Datang: Longevity for Thousands of Years, Exposed by Xiao Sizi

Chapter 45 Human nature is unpredictable!
"Senior, I'm not used to wearing this hat! Please take it away and let Sizi be free!"

Little Sizi grabbed Little Red Riding Hood with both hands and protested.

Qin Changye rolled his eyes: "I'm afraid you'll get lost."

Little Sizi's cheeks suddenly puffed up like balloons: "Sizi is very smart, so he won't get lost~!"

"Really?" Qin Changye laughed, stroking his chin and said, "It's better to be safe than sorry."

"It is said that some of the children who were abducted were eaten, some were thrown into the river, and some had their limbs chopped off."

When little Sizi heard this, his originally determined eyes showed fear and worry: "Really...really? Sizi is an adult now, he shouldn't be captured, right?"

Saying,

She also subconsciously tightened the little red hat on her head with her hands.

Qin Changye laughed and said, "The adults were also captured! How could I lie to you? When we were coming back last night, did you see a child with a broken leg on the road? And then he left alone with the reward money he had collected today?"

"Ah? Then Sizi, think about it!" Little Sizi imitated Qin Changye, touching his chin with his little hand as if thinking about something.

soon.

The small eyes are extremely bright.

She remembered!
When she came back last night, she saw a little boy with a broken leg leaving as the night deepened. She asked Qin Changye where the boy's parents were.
How come he is alone in the middle of the night?

Qin Changye didn't answer, just said that he was a poor child.

then,

So I took her to buy Little Red Riding Hood.

She was confused at the time. What was going on?

"I remember it!"

Little Sizi raised his hand and said in a baby voice, "That little boy is so pitiful. He begged for money all day but no parents came to pick him up!"

"Humph! If Sizi goes out to beg for money, his father, mother, and elder sister will definitely come to pick him up in the evening. His parents are incompetent!"

Little Sizi was held up with both hands, his little face was puffy, and you could tell that the little guy was extremely angry.

But even so angry,
If others see it, most people will just think how cute it is.
"His parents are not nearby, not even in Chang'an City."

Qin Changye sighed.

"Ah, what's going on?"

Little Sizi's eyes flickered, revealing curiosity.

Qin Changye exhaled: "I can see that the leg is broken, and the eyes are the windows to the soul. There is only death in his eyes."

"Add to that the unkempt hair and dirty face, and the fact that he hadn't showered in a few days. From my experience, that child must have been abducted."

"Maybe they are still in the hands of human traffickers, or maybe they are in other households, but no matter what, they are all evil people."

"It was his experience that made me want to buy a little red hat for you to mark it well, in case you get lost."

“Ah? Oh my God!” Little Sizi covered her mouth with both hands: “He…he…”

The little princess, who always prides herself on being smart, now doesn't know what to say.

Qin Changye looked at her and said seriously: "So, little Sizi, do you want to be like that too?"

Little Sizi shook his head desperately: "No, no, no! Sizi doesn't want to! Sizi must take good care of Little Red Riding Hood!"

This time, she used all her strength to hold the Little Red Riding Hood tightly on her head, for fear that the hat would fall off.

Qin Changye saw this and nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go, I'll take you back to the Imperial City."

"Okay!" Xiao Sizi raised his hand and nodded, then walked away and said, "By the way, Senior, can't we save that little boy?"

Qin Changye smiled and said, "I can save him, but how many people in Chang'an are in the same miserable situation as that little boy? I don't know, you don't know, and even your father doesn't know."

"There is no end to such things."

"Besides, if we save him, what will he do in the future? The traffickers are gone, and he has no home. Who will support him?"

"The imperial court? Or the common people? Do they know how to do it?"

Qin Changye asked back.

Little Sizi frowned and was thinking deeply.

Qin Changye smiled and said, "Don't think about it, they won't."

Little Sizi looked up at Qin Changye and said, "Senior, how did you know that?" How did you know that?

Because I have experienced it.

Qin Changye was quite emotional and looked forward.

Hazy.

The scene before my eyes was like a dream, the layout was constantly changing, and so were the characters, as if I had returned to the Shang Dynasty.

【Children, those evil thieves are dead, and you can enjoy freedom from now on. 】

[Dead? They are dead? Why...why! Why did you kill them? If you kill them, what will we do in the future!]

On a rainy night,
The young man in black, who had just killed a group of villains, thought he would be grateful by those who rescued him, but ended up getting hatred instead.

At that moment he didn't understand, he didn't comprehend.

What did I do wrong?

But later,

As his experience grew, he realized that those children had been oppressed for too long and had developed new personalities and attachments.

They would feel pain if they were beaten, but they already remembered this feeling.

Just like the later movie "The Shawshank Redemption", in the movie a black man spent nearly decades in prison, and he was always thinking about leaving.

Later, he was released from prison after serving his sentence.

But... he found that the society after being released from prison was incompatible with him.

Not long after being released from prison, he chose to commit suicide.

Time and environment are the most unpredictable existences and also the most terrible enemies. They can change many things in your life inadvertently.

The same is true for those children.

They suffer from the beatings, but they also become attached to them.

later.

Five years later, the young man in black once made a special effort to check on the situation of those children.

At the beginning,

He handed them over to the Shang Dynasty court for arrangement. He was the Shang Dynasty's imperial master, second only to the emperor, and no one dared to disobey him, so he would make proper arrangements.

But the court just dealt with it perfunctorily.

The officials in charge concluded that he just rescued them casually. How could he, such a big shot with important responsibilities, even give those little devils a second glance?
So the children were randomly arranged, and because they had been enslaved for too long and had haggard faces, some of them were distributed to refugee camps.

Some were sold.

Some of them were treated as living sacrifices by the local villages. At that time, the village chief was very happy because he finally didn't have to sacrifice a villager alive.

They...some died, some went crazy, and none of them had a good ending.

What happened after being rescued was even worse than being in the den of thieves.

"call…."

Taking a deep breath, Qin Changye gradually came back to his senses.

Since that encounter during the Shang Dynasty,
Then he understood.

If you want to save people, you must save them to the end.

Otherwise don't save.

Since he rescued those children, he needed to continue to be responsible for the aftermath, just like the authorities would arrange jobs for prisoners when they are released from prison in later generations. It's the same principle.

If he had rescued the child last night, he still wouldn't know what to do with it. After all, he hasn't settled down yet, so how can he think about other people's affairs?

After rescuing them, they will just make a mess.

and so.

He chose to stand aside for the time being.

"Senior, what's wrong with you? Why don't you answer Sizi?"

Little Sizi was blinking her little eyes and looking up at him.

(End of this chapter)