What a lucky world!

Chapter 273: White Lotus Secret Technique, Guardian Returns

At dawn, the city gate slowly opened.

Huang Gou'er had been waiting at the city gate for more than an hour. When he saw the gate open, he hurriedly carried his shoulder pole and walked into the city gate.

"and many more!"

At the city gate, Huang Gouer was stopped by a guard.

"Master..." Huang Gou'er said with an apologetic smile, "What's wrong?"

"What's in the carrying pole?" The guard kicked the carrying pole.

"This is the cloth woven by my wife herself!" Huang Gou'er said as he lifted the cloth covering the carrying pole basket, and saw a stack of homespun cloth in the front carrying pole frame, nothing fancy.

The guard flipped through the worthless cloth and pointed to the basket behind him: "What's in there?"

Huang Gou'er sighed and lifted the cloth covering the body. Inside, he saw a little girl of two or three years old, with a pale face and thin body. She opened her eyes and asked, "Dad, have we entered the city?"

"We'll be entering the city soon. You can sleep a little longer, my girl." Huang Gou'er said with a smile, then said to the guard, "It's our own child."

The guard glanced at Huang Gou'er and said nothing more. He waved his hand and signaled Huang Gou'er to enter the city. Huang Gou'er thanked him quickly, picked up his load and headed towards the city.

At this time, another guard stepped forward and whispered, "Brother Liu, he hasn't paid the entrance tax yet."

"What are you handing over?" the guard surnamed Liu said, "I came to the city to sell my daughter."

"Let's do some good deeds."

……

After walking a few miles into the city, we finally arrived at the market.

He first took out the basket of cloth and placed it in stacks on the ground, then picked up his daughter and placed her behind the cloth.

"Dad, I'm hungry." The little girl said softly.

Huang Gou'er rummaged through his pocket and took out five copper coins. He shouted at the wonton stall next to him, asking them to bring him a small bowl of wontons.

The five-cent wontons didn't have much meat in them. They were just some cabbage wrapped in it, with three drops of sesame oil and a sprinkle of chopped green onions.

"Does it smell good?" asked the yellow dog, touching the little girl's head.

"Delicious." The little girl licked her lips and looked at the yellow dog. "Daddy, eat first."

"Daddy's not hungry!" Huang Gou'er forced a smile on his face and patted his daughter's head, "You eat."

"Hmm..." The little girl picked up a small spoon, scooped up a wonton, blew on it, and ate the wonton in small bites.

"You're luckier than your second sister." Huang Gou'er, sitting next to him, said softly, "When Daddy took your second sister into the city, all the money he had was used to pay the city gate tax. When he left, your second sister was still hungry."

Seeing his daughter still engrossed in eating wontons, Huang Gou'er also felt his stomach churning. He untied the gourd tied to his body, drank two sips of well water to calm his stomach, and then said, "Don't blame Dad. Your brother is sick and needs money for treatment. We really can't sell anything at home."

"Daddy will find you a good family and won't let you suffer."

Generally speaking, only abducted children are sent directly to human traffickers, where they are paid on the spot, which is a very convenient transaction. However, biological parents often sell their children on the streets like Huang Gou'er. This allows them to choose the buyer first, and second, knowing the buyer's identity allows them to redeem their daughter later if they have money.

"Dad, I understand." The girl raised her head and smiled at the yellow dog.

The eldest sister was sold, the second sister was also sold. If she doesn’t sell herself, will she sell her younger brother?

"My dear son..." Huang Gouer smiled bitterly and pointed at the wontons: "Eat, let's eat our fill today."

Seeing his daughter lowering her head to eat wontons again, Huang Gouer looked up at the sky which was already bright and the sunlight was a little dazzling.

He was already used to selling children, but the bloody scratches on his neck from his wife were a little painful.

His little daughter is usually obedient, and he is reluctant to let her go, but what can he do?
Besides, who in the village hasn’t sold their child?
Since he was a child, some of his playmates would disappear from time to time. When he went to ask about them, he would find out that they had either been snatched away by beggars or sold by their parents.

I can't support myself, but I can sell it and find another way to make a living.

Huang Gou'er thought of the village wizard again. He was an old scholar in his forties. He had been in the village for three years and built a private school to teach children to read.

Such a person is naturally respected by the whole village.

One time, the old scholar got drunk and fell into the river. It was the yellow dog who jumped in to save him. From then on, the old scholar became very close to the yellow dog. He told the yellow dog that he was sent by a great god called the Silent Mother to save the world.

The old scholar told him that there was a place called Zhenkong Hometown, where everyone could have enough food to eat, would not get sick, and would not have to sell their children.

He wanted to ask when the vacuum hometown would arrive, but the old scholar always said it would be soon, soon...

I don’t know when it will be soon.

"Oh, what a pretty girl..." At this moment, a somewhat artificial voice pulled Huang Gouer back from his wild thoughts.

When Huang Gou'er came to his senses, he saw a middle-aged woman in expensive clothes teasing her little daughter. Behind her stood five or six strong guards, who were obviously thugs.

