Xiaohua brought Baichen and the others to a dilapidated house. When they opened the door, there were seventeen children of all ages inside, with pale and skinny faces and unkempt hair.
"Sister Xiaohua, you're back. Who are they?" A malnourished little girl asked Xiaohua.
"Xiao Lian, don't ask anymore. It was this young man who saved us. Mr. Gao's people will be here soon. You take everyone to pack up, and we will leave immediately." Xiaohua said to Xiao Lian.
"But, Sister Xiaohua, where can we go?" Xiaolian said in embarrassment.
"Come with me, I will take you away from here first. If you don't want the things, you can buy new ones later." Bai Chen looked at the broken things on the ground and told them not to take the things.
"We will listen to you, Master. Xiaolian, Xiaolan, Xiaoju, hold your brothers and sisters and let's go." Xiaohua instructed the older little girl to hold her brothers and sisters who were only a few months old, one year old and two years old.
"Meng Yue, Meng Long, you guys go help too. Everyone, get out of here quickly. If they get here, it'll be tough," Bai Chen said. It wasn't that Bai Chen couldn't beat them, but he didn't want to cause any trouble.
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake.
"Yes, sir." Meng Yue and Meng Long led everyone to help take some of the younger children away, and Bai Chen followed behind, holding two babies who were a few months old.
A group of people left the dilapidated courtyard in a mighty manner. Not long after they left, Mr. Gao's housekeeper came with a dozen servants.
After looking around the yard, he realized that they had escaped, so he took his servants to chase them, but he couldn't catch them.
Bai Chen took them back to the inn, paid the money, went to Ya Market, bought a few carriages, and took them out of Qiantang County.
This time, we had quite a good harvest, finding ten good seedlings. Among Xiaohua's group, there were ten children aged between ten and thirteen, and the rest were children aged eight, seven, five, four, three, two, and one, as well as two babies who were only a few months old.
We are now safe after leaving Qiantang County. Bai Chen asked Xiaohua and the others to get out of the car and said to them.
"You all saw that those children were just like you, and I rescued them. I rescued them because I wanted them to join the special forces, and the same goes for you. If you are willing to join, I can take you away. If you are not willing, I will give you thirty taels and send you to a nearby town. You can use the money to live with your younger brothers and sisters. I'll give you a quarter of an hour to think about it." Bai Chen said to them straight to the point.
Xiaohua discussed it with her younger siblings for a while, and also asked Meng Yue and the others. Finally, they decided to follow the young master back.
"Since you have agreed to join, let's talk about the issue of the remaining people staying. Young lady means children aged twelve or thirteen, and my young lady is also the same age. I see that you guys have good qualifications, so I decided to keep you. Young lady will not want the remaining children who are a few years old. Do you want to place them here or take them back? If Young lady takes them in at home, they will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives and grow up healthily. If you want to keep them, I will arrange for them to go to Longtang County. My young lady has a business there, and I will let the shopkeeper there set up a yard and hire people to take care of them as they grow up!" Bai Chen analyzed the issue of whether the children should stay or go for them.
"If you go with us, will we be able to see them?" Xiaohua looked at her younger siblings reluctantly. She had lived with these children for a year and had developed feelings for them. She was still worried about leaving them behind.
"It's impossible to see them once we enter the training phase. Even my lady and I can't see our families," Bai Chen said.
"Young Master, do you mean that the young lady will train with us?" Meng Yue asked Bai Chen.
"No, it was the young lady and I who trained you. The young lady's martial arts are much stronger than mine." Bai Chen said.
"Sir, I decided to take them with me." Xiaohua said.
"Okay, everyone get on the carriage and let's go." After Bai Chen said this, he led everyone away in the carriage.
After a month of traveling, I found another fifteen good children. Now I only need three more to find fifty.
Lin'an County.
"Husband, please don't sell Tiedan and Xiaohong." A village woman begged a big man.
"You think I want to, but we don't have the money to treat Dad. Only by selling her two siblings can we save Dad. Do you want me not to save Dad and be an unfilial son?" The big man scolded his wife angrily.
"But they are my flesh and blood. Otherwise, I would go out to work and earn money to treat my father-in-law's illness," said the village woman.
"Dad, can't you wait that long? Just sell them." The big man said cruelly.
"Have you guys reached an agreement? If you don't make a decision, we'll leave." A thug said to the big man.
"We've agreed to sell them to you. Can you tell me where you want to sell them to?" the big man asked the thug.
"Of course, the men are sold into the palace to be slaves, and the women are sold into the Yihong Courtyard," said the thug.
"Yihongyuan is a brothel. My husband, you can't sell Xiaohong to that kind of place." When the village woman heard that it was Yihongyuan, she was so anxious that she begged her husband not to sell her daughter to that kind of place.
"Master, can you sell my daughter to a wealthy family as a maid? You can give me less money." The big man didn't want to sell his daughter to such a dirty place.
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