Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 27
"Does sixteen have to get married?" Her small face wrinkled together.

"In the country of Ye, if a woman does not marry at sixteen, or if a man does not marry, he has to pay heavy taxes to the country, which is getting higher every year. If he fails to pay, he will be taken to jail."

"There is a family in our village whose eldest daughter has black spots all over her face. She has been sent off for several years and no one has married her. Their family is also a big family in the village. They pay taxes and pay taxes to sell houses, grain and fields. Now they are so poor that they can only eat. Bran, can your family... afford it?"

Zheng Quchi: "..."

Can't afford it.

Even the big family has gone bankrupt, let alone his small family.

Dare to break the law to be single in Ye country?

"Boys should be married, girls should be married. Who doesn't want their wives and children to be hot on the bed? Brother Sang, you are still young, and when you get older, you will miss your wife, hahahaha..."

Heh, she doesn't miss her mother-in-law. Even when she gets older, she will only be greedy for men.

However, I didn't expect that there was such a terrible rule in Ye Kingdom, so wouldn't she be able to escape the fate of being forced to marry if she was a man or a woman?
There is one more serious situation looming.

Being a human...is difficult.

It is even more difficult to be a person who is neither male nor female nor married.

-

Sorrow was on top of her head, and after drinking for a while, she had a hangover and headache the next day, but she never expected that something that would give her even more headaches was coming.

At noon, a scholar in Tsing Yi knocked on the door. Brother Sang was cooking in the kitchen, Sister Sang Yao was watering the flower beds, and Zheng Quchi rubbed his temples to open the door.

"Who are you looking for?"

When the scribe in Tsing Yi saw Zheng Quchi for the first time, he was taken aback for a moment.

I've never seen such a surprisingly dark person, especially the other person is also surprisingly short, like a... briquette.

cough.

"Oh, I'm Xiang Zuo. This time I'm here to register for the household registration of women of the right age. Zheng Quchi is sixteen this year. I'm from your family, right?"

As he spoke, he searched for someone behind her, but when he saw Sang Zhai, his eyes widened.

This house...is so unique.

What green tiles are that on top?
Why can the wall be built so flat and painted so white?

The erected porch platform, which is connected to the row houses of the main house, has a scattered and winding structure, a combination of simplicity and complexity, and the golden afterglow shines on it. The feeling of tranquility and remoteness makes him feel as if he has come to another place. a country.

After Zheng Quchi heard his words, she was stunned for a moment, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Brother Sang who was walking.

He was not surprised.

"It's our house, let's register. She's out to visit relatives and will be back in two days."

Who?
Who is going to visit relatives?
"elder brother!"

"That's it." Xiang Zuo replied absently, his eyes seemed to be glued to the mulberry house and could not be pulled out: "Three days later, the sending team will come to pick up people. enough tax money for unmarried people."

Brother Sang nodded: "We know."

The registrations that should be registered are completed, and the confessions that should be explained are also completed, but Xiangzuo seems to be a little unwilling to leave. In the end, Zheng Quchi, who has no patience, pushes the door forcefully with his face on the face, and then "slaps" Close the hospital at once.

She turned her head, glared and asked Brother Sang, "Why does our family have Zheng Quchi's household registration?"

Brother Sang told her calmly.

In the early years, her parents spent huge sums of money to register her male and female identities in Fu County. The male is Sang Xuanqing, a craftsman registered permanent residence, and the female is Zheng Quchi, an adopted daughter of the Sang family, who visits relatives all year round.

Zheng Quchi: "?!"

Can you still do this?

And what the hell is that year-round visit to relatives?

Brother Sang said that it was just a rhetoric to the outside world, and their family is not a relative of the emperor, so who would care about picking things that don't matter.

"It was just a helpless act to let you dress up as a man at the beginning. You are still a woman. If you want to regain your daughter's body, do you really want to be a man for the rest of your life, living a life of fear that you will be arrested and sent to labor at any time?"

That's not the problem.

She didn't know where to start, she just asked: "Brother, if I get married, what will Sang Xuanqing do?"

"Naturally let this identity disappear."

disappear?

She lowered her eyes.

She dares to guarantee that if Sang Xuanqing suddenly disappears at this time, I am afraid that things will be serious. At least the members of the Sang family will be arrested and tortured to ask about Sang Xuanqing's whereabouts, and at least they will be cleaned up secretly , without leaving any trouble.

Especially on the Mo family's side, Zheng Quchi's identity has long been exposed, but she guessed that the other party probably didn't know that "Zheng Quchi" was a woman's secret.

But these complicated and troublesome things, she can't talk to Brother Sang, he doesn't realize the seriousness of the situation.

She could only use other words to dispel his idea of ​​forcing a marriage: "But there is no man who makes money outside, what should our family do?"

Brother Sang refused to give an inch: "I will find a way."

Seeing his resolute expression, Zheng Quchi also lowered his voice: "Brother, I can't marry."

Brother Sang seemed to have expected this kind of reaction from her, so he didn't argue with her, he just asked her: "Okay, if you don't marry, can you afford the tax for the two of you?"

A tax that Sang Xuanqing does not marry, and a tax that Zheng Quchi does not marry.

He had already seen through that she was a money fanatic, so Brother Sang hit the vital point with a single word and beat her to pieces.

Good guy!
Zheng Quchi's expression cracked instantly.

Can she afford it?
The little wages she saved with great difficulty were almost squandered to repair the new house. What would she use to pay for it?

"If you are determined not to restore your daughter's status to marry, that's fine. I won't force you. If you can't pay the tax money, at worst our whole family will go to the county jail to eat."

He watched her, waiting for her final decision.

No matter what she chooses, Brother Sang will obey her, but he really doesn't understand why she resists the idea of ​​starting a family so much.

Zheng Quchi scratched his hair irritably, and let out a long breath: "Okay, I will return to my daughter, son, and body to join the send-off team! But I have one condition."

"What conditions?"

"Sang Xuanqing can't disappear." She said seriously.

Brother Sang was surprised: "Could it be that, since you are Zheng Quchi, you still want to continue to be Sang Xuanqing?"

"Correct."

-

Following the conversation with Brother Sang that day, three days had passed, and the escorting team arrived as scheduled, escorted by four township soldiers, and the leader of the team was Liu Wenqing, the township assistant who had come to register for marriageable girls.

"All ready?" he asked politely.

Brother Sang pulled Sang Yaomei, squeezed and smiled: "Wait a minute, sir, it will be ready soon."

The door of the inner house was opened, and a black-skinned girl came out. She had a wool curly hair divided into two braids on the left and right, and she was wearing a plain sarong. Those light brown dog eyes are big and round, a little...cute?
Liu Wenqing asked uncertainly, "Zheng Quchi?"

"Yeah." A reluctant voice.

If there is a brother, there must be a sister. The one who is in the same line as Sang Xuanqing is short and dark, but this Sang boss is tall, handsome and yellow-skinned, he doesn't look like a family.

"Let's go then."

There are more than a dozen marriageable girls in this group of Hegou Village.

There are good-looking ones, but also ordinary-looking ones, and some not-so-good-looking ones who are more attractive than ordinary ones.

But this is considered normal. If you want to say that the most conspicuous in the team is a short black skin, plus an older man with dark spots all over his face.

They can be regarded as a pair of crouching dragons and phoenixes in this matchmaking.

　Jing only has one update today, watch and wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)