The World of Yellow Sky

"Little people are poor, and most of them don't have children. Biao strictly controls them. It is the same crime as murder. There are robbers and robbers in the south of the city, and women who kill their children in the north. Biao is involved in the case, and the officials want to lure the south."

"Biao said angrily: 'It's common sense for a thief to harm people with a crown. Mother and child can kill each other, which is against the law.' Then he drove northward to test his crime."

"The thieves in the south of the city heard about it and surrendered themselves face-to-face. In the past few years, thousands of people have adopted children. He said: "Jia's father is the director." The boy is called "Jia Zi" and the girl is called "Jia Nu".

Jia Biao was just a new county magistrate at the beginning, and he was an official in a county for several years, so he had thousands of adopted children. This shows how terrifying the trend of drowning and abandoning babies is.

And affected by patriarchy, most of these babies are girls.

After a while, a police officer walked into the house with a book and delivered it to Xu An.

Xu An looked at the records in it, his face became more and more gloomy.

In just three or four months, more than 200 babies were born in Changzi City alone, and according to records, many babies had already been killed when the police arrived.

Some babies in the sales homes are even rescued from the water by the police.

This is still recorded. There are not many police officers in the eldest son city, and there are probably many drowned and abandoned babies that have not been found.

Xu An was in a daze, one after another black Chinese characters on the yellow paper slowly turned into the color of blood before his eyes.

Chapter 528 Thoroughly investigate the world!

In fact, history is not as beautiful as people imagined. In the so-called prosperous age and the so-called peace, there are hidden filth and human tragedies.

There is fat meat in the kitchen, fat horses in the stables, hungry people in the people, and hungry scorpions in the wild. They lead beasts and eat people.

Human nature can sometimes make people feel frightened, and Xunzi's theory of evil nature is not without basis.

It is said that there used to be a sensational building in the Qing Dynasty. The building was usually built in the wilderness. It was shaped like a tree stump, with a tapered top and a square opening. It was made of gray stone bricks and shaped like a tower.

This kind of building is called "baby tower".

These small towers built in the wilderness are used to store the bones of infants and abandoned babies. Most of the babies sent into the tower by their parents are girls and babies with congenital diseases. Parents have no extra money to treat them. , so he made up his mind to put the child in the tower.

There are even living babies in the tower, most of them have diseases or have been cruelly abandoned, and the gradual disappearance of crying means that they are gradually dying.

During the Jin Dynasty, ordinary people were so heavily extorted and miscellaneous that taxes were imposed on ordinary people, so that "children are no longer raised, and widows and widows dare not marry their wives."

There are many reasons for infant drowning and abandoned infants, but among these many reasons, the biggest reason is because of two reasons.

These two reasons are the chief culprits in the eventual drowning and abandonment of infants.

The first reason, and the most important reason, is the heavy tax burden on ordinary people.

Exorbitant taxes, hard labor and corvée, they live at the bottom, and they have no way to change the status quo.

Intellectual rights are controlled by aristocratic families. They don't even have a chance to look at books and slips for a lifetime, so how can they change their destiny? They have worked hard all their lives, but it is difficult to live in peace.

The meager income is not enough to support the new-born children. In this era, there is no good contraception. They give birth to babies but cannot afford to raise them.

It is very sad that children are not raised and raised, and children are killed all the time, but there is nothing they can do.

The second reason is the concept and atmosphere, among which patriarchy is the most serious problem.

The number of abandoned baby girls is far greater than that of boy babies. Many baby girls are sound and healthy. On the contrary, most of the baby boys who are abandoned or drowned are sick or weak or disabled.

The long-term concept and environment have created the concept of patriarchy, and ordinary men are physically stronger than women. In addition to this, there are some other differences, which also make the status of men and women completely unequal.

A large number of baby girls are abandoned, which will inevitably lead to an imbalance in the ratio of male to female, which will cause more social problems over time.

Xu An put down the file in his hand, he felt a tightness in his chest, and he was a little out of breath.

"Take me to the Salesian Bureau."

Xu An stood up and walked out of the police station.

Xu Hong and Ning Fan hurriedly followed Xu An out of the house.

The atmosphere was dull and terrifying, and everyone's faces were extremely ugly.

Ning Fan rode at the front on the horse, Xu An followed Ning Fan slowly without saying a word.

The noisy voices that originally made Xu An feel peaceful, now echoing in Xu An's ears again, made Xu An feel extremely ironic.

Under this peaceful and peaceful scene, such a sensational thing is happening.

