Chapter 76 No wonder you are so thin
Zhu Mingqing quickly caught the child who was about to fall to the ground, grabbed his arm with his other hand and threw him to the ground, then stepped on his back, making him unable to move at all.
She then sent the child to his biological mother.
The woman hugged her lost and found child and burst into tears: "Thank you, girl, thank you, girl!"
Liang He and others also removed the force from the arms of the others and tied them up.
At this time, they realized that the person who came was actually the official who had returned, and they thought to themselves that something was wrong.
Some people shouted, trying to overpower the other person.
"We didn't do anything wrong, why do you want to tie us up?"
"Yes, we didn't go to steal food."
"Let us go!"
Liang He kicked them so hard that he could hear bones breaking. "What a bunch of heartless people!"
Zhu Mingqing looked at them coldly, pointed at the two rescued children and asked, "Whose idea was that?"
"It's Uncle San!"
The child's mother, with a look of indignation on her face, pointed at an old man standing in an inconspicuous corner and said, "They stole that child from the street. They also said they wanted to...keep us captive and keep us..."
"Yes, he even asked the villagers to steal your food."
The people who had joined the gang of the child's mother spoke one after another, exposing his crimes.
Hearing this, the old man's eyes flickered and he shouted, "It's unfair! They are jealous of my family's food supply and are deliberately slandering me."
Chang Wu felt a surge of anger rising up. Well, it turns out there are still some fish that have slipped through the net.
He kicked the other person hard.
"brute!"
The old man struggled hard, but no matter how he explained, he didn't get any sympathy.
Chang Wu punched him hard on the cheek again:
"You are worse than pigs and dogs."
"You didn't even spare a single child."
The others watched silently. At this moment, the old man seemed to know that it was difficult to escape, so he simply broke the bowl and threw it away, his voice sharp and piercing:
"Yes, I am worse than an animal, but you guys, you have food, why don't you give us food?"
Hearing his righteous request, Zhu Mingqing couldn't help but sneer.
"You're so shameless, no wonder you're so thin."
The old man stared at her: "What do you mean?"
Zhu Mingqing chuckled: "Heartless, shameless, how heavy can he be?!"
"Pfft—" The others couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Listening to this person's roundabout cursing, the old man's face turned red with anger. He must be thin because of hunger.
Zhu Mingqing likes to see others get angry and frustrated when they can't beat her. People like this don't deserve to die.
She stepped forward and patted the other person's cheek: "Take one last look at this world."
After he finished speaking, the old man was killed by Chang Wu next to him with a single knife before he could even react.
There were eleven people in the old man's group, eight men and three women.
Moreover, the matter of cannibalism was also agreed upon by all of them, but because the old man was senior, everyone listened to him, so the first one to stick his head out was the one who got shot.
He was also the first to die.
But the others were not innocent and they cried and begged for mercy.
"Sir, we know we were wrong and we won't do it again."
"Sir, please show mercy."
Liang He had a cold expression on his face, and he had no intention of letting these people go.
Otherwise, who knows how many people will suffer in the future.
He slowly walked up to the man at Zhu Mingqing's feet with a look of disgust.
As the man looked up, he saw a flash of a knife in front of him. His eyes widened and his head fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the others struggled even harder.
The knife rises and falls!
The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
The only sound left was the rustling of leaves in the wind and the nervous and frightened breathing of people.
Liang He wiped the blood off the knife with disgust. The rest of the people hugged each other tightly, not daring to look up at this side.
Zhu Mingqing looked at the first child rescued. He looked to be only one or two years old. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes, had fair skin, and was chubby.
"Where was this child stolen from?" She looked at the women.
The mother of the second child who was rescued whispered, "We don't know either. They seemed to be pregnant when they came back from outside that day."
That was three days ago.
She looked at Liang He and asked what to do with the child.
Liang He couldn't help but look at these women, as if he understood what they meant, and they all lowered their heads.
At this time, they can't even support themselves, let alone an insignificant child.
At this time, a ray of light was already appearing in the sky. After a busy night, everyone was very tired.
Liang He frowned, and finally said, "Take it with you first, and give it to someone else when we get to Jizhou."
As they watched them gradually walk away, the remaining people also started to move.
"Aunt Chunhua, we still have to follow them." A young wife asked fearfully.
Chunhua was the mother of the child who had just been rescued. She nodded and said, "Let's go. We're heading north anyway, so it'll be safer to follow them."
"But before..."
"We didn't get involved in those things." Aunt Chunhua hugged the child tightly in her arms. "We behaved well, and the officials won't retaliate."
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Chang Wu glanced back and said, "Boss, they are still following us."
Liang He frowned, and those people followed him from a distance, without saying a word or causing trouble.
"We'll be in Jizhou soon, don't worry about it."
When they found a place to rest, they naturally left.
At the foot of Taiming Mountain is a relatively prosperous county town, which belongs to Dancheng, Jizhou Prefecture.
When we were still some distance away from the county town, the road ahead was already blocked.
They were all refugees who had fled from Yuzhou, queuing in a bustling crowd, waiting to enter the city.
Some people were lying on the city wall, begging for food.
An hour later, Liang He and others entered the city.
Chang Wu took the child to the government office, while Liang He found a slightly inconspicuous inn, settled down temporarily, and then went out with a few people.
It was after noon when they returned with a cart of food.
One official complained indignantly: "This is too expensive! The price has more than doubled from seven or eight wen. If this continues, we will definitely not have enough silver."
Lianghe was afraid that food prices would rise, so he wanted to take the opportunity to stockpile some food just in case.
But unexpectedly it was too late.
In the room, Zhu Mingqing, who was sitting by the window, had his eyes flickering when he heard this.
“Knock knock—”
The door rang, and then came a voice: "Madam, we are back."
Zhu Mingqing immediately closed the window: "Come in."
Wen Baolu and Luo Xiao pushed the door open and walked in.
They all took a sip of tea and told each other what they had learned.
"It's not that those people near the city wall don't want to come in, it's that they can't."
"At first, those refugees were still able to enter the city. But as the number of people increased, and the city became increasingly chaotic, the Wangyang County Magistrate issued an order that anyone entering the city must pay a head fee of thirty coins per person."
Thirty cents is not a small sum of money under normal circumstances.
Especially in the current situation.
The reason why they were able to enter the city normally was that Liang He negotiated directly with the other party.
"What about the price of grain?"
This is the situation that Zhu Mingqing is most concerned about.
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