Lin Rui understood the purpose of selling rice meat in this way. In order to show the freshness of the ingredients, they insisted on cutting the meat from a living person.
When it comes to treating their own kind, they have completely lost their conscience and are dominated by animal desires.
"Ahhh!" Some vegetable people wailed in pain, but their bodies, which had not eaten for a long time, even the cries sounded weak and unpleasant.
The people tied to the pillars included men, women, young and old. He even saw babies only a few months old thrown into bamboo cages, who only moved occasionally to show that they were alive. Some buyers and sellers even reached into the bamboo cages to choose the vegetables themselves.
Huh! Lin Rui looked up at the sunny weather, the air still carrying a chill, yet the world was such a miserable scene.
Apart from the fact that the meat here is served to people, the lively scene is really no different from the Longting Town where he used to live.
The people in the cage are full of fear of the people outside the cage, but a cage can separate two levels: one is being eaten, and the other is eating people.
He walked along, without any fancy outer clothing, and was highly recommended by these merchants for his healthy and normal appearance. Some merchants directly pulled the children out of the cages, ripped off their clothes, and let Lin Rui examine them naked. "This is a good product. Whether you take it home to eat or raise it to warm your bed, it will definitely be worth it."
The innocent little girl was trembling with fear. She was really trembling. Even though Lin Rui was not very close to her, he could hear the trembling and clanging sound of her upper and lower teeth.
Her body was shaking so badly that urine was flowing down her legs. She looked at Lin Rui and the boss pleadingly, "Don't eat me, don't eat me!"
Lin Rui really wanted to do something, but he couldn't even protect himself now, so it was really difficult for him to save others.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, a man's excited voice rang out from a cage next door: "Lin Da... Lin Rui!"
Lin Rui immediately turned around and looked at the bamboo cage that called out his name.
It was a stranger who looked somewhat familiar, but he really had no memory of this person!
Lin Rui carefully looked around and moved to the edge of the bamboo cage: "Do you know me?"
The young man in the bamboo cage immediately whispered, "Master Lin, I'm from the Flying Tiger Battalion. The Major General sent us to search for you. I was lucky enough to be the first to find you!"
Lin Rui looked at him inexplicably: "You think you're lucky? How did you get caught?"
Talking about the young man in the cage, he was very aggrieved: "This group of people used a child to trap passersby. I saw the child crying miserably and wanted to help, but they trapped me with a rope net."
"Then, we arrived at this meat market. These unscrupulous people were actually weighing people like pigs and dogs. It's ridiculous!"
It's not his turn to say the situation is absurd now. What he should consider most is how to get out of this predicament.
Lin Rui stood up and knocked on the bamboo cage that trapped the young man from the Flying Tiger Battalion. He looked at the boss who was greeting the passing customers and said, "I want this. How much is it?"
The boss looked Lin Rui up and down, then looked at the young man in the bamboo cage and said, "Sir, I won't ask you for a random price. Just give me twenty taels of silver."
After hearing this, Lin Rui turned around and tried to leave. The boss got anxious and quickly stepped forward to hold him back: "Hey, customer, this business is all about bargaining. If you don't accept the price I offered, we can still talk it over!"
Lin Rui glanced at the boss and said, "You're asking for a high price. Do you really think I don't know the market conditions for meat? A young and middle-aged man should only be worth six taels of silver, and yet you've tripled the price and are taking advantage of me!"
The boss went straight into the bamboo cage and pulled out the bound guard. "Customer, look at this man's flesh. He's plump and bouncy. He's completely different from those skinny men. This one head of flesh will last you at least seven or eight days if you take it home."
The young general was being pulled by the boss' hair. He felt extremely embarrassed in front of Lord Lin and looked at Lin Rui eagerly. If Lord Lin didn't save him at this moment, he would really be served on the table by the people here.
Finally, Lin Rui bargained with the butcher and finally reached a deal at thirteen taels.
But when he was about to pay the money, he felt embarrassed. How could he have forgotten that he was penniless now? He had used a small mirror to pay off his debts when he stayed at the inn before. Now he had to take the same one from the mansion?
The boss looked at him eagerly and said, "Customer, you don't have any money, do you? We don't do that here. Once we agree on the price, you have to buy it."
Hey, you’re forcing me to buy or sell!
Seeing that the boss was not going to let him leave without paying, Lin Rui could only pretend to grope around and take out a glass for drinking water from the space. He found that the person in charge was almost obsessed with colored glass.
"Boss, I left in a hurry and I really don't have any money on me." Lin Rui said truthfully, and when the boss was about to get angry, he quickly put the glass in his hand.
The butcher's anger was dispelled by the cool touch in his hand. He glanced at it without much interest. After all, to him, nothing was more precious than gold and silver.
But when he saw the transparent glass, his eyes widened immediately. He stared at the pure and flawless glass in amazement, unable to speak excitedly: "You, this... is for me?"
Lin Rui looked like he was reluctant to give up something. "It's a bargain for you. If I hadn't brought any silver... No, you wait for me. I have to pawn it at the pawnshop before I can trade with you."
"Why bother?" The stall owner held the glass tightly in his hand, as if he would never let go. He also pushed his money box to Lin Rui's hand and said, "I have some here. Do you think this is enough to buy your glass?"
There wasn't actually much money in the money box, only about a dozen taels of silver plus a small pile of copper coins. This amount couldn't even buy a glass when he was in Beijing, but the situation had changed. Even if he wanted to ask for a higher price, the butcher couldn't afford it.
Lin Rui grabbed all the silver and placed it in his arms, pointing at the girl the butcher had just pulled out of the cage: "I want her too!"
The butcher's stall owner had no reason to refuse and was secretly laughing at Lin Rui's stupidity. If he took a glass cup made of this material to the pawnshop in town, he could earn several hundred taels of silver. A few hundred taels was enough to buy a dozen butcher stalls like his.
At this time, many people secretly looked at the crazy butcher, wondering what good thing had happened to him that made him laugh so happily.
In order to attract the attention of those who were interested, Lin Rui immediately took the young man and the girl away.
He had originally planned to take them to the inn to temporarily stay, but the young general's words, "Two people have been following you for a long time," frightened him so much that his heart started pounding. It was probably because of the eye contact he made with the hunter in the inn that ruined everything.
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