A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

17 Threat
As the sky gradually darkened, Lin Cuilan cried a lot at home, and soon came out to continue picking vegetables in the vegetable field.

Bai Xia ignored her.

Of the entire Lin family, only Old Man Lin knew where Mrs. Lin had gone.

Otherwise, when she asked someone to ask, the rest of the Lin family could not have said that they had never met Lin. She hadn't thought about the collusion of the whole family, but at that time it should be the time when the officials came to the village to collect food. All in the village.

If Mrs. Lin entered the village, some people would see her.

Bai Xia lay on the side of the road, motionless.

Not long after, I saw a figure holding a torch and walking unsteadily from the direction of the town.

It was already dark, that person couldn't see Bai Xia who was hiding by the roadside, but Bai Xia could see him clearly through the firelight, this person was none other than Lin's father, old man Lin.

Old man Lin worked for the master's family. The master's family was happy today, and rewarded all the workers with wine. After two or two drinks, they were already drunk.

"Say, where is Lin Sanni?"

When he came close, Bai Xia stepped forward recklessly, the white blade of the kitchen knife reflected in the firelight, and directly stuck to Old Man Lin's neck.

The icy blade frightened Old Man Lin into a shiver, and he was mostly sober from the wine.

"Three Ah"

He recognized Bai Xia in front of him at a glance. They had all heard of and seen Lin's child bride-in-law.

"You girl, why are you holding a knife, it's scary"

He didn't realize the danger yet, so he subconsciously pushed Bai Xia with his hands.

Bai Xia's eyes sharpened, and he moved the kitchen knife forward. The sharp kitchen knife cut the skin, and the pain came. Old man Lin finally realized that this was not a dream, and subconsciously shouted: "What do you want to do, kid, don't let it go!" I"

Even at this moment, he still has no fear at all.

I just feel that this is the child's nonsense, but with the knife on his neck, his roar is a bit harsh.

"I'll ask again, where did you get Lin Sanni?"

Bai Xia almost gritted her teeth and asked.

The time left for her by the government is running out, and she wants to find Mrs. Lin as soon as possible.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't seen Sanni before." Old man Lin's heart trembled, but he gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

Bai Xia didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so she just said to herself: "Okay"

"You haven't seen her"

"She's gone, Brother Yuan and I have no way out, if we can't survive, then you don't need to either"

"Come die with us"

As he said that, he was about to wipe old man Lin's neck with a knife, so scared that old man Lin quickly shouted: "I know, I know where she is, you, you let me go, let me go!"

Old man Lin has lived for decades, when did he experience such a thing.

Seeing that Bai Xia was coming for real, he couldn't hold back immediately.

"Say"

Bai Xia looked at him coldly. He felt as if he was being stared at by a wild animal when he was stared at by this gaze. He swallowed and said, "The other day Sanya came to me and told me... With no food, she can't survive."

As he spoke, he observed Bai Xia's face, and saw that the expression on her face did not change a bit, so he continued: "She came to beg me, begged me to find a good family for her, she wants to remarry."

"But she is afraid that the Li family won't agree, and she doesn't want... and she doesn't want to take... you with her."

"So tell me not to tell anyone"

"My heart aches, this is my own daughter, how can I watch her starve to death, so...so..."

"So you helped her find a good family and married her off, didn't you?" Bai Xia answered the words expressionlessly, and old man Lin nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes."

Bai Xia laughed back in anger.

"I know grandpa loves us, and I don't want Brother Yuan and I to go down and suffer, so don't delay your time, you go down and wait for us first."

After finishing speaking, the kitchen knife in her hand was about to use force, and old man Lin shouted in fright: "Don't, don't!"

"I lied, I lied, Sanni is not married, but sold, I sold her"

"Where did it go?"

Seeing that he finally told the truth, Bai Xia's eyes turned red and she growled.

"I don't know, I don't know"

Old man Lin is really desperate right now.

"There is a merchant in the town. I sold her to a merchant. I don't know where that person is from. I only know that the accent is not from our place. It's a bit like a northern accent." Old man Lin was terrified. Oh, how did he know that the girl picked up by Mrs. Lin was so scary, her eyes looked like she wanted to eat people.

After getting the news of Lin's, Bai Xia felt relieved.

Although the person has been sold, at least it proves that the person is still alive, as long as he is alive, there is hope.

"How much did you sell?"

Old man Lin tremblingly raised his hand, indicating that he had sold it for five taels of silver.

Bai Xia closed her eyes, opened them again, removed the kitchen knife, turned and ran.

"You will be rewarded"

Old man Lin sat down on the ground, his pants were wet, he was scared to cry by a girl like Bai Xia.

There was no light at night, but fortunately, Bai Xia wrote down the road from Linjiacun to Lijiacun during the day, and walked towards Lijiacun gropingly. Before reaching Lijiacun, he saw a few people outside Lijiacun Seeing the figure, Bai Xia was startled, carefully lowered her body, and approached slowly.

I couldn't see the faces of these people clearly, but there were about four or five of them, with a stick hanging around their waist.

Bai Xia guessed it was a big knife.

These people are officials?

She was a little terrified. The county magistrate sent officials to watch Lijiacun. Is there any Linjiacun?
She thought about it carefully, but she didn't seem to see anyone following Lin Family Village.

Is it because they are afraid that the villagers will run away?

Bai Xia pondered secretly in her heart.

She didn't dare to stay longer, so she detoured from the top of the mountain in the village, and after an extra hour of detour, she returned home.

He took off his shoes, pricked the blisters on his feet with a needle, and scooped up a little water to rinse.

"Three, Sanya, are you back?"

Li Xiuyuan in the room asked cautiously.

"it's me"

Bai Xia responded, put on her shoes again and walked towards the house.

She lit the oil lamp and looked at Li Xiuyuan who was holding the quilt on the bed with a pale face.

"Brother Yuan, are you hungry? I'll go get something to eat."

After finishing speaking, he planned to go to the kitchen, but Li Xiuyuan grabbed his hand, and he jumped on her in panic, almost throwing Bai Xia to the ground.

"Sanya, I'm afraid"

His body trembled slightly, and he began to cry as he trembled: "Woooooh, mother, I want mother, Sanya, I want mother"

Bai Xia's throat was blocked, and he wanted to tell him that your mother was sold by your grandfather, but he couldn't.

She has a sore nose.

"Brother Yuan, our family has no food."

"But now the government wants us to pay more than 300 catties of grain tax"

"If we can't pay it, we will all die"

"So we can't stay in the village anymore, we're leaving here"

Bai Xia also had no choice.

Apart from running, she really didn't know how to raise so much food, mainly because there were still seven days before Goldfinger's awakening, but the deadline given by the government to pay the food was only two days left, if she didn't run, it would be too late.

The main reason is that in the past two days, all the villages have asked respected elders to go to the county government to intercede, but the county magistrate is still unmoved.

The crops in the fields have begun to wither.

Everyone is struggling to raise food.

Thinking of the officials watching from outside, Bai Xia's complexion became even more ugly, I am afraid that the further back he went, the stricter the government's stalking would be.

　The two dolls are about to start fleeing!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)