Chapter 40: The Storm (3)
On a sunny day on July 16, the only small road leading to the outside of Qujia Village suddenly came to two uninvited guests. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Qu family has never seen the world. If they are more enthusiastic about the outside world, they will find that one of the fat old men who bows their heads from time to time and has a faint flattery in their tone is their Xu Zhixian.
When Qu Zhaodi hugged a wooden bucket that was one size bigger than her to wash clothes, she happened to have a face-to-face with the two of them.
She didn't have any research on official uniforms and the like, and based on a gut feeling, she guessed that these two must be people of status. The clothes they wore were of excellent material, light and cool, and they were exactly what they should wear at this time. Qu Zhaodi watched them walk by with a look of surprise and envy. She felt that if she could touch this kind of material, it would be a great blessing.
Qu Zhaodi, like other girls her age, loves beautiful clothes and jewelry. Although Qu Zhaodi is a precocious child, she has not lost her thirst for good clothes - in fact, if she can go to the market and buy a few colored threads and come back, she will be very satisfied.
Qu Zhaodi never had new clothes. Yao advocated less pain for children (probably one less "female" in her statement), while Mrs. Qu said that children who grew up in Baijia clothes were more blessed. She made the decision and asked the clan for some clothes worn by girls, and changed them at will for Qu Zhaodi to wear.
Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand Qu Zhaodi's desire for color...... Old clothes, naturally, are mostly slightly whitish after countless washes, and it is suitable to be used as a rag, but if they are worn as clothes, they are really beggars.
Qu Zhaodi guessed what these two people were doing here, and a little flush flew on her face.
Maybe the young master of a powerful family came to the countryside at will, it was best to be taken by him at a glance, and then brought to the house, so that he could live a good life, and the mother's face was also bright, and there was no need to be pointed at and scolded for not being able to give birth to a son.
Qu Zhaodi's mind is full of fantasies unique to girls, and she is likely to watch too many dramas.
It doesn't matter whether the eldest young master's house is easy to enter, whether the eldest young master's wife and his mother are easy to get along with, and whether he has the ability to survive in that kind of family.
The person who looked more masterful than Xu Zhixian stopped, looked at Qu Zhaodi and frowned.
Xu Zhixian was actually confused about that adult's plan. He couldn't understand why the people of the imperial court were going to the most remote and impoverished places this time. Obviously, when he usually inspects, he is happy, goes to the place and eats a big meal, and then writes on the fold that all the people can eat enough and can wear warm clouds.
At first, of course, he didn't believe that the people of the imperial court really wanted to go to the most backward place, but just picked a village that was slightly worse than the best Zhuangzi. Until the lord quietly mentioned a certain man who was so swollen that he could not get off the ground because of long-term hunger, and threw it in front of him, and warned him that he would go to every village, and saw him play tricks again, and asked him if he wanted the black gauze hat on his head. This Xu County Ling Fang panicked, and asked someone to arrange a coordinated route overnight, and personally took him to take a look.
This adult is the eighth-ranked guard by Ling Li's side, generally called the "eighth of the first month", and he came to this county to collect girls on Ling Li's orders this time.
He felt that those girls from poor families were more accessible, and they might ask for less money, and they also had a kind of cheating mentality, so they were too lazy to run too much, so they went straight to the difficult village.
Qujia Village is the last village he plans to run. He and several other guards had already discussed, and everyone would accept thousands and hundreds of girls at random according to the specific conditions of each county. It's better if everyone has done the same, so that you don't get to blame.
They didn't know what Ling Li wanted girls for. However, when they heard that Zhou Yanan came up with this idea, they immediately just thought about being lazy.
This is also a matter of no choice, who made Zhou Yanan not their serious master?
Having said that, Chu Baken personally went on a trip to investigate the actual situation, instead of buying girls directly from Renyazi, which is already very authentic.
He naturally thought that he was worthy of his conscience.
However, he was still shocked by Qu Zhaodi's clothes.
To put it mildly, the names he saw in the county were more decent than her.
Qu Zhaodi noticed that the adults were watching her. Only then did she notice that she was already ugly, but now she was even more shabby by them. But if you are born in a less patriarchal family, maybe there will be a flowering day.
At the very least, she'll have to put some rouge gouache on it! unlike now, it's earthy and yellow.
Qu Zhaodi's heart is both arrogant and inferior. This makes her a very difficult person to get along with.
She couldn't think of a better way to deal with it, so she covered her face and fled. This allowed her to regain the reserve that a girl should have.
Chu Ba felt that this girl was too miserable, but he just thought about it, and he didn't do anything to improve her situation. In the final analysis, a person of his status, looking at ordinary people, always feels like a god, and has a condescending feeling.
Well, though, if you recruit her, it seems that you can help her!,Chu Hachi thought.
Although he didn't know what Ling Li wanted these girls to do, it wouldn't hurt to do anything, so she finally had a good home.
After about a cup of tea, the eighth day of the first month was asking the village chief if there was a girl who couldn't afford to raise him.
The village chief only thought that he was deceiving him, and said cunningly: "No, we are not interested in abducting and selling girls here." ”
Nazhi County coughed heavily.
The village chief understood, coughed again, and said in a speed that was so fast that he couldn't hear clearly: "We have a total of 1,137 people in Qujia Village...... And then there were about fifty-seven suitable girls. ”
"Bring them all, along with their families. ”
"We really don't want human trafficking here!" the village chief still didn't believe in the eighth day of the junior high school, so he deliberately said this.
Seeing the displeasure on the face of the eighth adult, Xu Zhixian was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, took off his watermelon hat and fanned the wind: "Why don't you know what to do with it? These girls will naturally have a good place to go then." ”
The village chief still refused to let go: "It's okay, but you need the consent of these girls' families." ”
"Well said. "The magistrate really doesn't want the village chief to be so leaky. He already has some not-so-good opinions about him.
"Oh, when I came over just now, I saw a girl dressed in tatters, you call that girl over!"
They thought that the village chief would not refuse. (To be continued.) )