging, saying that this time they have been kept for a long time. If they stay again, they will really stay big. Now, it is impossible for people to sell to wealthy families, those families like to train their children the most.

The Taoist still has a bit of conscience, he didn't want to sell the girls to the fire pit, and he wanted to get a high price, so he would only do his best to find a real wealthy family for them, but what would happen to such a family, he couldn't understand. It was expected.

With this anxiety about the future, the girl and the two girls left together.

Ji Mo watched them leave, through the gap in the door.

During the days when the Taoist left, the children in the house, those who could cry and make trouble, and those who were more sensible, had to behave themselves, and try not to make any big noises, so as not to attract bandits or wild beasts.

Bandits actually know this yard, and some have even thrown their children here. After all, there are also some children born to women who were robbed on the mountain. They don’t want those girls. It takes too much effort to raise them, so be kind. Those who are not kind are thrown to the Taoist, which is regarded as giving the child a way to survive, and those who are unkind directly kill the girl, and some even directly cook and eat meat.

Being able to live next to bandits is not because of the great ability of the Taoist, not only because the Taoist status makes people think that they are psychic and respectful, but also because there is nothing to talk about here. The little girls in the room are malnourished, sallow and emaciated. There are more skeletons than people, and there is not much meat. It can only be said that they are alive. Even the bandits who are not taboo about meat and vegetables will not say anything to such a child.

This is also a way to keep safe.

For this unspoken rule, older girls vaguely understand even if they don't understand it very well, saying that they will feed the tiger when they are full is not purely to scare people.

Ji Mo has memories since he was born. He knows that he is not the Taoist's own child, but a baby will not know this. In order to survive and live a better life, he directly calls Taoist Daddy when he can speak.

Originally, a boy like him was a plus in this ancient society where boys were preferred to girls, but with this "Daddy" yelling at him, it seemed real. The attitude of Taoists towards him was getting better and better. , My son is just like that.

Under such circumstances, no one can challenge Ji Mo's authority in the courtyard. Even if he is young, the older children who take care of them will listen to what he says.

Ji Mo didn't mean to use it for his own benefit, but he would go to some places that are usually difficult to visit when there are no tigers in the mountains.

One of them is the room that Taoists do not allow people to enter.

In the past three years, this is not the first time Taoist has left to sell children. There are one or two trips every year, and every time he leaves, he will tell all of them not to go to a certain room.

This kind of order always reminds Ji Mo of the plot in a certain fairy tale. The difference is that the male master who left home gave back the key after all, but this one did not leave anything behind, and he was never given a chance to enter. .

Ji Mo was curious about what was in that room before, but he was too young and limited by others, so he couldn't explore by himself at all, this time...

It takes a month for the Taoist to go out without talking, and he will leave some rice in advance. No matter how these children eat after he leaves, he has something to say first, and no one can starve to death, otherwise he will punish him.The big boy in charge of the accounts has learned the method of storing food without a teacher, and has also learned how to budget. He divides the food into small portions with his fingers, and hides them in small clay pots. Rice in the jar, go get another one.

I don't know which older child passed this method down, but the latecomers have continued to use it, and the effect is not bad.

Ji Mo watched the older children go behind closed doors to discuss food storage, so he went to the locked room alone.

Most of the rooms in the yard are dilapidated. The place is huge, but no one repairs it. Many places are afraid to go in. Maybe the tiles on the top of the head are loosened by the passing of small animals. The undead also suffered minor injuries.

For a child like Ji Mo, it is even more unbearable to be smashed, so except for the permanent residents and the middle three houses that were cleaned up by the Taoist, the others are all deserted, and the one that no one is allowed to enter is also unbearable. Well, when vegetables could be grown in the yard, the room was still covered with weeds and no one took care of it, making it look a bit dilapidated.

In fact, the invisible tiles on the top are considered the most tidy, and the Taoist has done a good job of tidying up the east wall to make up for the west wall.

This is what Ji Mo saw from the window by stepping on the stone. The inside was black and murmured. He looked through the window lattice, but he couldn't see anything. He had to go in to take a look.

The door is locked, and the rare lock looks rusty, and it seems to be old, but it can be opened successfully. Every once in a while, the Taoist likes to sit in this room, and no one is allowed to enter, because he comes out There will be no rice grains after that, so this room defaults to not storing grains, and it does not attract the attention of those older children.

