Chapter 517 Slums
It's too dirty here, and there is no good road at all. It rained a little last night, and the yellow mud road is covered with mottled footprints.
Su Ying didn't want the two children to go with her, but Xiao Jin said it was okay.
His original words were, "One is the eldest princess, and the other is the eldest prince. They can't just focus on the endless prosperity. They should know the suffering of the people."
Su Ying felt that Xiao Jin still had some ideas in terms of education.
The couple held their child's hand and walked along the path. Xiao Jin walked among the houses. He was a head taller than them. How could it be comfortable to live in this place?
"You dead girl, you are a life-losing piece of shit. You don't do any work all day and just want to eat. If I had known you were so useless when you were born, I would have drowned you in a piss bucket!"
"Oh, mother, please don't hit me. I didn't steal the sweet potatoes. I didn't steal my brother's sweet potatoes."
They had not walked far when they heard shouting and cursing from the front. A moment later, a thin figure rushed towards them. Maybe she was trying to dodge the people behind her and did not notice Su Ying and the others, and bumped into Xiao Jin's legs.
The imperial guards behind immediately stepped forward vigilantly upon seeing this, but Xiao Jin waved his hand to signal them not to be nervous.
"Ouch!"
The thin girl staggered and was about to fall to the ground. Su Ying quickly picked her up to prevent her from hitting the rocks on the ground.
However, when she grabbed the little girl's arm, she was still shocked by her thinness.
The little girl thought Su Ying and the others looked unfamiliar, and was so scared that she broke free from Su Ying's hand and backed away.
"You little bitch, you dare to run? I'm going to beat you to death!" The cursing woman chased after them, not noticing Su Ying and the others, and hit the little girl with the broom in her hand.
"Ah! Mom, please don't hit me, don't hit me." The little girl screamed in pain.
Su Ying frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, she reached out to stop the woman, "What did she do wrong?"
The woman raised her head and looked at Su Ying when she heard her voice. She shrank back when she saw that she was clean. It was a feeling of inferiority that came from her bones.
"She, she stole her brother's sweet potatoes."
"I, I didn't, I didn't steal any food, yes, my brother ate it all by himself, I didn't steal any food wuwuwu..."
"You said you didn't steal, but where did your brother's sweet potatoes go?"
Su Ying turned her head and saw a boy who looked younger walking behind her. She found that there were still some sweet potato residues on his mouth. He walked to the woman and made a face at the little girl. His eyes were full of pride, as if he was very satisfied with the girl being taught a lesson.
"Aren't you afraid that wild dogs will eat you if you lie?"
The little boy glanced at Su Ying and timidly shrank behind the woman, "I, I didn't lie."
"I'm not lying. Where did the sweet potato residue in your mouth come from?"
Upon hearing this, the little boy quickly reached out to wipe his mouth. Su Ying knew that he was deliberately framing the little girl.
Man is born evil, it is indeed so.
The woman also realized that she had wronged the girl, but she still stiffened her neck and said, "You are a money-loser who doesn't work all day and just wants to run away and play and be lazy. I will beat you to death!"
This time, Su Ying dodged the woman's broom and threw it to the ground. "You clearly know that it's not her fault, but you still don't want to let her go. She is also a person, not your punching bag."
The woman was so angry at what Su Ying said, "She eats my food and drinks my drinks, so what if I hit her? If it weren't for me, she would have died long ago."
"If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have come to this world to suffer!"
"You, who are you? Why do you care about my family's affairs? If you want to, then spend money to buy her. After you buy her, you can do whatever you want to her. Even if you treat her like a treasure, no one will say anything to you."
When the little girl heard her mother was going to sell her, she cried and grabbed her legs and shouted, "Mom, mom, please, please don't sell me, I won't eat anymore, I will only eat one sweet potato a day from now on, please don't sell me."
Su Ying even saw a look of expectation in the woman's eyes, "Are you willing to come with me?"
The little girl looked at Su Ying with eyes full of strangeness.
Dabao and Erbao both had their brows tightly furrowed. They had experienced exile and were almost sold, so they could especially empathize with the little girl's experience.
"Don't be afraid. My mother is a good person. If you are willing to come with us, you will be able to eat well in the future."
Maybe because they were all children of the same age, the little girl was not so scared when she looked at Dabao and the others. Especially when she heard that she could eat her fill, she swallowed subconsciously.
"But, can I have a full meal?"
"Yes, you can eat your fill. There is rice and meat buns. They are delicious."
The little girl was moved.
The woman took the opportunity to offer: "Five taels of silver, if you want it, buy it."
"It's not that expensive for me to buy an adult. Two taels, not a cent more."
But the woman said firmly: "No, not even one ounce less."
"Then I won't buy it."
Su Ying saw that the woman's eyes were weak, but she was still pretending to be tough. She stopped bargaining and turned around and left with Dabao and the others.
The woman was a little panicked when she saw Su Ying and the others leave. She didn't want the duck that she had just got to fly away, so she quickly offered to sell it.
Su Ying did not look back but asked the imperial guards to do it. The trafficking of human beings also had to be registered.
"After you take them away, place them in the academy, in the youngest class."
"yes."
"Are you still going?" After what happened, their mood became bad.
"Walk."
Xiao Jin responded, picked up Erbao and continued walking down.
The further they walked, the narrower the path inside became. Occasionally, they could see children playing on the path outside. They were all dirty, with snot hanging from their noses. They stared at Su Ying and the others with their big black eyes.
Most of the people in these houses are old people, women and children. The adult men probably go out to find work during the day, so there are not many of them.
"Eh? Isn't that the sister who bought the rice cake this morning? Sister?"
When Su Ying heard the voice, she turned around and saw the little girl selling rice cakes in the morning. She remembered that her name was Yueliang.
"It's Sister Moon."
Yueyue smiled and walked over to them, a little confused, "Sister, do you live here too?"
Su Ying shook her head. "No, I just passed by and took a look."
"That's perfect. Sister, come to my house as a guest. My mother said she would make sweet dates for us. The sweet dates my mother makes are better than those sold in pastry shops. Sister, come and try them."
Yueliang's family lives here and must be more familiar with the situation here. She glanced at Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jin nodded. Then they took the two treasures and followed Yueliang.
"Dad, Mom, there are guests at home."
(End of this chapter)
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