Lin Jinyue simply couldn't stand it.
Lin Shucheng gently patted her shoulder from behind to comfort her. He himself was also feeling sad. As a father, he would be heartbroken if he thought about his daughter dying of thirst and his wife secretly feeding her with her blood.
Lin Jinyue turned her head away, not wanting to look anymore.
In this world, people are worth less than grass.
The people in front quickly went in to fetch water with blank expressions.
Lin Jinyue originally just wanted to come and take a look, but when the people in front of her started walking forward, she unconsciously followed them.
Lin Jinyue's eyes nearly popped out of her head as she watched them buy water. She had no time to feel sorry for others; she was miserable enough on her own.
The man in front handed over a piece of silver, which was at least two taels, but the water bag was still not full.
The ladle was small to begin with, and the person scooping the water was shaking so badly that it spilled more than half of it, just like the cafeteria lady at their school.
The man scooping water was dressed in expensive clothes, but he still couldn't hide his rustic appearance. People around him called him Master Zhu.
Lin Jinyue instinctively went to talk to someone, but her father stopped her.
This isn't in front of the villagers; it's better for my daughter to keep a low profile in front of these people.
Despite his disgust, Lin Shucheng had already come all this way, so he smiled and said, "Second Master Zhu, we need a lot, could you make an exception and give us a discount?"
Let's just avoid causing trouble here.
To his surprise, the man spat directly in his face.
Lin Shucheng held Lin Jinyue down with one hand and wiped the saliva off his face with the other, feeling utterly disgusted.
Lin Jinyue was furious. In her previous life, her father was the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. When he went out, everyone would respectfully call him "President Lin".
Even if they came to ancient times, they would have relied on their brains to become the backbone on the road to escape famine. They had never suffered such humiliation.
Lin Jinyue wished she could kill this man with a crossbow.
Lin Shucheng patted her on the back and said to Master Zhu with a smile, "Okay, whatever you say is fine."
With a sour face, Master Zhu threw the water ladle aside and gestured for his men to come and scoop water for his family.
His subordinates were equally arrogant, saying, "Three hundred coins for a ladle of water, do you have the money?"
Lin Shucheng gave an awkward laugh.
His daughter tugged at his sleeve, and he knew it was better not to waste the money; he had only come to check on things anyway.
However, as soon as the father and daughter turned around, his blood pressure spiked.
In the courtyard, there was a man in fine clothes reclining on a chair. Everyone called him Third Master Zhu. There was a young girl serving him. As Third Master Zhu lay on the recliner, the girl massaged his shoulders and back.
It was one thing for her to be a maidservant, but Master Zhu would touch her from time to time, running his hand across her cheek and neck, and even touching the young girl's chest in front of so many people.
Lin Shucheng cursed the beast in her heart. This girl was about the same age as her daughter, but looked to be less than ten years old.
The little girl has delicate features, like a porcelain doll, and fair skin; she looks like the daughter of a wealthy family.
Who would be willing to sell their daughter to change her water if they raised her so well?
This little girl was most likely abducted.
Lin Shucheng turned his head away. He doted on his daughter the most, and had raised her with utmost care since she was a child, giving her everything she wanted, from the stars to the moon.
Watching this scene, he couldn't help but think that if his daughter were kidnapped and forced to serve others, just imagining that scene would make him want to risk his life to get some kind of gunpowder and blow up the entire Great Xia Dynasty.
Just then, Master Zhu looked at Lin Jinyue with a lecherous grin: "Oh, this young lady is quite pretty. Sell your daughter to me, that's perfect. We can have two virgins serving each other tonight. Second brother, we can play together too."
Master Zhu also looked over with a lecherous gaze.
Lin Shucheng quickly pulled his daughter behind him.
Suppressing her anger, her smile was stiff: "Well, no, we'll be going now."
Lin Shucheng carried his daughter on his back and ran outside, deliberately choosing to dart into the dense forest. Once they were far away, Lin Jinyue simply threw them both into the system space.
The two sat on the lawn, panting, their faces heavy.
Lin Shucheng looked at his daughter and felt a wave of fear. He stroked Lin Jinyue's head and said, "Yuanyue, don't be afraid. Even if Dad loses himself, he won't lose you."
As he spoke, he took a strip of cloth, tied one end to his waist and the other end to Lin Jinyue's hand.
Lin Jinyue looked at the rope binding her hands and was rather speechless.
She managed to get it tied to her wrist only after she argued her case; otherwise, her father would have tied it to her waist.
She remembered how parents used to tie their kids up when they took them out for walks in her past life.
Ever since she transmigrated to ancient times, her father has treated her like a child, even though she was already an adult in her previous life. And her father seems to have forgotten how human traffickers bound her. She has a spatial ability!
However, seeing that her father and brother were not in a good mood, Lin Jinyue did not say much.
I was just relieved.
Fortunately, she traveled through time with her family. With her parents and brother protecting her along the way, the three of them didn't let her suffer much. If she had traveled alone, isolated and helpless, she didn't even want to think about how miserable her fate would have been.
Instead of leaving immediately, the two took a nap on the farm.
Lin Shucheng and Lin Jinyue didn't sleep a wink all night. They tried to get some sleep as soon as possible, and didn't even have time to eat properly. They could only sleep for two and a half hours inside, and they always felt uneasy about sleeping outdoors.
Two and a half hours later, the two were ejected from the system, and Lin Jinyue also woke up.
After leaving the space, Lin Jinyue divided two meat pies among herself, not caring whether the pies were cold or hard. Lin Jinyue and her father found a place to hide at the foot of the mountain.
Lin Shucheng and the Li family had arranged to meet here today.
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