The alley on the stone road is surrounded by high-walled tiled houses. The alley is quiet, with only three young men wearing mourning clothes standing. One of them secretly held a booklet and spoke to the other two people: "Two young men, look at the painting skills and look at the content. Not to mention going to the canal, even in Jiangnan, it is a fine product. Look at it again. Although you don't know who painted it, it must be written by a famous artist..."

The fat young man opposite him with acne-faced look on his face, staring at the ragged young ladies in the album, each of which was so graceful, and his various movements were far beyond his imagination. The fat young man had already become a pig brother, and even his saliva almost dripped.

The young man behind the fat young man who was obviously a servant was also not much better, and he was also staring blankly, but he was still arguing weakly: "You are too expensive, right? You just need ten taels to speak?"

"It's not expensive at all." The person who was selling the album immediately received two hatred eyes. But this person didn't even see it. "Think about it, the saints talk about the great way of human ethics. This young master is full of knowledge and well-read poetry. How many people in the Book of Songs describe love between men and women? Sexual depression is very bad, and people with a kind heart will definitely save them. Think about it again, when the young master chants poems with his friends, if he takes out this album to share with his good friends? When the flowers are under the moon, take out this album to discuss with his confidant?..."

"Don't say too much!" The fat young master swallowed his saliva hard, and he could no longer help it. "Is it ten taels?" The fat young master took out two small ingots of five taels from his purse in his arms, stuffed them into the hands of the salesperson, and then grabbed the picture album, as if he was running away in a panic, and ran out of the alley quickly...

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With a smile, Qin Bai slowly walked to the entrance of the alley. A young man wearing mourning clothes was squatting and waiting. When he saw Qin Bai with a smile on his face, he immediately stood up happily: "Brother Bai, is it done?"

"It's done, ten taels." Qin Bai looked light and light, but the pride at the corner of his mouth could not be concealed.

"That's great!" The young man slapped his thigh, then suddenly thought that his wealth was not revealed, so he looked around sneakily and found that no one noticed this. Then he continued to whisper carefully, "You are still Brother Bai, you are amazing. I finally sold three books, but I only sold more than two taels. You only took ten taels!"

Qin Bai smiled and did not answer directly. He walked towards the city gate and smiled as he walked, saying, "I am lucky today. If you pretend to be a filial son and grandson, you will get two small rewards (one small and fifty copper coins), and you will sell another picture album. Let's go to He Laosan to cut some meat, and we will make up some oil and water tonight."

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Before he knew it, Qin Bai had traveled to this era for more than three months, and traveled to a young man named Qin Bai, who was only sixteen or seven years old. When he first traveled, it took him a whole month to realize that he had traveled to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and was in Laizhou City, Shandong. Later, he suddenly realized that it was meaningless to figure out these things, because the first thing he had to do was to survive!

Qin Bai's life experience is simple and not simple. He is just a lucky refugee who has just been whitewashed. From the few memories left behind, I learned that their family was once rich. Qin Bai had three brothers, and he was the second child. He heard that his father was a wealthy child in the capital and his mother was the outdoor room his father raised in Jiangnan.

Later, my father returned to Beijing with something. At the beginning, he often asked someone to bring some money, but over time, he forgot both of them, mother and son. So life became more and more difficult. More than four years ago, Qin Bai's mother finally couldn't stand it after selling most of the things, so she took the three Qin Bai brothers to Beijing to find her husband. However, as soon as she reached the Shandong section of the canal, her mother was sick and left the world. The three desperate brothers suddenly lost their direction. Because they were too young, they didn't know much about their father's situation. In fact, even their mother knew very little. Therefore, the three brothers faced the first choice in their lives.

But God seemed to be joking. It was raining all night long. At this time, Qin Bai's third brother Qin Gao suddenly had a high fever. Moreover, in order to bury his mother, these brothers had no money around them. I don't know how much psychological struggle there was at that time, so the eldest brother Qin Tai suddenly left behind the two of them, leaving only a letter (fortunately they were still good at childhood, and the three brothers were all literate) and three or four taels of silver from somewhere, saying, "I went north to find my father and stayed Qin Bai to take care of my third brother." In this way, Qin Bai and Qin Gao were left in the local area.

Of course, a few taels of silver were spent quickly, especially although Qin Gao saved his life in the end, he burned his brain and became an idiot. At the end of his desperate situation, the two orphans beg for food and wandered around with the refugees. In the end, they came to this city of Laizhou for no reason.

Fortunately, I met a kind-hearted person in Laizhou City, the mother of Li Gan, who was just looking at the wind. Their family was also a refugee a few years ago and also lived in Laizhou City. Perhaps because of the same illness, they took in the Qin Bai brothers. Although they were still poor, they at least bid farewell to their past life.

Shandong in the Ming Dynasty was not a good place. Since the canal was water-enabled and no wells could be dug at will, disasters occurred frequently and there were many refugees. Especially the Japanese pirates along the coast, there were many villages and horse bandits in the territory, and those who believed in religion and burned incense rebelled from time to time, so there were many people leaving their hometowns to make a living.

Aunt Li and his family were the same. They lived in Laizhou City. Like other refugees, they built a shack outside the city gate. Over time, the shack formed a slum. But no matter what, Qin Bai finally had a home. Unfortunately, more than a year ago, Aunt Li had no money to treat the disease. After hurriedly arranged for Li Gan to marry the child bride she was taken in, she finally took her last breath.

As a result, a few orphans could only survive in groups. However, survival was difficult, so they could only grab work everywhere. It was really a robbery. There were not so many job opportunities in this era, and there were guilds and gangs everywhere, as well as locals bullying foreigners, and adults bullying minors. You could not grab it without fists or even touching guys. So after a certain hit three months ago, Qin Bai...traveled like this.

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Chapter completed!