novelraw Chapter 73
Chapter 73
Chapter 73
"Mom, can you not sell your sister?"
A little boy about four or five years old tugged on the sleeve of the adult beside him.
The woman sighed and said, "If we don't sell your sister, we will have nothing to eat. Besides, your sister is going to a rich family in the city to enjoy the blessings, and she still has money every month!" She looked to her side and lowered her head. The walking daughter warned, "Erya, when you go to the city, you have to take good care of that old man."
"You have won the favor of Master Yuanwai, but don't forget your parents, and your younger brother. Your younger brother is counting on you."
The woman said that she looked forward to her future life. Her daughter was born beautiful, and she was a village flower in the village since she was a child.
I originally planned to find a good family to marry next year, but I didn't expect this year to be dry and the farmers died. Then there was heavy rain, the houses collapsed, and the fields were flooded.
They were desperate, and heard from people in the village that they could send the good-looking girls in the family to the city to be rich people's wives.
I will give them 20 taels of silver.
20 taels of silver was something they didn't even dare to think about.
"Okay, stop talking." The man beside the woman said.
Men know better than women. This time I went to the city to sell my daughter. At best, I would be a daughter-in-law for a rich man, or at worst, I would be a concubine for someone else.
Moreover, those people were older than him, and they could be grandfathers for Erya. The man sighed in his heart, and they didn't want to sell their daughters, but there was really no other way.
They had nothing to eat and were starving to death.
It is good for my daughter to marry a rich man in the city, and at least she will have something to eat in the future.
Unlike in their village, they all started to gnaw on the bark.
Erya lowered her head and didn't speak. For some reason, she felt that what her parents said was ironic.
Why did they sell themselves to get money, and still pretend that it was all for her good and for her.
There was a girl in their village who went to be a concubine for a rich man in the city. When she came back, she came back in a carriage, carrying big and small bags.
But when the other party was chatting with her, she saw red marks and bruises on the other party's arm.
Erya didn't ask the other party how it happened, after all, she wouldn't tell if she asked.
At that moment, she thought that the other party might have been beaten by the mistress.
Is this life her turn now?
"Sister, what are they going to do?" Song Huaizhi turned his head and glanced at the group of people passing by them.
Song Changshang replied, "Let's go to the city." The group of people just now should be ordinary people from nearby villages, and they are going to Jingzhou City for something.
It should be a happy event, after all, the woman was so happy just now, the smile on her face could hardly be concealed.
Maybe the son is going to marry a wife, so happy.
"Ah! Something bit me on my foot!" Little Song Zimo who was walking beside him suddenly yelled.
Song Shangshang turned his head to look, and found that there were several things like tea leaves on the other party's retreat.
Leeches?
"What happened to Zimo? What bit you?" Lan Suyun knelt down and hugged him worriedly.
Shangshu's family surrounded him.
"Aunt Lan, put Zimo down, it's a leech!"
Song Changshang walked over, took out the shoes of the younger sister Song Huaike in the basket, and slapped the leeches off Song Zimo's legs.
Then went up and stepped on it a few times.
I don't know if I stepped on it to death, but I stepped into the mud anyway.
"Leech?" Song Ziyao asked.
Song Shangshang nodded, "It can also be called a leech, or a meat drill. This thing sucks human blood. It's very scary."
Well, it can also be used as medicine.
(End of this chapter)