"Your family is quite capable of giving birth," Bowen looked at them curiously, and asked, "Aren't you cold outside dressed like this?"

Zhang Wu smiled wryly, "This is already all our clothes."

How could it not be cold? If Mu Yangling hadn't woke them up, maybe they would have turned into corpses by now.

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu are people from the village where they settled down. Their parents died when they were very young. First, Zhang Wu’s parents passed away when he was six years old, and he was raised by his uncle Zhang Liu’s father. But only three years later, Zhang Liu's father also died when he went out to do hard labor. Zhang Liu's mother raised the two for two years, and finally committed suicide when Zhang was 51 years old and Zhang Liu was 9 years old. .

So the two brothers have always depended on each other. People in the village helped them, and they themselves went to the county to beg.

But this year's life is particularly difficult. First, the drought that started in early summer, the grain harvested from the fields is not even enough to pay taxes, and the villagers naturally have no extra rations to support them.

They went to the city to beg for less and less. On the day Mu Yangling entered the village, they had been starving, digging up the grass stalks that were not dead.

Their complexions are yellow, and the two are thin and weak, but their faces are old, all because of years of hard work and suffering. In fact, Zhang Wu is only eighteen years old this year, and Zhang Liu is only sixteen years old. In the previous life, they were only two. They are only high school students, but they have already experienced too much.

They really couldn't survive this time, so they wanted to steal Mu Yangling's sheep.

But after watching it for a day and a night, I still had the guts to do it, and I couldn't get over my own hurdle in my heart.

Zhang Wu said that the two brothers had been raised by others. Although they didn't know much, they knew right from wrong. When he was squatting behind a tree, his consciousness became more and more confused. He felt that there was nothing wrong with death, at least not. Will do things that shame parents, uncles and aunts.

When Zhang Wu said this, Zhang Liu lowered his head in shame, because he couldn't bear the hunger, and his cousin wanted to steal Mu Yangling's sheep.

"Then what do you mean by following up now?" Mu Yangling folded his hands and looked down at them, and said, "I remember I gave you five taels of silver, save some money, and you should be able to live until the beginning of spring."

Zhang Wu's face was flushed with shame, and he took out the piece of silver that still had his body temperature from the inside of his clothes and stuffed it into Mu Yangling's hand, saying awkwardly: "That's right, I'm sorry."

After speaking, he pulled his younger brother to bow to Mu Yangling, turned around and was about to run.

"Stop!" Mu Yangling called to them, frowning and looking at their feet that were still wearing straw sandals, and she panicked for them.

After all, Mu Yangling couldn't sit idly by. The two of them ran away like this, and within three days, even if they didn't starve to death, they would freeze to death.

She handed the money back, and said with a calm face: "Take it, go to the city to find something to do, you have grown up, and it shouldn't be a problem to support yourself."

Zhang Wu hesitated for a moment, glanced at his younger brother, and finally accepted the money. He bowed gratefully to Mu Yangling, and said with red eyes: "I will use this money to buy tools to open up wasteland, and I will definitely open up two acres before the spring begins." Come on, when we have money to buy seeds, we will not starve to death in winter. Don’t worry, Miss Mu, we will return the money to you one day. I don’t know where to find you if we have the money .”

"You use the money to buy tools and seeds, so what do you eat and wear?" Mu Yang said spiritually, "This is for your survival, you live so close to the county town, can't you go to the city to find work? With healthy limbs, what job can't you find?"

If the land was cultivated, it was the land that had been reclaimed. Mu Yangling felt that people would have starved to death before they started planting.

"How can it be that simple?" Zhang Liu exclaimed: "To be an apprentice, you have to sharpen your head and squeeze in. In order to grab a place for an apprentice and a buddy, people are looking for connections and stuffing money. No, and everyone in Sanquan County knows that our brothers are beggars, and no one will use us."

With tears in his eyes, Zhang Liu said: "My brother helped them in front of the grain shop two years ago, helped them carry grain, helped them sweep the floor, in short, he rushed to do all the dirty and tiring work, just wanted to mix Apprentice Dangdang, no money, just three meals a day, so that he can have a way out."

"But he helped people carry food for more than four months, and helped them do dirty work for four months. He had nothing but a black bun a day. My brother just tentatively asked if he could be a Apprentices, they kicked my brother out and beat him up, even to do physical work, they didn't recruit us, we really had no way out, that's why we got a wrong idea, let me tell you, it's better to farm Well, we will serve the land, and it will not scold us, beat us, let alone despise us, brother, what do you think?"

Zhang Wu nodded again and again, looking at Mu Yangling eagerly, holding the silver in his hand tightly and tightly, afraid that Mu Yangling would take it back.

Mu Yangling supported his forehead with a headache, looked up at the time, and waved: "Okay, I'll talk about this later. I just need help here, so you two can follow me first."

Zhang Wu's eyes lit up, he pulled Zhang Liu to kneel on the ground, and kowtowed to Mu Yangling and the others three times, "Miss and young master, don't worry, we will work hard."

Mu Yangling didn't have time to stop him, so he pinched the man's back collar and picked him up, "Okay, stop kneeling, and don't call us Miss Young Master, just call me Miss Mu, our family doesn't care Raising slaves."

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu stared blankly at Mu Yangling, "Ms. Mu is going to accept us?"

Mu Yangling shook his head again and again, "You are all children of a good family, you have never sold your body before, how can I buy your body deed? All right, help me catch the sheep and go on the road."

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu opened their mouths. Zhang Wu really wanted to tell Mu Yangling that they actually wanted to sell themselves, but the wealthy people definitely didn't need them. Everyone in Sanquan County knew that their brothers were beggars. Stealing and fighting fiercely Hook up with them, although they have never done a bad thing since they were young, um, except for trying to steal the sheep from Miss Mu's house.

But if you don’t sell your body to enter the mansion, you can only sell your body to mine. That kind of life is not as good as being a beggar or dying.

But seeing that Miss Mu had already driven the sheep to the main road, the two wisely did not explain, and followed behind to help drive the sheep.

Bowen and Xiuhong climbed into the carriage and sat there, feeling drowsy.

"Have you ever been to Xingyuan Mansion?" Mu Yangling asked after walking behind.

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu shook their heads repeatedly, "We have never been out of Sanquan County."

Mu Yangling didn't quite understand this, "Xingyuan Mansion is not far from Sanquan County, and it's only a day's walk away. You pack up and go to Xingyuan Mansion from here. Who will know who you are there? Slowly you will find your way out."

Zhang Wu and Zhang Liu were silent. Like most people, they had fear and rejection of unfamiliar places. Most people in Sanquan County had never been to Xingyuan Mansion, so naturally they would not have such thoughts.

Mu Yangling could only keep silent about this, saying that moving a tree would kill a person, but people would live if one moved, so why can't people just move it?

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