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57. Backhand

When Luo Yong and the other two returned to Xipo Village, it was already dark.

"I still think you won't come back tonight." Hearing the sound from outside the yard, Er Niang happily welcomed her. As soon as she finished speaking, she saw two young men and women following Luo Yong.

"I'm so hungry, can I have food at home?" Luo Yong smiled at his sister and asked.

"Wait, I'll do it for you." Erniang said, going to the kitchen to cook for them, and while walking, he turned around and looked at the two of them.

"Let's eat in the hall today." Luo Yong said.

"Oh." Erniang responded absent-mindedly.

Luo Yong led the two into the hall and set the hot kang on it. As soon as the wooden doors at both ends were closed, the room gradually became warmer.

Looking at the two of them, perhaps because they were planning to sell them to the rich people from outside, they were dressed neatly and cleaner, and they were just a little thinner. After walking in the snow for most of the day, they were hungry, cold and tired, and they didn't look very energetic at this time.

"Let's sit on the kang, there will be food in a while." After running outside for two days, Luo Yong was a little confused at this time.

"I don't dare." Both of them lowered their heads. The older girl looked straight out of the door and asked the lady from the master to arrange food for them. She really made her nervous.

She asked her family to sell her at a young age. She was poor and couldn't even afford to eat. She said, "He helped her find someone who could eat enough."

She lived in that family for seven or eight years, from five or six to thirteen years old. A few days ago, the owner didn't have enough money and reselled her, just because Chen Qi's bid was one hundred people higher than the other one. The owner knew that the other party was notorious, but still sold herself to him.

Chen Qi had many young men and women in his hands, who were determined to sell them to those rich people in Chang'an. In recent days, he not only gave them enough food, but also got some fresh and old clothes from somewhere. He told them all day long that he would do what he would do after he went to Chang'an City. Many young people were very moved. He really thought that as long as he asked the men of Chang'an City to buy them, he could live a good life of luxury and wealth.

But they dreamed during the day that people like them who were sold as livestock, either to work for others, but to sell them as to make toys for others. Chen Qi's mind was obviously in the latter.

"Suqin, Wang Shao, but are your real names?" Seeing that they were reserved, Luo Yong did not insist on letting them go to the kang.

"It's not real name." said the girl.

"Wang Shao is my real name." The thin black boy replied.

Luo Yong thought for a while and asked them, "But you want to change your name?"

He knows that many people will think of burying past memories after experiencing bad things and no longer want to use their previous names.

Wang Shao's name was given by his parents, so he didn't want to change it.

He was from Dinghu County and sold his body more than a month ago. Her mother was sick and had no money to buy medicine. It happened that a few days ago, someone was buying children. He said it very well. The owner was very reliable. The boy was young and believed the other party and sold himself. As a result, he was transferred to him within two days.

It was under Chen Qi's hands. At the beginning, he was frightened by Chen Qi's coaxing and thought that he would be able to buy it home by the men of Chang'an City. After he saw the scene of selling people several times, he gradually became a little reminiscent.

He also thought about running away, but someone had run away before, and was caught by Chen Qi. He stripped his clothes and hung it up, and only half his life was left. Later, he didn't know where he was sold. Chen Qi also said that he had many brothers in the city and had something to do with the teeth. No matter where they ran, they would have to be caught in the end.

Today on the street, when he heard Luo Yong ask them if they would do farm work, he plucked up his courage to agree. Later, when Chen Qi yelled, his legs were so scared that he would lose his skin. He even thought that he would not die this time. Unexpectedly, Luo Sanlang was not afraid of Chen Qifen and bought them back.

Unlike Wang Shao, Suqin wanted to change her name. Her name was originally given by the master's art. When she heard this name, she felt that she was a toy and felt very disgusted.

Luo Yong asked her what kind of name she wanted to give herself, and she said, "My original surname is Peng, Xing Er, just call me Peng Er."

If it is an ordinary woman, she will be called Peng Erniang, but she has become a lowly person and can no longer call her mother. The words Lang and Niang are originally honorary titles.

The three of them talked about this for a long time. Peng and Wang Shao told Luo Yong about their own life experiences, and then talked about some of the experiences under Chen Qi during this period.

