Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 518

"Liar! Just now you can have a discussion with me! You didn't care about the overall situation and came to Shuzhong rashly, but you can have a discussion with me!"

Li Jingui curled up in a corner of the carriage and asked, still immersed in the depression of losing the antidote.

She came to the Tang Sect in the middle of Sichuan to seek the antidote through untold hardships, but now she was willfully thrown away by the fourth master! !
"Absurd words! You are only allowing the state officials to set fires and not allow the people to light lamps! I didn't ask you to ask for the cure!"

Yinzhen was also very angry. After hearing the side effects of the antidote just now, he only felt terrified.

At this moment, the shocking words such as life is thinner than paper, beauty is thinner than life, fragrance disappears and jade is still echoing in his mind.

"Go away! Go find Nian Yaoyue, why bother to provoke me, an old, faceless girl!"

"My lord, don't worry, this concubine will definitely protect my humble life, and I will live to live as long as the sky!"

"Be quiet, I will change the wet clothes for you before we talk!"

"I have my own hands!"

"Yinzhen! Let go!"

"I didn't disregard the overall situation. I was ordered by Huang Ama to come to Tianfu to supervise the disaster relief!"

Yinzhen also straightened his clothes and said calmly.

Looking up, he saw that the buckle around her neck was not fastened, so he stretched out his hand to fasten the buckle for her.

"Where is Tang Tang?"

"She may have gone to the capital to find us."

Li Jingui thought over and over again, and temporarily kept the news she had heard from fourth master.

With his temper, if he knew that Tang Tang was so rebellious, he would be furious.

"Well, let's go immediately to deal with the disaster relief."

Yinzhen has done a lot of errands like disaster relief, and he is familiar with all the procedures. If he is fast, he can leave for Beijing in less than half a month.

Chengdu Prefecture.

At this time, Li Jingui is having a private visit with Fourth Master Weifu.

With some sympathy, he looked at the sallow and emaciated women with dogtail grass on their heads by the corner of the vegetable market.

These people are definitely going to sell themselves to others as slaves and handmaids.

"Wife?"

I have heard of pawning gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, antique calligraphy and painting, but this is the first time I have heard of pawning living people.

A pawn has a pawn and a redemption, so how should a living person redeem it?

"Sister Jingui, before the servant entered the palace and became a eunuch, his family was also poor, so pawning his wife is very rare."

From Su Peisheng's mouth, I learned that pawned wives, that is, poor people who want to continue their children, but suffer from not having enough money, so they can only borrow a wife from a poor family who is willing to pawn their wives, so as to continue their children.

During the loan period, the pawned woman will live in the man's house until the woman gives birth to a child, and the child will be raised by the original spouse.

The child calls the original partner the mother, and the biological mother aunt, and the biological mother cannot go to the ancestral home.

During the time when a woman is under swearing, although there is no need to worry about the worries in life, the harm she endures in her heart is beyond words.Finally, you have to separate from your own flesh and blood.

This cruel and inhumane system was tacitly approved. Although the imperial court repeatedly banned it, the imperial court had to make concessions for the sake of long-term stability.

Although the pawn wife is forced by the situation, she is also very particular about the ceremony. Generally, she has to go through the process of matchmaking, signing a contract, hiring, and marrying.

General pawn wives go through the process of signing a contract.The contract mainly states the time of pawning the wife, the rental price and the preparations.

The typical period is three to five years, and the rental price depends on the age of the woman and the length of the rental period.

　Why did the ancients wear grass on their heads when they were sold as slaves?
　　Cutting grass first appeared in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, there were regular fairs in rural areas of our country, called grass markets.

　　Most of them are located on traffic arteries or where Jindu Station is located.Because there is a lot of grass around the market, the houses are simple and mostly built with grass, and there are many trades in grain and grass, so grass is everywhere.

　　When marketers bring things to sell, they pick up a piece of grass and stick it on the thing to show that they are sold.This creates a draft ad.

　　Grass label advertisements were very common in ancient times, such as "Yang Zhi sells knives" in "Water Margin" and "Fan Jin sells chickens" in "Scholars", they all put a grass label on the object.

　　This form can still be seen in rural fairs.Later, when children from poor families sold themselves, they also put grass marks on their heads to show the public.

　　The saying of selling people with grass on the head can be seen in the descriptions in novels and operas. "Road History" contains: "You Yu's family used grass tassels as a scorpion." Or the beginning of this practice.

　　Inserting a straw means that the person does not have a ridge of land, a house, no grain of food, and is unbearably hungry. Poverty is like this straw. He needs to sell himself to have a way out!

　　Guan Yu said to Cao Cao when he was clearing the siege of the white horse, "I look at Yan Liang, like inserting a label to sell the head!" The "inserting label" here refers to the meaning of inserting a grass label on the head to sell the head.

　　
　
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