Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Xu Yincheng shuddered when he heard this, but he still didn't turn around.

"Sir, we are a family that sells ourselves."

Cao Kuan jumped off his horse and looked at the four people kneeling on the ground with great interest, acting like a dandy.

This family is really weak, their resistance is just selling themselves out.

From this we can see that the girl Xu who saved the prince was definitely not from this family.

Touching his smooth chin, Cao Kuan smiled and said, "Come here, bring me one hundred taels of silver."

Soon someone brought a bundle of silver and handed it to Cao Kuan.

"Here is one hundred taels of silver. I will buy the four of you. It is definitely higher than the price offered by the brothel. The question now is, is this hundred taels for you or for your parents?"

Cao Kuan was not without intention of watching the fun.

He needed this family to see clearly what kind of people their parents and family members were, and it would be best if they followed the Xu family and cut off all ties.

Miss Xu is someone that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to use. There is a missing female protagonist in the Xu family, which means trouble no matter how you look at it.

“Give it to me! Give it to me!”

Mu ran out of the house like the wind. She didn't look like a person in her fifties at all. She stretched out her arm to snatch the bag of silver from Cao Kuan.

As soon as Cao Kuan's eyes moved, someone came up and stopped the old lady.

"This is the money this man and his family earned from selling their bodies. Of course we have to ask this man what to do with it." Cao Kuan said slowly.

Mu didn't dare to get angry at the young master, but she had the upper hand over her most cowardly son.

"Second brother, give me the money you earned from selling your body!"

Xu Yincheng shuddered again when he heard that, but this time he finally turned around and looked at his mother.

Xu Yincheng has dark skin, and his body is full of traces of years of hard work.

With tears in his eyes, he asked a question he had wanted to ask for a long time: "Mom, I know I'm not likable, but do you really dislike me so much?"

"Our whole family wants to sell ourselves, and you won't stop us?"

Mu glared at Xu Yincheng hatefully.

"How can you be as valuable as the boss? The boss is a scholar, do you know that?"

"Scholar! As long as the eldest son passes the exam, our family will be able to change its status and be known as a family of farmers and scholars."

“So I deserve it…”

Xu Yincheng couldn't say the rest of the words, so he could only shout again,

"mother!"

Mu Shi was not shaken at all. She looked at Xu Yincheng with disdain and said, "Second brother, tell the young master to give me the silver."

From beginning to end, Mr. Xu and the third son of the Xu family did not show up.

The current result is what everyone accepts, since it’s not their turn to suffer any loss.

"Lao Xu,"

The head of the village knocked his cane hard.

"Don't you want to do anything about it? If you let the Mu family continue to behave like this, the second son will become estranged from you."

Mr. Xu raised his head and said, "How can I manage them? If I manage the eldest, I can't manage the second. If I manage the second, I can't manage the eldest."

“But your family still has land.”

Mr. Xu shook his head and said, "This year there is a severe drought. Who knows if it will rain or not? We need to keep those fields for life-saving purposes."

"Then you will just watch as the second brother's family sells themselves."

Mr. Xu sighed heavily: "It's all fate!"

There was no sound after that.

Xu Yincheng stared at the door of the main hall, but he didn't see his father come out.

His shoulders slumped, and he looked as if he had aged ten years.

He stood up, took the silver from Cao Kuan's hand, took out 20 taels, and gave the rest to his mother.

He kowtowed several times to Mu, then stood up and said, "These few kowtows and silver are my repayment for your kindness in raising me."

"From now on, our family will no longer have any ties with you. When you see us, just pretend you don't know us."

Mu was calculating whether eighty taels of silver was enough. When she heard this, she said without even raising her head, "It's fine if we break off the relationship, but give me the remaining twenty taels."

Hearing this, the last bit of hope in Xu Yincheng's heart was shattered.

It's really painful to admit that your parents don't love you that much.

Xu Yincheng didn't do anything else, nor did he pay attention to his mother. He turned around and found the head of the village and took out 10 taels of silver from his pocket.

"Head of the village, our Zhaodi passed away inexplicably. I would like to ask you to find a gentleman to build a tomb for Zhaodi and burn some paper for her during festivals."

"Zhao Di has never had a full meal in her life. Don't let her go hungry down there."

"Row."

It would take a farmer three to five years to save up 10 taels of silver. The village head took the silver and agreed without hesitation.

"Hey! Second brother, why leave it to the head of the village? It's better for our family to handle this kind of thing."

The third son of the Xu family stood up with a grin on his face, wanting to put the ten taels of silver into his own pocket.

What he met was Xu Yincheng's scarlet eyes.

The third son of the Xu family suddenly became timid. He sat back in his chair and did not move no matter how his wife next to him twisted him.

Xu Yincheng took another look at the house and left without looking back, without ever looking at Old Man Xu from beginning to end.

After Xu Yincheng walked out, Mr. Xu whispered, "Gone. This son is gone."

Along with the sound, a teardrop fell, looking extremely desolate.

But he had no intention of stopping it.

The head of the village sighed and left Xu's house. He wanted to ask the old woman to prepare a cenotaph for Zhaodi of the Xu family, and to get some more offerings and clothes for Zhaodi.

The poor little girl had never had a full meal or worn good clothes since she was a child.

at the same time,

Several guards from the Prince's Mansion who are good at gathering information have already rushed to Liuyugou where Xu Jinyu mentioned.

There are not a large number of guards here, but there are many traps, and these guards almost fell into the traps several times.

When we finally got close, we saw ragged miners working.

These miners had hunched backs and their faces were covered in thick dirt, so it was impossible to tell what their facial features looked like. They were also very thin and staggered when they walked.

There is a severe drought in Xizhou and food is in short supply. It is not a big deal at normal times, but if we mobilize a large amount of food now, people will definitely find out.

"Bang!"

A miner fell heavily to the ground, dead, and the box in his hand also fell to the ground, and the gold bars inside scattered out.

The light of gold is so dazzling under the sunlight.

Liu Liang and Gao Yao looked at each other and felt that there was a 50% chance that this was a gold mine.

"What bad luck! How could he die?"

The steward kicked the motionless person on the ground.

"Sir, this man is not dead yet, he just fainted from hunger."

"Do you have food to save? If you don't have food, shut up."

The steward glanced at the person who spoke.

"Just treat it as dead and throw it out."

Soon, two absentee workers with numb expressions lifted the person on the ground under the command of the supervisor.

Liu Liang waved his hand and followed Gao Yao.

Puff!

The absentee worker who had fainted from hunger was thrown into a pit. There were several other corpses in the pit, which were also starving to the point of being skin and bones.

After the two miners staggered away, Liu Liang and Gao Yao jumped into the pit.

One person was on guard, while another took out the water bag from his waist and gave water to the miner who had just been thrown into the pit.

It contains sugar and salt water, and Miss Xu said it can quickly replenish energy.

The sugar and salt water was poured into the mouth and the unconscious miner began to swallow involuntarily.

After drinking half a bag of sugar and salt water, the miner opened his eyes.

Liu Liang raised his finger and told the amnesiac miner not to make a sound.

The miner immediately understood and nodded in agreement.

The three of them stood up and left quietly.