Liu Daniu quickly said, "Don't talk nonsense." Those people looked like troublemakers, but the person who hired them also said that those people were like three-year-olds now, easily pushed over.
After giving the child to his wife, Liu Daniu walked over to the people sent by the new emperor. "Hello, my surname is Liu, and my name is Daniu. My mother died when I was three years old. After my mother died, my father remarried. My stepmother gave birth to a son for my father after she married into the family."
“My younger brother was spoiled by my father and stepmother. Last year, he also got into gambling. Just before the Chinese New Year, people from the gambling den came to collect debts.”
"The people at the gambling den said that if I couldn't pay back the money, they would cut off my brother's hand as interest. When my father heard this, he wanted to sell my child to help my brother pay off his gambling debts."
“I begged my father not to sell my child. But he wouldn’t listen. He said that if I didn’t obey, he would sell me too.”
"Just when I was desperate, someone said he could pay off my brother's debts. However, our family has to stay here for ten years and we can't leave during those ten years."
"I agreed as soon as I heard it. It doesn't matter where we live, as long as the family stays together."
"This morning, that man drove over in several vehicles. I thought he was going to drop off something, but I didn't expect the vehicles to be full of people."
I asked him if he needed me to take care of you.
“He said no. He said if you want to live, cook for yourselves; if you don’t want to live, go hungry.”
"Can you cook? If not, I'll have my wife teach you. She's a pretty good cook."
The new emperor's men were completely bewildered!
What do the people who captured them want?
Do you want them to be farmers in this small village?
Wang Liu, who was in charge, looked at Liu Daniu and asked, "How long have you been living here?"
"It's been more than half a year."
Who else is here with you?
"Just our family."
"Just your family?" Does that mean they can just leave whenever they want?
"Hmm. You want to leave? Let me tell you, you can't leave. That man said you're all poisoned and can only move freely within this manor. If you leave, you'll bleed from all seven orifices. He said if you want to try, go ahead. The door is over there."
Wang Liu: That's amazing? "Everyone, split up and search to see if there's anything that can suppress the poison. Once we find it, we can leave."
"yes."
Wang Liu and his men searched the entire Zhuangzi but found nothing of value.
Wang Liu didn't believe in superstitions. "I'll go out and give it a try."
"Boss, I'll go."
"No need, my martial arts are better than yours."
Wang Liu pushed open the door and went out.
As soon as he went outside, Wang Liu's nose started bleeding, and then his mouth started bleeding too.
The others quickly pulled Wang Liu back after seeing this.
Wang Liu said, "This is fucking weird," and then fainted.
It took more than two hours for Wang Liu to wake up.
Although Wang Liu woke up, he had no strength left in his body.
Liu Daniu looked at Wang Liu and said, "That man said that if you take just one step out, you'll have to stay in bed for a month. How many steps did you take just now?"
Wang Liu: "...What else did that person say?"
"That person said it's up to you whether you want to live or die. If you want to live, cook for yourselves; if you want to die, get out of here."
"...Can you get out?"
"Neither can we."
"You've been poisoned too?"
No, not at all. But if he said there wasn't such a person, he would definitely make him deliver the message for him. He wouldn't dare get involved in their affairs. "Hmm. I'll have my wife teach you how to cook. Let me tell you, it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death."
After saying that, Liu Daniu left.
"Boss, tell me, whose trap have we fallen for?"
"Who it is doesn't matter; what matters is that we haven't even seen their face."
"...Boss, do you think they might be the Seventh Prince's men?"
"It shouldn't be. The Seventh Prince's people wouldn't be so merciful to us."
"So what do we do next?"
Wang Liu didn't know either. He felt they were completely under someone else's control. "Let's find a way to send a message out."
That's all we can do. "Boss, do you think that family is really farmers?"
"It should be. I just looked at Liu Daniu's hands and they really do look like farming hands. But it's best to observe them further. If they're fake, then they might know how to leave this place? If they're real, then... then we might not be able to leave this place."
He had barely finished speaking when Liu Daniu came over with his wife. She hid behind him, a little scared. But he was a man. "My son's name is Shudun (Tree Stump), you can call my wife Shudun's mother from now on. Are you all going to learn, or just choose one person to learn?"
Wang Liu thought for a moment. "They should all learn." They didn't know when they could leave this place. If they couldn't leave for three or five years, they couldn't let one person cook forever, could they?
The group moved to the kitchen.
Tree Stump's mother was so nervous that she stammered, "I...I'll...I'll teach you how to steam...steam buns first."
Although Liu Daniu couldn't cook, he knew that steaming buns was quite difficult. "Wife, why don't you teach them how to make porridge first?"
"ah?"
"Making porridge is simple, so learn the simple things first."
Tree Stump's mother finally realized what was happening. She quickly apologized to Wang Liu and the others. "I...I was so nervous, please...please don't be angry."
Wang Liu: "Don't be nervous. We're just useless now. We can't even beat a child."
Tree Stump's mother wiped the sweat from her brow. "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, to make porridge you have to...you have to rinse...rinse the rice first..."
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