The forced marriage failed, but the poor boy turned around to exorcise demons and save people

Chapter 8 Official Match?

The bullock cart swayed all the way, and finally arrived in the town after more than half an hour.Qiao Mu felt that the newly fused body became stiff again.

She jumped out of the car and looked at the town with people coming and going, and put on her backpack.

"Youshi is also here, don't forget it." He said to Qiao Mu, who was riding in a car for the first time.

Qiao Mu responded and took a few steps with her backpack, feeling a little confused. She didn't know where to buy things.

The original owner only came to the town once, and the memory was too long ago. Qiao Mu searched for a long time and couldn't remember how to get there.

"Song Zhiqing!" Qiao Mu pursed her lips and called to the person who was about to leave.

The mother and daughter on one side had already discussed where to go. Uncle Niu also drove in the other direction. She could only ask this familiar person.

"Where do you want to go, Miss Qiao?" Song Zhiqing seemed to know Qiao Mu's doubts. He tilted his head and asked Qiao Mu while carrying a basket on his back.

"Buy rice and noodles."

"Go eastward and turn left at the first fork in the road." Song Zhiqing pointed the way for Qiao Mu, and Qiao Mu thanked him and the two of them separated.

Qiao Mu looked in the direction Song Zhiqing said and saw many food stalls along the way. She swallowed, and her stomach, which was already not full, was already growling.

"Boss, let's have a bowl of Yangchun noodles!" Qiao Mu sat down and decided to fill her stomach first.

"A bowl of Yangchun noodles costs five cents."

Qiao Mu gave the money and sat down. The boss served the noodle soup first, and Qiao Mu drank it to quench her thirst.

At this moment, a group of officers and soldiers came over with majestic expressions and swords on their waists.

The leader held a booklet and a pen in his hands, and soon knocked on the door of a house. The person who opened the door was a young woman.

The leader asked: "Are there any children who have not been married over eighteen years?"

"Master, my family doesn't have one. My daughter got married at 16, and I have a son who is only 13 years old."

The leading official took notes and then went to the next house.

The next two or three families all told the official with frightened expressions that they had no unmarried children over the age of 18.

Qiao Mu frowned while eating noodles. These people asked what do people who are 18 and never married do?

The original owner just turned 18 this year.

She watched as she ate the noodles.

"Oh, it's time for verification again. Once the verification is over, it's time to be officially matched."

"It's a good thing if the official match is good, but if it's not, a few more lives will be lost."

"If you want a good official match, you must have money, but how can we ordinary people have the money to find a good official match?"

"So I would say that it is better for the children in the family to get engaged as early as possible, otherwise a pair of enemies will make the whole village uneasy."

"Who said no?"

A few people eating noodles on the side were talking quietly, with expressions of sadness on their faces.

Verification, official allocation.

Qiao Mu noticed two words.

Qiao Yuemei had talked about official matchmaking on the oxcart before.

Is this official marriage related to the child turning 18?
She searched the memory of the original owner and quickly got an idea.

The original owner was forced to marry because she was about to be officially married when she turned 18.

The official age of mating refers to the government's decision to designate a marriage when a woman is 18 at the latest and a man is 20 at the latest in order to improve the birth rate and social stability.

It's okay if the official match is good, the family can collect a little dowry, and the couple can be harmonious. If the official match is not good, if the match is from a family that can't afford the dowry or a family with a bad family tradition, then you still have to marry someone else and take a wife.

For this reason, Mrs. Qiao Fang was afraid that the people Qiao Mu would marry into official marriages would not be able to afford the dowry, so she went everywhere to find wealthy husbands for Qiao Mu, regardless of their character.

Chang Wan from the village was over 30 years old. He had been married to an official three times before, and he beat them all to death without any betrothal gifts. Since then, he has become a famous old bachelor in the village.

After thirty, the government no longer accepts official matches, and no one dares to marry Chang Wan due to his reputation.So this time Chang Wan offered a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver, and Qiao Fang immediately "sold" Qiao Mu.

