Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 10 Something is wrong!
After making an example of someone killing a chicken to scare the monkey, everyone left, but the basement fell into silence and no child dared to speak anymore.

Even the two children who were severely whipped endured the pain and dared not make a sound. It was not known whether they fainted from the pain.

The already dark and damp basement was so oppressive that it made people feel suffocated.

"How old are they? How could that bastard be so cruel?" Chen Xuan looked in the direction of the two beaten children and gritted his teeth.

After what happened before, he realized that any action could lead to serious consequences, which would only hurt himself and others, so he stopped taking any action and curled up in the haystack, pretending to be in pain from being beaten.

The children on both sides who were talking to him didn't dare to look at him.

But at this time Chen Xuan was a little confused. Why didn't it hurt much when the whip hit him?
He didn't think that he could withstand it because of his special physique due to the time travel. He quietly reached out and touched his back. The tattered linen clothes given by the old man were not damaged at all. It was impossible for the clothes not to be torn under such a strong force. Besides, there was no burning pain on his back, so he probably had no obvious injuries.

In this case, there can only be one possibility, that guy showed mercy.

The whipping he gave himself was just an act, but he whipped the cage with all his might the dozen or so times afterwards. There were marks on the wooden cage. His purpose was definitely to show it to the other children.

But this made Chen Xuan even more puzzled. Why would the other party show mercy to his men?
I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out at all.

Since he couldn't figure it out for the time being, Chen Xuan decided not to worry about it too much.

After a while, when he thought the other children's fear had subsided a little, he slowly leaned against the cage.

It wasn't that he was too cautious, he was really worried that his big movements would make the other children feel uneasy.

Locked in a cage and chained, he was hungry and exhausted. No one dared to talk or communicate with him. He could do nothing and Chen Xuan could only lean there in a daze.

Watching the sunlight cast from the 'wellhead' slant a little bit, it was the only light source in the entire basement.

As the sunlight tilted, Chen Xuan silently gestured with his fingers, determining the east, west, south, and north directions based on the changes in the sunlight. It wasn't that he was bored, perhaps just determining the direction could be of great use at a critical moment...

Gradually, even the only sunlight disappeared.

Chen Xuan, who had been even hungrier after eating half a pancake from Erdan next door, was not so hungry anymore. He felt light and fluttery. He must be too hungry, or maybe he had low blood sugar.

I don’t know how long it took, but it was not dark yet. The light at the entrance and exit changed again, and soon the man who appeared before jumped down again.

His appearance made the children, who had calmed down a little, dare not breathe, for fear of being devastated by a violent storm.

However, this time he came down not to show off his power and beat anyone, but to distribute food.

Someone lowered two wooden barrels down from above with a rope. After placing them, he stood beside the two barrels, inspected them, and sneered, "Raising a dog can be used to guard the house, but you are a bunch of unsaleable things. Feeding them to you is a pure loss-making business."

No one said anything, and he probably found it boring, so he distributed food with a gloomy face and impatience.

According to the number of people in each wooden cage, he stuffed black pancakes into the cages one by one through the gaps. He didn't know what they were made of, but each piece was about the size of a bowl, and there was actually soup in it.

He used a wooden spoon made of bamboo tube to stir the mixture in a wooden barrel and then reached into the cage to pour it out. The spoon made of bamboo tube could just fit into the gap.

It was only then that Chen Xuan noticed that the children in each cage had taken out a bowl from somewhere to collect the soup.

But the guy who put the rice in the pot was really abominable. He just put the spoon in and poured it out without caring whether the child could catch it or not.

He just went through the motions, distributing food to each cage one by one. Chen Xuan was no exception and got one. Perhaps because Chen Xuan was new, the other party also threw in a clay bowl.

Chen Xuan frantically picked up the bowl to catch the soup, spilling some. The other person walked off to the next place without even a glance. The whole process was eerily quiet; no one dared to eat while the person was still there.

Only after he had finished distributing the food and the people above had pulled up the wooden barrels did he jump up and turn over to leave. Only then did the group of children dare to start carefully.

It was probably because they had just been beaten tragically not long ago. Therefore, even though that person had left, the children below did not fight over the food. They were definitely afraid of upsetting the people above and getting beaten again.

"This is really just one meal a day. It's not until the evening."

Chen Xuan, who was holding the food, felt sad in his heart. These were a bunch of teenagers who were eating kids my age to death. Who would eat this little food?

But something is better than nothing, so he started eating in silence.

However, after taking a bite, Chen Xuan was slightly stunned. The pancake tasted unexpectedly good, but that was relative. It was at least ten times better than the small piece given by Erdan next door. It was not because it was still hot, but mainly because there was meat in the middle.

meat pie?

It's unbelievable.

Look at the half bowl of soup on the side, you can vaguely see oil in it. Is the food so good?
Chen Xuan was very puzzled. He looked around and saw that all the children were busy eating. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he didn't care too much. Everyone was the same anyway.

It must be said that although this kind of food is small in quantity and not enough to fill you up, it is not enough to starve you to death, and it is even nutritionally sufficient.

He just thought that those people, who were worse than pigs and dogs, didn't want their "goods" to lose value and that's why they arranged the meals this way.

Chen Xuan finished the small amount very quickly and put the bowl in his arms, as he would need to use it next time. Unfortunately, there was no way to wash it, so the hygiene was questionable.

I licked my lips, but I didn't feel full at all. Instead, I felt even more greedy. But you know what, when you are very hungry, everything tastes delicious.

Staring at the entrance and exit of the basement in a daze, Chen Xuan couldn't help but tilt his head. He suddenly realized that the height there must be at least three or four meters. The guy had come here twice before, and each time he jumped up with his bare hands!

"Isn't this skill wrong?" Chen Xuan's eyelids twitched.

He was not in the mood to pay so much attention before, but now he figured it out, and suddenly he had some guesses in his mind that this world he had inexplicably come to was probably not simple!
Before he could think about this problem carefully, it seemed that it was almost dark outside, and at this time there was a noisy sound outside.

Then someone else jumped down. It was too dark to see clearly, but his size should not be the same as the one I had seen twice before.

The person who came down was standing just below the entrance. Something was soon dropped from above and was caught by him. Chen Xuan tried to look at it in the dim light. It was clearly a child who was blindfolded.

After the man caught the child, he looked around, opened a cage with fewer children, stuffed the child in, and then closed and locked the door.

'Newly kidnapped?'

When Chen Xuan thought of this, he quickly overturned the idea, because such children fell down one after another and were locked in different cages one after another.

He quickly figured out that these children who were sent here were probably those who had been sold but not yet sold.

More than ten children came down before the process ended, but Chen Xuan was very depressed. Why don’t you give me a roommate? Haven’t you seen that some of the small cages can hold two or three children?
He didn't know whether his roommate was good or bad, but Chen Xuan always felt that it was abnormal that he had always been in a single room.

It would be fine if everyone was the same, but he was different. In his current situation, it was hard for Chen Xuan not to think in a bad way!

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(End of this chapter)