Luo Yong also inquired about Chen Qi's character. He spent three stagnant of money to buy these two people today. Logically speaking, the price was very fair, but what Chen Qi wanted was obviously not a fair price. This is probably a good deal.

At this time, Luo Erniang also came from the next kitchen with a bowl of noodle soup. Seeing that she had finished cooking, Luo Yong quickly pulled her shoes off the kang, went to the next door to bring the other two bowls over, and took three pairs of chopsticks.

"Sister, you need to eat some more." Luo Yong asked Er Niang.

"I won't eat it, I've just eaten it." Erniang said.

"You two come here to eat too. This is my sister. I'll call her second mother." Luo Yong said to Peng and Wang Shao.

"..." The two of them looked at each other but still didn't step forward.

"Come here to eat, it's awkward. After eating, go to bed early. I will ask my sister to teach you how to cook pig food tomorrow." Luo Yong said again.

"Yes." As soon as they heard that they were going to ask them to cook pig food tomorrow, the two of them felt at ease. Although they were still a little timid, they still sat on the kang and picked up their chopsticks to eat. They wanted to eat more politely, but they never thought that they could not stop it. When they came to their senses, there was no soup in the bowl.

"Do you have to cook some more?" Erniang also heard Luo Yong talk about the origins of the two of them at this time, and she felt very sympathetic. Her family had such difficult days in the past. If Saburo had not woken up, she would have been afraid that she would have gone that path in the end.

"No, I'm all full." Peng Er said hurriedly.

"Where are they going to sleep?" Erniang asked Luo Yong again.

"Peng Er sleeps in the kitchen, and Wang Shao will sleep in the grocery store." Luo Yong said.

Luo Yong was not sleeping peacefully this night. He had to get up and take a look if there was a little movement. He would not fall asleep until the sky was getting brighter and slept until the sun was noon.

When he left the house, he happened to see Wulang and Wang Shao coming back from outside, rushing five pairs of people. There were several buckets of water on the donkey cart, obviously going to the village to fetch water. Peng Er and Siniang were squatting in the open space outside the kitchen to wash vegetables. The food basin contained two reeds, namely carrots, brought back from the city yesterday.

"Brother, how should I eat this reed?" Si Niang asked him excitedly when she saw Luo use it. Such a white and tender reed is not common here. If Peng Er hadn't told her, she wouldn't have known that this was also reed.

"You can cook soup, stew meat, or steam it on the rice and then dip it in soy sauce." Luo Yong said while yawning.

"Is it delicious?" Si Niang swallowed.

"It's delicious." Luo Yong nodded.

Then Si Niang started to calculate how to cook these two aloes with her fingers. Recently, she was mostly responsible for the meals at home. Her brother and sister were too busy, and Wulang and the others were clumsy and couldn't help.

Now two more helpers have come to the family. Si Niang thinks it’s good. My sister won’t have to feed pigs in the future, and she won’t have to mix chickens in the future. She just picks up eggs.

"Master, can there be fermented bean curd for sale?" At this time, an old man in a robe walked in at the gate of the yard.

"Yes." The girl from Si Niang responded, happily went over to sell things.

"How much is the price?" asked the other party.

"A can costs five cents." Seeing that the other party was well dressed, Si Niang did not quote the price for the stock sale.

"I want five jars."

"That's twenty-five cents."

Si Niang is not serious about calligraphy, but she learns to calculate numbers very quickly. Now she is very smooth selling things in the store to calculate money. Although she still looks a little irritable, she is very sensitive to numbers and rarely makes mistakes.

As the two of them were talking, Peng Er put the two washed reeds in a clean wooden basin next to them, picked up the used vegetable washing water, poured it into the ditch outside the yard. When pouring the water, he also looked at the ox cart parked outside the yard and the man who drove the car.

In the former owner's house and when she later fell into Chen Qi's hands, she had met children who were abducted and trafficked. Those children were not taken to sell by their parents themselves, but were not wary of being abducted.

The children of the Luo family have never experienced such things and are not very careful. However, for people like Peng Er who have been sold, the world is full of dangers everywhere, so they are more vigilant.

