The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

The ox cart set off again.

When they were about to reach the county town, the two boys finally woke up.

The two children looked less than five years old, but they were very alert.

He opened his eyes and saw Lin Zhi and his group. He looked at them vigilantly, but retreated calmly.

"What is your name?"

"Where do you live?"

"Who are the parents?"

......

The more he asked, the more vigilant the two men's eyes became.

"Since you don't know, just throw them all away!" Lin Zhi said to the coachman.

The coachman hesitated: "This is not good..."

"No, you should take them home to raise. It's hard for me to raise three children anyway, and I can't afford to raise two more." Lin Zhi looked at the two children with disdain.

The two children looked angry, but the vigilance in their eyes was much less.

The coachman stammered, "I can't afford to support them! Besides, they don't have household registration, so I can't even take them home."

My uncle’s home is in the county town, and household registration must be checked when entering or leaving. How can he just bring his child home casually?

"That's it." Lin Zhi rolled his eyes at him. "I can't take them back with me, I can't afford to support them, I can't even get through the city gates, I can't even report to the authorities, what else can I do if I don't abandon them?"

"You vicious woman! How can you be so cruel?"

When one of the children heard that she was really going to abandon him, he immediately jumped up in anger and pointed at Lin Zhi and cursed.

Lin Zhi sneered and pointed at himself: "I am vicious?"

"If I were really vicious, I wouldn't have saved you from the traffickers."

"If I was really vicious, I should have stood aside and watched instead of fighting the traffickers."

"If I were vicious, I would let you be sold by human traffickers, sold as servants and laborers; sold you to dig out your eyeballs, drain your blood, break your hands and feet and let you beg on the street. Instead of letting you say I am vicious here."

"If I were really vicious, I wouldn't wait for you to wake up and want to understand your situation and help you before deciding whether to throw you down."

Lin Zhi pointed at his nose and pressed closer and closer. The boy kept backing away and almost fell off the car.

"On the whole, I am not a vicious person. But you are an undeniable ungrateful person."

"I'm not, I'm not!" The boy yelled hysterically. To prove that he was not an ungrateful person, he asked another child, "I'm not an ungrateful person, am I?"

"Brother, although I really want to say no, but listening to what this lady said, you do look like her!" said another child distressedly.

Lin Zhi raised his eyebrows: Auntie?

Tsk! Damn the ancient times.

The other child's answer instantly shattered the fragile heart of the child who was cursing.

He lowered his head, put away the sharp thorn, and remained silent.

Lin Zhi looked at his pitiful appearance and said it was boring.

Children are easy to bully, and they will become angry when they are bullied.

She looked down at the other child. She wondered how strong this child was in fighting.

Unfortunately, this child was quite polite. He first sincerely apologized to Lin Zhi, and then told Lin Zhi his identity information.

The two children are brothers, surnamed Li. The one squatting on the ox cart drawing circles is the elder brother Li Hongyi, and the one speaking now is the younger brother Li Hongwen. One is five years old, and the other is four years old.

The two of them were from Xidong County and were the two children of the county magistrate of Xidong County.

Because they had listened to the storybook the day before, the two brothers conspired at night and sneaked out to explore the world when their adults were not paying attention.

Unexpectedly, not long after I ran out of the house, someone put a hood on my head, and the next time I woke up was now.

"Xidong County? Isn't that the next county? It's far away from here!" The coachman who had been eavesdropping blurted out after hearing this.

Although the two counties are adjacent, it would take at least a day and a half to drive there.

"Excuse me, which county are you going to?" Li Hong asked.

"We are going to Xibian County, which is a different destination. You'd better get off the bus!" Lin Zhi suddenly interrupted.

The name "county magistrate's son" is something that you can tell is a troublesome person.

Their family's main focus now is to survive, and Lin Zhi doesn't want to get involved in any trouble for the time being.

"aunt......"

Before Li Hongwen could finish his words, he was frightened back by Lin Zhi's unhappy expression.

Compared to his brother's carefree personality, he is more thoughtful and knows how to read people's expressions better.

After all, he is still young. He can read people's expressions, but he can't hide his own expression.

Normally, as the son of a county magistrate, he was a lawless person. But now he was in a weak position and couldn't stand up straight!

Lin Zhi knew at a glance that her cold face scared him, but for a girl who loves beauty, it would be strange for her to show a good face when a little kid called her "Auntie here" and "Auntie away".

"I'm seventeen, don't call me auntie anymore."

Li Hongwen understood immediately that she was a beauty lover. He was just about to change to a nicer name when he heard his brother's familiar voice:

"What's wrong with Seventeen? You've got your hair tied up like a woman. If I don't call you Auntie, should I call you Sister..."

"Woooooooo..."

Li Hongwen manually muted his microphone. If his brother continued to speak, this fierce old lady would not just throw them out of the carriage.

"Big sister, my brother has been a little bit slow in the head since he was young, please don't bother with him."

Li Hongwen didn't know that the way he looked at this moment was exactly the way he hated the most before.

To flatter and fawn.

"It's true that he's not very smart. He's not as sweet-talking as you." Lin Zhi reached out and pinched his chubby cheek.

Li Hongwen endured it. He dared neither to be angry nor to speak.

When the three invisible kids saw Lin Zhi's actions, they couldn't help but frown.

Erlang frowned even more, walked over and pushed Li Hongwen away, and stretched his little face, which had not yet opened, into Lin Zhi's palm.

Lin Zhi pinched his face a few times casually and then let go.

It's so skinny, no feel at all, I hate it~

Erlang had no idea what Lin Zhi was thinking. After seeing her pinching his face, he gave Li Hongwen a smug look and then retreated back to his original position.

Li Hongwen: (?▽?)

Why is this guy so happy even though his face was pinched? Is he stupid?

He complained like this in his mind, but deep down in his heart he felt a little lost for some reason.

"It's getting late. When will the two young masters get off the car? We are in a hurry to go into the city." Lin Zhi urged.

"Can you please not kick us off the bus?" Li Hongwen asked, "Can you take us into the city?"

As he spoke, he moved his little face closer in a cute manner.

Li Hongyi, who muted his microphone manually, felt his heart broken when he saw him trying to please the woman so humbly and even selling his body for it.

"Didn't you hear what this grandfather said just now? You can't enter the city without your household registration documents." Lin Zhi pointed at the coachman.

"We know someone in the city. As long as we bring a letter to him, we can enter without our household registration documents. So can you please not kick us off the bus?" Li Hongwen asked quickly.

"Okay."

Li Hongwen's face lit up with joy, and even Li Hongyi stopped struggling.

Li Hongyi, who was fearless, was frightened by Lin Zhi's remarks about gouging out eyes and cutting off hands and feet.

After all, he is just a child, and no matter how brave he is, there are things he is afraid of.

"However, at most we can send you to the city gate, and we won't interfere with the rest of the matter." Bad taste aside, Lin Zhi asked himself if he could get over the hurdle in his heart of really abandoning the child to the wilderness.

"No, no, you still have to help me deliver the letter to my uncle's house." Li Hongyi broke free and ordered her as a matter of course.

Lin Zhi: "Why?"

Lin Zhi: “Hmm?”

"Because..." Li Hongyi racked his brains but couldn't come up with a good reason.

Their lives are short, and they have never encountered a situation where someone can do whatever they want without them having to tell them.

The question "Why" stumped them.

"I don't like to do business at a loss. If you want my help, you have to provide corresponding value. Don't expect me to work for free." Lin Zhi said, "I have already used up all my conscience in my life by allowing you to take the car to the city gate just now. If you want to take advantage of me again - impossible!"