Traveling through 1942 with space

The little girl was skinny and bony, kneeling on the ground with her head down and numb. Standing next to her was a middle-aged man who should be her father.

Normally, people would feel heavy-hearted when selling their children, but the middle-aged man had a smiling face at this time, and kept bowing and greeting the people in silk and brocade clothes.

"Dear shopkeepers, dear bosses, please take my daughter Ni! She can do everything and eats little. Just give me five liters of millet." When the middle-aged man saw the rich man stop, he kept bowing and smiling.

When Hou Xiaoge heard this, her heart twitched. A ten-year-old girl was only worth ten kilograms of millet, the same price as an old hen. People are really cheaper than grass!

But this is not an isolated case. Looking around, the human market is actually more lively than the livestock market.

Some sell themselves, some sell their children and daughters-in-law. Here, human nature is only left with "evil".

"Heiwa, let's go quickly. This city is too dangerous." The eldest cousin at the side quickly pulled Hou Xiaoge away.

Hou Xiaoge looked back again and saw that all the friends who had followed him had frightened looks on their faces.

Hou Xiaoge immediately understood the reason.

"Yes! Which family hasn't sold a child these days? I was shocked and quickly asked everyone to leave."

"Yes, let's go back."

Maybe they were frightened by the sight of people in the human market being cheaper than grass, so on the way back all the little guys looked panicked and no longer had the curiosity and excitement they had when they first arrived.

"Welcome, Heiwa, where have you been? It's almost dark when you come back. I was just about to go look for you with your Erda." As soon as they returned to the camp, everyone met Dabo and Erda and others.

"Uncle, my brother and I went to the market." Hou Xiaoge explained quickly.

"Hmph! All you do is run around all day. Go back quickly." Uncle Hou Yangmin glared at Hou Xiaoge and the others, turned around and went back.

Under Erda's escort, the people who were scolded lowered their heads and walked back quickly.

"Heiwa, don't run around in this chaos. I'll give you a piece of cake. Eat it and go to sleep." As Hou Xiaoge arrived at the camp, his aunt came over with a piece of cake.

"Aunt, I bought some steamed bread at the market and ate it, and I brought some for you." Hou Xiaoge said in a low voice with a smile.

"Oh! Food is not cheap now. Where does your child get the money to buy steamed bread?" The aunt looked surprised.

When Hou Xiaoge heard her aunt's question, she realized that she had given money to her uncle and his family, but her uncle-in-law did not tell her aunt.

"Aunt, let's go talk to uncle!" Hou Xiaoge said evasively.

"Hmph! You kid, you are hiding something from me!" The aunt laughed angrily and gave Hou Xiaoge a good look.

"Oh, it hurts! Auntie, please spare me." Hou Xiaoge's ears were twisted so hard that he begged for mercy quickly.

"Then are you going to tell it or not?" The more pain Hou Xiaoge felt, the happier her aunt was.

"Aunt, let's go to uncle and talk together!" Hou Xiaoge grimaced in pain.

"Cui Ping, come here and talk to Hei Wa." Seeing the aunt who was beating up Hou Xiaoge, the uncle smiled and helped her out.

When Xiaoge and her aunt returned to the cart, Second Aunt was holding a few steamed buns and distributing them to her cousins.

"Second Aunt, I bought more, you can eat too." Hou Xiaoge rubbed his ear that was twisted and hurt, and said with a grin.

"We adults won't eat it. This is fine grain. Leave it for you kids!" Second Aunt said with a smile.

Hou Xiaoge tried to give in several times, but was rejected by her second aunt and sister-in-law every time. Hou Xiaoge simply gave up.

"Heiwa, stand up. How can you spend money recklessly? You even pay for other people's steamed bread. How come you are the one being taken advantage of?" Hou Yangmin looked at the grinning Hou Xiaoge and scolded him with a dark face.

When scolded by his uncle, Hou Xiaoge did not refute but just lowered his head to admit his mistake. He did not want to be beaten.

"No matter how much money is left, take it all out and let your aunt keep it for you. I'll give it to you when you need it later." Hou Yangmin glared at Hou Xiaoge and said.

Hou Xiaoge naturally couldn't agree with his uncle's words. Nowadays, he couldn't even trust his parents completely, let alone his relatives. It was more reassuring to keep the money in his own hands.

What's more, I have a golden finger, and the money is safer in my own hands.