Luo Yong took Peng Er's actions and the alert on her face in his eyes. He thought that having such a thing at home should be a good thing.

Although he brought these two people back home, he actually did not trust them completely in his heart, and he had to observe slowly in the days to come. Sympathy is one thing, and trust is another. Luo Yong was not the kind of person who could easily trust others.

After lunch that day, Luo Yong rarely went to work in the backyard, but looked at the shop in the front yard, and gave Si Niang Wulang and the others a vacation, and asked them to go to the village to play. He brought the wheat green beans with him and five pairs, and he was allowed to go to the village to have a lot of people. He was not allowed to leave the village entrance.

As for Peng Er and Wang Shao, Luo Yong asked them to stay in the grocery store to make toothbrushes. Sometimes, customers bought a lot of things, and they could help load the car.

"I heard that you had a fight with Chen Qi yesterday?" The man who often came to Luo to buy fermented bean curd here asked.

"You have learned about this?" Luo Yong said with a smile. He knew that the man took the fermented bean curd and mainly went to Fangshan County to sell it. Although he was from Lishi County, he rarely stayed at home.

"I went back to the city yesterday, and I heard Chen Qi tell people everywhere, saying that you bullied him. He was obviously a ten-min money item, but he forced himself to buy it with three-min money." The other party said.

"Can the people in the city believe it?" Luo Yong asked. The reason he wanted to look at the shop here this afternoon was to find out some news about the city.

"Who will believe him? Then Chen Qi's reputation in Lishi has already become terrible." The other party waved his hand.

"But it was also a bit fierce. Yesterday, I told me to take someone's skin and really scared me." Luo Yong said.

"You are just a person who eats people and doesn't spit bones. Sanlang, be careful." The other party reminded kindly.

"You must be careful." Luo Yong nodded.

In fact, what Luo Yong was most afraid of was that Chen Qi secretly used secret tricks, such as attacking the baby of their Luo family, or colluding with outsiders, causing trouble for him.

Now it seems that the other party is trying to make a clear head? Or is it already showing weakness? In this way, Luo Yong is not afraid. Now, thinking about it, maybe he has looked up to Chen Qi, and some people are like that. When facing the elderly, weak, women and children, they can show off their might. If they really encounter tough problems, they will immediately become bad.

That afternoon, many people who had heard of this matter expressed concern for Luo Yong and reminded him to beware of Chen Qi's bad habits.

As for Chen Qi's side, the situation was not so gentle and gentle. The words Chen Qi had taken to Wang Shao yesterday had been spread. Almost everyone thought that his words were aimed at Luo Sanlang, bullying Sanlang for his young age and threatening and scaring him with a vicious act.

For many people in Lishi County, if they can't get along with Luo Sanlang, they can't get along with their own jobs. Chen Qi's situation can be imagined.

·

"Mr., when you take action, you can just blame Chen Qi." In a room in a guest house in the city, a middle-aged man with an ordinary face and dressed as a servant, bowed to the handsome young man standing by the window.

"Shh." The young man turned his face slightly, put his index finger in front of his lips, and signaled him to whisper. The light shining outside the window was printed on his white face, and he was very handsome. If Luo Yong was present at this time, he would definitely recognize him. Who was Yan Liulang? He had a little favor before because he saved the situation for him, so he looked at him a few more times.

"Mr.!" said the middle-aged man anxiously. In his opinion, there was no better time than now.

"Are you here yesterday?" Yan Liulang asked slowly.

"Not here." The middle-aged man replied.

"I'm not far away." Yan Liulang said: "Luo Sanlang is not as simple as you and I thought before, so I'm afraid he will have a backup plan."

·

Luo Sanlang: I have no backup plan, I only have plug-ins.

Luo Yong never thought that he would have been busy with his own mind and his domineering affair, which would have caused some people with evil thoughts to step on the brakes.

Speaking of which, his biggest life-saving capital is that space. In order to beware of the bad guys, Luo Yong had already found a big stone to put it in the space. In case of life danger, he would take the stone out of the space and put it directly at the other party’s location!
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