Liu Qi's pupils contracted: "Xiao Bin!"
He traveled to the border regions to trade horses and had many dealings with Xiao Bin.
Xiao Bin provided a lot of help in assembling the team.
At first, he thought Xiao Bin was a highly skilled person he had hired at great expense!
As the cool night breeze blew across the river, both Su Wanwan and He Ying, two frail women, shivered.
Su Wanwan said, "Liu Qi, you'd better run away. You can't escape with me and Heying, you're just two burdens."
Liu Qi didn't say anything more, and left with his men in a small boat, leaving them with another small boat.
Xiao Bin pursed his lips and turned to look at Su Wanwan: "You don't want to kill him?"
Su Wanwan was silent for a moment, then said, "He saved my life."
Without the medicine Liu Qi found, she would have died.
The ship is still sinking.
Xiao Bin led Su Wanwan and He Ying onto a small boat and approached the shore.
There were villages and houses not far away. The three knocked on the door of one of the houses, intending to take refuge for the time being.
The homeowners were an elderly couple in their fifties who were trembling with fear but dared not refuse to open the door.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Bin was followed by two delicate women.
Xiao Bin looked at the children and young women huddled on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the inner room. There were no able-bodied adults in the room. He asked, "Where is your son?"
The elderly couple became even more frightened, their gazes sweeping past the hoe behind the door.
The old woman then began to complain: "They all wanted to make something of themselves and make a name for themselves, so they ran off with Liu Liu and Liu Qi!"
"They even rode away with the family horse, so we're now without a horse to pay this year's taxes."
As she spoke, tears streamed down the old woman's face.
A horse costs forty taels of silver.
If you can't submit it, you'll have to pay compensation at the original price.
Wouldn't that bankrupt them?
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