Tie Dan couldn't imagine that his mother was so anxious, and he didn't even care that the other party had been a kiln sister. But then again, in ancient times, Qinglou was legal, so it was common for Qinglou women to marry after being good. And many people are still married well, such as Liang Hongyu, the wife of Han Shizhong, a famous anti-gold general in the Song Dynasty, who was after Congliang. It can be seen that the people of the Song Dynasty did not completely reject the prostitutes who were good. Especially for a status like the Tie Dan family, it is even more difficult to choose.

But Tie Dan himself doesn't think that his family conditions are inferior to others, he wants to find someone who is at least satisfied with himself, the shoemaker's daughter, not only Sister Yao, but also mediocre, it is not as good as the ugly girl he saw before, except for the scar on her forehead, the talent is still upright, if there is such a woman as his daughter-in-law, he is willing.

Mrs. Liu also followed, stood under the eaves, and said: "I said Tiedan, you still pick someone to be Sister Yao? People haven't picked you yet, you are playing with the dead all day long! You are still embarrassed to say this." In this case, I advise you, you should move a few more dead people, make more money, and go outside to the street to buy a woman who escapes from the famine and asks for food to come back and be a daughter-in-law. ”

Mrs. Liu said, twisting her fat buttocks, huffing, holding up a red oil-paper umbrella and stepping on the stagnant water, and walked out of the yard with a snap.

Aunt Tie called a few times and ignored Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Tie had no choice but to sigh, looked at her son sadly, and said: "If you pick like this again, I am afraid that you can only go to the street to buy you a girl who asks for food as a daughter-in-law according to what Granny Liu said, but such people really don't like it."

Tie Dan chewed the cooking cake and said thoughtlessly: "Even if you escape from the famine, if you see a suitable one, it is not bad to buy it back as a daughter-in-law, and it is better than the shoemaker's daughter, I would rather marry such a clean woman."

Tie Danniang said: "I want to buy such a woman, but the money to sell my body is not low, I have also inquired privately, as little as six or seven taels, as much as ten taels, these days, the people who sell their daughters still expect to sell their daughters to earn a little money to support the rest of the family, who wants to give their daughters to people for nothing?" I can tell you, our family can come up with the money for you to marry a daughter-in-law, it is only three taels of silver, I am actually not satisfied with the shoemaker's daughter, her daughter at least has complete eyes and nose, and only two taels of silver, and I heard that she saved some money when she was a kiln sister before, and it is good to marry home to help the family, you still have two younger brothers, and you have to think about marrying a daughter-in-law for them in the future!"

Of course, Tie Dan knew his mother's thoughts, but he still shook his head and said, "I'd rather not marry someone I'm satisfied with." ”

The iron egg lady couldn't resist her son, so she had to sigh and go back to the house.

After lunch, Tie Dan then dragged the cart and went to search for corpses all over the street. He didn't need to follow the master to search for the body, only when there was a murder in the yamen and the autopsy needed to be done on the spot, Tie Dan and several other brothers followed the master to the scene of the corpse inquest. According to the master's assignment, they collected unburied corpses in various parts of the city and received remuneration from the yamen. It was then assigned to them by the Master according to their respective hard work.

Twice a day in the morning and evening, Tie Dan had to pull a cart and walk the streets and alleys to see if there were any unclaimed corpses. In order to pull it to the mass grave outside the city to be buried.

I don't know what the reason is, he has an impulse, especially after Mrs. Liu told him that he was a matchmaker, he wanted to meet the ugly girl even more. Maybe I want to ask the ugly girl's mother if she will sell her daughter for money to support herself and her two children.

When he came to the alley where the ugly girls were, his heart began to pound. When he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he heard a man's domineering voice coming from inside: "Then when are you going to pay it back?" Actually, I told you before, if you really have no money, you can sell your children to the kiln and make some money to pay off the debt. Although your girl is mediocre, fortunately she can get by at the age of sixteen or seventeen, so let her go to be a kiln sister, sleep with those peddlers and pawns, and mix thirty or fifty wen at a time, and can also be used to pay off debts. You two children can also be sold to others for adoption, and you can also sell them for some money. As for you, no one wants it. Haha!"

When Tie Dan heard this, he couldn't help but rush up angrily, this was simply forcing Liang to become a prostitute, he immediately threw down the rack car, rolled up his sleeves, and rushed into the alley.

But as soon as he rushed in, he stood still, for he found in the alley three men who were stronger than him, and one of them had a knife at his waist, and they all looked at him suspiciously.

Tie Dan also saw the opportunity quickly, quickly put down his fist, accompanied by a smile, pretending to go to the wrong place, looked around again, patted his head, turned around and exited the alley, and then hid by the wall to eavesdrop.

Then I heard a few big men inside say to the woman: "I warn you, you are so profitable, get down, you will not be able to pay it back for the rest of your life, it is better to find a way to pay it off as soon as possible." Also, don't try to escape, if you want to escape from Xuanzhou City, then we will catch it, but you are welcome, you must remember this!"

