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Chapter 158 Selling My Daughter

Hou Minyou was bedridden due to illness. His hair was disheveled, his face was sallow, and his cheeks were sunken. A strong man in his thirties looked like an old man in his fifties.

"Oh! It's my fault that I didn't live up to expectations one day and didn't hide. Now it's like this. I've become a burden to the family. I might as well die." Hou Min pounded his legs with a look of grief and indignation.

"Heidan's father, you dare not die. What will we do if you die and leave us behind?" Li Cuihua cried even harder after hearing this.

"Mother, please stop crying. Crying too much will hurt your body. My legs are not in good condition now, and the child still depends on you to take care of him!" Hou Minyou pulled his wife who was lying on the edge of the kang and comforted her.

When Wang Cuihua heard that there was still a child who needed care, her sobbing slowly stopped and the room fell into silence for a moment.

"Alas! I don't know how my elder brother and his friends are doing now, whether they have arrived in Qin Province. And our eldest brother.

"Alas!" After a long time, Hou Min's sigh was heard in the room.

"There is food in Qin Province, which should be better than ours. May the Buddha bless our eldest son and keep him alive and well." Li Cuihua said as she knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the clay Buddha not far away, which had long been without incense and offerings, and begged for blessings.

Hou Minyou looked at his wife who seemed to be possessed, sighed and shook his head. There was not even any incense, so how could the Bodhisattva hear him?

"I hope God will bless my eldest son! At least there will be one seed left for the family of six, which can also be considered as a seed for me, Hou Minyou." Hou Minyou prayed silently in his heart.

Yes, Hou Minyou has given up hope on his family's current situation. It is a blessing from God that he can hold on until the end of the year.

Now the family depends on the few ounces of food given by my uncle's family every day to survive, and there is no hope at all.

Moreover, during this period, the wives of several of their uncles' families also began to look down on their family, and their words and deeds showed that they did not want them to continue living there.

In fact, Hou Minyou also knew that life was not easy for his uncles’ families. Under the current circumstances, his uncles’ families didn’t have much food left.

Several of my brothers-in-law are also very tired every day. In addition to working day and night for the landlord in the clan to earn their own food rations, most of the food for their family has to be borrowed from the big landlord in the clan.

Now they are giving up some of the elderly and weak in order to survive. The father-in-law and mother-in-law have locked themselves in the house and starved to death, so the affection for the married girls is even weaker.

In addition, his legs were disabled some time ago and he couldn't even support himself, so the fate of his family was actually doomed.

The two men were staring blankly in the house with sad faces, and before they knew it, the door of the room was pushed open by two thin figures.

"Dad, Mom, today when I was walking outside, I heard a caravan from Qin Province coming to the outside of town. You guys should sell me!" A weak and faint voice said to the two of them.

The owner of this voice is Hou Qiuju, the cousin that Hou Xiaoge and his sister redeemed together.

Hou Qiuju did live a relatively stable life during the period when she was redeemed by Hou Xiaoge, but her stable life was completely disrupted after her family ran out of food.

After her father's leg was broken, Hou Qiuju became even more silent. After half a month, she was even thinner than when she was in Yichun Building.

The eleven-year-old girl looked no different from a seven or eight-year-old. Her skinny body could be blown away by the northwest wind in Qin Province.

The little man next to Hou Qiuju is her younger brother Heihu, who doesn’t have a real name yet. He has become starving and has become a big-headed baby with a bloated belly and lifeless eyes. He stands weakly, leaning against his sister.

Originally, Hou Minyou and his wife could only confide their sorrow to each other, but after hearing his eldest daughter's obedient words, the usually strong Hou Minyou could no longer suppress the sorrow in his heart and burst into tears.

"Qiuju, Daddy is so sorry for you! Who would sell their daughter twice?

I am also sorry to Heidan! He was able to redeem you all with just one child, but I have to sell you to survive. How can your father feel good about you?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Hou Minyou slapped his broken leg, banged his head against the wall, and howled loudly.

"Master, master, you dare not do this!" Seeing her husband mistreating himself like this, Li Cuihua quickly climbed onto the kang to pull him.

For a moment, the family of four in the small mud house burst into sobs, and their wailing filled the yard.

"Sister, brother-in-law, what happened to you?" At this time, a man with a tired face rushed into the room and asked.

"Tiancheng, my family can't survive! Poor Qiuju." Li Cuihua took the thin Hou Qiuju and explained the reason to her brother.

"Sister, it's better to sell them. At least the children can have a chance to survive. My second and third Ni, as well as the several Ni from my eldest and second brothers' families will also be sold in the next few days." Hou Tiancheng squatted on the ground and sighed with his hands covering his face.

"Tiancheng, ask them if they want a lame man like me. Although my leg is broken now, I have endless strength.

As long as they want me, I will work for them, just to exchange for some food so that your sister and Hei Hu can survive." Hou Min looked at his brother-in-law hiding on the ground with a look of despair.

"Brother-in-law, alas! Men are worthless. What people want are girls, especially girls as old as Qiuju, who are the most valuable." Li Tiancheng looked at Hou Minyou with red eyes and shook his head and sighed.

"Ugh!"

"Then go contact them!"

"I know, brother-in-law!"

After his brother-in-law left, Hou Minyou and his wife looked at each other.

"Cuihua, why don't you go with Qiuju and Huzi?" Hou Minyou spoke first.

"Dad, who would want me, an old woman who has given birth to four children? What will you do if we die?" Li Cuihua pursed her lips and shook her head.

"You guys go, go. As long as you can leave Luoning and Central Plains, anything is fine as long as you can save your life. You don't need to care about me." Hou Minyou shouted loudly with red eyes.

"Master, woohoo!"

Li Cuihua was choked with sobs and couldn't speak. The family hugged each other and cried again.

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On the other hand, ever since the Yanhuang Alliance established relations with the Qin army stationed in Tongguan in the Central Plains, business has never stopped in recent months.

Since a large part of the Yanhuang League's food came from outside, the National Government's food ban on the Yanhuang League was much smaller.

Therefore, during this period, most of the grain that Hou Xiaoge allocated to Jin Yintang was secretly transported to the Central Plains. After arriving at Tongguan, Jin Yintang's grain was even escorted by the army.

It can be said that the Qin Army now has the most harmonious relationship with the Yanhuang Alliance, and both sides are making a lot of money.

One of Jin Yin Tang’s biggest businesses is human trafficking, and Hou Xiaoge felt very guilty about this at the beginning.

But later on, I thought about it carefully and realized that this was actually a good thing. Women are the most valuable and the least valuable in times of disaster.

In disaster years, the first people to be sold in disaster-stricken areas are women, and they are also the most likely to be "sacrificed".

Therefore, Jin Yintang not only saved these women by selling them, but also indirectly saved their families, which was a good thing.

The Yanhuang League has always been doing business along the railway lines. This is convenient and easy to do business.

The human market business at Guanyin Hall has long been monopolized by large trading companies, and the human market prices are relatively high.

So a caravan of Jinyintang came directly to Hedi Township, which borders Guanyintang, to recruit people, as it was close to the train station and the price was cheaper.