Chapter 95: Entering the City and Being Sold
Xu Xiaoju saw that her parents were planning to let her accompany her grandfather to the city to see a doctor, and she was so scared that she quickly waved her hands and said, "Dad, Mom, I won't go."
Hearing this, Xu Lei glared and said, "If you don't go, do you want me to go? I've raised you up, but now you can't do anything about it, right?"
Xu Xiaoju is usually not afraid of her mother getting angry, but she is afraid of her father getting angry. Now, being glared at by Xu Lei, she could only bow her head and cry.
Mrs. Li, who was standing by, saw this and pretended not to see it. Although she usually doted on her daughter, if she had to choose between her daughter and her son, she would definitely choose her son.
Old Man Xu: "Okay, cry, cry, what's there to cry about? Come and help me go to the city to find a doctor, and Yunyue, you come with me too."
Xu Yunyue shook her head wildly: "Why can't my cousin go? Why do you want me to go?"
After hearing this, Li said sarcastically: "It seems that only our eldest wife has a share of this biological father."
Xu Le felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, and pushed Xu Yunyue: "Go with your cousin to accompany Grandpa. Your grandpa is just a little bit unwell now, how can he really be contagious? Isn't this how we have come all the way here?"
Xu Yunyue had no choice but to follow reluctantly, and when Xu Xiaoju saw Xu Yunyue following, she finally felt a little relieved.
After the two men supported the somewhat sick old man Xu into the city, Old Man Xu told them to wait there for a while, saying that he suddenly had a stomachache and wanted to find a place to relieve it.
The two had no choice but to find a place to sit down. Now the city was full of people fleeing famine, and neither of them dared to run around.
After a while, Old Man Xu came back and asked his two granddaughters to follow him.
When they walked into an alley, Xu Yunyue realized something was wrong and asked, "Grandpa, are we in the wrong place? How could a medical clinic be in an alley?"
Old Man Xu: "Yes, Grandpa just asked around, there is an ancestral medical clinic here."
Afterwards, Old Man Xu came to a door and knocked. The uncle who opened the door looked at Xu Yunyue behind Old Man Xu intentionally or unintentionally.
At first glance, she seemed too thin, but fortunately she had delicate features. If she was taken care of, she could earn some money by being sold to a brothel. But when he saw that Xu Xiaoju was disfigured, he frowned.
Old Man Xu followed the line of sight of the uncle who opened the door and saw him frowning at his eldest granddaughter. He lowered his head and whispered, "Ahem... the other one will be a bonus. You can decide for yourself."
Upon hearing this, the uncle immediately understood what he meant. The disfigured woman could be half-sold and half-given away. Anyway, she could be sold to a slave or an old widower, and she could still be sold by covering her face with her hair.
After thinking for a while, he said, "The good one is more expensive, only three taels of silver, and the other one is only five hundred coins."
Xu Xiaoju, who was standing by, didn't know what Old Man Xu had just muttered, but when she saw the uncle paying the money, she thought that the medicine Old Man Xu was getting was so expensive, so she quickly said:
"Grandpa, why don't we go to another clinic? The medicine here is too expensive."
"What have you thought about it? If you don't want to sell it, just leave and don't delay my next order."
Old Man Xu: "Ahem...I agree"
After getting the answer, the uncle glanced at Xu Yunyue and said, "Wait."
Xu Yunyue felt something was wrong, so she pulled Xu Xiaoju and whispered, "Cousin, let's go! I suddenly felt panicky."
Xu Xiaoju: "But doesn't grandpa want to get medicine? Wait a minute! The uncle must have gone in to get the medicine."
Xu Yunyue muttered in a low voice: "Cousin, this doesn't look like a clinic at all, it's very weird"
"Hey, don't think too much. Isn't grandpa here? Don't be afraid."
When the uncle came out, he handed three taels and five hundred coins to Old Man Xu: "Three taels and five hundred coins, count."
Old man Xu nodded briefly and said, "That's enough. Just right."
Xu Yunyue panicked when she saw this scene, and asked in confusion: "Grandpa, aren't we here to get medicine? Why is he giving you money instead?"