Over the years, the Taoist priests have not always picked up babies to bring them back. There are always some young girls who are brought back along with them. They grew up outside and know something. Some are grateful, some are afraid What's worse, I just want to escape, and there are also smart and bold people who want to steal some food and escape, so that they can run farther.

As a result, looking for food in the side is not a problem. If you search in this house, as long as the Taoist finds that someone has entered, he will drag him out and beat him ruthlessly. He uses the kind of stick that can be used as a door bolt. Fighting, those who lack medical care and medicine will probably die directly after the fighting.

There are not many lessons to be learned from the past, once or twice, the people who came later will remember it, even if they can't remember it, before the older children leave, they will tell the newcomers this by word of mouth, so that they can abide by the rules.

Ji Mo had heard more than once that the little girl told people about the rules in this yard, some of which were clearly stated by Taoists, and some were summed up by themselves. Generally speaking, they were quite useful.

One of them, the taboo about this house, was repeatedly emphasized.

The Taoist checks and balances on the children are not to give them food, threatening to give them to bandits, threatening to throw them out to feed tigers and other ferocious animals. It is not a threat to sell this, because it is inevitable. When the girls arrive, they must age, it will be sold.

The bigger the children, the more they eat. If you don’t want to starve the children to death, selling them when they are seven or eight years old is the best way. It can not only reduce the food pressure on your own side, but also find a new one for them. A place to eat.

It is also very easy for children who have been raised since childhood to accept this, just like accepting that girls will marry when they grow up. The rule in this yard is that they will be sold when they reach a certain age. It's actually quite bad manners for a girl to be so "old" and not be sold, even if many girls were brought up by her, there would be more resentment at that time, and no one would speak up for her.

The windows were once damaged. They were old windows, and they were damaged again. The window paper on them has rotted and will shatter if touched lightly. Many panes have been damaged, but they barely serve as barriers.

Ji Mo found a gap, put his head in directly, and looked again after adapting to the darkness of the room, only to find that the inside of the room was not very orderly, the things in the cabinet could not be seen, the things outside, those on the table, Fragments, strange shapes, wood and metal, I can't see what they are used for.

carpenter?Craftsman?

Ji Mo, who had already figured out the routines of the system, felt that after seeing the mission, he still had to start with the people around him, and besides those girls who were too young to be considered at all, the only people around him were Taoists.

[Main task: restorer. 】

[Current progress: Mo Bingzhong (Master) - not completed. 】

The name restorer sounds like someone who repairs things, so, are the things on the table tools?Still an object to be restored?

"What are you looking at, you can't enter that room!"

A voice from behind startled Ji Mo, his neck was stuck there, he almost didn't know how to shrink his head back, and it took some effort to pull his head out, and when he turned his head, he saw the girl with her waist stuck beside her, The six or seven-year-old girl seemed to be much taller than Ji Mo, even if Ji Mo was stepping on a rock, she was not much taller. To be stared at so fiercely, she was inexplicably weak.

"I didn't go in again."

Ji Mo said this to defend himself, but the next moment he was pulled down by the girl, "Let's go, it's time to eat."

When the Taoist is there, Ji Mo can still eat two bites to improve the food. When the Taoist is not there, Ji Mo can only eat with the girls. Everyone wants to eat delicious food, and so do the girls. Work hard to make some vegetable leaves delicious, and collect the seeds of delicious vegetable leaves and plant them in the yard.

This is not what Ji Mo tried to change, but that they were already planting, but there was no way to do it. Even if they were peasant girls, they were mostly helping at home at this age, and it was not their turn to work in the fields. Ji Mo did nothing. It's just a verbal instruction to them to make the field more tidy.

Just one or two sentences of guidance opened up the girls, and the vegetables they produced later became more tidy, and the growth of the vegetable leaves was also very good. After all, it was better in the mountains than outside. The bark and grass roots are not edible, and some weeds can still grow in the mountains.

It sounds like people outside are very stupid, they don’t know how to search for food in the mountains. In fact, there are a lot of wild animals in the mountains, and there are few food in the wild years. The same is true for wild animals. It is difficult for people to resist, and there are some strange poisonous insects and weeds. Once or twice The dead people don't know why, it is inevitable that some people say that there are ghosts in the mountains, and they also blocked many people who wanted to escape into the mountains, and there are bandits entrenched nearby, not to mention that this is a place in the middle of the mountain, there is still a distance from the periphery, relatively hidden.