Chapter 1826

Xue Cheng, with the cries of Zhao Sheng and Zhao family, more and more families have joined the ranks of crying.

Among the more than 200 sailors of the Xiao family, even dozens are alone. There are no relatives or friends alive, and the rest involve more than 100 families.

The bereavement pain of more than 100 families and the celebration banquet being held after a big victory with Xue Cheng and Xiao Fu form a sharp contrast in this city.

Standing on the street of Xuecheng, Su Heng felt the completely different atmosphere in the city. A trace of emotion flashed in his eyes. Is this a general who has achieved thousands of bones? Although the battle between the Shaw fleet and the fleet of the Principality of ventra was only a small-scale war.

After the war, only a few thousand people were killed or injured on both sides, most of them in the Principality of ventra.

But it was a small-scale war, and the trauma brought to more than 100 families in Xue Cheng was deep enough. Another problem is that human life is really worthless here. If a young man dies, 20 Liang pension is already high, five times the pension!

According to the grain price of Lu, 2000 kilograms of rice is worth the life of a normal young man! This is the Xiao family's pension. It's five times as generous. If it's the silver burned and buried after the death of the officers and soldiers of the state of Lu, after deduction, it's only two Liang. 200 kilograms of rice is equal to the life of an officer and soldier.

Of course, such things are very common in the feudal era. Before completely changing the general situation here, similar things will only happen again and again and become a normal state.

In Su Heng's emotion, he paused again and looked at Xue Cheng's West in surprise. After a few breaths, Su Heng's expression became subtle. "I thought that those who have returned from the dead were transferred to the state of Qi by me. Even if it would make their families sad temporarily, the two sides could reunite soon, which had little impact on them. I didn't expect..."

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The west of Xue City is also the living place for civilians, refugees and bankrupt vagrants in Xue City. The Zhao family where Zhao Shun and Zhao Sheng are located is in the west of the city.

However, the Zhaosheng family can have a single courtyard and live a good life in Xicheng. In Xicheng, the most miserable and grass-roots are the refugees, bankrupt vagrants.

Refugees are like seaside fishing villages. The town suffered natural disasters such as piracy or tsunami, lost its land and home, and came to Xuecheng for refuge. Lu is only a small country, and Xuecheng is not the capital of Lu. Here, there are no officially built shantytowns for refugees to live free of charge.

Most refugees are like beggars on the streets.

If the young can still be picked away by the big family and become the slaves of the big family, the old and the weak basically survive by luck and begging, just like those bankrupt vagrants.

There are frozen bones on Zhumen Road, which is the most true portrayal of Xuecheng Xicheng District and the prosperous Dongcheng District.

But now, Su Heng's focus is not on those refugees or vagrants.

In the west of the city, at the door of a single courtyard similar to the Zhao Sheng Zhao family, a beautiful girl of 11 or 12 years old was about to cry and faint on the spot when she received a notice from a supervisor of the Xiao family that her only brother died in the naval battle.

In the girl's great sadness, a middle-aged couple at the gate of the small courtyard also had unspeakable grief on their faces. On the contrary, the woman took over the pension lost by the steward of the Xiao family with inexplicable emotion, thanked them repeatedly and sent them away. Only with an inexplicable look, did she constantly look at the girl who collapsed on the ground and cried bitterly.

"Yuan'er, it's okay, it's okay. Even if Yihang leaves, I will raise you up. In the future, your uncle's home is your own home."

When the woman looked inexplicable, the middle-aged man also calmed down and tried to appease the girl with a soft voice. He didn't appease. Fortunately, as soon as he spoke, he was suppressing the girl crying. He directly lay on the ground and cried. Gradually, he actually cried and fainted.

When the middle-aged sighed helplessly again, the woman walked back to the house with the girl in her arms. After dozens of breaths, when the woman came out of the main room and looked around, she quickly walked to the middle-aged face, "the girl in charge of the family, yuaner, is about to grow up. Since Yihang is dead, let's..."

The middle-aged man was stunned. "What do you mean?"

The woman smiled angrily. "What do I mean? The young master of Xu's house said more than once that he wanted yuan'er to be his servant girl. Last time he offered 30 Liang!"

"Ordinary servants and sailors, the war death pension is only 4 liang, and yuan'er can sell 30 Liang. What else is not satisfied?"

The girl yuaner, who is 11 or 12 years old, is really beautiful. She has a little evil at a young age. In Xue City, even if the little girl has been living in seclusion, she still can't stand the spread of her good name in a small range.

The dandy young masters of several small families in Xue City are all staring at this girl.

If it weren't for Guo yuaner's brother, Guo Yihang was the boatswain on a merchant ship in the Xiao family's fleet. The girl would have been robbed long ago.

In feudal times, it was normal for dandies to fight chickens, walk dogs and bully men and women? It's just that several young masters staring at Guo yuaner are local tyrants in Xue City. Compared with the top gentry families in the state of Lu like the Xiao family, there is a difference between clouds and mud. How can Guo yuaner be free?

But now, Guo Yihang died in this war between the Xiao family and the navy of the Principality of ventra. The other party can no longer escort Guo yuaner. It's a good harvest to sell Guo yuaner.

30 Liang silver? Zhao Shun died in the war not far away. The Zhao Sheng family got a pension of 20 liang of silver. Zhao Shun is just an ordinary sailor.

Guo Yihang is a boatswain. Of course, his pension is more than Zhao Shun. He paid 50 liang of silver.

50 liang of silver, even in the state of Lu, you can only buy one or two pieces of silver. Once rice is sold, it can sell 50 stones and 5000 kilograms of rice. If it is only used for eating, an adult man can eat two kilograms of rice a day for several years.

In addition, Guo yuaner himself was offered 30 Liang by the young master of the Xu family, which adds up to a great wealth. For civilians, it is definitely a windfall.

With the woman's words, the middle-aged man's face changed greatly, "hell, I'm yuaner's uncle. You want me to sell her? To the young master of the Xu family? Don't you know what the surname Xu is? Are there still few little servant girls tortured and killed by him in the Xu family?"

"Besides, in the past, we accidentally provoked the Liang family. If it weren't for the first voyage, our family would be in great trouble."

What the middle-aged said is very simple. Three years ago, he worked as a carpenter and worked for the Liang family for half a year. There was no salary. The middle-aged wanted to talk to the Liang family, but he was severely beaten... Later, he wanted to report to the official, and was threatened by the Liang family housekeeper with several servants.

If Guo Yihang had not come forward at that time and came forward with the help of the Liang family's flag, middle-aged immortality would have to take off a layer of skin.

In recent years, their family has been able to live a good life as a carpenter, thanks to Guo Yihang's efforts. Many people sold him the face of the boatswain of an armed merchant ship of the Xiao family in order to make the middle-aged family safe.

Guo Yihang just died. Her mother-in-law wants to sell her niece? Yes, he is just Guo Yihang's and Guo yuaner's cousin, not his own uncle, but he can't be so shameless?