Qiao Mu also learned from the conversation between a few people just now that if you want a better official match, you have to spend money.She didn't have enough money to buy food, and besides, she didn't want to just get used to human life and be given to someone she didn't know to get married.

Qiao Mu's face wrinkled together.

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"Ten coins for white flour, eight coins for polished rice, and five coins for brown rice. What do you want, sir? How much do you want?"

After entering the rice and grain store, Qiao Mu asked the price, and the store clerk quoted them one by one.Qiao Mu thought for a while, white flour was too expensive, and polished rice couldn't be afforded.

In the end, she ordered ten jins of brown rice, two jins of white flour, and ten jins of corn grits. The original owner's steamed buns were made from corn grits, which was cheaper at two cents a pound.

I counted the money and gave it to the store clerk. It cost me ninety cents to buy these, and a bunch of money was gone.

Later he bought oil and salt, but the original owner had no more and needed to buy more.

When she came out, she saw the snacks beside the stall again. She swallowed her saliva. It smelled so good!
"Girl, if you like it, buy one for five cents."

The snacks exuded a sweet aroma, and Qiao Mu couldn't help but buy one in the end. The snacks were not big, with only three small pieces inside, but they tasted soft and glutinous and very delicious.

After eating together, Qiao Mu was still satisfied.

After buying the snacks, Qiao Mu took the money and went to the drug store. She wanted to ask about the price of those spiritual items.

There are still more than two taels of silver left. If you have enough, you can buy spiritual objects. If you don't have enough, you can earn more.

When he arrived at the door, Qiao Mu couldn't help but look up at the plaque.

"Sir, do you want to see a doctor or buy medicine?" The waiter quickly came to greet him. The pharmacy Qiao Mu went to was the largest pharmacy in the town. There were two doctors inside, but there were not many people.

"I want to ask how much ginseng costs." Song Zhiqing took ginseng that day. He didn't know which one could help him practice, or all of them.

The boy looked at Qiao Mu without leaving any trace: "What kind of ginseng do you want? Ordinary ginseng costs 20 taels of silver per plant. Better yet, there are older ones that cost 50 taels, and one that costs 200 taels."

Very expensive.

It seemed that the remaining two taels were not enough for Song Zhiqing's ginseng plant. She had to find a way to make more money to repay Song Zhiqing's money.

"Can I take a look? It's just ordinary."

The kid's expression dropped slightly, but he finally went to the shopkeeper and told Qiao Mu's request.

"It doesn't hurt to just take a look." The shopkeeper asked the boy to bring the ginseng and hand it to Qiao Mu.

It was not as good as the one Song Zhiqing took before, as soon as Qiao Mu's fingers touched it.

"Hey, if you don't want to buy it, don't touch it. You can't afford to pay for it if it gets damaged." The little fairy tale is very common, but the meaning of contempt is obvious.

Qiao Mu paused her hands, looked at the child seriously and said, "I really can't afford it."

But I also felt that this ginseng plant had the same energy as a crystal nucleus, but it was too little, much less than Song Zhiqing's plant.

After confirming that this type of spiritual creature has the same energy as a crystal core, she knew it.

But when she went out, her eyes fell on the child again and took another look.

The child was so cold when she looked at him, it felt very strange.

Before leaving the house, Qiao Mu asked him: "Is your master's family dead?"

Hearing this, the shopkeepers all raised their heads and looked surprised.

"You are such a weird person, what can you say? How can you curse people? Our master's family is fine! Go, go, come here to talk nonsense, be careful and report it to the government to arrest you and put you in jail." The child's face was very ugly.

Qiao Mu didn't care what Xiaotong said, she saw the look on the shopkeeper's face.

And just now, a picture suddenly flashed in her mind. Her voice was two points higher and she said to the shopkeeper: "If something happens to your family, please come to Shangyang Village to find Qiao Mu."

Her most important thing now is to make money. Now that she has encountered it and predicted it, she just waits.

As for why I know it, the negative energy surrounding this store is too heavy, starting with the plaque.

The child and the shopkeeper were the most contaminated, indicating that they had been in contact with someone recently, and the person they had contact with either died, or the person who died followed the person they came into contact with.

(End of this chapter)