After Old Man Xu collected the silver, he sighed and said, "Yunyue, Xiaoju, compared to Daya, Grandpa has favored you two for more than ten years! Now Grandpa is sick, and it's time for you two to repay me."
Xu Yunyue: "Grandpa, what do you mean?"
Xu Xiaoju: “…” Why doesn’t she understand?
The uncle sneered: "What else can it mean? Your grandfather took my money and sold you two to me! Humph, just follow me and be obedient, and you will suffer less."
"No, I want to go back to find my parents."
After saying that, Xu Yunyue and Xu Xiaoju turned around and wanted to run, but two men came from the alley entrance, grabbed them and covered them with handkerchiefs, knocking them unconscious!
Old man Xu touched the silver and felt excited. He was saved and had money to see a doctor. Xiaoju, Yunyue, don't blame grandpa. It was your father's fault for not caring about grandpa's life or death!
When Old Man Xu came to the clinic, the doctor just felt his pulse and didn’t say a word. He just wrote a prescription and prescribed seven prescriptions! ! Each prescription cost 500 coins, like robbing money. But for the sake of his life, he finally gritted his teeth and paid the money.
The money I got from selling my two granddaughters has now been spent on entering the clinic, and I feel the pain very much.
When the first and third wives came back, they saw that only Old Man Xu came back with a bunch of medicine bags, and they didn't see Xu Xiaoju and Xu Yunyue, so they couldn't help but ask anxiously:
"Dad, where's Xiaoju?"
"Dad, why didn't Yunyue come back with me?"
Hearing this, Old Man Xu pretended to be surprised: "What? Xiaoju Yunyue didn't come back? I didn't know! I just said a few words to them, but they turned their faces and ran away! I thought they should have left the city."
"What?"
"Dad, they haven't come back yet. They haven't come back yet."
"What should we do? Should we go into the city and look for him?"
“No, let’s report it to the police.”
Hearing this, Old Man Xu hurriedly stopped him: "Stop, we are famine refugees, and even the officials who come into the city have such an attitude. If we ask them for help like this, without ten taels of silver, will they help you find it? You are not a wealthy family, will they worry about you?"
"What should we do then?"
Old Man Xu: "Well, maybe they are just wandering around the city. Don't you two spoil them so much that they don't know the severity of the situation? Let's wait and see!"
The first and third wives thought it made sense, so they had no choice but to wait and see if the two would come back.
When everyone came to their senses, they realized that they had panicked and were too close to old man Xu who was starting to have a high fever! They were so scared that they quickly stepped aside.
Old man Xu looked at his family's fearful expressions, looked at the medicine in his hand, and could only force himself to make the medicine.
On Xu Zhiyi's side, while on the way, he saw with his own eyes someone fall down and fall into a coma due to high fever. He died within a day!
And the situation encountered on the way to escape famine was not just three or two! Just now, five more fell down at once.
Su Manman and Su Mingchuan from the Su family looked at the people falling down one by one. They were so scared that their faces turned pale under the masks. But in order not to worry the adults, they tried their best to stay calm.
The people fleeing the famine also realized at this time that the high fever was contagious. They looked at Xu Zhiyi's team and saw that they were wearing what looked like face scarves on their faces. Then slowly many people followed suit.
I don't know what the function is, but after they put it on, it blocked out the stench of the corpses outside.
Thinking about this, I realized that Xu Zhiyi's team brought this thing that looked like a face towel just to block out the stinky smell.
The village head saw that the road ahead was a bit narrow, and those people fleeing famine wanted to squeeze in with him intentionally or unintentionally, so he had to signal to stop, walked into the middle of the crowd, and whispered: "Everyone stop and rest for a while, and wait for these people to go ahead!"
Xu Zhiyi: "Okay, I just felt like they were trying to follow our team on purpose, so we might as well stop and move away from them."
The fleeing team on the other side in the distance saw that the team led by the village head had stopped to rest, so they had to go ahead. They had deliberately moved closer just now, thinking of following them and asking each other about the situation!
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