Chapter 8: Don't underestimate
"What's your name?" After feeding rice soup to the boy who was stabbed, Daohua looked at the other boy.
The young man was silent for a moment, as if he didn't want to say anything, but he finally spoke: "Xiao Yeyang!"
As soon as the name came out, Daohua knew that this was not a child from an ordinary family.
Ordinary people would not choose such a name.
Just like her, even though her father is a seventh-rank county magistrate, she still has the simple and straightforward name "Daohua" because she grew up in the countryside.
Daohua looked Xiao Yeyang up and down.
He looked about eleven or twelve years old, with a dirty face, a messy mess of hair, and dirty and smelly clothes. Judging from these, he was no different from the refugees outside.
However, judging from the upright sitting posture and calm expression, the child was obviously well-educated.
The rice flowers were looking at Xiao Yeyang, and Xiao Yeyang was also looking at the rice flowers calmly.
Delicate skin and tender meat!
This was Xiao Yeyang’s first impression of rice flowers.
Daohua is now dressed as a boy, so he automatically thinks she is a boy. However, this boy is not to his liking.
In his opinion, boys should be tall and strong. What's wrong with being delicate and weak, and being whiter and tenderer than girls?
Although her appearance is not his type, she is very brave.
The act of knocking the human trafficker unconscious with a stone was truly brave and courageous!
After forming a preliminary assessment of Xiao Yeyang, Daohua pointed at the unconscious boy who had been stabbed and continued to ask, "What about him? What's his name?"
Xiao Yeyang shook his head: "I don't know!" The children in the hands of human traffickers were abducted from various places. They had not been together for a long time and did not know each other at all.
Daohua was surprised: "Aren't you from the same group?"
Xiao Yeyang: "No."
Daohua: "Then how did you escape together?"
Xiao Yeyang looked a little depressed. "The others were too cowardly to resist the traffickers, but he was the only one who refused to give in and secretly worked with me to find a way to escape."
Daohua nodded: "You two are very brave."
Xiao Yeyang glanced at Daohua and asked, "What about you? What's your name?"
"My name is Rice Flower."
"Rice flowers?" Xiao Yeyang frowned and looked up and down at the rice flowers.
How did you pick a girl's name?
Noticing Xiao Yeyang's strange look, Daohua was a little confused, but after a little thought she understood. She was a boy now, and it would be strange if she was given a girl's name.
"Ahem~"
The boy who was stabbed woke up.
As soon as he opened his eyes, the boy's eyes were full of vigilance. After seeing Daohua and Xiao Yeyang clearly, he slowly relaxed.
"We. Escaped?" The boy who was stabbed looked at Xiao Yeyang.
Xiao Yeyang nodded.
At this time, the young man who was stabbed finally felt relieved.
Daohua examined the wound of the stabbed boy and applied medicine to him again: "I only helped you stop the bleeding initially. You still need to go to the city to see a doctor for a thorough checkup. Understand?"
The boy who was stabbed looked at Daohua with gratitude: "Thank you." He knew that he was able to survive thanks to the little brother in front of him.
If he hadn't knocked the trafficker down with a stone in time, he would have been strangled to death.
And this hemostatic medicine should not be very cheap. Anyway, the one used by the lame old doctor in their village is not as good as this.
Xiao Yeyang sat silently by the side, looking at the small porcelain bottle in Daohua's hand several times.
What medicine is that?
The hemostatic effect is better than the wound medicine used in the military camp.
Daohua looked at the boy who was stabbed: "By the way, what's your name?"
The boy who was stabbed: "Zhao Ergou, you can call me Ergouzi."
Daohua nodded. This name was in line with the current aesthetic taste of farmers: "How were you captured by human traffickers?" These two people were in their teens and should not have been abducted!
After these words were spoken, both of them looked unhappy.
Zhao Ergou spoke first, his voice very low: "There was a severe drought in my hometown, so my parents secretly sold me to a family to be a child servant. I didn't believe them, so I ran away and ran into the traffickers on the way."
Rice Flower sighed.
Ordinary people in ancient times had a hard life. She believed that Zhao Ergou's parents were unwilling to sell him, but they had to do so in order to survive.