"I like this girl. How much?" The middle-aged woman said to Huang Gou'er, "Let's sign the contract today..." "I... I won't sell her!" Huang Gou'er quickly reached out and pulled the little girl to his side, smiling and saying, "She just came here to play with me. I won't sell her!"

Even if Huang Gou'er was ignorant, he would recognize that the other party was the madam of a brothel. Selling his daughter to her would be like pushing his daughter into the fire pit, wouldn't it?
"Not selling?" the madam snorted. "What's that tied around that girl's wrist?"

The so-called "inserting a label" means tying a straw label on the goods to indicate that the item can be sold. At this time, Huang Gou'er's little daughter had a straw label tied on her wrist.

"No... I won't sell it anymore." Huang Gou'er hurriedly untied the straw tag from his daughter's hand and shook his head, "I won't sell it anymore."

The madam sneered and held out her hand: "Fifty taels of silver!"

An ordinary little girl would be paid about ten taels, but the madam directly offered fifty taels. It was indeed because of her years of observation that she could see the beauty in this girl, and she would definitely be extraordinary when she grew up.

"I..." Huang Gou'er gritted his teeth, "No...I won't sell it!"

"One hundred taels!" the madam continued, "Brother, think carefully. The daughters of officials who usually come from the Imperial Music Bureau are only worth this much. I think I'm quite proud of you, a girl of two or three years old."

"One hundred..." Huang Gou'er was engaged in a fierce debate in his mind. Suddenly, he felt the corner of his clothes being tugged. He lowered his head and saw his daughter's big eyes looking at him: "Daddy, is this a lot of silver? I'm going with this aunt!"

"I..." Huang Gou'er gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay!"

"That's right!" The madam pulled a banknote from her sleeve and slapped it in front of Huang Gou'er. "Here's the banknote. I'll take the person away."

"You don't have to follow me about the paperwork. We can handle it ourselves!"

After saying this, the madam smiled again, looked at the little girl, and reached out to hold her hand: "Come, call me mother, and I will take you away!"

The little girl glanced at the yellow dog, and seeing that he had his eyes closed and was not looking at her, she timidly looked at the madam and said softly, "Mother, I will be obedient..."

"Be good! Come on, mother will take you to eat something delicious." As she said this, the madam pulled her little daughter over with a little effort, hugged her, turned around and left.

The little girl didn't resist. She just pointed at the wontons on the ground and shouted, "Dad, eat the wontons. They're still hot..."

Seeing his little daughter walking farther and farther away with the group of people, Huang Gouer picked up the wontons on the ground and saw that there were only a few wontons in the bowl with some edges bitten and the stuffing inside had not been eaten. Huang Gouer suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.

"Wait, I don't want to sell it anymore!" Huang Gou'er threw away the wontons in his hand and ran towards the group of people who were the brothel owner. "Give my daughter back to me, I don't want to sell her anymore!"

The madam also heard the sound. She turned around and saw the yellow dog chasing after her, and frowned slightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, several guards behind him immediately rushed forward and surrounded Huang Gouer.

Huang Gou'er knelt on the ground with a thud and raised the banknote above his head: "Madam, Madam, I won't sell it anymore, I won't sell it anymore."

The madam smiled and said, "She's already mine. You still want to take her away in broad daylight?"

"No, I won't sell it anymore! San'er, come home with daddy." Huang Gou'er stood up and tried to snatch the girl away, but was immediately knocked down by the guard with a punch. The little girl cried and was about to rush forward, but was hit on the back of the neck by the madam and fainted.

"You old bastard!" Seeing his daughter being knocked unconscious, Huang Gouer gritted his teeth and tried to pounce on her again, but was pinned down by the guards again.

"Beat him!" ordered the madam.

Suddenly, fists rained down on the yellow dog. The yellow dog could only curl up, holding his head, and still shouting, "I won't sell it anymore, I won't sell it anymore..."

"Beat her! Beat her until she stops crying. If anything happens, I'll take responsibility!" the madam shouted arrogantly.

Immediately, the guards exerted more force.

The pain all over his body made Huang Gouer suffer terribly. He felt that his bones were about to break and his internal organs were about to be ruptured.

Just then, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Yellow Dog, do you hate it?"

"Do you hate this world? Do you hate the people in this world?"

"Do you hate the fickleness of heaven?"

It was the voice of the old scholar.

"I hate it! I hate it!" the yellow dog roared.

Then, the old scholar's voice sounded again -

"The Holy Lord has fallen, and the Holy Lady has ascended to the throne. Thousands of merits will protect the reincarnation of the Buddha."

"Homeland of the True Void, Mother of the Unborn. Yellow Dog, you were originally a holy soldier under the Buddha. Now that the time has come, why don't you return to your place?"

The next moment, characters suddenly lit up one after another on Huang Gou'er's body, and a powerful force surged out from within Huang Gou'er's body.

Huang Gouer found that the pain in his body had disappeared a lot. He suddenly stood up, waved his fists wildly, and actually knocked down two guards. He took the opportunity to break out of the guards' encirclement and rushed directly to the madam.

The madam's face turned pale. Just as she was about to speak, Huang Gou'er punched her in the face. She fell to the ground. Huang Gou'er picked up his daughter and quickly ran out of the city gate...

(End of this chapter)