The flow of people gradually decreased and they entered the adjacent workshop. Xu An only looked up and saw the three big characters outlined in ink on the building in front of him - Salesian Home.

"Shen Qianhu..."

Xu An passed Ning Fan, he didn't go to see the guards guarding the nursery.

He put his hands on the gate of the sales house. The gate of the sales house is made of solid wood and is not tall. A grown man can easily push it, but Xu An feels that the door is so heavy that it is difficult to push it open. .

"squeak--"

Xu An finally pushed the door of the Salesian House open.

The courtyard door was wide open, and Xu An stood at the door without moving. In the courtyard in front of him, there were more than a dozen children sitting in disorder. The youngest looked to be only three or four years old, while the oldest was only eight or nine years old.

The courtyard door opened suddenly, no one expected it.

These children looked at Xu An standing at the courtyard gate with a look of horror on their faces. Most of the children were timid and ran towards the house one after another.

Only a few older children were still standing where they were, without moving.

"Uncle Ning, it's Uncle Ning..."

Some children whispered, they didn't know Xu An, but they knew Ning Fan standing beside Xu An.

But even if they recognized Ning Fan, they didn't go forward, they were a little scared.

Ning Fan walked to Xu An's side, held back for a while, and said in a low voice.

"These children... all meet the regulations for the admission of the Salesian..."

When the Central Military Government issued an order to establish sales homes in various places, it stipulated that as long as orphans under the age of 12 were found, they would be brought into the sales homes.

"Please Superintendent Ning to show us the way."

Xu An's head was slightly lowered, making it difficult to see his face clearly. He turned his head slightly to look behind him, and whispered again: "You all stay here, as long as Xu Hong follows me alone."

Xu Hong glanced at the frightened children in the courtyard, and immediately understood what Xu An meant.

Xu Hong turned sideways, untied the Yanling Saber from his waist, and handed it to the guards following him.

"Shen Qianhu, please come in."

Ning Fan noticed Xu An and Xu Hong's actions, and after a promise, he walked into the courtyard first.

Seeing that Ning Fan entered the courtyard first, the children in the courtyard relaxed their vigilance slightly, and the frightened expression on their faces also slightly eased.

Xu An sighed, and then stepped into the courtyard. Xu Hong's eyes quickly scanned the courtyard, and then followed Xu An into the courtyard.

"Babies who haven't been weaned are all in the back. Ordinary children live in the middle. The houses near the door are for the salesmen. The courtyard here is empty, so they use it as a place to play."

Ning Fan led Xu An and Xu Hong towards the depths of the orphanage. Children's voices could be heard from both sides of the road from time to time. Xu An looked at this rather simple orphanage. No one dared to approach.

"What—"

Xu An was slightly taken aback, frowned, stopped and looked around.

"Have you heard the sound of the sheep?"

"This is a sheep from the Salesian..."

Ning Fan also stopped when he heard Xu An's question. He hesitated, but finally chose to answer.

"Many babies in the sales center are not weaned, it is hard to find a wet nurse, and we dare not give them only rice paste and rice soup for those newly born children. Fu Zhu from Daotang bought some ewes and gave them to the sales school. People can take care of it, and you can also squeeze some goat milk to make up for some gaps."

Xu An followed Ning Fan towards the sheep pen, the closer the sheep pen was, the more unpleasant the smell became.

Approaching the sheepfold, Xu An also had a clear view of the situation inside the sheepfold. Just outside the sheepfold, there were two half-grown children, about eight or nine years old. A wooden bucket with clear water, and poured water into the sink.

"The great virtuous teacher established a sales home to accommodate young orphans, and gave these children a way out, but the money allocated to the sales home is still a bit small. Now there are only four people in the sales home, so these chores, sometimes those The older kids are doing it."

"On weekdays, the Eagle Wolf Guard and our police will come to help, and the Fu Zhu from the Taoist Hall will also come to treat the sick and deliver medicine. The sales house can still be maintained."

Seeing Xu An's gloomy face, Ning Fan whispered beside him.

"Shen Qianhu was appointed by the Chinese Army Mansion to investigate the affairs of the Salesian Hospital. In the past, Shen Qianhu could report to the Chinese Army Mansion to allocate more money and food to the Salesian Home."

Jinyang City also has a Salesian Home, and the situation is much better than here. Even the number of young orphans taken in is not as many as that of the Eldest Son City.

Xu An's pupils shrank slightly. He didn't look carefully before, but now he realized that something was wrong. One of the children carrying a wooden bucket clearly only had one hand, and the other hand was gone below the elbow.

