Chapter 288: Stop, did you let me go?
Lao Liu shook his head, "I didn't pay attention."
Su Nuan squeezed out the water the two children had drunk and gave them two more injections.
The child woke up and started crying loudly.
Su Nuan comforted them for a while, gave them some water and food.
Ling Yun came back from the bridge and said, "There are broken planks in the net under the bridge. A boat must have broken into pieces."
Su Nuan nodded. "But why didn't they find any adults? Could it be that these two children rowed out by themselves?"
Ling Yun looked at the two children and shook his head, "I don't know, ask them."
Su Nuan sighed, "These two children haven't spoken yet. Maybe they need to be taken care of for now."
We can't just stand by and watch them die, otherwise they might become orphans from now on.
Su Nuan decided to go upstream to take a look, so she called Feixue to check from high above.
There was nothing unusual on the river, but there was a broken boat near the border town of Beixue Country. It was blocked by rocks on the shore. Judging from the damage to the boat, it seemed that it had been hit by another boat.
"How strange! How could this ship be damaged by another ship?"
The space spirit said, "Could it be that they didn't want the child to be sacrificed, so they took the child and fled. They were discovered, and those people rammed and sank the boat."
Su Nuan nodded, "It's possible. I want to go to the interior of the border town to take a look."
She did not enter the city from the river entrance, but went around to the other side. She bought a set of worn-out clothes from the villagers and disguised herself before entering through the city gate.
It was strange that there were soldiers guarding the city gates, but no one collected the city fees.
As you enter the city, you can see a notice posted on the notice board next to it.
The notice said that two of the sacrifices had escaped and they needed to buy two children, a boy and a girl, at a high price to replace them.
The space spirit sent a message to Su Nuan, "Look, I was right, wasn't I?"
Su Nuan responded in her heart, "That's roughly right, but I don't think this is a simple matter."
"Do you think those children should be managed centrally? If so, why did two of them escape?"
"If there are kind-hearted people who can't stand it, they will definitely take the children away."
The space spirit pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps they felt that if they stole two, the sacrifice would not be enough. If not, they would not hold the sacrifice."
Su Nuan nodded. This statement was possible, but there was still something different.
She found a noodle stall on the edge of the city and said, "Uncle, give me a bowl of vegetarian noodles."
"Okay." Uncle responded.
Su Nuan looked at the people around her. Many of them had sad faces, while others were chatting and laughing.
She listened attentively to what those people who were chatting and laughing were saying.
The bearded man said, "Do you think we will still hold a sacrifice if the offerings are insufficient?"
The pale-faced scholar said, "Yes, the high priest said six would be fine. They used to use four."
The bearded man sighed, "I almost froze to death this winter. I hope the sacrifices will be effective and we'll have a good harvest, but no more snowstorms."
The pale-faced scholar sighed, "Who says it isn't true? My family almost didn't make it. Luckily, my uncle knows how to hunt, so we didn't starve to death."
The bearded man lowered his voice and asked, "Do you think those two kids who escaped will be caught?"
The pale-faced scholar lowered his voice and said, "I heard the ship sank and they all died."
The bearded uncle shook his head and sighed, looking sad.
The pale-faced scholar continued, "Don't think too much. We're lucky to be alive."
The bearded man nodded and said, "I'll save some money this year, then I'll go find my daughter next year and buy some land in her village. I won't live here anymore."
The pale-faced scholar shook his head, "I can't leave."
The bearded man was startled. "Why?"
The pale-faced scholar's eyes flashed with resentment. "The city guard is worried that there won't be enough people here. Anyone here can't leave. To go to another city, you need to pay a deposit of one hundred taels before you can get a pass. The deposit will be returned upon your return."
"Do you have a hundred taels? No? So we can't leave."
The bearded uncle slammed the table hard and gave a "friendly greeting" to the air.
Su Nuan was listening intently when her uncle brought the noodles to her.
"Madam, your noodles are two cents."
Su Nuan looked at the black noodles in the bowl, the watery soup, and the two cents.
She didn't have the money of the Northern Snow Country, so she took out an exquisite handkerchief and asked, "Uncle, can I exchange this handkerchief for a bowl of noodles?"
"I embroidered this handkerchief myself and wanted to exchange it for some money, but I was too hungry and didn't have time to do so."
The uncle took the handkerchief and looked at it. "It's made of fine cotton. The flowers are beautiful. Okay, you can eat it."
Su Nuan thanked him and started eating noodles.
A bowl of noodles was quite large, and Su Nuan smuggled some into the space. She felt like she was floating in the air, and couldn't eat anything that didn't taste good.
After eating the noodles, the two men had already left, and Su Nuan took some fine cotton handkerchiefs to the embroidery room.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a slightly plump woman throwing a tantrum.
"You have such a big embroidery shop but you don't have any handkerchiefs. Hurry up and find your embroiderer to make one for me."
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged woman. She said with a bitter face, "Every household has to work these days. Women's hands are rough and they can't embroider at all. That's why all the handkerchiefs are plain."
"Although some maids in the mansion have handkerchiefs for sale, it is inconvenient for them to go out, so they haven't come to deliver the goods yet."
Su Nuan was delighted when she heard this. She came forward holding a fine cotton handkerchief and asked, "Boss, would you like to take the handkerchief?"
The shopkeeper looked at Su Nuan and saw that she was wearing tattered clothes but had white and delicate fingers. His eyes lit up and asked, "Take it, how many do you have?"
Su Nuan put the handkerchief on the counter.
The handkerchiefs were folded into squares, and each one was embroidered with flowers with good meanings.
The fat woman grabbed one and went to examine it, and said happily, "This is good craftsmanship. I'll buy them all."
Su Nuan looked at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, what do you think?"
The shopkeeper seemed afraid to offend the woman and said with an awkward smile, "You're lucky. Madam Lin is generous. Just sell it to her."
Su Nuan looked up and smiled foolishly, "But the shopkeeper said he would buy it, so how much would you give? Who you sell it to and how much you sell it for is your own business."
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up and he took a look at Su Nuan. He felt that this plain-looking girl had never seen the world and was a bit naive.
She smiled and said, "Fifty coins each, and you have thirty-five, for a total of 1,750 coins. I'll make it an even number, 1,800."
Su Nuan nodded, "Thank you, shopkeeper."
The shopkeeper took out one tael of silver and eight small strings of copper coins.
Su Nuan said foolishly again: "I only want copper coins, I don't know silver."
The shopkeeper didn't find it strange, so he took out another ten strings of copper coins and said, "You've got them, and go home quickly."
Su Nuan nodded and said, "I'm going to buy some rice and then go home."
She wanted to find out about the prices here, and thought it would be better to use copper coins, as she had no shortage of silver.
She took out linen, wrapped the copper coins and held them in her arms.
But before he even reached the door, the fat woman shouted, "Stop! Did I let you go?"
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