In Yanjia Village, she had also heard many stories about people having to sell their children because they could not survive.
"What about you? How were you kidnapped?" Daohua looked at Xiao Yeyang.
Xiao Yeyang's face was grumpy, and he said in a muffled voice: "I was taken along."
"Hmm?" Daohua and Zhao Ergou looked at Xiao Yeyang at the same time.
Xiao Yeyang: "I was in a bad mood that day, and somehow I walked into an alley. I happened to see the traffickers knocking a child unconscious, and then I was tied up with them."
Daohua was speechless and didn't know what expression to make: "You are so unlucky!" Isn't this the legendary sending someone's head thousands of miles away?
Just then, Yan Wentao got on the carriage.
As soon as he came up, he said hurriedly, "The human traffickers are here and they're searching for people in the back. My grandmother told me to tell you not to make a sound."
As soon as these words were spoken, Daohua, Xiao Yeyang and Zhao Ergou all became nervous.
Daohua lifted a corner of the curtain and looked back carefully.
They are now next to a roadside tavern.
Not only were they around, but there were also people from the escort agency and many other places.
At this moment, two aggressive strong men were searching everyone one by one, even checking other people's carriages.
Seeing that they were determined to find the person, Daohua lowered the curtain and frowned tightly.
Xiao Yeyang looked around the carriage and saw no place to hide anyone. After thinking for a moment, he said, "How about we get off? If we're discovered by the traffickers, I'm afraid they'll take their anger out on you."
The people who rescued them, both old and young, were no match for the human traffickers.
Daohua directly denied it: "It's too late to get off the bus now. As soon as you get off, they will find you."
Yan Wentao was nervous, sweat oozing from his forehead. "Grandmother said that as long as you keep quiet, nothing will happen. After all, we are with the escort agency, and those two people should not dare to confront them."
Daohua shook her head: "The people from the escort agency may not care about us." As she said that, she took out her bag again, rummaged through it, and took out two small porcelain bottles.
Xiao Yeyang's eyes flashed, and then he saw Daohua getting off the carriage with a porcelain bottle and walking towards the people from the escort agency.
When Xiao Yeyang saw the people from the escort agency accept the porcelain bottle, he was immediately relieved.
Qin Wu looked at the porcelain bottle in his hand, then looked at the rice flowers jumping and running towards Old Lady Yan, and sighed in his heart.
The kid in this family is quite clever and actually knows how to bribe him proactively!
Glancing at his family's carriage with its doors tightly shut, Qin Wu instructed a young man beside him, "Xiao Liu, go over and keep an eye on them. Don't let those two strong men mess around."
Qin Xiaoliu nodded immediately and took the two of them to stand next to Daohua's carriage.
After a while, the trafficker came over, and Qin Xiaoliu glared at him: "What are you doing? This is the Hakka from my escort agency, get out of here!"
The human trafficker looked at the carriage, then at Qin Xiaoliu and others, and hesitated a little. However, after weighing it for a while, he turned around and left, continuing to search other places.
"Brother Xiaoliu, you are so amazing!"
As soon as the person left, Daohua immediately looked at Qin Xiaoliu with admiration.
In the entire escort agency, he is the only one who is relatively compassionate, which is probably because he is new to the escort business.
Qin Xiaoliu felt a little embarrassed. He scratched the back of his head with a smile, then quietly pointed at the carriage and whispered, "It's best not to let the people in the carriage out in the next few days. Those traffickers might take quite some time."
Daohua's eyes widened immediately: "You...you know there's someone in the car?"
Qin Xiaoliu raised his head proudly: "My fifth brother discovered your carriage just as it caught up with the escort team."
Daohua's cheeks were a little stiff. She thought they had been very careful, but she didn't expect to be discovered!
Were these ancient people too powerful?
Seeing that her face was not right, Qin Xiaoliu hurriedly comforted her: "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone."
Daohua said gratefully, "Thank you."
Qin Xiaoliu waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to worry about it.
Afterwards, after receiving a bag of dried meat from Old Lady Yan, Qin Xiaoliu left with a smile.
Looking at his back and the people from the escort agency in the distance, Daohua reminded herself in her heart that she must never underestimate any ancient people in the future!
(End of this chapter)
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