If it was just a severed hand, perhaps Xu An would not pay too much attention to it. Many babies in the nursery were congenitally disabled, but the child's hand did not look like a natural disability, but was chopped off with a sharp axe. generally.

Xu An remained silent, and walked quickly towards the child. Ning Fan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed.

The child soon noticed Xu An who was walking fast. He was a little panicked at first and wanted to escape, but seeing Ning Fan in a dark blue police uniform behind Xu An, he did not run away after all.

Seeing the slightly frightened face of the child, Xu An also realized that something was wrong with his actions.

He slowed down a little and walked up to the two children.

When he got closer, Xu An realized that the two children's bodies were frighteningly thin, like bamboo poles, with their cheeks sunken slightly. Even if a gust of wind blows at this moment and blows them down, Xu An will not be surprised.

Although the clothes the two of them wore were thin, they were still fairly clean. There wasn't much dust on their faces, and their hair wasn't very dirty. They seemed to have been properly taken care of.

Xu An knelt on the ground with one knee, making his height parallel to the two children.

Xu An lowered his head, he couldn't look at the two children in front of him.

He once cut off the enemy's head with his own hands on the battlefield, and he also cut off the enemy's limbs with a ring-head knife. He crawled out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​​​the dead, and survived.

Even if thousands of troops are in front, there is no way to make him frown. Xu An thought that no matter how tragic the scene, how shocking the scars, there is no way to move him or make him afraid.

But it turns out he was wrong.

He couldn't look at the two children in front of him.

He couldn't see the child's severed arm, and he couldn't see the half-disfigured face of another child.

Ning Fan also knelt down beside Xu An. The two children were rescued by the Eagle Wolf Guard.

After the military control was lifted, many disabled children appeared in the streets and alleys begging.

The emergence of the Salesian's House, coupled with the order of the Chinese Army Mansion, also made the Eagle Wolf Guards focus on those children who were begging.

Most of these begging children are disabled, either in the hands, or in the face and feet. Many of them are obviously acquired injuries rather than congenital disabilities.

Not long ago, the Eagle Wolf Guard and the police jointly arrested the gang that controlled the beggars in the eldest son city.

There are three people who control beggars begging. The three of them are brothers. They abduct some children, or pick up abandoned babies, and then forcibly turn those children into disabilities to win sympathy.

The Eagle Wolf Guards sentenced the three of them to Ling Chi, beheaded them and displayed them in the city.

But although the sinners were eliminated, those children had already become disabled and could not be healed at all.

……

Xu An didn't stay in the sales home anymore, it was too depressing.

This time Xu An didn't ride slowly, but asked Xu Hong to open the way with a passing flag, and hurried all the way to the government office of the eldest son city.

"Call me Li Heng."

Xu An walked into the mansion in the eldest son city, Xu Hongliang knew his identity, and all the officials in the mansion looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to stop him.

Li Heng is now the prefect of Shangdang County.

The former heads of the Li, Wang, and Zhao families in Lutai Mountain are all different now.

Zhao Le, the patriarch of the Zhao family, is now the Internal Affairs Supervisor of the Internal Affairs Department. The Internal Affairs Department has an internal affairs order with one person in charge of the internal affairs department, and two internal affairs supervisors to share the work. Zhao Le is one of them.

Wang Ren, the Patriarch of the Wang family, has been following Xu An's command, and now he is a school lieutenant, commanding a battalion of soldiers.

However, Li Heng, the patriarch of the Li family, is calm and quick-witted, but lacks courage and is not suitable for battle. Therefore, Xu An dispatched him from the army to Shangdang County as the sheriff.

Most of the children of the Lutai Three Families now occupy important positions in the Yellow Turban Army. It can be said that the Lutai Three Families have been completely tied to Xu An and the Yellow Turban Army, so there is no need to doubt their loyalty.

"Li Heng, pay homage to Duke Ming."

As soon as Li Heng entered the house, he prostrated himself on the ground like pushing a golden mountain and upside down a jade pillar. When he came before, an official had already told Li Huan some details, and Li Heng also knew that Xu An came all the way from the Salesian in a hurry.

"Get up."

Xu An didn't say any polite words to Li Hengduo.

"Grind the pen and write the order for me."

Li Heng noticed that Xu An's face was extremely gloomy, so he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he quickly fetched a pen and ink, and spread out the paper.

"Abandoned or drowned infants shall be fined and confiscated of their property and land, and shall be sentenced to over ten years of reform through labor."