With that, the three strong men walked out of the alley.

Tie Dan hid in the corner, and when he saw them come out, he quickly trotted out of the alley. When they had gone far away, they rubbed for a while, and it was estimated that they would not go and return, so they turned back again, returned to the alley, looked inside, and saw the woman reprimanding the ugly girl: "I told you, our family is like this, what do you still care? You heard what they said just now, do you really want to sell your brother and sister? If you sell yourself, maybe you meet a rich man who takes a fancy to you and accepts you as a concubine, won't you get out of the sea of misery?" I also have the money to support your younger siblings, and your mother, and you don't live up to your father's and mother's upbringing of you, and now the whole family's livelihood depends on you alone, what are you taboo? At this age, it is Amitabha Buddha who can save people's lives. ”

Listening to the middle-aged woman's constant counting, the ugly girl covered her face and cried, her thin shoulders kept shaking, but she kept shaking her head.

Seeing the ugly girl like this, the more his mother talked, the more angry she became, took off her broken shoes, hit the ugly girl with her head and face, and kicked her with her feet, scolding her for being unfilial.

Tie Dan hurriedly rushed in, grabbed the woman's hand and said, "Don't fight, you have something to say, what's going on?"

The middle-aged woman recognized that it was the little maid who had transported her husband's body to bury at noon, and said indignantly: "I said little brother, which parent doesn't care for their children? When his father was sick, in order to save money for his father's treatment, the workshop was mortgaged to a lion head who specialized in loan sharks. I borrowed a lot of debts, but his father still couldn't survive death, but he died, and this ass debt was left to our mother, and now the creditor is chasing the debt, what other way can I make money to support my family and pay off the debt?"

Tie Dan couldn't help but shudder when he heard the three words of the lion's head, this usury lion's head, his surname is Shi, because he is tall and burly, and he doesn't comb his messy hair, so he lets it drift away, just like an angry lion. He is a well-known loan shark in Xuanzhou, with a good martial arts, and it is difficult to meet opponents in Xuanzhou. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly just now and did not make a move, otherwise, he would have lost his life and no one would have taken care of it.

However, of course, Tie Dan would not show his cowardice in front of the ugly girl he liked, so he asked him curtly: "Those three people just now are the disciples of the lion head?"

"yes. ”

"How much do you owe this lion head?"

The ugly girl's mother said: "I owe twenty taels of capital, and now I have fifty taels of interest." In order to raise money for his father's medical treatment, the tofu workshop was also sold, but later he still didn't have enough money to see a doctor, so he borrowed a loan shark. ”

When Tie Dan heard this, he secretly stuck out his tongue, it turned out that he owed so much money, even if he had the heart to help, he was powerless.

The ugly girl's mother said to Tie Dan again: "I can't bear to let her sell herself, but what can I do otherwise? I want food to feed the two little ones is already good, and now there are more and more people fleeing the famine to ask for food, and it is difficult to even ask for food, is it necessary to force me to sell these two children?"

Tie Dan scratched his head, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "Selling the ugly girl to others as a daughter-in-law, or a maid, is better than selling yourself, there is always a home, and you can pay off your debts with some monthly money every month." ”

The ugly girl sighed and said, "Why haven't I thought of this idea?" It's just that the ugly girl doesn't look good, she can't sell it at a good price, and she can charge a little more money when she sells it to the kiln, and she is a kiln sister, and she always has some income to pay off her debts. - Of course, if any kind person can buy an ugly girl with fifty taels at once, then I will have the money to pay off my debts, and then I will take my two children to beg for a living. ”

Speaking of which, the ugly girl's mother looked at the iron egg. She actually knew that Tie Dan couldn't take out so much money as a little trick of the yamen, so there was a lot of helplessness in her eyes.

Tie Dan smiled wryly, let alone fifty taels at home, the money for his daughter-in-law was three taels of silver, and it was because of this that his mother was greedy and planned to let him marry the shoemaker's daughter who used to be a kiln sister. Thinking that this poor thin and weak ugly girl was probably forced by her mother to be a kiln sister in order to pay off her debts, Tie Dan's heart twitched inexplicably, he didn't want to think about it, and said to the ugly girl's mother: "You wait first, I'll think of a way to see if I can raise money to buy the ugly girl." ”

The way Tie Dan could think of was, of course, to borrow money from his childhood friend Yang Xianmao, who believed that as long as he told the matter, Yang Xianmao would lend it to him. Not only did they buy the original drugstore, but they also bought a large piece of land from the landlord who had been burned down by fire, and built a wall to enclose it completely, covering a wide area, even the houses of the famous and large families in the city. I heard that I also invited craftsmen from the Yamen workshop to paint and design the entire house, and I am ready to build a large number of buildings. There should be no shortage of these fifty taels of silver. Of course, he didn't know that Yang Xianmao's money actually came mainly from the two paintings painted by Wen Xin, the former princess of Wu Yueguo.