Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 252 Terrible

"Then is this woman still with you?" Ye Qiongdan asked hastily.

"It's gone," the matchmaker shook her head. "Just after that man sold her to me, a few men from the mountains came to me and said that among the three brothers, the oldest one is 23 years old and can't marry a wife yet. Not to mention the second and third children, they plan to buy a joint wife."

"Buy a joint wife?" Ye Qiongdan was petrified.

Such a barbaric thing, although she had seen it in history books in her previous life, until the late Qing Dynasty, such bad habits still existed in the poor mountains and rivers among the people, but it is one thing to read history in books, and to see it up close Getting in touch with this kind of thing is another matter.

It is really terrible that a woman is going to be sold as a joint wife.

"This kind of thing often happens in the valleys, it's nothing unusual," said the prostitute indifferently, "Those big mountains are remote, not to mention that horse-drawn carts and ox carts can't get in, even serious mountain roads can't get in." No, they have to go to the town to go to the market. They often have to get up early in the morning, and then travel for five hours. Those women who are bought back often cannot escape, and go to the forest? There are wolves and tigers in the forest. If you go alone , that is a dead end! In addition, there is often only one road leading to the outside world, and the road is very rugged. Fate to hell."

"How much money did they spend to buy that woman? Which village did they take her to?" Ye Qiongdan asked hastily.

"That woman is half old, how can I buy it at a high price? It's just because she has good hands and feet, and she can be sold to a rich family as a handyman. Therefore, I will sell it to a rich family for ten taels of silver. Send her to the hands of those three brothers," the prostitute said clearly, "as for the origin of the three brothers, well, the whole Qili Town will come to me to buy a wife and return to be a wife. Just a dozen or so remote villages. I remember, they came from Shi’ao Village.”

"Do you know how to get to Shi'ao Village?" Ye Qiongdan was anxious, "I'll give you 50 taels of silver, and you take us there!"

"No! No! I won't go!" The matchmaker waved her hand, "You are cutting off my money!"

"What about 100 taels?" Ye Qiongdan asked again.

"100 taels is not enough! If I take you to Shi'ao Village today, there will never be any remote mountain villages who dare to come to me to buy people!" The prostitute said resolutely, "I do business for Reputable, as the saying goes, both money and goods. If I took the family of the sold woman to their village today and snatched her back, then I would have violated the rules of this industry. Otherwise, business is easy!"

At this moment, Xiang girl also came back.

Behind the girl Xiang, Ye Fengshun followed with a sad face.

Ye Qiongdan said this matter with trepidation, she was a little afraid that the two of them would not be able to accept it, but this matter had to be said.

After hearing this, Ye Fengshun immediately knelt down to the matchmaker: "Auntie, I beg you, please help me, she is my mother-in-law! I can't let her be reduced to such a terrible ravine to suffer!"

"Oh, you want to open it too," the prostitute sighed, "As the saying goes, troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers, and those people have no humanity at all! The village is poor, and they can't afford enough bride price, and they can't marry other people. The girl in the village gave birth to a bunch of children in order to be able to work more. When the child grows up, it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law, let alone everyone can marry a daughter-in-law? If the change of relatives is not enough, they can only buy women from outside. Like those villages, a small half of the women in the village are bought from outside! I'm afraid your daughter-in-law is from that family. On the first day, she lost her innocence, so just treat her as dead!"

"It's just that she's really...really like that! I don't dislike her either!" Ye Fengshun burst into tears and said firmly, "I will only treat her better than before! I will treat her forever! I am the one who is sorry for her." ...I'm sorry for her..."

Ye Fengshun knelt on the ground, weeping uncontrollably.

Xiangyatou and Ye Qiongdan went to the left and the right, trying to help him up, but he refused to get up no matter what.

Ye Fengshun's heart was full of self-blame, thinking that if he hadn't clashed with You Yue'e on the day his father committed suicide by jumping into the river, and slapped her in a fit of anger, she would not have returned to her mother's house.

If she didn't go back to her mother's house, nothing would happen later.

"Auntie, I beg you to save my daughter-in-law! If you don't save my daughter-in-law, then I will kneel in front of you!" Not only did Ye Fengshun refuse to get up, but he even knocked on his face. three heads.

The prostitute said helplessly: "Man, it's not that I don't want to help you. Firstly, it will break the rules of this industry; secondly, the road into the mountain is very difficult. If there is no one from the mountain with one foot and one foot Take me with your feet. If you are not careful, I will get lost. If you are not careful, I will even step on the ground when I cross the cliff and fall into the abyss! Man, I really can’t help You, I can't possibly put my own life on the line just to help you, right? Every year when I have a lot of women in my hands, I will try to find a way to find people in the village and ask them to take me into the village and drag those Women are for them to choose, but that is when there are people leading the way, and if no one leads the way and want to enter the village? That is really a dead end!"

So, things have come to an impasse here.

"What's more, do you think robbing people is so easy?" The prostitute sneered, "The mountains are so high that the emperor is far away, and even the county magistrate can't control the place. The villagers are so vicious! In some villages, they just unite, Run away your relatives who rob women, some villages will kill you directly, and throw them away at any place! This is not the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing is that there are still villages that will eat living people! Not only the villagers Let's eat, even Lizheng!"

"So scary?" Xiang girl turned pale with fright.

After hearing this, Ye Qiongdan also felt a little uncomfortable.

"Shi'ao Village is the village that can eat living people! I advise you not to send them to death, really! The three or two of you are no match for the whole village!" That's it. The only advice I can give you is - think of her as dead."

The matchmaker blessed Ye Qiongdan and withdrew.

Ye Qiongdan asked the housekeeper to go to the cashier to pay the matchmaker five taels of silver.

Buying and selling people is a legal business in this day and age, even if it's useless to embarrass the matchmaker to death, what's more, Ye Ji was the instigator just now!
(End of this chapter)