"Uncle, aunt, this money of mine is useful, so I'd better keep it myself! And I hide money better than you do." Hou Xiaoge shook his head and refused.

"We adults are not as good as a kid like you at hiding money, or are you afraid that your aunt and I will take your money?" Uncle Hou Yangmin's face turned bad in an instant.

When the younger sister-in-law heard what her elder brother said, her face turned grim.

However, neither of them showed their tempers immediately. After all, Hou Xiaoge was their nephew, not their son, and as the uncle and aunt, they had to think more about everything they did.

"Uncle, if you don't believe me, you can search me to see where I hide my money. If you find it, I'll give it to you for safekeeping." Hou Xiaoge continued to remain calm and provoked with a smile.

"Okay, that's what you said. As long as we find it, let us keep it." Hou Yangmin and his aunt's eyes lit up.

He asked his younger aunt and second aunt to rummage through the brothers' luggage, while he took Hou Xiaoge's backpack and started searching.

Looking at the excited expressions of his uncle and aunt, Hou Xiaoge smiled secretly, "Go ahead and look for it! You won't find it even if you dig three feet deep."

The money was all in his ring space, and there were only ten copper coins left in the backpack, which could be considered as a reward for the two of them’s hard work!

After searching Hou Xiaoge's backpack, uncle Hou Yangmin only found ten copper coins. His face turned dark instantly. Then he pulled Hou Xiaoge over and started searching his body.

But people wear very thin clothes in summer. Hou Xiaoge wore only a gray-white linen jacket on the upper body and a pair of navy blue trousers full of patches on the lower body. He didn't even have underwear inside, and the pants were hanging loosely.

Hou Yangmin searched several times and almost pinched Hou Xiaoge's balls to check, but in the end he found nothing.

"Uncle, why don't you check my broken straw sandals." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.

"Get lost, you little brat. If you want to scold me just say it directly, why are you beating around the bush?" Hou Yangmin was so angry at Hou Xiaoge that he raised his hand and wanted to slap Hou Xiaoge.

"Cuixia, have you found his second aunt?" After waiting for a long time, when the younger aunt and the second aunt came back, the uncle asked hurriedly.

"There's just a quilt and a few cotton clothes, nothing else." The aunt shook her head.

"You little bastard, you spent three dollars and now only have these few coppers left?" Seeing that neither of them found it, Hou Yangmin stood up angrily.

The second aunt and the younger sister-in-law were also shocked when they heard that Hou Xiaoge actually spent three dollars.

"Dad, Heiwa used the French currency to buy steamed bread today." At this time, the eldest cousin at the side spoke up.

"Ok?"

"Tell me the truth, son. How much money did you find at the landlord's house a few days ago? Do you have any money left now?" The uncle was a little confused when he heard his son's words.

A few days ago, Hou Yangmin saw that Hou Xiaoge had only six dollars and ten copper coins in his pocket, but no legal tender, and he was confused.

"Uncle, the day before yesterday I found six silver dollars at the rich man's house, and I gave them to you, and I still have three silver dollars left. Yesterday I spent one silver dollar on buying wild vegetables and food, and I still have two silver dollars left.

I found the French currency in a cave yesterday. The elder brother of that cave knows that the vegetable pancakes we ate yesterday were made in the cave." Hou Xiaoge smiled brightly.

"You think we adults are fools. Who would throw so much money in the cave for you to pick up? Try picking up another one." Hou Yangmin was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Uncle, don't worry about it, I will definitely keep the money safe.

Second aunt, little aunt, here, I give this to you as a gift." Hou Xiaoge said as he flipped his palm and two silver dollars appeared, which he threw to the second aunt and little aunt.

"Oh my god! It's really Dayang." Second Aunt touched Dayang with excitement on her face.

"Hurry up and put the money away, be careful not to be discovered by others." Erda Li Minyou glared at his wife and warned her in a low voice.

"Okay, okay! I'll take it right away." Second Aunt quickly hid the money like a thief.

"Uncle, I want to discuss something with you?" Hou Xiaoge looked at his uncle's angry expression and said after a moment of hesitation.

"Just tell me what's on your mind, kid. Your uncle can't do anything to you now." Hou Yangmin said with a few snorts.

"Uncle, I want to redeem my mother and my sister." After thinking for a moment, Hou Xiaoge finally expressed the idea he had been thinking about for several days.